I'm looking to buy a few #Braille Displays to test and support them on #FreeBSD

I've found several used models on eBay for under €400, which would be perfect for my needs. Unfortunately, almost all of them are located in the United States, so the shipping costs are quite high.

Does anyone know of any websites or online stores in Europe where I can buy new or used Braille displays? Any links or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

#Accessibility #UNIX #openSource #brailledisplay #a11y #screenreader

douglas adams's story about the civilization that built a giant computer that gave the ultimate answer but nobody knew what the question was so they put all their resources into building an even bigger computer just to figure out the question ... it feels more plausible every day.

Android is going to be adding developer ID verification for any developer that wants their app to be sideloaded onto more than 20 devices.

You might be wondering: how are they going to track that? Well it turns out they already have been. Google Play Protect is sending the hashes of the apps you install back to Google's servers.

Your unique device identifier, your account info, and the apps you run are stored on Google's servers, even for a local install of a sideloaded app.

Also, my workshop proposal for #GUADEC 2026 was already accepted!

We'll build an app together using the modern GNOME platform. I'll show how the pieces fit together, and that it can be approachable, easy, & fun. And of course we'll be using #peel, my C++/GObject bindings project.

If you've been using GNOME for a while, but never got into developing apps for it, this workshop is for you 😀

(Hat tip to @deobald and @YaLTeR for suggesting this!)

"It looks like you're using an unsupported browser"

No, sorry, what you meant to say was:

"It looks like we've written an unsupported website"

Everybody agrees that the stock market has gone insane. AI dictating investments, meme stocks, castrated regulators in the US and UK, and utter bollocks like crypto infecting everything. Yet all of us are forced to invest our pensions in it. We need to be talking about this.

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

Boiling it down, every single request stemming from "age assurance" / "age verification" / "identity verification" is part of the slow but persistent fight against general purpose computing (itself but one front in the never ending struggle for human freedom)

The idea that you should be able to do anything without seeking permission from someone else is so abhorrent to some people they demand reality twist itself into absurdities to satisfy their need for authority.

Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.