We are starting a new series of weekly articles, diving into Jami's developments through our programmers' work. 🤹♂️
The 1st one is "What's New On iOS" and just got posted.
The full article in the link below!
https://jami.net/whats-new-on-ios/
Jami - What's New On iOS?
Since September 2023, there have been major changes on iOS. Discover Jami's new features for iPhone.Loïc Bogino (Jami)
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Pieter Vander Vennet's Diary | MapComplete: 2023 in review | OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Peter Vágner reshared this.
RevK's privacy-friendly GPS logger
My very clever friend, @revk, has been making a GPS logger which requires no third party account or server, after I said I was looking for one.
Here are my initial thoughts on using it.
tl;dr: it just works. It automatically logs our journeys to an on-board micro-SD card, and uploads them, via https POST, to my webserver, when it connects to Wi-Fi. And it runs Free software!
reshared this
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Does anyone have a working Android 6 or Android 7 device in a drawer somewhere that they want to donate to the #Conversations_im project? (Anything higher or lower doesn’t work unfortunately)
While refactoring A/V calls I got myself into a situation where I can no longer verify that calls are working on these devices without access to a physical devices. (Emulator has knows issues when it comes to A/V calls.)
The oldest device I have access to *shipped* with Android 8 (and runs Lineage OS 17)
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Have you seen the Stack Overflow Developer Survey results for 2023?
Of the 83,830 folks surveyed, Matrix is the #1 chat tool in terms of current users' satisfaction. It's also rated as the most desirable among the open source tools listed, but there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in awareness there.
Let's build on this in 2024! 🚀 https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-desired-synchronous-tools
#Matrix #StackOverflow #FOSS #OpenSource
Peter Vágner likes this.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Sigh, more work to do...
@spaetz Oof, that's tough! We are so grateful for your advocacy.
This is definitely a sign of the work we need to do to increase awareness! As we get the Foundation more fully operationalized we hope to provide some materials to help introduce more folks to Matrix.
We're encouraged to see universities like TU Dresden and MIT running their own Matrix homeservers and want to help encourage more of that 🚀
GitHub - myshell-ai/OpenVoice: Instant voice cloning by MyShell.
Instant voice cloning by MyShell. Contribute to myshell-ai/OpenVoice development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Peter Vágner reshared this.
If you are a Caddy 2 user, now the Caddyfile is greatly simplified, thanks to a reported bug being fixed for Caddy-CGI 2. Grab your copy at https://github.com/Flameborn/Kiramoji/releases/tag/v3.4
Release V3.4 · Flameborn/Kiramoji
This release adds swatch/internet time support when displaying dates (thanks @chaoskaiser72), and simplifies the Caddyfile for Caddy 2.GitHub
Peter Vágner reshared this.
reshared this
reshared this
Any of my #firefox peoples want to try this extension? Same guy that made it for Chrome with my sounds in. This apparently works without fuss, but I don't use firefox so can't prove it. https://github.com/LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds/
Edit: This is now a signed firefox addon and works when clicking the below link without any fuss at all. I have now tested this myself: https://onj.me/browser-ui-sounds.xpi
GitHub - LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds: An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for important events in the browser
An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for important events in the browser - GitHub - LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds: An extension for Chromium-based browsers that plays sounds for...GitHub
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage
Statement regarding the ongoing SourceHut outage
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.outage.sr.ht
reshared this
Best of luck and I want patiently for it to be back up! I love the service and didn't realize how much I relied on it until this moment.
And my mirrors are on Codeberg as well :(
It's pretty frustrating to hear about a simultaneous attack on Codeberg. It makes me wonder who would want to DDoS attack two smaller source forges? I can't imagine it'd be a larger source forge company (e.g. MS or GitLab), so I am a bit stumped.
I quite like srht's build service. I feel some people might not like the lack of configuration in the website, but I figure you're usually doing your CI work in code anyways, why not make the builds like that as well? Also the API is super simple too, so it's just overall great.
Good luck bringing it back.
I heard good things about F5’s L3 DDoS protection, but I doubt it’s cheaper than Cloudflare.
It's written by @RastislavKish and here it is: https://www.freelists.org/post/orca/Can-be-Linux-used-as-a-daily-driver-system-for-blind-users,5
[orca] Re: Can be Linux used as a daily driver system for blind users? - orca - FreeLists
[orca] Re: Can be Linux used as a daily driver system for blind users?, orca at FreeListswww.freelists.org
RastislavKish likes this.
