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Just for fun, I've asked #claude to generate a #webxdc mini app for playing the UNO cart game in a @Delta Chat conversations. It can be played with keyboard or mouse or touch screen and includes screen reader #accessibility. It has machine translations of its prompts to various languages.
Since it's not my original work I am not particularly keen about uploading it to code hosting services.
But still if you would be interested to take a look at it, here is the resulting file: s.ondrosik.sk/d/b99143b31a6446…
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this is sick! I've been contemplating exactly this for a while, but I was thinking about how to prevent cheating by using a commutative encryption system
BUT you should know the colors are really bad. I'm colorblind and I can't tell what color the cards in my own hand are. the colors ought to be brightened significantly
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But hey, cryptography could be used one day to leverage anti-cheating if everything's got more competitive. Because probably with the way that it currently works, everyone's client technically has access to the contents of everyone else's hand, and the contents of the drawpile. It's just that the app does not display other people's hands nor the drawpile. The app knows the information, it just doesn't display it to the user.
That means that if someone really wanted to, they could inject some code into the app to get it to show that information so that they could cheat.
The idea then is to use a commutative encryption algorithm so that only the situation-appropriate cards are known, and only known to the people to whom knowledge of them is appropriate, and only fully decrypted once the appropriate time comes, and this would be cryptographically ensured by all the other players.
Like all that crap could be cryptographically shuffled commutatively by each player so that nobody CAN know what's the next card EXCEPT the user who's actually drawing it.
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Rocket.Chat adding support for #XMPP is very good news.
„[XMPP] is self-hosted, air-gappable, open, and auditable, and it is light enough to hold up on constrained tactical networks. Those qualities are why it has stayed in service for two decades. The protocol is mature and trusted. […] It is usually the client software sitting on top of XMPP, not the protocol itself, that has aged.“
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Rocket.Chat 8.7 brings native XMPP interoperability for coalition operations, enabling sovereign, auditable communication with mission partners on one platform.Marina Hudek (Rocket.Chat)
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The fine print says:
XMPP interoperability ships with Rocket.Chat 8.7 and is available only in the Defense plan.
Seems like this will only be available for a very specific use case. At least for now...
Emulator of the VoiceNote QT / BrailleNote mPower notetaker: Windows CE 4.2 on PXA270, running real KeySoft firmware. Assistive-technology preservation. Not a HumanWare product and not affiliated w...GitHub
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I've developed an early version of a software that will allow you to uninstall those pesky programs and their components which present significant issues when trying to uninstall them. Version 0.5.0 of Wixen Uninstall will let you get rid of McAfee, Norton, AVG, and Avast as well as their other suites. It should be fully accessible with keyboard support. Check the notes and file issues.
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Wixen Uninstaller removes stubborn, misbehaving Windows applications. It also removes the companion browsers, VPNs, and tune-up tools that linger after the official uninstaller claims to be done. I...GitHub
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Monocles, a #Conversations_im fork, is now making heavy use of LLM-generated code. Including its cryptography.
Meanwhile it hasn't backported critical security fixes that landed in Conversations (and other forks) over a year ago.
Use this information however you like.
In other news: Conversations is currently free of charge on both F-Droid and Google Play.
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It looks like this might be a violation of Codeberg's LLM policy.
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The monocles chat. A modern and secure chat client for Android based on Conversations with features from blabber.im and Cheogram and a lot of own changes and improvements.Codeberg.org
Oh, well that's disappointing. Guess it's time to get this AIslop off my phone. 
Meanwhile: Hello, Conversations! 
ich benutz Monocles, lieber wäre mir aber dein original client.
Aber du hast einem schwarzen amoled Theme vor Ewigkeiten schon mal eine Absage erteilt. Vielleicht eine Chance das nochmal zu überdenken? #xmpp
@ismondo I'm not criticizing the concept of forking. There are several forks that manage to backport security fixes and don't add a bunch of AI slop onto the original code base.
I'm also not objecting the features you mention. For example Conversations has had reactions for a while now.
This project is breaking Codeberg's Terms of Service since the LLM restriction was added a few weeks ago: https://codeberg.Codeberg.org
This is something that you, as the Chair of the #XSF Council, should've discussed with the Monocles dev (an elected member of the Board) inside the XSF
Making it a public post, less than 3 months in advanced of the Board and Council Elections was a slithering move, a pretty cheap shot .. **even** if it comes from you
I'll use this information to conclude that your actions speak a lot worse about you than they do about Monocles and its dev
@gnemmi I’m in frequent contact with a lot of XMPP developers including people who maintain forks of Conversations.
