You know what nobody asked for or wanted? Nokia TTS on NVDA. You know what I just had Claude make? (warning: this thing is laggy as hell): guilevi.me/nokiaKlatt-0.5.0.nv…
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Tonight in Kraków with @ondrosik and friends.
Got a stormy weather alert so I hope it will be okay.
Got a stormy weather alert so I hope it will be okay.
Welcome to Poland. You'll be alright, they send these out constantly and nothing ever happens.
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Well look at that, I'm not the only one.
Claude AI Wrote A Driver For macOS From Scratch To Enable Compatibility With An HP Printer That Was Only Meant To Work With Windows
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Claude AI Wrote A Driver For macOS From Scratch To Enable Compatibility With An HP Printer That Was Only Meant To Work With Windows
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Claude AI Wrote A Driver For macOS From Scratch To Enable Compatibility With An HP Printer That Was Only Meant To Work With Windows
An impressive showcase reveals Claude AI writing a working macOS printer driver from scratch to bring full compatibility to a Windows-exclusive HP printerOmar Sohail (Wccftech)
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No. you're definitely not the only one. I wrote a Win 11 driver for Epson Perfection 1670 scanner. It stopped working after Win 10.
My SFTP/FTP client, Portkeydrop, has been ported to Rust on all platforms including Linux (ignore the removal of Linux builds note in the changelog). 7 MB VS. 30 MB and resource usage decrease. Nightly build containing the Rust port is here. One known issue, I had flaky issues with Prism on Linux so Linux builds do not have screen reader speech like Windows and macOS do. github.com/Orinks/PortkeyDrop/…
Release Nightly 2026-08-19 · Orinks/PortkeyDrop
Changed Portkey Drop is now a native application written in Rust rather than Python. The Windows download is about a fifth of the size it was (7 MB portable, down from 36 MB) and starts without un...GitHub
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With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.
If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.
it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28…
Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!
#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData
Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
A guide on how to set up Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail.Stefano Marinelli (IT Notes)
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Different q if you don’t mind it being asked here: For iPhone local USB sync to a host Mac (no iCloud), at one point they stopped sync’ing calendars & contacts, then after a small public uproar restored it, then quietly dropped it again. Status bar says it’s happening, but apparently it isn’t. I suppose there’s no way to make it work.
@Simplicator sorry, I can't help you, I don't think I've ever tried it. I'm usually syncing with a caldav/carddav server so never tried the local route
I think I've posted this before, but I just used it again and I love it, so I'm posting it again.
`git config --global alias.conflicts "diff --name-only --diff-filter=U --relative"`
This lets you type `git conflicts` to get a list of the files that have conflicts. Leave off the --relative bit to keep folder names in the list. During a merge, this is a great way to check which files you need to handle.
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We're flattered! @digitalcourage, one of the oldest digital rights organizations in Germany, just recommended using #deltachat
They included a fantastic, well-structured article in German on how to get started, with lots of good background info for those who seek it. digitalcourage.de/digitale-sel…
Gute Messenger statt WhatsApp | Digitalcourage
Auf fast jedem Smartphone läuft heute ein Messenger, meist die Datenschleuder WhatsApp. Für alle, denen Privatsphäre wichtig ist, beschreiben wir AlternativenDigitalcourage
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Also Session has:
- centralized file transfers.
- per-circuit anonymity, rather than per-packet.
- anonymous servers that can sell and share metadata freely.
- no way to use own servers.
It means connections graph is not private from Session, and has limited privacy from server owners.
will there ever be stickers? or how can i contribute to make them possible if it even is feasable in the first place???
Clipman, my accessible clipboard manager has a Linux desktop port that works well with Orca. It's only been downloaded 7 times in it's entire life but it's there and it lives if you'd like to give it a go.
There's also a CLI version, Android, iOS MacOS and Windows too.
onj.me/software
There's also a CLI version, Android, iOS MacOS and Windows too.
onj.me/software
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O rušení Ústavu translatologie a plánované restrukturalizaci FF UK se teď mluví hodně - do komentářů dám odkazy na články a vyjádření, které vysvětlují, co na ní je problematické, pokud nesledujete.
My jsme se s Bárou Fremlovou v tomto kontextu pustily do trochu širších otázek. Povídáme si o tom, jakým způsobem do překladatelství a literatury vstupuje umělá inteligence, jakou přidanou hodnotu (jestli vůbec nějakou) má literární překladatel pro společnost nebo kde kromě FF UK ještě ve společnosti spatřuju tendenci řídit "manažersky" (autoritativně, bez řádných diskuzí s odborníky) instituce, jejichž primárním cílem nemá být optimalizace zisku.
