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Utterly crappy weekend here. The loudest noise I can make is a cough, and lifting anything heavier than a plate sends me into paroxysms of coughing and spluttering.
I have the attention span and stamina of a toddler and feel, not to put too fine a point on it, absolutely blarg.
Thanks, Covid and postcovid chest thing.
At least my misery about the dog has been upgraded to actual physical issues.
in reply to Sean Randall

I'm really sorry you're having such a tough time. I hope you feel better really soon.
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

@lulu_bear I feel really bad about work; I booked the whole week off for London then just zonked out completely this past week also.
Granted, it's a bank holiday that's still a lot of time off.

Can't help being ill, I guess, just feels wrong. Fingers crossed I pick up soon

in reply to Sean Randall

@lulu_bear I sure hope you feel better soon, Covid is no joke, I've had it several times and already suffer with breathing issues.


📣 Do-It-Blind DIB online Besprechung am Montag, 26. August, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion


The YouTube version of our #LibreOffice 24.8 video has subtitles in these languages, thanks to our worldwide community! Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese: youtube.com/watch?v=dx--aRv6af… – And if anyone wants to contribute more, the script is on our wiki 😊 wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vi…

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in reply to LibreOffice

Unfortunately, your New Features video is completely inaccessible to blind users since all I hear is music. There's no audio description or verbal narrative of any kind. Admittedly, you do have the transcript which is certainly accessible and it does help but at that point I'd rather just read the page containing more details about the new features.
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In Afghanistan, the Taliban's Minister of Education has announced that girls' schools are likely to remain closed permanently.

As a Muslim let me be explicitly clear. This is apartheid, vile, & inexcusable.

Prophet Muhammad(sa) declared, "It is incumbent upon every Muslim male & every Muslim female to attain education." His wife Ayesha was a leading scholar & jurist. His final words were "women are your committed partners." Not servants—PARTNERS.

Taliban terrorists are a stain on humanity.




Want to learn new things, and expand your skillset for a future career change? Join an #opensource project (like LibreOffice) and build up experience! That's exactly what Gladys David did: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #libreoffice
in reply to brawnybunkbedbuddy

@brawnybunkbedbuddy We think that showing a donation message only once every six months is not "nagging:" Donations are absolutely essential for the future health of LibreOffice. If you really don't want the message once every six months, you can disable it: Open Expert Configuration and search for LastTime. Change the values of LastTimeGetInvolvedShown and LastTimeDonateShown to the maximum allowed value of 2147483646.
in reply to LibreOffice

im talking about notifications overall - these should be configurable at ease with a simple click from main options, not from "expert configuration" that will be overwritten after next release. and that did happen to me on both linux and windows.

i like LO but how you handle this thing is just copypasting corporate software behavior.




Moooorning. Mondays are so much better when I'm on holidays.


Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

Haunted by glitching algorithms, self-driving cars disturb the peace in San Francisco.

arstechnica.com/information-te…




Online-Banking und Banking-Apps machen immer größere Fortschritte im Komfort, aber der Datenschutz bleibt dabei leider fast immer auf der Strecke. @rufposten hat den großen Online-Banking- und TAN-App-Test (35 Banken) gemacht! 👇

kuketz-blog.de/der-grosse-onli…

#banking #app #dstenschutz #dsgvo #TDDDG #teamdatenschutz #bank #android #ios

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The second time in a month my #ArchLinux laptop froze during update.
Always the same scenario. Sunday, I returned from trip, waked the laptop up from sleep, run yay -Syu, went to unpack, and then found laptop frozen.
I suspect #nvidia as it always is problem with their shitty driver.

So again:
1️⃣ disable secure boot
2️⃣ boot using arch netboot
3️⃣ unlock and mount root and efi drives
4️⃣ delete pacman lock files
5️⃣ reinstall all packages
6️⃣ reboot
7️⃣ enable secureboot
8️⃣ boot normally

🙄

in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

I was having a similar frozing problems on with some versions of QubesOS, which is Fedora based. Fixed with installing kernel-latest package with a newer kernel version. It can inspire You to solve.
in reply to 🌹 𝐫𝐮𝐳𝐚 ✅ (eng🇬🇧)

I use latest stable kernel that Arch provides. This is probably really a nvidia problem. It fails to wake up from sleep mode properly from time to time.
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Ihr erinnert euch an die reaktive Schäferhundin? Die war heute zum Cavaletti mit Frauchen UND Herrchen da. Fand Frauchen beim letzten Mal schon mehr grob als nötig, aber Herrchen hat sich von meiner Kollegin einen Rüffel gefangen. Der hat so grob an der Leine geruckt die ganze Zeit, es ist kein Wunder, dass die so drauf ist. Wer so mit seinem Hund umgeht, ist nicht willkommen. Hunde müssen bestätigt werden, wenn sie was gut machen. Nur Ansagen, wenn sie was schlecht machen, helfen kein bisschen.


