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I really love this one bug where Firefox dev tools' right-click Inspect Element button works reliably for a bit, then inexplicably stops and pulls up the browser console instead, meaning the item doesn't actually inspect the element. It pulls up the browser console input area instead, which is of course what I wanted to do in the first place when trying to inspect an element.
Related, I like this other bug where tabbing from the browser console switches focus between the text input and console messages, but shift-tab lives in its own world with its own unique list of elements, navigating instead through the console messages area and what looks to be a long list of CSS selectors and styles. I tried using this to reach the element inspector but can't do that either.
Becoming less and less apologetic about my AI use by the day. Want me to not use the water-and-power-guzzling mechanoid? Don't make it so difficult to use every basic tool that I have to ask another tool to use it for me.
Trump threat leads Greenland to release ‘crisis’ guidelines
ctvnews.ca/world/article/green…
We need the same here. If the Hummers roll in.
Greenland releases ‘crisis’ guidelines as Trump threat looms
Greenland’s government unveiled a new brochure on Wednesday offering advice to the population in the event of a “crisis” in the territory, which U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to seize from ally Denmark.AFP Staff (CTVNews)
During the early pandemic, everyone was using online tools for lessons, work, & events. As soon as hegemons wanted not just "essential workers" but everyone back at the grindstone, the accessibility that online can offer was yanked back from disabled ppl.
We warned at the time that the lesson to take from how "horrible" people thought online schooling was was to *improve* it. That the years of ableist underinvestment in creative accessible online tools & training for presenters/teachers was largely to blame. Abled ppl ignored this or wrote op-eds saying online was inherently bad.
Just this week alone, we've heard how schools in Minnesota are trying to instruct students online and doctors are doing telemedicine because of ICE kidnappers. A rail crash in Catalunya resulted in a university cancelling exams because students can't commute to school.
Even if you're naïve enough to assume there will only be one pandemic, there are other reasons for accessibility.
Reading about #Nvidia CEO crying about people not liking #AI, though it was a good time to recover this historic piece of art from the Copyright wars of the start of the century. Cc'ing @pluralistic
Original at flickr.com/photos/akma/9208227…
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In episode 1 million and 1 of Google breaking accessibility, someone decided to slap aria hidden on basically the entire page on google drive public link pages, but here's the weird thing, only in Firefox. I don't know if chromium and Safari browsers just have a workaround just for this kind of developer/AI stupidity and bypass it and firefox doesn’t, or if something in google's code only breaks this on firefox.
Either way recovering out of this is fun. I have to use AXSHammer to kill all aria hidden. But, this doesn't always work. If I get lucky and the right thing gets focused Shift+F10 will give me the firefox context menu and I can do it. If not, well, just gotta keep refreshing the page until it does because due to the whole invisible to the screen reader problem NVDA/VoiceOver won't let me bring the mouse to anywhere useful to pop up the menu.
You know how far-right grifters use the rhetorical technique of naming a real problem and then offering a scam solution?
People are falling for that with Mark Carney's speech
If the most inspiring parts of Carney's speech are "facing reality" and "strength through cooperation" I have such good news! Neoliberals like him always co-opt their inspiring rhetoric from *actual* liberatory movements, and you could be getting your inspo straight from the source. See if land back, mutual aid, prison abolition, anti-fascism, community self-defense, labour solidarity, or privacy rights movements get you anywhere
If the parts of Carney's speech that inspire you are about building up national power at the expense of ethics and ideals, maybe spend some time reflecting on whether building homegrown corporate fascism would actually do anything to resist the American regime or whether that would be complying in advance and land us in the exact same place
After a good 30 minutes, I've gotten Emacspeak working rather well with mastodon.el. Goodness all those Emoji. For now, n and p read next/prev post well, and t lets you know you're doing new toot. And that's all the making stuff I can do right now.
Dropbox link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/zz4632vjlau…
#Emacs #foss #emacspeak #accessibility #blind
Are you or is anyone you know colourblind?
