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Lots of good talks were given at this year's #LinuxAppSummit — but the 24 hours of livestream footage are a little messy to navigate. I've extracted the talks into individual videos, created branded thumbnails and posted them on the LAS YouTube channel for easy browsing and sharing. Enjoy:
The Linux App Summit (LAS) brings the global Linux community together to learn, collaborate, and help grow the Linux application ecosystem. Through talks, pa...
Locked out of #Stocard? Considering switching to an app like #Catima? You may be able to still access your Stocard cards directly!
According to Italian video creator "IT Problem Solver", it seems Stocard's expiry is based on device time. So: change your phone's date, screenshot those barcodes, and add them to Catima! :) youtube.com/watch?v=hrsEiMjoQT…
Alternatively, if you have the patience and live in Europe, email support@stocardapp.com to ask for an export of your data and import it directly!
Ciao a tutti da IT Problem Solver!In questo video vi racconto la mia esperienza personale con la chiusura di Stocard e i problemi legati al passaggio forzato...
Catima version: 2.34.5 OS: /e/OS 2.9 (Android 14) I have a pkpasses file from Reservix (a german ticket portal) and want to open it in Catima. Due to the leck of pkpasses support (see #2287) I unzi...
Thanks to your feedback, this release contains a lot of improvements, fixes, new and improved controller-mappings. We would like to emphasize the importance of testing new versions. You don't have to be a programmer to contribute to Mixxx. Translating, testing new features and checking for possible regression is just as important.
It is recommended that all users update to this new version.
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hey I'm building a DJ controller based on a Linx Vision tablet. Unfortunately it only works with 32bit windows 10. Could I build a 32bit version of this release myself or does it depend on features that are unsupported on 32bit? :)
Aww yeah, the Godot game engine 4.5 dev 3 snapshot is out.
For those of you to whom that's just alphabet soup, 4.5 dev 3 integrates AccessKit! This means that the editor UI, and any game UIs made with it, are screen reader accessible out of the box.
I just spun up an instance in a Fedora distrobox. Haven't gotten far, but the intro and project creation dialogs are certainly usable. Though the creation dialog seems to set its content as the label for all fields which is verbose. Filing that issue but still this is an amazing development!
No clue, haven't played with it much. Trying not to go down that rabbit hole just yet. The editor is at least accessible enough that folks are making games with it though. unseen-godot.alwaysdata.net
Yeah, and Godot isn't even fully compatible across minor release versions. I upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2, I think it was, and a change to default physics bodies caused all my game objects to not move by default.
How about remaking Torrent? Think it was you who developed that and the initial beta was really an alpha, from what I remember from 15 years ago, somewhere around there.
Woohoo. My #chatmail server just to experience the fun and enjoy some real simple end to end encrypted chatting where the server side is light on resources as well is now live. My next mission is getting the location streaming to work and play with some realtime apps.
25.4.1917 se narodila královna jazzu ELLA Jane FITZGERALD.
Její téměř 60letá pěvecká kariéra začala 17.11.1934 na soutěži mladých talentů v Harlemu a obratem byla přijata do orchestru Chicka Webba. Následovala spolupráce s největšími hvězdami jazzové scény (Ellington, Basie, Cole, Armstrong, Sinatra, Goodman...). Ella ve stovkách písní očarovala publikum nejen svým barvitým hlasem, ale i velkým citem pro jazz a improvizaci.
I open my windows 11 VM on Mac after a long time of not doing so, and #TweeseCake picks up all the telegram messages it needs to. Always makes a grand old noise indeed.
that happened to me once, and after everything spectacularly got flooded with sounds,I exited tweesecake and stopped using it LOL. Because it does lag, but on windows windows it did. Sounds are funny though, unless they continue for more than a minute, everything after a minute is going to be annoying. LOL.
If you heard about that hacking of the voices of traffic light crosswalks in the US recently, the root cause is the devices all had the password '1234' and an app to reprogram the devices was on the Apple app store. theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_…
I meant to try this out for a few days now, and I finally did it. I was able to view a Telemundo News report in Spanish and have Meta glasses translate it to me in real time using the Live Translate feature. There is about a 5-10-second delay, but over all it's quite impressive. I even tried watching trailers for some Spanish-speaking movies... Quite something!
When I learned about the holocaust as teenager in Germany, many people from the Nazi era were still alive and lived all around me. Being the curious person I always was, I asked them about what happened and their role in it.
