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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.

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Aaron T Kaminski - View Obituary & Service Information

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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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@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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@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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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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#immich

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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.
@VWestlife
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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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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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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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For anyone using Fenrir, if you're on the version that introduced the -x flag, I just pushed a fix for a bug that was causing vim to crash everything. I went ahead and merged this to master, although there is a rewrite of tab completion code in there as well. This was serious enough where I figured it needed to be in the master branch. If you pull this change and tab completion is worse than usual about reading, I am working on it. Also, if you are using the -x code to run Fenrir in something like xterm, please do not use the fenrir+control+s shortcut to save your changes to Fenrir. I need to work on a separate save system for when Fenrir runs as a user and not as root. If you do save, your screen and keyboard drivers may be over written and this could cause Fenrir to lock up your computer on reboot. I just had to rescue mine because of this little mistake lol. Since most people are likely using the tagged version, I don't think this stuff will affect very many people, but it's important enough I figured I better mention it in case someone is testing all the new stuff.

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I've been a little quiet about this for the last week or two but I'm currently in a place where I'm relatively certain I can actually pull it off.
Last year, the #Ableton Live 12 software became ... pretty accessible. First-party #accessibility, particularly in a tool like this, is practically unheard of, so that made a bunch of Waves. (pun somewhat intended).
One of the big gaps that existed, and still exists, is working with so-called Max4Live devices, as well as VST plugins that have a large amount of parameters. Ableton doesn't currently expose these properly to screen readers, and hasn't for over a year now. I'm sure they'll get around to it one day, but I think I can get there faster.
One of my current Patreon projects is a tool I'm calling Enableton, which fixes both of these issues as well as I can fix them.
If this'd be of use to you, have a look over at patreon.com/zersiax at this and other projects I'm working on :)

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Patreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions!
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This.

I grew up on forums like XDA developers and started posting there when I was like 11. It taught me English, taught me what software freedom is, got me to write my first few lines of code, share software with friends and like-minded people online, and made me who I am today.

We must fight to keep the communities that made us who we are. There is still a way forward.

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New version of walkers guide app for android has been released today.
Talkback so called accessibility actions are now used for useful context menu actions, there is an ability to report intersections layout and more.

walkersguide.org/en/downloads/

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There is a domain audio.pub. It's for sale. My initial though was that it's cool to have such a domain name, the price is about $5...
This sounded like a nice idea until I have realized I misread the price and it's a premium domain for 5000 dollars.
CC @ondrosik
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I've spent the past two months or so building out and perfecting a small web-based incremental game, inspired by the old mobile game Crafting Kingdom, but more accessible and modern. It's under a hundred KB of JavaScript, but includes a fully complete game including 7 buildings and almost 100 quests. Please feel free to give any feedback, it took me a lot of balancing and tweaking to get it to this point and it's very possible and even quite likely there's still weird/broken stuff. To play, go to trypsynth.github.io/crafter

Crafter

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Jane

I have mastered treasure chests. The trick is to let the automations work and as soon as you hear that text, jump to that button to open it. LOL Now I have one final objective. Eventually to build a castle. This should e a final building that should take, like, large amounts of everything you have collected. LOL
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Guided Frame in the camera app of modern Pixel phones is genuinly a life changer for using my phone camera as a blind person. I've used it to take good pictures of my cats to send to the family group chat, used it to open a QR code to activate my new credit card, and at least a couple more examples that are escaping my early Saturday morning brain. There's also a feature where you can swipe down with two fingers to get a scene description. Have yet to test scene descriptions offline, but guided frame at least seems to be all on-device.

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@PepperTheVixen So I think GOS actually uses the Google camera app, though I can't tell you if it's a stripped down version. I think that is a TalkBack related thing anyway, so might, if you install Google TalkBack instead of the GOS one.
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Meet Rabbit, the REAPER Accessibility Bootstrap & Bundle Installation Tool, your one and only tool to keep REAPER and all its extensions up to date.
Rabbit does make sure to update REAPER, OSARA, SWS, ReaPack, ReaKontrol, JAWS Scripts and FFMpeg on Windows and Mac, no matter if ARM or x64. It comes as a single executable that you can run and forget whenever you want. For nerds it also contains a CLI application that can be used to automate mass installations etc.
github.com/Timtam/rabbit/relea…

Release v0.1.0 · Timtam/rabbit

Initial public release. RABBIT is a REAPER accessibility bootstrap and bundle installer with a screen-reader-friendly GUI wizard and a matching CLI, packaged as a single self-contained executable p...
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While You Were Using SyncThing, I Studied the Blade. :ninja: 🥷

and I saved a bunch of RAM in the process

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I use the Keepass family of software for my password management and on my iPhone I can use the wonderful KeePassium which supports syncing the password database over WebDAV for self-hosting your
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We’ve been busy building and releasing but it’s high time to share some major news: @sovtechfund is investing nearly €500K into #chatmail