All major forks got friendly reminders to rebase on top of the latest Conversations if they hadn’t done so themselves.
I have zero intention to run for board.
The timing of adding AI-slop to Monocles is entirely out of my control.
that wasn't a friendly reminder. It was exactly the absolute opposite.
And no, I don't buy your timing claim. You don't do a single thing without knowing exactly what you are doing, the most likely repercussions, consequences and outcome.
Also: I'm off. I've already used the information however I liked, in full accordance to your advice.
@gnemmi I don't think this was meant to be a friendly reminder. Why would a friendly reminder about security issues be a Mastodon post.
As he was talking about more than a year of missing security updates, the time for friendly reminders and private background channels is over. Now is the time to protect the general public. The industry practice is to notify the public about unresolved security issues 90 days after notifying the vendor. 1 year is already extremely friendly.
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How and why should that be a concern of the XSF, let alone its council, or its chairperson?
Monocles is rightfully croticised by a developer of its upstream, both of them being independent developers of apps that are not in any way governed by the XSF.
AccessiIf is a free interactive fiction player and creator for Windows. Play Z-machine, Glulx and TADS text adventures, browse game catalogues, or create parser games and HTML gamebooks.nathantech.net
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Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app. I reported this on January 28th, 2026. It is now July 2026. Six months later. The Firestore database is still wide open. The CTO never responded. I guess my emails were too long and they didn't view them bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack
The IT industry is pretty much on the verge of collapse now and it has been hijacked by people who think they can prompt their way out of it.
How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.bobdahacker.com
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#Conversations_im is now available for free on Google Play until August 18th.
Whenever there is a conference with a strong #XMPP presence, I like to make the app available for free to make it easier for attendees to install the app and give XMPP a shot.
I'm attending #FOSSY and #FrOSCon this weekend and next.
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Federated instant messaging for your mobile device (Jabber, XMPP, Snikket)play.google.com
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The playstore has a Google tax, fdroid doesn't. Yes. That's from the beginning
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Ten years ago today I released version 0.1 of #Conversations_im on the Google Play Store as a paid app.I believe that I have contributed significantly to normalizing the pay-for-the-binary business model for open source apps.
Ten years ago Conversations was one of the first apps to do this and definitely raised some eyebrows. Nowadays it feels like a pretty common thing.
Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile devicef-droid.org
I. Keep getting. Fried.
I always think this will allow me to use one client to talk to a variety of contacts on different messaging platforms and it keeps NOT BEING THAT.
This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.
I didn't set a cookie. kuber.studio/cookie/
Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.I didn't set a cookie.
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I've tested it with Tor-Browser on Linux and Android. I got
"roughly 1 in 120.0 million browsers look like yours."
in both cases.
Did anybody else try with Tor-Browser?
It said "this page asked for zero permissions." That's an outright lie. It asked to create a webGL context, which my browser (Librewolf) let me decline.
And it got a lot wrong, including my computer type, public IP address, screen resolution (twice) and trackpad. So I'll sleep OK tonight.
@drewph Technically, Librewolf did the asking, not the web page.
It doesn't matter that the data is wrong, only that it is unique and identifiable. They can still track you across websites and build a profile. I set Librewolf to its strictest mode, reloaded the page, and it welcomed me back to my second visit.
aha this gives me a clue why some stuff is thinking I'm on a VPN and demanding I turn it off:
> Your browser speaks English, your IP is in DE, and your clock is in a third place. That's not a traveller. That's a VPN.
[narrator: that's not a VPN]
many years ago I read that since so few people have a privacy extension in their browser, that if yo have one it make tracking you much much easier
LOL
Hope this can be mitigated one day
This is neat. A handy demo of how you can be identified and tracked across the Internet without a single cookie ever being set in your browser.I didn't set a cookie. kuber.studio/cookie/
I didn't set a cookie.
Everything this page knows about you, it learned in under two seconds. Without a cookie, a permission prompt, or a click.I didn't set a cookie.
Thanks for answering the question that's been in my head for years.
I wonder every stupid time I change duckduck to no AI and no other crap if it really matters. I also asked on AI something if selecting the button for no AI really stops it.
NOW ... I keep reading there's nothing I can do about it (I'm no geek) but is there something we can do about it?
this site needs javascript to work. But i am sure some of this information does not.
