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Do you know an very lightweight multi-platform audio player / recorder / converter app called #phiola?
Since version 2.9 released on github some 20 hours ago, rrecording functionality of its #android variant can be controlled by executing intent actions. So we can use our automation apps of choice to map buttons, gestures whatever to these actions. For example with #corvus, I can now start and stop audio recording even from the lock screen with proper custom screen reader actions setup to call these intents.
See here for command line examples: github.com/stsaz/phiola#starti…

GitHub - stsaz/phiola: Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android

Fast audio player, recorder, converter for Windows, Linux & Android - stsaz/phiola
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#android #phiola #corvus
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@Steffen Incidentally I have never used windows / linux versions of #phiola. Android version is fully accessible it uses native UI controls almost everywhere, even those having no text are clearly labelled for accessibility. I am not sure easy recorder pro is available for installing on latest android versions such as android 16 and android 17.
Phiola is really very very lightweight it can record long sessions to MP3, flac and other audio formats. A future improvement for Phiola might be ability to prelisten the microphone when setting up the microphone gain.
#phiola @Steffen
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Although not perfect, I'd like to introduce ToneTrace, a match eq which learns from the equalization of one recording, then learns that of another and applies the first curve to that. It also gives you 3 tones representing the level of confidence in the captures, a text description of what the matched curve does, and a tab that gives you the ability to adjust each of the graphic bands and hear its centre frequency, providing ear training while you work. github.com/dgl1984/tonetrace

GitHub - dgl1984/ToneTrace: Accessible CLAP match EQ with an editable correction workflow

Accessible CLAP match EQ with an editable correction workflow - dgl1984/ToneTrace
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I have quite a lot of conversations about the state of tech and its impact on the world, about how I strongly believe in its capability to be a truly transformational good for all humankind, and yet how I feel it is instead a net negative in many ways right now, not because of the technology, but because of the forces and structures behind it, hypercapitalism at its centre. The line I find myself repeating over and over again in these conversations - bitterly, angrily, mournfully, hopefully - is, "it didn't have to be this way." Sooo... I wrote a pop/metal song about it, as I do.
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Jamie Teh

@J_D_X Heh, yes, I was a bit concerned that I was going to be the only one that was pleased with that key change when I came up with it, but it seems to have been well received so far. This piece certainly throws a hell of a lot at you in a bit over 3 minutes.
@Jonathan Craig
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I am working on a project that makes use of the MBROLA set of voices. If used correctly you can get very natural, human sounding speech from these voices. If anyone here has any resources that could help me with MBROLA syntax, feel free to send them along. I am making really good progress on this project so far, I can't say too much about it right now but I wanted to put this out there as I'm still in the very early stages. Feel free to boost this if you want. #Speech
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oxidizedBraille ahahaha love that name for an add-on, and when you think of what it's built with... Yeah. wow. Clever indeed. github.com/LeonarddeR/oxidized…

GitHub - LeonarddeR/oxidizedBraille: NVDA add-on: braille translation powered by louis-rs, a Rust re-implementation of liblouis

NVDA add-on: braille translation powered by louis-rs, a Rust re-implementation of liblouis - LeonarddeR/oxidizedBraille
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Stem Deck -- sounds like a cool project!
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GitHub - stemdeckapp/stemdeck: Stemdeck is an modern stem extraction platform for musicians,producers and hobbyists, designed to isolate vocals, drums, bass, piano and guitar for practice, transcription, remixing, and creative audio workflows through a m

Stemdeck is an modern stem extraction platform for musicians,producers and hobbyists, designed to isolate vocals, drums, bass, piano and guitar for practice, transcription, remixing, and creative ...
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Made my own NVDA addon store mirror. I combined all the good sources for NVDA addons, and translated non english addons titles and descriptions only, to english so you can know what you're getting. Would I recommend this for everyone, or is this professional? no but if you want to be able to get at any addon that exists, it's here. Let me know if there's anything obvious I'm missing. github.com/serrebidev/nvda-add…

GitHub - serrebidev/nvda-addon-mirror

Contribute to serrebidev/nvda-addon-mirror development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Something that bothers me about the push for digital sovereignty is that a lot of it seems to be motivated by nationalism and anti-American sentiment. That's why we need standards and federation, so instead of just switching to an instant messaging server run by some European tech company, I can keep using my self-hosted one.

