𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: A patient in Spain misreads dosage instructions from a poorly translated leaflet. The brand had passed all QA checks except accessibility.
I don't know what you are posting about, since I can't read your Unicode-driven text properly. Just saying, I monitor the Accessibility hashtag because I'm blind and accessibility specialist myself.
I've pushed a couple of #NVDARC updates. The Mac build I sent for review yesterday adding a self hosting option for be controlled mode is now live, plus a few more improvements/fixes to said mode as well. On iOS, some improvements to custom shortcuts, Gesture presets and a bug where if you had sticky modifiers disabled and sent a letter from the type text keyboard with modifiers down would result in the modifiers not going back up is also fixed. testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
Our stance simplified: we want to make private communications available to anyone on the planet.
Problem: governments everywhere tend to want to control and contain private communications. While Iran and Russia might be contemporary poster examples trying to control private communication, almost all of the "Western" countries have similar control-tendencies, EU Chatcontrol, UK Online Safety Act, US KOSA etc.pp. And we often call those out. Without private communication, things are bleak.
@jrp mostly, it works, yes, despite various state attempts to block it. and we are working on making it harder, based on some R&D heavy revisions of how delta chat actually works internally. Last big change was delta.chat/en/2025-08-04-encry… which is in fact enabling another level of resilience and decentralization but that will be published about in a future blog post likely in spring 2026.
With Delta Chat Version 2, chats are end-to-end encrypted, always and by default. Previously it was possible that chats without green checkmarks could contain messages without end-to-end encryption...
The key double registering with my Keychron Q 6 Max starts to get ridiculous, even arrow keys and tab start double triggering now. I'll take the key caps off on sunday, maybe even the switches, just to see whether cleaning might fix it, but dude if not...
@felixule Spoiler I didn't mess around with removing switches or anything yet. I'm still kinda pissed I even have to do that with a 230€ board. I think the Q6Max was just a bad production, I mean there are enough happy people with other Keychron boards, heck if it wasn't for that issue I'd probably picked up a V6Max for work by now but idk if I really want to spend money on this kind of boards atm.
I only have this problem with my Q5 Max board. The V6 Max, which I recently bought, doesn't have any problems at all. So I suspect that it really is down to the switches.
I don't know if you've ever suffered abuse from someone that everyone likes, but you feel crazy when you try to say how hurt and angry you are because of that person
One of the teenagers I work with is taking an interest in computers/networking. We're emailing about why you can't access home servers from outside your network, and how websites can be accessed from anywhere. Does anyone have a good analogy for LANs, private IP blocks, DNS, name servers, and accessing it all? Nothing I can come up with is a very good fit.
Edit: yes, another adult is copied on all emails. I know the CPP regulations, including the recent updates, and have passed advanced CP.
Phone extensions is the one I always go for. Hotels can't afford assigning a real phone number to every room, just as we can't afford assigning a separate IPV4 to every computer. Private IP addresses are like internal extensions that you can only call from a phone line in the hotel. Everybody is still permitted to call out, and their caller ID will appear as the main number for the hotel.
This is kind of confusing when you get to ports (which are actually a lot more like phone extensions). But ehh what can we do, every metaphor breaks down at some point.
Do you have a roadmap of some sorts? As a casual user, it's a bit difficult to understand where the project is headed 🤔
Personally I'm looking for a replacement for my Discord-group that we can self-host, that also allows us to connect to a broader community. Matrix seems to align ideologically to what I want, but Element feels a bit cluttered and unintuitive tbh.
@bloodaxe Matrix is the protocol and is intended to support use cases like Discord. Sounds like you are more worried about client roadmaps though? Each project handles it differently - perhaps try cinny.in for something more Discordy?
I mean, I open up Cinny and it's more or less the same as Element, as far as I can tell at least.
Are we able to have Spaces with Rooms, where certain Rooms only act as VOIP-rooms that you can join/leave as you wish? I see a button up right in Element that allows you to start a video-call inside of a room, but I can't seem to use that unless I've got permission. Does that call everybody in the room somehow, or?
@bloodaxe Element Web has beta support for video rooms in labs. Cinny hasn’t implemented it yet, but this is a question for Cinny’s roadmap; it’s a client specific thing rather than a limitation of Matrix.
