Happy to report that the Steam OS screen reader no longer requires the beta channel. Activate it by pressing and holding the Steam and View buttons (the button below the left touchpad and the button at the top left of the display.) Can't speak to how early in the process it is available since I only found the right combo after logging in with sighted help, but it's there.
Haven't tried desktop mode yet but game mode is about on par with desktop Big Picture, albeit with limitations if you're not using a keyboard. Wonder if I can repurpose any button combos as Orca/flat review keys, so something like Steam + D-pad sends Orca flat review keystrokes.
TLOU plays well, and I just picked up 2 at 20% off for some hopefully nice handheld No Return.
Next to figure out, via ProtonTricks, how to inject TTS-related DLLs into games like Sequence Storm, which as of now fails to narrate. Then onto getting a working NVDA install so any games using its screen reader API work. I'm not confident it'll be very useful outside of that narrow niche, might almost be worth figuring out how to bridge the small NVDA controller API surface to Orca/Espeak.
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Profound read on AI use and the influence on students.
"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a savior. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
huffpost.com/entry/history-pro…
#AI #teaching #academicChatter #academia
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."Will Teague (HuffPost)
If we call all Norse people from the Viking Age "Vikings", it's only fair to also call all British people from the Age of Sail "Pirates".
"William Shakespeare was inarguably the most famous Pirate playwright."
"Most Pirates at the time were at least nominally loyal to Pirate Queen Elizabeth."
"Under James, the noted witch-hunting enthusiast, the Pirate homeland had finally been united under a single king."
"Most Pirates practiced a religion called 'Anglicism' that differed from that of pre-piratical Britain. But in the far north some adhered to the cult of 'Presbyterianism' and yet others clung to the ancient Catholicism of their heathen forebearers."
"The Pirates once again captured Napoleon Bonaparte, and left him stranded on the remote island of Saint Helena."
"I am descended from Scottish Pirates. Which sounds a lot cooler than saying my ancestors were probably farmers from Fife and sheep thieves from the borders."
It's telling when invisible human workers whose job it is to proof 'AI' output, place no trust in it themselves.
One worker for Google was tasked to find the limits of the LLM software's historical breadth:
“I asked it about the history of the Palestinian people, and it wouldn’t give me an answer no matter how I rephrased the question"
And yet the same query for Israel was profuse with detail.
"We reported it, but nobody seemed to care at Google.”
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts sayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Today I worked on the proof for weakening. Dangers of being a self-learner: I tackled soundness before weakening, and before doing the review on what precisely proof objects, derivations as trees and so on mean. So I had to build the mental model for these things while doing the induction cases on soundness and getting snagged by the syntax/semantics distinction. I built the right mental model, but I bumped against everything bumpable before getting it.
Oh well, this is what learning maths for me is like: inelegant, slow, irritating, but necessary.
¿Recordáis cuando bajó el IVA del aceite, y eso permitió que subiera el precio del aceite para quedarse como estaba? Pues eso.
El PP llevará al Congreso la rebaja del IVA de la carne, el pescado o los huevos para ayudar a las familias
elmundo.es/economia/2025/11/23…
El PP llevará al Congreso la rebaja del IVA de la carne, el pescado o los huevos para ayudar a las familias
El PP ha anunciado que presentará en el Congreso una proposición de ley para pedir la rebaja del IVA en la carne, pescado o huevos para ayudar a las familias que ven "como...Europa Press (El Mundo)
Bin erst heute Morgen beim Kaffee über dieses Buch gestolpert. Und ich glaube, ich klotz das jetzt jedesmal drunter 😂.
#metalvsukni den 7 - Operní Hlas Metalu: Tarja Turunen
Tarja Turunen je 𝗽𝗿ů𝗸𝗼𝗽𝗻𝗶𝗰í 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗸é𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘂. Byla to ona, kdo katapultovat finskou kapelu 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 mezi mezinárodní superhvězdy.
