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This has saved me a bunch of times, so might be useful to other people. When I change firewall rules on a remote machine, I always run the following command:
# service pf restart && sleep 30 && service pf stop<br>

And then I hit control-C after a few seconds. If my ssh session is still working, this cancels the service pf stop command. If I've managed to break my ssh connection with the rule change, the firewall is disabled after 30 seconds and I can revert the changes and reenable it.

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New in Foobar2000 for Mac V2.25 preview: "Added keyboard shortcut mapping functionality."

Yeeees!!!! This is what I've been waiting for for ages. The Mac version received everything else I used, and behaves very similarly and runs just as quickly as the Windows version, but literal 0 support for hotkeys was a dealbreaker. It goes without saying that, like the Windows version you need to go in and set up the keys yourself and at least for this initial preview there is absolutely no default hotkeys defined where the Windows one at least has some menu items configured. It also currently doesn't support global shortcuts or hotkeys without a modifier so sadly still no space to play or pause for me. Even then this is a huge improvement and I can actually see myself using this as my default player now also on Mac. You can download from here

foobar2000.org/mac

CC @masonasons think you were also waiting for this.

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Fun project for friday evening. I am hosting some unmaintained web sites for a few friends and they help me to pay the hosting costs in return.
Now I have found out I need php 7.4 for some of these and it's not readily available so building php 7.4.33 on up to date arch linux.

I am afraid this will no longer be possible in the future. How do you deal with this? Can I run PHP in some kind of lightweight container?

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Random reminder that #BillGates is the reason why AstraZeneca #COVID vaccine is patent-encumbered:
wired.com/story/opinion-the-wo…

> Gates bragged about convincing Oxford University not to open-license its vaccine. Gates leveraged his $750 million donation to the university for vaccine research—even though its vaccine was developed in a publicly funded lab. Eventually, Oxford sold the sole right of production to AstraZeneca, with no guarantee of low prices and an extraordinary opportunity for profit.

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For my disabled followers, what do you consider when thinking about inclusive swag? Swag in this case meaning t-shirts, coffee mugs, backpacks, stickers, etc. that you acquire through conferences, work, or other places.
I struggle to name what I look for in swag for it to be inclusive as a blind person; I think the most I'd look for is cool tactile design on t-shirts and perhaps embossed designs on stickers. But even that's a stretch; I've never felt strongly enough to remotely consider this, and that's why I'm here! I also consider things like Braille to be a novelty, and don't feel excluded when it doesn't exist. In a nutshell--I don't really care. But I'm sure someone out there does. Surely there's at least one of you.
Please boost for reach.
#disabled #accessibility #blind #swag

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"Milestone for digital sovereignty": 20 years of the Open Document Format (ODF)

The Document Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of adoption of ODF as an OASIS standard. This promotes global digital independence and interoperability.

heise.de/en/news/Milestone-for…

#IT #LibreOffice #OpenSource #news

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Now and then, I always see videos coming from an instance of #peertube and the screen reader #accessibility of the embedded player just gets better. I heard before that it also works for #audio now, I am seriously thinking of hosting an instance here if it's lightweight enough for this system.
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Dnes spouštím projekt Anti-řetězák, který vybírá nejnebezpečnější internetové fámy (cca 1 týdně) a uvádí je na pravou míru tím, že pošle email přímo do schránky.

Anti-řetězák je určený pro lidi, kteří se podvodnou scénou nechtějí zabývat víc, než musí — ale zároveň chtějí mít základní přehled, co koluje českými e-mailovými schránkami. Už jen proto, aby uměli reagovat, když se k nim nějaká dezinformace dostane off-line.

Přihlásit k odběru se lidi můžou na adrese anti-retezak.cz

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RIP Skype (2025)

Died a slow agonising death from years of neglect after being acquired by Microsoft.

Skype joins a growing list of messaging software that has died in the care of Microsoft.

• V-Chat (died 1995)
• Comic Chat (laid to rest 1999)
• Netmeeting (met demise 2007)
• Windows Messenger (croaked 2008)
• Meeting Space (expired 2009)
• Office Live Meeting (passed 2011)
• MSN Messenger (gave up ghost 2012)
• Qik (kicked bucket 2016)

*not a complete list.

Skype.
You will be remembered.
In a nostalgic kind of way.
For a while at least.