I guess in a way it's difficult to tell from a user perspective what is limited by the client, and what is limited by the actual Matrix specification 😅
@bloodaxe yup, understood. the fact is that Matrix as a protocol supports all the same functionality as Discord (and then some), with the possible exception of arbitrary permission combinations (Matrix uses a permission hierarchy rather than purely role based permissions). Video/voice rooms for instance are demo’d by element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-o… but clients like Element haven’t shipped them as they’re prioritising other stuff.
C'est là où #Deltachat pourrait sortir son épingle du jeu. Je songe à y migrer. En attendant, je suis sur Signal depuis cinq ans et j'y reste; c'est déjà difficile de convaincre mon entourage…
Je pense que #Matrix, bien qu'ultra-sécurisé, est trop complexe pour ma mère; il restera sous-utilisé, à moins qu'on ne trouve une façon de l'encapsuler dans quelque chose de plus simple.
Anfrage an den Sender Erewan: "Stimmt es, dass man mit einer Atombombe den gesamten Schienenverkehr in der Republik lahmlegen kann?" Antwort: "Im Prinzip ja, aber… Warum so aufwändig, wenn es ein paar Schneeflocken auch tun?" 🙊 💨
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Hey, someone's boosted a cool bit of art from an artist on Fedi I haven't seen before! Clicking Like. Clicking over to their posts, they have some other fun art I like! I'll just scroll a little more before clicking that Follow button... "FYI I'm going to focus my efforts on Substack." Backing away from Follow button forever.
I can't recommend Keychron keyboards anymore. they insist on forking QMK and ZMK and splitting different keyboards/keymaps across different branches. This is ridiculous. Keychron launcher is inaccessible and zero help as a blind person. Buy keyboards from someone else who doesn't turn the firmware into a maze
I was going to say it should work with ocr. Also, you rarely need to map a keyboard if you're me, but you're not me, so I get you. And I send the hugs, all the hugs. Well, they are kinda virtual, I am sorry, but, well... I live on the other side of the world.
@TomGrant91 yes, no more chunked reading. That's the one goal of the wrapper, we can really hook into the SoftVoice DLL and control how the flow of voice data is.
I wouldn't mind testing these too! Softvoice was included in a program I messed with for music called Fruity Loops now FL studio by Image Line. I messed with it with a group of people, a DJ called Nathan and 2 kids called Nathan and Jason and their mum Anita. The speech synth used was softvoice but only the word at a time varient version, you have to put underlines in the text to speak as a sentence.
@TomGrant91 oh yeah you would. What if I crash your NVDA because the driver has some stability issues right now when you move too fast around? no no. I wouldn't give you something unusable. :D
@TomGrant91 oh yeah, it'll only improve I think. It lets me expose a lot of other settings so the variants may just need some recreation on how they set up those parameters. but overall it'll be better then the prior driver I think, it's shaping up to be faster already.
Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.
Question: what are y'all using as secret service on #Linux? (With #Wayland and #sway, if that matters.)
I did not like #GNOME #Keyring, because that pulled in tons of stuff I didn't want.
I'm currently using #KeePassXC, but let's just say it's a much better password manager than a Secret Service. (e.g., it can't remember authorized binaries over a session, and handling multiple databases isn't great.)
Ideally, I want something that does only this, but does it well.
Every time a politician posts on Twitter a journalist should ask them to justify supporting child sexual abuse and fascism. thebeaverton.com/2026/01/elon-…
AUSTIN, TX - World's richest man Elon Musk has achieved another lifelong milestone goal, this time training his artificial intelligence program Grok to make it easier than ever for users to create images of child sex abuse.
One of the items on our mobile roadmap this year is exploring better calendar integration on the Android app, whether through the built-in phone calendar or developing a calendar element of our own.
