my brain generated the shitpost “linux for dogs” and then my other brain almost immediately started designing a small embedded linux collar computer with a sensor suite and wifi and now I want linux for dogs
Another day, another reply guy telling blind people to pay or "lower your expectations" to use free and open source apps😩 Weird how many of those there are, on this website especially! vmst.io/@RyanFrancis/115854200…
@jonathan859 you're throwing cash at the big apps by giving them unlimited access to your data to sell, while these free apps don't sell data, don't have ads, and don't have a revenue stream at all.
You're expecting devs to just "magic" a fully featured app to compete with mega corporations for nothing.
Either drop your expectations a little and show some gratitude or pay them.
@Bri A lot of things don't bother me, but someone saying to show some grattitude for something unuseable and then say oh fix it yourself? absolutely not.
@MariahL @Bri Sadly this is pretty typical. I almost don't bother opening accessibility issues on githubs anymore, nine times out of ten the response is a variant of "submit a pull request or GTFO" They talk a big game about ditching the corpos, but when the rubber meets the road they are just making toys for themselves like everyone else.
@Bri What people seem to forget, particularly those saying this stupid bullshit is that they could become disabled, they aren't excluded. It's a horrible thing to say, sort of, but it's true. I replied to the thread on my other account and said as much. I don't wish the way I exist on anyone, but it could happen.
It does just seem to be the one guy though, fortunately. I don't think he expected the flood of negative responses. But that's what you get when you're an idiot🤷♂️
@svenja Nah this is shades of just about every time I go onto someone's github asking them to make it so I can use it. "Submit a pull request or GTFO" I'm not sure why so many people seem to think shaming someone into using your app is a viable strategy...
@svenja Vibe code it! Oh wait, AI is demon technology. Get a computer science degree from Cornell and learn five programming languages! Then you can use your computer.
Looks like vscode no longer announces the current line and character when hitting ctrl+g, at least when using NVDA. Anybody know if there's an alternative method to get the current position? #nvda #nvaccess #vscode #blind
Hey sorry, I've been away from my desk since about when you posted this question! Since you didn't get any answers that I see, I'm not sure if you're still experienceing this, but yes, Microsoft been making changes, not all for the better, in VSCode lately. Reporting the line & column number are currently working as expected for us, but alternate releases seem to fix, then re-break it. Best suggestion is to complain to Microsoft's Disability Answer Desk: microsoft.com/en-au/accessibil…
Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs. Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being "all about the AI PC," because consumers aren't interested. A surprisingly honest admission from one of Microsoft's biggest PC partners. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/857723/...
> A spokesperson for Google offered some additional context on this decision, stating that it helps simplify development, eliminates the complexity of managing multiple code branches, and allows them to deliver more stable and secure code to Android platform developers.
What's wrong, is their AI so bad that it can't handle this minor inconvenience for them? RT: androiddev.social/users/Mishaa…
If you like to neaten things up, and particularly if you want to mount, say a 8-port gigabit router or whatnot under a desk or just out of the way, 3M Dual Lock strips are your bestie—it locks with itself, so you don't have to deal with separate hook and loop pieces
I've hung huge 180w Dell power bricks on the underside of my desks at work, and if I have to replace one, just cut another strip off the roll and attach to the part already stuck to the desk
“What began as deportation operations…has grown into something far darker. This is no longer about immigration. American citizens are being targeted, brutalized, and now killed for attempting to protect their own communities.”
I’m just saying y’all, $500 is a really good price for an unlocked 128 GB obsidian pixel 10 pro. I also forgot to mention yesterday that shipping is free in the US. If I need to ship internationally, I might need you to throw me a little extra for that. Smiley
Hheeeyyyy you there. I just wanted to make sure you saw the government normalising murdering you in cold blood in broad daylight on camera with no accountability.
A small piece of advice for left-wing readers: if you are part of a serious and genuine movement that truly cares about its legitimacy, and one that indeed has many positive aspects, you must stop supporting totalitarian regimes. Stop endorsing dictatorships, and stop glorifying nefarious figures from history.
I support plurality of thought, beliefs, and political spectrum! It's the best thing in the world, being able to debate, exchange ideas, and learn from others!
But if you support a dictatorship, I can't take your argument seriously... It's like if I started to defend the United States government tooth and nail.