"I didn't know" was the boilerplate answer. And as they were relatives and friends, I believed them at first.
Then in 1981 we got a new teacher for history and he exposed the lie. Or more precise: he got us exposing those lies.
jsem celkem nenáročný. Potřebuji něco, co jasně ukáže profil krajiny, tedy s vrstevnicemi a pěkným stínováním. V tomto mi nejvíc vyhovují Freemap.sk. Ty mají ale zase problém se zvýrazněním toho podstatného. Byli jsme teď na Helfštýně a název hradu se úplně ztratil pod piktogramy jednotlivých objektů. Jinak samozřejmě turistické trasy a cyklostezky jsou pro mě důležité. Hodí se i tipy na posezení. Je škoda, že neexistuje nějaká otevřená služba pro recenze podniků. Locus Map si nedávno rozjeli vlastní, ale jedou si na vlastním písečku. To musí používat všechny OSM mapy, aby se to aspoň přiblížilo kritické mase uživatelů a bylo to užitečné.
Třeba máti si předplatila Cyclers na plánování cyklovýletů, ale říká, že v té mapě se prostě nevyzná. Je to ploché, nemá to moc kontrast, komunikace se špatně čtou. Ale těm to myslím neděláte vy, ale Mapbox.
Vlaky, kde a jak často jezdí, co je lokálka a co je hlavní vlaková trasa. Pak cyklostezky nebo pěší značky. Pak občerstvení. Taky potřebuju vidět kde je co prudké. Jinak nevím, mám pocit, že se to nedá všechno napsat.
Ale laťka není vysoko. Na nejmenovaných turistických mapách vidím ve Středohoří především dálnici a pak mi tam plave špendlík na půjčovnu dodávek a masáže a Bauhaus. Tak to opravdu nepotřebuju.
Už několik let (odhadem dekádu) mám ve svém nekonečném seznamu startupideas tohle - byť je to asi související jen částečně…
„Mapy, které mají jako primární způsob dopravy MHD, kolo, pěší cesty. Mista s velkým provozem aut jsou umenšena a zobrazena jako něco jako brownfieldy. Železnice jde vidět, rozlišeny jsou lokální tratě a hlavní tratě.“
Ale možná je to use case pro jednu osobu na světě, která nemá auto.
@honzajavorek na Islandu jsem měl parádní místní cyklomapu, kde byly silnice označený podle charakteru (směrové dělení, šířka krajnice, etc.) a intenzity dopravy.
@hny @honzajavorek Cyclers taky umí zobrazit intenzitu provozu a takovým místům se vyhnout. Myslím, že ta data mají od Mapboxu globálně, ale to je přece jenom konkurence Maptileru, tak tudy cesta asi úplně nepovede. 🙂
📱 Válí se mi doma Pixel 6a s GrapheneOS. Mám tu plně funkční Google Pixel 6a s nainstalovaným GrapheneOS. Bezpečnostní aktualizace do července 2027. Perfektní pro někoho, kdo to myslí vážně se soukromím a chce bezpečný telefon bez Google sledovaček.
Telefon má známky běžného používání a trochu zlobí konektor na nabíjení, ale jinak šlape v pohodě.
Kdyby někomu udělal radost a využil ho naplno, dej vědět do zpráv. Rád ho pošlu dál – hlavně někomu, kdo ví, co má v rukou. 🙂
I am always configuring mikrotik devices using command line interface connecting using SSH. A few days ago I was explaining something to a friend and I have discovered its web UI in Mikrotik OS v7 has working keyboard navigation and some aria stuff in there. I find it positive and surprising. #a11y
Málokdy sdílím, málokdy takto přispívám, ale paní znám, často ji vidím na vozíku i s jejím psím doprovodem na cyklostezce v Trutnově kolem Úpy. Je smutné, že postižení u nás mají tak malou podporu, ale vždy se najdou hodní lidé, kteří přispějí nějakou tou stovečkou.
Věra je po úrazu páteře na vozíku už 22 let, přesto si udržuje aktivní životní styl a pozitivní přístup. Sbírka jí pomůže pořídit potřebné invalidní vozíky, které jí umožňují samostatný pohyb a účast na každodenním životě i mimo domov.
Playing with various technologies tonight. Managed to setup a brand new debian 12 systemd-nspawn container. Now looking through various documentation and other internet sources to combine it to a working #chatmail relay server. The thing is I only have a single IP address on the host system so I need to adapt it so the nginx running on the host either redirects or proxies to the container. Plus I guess I need to share the certificate in some way so postfix and dovecot can use it too.