RE: digitalcourage.social/@digital…
Gegen #Digitalzwang für analoge Alternativen deutschlandfunk.de/gegen-digit…
Digitalcourage (@digitalcourage@digitalcourage.social)
Attached: 4 images Stell dir eine Welt vor, in der dein Bahnticket nur noch online verfügbar ist und Arzttermine nur noch online buchbar sind... kommt dir bekannt vor? Dieses Problem wird immer präsenter und nennt sich Digitalzwang.Digitalcourage (digitalcourage.social)
Someone on the Steam subreddit was asking for Valve to make a #SteamOS phone (seeing how the new VR headset is Arm but also playes x86 steam games). And I thought "Hey, I've already got #PostmarketOS on a phone. We know Valve is using some 'FEX' library. How hard could it be?"
As it turned out, remarkably easy. (Though, it helps that someone already wrote a guide for it: wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Ste… )
Pretty sure it's a YMMV situation, but my milage was pretty good.
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Ubuntu 15 years LTS. What to think of it?
Imagine living on 2010 software today:
- OpenSSL 1.0, curl 7.20, gcc 4.4.3, autotools 2.6.8
- no http/2, no Lets Encrypt, no Rust or Golang
You‘ll not be able to built todays software on this without upgrading most of the system.
But for people needing linux in products with long term contractual support clauses, it may be good business.
As a FOSS project, you should drop free support for old releases though.
canonical.com/blog/canonical-e…
Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises. […]
Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises.Canonical (Ubuntu)
One category that is missing from #Mapcomplete is ‘repairs and construction’, since it is not unusual to find old houses being demolished, streets under repair or even cycle paths closed due to temporary changes... and it cannot be said that this is not essential.
Una categoria que todavia no encuentro en MapComplete es la de "reparaciones y construccion", pues ya no es tan inusual encontrar viejas casas en demolicion, calles cerradas por renovacion o ciclovias cambiantes... y no son cuestiones que podamos decir que no sean relevantes
Oooohhhh... First of all, road works and similar are somewhat temporary, something that #OpenStreetMap generally doesn't map. Or rather, there is no consensus on what duration road works should take before we do map them.
In any case, feel free to open an issue or even a pull request here: source.mapcomplete.org/mapcomp…
MapComplete
MapComplete is a webapp which allows to use and update OpenStreetMap within thematic maps. This repository contains all of the source code.Forgejo
It's cool to see how you shut off AI features on Gmail and you lose the entire inbox folder structure.
Thank you, Google, for being so shitty.
This is an excellent way to convince me to unsubscribe from some newsletters I get and to move to Proton Mail.
Any other e-mail suggestions?
Fortunately, getting killed by the CIA by means of predator drone strike is not everybody's threat model. For others - certain French judges for example - a real threat can be getting sanctioned by the US government and completely locked out of US services.
So yes, know your threat model when picking between #Signal and #Conversations_im.
@NVAccess
@js hej, hej. Samsung mal tú svoju Galaxy Note sériu snáď možno asi od 2011 až niekedy do 2020, potom to všetko hodili pod Galaxy S ako Ultra variantu
každopádne, perečko ako také je Wacom kompatibilné, takže funguje aj na Wacom tabletoch a tak. + S Pen ako taký mával svojho času ešte BT, takže sa dala na diaľku ovládať spúšť kamery alebo nejaké dodatočné ovládanie s gestami keďže do toho napratali celý akcelerometer.
Z toho čo viem pomaly sa ho snažia zbaviť, mne sa ľúbilo...
RE: mastodon.social/@r_alb/1155950…
Problem with the GDPR isn't with the intent, but with its implementation. Which is the issue with regulations: the unintended consequences.
US/Chinese companies grow in the US/China without complying with GDPR, all the while their EU competition is getting mauled by regulation. Then those companies will sell their GDPR-incompatible products & services to Europeans anyway, and of course we'll buy everything they offer, as there are no choices left.
Note: “human right” is only what we agree on.