We must be critical and realistic, even with our own beliefs.
It's the program that never quits. EdSharp. Just remembered it, like 5 minutes ago and it still runs on Windows 11. It's better behaved than Notepad, friendlier than a little puppy with a waggily tail. It will be your friend when you program. It's the slinky of all text editors. github.com/EmpowermentZone/EdS…
The popular INFO-Neige app, used by residents to track snow removal operations in real time, is no longer free after the City of Montreal ended its financial support for the service. Users must now pay $4.
I updated my Debian 12 server to Debian 13. I wish Windows updates were that painless. The update ran because I explicitly told it to. There were no long restarts, no "don't turn off your computer" pre-Windows screens, no surprises. Just some terminal commands, one restart (which I asked for), and that was it. Debian 12 became Debian 13. Smooth, easy, painless, and directly under my control.
Damn. Sometimes I forget how useful claude is. So I was struggling to add my classes this semester to my calendar. The Apple Calendar app on iOS is an absolute mess (for me at least) and I needed to add 3 classes, all of which had different times and dates. I decided, screw it. I'll have Claude try to add it to my account. Instad, it comes up with a better idea. It creates this .ICS file. All I had to do was open Outlook, import, boom. All my classes are on my calendar now. No catches.
I just pushed a small #NVDARC for Mac build out, featuring some small improvements to controlling a Mac via NVDA remote. Modifiers shouldn't get stuck as often anymore, as well as more keyboard shortcuts should be possible to press now, such as VO+Shift+letters. There's still more work to be done, as I can't press all VO+shift+letter combinations yet for some reason, but there's enough of an improvement here that I figured it worth updating.
Theeeere we go! One more build pushed. This one does it! Much more improvements to controlling a Mac. Left vs right modifiers are now differentiated, as well as from my testing, all VO+Shift key commands now seem to work!
@ivan_soto I sent the latest build of NVDARC up with my windows computer, controlling Xcode from the remote connection and handling app store connect's interface on the windows box itself
ICE kills a woman in Minneapolis with a gun shot to the head.
Mayor Jacob Frey who has seen video of the incident calls it abuse of lethal force and tells ICE: “Get the FUCK out of Minneapolis — we do NOT want you here.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has told the Minnesotan National Guard to be on standby, and has made a point in his press briefing that now Minnesotans will protect Minnesota.
Officials in Minneapolis gave a briefing after a shooting involving ICE left one woman dead.MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.Same mission. ...
Well, I finally did it! I was working on this project for a couple days now, since Saturday. Since we are in 2026, I thought I would make a montage of the best moments on TeamTalk last year, this compilation being from Dane's TeamTalk server stonercloud. I wasn't on any other TeamTalk servers. Even though I felt like we weren't on it as much this past year, I still managed to get some pretty funny moments, and quite fun conversations, and things that might make you say what the fuck? Not to mention, singing funny stuff. I'd say I have a few favorites here, but I won't go over them for spoilers obviously. The cast of people in these recordings were myself, Dane, Ethan (though I didn't feature him that much), hunter, McKenna and Crayton. Get some popcorn or whatever you like, and enjoy this! #Lol #Comedy
With the ability to customize VoiceOver actions and add your own shortcuts, the NVDA Remote controller iOS app very quickly became one of my favorite applications. It still feels surreal, having access to my PC from anywhere, with the ability to be very productive. The only thing more surreal than that is the ability to control my Mac, that one I never expected. Huge thanks @Bri, you've made a massive difference, and I hope you continue maintaining it as long as possible.
Yeah. I find modifiers like to get stuck, and some keyboard shortcuts I can't even manage to perform, such as VO+Shift+letters for example. Will keep working on it though
I wonder if the founder of WhatTheFuckJustHappenedToday.com had any clue, in 2017, just what a wild ride it'd turn out to be? Kind of amazed it's kept going for this long.
I'm trying to figure out how to take the motherboard out of a Minisforum UM-560 Mini PC. I can get the back, the RAM, heatsink, and wireless card off, but how does one get the entire board out of this thing? I need to replace the NVMe2 drive, and it's on the side you can't access by just taking the back off.
