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Amount of hours spent to keep a default #chatmail onboarding relay with 500k active addresses running: near zero.

Glancing at stats sometimes: two million messages per day. CPU and IO load at 20% max. 500gb raid1 ssd meandering around 60 percent full. There is room for various optimizations but no big need currently.

end-to-end encryption with metadata minimization is best if servers are boring. No clustering or enterprise license needed, no "SRE team" either.

github.com/chatmail/relay/

GitHub - chatmail/relay: chatmail service deployment scripts and docs

chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com

This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.

Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.

#Windows #SysadminLife

The Magic Number Database | MagnumDB

The Magic Number Database. Type a value and it will return the corresponding constant, and vice versa. Contains 360,000 values!
www.magnumdb.com
#Windows #sysadminlife

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📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸

Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.

Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.

Details 👇

podnews.net/article/rne-blocks…

#RNE #OpenPodcasting #PodNews #RTVE

Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps

The broadcaster has decided to block a free podcast app without notice.
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#rne #OpenPodcasting #podnews #rtve @James Cridland

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Iago

this has just been fixed, thanks to an user on the forum, who was able to contact the right person.

Also tagging @victorhck who posted about this

It would be awesome if you could make an update on the situation, so people no it is now fixed!

@Victorhck
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Hey #fedihelp,

I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.

Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.

Code here: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Thank you!

Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
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I ended up settling on just hardcoding an exact size for each grid entry in "dp", then scaling it up until it "felt right" and going with that. It should work. I'm still annoyed Android widgets are so limiting but well, this will be good enough to ship I think.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Now for a good night's rest and then some final cleanups after work. Then this can probably be shipped with the next release :)

Widget with all cards by realwk · Pull Request #2566 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Added grid-style widget for all cards Changed card view background to fill it with color even if there is picture
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Lukáš Tyrychtr's talk on screen readers in GNOME #guadec2025
#guadec2025

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Interesting #GUADEC talk by Lukáš about the screen reader infrastructure. Turns out, the org.fd.a11y interface (that I'm playing around with in niri) is very recent, first appeared in GNOME 48. No wonder I couldn't find many docs or examples for that
#GUADEC

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First post on the Arch Linux development blog:

Specifications - David Runge

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#archlinux #linux #blog #alpm

Specifications

Notes on the growing documentation of the ALPM project.
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#linux #blog #archlinux #alpm

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Baha! I knew there was a reason I liked AdGuard. You can now block Microsoft's recall with it. Yay! adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-fo…

AdGuard for Windows v7.21: More protection against Windows tracking

Recall is a feature that takes screenshots of your activity throughout the day. And yes, we have a few privacy concerns about that. So we’ve added a way to block it completely.
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In case anyone finds this useful, I added a "ReaKontrol: Reconnect" action to #ReaKontrol which allows you to reconnect to your Kontrol keyboard if it isn't connected when you first start #REAPER or it gets disconnected while REAPER is running. Otherwise, you have to restart REAPER, which is deeply irritating. reakontrol.jantrid.net/

ReaKontrol

reakontrol.jantrid.net
#reaper #reakontrol

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Some good primer on Android accessibility development. Robust roles on Android tpgi.com/robust-roles-on-andro…

Robust roles on Android - TPGi

Threading through the inner workings of Android's accessibility framework, this article describes the best techniques for defining an element's role.
John Lilly (TPGi)

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With the current news of possibly dozens of AUR packages hosting a dangerous form of malware, we should probably once again, for yet more reasons, reconsider why so many people point newcomers to Arch-based distributions.

The amount of "just do this random AUR bro" is insane.

(EDIT: This is the mailing list post - lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

More packages have been found since, and the story is unfolding.)

[SECURITY] firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

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Me and @alexchapman have just been screwing around with this thing called Omni Describer, a Windows program that uses AI to make audio descriptions out of videos. It uses Google Gemini for the actual describing part, and it can either use OpenAI or SAPI 5 for TTS. It has some issues, like the TTS interrupting itself during descriptions, but other than that, it's pretty cool. forum.audiogames.net/topic/568…
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Thank you @notnotrachit for sharing your experience of implementing notifications "the FOSS way" in this blog post!

