Writing a patch to try to address a performance problem and seeing that it provides a ~70x speed improvement for your test case is a rather nice feeling. :)
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I wrote a bit about my experience in Brussels attending a workshop from the European Commission and representing @kde and @neochat, in case this interest anyone :)
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Essential Excel Skills For Researchers, Parts 1 & 2 measuringu.com/excel-1/ and measuringu.com/excel-2/ Not my thing, but very good stuff here! #excel #research #spreadsheet #data #tips
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I wasn't sure this would be possible, but after almost a month of work, I've been able to convince Virtualization.framework to run an iOS 16 VM on my Mac. Now I just have to figure out how to press the Home button 😅
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Recently I've found a lightweight modern #opensource #audio #recorder app for #Android called #RecordYou. I like it that much so I've attempted to submit some #screenReader #accessibility improvements.
Let me know how do you like it once it's accepted.
github.com/Bnyro/RecordYou/pul…
This is my first experience with #Jetpack #Compose so bear with me and try to suggest improvements if you can please.
Let me know how do you like it once it's accepted.
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This is my first experience with #Jetpack #Compose so bear with me and try to suggest improvements if you can please.
Add some screen reader accessibility improvements by pvagner · Pull Request #48 · Bnyro/RecordYou
Set content descriptions and other tweaks where it makes sense so the app is usefull for screen reader users. Visually disabled and blind people are likelly to enjoy using modern audio recording ap...GitHub
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Kousek od Mnichova a Norma má české Horalky 😀
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I spent several hours over the last few days implementing WASAPI audio output for NVDA for some reason. As I suspected, I don't think it's really any more responsive, but I'm hoping it might eventually fix some tricky bugs with the old WinMM implementation, though it'll probably introduce a bunch of its own. Still quite some way to go before it's fully featured; e.g. it doesn't support any device other than the default yet, nor can it recover if a device disappears. #NVDASR
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Ooh, that's cool. Almost all the NVDA bugs I've seen are related to nvwave in one way or another, is this what you're replacing?
@TheQuinbox The internals of nvwave, yes. It'll still be nvwave for compatibility reasons, but the underlying implementation is entirely new. Most of the gruntwork is offloaded to C++ code.
I almost wish I hadn't started this NVDA + WASAPI thing. I've spent many hours on it now (713 lines of code so far) and now I probably won't be able to let it go until it's done. It works pretty well now, but there are still edge cases that need fixing; e.g. if you force a non-default device and then disconnect it mid playback. Ug.
I'm also providing an option to allow NVDA synth drivers to pass raw memory pointers for audio data instead of converting to a Python bytes object, which is a lot of unnecessary memory copying and overhead when the ultimate audio buffer is just raw memory (no Python objects) anyway. I've updated eSpeak and OneCore already and it works quite nicely, though I don't really notice a difference on my system.
@leonardder Currently, it's API breaking for synths which choose to use it in that they won't work with the old nvwave. Synths using the old method will still work with the new nvwave though. However, I realised there's a way to implement the raw pointer thing with the old nvwave. It can just convert to a Python bytes buffer on the fly.
New blog post: Client-side comments with #Mastodon on a static #Jekyll website at jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jeky…
Replies to this toot will show up as comments on my blog! It's magic! And this post explains how that works.
Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website
For many, many years this blog was a complicated, outdated and slow Wordpress instance. It became a constant bad thought: “You really need to update/fix/speed up that thing”. A while ago I did just that.Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
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Nice approach for comments, but have you considered publishing your own toots on the site?
The Minimal Mistakes theme complicates matters here, as it seems to expect post titles. Been wondering if that’s something we can work around.
Something like @lindsaykwardell set up via @astro, but for Jekyll: lindsaykwardell.com/blog/integ…
Integrating Mastodon with Astro
I didn't want to run a personal Mastodon instance, but I wanted to incorporate it into my personal domain. Let's explore what we can do to integrate with the Fediverse!Lindsay Wardell
There's a serious opportunity for #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub systems to implement properly secure DMs by integrating #Matrix from @Matrix.org .