I would like to share a very cool project I've been working on with a couple of other very talented developers: SVT-AV1 PSY
https://github.com/gianni-rosato/svt-av1-psy
SVT-AV1-PSY is the Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding. The goal is to create the best encoding implementation for perceptual quality with AV1.
We've already implemented a couple of unique features not present in mainline that do appear to produce BD-rate gains on a number of clips already!! Please check it out!
GitHub - gianni-rosato/svt-av1-psy: The Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding
The Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder) with perceptual enhancements for psychovisually optimal AV1 encoding - GitHub - gianni-rosato/svt-av1-psy: The Scalable Video Tec...GitHub
reshared this
(new blog post)
https://blog.tenstral.net/2024/01/wayland-really-breaks-things-just-for-now.html
reshared this
I'll ask a contact about AT-SPI specifically, but my impression was that these things were always used with some abstraction on top of AT-SPI in a larger test framework. One definite issue with AT-SPI is the documentation (more would always help, since it is very complex).
Some smaller apps I know now use QTest, which uses Qt internals for testing, so no AT-SPI is involved there.
@matt https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18
See, this is exactly the problem here. The blog posts makes it seem like all the people involved in wayland don't care about making the applications work well on wayland. We suggested that this protocol can be used with another new protocol to solve 90% of the use cases. This was dismissed because of the missing 10%. Instead of pushing the protocol that everyone wants we now have another protocol that doesn't go anywhere.
staging: Add xdg-session-management protocol (!18) · Merge requests · wayland / wayland-protocols · GitLab
For a variety of cases it's desirable to have a method for negotiating the restoration of previously-used states for a client's windows. This helps for e.g., a compositor/client...GitLab
@matt This is in a way the session-management protocol.
But consider this: What if an application has an IDE layout[1] or a layout like GIMP's multi-window mode where windows need to be initilly placed in relation to each other? What if a window needs to show up next to a UI control, like for docked windows in docked UIs or for picture-in-picture displays?
For that, the compositor at least needs to know an initial placement as well, restoration-only will not work.
[1]: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/images/d/dc/Lazarus1_6_Linux_Mint_17_2.png
I attended today's presentation where Deane Blazie introduced the new BTSpeak. Much of what he discussed can also be found on the Blazie Technologies Web site which was mentioned toward the end of the presentation. https://www.blazietech.com/
Here are my notes that I took which have hardly been edited.
Deane said nobody had done an equivalent Bns. Deand and Bryan (one of his sons) were working with Raspberry PI with a Braille keyboard to make a new 21st century Bns.
Based on Raspberry PI, inside is a computer module 4, has 4 cores, equivalent to a low end or possibly midrange laptop.
About the size of an iPhone Pro
8-key Braille keyboard.
Also has music and media player can stream from Pandora
Has learning application for learning how to type on a Braille keyboard
Comes with Lynx Web browser
Runs on Linux
Builtin calculator, clock and calendar
Hdmi port for monitor
Usb c for charging or plugging in keyboards, usb stick for storage
Micro Sd card slot
He was not sure of max capacity but 256 gb is possible
Has wifi
Has small CHATGpt app but you need a token
Uses Dectalk and ESpeak
Dectalk is from Human Voice LLC which is allowing them to use it for free
Has capability to do voice commands.
Deane said “weather” to get a weather forecast.
Has a around half dozen commands.
Has dictionary.
BTRadio is a Pandora app.
Has a Bible
Morse code application
From systems menu there is an audio menu for speech synthesizer selection
From any menu or application you can get context specific help for that program
Product will have two versions: basic and a Pro version.
Pro will have desktop Linux using Orca.
Uses RPI version of Debian
Pro version will have LibreOffice.
Has a PDF reader.
Standard unit supports text and Braille files, need Pro for full Office support.
Will we have NLS support: we don’t have NLS working with it. Not sure about Newsline.
Has Bluetooth but no headphone jack but it will have an adapter for the USB port for a headphone jack
1.5 ghz
Cost 795 for basic
Pro costs 1195
Web site: blazietech.com
Units are still being developed but can’t be released until software is more refined.
Shipping in February
BTSpeak architecture cannot run Eloquence
Eloquence Was written for intel-based and older versions of Arm but not arm64
Has text editor in basic unit but can use LibreOffice in Pro unit
For editor it can do Braille translation just like bns did
Has 4 gb of ram and 32 gb of rom
Chrome works on the Pro version only
Blazie Technologies, LLc | "Assistive Technology" "Braille computer" "Braille"
Blazie Technologies, LLc makes computers and notetakers for the Blind user. Assistive Technology for the blind. BrailleBlazie Technology
reshared this
@pitermach Podobne wrażenia masz do moich. I tak pewnie tych urządzeń u nas w Polsce nie będzie, chociaż kto to wie.
