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My thesis on P4P is finally online!

doi.org/10.17613/naj7d-6g984

P4P: Steps Toward more Adaptive Internets: charting Open-Source, P2P and Local-First Networks

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Is there a #Matrix Room for discussions about #Linux #Audio specially #pipewire, #jack, #Ardour, #plugins (e.g. Calf), #ubuntu (24) #RaySession etc.
#linux #matrix #audio #ubuntu #ardour #pipewire #plugins #jack #raysession

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Found this Windows virtual display driver which basically acts like the software equivalent of a dummy plug. This solves a very specific problem for me: If I close my laptop lid and try to take screenshots or share my screen, they show up in 480p because Windows apparently defaults to that when no display is connected. This also makes websites render in their mobile layout unless I zoom the page in.
The driver goes all the way up to 4k resolution and can actually emulate multiple monitors if you need that for some reason, but I found 4k lagged my poor five-year-old laptop noticeably, so I'm using 1080p now. This also would have been really useful in the days when screen readers didn't have screen curtain, but now they do. When looking through the assets, make sure you download the setup instead of the driver, unless you want to manually configure it. github.com/VirtualDisplay/Virt…

Releases · VirtualDisplay/Virtual-Display-Driver

Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software. - VirtualDisplay/Virtual-Display-Driver
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Ooh, this is going to solve me some issues too, particularly in Whatsapp and stuff. Yay, thanks for that!
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🌟 OSCLOUD: Od malého projektu k velké Open-source komunitě! 🌟

Začali jsme jako malý projekt na podporu Open-source aplikací, dnes máme:
✅ Dva Mastodon servery
✅ PixelFed s 1000+ uživateli
✅ PeerTube VHSKY pro videa
...a další!
💻 A teď s radostí představujeme nový web 👉 web.oscloud.cz/
Za jeho podobou stojí @cynik_obecny – díky za skvělou práci! 🙌
Připojte se a objevte svět Open-source – svoboda, soukromí a bezpečnost u nás vždy na prvním místě!

#OpenSource #Mastodon #PixelFed

My website

web.oscloud.cz
#opensource #Mastodon #pixelfed @Ivan Stloukal

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And another recommendation while I'm here, this one for basically every platform, I kept hearing @joplinapp brought up in discussionss of best note taking apps, and I finally sat down to try it out after they advertised accessibility improvements in the latest update and yeah I'm loving it so far. Everything has hotkeys, the controls read very well including the quick search/command palette, you have a markdown preview right next to the note you're working on, it has a spell checker, you can attach files to your notes, and everything syncs encrypted to any device using pretty much whatever you want, it supports everything from syncing through a local directory on your filesystem which is only on the desktop version, to dropbox/onedrive/webdav or their own cloud solution. It's an app with a simple and very accessible interface with a lot of features
@Joplin

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Michał Dziwisz
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That's right! Finally a good working notes app for Windows and iOS at the same time. From myself, I'll add that the browser plug-in that allows you to save the content of articles for later also works great, from my tests it does very well with pulling up entire articles, and if that wasn't enough for someone, they can always save the entire page as markdown or HTML.
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I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.

#OpenSource

#matrix #opensource #conversations_im #faang

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I could use some guidance in getting income from my projects. Users very seldom donate.
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I need to believe this is an avenue I can take eventually, because I'm not sure I have the mental strength for too much more working to make other people money left in me
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Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I'm flattered. Who would've thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We're just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we're staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could've ignored us. Instead, by blocking our links, you've given us the best endorsement we could ask for. You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation. Every time you block a link to our platform, you remind people why we built it in the first place. Your action tells them there are alternatives worth exploring, ones that respect their privacy and agency. So thank you, Mark. You've turned our little project into a symbol of resistance against digital monopolies.

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Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.

This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.

To get a fucking window with a button in it.

I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.

