”Apresentei minha esposa ao AntennaPod para podcasts, como um passo para nos afastar do Spotify, e sua confusão inicial era que ela não precisava fazer login em nada para usá-lo, apenas funciona e ela pode encontrar os podcasts nos quais está interessada! 😊
Introduced my wife to AntennaPod for podcasts, as a step to wean us off Spotify, and her initial confusion was that she didn't have to log in to anything to use it, it just works, and she can find the podcasts she is interested in! 😊
AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...
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so with this logic its also illegal to enlarge font for accessibility? Or darkening web that does not have dark color scheme? Or to letting password manager automatically fill credentials? Any DOM manipulation? 🤦
Check out an Applevis forum post and an associated podcast that I put together about a cool guitar gadget called Tonewood Amp. If you are an acoustic guitar player,, you may really love it! :)
Instead of changing your behavior because you're worried about what LLMs are producing, why not just be flattered that they're trying so hard to be like you and failing?
@mmu_man Those armored fiber cables are really heavy and easily mistaken for copper I guess ... I know a guy with a spool that big that was mistakenly delivered and he can't get rid of it, just lives in his garage lol
Set up an appointment with a new pain therapist. At the end of our intake call, I asked, "Hey, just to be clear, there's no binding arbitration waiver in your paperwork, right?"
That was 3 days ago. I was just getting ready to drive over and he texted me this, then called me and told me he wouldn't treat me because being asked about his paperwork "made him uncomfortable."
I guess from now on I just go to the first appointment, read the paperwork and if it's objectionable, cancel and walk out?
What a strange cowardly cop-out. Guy is clearly over his head and doesn't understand what binding arbitration even is, then claims you're making threats of legal action? What???
according to the What's new in Voiceover section, the following are the new features coming to Voiceover in iOS 26. Magic Tap, Customize Magic Tap behavior in VoiceOver > Commands > Magic Tap. Copied Speech Rotor, Manage recently-copied speech phrases and choose what to paste. Reset VoiceOver Settings, Reset all VoiceOver settings with the press of a button. New Indian Voices, VoiceOver now supports additional Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, and Punjabi Voices. Braille Access, Quickly access Braille Notes, BRF files, and more anytime using your Braille display. Item Overview, Read the first few cells of multiple items at once using Item Overview. Press dots 6, 7, and 8 at the same time to toggle Item Overview. Customize Commands, Customize commands for Braille Screen and Braille Keyboard Input in VoiceOver > Commands > Braille Screen & Braille Keyboard Input. More Braille Commands, Map Braille chords to more VoiceOver commands. Braille Keyboard Input, Turn on Braille Keyboard Input to use the home row of your keyboard to type in Braille and use Braille commands. Slate and Stylus Style Input, Customize Single-Hand Braille Screen Input to slate and stylus style in Braille Screen Input settings. Dot Position Learning, Turn off Learn Dot Positions to fix the Braille Screen Input dot positions to where you calibrated them. Korean Braille Input, A new Korean (2024, Uncontracted English) table is available to input Korean in Braille.
DuckDuckFedi, what kind of desktop environment do GNOME developers use?
I am curious because some of the design decisions feel as if they had been made by people who... don't use GUIs at all? Or maybe are new to computers in general?
Some data points:
No way to adjust screen brightness out of the box.
No solid color backgrounds, only pictures.
At least the missing close buttons were just a temporary lapse of judgement.
I only use GNOME, on all my devices (desktop, laptop, tablet) except phone (Android, though that's not a desktop environment)
> No way to adjust screen brightness out of the box.
Hardware dependent maybe? Maybe it's possible with hacks and workarounds, but I'm no display/hardware person. I can adjust screen brightness on my laptop and tablet, but not on my desktop
> No solid color backgrounds, only pictures.
Yeah... I always found that weird, personally. I discovered gnome-control-center#3389, which was expected to be included in GNOME 49, but I suppose they forgot..?
Description of problem: In my Gnome session, I have to use an image as background, unable to choose "solid color, no background" Version-Release number of selected...
> I am curious because some of the design decisions feel as if they had been made by people who... don't use GUIs at all? Or maybe are new to computers in general?
Honestly, that's probably a fair assumption 😅
I believe all GNOME designers unconditionally prefer GUIs over anything else. A sizable chunk of GNOME users (including developers, designers, etc.) are neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, dyslexic, etc.), so we generally try to keep everything big, spacious, succinct, and not expose nonessential buttons and bars.
Despite all this, I think that GNOME does an almost-excellent job with keyboard navigation - "almost" because the shell and apps often lack proper keyboard navigation support; for example, as of GNOME 49, GNOME Calendar will finally accommodate keyboard users: tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-cal… - but despite that, I think GNOME does a much better job with keyboard navigation than macOS and Windows.
I try to go into details with GNOME's design philosophy on my blog post: tesk.page/2023/04/02/what-is-g… - but the summary is that we try to provide good defaults; but we also set the expectation that the user uses GNOME with a fresh mindset, and not with the mindset of someone who is familiar with macOS or Windows. We want to keep the desktop clean and distraction-free, so the user can get work done with minimal distractions.
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
In principle, I like the overall approach very much.
And hiding certain things makes sense if you are going for an "uncluttered" look.
