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I landed a couple major features in ReaKontrol in the last week:
1. You can now adjust parameters for non-NKS FX on S-series MK2, A-series and M-series. These keyboards don't officially support this, but ReaKontrol supports it by abusing the mixer/track view.
2. For all keyboards, by default, all parameters for the selected FX are mapped. It's now possible to create map files which specify which parameters are mapped to which knobs, section names, friendly parameter names, etc.
See the ReaKontrol website for details and instructions.
reakontrol.jantrid.net/

ReaKontrol

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Also, have you thought about putting this on ReaPack? You can have your CI job produce the necessary index.xml file to be uploaded to that website along with the builds, and then someone could add it to ReaPack and get updates automatically from there. Pretty sure other repos have existing workflows for this, brumbrum's own fork is on ReaPack actually.
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@x0 ghoum's fork doesn't have any CI at all as far as I know. It was all done manually. It'd probably make sense to add this to some other ReaPack repo rather than creating my own with just one single thing in it, but that means the target ReaPack repo needs automation. I recall discussing this with Toni some time ago, but we never came up with a solid plan.
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What a news" #liblouis our awesome #braille translator is being rewritten in @rustlang
The internal testing is now taking place but since this is an open-source project developed in public meaningfull testing is probably welcome by anyone who is happy to take their favorite braille tables for a spin with this new version.
github.com/liblouis/louis-rs/

GitHub - liblouis/louis-rs: A rewrite of liblouis in Rust

A rewrite of liblouis in Rust. Contribute to liblouis/louis-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Since everyone is currently obsessed a little with messaging, here's a little reminder to all Chinwag users that you@chinwag.org is not just your fedi handle, but is also a valid Jabber ID.

Most messaging clients that support XMPP just need you to put in your address there and the same password you use here, and you're online.

Please feel free to reach out via a DM to this account if you have any issues and we'll do our best to help!

For mobile users we recommend Conversations on Android, or Monal on iOS. Both are known to work with Chinwag.

#xmpp

#xmpp

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#movuary 11 This is called Space Adventure. Not in a space ship, but just you, a space suit, and space, of course. Have fun, and try not to get hit by an asteroid.
#movuary

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Shoutout to all the #blind #sysadmin's out there: Here is a lightweight, reasonably accessible application for server monitoring. (There are no data tables for graphs but real-time monitoring and alerts work fine.) beszel.dev/

Beszel | Simple, lightweight server monitoring

Lightweight server monitoring with historical data, Docker stats, and alerts.
Beszel
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Zulip will let you have push notifications for self-hosted, but not if you have more than 10 users. Then you have to pay.

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Mobile notifications

Zulip can be configured to send mobile notifications for DMs, mentions, and alerts, as well as channel messages and followed topics.
Zulip help center

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self-hosted Rocket Chat limits you to 1000 push notifications per month

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1000 limit push for Rocket.Chat free version · Issue #17461 · RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

Hi all! I see https://rocket.chat/pricing 1000 monthly for push notifications for free. This is for public Rocket.Chat push gateway? If i want used my custom apps with my FCM and APN - this is was ...
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Mattermost 11.x now limits you to 10,000 message history for self-hosted. Doesn't matter how much storage you can afford, they'll just delete the history anyway

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Message limit 10000 team edition · Issue #34271 · mattermost/mattermost

We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...
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Trusting Trust in the Fediverse

A very long blog post about the various "safety and privacy" features that got added over the years to ActivityPub and how useless they can be in the eyes of users unaware of the inner workings.

There's nothing really new I talk about, but it is a long explanation of my reasoning behind why I don't take "features" such as signed fetches and interaction consent seriously. What can be considered "new" to most, is the last section of bypassing signed fetch enforcement without impersonation, which I talked about probably twice over the years.

evilmaid.net/blog/trusting-tru…

(If there are styling issue, tell me. I've written the CSS from scratch, and I suck at it.)

Trusting Trust in the Fediverse

Implied trust and how easy it is to break it
evilmaid.net

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Just saw that WebKitGTK 2.50.5 is out.
In general, I've noticed that WebKit's Linux a11y code has issues (I get a crash if I try to authenticate a gmail account in evolution, for instance), and, alas, I have too many things on my to-do list right now and don't have time to try to work on it. But at least the role mapping regression is fixed.

