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Did you know it's now possible to select text on the page loaded in #Firefox, press shift+F10 to inwoke a popup menu and translate selected text into a different language?

I like it as I can easily copy text translated locally instead of using online services for the actual translation work.

#firefox

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NV Access

@miki We had native selection in Firefox FIRST. Looking at the release notes we've had that in NVDA for Firefox since NVDA 2024.1, and for Chrome since NVDA 2025.1: download.nvaccess.org/releases…

If you try it out, do please let us know how you find it :)

What's New in NVDA

download.nvaccess.org
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I should have thought of it, but I didn't... There is an app for remotely controlling Pihole. And the app looks to be accessible. Try it out! apps.apple.com/app/id151544555…

Pi-hole Remote App - App Store

Download Pi-hole Remote by RocketScience IT on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Pi-hole Remote.
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iOS 26 and VoiceOver/Braille Access/live listen had a good run yesterday. I was at a workshop and I was able to use live listening on my BI40XB Braille display 2for hours solidly reading in Braille what the various speakers were talking about. I could go back to the beginning of the whole workshop, jump anywhere in the text/Braille, and then zip back to the current words that were being spoken/translated. I would say the transcription of voice to text/Braille was about 98% accurate. This will make it a lot more accessible for people who are Blind deaf with no useful vision at all living, working/playing in a cited worldspoken without having to have someone there all the time , interpreter. After all this is what we all strive for, complete independence and not relying on other people to get things done. I spoke to a friend of mine overseas early this morning he is completely deaf and completely blind, and he has been using iOS 26 with this function extremely effectively when he goes out in the community and needs to chat to people. Pretty incredible stuff when you think about it. You can also get a transcript coppied to/paste, and get a AI summary of the captured information.

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This is a very interesting post about the high cost of Braille technology from Matthew Horspool. groups.io/g/braille-display-us…

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iOS 26 and Braille Access to the rescue.
I was working with a student today who found navigating through stuff on the screen with VoiceOver/Braille quite challenging for her, when all she needed to do was to take down answers for the classroom teacher.
I could not find any simple apps that just had an edit field, and a save button or a shortcut key to save, and then of course, go back in to that file and read/edit.
Enter Braille Access/Braille Notes: just an edit field, jump to bottom of screen for Back button, to save, first line of Braille Note is the file title, so all student needed to do was to go down the list of files, and press key 8 (Enter) to go back in to that file.Of course, both Braille and print is displayed on the screen if visuals are turned on in Braille Access.
This is truly using the iPad as a Braille Note Taker: nothing fancy: just focusing on content.

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Let‘s Encrypt has made new Root and Intermediate Certs and will start using them now in staging (test) and soon in production, submitting them to root programs (OS and browsers) for inclusion.

If you ship a „CA bundle“ somewhere, you should update that once the new roots are added.

letsencrypt.org/2025/11/24/gen…

New "Generation Y" Hierarchy of Root and Intermediate Certificates

In a ceremony held in September, Let’s Encrypt generated two new Root Certification Authorities (CAs) and six new Intermediate CAs, which we’re collectively calling the “Generation Y” hierarchy.
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These are the sounds Remy the dog makes when he's playing with his favourite squeaky elephant. Apropos of nothing, I seem to be getting less recording done here lately.

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Yesterday an open-source developer Christian has released life changing update to the privacy respecting #android app called #MakeACopy. The app now features so called #accessibility mode that is enabling #screenReader users to take pictures of the paper documents independently.
Accessibility guide is available on github.
The latest prerelease version provides clear Accessibility guidance phrases with screen readers such as Talkback, Corvus, Jieshuo and others that can handle announcement accessibility event.

I am verry happy about this. We are now getting privacy respecting open-source based screen reader accessible solution that performs very well and is easy to use.

The prerelease version can be downloaded at
github.com/egdels/makeacopy/re…

makeacopy/docs/accessibility_mode_guide_en.md at main · egdels/makeacopy

MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that allows you to digitize paper documents with OCR functionality. The app is designed to be privacy-friendly, working completely offli...
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OK. Some of y'all wanted a stereo recording of Cadence. Here's my recording on: How it works with NVDA, how images work, how connecting two of them works. You'll also hear the pins more accurately. Enjoy.

