Radio Free Fedi is an online radio station playing music, spoken word and other audio content made by people on the Fediverse. You can listen at:
It's all Fedi all the time 
To submit content or to follow the project, see the official account at:
➡️ @radiofreefedi
Take a look people, this is proper grassroots loveliness! ❤️
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Not too long ago, your two hands would have been enough to count the #reproducibleBuilds at @fdroidorg – but now it doesn't even help taking your shoes off to call your toes in. It's 50 now, and counting! I just successfully got an author's and my own first RB in ("with a little help from my friends"), and have 2 more pending 
So yes: expect more and more apps this way now. Install from #FDroid – update from Github if needed; signature matches. Just the GUI needs to show that now…
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#adbsync v0.1.1 was just released, with some minor improvements and adjustments. Details in the changelog: codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync/rele… – a.o. syncing TO your device(s) should now be much faster when using a recent version of #ADB (r25+ / Android 7.1+)
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⚠️MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
Tenacity 1.3 beta has officially been released for Windows and Linux! 🎉
Check it out here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…
Key features:
* Clip features from Audacity 3.1.
* New themes from Audacium and Saucedacity
* Modern upstream dependencies are used
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systemsCodeberg.org
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This week, NV Access founders Mick and Jamie, travelled to Samoa to share the great benefits of NVDA. This article appeared in the Samoa Observer.
From the article (in speaking about NVDA): "Samoa Blind Persons Association President Mata’afa Faatino Utumapu said the software held unlimited opportunities for the blind to study and find employment."
samoaobserver.ws/category/samo…
A software has been brought to Samoa that will help the blind access computers through a screen reader which enables the visually impaired to access information on their computers.Samoa Observer
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My #RSS Viewer extension is now on the Mozilla Store: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
This extension does two quite simple (albeit useful) things that browsers stopped doing a while ago:
1. Tells you if a web page has an RSS feed announced via <link> and allows you to go directly there by clicking on the popup.
2. Renders the RSS feed through a nice Vue webapp when you open it in the browser, instead of uselessly dumping a bunch of XML (or inviting you to subscribe to the feed using a 3rd-party service instead of just reading it).
The source code is here: git.fabiomanganiello.com/rss-v…
It also works on Chrome and any derived browsers, but I haven't had the patience to go through the byzantine extension approval process for the Chrome Store yet. In the meantime, if you use Chrome/Chromium/Brave etc. you can build the extension via npm build and then pack it on the fly.
Download RSS Viewer for Firefox. An easy way to render RSS feeds directly in your browseraddons.mozilla.org
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I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the PNG file format, aimed at anyone who wants to generate or parse their own PNGs (or who just wants to know how it works!)
da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hell…
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I know it is not going to resonate much with people in English speaking countries, but this has been a major issue for people who use alphabets with special characters (my native Czech included).
For years #PDF viewers on #Linux such as #Evince couldn't save characters outside the basic charsets in PDF forms. It turned out to be a complex problem and multi-year effort, but it's finally done and you can use unicode in PDF forms. First available in #Fedora 37 where we've already backported it.
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GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens
sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens - GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or ext...GitHub
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Interesting open source alternative to #Calendly that I just DISCOVERED. Anyone know if it's accessible?
"Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals."
#accessibility #usability #calendaring
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone. - GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.GitHub
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We had an #accessibility meeting about at-spi2-core, pyatspi2, orca - notes at gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/a…
BigBlueButton seems usable with a screen reader! Everyone was able to participate just fine.
HedgeDoc, not so much?
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@ebassi
1. Thank you. That was not intuitive at all
2. Serious? I'm not going to argue why its wrong that a _calculator_ calls European Central Bank (yes it also calls there) when I opens it and want to add 2+2. That should be obvious. The currency converter is a very very tiny feature in this calculator that I didn't even know about until now and have no need of using. Anyway, it's fine to have it, but I should be made aware of this.
Dogdy at best...
It only updates the list of currencies daily, or weekly, not "every time you open it and want to add 2+2", let's not devolve into pointless hyperbole.
Anyway, thanks for filing an issue; the maintainer will take it from there.
#UnifiedPush using #xmpp #Conversations 
Now #fluffychat (#matrix) gets notifications instantly (using conversations.im server)
Just set what XMPP account (in any server) will get notified and share it in your device
unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…
Free/Open source FTW!!
APPS with UP service: unifiedpush.org/users/apps/
(you can set what server will manage the service, eventually: your own)
This is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush. Android Name Description Date Platform Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 Android v0.26.UnifiedPush
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According to unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…
> Conversations is an XMPP instant messaging client for Android, with the ability to deliver UnifiedPush notifications using an existing XMPP account, on any server. This requires converting push notifications to XMPP messages first, which is done by a service hosted at up.conversations.im.
