Y’all, please continue to boost good posts you see. I’ve realized that almost all of my discovery of new (to me) accounts on Mastodon comes from when you boost something, I like it, and click through to the original poster to check them out and end up following them.
THREAD: on Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would recognize Somaliland, an autonomous breakaway republic in northern Somalia, as an independent state.
This makes Israel the first state to officially recognize Somaliland, since it's 1991 declaration of independence.
I've noticed something about using my BrailleNote. The one I've been working with lately has an 18 cell Braille display. Because the BrailleNote has thumb-keys, I can reverse the keys so that the key to advance the display forward is further to the left. On a 32 cell, I would use a custom set and set the very far left key to move forward, however I'm finding that this seems to get to my wrist after awhile and it gets uncomfortable for me to read for long periods. On this BrailleNote with the 18 cell display, I'm finding I can fly through information in Braille because with where the Braille starts, and the fact that I use my thumb to hit the key to advance, with the keys reversed I can read in Braille faster than I have ever been able to in the nearly 19 years I've been working with Braille displays. It's interesting that I find this easier with the shorter displays.
I always loved those notetakers that are the same size for both the 32 and 18 cell, it's just on the 18 cell displays they only have braille in the middle lol. DK why it always cracked me up that the only amount of effort some display put into miniaturizing was just to remove cells from each end
@Bri Honestly though, the BrailleNote seems to be that way and I think it's actually the fact that it's done that way that makes it easier for me. On my Apex 32, my wrist gets tired after awhile and I can't read on it for long periods. With it set this way on the BrailleNote I'm working with, the start of the display is aligned with the far right side of what is usually the previous thumb-key, so it's more in line with where the Braille starts and it works so much better for me.
Tak po dlouhém hledání a špekulování 😀 vyhrál eu.zwift.com/products/wahoo-ki… Tak snad dorazí zítra a nový rok začnu s novým strojem. A díky moc @pavelkout za rady a tipy 👍☺️
If you as a college professor: * never check or respond to emails, * Only grade twice a semester, * Spend at least a quarter of every class talking about how wonderful you are, * Don't allow makeup work, * Make us come in on Veterans day when you yourself are out, * etc. maybe you should not be a fucking professor. SO glad this is my last week.
Finally setting up my Kopia backup structure to my Storage box and external drive as my 2TB Google Drive I just synced everything unencrypted for now is going to expire in 2 days. Was about time lol.
Zen Browser is a free, open source browser based on Firefox, designed for a calmer internet experience by removing Firefox's "bad bits." It has zero telemetry. It comes with more "hardened" privacy settings out of the box, whereas Firefox requires you to dive into the settings to achieve the same level of protection and zero Ads etc. this is what Firefox should have been. Anyway, I shared information. Now it is up to you 😉 zen-browser.app
I've been a very happy user of Bitwarden for several years but recently, I've begun noticing an a11y issue that's really inconvenient. I'm using JAWS and the Chrome Browser. I bring up the Bitwarden extension and press New to create a new item. Focus lands on the Folder item type, and I can't select any other item type by using the arrow keys. Anyone else seeing this? @bitwarden
I'm thankful for #Be My Eyes. I am going through holiday cards and reading the little messages that are often handwritten, even in cursive. It is a joy to have the app read them to me. Even if they're not private messages, it's still wonderful to think that this option exists, especially when cited assistance is not immediately around the corner. Thank you so much, Be My Eyes!
FSCast #265 is live. Mitchell Smedley shares his experience hosting a college radio show, Quin Gillespie introduces Paperback, an accessible ebook and document reader for Windows, and we preview upcoming Vispero training. Listen now: blog.freedomscientific.com/fsc…
This month, Mitchell Smedley shares his experience hosting his own radio show and serving as president of a college radio station. Quin Gillespie introduces Paperback, a fully accessible ebook and …
Paramore's official audio for "For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic" from 'RIOT!' - available now on Fueled By Ramen. Get it at - http://smarturl.it/paramo...
Well, lookie here. I went to my other haunt, producer.ai, because Suno is having issues. What do I see on the page, but yes, accessibility help text. To pick up a draggable item, press the space bar. While dragging, use the arrow keys to move the item. Press space again to drop the item in its new position, or press escape to cancel. sortable
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I seem to have picked up a few follows by talking about how much the music industry sucks, and I'm guessing that means that at least some of you would be interested in alternative methods of finding & hearing cool stuff:
@TIBtv - brand-new independent live stream of indie music videos and animation
If you have Pigments, and have ever given me a dollar, or helped share my work, go grab these! If you have Pigments and HAVEN'T ever offered any support, well, drop a dollar or five in the can and get it!
