Three more characteristics for Expert Generalists. Unmesh, Gitanjali and I describe favoring fundamental knowledge, skills blend, and sympathy for related domains
Prudence Screen Reader has just received a major update on Google Play, bringing the app to version 3.0.0. This version introduces a range of powerful new
In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app f…
The #IRGC have been active and they are active in Western Europe, including in the #Netherlands. They often work by proxies: organised crimes, drug cartels, warns former Dutch Foreign Minister #rosenthal_uri.
The EU will gradually and effectively stop the import of Russian gas and oil by the end of 2027, under a legislative proposal put forward by the European Commission today.
ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11ysmashingmagazine.com/2025/06/w…
[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.
@drew Tell ya what. If people stopped following these prominent right-wing politicians, nothing would ever come out of their plan. But as it is, folks want to hear what they have to say... Well, that's why they are being heard...
I put this behind a content warning because most of the people here don't listen to Indian music, but I had to share this one with those who do. youtu.be/B-zu9jClKYA?si=QkdUjs…
LOL, okay, I used to sing Indian music, and mostly the one from movies, but never heard rap. Laughs and laughs. It's just, so funny to me, sorry. Kinda cool though. 👍️
Ah, I see. I am not a hip-hop fan, in general. I haven't listened to Indian songs for years. It's... A bit of a trigger to certain things for me, the accent and everything. I can talk to my colleagues though, we have a few Indian colleagues, so yeah that somehow works, but... The songs? I'd have to really try to listen and stuff. Haven't done it for years, like I said. But yeah, that was, funny. :D
I guess, consideration, for people? But also why not use CWs as titles if you want to, as long as it does not harm others. Also clients can completely ignore CWS if you want them to.
@tardis I wasn't trying to be combative? I was generally curious as to what could be perceived as requiring a content warning with music from another culture. Is the same consideration given to music shared in English? In spanish? so yeah please save that energy for things that are? :)
Oh, my intention wasn't to be rude, I just guessed. Usually people would share info about a link they post, how they do it is entirely their own choice. Also, I did put question marks because I myself was not sure, so the intention was, me wondering, and not me trying to be rude. 😳 I also put CWS when I share songs sometimes, or say song lyrics, if people don't want to read a super long post. Don't know, been on fedi for 3 years, so I know how I do things, but it is the beauty of it that we have choice, and here is where we see difference. And yeah, totally save the energy for good stuff, and good thoughts. I send good thoughts, to everyone, and be safe. :)
@tardis Well, I turnd my cW's off from the get go so often times I don't even see them if they are present. I'll only notice if I look through my notifications tab. haha
Ah, I see. Interesting why it would not ignore the CWS in notifications. I suppose it depends on the app/client and how it handles things. I have CWS on, some people post some really weird, spammy stuff sometimes, so if they put a CW, and if they are nice about it, could totally avoid my screen reader crashing.
Today, we’re releasing version 7.65 to beta. If you’re interested in participating, join the beta group. Release notes: Message status indicators (sent, delivered, etc.
* Message status indicators (sent, delivered, etc.) are now supported by the iOS VoiceOver feature in order to improve accessibility for blind and low-vision individuals.
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Tech support scammers inject malicious phone numbers into big-name websites
Microsoft, Apple, Bank of America, and many more sites all targeted.
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Add a bitset dirty to the multi handle. The presence of a transfer in the "dirty" set means: this transfer has something to do ASAP.
"dirty" is set by multiplexing protocols lik...
Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.
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#NVDA Speech History version 2025.1 has been released, to be compatible with NVDA 2025.1. Additionally:
* There is now a setting to control what happens after copying a speech history item: nothing, beep, speak, or both. * The post-copy beep frequency and duration are now configurable. * In NVDA 2025.1 and higher, speech history items can be viewed and copied in a browse mode window. The default keystroke for this function is NVDA+H.
The ugly foam insulation we nailed to the ceiling in a house my friend was renting back in 2006 to keep the room cooler is still there as of the last time it went up for rent last year.
Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?
We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.
I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.
We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.
Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.
A majority of the movie was filmed in Sydney, Australia, with much of the areas being locations that were supposed to give a "generic unidentifiable city" at...
"… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools, in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."