"You wiped sessionStorage, window.name, but localStorage, IndexedDB, Cache Storage still held the tag."(edit: later after waiting for the addon to actually clear it, it was just Cache Storage)
Cookie Autodelete failed me? Turned out deleting cache storage was disabled, but enabling it is not fixing it so far.. It's also annoying because probably it might be done without javascript also? (like add a unique url to be cached and see if it is there?)
Also my bubblewrap sandbox could hide fonts i guess?
Bit surprised Librewolf has cross-site referrers on by default. I turned on letterboxing, it did get some info wrong based on that. (maybe for sites i like, i want to give referrers in order to promote them lol)
A funny clip from Captain Underpants with Jetpack Joyride music. They are jammin!we-are-jammin.xyz
@SRLevine we’ve reinvented EFF’s Panopticlick have we?
Astonishing our typical browsers give so much away. Tor browser might match other Tor browsers but that doesn’t matter
I always run browsers in a VM to protect core system security, and connect via a VPN. This site didn't make a very good fingerprint.
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The typing fingerprint is impressive, though.
Jan Švankmajer's Alice (1988), a Czech stop motion version of Alice in Wonderland
The Lure (2015), a Polish horror musical version of the Little Mermaid
What other slavic versions are there of popular tales that Disney turned into children's movies?
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The Amiga "module" music format was hugely popular in the 1990s, with tens of thousands of songs written in "tracker" tools, often used in games and demoscene productions. Mostly on the Amiga, of course, but PC games like Jazz Jackrabbit and the original Deus Ex used music based on the same technology.
The very first "tracker" composing tool was The Ultimate Soundtracker by Karsten Obarski in 1987, a commercial release with one disk containing the program and some example songs, and a second disk containing a selection of instrument samples composers could use.
In the very early days of tracker modules, those were the only samples available, and they were heavily used by just about everyone. Even once people started making their own samples, they were still heavily used, and to a certain extent became the unofficial Amiga soundfont.
Today I learned that despite its significance, this first sample disk is lost media. All the samples survive in thousands of modules, but every sample has a bunch of variants from accidental disk corruption or intentional modification, and it's not always clear exactly which one is the original. Even among things *claiming* to be images of the original sample disk, different images have different sets of samples, or different versions of the same samples. We don't even know if Obarski kept the same sample disk for each release of his software, or if he updated it over time - and if he did, which versions shipped with which samples.
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For example, Aminet's archive of the ST-01 sample disk includes one sample (Strings6) that's in a different format, and apparently written by ProTracker, which came out several years after The Ultimate Soundtracker, so this can't be the original sample disk.
Interesting... Where can I throw my "ST-01" into the ring? I got it very early, way before the Soundtracker clones appeared. (I only have the sample files though, not an ADF of the disk.)
What made me fell in love with the Amiga were the sound capabilities. I even wrote a sound ripper, the SoundCracker. aminet.net/package/mus/misc/So…
@shred The most useful and complete information I've been able to find has been this forum thread:
eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t…
Even without the samples themselves, if you can authoritatively say "this version of Soundtracker came with this list of samples", it sounds like that would be a useful addition to the knowledge-pool!
(the actual samples would be useful too, of course)
that was just in the UK. I suspect the German sales were stronger.
I'm pretty sure a friend of mine has an original copy of The Ultimate Soundtracker he'd sell me for not much. If so, I'll image the disks and you'll get *an* ST-01:
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@miki I read this and immediately wondered how you meant me to do that on Linux and then remembered that oh, duh, yeah, Wine works on MacOS.
With regards to the actual request, I don't even know if this is even doable. We achieve Wine to Linux communication with winegcc on Linux, and I don't know if MacOS has an equivalent. If not, this may not be possible via a wine component.
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@maysoncabo I experienced that also.
copy the paperback.app file to /applications, then go to a terminal and type
xattr -c /applications/paperback.app
that will fix it.
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The Audiobookshelf server includes limited support for e-books.audiobookshelf.org
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Thorium Reader is a free and open source reading app for Windows 10, MacOS and Linux. It supports EPUB 3 (both reflow and fixed layout), DAISY, and PDF documents.The DAISY Consortium
Well y'all, Linux stuff is happening fast. Cthulhu is a fork of Orca with like lots of stuff. Wine runs Windows programs on Linux.
If Cthulhu is running, the Wine Accessibility plugin is enabled, and the helper package is installed, you should only need to launch the Wine or Proton program normally.
Cthulhu will automatically:
- Detect the active Wine/Proton prefix.
- Start the helper inside that prefix.
- Read supported standard Windows controls.
- Accept speech requests from programs using NVDA Controller or Tolk.
