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A stále padá 😏
A stále padá 😏
Ok does anyoneknow if the #Braille Extender add-on for #NVDA is still being maintained? I checked the GitHub and cannot determine this, but the amount of open issues makes me wonder.
@main @mastoblind @NVAccess@fosstodon.orge
@main @mastoblind @NVAccess@fosstodon.orge
I don't know offhand, but it's probably worth an email to the author? (I haven't actually checked, but hopefully their contact details are in there somewhere - they are supposed to be)
@NVAccess Supposedly there is an NVDA 2025.x compatible release but the author has not uploaded it to the NV Access add-on store.
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Want to know more about where @mozilla is headed? The 2025/26 State of Mozilla is live, sharing our product strategy, vision for the future and a look at some of Thunderbird’s favorite “rebel” developers, builders and engineers. Read here: stateof.mozilla.org
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I printed four n=7th iterate dragon curves. You can fit two together to get n=8 dragon curve, and four together to get n=9 dragon curve. You can also fit them together in a way that tiles the plane.
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New Archive: Full Circle for January 28 2026 hkc.im/TQd442 w/ @Liz
We're getting a damn tilt filter, some way or another. I'm determined.
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For iOS users. You know when you copy something from one app and want to paste it into another, an alert pops up asking if you want to allow it? This usually happens for me when I copy the last phrase spoken by Voiceover. You can go to the apps sestion of the settings app, find the app that keeps asking (VLC in my case) and there's a section about allowing paste, which you can set to Never, Ask, or Always.
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@MewProjects FastPlay: Even if speak track changes is unchecked, NVDA still speaks new track names as they appear in the title bar. Winamp doesn't. Does this mean there's some magical code in NVDA that can figure out that it's not supposed to speak title bar changes in Winamp because the user would find that annoying? Or is there an NVDA setting I'm missing? I like having the track name in the title bar, as I'm used to things working that way, but I don't want NVDA to speak it whenever it changes. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Nope. Nothing I can do on my end. That's why both settings exist, and that's why there are keys for manually checking metadata.
LOL possibly or maybe not. I renamed fastplay.exe to winamp.exe and it still announces.
it's probably not that simple to get it to work. It probably uses window class names and such
Okay. In that case, any chance of a hotkey, possibly not global, to speak what would be in the title bar if show track names was checked? I'd love to use this and get my dad using this, but we really need easy access to track names, have a ton of stuff that isn't tagged at all, and yet don't want NVDA speking every time a track changes.
Also unrelated question: If I allow volume above 100%, why does it actually clip rather than Windows's typical compression kicking in and keeping it manageable?
BTW with that last one, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. There've been times when my dad in Foobar I think it was had some eq settings that were what he wanted, but Windows compressed the hell out of the resulting audio.
I don't know. To get that "smoothness" the Bobby voice had, or "shelly", we would actually need to add Spectral Tilt as a frame parameter. This means a new frame setting that controls that. Without it, "male" and "female" will always have the same sharpness.
I wonder if there's any correlation between a blind person using gdb (the GNU debugger) and using a guide dog trained at GDB (Guide Dogs for the Blind), or using a guide dog in general.
Probably not.
Probably not.
Here's another song in support of the people of Minneapolis and in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, this time from British singer Billy Bragg. Listen on YouTube here.
youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW…
#Miinneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #BillyBragg #Music
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
The murder of Alex Pretti was horrifically shocking, all the more so as we are still reeling from the images of the murder of Renee Good. That these crimes c...YouTube
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.8. Those on the NVDA driver from yesterday can update it from the last button in the Speech Player settings panel, too.
This release adds a new Voice Profiles system to NV Speech Player packs. Voices are now defined in phonemes.yaml and can be selected at runtime, letting you ship multiple voice characters without maintaining multiple full phoneme tables.
• New YAML voice profiles
◦ Voices are defined in phonemes.yaml under voiceProfiles.
◦ Profiles are overlays: one base phoneme table, plus per-voice adjustments.
• New bundled voices
◦ Beth (female)
◦ bobby (child-esk)
• Voice selection everywhere
◦ The NVDA driver and phoneme editor can select a YAML-defined voice.