(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)

#a11y #rust #gui #windows

#a11y #Windows #rust #gui

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I think egui has accesskit support. Try there
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modulux
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Mm, from a quick look at eframe it seems it's quite limited about the sort of widgets it supports, but maybe I need to read more docs. Looking for things like listviews, menu bars, etc.
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Lukáš Tyrychtr
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Gtk .18 will have a11y support on Windows thanks to the Accesskit backend, so, just wait a few weeks or compile it from source? Did not try that on Windows yet, though.
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If you use FreshRSS - and perhaps other aggregators/readers too - you can dump a lot of URLs, one per line, into dotriz.com/tools/opml-generato…, and that will generate a .opml file that you can import easily.

I've just added 30+ new blogs that way.

OPML Generator online

Free online OPML Generator
dotriz.com

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Made this disco track in Ableton last night. I wanted to try making something exclusively using samples, but also edit them to make them unique to me. I think it turned out sounding great, and Ableton made chopping and resequencing parts extremely easy and fun. Sorry no alt text for this one, for some reason I'm not able to enter it on the web, so I'll put it here.

A disco track in F Major with punchy drums and heavily processed samples.


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#introduction

Hi everyone! Thought I'd resend my introduction after not being active for who knows how long. And as far as I'm aware, on this server I haven't even introduced myself yet.
I'm Nikolett from Hungary. I used to have an account on Mastodon, but I wasn't that interested in the whole Fediverse thing back then.
Now I'm 22 years old. I'm Hungarian, but I'm very interested in slavic languages and culture. I speak Russian fluently, as well as Polish, but in the latter I'm a beginner. I studied Russian at university for 4 years, and now I'm an official translator.
I am very interested in music: I play piano, as well as a little guitar, and sing in my freetime. I love animals; I have a black cat who has been part of my life for 12 years.
I like technology and IT. I want to learn programming as a hobby, but no one is teaching me yet. I also really like retro, old things.
I also like to play computer games, although I have a hard time losing. 😊
I usually smile because it's important for me to connect with people and for everyone to feel comfortable talking to me.
What I don't think is worth hiding is that I am blind. But that fact doesn't stop me from doing almost everything I set my mind to.
I'm just happy to be here! 😊

#introduction

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So let me get this straight: First, it was Elon. Now, it is Mark. Two guys are removing all moderation rules on social media. And are people asking another billionaire to build alternative social media? Do you even hear yourself? That is not going to fix anything. Maybe we should go back to the days of blogs, mailing lists, individual forums, and RSS feeds and end this madness of centralized social media apart from the federation. I’m just saying

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Say I consider "Audacity" to be a frustrating program to use.

Is there a Linux audio recording program which is a little more stripped down than Audacity? Like say some sort of "voice memo" program that lets me just record voice clips and recover the wavs. Export as MP3 a bonus but not required.

Super ultra bonus points if it's in either the GNOME Software repository or on Flathub.

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I remember using arecord in bash scripts to do this sort of thing. Might be worth a tinker. Pretty sure I had rec as a command which I just ctrl+c'd to send sigint when I was done and boom. You're capturing audio from your shell by typing rec.
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Earlier today took the first ride in the #Waymo driverless car and here is a quick recording of how the music sounds on the car speakers. I also make a few comments about some of the things the Waymo app allows me to do. But the experience is really quite accessible and simply amazing! It is hard to believe we are so close to the driverless future! :)
#waymo

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how the heck do you manage not to hit all the other cars on the road? I’m not even being a judgmental jerk here. I am genuinely curious. If this is something that could prove viable in the future, I don’t want to get smashed because the car isn’t paying attention and I can’t.
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victor tsaran
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@evilcookies98 Believe me the tech is quite advanced. It will only get better from here on. No highways for now, but I am Ok with that!
@The Evil Chocolate Cookie
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I just disabled copilot on Windows 11! If you want to as well, go snag Winaero Tweeker. winaero.com/winaero-tweaker/ After opening, go into the Windows 11 section and find disable Copilot, tab over to both boxes, uncheckthem, sign out and you're golden! 🤘