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No, there was no leaked database of 3.5B #WhatsApp users. Researchers from Vienna simply used the contact discovery method with all possible phone numbers to get contact data of 3.5B users. They informed WhatsApp who kinda fixed it by setting rate limits for contact discovery and the researchers deleted their collected data. Read the paper instead of clickbait :)

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whatsapp-census/Hey_there_You_are_using_WhatsApp.pdf at main · sbaresearch/whatsapp-census

Contribute to sbaresearch/whatsapp-census development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Should I have gone with DotPad X over Cadence? For me, I don't think so. Your trade-offs may vary but:
Both devices have a refresh noise. There's no way around it. I wish I could hear the DotPad X in action, but very few or practically nobody has posted a demo of this. I would expect it to sound like a Monarch, if the cell tech is the same or similar. Even if we consider Cadence louder, the refresh is near-instant. Not as instant as a classic piezoelectric 40-cell, but let me say, itt's no more than .5 to 1 seconds for the entire 4 lines to refresh. This doesn't get longer when you connect more than one because they refresh together, but you do get slightly louder clicks. So refresh rate itself? Cadence still wins.
Then for me the battery is what sealed the deal. Weeks on a charge? DotPad X looks to be 8 hours. A workday's worth, sure, but not much more.
And for sure, this is Cadence gen 1. Can you imagine what this little company from Indiana could do with it if more people saw things this way? How the tech could improve, maybe dampening over time the clicks?
Joe and the rest of their team have been incredible. For repairs, they told me they send you a new unit and you then send yours back. Very prompt at responses too during the day, you're not left waiting on hold.
So if anyoone again asks: "Do you regret Cadence despite its press conference-like noise when refreshing?" My answer is still a resounding no. I love 48-cells in my pocket, sized like an 18-cell.

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Today, November 19, is World Toilet Day.

In honor of this, in 2018, when November 19 fell on a Monday, I recorded an introduction to week 47 of 2018 using a couple of toilets flushing, a vocoder, and my own voice, such that the toilets are speaking.

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Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.

This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOMECalendar #calendaring

Allow exporting an entire calendar as a file (#31) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Originally reported by Tin Man on 2015-10-26 in Bugzilla bug (#757125): For backup purposes, it would nice...
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We're building something for the Fediverse. #Holos

ActivityPub running on your phone. Your own server, your data stored locally. A relay handles your stable identity when you're offline.

One account, all formats. Short text, long articles, photos, videos. The UI adapts to your mood. Switch between text mode, photo grid, video feed, article editor based on what you feel like sharing.

Same network, same followers.

Early stages, but the foundation is solid. We wanted to share the progress.

#holos

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I'm proud to release the first early version of the high-level audio engine I've been working on for the past months!
GraphAudio.Kit is a high level 3d audio game engine for your dotnet, using SteamAudio for great hrtf! Very understandable and hackable. It's built on top of GraphAudio, which is a set of libraries I made that let you create your own audio engines by giving you a graph-based audio framework, webaudio for your dotnet basically! Please take a look, and tell your friends.

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#game-audio #gamedev

#gamedev #game

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Paperback 0.6.1 is out, bringing with it lots of bugfixes and a few new features! Changelog:
• Added password-protected PDF support!
• Added a very basic go to previous/next position feature. If you press enter on an internal link and it moves your cursor, that position will now be remembered, and can be navigated to with alt+left/right arrows.
• Added an elements list! Currently it only shows a tree of all the headings in your document or a list of links, but there are plans to expand it in the future.
• Added an option to start Paperback in maximized mode by default.
• Fixed links in some Epub documents not working properly.
• Fixed parsing Epub TOCs containing relative paths.
• Fixed some epub documents not showing a title or author.
• Fixed the titles of some epub chapters not showing up properly in the TOC dialog.
• Fixed you not being able to use the space bar to activate the OK/cancel buttons in the TOC dialog.
• Improved the handling of headings in Word documents.
• You will now get spoken feedback if the recent documents list is empty when you try to bring up the dialog.
Download: paperback.dev/downloads/
Enjoy!