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What's closed web about matrix? Would your concerns apply also to other activitypub systems like friendica or pleroma and the like?
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matrix is a gold #4opens project but has 2 issues it's a defacto open "industrial" standard and it has semi opaque governance issues. Not big problems.
The issue is pushing #closedweb thinking into a #openweb project. Why do we need to add secure DM's to mastodon, exactly, and what would be added by this and what would be lost?
Let's look at an example, backups and security, currently on #mastodon and the whole #Fediverse the is an understanding that nothing is actually private (ok mastodon keeps telling white lies about this, i don't blame them) so we trust our admins not to spy, and we don't stress about the lossyness of it all.
Add the security of secret chat, and you add a whole another stress to running an instance. Why do we need to do this?
@Hamishcampbell in what way is matrix.org/foundation and spec.matrix.org semi-opaque (or a de facto standard)? :/ (we’re also proposing Matrix to IETF, but even if we weren’t, the Matrix Foundation is very much a real standards entity - just as much as the XSF or even W3C)
@eibhear Secure DMs mean that people can only run native clients, and that the web interface becomes useless for DMs. Most security people that I know of regard cryptography with JavaScript in the browser as a joke in poor taste.
If you want secure DMs then just use apps which have been designed for that purpose.
@Hamishcampbell Integration would be done client side for end to end encryption, by defining how to link identities between ActivityPub and Matrix.
Gained: privacy
Lost: ability to spy
That would be great. Already at #Socialcoop we use Matrix for operational discussions. It would be great to see the two services integrated more tightly.
At @medlab we also use Matrix and Mastodon together with integrated user management through @cloudron
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Prosody 0.12.3 released!
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Prosody 0.12.3 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch. This is a bugfix release for our stable 0.12 series. Most notably, it fixes a regression for SQL users introduced in 0.12.blog.prosody.im
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Accessible #PowerPoint presentations: benjystanton.co.uk/blog/access… #ppt #a11y #presenting #tips
Accessible PowerPoint presentations
A collection of tips for making PowerPoint presentations more accessible.www.benjystanton.co.uk
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I really love how accessible Azure is. This is not accidental accessibility, somebody out there definitely cares. Seeing such a mainstream product get that level of care is really rare.
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Pandořina skřínka jménem AI otevřena: nejsme připraveni na tak rychlé tempo
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Pandořina skřínka jménem AI otevřena: nejsme připraveni na tak rychlé tempo
Džin byl vypuštěn z lahve, jmenuje se ChatGPT. Dalšího džina vypustil Microsoft, Google a kdo ví o kolika dalších chytrých džinech ještě nevíme. Je dobré sdílet nadšení z příchodu AI do lidského světa?David Ježek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
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Novináři si stále zřetelněji uvědomují, že ze všech možných apokalyps, které je připraví o práci, je nejprodávanější ta, která právě nebude spočívat v ničem jiném, než že je připraví o práci 
Telegram on iOS now reads what a message is in reply to! Just wait until the end of the reply, and you'll hear it. This is going to make my experience just 10000 times better
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Dear @Thunderbird ,
I know you are changing for the better. However while testing Thunderbird 111 daily I would like to see some gradual improvements so it becomes ready for most userf of Thunderbird 115 in terms of #screenreader #accessibility once it's declared stable.
Positive things I have noticed:
We have brand new message list that no longer renders all the messages in selected folder at once but only those that are visible on the screen and ready for the user interaction. From my point of view it looks similar to infinite lists on mobile platforms. Most importantly it almost fully elliminates enormous lag when browsing huge message lists on linux with #orca #screenreader running. I was curious enough and I have tested imap folder with up to 75000 messages inside.
It is still possible to use F6 and shift+F6 to move the keyboard focus from the folder tree to the message list and back.
Message list has headers that are used for sorting and a popup menu for setting up visible columns almost from the begining of Thunderbird existence. From now on these controls are finally accessible to screenreader users. And we are now able to configure sorting and show / hide individual columns.