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalIndependenceDay #DiDay #Federation

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I wrote a blog post on Jabber/XMPP and 25 years of digital independence.

gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-d…

It shares a title with my upcoming talk and touches on similar themes around open standards, collective ownership, and avoiding vendor lock-in. However, it is an independent essay rather than a written version of the talk.

#XMPP #Jabber #DigitalSovereignty


Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure.
Daniel Gultsch

#federation #digitalsovereignty #diday #digitalindependenceday

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Kris

Yeah, this is a problem, but on the other hand, landmark consumer rights legislations like the GDPR would have not come to pass if they would have not been pushed in an "unholy" alliance of privacy councious and nationalistic politicians. The sad reality in most EU states and certainly at EU level is that you can't pass anything without support from this faction these days.
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X PP never worked for me. The main problem was that adaption of encryption was slow. so some clients supported #OTR but others declined,me cause it was not backed by standards of XMPP. But there was never a working XMPP encryption as long as I watched and used Jabber clients. I think that was the point where I switched to Telegram. Often in open source there is a lack of practical thinking and projects don't agree on the best solution and let proprietary projects win.
#otr
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The '25 Years of Mixxx Intergalactic DJ Contest' is live!
Full details: mixxx.org/news/2026-08-23-25_y…
Round 1 video deadline: Sept 30, 18:00 CET
DJs of all styles, genres and skill levels are welcome to participate.

Mixxx - 25 Years of Mixxx Intergalactic DJ Contest

Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.
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I am sooooooo excited for this! Live digital mixing consoles are kind of a frustrating final frontier in terms of #accessibility or #a11y #blindmasto #blind #proaudio #livemusic #audioengineer
youtube.com/watch?v=FXTuRMye_S…

Making digital mixing consoles talk, with DiGiCo and the Audio Accessibility Alliance

In this episode, we explore how DiGiCo have made their new range of digital mixing consoles talk, with support from the Audio Accessibility Alliance. Represe...
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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #blindmasto #livemusic #proaudio #audioengineer

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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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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

An impressive showcase reveals Claude AI writing a working macOS printer driver from scratch to bring full compatibility to a Windows-exclusive HP printer
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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...
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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.
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#bsd #freebsd #MACOS #selfhosted #TimeMachine #backup #sysadmin #runbsd #ownyourdata #zfs #samba #bastilleBSD

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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.
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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 Alternativen
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#deltachat @Digitalcourage

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@deviltux @signalapp @session

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.

@Session @Signal
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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

OnjLouis Projects

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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.

h7o.cz/clanky/14583-marginaliz…

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.
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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.

fedihood.social

Don't hesitate to share. Thank you!

FediHood

Discover and discuss with people near you, by topic. Built on ActivityPub and OpenStreetMap.
FediHood
#activitypub #OSM #e2ee #fedihood

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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.
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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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FreakyFwoofTracks

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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.

#Accessibility #android #czech #slovak #George #austrian

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Paweł Masarczyk

@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?
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@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.

@Paweł Masarczyk @Mathias Schmuckerschlag
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#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.

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play

Federated instant messaging for your mobile device (Jabber, XMPP, Snikket)
play.google.com
#fdroid #conversations_im

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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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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.
#accessible #xmpp #matrix #irc

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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.
@Benedict @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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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/

Accessible Image Placement Canvas

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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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xenotar

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.
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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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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
#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.

#privacy #AgeVerification #France

Client Challenge

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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.

github.com/SoongNoonien/platte…

GitHub - SoongNoonien/plattenalbum: Connect to your music

Connect to your music. Contribute to SoongNoonien/plattenalbum development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#gnome #plattenalbum

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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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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.

@Tamas G @Morgan Pimentel

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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?
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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.

#NoteLab #SonicRoom @Oriol Gómez Sentís
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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.
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#privacy #deltachat #guardian #butterbox #madmail #offlinemessaging

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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
#deltachat #iiab
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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 🫶

#xmpp #movim #galene @NLnet

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