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just out of curiosity poll:
which features do you think are missing the most in #ArcaneChat to be the definitive replacement for you main chat app?
(sadly the poll feature here is limited to 4 options, if there is something more important to you than these leave it in the comments, it is still interesting to know which of these 4 is more important to you so still vote!)
#poll #boost #boostwelcome #DeltaChat #chatmail
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Hello,
I think all the options listed make sense.
From a technical point of view, post-quantum encryption and PFS should be prioritised.
The group administrator role definitely makes sense and is a feature that should not be underestimated, even in small groups.
Increasing the file size would be a nice-to-have feature.
What is the current limit, then?
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What a surprise #reaper #osara is now a thing on #linux as well. So far it makes focused reaper controls accessible to orca.
I've just got it installed, imported the keymap, tested recording is working and now I have to learn a lot to do something usefull with it.
I'm just wondering if I have missed it or it's not as hot within the blindness comunity as I'm feeling about it.
github.com/churst90/osara-linu…
A port of the accessibility extension Osara for the Reaper digital audio workstation. It provide speech output to Orca via speech dispatcher. - churst90/osara-linuxGitHub
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@Jamie Teh Yes it looks as if multiple projects from this author are either personal optimizations or experiments without attempting upstream polishing. I don't know if someone else is actively working on an osara port for linux with some public code for testing and great progress. In the description it mentions speech dispatcher but it actually uses at-spi.
Edit: Oh I see there is active pull request. I should have started by looking at your repo first. I apologize to you and all the contributors working on it for my preliminary hooray style comments.
Still I was able to rebase these patches on the top of osara main branch this morning easily. Other than making sure I've got fetched all the submodules it built cleanly over here just by running scons.
So upcoming days I will be learning reaper a bit and I'll see if I can make something usefull out of it.
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Eloquence text-to-speech engine for Android and Wear OS, built on openevv - trypsynth/evvdroidGitHub
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A Mac OS X 10.6 desktop and Finder for Windows, in Java. Real Mach-O images, a dynamic linker, launchd, and a window server that hands out controls rather than pixels. - highenergymagic/FractalJDEGitHub
A Mac OS X 10.6 desktop and Finder for Windows, in Java. Real Mach-O images, a dynamic linker, launchd, and a window server that hands out controls rather than pixels. - highenergymagic/FractalJDEGitHub
Background. This bar me and @alyssa6595 went to yesterday uses QR code menus. You scan the code at your table, open your tab and order digitally. they receive a lot of hate for them. We loved them. It let us participate as equals, and truly felt empowering. I had a chance to chat with the owner before we left yesterday, and I did not expect a facebook post this morning. These folks have us as customers for life now. Also our anniversary is in a few weeks, but we were off yesterday so figured we'd go celebrate early
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Everyone can say whatever they want about our QR codes, but yesterday, two people completely changed my perspective on them.
I had the honor of meeting Liam and his wife, Alyssa, who chose to spend their anniversary with us at Tipsy Island.
They are both blind, and they told me that our QR code system makes going out easier for them because their phones can read our menu aloud.
They can hear every option. They can take their time. They can decide what they want and place their own order without having to depend on someone else to read the entire menu to them.
That may seem like such a small thing to some people, but it gives them independence, dignity and the opportunity to have the same full experience as everyone else.
Before yesterday, I looked at our QR codes as a convenient way to run our bar. Now, I see them completely differently.
You might not like them because they’re new. You might not be used to them yet. But I love them because they helped us welcome more people into our community. They made two people feel included, and I will never apologize for choosing something that makes another person’s everyday life easier.
It also made me wonder really hard, How many restaurants have truly thought about how they accommodate guests who are blind or visually impaired? Can they independently read your menu? Can they explore every option? Can they order what they actually want without needing someone else to do it for them?
Accessibility isn’t an inconvenience. It’s independence. It’s inclusion. It’s looking at someone and saying, “We thought about you, too. You belong here.”
Liam and Alyssa, thank you for choosing Tipsy Island for your anniversary. Thank you for supporting us, and thank you for sharing your experience with me.
You may think you simply came in to celebrate your love, but the two of you changed the way I see something I use every single day. You reminded me that sometimes the things people complain about the loudest are quietly making someone else’s world a little easier.
That is something I will always stand behind. And you will always have a place in our little Tipsy Island community.
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We will see you next time
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Yeah, no.
This reads, I'm sorry to say, like #AI written advertising for tech bros.
Its entirely.possible to disable QR code reading.
@kevinrns The post from the restaurant could be. Is that all you got out of this?