Windows has a feature called colour filters, which may help the colours on your screen appear more distinct
You can turn it on and off with WIN + CTRL + C (if enabled in Settings)
Happy to provide detailed documentation to NFB for escalation to Meta. This needs human review from people who understand assistive technology, and it needs to be escalated to Meta's accessibility and legal teams.
How are blind users supposed to access Threads if screen readers trigger automatic suspensions?
#Accessibility #A11y #Threads #Meta
How are blind users supposed to access Threads if screen readers trigger automatic suspensions?
#Accessibility #A11y #Threads #Meta
Ah thaaaat's the reason I got suspended! I naïvely thought something was wrong with my provided photo...
I just added 13 more instrumental tracks to my collection. If you need some music for your upcoming project (game, podcast, video...), Look at ondrosik.sk/music #cc0 #music
Looks like @Tutanota wins in the screen reader accessibility department. Both the iOS app and the web version appear to be quite accessible with screen readers. Tested using both VoiceOver and Chromevox… I had no issues navigating the interface with either screen reader. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader #Email #Calendar #Contacts
I saw quite recently a complaint from a blind user though. I have an account there but don't use it too much, will need to recheck the accessibility.
Have you ever helped people use their computers by talking to them over the phone, without seeing their screen? It can be frustrating if they tell you mostly irrelevant details that bury the important stuff.
This is the major problem with image description by AI. AI has no idea why the image was posted, so it gives irrelevant details.
Human-written image descriptions are much better at communicating an image's purpose.
More accessibility tips: fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-…
How do I make my posts more accessible to blind, deaf and deafblind people on Mastodon and the Fediverse? How do I add alt texts? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
I live in a small town in Sweden. This morning I went out to my car (realising that I'd once again forgotten to lock the front door last night), drove along empty, wide roads to the nearest largeish town and parked in the brand new multistorey carpark by the railway station, where the first two hours' parking is free and the remainder of the time is very cheap.
I got out of the car without checking my surroundings, and as I leaned back in to get my bag out, I thought "In large parts of the world, I'd be asking to get mugged, or worse".
Then I walked along the clean, well-kept streets to the hospital, where I waited for less than 2 minutes for my mammography, which was completely free of charge.
This is Sweden. This is Europe. Why the FUCK are we trying to emulate, listening to, investing in or in any way having anything whatsoever to do with the utter insanity coming out of the USA?
And I don't just mean under the current, obviously barking, incumbent. I mean ever? They don't do things like we do. They don't believe in the same things that we do. This really is an us and a them situation, and we've been kidding ourselves for the last 80 years that they're like us.
GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/g…
Great blog post. This one explained how Google, OpenAI and other AI companies killed the open web, which was once made of independent forums, news sites, wikis, blogs, high quality journalism websites, books, and fan fiction or art.
GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have two superpowers. The first superpower is a boon: they can dramatically increase ...Yevgeniy Brikman
KEYBOARD NERDS ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!
youtube.com/watch?v=N3FEv1qw4_…
Fixing the Biggest Problem With Mechanical Keyboards
Adam recently met Ryan Norbauer, a designer and propmaker who is obsessed with mechanical computer keyboards. He has spent the past five years building what ...YouTube
The following APIs are depreciated. If your app uses them, remember to claim them on your taxes
notification: after checking logs overnight, we noticed that mstdn.gunma.jp is ramone/jt's knew playground, this instance has been defederated from ours as he had over 10 accounts on said same instance. Happy safe posting!
Hey #believeinfilm friends,
Eastman Kodak Company has just announced that it will be distributing Tri-X and Ektar!
That's great news for folks who know about Alaris and its diminishing role as a 3rd party distributor, but does that really mean cheaper film?
My findings suggest no. This is not making film cheaper right now. It's making it more expensive.
The breakdown: analog.cafe/comments/2p2r
#filmphotography #analogphotography #photography
Eastman Kodak Company begins self-distributing Tri-X and Ektar; I hope that doesn’t mean pricier film!
