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Vysílání služby #teletext je něco, co už dnes provozuje jen televize veřejné služby. ❤️
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Vysílání služby #teletext je něco, co už dnes provozuje jen televize veřejné služby. ❤️
A technology blast from the past that came to mind for some reason earlier today. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I used a service called X*PRESS Exchange or Information Service I believe. It was amazing for the time. You connected a box to your cable TV wiring and to a computer via a serial port and received text streams of all kinds of news. They even distributed software overnight. For the time it was really great! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X*Press_…
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Tonight, I feel the need to rant a little.
Many people keep saying that AI has destroyed everything, including music production, songwriting and singing. But sometimes I wonder whether AI is really the only thing to blame.
In 1994, when I was thirteen years old, I wrote my song For a Missing Girl. I recorded it using two cassette tapes, a Casio keyboard and my own voice. It was primitive, imperfect and homemade, but it was mine. The melody, the lyrics, the emotion and the voice were all mine.
Recently, I asked a musician I know in Cyprus whether he could help me record it properly. I hoped he might rearrange the music while still preserving my melody, my style and my own voice.
His answer was basically: “That is too much work. Why don’t you let Suno do everything for you?”
Honestly, I felt furious and deeply disappointed.
Yes, Suno created a beautiful and polished version of the song. I even uploaded it to YouTube. But it sounds very different from the song I originally wrote. It does not have my voice. It does not fully carry the fragile, personal feeling of that thirteen-year-old girl recording herself with two tapes and a keyboard in 1994.
So how am I supposed to make my own song sound the way I hear it in my mind, with my own voice, when I do not have access to a musician or producer willing to help me?
People condemn AI for taking work away from musicians. But what happens when a musician is given the opportunity to help a real person bring her own music to life and simply says, “Too much work. Let AI do it”?
AI can be incredibly helpful and valuable, especially for people who do not have money, professional equipment, industry connections or access to a recording studio. But AI did not refuse to help me because it was bored. A human being did.
And yes, that is what I find truly disgusting. You can listen to the Suno version of my song here: youtube.com/watch?v=HCPdT9N8aO… #OriginalSong #OriginalComposition #IndependentCreator #AIMusic #SunoAI #ForAMissingGirl
Many people keep saying that AI has destroyed everything, including music production, songwriting and singing. But sometimes I wonder whether AI is really the only thing to blame.
In 1994, when I was thirteen years old, I wrote my song For a Missing Girl. I recorded it using two cassette tapes, a Casio keyboard and my own voice. It was primitive, imperfect and homemade, but it was mine. The melody, the lyrics, the emotion and the voice were all mine.
Recently, I asked a musician I know in Cyprus whether he could help me record it properly. I hoped he might rearrange the music while still preserving my melody, my style and my own voice.
His answer was basically: “That is too much work. Why don’t you let Suno do everything for you?”
Honestly, I felt furious and deeply disappointed.
Yes, Suno created a beautiful and polished version of the song. I even uploaded it to YouTube. But it sounds very different from the song I originally wrote. It does not have my voice. It does not fully carry the fragile, personal feeling of that thirteen-year-old girl recording herself with two tapes and a keyboard in 1994.
So how am I supposed to make my own song sound the way I hear it in my mind, with my own voice, when I do not have access to a musician or producer willing to help me?
People condemn AI for taking work away from musicians. But what happens when a musician is given the opportunity to help a real person bring her own music to life and simply says, “Too much work. Let AI do it”?
AI can be incredibly helpful and valuable, especially for people who do not have money, professional equipment, industry connections or access to a recording studio. But AI did not refuse to help me because it was bored. A human being did.
And yes, that is what I find truly disgusting. You can listen to the Suno version of my song here: youtube.com/watch?v=HCPdT9N8aO… #OriginalSong #OriginalComposition #IndependentCreator #AIMusic #SunoAI #ForAMissingGirl
For a Missing Girl – Original Lyrics by Eleni Christodoulou
I wrote this song when I was thirteen years old, creating both the lyrics and the original melody in a minor key.This version is a new interpretation generat...Eleni Christodoulou (YouTube)
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I like this. I think if you used a newer model of suno it'd sound even better? Also I'd love to hear hte original. If you'd be willing I could try and, both run it through suno, and see if I could find a few people to help you arrange it. I know a fare few musicians :) I like to consider myself a pretty good suno prompter, I know you did it yourself, but I would like I said love to hear the original I'd love to hear the 2 casette players and a casio version.
