People regularly ask me about the benefits of being a coder. One of them is the ability to speed through live tennis scores from the #keyboard using a #screenreader.
On this day, June 29, 1964, NBC made a historic decision that would forever change the landscape of television and science fiction: the network greenlit Gene Roddenberry’s script for the pilot episode of Star Trek, titled The Cage.
I have lived to tell the tale of my first Waymo ride in LA, as I was there for a work event, and so was Waymo. With a discount code in hand, I took it for a solo spin. What a surreal and empowering experience! The app is accessible with a screen reader, and you can turn on audio descriptions under Accessibility preferences, so the car will announce the streets it turns onto along the journey. Here's some audio from a video I took with the Meta glasses.
@munchkinbear Silly Meta glasses and their 3-minute video length limit. I have another video, (audio, for all intents and purposes on this platform), that shows a bit more of Waymo's announcements, like yielding to pedestrians. It also liked to tell me that it was waiting for an intersection to clear. In this case, the more verbiage, the better! Will have to get that audio and put it up here.
AND In-Process is also out: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3… - covering all about NVDA 2025.1, NV Access in the Forbes Accessibility 100, five quick things to try with NVDA 2025.1, and a small end of financial year request: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
Hey, the equivalent to the F11 shortcut of the remote add-on (switch between remote and local PC) is NVDA+Alt+Tab, not NVDA+Alt+R which is the toggle connection shortcut.
Someone on the Blind Vintage Tech list posted a zip file containing two folders of digitized recordings of two computer magazines from the 1990s: Computer Folks and Bitstream. Both of these magazines were originally distributed on cassette tapes. Computer Folks was recorded by Rich and Donna Ring. Rich, I believe, is deceased but Donna is still with us. The archive starts out with the September 1991 issue. The next issue, which I haven’t heard all of yet, has an interview with Deane Blazie. Bitstream was recorded by Peter Ciali. I don’t have information on whether he is still with us or not. These magazines are fascinating as they really give you an idea of where we were at that time with blindness technology and how it evolved and grew. The link to this zip file is dropbox.com/scl/fi/l76fmy1bu39… That link may not be around for much longer so if you want this archive, I recommend downloading it sooner than later.
If anyone would like to subscribe to the Blind Vintage Tech list, send email to Bvtc+subscribe@groups.io This list, as its name implies, is for the discussion of older blindness tech; Sharp calculators, DOS and early Windows screen readers, Braille ‘n Speak; you get the idea.
I had no idea this list existed. I may end up signing up with my GMail account, which I delegate to using google services and signing up to email lists. As it happens, I'm a massive fan of all things vintage tech.
@technocounselor @DeanEquity I never interacted with Peter but he seemed like a kind man. Later editions of his Bitstream magazine had a great theme song recorded by our friend @Snowman. Peter also recorded a tutorial covering Windows 95 but I never purchased that one and never heard it. It's wonderful that people are taking the time to digitize these copies. They're not only interesting to listen to but they document the history of blindness technology, which is very important. I'd love to have similar archives of Battery High and Sound Computing which were recorded by @DeanEquity.
Aah, PWWebspeak. I quite enjoyed using that when I did so in the 90's. My school had it on a computer in the library. Didn't work with everything but it worked with enough things to be useful, and I really did enjoy Softvoice.
Hi! 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!
Tech giants aren't renowned for their honesty and openness. When it comes to making claims and pointing to benchmarks, it's not just Nvidia that plays fast and...
"As #space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any #insurance at all. To compensate, companies are cutting back on the cost of satellites and launching more of them at faster rates, thus creating a feedback loop as the cheaper satellites break up more easily and add to the problem. Behind the predicament are two vectors moving in opposite directions: The cost of launching satellites is falling, while the cost of insuring them continues to soar.”
Eggs were somehow considered too expensive so Americans voted to totally destroy our disaster emergency response services, our National Parks, Medicaid, energy development, and cancer research services.
It’s completely and utterly insane.
“When is cancer political?" Medical researchers, patients decry Trump admin's layoffs, budget cuts - CBS News: cbsnews.com/news/when-is-cance…
Scientists conducting medical research are facing an existential crisis: Layoffs and budget cuts pushed by President Trump that, they say, jeopardize finding a cure for cancer.
#Nautilus #AMC #AMCplus #Disney. The troubled series Nautilus has finally made it's way onto TV here. It will be broadcast tonight June 29 at 9pm Eastern on AMC and stream on AMC+. It's 10 episodes and has been cancelled. Disney+ produced it and passed after filming.
Inspired by Jules Verne’s beloved Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Nautilus follows Nemo’s mission to enact revenge on the East India Mercantile Compan...
#Nautilus #AMC #AMCplus #Disney The reviews for Nautilus aren't that bad. It's a reimagining of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and apparently a much darker Indiana Jones. I might give it a try and just know that it's not coming back.
