Is your transit agency "succeeding"? It depends on the definition of success, and not everyone agrees on that. Here's my timeless article on this, just now updated a bit.
Head’s up, #Minneapolis folks: 🧊 is out and about kidnapping people in the Central and Phillips neighborhoods (from multiple reliable sources). Sounds like they may be using cars with out of state plates. Keep your whistles handy and stay alert. Call the MONARCA hotline at 612-441-2881 if you see them and try and record if you see them grab someone.
Svelte was one of the easiest frameworks to learn from my perspective, FWTW. Half the time I was like "WTF, I'm not learning something, I'm just doing a thing and you're telling me that because you have a compiler now it's reactive?" Can't say whether that'll be true for you too, but I think it being compiled/transpiled makes making things reactive more bearable than just trying to make it work directly in the browser. Really felt like I was writing HTML++ vs. learning some totally new way of doing things.
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Shivers down the spine, especially this first a cappella recording excerpt. Hebrew with authenteic Indian accent. It's something else. I mean, I knew about Jews in India, of course, but this song… so beautiful, thanks for sharing!
Q: Oh no! Is AI gonna replace accessibility professionals any time soon?
A: No. It'll enable people to code apps that still break accessibility. Then when people try to chat with someone for help, it'll gatekeep with help articles and hallucinate a scenario in which it gave the email address the customer didn't provide to a live agent.
Mouse kicked the groomers because they had to shave her tummy, and they recommend doing a lion cut next time and I’m not exactly sure what that will look like. I am also considering giving her the arthritis shot because her hips are sore and she can’t jump up anymore.
TFW you have to use a fucking AI to request a CI jub rerun to work around the fact that Microsoft, a company that claims to care about accessibility, can't be arsed to fix the accessibility issues in GitHub's CI interface.
MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.
Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.
@hub Not sure I see how that applies? At least not any more than it does now, because, well, Ontario is the most populous province and you (very roughly) distribute seats based on population.
We just don't fill those seats anywhere near the same proportions as voters want.
PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context. The point of the petition is to get something other than FPTP see-sawing us back and forth.
you can remove FPTP without changing the form of representation. A run-off for example is another option, whether ranked ballot or two rounds. But you all seems to want to have more extremist in Parliament.
I mean, really, if you're bothered about "Ontario will control parliament", Alberta should never have let Pierre Poilievre show his face there. 🙄 Toxic partisanism, parachute candidates and FPTP are all sending us down the drain.
If anything, something like MMP would disempower partisanism, and let provinces be represented by multi-party regional blocks who have to *gasp* collaborate and govern!!!! Whoa.
if you do a little bit of math, with PR you'd get more of PP. And Maxime Bernier would get his seat. Your proposal is like single issue voter. Not part of the solution.
FreeBSD is maturing its support for laptops with the help of some of the new Linux compatibility work (using Linux WiFi drivers, sharing DRI for video, etc) but has a long way to go.
Is it me, or is the new #Mastodon #quote feature the MOST USELESS tool ever to be designed? It overloads a button, making you take an extra tap to boost, not to mention having to read and target a new menu with a finger or a mouse? In case you didn't know, it is hidden under the boost button in the Web UI. It allows you to quote a whole toot, annotate the quote, and ask, if necessary, if the poster will allow you to do so. The poster can revoke permission.
...to quote something, copy and paste only the content you need. Be sure to include the user's handle if you want to attribute the quote.
Nobody that would abuse quoting, that is would misappropriate or twist a toot's meaning, would use the feature. They will copy and paste. This leaves the remainder of the community doing an extra tap, with the extra dexterity required for potentially challenged users, while trying to figure out why they would use the feature in the first place.
The International Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development.
@J3317 Thanks for asking! NVDA will never be paid, for multiple reasons: - NVDA is free & open source, licensed under GPL. Half our contributions are from the community so they would need to agree to a change of license. - NV Access is a registered charity, overseen by a board of directors whose first "statement of purpose" is "To facilitate the development of open-source assistive technologies for blind and vision impaired people that are free of charge to the end user" nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/
@J3317 We get income from a range of sources: - Companies such as Microsoft, Google and Adobe who believe in what we do: They help fund us, and in return we give them our accessibility expertise - helping improve the accessibility of their products for everyone - Private and corporate donations - Sale of training material, NVDA Expert Certification and telephone support, both to individuals and corporate users - Funding or support towards specific projects; our financial situation is healthy.
