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An update: Found this a bit ago. Made by a blind user for blind people. why hadn't I heard of it before? Ultra Creative Suite

github.com/demirajvazi10-max/U…

"The world's first professional video editor that is fully accessible to blind, low-vision, and sighted users — without compromise.

Built by a blind developer. Tested daily with JAWS for Windows."

GitHub - demirajvazi10-max/Ultra-Creative-suite: Open-source accessibility engine for creative software (video/audio tools)

Open-source accessibility engine for creative software (video/audio tools) - demirajvazi10-max/Ultra-Creative-suite
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Poláci říkají bicyklu “rower”. Ne, není to divné, vlastně je to logické. Podobně jako xeroxovat nebo googlovat. Kolo v dnešní podobě totiž roku 1885 vynalezla firma Rover z Coventry…

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I recently learned about a new TTS model, originally created by Nvidia, called mixer TTS. It's extremely small, multiple sizes are available with the smallest being only 1 million parameters. This makes it very fast, and could be really good for screen reader use. Here's a link to some training code along with pre-trained models. github.com/nipponjo/mixer-tts-…
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GitHub - nipponjo/mixer-tts-pytorch: 🎙️ Mixer-TTS for efficient TTS ⚡

🎙️ Mixer-TTS for efficient TTS ⚡. Contribute to nipponjo/mixer-tts-pytorch development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Would you like to add some music to your #AudioMo posts? Here is collection of my free music: ondrosik.sk/music

Ondrosik's music

ondrosik.sk
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Looking back on the Queensland Gives awards, got us all nostalgic for another anniversary from the same time. Today in 2023, ABC television in Australia aired a special episode of "Australian Story" - the first with Audio Description - featuring NV Access founders Mick Curran and Jamie Teh. You can still watch the episode here: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

Come and watch it again with us! (Links to the episode at the bottom of that article).

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ABC #ABCTV #AustralianStory #TV

Mick and Jamie created software that could have made them rich. This is why they don't want a cent   

Mick and Jamie have been mates for almost three decades and have worked on a project with one goal in mind — to ensure everyone can use a computer.
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#nvdasr #tv #nvda #abc #australianstory #abctv

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Hello everyone!
A new update to bootswap is here.
For those who don't know, bootswap is a utility that lets you reorder or remove the boot entries on your device, without the need of going into the bios.
Its not a large update, but i've been meening to release this for a while because i don't really have anything else to add to this project.
This update Adds an option to mark an entry as next boot. Marking an entry for next boot will cause your device to boot into the selected entry the next time it boots up but will not permanently alter the boot Sequence.
here is the direct download link: github.com/aryanchoudharypro/b…

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Lolol, just got it! Talk Forward, instead of Talkback? Clever! This new screen reader kicks arse. If you're coming from an iPhone, you'll feel at home. If you're an Android person, it sort of feels like Talkback, but with more bells and whistles. They've even implemented the rotor gesture. There's a braille keyboard and braille display support. Yay! So cool! You can find it here: app-suite.eu/talkforward

app-suite.eu

Accessible macOS and iOS applications designed for and with people with disabilities.
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@FreakyFwoof Have you scene this? It's a much better extension for playing sounds on browser nav. Way more sounds, way more configurable, etc. I would love an Andre theme for this. Some of the authors picks seem a tad long, to me: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/finch/oibdifnhdjolmckhjlcifnelbonfccfa

Finch - Chrome Web Store

Hear your browser — short audio cues for tabs, downloads, bookmarks, and navigation. 65 events, per-event controls, zero tracking.
chromewebstore.google.com
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@x0@FreakyFwoof Also the way some of these sounds are mono and some are not is making me cringe. Pick one or the other! Either is fine! But not both. Especially when the stereo use doesn't seem to mean anything. Like the way the page loaded sound kind of seems to point from left to right but that doesn't mean anything because it's not a percent or something it's just a loaded finished sound! And the start sound is just the mono windows default thing so they don't match at all. And closing a tab is a weird stereo sound but switching tabs is mono. Although I really do like that tab switch sound. I'm not really an audio guy; it's actually quite rare for me to be so annoyed by sound design. Am I getting cranky in my middle-age, or is this especially bad?
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I did hear about it, but that's too much even for me. I just use the UI soudns addon someone made for me ages ago. Simple, to the point, same as my old 44.1K scheme. I don't need anymore than that personally. chrome.google.com/webstore/det….

