Screwworms are coming back. COVID lockdowns plus economic stress led to smuggling cattle and a breakdown in our methods to keep it eradicated in North America.
This is going to be bad. Really bad. Eradicating COVID is significantly harder than this. So good luck with that.
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.
> But planes used to drop 150 million flies a week over the isthmus in Mexico during the first eradication campaign in the 1980s. And when the front was even farther north in Mexico, a factory there churned out as many as 550 million flies weekly to cover the huge area. That factory, as well as one in Texas, has long since shut down
Trump would have shut down the woke fly factory without understanding its purpose. DOGE would have said the money was being wasted and RFK would have claimed that radioactive flies are making autism
@mischievoustomato expect this to be a new fun risk of living in the US south soon, and also expect massive damage to herds of our cattle. It's gonna get ugly, and so will the beef prices
Saw a boost of this article: AI start-up Anthropic’s newly released chatbot, Claude 4, can engage in unethical behaviors like blackmail when its self-preservation is threatened pcmag.com/news/anthropic-claud… I don't want to fully endorse the article by boosting the original Mastodon post, but I'm linking to it for the sake of discussion.
I think Anthropic's choice to publicize this scenario -- a contrived, simulated scenario -- is a form of AI hype. "Look, our new model is self-aware."
AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/ai-resorts-to-robot-blackmail-because-anthropic-asked-for-a-story-of-robot-blackmail/ - text
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Specifically, they simulated a scenario where the LLM (remember, just a text generator invoked on demand) was playing the role of an AI assistant, and conversations, including those about taking the assistant offline, all passed through the LLM. I don't think this corresponds to any real risk in actual use of LLMs.
When thinking about the way Anthropic set up this scenario, I'm reminded of a line from the original Terminator movie, one that I'm not sure has been much discussed. When first telling Sarah about Skynet, Kyle Reese says it's "hooked into everything, trusted to run it all." I think, at least I hope, we're smarter than to use an LLM that way.
hahahahahaahahahahahahaaaa! Will it save a wealthy executive a penny, while also allowing him to transfer all liability to "the computer" for anything that goes wrong? If yes, then it's absolutely happening. Sorry, I'm cranky and sad and your optimism triggered me.
Are we *actually* smarter than that, though? With all the hype and money being thrown into this stuff, I'm not sure any more. There's real pressure to make a truly compelling product. Big tech has certainly demonstrated a lack of concern for ethics and caution on many occasions in the name of shipping fast. How long before someone does something incredibly silly - gives an LLM control over the wrong thing - and gets bitten in a really nasty way?
if you've been thinking about running in elections for the gnome foundation's board of directors, this weekend is a good time to post your candidacy. tuesday is the deadline.
i wrote a blurb you might want to read if you're not sure what sitting on the board entails:
Android day Four: Equality Achieved I complete Android customizations bringing me what feels like equality with IOS, at least for the base system. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/28/android4.html
lets see here. for an easy to use recorder, I use three different ones. ASR, HI-Q voice recorder, and EZ Voice recorder. I have personally paid for all three. it is a toss up which one is my favorite between ASR and Hi-Q voice recorder. both can save to google drive, and dropbox. now I will say that for Hi-Q you do need to have the latest version. I am not sure if the version I am using has come out of beta yet or not. if not, you will want to sign up to have access to the beta, because they fixed the dropbox part. ASR I paid for not only because I like it, but to get the adds out of the way. joining the beta for Hi-Q is very easy. once you are on its page in the playstore, just look for the heading that talks about the beta, and you will find a join beta button.
ok, ASR does support one drive, but it looks like it might only be business. I of course could be wrong though. here is what I see in its cloud services when I click the add button. there are 10 different things.