Иногда вижу как кто-то заявляет, что несогласен и имеет на это право, на счет научной публикации. Хотя он некомпетентен что бы иметь мнение. Несогласие должно быть так же компетентно как заявление или публикация. В серьезном журнале вам даже могут отказать в публикации так как не смогли найти профильного рецензента. Потому, что твое несогласие как Васи вообще никого не волнует, если на другой чаше весов серьезный научный труд. Компетентность несогласия мало популяризируют как мнеикажется.
You know that particular pattern LLMs create in code, where there are like 3 layers deep of functions that are each only one line long? Super thin functions?
Angel hair pasta. Not even thick enough to be spaghetti code.
We love hardware donations at #eventinfra and of course we make sure no old asset tags or configuration is left behind before we add it to the equipment pool. Thanks for the donation ❤
We are currently fighting against a DDoS attack against our service and our status page. We are analyzing network traffic with the help of our ISP at the moment and let you know once we have updates to share.
I can recommend #Strasbourg as a great place to visit at Christmas time. The whole town centre is wonderful, with a selection of Christmas markets selling high quality food and gifts. Best of all, it's reachable by train from much of the UK in less than a day.
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Heyo, for this festive season, could we please help Kaede finish their Fine Arts degree at the University of Cape Town.
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Hi everyone, I am reaching out to ask if anyone knows of any #GirlScouts selling cookies that wants to help there troop? I love buying cookies and supporting the Girl Scouts, but I want the credit for my contribution to go to someone indevidually who has a page that they can give me so I can buy from them and there troop gets the credit. I'm willing to work with anyone in need, I just want to buy some cookies and help a scout build some confidence. I was a Boy Scout and made it to Eagle when I was 17-years-old, and this is my way of supporting scouts by buying from them directly. Thanks, feel free to reach out via DM or just reply to this post, I'm down to buy from anyone who reaches out, because I think that programs like the Girl Scouts are a great way to raise future leaders. It certainly helped me a lot when I did scouting.
I highly recommend the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science. And so do tell me many previous students, some of whom are now well-established academics, including LICS invited speakers.
The courses for 2026 are:
1. Type theory using Agda 2. Category theory 3. Lambda calculus and combinatory logic. 4. Effects and Call-by-Push-Value. 5. Synthetic Homotopy Theory. 6. Categorical Algebra and Logic. 7. Inductive and coindictuve Reasoning with Isabelle/HOL
(4) is to be delivered by the winner of the 2025 Alonzo Church Award, my colleague Paul Levy.
The problem was that there is a password for the coffee shop wifi, but I couldn't discover that from ifconfig until I pulled it upon my phone and saw it was asking for a password.
So, dear #FreeBSD fam, how was I supposed to know? There was no mention of WPA or WPS in the CAPS flags:
rld@Intrepid:~$ ifconfig wlan0 list scan |grep -e ^SSID -e ^The.Book
SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:b8:e2 6 54M -53:-96 100 EPS RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:7b:c2 11 54M -54:-96 100 EPS RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:b8:f2 36 54M -59:-96 100 EP RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:7b:d2 149 54M -57:-96 100 EP RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME
I've had a hard time finding/figuring out what all of those various CAPS flags mean. :P
@BorrisInABox I think you're right. It's got the word "move" written on it and everything. But they only shipped me one wheel, and it's got a wire hanging off one side so it's effectively useless. I'll definitely be complaining to Sweetwater about this.
@Bri Nah, it must be some new and exasperating invention for the blind. I mean the word "able" is right there in the name. They embossed the letters on the box so we could feel them, but they never talked to a blind person so nobody told them Braille exists. I bet I'm going to open this and find a robot vacuum that cleans up dog hair but also uses AI to guide me around my apartment. I took a picture of the box and apparently it's something called an Ableton Move, so I think I'm really onto something here. I'd throw it in the trash, but it's already full of pizza boxes and disposable MacBooks.
Aha, that'll be a Move. Or to give it its fairer name, a Move-anywhere-you-want-so-long-as-you-take-along-a-second-device-capable-of-running-a-browser-and-producing-TTS-because-we-didn't-do-this-properly.