Espero que tenham ficado alertados para o perigo que é dormirem com pouca roupa no Verão.

E se tivessem que sair assim para a rua?🥺

#Sismo



Die Leute, die aus Syrien hierher geflüchtet sind, sind in aller Regel vor Islamisten dort geflüchtet. Leute, die aus Afghanistan kommen, flüchten vor den Taliban. Nur zur Erinnerung.




Krásné dibré eáno mastodoňata! 🙋‍♀️🐕🐈
A je to tu. Venku je regulérní tma. Ani narůžovělý pásek nad obzorem. A dneska nám tu prší. Což ale beru jako opravdu příjemnou změnu. Vodu ven pořád ještě nemáme nataženou. Chodím zalívat konvemi. A to znamená konve do koupelny a z koupelny běh po zahradě....
Za letošní léto budu mít svaly jako z posilovny. 😁
Takže vstávat bobánkové a šup! Vytvářet hodnoty! Nebo tak něco. 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
in reply to Archos

@archos Tak co, jak šlo ranní vstávání po dovolené? Také jako psovi pastva ? 😅


🚨**X/Twitter je financován z Ruska**

I přes Muskův odpor sdělit, odkud vzal na financování koupě Twitteru to nakonec vyšlo najevo - ruští miliardáři ovládaní Kremlem. Už je tak jasné, proč se od Muskovy akvizice platforma ubírá tímto směrem.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/182…



Tak to je zase přemlouvání po dovolený.
A státní svátek až asi v říjnu.
#dobréRáno 👋
in reply to Archos

A ty jsi zase kdo? 🧐

Ne, tvá přezdívka je s tou instancí tak zakořeněná, že tuším. Ten v tom běžeckém dresu, že jo?

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Great, another Silverblue update that fuck the system.

`% toolbox enter
Error: failed to get the Podman version`




Not treating tech writers as "real" contributors to open source is how you get "discord is our documentation".


Adding a compressor as first input in the effects chain before anything else is kinda neat


Wind chimes.
But minor, or 7th chord so they sound spooky/unsettling instead of delightful.


And QR codes in public spaces are dead.

latimes.com/california/story/2…



The Nazis killed my entire family except my great grandparents who came to the US.

Everyone, there were no survivors as far as anyone knows.

So if I say it's my opinion that Republicans are Nazis and I mean they are similar to the historical Nazis and might become as dangerous, I do actually know what I am talking about.

They plan to build concentration camps for 1 million immigrants. After they deport the first million what do they plan to do with those camps? You imagine they will just get rid of them? Hmm.

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It has been three and a half months since I announced “I will make Papers – the soon-to-be default document viewer in GNOME – work on mobile, while improving the UI in general.”

For that, I was granted a stipend by Google Open Source. And, I would say: I delivered on this promise—see for your self, with the next release of Papers.

Now, my project is over (but I am here to stay), and if you want to read a bit more about what I did, I’ll humbly recommend my blog post: blogs.gnome.org/camelcasenick/…

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What happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope?

They kaleidoscope.

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If you have a raspberry pi 4 or 5 running Arch Linux, and after updating you suddenly have no wifi, this solution worked for me. Simple steps:

  • Create the file /etc/modprobe.d/brcmfmac.conf
  • Add the following line to the file:
    options brcmfmac feature_disable=0x82000
  • Save and reboot.




I've just been sitting here trying to play the synth riff from Axel F's Theme on clarinet in every key. I suck at it. The easiest for me are concert G miner, C miner and d miner. I can mostly manage everything else, but not at speed. That's my silly practice thing, I guess.
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in reply to Patrick Perdue

I've known that riff since I was a kid but didn't know what the piece was called. Thank you.


You've taken a perfectly fine door and given it anxiety.


