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Shameless plug, but I just released a beta NVDA remote controller app for iOS as well. So yeah, doing some crazy shit over remote where you otherwise wouldn't be able to is an insane experience
I have this weird interesting theory on what I think your big surprise is going to be, but I'm keeping it to myself. I'll tell you if I was wrong or not when it happens haha
Little Johnny had just failed his law exam, but instead of sulking, he marched straight to his professor’s office with a plan. Johnny: “Sir, is it true you know everything about law?” Professor: “Naturally. I’ve been teaching it for over 30 years.” Johnny: “Perfect. Let’s make a deal. If you can answer my question, I’ll accept my failing grade. But if you can’t… you give me an ‘A.’” The professor, amused and slightly arrogant, agreed. Professor: “Go ahead. Ask.” Johnny leaned forward with a grin. Johnny: “What is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and neither legal nor logical?” The professor froze. He thought. He scribbled notes. He paced the room. Hours ticked by, but he couldn’t crack it. Finally, red-faced and defeated, he gave Johnny an “A.” The next day, still fuming and desperate for answers, the professor posed the riddle to his class. Professor: “Who can tell me—what is legal but not logical, logical but not legal, and neither legal nor logical?” To his surprise, nearly every hand shot up.
He called on one student. Student: “Sir, you’re 65 years old and married to a 28-year-old woman. That’s legal but not logical. Your wife is having an affair with a 23-year-old man. That’s logical but not legal. And finally… you just gave your wife’s boyfriend an ‘A’ after he failed his exam. That’s neither legal nor logical!” The professor didn’t say a word.
Byl jsem požádán, že až budu opravovat jeden z našich DualSensů, tak to sem mám hodit. Tak tady to je. Video má tři minuty, ale zabralo to třičtvrtě hodiny.
and now the delta of a saturation plugin ran through mid side to create a nice little sound that makes for a good IR, or perhaps part of a kick drum. dropbox.com/scl/fi/g4lzc57m8xn…
Yesterday was the perfect day for recording fireworks, and I mean... Just fireworks, as I live far aaway from any major roads. No wind, no summer sounds... problem... not many fireworks either, unlike most years. hear is the one I was able to capture, around 11:20 PM. if anyone wants the semi-raw 2 hour recording I made, although most of it hangs out around -30 to -50db, let me know. dropbox.com/scl/fi/m831tb38j9f…
So how does this Bulgaria Euro change work? They were pegged to the Euro so do they just convert all of the Bulgarian currency in circulation to a Euro with the press of a button? (Except physical currency of course)
Apparently there was at least one #suicide after the #39c3
I read the thread of that person suicide note and how people were responding to it. Like the list of classical well-intending condolences. And again it was a #queer person with traumatic experiences and bullying experience.
That reminded me on my ostracism from my hackspace and my own bullying experience, with the usage of pseudo-medicalized speech which ended in declaring myself as a "problematic person" which was worthy to kick out and ban forever from that space.
I know people who suffered almost the same fate and were run into the ground by their social death (ostracism) and who were on the edge to suicide.
I sat at the end in one of those workshops at the congress related to "mental health" and it was more about knowing resources, than helping to build better communities, where its less possible to push people over the edge.
I talked with people there how they were kicked from spaces, how they felt #shame on a regular basis. Workshops can't fix that that your communities are frozen hell-holes, where perfectionism and shaming people for being off the expected norm is what it is all about.
The chaos should be more about for people to "sit down, grab a tea and be welcome" than to first "make a cool project and then being respected". And when you are once part of a community, this is a fundamental right, not something which changes with the air humidity on each day.
You don't exclude people for who they are. And if you think that there are "patterns" worth of doing that, then I disagree with you. There must be a better way to at least allow a respectful empathic departure and a respectful re-integration of people who infringed on community norms. Anything else is not what I consider "left".
Hello everyone, me and some folks might have a surprise for you! Note that we are entering highly beta teritory at this point and any amount of the following might not work or could fail spectacularly at any time, but assuming this stays stable, please feel free to join me, @ivan_soto, @Jonathan and possibly a few other friends should they decide to show up for a bit of new years day fun, possibly including more surprises, like this one! anyaud.io/listen?audio=Ai_7xZg… If you wish to interact with us, please reply to this thread for now. Lets hope this works!