Ocením i pohledy z druhé strany nebo mimo bublinu.
Jinak uprostřed tohohle letního blitzkriegu nacházím velkou radost a útěchu v tom, jak aktivně se k celé věci staví studentstvo FF UK (na Útrl třeba studentský spolek PŘETLaK). Ostatně i tenhle rozhovor vznikl na popud nedávných absolventek Útrl Báry Fremlové a Sáry Zeithammerové. Moc jim děkuju za důvěru a zprostředkování.
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Marginalizace překladů, optimalizace nákladů
Anna Štádlerová patří mezi nejtalentovanější překladatelky své generace, letos na jaře získala Magnesii Literu za převod románu „Slavné časy“ NoViolet Bulawayo.H7O | Časopis Host
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Shrnující článek Kamily Boháčkové na ČT art: art.ceskatelevize.cz/360/analy…
Prohlášení zástupců pracovišť FF UK, kterých se plánovaná restrukturalizace týká: culturenet.cz/stalo-se/prohlas…
Prohlášení Pospolitost 26 - Culturenet
Zástupci výše jmenovaných ústavů a kateder se tímto vymezují vůči způsobům ...Viktor Debnár (Culturenet)
We are now more than 300 users on #FediHood. The project is stable enough for me to invite you to try it.
It is a software running on #ActivityPub and using #OSM.
The idea? Discover people near you or all around the world, and filter by topic.
It doesn't use GPS, you pick the town. The app warns you if your city is too small and suggests a bigger one nearby. Bonus: it supports #E2EE DMs.
Don't hesitate to share. Thank you!
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Looks exciting! But not sure I wanna create another account again. Can't be working so I use my Mastodon account and can find their my social graph? Cheers
The future of my apps; Mudpie, Tap Type, and the upcoming Dialect and Sandfly are in question.
The simple truth is I can't keep working on these without some more income. As much as I enjoy providing value to the community, development time takes up time I could be using making money.
Unfortunately, encouraging people with optional sponsorships isn't working, and is likely not a viable stratagy for me going forward.
So something has to be done. Either I need to place ads throughout my apps in the hopes that people click them, or I need to start charging subscriptions in order to fund ongoing development.
I wish this were not the case, but costs are going up and my income is not.
If anyone feels like supporting my work, you can do so in a few ways. Any amount really does help.
Paypal: paypal.me/aaronhewitt
Github: github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh
Liberapay: liberapay.com/fireborn/
Any amount you can donate helps considerably.
Thank you for taking the time to read and support my work in whatever way you do, whether that be using it, telling your friends, sharing this post or financially.
#appDev #accessibility #android #blindTech #indiDev
Sponsor @aaron-gh on GitHub Sponsors
I build tools for niche communities. Your sponsorship helps me keep shipping and keeps Pro features available without app store lock-in. Every pound goes directly to development time.GitHub
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@alexchapman I could help you from what I have. Sorry not so much, because I'm not working yet and...
@luiscarlosgonzalez @alexchapman Any amount is appreciated, though I would never suggest that anyone should donate if it is not within their means to do so.
I've always told you I am massively in favor of you setting up a subscription model for mud pie. I'm definitely going to donate once I can.
I recently reorganised my free-to-use music tracks folders so you can see which have been uploaded to youtube and therefore might get hit by content ID and which have not.
Anyone is free to download and use anything from this folder they like. Proper attribution is the only expectation I have for your use of these files.
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@darrenhartland Too much corporate bullshittery in the world. Trying to offset that in my own small way.
On the 13th of august this year Česká spořitelna, a.s. have published an update to their #George banking app for #Android. that completelly disables #accessibility support when no white listed accessibility service is running on the device.
Thus #czech blind users who have updated their George app to the latest version can't run other accessibility services on their phones besides white listed apps such as TalkBack. I don't know which other apps are white listed yet.
I am afraid other Erste Bank subsidiaries or partner banks might do the same thing in the future. So this might potentially affect #austrian and #slovak blind people.
Here are the version numbers:
George Österreich 26.22.21 - appears to be accessible
George Slovensko 26.22.19 - Appears to be accessible
George Česká republika 26.26.21 - No longer accessible with 3rd party screen readers.
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@Matschmuck It's been a while since I used Android as my main driver but are the systems provided by Google secure enough? I mean, I know the security is tighter when submitting accessibility services into the Play Store but what about sideloading them from apk?