"Its entirely possible to disable QR code reading." Not sure what you're trying to communicate here. 🤔
If you're #blind and use #Ai locally, you might already know that task manager won't generally show you useful information about what your GPU is doing. As long as you have an #NVIDIA #GPU, I have a little Powershell function you can paste into your default profile. Sourcee it after saving, then run it with gpu, and you'll get an easy-to-read one-liner.
function gpu {
$n = nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu,memory.used,memory.total,temperature.gpu --format=csv,noheader,nounits
$util,$used,$total,$temp = $n -split ', '
$usedGB = [math]::Round([double]$used / 1024, 1)
$totalGB = [math]::Round([double]$total / 1024, 1)
"GPU utilization: $util percent. Memory: $usedGB of $totalGB gigabytes. Temperature: $temp degrees Celsius."
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Adblockers are killing the advertisement industry. Install uBlock Origin today to kill it faster.
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@douglaswaynericketts Have not seen an ad on Mastodon so far 🤔
Might just be, because they are FOSS software, that is developed by volunteers and is funded by donations, but what do I know
@superblox Yeah, well... *Flashy "Lazy Loading" ad pops over content*"
I know we need... *autoplay video ad starts and follows me when I try to scroll past it, forcing me to inspect and delete the element that produced it*
*More lazy loading ads pop in, filling the gaps between paragraphs, now there's more ads than content*
I understand the need for ads, it's just they make it so diff...
*page stops loading due to ad load, my CPU fan sounds like it's launching for the moon...*
@superblox Why do you care what 90% of the internet is? You don't have to access that. You can follow those that you want to see directly. You can donate to them, follow them on patreon or steady or whatever. If you are on a mastodon instance without anti-slop culture or moderation, switch. You are not forced to endure algorithms that shove AI slop in your face.
I barely see any AI slop. I see almost no ads. If I see ads, something is broken in the config or creators decided for a direct partnership with a sponsor, which is fine by me.
Donating is a privilege. Many people can't. If you can, do donate, support creators and make the internet better for everyone. We don't need a whole advertising industry siphoning money and attention from us.
Attached: 1 image why is everything like thisJoni Korpi (Gamedev Mastodon)
Friends don't let friends not have adblockers.
(Me on remote support yesterday, installing uBlock Origin Lite into Chrome)
I wrote my first adblocker in 1999.
@Blaecwaeterwelboren That's a worse cancer than the ads.
If you want a privacy focused browser that doesn't fund persecution of LGBT folks, try Librewolf.
Combine uBlock with AdGuard, and you won’t see any adverts at all.
But for a truly effective solution, the best option remains the proletarian revolution and the end of capitalism. :)
Droid unusable because of all the ads? Want to do your bit to kill the ad industry?
f-droid.org/packages/dev.clomb…
Lightweight ad and content blockerf-droid.org
@sackofbones
Yes, this one: adnauseam.io
“Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases. As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile.”
github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wik… and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdNausea… have some more information.
> Install uBlock Origin today to kill it faster.
Doing that alone is not enough!
Google needs to be broken up. That EVIL company has surgically inserted itself in every place where it can gather the maximum amount of user data to maximise targetting of ads and increase its ad revenues.
The corrupt US government/judicial system failed to break it up for the THIRD FUCKING TIME!
reuters.com/legal/litigation/g…
Be angry about it!
Stop using their products!!!
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stickin' to the union
stickin' to the union
♪ O you can't scare me
I'm stickin' to the union
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"Home taping is killing the music industry.
We left this side blank so you can help"
-- an old SST Records cassette
@ben
Looks like, from the logo in the lower right, it was Alternative Tentacles — Jello Biafra's label.
⌃ Oh, I LOVE that.
As soon as I manage to start recording my own music (more frequently / regularly) I'm going to make it available for free in as many places as I possibly can. Not even a newsletter sign-up to right click & save as from my website. I'm ironically actually pretty good at old school marketing / promotion - but I am SICK of being asked to make my art make money to prove its worth. If it's paying your rent (IN THIS ECONOMY) then you're Taylor Swift and/or it's Not Really Art and Genuine, Passionate Creativity. imho, anyway 😅
@fmhilton IMHO the modern internet is entirely unusable without some core addons.
1. uBlock origin
2. privacy badger
3. noscript
4. user agent switcher
And for the occasional youtube use to make it bearable also
5. sponsorblock
6. return youtube dislike
7. unhook
My understanding is that the Manifest V3 extensions API that Google has forced in Chrome and Chromium-based browsers restricts the total number of domains an ad-blocker can block, and thus nerfs any builtin ad-blocker.
Instead, you have to use uBlock Origin (or better, AdNauseam) on Firefox to get the full blocking effect.
*Or* you can install Vivaldi browser, which (as far as I understand it) bypasses the Chromium-engine Manifest V3 restriction by building in an optional ad-blocker to the core browser.