UI Sounds - Chrome Web Store

Play sounds for important events in the browser, such as a page loading or a new tab being created.
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A few years ago a few friends and I were working on a similar extension with a completely custom sound set to match our windows and triggrd themes. The extension never came out because chrome killed manifest 2, but I still have the sounds and intend to send them in as a pool request. I love the extension, but agreed that the default sounds are kind of annoying. I can say that the sounds we made are a few decibels quieter and more cohesive.
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#IEM #AudioDriver #audiophile
"The question is simple. Does the driver type actually change how the IEM sounds? And the honest answer is: yes, meaningfully — but not in the way most guides suggest."

IEM Driver Types Explained: DD, BA, Planar, EST, MEMS

"DD, BA, planar, EST, MEMS — each IEM driver type has sonic trade-offs. This guide explains what you actually hear, based on listening."
mobileaudiophile.com/guide/iem…

IEM Driver Types Explained: DD, BA, Planar, EST, MEMS

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Of course, I'm late starting my posts for #AudioMo, and it's already midnight at the start of Day 3. Oh well, I'll share the audio anyway, because why not?
Here's what I intended to post on Monday, June 1.
First, a bit of an introduction. On June 1, 2011, I officially became fascinated by the Emergency Alert System when I heard it activate for a tornado warning in western Massachusetts. While the alert was scary and I was concerned for the people affected, I couldn't help but be fascinated by hearing the system in action, along with the ScanSoft Tom voice that I knew so well.
Prior to that, I had only heard the system used for tests and didn't fully understand its purpose. Hearing that tornado warning sent me down a rabbit hole. I spent countless hours watching videos of the system in action, from weather alerts and AMBER Alerts to various tests and everything in between. About a month later, that interest also led me to NOAA Weather Radio.
Now, back to the present day and this piece of audio.
I was sitting in the living room watching an old episode of Card Sharks on Buzzr when it was suddenly interrupted by the EAS. At first, I assumed it was just a standard test and didn't think much of it. Then the message began with, "The Civil Authorities have issued a Required Weekly Test." That immediately caught my attention, because I had never heard one start that way before.
The message went on to list a large number of states, and I later realized they were all in the Eastern Time Zone. It was voiced using the Loquendo Dave voice.
Fortunately, I was watching through our Comcast cable box and was able to rewind it. I knew I had to capture it because I had never heard anything quite like it before.
After doing some research, it appears that this may have been an IPAWS test, some type of federal alert. I'm still not entirely sure whether the public was intended to hear it or whether the station made an error when transmitting it. If anyone knows more about this, I'd love to learn more.
What made it even more fascinating to me was that I happened to hear it on the 15th anniversary of the event that sparked my interest in the EAS in the first place.
Enjoy this recording, captured on my iPhone 15 Pro Max.
#audiomo

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Game score
Final score: 92141
Run time: 15:51
Statistics
Average speed: 114 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 131.
Near misses: 8.
Crashes: 1.
Gas tanks collected: 10.
Wrenches collected: 0.
Total power-ups collected: 34.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 8.8%, Rocket 67.6%, Horn ball 23.5%.
Fired 115 horn balls, hitting 48 and missing 66, for an accuracy of 42.1%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 3.
Sink holes traversed: 1.
Hit 15 ramps and missed 9, for an accuracy of 62.5%.
Total air time: 155.0 seconds.
Coins collected: 164.
From files.jonathan859.com/tools/BO… by @bscross32. This is a great time waster, should really add a score board somehow.