@Paweł Masarczyk @Mathias Schmuckerschlag When side loading before the system allows you to enable the accessibility service you need to go to the settings app, then look for the app in question under applications, expand the more options under so called three dots menu and first allow secure settings from there. Afterwards system will allow you to enable the accessibility service. Also when side loading any app not just accessibility services you have to enable unknown app sources per application where you are installing from e.g. your web browser, your file manager and similar. So for non play store distributed apps you have to pass three layers of system security before the banking app protection has a chance to even do its job. If this trend will continue then we are likelly to get more layers of security and verification. Also next year google is tighting ability to side load apps even more difficult by waiting 24 hours in order to enable side loading at all.
My thinking is that if the accessibility service would not be so usefull people would rather choose not to pass all these extra hoops in order to get it installed and operational.
#Conversations_im remains free of charge today and tomorrow (Tuesday) on Google Play.
If you want to migrate away from one of its forks, now would be a good opportunity. Likewise, if you have friends or family members who don’t know about #FDroid, now is a great time to recommend Conversations to them.
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Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play
Federated instant messaging for your mobile device (Jabber, XMPP, Snikket)play.google.com
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Gmail annois me so much recent days. I am using Thunderbird and Fair Email. I am getting long delays when retrieving message list or opening messages or can't access the inbox at all. I tryed resetting the accounts inside email clients with no luck. I know two people around me with the same issue. No idea what to do next.
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Try a VPN. I don't know why that should work by the way, I'm just throwing an idea out there. I also use thunderbird with GMail and don't have that issue over here, so I wonder if it's ISP-specific?
@Andre Louis Interesting idea. I am now at Slovakia where I am 99.9% of year. On fryday I trawel to poland and then to Romania. Maybe Google forces me to check my email on holydays and not at home :D
I would love a native, screenreader #accessible, fast, #matrix app for Windows. I would also like not to create it, because Matrix is even more vast, complex, and incomprehensible than #XMPP and #IRC. Anyone? No? Didn't think so. Sigh.
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@Benedict @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 Tammy is okaish on android, not so on the web and desktop unfortunatelly. I know Tammy developers are great people they are even trying to make their best to improve accessibility but Compose Multiplatform makes it very difficult.
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I updated my Accessible Image Placement Canvas tool. I originally made it to solve a barrier with UV printing for me, but it also works for social media posts, slides, and other digital layouts. Place an image on a canvas, get feedback about fit and positioning, and export a PNG without accidentally cropping something important. This update adds more background colors, more preset scaling options, clearer fit help text, and tighter screen reader feedback. tender-gazebo-ntwz.here.now/
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Oh after all these years I have finally connected my multi function printer Epson ecotank L3150 to the wireless network, installed epson-scan2 on linux and got scanning over a network working. I should have done this maybe 5 years ago.
TIL the Spanish verb "claudicar", for "giving up"/"surrendering" etc. – and that feels like the perfect word to describe what happens when developers use Claude to "write" their software. Instead of Enshittification, it's Claudication.
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Well now I can make multi-layered references to people just handing stuff to Claude...
Agree.
In Portuguese, the word *claudicar* also exists, but its meaning leans more heavily toward failing or faltering. "The baker 'claudicou' in the purchase calculation"; "Grandpa walks 'claudicando'". The verb *claudicar* is perfect for software written with Claude.
In Portuguese, the word *claudicar* also exists, but its meaning leans more heavily toward failing or faltering. "The baker 'claudicou' in the purchase calculation"; "Grandpa walks 'claudicando'". The verb *claudicar* is perfect for software written with Claude.
A young guy from North Dakota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?” The kid says “Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Dakota.”
Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the kid and figured he’d give him a shot, so he gave him the job.
“You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to the sales floor.
“How many customers bought something from you today?” The kid frowns and looks at the floor and mutters, “One”. The boss says “Just one?!!? Our sales people average sales to 20 to 30 customers a day.
That will have to change, and soon, if you’d like to continue your employment here. We have very strict standards for our sales force here in Florida. One sale a day might have been acceptable in North Dakota, but you’re not on the farm anymore, son.”
The kid took his beating, but continued to look at his shoes, so the boss felt kinda bad for chewing him out on his first day. He asked (semi-sarcastically), “So, how much was your one sale for?”
The kid looks up at his boss and says “$101,237.65.
The boss, astonished, says $101,237.65?!? What the heck did you sell?”