• Better debugging for pack authors
How voice profiles work (short version)
A voice profile can apply:
• class-based scaling (e.g., vowels vs. fricatives) for formants, bandwidths, gain/noise, and voice quality
• per-phoneme overrides for targeted fixes (absolute values that win for those specific fields)
• Existing packs remain compatible: voiceProfiles is optional.
• For low sample rates, keep an eye on harsh sibilants and overall gain — profiles include tools to roll off the top end and preserve headroom.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
This release adds a new Voice Profiles system to NV Speech Player packs. Voices are now defined in phonemes.yaml and can be selected at runtime, letting you ship multiple voice characters without maintaining multiple full phoneme tables.
• New YAML voice profiles
◦ Voices are defined in phonemes.yaml under voiceProfiles.
◦ Profiles are overlays: one base phoneme table, plus per-voice adjustments.
• New bundled voices
◦ Beth (female)
◦ bobby (child-esk)
• Voice selection everywhere
◦ The NVDA driver and phoneme editor can select a YAML-defined voice.
• Better debugging for pack authors
How voice profiles work (short version)
A voice profile can apply:
• class-based scaling (e.g., vowels vs. fricatives) for formants, bandwidths, gain/noise, and voice quality
• per-phoneme overrides for targeted fixes (absolute values that win for those specific fields)
• Existing packs remain compatible: voiceProfiles is optional.
• For low sample rates, keep an eye on harsh sibilants and overall gain — profiles include tools to roll off the top end and preserve headroom.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
@zersiax I'm glad I'm not the only one asking for this. I thought it was my broken ears. Also, anything I can do to soften the s, especially at the begining of words? It might be my sound card, but it sounds like really bad static.
Welcome to the Full Circle aviation museum. Walk this way and take a look at this interesting zeppelin. We’re not sure it ever flew, as it is constructed all of lead and, while it has a proper place for a gas bag and engines, we never found them.
Oh wait. The hamsters had a field day with this one…
Inside the showcase is the band Led Zeppelin!
Full Circle is on HKC Radio.
What is Nipah virus? What to know about the disease as India faces outbreak
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What is Nipah virus? What to know about the disease as India faces outbreak
Nipah virus has a death rate ranging from 45 to 75 per cent, and there is no vaccine or medical treatment available for animals or humans.Rachel Goodman (Global News)
Tune in right now for Full Circle with @Liz, and you can interact with the show as well. HKCRadio.com
At the top of the hour, @Liz will be live with FullCircle. So tune in, and interact with the show. HKCRadio.com
LOL what if I just called the new voices, "man with balls squeezed" and "man with even tighter squeeze on the balls" would people get that it's not a true female voice? Hmm. What a strange thought. Considering it for next update. Get ready.
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…
Gross
Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits. https://arstechnica.Ars Technica (Mastodon)
I think Hudson Williams was destined to play Shane Hollander, because the Holland Tunnel crosses the Hudson River.
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Imagine how hard it would be to find fitting icons for "Shapes" 🤔 #Pages
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I'd like to make a global hotkey on Windows to arm/unarm a specific track in the REAPER project I have shoved off to a second desktop. Ideally the current status would also be reported by NVDA after it was pressed.
Does anyone know if this sounds remotely feasible or have ideas on how to achieve it?
I love static assertions... Added a new error to Prism and forgot to update the error table so: source\prism.cpp:411:17: error: static assertion failed due to requirement 'std::size(strings) == PRISM_ERROR_COUNT': Error string table size mismatches error count [clang-diagnostic-error]
If I turn my website into a Jekyll theme, would anybody use it?
(Asking this because I'm debating whether I should go through the effort of splitting the theme from my website and potentially increasing maintenance burden)
If one day I resume my work on refreshing my gitlab page, I would use it.
Right now, my old prototype has an old copy of your website.
I really should get back to it 
.
@tytan652 thanks, in that case I'll try to turn it into an actual theme :)
I apologize in advance because I'm sure I won't maintain it well. API/ABI/developer experience stability is not a strength of mine 😅
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Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.
The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport.