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@Mike Gorse Thanks for the notice. The mismatched roles are now fixed and it's working great over here.
Perhaps later on we will discover more issues but as comparing it with firefox and chromium today, I am currently seeing these major obstacles.

  • Accessible name calculation does not collect texts from child nodes when it contains some interactive elements such as links
  • Multiline content is stripped to first paragraph when calculating accessible names.
  • Sometimes focus ends up being stuck on the document body element with no easy way to get the keyboard navigation to work again.
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I made an app for blind cubers. If you're into Rubik's cube, then Blind Cube is for you. The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and helps you add your cubes by defining the texture in each of the six stickers, solve a Rubik's cube after inputting the cube state, scramble the cube for you and gives you a timer to time your solves. It also includes a way for you to see how the cube looks like after each step of solving or scrambling the cube. Note: Blind people are the targeted audience for this app. apps.apple.com/us/app/blind-cu… #blind #cube #rubik’s_cube #puzzle #games

Blind Cube App - App Store

Download Blind Cube by MOHAMMED ALOUFI on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Blind Cube.
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If you use Foobar2000 on Windows and are tired of not being able to jump to a specific time in your currently loaded track, this teeny Foobar component I wrote over the weekend will help you out. It gives you a new assignable keyboard shortcut that, when pressed, brings up a dialog asking you to enter a time to jump to. It accepts `H:MM:SS`, `M:SS`, or bare seconds. It also supports decimal fractions (e.g. `1:30.500`). Currently, you have to build it from source and copy the DLL in manually, but in the coming days when I have some free time I hope to make it a proper fb2component. Source code: github.com/trypsynth/foo_jumpt…

GitHub - trypsynth/foo_jumptime: Foobar2000 plugin to jump to a particular time in the currently loaded track.

Foobar2000 plugin to jump to a particular time in the currently loaded track. - trypsynth/foo_jumptime
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Rolling release distros are the only way to enjoy open source if you're an enthusiast or technical user.

I've never been more frustrated than when I'm stuck using an OS and all my software is 2 years old or more, and I know there's new releases of stuff with new features I want to use but I just can't easily use it

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V časopisu Centra experimentálního divadla vyšel můj long read o sociálních sítích jako společenské infrastruktuře. O toxických algoritmech, výběrovém zkreslení, proměnách sociálních sítí za posledních zhruba 20 let, vepřovém kolenu – a pochopitelně i našem oblíbeném Mastodonu :) Díky moc @sesivany a @tomas za první čtení a užitečné připomínky a @jkl za důvěru a zakázku! Dal jsem si s tím textem fakt práci, tak si ho přečtite :) ced-brno.cz/cs/article/socialn…

Sociální sítě jako společenská infrastruktura

To je ale hezká komunita, byla by velká škoda, kdyby se jí něco stalo.
www.ced-brno.cz
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není zač. Zpětně mě mrzí, že jsem tě odradil od termínu fašismus pro pojmenování vývoje v USA. Tehdy mi to přišlo ještě jako kontroverzní označení, které by zbytečně strhávalo pozornost na sebe od toho, co chce článek říct, ale dnes už mi to označení přijde bohužel přiléhavé a nekontroverzní.
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Nevím, jestli jsem to původně neměl nějak víc nadrzo, ale nakonec je tam tohle: „Vlastníci těchto firem navíc sídlí bez výhrady mimo Evropu, nejčastěji ve Spojených státech, což je riziko nejen kvůli výrazně laxnější ochraně osobních dat, ale v poslední době i kvůli postupující autokratizaci a fašizaci americké společnosti.“ Takže dobrý! :)

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Hello @Delta Chat and friends

I've written an article about your chat apps targetting #a11y and screen reader users in particular.
The article is written in slovak and it has just been published today at blind revue, an online magazine running by slovak blind and partially sighted union.

blindrevue.sk/deltachat-pristu…

#a11y @Delta Chat
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I submitted a small talk for our local event called installfest.cz.

It's about @openstreetmap. Any feedback on it? pretalx.installfest.cz/install…

#osm #openstreetMap #foss

404: Map Not Found. Installfest 2026

Most of the digital maps we use every day are built and controlled by large corporations. This talk presents OpenStreetMap as a global, open alternative and shows how anyone can take part in improving the map of the world without needing to code.
pretalx.installfest.cz
#foss #openstreetmap #OSM @OpenStreetMap

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and also I have a proposal too. pretalx.installfest.cz/install… WDYT?