As far as I could understand,
incoming notification --> up.conversations.im (Push server) --> Conversation (Distributor)
ntfy - Android Conversations (XMPP) - Android NextPush - Android UP-FCM Distributor (Google) - Android UnifiedPush is a standard for receiving push notifications*.UnifiedPush
This evening I pushed a #Prosody community module that acts as a #UnifiedPush server. It allows apps on your phone to receive push notifications, using #XMPP as the delivery channel instead of Google's proprietary FCM or regular polling.
It uses a protocol devised and implemented by @daniel and all credit goes to him for this idea and first implementations.
It's all experimental stuff, but I'm already using it to get realtime notifications in #Fedilab 🙂
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HIMS is a leading provider of assistive technology for people who are blind, visually impaired and have low vision.www.himsintl.com
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#Conversations 2.12.0 is now a #UnifiedPush distributor! Check out how to set it up here:
unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…
youtube.com/watch?v=wKTk6XGMp3…
The Android XMPP client Conversations.im can now act as a UnfiedPush¹ Distributor. This means apps like Tusky can use XMPP as a transport for their push mess...YouTube
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Now the first "public beta" of my little "adbsync" script is tagged and available at
codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync/rele…
Should be stable enough to be released to the public (though its code was public from the very beginning). adbsync lets you sync directories between your #Android device(s) and your (#Linux) PC without any special app, just utilizing things like rsync, adb, adbfs – and jq (to parse the JSON config file).
Give it a try, feedback welcome
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Thank you a lot for the detailed explanation!
I was bothered by similar issues (installing Syncthing, lack of SSH server). Will definitely try out! Also I'm curious how well it performs on non-rooted devices (that performant, but pesky Fire HDX).
I like the rationale behind Adebar! Will have a closer look soon!
@floppy (2/2) but then, high performance is not on the top of my list, reliability is. Once I'm satisfied all is working as it should (which meanwhile seems the case, hence the tag; I even dared enabling deletion with one-way syncs) I'll set up a nightly cron job at e.g. 4 am. No need to watch it live. Devices connected at the time will be synced, and I can watch the logs anytime later if I wish to.
Adebar: great, take a look at the example docs it generated: izzy.codeberg.page/adebar/
I think it's a pretty elegant solution to use adbfs for elaborate syncing. I tried to go that direction in the past, but I think my old hardware got in the way in the end.
I had a look at adbsync and I like it a lot! I had some minor issues (details follow), but it seems to be working nicely. Pretty impressive you went all the way through directory tree traversal and working around the timestamp limitations!
I had problems with spaces and special characters in filenames when syncing and could get it fixed by adapting sync2dev() a little.
I still get some strange rsync errors, but they don't seem to impact anything.
rsync: [sender] readdir("[local-path]/[android-path]/."): Input/output error (5)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1326) [sender=3.2.4]
When copying files over adbfs to the device, timestamps are lost – the file shows up as were it just created anew on the device. This happens even when explicitly specifying to keep timestamps (e.g...GitHub
That is really true, at least as far as only the actual account creation is concerned.
But before that I wanted to settle on some kind of way of handling my online identities. For privacy reasons I want to keep different interests, stuff to be put online (so much), and social interactions deliberately dissociated. As for in this case, I haven't completely settled on e.g. a proper online name for the nerdier interests. ("floppy" is nice, but wasn't intended to be final. 🙂)
I haven't made it to Codeberg yet, so in the interest of not delaying it until I forget, I'll drop some thoughts here quickly. I hope that's ok. :)
In terms of documentation, I think it might be good for people less familiar with rsync to point out that in the config's .devices[].sync[].{devdir,pcdir} should keep the trailing slash. (Or some handling in the script might be nice.)
@floppy Sorry, but here those hints get lost. If you don't want to make an account at Codeberg, you can find my mail address in the imprint of my website 😉
And good point with the trailing slash – had that in mind but always forget…
I prefer to log to stdout only, which afaict is the unspecified option. If you think this might be interesting to others, this functionality could be documented explicitly. :) (Alternatively maybe logging to a file, but really these are just some pointers without acute need.)
I'm pretty swamped at the moment, so I might need a few more days, but I'll give adbsync a more thorough test and get back to you in a while!
@floppy log to stdout only: "logfile":"none" – and maybe 2>&1 if you really want to re-route errors there too. And yes, that is documented explicitly – see inside the doc/ dir 😉
Logging to a file: Sure, same thing and also documented: "logfile":"/path/to/logfile". Everything that's not just empty, "none" or "syslog" is expected to be a file name.