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Blind Users’ Negative Attitudes Towards Paid Apps: Mindsets and the Struggles of Sustainable Development accessibleandroid.com/blind-us…

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Gosh, learn about some #Google experiment or other every day. Here is one for you, #music enthusiassts, called Song Maker, (don't forget a MIDI keyboard to your CHrome setup): musiclab.chromeexperiments.com…
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Okay, let's try this, for the first time ever. I'm Quin, and I'm looking for a job over the summer, possibly longer as long as it's part time (I'm a college student with the summer off). I'm mostly interested in #remote work, due to my complete blindness traveling to a workplace is more difficult, all be it not impossible. I just prefer coding from my bedroom. I'm a software developer and hacker (in the oldest and best sense of the word) who loves nothing more than figuring out a good challenge. I prefer low-level coding in C, C++, Rust, etc., but things like Python and Lua have their place too. My resume is here: quinbox.xyz/resume.html
#FediHire #fediHired
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Hey everyone,

I hope you’re doing well! I’m reaching out to invite blind musicians, producers, and artists to join an **accessibility feedback group** for Sessionwire — a platform I’ve been using and really enjoying for a couple of years now.

**What is Sessionwire?**
Sessionwire is a remote music collaboration platform that allows musicians, producers, and audio professionals to work together in real time. It offers studio-quality audio, high-definition video, and seamless integration with popular DAWs, letting users collaborate on projects as if they were in the same room.

**Why am I reaching out?**
One of the developers at Sessionwire has asked me to bring together a group of blind users to help improve the platform’s accessibility. They already know which areas need work and are eager to collaborate with us to make Sessionwire better for everyone.

**Interested in participating?**
If you’re interested, **please reach out to me privately (one-on-one)** and send me the email address you’d like to use for communication. If you plan to use the same address to sign up for Sessionwire, let me know; otherwise, please also send the email you’ll use for your Sessionwire account.

If you have **any questions**, feel free to let me know!

Let’s work together to make Sessionwire more accessible for the blind community!

#BlindMusicians #AccessibilityMatters #MusicTechnology #RemoteCollaboration #Sessionwire #BlindProducers #InclusiveMusic #AccessibilityInTech #BlindArtists #AccessibilityFeedback

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Something probably stupid that I wish I could do as a blind music producer is look at the waveforms of my tracks/mixes in Reaper. like yeah your ears are the best and most reliable tool but they can be biased by headphones, how you slept, allergies like I'm experiencing today, etc. Plus there would just be something super satisfying about putting something together until it sounds good, then looking at the master's waveform and tweaking the frequencies until it fills out the entire frequency spectrum just right. I'm assuming the answer is no because I can't even begin to fathom how something like this would work, but is there an accessible tool to do this?

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Gotta say having been in many so-called professional studios is that waveform looking makes certain engineers lazy as all get-out and I hate it.
'Oh let me just drag this thing here, OK looks like it's lined up with the other tracks...'
Don't even bother to play it, bounce it, test it in the car (and yes this *has* happened)
only to find out it was off by a noticeable amount.
I wish I was lying to you.
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Ask yourself *why* you want a mix to fill out the frequency spectrum though?
Did it sound good *before* you did that? Did it sound any better *after* you did that?
Is it possible your track *might* be used as a bed for someone to talk over, and there's just no space for voice because you phattened it up like a mix pig for slaughter with your waveform frequency-spectrum-filling?
Did you watch some video on youtube that says 'OMGOMGOMG if you don't fill this mix right out nobody will ever listen, and you're a bad, bad evil bad person if you don't do these 15 steps to waveform filling right now!'

When I say 'You' by the way, I mean the general You, not You, Quinn.

My students sometimes come to me and say
'Why don't we do this particular compression trick in every mix?'
I have to ask them
'Do you need to? Is it important that you do?'

And so on.