Nautilus premieres Sunday, June 29 on AMC and AMC+.#AMCPlus #Nautilus » Subscribe for More: https://bit.ly/3tz1yp9AMC+ ON SOCIAL:Instagram: https://www.insta...
I think somebody made a typo... from this post: "Windows 11 25H2 will begin rolling out to everyone in October or around that period, based on information we have, and it will reset the support lifecycle clock. Enterprises will get 36 months of support, and Pro/Home (consumer editions) will be supported for 24 hours." Now I'm just picturing this, my computer only getting support for 24 hours and then it's done. windowslatest.com/2025/06/29/m…
Microsoft has confirmed that the next release of Windows is called Windows 11 25H2, and it’s going to be a minor update deployed via an enablement package.
Ever wish Hebrew words would just stick? That’s exactly what happened to my student David—he surprised everyone at Shabbat dinner by effortlessly asking for the bread, salad, and rice…in Hebrew! 🥖🥗🍚
In this first video of my new Hebrew Food Series, I’ll show you how to make Hebrew vocabulary feel natural—starting with what’s in your kitchen.
#learnhebrew #food #israel #hebrewbyinbalExpand your culinary vocabulary with this first video in my Hebrew food series! Learn essential Hebrew words for com...
You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.
An important but inconvenient fact to remember about NYPD "work stoppages" and "quiet quitting."
When NYPD intentionally makes fewer arrests and does less police work in protest, violent crime goes *down* 🙂🙃
Read that again. Violent crime goes *down* when cops quit.
And we've known why since 1970
Once you understand a few things about US policing, this outcome becomes incredibly obvious and unavoidable.
First, understand that "Law and Order, SVU," is not how policing works, and not what police do.
What most police do, most of the time, is arrest and fine innocent Black people.
This makes it unsafe for Black people to call the cops in any circumstances. A Black person that has recently had a violent and racist encounter with the cops, will not call the cops to save you if they see you being assaulted.
So the more "policing" happens, the greater this depressive effect.
The irony:
As you ramp up "policing," it becomes impossible to catch and arrest any real, violent criminals... because you betrayed and violated all of the civilians in the communities that you were supposed to partner with.🤦🏿♂️
You created the pre-condition for ineffective and futile police work.
As an NYC resident, you pay $12B a year for a police force that is not good at what you want them to be good at: solving and preventing murder, theft, and sexual assault.
For example, the most stolen items in NYC are smartphones and bikes. NYPD doesn't even recognize the most recommended bike lock🤡
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NYPD budget is $12 billion a year. Billion. The most stolen 2 items in NYC, are 1) cell phone and 2) bike.
NYPD is useless at preventing the theft, or recovering stolen bikes.
Let me bring it home for y'all using a topical example: ICE.
ICE has always been bad, but recently it's ramped up. It doesn't matter if an *individual* ICE agent is a good person or a bad person. The *system* of ICE now requires them to hit a deportation quota, so they are all targeting civilians.
There are dangerous undocumented immigrants. Very dangerous. Consider the 100 most dangerous undocumented immigrants in a population of 12 million undocumented people. People like "Big Dragon."
But you cannot find them.
Suppose the ICE Dangerous Fugitive Apprehension Team is looking for Big Dragon
Suppose the hypothetical Big Dragon threatened to shoot an undocumented taco cart vendor on Wilshire Blvd in LA, in front of over 100 people, 80 of whom were undocumented.
Then the ICE team shows up, looking for people to "come down to DHS and make a statement."
No one is talking. No one is going🙅🏽♀️
This is beyond "Stop snitching," and a cultural revulsion to cooperating with police.
This is beyond "Snitches get stitches," and fear of reprisal from the hypothetical Big Dragon or his associates.
This is a rational understanding that giving a statement holds a real risk of detention to CECOT.
Would the other taco vendors have been more likely to call Immigra on the hypothetical Big Dragon:
* In the 1990s, before the creation of ICE?
* In the 2000s, after ICE was created, but before this round of mass deportations?
* Now, in the full fascism and mass deportation era?
If ICE does an NYPD style "work stoppage" and doesn't deport a single person for a period of 6 months...
Do you think that would increase or decrease the likelihood that an undocumented person would be willing to help ICE find and arrest the hypothetical Big Dragon?
Consider a kind, undocumented taco stand vendor in LA. In 20 years he has never even thought of carrying a gun before. He had always assumed that if he ran into trouble, he would just call 911.
Now he realises that he can't call 911. ICE.
And he just saw hypothetical Big Dragon threaten a man...
After advancing their Medicaid-slashing, billionaire-enriching megabill late last night, Senate Republicans are aiming for a final vote within the next 24 hours.
Republicans in Congress are trying to ram through the Trump Tax Scam, a bill that makes extreme cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.
@drew What's interesting is that senators feel so emboldened that they would vote on this bill even if it may cost them their careers. But then again, a large portion of the American populace did not believe that Trump will do what he is doing now. Perhaps that also helps the senate to be so confidentthat people will forget, not understand or simply whatever... Ah yes, there is a child credit built-in. So populist! Every populist govt seems to be doing that!!!