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Implementing App notifications: The FOSS way

The Beginning: Building My First "Real" App Recently, I embarked on building a...
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@Rachit Khurana

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Ærion

Even as a non-developer, I found this well written article of great interest. It explained a few things about #UnifiedPush I wasn't aware of, and has given me better insight into how it functions.

It's clear now that there simply isn't any excuse for developers to use #FCM for notifications. I sincerely hope UnifiedPush will gain traction, not only amongst #FOSS developers, but the Android developer community at large.

It's perhaps worth noting that users of #Conversations (and its forks) already have a distributor included in their client, thus further lowering the bar of entry.

@notnotrachit @daniel @snikket_im

#conversations #foss #UnifiedPush #fcm @Snikket @Daniel Gultsch @Rachit Khurana
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Boosts appreciated: I am working on an #accessibility wiki, because info on accessibility for #blind people is fragmented. It is not ready for public release, but I would like to invite volunteers to help me improve the site. I need to get web devs, server maintainers, moderators, writers, and whoever else would be able to contribute. Please send me a DM if you're interested.
#Accessibility #blind

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there's a lot to like about Tiddlywiki but not if you want to use it in a way where you aren't just using some background html file sync between devices. If you want to access it *via a website*, every time you load it you're downloading a minimum of 2MB, much larger depending on how much data you have in there and possibly even file embeds (unless you use the File upload plugin thing and have it dump the files into S3/WebDav)

This sucks big time. If you have spotty data service you won't be able to open your "notes" reliably.

This is a huge red flag for me. If I only cared about using Tiddlywiki from one device it would be a pretty amazing solution though

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> WireGuard uses the system time as a reliable monotonic counter. If this jumps forward, a user might DoS their own keys, by making it impossible to later have a value larger, or an adversary controlling system time could store a handshake initiation for use later. If it jumps backwards, handshakes will similarly be impossible. Thus, the system time should not be under the control of a hostile adversary.

oh good i'll make sure to remind the adversaries to not touch my time source

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If you've ever seen a minidisk, you know how reasonably small it is. The Crucial X10 8TB drive I picked up recently is not the size of a minidisk, it's actually smaller than it.
I just find that incredibly impressive. I know technology is advancing so quickly, but I'm used to the size of standard NVME drives, which are long and ram-stick-like. The internals fascinate me but not enough to crack the thing open for well, reasons...
I wonder if they stacked the nand in some interesting config inside the casing to get it so small? Is it even NVME at all? I know they come in multiple sizes, so maybe it's a few of the smaller sized chips instead. Anyway, sometimes I can still be impressed by today's tech. It's not just all stinky AI slop, you know?

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Tamas G

@Brynify @pixelate yeah, a lot of audio folks I know like to keep the raw uncompressed audio of each channel recording on the podcast, add those together for 2-3 people and you're counting around 4-6 GB per hour easily. Just 2-3 months of that and you've probably filled up close to a terabyte, poof. Not wrong though, having that raw copy is really good for going back or if ever needing to make a part more clear in edit or (less ideally) later.
@Devin Prater :blind:
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Andre Louis

@Tamasg @Brynify @pixelate I keep:
Original logic project which stays as.wav. Two mics usually, unless I bring the kids in.
Mono 24 bit 48 K.
Edited flac files , one cold copy without music, one copy with music.
MP3 gets sent to platforms, so yeah. It adds up quickly.
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Does anyone know of any #FreeSoftware implementations of the #RCS encrypted messaging protocol? There is the nine year old
github.com/android-rcs/rcsjta I wonder if that is usable?

#E2EE #Android #messaging

GitHub - android-rcs/rcsjta: RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API

RCS-e stack for Android with GSMA API. Contribute to android-rcs/rcsjta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#FreeSoftware #android #rcs #messaging #e2ee

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100K. One hundred thousand. That's a lot of #Catima users! And happy users, it seems, looking at that 4.5 star rating ❤️

Just, wow, I never expected my little hobby app to reach 100K active users, and that's just on #GooglePlay, still excluding other app stores like #IzzyOnDroid, #FDroid, direct downloads from #GitHub and sketchy app piracy sites (please don't use that last one, for your own safety 😅)!

Very cool :)

#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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Last month, I spent about a week working on Plasma Bigscreen, hoping to get it back in Plasma releases again!