Will there be some kind of summary blog post or somewhere else I can read about everything new presented here if I simply lack the mental bandwidth to listen to a stream much less one that long?
That's my thought with anything AI. As long as you yourself put some of your thinking into it whether it be coding, writing music creation, I don't feel like there's harm in using AI as a tool.
Yeah Claude code is awesome! Also I agree on your take with AI, I think that I know how things are supposed to be and my English is quite fine for not existing two years ago, so I can kind of prompt. Great prompting brings great results! On another note, I caught up with my Mastodon like 30 minutes ago and only then saw the stream, what did you guys cover already if you would mind giving a really quick summary?
Dam I can't believe anyaudio is coming back, I remember posting gameplays on a very shitty computer playing games like dragon ball and so on, holey hell that takes me back. Sam, Ivan and yall are doing some dam good work for not just anyaudio but other things like the bookport
@draeand Sam you're like how I think about us the non programmers trying to make games. I think we do have a community of people who can make some good games but much of our community aren't programmers but we can design, and I think we have room to think about the designers so that one day they can pick up and make games all with the power of design. SBYW is a very good example of what the community can do, but the availability of what you can do within SBYW may limit people.
Loved that they said the missiles were impacting in three seconds, yet it was more than three seconds from when they said it to when they impacted. Classic movie bullet time!
I have a few possibilities for what it could be: STW back up, CM update, NVGT for IOS, and a thing on github which I don't want to reveal because I don't know whether that's the thing that's being demoed or not
Will there be paid aspects of this game? I'd be super happy with paying for stuff. Also, what's your opinion of an offline mode for players to get a feel of how this thing works?
so your'e not releasing tonight then. ah well. At least we get treated to seeing it shown off in full glory for the next bit. wonderful you'r back and better than ever!
Ivan is a completely different person than the guy who videoed himself trying to throw his Braille Plus through his house to try and destroy it 10+ years ago.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the I38 project Updates to the ai app. Should get better responses that read automatically when they arrive.
accessibility question about file format for screenreaders
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I boosted but I'll answer. A blind guy and accessibility specialist here. TXT is absolutely fine, but only if your document is *not* structured. If it is, then you will need to invent markers, like numbers, weird strings (++, @@ etc.) or at least put "Q: A:", if it's a FAQ. If the text is structured however, and even more, if it does contain tables, two formats are the best: HTML and DOCX. Why so? Because we blindies like structured layouts to better orient ourselves, and the main building blocks are headings, lists, tables (but only for tabular data!) and, in modern web, semantic HTML 5 and ARIA regions. Screen readers provide us ways to navigate by these blocks very easily, summon lists of them etc. For example, I can navigate by heading with a single H key, or even by N-level headings, also by simply pressing the corresponding number on the keyboard. If you have more questions, please ask. #Accessibility
HTML is the way to go. Hell, if you're allowed to do this, have an AI model convert the PDF into an accessible screen-reader-friendly HTML document and see what it does. You'd be amazed. #accessibility
@Christopher Duffley @André Polykanine @venetiana 🇵🇸 I would say what you should definatelly do is to make sure the original PDF document is tagged. For example Microsoft Office can generate tagged PDF documents and is readily available. Then if you would like to do something extra publish the same content as a part of your website i.e. an HTML document.
How about a little fridge or no fridge poll thread? Feel free to boost and play along. I will name a thing and we will vote on where it should be kept. Fridge or no fridge. I realise eggs will polarise nations. But let's give it a go.... #poll #PleaseBoost
You deserve to take up space. To ask for help from your friends when your heart hurts. To share your joy at your triumphs at full volume. To live as the most authentic version of your self, no matter what other people think.
You know, when I do a search for something, I'd appreciate it if I didn't get a whole damn page of results consisting of nothing but Youtube videos, when I'm not looking for Youtube videos. come on, folks, is it really necessary to bombard people with nothing but Youtube videos in search results?
I want a "calendar", a "tasks", and a "contacts" program. I know there's Kmail and also allegedly something else but I can't remember what it's called or if it's official.
I love you, Plasma, but this is still clear-as-mud to me.
(NOTE: this is not a request for app recommendations, it's a remark about ecosystems)
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
A kdyby náhodou potřeboval někdo čidlo kadence od Garminu, tak jedno se mi zde potuluje. Kupoval jsem už dříve pedály s wattmetrem, tak už ho nepotřebuji.