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@FreakyFwoof EDM is full of that kind of thing, although I think it's more commonly ensuring that you don't have a bunch of instruments all crowded in one band, E.G> when this happens in the lows it becomes muddy, and filling is a sort of side effect. Totally understand though. It makes sense for some genres more than others. And that's still a spectrogram, not the actual waveform. All the *waveform* is good for, IMO, is aligning transients and carefully avoiding pops and clicks from joins. And maybe micro edits to clean up a sound, remove little pops etc.
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@x0 @FreakyFwoof I do think you can still achieve a similar mix, even at comparable loudness, without having access to tools like this. It would definitely be nice, but it is not a must. If you know the techniques and if you reference often, you can get there easily. It is a tool that won't automatically help you make your mixes sound great. You can check mono compatibility, frequency crowding, all of those things purely by sound as well using utility plugins. So I agree I'd love to have those kinds of plugins, but it's not what stops me from trying.
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Filling out the frequency spectrum is not quite useful, white, pink and brown noise do that already with some changes to the lower frequencies for the two latter ones.

What you are looking for is an even distribution of the existing frequencies (Teote, Ozone, Hornet Thirty-one, WavesFactory Equalizer, Grand Finale, DSEQ3, Gullfoss, etc) do this, exciters and saturation to add new harmonic content, just to mention a few things. Ultimately, these tools, despite the aggressive marketing some of them have, can't replace your ears but they provide fast results if you don't want to focus on mixing and mastering. You still need to tweak things and it's very easy to overprocess your sound of course.

Several books could be written about how many things could influence your sound, both while mixing and mastering (from the headphones or monitors you use through the room you are in, to what your genre needs), not to mention when your final master reaches your listeners. Their hardware, environment, ears, etc, will color the sound as well. You could have a perfectly neutral master and someone could quite easily make it heavy on bass just by listening to it on gaming headphones, or better yet, listen to it in a car.

This is a very complex and overwhelming topic, but if you need advice and you really want to make your sound better, listen to the same genre as much as you can. That's how you train your ears to get accustomed to things that stick out (resonate) and over time you will learn what instrument is problematic in what specific frequency areas. Most importantly, less is more.

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Linux/Dropbox users. Maestral is pretty damn sweet. Open Source Dropbox client that also supports MacOS, however haven't tested that. github.com/samschott/maestral

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Virtual machines need to be configured to get the best experience. So I wrote down the steps I use when I'm building a Windows virtual machine. And after 18 months of using Linux as my daily driver, I have added KVM specific steps!

How to get the best experience from Windows guests under Linux KVM
blog.pauby.com/post/howto-best…

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More and more I am looking through @Delta Chat apps and resources I believe this should become number one messenger of choice for screen reader users.
The developers are constantly improving its #a11y. It's secure from the start of using.
Additionally the desktop chat has under gone an #accessibility audit and accessibility issues are clearly documented in public.
I am not sure other messenger style app on the planet has such dedicated commitment to accessibility ever.

github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

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@Paweł Masarczyk While testing I have used gmail or my own classic email account. It worked but I have understood using #chatmail servers is what makes it most attractive. I think I have read a blogpost from someone a few months ago explaining this very well that inspired me, however I can't find that article in my browser history right now. CC @Cleverson @Delta Chat
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@Paweł Masarczyk @Cleverson I know you are looking for a way to stay in contact with people you are already connected to using traditional email. Still I would recommend creating a #chatmail account on your relay of choice just for testing so you can start with an empty profile and you'll get to experience the @Delta Chat the way it has been meant to. Then as an exercise continue with other more advanced scenarios such as classic email login.
The #chatmail based onboarding is really very simple, there is nothing to do wrong.
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At Your Fingertips: Fidget Tools, Fun Gadgets, and Braille Input Devices - Unmute unmute.show/at-your-fingertips…

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Whingy comment on my latest podcast episode:

'Not really a fan of this stuff. I miss the old keyboard and instrument reviews and the musical breakdowns. The problem with this podcast is that you're both too polite and soft spoken and all that. Try getting a bit angry and controversial. There is no such thing as bad language, so where is all the swearing? You can't make a good podcast episode without some swearing.'

Gonna keep posting weekly with my wife @MoonCat, so if you'd like to check it out (despite the no swearing) search for StroongeCast wherever you get your podcasts.
Also, our web page is here: onj.me/stroongecast

Let's boost for reach because comments like that just make me want to promote it even more.