Read about it on my blog: espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-…

#kde

Diving into Plasma Bigscreen | espidev

I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor, but I have always had a keen interest in having Linux on my TV! I have noticed that in the past few months, the Plasma Bigscreen project has had some interest from people wanting to contribute, but t…
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Hey everyone, #Linux Access appears to be live! This is a really fantastic resource for beginning Blind Linux users! linuxaccess.org/ #Accessibility #A11y

Home

Welcome to Linux Access This is your central hub for all things related to accessibility on Linux. Here you’ll find articles, tips, and resources written by the community to help make Linux more usable for everyone.
Linux Access
#a11y #Accessibility #linux

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Tohle jsou pro Linux důležité milníky. Opravdu populární gaming youtubeři začínají zkoušet Bazzite (gaming Linux distro). Tenhle má přes 4M odběratelů.

Zrovna Bazzite má potenciál se stát standardem pro hraní. Už jen kvůli tomu, že člověk jde na jeho web, vybere výrobce GPU, vybere si GNOME nebo KDE a po instalaci hraje. Zkuste tohle s Windows.

youtu.be/Sa8nMiEoti0

I FINALLY listened to you and tried Linux... Why did I wait so long?

This is the FIRST video I have ever made using Linux as a windows replacement for a gaming system and it was REALLY easy! I should have done this sooner! Che...
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Jiří Eischmann

Jsem moc rád, že to vzniká na Fedoře. Lidi jako @jorge tomu dávají potřebnou energii navíc, kterou mi už v tom věčném kolotoči nejrůznějších požadavků nemáme.
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🔩 Adam Štrauch

@sesivany @jorge Já jsem z dění kolem Universal Blue nadšen. Myslím, že perfektně Fedoru doplňuje. Jsou tam inovace, na které ve Fedoře nezbývá prostor. Každý den se mi honí hlavou, zda neudělat rebase na Bluefin, ale drží mě zpátky, že to mám jako pracovní stroj a vyladit čistou instalaci Silverblue mi naposled zabralo 4 dny.
@Jiří Eischmann
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Úvod do Fediverse: Moderní podoby sociální sítě
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Toto video je barvitým úvodem do sociální sítě Fediverse, natočené režisérkou a propagátorkou Fediverse Elenou Rossini. Objevte nový svět sociálních médií, kde je respektováno Vaše soukromí, klíčoví jsou uživatelé a velké technologické společnosti nemají žádný vliv.

Autor videa: Elena Rossini a tým
Produkce: Jan
Dabing: Zloběna
Časování audia: Schmaker
Skript: Jann

#fediverse #Open Social Web

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As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.

Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.

We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #GTK4 #GTK #Libadwaita #Accessibility #a11y #Linux #AccessibilityInFreeSoftware

Make the event widget accessible (!559) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

This implements button functionality to make it able to focus and activate it. This also sets the appropriate accessibility role and labels/descriptions. Related:
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#a11y #Accessibility #linux #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #GTK4 #calendar #gnomecalendar #accessibilityinfreesoftware
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TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

This goes without saying: If you have some money to spare, I would genuinely appreciate it. I am not getting paid a single dollar from the work I'm doing (I wish I did).

At the time of writing this post, the merge request for making the month view accessible is sitting at around 500 lines diff, but that diff will only get bigger and bigger. A good portion of that time is also spent with my eyes closed with a screen reader. It takes a lot of time and energy to understand how everything connects in GNOME Calendar and researching about accessibility in a calendar app.

- ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
- github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…

Sponsor @TheEvilSkeleton on GitHub Sponsors

Support TheEvilSkeleton's open source work
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ThonkDifferent

Thank you for the great work. I think it would be great if we could also have a GUADEC 2025 workshop on GTK/Libadwaita accessibility since that’s often overlooked.
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Emmanuele Bassi

there’s a workshop starting at 9 on Sunday about application accessibility at GUADEC

events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
GNOME Events (Indico)
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In case anybody needs to configure ASCII Braille support on their Mac for some reason, here's how:

1. Go to Voice Over Utility -> menu -> File -> Export Preferences

2. A save dialog will appear, pick a location on disk somewhere and save the file.

3. Open the file you just saved in any text editor. TextEdit should be good enough.

4. Find the following line:

<key>SCRCUserDefaultsBrailleTableGuideItems</key>

Use your editor's find feature (usually command + f) to do this.