Winaero Tweaker

Winaero Tweaker is a free app for all versions of Windows that lets you adjust (i.e. tweak) hidden secret settings that Microsoft does not let you adjust
Sergey Tkachenko (Winaero)

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@jonathan859 I'm still waiting for a way to remap the copilot key in a reliable way so it can play the role of a right control key. Solutions I have found so far, in particular using AutoHotkey, require don't work reliably in all of situations. Powertoys cannot do it, at least on my machine.
@Jonathan859 (old)
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Příští týden budeme v rámci @openalt srazu zkoušet na Vhsky.cz první veřejný live stream. A obsahem nebude nic jiného než přednáška o #PeerTube a Vhsky.cz.

Tak v pátek nalaďte přijímače. 😉

openalt.org/content/pozvanka-n…

Pozvánka na 206. sraz OpenAltu v Brně – OpenAlt z.s.

www.openalt.org
#peertube @OpenAlt

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@OttovonWenkoff Nechci být kverulant, ale všechny tyhle open-source projekty mají společný nedostatek: Působí, jako by se na nich nepodílel žádný UX Designer. Jenže ten nikdy nedodá kód, který může commitnout do repozitáře.

Jak v tomhle funguje nějaká governance? Řekněme, když se dá designer dohromady s nějakým vývojářem a spolu upraví styly, rozložení prvků, některé názvy, atd. Commitnou to a někdo jiný to musí odsouhlasit? Nebo se o tom nějak hlasuje?

@𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔
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So I've seen this talked about here a bit, but I wanted to give more context on Kokoro TTS. This model was open sourced back on December 25, and was trained almost entirely on synthetic data taken from Eleven Labs and Open AI. Legality aside, the quality speaks for itself. This is an 82 million parameter model, which is very small by today's standards, but that means it's incredibly fast even on CPU.

The main dev responsible for training seems to know much more than the average open source enthusiast about how to make high-quality TTS, and I think the results speak for themselves. The model is under very active development and still quite young, more data is currently being collected, and a new version will be trained and released likely in the coming months. Their Discord is quite active, and I'm over there as well if you'd like to join. I think this has the potential to be a great option for blind screen reader users, who may not be able to afford something like Vocalizer on Windows, but we're not quite there just yet in terms of performance.

Here is a demo of one of the voices reading about Android.

Link to model card on Huggingface: huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…
Link to Discord: discord.gg/QuGxSWBfQy



hexgrad/Kokoro-82M · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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@Cleverson If you like brazilian portuguese espeak pronounciation and can either record or otherwise source good brazilian portuguese text prompts and corresponding audio recordings I can try to help you doing the same thing for brazilian portuguese I am doing for slovak and that is training either piper or optispeech at the moment, perhaps other engines in the future.
I am training on my laptop although it takes much more time than doing it on a high performance GPU better suited for that task. Other people including @Zach Bennoui and @Tamas G are training in the cloud as described here: github.com/ZachB100/Piper-Trai…
@Tamas G @Cleverson @Zach Bennoui
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@pvagner @Tamasg @clv0 Thanks for mentioning my training guide here, it's a little bit out of date, but I'm more than willing to help with any questions you guys may have. I'm very passionate about this stuff and have been heavily invested in open source TTS over the past few years. Unlike you, I have very little experience with some of the older engines such as RH, but would love to eventually learn enough to train a better quality US English voice for them that's a bit more expressive than what they currently offer.
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#Slovensko má velký problém: ransomware zašifroval data katastrálního úřadu. Útočníci chtějí obrovskou sumu za jejich obnovu. A teď to nejhorší: úřad nemá žádné použitelné zálohy!
zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/b5zVE…

Čo nové vieme o hacknutí katastra: 7-ciferné výkupné, chabé zálohy dát, hroziaci chaos

Živé.sk zistilo znepokojujúce informácie k prieniku na servery Úradu geodézie, kartografie a katastra SR.
redakcia Živé.sk (Živé.sk)
#slovensko

