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So what's the new default SBC that is community friendly, work out of the box and can be purchased easily?

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@paperdigits first, Intel. Second too big, to expensive.
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Hubert Figuière
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@paperdigits it's not Intel vs AMD. It's about wattage, etc.
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Pred pár dňami sme vďaka @Zvonimir Stanecic a ďalším dobrovoľníkom zverejnili prvý slovenský ženský hlas pre #rhvoice. Hlas dostal aj pekné netradičné meno Jasietka. K dispozícii sú hlasy pre #Windows #nvdasr #android aj #linux . Aktualizácie sa zároveň dočkala aj celková podpora pre slovenčinu, vrátane už skôr zverejneného slovenského hlasu Ondro. Ak potrebujete #tts #textToSpeech k čítaču obrazovky, na čítanie kníh, inštrukcie pre GPS navigáciu, pozrite si prosím podrobnosti na jednoduchom webe.

hlas.ondrosik.sk/

#android #linux #Windows #nvdasr #texttospeech #tts #RHVoice @Zvonimir Stanecic

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Quite number of things have happened since I have mentioned my occassional usage of #emacS:
* @Termux is trying to update its compatibility with recent #android versions returning into the Google play in the process.
* speechd-el the app that acts as a built-in screen reader for emacs got some polishing and fixes recently.
* Touch and speech have recently released an update to Corvus, suite of assistive apps for #android that also feature great liblouis powered braille keyboard that can emulate alt, ctrl and shift keys allowing me to use emacs keybindings on the braille touch keyboard.
* I'm on holiday these days and I can benefit from having a screenreader accessible linux terminal with powerfull tools inside my pocket.

So here is a short article I wrote on the matter last week

pvagner.sk/2024/emacs-a11y-tip…

#android #emacs @Termux
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Tagging^ @oskar_mbr in that
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@Piciok Thanks for sharing the instructions. Now the voice output of Emacs also works on my Android smartphone. Together with the mobile Braille keyboard metabraille, this is very practical.
@Paweł Masarczyk

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@Oskar @Paweł Masarczyk Do you guys have more details about @Projekt Define Is it really this hardware mobile phone case with braille keyboard included? I know all the documentation is available online for the do it yourself project, but is there someone who is making these units? gitlab.com/metabraille/metabra…
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@define @Piciok Metabraille is a mobile Braille-Keyboard. You can connect it via Bluetooth to a Smartphone or a Computer. We are developing and producing them.
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@Oskar @Projekt Define @Paweł Masarczyk Can you please try to describe how it looks like? Is it built into the smartphone case? Is there a place to order it from? What's the price for an individual user? Does it use liblouis for the back translation from braille? I don't seem to be able to find out these details on the website or should I be looking at something else?
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@define @Piciok Metabraille is built like a house with a roof. 8 buttons in the front and two buttons on the roof instead of windows. You hold the house with both hands between your palms and type with the fingers on the front and with your thumbs on the roof. It is like holding a keyboard upside down in the air with your palms and typing on the backside. 12 cm long, 10 cm width, 2.6 cm depth. it is a standalone device, not built in the smartphone case.
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Oskar
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@define @Piciok Metabraille does not use liblouis. The translation happens in the device. Liblouis is not ported to the microcrontroller and not used.
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@define @Piciok unified english braille is not supported yet. we support german braille for the moment. but we will implement unified english braille.
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@Oskar @Projekt Define @Paweł Masarczyk Hmmm, while adopting we'll have to implement different braille codes. e.g. For some serious typing I'd like to have slovak braille code. Newertheless it sounds very interesting. With this keyboard can you fully operate your smartphone?
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@define @Piciok We want to implement all European languages step by step. Metabraille is a full keyboard replacement. You can fully operate your smartphone with this keyboard.
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Oskar
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@define @Piciok metabraille is optimized to be assembled by people with visual impairments or blindness. the assembly kit costs about 180 Euro
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On iOS we have ISH which is an awesome piece of software. Its a full emulator of Linux kernel. Emulator, not a VM. Reading through its code is an adventure full of twists and turns, but very rewarding if you like such things.
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Dear !Friendica Support I'm sometimes reading my #friendica timeline from the @Tusky app on #android.
I am having an issue that some parts of the timeline are not loaded into the @Tusky app at all.
I have figured out when replies are added into a thread, the post is being repositioned in the list of posts returned by the #Mastodon compatible API. @Tusky is not fetching older posts when the one that has already been requested is found while syncing new posts. That is causing gaps in my timeline I can read on the phone.
It really sounds complicated. Do you understand what's my issue?
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The blind community has been hit hard with loss this week. RIP to Austin Pinto with so very much energy and knowledge he put into the Accessible Android community, Brandon Cole, a true super hero in the blind gamer community, and Penny Duffy, an awesome advocate and friend to parents of blind children. Families and friends are definitely on my heart.