5. Below this line, you should have a line containing <array>, followed by a few lines beginning with <string>, followed by </array>

6. Somewhere inbetween the <array> and </array>, make a new blank line and insert the following text:

<string>com.apple.scrod.braille.table.liblouis.ascii</string>

7. Save the file.

8. In VO Utility, go to Menu -> File -> Import preferences.

9. Pick the file you just edited, agree to replace preferences.

10. Congratulations, ASCII Braille should now be in your Braille table list.

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Hey folks. I've noticed #DeltaChat hasn't got a page in #Wikipedia. Do you know sources which would prove its notability so we could create a page for it?

Boosts appreciated. If you don't know sources, someone else might.

#AskFedi #Email #IM #Messenger #chatmail #chatmailrelay #FOSS #opensource #tech #technology #software

#foss #email #opensource #askfedi #technology #software #messenger #wikipedia #tech #deltachat #im #chatmail #chatmailrelay

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Today is July 2nd, 2025. 9,131 days ago was January 1st, 2000. In 9,131 days it will be January 1st, 2050. Starting tomorrow, we’ll be closer to 2050 than to 2000. Now just live with it

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New post: Able Player version 4.6.0 joedolson.com/2025/06/able-pla…

Able Player version 4.6.0 - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility

I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin. This isn't a particularly
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#Gnome #Files (#Nautilus) has a bulk rename tool for some time now, but literally every single time I try to use it I fail. Really, everytime I need to rename batch of files, I try it first in this tool, I recognize that my task is not possible done in it and than start totalcmd in wine just for this simple operation.
Are my needs so advanced? I don't think so.
For example now I want to add xml extension to all badly named log files. Impossible.
#gnome #nautilus #files

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Štěpán Škorpil

Actually when you open rename tool, it prefills it with pattern [Original file name] and extension is completely omitted from renaming.

We need to not omit extensions, add them as separate place holder [Originial file extension] and just prefill them when rename dialog opens as [Original file name][Originial file extension]

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@gnome I just noticed the disability pride flag in the profile picture, I didn't expect it but I love it! Especially as I know it's important for many members of our community, like myself.

Despite the accessibility issues of our project and despite misinformed critics (I have no issue with informed critics), I know we are actively working on better accessibility, and that it's particularly implemented by disabled members of the GNOME community.

@GNOME

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Just started using #MailPit for dev environments. It's an SMTP testing tool that basically simulates receiving emails sent by your app via SMTP so your app has no idea it's not production. It has some little accessibility quirks like unlabeled buttons here and there, but in general it's quite a thing. Again, I've only started, maybe my opinion will change.
#mailpit

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#AudioMo 28:

When times were better, my partner and her family used to go to the Bronx zoo almost every weekend. I only did this a few times.

One such time, October 5, 2013, I recorded this from just outside the sea lion pool. ?Captured with a pair of Sound Professionals MS-BMC3 microphones on glasses and an Olympus LS14 recorder. The image is what I would consider quasi-binaural, best heard with headphones.

#audiomo

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I just updated my builds of DECtalk 4.99, and this includes an NVDA addon that is compatible with 2025.1. datajake.braillescreen.net/tts…

Index of /tts/DECtalk 4.99/

datajake.braillescreen.net

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I've just noticed piped.video can still be used for playing videos. It's just that the public instance at piped.video and some other instances require registration.
@Archos and friends, please have you explored ways to eventually host it at @Oscloud ?
I'd host it my-self but I don't have a spare machine at the location with suitable ipv6 range for being somewhat resilient to youtube throttling attempts.

