boost all who you know. Who uses libreoffice and replaced microsoft office with it? Who uses Libreoffice more than six months?
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I was pulling the numbers out of my ass the other day, saying that 80% of this slop is not going to stay maintained in a year, but I wasn't that far off!
> Of the 120 unique repos, 32 were maintained and 88 were abandoned. No seriously, a big portion of them was completely deleted, nowhere to be found, others stopped 6 months ago, right after submitting to Flathub.
geopjr.dev/blog/democratizing-…
Democratizing Abandonware - Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis
I'm not digging through this cemetery - Disclaimer I am not part of Flathub, I do not represent Flathub or anyone but my...geopjr.dev
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@deimoshall Some people on the team are more grumpy than others. We definitely want more reviewers and mention so on our website:
docs.flathub.org/docs/for-team…
docs.flathub.org/docs/for-team…
Becoming a Flathub Team Member | Flathub Documentation
Flathub, as a centralized application repository, relies on a dedicateddocs.flathub.org
@deimoshall the thing that waste time is not the reviews, it's fending off the abuse from the sloppers. Getting threats by email through anonymous remailer. Getting told that it's unfair to label AI slop "I reviewed it all -- generated by Claude", or even spamming your repo because their account was blocked so they use a puppet one (blocked too)
So if you want to really get onto that, be my guest. I will also not try to second guess reviews.
@deimoshall and then maybe you'll delete your account like that other admin that did, and the only reason I learned about it is because I correlated, not because I got told (they were not on Matrix either, so I couldn't even guide them on what to do or not).
And yes people are free to do whatever, but sometime it's good to at least people know.
judging by the title I thought this was gonna be an article about FOSS reimplementations of old games (positive or otherwise)
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WOW decentralized and ENCRYPTED social media over #chatmail this is such an epic prototype!
the fun part is that by using chatmail:
- DMs are already end-to-end encrypted
- your identity is your encryption key and doesn't depend on a single home server
- your profile is basically uncensorable
since you need to give people your invite link it is kind of like private social network
github.com/lambadalambda/delta…
#ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #chatmail #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon #encryption #e2ee
GitHub - lambadalambda/deltanet: Single-user social network that federates over encrypted email (Delta Chat/chatmail) — Mastodon-compatible API + web UI
Single-user social network that federates over encrypted email (Delta Chat/chatmail) — Mastodon-compatible API + web UI - lambadalambda/deltanetGitHub
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@mangeurdenuage created issue: github.com/lambadalambda/delta…
you could have done the same instead of asking us, it is not our project
missing LINCESE file · Issue #3 · lambadalambda/deltanet
hi, is this even open source??? there is no LICENSE file 🤔adbenitez (GitHub)
I recently found on Github, an NVDA addon for Pocket TTS. It is another one of those open source neural synths, like Supertonic and Sonata. But here is what makes Pocket TTS special. You can clone voices directly from the addon itself! And it does not use any command line thing or other complicated things. All you do is go to the Pocket TTS section of NVDA settings, select the "Convert audio file" button, select either a .wav or .mp3 file, and wait about 30 seconds to a minute. Done! You have a cloned voice. It only uses the first 30 seconds to make it. The addon comes with some pre-made voices. You can even change the display name of the voices in the list as well. However, as is typical of Neural synths, it is not as responsive, and there are only two parameters, volume, and end of sentence sensitivity. Plus, it's ENglish only.
github.com/timonvanhasselt/poc…
Release Pocket TTS nvda-addon 2026.x · timonvanhasselt/pocket-TTS-nvda-screenreader-addon
Pocket TTS onnx - 64 bits version for NVDA 2026.1 Version 1.1.1. with update for memory leak with dynamic texts.GitHub
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Pozoruji, že v dnešní době plné algoritmů a AI je čím dál větší problém narazit na zajímavé blogy. Asi nejen z tohoto důvodu scéna osobních webů v posledních letech prořídla...