I also am a farely good musician but I'm not always the best at playing full songs, but oh boy I'd give it a go, I can play most of these chords. I'm hearing 1990s walter afanasief, ala beauty and the beast etc.
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This is a good point. I'm coming at this from the perspective of a musician / producer who's been at this for nearly 20 years, and I have a love hate relationship with Suno and products like it. On the one hand, I think the tech itself is really cool and the fact a computer can produce music that honestly isn't all that bad in the grand scheme of things is impressive, however I also feel somewhat threatened as a person who's made music my life. I spent years getting good at piano, production, mixing, etc. Suno can make a hole song in seconds. of course musicians are going to be angry about this, it's a natural and justified reaction to something so disruptive. At the same time, if people find that it helps them express themselves, that's great. At the end of the day, Suno and tools like it are here to stay, and it falls on musicians to level up and make music that can surpass it. Ultimately, I don't think that's a bad thing at all.
Damn, spent a few hours trying to scrape a website using python requests to find out error 104 connection reset by peer is caused by their server software only speaking ancient TLS ciphers. Ended up writing custom SSL adapter accepting all the protocols.
It's a pity it took me so long to figure it out.
It's a pity it took me so long to figure it out.
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Bobby Prince, who composed music for #DOOM & #Wolfenstein3D & #DukeNukem 3D and more has sadly passed away
𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺
Sad news for those who know and love the history of #RetroGaming and #gaming in general
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„In 2026, the soundtrack to the original Doom was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress(…)“
How cool is that.
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Jamal Mazrui is resuming development of EdSharp with a beta of version 5.0.
github.com/JamalMazrui/EdSharp
GitHub - jamalmazrui/EdSharp: Text and code editor optimized for keyboard and screen reader users
Text and code editor optimized for keyboard and screen reader users - jamalmazrui/EdSharpGitHub
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"I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up." arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-p… via @MonniauxD
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I did something similar for a while with a client response that was designed to kill the ssh client attempting to login. Just a genetic algorithm sending a malformed response. At the time the bots would try 5 to 10 different PWs and then stop. So my fitness test was whether or not the attempts stopped early. Once it had evolved a response that would kill packets it would get one request and no more.
I have always wanted to do this, honeypotting port 22. I had a public facing server for a decade and watching the connections was always fun.
4 years, 65 versions, and now iroh 1.0. Here's to the next chapter and stability: a wire protocol you can depend on, with plenty of incremental features on the roadmap.
Dial keys, stay connected.
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Normálně se za opakované násilné znásilnění dává vězení. V katolické církvi dostanete odměnu 2 nebo až 3,5 milionu. Stačí se přihlásit. Heslo je "Graubnerboys". :( V akci je momentálně i španělský apartmán zdarma. seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-…
Případ duchovního z arcibiskupství: Dva roky mě znásilňoval, říká podřízená - Seznam Zprávy
Kancelář pražského arcibiskupství byla měsíce místem sexuálního násilí. Oběť označila za pachatele bývalého výkonného ředitele Antonína Jurigu. Ten se skrývá ve Španělsku, policie ho dosud ani nevyslechla, ač o věci ví čtyři roky.Janek Kroupa (Seznam Zprávy)
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From Jamal Mazrui: Introducing DbDo: The most Productive Database Manager for Screen Reader Users groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/11…
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We're very happy to see that WebDAV Push (github.com/bitfireAT/webdav-pu…) is being implemented in more software improving the open-source ecosystem around CalDAV and CardDAV 🎉 🎉
Rustical is a lightweight and very fast calendar 📆 server
github.com/lennart-k/rustical/
Chiri is a cross-platform ✅ Tasks management app for Linux, MacOS and Windows (supporting VTODO tasks)
GitHub - bitfireAT/webdav-push: WebDAV Push: Draft
WebDAV Push: Draft. Contribute to bitfireAT/webdav-push development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Das größte Missing Feature ist verschlüsselt e Synctargets.
Ich will kein Nextcloud oder son Shit wo ich auf ne weitere Maschine aufpassen muss.