PS. Harpo jakoś nie wdrożyło jak na razie tego swojego nowo projektowanego notatnika.
Blog: Converse.js webchat for prosody-hosted chatrooms
I wanted to make an easily accessible webchat for the rooms hosted on the yax.im #xmpp server, and this is the result / recipe.
https://op-co.de/blog/posts/prosody-converse-webchat/
@prosodyim @jcbrand@masodon.xyz
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
Introducing Spiel - A New Speech API and Framework
https://blog.monotonous.org/2024/01/10/Introducing-Spiel
Introducing Spiel | monotonous.org
A New Speech API and Framework I wrote the beginning of what I hope will be an appealing speech API for desktop Linux and beyond. It consists of two parts, a...blog.monotonous.org
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/
2023: Home Assistant's year of Voice
Our goal for 2023 is to let users control Home Assistant in their own language.Home Assistant
Zvýšený komfort pri písaní a editácii textu s qwerty a brailovou klávesnicou Corvus 10
V podobe vianočného darčeka existujúci používatelia aplikačného setu Corvus dostali k dispozícii verejnú beta verziu nadchádzajúcej verzie Corvus 10. Kompletný popis tejto verzie zverejnili samotní autori v článku o verzii Corvus 10 beta.Blindrevue
Revolučná betaverzia Corvus 2023.10.0 prináša vynovený čítač obrazovky, nové klávesnice a podporu pre KTN - Pélion
OCR v Android aplikáciách, ovládanie pomocou brailovej klávesnice, qwerty klávesnicu či podporu pre knižnicu KTN.Ondrej Rosík (Pélion - Vzdělávací portál pro zrakově postižené)
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
staging/accessibility/accessibility-v1.xml · accessibility · Matt Campbell / wayland-protocols · GitLab
freedesktop.org GitLab loginGitLab
like this
reshared this
I would encourage anyone with Wayland expertise to review this when it's ready for review/comment.
World Braille Day 2024
It’s World Braille Day! A blind teacher named Louis Braille created this tactile reading system, and now his birthday, January 4, is a day to celebrate this marvelous way to read! Braille exists in multiple languages, and I recently had the honor …Haben Girma
reshared this
25 years ago Jeremie Miller made an announcement of what would become the initiation, development and propagation of the #XMPP protocol until today!
Join the journey!
https://slashdot.org/story/99/01/04/1621211/open-real-time-messaging-system
Happy birthday,
XMPP!
#chat #jabber #opensource
Open Real Time Messaging System - Slashdot
Jeremie writes "Jabber is a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).slashdot.org
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
Asi už to nikdy nebude jak v roce 2008, kdy u mě na Mandrivě běželo Kopete a Pidgin, ale XMPP šlape stále a v rychlosti a v jednoduchosti na něj nemá myslím žádný messenger 👍
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#129 Hello 2024
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/01/twig-129/
reshared this
Jason J.G. White likes this.
reshared this
Access Kit reshared this.
I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.
I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.
If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.
Source: Form 990 https://stateof.mozilla.org/
Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source
The State of Mozilla: 2022 — 2023 Annual Report — Mozilla
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.stateof.mozilla.org
reshared this
@kzimmermann this is the compensation for the CEO of the Mozilla *Corporation* (who is also the chairman of the Foundation, but doesn't get compensation for that). You should not compare the CEO of MoCo with other no profit foundations, or small donation-driven software projects. Framasoft isn't getting 400mil USD per year out of deals with other companies.
That's why I said that the FSF doesn't do anything, compared to Mozilla.
reshared this
I am baffled when people talk about "the atmosphere" on Mastodon. Here, there is no algorithm forcing posts into your feed. The atmosphere is the one you have personally curated.
1) Scan a person's feed before you follow.
2) Turn off the boosts of anyone you otherwise like who boosts stuff you don't want to see.
3) Mute anyone you don't want to hear from at all.
4) Filter out words/phrases you don't want to see (you will have to do much less of this if you do the first three steps right).
Jason J.G. White likes this.
reshared this
Analogue FM radio transmission system turns 90 years old today
Analogue FM radio transmissions turn 90-years-old today after the technology was patented on December 26th 1933.The broadcasting platform was invented as a replacement for AM and today is being celebrated by Marco Rossignoli, coordinator of Aeranti-CRadioToday UK (RadioToday)
Sonny likes this.