Pojďme si zde udělat vlákno #TipNaBlog s odkazy na blogy, které rádi čtete nebo vás něčím zaujaly! 👇
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nejlepsi bude kdyz mi vyberes ty zajimave a pridas mi j rovnou do ctecky planeta.openalt.org 
I several hours ago installed the Google TTS addon for NVDA, and I really love it. It has all the languages from Google's Android TTS, with some voices I never heard before in the various languages. You have to download voice data, similar to Sonata. Each language contains two synthesis methods, HMM, which is refered to as "Chrome OS", and neural, which is refered to as "Google". For most languages, you get equal amount of voices for both methods, but some contain fewer voices for neural, if you download all of the languages for both methods (which I have done because I am me), it totals 727 MB, which is not that big. My favorite voice is Chrome OS US English Voice 1, since she is the classic Google Assistant voice, also known as the "Red" voice, that was used on things like the Google Home, as the main default, so hearing her in HMM form is quite interesting.
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Some voices are from Google assistant actually. And yes, I agree. Her and voice 3 are my favorite voices.
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It appears that it is possible to use Siri AI in the EU, provided you sign in with an US based apple ID to app store. Its actually pretty good and is among other things, apparently able to pull data from unsuported languages, such as Estonian too. Made a little demo. Transcript: dropbox.com/scl/fi/t19ot7my44y…
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I'm curious, did "normal" Siri interactions suffer a performance hit? I have Gemini on my pixel 10 pro and it always strikes me how much slower it is at, say, just opening an app now than Siri is. Siri, it's instant. Gemini, it takes a good 5 seconds if not more. Not a huge issue, but I'm always pleasantly surprised by pre-AI siri in this :)
@zersiax Not massively. Its a beta on a device I don\t use daily so its hard to judge, also I rarely have used siri for opening apps. But I don\t see a huge difference. Perhaps a little, because logically somewhere in the chain it has to decide now wether to engage the big llm or can it just open an app or do another quick iOs action
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It's #diday again and I recognised that #conversations_im by @daniel seems to be temporarily available for free in the Play Store.
What a great match and a great opportunity to invite family members and friends to #xmpp !
If you need a tutorial you might have a look at: imday.de/
And don't forget: It's also available on #fdroid .
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As Independence Day approaches in the United States, many of us are also preparing for some of the biggest blindness-related gatherings of the year, including the #ACB and #NFB26 national conventions in the United States and the UK’s #SightVillage Exhibition.
At Pneuma Solutions, we can’t think of a better time to celebrate a new level of independence for blind and low-vision technology professionals and consumers.
For a blind technician, trainer, teacher, or support specialist, independence is not just about using your own computer. It is also about being able to help someone else use theirs.
That is where #RemoteIncidentManager changes the game.
With RIM, a blind user can connect to a sighted end user’s computer, even when that computer does not already have a screen reader installed, and still perform a fully accessible remote support or training session. Whether the user is on Windows or Mac, RIM gives blind professionals the ability to work directly, efficiently, and independently.
To celebrate this milestone, Pneuma Solutions is offering unlimited access to Remote Incident Manager completely free for the next 27 days.
Whether you are at convention and get asked to help a friend, colleague, or family member with a computer problem, or you are traveling and need to reach back to your own machine at home, RIM is ready to make the process quick, painless, and accessible.
For the rest of the month, it will not cost you a dime!
Download Remote Incident Manager, start a session, and experience remote desktop access built for the independence of blind people from the ground up.
Visit GetRim.app to get started.
At Pneuma Solutions, we can’t think of a better time to celebrate a new level of independence for blind and low-vision technology professionals and consumers.
For a blind technician, trainer, teacher, or support specialist, independence is not just about using your own computer. It is also about being able to help someone else use theirs.
That is where #RemoteIncidentManager changes the game.
With RIM, a blind user can connect to a sighted end user’s computer, even when that computer does not already have a screen reader installed, and still perform a fully accessible remote support or training session. Whether the user is on Windows or Mac, RIM gives blind professionals the ability to work directly, efficiently, and independently.