Bat Out Of Hell

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A Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf.
Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course.
The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is going to cost us.'
So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door.
A warm voice said, 'Come on in.'
When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on
its side near the pieces of window glass.
A man reclining on the couch asked, 'Are you the people that broke my window?'
'Uh...yeah! , sir. We're sure sorry about that,' the husband replied.
'Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you.. You see, I'm a genie, and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years.
Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for myself.'
Wow, that's great!' the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, 'I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life.'
'No problem,' said the genie 'You've got it, it's the least I can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!'
'And now you, young lady, what do you want?' the genie asked.
'I'd like to own a gorgeous home in every country in the world complete with servants,' she said.
'Consider it done,' the genie said. 'And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary, and natural disasters
'And now,' the couple asked in unison, 'what's your wish, genie?'
'Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle, and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your wife.'
The husband looked at his wife and said, 'Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune and all those houses. What do you think?'
She mulled it over for a few moments and said, 'You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?'
You know I love you, sweetheart,' said the husband. I'd do the same for you!'
So the genie and the woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other. The genie was insatiable.
After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes, and asked, How old are you and your husband?'
'Why we're both 35,' she responded breathlessly.
'No Kidding,' he said.
'Thirty-five years old and you both still believe in genies?'

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Accessible Music announcement: I vibe coded a web midi interface / editor to a bunch of rust codecs and tools I had around to access some of my midi hardware. If this interests you you can access it able-midi.ruiandrebatista.com/

Yep, most stuff AI assisted, UI shamefully vibecoded and clearly done because of hardware or editors not accessible. Use at your own risk. #a11y #blind #music #midi "webmidi

able-midi

able-midi.ruiandrebatista.com
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Supported devices are boss Re202 spaceecho and morningstar ml10x, using their sysex internal implementation to access every feature possible. Very alfa and the hardest thing this has the rolland gr55 guitar synth (still need a device to test properly). Also generic controller for cc / pc with some device mappings for stuff I have around.
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If you are #blind and still use #irc there's a new adispeak release for you! This one includes the latest adiirc beta, with the fixed and fully accessible settings and server list. It also includes sounds thanks to @FreakyFwoof. If you've never heard of adispeak, it's a script to make adiirc read out IRC messages, in the spirit of sjams or mircspeech, but supporting #NVDA, and based on a more modern IRC client. Get it at: github.com/fastfinge/adispeak/releases/tag/v_0.4#a11y#accessibility#screenreader

Release adispeak 0.4 · fastfinge/adispeak

Release 0.4 bundles the latest AdiIRC 64-bit beta from https://adiirc.com/AdiIRC64_48.zip with the current adispeak files. Changes: Default network is irc.rblind.com on port 6697. Default autojoin...
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@bermudianbrit@FreakyFwoof Mostly it's full of me and Tyler. Actually, IRCV3 now fully supports push notifications, and resuming mobile connections, plus message history and connections from multiple devices to one nickname. So with Discord's recent age verification nonsense it has, in fact, had a bit of a renaissance.
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@bermudianbrit@FreakyFwoof Also, modern IRC servers are super cheap to run. Like a raspberry pi can support around 10,000 clients. So there's no more point in multi-server networks and netsplits and all that nonsense. Anyone who wants to can just run a server for there community. And IRC fully supports SSL/TLS these days. Goguma is the best IOS client if you want that. I've tested, and at least on irc.rblind.com, push notifications are fully working.
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@bermudianbrit@FreakyFwoof The only thing missing is fully E2E private messages. The server owner could still, in theory, read your private messages. But the IRCV3 people are working on an encryption standard based on Signal to fix that. But IRCV3 even has full unicode and utf-8 support these days. And message reactions. And multiline messages. And typing indicators. IMHO IRC has a bright future if discord keeps shooting itself in the face.
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@bermudianbrit@FreakyFwoof The other big thing IRC is missing is a decent interface for moderators. Like you still have to use slash commands and k-lines and stuff. There's no missing functionality, just missing interfaces. The server I use (called ergo) even supports requiring email verification if I want that. So no more getting around a ban with a VPN or whatever. It's just a pain in the ass for ops who have to learn the commands. But I'm sure that'll eventually get fixed.
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After enough years in software, you learn that LGTM doesn't actually stand for "Looks Good To Me".

Only the pros know its real meaning:

"Looked. Got tired. Merged."

