A very nice write up, I like the approach. I think the key is that he simply asked them for support. Lots of FOSS devs don't want to ask, I know that from myself. Asking for donations, or even nagging, is well know to work. Like Wikipedia. I wonder if it would be possible to eliminate the friction to donating so much that FOSS devs could make a living without having to learn how to run fundraising campaigns? Maybe it just isn't possible.
It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)
Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.
Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"
Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks and account takeovers on a massive scale.
Today I learned: If you use #Chrome and are annoyed by those "Sign in with Google" dialogs stealing keyboard focus on certain websites, you can disable it at the browser level.
In the address bar, type or paste in "chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi" (without the quotes. You should land on the "Third-party sign-in" Settings page.
On that page, there'll be two radio buttons: "Sites can show sign-in prompts from identity services", and "Block sign-in prompts from identity services". Set it to the second one, and you should find that the problematic dialogs are no longer present.
@clv0 Yeah, it was not automatic, I had to set up some filter (or rule or whatever it's called) for this.
I can't remember exactly what I clicked on to set it up (lots of brain fog and memory problems!) but it works. I've seen others post about this solution, too.
@clv0 @ahimsa_pdx I *think* this should be blocked by one of AdGuard or Easylist Annoyances blocklist (i.e. both should work). I no longer see those banners at least.
🚀 Bringing a #1 hit back to life! 🚀This is my original 1996 chart-topping production of “Flava” by Peter Andre. After 30 years, I recovered the original Lo...
Hey guys, forget the world's problems for like three minutes and listen to this banger. This band is so good, gunna be stuck in my head for days. youtube.com/watch?v=zcImJyZ9K5…
I missed a very important anniversary. On February 25, 1925, the first recording session with a microphone took place. Prior to that, everything was recorded acoustically.
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Wow, that's a banger! I have to dive deeper into Hands Up, love the vibe. I got kinda bored by hardstyle / hardcore techno, but one song does still resonate with me a lot: youtube.com/watch?v=HBc1bV6LJa…
My first (and last) time making mainstream Happy Hardcore.Stream/Download: https://fanlink.tv/AtefLWDVideo by AnimeXStar Zhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP...
I am smitten with DeltaChat... DeltaChat has been making massive strides lately and I think you should consider using it as your full time secure messenger.
Hi, this is Lothar aka lk108. I’m today’s guest on the blog and it’s my pleasure to introduce DeltaTouch, a third-party client based on deltachat-core-rust for the mobile phone OS Ubuntu Touch (UT)...
I mostly wanted to share lothar's blogpost in which he describes how easy it was for him to create a new client because the api of dc core is easy to understand.
Want to try running your own builder – to confirm apps as #reproducibleBuilds or just to build your own apps? At #IzzyOnDroid we've just made "easy setup scripts" available which should take care for all requirements, while letting you choose which parts you want:
@s3nnet err… Steht gleich am Anfang in der Readme (hat leider nicht mehr in den Tröt gepasst): In der ersten Version funzt das nur mit Debian-basierten Systemen. Für RPM-basierte Systeme haben wir uns schon ein Issue aufgemacht. Für BSD möchte auch schon jemand schauen.
Aber schau gern mal über das 01_sudo_requirements.sh Skript, was da für Arch/Manjaro die passenden Dinge wären, und mach dafür ein Issue auf.
Can you explain in how far this project is linked to E Foundation or /e/OS? According to mobifree.org, NGI Mobifree is initiated and coordinated by them and nlnet is only an implementation partner (which I guess means they give Mobifree money to other projects like this).
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@kranzkrone never underestimate the lock-in effect of the integrated CI 😢 Makes migration a lot harder (Github actions cannot simply be "copied" to Woodpecker, and unfortunately there's no migration tool for this – at least not to my knowledge) @SylvieLorxu
Definitely will be starting future projects on @Codeberg, I'm just too locked-into the GitHub Actions ecosystem for these existing projects right now...