@Bri @Scott I love Ableton but I feel this way too. Is there seriously no way for them to make a screen reader for it? They basically already did, they just have to put TTS in there.
@Bri @Scott Yeah this is mainly why I'm not getting one, no way I'm going to carry around another device just to use it. Completely defeats the whole purpose.
@ZBennoui @Bri @Scott I wonder if they're using something very proprietary for audio. It seems moderately hackable, so if nothing else, maybe I can make it broadcast a hotspot when there's no active internet connection.
I don't know exactly what they did, but it sure isn't the standard Linux audio stuff. No alsa to be found anywhere, so no pulse audio, and sure's hell no Pipewire. They're also using a custom realtime 5.x Linux kernel. Latency is as good as I've seen on any DAW on it's rather not at all high-end hardware (Raspberry Pi CM4), so there's that.
I have added wireless networks using SSH, yes. That part is still unfortunately not accessible on device. It uses Connman to manage networks, which is a rather odd duck.
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri Stupid thing is, you can select from a list of networks already in the device to connect to accessibly, so long as you can connect to it in the first place, either through WiFi or USB-C, which is also Ethernet, but you can't add a new network with accessibility like that.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @Bri Yeah I thought this was something they were planning to fix shortly after Move's release. Worth noting that the main accessibility dev had to take a leave of absence for a few months, but is now back, so hopefully we'll start seeing more accessibility improvements soon.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @ZBennoui @Bri This seems like such a ridiculously interesting device, but the fact they haven't managed to fix that in a year is troubling. I kind of want to make a full system backup in case they break it entirely at some point in the future. The idea of accessibility being a priority doesn't seem very compatible with the fact that I have to get sighted help before I can actually access it. If I can add my phone's hotspot to this, I'll have screen reader access anywhere, and should then be able to add another wi-fi network, but right now I guess I can't. There are a huge number of ways this could be made easier, and they have Linux people working on it, so I wonder if the screen reader is just someone's random idea that hasn't been maintained since the device first showed up on shelves
@BorrisInABox @Scott @Bri See my other reply, main accessibility dev was on leave for a few months, which is why accessibility work has stalled. They're back now, though, so hopefully things will improve.
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri I've never done this from straight up out of the box, but theoretically, you can connect to a PC or Mac, go to a URL, add an SSH key, and initially get at least one wireless network configured. I only did it that way after the fact, so I don't know if Move blocks SSH access via USB-C until you go through it's onboard setup junk, or press the "I don't care" button.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @ZBennoui @Bri I'll let you know. It's currently charging and I have a couple more things to do before I can get super distracted with it, but I'll probably set it up this evening. I'd love to just avoid an Aira call entirely. Do you have notes on how you added a network?
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri I recorded an audio thing for the Move WhatsApp group at the time, with the intent of actually writing everything out, from the process of generating and uploading an SSH key to adding a wireless network, but I never got around to doing that bit.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @ZBennoui @Bri This is ridiculously useful; thanks for making it. It's also just fun to have a little preview of what it's like to access the Move over SSH. It sounds like it just shows up as a network device? Meaning if you don't mind connecting it to the computer, you technically don't need to connect it to wi-fi at all. I assumed I'd need an ethernet adapter. Part of the reason I wanted one of these is to hack around with the Linux install. I want to figure out what they're using for audio and see if I can inject stuff into it. Failing that, maybe I can make the screen reader work over Telnet or something. The bus factor is real here, but the openness is a huge plus.
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri Yeah... I think you probably won't get very far with that audio injection stuff, but good luck to ya. No, you don't need an Ethernet adapter. USB-C shows up as Ethernet, even to a phone.
@LeonianUniverse @Bri @BorrisInABox @Scott Here's my take for what it's worth. Until NI actually start taking accessibility seriously, and not taking multiple years to roll out what essentially amount to minor improvements, I would go with Ableton every time. I think Move is overpriced for what it is, but that has nothing to do with the accessibility implementation, even though that needs work. If you're set on getting hardware, though, Move is the only mostly accessible option out there that doesn't necessarily require the use of a computer.
OH yeah, you also may need to install the Ableton driver to make everything work from USB-C on a Windows PC. I forgot what it does without that. No need on anything that isn't Windows.