Thanks for considering

@Archos @Oscloud
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Oscloud

We used to run Invidious, but it's pretty much unusable now due to Google's throttling.
We're not currently planning to replace it on Oscloud, but Piped seems like a better option – maybe in the future.
@archos
@Archos
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"ai"-generated image captions are fucking shit

masto.ai/@HourlyPornhubbedHeat…

this one hallucinates a cat, says the dog is standing, mistakes the pink blobs for balloons and hallucinates a yellow balloon, makes up trees that aren't there, and doesn't mention the main focus of the comic, which is the two animals flying through the air thanks to the bubble gum bubbles they're making!

but yeah no cool, really really great technology for disabled people: just lie to blind folks about what's in a picture! what could go wrong!

garbage garbage garbage, if you're pushing this shit technology instead of advocating for people to take a minute to write a decent alt text then fuck you

:smh:

Hourly Pornhubbed Heathcliff 🔞 (@HourlyPornhubbedHeathcliff@masto.ai)

Attached: 1 image #Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewd
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modulux

It's unreliable, but it's better than the alternative which in most cases is nothing. Descriptions of unusual images are iffy, but for example finding out what a screen says, which lights are on on a router, what sort of liquid is in a jar... Lots of blind people are benefiting from this routinely. And there are no good alternatives. There's no reasonable world where we can count on a sighted person being always there to describe anything.
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Robert Kingett

I hear what you're saying about VI people using it. There are other options. Like, it's not like we're left without options. For example of a description effort without AI, explain how #Alt4Me works so well on here, as an alternative. Is it just a fluke in your eyes? @modulux @dumpsterqueer
#ALT4me @tobi is writing bugs @modulux
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modulux

Oh, that's definitely viable for images posted on the fedi. But image description of things around us for example is a lot harder. If I need to know what's around me, or what things are on a shelf or such, there's not much way around it. Projects with human volunteers are fine, but, for me at least, I'm pretty inhibited about letting some stranger see my living environment and such.
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bri

as someone who ran a heathcliff edit account on twitter for years, hand-wrote alt text for four comics posts every day, and convinced several of the other folks in that community to do the same, the alternative is this. it is doing the work, writing the text.

and while i might agree with you that it’s better than nothing on a silly social media post, it’s real bad in my professional life where it just lies about financial numbers in a chart &c.

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Right, where alt text can be provided, a human should provide it. But the world doesn't come with alt text, and can't. There are lots of things that can be done in tech to mitigate it, for example a device might beep in order to give feedback instead of just having lights. But there's tons of visual information in the world that's not really subject to this sort of solution.
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i get it, i just really worry about the ‘better than nothing’ argument when like… even the op we were talking about… sure it’s low-stakes, but that alt text has zero bearing on the actual image. is having a fundamentally different experience really what we want to be pushing? and again, it trickles down and is getting harder and harder to push back on stuff in my professional life where it’s like… actually important. it worries me.
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Yeah, worries me too; and I definitely don't want AI to be another excuse for people to give up on alt text or a11y, which already some people are doing. I'm just saying, there are cases for which I really can't see how it would be possible to do better, regarding descriptions of physical things in the world.
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Hi, I will be one week in #Prague to learn #CzechLanguage in a language school. Does anybody like to meet and speak with me in Czech, so I can practise? In #Praha or later, when I travel for another week through #CzechRepublic.

I can offer Tandem in German or Farsi.

Please share, if you know peoble in Czech. #FediHelp

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Just so you know, #OsmAnd is celebrating its 15th anniversary with 50% off its plans, which you can now pay for directly without paying the 'app tax' to Google or Apple.

I highly recommend OsmAnd — it's a Swiss army knife for maps! Open source. Based on #OpenStreetMap.

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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

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Imagine not having to worry about what OS you use because of accessibility so much that you can literally refuse to run stock Android for privacy reasons. Day in the life of a sighted nerd, a pipedream for blind ones.

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#AudioMo day23:

Did you know that there is hidden morse code all throughout Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' album?

Somehow, probably during the two-track mix-down stage of the album, the CW from a powerful, very low frequency transmitter about 37 miles north of the studio in which this album was recorded found it's way to tape. It's centered at 16 kHz, and so low in the mix that you can't actually hear it... at least, not without some help.

This is a very short, not particularly comprehensive demo using two different methods -- a pair of stock Reaper plugins and an SDR package to mostly isolate this morse transmission, which is heard throughout the entire album.

References:
Hidden Morse Code in Tubular Bells madpsy.uk/link-between-the-sou…

The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells youtube.com/watch?v=o3UJAfuvni…

The Hidden Signal Inside A Platinum Selling Album - Tubular Bells

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