To celebrate this milestone, Pneuma Solutions is offering unlimited access to Remote Incident Manager completely free for the next 27 days.
Whether you are at convention and get asked to help a friend, colleague, or family member with a computer problem, or you are traveling and need to reach back to your own machine at home, RIM is ready to make the process quick, painless, and accessible.
For the rest of the month, it will not cost you a dime!
Download Remote Incident Manager, start a session, and experience remote desktop access built for the independence of blind people from the ground up.
Visit GetRim.app to get started.
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That's amazing! RIM has and continues to open lots of doors for blind people. Thanks.
New free app for my blind and low-vision friends: ElevenLabs TTS Studio — an accessible desktop app for ElevenLabs text-to-speech.
Keyboard-first and screen-reader-first: searchable voice picker, generate, play, save, history. Every control announces properly. Bring your own API key.
Built by a blind dev, tested with a real screen reader — because accessibility is the point, not an afterthought.
github.com/tonygeb23/eleven-tt…
#a11y #accessibility #NVDA #ScreenReader #TTS #OpenSource
GitHub - tonygeb23/eleven-tts-studio: Accessible ElevenLabs text-to-speech desktop app for screen-reader users (wxPython, NVDA/JAWS-friendly)
Accessible ElevenLabs text-to-speech desktop app for screen-reader users (wxPython, NVDA/JAWS-friendly) - tonygeb23/eleven-tts-studioGitHub
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when i checked your github page i see no releases published or bionary things to donwload. is that in the works? i am not familiar with running stuff from source
This is so cool! Do you have an estimated date as to when the first downloadable release will be published? Only asking because the page shows none published as of yet. I'm looking forward to trying this. Thanks for your hard work and al you do. :)
Was just able to install #Windows98 in #VMWare fully independently as a #blind person. To make life a bit easier, no, a lot easier, I made an unattended setup script, msbatch.inf, which is the Win9x equivalent of an answer file for you modern folk. Then it was just a case of placing that msbatch.inf file inside the win98 folder in the CD image, booting into an MS-DOS boot floppy to go through fdisk and other stuff (I know my way around a DOS prompt so this was practically nothing), copying the win98 setup files from the CD to the hard drive, applying patcher9x because put simply my hardware is too new, pointing setup.exe at my msbatch.inf file and boom! A virtually automated Windows 98 install! The only thing I was asked for was my name, company and Windows 98 product key, which were already filled out anyway (OCR confirmed that), and installing the audio driver that VMWare needs for Windows 98, which is pretty much unattended itself anyway other than a license agreement which is just a case of Tab and Enter. VMWare Tools and JAWS 7.0 (2005) are now installed too.
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My initial impressions of the BrailleNote evolve as a product still aren't 100% glowing, but the fact that HumanWare support helped me get my braille back (by reinstalling Windows), on a weekend, especially the weekend of July 4th, says something incredibly positive about their support team. That's something you don't get many places. The evolve's going through OOBE again over there.
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That's nice. I'm glad they helped. I just think there's too many things in Win 11 that can break it if you're adventurous. I mean, you fubared it the first day. That's an issue. The hardware is also for me not sufficiently fast. The other issue for me is I'm a lap user. That meant I had to be really ingenutive to give the air vents breathing room. I had to put a hard surface on my lap. But as stated before, besides customer service trying to make me feel like I was doing a bad thing, tech support is great. my issues withthe Braillenote Evolve have more to do with the handshaking between Windows, Nvda, and Keysoft. Think about it. An NVDA change can screw things up. Windows can screw up KeySoft. Windows 11, as my husband said, has always been a pile. I'll be interested to see whether you keep it.
Screen reader users using a free and open-source calendar app on Linux, what do you use? I'd like to use one as a reference to make GNOME Calendar more screen reader friendly.