We can still use ctrl+shift+k to show / hide the filter entry. Also there are accessible buttons alongside the filter entry that allow quick filtering the list such as labelled messages, messages with attachments, starred messages, messages from addressbook contacts, unread messages, even ability to keep the filter active when changing folders. Some of these features were already there earlier but now these are accessible to keyboard users including screenreader users.
Now features that need some polishing:
It appears we can now open individual message folders on a new tab / in a new window however this feature needs some fixes. For example when navigating using up and down arrow keys in the folder tree, pressing shift+F10 first moves focus to the parent folder and displays popup menu for that parent item instead of currently selected one.
When navigating in huge list new selection is not properly reported to assistive technologies while scrolling. For example press end to move to the last message. Now press up arrow key several times to navigate back a message and notice how screenreader is reporting new selection as it happens. Now press the page up key to move the selection by the larger increment. New message is highlighted but the selection changed event is not fired properly or it's getting mixed with some spurious focus event on an unlabelled pannel. Some screen readers are able to filter out these but I think it would be nice to address it at the source rather than working it around.
Now the main window has a lot of focusable controls and it is no longer comfortable to use tab and shift+tab to navigate. It would be nice if buttons were grouped in a toolbar like controls implementing toolbar pattern the way it's explained at
w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/t…
It's nice that ability to reconfigure message list columns is now fully accessible to keyboard and screen reader users however accessible name of each item in the message list does not yet respect these settings. Subject is the only content that is communicated to assistive tools when navigating in the list using arrow keys. This is major issue and will likely be considered as a regression if it won't be addressed before releasing the stable version.
When navigating in the list of messages it is possible to select multiple messages for executing actions on them. I am afraid the fact multiple messages are selected or not selected is not properly communicated to assistive tools. This is major issue for screenreader users.
It is no longer possible to use applications key / shift+f10 to inwoke a popup menu in the message list.
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February is Free and Open-Source Software month - #FOSSFeb! As the your #FOSS screen reader, we want to encourage everyone to explore the world of free, open-source software - especially #accessible software of course! Here are a couple of links on #FOSSFeb to get you started:
opensource.com/article/17/2/fo…
onyxpoint.com/national-free-an…
codemotion.com/magazine/dev-li…
How are you celebrating #FOSSFeb?
How to Find Cool Open Source Projects - Codemotion Magazine
If you're looking to find interesting open source projects to join and learn from, this is your starting place. Read on to discover more!Codemotion
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Unixový správce hesel Pass
Co je správce hesel PASS
Pass je správce hesel příkazového řádku vytvořený s ohledem na filozofii Unixu. Umožňuje vám pracovat s vašimi hesly pomocí běžných unixových příkazů. Přihlašovací údaje jsou uloženy v souborech zašifrovaných GPG.
PASS je komplikovaný! Jen pro geeky!
Toto je typická odpověď mnoha uživatelů, kteří pláčou na fórech. Ale není to pravda. Jakákoli tec
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Unixový správce hesel Pass
Co je správce hesel PASS Pass je správce hesel příkazového řádku vytvořený s ohledem na filozofii Unixu. Umožňuje vám pracovat s vašimi hesly pomocí běžných unixových příkazů. Přihlašovací údaje js…Arch Linux CZ
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I just realized I completely forgot to let the Mastodon-verse know about my new single “Jazz Fun” featuring @onj on the Rhodes and Jason Castingway on the piano, among others.
I took care of most of the guitar work! :)
It all started with a simple loop played on a strangely-strung acoustic guitar and turned into this: open.spotify.com/album/50xQacd…
I took care of most of the guitar work! :)
It all started with a simple loop played on a strangely-strung acoustic guitar and turned into this: open.spotify.com/album/50xQacd…
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Well yes! I was using Mona for Mac OS when I sent that out. I was under the impression that it will expand the full username. Looks like I had to choose from the list of entries. But it still left the "at" sign there which was a bit confusing!