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Dear friends, #screenreader users, #blind users and #accessibility professionals in particular.
Are you using chat over traditional email as provided by #DeltaChat / #DeltaLab / #ArcaneChat?
I like it uses traditional email infrastructure, is federated, supports end to end encryption, rich content including audio / voice messages. I have even recognized @adb has implemented screen reader accessibility specific features into the android app.
However I have quickly tried electron based app on linux with orca screen reader, exchanged a few messages back and fort between two of my personal accounts using the DeltaChat app and thunderbird and I haven't found the user experience verry appealing. I can't understand how to effectivelly navigate in the list of conversations and list of messages.
Therefore I would be interested to hear a few comments from people knowing this platform better. How accessible is it on different platforms?
On the desktop is the electron based app a prefered choice?
Also some other questions. For the best experience, do I need a new email address or can I use my existing self-hosted one I have already configured in thunderbird?
Ffeel free to point me to a FAQ, some up to date introductory documentation if you think my questions don't make much sense please.
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #deltachat #DeltaLab #arcanechat @adb
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The accessibility of the desktop version of Delta Chat is frankly quite terrible right now, I agree. But me and @treefit started working on this a few months back. Expect further improvements in the next months.
@treefit
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@WofWca @treefit @adb Yes, that sounds amazing. I should perhaps retest the app, look at the accessibility improvements you are working on and try to make sure I can get the most of it.
Huge thanks for working on it and for the pointers.
@adb @treefit @WofWca
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WofWca
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and for Desktop there is also @deltatouch, and I think I've heard of some CLI version. But the Electron version is the "main" one, yes.
@DeltaTouch
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@WofWca Thanks for mentioning DeltaTouch. It may not yet be suitable for use with a screenreader at the moment, however.
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@WofWca Looking more it looks to me you are working on some amazing accessibility related improvements. While I was testing a few weeks ago I had issues navigating the lists. hmm, perhaps I need to figure out how to build with this PR and see for my-self if it might be related. github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

Edit: oh, there are more PRs resolving keyboard navigation and accessibility related issues. It's really right about perfect time I have discovered this thing.

Thanks and keep up the great work please

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WofWca
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for a specific MR you can download a preview build that is linked it the bottom of the MR page.
Thanks! But we're still far from done.
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@WofWca So I have finally updated to the latest and greatest #deltachat desktop. And I must say I am really impressed.
Both lists, list of conversations and list of messages are now keyboard navigable.
The hint for the screen reader users is that not all of the screen readers may switch into focus mode automatically so once you do this manually you can enjoy the user experience the way it has been designed.
Also there are nice keyboard shortcuts e.g. ctrl+n for jumping into the input box, ctrl+k for search and more.
Now I do really need to explore more i.e. what about the encryption. Can I use my existing GPG key or add a subkey or is that handled transparently on the background? I need to figure out if I should create new email for chatting or use my primary email.
Still from the accessibility point of view we are really getting something usefull I think.
#deltachat @WofWca
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Note to my-self and other people like me:
Read the #deltachat help at delta.chat/en/help it's all perfectly explained there in easy to follow language. It's even translated to various different languages already.
The number one answer for me is that there are #deltachat specific so called #chatmail servers suitable for anonymous instant messaging over email.
So eventhough I like to self host my emails, I think I'll go with existing #chatmail server at least initially.