(Boost appreciated)
#a11y #accessibility #accessible #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #Linux
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hybrid or web calendars could be more accessible plus scalable for screen readers? Gcal or Proton with FF & Orca? I don't know, just wanted to help.
while not blind here, I use remind(1), a command-line application for my calendar and occasionally use it within a screen reader (last time I tested, I used yasr+flite in a console). A few of the remind features I appreciate in a screen-reader:
• the ability to customize reminder output makes a world of difference. Even simple things like ordinal determination ("John's 21st birthday" rather than "John's birthday, born 2005")
• the ability to use any text-editor to edit the calendar, whether vi/vim, emacs, ed, nano, or something in the GUI
• the ability to separate reminders from their metadata presentation. I can make my reminders more terse depending on context. I can include certain calendars ("I just want my personal calendar, birthdays/anniversaries, work, and my family members' calendars, not finances, chores, etc")
• and because it's all text, I can pipe output to other programs to mail my agenda to my phone or grep it, or use the machine-readable output format to pipe to grep or other programs to ingest it
As I prepare for my talk on the accessibility benefits of well curated POI data in Open Street Map for the upcoming State of the Map 2026 conference, I think I found a way, sort of, to play a game similar to Geoguessr for a completely blind person. There's a random GPS coordinates generator at random.org/geographic-coordina… which shows you a piece of our planet on OSM. You take the latitude and longitude it spit out and feed it to Seeing Assistant Go, then pull the POI for the matched location and have fun while taking a virtual walk around a neighbourhood somewhere out there, browsing the different establishments, infrastructure etc. Spent a bit of afternoon yesterday exploring the different churches serving various language communities around the Main Street in Ottawa, visiting websites and Wikipedia articles - so many questions to ask if I ever speak to anyone from that area. Ach yeah, Piracema is a town in Brazil. Just letting you know since the thickets of trees alongside the car road leading there weren't much of an indication and I actually had to look the place up. #OSM #Cartography #Accessibility #Blind
RANDOM.ORG - Geographic Coordinates
This page will pick a random location on the planet using the true random number service RANDOM.ORG.www.random.org
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@Paweł Masarczyk Fun thing and nice initiative.
I believe you already know all of this but just to remind, these two tools are #OSM powered too. First one is fully exclusive with #a11y from the start, the second one has some screen reader accessibility built-in too.
@pvagner Thanks! Yes, I'm aware of those. Audiom is great, I guess I just lack the spatial awareness that would help me to understand fully the structure at hand. I might play the Geoguessr with that once I'm at a computer again. I tried Map Complete the first time the developer introduced accessibility improvements and I recall it generating an aria-live alert each time I pressed an arrow key so that NVDA said "Alert" every time I moved. Has that changed?
@Paweł Masarczyk Map complete still has those aria live alerts. Are you seeing this as a
Problem? Audiom does it too however it's more consistent, robust and has multiple navigation modes.
Problem? Audiom does it too however it's more consistent, robust and has multiple navigation modes.
@pvagner I understand that mapping the datapoints to some kind of native control is not feasible, still not having the word "alert" for every step would reduce verbosity. Maybe the new aria-notify API is the right match for this kind of purpose or else another type of live region.
@pvagner Meanwhile: there's a Windows software similar to Audiom which was written by a Polish developer who I believe is also helping out with Seeing Assistant Go or was at least consulting it. It's called Grmapa grmapa.zlotowicz.pl/ - at the moment I'm also trying to convince the developer of Street Complete and Every Door to make these tools accessible so that blind OSM users can also contribute data, not just consume it. That's my biggest hope for my State of the Map participation.
@Paweł Masarczyk I think I have used EveryDoor on Android to rename one of the pubs around here once and it worked.
I can't remember how consistent the accessibility of the app is but I was able to manage that.
I can't remember how consistent the accessibility of the app is but I was able to manage that.
Throw fluffy thongs far through fanciful fields thrice for thirty five thousand friends.
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Want a #GNOME #email app "between Evolution and Geary"? Check out @jeb2's "Stamp" app, unveiled at #OpenSUSE conference 2026:
gitlab.gnome.org/jbrummer/stam…
He's been working on it for the last 2 years. It reuses the Evolution Data Server backend, combining its reliability with an adaptive GTK4+libAdwaita GUI.
