A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#132 Bottom Sheets
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#132 Bottom Sheets
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Crazy read: detecting positions of players in Counterstrike by *listening to their GPU over a microphone*
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More details about the end of #IPv4 in state services: On 18th of December 2013 Czech #government decided that every service provided by Czech state has to be available on #IPv6 and be protected by #DNSSEC by 30th of June 2015. Yesterday a followed up action has been agreed on. On 6th of June 2032, IPv4 will be disabled on all services offered by Czech republic and they will be only available on IPv6 from that day on. Apart from that, every June starting from 2025, Czech government will get a report on how are the preparations.
Overall seems like a bold move, but I totally support it! IT sends a message, that #IPv4 is over and everybody should move to #IPv6 already. And even government - the definition of conservative and bureaucratic institution - gets it. Then why shouldn't you embrace it 😉
More information in Czech:
blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/kratke-…
blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/odvazny…
Vláda ČR včera přijala významné usnesení, které se týká infrastruktury Internetu, když projednala materiál s názvem „Restart zavádění technologie DNSSEC a protokolu IPv6 ve státní správě“.Ondřej Filip (Blog zaměstnanců CZ.NIC)
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StyleTTS 2: Towards Human-Level Text-to-Speech through Style Diffusion and Adversarial Training with Large Speech Language Models - GitHub - yl4579/StyleTTS2: StyleTTS 2: Towards Human-Level Text-t...GitHub
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Seeking Blind Software Developers
From: Job-Listings <
job-listings-bounces@nfbnet.org>
On Behalf Of Richard Davis via Job-Listings
Kevin Fjelsted of R. D. Partners, Inc. is interested in hiring blind persons as software developers. They are engaged in developing telecommunications
software for their customers, including CRM LIght and iOS applications for iPhone.
As you may know, finding software developers who know accessibility is a big problem today. Kevin thinks hiring blind persons is the solution to this problem.
Given the demand for software developers today (100,000 job vacancies nationwide) companies are no longer requiring four year degrees in computer science
or information technology. Instead, a number of "boot camp" training programs have cropped up, some of them quite expensive. R.D. Partners has found a
nonprofit that has agreed to train people for them at no charge to trainees.
What do you need to do to take advantage of this opportunity? First of all, be a power computer user with knowledge of accessibility. Some training and/or
experience in software development is recommended, but a solid interest in learning and a commitment to this type of work is definitely required. They
will be able to determine if you have the aptitude pretty quickly.
This is a job for a creative person. Many software developers are writers, poets, and artistic types. That may surprise some of you, but it is true.
If you feel you are qualified, contact
kevin.fjelsted@rdpartnersinc.com.
He is willing to answer the kinds of tecnical questions I cannot.
Best wishes,
Dick Davis
NFB Employment Committee
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Since September 2023, there have been major changes on iOS. Discover Jami's new features for iPhone.Loïc Bogino (Jami)
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OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
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RevK's privacy-friendly GPS logger
My very clever friend, @revk, has been making a GPS logger which requires no third party account or server, after I said I was looking for one.
Here are my initial thoughts on using it.
tl;dr: it just works. It automatically logs our journeys to an on-board micro-SD card, and uploads them, via https POST, to my webserver, when it connects to Wi-Fi. And it runs Free software!
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Does anyone have a working Android 6 or Android 7 device in a drawer somewhere that they want to donate to the #Conversations_im project? (Anything higher or lower doesn’t work unfortunately)
While refactoring A/V calls I got myself into a situation where I can no longer verify that calls are working on these devices without access to a physical devices. (Emulator has knows issues when it comes to A/V calls.)
The oldest device I have access to *shipped* with Android 8 (and runs Lineage OS 17)
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Hi, we met at #37c3 , I am the #TinyWeatherForecastGermany #dev .
Is this what you look for?
Disclaimer: china refurbished, rom likely not original, bootloader locked because this is the AT&T US model.
Because of the locked bootloader, you cannot flash a custom recovery / rom on it.
Have you seen the Stack Overflow Developer Survey results for 2023?
Of the 83,830 folks surveyed, Matrix is the #1 chat tool in terms of current users' satisfaction. It's also rated as the most desirable among the open source tools listed, but there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in awareness there.