Delta Chat: FAQ

What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...
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Delta Chat
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indeed, these days we recommend newcomers to use chatmail servers first and explore, also with friends, how things go and feel. Once interest is established it may be worth the effort to also run one or two simply be happy with the existing chatmail servers
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@delta
Some time ago, there was an attempt to help users to migrate from one server to another, like taking the phone number. I guess you know what I mean. Is there something still in the making? Because this would ease a transition from a chatmail server to an own server, for example.
@Delta Chat
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@devSJR If you have mostly or only "green-checkmarked" chats you can reconfigure your e-mail address to another server and then send a message to your contact which should update them. This will not migrate unencrypted or opportunistically encrypted chats, though, which is why we don't prominently recommend it. Another way is to create a new profile, and then add it to all relevant chats and remove the old profile. More cumbersome but also pretty failsafe.
@devSJR
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Matthias
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There is one import difference you need to know:

* Chatmail account: you can reach all delta chat users
* Regular email account: you can reach delta chat users + classic email users

So if you use chatmail, you can not reach people who are not using delta chat.

another point:

If you do NOT use chatmail, you will not have push notifications if you are an iOS user.

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Islamic Audiobooks Central
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It is possible for #chatmail users to communicate with classic email users who have published their public key.

You just have to do manual chatmail registration, save your login details and private key securely, and use it with something that supports #pgp like #Thunderbird or #Mailvelope.

#thunderbird #pgp #chatmail #mailvelope
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WofWca
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Very nice, glad to hear a confirmation that it's working from a real user!

We might need to investigate automatic focus mode switching.

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@WofWca Perhaps making sure parent of those list items has an attribute role="list" or if you are sure everything inside a particular DOM subtree has logical keyboard focus handling perhaps role="application" on encompassing parent element would do the ttrick. However it really has to be considered visely as it makes it more difficult for screen reader users do read parts of the UI that should behave like a document content by lines, by words and similar.
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WofWca
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Thank you, this is really helpful! I considered `role="application"` but wasn't sure about it. Will also need to see about `role="list"`.
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Hello folks I need your help, after a lot of efforts, I am on the final steps of making #ArcaneChat available in #GooglePlay

now they ask to create a "closed testing release" where only some invited testers via their google account email address can participate and install the app before they allow a public release

please write to me in private sending me your google account's email address (gmail I guess) to join as beta-tester, thanks a lot in advance! ♥️🙏

#DeltaChat #decentralization

screenshot of ArcaneChat in Google Play
#googleplay #decentralization #deltachat #arcanechat

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Okay, and today, the Caps-lock behavior is fixed as well. Now, test the thing thoroughly and then upstream all the parts. And, of course, hope that other compositors will adopt this API, even that they might not like DBus so much.

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So this looks like a high quality, fast, natural, and open source TTS system in Python. A key candidate for an #NVDA#addon. Unfortunately, I find #nvdasr addon development super confusing. Is there a good template to start from or something? github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx

GitHub - thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx: TTS with kokoro and onnx runtime

TTS with kokoro and onnx runtime. Contribute to thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#nvdasr #addon #nvda

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@Samuel Proulx I understand @Musharraf has made verry significant progress for example as compared to piper TTS. To me it looks it's much lighter for both training and using trained model even enhancing audio quality and elligibility in the process. This is just my guess but with such an achievement it's fine not to limit it to blind audience exclusivelly. This is how I am seeing #optispeech. However I haven't played with kokoro TTS thus I have asked how much do you like it for example while comparing to something else, perhaps piper TTS if you do know that one.
#optispeech @Musharraf @Samuel Proulx
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@pvagner@mush42 I like kokoro much better than piper. It sounds more natural with fewer artifacts.
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Alright, a stupid bug squashed, and, at least locally, Orca can receive all key events from Mutter running on Wayland. Now, I only must fix caps-lock handling to work, e. g. now, Orca gets the events as I would want them, but Mutter does not see the caps-lock state changes, so I can not turn it on even if I want. :-D

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@IzzyOnDroid has been doing an amazing job getting our repo to over 30% of apps being reproducible. Maintaining a rebuilder takes a lot of constant work. Thank you!