It also handles contacts and calendaring (by embedding GNOME Calendar as a widget)! Future versions will allow using it not just as a PIM but also as a standalone mail app.
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Jan-Michael, thank you for working on this. It's huge task and making viable product takes so much time! 🤞 💝
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Together with the Clovernook Center, we have created some 3D printed accessible biology study tools. Currently we have 11 models, and we are working on more. These tools are now freely downloadable.
evengrounds.com/3d-printed-acc…
3D printed accessible biology study tools - Even Grounds
Over the last couple of years, Even Grounds has been working on a very rewarding project with the Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.Tom (Even Grounds)
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There is an official #MusicAssistant client for #Android in the making. I just installed it and it works perfectly. Love it, recommend it. ❤️
#MusicAssistent is the audio hub in my home. It can connects to multiple audio providers (Tidal, selfhosted GPodder sync on Nextcloud, selfhosted Jellyfin, …), searches, maintains playlist and stream content to multiple audio sink providers (Chromecast audio, Chromecast, Heos, …). It can play your playlist on multiple players in sync over different protocols. It's just cool. 👍
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@maetzchen github.com/music-assistant/mob…
GitHub - music-assistant/mobile-app: The (official) Music Assistant Mobile app is a cross-platform client application designed for Android and iOS. Developed using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose Multiplatform frameworks, this project aims to provi
The (official) Music Assistant Mobile app is a cross-platform client application designed for Android and iOS. Developed using Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose Multiplatform frameworks, this ...GitHub
culturenet.cz/prilezitosti/div…
#Czech coverage of our #antisurveillance campaign.
Dívej se vzhůru a jednej - zviditelni kamery ve veřejném prostoru - Culturenet
Sledovací kamery se nenápadně staly součástí architektury všedního dne. Chodíme ...bogomil-shopov (Culturenet)
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A new application called TD Sound manager has been released!
Because Microsoft made easy access to the old audio management panel more difficult in Windows 11, and a few people complained about it, I decided to create a small application that makes it easy to open several classic audio options.
TD Sound Manager is a lightweight Windows application that allows you to quickly open several Windows audio panels and unmute your playback using global hotkeys or the menu.
The application can run in the background while minimized and can also start automatically with Windows.
It allows you to open these shortcuts or do these actions:
Playback settings (which opens the playback tab in the old mmsys.cpl panel like on Win7, 8 and 10);
Recording settings (which opens the recording tab in the old mmsys.cpl panel);
Sound mixer (which opens the old easy-to-use sound mixer "sndvol");
Redirect selected apps to another sound card (which opens the new audio redirection panel on Windows 10 and 11, where you can change the sound card used by the specified app from the list in this window);
Unmute playback (which will unmute the default playback device).
Link:
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/SoundMan…
Because Microsoft made easy access to the old audio management panel more difficult in Windows 11, and a few people complained about it, I decided to create a small application that makes it easy to open several classic audio options.
TD Sound Manager is a lightweight Windows application that allows you to quickly open several Windows audio panels and unmute your playback using global hotkeys or the menu.
The application can run in the background while minimized and can also start automatically with Windows.
It allows you to open these shortcuts or do these actions:
Playback settings (which opens the playback tab in the old mmsys.cpl panel like on Win7, 8 and 10);
Recording settings (which opens the recording tab in the old mmsys.cpl panel);
Sound mixer (which opens the old easy-to-use sound mixer "sndvol");
Redirect selected apps to another sound card (which opens the new audio redirection panel on Windows 10 and 11, where you can change the sound card used by the specified app from the list in this window);
Unmute playback (which will unmute the default playback device).
Link:
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/SoundMan…
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Apparently RHVoice can't say shit correctly! It says it as sheet! What the hell RHVoice! Like what the hell!
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My Experience as a blind person With GoodMaps Indoor Navigation blog.blackspheretech.com/?p=52…
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Just shipped RestreamA11y: a free, open-source desktop app that makes Restream actually usable with a screen reader.
