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For anyone interested in The Lord of the Rings, there is an amazing audiobook with music, sound effects, different voices for the characters, etc, all done by one person. It almost sounds like you're watching a movie even though its an audiobook. It was published for free by its creator, and I have been hosting it on my server for a while because the original website is hard to download from. I also fixed the ID3 tags to make media players organize the files correctly. lotr.emassey0135.dev

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I also just found something similar for the Silmarillion, a dramatized audiobook reading with added music. I haven't listened to much of it yet but so far it sounds really good, although its not quite the same thing as Phil Dragash's Lord of the Rings audiobook. But that is likely in large part because the Silmarillion is just a very different type of book. Make sure to read the description before playing because it has important information about the order of the files (basically listen to the books in order with 8 first and then up through 12). archive.org/details/Silmarilli…

The Silmarillion Musical Study Guide : Tolkien : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A Musical Study Guide for the audiobook reading of the Silmarillion, utilizing musical cues, themes, and sound effects from the related films to better enable...
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Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

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Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Does this help, though? Because the moment someone makes a “Android improvements self-guide” app and puts that in the playstore, the attackers can just link to that and let the victim follow the instructions.

Note how that app doesn't even need to get malicious – the process is tricky and lengthy, I think there could be some value in having an app to remind you that you can now continue with step 3 (or even show a countdown).

In case the app is permitted to exist, someone would abuse it / embed a similar thing in an actually malicious app. If it is forbidden to exist, then (a) google would be censoring apps without warrant, which feels to violate antitrust laws, and (b) given that playstore has a record of malicious apps, that app would exist on playstore probably anyway, solving nothing.

This feels like a security theatre play noone should buy tickets for…

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#marschine 19 Under a New Moon. New Moon in Pisces on the spring equinox. Trap drums, bells, a vocal offering, and a reverse synth that opens like a door with no handle. Something begins tonight whether you're ready or not. #trap #hiphop #beats #maschine #instrumental
#hiphop #beats #marschine #maschine #instrumental #trap

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For the last three or so years I have been co-hosting EBU in Action, a quarterly podcast of the European Blind Union where we discuss various topic of importance to the community of blind and partially sighted people in Europe. Episode 14 is out as of two days and since there are many blind gamers on Mastodon, I thought I might do a special shoutout about it. It was my honour to have @svenja also known as SvenjaDev on Twitch and Philip Bennefall, the person behind things such as Q9, Tarzan Junior and of course the Blastbay Game Toolkit (BGT) framework that many popular audiogames are based on, as guests for this one. We touched upon a lot of topics from the history of gaming for the blind, modding vs. native accessibility, e-sports gaming, streaming right up to AI so go ahead and check it out. #Accessibility #Blind ebuinaction.podbean.com/e/pres…

Episode 14: Press Start to play: Levelling up Gaming through Accessibility | EBU in action

The videogame industry has grown massively during the last decades. Bearing in mind all the developments in this domain, we ask ourselves: how can blind and partially sighted people enjoy Gaming on an equal basis with others? We explore this subject…
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Thanks to @Piciok this time I have been in an english Podcast!
Episode 14 of (EBU in Action) "Press Start to play: Levelling up Gaming through Accessibility." ebuinaction.podbean.com/e/pres…
Transcript: euroblind.org/sites/default/fi…
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Episode 14: Press Start to play: Levelling up Gaming through Accessibility | EBU in action

The videogame industry has grown massively during the last decades. Bearing in mind all the developments in this domain, we ask ourselves: how can blind and partially sighted people enjoy Gaming on an equal basis with others? We explore this subject…
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Not sure if you need virtual cables, because if OBS supports ASIO then you *might* be able to do it through ReaRoot or something like that. I don't really know much about reaper side of things but that's probably how people would suggest you do so.
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'What's that sound? Darude - Sandstorm' youtu.be/-5jUV1n0BCY?si=UXvLnC…

What's that sound? Darude - Sandstorm

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hay everyone! I am thrilled to anounce the release of our new trivia game, quizzy! quizzy is a trivia based game where you need to answer Multiple choice questions to progress. unlike many other trivia based games, quizzy fetches the questions from online sources, insuring you get new questions each time you play. thanks @Aryan for making the release truly possible. you can find the github repo at github.com/amanKG777/Quizzy feedbacks/suggestions are welcome. also feel free to open any issue on the delicated page of the repo.