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I'm in tears as I hear the news of Brandon Cole's passing. SuperBlindMan is a name synonymous with gaming, determination, and a fight for equality in an industry that until recently, has kept accessibility on the back burner. I'll forever miss his humor, his energy, his commitment to showing the world that games are for all players. I'm so blessed to have gotten to know him, however briefly in the digital sphere.
My heart goes out to his family, his loved ones, and the many lives he touched with his kindness and advocacy. We may not be able to fight every boss level, but Brandon has shown us that the game doesn't stop when people expect us to sit on the sidelines. I cherish his passion and contributions to society. He will always be loved, always missed.
His legacy will linger in the hearts of his family, friends and colleagues. It is up to the ones left behind to realize his mission and continue to spread the joy of gaming to all, despite their level of ability. Rest in peace, Brandon Cole. You will never be forgotten.

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Tagged a new U-Boot release for some #Qualcomm phones, now supporting the OnePlus 8T (kebab), since it's what I've been using to do upstream development.

Still a bit of a pain to get started with since you need to modify your GPT to mark a partition as the ESP, you can do this using gdisk from an existing @postmarketOS installation.

Once that's done, you can build a postmarketOS image for qualcomm-sdm845 or postmarketos-trailblazer (passing --split to pmbootstrap install), flash the boot image to your elected ESP and the rootfs to userdata, and then enjoy your EFI'd phone :D

PostmarketOS Trailblazer (postmarketos-trailblazer) - postmarketOS Wiki

wiki.postmarketos.org
#qualcomm @postmarketOS
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Speaking of kebab, initial support for the OnePlus 8T sent upstream! Including display and touch screen drivers which I'm really happy are in a somewhat upstreamable state.

lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/…

Need to figure out the firmware situation in pmaports, but otherwise once these patches land it'll be one of the first devices supported exclusively by the postmarketos-trailblazer device with Linux next!

[PATCH 0/7] qcom: initial support for the OnePlus 8T - Caleb Connolly

lore.kernel.org
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This is so beautiful though! Headphones on

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I'm so fucking floored right now. A true legend is gone. He fought tooth and nail for gamers in the blind community the world over, inspiring so many developers to make their games accessible to all. Fly high, Super Blindman.

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I just wrote a little #NVDASR app module for Phone Link to:
1. Allow shift+tabbing to the message list without the app crashing, since Microsoft apparently can't be bothered fixing this rather severe bug.
2. Allow alt+1 to focus the Conversations list when the Messages view is already active instead of just doing nothing.
I can't really be bothered submitting it as a proper add-on or a core app module, but if anyone wants it, let me know and I can throw it up somewhere.
#nvdasr

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Drew Mochak
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Maybe it would be good for the windows app esentials addon?
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Jamie Teh
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@drew Maybe. It probably should go in core, but it feels a bit weird because I'm hacking around a very silly bug that Microsoft will probably eventually fix. Then again, maybe they won't.
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@drew Mostly, I just don't have the patience or inclination right now to go through code review and polish the code - type annotations, etc. - when it works just fine for me.
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Does phone link get updated often? I haven’t used it much though I hear it is quite useful. IDK man, I am still mad at them for “new outlook” being such a pile of garbage. I have to use it for work and it is a massive hit to my productivity. I am not confident the app teams are looking at stuff like that. I suppose I should be more forgiving though, , their track record in general is quite good.
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@drew I do get update notifications every now and then, one within the last month or so, but I'm not really sure how often. I did submit feedback for the crash a while back and it's been crickets thus far.
@Drew Mochak
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Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project

There's incredibly good news for people who use accessibility tools on Linux, but who were facing serious, gamebreaking problems when trying to use Wayland. Matt Campbell, of the GNOME accessibility team, has been hard at work on an entirely new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops, and he's got some impre

osnews.com/story/139996/update…

#Wayland

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project – OSnews

www.osnews.com
#Wayland

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If you wondered (for some reason), #KeePass, my password manager of choice for many years, has an #accessibility help page now: keepass.info/help/base/accessi…. Dominik Reichl is a great developer!