Keyboard-first, and it reads your cross-platform chat aloud with neural text-to-speech. Manage channels, titles, and stream status without touching a mouse. Built accessibility-first, because streaming tools rarely are.
github.com/tonygeb23/restream-…
#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #BlindTech #Streaming #OpenSource
GitHub - tonygeb23/restream-a11y: Accessible, keyboard-first desktop app for Restream with screen-reader support and neural TTS chat reading (unofficial).
Accessible, keyboard-first desktop app for Restream with screen-reader support and neural TTS chat reading (unofficial). - tonygeb23/restream-a11yGitHub
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From the BBC's Wimbledon page:
"BBC iPlayer will have a new inclusive feed for Centre Court matches for fans who are blind or visually impaired. It has been co-designed by members of the blind and partially-sighted community and can be found on the Audio Described category page on iPlayer."
I'm looking forward to checking this out. I wonder if it's the Action Audio system or something else. Any ideas @cachondo?
"BBC iPlayer will have a new inclusive feed for Centre Court matches for fans who are blind or visually impaired. It has been co-designed by members of the blind and partially-sighted community and can be found on the Audio Described category page on iPlayer."
I'm looking forward to checking this out. I wonder if it's the Action Audio system or something else. Any ideas @cachondo?
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See that's fine. But only like a few people will benefit from this because they're all in the UK. Perfectly fine that the UK doesn't allow anyone else to use their services because we're not paying the license fee, but seriously couldn't they just let us pay the license fee so we can use BBC for the year? I figure American dollars are about the same as pounds anyway.
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@Rooktallon I'm not allowed to pay NLS for access to your library over there. Hell we can't even get your home JAWS pricing. The BBC could probably make a small bit of extra pulling in interested yanks, but the administration and logistical costs would almost certainly make it a losing proposition in the long term. Then panorama couldn't use the "it wasn't broadcast in America" defence to avoid your presiden's lawsuit over his hurt feelings either. I daresay that right there is a big reason Auntie Beeb will keep far away from Uncle Sam. In terms of the feed though, It's probably a case of who you know sending you a nice underground link to a repeater.
it's not just action audio by the sounds of this page.
The solution brings together two breakthrough technologies, Action Audio (AKQA) and HawkAR (Hawk-Eye Innovations), for the first time.
Every point played on Wimbledon’s Centre Court during all singles matches this year will be broadcast with synchronised spatial audio cues and augmented visual overlays, designed to make live tennis fully immersive for fans who are blind or have low vision.
svgeurope.org/blog/headlines/h…
Hawk-Eye Innovations and Action Audio debut inclusive feed for Wimbledon’s Centre Court on BBC iPlayer - SVG Europe
The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Action Audio (AKQA), and Hawk-Eye Innovations have launched HawkAR: Inclusive Feed, a combined accessibility layer for The Championships, Wimbledon 2026.Heather McLean (SVG Europe - Advancing the Creation, Production and Distribution of Televised Sports Content)
'Long Wave radio era end with LW Radio 4 switch-off (UK) 27/Jun/2026' youtu.be/idlEiWRnSd0?is=iiWo54…
Long Wave radio era end with FM Radio 4 switch-off (UK) 27/Jun/2026
#radio4 #bbcradio4 #FMradioUK#FMradio#FMradio2026#longwaveradioMark 1333 (YouTube)
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@GrapheneOS Android 17 introduces a new permission ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK and when my phone upgraded to it, FairEmail lost the ability to connect to my email server at home. Google in their infinite wisdom won't allow apps in the Play Store to request that permission yet, nor F-Droid, so I have to sideload from their Git repo. I think this is going to be a sufficient problem it's worth mentioning widely in the release notes and your other channels like Mastodon.
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Android 17 added a local network access permission which is granted by default for apps not yet targeting Android 17. If this app wasn't ready for Android 17 to be released as a stable release yet, it shouldn't have started targeting Android 17 yet. Apps get around a whole year to start targeting Android 17 before it's mandatory for the Play Store. It's good practice to do it sooner, but not prematurely. Apps in the Play Store can certainly request local network access.