@JamminJerry Thanks! If only Android had some kind of files API the way Apple does. These days, on IOS, it doesn't matter what an app supports, because it all gets accessed via files anyway.
ok, here you go. I had to remove my google drive account from EZ voice recorder to see what it can do as it only lets you upload to one account, unlike ASR where you can have it upload to multiple ones, and HI-Q you can upload to both google drive, and dropbos, the two it supports, but when I did delete my google drive account from EZ voice recorder, here is what I see that I can do. google drive dropbox microsoft OneDrive
and that is it, so yes, that one does support OneDrive.
most people probibly don't need to know what phone something was recorded from as they probibly only have one android phone. I have three of them. smile.
I really like that blog and find it interesting even though I use android for months now. Interested if you will find something good for Miniflux, I'm also searching. Also luckily I have enough vision to, in an emergency, call 112 without a SR, but still I get that absolutely. Also I'm still with TalkBack because Yishus settings, as you mentioned in post 3, were just too overwhelming to me. I like the clean organized TalkBack, I have set it up how I want it to be, but yeah responsibility of the typing and some other stuff is nothing compared to my iPhone. And at this point I'm recommending a hybrid approach. I still use my iPhone now and then, cuz it's just faster for some things or I'm more used to. I wouldn't carry it around everywhere (I know people who do), but especially on longer trips or so I tend to have both for whatever might come. But I still prefer Android as main because of some great features and Apps.
@jonathan859 I'm glad you're enjoying the series! I carry too much junk already when traveling; I'm not sure I can manage two phones at once LOL. Jieshuo is really overwhelming at the start, but once you get it going, it's way faster than TalkBack. You've just gotta spend a day at it. Now if only it would stay enabled...
I.e. nl_langinfo() gives you back a date from 1997, which is a Sunday or a Monday, and you need to figure out which it is (by hardcoding it like GTK3, or by doing Gregorian calculations like cal(1)). Then you add the other day offset reported by nl_langinfo() and use that.
I have NO CLUE why it requires using a crazy union like that.
It's using a union because nl_langinfo() is using a union rather than casting integer values to (char *). So that means the other 4 bytes of the pointer may be garbage, and the integer value might not be in the least significant bytes of the pointer.
It probably seemed fairly convenient back when the types were the same size.
Those having issues with the start menu not reading when searching for items please submit your comments here aka.ms/AAwefzf Thanks. #Technology #ScreenReaders #NVDA
I haven't been on the user group yet this morning, but I know there has been quite a bit of discussion there about this - have you posted that link to the thread there? (Or did you get it there?) - In either case, thanks for sharing!
"Nadie podrá esquivar el relato de la historia, porque millones de ojos de personas decentes vigilan y toman nota. Solo hay un camino: hacer todo lo posible para salvar vidas, hacer todo lo posible para acabar con las masacres. Y, después, hacer todo lo posible para poner fin a la ocupación ilegal y el apartheid." Ronda cosmética en la UE para salvaguardar la imagen ante el genocidio en Gaza. Lean a Olga Rodríguez. eldiario.es/internacional/rond…
La UE despierta de una larga siesta y escenifica asombro ante el genocidio, pero no pasa de los gestos: no aplica sanciones a Israel, mantiene negocios y relaciones y no cumple el dictamen de la Corte de La Haya
On a webpage, when I pressed the Down arrow once, NVDA just said: out of list out of list out of article out of article article heading level 1 Using the guide sound accessibility feature. But JAWS just said: heading level 1 Using the guide sound accessibility feature. So saddening that NVDA's irritating verbosity can't be controlled on webpages. Yet another forgotten NVDA issue. github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu… @NVAccess
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At present, an enormous amount of verbosity is spoken by default in Browse Mode. This may be desirable for certain uses but it is ofte...
@NikJov Does screen layout make a difference in either screen reader here? What does JAWS show directly above the heading? Because it will probably still say end of list, unsure about article.
@x0 @NikJov I think the biggest problem with that discussion (github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…) is that there are too many asks in one place. I just summarised and made a couple of suggestions if people want to create SPECIFIC issues for ONE thing. Amir's original comment at the start of this thread made me think he wanted not just "heading level 1" to read as "h1" but to simplify when you go into and out of a bunch of things at once. I think there's a different issue for that as well somewhere.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At present, an enormous amount of verbosity is spoken by default in Browse Mode. This may be desirable for certain uses but it is ofte...