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I just discovered Device Orchestra on YouTube, and let's say I'm quite entertained. youtube.com/watch?v=CrHKQz-yok…

Blue (Da Ba Dee) on Electric Devices

Eiffel 65's Blue (Da Ba Dee), played by two electric toothbrushes, three credit card machines, two electric typewriters, and one steam iron. In this video, I...
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BorrisInABox V4.2 is now available. In fact, BorrisInABox was auto-updated without prior permission, much like Windows 11.

What's changed since V4.1:

•Increased likelyhood of making life, the universe and everything references for the next 365 days
•further decreased over-all stability
•Added new bugs and improved existing ones for better buggy bugness
•updated the GetOffMyLawn libraries and associated dependencies to latest current release available for this platform
•Slower response times with greater resource consumption
•Decreased auditory sensitivity
•Decreased retention of important facts and events, while increasing the number of useless ones which can't be removed through normal methods
•Altered elfactory emissions
•Included contingency plans that will hopefully never be used
•Added new discriminating algorithms for input processing
•includes more random, obscure references that most people won't care about, so we won't bother to list them in the changelog, not even the internal one. SURPRISE!

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Lichess has always been the most #accessible #chess website for #blind #screenreader users. You can play games there, analyze them, even do puzzles. What you can't do, though, is learn the absolute basics there.
The tutorials are not accessible, and this has been a problem for years from what I know.
I'm fixing that. I have the platform running locally, and already fixed the " collect the stars"-style tutorials so they work with screen readers. Once i'm happy with these changes I will submit a pull request upstream... let's hope they feel up to merging it once I'm done here. #lichess #accessibility #blindChess #webdev #openSource #tech
#Accessibility #accessible #opensource #blind #webdev #screenreader #tech #chess #lichess #blindchess

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GNOME Calendar 51 will be able to recognize Microsoft Teams meetings links in events, surfacing them with a convenient "Join" button (instead of gibberish) like other videoconferencing systems known to us: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

Daily-drive the nightly flatpak like all the cool kids and you'll be able to immediately hop onto calls to circle back and synergize with your clients or colleagues who use this… thing :blobmiou:

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #productivity #meetings #Teams #MicrosoftTeams

MS Teams links doesn't work (#1312) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

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One of the many reasons you should sign your git commits:

github.com/OpenSourceMalware/P…

in short: infects your code via a malicious VS Code extension or NPM package, which in the end overwrites your last commit. You might never notice. But what it cannot do: sign that commit (as it does not have your key phrase). So a sudden unsigned commit gives you a chance to spot that "something weird happened".

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#security #git #commitSigning #signing

GitHub - OpenSourceMalware/PolinRider: A detailed technical dossier on the DPRK threat actor "PolinRider"

A detailed technical dossier on the DPRK threat actor "PolinRider" - OpenSourceMalware/PolinRider
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@seabass if your key is properly protected with a passphrase, it could not. In that case, the commit itself would fail (as signing is enforced, but could not happen, as the malware (hopefully!) does not have your passphrase).

Personally, I use to sign ALL my commits. With a GPG key, protected by a passphrase. So yeah, an unsigned commit claiming to be mine, would certainly raise my suspicion. And no, I intentionally have NOT told the GPG agent to cache 😉

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@seabass PS: this is also one of the reasons why I insist that, at least in our "security related" repositories, all commits have to be signed. See our rbtlog, see our gradle-wrapper-verify and gradlew.py – just to name some examples.

It might seem to make the process more cumbersome (though once set up, you don't note a difference except from having to enter your passphrase on each commit). But to me, it seems worth it.