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Trying out the #MapToPoster script by Ankur Gupta on cities in #Denmark. Thank you for the tip @alan
I try to be thorough and as generous as I can manage, particularly in my long-form AI-critic writing, but this video articulates something a bit less diplomatic: ultimately using it strikes me as somewhat shameful and embarrassing. But Dr. Collier puts it better than I can.
youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF90rstZ…
this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7#Link to patreon:https://www.patreon.com/acoll...YouTube
Based on my reading of the original Nature blog post, it seems to me that the ChatGPT UI was less than clear about what turning off the data consent flag would do to *existing* data. So I blame OpenAI, not the professor. I think it's misleading to state, as Dr. Collier does here, that he clicked a "delete" button without realizing what it would do, and especially to take that as evidence of brain rot. We need to be careful not to succumb to confirmation bias.
@matt there is some evidence that the professor may be misrepresenting the “data consent” button that was clicked, at the very least. lots of people in the comments saying that it really is a big red “delete” button, others saying it’s different in europe because gdpr, but I don’t think I have seen anyone saying that they see precisely what he claims he saw. otoh maybe openai patched it since the article is bad press, so we can’t check now. the infrastructure of our lives is built on sand
For anyone using Fenrir stable version, version 2026.01.28 has just been released. In this version you will need to recreate your settings file, sorry about that, it was part of a huge refactor/cleanup. On the bright side, settings names are all uniform now without mixed case.
How does the @mixxx open-source community create software that rivals commercial alternatives? Collaboration between users and developers in the community chat on Zulip lays the foundation. New case study: zulip.com/case-studies/mixxx/ #openSource #chat
Case study: Mixxx open-source community | Zulip
Learn how collaboration in Zulip drives innovation for a community of passionate DJs and programmers from all over the world.Zulip
I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights.
Or go sledding.
And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate.
Hmph.
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What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.
Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!
blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...blog.neocities.org
I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
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D&D taught me that sometimes you see an exciting magical object, pick it up, and discover that you can't put it down and now you are cursed.
This post is about linkers.
In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.
I've noticed that as well. I don't know what causes it but I think it's more general. If I do win-r firefox it also says unknown.
Fortinet would like you to know that they've released a patch to fix a problem that let any forticloud account access any other fortinet device that used forticloud for authentication. You may express thanks now.
fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/…
edit: forgot some important words.
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Riddle me this ,
Why do people insist on saying 2010 when there was only one 2010 that makes no sense to me it sounds grammatically incorrect
Why do people insist on saying 2010 when there was only one 2010 that makes no sense to me it sounds grammatically incorrect
They're referring to the period between 2011 and 2020. we refer to the 1910's the same way.
Just remember you were never laid off, you were simply promoted to customer.
The bing behaviour described by neocities i.e. exclusion of site + surfacing unofficial / malicious clone sites is the exact same issue we saw a few years back.
We eventually resolved it after signing up to bings' webmaster tools and manually requesting crawls - and I marked it up as a fluke.
Seeing that it wasn't a one off, I have to conclude that Bing is a terrible search engine that will sometimes just censor sites while sending you to possibly-malicious clones.
blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...blog.neocities.org
Kateřina
in reply to Archos • • •Archos
in reply to Kateřina • • •V Čechách nic, začne to kousek od hranic.
Kateřina
in reply to Archos • • •ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ®
in reply to Kateřina • • •@KaterinaGloserova hmmm
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ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ® (Arch Linux CZ)Archos
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in reply to Archos • • •Kateřina
in reply to ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ® • • •@archos
ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ®
in reply to Kateřina • • •Vydrz, v noci vam to zmrzne.
Kateřina
in reply to ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ® • • •@zoufalec Ha! Už to doručili! Ale jestli ta zásilková služba bude fungovat i obráceně, to nedokážu říct. 😁😁
@archos
ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ®
in reply to Kateřina • • •Archos
in reply to ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ® • • •@zoufalec Ono to přišlo hrozně rychle, nebyl čas přemýšlet co vzít s sebou😂
@KaterinaGloserova
Tomáš Odehnal
in reply to Archos • • •Tady taky, jen je o pár stupňů víc 🙃
Archos
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