Downloads – Paperback

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@FreakyFwoof Can you please expand on what you mean by windows+d sends it away? Windows+d certainly should not minimize it to the system tray, the only thing that should do that is the minimize option from the system menu, assuming I didn't break it.
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OK I just enabled it and yes, Win+D sends it to tray when enabled, which is why I turned it off despite finding it useful. Windows B doesn't, but that never sends anything to tray, which is a good way to get around the stupid WhatsApp no background audio trick.
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@FreakyFwoof Yeah, alt+tabbing hard enough with enough windows can do it too. I assume that Windows itself sends some kind of 'get out of the way' event to the window which WX picks up and responds to as a minimize event, which is maybe the same thrown by the menu? I've seen apps get it right to only respond to the menu, foobar2000 for example, but am not sure how they do it.
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After a few intense days with GPT Codex, it’s finally time to officially introduce Sara. #SARA or Simple Accessible Radio Automation, is a program primarily designed for radio presenters who host live shows.

Some notable features that are currently missing from other broadcast solutions accessible to blind users include:

a loop function – especially useful for intros,
a flexible number of playlists and players,
and a news editor module with the ability to embed audio clips that can be played while reading the news.

The application is 100% vibe-coded, and it’s definitely not recommended to test it during a live broadcast. It requires several sound cards to operate, and for now, I’m not planning to add any virtual audio routing like the one found in Radioboss or SPL. The program is and will remain open source, and perhaps someone interested in contributing will join the project.

In terms of screen reader compatibility, the main focus is on NVDA.

Happy testing: gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/

SARA 0.0.3

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My friend @TheQuinbox has been working on an ebook reader for blind people called Paperback (github.com/trypsynth/paperback). So far it's all written in C++, using wxWidgets as the GUI toolkit. Now Quin is working on making it a Rust/C++ hybrid, with the UI still in C++ using wx. As far as we know, the Rust GUI ecosystem isn't nearly ready to support a desktop app like this, with perfect screen reader accessibility and native-feeling keyboard behavior.

GitHub - trypsynth/paperback: An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader.

An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperback
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Good luck! The sooner it becomes pure rust, the sooner Rust has to push an accessible GUI package to Cargo. :D Seriously though, best of luck. I've enjoid using Paperback, and it's been able to replace my old commercial ebook reader (you probably know the one) completely.
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The latest Zoom firmware for the H1 Essential has this so-called 'AI Noise Reduction' thing going on, so I thought I'd test it in a noisy environment which I call 'The Cupboard Of Doom!'
It's where all the water, heating and electricity comes into the house, so it's of course ideal for lovely, high-quality recordings.

In the first clip, noise reduction is off, then in the next clip which is back-to-back, it's on.
My scepticism about this whole thing is on full display here...
You be the judge. Useful or useless?

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well, it will maybe make more sense if you can combine it with mp3 recording. e. g. mostly people who prefer mp3 wants to have resulting file immediately. I can imagine use this noise reduction during some live shows which I sometimes do for my friends but it doesnt work in usb either.
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Do you have 2 minutes?

Please consider nominating GrapheneOS and Accrescent (submit the form once for each) for the 2025 Proton Lifetime Fundraiser.

Direct link to form: form.typeform.com/to/XixQrG8Q

Learn more about the fundraiser: proton.me/blog/lifetime-fundra…

#grapheneOS #opensource #accrescent #android

Help us choose recipients for our 2025 Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser!

Join Proton’s 2025 Lifetime Fundraiser and help decide which organizations receive grants supporting privacy, free speech, and human rights.
Irina Marcopol (Proton)
#android #opensource #grapheneos #accrescent

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@accrescent You're welcome! I enjoyed your recent blog post. It's always interesting getting a peek “behind the curtains”.

