81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
Seen many blind people advocating for Audible's AI narration instead of having narrators they don't like record the audiobook and its takes like this that make me super ashamed of some in my own community. I can't even think of what to call these people.
The reasoning is that an AI voice won't be busy or expensive so we can get more audiobooks and just... I strongly suspect these are Blind people that hate audiobooks and want them gone or otherwise reduced in pop culture. I can't understand the logic otherwise.
Yeah this is a dumb take. I go to Audible or other places like that to get books read by humans. If I want AI, I can just get a book from Bookshare and load it up in Eleven Labs reader or use one of the many TTS APIs from Google or Microsoft to make my own audio book. That not only gives you more choice in terms of voices but also doesn't fool people who may not be able to detect AI generated audio into thinking they're listening to a real human voice actor.
Admin of todon.nl suggests, and rightly so, that the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:
“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.
The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.
Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”
Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”
And this (see screenshot) is what that “choice” looks like.
This decentralisation anti-pattern – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers (as I advised Eugen to do back in the day) – is why there is a flagship instance to begin with when it’s an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.
Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new ...
This is a link to listen to NOAA weather radio stations in the US online. Some are dead air or off-air and streaming or offline altogether, some have funny buzzing and other noises, at least one sounds like a live mic invading someone's privacy, but all of them have the NeoSpeech Paul robotic text-to-speech voice reading weather reports. You'd think the National Weather Service would change their voice by now, since better ones exist these days... weatherusa.net/radio
Looking into adding Anubis in front of most sites and services I host, which could be a somewhat working replacement of captchas and keeping AI bots out as well. I use one domain and subdomains via Caddy.
Looking at the documentation though, it is a bit confusing whether I need to run multiple instances of Anubis (which is not okay), or if it can handle as many sites as I throw at it in one running instance:
Nginx setup: "Anubis does not care about the HTTP Host header and will happily cope with multiple websites via the same instance."
Caddy: "If you want to protect multiple services with Anubis, you will need to either start multiple instances of Anubis (Anubis requires less than 32 MB of ram on average) or set up a two-tier routing setup where TLS termination is done with one instance of Caddy and the actual routing to services is done with another instance of Caddy."
Can anyone confirm if Anubis can indeed handle multiple websites (multiple subdomains and redirecting to different ports), or is it really necessary to run two Caddy instances to achieve this?
Big thanks to all the useful idiots to helped make this happen. Pat yourselves on the back. You couldn’t even forgo a few hours of your entertainment to boycott a whitewashing event for an ongoing genocide. Go you!
"Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was 'desperately trying to find soft power venues' and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left."
https://www.nytimes.
What's the point of boycotting the vote? If you wanted to change the result, you should have voted for other countries, that's it. But if you keep silence, nobody counts your voice and nobody knows your opinion.
The comparison rankles supporters of Israel but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa
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...
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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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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.
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