GitHub - amanKG777/Quizzy: code for the quizzy project

code for the quizzy project. Contribute to amanKG777/Quizzy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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This is also a funly thing! GitHub - IhorShevchuk/piper-app: The original Piper, now on iOS and macOS · GitHub github.com/IhorShevchuk/piper-…

GitHub - IhorShevchuk/piper-app: The original Piper, now on iOS and macOS

The original Piper, now on iOS and macOS. Contribute to IhorShevchuk/piper-app development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@Tamasg @Blindy yes, and yes, to bofa yur questions, as the modern folks don't say. I tested it immediately after I heard about it, and was amazed. Lessac will now be my new teamtalk and bookreading voice when I don't use sweet Carissa V aka Bella on elevenreader. I should make her a piper voice or a kokoro voiceOver thing. Or, TGSpeechbox should drive the thing so the voices are more predictable and less AIy.
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[iOS and iPadOS App Directory] Piper - Neural TTS applevis.com/apps/ios/utilitie…

Piper - Neural TTS | AppleVis

Bring clearer, more natural voices to VoiceOver with modern neural speech technology. Piper – High-Quality VoiceOver Voices Piper is a modern text-to-speech solution that brings natural, expressive neural voices to your device.
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Actually, even if you don’t care about #UnifiedPush, having this minimal #Prosody server that just accepts messages via a simple REST API and sends them out via #XMPP is great alternative to the various sendxmpp scripts out there.

gultsch.de/posts/xmpp-via-http…

Sending Jabber/XMPP messages via HTTP

The goal of this tutorial is to set up a simple REST API that allows you to send XMPP messages to an existing XMPP account. This can be easily integrated into monitoring solutions or other scripts that send out status information.
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#xmpp #UnifiedPush #prosody
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The great Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof takes us on a tour of Move and its accessibility features.

Who should watch this: everyone. Sighted people, to understand these needs. Move fans, to check out Andre's awesome demo of Move Everything features. Sighted developers of hardware and software, to understand needs of the visually impaired.

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With everything else going on in the world, making music more open to everybody seems even more valuable.

Video guide to accessibility in Ableton Move, Move Everything - Andre Louis - CDM Create Digital Music

Unofficial screen reader support in Ableton Move may be new, but it's already a revelation. Andre Louis, a visually impaired musician and technologist/artist extraordinaire, takes us on a tour of Move Everything.
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Pushed #nvdaComposer 1.5.1 to fix an error with exporting very large.rng compositions such as the fantastic one done by @batworx which is now in the demos folder accessed with CTRL+Shift+O. You must check out his version of 'Bouncing Round The Classroom' which I wrote many years ago.
Update 1.6.0:
• Added F8 to cycle the live playback engine while in the composer window.
• Playback modes now cycle through NVDA tones, smooth local audio, and Nokia-style local audio.
• The selected playback engine is stored persistently in NVDA’s configuration, so your last choice is remembered.
Playback engine toggle: Press F8 in the composer window to switch between the three live playback modes. The default remains NVDA tones.
This allows you to hear what your composition should sound like with the two export options before you do so.

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There is a little discrepancy with the #Foobar2000 mobile v2.26 beta that it display url encoded file names when browsing webdav shares that are not indexed into its media library. I am using it like this when playing my audio books / audio drama. If you are using Foobar 2000 mobile on android for playing media from webdav remotes, perhaps you can support my wish so this will be looked into at some point.

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#Foobar2000
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The first ever talking alarm clock: youtube.com/watch?v=etl_bSIy-p…

The fifty year old Talking Clock Radio

In 1971 Panasonic Introduced the first consumer Talking Alarm Clock Radio, the RC-6900.Let's open it up and find out how it worked. --------------- SUBSCRIBE...
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Unbelievable, #Nextcloud seems to be finally getting repeated tasks feature. 🎉

Nextcloud's backend had no problem with repeated tasks. Syncing with webdav was completely OK.
But the web fronted couldn't reschedule and edit repeating tasks. It seems it will be fixed now.