Télécharger uBlock Origin pour Firefox. Un bloqueur de nuisances efficace, qui ménagera votre processeur et votre mémoire vive.addons.mozilla.org
And the can protect you:
cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…
uBlock Origin (the ad blocker) does a really good job at blocking ClickFix attacks (where user is encouraged to paste commands into Run box). They added support in July and have been refining rules.
Zensurfreier, verschlüsselter DNS-Resolver ohne Logging – blockiert Werbung, Tracking und Malware. DNS-over-TLS & DNS-over-HTTPS, Serverstandort Deutschland.dnsforge.de
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Great to hear that, I reported it a while ago for my Shelly switches. Not the pro's, but I have some mini's and normal switches in-wall behind my light switches. I usually control them through Home Assistant, but nice to have an accessible web UI built in.
Just checked and my Shelly gen 3's are now accessible as well. A few old Shelly 1's are not, but that firmware is not being updated anymore, so that doesn't surprise me.
Yes! @pancake has just shipped massive screen reader #accessibility related improvements for Native multiplatform @Delta Chat client build with @GNOME technologies called #parla in v0.8.8.
Keep on chatting!
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@Sean Randall I've started a chat with you to test it more.
Also a few months ago, I have created a screen reader users chat on deltachat. There are very few people joined, so it's mostly quiet there but still if you or anyone else would like to join, you are welcome, here is the link:
i.delta.chat/#6FE1642916908F1A…
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Holy shit, I got a human response within 4 hours, asking me some follow-up questions and for a screen recording of it crashing, which I have now sent over. This might actually go somewhere! Sometimes it pays to be loud, deeply technical, and willing to dig down and figure out a problem. Or some combination thereof.
Just submitted this to Google accessibility support. What the actual hell is this timeline?If you use TalkBack and navigate by exploring by touch rather than swiping, when you drag your finger over the player controls while a video is playing in the YouTube Android app, within seconds the entire app dies with a `StackOverflowError`. Over 4,500 frames of pure recursion before the 8 MB stack runs out.
Naturally, the app restarts, immediately reloads the exact same video and player state, and the second you touch the screen again to find the pause or seek controls, it blows up again.
I pulled `adb logcat -b crash` and it's a ridiculous infinite loop between Android's framework and Litho:
`View.dispatchTouchExplorationHoverEvent`.
-> `TouchDelegate.onTouchExplorationHoverEvent` (framework forwards hover event to delegate).
-> `ComponentHost.dispatchHoverEvent` (Litho forwards back to host).
-> `hdu.onTouchExplorationHoverEvent` (obfuscated TouchDelegate subclass.)
-> and back around forever.From the looks of it, a `TouchDelegate`, presumably meant to enlarge the tap target for one of the smaller player controls, was given a delegate view that points right back to the `ComponentHost` that owns the delegate in the first place.
The best part? Normal touches don't hit `dispatchTouchExplorationHoverEvent`. Sighted users will never encounter this, and even blind users swiping through elements one at a time won't trigger it because linear navigation doesn't emit hover events. It strictly breaks explore by touch. Conveniently, the exact interaction model a huge chunk of us rely on to quickly locate controls.
I handed them the exact cycle, device specs, and the obfuscated frame name for build 21.34.243. Now taking bets on whether an engineer actually sees and fixes the root cause or if support tells me to reinstall the app and clear my cache.
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Below are a range of different diagrams and maps we have represented with Audiom. There are two general map categories: Referential maps, where the featuresXR Navigation
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I've just listened to the entire talk, and the one burning question I have, what can you map when you cannot see (well)? Like, you cannot see most venue names, opening hours, phones etc — I rarely see those repeated in braile (only in malls). So is POI mapping out?
For parks, I guess you need to bump into benches and waste bins, touch trees to know their location and map them?
Asking this not to dissuade from mapping, but wondering on what to focus making an editor for a blind person.
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@pvagner @zverik I did a lot of work a few years back to have MapComplete accessible via screenreaders. Most of the functionality should work (only editing opening hours was a bit too complicated to do via a screenreader)
One if the additions requested by an actually blind person was 'shake your phone to reveal current address and nearby POI'
@pvagner @zverik
Those should still work, but I haven't tested with a screenreader since, so there are probably a lot of small quirks and unnecessary friction points now
-- @pietervdvn
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Riflettori su… State of the Map 2026! Questo mese, al posto dell’intervista al mapper del mese, proponiamo uno “speciale”: un report dal campo di State of the Map 2026 Parigi a cura di ivanbranco.OpenStreetMap Community Forum
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First release of Dialect, a minimal Android home-screen launcher whose entire UI is a T9 phone dialpad — type digits to progressively filter and rank installed apps by name, press Enter to launch t...GitHub
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The first release of Pico SAPI5: the SVOX Pico synthesizer, available to every Windows application through SAPI 5. Pico is small, fast and very intelligible, and on Windows it has until now been re...GitHub
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Ethnic cleansing. Duh?