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Hi everyone! Forgejo Actions has matured a lot over the past year, and we think it's time to approach a hosted offer by Codeberg, next to our existing Woodpecker CI.
TL;DR for Youtube Premium Lite: $8 per month, instead of Premium's $14. No ads on most videos, but ads on music. No downloading, no playback when Youtube is in the background/the phone is locked. Basically, consider Lite if you never listen to Youtube with the screen off and/or don't consume music through Youtube.
Today I learned that my humble hobby project #Linux #Desktop Migration Tool is being used in a company with 600k employees to migrate to new Linux workstations.
It's amazing how far code I started writing at night to help myself can get.
@JigenDaisukeJr I'm not sure if I can name, but of course, not all 600k employees have Linux workstations, but it's an organization of this size that also has quite a few Linux workstations.
it was originally written for home use. You get a new laptop and you need to move your apps, settings and user data from the old machine to the new one. The goal was to only use tools that are pre-installed on Silverblue. The tool expects that the OS installed on the new machine and the user account has already been created, no provisioning included. No Satellite or Foreman. It isn't intended for mass deployments, but for individuals. But people people get new laptops in organizations and it's usually on them how they move the data from the old to the new, so they find it useful even in larger organizations.
@cybervegan Thanks, this is a project that has rather extreme imbalance between time spent on investigating and experimenting and time spent on writing the code. Linux desktop migration was not really much explored on the "widely deployable" level before.
Many times in the past I wished there was a utility to do this, though. The process is usually very time-consuming and that's not what you want when you should be working tickets or cutting code.
These days, I use Debian with MATE desktop, and tend to avoid flatpaks, but I know I'm an outlier there - I know lots of other people will find it useful.
@cybervegan I don't really have anything against traditional packages, but if I supported them, the complexity would grow exponentially. The script can be also used to migrate between distros. What package formats to support, how to map packages from one distro to another one? Where to look for user data? Because it can be anywhere. Flatpak makes it viable. It only has one source for all distros, it has one location where applications store user data...
Yep. makes total sense - I can speak from experience there, because sometimes package names change, and you also have to manage dependencies...
I have a "process" I've developed over the years, for my own migrations, but it's much less critical when it's only my laptop, for personal use. My comment was not intended as a criticism - it's still very useful.
they don't, but I think it's well balanced here. I'm well paid for working on open source for Red Hat. And this company happens to be one of the biggest customers of my team (completely unrelated to my migration tool) and they have also contributed quite a lot of code to projects we use.
@kiudecan not sure if it'd help you with Windows to Linux migrations, it's really intended for Linux to Linux migrations. The primary scenario is that you get a new laptop and you want to migrate apps, settings and user data from the old machine to the new one.
For a while, a dog in Milan, Italy named Cacao, frequently rode the No. 54 bus—by himself! Yes, really. He would only board the bus if he recognized the driver, whom he had known for years. Cacao would go to a park and simply wander around gardens and public spaces before taking the same bus back to his house, where his owner, known only as Nicoletta, would wait for him to come back.
So the primary thing I've learned from trying out the Ducky One #mechanical#keyboard is just how much lag my previous keyboards (a codekeyboard and a razer) were adding. I use a #screenreader, so I'm deeply aware of the audio lag from headphones and the audio subsystem, and configure things to reduce that as much as I can. I also knew bluetooth can introduce lag. But on picking up the Ducky...wow! A few ms can really matter! My system feels faster than it's ever felt before. Even if I wind up returning this, now I know that keyboard refresh rate is a thing I care about. Also, the inductive switches feel really nice and clicky to press, but are reasonably quiet for those around me.
A look at the latest from Iftah - plus a full externals pack for developers working on adding accessibility features in Max for Live is on the way soon! Curious what folks think of this / how they use it!