As I've written before:

[...] the ecosystem is constantly moving: old toolchain and dependency bugs get fixed, but new ones keep popping up. [...] Reproducible Builds are not just an item on a checklist [...] It's an ongoing process involving not just upstream app developers, but also maintainers of repositories, clients, and rebuilders; those involved in outreach and writing documentation; developers and maintainers of tooling, toolchains, and dependencies. And often requires a lot of collaborative debugging :)


See also our "Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more":

android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

#IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds


Rückblick auf 2024 und Ausblick auf 2025: Reproducible Builds, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, und mehr

2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …
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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @IzzyOnDroid ✅

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⭐️ Principles Of Web Accessibility

A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching design and remediation for an accessible web.

By @heydon

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How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.
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🎉 Celebrate 200 years of Braille with us! This week on Double Tap, we’re diving into Braille’s past, present, and future with amazing guests, tech insights, and your feedback. Don’t miss it—daily on AMI-audio, podcast, and YouTube! 💬👩‍🏫📚 youtube.com/@DoubleTapVideo/vi… #BrailleAt200 #Accessibility #Tech

Double Tap - Your daily accessible technology show

Get ready to have your tech world rocked every week with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece on Double Tap! These guys are the ultimate duo - mixing humor, passion, and top-notch expertise to keep you in the loop with the latest in assistive tech for blind…
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#Accessibility #tech #brailleat200

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if its made in reaper? Could you send me the project? I might want to expand on that thing if you let me.
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KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his 'This Week in Plasma' series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week.
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TIL #Catima is apparently mirrored onto #RuStore through #Aptoide, or so someone reported: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Few problems with that: I have no control over the RuStore listing, nor do I control the Aptoide listing. Both may very well be malware.

It should go without saying: don't download apps from sketchy unofficial "app stores" and other APK download sites.

catima.app/ and github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… link you to all the safe and supported download sources :)


GitHub - CatimaLoyalty/Android: Catima, a Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android

Catima, a Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android - CatimaLoyalty/Android
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#catima #RuStore #aptoide

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As part of the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary's release, I've ripped the 3 DVDs that were included in the project and have them hosted at Internet Archive. These ISO files can be played in the VLC player like DVDs, and include all bonus features, subtitles, director's commentary, etc.

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BBS: The Documentary DVD Set : Jason Scott : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Bulletin Board System: it brought life online. Long before the Internet connected the planet and changed nearly evertying, there was a brave and...
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200 years ago, a #Blind French teenager took six little dots and opened up the world of literacy for himself and generations to come. Merci Louis. Without the code that bears your name, I wouldn't have gotten through school or found success at work. I definitely wouldn't love to read as much as I do. #Braille is independence, dignity, resourcefulness, pride. #Braille is beautiful!! Happy #WorldBrailleDay
#blind #braille #worldbrailleday
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Ahoj Fediverse! 👋
Tohle oficiální účet české #PeerTube instance 📼 VHSky.cz. Budeme vás tu upozorňovat na nové autory a zajímavá videa. A rádi uslyšíme zpětnou vazbu, co se vám líbí a co byste na VHSky.cz rádi viděli.

#introduction

#peertube #introduction
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ETI Eloquence 1.02 from 1996 has now been found.

It includes both the 16-bit and 32-bit version of the synth.

mega.nz/file/13VAXRII#TRf0nbEb…

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@robert_cuky @criseduas For this particular version, it's just the DLL that has to be accessed directly via code. It's not too far off from the later versions of Eloquence, but it sounds different.
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oh boy am tempted to write up a driver for this. But I'm thinking it's so old that adapting an existing eloquence NVDA driver to use it is a bit fruitless, we might be able to use parts of it but even stuff like the ECILicenseCheck are gone here, so it feels like what we're working is much more sparce. No .enu/.FRA/ITA files for languages (so maybe these earlier engines only supported ENU?) although dictionaries did exist.
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The #38C3 presentation about the massive #Volkswagen data leak is over and the leak was as bad as it sounded. 100,000s of cars could be located down to cm precision. Also a lot of metadata that is NOT supposed to be public. Disturbing.

The main takeaway was that the real problem here wasn't the leak itself, but that this data was collected in the first place.