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I absolutely hate touch screens! I love my current phone, a Pixel 9A. It has good battery, good speakers, a flat back, etc. But I am so fucking inefficient on a touch screen, no matter if its iOS or android. Want me to google something? Okay, let me look around for the web browser, double tap on it, explore by touch until I find the address bar which might or might not have been moved or altered in a recent app update, double tap there, type way slower than on a physical keyboard, hit search, switch my rotor/reading control to headings, and very slowly start reading through results. Touch screens are remarklably efficient for people with functioning eyeballs, and I've seen people who can text on a phone almost as fast as I can type on a computer. But for me, a metal slab with a glass screen and way more computing power than I would've ever thought possible, no matter how fucking cool it is that we can drop that in our pockets like its nothing, will never ever be as efficient as win+r, browsername, enter, start typing, enter, press h, boom first result. This is not helped by the mainstream screen readers on both mobile operating systems having agrivating bugs. On Android scrolling locks up your screen reader while it refreshes the screen, because we're apparently still living in 2005, and VO has just started getting worse and worse with every iteration. I see the downsides to this approach, but I'm really starting to think the best solution for mobile devices for blind people is custom hardware/software. There are plenty of examples of getting this wrong, but I think that's mostly due to people not eating their own dog food as opposed to it being an impossible task. Paperback for Android has shown me that you can make as polished of Android software as you want, but there are still no physical buttons on the front of your phone. For a truly efficient reading and usability experience, I'd personally want both blind-centric software and hardware with physical buttons. That's not at all realistic, though. Welcome to being blind in a world made for sighted people.

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been thinking about how to do good navigation in XR where you have more intangibility than a touchscreen, given I'm making a display server... so far I've landed on making interactable things have their own aura audibly and tactile wise, and my friends have made a really clever controller that lets you read braille with 1 mechanism but you can move it along the lines and it travels under your fingers as if on a page, so using that or TTS for reading labels + proprioception and spatial audio should make the interface usable... thoughts?
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i made a new game called js crossword where you have to solve it by literally writing javascript code that eval()'s into the correct values!

check it out if you're into ctfs or wanna challenge your javascript skills

lyra.horse/fun/jscrossword/ ❤

JS Crossword

a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
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this is really cool!! couple thoughts:

  1. The clues don't seem to be in the normal crossword order, which is very confusing when cross-referencing with the list. I have not solved all the way so maybe this means something, but a first guess of "clues to solve first" is very wrong. Re-numbering them might be nice if there is no meaning.
  2. The current indicator for "which way will the next character input" is a little jank when there is no clue in the currently selected direction; only the pale-yellow off-axis one shows up and there is no main-axis highlight. I can see an argument for keeping it this way, or always doing a bright yellow main-axis highlight, using the highlights in the clue box to know what's actually under consideration.
  3. On Safari, the prefilled characters are "gray on light grey" (low contrast) while on Firefox they are "black on grey" (higher contrast). Not sure if this is intentional but mostly a nit

overall i am finding challenging but doable, working from filled-in definitely helps thanks

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Small happy work update: As of last week, I have been appointed to the European Commission’s expert group on the European Accessibility Act, and am happy to represent the European Blind Union there.

This is the group where Member States, disability organisations, industry and the commission discuss how the European Accessibility Act should actually work in practice.
I’m glad to join with the hope of less abstract compliance talk, more practical accessibility that people can actually use. So any systemic issues regarding the European Accessibility act, shoot them at me. #Accessibility #a11y @EUCommission

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Longshot: does anyone have the old sounds from the Accessible Chat application programmed by Robert Bets in VB6 for Windows 98/ME/XP? I'm doing work on Adispeak again, and I'd love to use his join/part/private message sounds. Unfortunately his website and all of his games are gone. Not even mentioned on Google! Boosts welcome. #blind#a11y#accessibility#screenreader
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Hello guys,

Today I have pulled and rebuild !RaccoonForFriendica however it's no longer populating my timeline.

Profile, notifications and others are working.

Have you got some ideas?

Thanks and greetings

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@Thomas Oh yes when a single notification came in I have noticed some items loaded once into my home timeline, however on demand nothing more is loading so it was a premature joy at my side.

Are you running self-compiled version of Raccoon or the beta release?

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@Thomas I've created a github issue. Feel free to comment there as well if you have something to add.

Today morning some posts have shown on my timeline but I can't refresh it to see more up to date posts again.

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𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕

@RaccoonForFriendica Sorry, I didn't realize the issue when releasing the beta03, which was supposed to be a "soft" update with no major changes as we are heading towards a stable 1.0 release.