If I have to spend my life catoring to everyone else, I'll never do anything for myself, and that's just boring. #StroongeCast

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Viewpoint is a Windows program that uses Gemini AI to make user interfaces that aren't accessible, pretty accessible! I was able to navigate the PPSSPP interface with it pretty well! So yeah, it's starting to happen, the use of AI for more than just image descriptions.

viewpoint.nibblenerds.com/

#accessibility #blind #ai #ViewPoint #GeminiAI #google

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Joseph Chen's Braille Vision Is a Portable, Raspberry Pi-Powered Text-to-Braille Converter
hackster.io/news/joseph-chen-s…

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@Bruce I had the BrailleMate when I was in school. At the time, it met my needs as a notetaker, but yeah, that single-cell display was awkward. One time, a teacher asked me to try reading a paragraph I had written using the display, but soon stopped me after a few words. I saw the Braille Lite 18 a few years later, and really wished the school had waited to get it instead. I could've read that paragraph on it with no problems.
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Every time I take self-driving car, the experience seems to get better and better. Today, for the first time, I was able to locate the car on my own. The phone would vibrate and VoiceOver would announce the distance and the derection of the car in relation to me. As you approach the car, you can press the button in the app to honk! :) Really cool! Hard to believe how far this tech has gone! :)
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Dnes jsem si byl prohlédnout Farinovu zatáčku, památný úsek Masarykova okruhu, kde v roce 1949 havaroval italský jezdec Farina a zemřeli přitom 2 mladíci. Mezi milovníky závodů a Masarykova okruhu asi známá informace.
Co se už ale moc neví, že jeden z těch kluků, Václav Hejtman, byl z mé vsi #Kobylnice, a byl úplně prvním pohřbeným na nově postaveném kobylnickém hřbitově. 2. října odpoledne se konalo otevření hřbitova a hned nato následoval pohřeb, kterého se zúčastnilo kolem 1500 osob.
#Farina
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U nás se pořádaly závody formule přímo ve městě. Než došlo k tragédii.
idnes.cz/karlovy-vary/zpravy/h…
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Did you know that movim was the first XMPP client to support Stories? ✨

From all your devices you can share your everyday moments with your contacts through photos that disappear after 24 hours. 😊

Everything is stored on your own XMPP account and the feature has been standardized as a protocol extension: xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0501.h… 🔒

It looks like a few other XMPP clients are looking to integrate it in the future 👀

#xmpp #stories #features #movim @joinjabber @xmpp

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When you’re scripting for a screen reader, then you’re scripting for the browser, with exactly the same level of JavaScript support.

However complications can arise with event handling, because screen readers intercept events and don't always pass them on to the browser, and even then, keyboard actions might fire mouse events.

tpgi.com/event-handling-in-jaw…

#accessibility #a11y #javascript

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Linux desktop experts, please help: discourse.gnome.org/t/gdm-trap…

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@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! :boostRequest:

osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

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Configuring #WirePlumber on embedded Linux systems can be somewhat confusing. Georgios Kiagiadakis takes a moment to demystify this process for a particular use case: collabora.com/news-and-blog/bl…

#OpenSource @pipewire

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Remember #Movuary, when I and @FreakyFwoof posted a track made with Ableton Move for every day in February?
Well, this is both of our birth months. I, in particular, don't have lots to celebrate, so instead, I've decided to give away all the Ableton bundles from that project, except one, because I accidentally deleted it.
So, for anyone who has Avleton Note or Ableton Move, you can play these just as they were created, modify them, study them, make them more interesting...
For those with Ableton Live, you can import them, but they may not come out sounding exactly the same, because Live converts it to it's own format, and there are differences in the libraries.
Anyway, have fun...
borris.me/audio/movuary2025/Ab…

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As it is the start of the month I shall do some shameless promoting of ourblind.com/ for all the #blind, #deafblind, #lowvision, and #visuallyimpaired people around. @main @mastoblind

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🇨🇿 #Czechia picks of the day:

(All in Czech unless otherwise noted)

➡️ @birdlifecz - Czech Ornithological Society, protecting birds

➡️ @UbuntuCZ - Czech & Slovak Ubuntu community

➡️ @gomeetupprague - Go programming language meetups in Prague (in English)

➡️ @jopenspace - Tech events for developers in Czechia

➡️ @ct24.ceskatelevize.cz - News feed from ČT24 public broadcaster

➡️ @www.ceskatelevize.cz.sport - ČT sport news feed

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Lots of good talks were given at this year's #LinuxAppSummit — but the 24 hours of livestream footage are a little messy to navigate. I've extracted the talks into individual videos, created branded thumbnails and posted them on the LAS YouTube channel for easy browsing and sharing. Enjoy:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3s…

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