Last year, we learned that the Kodak factory shifted its film distribution from outsourcing to Kodak Alaris to doing it in-house. Today, the company announced two new films that will be sold under a new packaging.www.analog.cafe
neat piece of invisible infrastructure: the Rust portable-atomic crate
your platform doesn’t support a particular type of atomic natively? not a problem, this crate gives you an implementation anyway
how? well there’s a global lock, you see. or, rather, 67 global locks, and which one gets used depends on the address of the atomic mod 67.
but, that’s kinda inefficient, so you wouldn’t want to use it unless it’s your only choice, right?
so they have a bunch of platform specific implementations, such as “let’s detect at runtime if cmpxchg16b is supported” or “this is a microcontroller so if we read it within one instruction we’re fine, and otherwise just disable the interrupts”
and as a result you can just use it and not really think about it, because in 99% of cases it’s gonna do the same thing as what you’d end up with if you bothered to optimize it manually
the ratio of elaborate internals to unassuming API surface is so great here you could easily blink and miss the fact that someone is pulling off heroic feats to make this happen
OK good. So now we always consider stress markers in class rules. This will help a lot of people I think with languages to make them sound more connected together. Once I fix words like "later" and "rate" so there's flap and less unnatural glide, I'll give you all the new driver. Not until then.
@clv1 Technically yes.
1.
Long:
ː (U+02D0)
→ you already support this
Example: iː, aː
2.
Half-long:
ˑ (U+02D1)
Example: eˑ
3.
Extra-short:
̆ (U+0306, combining breve)
Example: ă
So technically, ̆ is the “shorten” mark. eSpeak does not emit ̆
Most IPA transcriptions omit it entirely. Linguists usually encode “shortness” as:the absence of ː, or via phoneme choice (e.g. /ɪ/ vs /iː/)
1.
Long:
ː (U+02D0)
→ you already support this
Example: iː, aː
2.
Half-long:
ˑ (U+02D1)
Example: eˑ
3.
Extra-short:
̆ (U+0306, combining breve)
Example: ă
So technically, ̆ is the “shorten” mark. eSpeak does not emit ̆
Most IPA transcriptions omit it entirely. Linguists usually encode “shortness” as:the absence of ː, or via phoneme choice (e.g. /ɪ/ vs /iː/)
greetings folks i discovered an awesome addon that allows wikipedia search using nvda
@FreakyFwoof
wrote it and his addons can be found at link below :)
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Just to chime in, copy/paste/search is a gamechanging part of this I didn't notice. I just grabbed an article, copied it to notepad, and searched for something. Found it and dealt with it without having to touch my browser. Very nice.
It’s interesting to me that Trump has so quickly backed off on the threat of using force in Greenland. Someone talked him off the ledge. Maybe the massing European troops raised the stakes enough for his advisors to hesitate. Maybe the generals said they would not attack a NATO member nation (a clearly illegal order). Maybe he never had military support at all, and was talking out of his ass all along. Who knows? The point is, they called his bluff, and he folded like wet napkin. I think people need to learn from this. Calling Trump’s bluffs works, especially when you team up with other communities to call his bluff together.
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Anyone here have experience with Holy, specifically their icetea? I'm considering it because I'm interested in the concept and the icetea flavours are speaking to me the most.
stress markers never block cluster detection. That is going to be a new engine rule in the next update, the DLL is compiling now.
give me a language where stress must block cluster behavior. is this common in languages? I don't think so. We can make this a rule that is applied across all.
Huh, now if you tell me what it means, it'll be interesting. Maybe not in all languages, but who knows.
Put a cigarette out on copilots forehead, it loves it
I now imagined this comically weird character with weird floppy headphones on its head, smoking a super long, super fat cigar. 🤣
Americans: they removed the "de minimis exemptions" through the post.
Canadians: the what?
(brokerage fees)
I remember paying 15$ of taxes (HST) + 35$ of "brokerage" fees for a "valued at $100" package that was sent to me for free.
note that this "brokerage fee" is an unsolicited service: you are not the shipping company customer, you didn't agree to this, you were not offered the choice, but they hold your property.