Pro alianci podniků Open Source Installfest 2026

Evropská komise plánuje posílit evropskou technologickou suverenitu a považuje Open Source za klíčový ekosystém pro její rozvoj. Bude z toho těžit český Open Source ekosystém? V tuto chvíli to nikdo neví!
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Not that it will be really big, but in Gtk 4.22, moving the cursor using routing keys of a braille display will finally work.

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#movuary 09 Flan Delicioso! Enjoy.
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If someone reads my latest blog post and decides I'm a spineless moral reprobate who only emboldens them in their anti-AI crusade, I am totally okay with that. That post was my clumsy attempt at art, and art is good if it elicits a response, even a negative one.

I've tried to attack this problem from multiple angles – essay, science experiment, and now bad poetry – and I think the poetic response is actually the correct one, because we seem to be in an intense AI-induced spiritual crisis.

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I've had multiple friends confide to me that they're afraid even senior engineers won't have a job in 5 years. Tom Dale called it a "mental health crisis" (simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/t…). I've heard references to "agent psychosis" and even demons (lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/age…) and curses (ashfurrow.com/blog/foresight/). AI will "kill God" (itself.blog/2025/07/27/chatgpt…).

These are not normal reactions to a normal technological shift. We're grasping for a new language to describe this because the moment calls for it.

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
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No, *I'm* a spineless moral reprobate. I've vacillated between echoing anti-AI arguments (here and on Lobsters), and using LLMs myself (though not yet jumping into using coding agents). The combination of the screed I linked yesterday morning, and your post yesterday, have made me want to fight again. I've logged out of the Claude web interface yet again. We'll see if I can have some backbone and stick to it this time.
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@matt The most interesting arguments I've read on this subject are in Cory Doctorow's latest commentary:
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

So far, I've found relatively few tasks for which generative AI would actually be a more productive alternative to my preexisting solutions. It's somewhat like speech recognition or optical character recognition technology: the accuracy (according to a reasonable measure thereof) has to be high enough to make it worthwhile to correct the system's output instead of performing the task manually. I think the environmental issues will go away due to efficiency gains and the move to clean energy. I also suggest the intellectual property concerns will be resolved. These aren't the issues Doctorow focuses on, and I suspect his issues will remain even as the others recede.

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)
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Yep I think Cory Doctorow is one of the people who has his head most firmly screwed onto his body, and his stuff on the AI bubble is great. I especially appreciate that he's been utterly consistent on the copyright issue. There was recently a conversation between him and Ed Zitron where (although I think Ed Zitron is absolutely hilarious and I love his stuff as well), Cory had the upper hand in the AI debate IMO: youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…

Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron

October 22, 2025Clarion West Deep Dives Conversation Series was sponsored by the King County 4Culture Public Free Access Grant, Linda Breneman, the Seattle P...
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Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.

The winner of this round will face the winner of Mint vs. nixOS on round three.

The distros were chosen based on the results of a previous poll.

Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.

Round two: fight!

#poll #linux #distro #debian #arch

  • Debian (74%, 123 votes)
  • Arch (25%, 43 votes)
166 voters. Poll end: Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 9:46 PM

#linux #debian #arch #poll #distro

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What I love about #Conversations_im as a #UnifiedPush distributor—aside from #XMPP being a reliable, secure, and efficient protocol—is that it comes with a healthy dose of decentralization.

Sure, you can technically self-host a Sunup instance, but will you? XMPP already offers thousands of providers out of the box.

#xmpp #UnifiedPush #conversations_im

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Byl jsem si včera vyzvednout hodinky z opravy.
Jsem víc silný než chytrý a tak jsem si "očesal" kolečka na natahovací hřídelce. Pitomec jsem, toto jsem udělal u hodinek které se automaticky natahují. Jezdím k hodináři do Zlína. Hodinářem je jeho bratr, hodinářem je jejich otec, hodinářem byl i jejich dědeček (viděl jsem jeho výuční list). Ukázal mi nafocenou tu hrůzu co jsem v mechanice strojku napáchal, dal mi sáček s vymontovanými díly, popovídali jsme si o hodinkách které jsem měl na zápěstí a potom mi řekl cenu opravy. Přemýšlím o tom, že to dělá pro radost, tím se nemůže uživit. Rozloučili jsme se a já vím že nejpozději za pět let si tam Archimédky pojedu nechat vyčistit. Pokud jste že Zlínského kraje a sháníte hodináře, klikněte na odkaz.