For anyone interested in reading those posts - blog.accrescent.app/

Accrescent Blog

See Accrescent blog posts and announcements.
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@accrescent I hope you win.🙏🏼 I answered every question 👍🏼

"Thank you for your support! Each suggestion will be thoroughly considered. We will announce the chosen organizations on the Proton blog and on our social channels. Stay tuned for the start of the fundraiser on 16 December, 2025!"🤞

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In 2021, I’ve tabled amendments to the @EUCommission’s proposal of the Digital Markets Act, one of which introduced mandatory messaging interoperability for the gatekeepers. Now, more than 4 years later, real effects on the market are starting to appear. about.fb.com/news/2025/11/mess…

Messaging Interoperability: WhatsApp enables third-party chats for users in Europe

The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to
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@Jiří Eischmann @Marcel Kolaja @European Commission This is a joke isn't it?
First third party supported chat services are BirdyChat and Haiket. Does anyone have friends over there?
This sounds similar to how apple has opened their apps ecosystem that no meaningfull competion is viable.
Meta is not seeing their users seriously. Why we can't bridge whatsapp chats with FB messenger chats? These are running on similar if not the same backends.
@Marcel Kolaja @European Commission @Jiří Eischmann
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A thought that broke my heart a little bit: Imagine if all of this AI nonsense money would have been spent on building, repairing and maintaining railways and building new trains? The billions! Instead of all this harm, there could be continent spanning rail and people could stop fucking flying, too. 😶

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@bouriquet @cstross rail in the us has so many problems. Many by design. Norway/Sweden/Finland seem quite capable of operating trains in winter. Narvik, Kiruna, Kolari, are all stations way further north than any in the US. And in recent years they've had temps over 30°

But then 20F is only -7°C. Switzerland, Austria, France all get that, and all get 35+ in the summer. Amtrak has a lot of problems, blaming the climate is no excuse.

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@quixoticgeek @bouriquet The real beast to accommodate if you want continuously welded track is Toronto. From +35℃ in summer to -35℃ in winter, a 70℃ swing. Toronto has commuter rail but the rolling stock looks rather old-fashioned ...
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I finally got some time to reconfigure my network. From now on #Turris #OmniaNG is my main gateway to the internet.
Well, the software needs a lot of polish:
🪲 It has a wifi7 card, but I have to run it only in AC mode, or any connected client causes restart of all radios. I hope this will be fixed soon.
🪲 The display only worked on first boot, since than it only shows scrambled image or nothing. I don't mind it, as it's just a novelty for me. One day I would like to try render my own stuff maybe.
❓ It has two SFP+ ports, so I also bought 2×Turris metallic 1/2.5/5/10G SFP+ modules. One for older Omnia, one for Omnia NG. It makes the connection, but it runs 2.5G in one direction (that's ok, it's the maximum older omnia can handle) and 0.2G in the other direction.
I don't understand why. Is it a hardware failure? Or software bug? Or technolohy incompatibilty of some kind? 🤷‍♂️
🪲 Some LEDs are resetting brightness to max often. That's a bit annoying.
#turris #omniang

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This is TERRIBLE! Mozilla people who used to follow me here... Talk some sense into your coworkers/management!

People don't use Firefox because it's loaded with crap and AI, they use it because it's not corporate owned and not feeding all your browsing data into the data machine. AI is not of any benefit to add to your browser, no matter the hype.

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…

#firefox #ai #mozilla

Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it

AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.
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Today's discovery: The Victor Reader Stream (second generation) has a micro SD card under the battery. It acts as internal storage but also has the operating system on it. And that operating system is ... Linux, from 2010, with Busybox.
I'm very interested to try and get SSH running, but I don't think the binaries are there. It looks like there is support for serial of some kind. The OS partition is 100% full. I'll reimage a second micro SD card at some point and find out how much I can tinker with it before it breaks. If anyone wants a dd dump of the entire card, let me know.

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miki

Most of HumanWare is Linux based these days.

The firmware update files for Chameleons, Mantises and Brailliants also have Linux images in them.

I suspect the serial port you're speaking of is for UARD. Most devices of this kind have an UARD port somewhere, mostly used for diagnostics and debugging, although access to it often requires some disassembly.

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@miki The SD card is under a piece of tape, and I can tell there are some pins next to the card, so I was wondering whether that was the serial port in question. It looks like it does have serial enabled out of the box. I haven't gotten around to modifying the OS yet, but I could probably give myself remote access over wi-fi.
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I am wondering what accessible SIP clients do you use on Windows and android? I would like to experiment with odorik.cz as there are plenty options, like IVR setup, call forwarding, voicemail, call recording and similar stuff which we will probably need for our community project.