This 18-month commitment supports chatmail maintainers keeping the core infrastructure secure and evolving, on top of which several apps are built (but not STF funded):

#DeltaChat
@arcanechat
@deltatouch
Parla on Gnome

A huge thank you to the Sovereign Tech Fund for investing in open, secure and decentralized communication!

sovereign.tech/tech/chatmail

chatmail | Sovereign Tech Agency

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#deltachat #chatmail @Sovereign Tech Agency @DeltaTouch

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Mastodon.Radio is a Mastodon server for radio enthusiasts including the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!

:Fediverse: mastodon.radio

You can find out more at mastodon.radio/about or contact the admin account at @M0YNG

#FeaturedServer #Radio #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Shortwave #SWL #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Mastodon.Radio

Mastodon.Radio is a space for the Amateur (Ham) Radio community, anyone interested in Shortwave Listening (SWL), etc. Come join us and talk radio, technology, and more!
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A thread elsewhere on here got me reflecting on the fact that this year, I will have been online for 40 years.
My first device was a 300/1200 baud modem, complete with the need to learn the Hayes command set.
Connecting successfully to my first bulletin board system, the NZ Micro BBS run by Selwyn Arrow, felt like my computer had just broken free and was making its way in the big wide world. It took a while for me to get there, because I dialed the number repeatedly, only to find it busy. Finally, I got through, I heard the ringing sound, then the two modems negotiating the connection, and then wow! I actually got intelligible speech from my Artic 263-based speech synthesizer, and a log-in prompt from the Fido BBS software.
It was one of those moments where I knew I’d just done something life-changing.
It was generally a very collegial atmosphere back then of enthusiasts who wouldn’t hesitate to help one another out, and a lot of those early friendships moved to the “real world”.
Of course, me being me, it wasn’t long before I had to try starting one of these bulletin board things myself. People were so helpful in terms of assisting me to figure it out because I had no clue what I was doing.
I thought that since no one called us at home after 9:30 PM, I’d just use the family phone line, I was living at home with Mum and Dad, still in high school. So I set up the BBS to operate from 9:30 PM to 6 AM. That was a big mistake, because people would use their terminal software to cycle through the bulletin boards in their directory, and those directories typically didn’t have a field for the times the board was available. So we started getting calls at all hours of the day from modems.
Lesson learned, I got my own phone line pretty quick.
When someone explained to me how to use a service called PACNet to connect to CompuServe in the USA, I almost bankrupted myself as a penniless student and my girlfriend nearly gave up on me. Thankfully she didn’t, or my kids wouldn’t be here now. That was the first time I had been able to read an article from a newspaper independently, and I dreamed of a time when newspapers would be more abundant and affordable this way.
And, even more important, at just the right time, it connected me with the National Federation of the Blind, gave me hope, and established friendships I still value.
That early era was experimental, very basic and plenty of fun. We have come such an incredibly long way and it’s been a privilege to have participated in it all. And if you’ve been reading my gibberish for the full 40 years, well, you deserve a cookie, as in, a real actual delicious carbful cookie. Thank you.

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I first went online in I think it was the Spring of 1990 or so when we got our first modem. We had an Apple IIgs at the time, and we were running ProTerm by MicroTalk (Larry Skutchan's software company). The first BBS I joined was one run by our local public library using the Fido BBS software. I soon found other BBS's, but never tried running my own. Of course my dad joined GEnie and CompuServe.
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well, i've not been reading your stuff for the full 40 years, as i was just 3 then, but i've been with ya since the main menu days, and it's your fault my wallet is thinner than it probably should be, the parrot voicemate and the archos jukebox anyone?that oughtta count for something. :)
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Michaela dlha, Slovak accessibility consultant, created a nice project - Github release search. You just put the name of the project and it shows you latest release files. Now available in english too: technologiebezzraku.sk/github-… @Paweł Masarczyk @Peter Vágner
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Now that Piper TTS has made it to iOS and is relatively stable on newer devices, I'd like to create a Community hub of sorts, where people can upload voices they've created for it. To go along with this, I'd like to release some kind of training utility to make the process a little less scary for people who don't code regularly. Is this something you would be interested in?

My goal with this is to release more high-quality voices than what's currently available, many of the issues people see with Piper simply come down to the data used for training not being up to a professional standard. Honestly I think the main issue will be data collection, I have absolutely no interest in scraping from the web or using unlicensed data to train like many of these other open source TTS projects.