The kid says, “Well, first, I sold him some new fish hooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod to go with his new hooks. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”
The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a TRUCK!?” The kid said “No, the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife, and I said, ‘Dude, your weekend’s shot, you should go fishing.’”
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Do yourself a favour, go get the new OSARA snapshot where Jamie made the parameters dialog about a thousand times better. It's even better on Mac. Imagine that.
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It's great. Especially the fact that the first letter navigation now works with several letters in a row makes everything much easier.
The Debian project started in 1993 and celebrates its birthday on August 16th of each year: Debian Day. This year we'll have at least 19 gatherings in 3 continents; c u there! #Debian #Debian33years #DebianDay #DebianDay2026
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Surprising good news from 🇫🇷 !
"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"
🔗 : lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2…
"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."
Wow! I was not expecting this at all.
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Are there any users of the Music Player Daemon (mpd) here who have experience with the #Plattenalbum app? It's currently in review for #GNOME Circle, and even though I've set up mpd locally just for the sake of testing, I'd like to know how well the app works for everyday use.
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GitHub - SoongNoonien/plattenalbum: Connect to your music
Connect to your music. Contribute to SoongNoonien/plattenalbum development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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While the Dot Pad did not come with a braille keyboard in the traditional sense, updates to the SDK and 3rd-party apps have managed to now make it so the 6 Dot Pad keys can be used for simple braille input inside of apps. While not full braille input (You'd want to also pair an Orbit Writer for that), it enables Dot Pad apps with many more key combinations, meaning more on-device control. We can now also control the Haptics which could be used for any number of things.
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Hell yeah. Yup I remember when I was 15 and trying to learn Python, I got an Xbox360 controller and used Xinput to make it replicate a purr pretty good.
Just wanted to share a project I've been actively working on with @morganlynn1992 and @Tamasg.
We're developing an open-source accessibility project for The Sims 4 with the goal of making the game independently playable for blind players.
It's still very much a work in progress, but it's already capable of exposing nearby objects and interactions, phone actions, inventories, gameplay notifications, purchases, object placement, and much more through an accessible interface.
If you're passionate about making mainstream games accessible, or if you've always wanted to play The Sims but couldn't because of its lack of accessibility, we'd love to hear from you. We're especially interested in people who would like to contribute whether through testing, modding, programming, documentation, or simply sharing ideas and feedback.
If this sounds interesting, feel free to reach out to any of us! We're excited to see where this project goes, and we'll have more to share as development continues.
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@TactileDragon Oh, oh, even better! my sister used to play that game and. Oo! Hey, wait a second! Speaking of that game, I wonder if we can get any speechh synth to speak simlish? Normally I don't do this but who wants me to do this with Eloquence?
Hello @Oriol Gómez Sentís
Recently you've added Shared notes backed by #NoteLab into the #SonicRoom.
Is the NoteLab also self-hostable? I am unable to find its code repository. Can you please point me to it?
For others SonicRoom is a nice, self-hostable audio sharing app running in the browser. The instance I am hosting for my-self and friends is at c.pvagner.sk and the source code is at github: ogomez92/sonicroom.
@jmdaweb wow, thanks for telling me about this. I thought it was already a repo, but it wasn't. I will create ogomez92/notelab, check back in a bit.
I am working on my new track called Burnout. Work in progress, mastered with Optilab core by @Derek Lane
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A really interesting and practical project from the #Guardian Project called #ButterBox is worth knowing about.
ButterBox is a portable, fully offline device (usually running on a Raspberry Pi). When you turn it on, it creates its own local Wi-Fi network. Anyone nearby can connect and access a set of tools without any internet connection:
• An offline app store (based on F-Droid)
• File, video, book and educational content sharing
• And most importantly — secure encrypted chat
What makes this project especially powerful is its deep integration with #deltachat The ButterBox team uses the MadMail server to run a local Chatmail Relay inside the box.
Users can create an offline account with just a single QR scan or one tap and immediately start using fully end-to-end encrypted messaging. Even when there’s no internet at all, messages, groups and files can be exchanged securely between people.
This is where DeltaChat really shines: decentralized, no central servers, real encryption, and designed for difficult conditions.
Combined with ButterBox, it becomes a genuine tool for secure communication during internet shutdowns, in remote areas, or in crisis situations.
It’s a pity that this project still isn’t widely known or deployed in Iran. The good news is that it’s completely open source and can be set up with a regular Raspberry Pi and an SD card. Pre-built images are also available, which makes the process even easier.
For anyone interested in privacy, offline communication, and tools that keep working when the internet goes down, ButterBox is one of the most valuable projects around right now.