Yeah, podcasts are great when you’re doing chores, grocery shopping, etc. But also on a rainy Sunday afternoon sitting on the patio doing nothing else.
Here is a uMap showing the murals from the 17 Walls project – plus many other mural locations in the city (that are mapped in OpenStreetMap). A great way to explore Denmark’s second-largest city through public art.
Map of the 17 murals in Aarhus from the **17 Walls** project. Each mural is an interpretation of one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
[[https://www.17walls.
Both DoorDash and UberEats are now including AI generated menu item descriptions. Probably something to be aware of if you have food allergies. 😐 #AI #UberEats #DoorDash #fuckAI
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@modulux okay, I gotta be honest, this is kinda cool. I feel like an ambassador of the world of vision. Now that you're first hearing of this, let me put in the effort to really describe how it looks like, as it's not entirely a rainbow:
While rainbows have all colors gradually merging from one to the other, oil spills can have hard cuts of colors and don't have those colors in perfect lines next to each other. They look like messy rainbows with a darkened tone. All the colors beautifully next to each other, weirdly ordered, but not mixed. Some dots of this here, a larger chunk flowing into the other. A minor spill of dark red flowing through a sea of white/green, red/purple, orange/yellow, and then light blue/dark blue (on this specific image, as an example).
All the colors look more robust, metallic, but there's still a lot of beauty in that. Less shiny, more matte. More chaos, and a dark tint. Like a rainbow put in a moonshine filter.
I really hope the concept of an oil spill and how they look is now a lot more clear to you!
This specific image was hard to write an alt text for, as the pun needed the explanation of an oil spill looking like a rainbow. Writing it down, saying “the background looks like an oil spill” and then I thought “how the hell would blind people know oil spills have all the colors???”
Oil doesn't smell nice. I guess oil coloring is a thing?? But how often do people state this “obvious” fact. Maybe some books mention the shimmering of oil spills on the street left by cars, but I assume this is rarely described in its beauty.
I also have no idea why oil spills have all of those colors. That's what it says online:
Oil spills look like rainbows due to a phenomenon called thin-film interference. When a thin layer of oil spreads on top of water, light reflects off both the top and bottom surfaces of the oil layer. These reflected light waves interact with each other, and because the oil layer is extremely thin (often just a few micrometers thick), some wavelengths of light reinforce each other (constructive interference) while others cancel each other out (destructive interference). This selective interference results in the different colors we see, creating the rainbow effect.
No clue what that means. I am glad I could help ya. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks a lot for the effort. I definitely didn't know all that. Yes, it's definitely clearer now; and no, I'd never read a description of it like that. Shimmering or such, yes; but not the full effect.
Well, managed to earn a little over $4 lat night filling out surveys, although I did run across a survey with too many images, and wrote support about this, and they were kind enough to compensate me for what I would have got for the survey. But yes, if you want something to do that will make you some extra money, and you like expressing opinions about consumer products, click here and join. paidviewpoint.com/landing/?r=a…
@menelion Well, one thing I like is that support is aware of us screen reader users, and they even told me that if I encounter one that I just can't fill out, let them know about it along with the dividen this survey was to give, and they'll compensate.
@menelion@dragonscave.space That's really good to know because I've had a few now where I've just kind of had to guess on the answers to the picture ones.
@menelion @technolass EYah, I had some difficulty with entering the birthdate too, but it's a matter of activating pop-up menu where each month, year and date have their own little button that you have to select for each form field.
The most dramatic transformation has occurred in Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation with a population under 10,000. Until early 2025, Tuvalu had virtually no IPv6 presence. That...
Only basic fare of €1,12 for a journey of 9,4 km 😲
I wonder whether this was just a glitch or whether the system consistently cannot calculate the fare properly if checkout happened on a different line - the 🚎 changes the line number along the way. #OVpay
People of the Fediverse, stop everything. This is some true shit happening here: Two-Factor Authentication, a thread:
In French, the word for "factor" is "facteur". But it has another meaning: mailman. Yes, the one who delivers letters in your physical mailbox. For this reason, there is a funny meme in French where 2FA is in fact your mailman coming in and confirming that it's you.
I've just noticed piped.video can still be used for playing videos. It's just that the public instance at piped.video and some other instances require registration. @Archos and friends, please have you explored ways to eventually host it at @Oscloud ? I'd host it my-self but I don't have a spare machine at the location with suitable ipv6 range for being somewhat resilient to youtube throttling attempts.
We used to run Invidious, but it's pretty much unusable now due to Google's throttling. We're not currently planning to replace it on Oscloud, but Piped seems like a better option – maybe in the future. @archos
very much in line with the late Rev Oscar Romero of El Salvador quote, “When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; when I asked why they are poor, they called me a communist.”
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