Flufs is the loudness meter and analysis tool for Ableton Live (Max for Live) you've always wanted. But more than that, it's designed to be accessible to blind, low vision, and sighted users alike.
@pixelate I've used it as my first tts on windows xp with cracked jaws 4.51? Why cracked jaws? Because there was no free alternative at this time, and in Croatia, all assistive tech is simply not affortable, when it comes to xp times.
So this evening, #Windows update installed the wrong #AMD video driver update for my Framework 16. Using #narrator, I was able to boot into recovery mode, enter my bitlocker key to decrypt the effected drive, find my system restore point, and restore it to just before the bad update. The entire process was fully #accessible: all of my sound devices worked, my external keyboard worked, the screen reader read every screen, etc. The only thing that wouldn't work was my Braille display.
@mcourcel Yup, it is. However, if you're Windows is so broken that it can't boot, and you use the system recovery option, and it can't access the internet, it won't be able to get your bitlocker key that's associated with your Microsoft account. So it will give you a url to visit on your phone, where you sign in with your Microsoft account, and then it will give you a long string of numbers. You type those numbers into the broken computer, and then it can decrypt your bitlocker encrypted drive.
@mcourcel It is solid! The only two issues are that they assume you'll be leaving it plugged in when it's not in use, as the battery discharges over the course of a few days even when it's fully off. The other issue is that if you get the extra AMD GPU, the fans are loud if you're gaming or doing something else that would use a high percentage of the GPU constantly. Like, loud enough that you'd have to use headphones to hear your screen reader, and you wouldn't want to hold a conversation with someone with it on your lap. But I've even had it apart to upgrade the ram and hard drive! There are excellent instructions for doing that here: community.frame.work/t/framework-16-visually-impaired-owners-case-mid-plate-and-mainboard-orientation-guide/51168
Introduction This text describes the location, orientation and nature of some aspects of the framework 16 laptop for the benefit of visually impaired owners. It can be used alongside the framework maintenance guides.
Someday, someone will study the long-term effects of the cognitive dissonance of blind people mustering up legitimately positive energy about something so horrendous being accessible.
What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP82…
It seems I'm going to get back on TWBlue's development for a while in case someone is interested. So if there are issues that have been pending to fix or new stuff you wish to add (filters are already on the list, and language selector is done) just reply and I'll add those to the issues on gitHub so it will be easier to track them.
Hi, what happened with translations? :) I am also glad to hear filters are on the list. There is also an issue with content warnings for some posts. Maybe it's the formatting or something, but some posts with content warnings aren't viewable, and have to be opened on the web. It's a strange issue, and only Windows clients seem to possess it.
@tardis hi there! sorry for the long time :), I was having some work, health and family stuff. I'll get back to you today with instructions regarding how to register in the translation site for TWBlue. About the issue, I've fixed a bug that was making TWBlue to not display posts with special characters or emojis on them, perhaps that is the same issue you're having?
Hi #blind community. I am searching for two programs for #Windows.
1. A accessible client to work with multiple calendars via CalDAV
2. A program which can work as a to-do-list.
Link at end but regarding the To Do, I gave up on trying to find accessible ToDo programs because they all appeared to be bloated, poorly designed, and just a hastle, so I went with the ToDo.TXT format and it's many apps. todotxt.org/ @NVAccess @bdorer @WestphalDenn
Track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.txt is software and operating system agnostic; it's searchable, portable, lightweight and easily manipulated.
In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique project to make the internals of tens of thousands of 1990s-2000s CD-ROMs findable in a semantic search.
Today, I'm announcing the team has now made DISCMASTER 2, a ground-up rewrite with so much improvement.
Hi to all federating! Especially @NVAccess Just posted an issue with latest libre office and Say all in large documents. It intermittently skips lines. Can you reproduce? Every large document works.
It's good to see LibreOffice getting attention! @WestphalDenn & @bdorer reported another issue earlier which I wrote up as: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… - Hopefully the end result will be LibreOffice support continuing to improve!
