I'm all not up for it, unless it magically lets me see with my eyes. But if this becomes a reality, all the fantasy and MORPG books, will no longer be considered fantasies...
Lesya Ukrainka: Ukraine’s Beloved Writer and Activist
“Lesya Ukrainka” was a carefully considered pseudonym for a writer who left behind a legacy of poems, plays, essays and activism for the Ukrainian language.
I am trying to object already for two weeks, but I can't get it done.
- I did not receive an email, so I don't have an objection link. - I sent an email with my objection, but got a very generic (AI generated?) response, but not a confirmation. After another response of mine, it was silent. - In their email response, they refer to facebook.com/privacy/genai with a link to object, but for that you need to sign in with Facebook (I only use WhatsApp).
it should have told you the gestures for home and such, you can use actions to dismiss notifications from the lock screen so something must be being stupid, if you need help just message me here or on Discord.
You could eventually go to settings, find the gestures settings and tell the gesture to screw off, sighted people also dislike it, so the buttons are good for you. Message me or mention me here if you need help, also, what phone did you get? :)
I could never use Android as a primary, one of the reasons being that TalkBack is not as smooth when reaching the bottom of an app or website screen and on iPhone, VoiceOver will automatically move focus to the next item and the screen will follow the cursor. Nope, TalkBack literally has to scroll the screen before focusing on the next item, and its infuriating as you have to wait for about a second, slightly less, but never the less you have to wait for the dink dink sounds to stop before it highlights the next thing and reads it. So more often than not, back when I did have a Pixel as my primary, I would instinctively use explore by touch and manually scroll the screen with the 2 finger gesture. Oh an in some cases, the auto scrolling BS TalkBack does would sometimes miss a few things and jump further down than it needs to, meaning if you're not used to this behavior you'll miss some stuff. As for TTS voices, since Eloquence most likely won't work on the Pixel, you could try the DECtalk for Android.
Oh oof. That is one of the most enfuriating things I wish Google would fix with TalkBack, but they won't. I don't know what they've updated for TalkBack 16 or the Android 16 beta in terms of this stuff, but I doubt they've suddenly fixed these issues unfortunately.
I haven't used CSR in years, so I wouldn't know. Prudence has actions support but if you want a gesture, I think you manually have to set that in Prudence settings.
it does now, it has for a wile now, the roter just doesn't auto switch to them so you have to do it your selff, also i don't remember if it tells you acctions are available, if it doesn't that's bad for a new user
in reading this entry, yes you can turn off things like raise to wake, and touch to wake. I have mine set that way as I absolutely hate my phone waking up that easy. as far as the notifications. that is the one thing I personally think apple got right. there are a couple other things that are the same on android, like answering a call, you can use the two finger double tap to answer, and ending the call as well. the two finger double tap can also pause your music too in most apps if I am not mistaken. if you have questions. you can ask, and as long as I know the answers, I will help you as much as I can.
@JamminJerry My biggest struggle right now is that explore by touch just completely stops working every 30 minutes or so. I have to lock the phone and unlock it again to make it start working. It’s infuriating. I can’t even type when it happens because only flick works. That and talk back is just! So! Slow! 1.5 seconds to scroll a list. Lag when typing. Etc. I thought Google tts was the issue, so I switched to espeak. No change. Voiceover is faster on my iPhone 8. What can I do to make talk back actually responsive? Because this is killing me.
I don't ever have issues with the explore by touch not working like that. that is just crazy! I mean ok, I have the 9 pro XL and yours is the 9A, but there shouldn't be that much of a difference.
@JamminJerry I’m not sure what’s up, swipe works fine. I could even swipe my way through the keyboard if I wanted. But explore by touch just quits and stops responding.
I do get what you mean that voiceover is more responsive. I use the alix voice, and even that 900 meg voice is still more responsive than anything on android. yes eloquence, ESpeak, vocalizer, and things like that are more responsive than the google tts any day, but eloquence you can't even get or put on more modorn phones sadly. but I mean, I could record a demo for you to show you that my stuff isn't even that slow when I do things. that is just crazy!
give this a listen to, and let me know what you think. I was just trying to show you that what you are experiancing shouldn't be happening at all, as far as the screen freezing like that. dropbox.com/scl/fi/oqen8lnr431…
here is the thing. even though mine is the pro xl, there shouldn't be that much difference. not like what you are explaining. hell! I could even get out my pixel 8, and do the same shit if you wanted, just so you can hear it.
you could try that to see if that fixes it. if that doesn't fix the screen freezing, I almost wonder if the screen is messed up or something? I could ask the blind android users telegram group if anyone has seen that before, and I bet it would be a resounding no. lol.
holy wow! I have to do a lot of updating to my pixel 8. lol. I haven't taken it out of my desk in almost a month. smile. not only am I updating the OS to the latest beta, I need to do a lot of app updates as well.
@JamminJerry Yeah so I’m trying csr or whatever it’s called now. With it, explore by touch sometimes freezes for a few seconds but it comes back without me needing to do anything. It’s also significantly faster. So something is obviously wrong with my talk back.