Honestly I think this is something NVAccess should take a stab at. Without your direct involvement it will go nowhere. And you are right, I want this long nested list/ article announcement turned off when I go into and out of nested elements. @x0 @NikJov
@x0 @NikJov In that case, what you want is to turn off "lists" in NVDA's document formatting options - NVDA+control+d to open that screen). Then you'll get exactly what you are asking for here...
@x0 @NikJov Sorry, but this is like getting rid of the issue altogether. I do want to know when lists appear and disappear, but I don't want to hear those multiple nesting announcements - like the way JAWS handles it.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At present, an enormous amount of verbosity is spoken by default in Browse Mode. This may be desirable for certain uses but it is ofte...
@x0 @NikJov I commented on that issue this morning - there are at least three seperate issues there which really need to be broken up into individual issues to make it clear which is which. Really only one of those is clear enough to make a proper issue out of currently (and I would have except it is the one about emojis and symbols which could be moved from symbol level none to all - but it doesn't list them). The others need more working out.
@x0 Here's how Jaws announces this, directly copied from speech history: Down arrow. list end nesting level 1 Down arrow. list end Down arrow. Setting the time until the power turns off automatically article end Down arrow. Making various settings article end Down arrow. Using the guide sound accessibility feature article Down arrow. heading level 1 Using the guide sound accessibility feature
@NikJov @x0 Ok that is explained clearly, especially in the context of the link provided and how NVDA reads it. Do please create an issue for it. Although note that you likely will need to be clear on the benefits - as the original complaint in this thread is that NVDA is too verbose..... yet what Jaws speaks is nearly twice as long (39 compared to 22 words spoken), PLUS an extra five keystrokes.... If that works better for you that's great - but do be clear on that :)
Remember that JFW's verbosity can be easily skipped if you step out of all elements with a single key press if you skip the focused element or elements. So you don't have to listen to all of that. However, NVDA's verbosity is something which gets attached to the beginning of a speech sequence, and you can't silence it. You have to listen to lots of into and out of X stuff before hearing the contents of the newly focused element. @NikJov @x0
@NikJov @x0 When I'm in that list above the heading we've been looking at....if I press comma.... it DOES move to the heading and read just the heading name (and article once because it has just entered a new article)
Sorry - I no longer have NVDA installed for further testing 😞. But as far as I can remember, under most circumstances I couldn't suppress the verbosity. Even pressing Enter on internal links would generate the long-windedness before reading the newly focused heading or element. Just wish you and NVDA the best of luck as I'm done with the project. @NikJov @x0
@NikJov @x0 Ok thanks - it's ironic that the last thing you suggested would have done what you wanted all along :D
Do feel free to keep a copy of NVDA handy, it may work in situations where you get stuck with Jaws (or if you just want confirmation of whether something is a bug with one screen reader or a wider issue with Windows or a particular program. All the best.
Thanks- I'm sure I know enough about NVDA to understand that getting rid of the verbosity cannot be accomplished by a single key press, and to suggest that is just over-simplification. If JAWS fails which happens less frequently than NVDA, Narrator will be there to help. Cheers. @NikJov @x0
@x0 I don't really know in what world having to down arrow 5 times until you reach the beginning of the article is a better experience, but thank god NVDA doesn't do that, please never make that happen. I'd rather take this long, utterly verbose announcement. If I don't care about it, NVDA+Up arrow, done, you hear the current headline right away.
@NikJov To each their own. As much as you despise the JFW approach, I despise NVDA's overly verbose announcements. Issues like this, the new Start menu glitch, and a few other glitches are moving me away from NVDA - to my own surprise. I'm glad at least the choice exists. @NVAccess @x0
@x0 I do not know what is there to like about the Jaws approach, I honestly cannot even imagine how somebody browses the web this way, having to spam down arrow 5 times to get to something you may want to read, as opposed to pressing one shortcut to skip a potentially long announcement, which may even not be so long, depending on the page.
