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I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
Source: Form 990 stateof.mozilla.org/
Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source
The State of Mozilla: 2022 — 2023 Annual Report — Mozilla
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.stateof.mozilla.org
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@kzimmermann this is the compensation for the CEO of the Mozilla *Corporation* (who is also the chairman of the Foundation, but doesn't get compensation for that). You should not compare the CEO of MoCo with other no profit foundations, or small donation-driven software projects. Framasoft isn't getting 400mil USD per year out of deals with other companies.
That's why I said that the FSF doesn't do anything, compared to Mozilla.
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I am baffled when people talk about "the atmosphere" on Mastodon. Here, there is no algorithm forcing posts into your feed. The atmosphere is the one you have personally curated.
1) Scan a person's feed before you follow.
2) Turn off the boosts of anyone you otherwise like who boosts stuff you don't want to see.
3) Mute anyone you don't want to hear from at all.
4) Filter out words/phrases you don't want to see (you will have to do much less of this if you do the first three steps right).
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Analogue FM radio transmission system turns 90 years old today
Analogue FM radio transmissions turn 90-years-old today after the technology was patented on December 26th 1933.The broadcasting platform was invented as a replacement for AM and today is being celebrated by Marco Rossignoli, coordinator of Aeranti-CRadioToday UK (RadioToday)
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NVDA 2024.1 Beta 2 is now available for anyone interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before its official release!
Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- Bug fixes for installing & uninstalling add-ons
- Speech text is no longer updated when the mouse moves in the Speech Viewer
- Syntax fixes for documentation
Updates to translations
Note: This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2023.3 and earlier.
Full info & Download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…
NVDA 2024.1beta2 available for testing
Beta2 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…NV Access
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In 2014, my children’s wonderful Mum, Amanda, who is now a teacher of blind children, approached me with a problem of great significance.
She was teaching a blind girl who had written to Santa. But the child was worried that Santa wouldn’t be able to read the letter she had written, because it was in Braille. Amanda did her best to assure the child that Santa would have no problem with Braille, but the doubts remained.
Remembering the stories I used to tell our own children when they were younger, Amanda wondered if there might be anything I could do to help.
Well, it certainly made a pleasant change from my regular writing sessions trying to figure out technology and then explain it to other people.
The result was "Louis, the Blind Christmas Elf", which I gave to Amanda in written form.
Amanda loved the story, but came back and said, "why don't you do an audio version? You'd be good at that," again remembering all the funny voices I'd use when reading to our kids.
So, back I went into the studio, to create the narrated audio version.
The reaction to this little story has been so special, and heart-warming. I've heard from so many people. Teachers, parents, grandparents and consumer leaders have all written to me telling me how much the story has meant to them. And every year at this time, I get requests for it. It has now been translated into other languages and even turned into a play.
I'm deeply touched and honoured that it has meant so much to people.
In the spirit of being proud to be blind, I offer you this festive story and wish you a merry Christmas.
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@Fanny Bui can you please post a public link to that Ohhfunk station if one already exists?
@Jonathan Mosen or anyone else, are you aware of translations of this story published somewhere?
I have found the original at mosen.org
This Christmas, I've finally bitten the bullet and done some serious contributing to @openstreetmap (and also joined the OSM Foundation while I was at it). Honestly, I think it's one of the great wonders of the #OpenSource internet, so I wrote a blog post about why I'm contributing (and you should too)
andreasthinks.me/posts/OSM_for…
#GIS #openstreetmap #GeoSpatial #christmas #DataScience #data
Andreas Varotsis - Why I’m Contributing to OpenStreetMap for Christmas…
…and maybe you should too!andreasthinks.me
MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
As it is a long, long tradition Conversations is available for free on the Google Play store for the last week of December.
This tradition was originally born so that when I meet people at Chaos Communication Congress and they ask what I do, they have an easy way to install Conversations. In that regard it's a very special year as we are seeing the return of CCC.
However if you are meeting loved ones to celebrate something else these days that’s fine too.🎄
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play
An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobileplay.google.com
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docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#braille #BrailleDisplays #AssistiveTEchnology #accessibility
Braille Display Usage
This questionnaire contains questions about the usage of Braille displays in any life situation (education, work, personal use).Google Docs
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#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #ethics
LimeSurvey — Free Online Survey Tool
Survey Maker — LimeSurvey is an online survey tool to quickly create questionnaires, poll votes & surveys. ✦ Free ✦ Easy ✦ Open Source ➜ Start your survey now!www.limesurvey.org
If I were conducting a survey myself, I would host it on my own server.
@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Sailfish OS and bringing it to GNOME/Linux mobile. 
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Great read
blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023…
#Linux #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux #GNOME #Wayland #Android #reverseEngineering #SailfishOS
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The next release of the js sdk is planning to bump the supported #matrix spec version to 1.5 or 1.6. This means it and as a result also Element Web will refuse to start on current versions of #conduit and #dendrite. This is an intentional decision resulting from a discussion between several SCT members.