Peter Vágner likes this.
NVDA 2024.1 Beta 2 is now available for anyone interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before its official release!
Changes introduced in Beta 2:
- Bug fixes for installing & uninstalling add-ons
- Speech text is no longer updated when the mouse moves in the Speech Viewer
- Syntax fixes for documentation
Updates to translations
Note: This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2023.3 and earlier.
Full info & Download at: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1beta2/
NVDA 2024.1beta2 available for testing
Beta2 of NVDA 2024.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…NV Access
reshared this
In 2014, my children’s wonderful Mum, Amanda, who is now a teacher of blind children, approached me with a problem of great significance.
She was teaching a blind girl who had written to Santa. But the child was worried that Santa wouldn’t be able to read the letter she had written, because it was in Braille. Amanda did her best to assure the child that Santa would have no problem with Braille, but the doubts remained.
Remembering the stories I used to tell our own children when they were younger, Amanda wondered if there might be anything I could do to help.
Well, it certainly made a pleasant change from my regular writing sessions trying to figure out technology and then explain it to other people.
The result was "Louis, the Blind Christmas Elf", which I gave to Amanda in written form.
Amanda loved the story, but came back and said, "why don't you do an audio version? You'd be good at that," again remembering all the funny voices I'd use when reading to our kids.
So, back I went into the studio, to create the narrated audio version.
The reaction to this little story has been so special, and heart-warming. I've heard from so many people. Teachers, parents, grandparents and consumer leaders have all written to me telling me how much the story has meant to them. And every year at this time, I get requests for it. It has now been translated into other languages and even turned into a play.
I'm deeply touched and honoured that it has meant so much to people.
In the spirit of being proud to be blind, I offer you this festive story and wish you a merry Christmas.
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
@Fanny Bui can you please post a public link to that Ohhfunk station if one already exists?
@Jonathan Mosen or anyone else, are you aware of translations of this story published somewhere?
I have found the original at mosen.org
This Christmas, I've finally bitten the bullet and done some serious contributing to @openstreetmap (and also joined the OSM Foundation while I was at it). Honestly, I think it's one of the great wonders of the #OpenSource internet, so I wrote a blog post about why I'm contributing (and you should too)
https://andreasthinks.me/posts/OSM_for_christmas/osm_for_xmas.html
#GIS #openstreetmap #GeoSpatial #christmas #DataScience #data
Andreas Varotsis - Why I’m Contributing to OpenStreetMap for Christmas…
…and maybe you should too!andreasthinks.me
MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
As it is a long, long tradition Conversations is available for free on the Google Play store for the last week of December.
This tradition was originally born so that when I meet people at Chaos Communication Congress and they ask what I do, they have an easy way to install Conversations. In that regard it's a very special year as we are seeing the return of CCC.
However if you are meeting loved ones to celebrate something else these days that’s fine too.🎄
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations
Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play
An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobileplay.google.com
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTwXqIiE018k3wMOeTqALmMaggvd1sGqOm3VCkbrDUIzHu7A/viewform?usp=sf_link
#braille #BrailleDisplays #AssistiveTEchnology #accessibility
Braille Display Usage
This questionnaire contains questions about the usage of Braille displays in any life situation (education, work, personal use).Google Docs
reshared this
#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google #ethics
LimeSurvey — Free Online Survey Tool
Survey Maker — LimeSurvey is an online survey tool to quickly create questionnaires, poll votes & surveys. ✦ Free ✦ Easy ✦ Open Source ➜ Start your survey now!www.limesurvey.org
If I were conducting a survey myself, I would host it on my own server.
MooMoo the Cat
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •Deus Figendi.jwd
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •I just found a OnePlus A3003 that should be shipped with Android 6 and might be updated to Android 7.
I'll charge it to check if it's working and which software version it's running.
Oh and it's probably Oxygen OS not vanilla Android.
~~~~~~
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •i have a motorola e lte 2015 (surnia)¹ somewhere. it would have los 17 on it but i could probably get it down to 14.1 (android 7.1.2). old android stock rom links seem to be all dead though
if that helps i'd try to locate it
¹https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/surnia/
Info about surnia | LineageOS Wiki
wiki.lineageos.orgNyx Phoenix
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •Billie
Unknown parent • • •Hi, we met at #37c3 , I am the #TinyWeatherForecastGermany #dev .
Is this what you look for?
Disclaimer: china refurbished, rom likely not original, bootloader locked because this is the AT&T US model.
Because of the locked bootloader, you cannot flash a custom recovery / rom on it.
las
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •