@worik @vkc The dominant screen reader for Windows is NVDA which is FOSS.

Honestly not a fan of you saying that it's just "the learning curve" when I have seen a few blind people literally struggling to use Linux because it isn't accessible enough, despite otherwise having good knowledge of Linux tools and the shell.

You can also try the experiment yourself - install Orca to then realise that most of your software isn't accessible, or that even your desktop may not be fully working that way.

PSA: I'll talk about x86 emulation in FEX this coming Saturday at #39c3 !

If you want to come and say hi during the event, I'll be hanging out at the Dolphin assembly - any interruptions appreciated! 😄

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/breaking-architecture-barriers-running-x86-games-and-apps-on-arm

Until then, happy holidays all!

Since there's CCC and FOSDEM coming up, the next #BoilingTheOcean is happening in February!

The weekend of February 14-15th we'll be hacking as usual, but on the 13th we'll also have an evening of talks and discussions on identity in peer-to-peer systems, with @bumbleblue and @shibacomputer ✨

More details TBA :)

#gnome #localfirst #p2panda #postmarketos #berlin

@adz and @tbernard will be talking about @modal , Reflection and @p2panda : Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop, at
@fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!

They'll introduce you to Modal, a collective focused on bringing local-first principles to Linux Desktop and Mobile. He'll also showcase Reflection, the GTK-based text editor, and p2panda, the underlying peer-to-peer stack.

Come listen to them and the 26 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00.

It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#8-p2panda-modal-reflection

Too many things to do, too little time

😐🫸 "is it free software?"

😎👉 "does it free people?"

> Be in your hometown
> Wonder if electronics store that used to be there ~15 years ago still exists
> It still exists and is apparently doing relatively well
> It's a time-capsule, tiny store full of electronic goodness
> Kinda like a miniature version of Radio Center in Akihabara
> You can get just about anything for hobbyist electronic projects (just like in childhood)
> Buy 10x 22kOhm and 10x 56kOhm resistors for SuzyQ/Cereal cables
> Pay 2PLN (47 cents), so single resistor costs 2,35 cents

Man, I miss having a store like that nearby. It's the only redeeming quality of this town.

Also.. is there an option to force enable hardware acceleration in Firefox with 0 checks and nothing? Like a toggle that always enables it, like always always without thinking?

If not, then I can't debug any issues with Firefox :) and would have to auto close all of them.

The distance between #Dublin and #London is only 464 km (288 miles), #asthecrowflies. The two capital cities are in a Common Travel Area.

But as #GretaThunberg showed today, it's about a million miles in politics.

In Dublin, #PresidentConnolly regards the #genocide in #Gaza as a horror. But in London, the #CityOfLondonPolice treat opposition to genocide as #Terrorism. So #Greta went from a presidential welcome in #Ireland to arrest in #England / #UK.

#aTaleOfTwoCities #iepol #ukpol

The year is coming to a close and while you might be unwrapping other gifts shortly, we have just wrapped up the latest postmarketOS release for you. 🎁

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/23/v25.12-release/

Big thanks to everybody who contributed to postmarketOS, to @alpinelinux or any of the numerous upstream components we use. Without you this would not be possible! ❤️

We would also like to thank @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release!

#linuxmobile #phosh #plasmamobile #sxmo #gnome #postmarketos

@andnull https://xkcd.com/2337/

Software projects using GitHub because they are "too tied to their services", e.g. CI, CLI, or just the workflow in general, have fallen into Microsoft's trap. Same as Windows: make the user depend on too many niche features that no other product has and then when they can't leave, squeeze them for all they have. Its the same with all big tech, but Microsoft is the most obvious. The worst part is when project leads don't even notice it and assume anybody raising alarms are just paranoid.

I'm so glad NVDA, Narrator, Orca, VoiceOver, TDSR, and Fenrir exist. I'm so, so glad JAWS is not the only desktop screen reader, and that FS did not persue JAWS for Mac.

I'm so glad that NVDA not only supports addons, but shows them off with the addon store! I'm so glad that NVDA is so inescapably popular that even big corporations support them, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office and countless others that say in their documentation that NVDA is supported.

#accessibility #blind #nvdasr #nvda #technology

we stay silly
#plasmamobile #postmarketos

@TarXZ @vkc I've heard from a blind person that having a robotic voice helps better understand what is said than having a 'natural' voice. espeak also manages better speeds than other TTSes (while still being intelligible, because the voice is so robotic)

@ariadne Oh, alpine, right.

@ska @ariadne @lanodan good computing movements such as FOSS and right to repair outperform their founders/"leaders"

@ariadne what?

@TarXZ @vkc what? (I can't understand your sentence)