I think that approach is bad and it should check for a range of supported versions instead of arbitrarily bumping the minor version to make the ecosystem move, but this is a heads up, that now is the time to contribute to both of those servers, if you use them and want to use the Element Web client on them going forward. (I already had my discussion with the SCT and I won't tell other projects, what they should do.)
JS-SDK change: github.com/matrix-org/matrix-j…Dendrite supported versions: github.com/matrix-org/dendrite…Conduit supported versions: gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/b…
Bump minimum spec version to v1.5 by richvdh · Pull Request #3970 · matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk
We only claim to support a year of spec releases, so this should be fine. Part of: #3915 Here's what your changelog entry will look like: ✨ Features Bump minimum spec version to v1.5 (#3970).GitHub
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Many of the improvements are performance-related, taking advantage of the cache of accessibility tree nodes maintained by the AT-SPI service. Table processing has received particular attention, and fundamental changes are underway in the code that handles users' keystrokes, some of which need to be interpreted as screen reader commands, with the remainder being passed through to the application.
I have been testing some of the changes along the way, as have other users active on the Orca mailing list. Rapid and precise bug reports continue to contribute to the development process. At this point, it is reasonable to expect these valuable improvements to appear in a release during the first half of 2024, presumably as part of GNOME 46.
#linux #orca #ScreenReader #AssistiveTechnology #accessibility #Gnome
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Great stuff!
Thanks to @igalia and @sovtechfund for funding this work!
Audio Interface Apps Accessible to Blind & Vision Impaired Users - Audient
iD & EVO mixer apps now offer accessibility support for vision impaired with latest drivers - navigate using just a keyboard & screen readerAnne Liversidge (Audient)
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NVDA 2024.1 Beta 1 is now available for testing. Highlights include a new on-demand speech mode, the ability to drop speech modes from the NVDA+s command, a new "native selection" mode for Firefox, bulk actions in the add-on store & ability to review add-ons & more!
Note this release breaks add-on compatibility and only works on Windows 8.1 and newer.
Full info and Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #Beta #NewVersion #A11y #Accessibility #News
NVDA 2024.1beta1 available for testing
Beta1 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…NV Access
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Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra - Hévenu Shalom Aléchem (Single Oficial)
BGKO - "Hévenu Shalom Aléchem". Primera canción del álbum "Imbarca". (C) 2014 Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra & Satélite K. 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 & 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 - 𝗟𝗶?...YouTube
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Way more interesting and healthy fediverse news is happening in the shadows and is barely getting discussed! Discourse has federation between different instances of itself and other #fediverse software such as Mastodon working!
Attached is a demo video from Angus McLeod via their announcement here: meta.discourse.org/t/activityp…
ActivityPub Plugin
Just to let you guys know, we just merged the PR that allows a Discourse category to follow any actor in the fediverse, including other Discourse categories. Yes, that means you can now federate a category between two (or three, or more) Discourses.Discourse Meta
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Hey ! We're pleased to announce that Ltt.rs [1], an email (JMAP) client, and Mercurygram [2], a new fork of #Telegram, now support #UnifiedPush. And support is being upstreamed to Telegram-FOSS :)
[1] ltt.rs from @daniel
[2] github.com/drizzt/Mercurygram/ from @timothy
GitHub - drizzt/Mercurygram: Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android
Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android - GitHub - drizzt/Mercurygram: Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for AndroidGitHub
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I don't think #WebAIM has an account on the fediverse yet, but the 10th iteration of their Screen Ready survey is now live.
The vital #a11y insights created from these surveys help inform our understanding of the technological and usability landscape. This helps to shape how accessible, and importantly usable experiences are created on the web.
If you use a screen reader, I hope you'll please consider filling it out: webaim.org/projects/screenread…
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RScan lets you scan a barcode of any product, and automatically looks it up on DuckDuckGo and tries to select the most fitting and useful description. The scanning is really fast and convenient, meaning it's easy to work with even if you're blind and don't know the location of the barcode, but it's also great for sorting through large number of items, if you need to say search for a particular chocolate in a pile, or you order a large number of cans that you need to tell apart in order to sort them to groups. RScan can deal even with scanning multiple items of the same barcode, making this process easy and efficient.
I've been gradually developing this app over the last years, always reflecting my actual needs and actively using it in my home. I've been sharing it with my friends from Czechoslovakia, receiving great feedback. In our region, the automatic product identification works really well and RScan can truly identify 90% of items just by seeing their barcode.
Few days ago, I finally got to release it in google play, and given this opportunity, would like to expand it to more regions. My theory is that my algorithm should work comparably well in regions where products use metric system for describing themselves (300 g chocolate, 400 ml can etc.).
It's not yet prepared for UK, where the commonly used units are different, and completely unknown for me is USA, where a similar but different barcode standard is used than in Europe, plus they have different units too.
I would love to support as many countries and regions as I can. If you would like to help me with this, sending me barcode numbers of things you commonly use in your region (cans, chocolates, common drugs, drinks), along with the name of your country would be very useful, so I could check out how does your Internet describe things and make RScan adapt for it.