I'm building an extension for chrome for audible. It will allow quick easy navigation and controls whilst in the player and also include remappable global hotkeys. please send me your ideas for this and let me know if you'd be up for testing before its released. Please boost this so we can get it to a wide group of people.
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My wife just asked me if Github was a tech version of Pornhub and I didn't have an adequate argument that it wasn't
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Let me fetch a few more, please ! Just one more push/pull, promise ! Just a merge and then I clean it all !
I’m live streaming the beta of my Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 #accessibility mod! This game was distributed in a cereal box and was a big part of my childhood! Let’s see how things run!
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Looking for a Calendly alternative that takes accessibility seriously? Meetabl matches the features you expect — calendar sync, custom event types, video meetings — and meets WCAG 2.2 AA/AAA. meetabl.com
Meetabl - Accessible Calendar Booking
Meetabl - Accessible calendar booking alternative to Calendlymeetabl.com
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Wait, that's interesting. I believed Calendly was really accessible, it has some quirks in the admin panel, but it's super accessible for the user, no?
The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM.
It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.
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this is a piece-of-resistance! I've had great fun playing with the demos on my phone, all working nicely. Will have an extended play later tonight!
You should be very proud of this!
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Vysílání služby #teletext je něco, co už dnes provozuje jen televize veřejné služby. ❤️
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A technology blast from the past that came to mind for some reason earlier today. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I used a service called X*PRESS Exchange or Information Service I believe. It was amazing for the time. You connected a box to your cable TV wiring and to a computer via a serial port and received text streams of all kinds of news. They even distributed software overnight. For the time it was really great! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X*Press_…
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Tonight, I feel the need to rant a little.
Many people keep saying that AI has destroyed everything, including music production, songwriting and singing. But sometimes I wonder whether AI is really the only thing to blame.
In 1994, when I was thirteen years old, I wrote my song For a Missing Girl. I recorded it using two cassette tapes, a Casio keyboard and my own voice. It was primitive, imperfect and homemade, but it was mine. The melody, the lyrics, the emotion and the voice were all mine.
Recently, I asked a musician I know in Cyprus whether he could help me record it properly. I hoped he might rearrange the music while still preserving my melody, my style and my own voice.
His answer was basically: “That is too much work. Why don’t you let Suno do everything for you?”
Honestly, I felt furious and deeply disappointed.
Yes, Suno created a beautiful and polished version of the song. I even uploaded it to YouTube. But it sounds very different from the song I originally wrote. It does not have my voice. It does not fully carry the fragile, personal feeling of that thirteen-year-old girl recording herself with two tapes and a keyboard in 1994.
So how am I supposed to make my own song sound the way I hear it in my mind, with my own voice, when I do not have access to a musician or producer willing to help me?
People condemn AI for taking work away from musicians. But what happens when a musician is given the opportunity to help a real person bring her own music to life and simply says, “Too much work. Let AI do it”?
AI can be incredibly helpful and valuable, especially for people who do not have money, professional equipment, industry connections or access to a recording studio. But AI did not refuse to help me because it was bored. A human being did.
And yes, that is what I find truly disgusting. You can listen to the Suno version of my song here: youtube.com/watch?v=HCPdT9N8aO… #OriginalSong #OriginalComposition #IndependentCreator #AIMusic #SunoAI #ForAMissingGirl
Many people keep saying that AI has destroyed everything, including music production, songwriting and singing. But sometimes I wonder whether AI is really the only thing to blame.
In 1994, when I was thirteen years old, I wrote my song For a Missing Girl. I recorded it using two cassette tapes, a Casio keyboard and my own voice. It was primitive, imperfect and homemade, but it was mine. The melody, the lyrics, the emotion and the voice were all mine.
Recently, I asked a musician I know in Cyprus whether he could help me record it properly. I hoped he might rearrange the music while still preserving my melody, my style and my own voice.
His answer was basically: “That is too much work. Why don’t you let Suno do everything for you?”
Honestly, I felt furious and deeply disappointed.