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Wrt what I posted yesterday, I downloaded the GNOME OS live ISO, started it in a vm, and pressed alt+super+S. Orca started. So far, so good. But now I have to get through gnome-initial-setup, and I have to select a time zone, and, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get a selection to stick so that the Next button is no longer grayed out. Fml.
Edit: I think I'm hitting gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-i…

Timezone selection page can not be accessible in the current UI layout (#226) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-initial-setup · GitLab

Because of how the timezone selection page works now - the selection is confirmed on the map widget or by automatic selection (which obviously does not work), it...
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Here's an excellent write-up summing up the state of #GameAccessibility in the last 5 years by Grant Stoner. To say it was a rollercoaster of emotions is an understatement. We had incredible innovation and progress in games like The Last of Us or Forza, but for all of those we also had many disappointments that either came tantalizingly close but weren't accessible to some groups of people like totally blind gamers, or just straight up didn't really offer any accessibility features but still got a lot of praise and awards. We also lost some very good people. The industry is also undergoing some difficult times with way too many layoffs. And yet, I'm optimistic we’ll still see some wonderful things in the future. If this year is anything to go by, even if there won't be as many accessible Tripple-A releases, we're also seeing a rise in accessibility mods becoming more frequent. Ultimately what sums up these last 5 years, and probably the future as well is the last paragraph Grant wrote: "

> How do you explain the past five years of accessibility? Both Xbox and PlayStation are fixtures within the disabled community. They uplift us, highlight our work, and give us opportunities to be better advocates. And in equal measure they frustrate us, casting us aside in perplexing moments of grief and frustration. If anything, these five years are a testament to disabled perseverance in an industry that still struggles to fully welcome us."

polygon.com/ps5-xbox-series-x-…

The PS5 and Series X era promised inclusion, but the reality is more complicated

As we mark five years of PS5 and Series X, it’s a fitting moment to examine the highs and lows of accessibility.
Grant Stoner (Polygon.com)
#gameaccessibility

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Well, they do have a point. And there have been some games that have shown there accessibility, like Sequence storm, a raceing game that has 60 missions in the storyline and like 46 new race tracks. But yeah. Seems like most games have came along way regarding accessibility.
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Ooo lookie: Sideload apps onto your iPhone much more easier, on Mac and Linux too!

github.com/nab138/iloader

GitHub - nab138/iloader: User friendly sideloader

User friendly sideloader. Contribute to nab138/iloader development by creating an account on GitHub.
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At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable.

The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago?

Not so much.

We chose this. We can choose better.

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The Death of Community Memory

I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on. I knew the conversation had happened. I remembered participating in it.
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Hey, did you know that you can join Matrix chatrooms using Movim and #matridge (a Slidge XMPP - Matrix bridge) ? 😮

You can then access your Matrix rooms (and soon Matrix servers 😚) and integrate them seamlessly in your Movim interface ✨

…and it seems that Movim is much faster than Element at accessing and displaying the content of Matrix chat rooms 🚀 Fun 😸

Checkout the Slidge project slidge.im/ !

#feature #matrix #xmpp #movim

slidge.im — Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks

Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.
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Libervia CLI Tip 15:

When publishing a blog or other pubsub based feature, the item ID is often used in the URL when it is rendered for the web (e.g.; Libervia or Movim use something like `https://…/blog/<user>/<item_id>`).

It is then important to have a user-friendly item ID (e.g.; `title-of-my-publication-abc123`), which is usually done by the software from the title.

If you want to change it, you can use `li pubsub rename`.