#TTS #OpenSource #Piper #MachineLearning

#opensource #machinelearning #tts #piper

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@mcourcel @mew @Derek @FreakyFwoof @x0 @Leowyatt88 @seedy60 @serrebi I am not going to install 2026 just yet as a few add-ons are still in need of an update like golden cursor, bestspeech (which I know may be impossible as well as the mindmaker flex voice) and a few others. I stupidly got rid of my beta copy. Teaches me a lesson I suppose! lol.
@x0 @Andre Louis @Derek Lane @Martin! @Brandon @Leowyatt88 @Seedy!
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Dockerized TopSpeed server stuff.

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GitHub - SweetDaddyRizz/dockerspeed: Containerized TopSpeed.Server publisher for GHCR

Containerized TopSpeed.Server publisher for GHCR. Contribute to SweetDaddyRizz/dockerspeed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ladies and gentlemen... After a long long time, and a hell of a lot of effort, Fenrir almost has a working X driver. Most things are working, and now it's just the finishing touches on keyboard handling to get everything working right. This means you can have a terminal with actual Fenrir bindings, not pty bindings, and it works just fine. This may mean just dedicating a workspace to a terminal and switching to it instead of going in and out of the console. There will be a new release as soon as I can verify this is stable and add in all the edge cases I have forgotten about along the way.

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Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know
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Accessibility essentials every front-end developer should know by Martijn Hols

Essential accessibility practices for front-end developers, including semantic HTML, alt texts, ARIA, and keyboard navigation tips to build inclusive components.
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Just a quick word for people updating to NVDA 2026.1 and who use mine and @KaraLG84's sounds:
If you want to have your sounds back *before* you reboot into the new copy of NVDA, make sure you've got a backup of the waves2 folder to-hand, as you'll need to paste it into Program Files\nvda just before the restart.
If you don't, running nsounds.bat won't work.
Unlike prior installs of 2025.x which kept the waves2 build in the folder, 2026.1 creates the folder fresh in the new location.
Easy thing to fix, but something I just noticed.
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“Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, #Google's on-device #LLM. #Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”

#privacy #sustainability #consent #values

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.
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There is a music player for #android called #boomingMusic.
Its UI looks to be very #accessible with a screen reader, the app focuses on high quality playback and rich features so I think it's worth following.

github.com/mardous/BoomingMusi…

GitHub - mardous/BoomingMusic: Clean, fast, and Material-driven music player with powerful features for Android.

Clean, fast, and Material-driven music player with powerful features for Android. - mardous/BoomingMusic
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I was on a podcast! The good people at @doubletap invited me to talk all about Mac versus PC. And we had a very balanced conversation. Watch it here, or find it in your podcatcher of choice: youtube.com/watch?v=XJgc0-RwzF…

Mac Versus PC: Choosing the Right Computer For Blind Users

Mac vs PC for blind users: which really delivers the best accessibility, performance, and everyday usability in 2025? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece are joine...
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Today, Bonnie and I made the kind of memories we'll talk about for the rest of our lives.
I've always been fascinated by space since I was very young. And while I dreamed of going to the Kennedy Space Center one day, America was such a long way away that I thought it would remain a dream. So finally, I made it, and Bonnie returned for a second visit.
It was very special. We got to talk with an astronaut, Ken Cameron. He is a retired NASA astronaut, U.S. Marine Corps Colonel, and engineer whose career is defined by high-stakes flight testing and pioneering international cooperation in space. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he joined NASA in 1984 and logged over 561 hours in space across three shuttle missions.
He flew on three distinct missions, transitioning quickly from pilot to commander roles:
he helped deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, one of NASA's "Great Observatories" designed to study high-energy radiation in the universe.
He led the second docking mission with the Russian Space Station Mir. This was a landmark flight that delivered a permanent docking module to Mir, proving the assembly techniques that would later be used to build the International Space Station.
He played a crucial role in bridging the gap between the U.S. and Russian space programs. In 1994, he served as the first NASA Director of Operations at Star City, Moscow. He lived in Russia to set up the support systems for NASA astronauts training with cosmonauts and personally trained on Soyuz and Mir systems.
Oh, and he's also an active amateur radio enthusiast.
So as you can appreciate, it was a real thrill to talk with him and hear some of his stories. Bonnie quizzed him about what it was like working with the cosmonauts.
We were lucky that we timed it so well. A SpaceX rocket launched this afternoon, and was only delayed by about half an hour, so we got to actually watch a rocket launch. When we heard nothing after the countdown, I wondered if it had failed to fire, but we just had to wait a few seconds for the intense, rumbling sound to ripple over to where we were. It was incredible!
We got to the shuttle Atlantas exhibit, and spent a lot of time at the Apollo exhibit, which was my favorite space thing when I was younger.
We were assisted by the KSC Smart Guide app, which has great audio description, although I've come back with a list of things they might do to improve the experience even more.
People were helpful, and we navigated the whole thing with plenty of great structured discoveries. What a team we make! I've got the technology, Bonnie's got ears that work properly and that incredibly personable disposition of hers. Unstoppable, I tell you.
I also got some super recordings using a Zoom H2Essential, which is an ideal wee gadget to take on a mission like this with its adjustable microphone pickup patterns and two sets of mics that record on separate tracks for later mixing. I had a cable running to the iPhone so I could capture audio from the guide.
It feels very special to have checked off such a longstanding dream from my bucket list, and it lived up to expectations.