Our consumer protection laws are as good as our privacy laws: the great of you are a corporation.
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RE: 101010.pl/@rzeczpospolita/1159…
O proszę, jaki rozwój.
Rzeczpospolita MEWS (@rzeczpospolita@101010.pl)
Lotnisko w Poznaniu z rekordowym wynikiem. Przoduje w Europie w swoim segmencie ----- #LotniskaMEWS #MEWS ----- W ubiegłym roku przez poznańskie lotnisko przewinęło się ponad 4,1 miliona pasażerów.Rzeczpospolita MEWS (101010.pl)
What's the most useless thing
- The "L" in salmon (16%, 2 votes)
- FBI warning on a DVD (50%, 6 votes)
- A Twitterer's opinion (41%, 5 votes)
- Nipples on the batsuit (16%, 2 votes)
- A spork (0%, 0 votes)
- Adobe updates (16%, 2 votes)
- This poll (8%, 1 vote)
- 1 ply toilet paper (33%, 4 votes)
- an ICE agent's testicles (75%, 9 votes)
(serious) Question.
If you run Linux servers without outside network access, how do you keep them up to date?
If a software vendor give you access to a repo to install their multi-package software, how do you do it? Or better, what do you expect from the vendor (but may not get)?
Thanks
(Edit: just to clarify. I'm not the sysadmin here. I have no control on any of these system, I'm just trying to figure out a way to make it easier for these customers)
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The usual advice for site admins who are managing devices with limited network access is usually to either set up a package repository that the devices _can_ access, or to set up an installation image that contains all the packages the devices need and to reimage them as needed. Either approach has some pretty significant operational tradeoffs. If devices can be allowed internet access intermittently, things get easier: use vendor repos during those windows.
It looks like the output for "cijena" is 'ts' rather than 't͡s', which means I might need to account for the 'ts' phoneme. Thank you Croatian, you're a great language. :D
Hello I am a member who is not Samara lol. Hoping everyone has a good day. - Kylie
@tardis Yep lol she is our host, and fronts... A lot. Lately it's either her or we're blurring. So it's good to for once be someone cohesive who's not her. Not that she's bad because we love her, she just gets a little tired of extended fronting times. Also your signing doesn't confuse or bother us. - Kylie
Yeah. Understandable. We are mostly super hidden. I don't sign when me is me. Grins. I manage the worldly stuff, but my head is a chaos in progress. LOL..
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Every time I install a new piece of infrastructure for my homelab as part of becoming more independent from Big Tech, I see a hint on the homepage of that new piece of infrastructure that mentions they received sponsorship from @nlnet almost as if NLNet has been silently preparing Europe for #DigitalSovereignty with Open Source projects ;) I like!
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Holy shit Soundbooth Theater's website is a pile of ass. Can't listen to anything there.
Pretty big. Their app is a PITA too--had to hand my phone to my partner mid-listen because my phone's cast connection dropped and I couldn't find the play button. They asked for a bunch of feedback on their app a while back, and I kinda hoped they'd fix the accessibility issues, but I didn't chime in because fixing issues of this scale isn't on your users IMO and I didn't want to do more unpaid consulting. Guess it's in prod now and we're stuck with it though, yay us.
Installed #DeltaChat on my phone.
Gonna try setting it up for the first time later.
Posted from toot in termux on my phone 😂
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What do AI and agentic commerce mean for free software? Merchants can’t just choose to be invisible in search, and they can’t just choose to be non-interoperable with LLMs.
Saleor's Merchant Autonomy Manifesto:
> Own the Future, or Let Platforms Own You
saleor.io/blog/merchants-auton…
Own the Future, or Let Platforms Own You
Your control is your advantage. You should never surrender it. Discover the Merchant Autonomy Manifesto and why ownership, not platforms, defines the future of commerce.Saleor Commerce
Society: Stop being weird.
Me: No.
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