#nextcloud

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As I have learned: all the time, the problem was to find an implementation different platform clients can deal with due to lack of standardization. Hence the web front-end was lacking it to avoid the expectation it will work with all other clients that had their own ideas about how to handle repeating tasks.
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#marschine 07 They Flipped the Call, featuring @FreakyFwoof and @raywonder on the sample chop, which is a derivative of the Nokia ringtone. The iconic Nokia tune is based on a 19th-century guitar piece by Francisco Tárrega. Nokia licensed it in 1994, and it debuted on the Nokia 2110. By the late ‘90s, it was the world’s most-heard melody, ringing billions of times daily. Now it will ring in your head all day.
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My colleague Tiago posted about some of his recent work at @igalia on PDF accessibility:

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Accessibility and PDF documents

Accessibility # When we think of accessibility, we tend to picture it as something designed for a small minority. The reality is much broader: 16% of the world’s population — 1.3 billion people — live with a significant disability¹.
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Unison is an open-source file synchronization tool that keeps two folders on different devices in sync.
Unlike traditional backups, it supports two-way synchronization, so changes on either side can be safely propagated.
Works across Linux, macOS, and Windows, and typically syncs data securely over SSH.
👉 github.com/bcpierce00/unison

More privacy-friendly tools curated at : digital-escape-tools-phi.verce…

#OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHosting #FileSync #FOSS

Digital Escape Tools – Privacy & Security Software 2026

Discover the best privacy tools and secure software in 2026. Open-source apps, encrypted services, and guides to protect your online privacy and fight surveillance.
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I see a lot of posts on my feed expressing various ethical and pragmatic concerns about AI. And I see quite a few posts from other disabled people along the lines of "stop telling us not to use AI when it's helping me fix accessibility issues that you've never done anything to fix."

I worry about the ecological effects of AI's need for resources in the aggregate, but a few disabled people making use of it isn't going to make a meaningful difference, and I get the argument that we need all the help we can get. So I am not going to tell someone else whether to use it or not.

Whether it is helpful is a more complicated and nuanced question, and I think that it will depend on the context.

I've been avoiding it mostly for reasons specific to me--I just vaguely feel like I don't know how, and it normally wouldn't occur to me to use it. I feel like I wouldn't know what to give it for a prompt. So, admittedly, I'm not the best person to be giving opinions.

I wrote about it at the time, but, a few months ago, someone gave me an AI-assisted patch for a bug in my module. At first I was impressed, and I still am to some extent, but the patch was later found to have problems, and the person came back with a revised patch. That, too, caused problems. I eventually removed all of the complicated code that the AI added and solved the bug with just a few lines of code. To be fair, the AI patch helped me to figure out how to think about the problem. So that was my first impression.

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@matt Your point about the LLM's code helping you to think about the bug in a different way is a lot of how I use these tools. If they generate code for me, it's code I review, and it's used as a time-saver or to avoid tedium. Mostly, though I "discuss" object-oriented concepts, or have them generate code I use as a way to reconsider my approach. Then I go write the actual code myself.
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This blog post recently crossed my timeline. blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/0… It talks about burnout among FOSS maintainers, which is an important subject.

It saddens me, though, that the author called out Rust alongside generative AI as a contributor to their own burnout as a distro maintainer, going back to the Python cryptography package's adoption of Rust in 2021. Is there anything that we who use and promote Rust can do about this, or is Rust just too at odds with the norms of Linux distros?

Money isn’t going to solve the burnout problem

The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was …
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I doubt there are universal norms of Linux distros. But many of them value shared libraries as a means to fix security issues system-wide, without having to recompile all client code. At the distro level, recompiling (plus running tests etc.) takes a lot of resources, and maintainer time. For these distros, vendoring dependencies is a major problem.
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Some distros also value long-time stability, and try to support old devices for as long as possible. This is something that the Rust community could address at the compiler level, but unless it shares the same concerns, this is unlikely to happen.

This value conflict is exacerbated by (a part of?) the Rust community aggressively wanting to re-write everything, even in the absence of issues. The coreutils debate is a good example.

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Fix screen readers reading the wrong line on blank lines in textboxes (closes #7190) by trypsynth · Pull Request #11509 · dotnet/wpf

Fixes #7190 Description When navigating a TextBox or RichTextBox line-by-line with a screen reader (e.g. Narrator, NVDA), blank lines caused the next line's content to be announced instead of &...
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Just played around a little with ish (it's a Linux emulator for the IPhone).
For the moment, I wanted to be able to use the screen reader of my choice, even if I'm doing it remotely from another computer. So I successfully got a ssh server set up, following the instructions here: medium.com/@der.loste.kitkat/g…

My ssh connection goes away as soon as my phone locks. I haven't tried the workarounds described in that post for running things in the background; maybe that would have helped.