But from a usability perspective, if I can't even enable "common" stuff in the settings (stuff that already existed in GNOME), at that point a design is throwing "discoverability" out of the window and going more for "write it yourself if you like it so much, noob".
yeah, it's a trade-off. I think it's important to highlight that most of these decisions are taken after a fair amount of exchanges between designers, developers, users, etc. Many of these discussions span for months, too.
Some vary from who's willing to work on it and who's willing to maintain it - in the end, GNOME is a community project full of volunteers.
Just a few years ago, there were a lot of considerations to remove more than half the network features in Settings, due to the lack of maintenance but increase in burnout: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
Some functionality are removed due to accessibility reasons. Some are also purely philosophical, in that the underlying technology providing the functionality is severely lacking in many aspects. For example, system trays were removed due to accessibility and technological reasons: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/3…
Of course, not every feature removal is like that, but they're not removed "just because" and/or without discussion.
“Status icons” go by a few different names. A lot of people know them by the area where they appear, which gets described as the “system tray” or “notification area”. Whatever you call it, it’s the...
I have workarounds, and there are extensions that allow e.g. brightness adjustment.
It's more like starting a new operating system and discovering that there is no text editor. Or way to see how much disk space is left. Or a way to power it down.
yeah. I can't speak for every single case, but it's pretty common to find bugs that are utterly broken on specific environments, like the infamous mutter#3362 😓
Often times, features are tested/targeted for specific combinations of environments, but will completely collapse on other combinations of environments, usually because the developers only have that hardware.
@zkat there's this graphic arts school / workshop not far from where I live, in the middle of the coffee fields, where they do movable type by hand and engraving and other wonderful things. Can't wait to visit!
The HR tech giant said it had no indication of any unauthorized access to customer systems, but has not ruled out a breach affecting customers' personal information.
Over the past week I've been working on Playmaker.Audio: > A modern, end-to-end 3d game audio engine on top of OpenAL Soft. This project aims to give .NET / C# games a developer-first audio layer that feels closer to high-level middleware while staying completely open, hackable, and dependency-light. If you're interested, take a look! github.com/the-byte-bender/Pla…
Well, I found out firsthand what development hell is! For me, it was literal hours spent over two days trying to fix an issue that was preventing this shell of an App from building with .net. Part of the problem was caused by this VSCode installer that those of us who took the BITS VSCode class were given access to. It doesn't allow me to pull components I need, so I installed another version of VSCode with those components but can't use it because of course the Accessibility enhancements aren't in there, but it made a huge mess and for a while I didn't realize what the issue was! I almost gave up, but it at least builds on this machine now even with the other VSCode gone! I still feel like I need some help but at least I can continue working on hotkey handling, which is apparently quite complex! You just hit a key and magic things happen! Yeah, except that magic is actually lines and lines of code and a bunch of files that are all necessary! Why am I doing this again? Will I continue? I think the jury's still out on both of those! LOL
@matt Had to go pull it from my prelims because that's how much I've fried my brain with this! UI Framework: WinUI 3 (with WinAppSDK) apparently a good choice for native accessibility which is of course what I'm after. I'm still unsure if this will ever be in a distributable state but hey at least I'm trying to do something very much outside of my wheelhouse.
This was my first day doing all my development-related work inside VSCode. I'm still getting the hang of things, but between easily accessible global search and replace, the ability to automatically spin up my WSL environment on launch, and an integrated terminal which doesn't bring my screen reader to its knees every 20 minutes has already made me more productive than I've been in months. Don't think I'm ever going back.
@matt Basic text editor and actual console tabs. Notepad++ for the editing side for the past decade. Trying real hard to get with the times now that real IDE's are finally accessible.
Programming is such a weird job, because when my sibling gets home from their job making props and set pieces for the botanic\ gardens, I can listen and understand at least the basics of what they're talking about/what they did in a day. This also goes for my mom teaching, as well as many other jobs. But when I finish my workday as a software developer and they ask me what I did/how my day was, I have to basically just be like uuuh, well, it was a nice and productive day. I got a lot done. Because the second I start even remotely going off into the weeds their eyes glaze over, and when asked what I do, my parents response is always "uh, IDK, some fancy computer shit". Almost never is that the response for any other profession.
Now, more than ever, I wish I had all the old Royal Canadian Air Farce episodes. They knew how to make tough political times go just a bit easier by their political satire
In a significant development for AT&T customers, millions affected by two major data breaches in 2024 may be eligible to file claims for cash payments totaling up to $7,500 as part of a $177 million class-action settlement.
When you're so used to the Nano text editor and do a control+W for find, only to close the active tab you were on. Yup, that's a thing now in my daily Windows life, go figure, brain.
Any #blind folks know of a screen reader made for the Commodore Amiga line of computers? I'm actually curious if they ever made an attempt at one and whether we could emulate some Amiga computers including the screen reader if there was one. @datajake1999, any ideas?
CAMROSE, AB - In yet another shocking electoral upset, Conservative leader and former Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre has somehow been defeated once again in today's by-election by Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy,
The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.
First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is fucking insane, and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it so much worse. Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had damn good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is textbook wage theft, and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!
The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should never be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is precisely the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!
The more I use it, the more I love #gnome. It is such a sleek desktop environment. Wether on the desktop-pc or on the laptop, it is smooth, does not bother me and justs works without any problems.
I am exited to see, what new features are shipped with gnome 49 🙂
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