Steps to reproduce: Open any big document in the latest Libre office writer. press insert+ down arrow for say all Actual behavior: The error sounds are played, and NVDA skips the lines of the docum...
@WestphalDenn @bdorer It needs to improve, because it is a good alternative to robust cluttered Ms office. Personally, i want to switch, because they started to give features which are beyond my pocket.
@WestphalDenn @bdorer We have had some good support from LibreOffice in the last couple of years, and I would love to see accessibility in LibreOffice on par with other options as well, so do keep reporting any issues you come across as they do get looked at, Thank you!
Here's something @jaybird110127 will probably appreciate.
I recorded the alarm of my vintage Sharp CT-661G talking alarm clock with an EM pickup coil, and noticed that it has substantial aliasing. I put a high pass filter at 12 kHz on the audio, so that only the aliasing is audible, then ran it through a band shifter effect in Reaper a couple of times. The result is rather interesting.
I recieved some interesting news today about the Blind Geek Zone website that I closed last year. Apparently Sam Tupy was able to retrieve most of the audio files and pages from the site before it's demise. He's offered to put the site up so that others can get to everything once again and I plan on letting him do that. I'm very happy that someone was able to recover things as unfortunately I was not. Basically it's of only historical value but I thought it was very nice of him to contact me.
That's fabulous news. Not only did you put a lot into that site but it's important that we preserve our history and so I'm very happy that the files on BGZ will be archived. Please let us know more as you hear more and thank you for your work on BGZ.
The previous estimate (1 Jan 1997) is most likely wrong. Kjell Ericson found an email from me to him dated January 17, 1997 in which I email him a copy of httpget 0.2. It seems reasonable to assume...
Interesting stats! Out of curiosity do you know if by the past a relase got *fewer* lines (of actual code, comments excluded) from the predecessing one?
I mainly bought my new Google TV Streamer device to listen to audio-only content. So imagine my disappointment when it only worked for 10 minutes. Video worked fine, as did Spotify somehow. Auto-shutdown was set to an hour, and the ambient mode app was disabled. Audio playback just stopped and turned off the receiver and TV entirely, and I exchanged enough connections to know the streamer was the initiator.
The fix, apparently, is to enable developer mode, go into the developer mode settings, check the option to keep the screen awake, then audio-only content like Antennapod works. I guess audio-only apps don't keep the screen alive which, in turn, sends CEC to kill everything else. Hoping auto-shutdown takes over when I stop streaming so this isn't too wasteful.
What an absolute crock. I shouldn't need to be an Android developer to figure this shit out.
Auto-shutdown does not indeed take over. So you can either listen to audio and have everything shut down after 10 minutes, despite there being no timer setting anywhere I've found with a 10-minute setting, or you can have something that stays on constantly. Part of me is surprised that no one seems to have done any testing with audio-only apps on a primarily video device, but only a very small part. More likely they know but don't care.
That's not the problem. The device has an auto-shutoff for any non-video content because the developers, I guess, never thought someone might play audio-only content on a TV out of a desire to not have to buy an audio-only device.
Leave ambient on, set the other option from auto shutdown, where if no input has been pressed after x amount of time it shuts off, that should work, I can check on my TV which runs the same OS.
I'd appreciate a check if you could. I'm pretty sure I set the only auto-shutoff I found to an hour and it always, without fail, shuts off after 10 minutes. I guess it's possible I missed something somewhere but I only found the one option.
My wife and I talk a lot on Telegram. Most of it is "I love you". I wrote a bot which auto-replied to "I love you" with "I love you too" after a short delay. Turns out she did the same thing. I finished work and there were 5,000 unread "I love you" and "I love you too" messages.