Robert Pechanec
třída Tomáše Bati 1794, Zlín, 760 01, Zlín
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honestly reading this did make my day - and if this would not have started even as a small research thing back then, my project would not exist today. Sometimes craving a legacy sound is enough to ignite something larger.

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The work looks awesome and impressive. I wasn't the person behind nvSpeechPlayer though; Mick was. I don't have the cycles to get involved with this unfortunately, but I'm glad to see someone putting some solid work into this.

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made another little ditty with #NvdaComposer, this time i simulated a delay effect with velocity. You can download the txt file at wormhole.app/bL86k8#p0DJwKXFBN…

Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing

Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.
Wormhole
#nvdacomposer

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I composed this melody long ago on my old Yamaha PSR 225 keyboard. I forgot that it even existed until Andre released this amazing addon.

#NVDAComposer
NVDA_COMPOSER_CLIP v2
# title: Ondrosik: Beep Beep
# tempo: 120
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#movuary 01 Barkikng Skeleton. This was inspired by one of the conga sounds that sounded more like a dog bark. So turned it in to a beat.
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#movuary 03 Party in the Key of C.
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Another day, another #Movuary. This one is a bit short, as I feel rather off today because of the cold. Enjoy.
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The recording for my #FOSDEM26 talk is available on the @fosdem website! fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

Summarising about two years of hard work in 10min wasn't easy, as adding built-in support for Exchange into @thunderbird came with its lot of twists and challenges, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out 😁

FOSDEM 2026 - A short story of supporting Microsoft Exchange in Thunderbird

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#fosdem26 @FOSDEM @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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At the end of the month I'm having my first solo acoustic concert at a local coffee shop.
45 minutes of original songs, just me and my guitar.
I'm not freaking out, you're freaking out.
Shut up!

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BBC World Service launches a temporary emergency lifeline radio program on medium wave and shortwave for Iran in response to the ongoing turmoil in the country and the unprecedented crackdown on protests. bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/bbc…

BBC launches emergency lifeline radio programme for Iran

The programme will air daily for 30 minutes across medium and shortwave frequencies
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Hello !Friendica Support .
I have noticed I can no longer add attachments into posts on my instance.
I am doing it like this:

  • Click new post button
  • Don't use Drop files here to upload but click Add attachments instead.
  • There is a menu that allows me to switch between photos and files mode. Switching modes is working fine. I can list files uploaded in the past.
  • When pressing the Upload button nothing is happening for me.

I am using keyboard to activate the upload button and I am just wondering might this be an accessibility issue that it can only be activated with the mouse?

When looking into my server logs I am not seeing errors related to uploads at all.

I know it used to work a few months ago. I am on the develop branch.

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#Blind watch wearers, What are you wearing? Would prefer no talking watches. Want something that allows me to tell time tactilely or via braille. Do not want something digital or that connects to my phone. All thoughts welcome.
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Borris

I'm currently wearing an Apple Watch (yes, I know that's not what you're looking for) mostly because it's alarm is about the only thing that wakes me up anymore, and it has haptic vibrations for quietly telling time.

I also have two Tissot Silen-T watches, neither of which are currently fully functional, a Bradley timepiece, a Wenger braille watch, and a couple of cheap Seiko braille watches.
If it worked right, and if I didn't use my Apple watch, I'd probably go back to my Tissot. Too bad they're not made anymore, and I don't know where to get them fixed, if you even can anymore.

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@BorrisInABox all good. I appreciate the reply in any case. I have an Apple Watch and have every intention of either selling it or giving it to a family member who wants it. I do everything on my phone, I don’t use the workout functions, i’m sick and tired of having yet another digital thing which nags me every time something inconsequential demands my attention when it shouldn’t, and I can never get haptic time to activate reliably without in setting voiceover off which defeats the whole purpose. I had a Bradley Timepiece and liked it, but unfortunately the magnetic balls would invariably stop magnetizing to whatever was holding them at the correct positions so gave up on that. other than the watch which is now unavailable, did you find any of the others which you listed to be a pleasant wearing experience?
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Maybe I'm one of an increasingly small group of AI-assisted coding holdouts by insisting on reviewing most if not all generated code--I don't think I'll ever be complete robot factory about it because I've seen too many dumb mistakes--but it really does get overwhelming. Recently I switched from a plan-based workflow to beads, and it feels like it might be a game-changer.