CSR is more responsive than talkback, and it is a whole lot more configurable, especially if you pay for the subscription. that is kind of a pain, but it id doable, and once you do, you get access to more stuff.
@JamminJerry How do you make it use talkback actions? From my first fifteen minutes with it, it looks good. But no actions makes it unusable with gmail.
I am sure it can be used with GMail without the actions. I know people that use that thing over talkback, and in fact use it as there daily driver. now how they do things in it? that part I really don't know.
@JamminJerry Oh, I figured it out. The default settings are just silly. You want global granularity navigation 2 as your gesture style and then you can swipe up to actions, and swipe left/right through the actions.
@dhamlinmusic@JamminJerry While I'm complaining about stuff: is there a trick to reliably find the fingerprint reader? I can't feel it at aall. My ancient six year old android phone had it on the back of the phone. But now it's on the screen and I never ever get it right the first time.
Yes, I'm aware that it's still in beta. But as it stands right now, Figma Sites are a clear path to creating an incredible mess of a site. If you look at
“I’m asking this massive company to stop releasing features & products & ideas that are obvious barriers. And I want them to stop expecting free labor from the community. It’s tiring, frustrating, and disrespectful.”
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request.
Az LG okostévé-tulajdonosok 42 országban, köztük Magyarországon is számos streamingszolgáltatást ingyenesen vagy jelentős kedvezményes vehetnek igénybe június végéig.
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Endless believes that youth should be able to shape their technology rather than be shaped by it. They harness the power of games to engage youth in learning 21st-century skills to build economic mobility and partner with nonprofits to solve the barriers of device and internet access.
Not if you consider every whore on it as a contractor and therefore an "employee" from a metric perspective. Then I bet it's about in line with everything else, if not worse.
The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate.
CNN — The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave. cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/na…
I wonder why. They happily hire someone with a history jumping company every 2-3 years. But not hiring someone 10 years before retiring by fear of lost investment in the person?
The Trump White House, which touts itself as “the most transparent” administration in history, has removed a database of official transcripts documenting the president’s announcements and appearances.
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request.
For all the #train enthusiasts out there: mapcomplete.org/historic_rolli… shows a map of historical locomotives and other rolling stock that are permanently placed somewhere - e.g. monuments, in a museum or just abandoned.
Today's fun with OpenStreetMap and route planners: A route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men.
About 40,000 Danish roads (= 35 % af all Danish roads) have been tagged with name:etymology:wikidata to tag into Wikidata's structured content.
Other ideas for funny restrictions? Roads named after politicians of specific political parties? Roads named after royals? (¡Viva la revolución!) Roads named after Swedes?
@MapComplete Yeah, I have been using MapComplete excessively for the last 1½ year for that exact purpose, creating thousands of entries in Wikidata as well and updating most of the ways that now have this tag 🙂 Thank you for an excellent service!
Yeah, I know. You are (together with some others) one of the big drivers for 'number of changes' in the statistics.
Btw, the etymology theme was a bit of an afterthought itself. I (@pietervdvn) created the Wikidata-link item for a different theme. A bit later, I realized it wouldn't be much hassle the setup an etymology thing to help equalstreetnames.
@pietervdvn Yes, 40.000 individual streets when aggregated locally and grouped by municipalities. In OSM terms it's about 160.000 ways, but MapComplete helps group local ways together.
I have been to the library a lot for the last two years.
Do you have a pointer to the desks you mention? I'm not having luck searching for that...
I picked up the idea from watching Kids on the Slope. There's a low desk that appears briefly in one scene, and when I saw that I had to stop everything and take note of it. Perfect for my alcove (alcove thread at mstdn.mx/@federicomena/1090095… )
Estoy haciendo una mesita/escritorio chaparrito para la alcoba de mi oficina. Estos prismas cuadrados están a punto de convertirse en octagonales. #carpintería
sadly, no desk suggestions. i kind of bastardized a coffee table and lifted myself with a little wooden platform and spare meditation cushion. i’ve duplicated this at my cabin: another old coffee table + meditation cushion combo but with the legs cut down a bit.
lets be honest, if they can't be bothered to review the code before committing these same people would have been copy and pasting directly from stack overflow
A great photographer is one where even when you know how great they are and are familiar with their main body of work, one of their photos can still take your fucking breath away. This one just floored me.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
Might as well join in: TheUnCloud.co/ WebRTC file transfer. Most of the code is in the page but you can download the rest. Share large files outside the cloud.
CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say Under Trump, the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut. arstechnica.com/health/2025/05…
On the first of four trains today because, in a reckless fit of efficiency, I thought it would be a good idea to stop off for a 4.5 hour electrolysis session on the way from Devon to our holiday in Scotland. Feeling cute today though ☺️
Ooo lookie! Not sure when this version will be released, but...
The topic for the Tuesday, May 27, That All May eRead online program will be NLS Braille eReader software Version 3.0. In the remaining time, we will answer any questions you have about the NLS Braille eReader.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. eastern time and will last for one hour. The meeting will be recorded. To access the meeting, go to loc.zoomgov.com/j/1609330620?p…
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