Accessibility - KeePass

Dominik Reichl
#Accessibility #keepass

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This could be useful to some people.
No support, only for info.

As background, I was needing to schedule a task regularly so as to work with the StationPlaylist Track Tool via command line parameters.
The Track Tool is very useful to process files for use on a radio station. If you don't use StationPlaylist, still keep reading.

First I tried the Windows Task Scheduler. Everything worked, except that the computer would freeze while the task (which is fairly intensive) was taking place.
Then I tried System Scheduler:
splinterware.com/products/sche…

Not only does it work perfectly, but it has very accessible dialogs and list view controls, plenty of shortcut keys, and more. I was very pleased at the way it works.

Of course you can schedule a task to undertake the kind of activity I was wanting to do. The list of tasks not only shows the title but when it was last run, something essential for what I was trying to achieve as I needed to monitor it.

You can also create periodic reminders or scheduled text notes. Those reminders can be snoozed for a period of time before the alert arrives again.
The tasks can be run manually or via the schedule. Manual was also very useful for my testing.
You can create desktop shortcuts for tasks if you did want to run them manually and regularly.

Not that I tried this, but you can also get it to action a series of keystrokes if needed when an application is focused. That was well outside the scope of what I was wanting to do.

Definitely worth giving it a try if you would like to. There is a free and paid version.

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Gajim 1.9.1 has been released 🎉

This release introduces a menu button, adds improvements for Security Labels, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2024-06-22-gaji…

Gajim 1.9.1

Gajim 1.9.1 introduces a menu button, adds improvements for Security Labels, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!
cal0pteryx (https://gajim.org/)
#xmpp #chat #gajim
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When I send a file through a bot with the [xep_0363'].upload_file function, the link to GAJIM does not arrive, in the version before 1.9 it works fine.
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Well, we actually did it. My friend (not on Mastodon) and I finally! released our first album, Love Loss Lament. I'm pretty stoked.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7hBQRXm…
Apple Music: music.apple.com/au/album/love-…
YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK…
Others: songwhip.com/electronightalche…

Love Loss Lament by Electronight Alchemy

Listen to "Love Loss Lament" by Electronight Alchemy on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip
Electronight Alchemy (Songwhip)

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Jamie Teh
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@KaraLG84 Haha sorry to interrupt your breakfast with a real punch in the feels. A bit rude of me really.
@Kara Goldfinch
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Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project – GNOME Accessibility

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@Doug Lawlor @David Goldfield For me the video plays fine. Is it likelly your media controls in your web browser might be muted? Here is a link to the actual MP4 file if you find it usefull: mwcampbell.us/gnome/newton-gno…
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@pvagner @douglawlor I'm using JAWS 2024 with Brave and I was able to get the video to play. I had to press Play twice but after that I heard it with no issues.
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Alright, Devconf is a week in the past, but was it an event. We had interesting and useful discussions, and yes, we enjoyed the time as well. And, by the way, our talk was definitely a success.

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Blazie Technologies has updated the BT Speak Pro product page on our Web site. It now contains a full list of product specifications, along with a list of preinstalled applications along with their descriptions.
blazietech.com/btspeakpro

DG

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The website says that the BT Speak has 8 gb ram. Is there any way to upgrade to it?
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@Lprazdnik The upgrade path to go from the 4 GB board to an 8 GB board costs $150.00.
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Just want to say kudos to all of the people within GNOME working to make it more accessible, and building up a modern accessibility stack for Wayland.

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Awesome presentation about enhancing Linux accessibility by Lukáš Tyrychtr (@tyrylu) and Vojtěch Polášek! I found the screencast in the presentation to be especially insightful.

youtube.com/live/64aeub7qPuI?s…

pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/ta…

#a11y #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Linux #DevConf_CZ #GNOME


Enhancing Linux Accessibility: A Unified Approach DevConf.CZ

Join us for a discussion aimed at supporting Linux distribution developers in enhancing accessibility. As blind software engineers, we believe we can bring a unique perspective to this essential endeavor.
pretalx.com
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #gnome #screenreader #DevConf_CZ @Lukáš Tyrychtr

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NVDA 2024.2 Release Candidate 2 is now available: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2r…

Changes in this release candidate are new translations.