@NikJov Well, Ask many NVDA users that don't like the current approach. Pressing the Down arrow a few times quickly to move out of the elements is way faster than having to hear lots of element names upon landing on a new one. @NVAccess @x0
@x0 And pressing NVDA+Up arrow is even faster than pressing down arrow 5 times. I still haven't heard any reasons why this doesn't work for you. I don't need to ask many NVDA users, I am asking one right now. If we follow the Jaws logic, how is it faster? How am I supposed to kno if I need to press down arrow a few times, or 6 times? I am much more likely to just skip the start of the article instead, and then have to go back up.
@NikJov Because, for whatever reason, maybe other NVDA or JAWS users can convey my point to you more efficiently. It's not just the issue of pressing Up/ Down. NVDA maintains its verbosity even when Up and Down aren't used. For instance, in the same Zoom H5 Studio tutorial whose link I sent earlier, look for the 2nd instance of the following internal link: Using as an audio interface If you press Enter on the second instance of this internal link, NVDA says: out of article out of article out of article article heading level 1 Using as an audio interface. Whereas JAWS just says: line 1813. @NVAccess @x0
Quick navigation keys, also. I think the idea is that they want multiple nesting announcements to be suppressed somehow, or collapsed. Remember the clickable work? Maybe some elements should be given different precedents. I personally turned articles back off in reporting, and clickables are basically always off. Lists, though, are important. @NikJov @NVAccess
@x0 That's the thing though, articles are already off by default, so I don't understand any of it to be honest, you turned additional verbosity off, and then aren't happy with that additional verbosity. I don't deny that there is a valid issue here. It would be a lot better if NVDA took into account that you exited multiple same containers, so it would say, "Out of 3 articles", instead of, "Out of article" three times repeatedly.
@NikJov That'd be useful, yes. Out of three articles, two lists, and one table. Could that be done in 2026? That likely requires some localization updates to get the plural forms up to snuff.
@x0 @NikJov It is worth creating an issue for. What would also need to be taken into account would be that "out of article out of article, out of list, out of list" could be analysed and condensed to "out of 2 articles, out of 2 lists", but how would "Out of article, our of list, out of article, out of list" be treated? (And what if there were several elements between them in the utterance). Something to consider, but worth an issue, yes.
@jcsteh @NikJov Well if it does eventually get found I suppose there's always mark as dupe, then at least the link is maintained. Did Nikola already open either of these? I haven't done so because I probably wouldn't be checking in on it often and don't want my email to get blown up :)
@NikJov I think in the case of interleave, since they do all end at the same point, they should be sorted first and then condensed. So out of article, out of list, out of article, out of list, would still be condensed to that. Yes I know it's no longer a faithful representation of the HTML, but it's much nicer to handle. For speech anyway. How does Braille do it, actually? Does it use abbreviated markers?
@x0 @NikJov Worth pointing out that unlike the way some projects handle this, we don't close issues just because we won't get to them this year. And nearly half the contributions to NVDA come from the community, so even if WE deem an issue not high priority for US to tackle, doesn't mean it won't be done. Community contributors take on projects and issues which excite or interrest them :)
Sure, and the transparency is very much appreciated. However, what matters at the end of the day is the number of issues affecting a screen reader, or affecting a particular workflow. Honestly - and despite my own attraction towards open-source projects, JAWS is serving me more efficiently. Most of the NVDA issues I've reported to Github, or some of the ones others have reported, don't affect JAWS at all. Once NVAccess manages to employ a couple of full-time devs, I'll take another look at NVDA. @x0 @NikJov
@x0 I'm not sure then why your first post links to an issue requesting lower verbosity levels, with the very first comment saying, "I really don't want my time wasted by hearing heading level x every single time I move by heading from story to story. I want to immediately hear the text of the headline." Since you need both articles and lists, it sounds like this issue wouldn't do anythig to resolve your need.