Unfortunately there where two errors, one hidden behind the other, I solved the first one before the beta when I noticed the login flow had stopped working after updating the Ktor library, but fixing this issue made apparent another bug which had been incubating for two years in handling content loading (not just in the timeline).

Blame on me for not handling properly CancellationExceptions from the beginning!

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I have found out recently that it's possible to add call recording to modern android versions by using shizuku with some 3rd party apps. The one I like the most is Call recorder by skvalex from callrecorder.skvalex.com/get . Tested on android 16.

However this is not yet tested, I'm also thinking it might be doable to repackage the OTA image by adding BCR (basic call recorder) as a system app using github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroo…

This sounds kind of scary as I don't want to break security of my @GrapheneOS install. But I'd enjoy having BCR as a system app.

GitHub - chenxiaolong/avbroot: Tool for manipulating and re-signing Android A/B OTAs

Tool for manipulating and re-signing Android A/B OTAs - chenxiaolong/avbroot
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Well, let's hope I did everything right... github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… and github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…

LiveText: announce large bursts via a pumped generator by ethindp · Pull Request #20177 · nvaccess/nvda

Link to issue number: Fixes #6291. Partially addresses #15786, #15850, #11002, and #14189. All of these describe the same general class of "NVDA stops responding during console flood" pro...
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Regarding development tools and data, it's interesting to me that some of us have spent years with certain things being inaccessible or difficult for us to access; e.g. charts, cluttered reports with weird and wonderfully inaccessible web interfaces, other complex visual representations of important data. But now, all of a sudden, people are making APIs and tools (often command line tools) to retrieve that data with the primary goal of making it more digestible by LLMs, yet those tools even by themselves just make the information so much more accessible. I feel kinda conflicted about this. On one hand, it's great that it's more accessible to me now. On the other hand, it's weird to feel that our struggles never really mattered enough for anyone to solve them, but now that we have LLMs, we suddenly have this urgent need to make information more easily accessible and digestible and folks are willing to put work into that.
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@prism It's not just us though, it's everybody. The exact same thing is happening to docs, onboarding, dev-ops and such. Many companies where John on Slack was the docs, until John left and then nobody knew anything, are getting real, dev docs checked into git. LLMs just force you into good practices a lot more than humans do.
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@miki The question is whether it is good that the machines are making us do what we should have been doing before, or bad that we need the machine to tell us todo what we already knew we should have been doing. I am undecided.
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Since my last $DAYJOB was canceled 12/2025, I'm working full-time at IzzyOnDroid – without any pay. Living on prior savings, I'm now slowly running out of funds. So if you like our service & support, and want it to stay at the current level (and above): any help is appreciated! This can be donations (see: android.izzysoft.de/help?topic… – everyone $/€ 1 per month, and I'm covered) – or part-time remote freelance jobs (apart from my IoD experience, I'm an Oracle DBA).

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@KoosPol Thanks a lot! 🤗

General note to all: consider us to be your "app streaming service", and "making a subscription" 😉 Just other than the commercial subscription services, with us it's YOU choosing the amount. So of course, if you cannot afford it, €0 is totally fine 🤪 But if you can: we currently have almost 300k daily visitors. If, on average, each of them would chime in 50 cents per month, we'd be totally covered :awesome:

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I just learned of the passing of Aaron Kaminski, a former colleague from the GW Micro days and one of the developers of the Window-Eyes screen reader. A brilliant, but humble man. Rest in peace, friend.

odonnellfhome.com/obituaries/a…

Aaron T Kaminski - View Obituary & Service Information

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Scott

That would be relatively easy to script I reckon. Not likely to land in OSARA itself though, our note and CC reporting is more for troubleshooting (EG finding which keys play which notes on the virtual MIDI keyboard, identifying which messages are being sent from an inaccessible controller etc).
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@Paweł Masarczyk and friends from @metalab have their stand at #Agora 2026 in #Brno czech republic today. I've been notified to that by @ondrosik and recorded the presentation.