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#Libervia #CLI #li #tips #xmpp #pubsub

pubsub: PubSub management — Libervia Backend documentation

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#xmpp #libervia #CLI #tips #pubsub #li

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Wednesday's episode of the @doubletap podcast featured an excellent interview with @glenrgordon58 following Glen's resignation from Vispero. This brought back so many good memories! I first met Glen at the very first European dealer workshop in the Black Forest in Germany in July 1996. We connected immediately over the fact that we're both computer nerds. I had got my first JAWS licence four months earlier and was already heads down into the scripting language, which back then was still called macro language. It was a fantastic couple of days, in which I volunteered to head up the macro beginner group and helped them create their first macros in JAWS. Later, this got me my job at the European distributor, which started an eleven year tenure at Freedom Scientific and me influencing Braille support in JAWS, helping design the Focus line of Braille displys, and others. One anecdote which I also still remember was the time in March of 1999 when Eloquence suddenly stopped working all across Europe for JAWS users, including me. That led to me sending an email to Glen on a Sunday morning, which I uusually would not do. Debugging the problem led to a hot fix that Glen sent me later that day and which I then distributed via email to the dealer network the next day. If you're interested, the problem had to do with Europe and the U.S. moving to daylight savings at different times, Europe last Sunday in March, and the U.S. and Canada, back then, on the first Sunday in April. BUT most collaborations Glen and I had were much more fun than that. Anyway, I encourage you to listen to this episode of Doubletap, and while you're at it, subscribe to the podcast if you haven't already. It's fun, entertaining, informative, and quite often makes me smile or nod in agreement. Thanks to Shaun and Steven and Glen for this excellent interview!
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I distinctly remember the timezone issue on that Sunday morning. JAWS stopped working all across Europe because the Eloquence rules for when daylight savings time ended in Europe didn't match reality. This meant that authorization failed. Not sure how we resolved it, but somehow we did.
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📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze unsere Do-It-Blind (DIB) Exkursion zum Hackerspace Base48 in Brno für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit, am Samstag, 22. November. Nähere Informationen bekommst du auf Nachfrage per Direktnachricht oder von dib@lists.metalab.at base48.cz/ #make #blind #inklusion

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#a11y #blind #inklusion #make

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To whom it may concern:

Someone fixed the accessibility of the torrent listview in QBitTorrent version 5.1.3.

I wish I could find out who did it so I could personally thank them.

This has made my day. In a world where updates are often measured by how much a11y they break, this has been a rare moment of joy and comfort.

Thank you.

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Seems like it was Andrew Johnson, or akj.

github.com/qbittorrent/qBittor…

Fix screen reader accessibility in torrent list by akj · Pull Request #23359 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent

Link to Issue Closes #20393 Description Navigating the torrent list with arrow keys did not announce selection changes to screen readers. Development Approach Call QTreeView::currentChanged() to en...
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I have just found a nice document scanning app for android that can do automatic edge detection, cropping, multipage scanning, OCR, PDF export and more.
It's called #makeacopy and it's using #tesseract engine to perform the OCR directly on the device with no internet connectivity requirement at all.
The app has almost full #a11y support for screen reader users in the sense that all the controls are clearly labelled and it's easy to navigate.
I can't resist and I have asked the developer if it would be doable to add a screen reader compatible notifications making the automatic edge detection somehow accessible as well.
Now I'd appreciate comments from low vision screen reader users, mobility trainers, people assisting other blind people or others who might be able to tell if my idea is viable and how much you like it?
Here is link to the github issue I have started: github.com/egdels/makeacopy/is…

Thanks for looking into it.

#a11y #tesseract #makeacopy
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Paperback version 0.6 is officially released! The changelog is far too long to post on Mastodon, even with my instance's long character limit, containing 36 items, helped out by many contributors! Some highlights include 3 new document formats, majorly enhanced bookmarks, multilanguage support, and support for links and lists in documents, but that only scratches the surface.
Homepage: paperback.dev
Downloads page: paperback.dev/downloads
Enjoy!

Home – Paperback

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Here's the most efficient way I've found to make a video from an image plus audio file that preserves quality.

  • Get ffmpeg: Open the run box with windows+r, type "winget install ffmpeg" and press enter. ffmpeg will install itself.
  • Open the folder on your PC where your image and audio files are stored. Press alt+d to go to the address bar.
  • copy the below and paste it, Replacing the text in quotes with the names of your files. After pasting, press enter to run the command:


ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i "image.file" -i "audio.file" -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -shortest "video.mp4"
  • A command prompt terminal should open and the encode should start. You can check the status by reading the bottom of the window.
  • The window will close once the encode is complete. This could take anywhere from a few seconds to five-ten minutes. You should see a video file in the folder that is only a few MB larger than the audio+image files you started with.

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