I agree. It's not a good idea to create mountains of very personal data and then pray it never leaks.

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw #volkswagen #38C3

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"The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" is an abnormally well-written textbook. I'm 5 chapters in and so many things are clicking for me that have never made as much sense before. I bought the physical version but it rocks that it's also available for free in full legally: dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing's Table of Content

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Today is the day. Welcome to THE charger!

USB-C is officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU.

This means:

🔌The same charger for all new phones, tablets and cameras
⚡ Harmonised fast-charging technology
🔄 Reduced e-waste
🛑 No more “Sorry, I don’t have the right cable”

One charger to rule them all.

#SingleMarket #DigitalEU 

A minimalist illustration showing a packaged charger box labeled "one Union one Charger." The box features an image of a blue charger with the European Union flag symbol and a USB-C cable. The scene is set within a holiday theme, with decorative Christmas trees, ornaments, and gift boxes surrounding the charger box. In the top right corner, there is a small EU flag symbol.
#SingleMarket #DigitalEU

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In case you missed it, the hackers who reverse-engineered DRM on Polish trains got sued by the train manufacturer…

…multiple times.

You can donate to their defense fund:
ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist…

Context:

Their original talk from last year
media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-brea…

My piece about the first lawsuit against them
rys.io/en/175.html

#Newag #38C3 #DRM #Trains


Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains

We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...
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#DRM #trains #newag #38C3

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It's almost past the holiday season and I hope you've had one that you were dreaming of all year. I realized, I haven't ever repeated my advent calendar event which many of you seemed to have liked. That does not mean I have stopped researching good practice examples of accessibility implementations around the world. As a way of making up for it, I wanted to share a story that I digged up by following a thread of references from a podcast I was listening to, through somebody's personal website like it was done 30 years ago, through an anonymous FTP to the main site of the Braillnet project. I found the story really inspiring. It's 1993 in then Czechoslovakia. and the Internet is slowly becoming a thing alongside some, often locally produced, ways of making DOS and Windows 95 PC’s talk, at least with the most common software. It is apparent to the employees of the local blindness organization that the net will be a game-changer in access to information for blind and partially sighted users, some of whom own notetakers like the Eureka or even PCs. By cooperating with the IT centre of a university they set up a BBS under a phone number in Prague and offer, for the first time, access to digitalized books and magazines, an e-mail account, a Telnet and FTP client. Public transport schedules might have been a thing too but I'm not 100% sure about that. The network develops but the limitations are apparent: access mostly to internal information and only through a number in one city. Four years later, an idea is born to give all persons with disabilities access to regular, dial-up internet with prominence of locally sourced material but not excluding the entire world wide web. They manage to secure state funds and support of local ISP's and set up numbers for all major numerical zones in already then Czech Republic, giving unlimited access to the Internet to any person with a disability for the fixed price of around 4 USD per month. #Accessibility #RetroTech #Blind
#Accessibility #blind #retrotech
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@pvagner Do you know what else was offered by the BBS? I mean, beyond e-mail, FTP and Telnet, were there any extra services running over there?
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@Paweł Masarczyk I don't know really. I had no computer access on my own at that time. I'll try asking some friends that I believe might know and will reply back later.
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does anyone know of a
blog-like cms with features:
- self-hostable
- subscribe to posts with email
- rss
- activityPub
- supports images upload
- posts in markdown in webUI
- smolweb/minimalist
- no nodeJS
- no SSG

plz boost :boost_anim_sleeping:

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Gajim’s port to GTK4 is almost finished. 🥁 Currently we’re testing thoroughly to make the switch as smooth as possible.

We went ahead and made lots of small improvements, e.g. writing messages while offline, better styling for image previews, improved chat filters and more.

Gajim also improved its spam fighting toolkit: The next release will allow you to moderate all messages of a spammer at once. 🤖

If you like to support Gajim, please consider making a donation: liberapay.com/Gajim


Gajim's profile - Liberapay

Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.
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