There are lots of new features in 2024.2, including Sound Split, new Synth Settings & other quick nav commands, a new "Display Speech Output" Braille mode and many more updates and fixes. Do test it out and let us know how you find it!


NVDA 2024.2rc2 available for testing

The second Release Candidate (RC2) of NVDA 2024.2 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, thi…
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Latest discovery about windows 11 is that if you have a shaky internet connection (I found this on a train) and you hit the windows key and start typing it doesn't search locally until the internet search is finished. So if I want to start a program by typing the first few letters of its name it just doesn't work. Had to choose between scrolling through the list of programs by name which has now been quite well hidden, or turning internet off. Extraordinarily stupid bit of design. No way to turn this off either that I could find.

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I want a tool that i can feed two log files into and it will show me where they diverge, but be smart enough to ignore date/time stamps, UUIDs, hashes, minor line ordering differences.

Does such a tool exist?

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Plasma 6.1 is here!

New features include a cool take on Plasma's edit mode, keyboard LEDs that sync with accent colors, an inbuilt Remote Desktop Server that let's you access Plasma desktops over a network, lots of bug corrections and improvements.

kde.org/announcements/plasma/6…

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Screenshot of Plasma 6.1 with the welcome presentation on the right and an open launcher menu in the bottom left hand corner.
Screenshot showing the new tidy overview layout.
Screenshot showing the configuration page for Legacy X11 apps under Wayland.

Plasma 6.1

Plasma 6.1 brings improvements and powerful new features to every part of your desktop
Plasma 6.1
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It's looking great, kudos to the whole @kde team 👏 !
@KDE

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@gnome
ما صبح تا شب سر اینکه کی بهتره دعوا نکردیم که بعد شما بیاین قربون صدقه‌ی هم برین:/
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A blind colleague recently joined a new federal agency. The agency is refusing to let him use the NVDA screen reader (free, open source), because it's created by an Australian non-profit which is not registered on SAM.gov (because they're not a vendor).

If you know of how a federal employee has gotten approval to use NVDA, would you let me know what magic words were required?

An information message to be used to manage replies. It reads: DO NOT REPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE DIRECT EXPERIENCE. ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT, ES SEI DENN, SIE HABEN DIREKTE ERFAHRUNG. NO RESPONDA A MENOS QUE TENGA EXPERIENCIA DIRECTA. NE RÉPONDEZ PAS SAUF SI VOUS AVEZ UNE EXPÉRIENCE.
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@Bruce_Toews That's an ugly situation. A blind computer user requesting a specific screen reader isn't the same as someone requesting an alternative to the company's Office suite or CRM. It's equivalent to someone needing a larger monitor or an ergonomic keyboard. I suppose you could argue that the screen reader used by a company might also have custom scripts for that company's applications that make that particular screen reader work better than a competing screen reader. Still, a screen reader is a very special type of access and I wouldn't want my employer interfering with how I best use my computer.
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@Bruce_Toews So it's essentially JAWS or Dolphin's Supernova, then? I'm glad that I know JAWS and NVDA equally well but I feel bad for users who only know NVDA who then have to learn a whole new screen reader. Fortunately, Web navigation commands are very similar but configuring the two screen readers uses very different commands and methods.
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Today I received what I believe to be the first ever donation to the phonetones project via PayPal. £7 which I appreciate. To my knowledge this has never happened.
I've been running this since 2006 on various bits of hardware, it's moved houses probably as many times as I have in the same time.
If you don't know what this is, you'll find it at 3.onj.me/phonetones.

If you've ever wanted that one ringtone you could never find, that random alarm or alert that you heard once and have been thinking about for the last 20 years, we probably have it.