@floppy with the latest commit, adbsync makes sure devdir & pcdir have a trailing slash (if not it adds it), so docu must only point out it must be dirs (not a file name) – so it's your last wish I just implemented
Further, no longer adjusting timestamps on push. Guess what I just discovered: "adb push" supports a `--sync` parameter only pushing newer files & taking care for timestamps. "adb pull" unfortunately does not support that or rsync+adbfs would only be needed for "--delete"…
I am not subscribed to many issues or projects, but incidentally I am for adbfs-rootless (for a long time actually) and incidentally I found your comments in my email inbox today. :)
Thank you for the update also! adb's parameter sounds like good news, at least partially. Maybe they fix the "pull" sub-command too some time.
Thanks for taking care of the trailing slashes! 😉 I think other people checking out the project will benefit greatly there. :)
Our journey towards born accessible products continues to accelerate. We’re learning and growing, and we’re committed to accessibility.Atlassian
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After inadvertently finding that InfoSys leaked an AWS key on PyPi I wanted to know how many other live AWS keys may be present on Python package index.tomforb.es
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As a hobby, I hack instant messaging gateways from various chat "apps" to XMPP (XMPP is to Whatsapp what the fediverse is to Twitter). Slidge (the name I gave to my hobby software thingy) has been mostly usable for me for a few weeks, so I decided to talk about it a little in my blog, by pretending some milestone has been reached and calling it a "release candidate".
nicoco.fr/blog/2023/01/08/slid…
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> Facebook, Mattermost, Signal, Skype, Steam, Telegram, and Whatsapp
Out of curiosity, how many of those do #OAUTH2, API tokens or similar? I don't use any of those services & don't even know what steam is.
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- signal, telegram, whatsapp: revokable, "per device" access ~token
- discord, mattermost: slidge login process = "get your access token from the web UI via dev browser dev tools" 🤡
- facebook, steam: optional 2FA (but right now, password is stored slidge-side anyway, possible area of improvement). they used to have "revokable application password" but I've had less success with them recently
Steam is the largest game store for PC, with social network-like features.
Jak funguje ověření účtu na Mastodonu v kombinaci s českou doménou. Řetěz důvěry od účtu na Mastodonu až po ověření na CzechPointu.Sesivany's Blog
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I've been playing with #ChatGPT a lot since it came out on November 30th. A few days ago, I decided to have a bit of a conversation with it about the threat it might pose to the future of digital #accessibility.
The resulting conversation surprised me beyond anything I could ever imagine. Why don't you take a look? :)
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One thing I wanted to do for years was to experiment with Conversations acting as a push provider for apps that don’t maintain their own TCP connection (Tusky.app, Ltt.rs, …).
@unifiedpush’s recent post on the @fdroidorg blog¹ renewed my interested in this topic and I've just merged code that make Conversations a UnifiedPush Distributor.
I’m already receiving my @Tusky notifications via #XMPP 🥳
¹: f-droid.org/en/2022/12/18/unif…
No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain Email client for Android based on the JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP). - GitHub - iNPUTmice/lttrs-android: No-frills, easy to use, easy to maintain E...GitHub
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Great! I'm using UnifiedPush for @apps
A list of subscribed topics like in #ntfy [1] would be great!
And maybe some way to test if UnifiedPush is successfully set up.
(maybe that should even be tested once a day in background)
Also could Conversations list in the server information if the XMPP server itself is a UnifiedPush proxy and can be used instead of up.conversations.im ?
(of that is technically possible)
[1] ntfy.sh/
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Whisper UI is a wxPython graphical interface for Whisper AI by OpenAI - GitHub - mikedoise/whisperui: Whisper UI is a wxPython graphical interface for Whisper AI by OpenAIGitHub
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Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++. Contribute to ggerganov/whisper.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
It's trivial to determine the real IP of a Mastodon server behind Cloudflare. All it takes is one well-crafted request:
gist.github.com/cutiful/4f36da…
I wonder how many instance admins using Cloudflare know about this? My hunch is most do not, because the primary justification I see for using Cloudflare here is DDoS protection.
Cloudflare won't help if the attacker knows your origin IP, and you can't hide that with Cloudflare alone, due to the nature of ActivityPub.
Detecting the real IP of a Cloudflare'd Mastodon instance - mastodon-ip.mdGist
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For those who like to experiment: I've now implemented root-based app backup/restore with #Adebar (after 3 people reported the corresponding scripts to do their job fine). Just pushed it to Codeberg, so if you want to give it a try, fetch the latest commit from codeberg.org/izzy/Adebar and give it a go
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Introducing Toot That!
figuiere.net/hub/wlog/toot-tha…
It's available for Firefox right now.
To toot the current tab to the fediverse.
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