Let's build on this in 2024! 🚀 survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#…
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@spaetz Oof, that's tough! We are so grateful for your advocacy.
This is definitely a sign of the work we need to do to increase awareness! As we get the Foundation more fully operationalized we hope to provide some materials to help introduce more folks to Matrix.
We're encouraged to see universities like TU Dresden and MIT running their own Matrix homeservers and want to help encourage more of that 🚀
Instant voice cloning by MyShell. Contribute to myshell-ai/OpenVoice development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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This release adds swatch/internet time support when displaying dates (thanks @chaoskaiser72), and simplifies the Caddyfile for Caddy 2.GitHub
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Any of my #firefox peoples want to try this extension? Same guy that made it for Chrome with my sounds in. This apparently works without fuss, but I don't use firefox so can't prove it. github.com/LordLuceus/chrome-u…
Edit: This is now a signed firefox addon and works when clicking the below link without any fuss at all. I have now tested this myself: onj.me/browser-ui-sounds.xpi
An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for important events in the browser - GitHub - LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds: An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for...GitHub
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[orca] Re: Can be Linux used as a daily driver system for blind users?, orca at FreeListswww.freelists.org
I would like to share a very cool project I've been working on with a couple of other very talented developers: SVT-AV1 PSY
github.com/gianni-rosato/svt-a…
SVT-AV1-PSY is the Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding. The goal is to create the best encoding implementation for perceptual quality with AV1.
We've already implemented a couple of unique features not present in mainline that do appear to produce BD-rate gains on a number of clips already!! Please check it out!
The Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding - GitHub - gianni-rosato/svt-av1-psy: The Scalable Video Tec...GitHub
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@matt gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland…
See, this is exactly the problem here. The blog posts makes it seem like all the people involved in wayland don't care about making the applications work well on wayland. We suggested that this protocol can be used with another new protocol to solve 90% of the use cases. This was dismissed because of the missing 10%. Instead of pushing the protocol that everyone wants we now have another protocol that doesn't go anywhere.
For a variety of cases it's desirable to have a method for negotiating the restoration of previously-used states for a client's windows. This helps for e.g., a compositor/client...GitLab
@matt This is in a way the session-management protocol.
But consider this: What if an application has an IDE layout[1] or a layout like GIMP's multi-window mode where windows need to be initilly placed in relation to each other? What if a window needs to show up next to a UI control, like for docked windows in docked UIs or for picture-in-picture displays?
For that, the compositor at least needs to know an initial placement as well, restoration-only will not work.
I attended today's presentation where Deane Blazie introduced the new BTSpeak. Much of what he discussed can also be found on the Blazie Technologies Web site which was mentioned toward the end of the presentation. blazietech.com/
Here are my notes that I took which have hardly been edited.
Deane said nobody had done an equivalent Bns. Deand and Bryan (one of his sons) were working with Raspberry PI with a Braille keyboard to make a new 21st century Bns.
Based on Raspberry PI, inside is a computer module 4, has 4 cores, equivalent to a low end or possibly midrange laptop.
About the size of an iPhone Pro
8-key Braille keyboard.
Also has music and media player can stream from Pandora
Has learning application for learning how to type on a Braille keyboard
Comes with Lynx Web browser
Runs on Linux
Builtin calculator, clock and calendar
Hdmi port for monitor
Usb c for charging or plugging in keyboards, usb stick for storage
Micro Sd card slot
He was not sure of max capacity but 256 gb is possible
Has wifi
Has small CHATGpt app but you need a token
Uses Dectalk and ESpeak
Dectalk is from Human Voice LLC which is allowing them to use it for free
Has capability to do voice commands.
Deane said “weather” to get a weather forecast.
Has a around half dozen commands.
Has dictionary.
BTRadio is a Pandora app.
Has a Bible
Morse code application
From systems menu there is an audio menu for speech synthesizer selection
From any menu or application you can get context specific help for that program
Product will have two versions: basic and a Pro version.
Pro will have desktop Linux using Orca.
Uses RPI version of Debian
Pro version will have LibreOffice.
Has a PDF reader.