If the term "LI-FI" becomes a thing, expect all the "lie-Fi" puns. Oh, my LI-FI is lying to me about the speeds, it's definitely sus!
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in reply to Tamas G

I really can't see it taking off though if it is can't go threw walls. I just can't see that working well.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry yeah, it for sure won't replace internet with that limitatiion. I do think it has a good use case for hospitals, home automation, things that are better left more secure by not being as internet-connected from a distance, or need to pass high communication quickly across things.
in reply to Tamas G

I don't know. I still can't see it working even in places like that. I mean if the two devices are not in the same room, forget it. it won't work.
in reply to Tamas G

That article seemed more like a marketing copy. I rememberr the early research articles from the oughts. It seemed to be so promising.

in reply to Trending Stocks 📈

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

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in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

@dhamlinmusic It does, but hopefully a human checks it from time to time. It would benefit both the blindness community and the finance community to use clear hashtags
in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

@dhamlinmusic @NVAccess

definitely not automated - will keep it in mind! just not sure how I would use that as a canonical standard

in reply to Trending Stocks 📈

@dhamlinmusic Thanks for your help! To be honest, aside from about yourself, 99.9% of the time #NVDA is used to refer to NVIDIA stocks, it's spam / scam - I certainly wouldn't follow the hashtag for stock information - I'd follow the Stocks or Finance hashtags you also use. I'd be surprised if it's the only one - just looking back through, 99% of toots about SNOW are not about the stock - and that's what I was trying to do - ensure people following a hashtag get primarily ONE subject
in reply to NV Access

@NVAccess I thought we were mostly using NVDASR as the hashtag for NVDA? I started that on Twitter because stock related things regularly used the NVDA hashtag.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh There weren't too many stock related things on here when we joined, so I've been trying to get the jump on them - no one actually calls NVIDIA #NVDA - it makes sense for them to use #NVIDIA if that's what they want to talk about. Most people are good with it, but I generally tag our posts with both #NVDA and #NVDAsr just in case
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh @NVAccess I don't think the average Mastodon user is big on AI investments. The distinct possibility of them gloating when the stock price tanks still exists, though.
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @jcsteh That was my reasoning for pushing the stock people to use the company name. If you use NVIDIA, there's no confusion - there is no other entity that I'm aware of called NVIDIA. And even though their code is NVDA, the screen reader IS much more widely known as NVDA. Users who have followed us post-twitter, might not actually know what NVDASR is. In any case, if we use NVDA and stock people use NVIDIA, then everyone can follow what they actually want - one, the other, or both


WhatsApp desktop: If you receive a link from a chat conversation, I notice that the link itself does not get placed in tab focus (update: It does, but your screen reader will repeat the message twice which was throwing me off), and I could not left-click it with NVDA, so how in the world do you activate links within WhatsApp desktop?
Solution: It will be in tab order, but you'll first need to hear the message repeated again before the link URL is told to you as the highlighted item.
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in reply to Tamas G

Were you able to scan the QR code to link your device? I am using the web portal for now.
in reply to Chris Hallsworth

@challsworth2 ah I didn't have to, I used the code / link devices section of the WhatsApp mobile client where I could then enter that code manually without a QR one.
in reply to Tamas G

Sorted. Transpired you can only link with code on Windows or web; I have a Macbook Air, but I do plan to use Windows in a virtual machine again some day.
in reply to Tamas G

Or just press tab once, and it's a link. At least in my experience.


I am proud to announce that I am working on a successor to #AppleVis - a website for #disabled #Apple technology enthusiasts. I kindly invite everyone to test it and give feedback.
You can find the invite link here

community.accessibleapple.org/…

in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

It keeps saying that the site can't be reached every time I click on it. I've tried it more than once, too. -T
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in web.yoursecurify.com.
If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

Will do. Although I hit enter directly on the link that was there. And that's what it opened. Odd how enter on the interactions works that way sometimes. Even though it shouldn't.
in reply to Scarlet Phoenix Collective

@we_are_spc I would check if you don’t have a virus of some sorts. That website shown on the error sounds very, very sketchy. Try to use ADWCleaner if you are on Windows.
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

Will do. But that is the only time I have had a problem with that particular thing. Everything else goes where it's supposed to.
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

... OKay this is effed up. I can't ghet to it from Google Chrome because of that shit you saw when I sent you the message. But when I type into MS edge...it works flawlessly. Don't ask me whly...I wouldn't be able to tell you. :( -T
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

All it does is give me a search deal. I've never dong a ping response before, so I dunno what I'm not doing. Especially since I coppied direectly what you sent to the clipboard.