Official site:
likebutter.app
#ButterBox #DeltaChat #MadMail #OfflineMessaging #Privacy
Introducing Butter Box | Butter | Life without internet made smoother.
Life without internet made smoother. Get access to tools that help.likebutter.app
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Does it form a mesh network of some type? And do any of the nodes eventually link to the broader internet?
This is amazing. Clearly a project ripof^H^H^H^H^H inspired by internet-in-a-box.org which I am totally not mad at, however it would be very cool if #DeltaChat found it in their hearts to extend their project to go include #iiab in some of these parallel efforts.
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Internet-in-a-Box - Mandela's Library of Alexandria
Internet-in-a-Box is a tiny, powerful 'Digital Library of Alexandria' that can be set up by any school, medical clinic or community worldwide.internet-in-a-box.org
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It finally happened 🤩
Movim can now handle video calls with a SFU!
It works with exactly the same flow as the full P2P (Muji) version: you start a call in a group chat and others can join, but with a huge bandwidth optimization behind the scenes. ✨
To switch your group chat video call to SFU, simply invite an SFU XMPP service into it. That's it!
And here's a little surprise 🎁!
The upcoming #Movim release will come with a bundled SFU #XMPP service that you can connect to any XMPP server, thanks to the widely deployed XEP-0114: Jabber Component Protocol 👀. This service wraps the #Galene project.
Thanks again to @nlnet for making all of this possible 🫶
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I finally managed to finish a song this year! For some reason, I just haven't been able to muster up the energy to work on music much this year, which is sad because it's something that usually really energises me. Anyway, I present this first piece for 2026, simply entitled "Stuck".
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@Jamie Teh Definatelly thanks for sharing it with us. It's great similar to all the other songs produced by you.
Just for fun, I've asked #claude to generate a #webxdc mini app for playing the UNO cart game in a @Delta Chat conversations. It can be played with keyboard or mouse or touch screen and includes screen reader #accessibility. It has machine translations of its prompts to various languages.
Since it's not my original work I am not particularly keen about uploading it to code hosting services.
But still if you would be interested to take a look at it, here is the resulting file: s.ondrosik.sk/d/b99143b31a6446…
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this is sick! I've been contemplating exactly this for a while, but I was thinking about how to prevent cheating by using a commutative encryption system
BUT you should know the colors are really bad. I'm colorblind and I can't tell what color the cards in my own hand are. the colors ought to be brightened significantly
@تُرکترین زمزمەگر Oh, I apologise regarding visuals I have simply trusted AI and it turned not to be okay. Can you rework it or suggest color codes we need?
@تُرکترین زمزمەگر Regarding cheating every only sees his own cards, game state is updated incrementally old states are discarded.
I can't think of a way on how to cheat.
I can't think of a way on how to cheat.
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Right, exactly. And that absolutely suffices when you're playing a casual game with friends. I was stuck thinking about something that doesn't really matter that much.
Right, exactly. And that absolutely suffices when you're playing a casual game with friends. I was stuck thinking about something that doesn't really matter that much.
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But hey, cryptography could be used one day to leverage anti-cheating if everything's got more competitive. Because probably with the way that it currently works, everyone's client technically has access to the contents of everyone else's hand, and the contents of the drawpile. It's just that the app does not display other people's hands nor the drawpile. The app knows the information, it just doesn't display it to the user.
That means that if someone really wanted to, they could inject some code into the app to get it to show that information so that they could cheat.
The idea then is to use a commutative encryption algorithm so that only the situation-appropriate cards are known, and only known to the people to whom knowledge of them is appropriate, and only fully decrypted once the appropriate time comes, and this would be cryptographically ensured by all the other players.
Like all that crap could be cryptographically shuffled commutatively by each player so that nobody CAN know what's the next card EXCEPT the user who's actually drawing it.
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#vaultWarden as packaged in @Arch Linux no longer supports #mariaDB, so I have finally migrated to #postgresql.
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Rocket.Chat adding support for #XMPP is very good news.
„[XMPP] is self-hosted, air-gappable, open, and auditable, and it is light enough to hold up on constrained tactical networks. Those qualities are why it has stayed in service for two decades. The protocol is mature and trusted. […] It is usually the client software sitting on top of XMPP, not the protocol itself, that has aged.“
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Rocket.Chat 8.7: Native XMPP Interoperability for Coalition Operations | Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat 8.7 brings native XMPP interoperability for coalition operations, enabling sovereign, auditable communication with mission partners on one platform.Marina Hudek (Rocket.Chat)
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Good that they adopt it, but terrible having to read AI-generated text. It's so obvious and tiresome.