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Updated my #NVDA sounds bat file a little. Checks for three different paths and tries to copy your waves2 folder to waves in an easy step. You should be able to put the bat file into your path and run it from an admin command prompt in one fell swoop after each NVDA update to regain your chosen sounds. dropbox.com/scl/fi/q6opzygfdzs…
@twynn Have either of you thought of creating a page somewhere with those file (& your batch file) and simple instructions? if they were in a central place with clear instructions I'd be happy to share them a bit - but don't want to cause all of us a lot of extra work explaining the same things to a lot of different people :)
@NVAccess @wenwizzle @twynn That's not a bad idea at all. Just never thought of it because I guess I just do it for myself each time. I guess how most things like this start.
You may wish to rewrite bits of it using environment variables so that it would work for other locales other than English as well, e.g., using %ProgramFiles(x86)% and %ProgramFiles% instead of absolute paths. I don't have the bandwidth for this but I can see if I can modify your batch file though I am not any sort of expert, mind. @NVAccess @wenwizzle
That kind of job is probably pretty well suited to an LLM, actually. Tedious, fiddly, but narrow in scope and sufficiently small in overall context. @twynn @NVAccess @wenwizzle
Everyone returns to email in the end. We are there already. #whatsapp wants you to add your email to secure your account ... despite all the nay sayers and numerous well funded attempts and claims to kill #email not even WA can do it. #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are about deep collab between people, projects and operators to evolve email from within. It is not just about SMTP and IMAP and MIME and OpenPGP which are all exchangeable and can be improved ... Which we set out to do. Cheers.
Forbes Accessibility 100: These are the most impactful pioneers ensuring and expanding the civil rights of people with disabilities all across the globe. forbes.com/sites/alanschwarz/2… #a11y
At #OSPOsForGood today during #UNOpenSourceWeek, Adriana Groh made several insightful comments during the panel “The Role of Open Source in Digital Public Infrastructure”:
"At the #SovereignTechAgency, we focus on the software that developers need to develop software. We call that 'infrastructure,' which is a different understanding to what many hear when we talk about #DPI. Both things are extremely important and exist at the same time. We need to understand how they are connected..."
"and that we need to address and sustain them in different ways, if we want to get somewhere with open digital infrastructure that serves the public’s interest.
The Sovereign Tech Agency is a quasi-public government organization investing via public procurement in maintaining digital infrastructure in a way that it serves openness and participation, and makes it possible for different participants to build software, maintain software, and innovate, which we believe is crucial..." 2/ #UNOSW
"for better outcomes, more engagement, healthy competition and innovation, bringing us the results that we need to achieve the SDGs, new business models, whatever it is we desire.
What we are trying to do is provide a blueprint. We believe we’re doing something in a specific way that is new, trying to carve out a new role for governments. What does a government need to deliver in the 21st century? We had the example with airports: a few tasks, we decided to take care of…"
“collectively, because that makes them better. We invest in infrastructure when it’s roads and bridges. We need to find out how to do this in the digital world. The blueprint we’re trying to create is like new government muscle: how can we take care of this in a way that is sustainable, secure, supports our values, & then share it? It doesn’t help if just one of us doing it, we need to do that collectively. This is why it’s great that we’re talking about this at the UN…”
“It’s a global task: it doesn’t stop at borders; it’s not a geographical topic; it connects all of us; it’s one shared ecosystem. Understanding this nature, also the production logics of open source software is important for governments and all actors, if you want to do good in this ecosystem.” 5/ #UNOpenSourceWeek
“The reality is also that money doesn’t solve all problems, unfortunately. It can create wrong incentives, it can increase stress and pressure, it can rip communities apart, it can do good in the short term but harm in the long term. We need to take all of these factors into account, if we want to channel support into our shared digital infrastructure, into #OpenSource communities.”
This information is for those who are Catholic and who are attending this year’s ACB convention in person. While reviewing the program, I didn't see any references to a Mass. In light of this, the nearest Catholic church to the hotel is likely Cathedral Guadalupe | Downtown Dallas Catholic Church 2215 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201 cathedralguadalupe.org/ It's approximately 1.8 miles from the hotel, about a ten-minute ride. Here's their Mass and confession schedule.
Weekday • Mass - Monday through Friday at 12 noon in English and 7 p.m. in Spanish • Confessions - Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 6:55 p.m.
Sunday Mass Schedule • Sunday Mass at 8 a.m. in English • Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. in Spanish • Sunday Mass at 12 noon in English • Sunday Mass at 2 p.m. in Spanish • Sunday Mass at 5 p.m. in Spanish • Sunday Mass at 7 p.m. in Spanish Taken from this page cathedralguadalupe.org/about/m… #ACB25
Learning Blind Tech Episode 26 Book Reading with Braillesense 6
In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app from the google playstore.
In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app f…
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