I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.
How come?
I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.
It bothers me quite a lot that in the `ariaNotify` explainer, relating to a more robust mechanism for web apps to fire #screenReader messages, #braille is demoted to a "future consideration". Even there, it's listed under a heading of "Braille and speech markup", as though it doesn't even warrant a devoted section of its own.
Braille being treated with the same priority of speech is long overdue. We're clearly not there yet.
Does anyone know where to report #a11y issues with the #Ubuntu Mate installer? I just tried to install ubuntu-mate-25.04 and sadly, it's pretty much a no go with Orca. Alt+Windows+S works to bring up the screen reader. The first screen of the installer appears to be the language selection screen; but after that, Orca is pretty much dead in the water, utterly unable to read anything else except "next" buttons. Pretty sad. Looks like they're not a11y testing this at all.
13 April 1943: Nazis announce discovery of 1940 Soviet massacre of #Polish troops at #Katyn.The postwar Polish communist regime had to insist it was a Nazi crime. Only following 1990 Soviet admission of guilt could honest commemorations begin
In this guide, you'll learn how to send direct messages between Matrix and XMPP users, and even join public Matrix rooms using your favorite XMPP client.
I've been in talks with #TheCrowHillCompany, makers of The Vertical Piano, Vaults (free), String Murmurations and so on. They wanted to find out about people's use of accessible music-making tools such as NKS, so I said I'd forward their email to other VI musicians. Your feedback would really help them, so if you've a mind, please do fill it out.
The Crow Hill Company are readying a re-launch of our entire catalogue. As such as are looking to improve our accessibility across our full instrument and effects range.
We would love to discover more from the community on how they interact with software based instruments and the tools they use to do so.
We have included a short survey link below, and as a token of gratitude have included a £20 (GBP) off coupon code for anyone who takes part in the survey. The coupon has no expiration date and we have plenty of instruments under this limit coming out in the months ahead for you to enjoy.
Thank you for taking the time to help us in our continual endeavour to improve accessibility in music-making.
As a token of our gratitude, we have also included an unrestricted coupon code at the end of this survey.
Thanks
The Crow Hill Team. x
I've not used any of their libraries yet, but I'm guessing by reading through the product pages that they've made their own sampler and each library basically comes as its own plugin? I'm guessing that's not currently accessible outside NKS? Trying to give the best response and would find knowing this helpful :)
@pitermach It's using Juce, but with a lot of unlabelled buttons. They do know about it, as I had a meeting with them this morning and was able to screen-share and let them know that lots of stuff doesn't work. It seems that they're using the Ujam libraries, so it's up to Ujam to modify their code to allow accessibility, but they can pass this feedback to them. Rodes also use the same framework.
If you've got any libraries where the main sample content uses the .blob format, then you've used Ujam's UI's.
@pitermach Oh I did too. I know that NKS isn't for everybody, especially as, if you don't have a compatible keyboard, it's not too useful. Juce really should be primary, with NKS joint, or at least secondary.
@pitermach They have more control over the NKS implementation though, and would have to wait on Ujam for better Juce accessibility, or rewrite from scratch. I doubt that will happen.
@pitermach Yeah I agree with this, although JUCE is the better option in the longrun as more people will be able to use it. I get what you're saying though and it will take some time. On a related note, Spitfire stuff, at least Labs, has great accessibility now without NKS. Really good on them for doing this.
@pitermach Yeah, I think they completely redesigned it a few months back when they introduced Labs Plus, and now it's based on JUCE with web technology under the hood. They've got a really nice new grand piano as well for free.
@ZBennoui @pitermach just told@daygar he might wanna have a go at spitfire labs then. I need to update...haven't used labs in a while. Zach, thanks for the headsup about the free piano.
The NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?
People were asking how to use Ableton Live with a screen reader so last night I recorded this very impromptu little audio demo. I just make a little loop and try to explain what I'm doing as I go as best I can. I'm also still learning so I might be doing some things inefficiently. Hopefully this gives people a little inspiration. Sorry if my speech rate is too fast, this was a very spontaneous thing. I wasn't sure whether I should post it, but I figure anything is better than nothing.
This seems incredibly powerful but also suuuuuuuper overwhelming. Maybe once I stop sucking at producing in Reaper I'll actually try Ableton. Thanks for the demo!