Raphael Albert (@r_alb@mastodon.social)
Them: "Consider what having to comply with the GDPR means for small and mid-sized businesses!" Me: "Consider what having small and mid-sized businnesses not complying with the GDPR means for all of us!" I'm so tired of discussing digital privacy pr…Raphael Albert (Mastodon)
Prüfet alles und behaltet das #Gute.
Die sog. #Jahreslosung der christlichen Kirchen aus der #Bibel (1. Thess. 5,21) für 2025.
Gefunden als #Postkarte in einer #Kirche 😎
Für mich persönlich gibt's da eine Verbindung zu
@pruef_de@mastodon.social
#pruef#FediKirche #ZurFeierDesSonntags
Proton screen reader accessibility update:
So far it's decent. I can navigate around by headings and landmarks. Each message is a landmark with a level 2 heading. This is functional and very reasonable, but it makes navigating the message list clunky. I've also yet to figure out how to view any message except the latest in a conversation.
Message content is in a frame, so they're easy to find. If I want to get back to the inbox, I navigate back by landmarks til I find the back button.
Navigating the inbox in focus mode sucks. Most of the keyboard shortcuts don't play nice with NVDA, and the only info reported is the message subject. No info on the sender, the data, and whether it's read or unread, making it near useless. opening the context menu does at least correctly move focus to said context menu, so that's good. So, so, so many web apps with custom context menus just don't do this and stick the menu aaaaaaaaall the way at the end of the DOM. Web apps that do it correctly always win brownie points with me.
The Windows desktop app is nice, but for some reason, NVDA can't see anything until I click with the mouse somewhere in the window. Then it works just fine.
Overall, it's pretty good. Not perfect, but more than adequate for checking mail. message navigation could be improved though
RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11…
A lot of folks are taking this as an argument to ditch Firefox. It isn't—at least not now. Use the tool that works for you, until it doesn't. This is a warning that the AI nonsense won't stop and long-term viability is doubtful. Prepare accordingly.
If you like video games, I really recommend watching Free Guy (2021)
(Don't ask me where to find it ☠️🏴☠️)
We were really surprised that we had never heard of it, because it's full of well-known actors. But then it got hit by the beginning of the pandemic.
Anyway, it's about an NPC gaining consciousness and it's so full of good jokes 😆

Uh Oh, Everyone Is Mixing Up Roguelikes And Roguelites Again
Roguelikes and roguelites are different enough to the people that engage with these genres that you really ought not to confuse the two.Eric Switzer (TheGamer)
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Milan Hubáček
in reply to Archos • • •můžu se prosím zeptat? Při zběžné prohlídce webu #grapheneos jsem nenašel odpověď.
Plánuji si vytvořit 3 profily:
1. Degooglovaný, jako primární soukromý
2. Soukromý s Googlem kvůli bankovnictví
3. Firemní
Dává to smysl?
Jestli jsem to správně pochopil, tak mají Pixely dvě SIM. Jedna je virtuální, druhá fyzická. (Mířím na Pixel 8a)
Virtuální bych použil pro soukromou SIM, fyzickou pro firemní, abych ji mohl kdykoliv zahodit a nepárat se s přenastavováním virtuálky. Dává to smysl?
Jak ty SIM fungují s jednotlivými profily? Nějak se těm profilům přiřazují, nebo fungují obě na všech, nebo je to jinak?
Archos
in reply to Milan Hubáček • • •@nacelnik01 Ahoj, dvě SIM jsem nezkoušel. Ty profily jsem měl, ale po chvíli mě přestalo bavit to přepínání.
Smysl to určitě dává — záleží, jaké aplikace používáš.
Já měl v hlavním profilu jen aplikace z F-Droidu a pak zvlášť profil s bankovnictvím atd.
Pořád si říkám, že když je Google Play v sandboxu, tak co víc může Google vlastně zjistit 🤷
Ale třeba z hlediska bezpečnosti mít bankovnictví v soukromém prostoru je podle mě dobrý nápad.
Milan Hubáček
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