If TalkBack is running, TalkBack settings can be found among the TalkBack menu items. Alternatively, it is possible to navigate to installed services in
Coming up tonight at 8 PM eastern, it's the first Old Wooden barn of 2026! Join @jmd2000 for 3 hours of Country, Bluegrass, and even some cylinder music. Cause why the hell not. hkcradio.com
"consumers aren't buying based on AI” is demonstrably untrue, because i am a consumer, and i buy based on AI. i see a product uses AI and i choose something else
And now I'm learning Typst. AFAICT it's like Markdown with functions and PDF output, or a less noisy but just as powerful LaTeX. Found it looking for something that could generate invoices without me having to dig up someone's LaTeX template from GitHub and shoehorn my text into whatever format it expects. In addition to typesetting documents, I can store invoices as data in recutils, pipe out that data as a Typst document using the invoice template, then convert to PDF. Not sure of an easy way to do this in plain Markdown, and LaTeX would require a bunch of other noise plus using someone's random template. Apparently the Typst templates have visual regression tests too, presumably meaning I wouldn't have that one odd experience where for some reason my LaTeX invoice was pink and I had no clue why. Fun times.
I was using pdflatex to generate receipts for product purchases on my website, and I found it didn't have very good international multilingual unicode support. I found wkhtmltopdf, which works great for me. On a digitalocean debian server, I'm producing receipts that closely mimic my on-line HTML receipts in 16 languages. I highly recommend wkhtmltopdf.
Nice, thanks for that. Have you played with Typst at all? Curious if it's something you tried and dismissed for some reason--I'm just reading about it so maybe there's some hidden gotcha.
I observe some weird behaviour from my organisations #outlook server. I use #thunderbird as a desktop client. When I send a message to an unknown recipent, the non delivery report gets flagged as junk from outlook and will never be delivered into the inbox. All support staff I am asking are trying to convice me, I am doing something wrong or that is just the way it is.
E.g. #microsoft says: "This is not a misconfiguration in the traditional sense (such as no broken SPF/DKIM/DMARC, no transport rules required). Rather, it relates to how EOP handles NDRs based on the originating client’s submission method. It aligns with Microsoft’s design: Outlook web/desktop clients receive preferential treatment for internal mail flow."
We checked in with our desktop team, and unfortunately this is just Microsoft doing its own thing, as they say. For now, it might be possible to set up a filter using 'Undeliverable' in your subject keyword to direct these messages to your inbox and mark them as not spam.
How much would my Polish followers enjoy having a Wrapper for SMP Soft? It's not hard to make one, but I wonder if it's worth my time. Might have to make one for NVDA 2026.X, although at least SMPSoft can grab direct wave chunks, it's just that the engine is a bit meh Like, it's not as bad as SoftVoice. But like, it's kinda bad.
Well, it was the first Polish synthesizer I ever heard so I have a bit of sentimental value with it. It first came out as a hardware unit and then became the voice of Kajetek, our homegrown notetaker which is where I ran into it.
Something else you could look into if you ever feel bored enough is a forgotten synthesizer called Rozmowy, created by Wirtualna Polska mainly to make their instant messenger talk. datajake.braillescreen.net/TTS…
@pitermach oh yes. I've look into that one a bit, it looks to be based on FestVox, which is to say, it's using Festival-generated voices. Very interesting. But no DLL, there's an engine that drives the voices as an executable, which makes that one super tricky. Not one single DLL lib that we could load into NVDA, so we'd have to manipulate the client executable to get speech results, blah. It felt like a lot more work than worth to even try to get speech out of it, kinda sad.
Okay I promise I'll stop asking for resources soon but what are good PDF readers for Mac and Windows? I don't know if Microsoft Edge works as well as I thought it did, and Preview is doing some really ugly things to PDFs with images in them.
If you must read PDF, and you want full support for the tags (if you're lucky enough to be working with a tagged PDF), Adobe Reader is still the only robust option on Windows.
@matt Okay. I've thought about getting back into Adobe Reader. It's just been really sluggish for me and really cumbersome to navigate. I'm probably doing something wrong though, wouldn't be the first time.
And if the PDFs you need to read aren't tagged, I would of course recommend my company's own Scribe for Documents (scribeit.io/). We released a major upgrade just a couple of weeks ago.
Hey, someone's boosted a cool bit of art from an artist on Fedi I haven't seen before! Clicking Like.
Clicking over to their posts, they have some other fun art I like! I'll just scroll a little more before clicking that Follow button...
"FYI I'm going to focus my efforts on Substack."
Backing away from Follow button forever.
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