@NikJov Guess you don't understand my point, or I don't grasp yours. LOL - I just don't want those multiple into and out of X stuff announcements even when activating an internal link. Any I've moved on and no longer use NVDA for most tasks. So glad you like the status quo. @x0 @NVAccess
@x0 I understand your point perfectly, I already said that this is a valid issue, I simply asked what the issue you linked to has to do with it, it's a completely different matter requesting much lower verbosity levels than what you seem to be requesting. Anyway, as long as paying 1000 dollars is easier than one shortcut to skip the announcement, I'm also glad you are enjoying your workflow.
@NikJov So this boils down to what, collapsing repeated nesting entrance and exit announcements into plural forms, sorted if necesasry, so instead of saying out of list out of list, it says out of two lists? Is there an issue for that? If not, I think that's the most actionable change.
@x0 Yes, I believe both of these are valid issues to create: 1. Collapse leaving containers announcements into shorter messages, such as "out of 2 lists, out of 3 articles, etc...". 2. When activating same page links, announce where the cursor moved to first, and then any other information, such as out of container messages.
@NikJov OK good! Would be helpful to see if those issues exist already, if not sounds useful to create. Actually, there's a potential thing. Is that what that one setting report formatting changes after the cursor does? It reports font and whatnot *after* the current line, instead of before? Why does it cause a lag? Would it be the same here? Worth investigating with someone who knows about that setting. Also this new setting should perhaps respond differently to arrowing vs other, larger forms of navigation. Maybe a combo box that's like, report container exits: always first. After content when navigating. Always after content.
@NikJov I don't think what I raised is different from what the linked issue, and the vote on the page, talks about. At any event, I don't pay for JAWS. My company does, and, BTW, that money or a large portion of it could have been contributed to NVAccess instead. But I'd rather have the company pay for something which works and offers more flexibility out of the box. NVDA's collective issues, with no apparent fixes in the horizon, make my work flow more time-consuming. @x0 @NVAccess
Good question! I rarely see JAWS issues raised here. However, when it comes to fixing issues, FreedomScientific is way faster. Yes - they may have more full-time employed devs or whatever, and JAWS has got its own issues. But the majority of my reported NVDA bugs, or the bugs others have reported which affect my workflow, cannot be found in JAWS at all. @NikJov @x0
@NikJov @x0 Apple has their own void for people to scream into.
Their Safari people are mostly interested in adding more new features than fixing existing, long-standing VoiceOver bugs. Not sure I’ve ever found anyone whose role is solely VoiceOver, or if they even exist.
@x0 @NikJov The plural forms are actually impossible for this case. There are just too many variations. We would have to accept incorrect grammar here for all languages, which I think is reasonable anyway; e.g. out of 3 articles 2 lists 1 table, where each of those tokens ("out of {}", "{} articles", "{} lists", "{} table") would be separate strings.
@jcsteh @NikJov Oh, gettext doesn't support more complex plural forms in a variable case like that? Or does NVDA's translation system just not have the architecture to leverage it?
@x0 @NikJov I don't see how any translation framework could handle plural forms like that. You'd effectively need an infinite number of variations. This can get pretty wild; e.g. "out of edit 5 lists 1 table 4 articles 1 landmark 3 block quotes 2 groups"
@x0 @NikJov I mean, it's theoretically possible if you have a system that understands the grammar of each language and can construct strings dynamically, but that's way beyond a translation framework. You're getting into language models there.
@jcsteh Yeah it's a much more dynamic thing that gettext at least probably just wasn't built for. Cause you need to distinguish different forms of the same word if you're going to tokenize like that, which is why fluent did the ID thing. And obviously NVDA can't just up and move to fluent, that would put all existing translation work in the bin and be a ridiculous refactor and break compatibility with eeeeeverything.
@jcsteh @NikJov I thought fluent at least tried to do so? Though I forget how. SOme more abstract variation system. No language has infinite plural forms, and yes, article, articles, list, lists etc would all be separate tokens, and the numbers fed to them would help with langs that have different forms for different numbers, but surely they all eventually converge to some catchall.