Standard unit supports text and Braille files, need Pro for full Office support.
Will we have NLS support: we don’t have NLS working with it. Not sure about Newsline.
Has Bluetooth but no headphone jack but it will have an adapter for the USB port for a headphone jack
1.5 ghz
Cost 795 for basic
Pro costs 1195
Web site: blazietech.com
Units are still being developed but can’t be released until software is more refined.
Shipping in February
BTSpeak architecture cannot run Eloquence
Eloquence Was written for intel-based and older versions of Arm but not arm64
Has text editor in basic unit but can use LibreOffice in Pro unit
For editor it can do Braille translation just like bns did
Has 4 gb of ram and 32 gb of rom
Chrome works on the Pro version only
Blazie Technologies, LLc makes computers and notetakers for the Blind user. Assistive Technology for the blind. BrailleBlazie Technology
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The BTSpeak is visible on your home network with a /Public directory so you can move files to and from it with your desktop computer. The Pro version has Libra Office suite which supports Microsoft Word formats. You would be using the Orca screen reader in the Pro version.
Blog: Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms
I wanted to make an easily accessible webchat for the rooms hosted on the yax.im #xmpp server, and this is the result / recipe.
op-co.de/blog/posts/prosody-co…
@prosodyim @jcbrand@masodon.xyz
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Introducing Spiel - A New Speech API and Framework
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A New Speech API and Framework I wrote the beginning of what I hope will be an appealing speech API for desktop Linux and beyond. It consists of two parts, a...blog.monotonous.org
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Our goal for 2023 is to let users control Home Assistant in their own language.Home Assistant
V podobe vianočného darčeka existujúci používatelia aplikačného setu Corvus dostali k dispozícii verejnú beta verziu nadchádzajúcej verzie Corvus 10. Kompletný popis tejto verzie zverejnili samotní autori v článku o verzii Corvus 10 beta.Blindrevue
OCR v Android aplikáciách, ovládanie pomocou brailovej klávesnice, qwerty klávesnicu či podporu pre knižnicu KTN.Ondrej Rosík (Pélion - Vzdělávací portál pro zrakově postižené)
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It’s World Braille Day! A blind teacher named Louis Braille created this tactile reading system, and now his birthday, January 4, is a day to celebrate this marvelous way to read! Braille exists in multiple languages, and I recently had the honor …Haben Girma
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25 years ago Jeremie Miller made an announcement of what would become the initiation, development and propagation of the #XMPP protocol until today!
Join the journey!
slashdot.org/story/99/01/04/16…
Happy birthday,
XMPP!

#chat #jabber #opensource
Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).slashdot.org
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#129 Hello 2024
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I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
Source: Form 990 stateof.mozilla.org/
Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.stateof.mozilla.org
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@ebassi @vincevlo @dekkzz76 @nojhan @louis XULRunner never really lived, tbh (I just picked the last release date as the "death" date in the post above).
I remember being psyched when ephy was ported from gtkmozembed to gtk-webkit, the code became sooo much simpler. But it was before Chrome became the problem it is today (I got my memory backwards, Chrome was released in 2008 while the first Epiphany version using Webkit is from 2009)
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I am baffled when people talk about "the atmosphere" on Mastodon. Here, there is no algorithm forcing posts into your feed. The atmosphere is the one you have personally curated.
1) Scan a person's feed before you follow.
2) Turn off the boosts of anyone you otherwise like who boosts stuff you don't want to see.
3) Mute anyone you don't want to hear from at all.
4) Filter out words/phrases you don't want to see (you will have to do much less of this if you do the first three steps right).
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Analogue FM radio transmissions turn 90-years-old today after the technology was patented on December 26th 1933.The broadcasting platform was invented as a replacement for AM and today is being celebrated by Marco Rossignoli, coordinator of Aeranti-CRadioToday UK (RadioToday)
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NVDA 2024.1 Beta 2 is now available for anyone interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before its official release!
Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- Bug fixes for installing & uninstalling add-ons
- Speech text is no longer updated when the mouse moves in the Speech Viewer
- Syntax fixes for documentation
Updates to translations
Note: This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2023.3 and earlier.
Full info & Download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…
Beta2 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…NV Access
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