Noooo, to by šlo přidělat na můj mučící stroj na zátěžové kolo a získat z toho nějak rychlost ? Musím prohledat jaké snímače umí využít ta aktivita eliptický trenažér....
@GuloGulo Na rychlost je podobný, dává se na zadní náboj. Taky ho někde mám, ale nevím kde ) Tohle se nasadí jen na kliku, nic se nezapíná – začneš šlapat a najede.
Happy 75th birthday to The Archers, the longest running radio drama in the world. Its famous theme tune is one of my earliest memories. When I was very young, it used to come on the radio every week day afternoon, and Mum would listen to it. Then I got hooked, and started listening to the Omnibus edition on Radio New Zealand’s National Programme when I was five or six. I did that without fail, every Thursday night, until 1982, when Radio New Zealand announced that due to the increased cost of the programme imposed on it by the BBC Transcription Service, Radio New Zealand wasn’t going to carry it anymore. This resulted in my first governmental advocacy effort. As a 13-year-old, I wrote for the first time to a Government Minister, pleading with him to do something about this travesty. It was pretty exciting in my working class family to come home one day and find a letter from the Minister of Broadcasting, Ian Shearer, waiting for me in the mailbox. But it was only to thank me for writing and to tell me that he didn’t have the power to interfere with Radio New Zealand’s operational matters. It was the first time, but far from the last time, that I witnessed governmental buck passing up close. My teenage self thought that he could surely just pass a law to stop this or something. I got to know him in my later work, and you can be sure I reminded him of this moment. Finally the big day came, I still remember the date, 30 September, 1982. Rather than a typical cliffhanger, the episode ended with a special ending for New Zealand listeners, who were never to be invited to Ambridge again. Eventually, I was let into a fanatical little club of blind people that were receiving The Archers on cassette from a very kind woman in the UK who recorded it every week. It was like being reunited with family I hadn’t seen for a while. Finally, the Internet made it easy for me to visit Ambridge every day except Saturdays, and that’s still the case. The Archers is a brilliant show. The fact that it has run so long allows stories to develop in real time, sometimes they can take decades to run their course. Some people ask me how on earth you start listening to a show that has run so long, and I tell them that the best approach is to treat it like you are moving to Ambridge yourself, the village in which the characters live. When you move somewhere new, it takes a while to get to know everyone, but you eventually start to work out who’s who. You can subscribe to The Archers via two podcasts. One gives you the 12 minute episode every day other than Saturdays, the other one gives it to you in one big weekly episode each Sunday, that’s called the Omnibus version. If you would like to catch up, here’s a quick summary, somewhat tongue in cheek, of the story so far. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2… #TheArchers
From Jill’s flung flapjack to Nigel’s tragic fall, the Great Flood, Helen’s acquittal and a priceless cameo from Dame Judi, here’s an anniversary feast of epic Ambridge moments
Na západě Čech se opět zachvěla země. Podle aplikace SeisLok Geofyzikálního ústavu AV ČR měl zatím nejsilnější otřes sílu 3,03 magnituda, dosáhl tedy na třetí stupeň Richterovy stupnice. Otřesů se projevilo několik, doprovázelo je typické hučení.
Don’t forget to test with real users who have disabilities. Being 100% compliant is just the beginning. If you do user testing, then you already know their value! Tools alone aren’t enough. #accessibility #a11y
Vox Libri is built to help people read books and documents in a flexible, personalized, and fully accessible way. It is designed to work well with VoiceOver and braille displays, and to support different reading preferences: on-screen reading, braille reading, or high-quality text-to-speech.
The interface is available in English and Spanish, and you can use any device-supported language for voices.
Key features include: • High-quality text-to-speech for natural read-aloud. • A braille reading mode compatible with braille displays. • A highly customizable reading screen (font, size, colors, spacing, themes). • Support for common formats: TXT, PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, and EPUB. • Accessible navigation through chapters, headings, pages, bookmarks, and sections. • Hands-free reading using headphone controls. • On-device AI translation, summarization, and simplification when supported by the device.
I am working in versions for MacOS and WatchOS…
If you try Vox Libri, I would sincerely appreciate any feedback from BlindApple users—especially around accessibility, braille workflows, navigation, and overall reading comfort.
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André Polykanine
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