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@Onj That client sounds good so I’ll try it out. The clients I’ve been using indicate valid addresses by changing the text color, which isn’t read by VO so it’s not clear if a username worked.
Radio Free Fedi is an online radio station playing music, spoken word and other audio content made by people on the Fediverse. You can listen at:
It's all Fedi all the time 
To submit content or to follow the project, see the official account at:
➡️ @radiofreefedi
Take a look people, this is proper grassroots loveliness! ❤️
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Not too long ago, your two hands would have been enough to count the #reproducibleBuilds at @fdroidorg – but now it doesn't even help taking your shoes off to call your toes in. It's 50 now, and counting! I just successfully got an author's and my own first RB in ("with a little help from my friends"), and have 2 more pending 
So yes: expect more and more apps this way now. Install from #FDroid – update from Github if needed; signature matches. Just the GUI needs to show that now…
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#adbsync v0.1.1 was just released, with some minor improvements and adjustments. Details in the changelog: codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync/rele… – a.o. syncing TO your device(s) should now be much faster when using a recent version of #ADB (r25+ / Android 7.1+)
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⚠️MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
Tenacity 1.3 beta has officially been released for Windows and Linux! 🎉
Check it out here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…
Key features:
* Clip features from Audacity 3.1.
* New themes from Audacium and Saucedacity
* Modern upstream dependencies are used
tenacity
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systemsCodeberg.org
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This week, NV Access founders Mick and Jamie, travelled to Samoa to share the great benefits of NVDA. This article appeared in the Samoa Observer.
From the article (in speaking about NVDA): "Samoa Blind Persons Association President Mata’afa Faatino Utumapu said the software held unlimited opportunities for the blind to study and find employment."
samoaobserver.ws/category/samo…
Free screen reading software for the blind
A software has been brought to Samoa that will help the blind access computers through a screen reader which enables the visually impaired to access information on their computers.Samoa Observer
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Currently pouring over a sample exam sheet set for Finnish highschool students in German as foreign language in 2020 to assess the accessibility of the exam solution. It's got everything an accessible test needs: a table of contents, a good heading structure, native HTML 5 media player with almost perfect accessibility, native controls such as radio buttons and edit fields to give the answers.
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
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#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
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#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German
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My #RSS Viewer extension is now on the Mozilla Store: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
This extension does two quite simple (albeit useful) things that browsers stopped doing a while ago:
1. Tells you if a web page has an RSS feed announced via <link> and allows you to go directly there by clicking on the popup.
2. Renders the RSS feed through a nice Vue webapp when you open it in the browser, instead of uselessly dumping a bunch of XML (or inviting you to subscribe to the feed using a 3rd-party service instead of just reading it).
The source code is here: git.fabiomanganiello.com/rss-v…
It also works on Chrome and any derived browsers, but I haven't had the patience to go through the byzantine extension approval process for the Chrome Store yet. In the meantime, if you use Chrome/Chromium/Brave etc. you can build the extension via npm build and then pack it on the fly.
RSS Viewer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download RSS Viewer for Firefox. An easy way to render RSS feeds directly in your browseraddons.mozilla.org
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Tohle je věc, na kterou (nejen) čeští uživatelé čekali opravdu dlouho. Konečně se to podařilo.
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So we recently made a Fedora Workstation t-shirt highlighting some of the key projects we created or work on as part of @fedora Workstation namely @PipewireP , @containertoolbx , @BoxesGNOME, @FlatpakApps. If you boost this you will be added to a drawing to get one. (Giving out 5 here and 5 on twitter)
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I will do the drawing on Monday the 23rd of Jan (2023), so boost/reblog before then to be eligible.
I'm a really big fan of TalkBack 13.1 so far. Currently, it's not on the Play store, but you can get it from APK mirror. It now allows you to swipe up and down to select actions, just like voiceover, has spell checking for text fields, supports USB for Braille displays, is generally much faster, made touch typing much more responsive, as well as introducing a new way of typing in which you drag your finger around, and then tap with another finger to select that letter, you no longer have to be focused on a text field to navigate by letter, word, etc. In a text field, you can be on gthe keyboard, and much more. It's still marked as a beta, for good reason, multiple times while swiping up and down through this post, I got jumped to the keyboard and random letters got typed, but overall, I'm really happy with it. .. .