Okay, just a day late for Christmas, here is my gift to the #Pigments community, especially the friends who hung out on stream with me while I made these 51 Pigments patches.
Free/pay-what-you-want to supporters via Ko-Fi.
https://ko-fi.
So, apparently, more azure voices are getting added to the neural voices addon, voices that are not available in narrator or the store. This makes me wonder, are people retraining azure voices to add more?
is there a newer version of it? For me the lag is still not low enough to be a daily usable synthesizer, but I see a lot of promise in this. I don't think you can train your own public voice, perhaps to enterprises that's offered but that would mean sharing a private API key which I don't see happening either. So SMH.
Soon we'll start seeing posts of all the things people are proud of accomplishing in 2025, and what they're hoping to do in 2026.
I'm here to tell you, if all you did was survive 2025, that's an accomplishment worth celebrating. Life is hard, and getting through a year is tough. I'm proud of you.
I promise you cannot read these and not laugh out loud. These are REAL notes written by PARENTS in a school district. (Spellings have been left intact.) Most of them are funny, but some are just sad.
1-- MY SON IS UNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE AND SHOULD NOT TAKE PE TODAY. PLEASE EXECUTE HIM.
2-- PLEASE EXKUCE LISA FOR BEING ABSENT SHE WAS SICK AND I HAD HER SHOT
3-- DEAR SCHOOL: PLEASE ECSC's JOHN BEING ABSENT ON JAN. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 AND ALSO 33.
4-- PLEASE EXCUSE GLORIA FROM JIM TODAY. SHE IS ADMINISTRATING.
5-- PLEASE EXCUSE ROLAND FROM P.E. FOR A FEW DAYS. YESTERDAY HE FELL OUT OF A TREE AND MISPLACED HIS HIP.
6-- JOHN HAS BEEN ABSENT BECAUSE HE HAD TWO TEETH TAKEN OUT OF HIS FACE.
7-- CARLOS WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL. HE WAS HURT IN THE GROWING PART.
8-- MEGAN COULD NOT COME TO SCHOOL TODAY BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN BOTHERED BY VERY CLOSE VEINS.
9-- CHRIS WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL CUS HE HAS AN ACRE IN HIS SIDE.
10-- PLEASE EXCUSE RAY FRIDAY FROM SCHOOL. HE HAS VERY LOOSE VOWELS.
11-- PLEASE EXCUSE PEDRO FROM BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD (DIAHRE, DYREA, DIREATHE), THE SH**S.
NOTE: [WORDS IN (** )'s WERE CROSSED OUT.
12-- PLEASE EXCUSE TOMMY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD DIARRHEA, AND HIS BOOTS LEAK.
13-- IRVING WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE MISSED HIS BUST.
14-- PLEASE EXCUSE JIMMY FOR BEING. IT WAS HIS FATHER'S FAULT.
15-- I KEPT BILLIE HOME BECAUSE SHE HAD TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BECAUSE DON'T KNOW WHAT SIZE SHE WEAR.
16-- PLEASE EXCUSE JENNIFER FOR MISSING SCHOOL YESTERDAY. WE FORGOT TO GET THE SUNDAY PAPER OFF THE PORCH, AND WHEN WE FOUND IT MONDAY. WE THOUGHT IT
WAS SUNDAY.
17-- MY DAUGHTER WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE SHE WAS TIRED. SHE SPENT A WEEKEND WITH THE MARINES.
18-- PLEASE EXCUSE JASON FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD A COLD AND COULD NOT BREED WELL.
19-- PLEASE EXCUSE MARY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. SHE WAS IN BED WITH GRAMPS.
20-- GLORIA WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY AS SHE WAS HAVING A GANGOVER.
21-- PLEASE EXCUSE BRENDA. SHE HAS BEEN SICK AND UNDER THE DOCTOR.
22-- MARYANN WAS ABSENT DECEMBER 11-16, BECAUSE SHE HAD A FEVER, SORETHROAT, HEADACHE AND UPSET STOMACH. HER SISTER WAS ALSO SICK, FEVER AN SORE THROAT, HER BROTHER HAD A LOW GRADE FEVER AND ACHED ALL OVER. I WASN'T THE BEST EITHER SORE THROAT AND FEVER. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GOING AROUND, HER FATHER EVEN GOT HOT LAST NIGHT.
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