If you're technically skilled, you can read the project's readme:
github.com/RastislavKish/RScan
and directly look for the unit information required by RScan, this would save me the struggle with localization and location simulation.
Also, if RScan works well in your country, I would love to hear that too! My theory of compatible countries is still just a theory, it needs to get verified.
You can find RScan on Google play:
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
And, along with all the code and scanning tips in the documentation, on my GitHub:
github.com/RastislavKish/RScan
Happy scanning!
GitHub - RastislavKish/RScan: A practical barcode scanner for product identification
A practical barcode scanner for product identification - GitHub - RastislavKish/RScan: A practical barcode scanner for product identificationGitHub
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, a useful little web vanilla web component
I'm working on a few small demos and a thing I often find myself needing is a combinationpotch has a websiteinput[type="range"]with some sort of label, or even aninput[type="number"]showing the same value.
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Are you interested in making your notifications private?
We have a great guide in our website describing how to set up your android xmpp application to deliver notifications for all your apps on your device. Without using google.
joinjabber.org/tutorials/servi…
and for people who self host you can use your own server to deliver notifications privately to your devices and the devices of the people that use your server :)
joinjabber.org/tutorials/servi…
#privacy #xmpp #dataprotection
Unified Push
UnifiedPush (UP) is an alternative for mobile push-notifications on Android that does not depend on the centralized Google FCM infrastructure for delivering notifications to your smart-phone.JoinJabber
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This festive season give the gift of accessibility with an NV Access donation. Your support ensures we continue delivering life-changing technology to blind and visually impaired people globally.
Donations can be made here, nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat…
#Donate #Donation #NVDA #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Christmas
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1. TalkBack 14.1 can describe images. Though, IMO, not as accurately as VoiceOver, it works well, and its auto-text extraction is awesome.
2. As you know, Seeing AI is now on Android along with its AI-oriented goodies.
3. @bemyeyes Be My AI just became available on Android. It's not yet capable of receiving pictures from other apps, but guess, hopefully, it will be added soon.
4. Since we're handling Google, I don't know when, but Lookout's AI capabilities, currently limited to users in the USA, will expand to other regions.
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Let's Encrypt will issue new intermediate certs in Q1/2024: groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or…
Make sure your LE cert deployment logic includes serving the right intermediates that ACME should hand you, not just that same old LE intermediate you got years ago. Otherwise, there'll be breakage...
#x509 #pki #LetsEncrypt
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If you like this one and would like to support the dev, all the info you need is at t.me/unigramplus. Thanks, Kostya, and greetings to Ukraine! #NVDASR #Accessibility #Blind
UnigramPlus for NVDA 🇺🇦
Welcome to the UnigramPlus add-on channel. New versions of this add-on will be released here and here you can write your comments, feedback and suggestions on this add-on.Telegram
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@Brynify Okay, I put a rough version of this together. Change "github" to "gitrls" in any GitHub repo URL, and get either the single asset for the latest release, or a list of assets if there's more than one. Some URLs to try:
* gitrls.com/cartertemm/AI-conte…
* gitrls.com/digitalocean/doctl
* gitrls.com/Brynify/typing_sett…
It will silently trim any unrelated parts of the URL, so you could e.g. do this and it will work: gitrls.com/NVDARemote/NVDARemo… @Piciok
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GitHub - mifi/lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing - GitHub - mifi/lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editingGitHub
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I am just testing @Jami with a #screenreader on both linux desktop and android for #accessibility.
Initial setup is accessible on both the platforms.
Listing conversations I can't really say as I only have single contact.
Audio calling is working fine. I am impressed that the call setup took just a moment. On android controls like microphone toggle, speaker / earpiece toggle and hangup button are working fine.
I am unable to find out in call controls with the keyboard on linux.
On both desktop and android I can write messages.
On android I can read messages, find and execute additional actions in the popup menu.
On the desktop I can't read incoming and outgoing messages with a screen reader. I haven't discovered on how to copy them.
In conclusion comparing this to the tox chat the Jami is more accessible with a screen reader. Perhaps I will be able to figure out how to handle the calls with a keyboard shortcuts however the fact message text is not readable with a screen reader on desktop linux and perhaps other platforms sounds dissapointing. The idea and decentralized nature of this communication app sounds really amazing.
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The desktop app uses QT6 for the UI. Apart of some ounlabelled buttons such as Accept / Reject incoming call and some tab controls on the main window most of the UI elements are clearly labelled and accessible from the keyboard.
The desktop app has a keyboard shortcuts button on the main screen which opens a tabbed dialog with accessible lists of keyboard shortcuts. I haven't yet discovered if these can be tweaked but the default ones are working well for me. For calls it's ctrl+y for accepting and ctrl+d for rejecting / hanging up. Letter m alone can be used for muting / unmuting the microphone.
I need to find out if there is a way to create global shortcuts or do some actions using commandline switches. If either of this turned out to be possible it would perfectly integrate with the desktop.
Sending and receiving files is something I'm going to try next.
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