I wanted to see if sound was emulated. So I got amixer installed, but it didn't appear to detect any sound cards. So I'm guessing not.

So I would have to use VoiceOver I guess.

And, with VoiceOver, when I type a key, I get a lag of approximately a second before the key is echoed. (And it is not because I'm using a bluetooth keyboard--that might be a small part of it, but I don't get nearly as much lag if I'm, say, typing in the messages app).

So I don't really see myself using it, but trying it out has been interesting.

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Can someone of the Audient Evo users tell me how I disable this weird audiometer/monitor thing that lights up the LED ring on the thing whenever it detects audio? This is insanely stupid if you use a screen reader, for obvious reasons.

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Ok so apparently it's impossible to disable that? What a massive L. So now this thing will continue blinking like a police car whenever it detects input. The only option is to switch to a line that's not used, which is only 1 mic line in my case. Who had this idea and thought it was a good one?
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Hi everyone, I have something slightly different to share, it's part of a project I've been working on during my downtime, because I guess this is rest for me or something haha. I've created a reaper project (can easily be made into just an effects chain) which first upmixes stereo audio into 7.1.4 surround sound before then downmixing it back to stereo, but doing so in such a way were all 12 of the surround sound speakers are positioned using HRTF! In other words, it causes standard stereo music to sound like it's playing all around you in 3d, quite a fun listening experience! a lot of time, pacients, multiple pairs of headphones, hundreds of tracks tested and uncountable minor parameter adjustments went into making sure that there are as few hrtf or other artifacts in the output audio as I could achieve given my experience level and ears. I used a much younger and more simple version of this effects chain for the New years Any Audio streams, and an older but similar concept in my Starwar audio production. This chain combined with a virtual audio cable or app2clap allows you to binauralize audio from any windows application, it was pretty fun listening to a 3d internet radio station today! I made it for my audio productions, but discovered that it's also great for entertainment. If you're a curious audio nerd who owns a copy of Reaper and have a few extra minutes to install a couple plugins, feel free to check this out if you're interested, feedback is welcome/appreciated and I hope you enjoy! samtupy.com/music3d.zip

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Project Load Warning dialog There were 3 elements in the project that were not understood. If this project was created in a newer version of REAPER, this version may not preserve all of the settings of the project.

Project tokens not recognized:

RULERHEIGHT
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History of "hoover" sound
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How a joke sound defined 90s rave

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The official microG OS project (lineage.microg.org/) leaked their private keys for logging into their servers and signing releases:

github.com/lineageos4microg/l4…

We make our official builds on local machines. Our signing machine's keys aren't ever on any storage unencrypted.

December 2025 security issues

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if you prefer Bandcamp, some of my music is also there. ondrosik.bandcamp.com #BandCampFriday!

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Ondrosik. Slovakia.
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GrapheneOS Foundation Reporting On MicroG OS Project Leaking Private Keys

The official microG OS project (lineage.microg.org/) leaked their private keys for logging into their servers and signing releases:

github.com/lineageos4microg/l4…

We make our official builds on local machines. Our signing machine's keys aren't ever on any storage unencrypted.

Our roadmap for improving security of verifying updates is based on taking advantage of the reproducible builds. We plan to have multiple official build locations and a configurable signoff verification system in the update clients also usable with third party signoff providers.

We don't have faith in any available commercial HSM products being more secure than keeping keys encrypted at rest on the primary local build machine. Instead, we're planning to develop software for using the secure element on GrapheneOS phones as an HSM for signing our releases.

December 2025 security issues

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We don't have faith in any available commercial HSM products being more secure than keeping keys encrypted at rest on the primary local build machine. Instead, we're planning to develop software for using the secure element on GrapheneOS phones as an HSM for signing our releases.

#grapheneos

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Our response was, as it is in most cases to help educate people who use it and the OS ecommended by microG themselves since they have deeper microG integration than what's available in official LineageOS. It's an official part of the microG project and it reveals a lot about their overall approach to privacy and security in the project.

We are often asked why we don't implement it instead of sandboxed Play Services and this just goes to further reinforce that position.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

Every now and then the Cambridge CST exam papers include a question like "explain why even experienced programmers sometimes have problems with character codes".

You could write pretty well anything you liked.