Index of /phonetones

3.onj.me
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We are very pleased to share that the NVDA 2024.2 Release Candidate is now available: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2r… This includes lots of new features since 2024.1, including Sound Split, new Synth Settings & other quick nav commands, a new "Display Speech Output" Braille mode and many more updates and fixes. Do test it out and let us know how you find it! Otherwise, the final version will be out in the next few weeks.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #NewVersion #FOSS #Update #Release #PreRelease #ScreenReader


NVDA 2024.2rc1 available for testing

The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2024.2 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will b…
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#foss #release #screenreader #nvdasr #update #nvda #newversion #prerelease
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#AudioMo 2024 day 15: A day late, but never a dollar short. To make up for it, I'm sharing a fun little number introduced many years ago to an online friend who is dearly missed. I became acquainted with Marcel Oates on Twitter, and spent hours on Facetime with him. He had a sense of humor, a gorgeous voice, and loved to talk all things audio, and of course dogs. When he shared this song with me, I about fell out my chair laughing.
I still remember the night I received a text from his sister informing me of his passing. It was actually a rainy night, and I went outside and cried along with the angels, their teardrops falling around me. He was a dear friend who I didn't know for long, but made a significant impact on my life.
One of the things I remember is his humor, and his laugh. We spent so much time coming up with funny concepts and scinarios that we wish to record if we could.
Enjoy this fun little number, and I hope you have an awesome day!

#audiomo

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This is why I hate modern software. I upgraded ElevenLabs Reader, because I wanted to see if it improved. The changelog just said "Stability improvements" or something similar for each version. I launched it, they said multiple languages were on the way. The next screen said we're syncing everything to the cloud so you can read on all your devices. No ability to opt out, it was done before I could finish reading. As a bonus, it seems less accessible than it was before.
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@pvagner Oh I get you man. Cloud doesn’t bother me much, but Electron does. Does it fall into the category of modern abominations?
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Yay! Got the imx363 rear camera working in my Poco F1 (SDM845) running a near mainline kernel! 🎉 Here is a quick demo of Megapixels and Snapshot camera apps running at 1080p resolution. Full resolution of 4032 x 3024 is kind of buggy with only 2016 x 3024 pixels stretched into 4032 x 3024. Needs some work before wider use by community though. An important milestone for SDM845 devices nevertheless! 😇

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just found out grapheneos has a "duress pin" feature that lets you set an alternate pin that will wipe the device if entered. so if you're forced to provide a pin, you can give them that one.

that's actually super cool. if you're a person of interest, going through a dangerous checkpoint, etc, USE THIS

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nah theres a better option called CalyxOS, runs on more devices than Graphene and it on the same level as security (locked bootloader, etc)
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please do not compare CalyxOS to be the same level of security as GrapheneOS, this is a lie pedaled by the Calyx Foundation to get people to use their interior custom ROM

CalyxOS has half baked security features, insecure Google Play Services implementation, slow to update core services compared to GrapheneOS, breaks basic android security model, and so many more issues that make CalyxOS a borderline scam

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I've had 0 musical inspiration for months now. But this afternoon, I threw together this little sketch of a song about a lovely, lazy Brisbane autumn day with my kids. Very incomplete, including chunks of unwritten lyrics, but who knows whether it'll ever make it to a complete song, haha. files.jantrid.net/music/NthDeg…

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An idea for anyone with the time and energy required to moderate anything, here it goes: a blog open to anybody to post guest entries where blind users can post about everyday things achieved using tech. I imagine everything going there: somebody reading the screen of a washing machine using OCR or LLM's, somebody trying to teach others a folk song in a foreign language by jotting the lyrics down in a notepad app on an Android smartphone which crashed due to a bug; trying and succeeding or failing to book train tickets... you get the idea. Make it variet, make it international, make it interesting, modern or retrospective. Goals: 1. To motivate each other and show what is possible and what still needs solutions; 2. To evaluate which of the many technologies flowing through the market actually ended up being used and for what purpose; 3. To create an archive not just of what was available in the past but what was actually in use by people; 4. Perhaps to showcase to the wider audiences that Accessibility is not just a dull requirement to satisfy and actually helps end-users. Any takers? #Accessibility #Blind
#Accessibility #blind

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Only 2 days left for you to have your name associated with the *first* events management & ticketing platform built with accessibility as a first class concern from the start.