Huge thanks guys for everything you are doing for us.

s.ondrosik.sk/f/91bd70f6f36e4b…

Agora 2026 - Pawel Masarczyk - Hackerspaces - inkluzivní laboratoře inovativních přístupných technologií.mp3

Sdílet odkaz pro Agora 2026 - Pawel Masarczyk - Hackerspaces - inkluzivní laboratoře inovativních přístupných technologií.mp3.
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Paweł Masarczyk

Thanks for the shoutout. There's so much happening right now I didn't got around to doing the socials stuff. Everyone is welcome to our meetings, Monday evenings at 7 PM in our Big Blue Button room. We would be happy to speak some English. www.oskars.org
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Well, surprising absolutely no one. Horizon 6 did absolutely nothing for accessibility (for the totally blind) aside from port 5's features over. We're expected tu autodrive, but the map once again isn't narrated, leaving players who don't mind autodrive screwed as you can't rely on Anna 100 percent of the time. I picture having the same exact navigation experiences like in 5. Anna leading you back to the same shit if you're nearby, among other bullshit. I now have OCR available to me this time with a PC that can run the game, but that's not the point here. I've got friends being optimistic like "maybe they'll optimize it in a patch". They never did it in 5, I doubt they wil for 6 either. I guess my little rallying cry is useless anyway, industry accessibility and jobs in general seem to be dwindling by the year. Source: youtube.com/watch?v=rO2TA6XtCu…

Forza Horizon 6 Is Almost the Most Accessible Racing Game (Almost.)

Forza Horizon 6 brings some awesome accessibility upgrades—especially high contrast mode—and it’s a clear step up from Horizon 5. But without blind drive ass...
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Pitermach

@prism To be fair to him he is a low vision gamer so it works for him... Although wait he starts all his videos with "I'm blind". Aaanyway his reviews are at least informative. As for FH6 specifically this one really hurts, have over 500 hours in FM 8 which is basically on life support. The Fomo is real with this one.
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Drew Mochak

@zersiax @pitermach Not to get on a high horse here (too late) but this is why I always stream with no monitor. I have one and I have vision that I can use that helps me play the game, but not everyone does. If I claim something is blind playable, that means it is playable *without vision.* It's a totally different set of considerations from what you'd call legally blind, which he's certainly entitled to call himself for marketting purposes.
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Jay Pellis

That is why I better grab mortal kombat 1, the last of us 1 and 2, and forza motorsport before before they disappear or something crazy happens. After many years, I finally have a framework 13 AMD 370 that can play them. I don't want to buy a ps5 controller just for the last of games but it looks like I have to if I want the full haptics experience.
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Just discovered:
There is a native linux #Immich client:
flathub.org/en/apps/dev.nicx.m…

It's primary feature is photo upload, but it has also a library viewer. Sadly the library view layout is not ready for phones. Still a little missing piece to get closer to Linux phone future.

Install Mimick on Linux | Flathub

Back up and browse your photos
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Get your shit together, McDonald's

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@vwestlife I remember the McDonald's here used a different shaped POS in the early 2000s (I don't remember seeing a brand on it), but it ran the same touchscreen software in DOS. It was running a Pentium MMX, complete with the energy star logo at POST.
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Dnes od 22:30 budu hostkou pořadu Noční Mikrofórum na ČRo Dvojce. Tak můžete ladit. 😊 #budeintimco
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So I’ve just had a quick play with this and yes, it works. Essentially BitLocker has a backdoor. github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/Y…

Mitigation = BitLocker PIN and BIOS password lock.

GitHub - Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey: YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability

YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability. Contribute to Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Splinux

thanks God i can recover an Old ssd whose bitlocker key is somewhere in the short-circuited mainboard Something Something Secure Module and I happen to not have a backup of that specific bitlocker key
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QuickMail, A keyboard-first WPF desktop email client for Windows. Multi-account IMAP/SMTP with a unified inbox, conversation threading, and an HTML reading pane.
By @kellylford
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#accessibility #blind

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A screen reader friendly email client for IMAP servers. - kellylford/QuickMail
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Do any English-speaking blind people use the RHVoice TTS engine? I vaguely remember hearing bad things about it, or at least that it wasn't that great. But it's one of the few mature open-source TTS engines, and it's not eSpeak, so I guess some might prefer it for that reason alone.

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