Wisst ihr ob da was gutes existiert?
Would be interesting to see how this works with #opencloudmesh github.com/cs3org/OCM-API
GitHub - cs3org/OCM-API: OpenCloudMesh API
OpenCloudMesh API . Contribute to cs3org/OCM-API development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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-suiteGitHub
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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-…
@Derek @chikim @Leowyatt88
@Derek @chikim @Leowyatt88
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.GitHub
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Ok that's cool, IOS 27 makes the iPhone recovery screen accessible with Voice Over.
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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.Kristine Taylor (ABC News)
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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…
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.app-suite.eu
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Nice, accept the roter gesture isn't working for me so i have to use the talkback way of switching reading controls.
@J3317 I am new to Android, so I am not up on what's good and shitty. What are some good TTS voices to use? Google Play is about as useful as tits on a boar. Either that, or my searching skills suck! LOL!
@J3317 the roter jesture works just fine for me. I think you can hear me do it in the audio toot I did earlier today.
welp. this wqill not install on a pixel 8 pro running android 16. no error, just "you can't install this app. alert."
@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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I poked him about it the other day, and yes seconded, would love an Andre theme with short, subtle, to the point sounds like he does.
@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?
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.chrome.google.com
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.
Yeah, I love the UI Sounds extension as well. I think it's just enough of sounds that it doesn't get too annoying. On top of that I already have Triggerd spoon!
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That won't run on modern versions of chrome anymore, sadly. Or any versions at all starting in I believe September/October.
It's still working now, the guy updated it for v2 so it's not runing because I reenabled it, it's just working.
If you were ever using it, it should have auto updated as chrome does, so it should just keep working.
Hah it was in my list but disabled. “This extension was turned off because it requires additional permissions.” Re-enabling it worked.
#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…
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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.
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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.
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.
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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?'
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
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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.
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...GitHub
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bloody hell. Is it full of older tech guys? I mean I'm guessing it hasn't experienced a rennaissance
@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.
@bermudianbrit@FreakyFwoof And modern IRC servers have stuff like nickserv built in, and you can give your username and password to a modern client, so no more /msg nickserv identify nonsense.
@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.
@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.
bloody hell that's awesome. Discord was already getting suspect for me when it tried to oust a lot of kinky stuff a year or 2 back, so this is very cool
@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.
@VE3RWJ@bermudianbrit@FreakyFwoof If you want an accessible usenet reader, microplanet gravity works: github.com/taviso/mpgravity
GitHub - taviso/mpgravity: MicroPlanet Gravity
MicroPlanet Gravity. Contribute to taviso/mpgravity development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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...Device Orchestra (YouTube)
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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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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 
#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #productivity #meetings #Teams #MicrosoftTeams
MS Teams links doesn't work (#1312) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab
There are no meeting links shown and no Join button available for MS Teams meetings. In the console I can see the meeting out put with...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".
izzyondroid.org/docs/devpracti…
#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/PolinRiderGitHub
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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 😉
@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.
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?
I have come to the terms with the fact that phones will always remain slow and clunky. I am thankful for braille screen input and scrolling gesttures though.
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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
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Am I doing something wrong? I can’t seem to select columns/rows to answer?
Hmm, some clues are also missing from the Down items…
Edit: somewhat works on my phone, but not on my desktop 🥲
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this is really cool!! couple thoughts:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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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@bermudianbrit Well, the direction is right indeed. Lets hope we can push this from the policy side as well to make it more sensible for everyone. @EUCommission
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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@remixman No idea! Though after moderating a community full of toxic blind hackers I don’t blame him lol.
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 It started to work for me as soon as I've got a notification of your message I'm replying to.
So huge thanks for unlocking my raccoon
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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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@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/avbrootGitHub
GrapheneOS has built-in support for call recording in the system dialer app which we built ourselves. We're in the process of adding an implementation of automatic call recording as an extension to it.
@GrapheneOS Yes, this is something I like and admire at the same time however I am using a 3rd party dialer app so I am not able to take full advantage of it.
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...GitHub
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@draeand If your first PR works I will no lie send you a susbstantial donation. This has been driving me mad for ages.
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@TheQuinbox From my testing, it does work, and it works really well. Feel free to test it yoruself! And I would appreciate the donation!
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.
@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.
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 
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