Thanks for taking the time to record this! Sure seems like there's quite a learning curve with all the keyboard shortcuts and such, but this is really really cool. MIDI editing also seems much easier to do than in Logic.
@robin_kipp Something I should have mentioned is that a bunch of the keyboard shortcuts are mainly for focusing different things, for example option 0 through 9 you can get to by manually navigating around the window, but using the shortcuts is much, much quicker. Option shift m for the mixer is another one, command shift m for create empty midi clip is also something you can do through the menus. So a lot of shortcuts can be accessed in other ways, I just prefer to use shortcuts.
Ah, well that's perfect! Can easily see how using the navigation shortcuts is much faster compared to tabbing around in the window looking for things, but for a beginner at least it's not necessary to learn those shortcuts all at once then. Also very pleased that this does seem like native UI with proper labels and such which should make it quite easy to just explore what's there in each window / view.
@Tamasg This would be Mac right? I know I can listen but don't know have time right now. I hate using audio editors on Windows, so have thought of a Mac for that purpose. I use the iphone.
I'll be taking a look at this. I'm planning to start a podcast related to using Live and other production stuff with accessibility in mind very soon, just need to look at hosting options. If anyone has recks, please let me know. For the people who are a bit scared to jump in, Ableton was really thoughtful with the design of Live's UI from a keyboard user's perspective, and the shortcuts make a lot of sense after you sit with it for a few weeks. I would never go back to another DAW at this point, and I've only been using Live for a little over a year. I love it, best DAW for electronic music production IMHO.
If you want to learn how to edit audio, how to mix, how to change your voice, how to create and arrange sound effects, my DMs are open. I've been working professionally in audio since 2017 and one of my favourite things to do is teach, to help other people achieve their goals, whether audio is a means to an end or the end itself. Get in touch. Let's talk!
Microsoft Windows Recall is not mandatory (yet) but starts in the background by default. It can be turned off by typing the following commands with admin rights:
DISM /Online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall
DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall
This is for your info. It is upto you whether to disable or keep it running. "Recall" refers to the controversial AI-powered feature for Copilot+ PCs. This feature takes periodic screenshots of your screen including everything you type
Ok I love Ableton but the Logic pianos are just unmatched in my opinion. Take a listen to this, I've got some compression and EQ, along with a little reverb.
Vzhledem masové popularitě Bluesky nezbývá než poprosit všechny Fedivesmířany, kteří tam mají známé, aby jim vysvětlili, jak se zviditelnit i pro Fedi.
Opakování matka moudrosti: musí follownout Bluesky účet (@)ap.brid.gy - zatím jich to bohužel dělá jen zlomek.
Sorry to bother you, particularly with my just being lazy, but do you know of a transcript of this? I'm scratching my head over these two units and am not sure which I'm really after. I could run this through Buzz, and of course I will if you don't know of a transcript, but there's no point in reinventing the wheel.
@techsinger I would assume that Apple's Podcasts app could generate a transcript but I'm not aware of one that's already been prepared for this podcast.
@techsinger And, btw, it's no bother. I'm sorry I can't point you to a finished transcript. If you follow @BlazieTech I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have about the BT Speak. Also, Blazie Technologies' Web site has tons of demos as well as all of our documentation. www.BlazieTech.com
Note: the following are my personal opinions, and should not necessarily be taken as the opinion of my employer.Back in the day, when I was a larval teenaged geek, one of the first projects I ever created was called mircspeech.
A white layout with the word “Braille” in blue letters. After that, the word appears in Braille, displaying several combinations of dots.Then, the numbers 6 ...
I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.
However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.
I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.
PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.
You can put web+ap URIs into a message (or room description) and ideally a click on those will open your Mastodon client. However if no installed app supports those (the only app that I’m aware of is Fedilab) Conversations will open a browser instead.
Currently no app will create web+ap links but it is fairly easy to handcraft them.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some kind of generic UI widget that could resolve all kinds of protocols attached to a user address and offer to open various different apps for different things?
Estoy impresionado con la rapidez de respuesta que tiene la voz de Mateo de RH Voice en NVDA. Lamentablemente no es muy fácil poder usarlo en Fedora 41.
@asael @rmcpantoja I'm impressed with how quickly the Mateo voice from RH Voice responds in NVDA. Unfortunately, it's not very easy to use it on Fedora 41.
Takhle vypadá root v robotickém vysavači. Motivace je nepustit ho do cloudu a nechat všechna data včetně záběrů z kamery a data z lidaru uvnitř. Zatím pecka.
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