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Parla is no longer depending on DeltachatDesktop to work, it's now able to create, transfer profiles and relays by itself. Looking forward distros to help me draw the best way to ship a separate jsonrpc server, maybe even sandboxed separately from the UI app for security reasons. i'm open to suggestions here :) But hopefully this way we can get the flatpak ready github.com/trufae/parla/releas… #deltachat #gnome #flatpak

Release 0.2.4 · trufae/parla

Support profile creation Manage and discover new relays Enter chat via invite link Profile list refactored into the avatar circle Support transfer account into secondary device Prompt the user befo...
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Users of Audiopub! I need your input to gage interest. I'm working on a streaming feature. Will you use it? Are you interested? Feel free to boost; I'd like to reach all users.
#Audiopub

  • Not interested (13%, 3 votes)
  • Interested and will use it to stream (50%, 11 votes)
  • Interested to listen to streams, but won't stream (36%, 8 votes)
22 voters. Poll end: Sunday, May 3, 2026, 9:19 PM

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Take back control

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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs.
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On a mailing list I'm on, someone was arguing that contracted Braille was a huge mistake. According to him, blind children aren't learning math or history or literature because they're spending so much time learning the intricacies of Braille contractions, and we had a golden opportunity to do something about it a few decades ago with the effort to standardize English Braille.

I feel like Braille, daylight savings time, and U. S. democracy have one thing in common: lots of people are deeply unhappy with the status quo and wish someone would fix things already, but people haven't come to anything close to a consensus in terms of what kind of change they want to see, if any.

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@Cleverson @Mike Gorse Here in slovakia we have no standardised contractions for writing braille. The real braille nerds used to come up with their own contractions back in the days before using computers for most writing. I think it was even consistent back then. Nowadays there are just a few people that might remember such attempts.
So I'm thinking stories like these do actually prove braille is needed and it's fantastic.
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I shared an overview of the history of NVDA Screen Reader in the NVDA Spanish mailing list. Thanks a lot to @NVAccess and happy 20 anniversary! If you are interested in read the post in Spanish, it's available here: groups.google.com/g/nvda-es/c/…

NVDA está en su aniversario número 20. He aquí una reseña histórica

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@Carlos Esteban Martínez Macías It would be nice to mention some more key points from the nvda history, such as early funding from mozilla, adobe and microsoft, loads of work rewriting virtual buffer code in C++, @Jamie Teh formally leaving the project as a full time developer although still contributing these days, @NV Access growth and onboarding more full time developers, mention some prolific contributors beyond the nvaccess team such as @Leonard de Ruijter and Mesar Hameet for example.
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I would be interested in making album cover art for someone

I would prefer electronic music by a fedi musician, (because I like electronic music and I would like to enjoy the music for which I am making the cover art)

So, if you are a musician with a planing a release and don't have art sorted yet, press the media tag on my profile or checkout my free zines on itch and see if you like what kind of messy art I make. If you think it might suit your work, send me a PM and we'll see if we can work something out

I am not looking for commissions or financial re-numeration, just fancy making some cover art

Depending on level of interest, I may have to turn down some people, if that happens please be aware in advance it is no reflection on you or your music, I just will not over-commit as that would lead to mutual disappointment. I will of course, answer all messages though and if I commit, you will get art you are happy with

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The NVDA 2026.1 Release Candidate is now available! This is the last step before the stable release and we ncourage ALL users to download and try out the release candidate. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the stable release.

Read the full announcement and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2026-1r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersio #Update #Accessibility #Free #Software

NV Access | NVDA 2026.1rc1 available for testing

NVDA 2026.1rc1 available for testing
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#Accessibility #free #software #screenreader #nvdasr #update #nvda #newversio

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@patricus One thing that's good about typo is we know that this account is managed and posts are manually typed by humans. In this age of most people copy pasting AI written words and phrases, typos are human touch, almost a souvenir to good writing.
Keep at it.
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