Turns out you don't need to take the motherboard out to get to the m.2 slot after all. It's under a big ol' heatsink, which I took off, but it wasn't obvious to me, because the drive was still attached to it by thermal paste. So, I was also taking the old drive out, and didn't even notice it was there. STUPID!
Anyway, a brand new Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD has been installed, replacing the much slower 512GB Chinese whatever drive. Now I can do what I actually wanted to do with this thing in the first place.
It'd sure be nice if RAM were reasonably priced. I'd like to upgrade this box from the 16GB it came with, but it's just not practical.
I haven't actually used much Crucial stuff. When SSD's were just becoming a thing, it was mostly OCZ, which is gone. I also used their RAM in a bunch of stuff. Mostly Samsung SSD's these days, and haven't had to buy RAM in ages, since I don't build desktops for a living anymore.
Sometimes, games are like real life. For instance, it's been a long time since I played NetHack, but the player starts the game on the first level of the dungeon and has a dog with him/her (or, in later versions, maybe a cat). The pet would fight things along with the player, and it could help the player in some ways--a pet dog would never step on a cursed item, for instance, which could help the player determine whether an item is cursed. But pets have pros and cons, so, in that regard, deciding whether to use the dog when playing NetHack is a bit like a blind person deciding whether to use a guide dog. nethack.fandom.com/wiki/Pet
For pets in SLASH'EM, see pet (SLASH'EM). A pet is your companion in the dungeon. By default, each character starts with a pet, though you may acquire many more. They can be used to determine whether items are cursed.
Halfway through this Canadian SF anthology and every short story/poem so far has been great. Highly recommend, available from Bakka Phoenix Books dot com on Harbord or fine booksellers near you. @pluralistic has a contribution as well :) #Canadian #Toronto #SF #CurrentlyReading #SciFi #Fantasy
Hey so Claude Code got DecTalk working in Termux on Android and got Emacspeak working with it. Very little lag. Emacs. Android. Org-mode. Bluetooth keyboard. Nov.el. Markdown-mode. Org-export. Calendar. Emacs. Mind blown.
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> RFK Jr.'s new food pyramid puts meat, cheese and vegetables at the top
Every food pyramid and dietary guideline ever produced by the American government has been propaganda designed to support someone suffering in the food/ag industry
Oh no the dairy farmers are suffering, time to tell everyone to drink milk, eat cheese, and the government will buy and store billions of pounds of cheese in caves.
Doing a search in Windows Slack, there seems to be no way to get out of the search area without restarting? I don't see a close button, and escape does not clos the window. There are a lot of things Slack does really well but sometimes I get stuck in UI hell, which may be just my own misunderstanding of how it works but...
I usually turn on virtual PC cursor (it would be browse mode in NVDA world) and search for the button with B, but definitely there is a key for it now.
@menelion 1. Press Ctrl+K 2. Search for something, I searched for meta, was told no exact matches, and then pressed enter. 3. I'm now in a list, first item is messages 15. 4. Press enter and tab twice, you can now arrow through messages. 5. From here, escape either says nothing, or all unread messages in channel general read, and there is no close button when searching the virtual buffer. I'm sure I'm just missing something or going about this the wrong way.
Just to check: are you talking about the search results screen, or the search dialog?
If the former, it behaves like a view of its own, akin to a channel or DM convo. Those also can't be closed with Escape, but is it the transactional/temporary nature of a search that makes it feel like it should work differently for you?
@jscholes Yes, I think so, but I get the stanza about it being a separate entity, like a channel. Probably there should be an easy keyboard-only way to get back or at least to Home.
The Legault Government promised a family doctor for everyone. While it's an almost impossible goal, any of its actions as had the opposite effect. Exhibit:
Dr. Mark Roper, a family doctor and the Director of the Queen Elizabeth Family Medicine Group says his clinic has lost two full-time physicians amid concerns over the legislation, even as the CAQ government delays implementation and signals it will revisit some of its most controversial provisions ahead of its February 28th deadline.
Quebec’s wide-ranging overhaul of the health-care system under Bill 2 continues to ripple through the province, with some clinics reconsidering closures even as others warn the uncertainty is already taking a toll. Dr.
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It does just seem to be the one guy though, fortunately. I don't think he expected the flood of negative responses. But that's what you get when you're an idiot🤷♂️
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