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Eventably

An events management and ticketing platform built with accessibility in mind from the start. | Check out 'Eventably' on Indiegogo.
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I recorded a quick demo of the current state of the Wayland-native accessibility stack I'm developing for @gnome (and eventually other free desktops), code-named Newton. In the demo, I run the GNOME Podcasts app on the Newton accessibility stack, using my GTK branch that integrates AccessKit. So in principle, the same app should also work on Windows, and soon, macOS. The demo was featured in the latest edition of This Week in GNOME: thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/… This work is funded by @sovtechfund.

#148 Variable Styles · This Week in GNOME

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Matt Campbell
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@JoSuus AT-SPI kind of works on Wayland. There are problems though stemming from the fact that there's no connection between the AT-SPI accessibility tree and the actual Wayland surface. For example, Orca can't tell what's under the mouse pointer with AT-SPI on Wayland. That already works in the Newton prototype, though I didn't cover it in this demo. Also, AT-SPI is incompatible with strong sandboxing. I hope to demo a fully sandboxed Flatpak app with Newton soon.
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Matt Campbell
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@JoSuus Also, with AT-SPI, Orca can't observe keyboard input on Wayland unless you use a toolkit that supports the legacy AT-SPI method of key snooping, which GTK 4 does not, because that old method has various problems, like the requirement of an IPC round trip for every keystroke. I don't know if the Newton prototype's current solution to that problem will make it to production; there have been other efforts to solve that problem on Wayland.
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Joëlle
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Sounds amazing. If you ever publish how you worked around all these problems I'd be really interested.
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Jason J.G. White
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As a user who runs GNOME on Wayland with Orca every day, I need a solution to this, especially before the option of reverting to X11 goes away...
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Matt Campbell
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@jason Yes, solving the problem of screen reader keyboard handling on Wayland has been within the scope of the GNOME accessibility work funded by Sovereign Tech Fund since the beginning of the STF work last year. It was supposed to be done by someone else in parallel with my project. But that project has run into various delays. I hesitated to even do a partial proof-of-concept implementation in my prototype because I didn't want to step on someone else's turf.
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This looks awesome. I just backed Eventably, a project by @karlgroves to create an accessible event management platform (planning, ticketing, execution, analysis, etc). Just read their testimonials to see reasons why this is sorely needed. The campaign has 17 days left! Help make it happen!
indiegogo.com/projects/eventab… **#accessibility** **#a11y**

Eventably

An events management and ticketing platform build with accessibility in mind from the start. | Check out 'Eventably' on Indiegogo.
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I just bought the BT Speak Pro (blazietech.com/products), a portable GNU/Linux computer (using a Raspberry Pi) with a Braille keyboard, from @BlazieTech. I'm mildly interested in their custom UI; I'll see if it ends up being useful to me. But I'm also interested in getting my Wayland-native GNOME accessibility prototype running on it. Should be an easy way to find any egregious performance problems in my implementation.

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Matt Campbell
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@fireborn Wow, they deliberately ship all the code, including for their own software? I figured that was probably a mistake.
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@fireborn That's really encouraging to hear.
@aaron
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⭐ We're delighted to announce the launch of Jami's newest version: ❤️ Astarte ⚔️

This release marks a major milestone for us in terms of the significant improvements we've made to reliability and connectivity. 😍

We invite you to update and try the latest version of Jami! 🙇

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Astarte, for a sturdier, more reliable Jami

We're delighted to announce the launch of Jami's newest version: ❤️ Astarte ⚔️
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#app #opensource #p2p #privacymatters #jami

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Luis Felipe
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Looking forward to upgrade to it once it gets to Guix.

Although my few contacts have left 😂

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Jami
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Thank you @bloodaxe 🙂 we're not perfect yet! We keep working🏋️
@Bloodaxe
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People who use screen readers! The level three headings are now removed from GitHub repository landing page file tables.

It might take a bit for the changes to propagate, and don't forget you might need to refresh your browser tabs. Please let me know if they still persist after that, and I'll try and get to the bottom of it. #accessibility

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🌟Co je Phanpy?🌟
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Radomír Žemlička
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@rholas Ty jo, fakt? Mně naopak ty vlákna přijdou oproti ostatním appkám neuvěřitelně přehledný a za nic bych už neměnil. 😄 U tmavýho tématu bych ještě ocenil možnost černýho pozadí (pro OLED displeje), ale i takhle je to super.

Jinak super fičura je Catch-up, zobrazí to krásnej chronologickej souhrn z danýho časovýho úseku.

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