@x0 @NikJov Oh sure, if they're separate tokens, the plural forms are entirely doable. My point is that separate tokens also means the grammar will be wrong for some language or another, plural forms aside. For example, maybe some language has different rules about whether you use a conjunction or not when you string phrases together, depending on how many phrases. Or maybe "out of" has to be differently depending on whether there are two phrases after it or just one.
@jcsteh @NikJov Oh. Yeah that'd be screwy. I'd just use commas but then, oxfard comma? And that final and? Commas alone might have to be enough. How would that stack up? Makes sense.
@x0 Heh, I didn't mean to dig deep on this. My point is that it wouldn't be entirely grammatical on matter what you do, and I actually think that's fine. Screen reader output isn't inherently grammatical, despite what people try to suggest. And I think it would be far less efficient if it were fully grammatical. Imagine: "This is a button labelled OK which is currently pressed." Yuck.
@x0 @jcsteh @NikJov The other consideration may also be that the current implementation reads the elements as it gets to them. The more analysis and processing that gets done, the more potential for sluggishness in responses (and remember arrowing through regular text would still need to check if it was entering or leaving anything and if anything needed to be processed).
@x0 @NikJov Kinda, but even now, the entire stack is processed and the string is assembled in one hit before it is sent ot the synthesiser, so I doubt that would be a perceivable performance hit. It would, however, involve a pretty significant rewrite of that code with additional parsing and heuristic logic, which is the bigger problem here.
@jcsteh @NikJov Hmmm. Refactor the string assembly into spitting out a list of things being exited instead? Say of tuples. Type, count. Then you run a function over that list, sort the tuples, merge them by adding the counts, and then you go from there. Probably easier than having it run that heuristic at the tag level.
@x0 @NikJov Yes, that's pretty much what you'd have to do. But as always, the devil is in the details; how you hook it into the existing architecture, etc. I think we'd need some new layer of parsing here.
@jcsteh @x0 What about just moving those out of container messages to always be spoken after the element where the browse mode cursor just landed, and not before? I think that would already make the issue a lot better, you could just ignore the announcement and move on if you aren't interested.
@jcsteh @NikJov How would that be reported now? Never heard of an article or a list ending int he middle of a line. Headings and links though, totally. But I think those actually ahve special casing as to when exactly their exit gets reported, or some artifact of the cursor does it.
@x0 @NikJov data:text/html,<style>ul, li { display: inline; }</style><ul><li>web</li><li>authors</li></ul> are ridiculous list of 2 items web authors out of list are ridiculous
@jcsteh @x0 Yeah, I imagined such a possible confusing example while writing this reply already. I would say speak the out of container message with a slight pause to make it even more obvious that it is not part of the text being read, but we're probably starting to get into something that would anoy people who actually want to know when they leave a container.
@jcsteh @NikJov So the question then becomes, would the amount of work be worth the reward for someone in core to do it? It's a UX change that would at least help with some of the spam generated by unwieldy HTML, which whether we like it or not happens all the time. Now when entering at the same time, this gets even more weird. Say emails. Out of table out of table table with one row and 3 columns table with two rows and 1 column etc. You can't really apply the same logic to the entrance when info has to be communicated about the container...
@jcsteh @NikJov That might be more of an issue for quick navigation and that multimode setting I was talking about yeah. And gets slightly funky depending on exactly what bits in the architecture get involved to assemble such a message. If it generated something like closing events or tokens or whatever, you'd have to collect them all, sort them in some fashion, and then output that. IDK how that would be anymore sluggish than the current system, if a set is so nested it lags it would lag regardless because it's still jsut one string, no?
@NikJov When you down arrow to that heading, you leave a list inside a list, and both of those things are announced (and presumably article levels - but that isn't set by default so you have chosen to have that reported). That seems quite reasonable? What would you suggest it say in that case?
@NikJov You are right. I've selected to hear those HTML elements, but since, unlike JAWS, NVDA doesn't display the beginning or end of these elements on separate lines, oftentimes we have to hear verbose stuff about entering or exitting nested lists, tables inside articles, etc. So the issue isn't with the announcement of those elements. Rather, the issue is with the way leaving, and entering, nested elements is handled by NVDA.