Originally what was expected was an essay about things like escape sequences on Flexowriter tapes; in my day it was about conversion between EBCDIC and ASCII; these days it might be about obscure characters in URLs.

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On thursday I managed to help a friend to update his #mikrotik #routerBoard G750 running ancient version of #routerOS from v3.29 to the latest Router OS version v7.20.8.
No hacking, no 3rd party software required. I had to do the upgrade in multiple steps for each major version upgrade seperate but still I am seeing this as a huge surprise.
I can run up to date software on par with todays security standards, even run services that were not available at the time of producing that device e.g. #wireguard. #tech #networking
#tech #networking #wireguard #mikrotik #routeros #routerBoard

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I've been using Linux on my personal machines since I was a teenager. Twenty-five years of desktops, from GNOME 2 to Sway. I felt the need to write about it.

tarakiyee.com/for-the-love-of-…

#Linux #Wayland #FOSS #OpenSource

For the Love of the Linux Desktop

🖼️Cover Photo: "Woman with wax tablets and stylus," commonly called Sappho. 1st century AD fresco from Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
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I guess I'm probably the only user of my WhatsApp Accessibility Fixes Greasemonkey script - the rest of you are probably using the desktop app with screen reader add-ons now :) - but in case it's of interest to anyone, I just updated the script to strip phone numbers from the labels of messages from unknown contacts. github.com/jcsteh/axSGrease/ra…

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#marschine 06 Coffee Beans. This one I made for a friend to chop up in to a different beat, and he did a good job doing so. Won’t post his with out asking, and I'd probably have to wait until #aprilton to post anyway, since he uses Live.
#marschine #aprilton

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For screen reader users, text-based multiplayer games (MUDs) are often easier to access than graphical games.

So why can playing one from a web browser feel harder instead of easier?

Brandon Cross (aka bscross) explains it all in this interview:
writing-games.org/accessibilit…

#MUDs #Accessibility #TextGames

Accessibility in a changing MU* landscape: an interview with bscross -

Long-time MU* enthusiast Brandon Cross talks about how far the hobby has come - and some of the accessibility hurdles that still remain.
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#marschine 04 Son of a Ghost Bitch! This is on the shorter side. This was made because I wanted to sample some random thing, and @Millerd16 was the random recording.
#marschine @Daniel

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I've thought for a while that it'd be useful to have a dead simple Markdown renderer that allowed you to see the result and easily copy the rendered output to the clipboard. There are quite a few such tools already, but copying the rendered output generally involves selecting the output yourself first, which is tedious. Finally, catalysed by disabled.social/@kaveinthran/1…, I threw something horribly quick and ugly together. The workflow: type Markdown in text box, press alt+shift+r to render and see the output, press alt+shift+c to copy to clipboard, press alt+shift+s to return to editing the Markdown if you like, etc. If you're using something other than Firefox, it might be alt+r, etc. instead. This tool really sucks and I don't care, but I'm just posting it here in case others might find it useful. files.jantrid.net/mdr/

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For folks that want something less crappy than my Markdown renderer, you could use the commonmark.js demo, which is still very minimalist but does offer auto render, sync highlighting, etc. However, it doesn't have shortcut keys, nor does it have a copy to clipboard action, though you could focus the iframe, switch to NVDA focus mode (if using NVDA) and control+a control+c there. try.commonmark.org/
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Great, VDO Ninja now can be used from vst plugin on Windows. Unfortunatelly, currently not very accessible. steveseguin.github.io/Ninja-VS…

WebRTC VST for VDO.Ninja

Audio-first VST3 bridge for VDO.Ninja. Stream or monitor live audio directly from your DAW.
VDO.Ninja

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I got bored and made something fun: an accessible clone of Little Alchemy v1. The goal is to combine elements to create new ones. I included every element that ever existed in that version, even discontinued and bonus ones, totaling 615 elements and 1009 combinations. I always wanted to play this game, but the original used drag-and-drop. Play it here: trypsynth.github.io/alchemist/ Feedback welcome!

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Web #accessibility / #a11y people — any good resources I can link to on the problems with relying on LLMs for accessibility reviews?

I have concerns but I can't find a good summary. Initial searches have only found pages that support the idea more-or-less uncritically.

(Not saying absolutely that there *are* no potential positives — but the target audience already believes in the positives, so I'd like to introduce some balance.)

#a11y #Accessibility

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