Beads is like a mini command-line issue tracker built for agents. Instead of writing giant markdown plans that inevitably go off the rails, I instead have it open beads/issues for tasks, each with dependencies and blockers. I can then tell it to pick work from bd ready, which kicks off a full test/develop/review/close cycle complete with review comments, evidence, and verification stages. When done, I'm left with a much more manageable review artifact that the agent has already checked for obvious footguns, rather than a few sections in the middle of a plan that may or may not be done. When that's done, I can just ask for another round of picking something from bd ready and repeat.

Neatly, it also seems to open issues when it finds bugs or things that might be wrong. And none of this pollutes any human-facing issue trackers, so plans can be broken down into very granular tasks. Paired with jj, I even have it retroactively editing linked changes as long as those changes aren't pushed and immutable.

I also appreciate that it seems to do handoff well. I'm working on porting Paperback to Linux. It did a live region implementation, including researching 2 implementation paths and documenting its research in a ticket. When done, it assigned me another ticket to test the flow in Orca, complete with very specific steps on hotkeys to test and expected announcements.

I hear so many stats on how developers are XX% less effective with AI than they believe they are. I'd be interested in how those stats translate to folks with disabilities. Even with all the workflow ceremony I've created that basically mimics a ticket implement/review cycle, I feel like I'm working far faster than I could before, and after my review feedback, my work is of comparable or better quality. Maybe it'd be different if I could just skim a syntax-highlighted screen of code for errors, or quickly research dbus APIs and libraries. But I can't, so here we are.

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Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys

Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year.... schneier.com/blog/archives/202…

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Ľuboš Moščovič

Stara znama mantra hovori - kto ma pristup k encryption key, ten ma aj data. Myslite na to, ked prepadnete pohodliu a ulozite BitLocker kluce k Microsoftu, tak ako vam radia.

  1. Iste, je to pohodlne.
  2. Iste, z pohladu dostupnosti, je to prakticke, ked sa nieco pokazi.
  3. ALE - (vid clanok ;) )ak vam ide (naj)viac o confidentiality vasich dat, nebodaj pred uradmi, tak to asi nie je az taky dobry napad.

Totiz, ak nejaka obchodna spolocnost realne ma pristup k nejakym datam (v tomto pripade BitLocker kluc), musi spolupracovat s OCTK v jurisdikcii pod ktoru spada. Nema na vyber - musi.

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The iOS and macOS versions of RHVoice are now open source! github.com/louderpages/Apple-R…
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GitHub - louderpages/Apple-RHVoice: Run-time RHVoice Apps for iOS/iPadOS/macOS

Run-time RHVoice Apps for iOS/iPadOS/macOS. Contribute to louderpages/Apple-RHVoice development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mike Lawler, a friend and former coworker from the GW Micro days, is looking for people to try out an updated TripleTalk USB driver he's written for #VNDA: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…

TripleTalk USB synthesizer driver · nvaccess nvda · Discussion #19547

I've created a TripleTalk USB synthesizer driver and am wondering if anyone would find it useful. Currently I haven't created an installer for it because I don't know how yet and it requires update...
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I was so excited about the new feature the Polish government added to our government app recently, the ability to sign documents using a "qualified digital signature", *for free*.

For the non-Europeans in the audience, a qualified signature is the European equivalent of DocuSign, except far less intuitive, far more expensive, and, by extension, not accepted anywhere near as widely. By regulation, it's the only kind that has the same power as a classic paper signature.

This feature requires an electronic ID card, and as my old ID was soon to expire, I recently got one of these anyway.

I tried doing this with two different providers, and it turns out that both of them just return a very helpful "Server error, without even an explanation of what's wrong."

As they say, disappointed but entirely not surprised.

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@Zvonimir Stanecic @André Polykanine @miki Here in slovakia web based interface for correspondence mailbox and related services like filling in forms is accessible. There is a 3rd party mobile app for signing that is also accessible. QT app for signing in and checking the EID card is technically accessible but it's not that nice to use. Fortunately there is so called mobile identity what allows generating ordinary pass keys for logging into state services. And I can store that pass key in a traditional password vault like bitwarden. On linux signing online forms and related agenda is nightmare. For signing documents I can use various 3rd party tools and it works.
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