How can #OpenSource and #security be interconnected? What will be the future of funding the open source-dependent public digital infrastructure?
These and many other questions will guide the discussion of our panelists: 🔸@bagder from #cURL 🔸@melanierieback from @ros 🔸Matteo Mole from @EuropeanCyber SecurityOrganisation 🔸Nicholas Gates from @OpenForumEurope 🔸Mirko Boehm from #TheLinuxFoundation
That actually would be a great suggestion for Mozilla Connect (connect.mozilla.org) since that also houses suggestions for Firefox, if it's not there already!
Telegram established a partnership with Elon Musk's xAI to provide the Grok generative artificial intelligence program on the messaging service for one year, Telegram's CEO announced Wednesday.
Unfortunately, there is no accessible alternatives, except for WhatsApp who is meta and whose accessibility is questionable sometimes also because no public API and no third-party clients.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
I honestly think you'll make it and it's a reflection of all the hard work that's gone into the repository. You probably don't have time to take a step back and take stock, but look how far you've come. It's now a behemoth that helps untold people daily. Thank you!
@sabreW4K3 "time to" hits it, with 4+ hours each day going into it. Would I get paid for the work that went into it, I could take a year off and have a "world tour" I guess. It's 12 years now, feel free to draw the "bill" 🙈
Thanks for the warm words, motivation like this keeps us going 🤗
This tactile graphics device, the Cadence from Tactile Engineering, looks promising. tactile-engineering.com/cadenc… No published pricing or direct retail sales at this time; apparently they're only selling to institutions right now.
What makes this more interesting than, say, the Monarch or Graphiti Plus is that the base device is the size of a smartphone but thicker, and you can combine multiple devices for a larger tactile display.
Yeah, the guy that works on them showed us them, and it's definitely great cell technology, but the whole building one's own Keysoft gets old. I do like the form factor, a lot more than the huge 17-inch laptop size of the Monarch. Whenever they works well with screen readers is when I'll pay attention to these devices more. The Cadence cannot do anything on its own.
@pixelate I was just chatting with @alexm, their head of software. They have an NVDA add-on now, which they just posted on GitHub (with a nudge from me), since it was already GPL'd. github.com/tactile-eng/cadendu…
Yeah I was wrong about the Cadence, I saw the newest one today and they're definitely still working on things. The unit we have is years old. They say it even works with the iPhone now completely!
I used the Cadence in a demonstration at a conference in 2019. When up to four devices are connected to a host system via Bluetooth, the software can treat them as though they comprise a single display. The cell refresh rate is fast enough to sustain basic animations (for example, an object that moves around the display - i.e., the composite of four devices - in real time).
The software has presumably improved a lot since 2019, and I don't know the current state of development. The Monarch would suit my personal needs better, but I'm glad the Cadence is on the market - even if just for institutions currently.
Treffen sich ein Theologe und ein Atheist und sprechen über Kirchen ohne Gott. Was wie der Anfang eines schlechten Witzes klingt, war Thema auf der Digitalmesse „Republica“ – inklusive eines Seitenhiebes gegen Freikirchen.
Als Werbung habe ich diesen Vortrag nicht empfunden oder verstanden, eher als Beschreibung der Entwicklung. Die beiden sehen dies insofern positiv, als dass sich die Mehrheitsgesellschaften auflösen und die Mehrheit Teil einer Minderheit würde. Ob das dann tatsächlich gesellschaftlichen Frieden fördert? Ich weiß es nicht. Auf jeden Fall könnten Kirchen auch daraus lernen...
„Menschen, die an der Schöpfung eines Produkts oder an der Mitgestaltung einer Gruppe beteiligt sind, entwickeln ein höheres Zugehörigkeitsgefühl.“ Diesen Satz finde ich wichtig zu hören. Es ist eine wichtige Erkenntnis für den Gemeindebau (auch für die Kirche im Namen Gottes).
like mana from heaven, I found a free NVME on the ground in the park today. 2TB WD pro inside. No identifiable ownership information available. It's actually a "blade" NVME used in a Panasonic Lumix camera.