Yes, Suno created a beautiful and polished version of the song. I even uploaded it to YouTube. But it sounds very different from the song I originally wrote. It does not have my voice. It does not fully carry the fragile, personal feeling of that thirteen-year-old girl recording herself with two tapes and a keyboard in 1994.
So how am I supposed to make my own song sound the way I hear it in my mind, with my own voice, when I do not have access to a musician or producer willing to help me?
People condemn AI for taking work away from musicians. But what happens when a musician is given the opportunity to help a real person bring her own music to life and simply says, “Too much work. Let AI do it”?
AI can be incredibly helpful and valuable, especially for people who do not have money, professional equipment, industry connections or access to a recording studio. But AI did not refuse to help me because it was bored. A human being did.
And yes, that is what I find truly disgusting. You can listen to the Suno version of my song here: youtube.com/watch?v=HCPdT9N8aO… #OriginalSong #OriginalComposition #IndependentCreator #AIMusic #SunoAI #ForAMissingGirl
For a Missing Girl – Original Lyrics by Eleni Christodoulou
I wrote this song when I was thirteen years old, creating both the lyrics and the original melody in a minor key.This version is a new interpretation generat...Eleni Christodoulou (YouTube)
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I like this. I think if you used a newer model of suno it'd sound even better? Also I'd love to hear hte original. If you'd be willing I could try and, both run it through suno, and see if I could find a few people to help you arrange it. I know a fare few musicians :) I like to consider myself a pretty good suno prompter, I know you did it yourself, but I would like I said love to hear the original I'd love to hear the 2 casette players and a casio version.
I also am a farely good musician but I'm not always the best at playing full songs, but oh boy I'd give it a go, I can play most of these chords. I'm hearing 1990s walter afanasief, ala beauty and the beast etc.
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This is a good point. I'm coming at this from the perspective of a musician / producer who's been at this for nearly 20 years, and I have a love hate relationship with Suno and products like it. On the one hand, I think the tech itself is really cool and the fact a computer can produce music that honestly isn't all that bad in the grand scheme of things is impressive, however I also feel somewhat threatened as a person who's made music my life. I spent years getting good at piano, production, mixing, etc. Suno can make a hole song in seconds. of course musicians are going to be angry about this, it's a natural and justified reaction to something so disruptive. At the same time, if people find that it helps them express themselves, that's great. At the end of the day, Suno and tools like it are here to stay, and it falls on musicians to level up and make music that can surpass it. Ultimately, I don't think that's a bad thing at all.
Damn, spent a few hours trying to scrape a website using python requests to find out error 104 connection reset by peer is caused by their server software only speaking ancient TLS ciphers. Ended up writing custom SSL adapter accepting all the protocols.
It's a pity it took me so long to figure it out.
It's a pity it took me so long to figure it out.
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#AudioMo : The creaps! This was a short orchestral piece I made for my haloween skit. I remember using some orchestral libraries from native instruments, and I custom designed this spooky lead from rea synth and some effects! I think I might add more on to it come next haloween.
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Bobby Prince, who composed music for #DOOM & #Wolfenstein3D & #DukeNukem 3D and more has sadly passed away
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Sad news for those who know and love the history of #RetroGaming and #gaming in general
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„In 2026, the soundtrack to the original Doom was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress(…)“
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Jamal Mazrui is resuming development of EdSharp with a beta of version 5.0.
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GitHub - jamalmazrui/EdSharp: Text and code editor optimized for keyboard and screen reader users
Text and code editor optimized for keyboard and screen reader users - jamalmazrui/EdSharpGitHub
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"I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up." arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-p… via @MonniauxD
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I did something similar for a while with a client response that was designed to kill the ssh client attempting to login. Just a genetic algorithm sending a malformed response. At the time the bots would try 5 to 10 different PWs and then stop. So my fitness test was whether or not the attempts stopped early. Once it had evolved a response that would kill packets it would get one request and no more.
I have always wanted to do this, honeypotting port 22. I had a public facing server for a decade and watching the connections was always fun.
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