I know I am late to the party, but I am just now getting into Remote Incident Manager (RIM) by @pneumasolutions. So far, I am only testing with myself, from one Mac to another, but I am finding it a very cool solution. With RIM, a blind person can assist another person, regardless of that person also being blind and needing a screen reader, or not. I plan to use it to log into my home computer from the road occasionally, but also have purchased the weekend add-on so I can help others if the need arises. I can see how RIM can be a great training tool also.
@cachondo Not currently, and I'm not sure if it's actually possible to do fully transparent keyboard input, complete with the usual screen reader modifiers, on iOS.
I just want to be able to use my phone to control my windows machine the way I could another windows machine. I might just have to buy a cheap stick, I suppose. i wonder what sort of battery life to price-point ratio I could get. I want a dumb terminal, really.
@Jonathan @Sean Randall @Marco Zehe If you would be okaish only transmitting sound and video instead of accessibility events, perhaps you can make some use of #rustdesk. I had some luck controlling a windows machine running NVDA from linux with it. There is no way to accessibly switch fullscreen rustdesk window into windowed mode, so I've moved it into another desktop workspace so I can easily switch back and forth within controlled and controlling machine. On Android it implements accessibility service for hooking keys but I haven't played with it on android.
Hmm, encoding #braille into music tones has recently been featured in the #braille200. I think it's nice for fun. Still I'm wondering if some of you might be able to understand it in real time.
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Řešili jsme se ženou, že nám děti tráví dost času na tabletech. To by ani nevadilo, ale problém je ten obsah plnej reklam, co si tam natahaly. Reklamy jsou implementované stylem jednoduché hry a pro další postup je vyžadována instalace.
Když teď vyšel nový PiHole, tak jsem ho zkusil nahodit na naší LAN síti. Většina reklam na tabletech zmizela. Zarazilo mě ale to brutální množství zablokovaných domén. 70 % našeho DNS provozu PiHole blokuje. Na grafu je i vidět, kdy byly tablety online.
IMHO blokování na úrovni DNS je dnes nezbytnost na každém mobilním zařízení. Dřív jsem to blokoval v Unifi Dream Machine, dneska používám AdGuard, aby to fungovalo i mimo naši domácí síť.
Oni mají víc produktů. Ale toto zrovna je DNS. Zadarmo má člověk daný filtr, za peníze si pak ta pravidla může upravovat. adguard-dns.io/ Ale nejsou jediní, kdo to má. DNS blokující reklamy má i Mullvad a další. Já první vyzkoušel AdGuard a už u něj zůstal.
Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.
@jackc jako kdybych to měl jen pro sebe... Ale nechci řešit, že to lidem přestane fungovat, protože se něco stalo s RPi nebo u nás padl Internet... Jinak já používám ten jejich free server, nemám tam žádný účet, připojuji se k tomu přes VPN, kterou sdílím s hromadou dalších lidí, takže nějakého trackování se nebojím, i kdyby to dělali.
@Adam Štrauch Vďaka za inšpiráciu, tiež som nasadil pi-hole. Trochu sa obávam, či to nebude blokovať aj nejaké weby, ktoré by mohli chcieť naši navštíviť, príp, či ich nebudú niektoré weby upozorňovať na zapnutý blokovač. Ale samozrejme uvedomujem si aj to, že boj s reklamami je nekonečný.
@pvagner Jednotlivé zablokované domény jdou povolit. Co jsem hledal, tak lidi reálně naráží jen na to, že kliknout na reklamu třeba na Googlu a ono je to vezme nejdříve na zablokovanou doménu pro trackování. Já jinak neměl problém za ty dva dny.
As a developer, I rely on Markdown daily. But as an accessibility advocate, I saw a major issue—most Markdown preview extensions weren’t fully accessible. Many blind developers and writers struggled to use them effectively. I knew there had to be a better way. So, I built one. Markdown Live Preview is a VS Code extension that lets you preview Markdown in your browser with auto-reload functionality. It provides a simple, seamless, and fully accessible solution for everyone. (1/4)
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