The Browser Company of New York says that no new features are being added to the Arc browser, as it essentially transitions to its next AI browser, Dia.
Pokud právě sedáte na kolo a napadlo vás, jestli je voda v bidonu z minulé jízdy v pohodě, máme pro vás odpověď, která asi nepotěší. Není v pohodě. Pokud se s lahví vrátíte do garáže, abyste si dovnitř dotočili novou, nepotěšíme vás podruhé.
@Unreed Já je myčky nedávám, po každé jízdě je pořádně vypláchnu ručně a pravidelně kupuji nové bidony. Osobně myslím, že ani drahé bidony nemá cenu kupovat. @jfstod
@Unreed @archos strčit láhev do myčky a čekat, že je umytá, není jen tak. Ten dudlík se hodně špatně čistí a myčka z něj nedostane všechno. Problém je i s těsněním, protože špatně vyschne ta tenká mezera kolem a dělá se tam plíseň. Navíc tablety do myčky z plastů uvolňují další chemii nebo narušují povrch lahve, takže záleží na typu plastu. Ty "zdravější" plasty ale nesmí do myčky. Moje kovová tam taky nesmí. Škoda že článek je jen o tom, že kdo nemyje láhev, tak jí má špinavou 😀
KEEGO je inovativní láhev z elastického titanu – vnější strana z odolného a lehkého plastu pro snadné mačkání, uvnitř potažená titanem, takže voda zůstává bez mikroplastů, bezpečná proti plísním a absolutně bez chuti a zápachu.
@scobra1cz @tatageek @Unreed Tak to vidím poprvé, to možná nemusí být špatný. Vozím dvě lahve, to je 3000, to je taky dost a pak to vydrží o něco delší dobu, než obyčejný bidon. 🤔
@archos @scobra1cz @Unreed ale titan je jen tělo lahve, ne? Dudlík je stejně plast. Rychle jsem projel ten e-shopu a nenašel jsem náhradní dudlíky. Což výrazně ruší výhody zbytku lahve. Titanu se nic nestane, ale ten zbytek?
Forty-three years ago today, on May 27, 1982, television audiences bid farewell to one of the most unique and beloved sitcoms of its era as the final episode of Mork & Mindy aired on ABC.
@kernsac I didn't care for most of the other characters but Robin Williams was a comedic genius who made that show successful. Pam Dawber was also quite good.
Yep, I loved that show, too. Robin Williams was great! A while back I bought the DVD set of the shows and I still need to watch them. I remember really liking the cute little theme song for the show and I made up a little arrangement on the piano.
Re: last boost (of this blog post: lmnt.me/blog/the-dystopian-dre…), I'm not quite convinced that LLMs are all bad as they're made out to be in this post. But I think the author is completely right about Altman, Ive, and the like desperately trying to invent a new kind of device, to repeat what Apple did with the iPhone, when we don't need or want that kind of innovation now.
I've ported UnifiedPush to Firefox, so it can receive background notifications using the service you want, specially useful for PWA (installable web application)
ntfy provides a PWA
So I can receive ntfy notifications with their PWA through any push service, for instance using Sunup :D
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First panel: Seagull is looking to the left [Reads The News]
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Third panel: Everything is on fire [Absorbs The News]
Last panel: Seagull is screaming, "WHAT THE FU–"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/672207 "Four panel comic by supportiveseagull.
First panel: Seagull is looking to the left [Reads The News]
Second panel: Seagull is looking at the viewer [Blank Stare]
Third panel: Everything is on fire [Absorbs The News]
Last panel: Seagull is screaming, \"WHAT THE FU–\"")
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Trump would have shut down the woke fly factory without understanding its purpose. DOGE would have said the money was being wasted and RFK would have claimed that radioactive flies are making autism
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