Not funding accessibility is directly in line with that.
fascism. We’re doing fascism, apparently.
I hate the tech industry so much. I’m actually quite likely to try out Elementary after Debian’s pathetic vote, that will be a job for when I have a spare weekend.
I mean, I can almost get supporting #fashware like SerenityOS/Ladybug that represents an actual, ambitious plan for actual software. Omarchy is literally a bloated set of vibecoded dotfiles with security holes the size of a Buick. It's free to make! Unlike Arch Linux, who could use that money.
I didn't have "dotfiles as money laundering scheme" on my bingo card for 2026, but I guess nothing should surprise me in this timeline.
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.tekin.co.uk
Hi, for those relying on a screen reader, we would like to have your feedback on what we could do to make GNOME Calendar friendly for you. If you would like to share some feedback on anything regarding the screen reader experience with GNOME Calendar, please consider reading and commenting on the following issue on GitLab: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
Or this thread on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/figure-o…
(Boost appreciated)
#RFC #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GTK #GTK4 #accessibility #a11y #boost4reach #Blind #AccessibilityInFreeSoftware
Most of the accessibility improvements in recent versions were mostly targeting keyboard navigation. While they benefit everybody, they don’t address the visual complications of a calendaring app, which doesn’t inherently simplify usability for scree…GNOME Discourse
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Can I suggest that you offer to compensate people for their time?
@MostlyBlindGamer thanks :)
I opened a thread on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/figure-o…
I prefer not to post my email here because I'm always overwhelmed with emails
Most of the accessibility improvements in recent versions were mostly targeting keyboard navigation. While they benefit everybody, they don’t address the visual complications of a calendaring app, which doesn’t inherently simplify usability for scree…GNOME Discourse
@crowk I don't appreciate you dismissing the hundreds of hours of unpaid work we put into making GNOME Calendar as accessible as possible.
then what's the actual concern? All I did is ask a question and await for responses. I'm literally tailoring for your needs but apparently you're expecting us to be born as experts.
> i'm tired of the "born as experts" line
Sorry for 'ablesplaining', and thanks for clarifying that this wasn't targeting me. To be honest, I did feel targeted which is why I was irritated.
To give a little bit of context, it's worth noting that
> we wouldn't need to be opening issues asking screenreader users for feedback on an app which has existed for decades, three months after patting ourselves on the back for adding keyboard shortcuts to that same app.
is similar to what happened with GNOME Calendar; it's why I assumed you dismissed all the work we put.
For the longest time, Calendar had no accessibility support. Before I started working on the project, nobody knew what to do about the lack of keyboard navigation support, let alone doing it well, so this was left to rot. Of course, keyboard navigation and screen reader support should have been there since day 0, and the fact that it wasn't there is textbook ableism. No intention to downplay.
The people doing free labor in Calendar, including myself, aren't accessibility experts and don't rely on keyboard navigation or a screen reader to navigate. Since we don't rely on them, we don't know what keyboard and screen readers actually want without probing, so we literally rely on constructive feedback. Since we don't rely on keyboard navigation and screen readers, most of us don't have the instincts to keep testing either. All this to say, we're incompetent with accessibility. We need people who are competent so they can tell us what to do to better the experience.
Mobilio uses AI, built-in sensors to give users continuous guidance. #blind mastodon.social/@CuratedHacker…
Navigation app for people with blindness and low visionseas.harvard.edu/news/smartpho…
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Accessible CLAP match EQ with an editable correction workflow - dgl1984/ToneTraceGitHub
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Something that bothers me about the push for digital sovereignty is that a lot of it seems to be motivated by nationalism and anti-American sentiment. That's why we need standards and federation, so instead of just switching to an instant messaging server run by some European tech company, I can keep using my self-hosted one.
#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalIndependenceDay #DiDay #Federation
I wrote a blog post on Jabber/XMPP and 25 years of digital independence.gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-d…
It shares a title with my upcoming talk and touches on similar themes around open standards, collective ownership, and avoiding vendor lock-in. However, it is an independent essay rather than a written version of the talk.
#XMPP #Jabber #DigitalSovereignty
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure.Daniel Gultsch
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I don't really have the sense that it is anti American.
Anti GAFAM yes. Also care must be taken with companies in the US because the government is likely to demand data from them. This does apply to non US companies, but the US government is one of least trustworthy in the world.
Here in France, the adoption of open source, decentralized data, and companies like Tuta and Proton as well as the fediverse, are the answers that people are finding.
Jabber certainly fits within that as well.
To say digital sovereignty is anti-american is misguided. The US cannot be trusted and the world is astonished by the reveil and saddened by the truth of it.
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