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I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the PNG file format, aimed at anyone who wants to generate or parse their own PNGs (or who just wants to know how it works!)
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I know it is not going to resonate much with people in English speaking countries, but this has been a major issue for people who use alphabets with special characters (my native Czech included).
For years #PDF viewers on #Linux such as #Evince couldn't save characters outside the basic charsets in PDF forms. It turned out to be a complex problem and multi-year effort, but it's finally done and you can use unicode in PDF forms. First available in #Fedora 37 where we've already backported it.
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GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens
GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens
sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens - GitHub - jafarlihi/sysm: sysm makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or ext...GitHub
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A long time ago, there was an NVDA add-on, called Novelty eSpeak Synths. It gave you eSpeak Piglattin, and eSpeak Randomize Words. I've ported it to the new Synth Driver system, and put it on GitHub. You can get it here: github.com/TheQuinbox/Novelty-…
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Interesting open source alternative to #Calendly that I just DISCOVERED. Anyone know if it's accessible?
"Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals."
#accessibility #usability #calendaring
GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone. - GitHub - calcom/cal.com: Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.GitHub
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@blindscribe Thanks for letting me know. I was hoping that someone from the #accessibility community had tried it.
We had an #accessibility meeting about at-spi2-core, pyatspi2, orca - notes at gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/a…
BigBlueButton seems usable with a screen reader! Everyone was able to participate just fine.
HedgeDoc, not so much?
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I have used etherpad lite to an extend. Editing the document is easy with orca and firefox. It has keyboard shortcut for jumping from the document to toolbar and back. Finding out who wrote what part is not as straightforward.
Windows podcast clients are a rarity. Nice! AccessCast hermisk.eu/software/accesscast…
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Hm, why is gnome-calculator calling imf.org? 🤔
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@ebassi
1. Thank you. That was not intuitive at all
2. Serious? I'm not going to argue why its wrong that a _calculator_ calls European Central Bank (yes it also calls there) when I opens it and want to add 2+2. That should be obvious. The currency converter is a very very tiny feature in this calculator that I didn't even know about until now and have no need of using. Anyway, it's fine to have it, but I should be made aware of this.
Dogdy at best...
It only updates the list of currencies daily, or weekly, not "every time you open it and want to add 2+2", let's not devolve into pointless hyperbole.
Anyway, thanks for filing an issue; the maintainer will take it from there.
#UnifiedPush using #xmpp #Conversations 
Now #fluffychat (#matrix) gets notifications instantly (using conversations.im server)
Just set what XMPP account (in any server) will get notified and share it in your device
unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…
Free/Open source FTW!!
APPS with UP service: unifiedpush.org/users/apps/
(you can set what server will manage the service, eventually: your own)
Apps using UnifiedPush
This is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush. Android Name Description Date Platform Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 Android v0.26.UnifiedPush
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@krille
According to unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…
> Conversations is an XMPP instant messaging client for Android, with the ability to deliver UnifiedPush notifications using an existing XMPP account, on any server. This requires converting push notifications to XMPP messages first, which is done by a service hosted at up.conversations.im.
As far as I could understand,
incoming notification --> up.conversations.im (Push server) --> Conversation (Distributor)
Distributors
ntfy - Android Conversations (XMPP) - Android NextPush - Android UP-FCM Distributor (Google) - Android UnifiedPush is a standard for receiving push notifications*.UnifiedPush
This evening I pushed a #Prosody community module that acts as a #UnifiedPush server. It allows apps on your phone to receive push notifications, using #XMPP as the delivery channel instead of Google's proprietary FCM or regular polling.
It uses a protocol devised and implemented by @daniel and all credit goes to him for this idea and first implementations.
It's all experimental stuff, but I'm already using it to get realtime notifications in #Fedilab 🙂
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