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We now have a braille note emulator for your pc. github.com/highenergymagic/VBN…
GitHub - highenergymagic/VBNote: Emulator of the VoiceNote QT / BrailleNote mPower notetaker: Windows CE 4.2 on PXA270, running real KeySoft firmware. Assistive-technology preservation. Not a HumanWare product and not affiliated with them.
Emulator of the VoiceNote QT / BrailleNote mPower notetaker: Windows CE 4.2 on PXA270, running real KeySoft firmware. Assistive-technology preservation. Not a HumanWare product and not affiliated w...GitHub
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I've developed an early version of a software that will allow you to uninstall those pesky programs and their components which present significant issues when trying to uninstall them. Version 0.5.0 of Wixen Uninstall will let you get rid of McAfee, Norton, AVG, and Avast as well as their other suites. It should be fully accessible with keyboard support. Check the notes and file issues.
github.com/PratikP1/Wixen-Unin…
Release Wixen Uninstaller 0.5.0 · PratikP1/Wixen-Uninstall
Wixen Uninstaller removes stubborn, misbehaving Windows applications. It also removes the companion browsers, VPNs, and tune-up tools that linger after the official uninstaller claims to be done. I...GitHub
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Monocles, a #Conversations_im fork, is now making heavy use of LLM-generated code. Including its cryptography.
Meanwhile it hasn't backported critical security fixes that landed in Conversations (and other forks) over a year ago.
Use this information however you like.
In other news: Conversations is currently free of charge on both F-Droid and Google Play.
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You can't be talking shit about monocles chat while your client doesn't even support OMEMO2 yet
@gnemmi I don't think this was meant to be a friendly reminder. Why would a friendly reminder about security issues be a Mastodon post.
As he was talking about more than a year of missing security updates, the time for friendly reminders and private background channels is over. Now is the time to protect the general public. The industry practice is to notify the public about unresolved security issues 90 days after notifying the vendor. 1 year is already extremely friendly.
What a nice little moment from my life:
* On sunday I have meet with old friend. We were talking about tech things including computers, networking, IP TV and similar. That friend lives abroad and is on a holiday in slovakia.
* I wanted to share some local shows and stuff so I've sent him a shared folder with some files on sunday.
* Today morning I've got a message from him asking if I am using whatsapp or telegram or something to stay in touch.
* My reply was somewhat conservative saying I am reachable by email, over XMPP, matrix and deltachat too.
* A few minutes ago I've received a message saying "How cool decentralized app. I did now know deltachat".
* Huh and now we are talking through @Delta Chat .
* This is a random unexpected moment with such a positive wibe.
* On sunday I have meet with old friend. We were talking about tech things including computers, networking, IP TV and similar. That friend lives abroad and is on a holiday in slovakia.
* I wanted to share some local shows and stuff so I've sent him a shared folder with some files on sunday.
* Today morning I've got a message from him asking if I am using whatsapp or telegram or something to stay in touch.
* My reply was somewhat conservative saying I am reachable by email, over XMPP, matrix and deltachat too.
* A few minutes ago I've received a message saying "How cool decentralized app. I did now know deltachat".
* Huh and now we are talking through @Delta Chat .
* This is a random unexpected moment with such a positive wibe.
apart from a few issues, I really like Nathan Tech's new Accessi IF interactive Fiction interpreter for Windows. Plays ZCode, Glulxe and TADS games using an input output window UI like a MUD client. It also has a development system for ZMachine and Glulxe that seems to be done using dialogues like Adrift. You can also make gamebook-style games with it. I've wanted something like this for decades. nathantech.net/products/softwa… #InteractiveFiction #TextAdventure #blind
AccessiIf - Interactive Fiction Player and Creator - Nathan Tech
AccessiIf is a free interactive fiction player and creator for Windows. Play Z-machine, Glulx and TADS text adventures, browse game catalogues, or create parser games and HTML gamebooks.nathantech.net
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Thanks to Martin mcoursel he has just recommended this for me. I remember the braillenote had lots of Z games
Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app. I reported this on January 28th, 2026. It is now July 2026. Six months later. The Firestore database is still wide open. The CTO never responded. I guess my emails were too long and they didn't view them bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack
The IT industry is pretty much on the verge of collapse now and it has been hijacked by people who think they can prompt their way out of it.
tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.bobdahacker.com
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