It won’t automatically make custom-drawn or DirectX game interfaces accessible. Those need built-in self-voicing through NVDA Controller/Tolk or future game-specific support. There might also be a short delay of up to roughly two
seconds while Cthulhu discovers a newly started Wine process.
Cthulhu’s Git repository: git.stormux.org/storm/cthulhu
#accessibility #foss #linux #blind #wine #tech
This is a fork of the Orca screen reader, mostly just for fun. It's branched from the gnome 45 release. If you haven't heard about this in person and are working on it, you probably do not want to install it.Stormux: Powered by Gitea
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There is no excuse for using unethical slop machines. None.
Fuck off with your theft.
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@wizzwizz4 I agree with all of this. It is a travesty that we do not prioritize accessibility, and I am a strong advocate for it in every sense of the word.
My issue is that there can be no ethical use of these specific tools, everything they touch is tainted, and the people who claim to use them for good are useful idiots for the fascists pushing this dehumanization of tech on society.
It literally can never lead to a better outcome, including for accessibility.
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@reflex So what are people supposed to do in the meantime? Twiddle their thumbs and wait for other people to save them?
"It literally can never lead to a better outcome" is an article of faith. You haven't justified it, and @pixelate has made a good case to the contrary (to which you responded "Fuck off with your theft").
But while we're on the topic of inexcusable ethical lapses, what's your compelling excuse for using unethical social media?
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I love to see ai bring used like this. Im glad that it can help you so much. We often take things forgranted while making software/devices.
It's nice to see ai can come in later and help adapt things. It's nice to see ai doing positive things rather than negative.
TeamTalk NG is an accessible TeamTalk client for iPhone and iPad that lets you connect to TeamTalk servers, join channels, exchange messages, and communicate with voice.
The app is designed with VoiceOver users in mind, with clear spoken feedback, customizable text-to-speech events, sound event support, sound packs, user details, subscriptions, interception controls for administrators, broadcast messaging, and efficient channel navigation.
TeamTalk NG supports saved servers, channel joining, private and channel text messages, broadcast messages, audio controls, user volume and mute settings, and configurable notification behavior so you can tailor the app to the way you use TeamTalk. testflight.apple.com/join/1xat…?
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I've just released version 0.3.0 of Taskmon, my lightweight, no frills replacement for the modern, bloated mess that is Windows Task Manager. Changelog:
Download links:
ARM64 portable: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r…
ARM64 setup: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r…
X64 portable: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r…
X64 setup: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r…
Cheers, enjoy, and may you be free of a 5+MB application to manage your computer being unresponsive!
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Lightweight task manager replacement for Windows. Contribute to trypsynth/taskmon development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Great piece of software for whom needs or wants to explore. Thank you, kirk!
Interview with @baffled the Creator of the Speakup Screen ReaderIn this interview, Kirk Reiser, creator of the Speakup screen reader for the #Linux console, shares the history, design, and motivation behind one of the most important #accessibility projects in the free software world.
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In this interview, Kirk Reiser, creator of the Speakup screen reader for the Linux console, shares the history, design, and motivation behind one of the most...Stormux (YouTube)
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All right, English teachers, copy editors, lovers of the language and fellow grammarians, this song’s for you!Every so often on the podcast I used to run, Li...Jonathan Mosen (YouTube)
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Automate App Store Connect and Apple Ads from your terminal. TestFlight, releases, metadata, signing, analytics, campaigns, and CI/CD. Install: brew install ascRudrank Riyam (asc - App Store Connect CLI)
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here are my thoughts about #onionshare .
(note: as of now, i have only tried out the chatting functions).
for the chatting, it's actually quite straightforward, and accessible.
i haven't had too many problems with the accessibility with NVDA as of now.
other than it being god damned slow when connecting to tor, i like it so far.
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OnionShare is a tool for anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing, chatting, and web hosting.onionshare.org
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This repository provides independently loadable Emacspeak speech interfaces for packages that are not fully supported in Emacspeak itself. The current extensions cover Corfu, Vertico, Which-Key, Markdown Mode, Helm, and agent-shell. The repository also provides optional native Windows speech and auditory-icon support for Emacspeak running under WSL.
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#emacs #emacspeak #foss #wsl #accessibility #blind
Speech enabling emacs packages . Contribute to bartbunting/emacspeak-support development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Time to make the top-menu on curl.se better? more keyboard and mobile-friendly.
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Description This replaces the site's hover-dependent navigation with a more accessible system for keyboard, touchscreen, and screen-reader users. It requires no JavaScript and adds no dependenc...GitHub
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