@Bri @BorrisInABox @ZBennoui @Scott I see, okay, was actually looking for some real insight on this, as I plan to buy either device and I don't know which one I want to get yet.
@Bri @BorrisInABox @ZBennoui @Scott Yeah, but even with the new update to the accessibility, is it still bad? I've heard its much improved over the old KK Access program.
@Bri @BorrisInABox @ZBennoui @Scott I think that makes my decision clear then, I was debating whether or not to buy the Ableton Move or the Machine MK3, but I think I'll stick with Native Instruments instead. They are very reliable.
@ZBennoui @BorrisInABox @Bri FYI the person who was on medical leave isn't a dev. They're accessibility lead, so of course progress will change without them there, but it's not great to see no progress since release. IMO what's there so far should be called an accessibility prototype.
@Scott @BorrisInABox @Bri Ah thanks for the correction, and yeah totally agree regarding slow progress. I remember shortly after Move came out, I'd heard Ableton was working on a solution to make set up easier out of the box. Surprised that hasn't materialized yet.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if the Ableton comes up immediately with network access, but I suspect the answer is yes. I figured out that Tailscale was breaking DNS, but only after dismissing the welcome screen. That said, when you power it on for the first time, you can just skip the wi-fi setup. At this point, the wi-fi is disabled but it otherwise functions normally. When you first power on the Move, it shows a "Welcome, press wheel to get started" prompt. When you press the wheel, you'll be asked if you want to set up wi-fi, and you can turn the wheel to the right and press it again to select "skip". You can then go to move.local/development/ssh and add a public key. Worth noting that the page prompts you to "confirm with the wheel"; just press the wheel and the key should be added. After that, you can set up the network according to this audio file, but you need to type "enable wifi" from the connmanctl prompt before you can scan for networks. So, as long as you know what to expect, independent setup seems to be possible. Also, I see a "Beta" tab in the development section. Has anyone tried joining that? Edit: I'm on version 1.2 and the current stable version is 1.8. I'm installing the update now, but I can't guarantee everything will work exactly the same way on the new version. I assume 1.2 is somewhat old.
Yeah, that just gets you access to the beta builds when they come out. It's just an easy opt-in/out. If you want to actually contribute to discussions, you have to go through their code central thing. Forget what they call it now. Generally speaking, during an active cycle, you'll get one beta build per week until release. Then it goes quiet for a bit, then more betas. The current 1.8.5 looks like mostly just miner bugfixes. Most of them add obvious features.
"Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas grâce aux véhicules électriques, mais par le développement des trains à grande vitesse que les Chinois ont réussi à limiter leur consommation de pétrole" lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/…
Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas grâce aux véhicules électriques, mais par le développement des trains à grande vitesse que les Chinois ont réussi à limiter leur consommation de pétrole, constate dans sa chronique au « Monde » Jean-Baptis…
"Québec était la plus importante municipalité dans la province à encore arborer un crucifix dans sa salle de conseil. C’était aussi l’une des dernières."
La retraite a sonné pour le crucifix de l’hôtel de ville de Québec. Le symbole religieux sera retiré d’ici Noël de la salle du conseil municipal pour se conformer au principe de laïcité, et sera entreposé dans une collection d’objets historiques.
The 11th open call from #GNUTaler is now live! We’re looking for #privacy-first, Free Software-powered payment projects that challenge the status quo. 💡 It's real, it works, no blockchain, no surveillance.
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So you're telling me JAWS was really the first screen reader to virtualize 32-bit Eloquence into its own process with FSSynthWOW64? Wow, they were ahead of their time I suppose.
Yes, because JAWS was the first third-party screen reader to have a 64-bit version of the main screen reader program, not just support 64-bit operating systems while keeping the main program 32-bit (that was, I think, Serotek System Access).
@matt I guess technically 3rd since iOS did this in VoiceOver and Eloq? Quite interesting that we're putting so much weight behind keeping a dead synth alive, but with not enough competition to challenge it (Vocalizer sucks at punctuation, ETC), it'll just stay alive. And become increasingly hard to maintain, although I don't see Windows abandoning win32 for a long while, maybe only if ARM64 became better, or this AI-first agentic OS crap makes them lose sight of compatibility.
@matt oh true. I've never tried ZDSR or any of the other Chinese readers, I suppose they might be the only ones to fall in that list then. Makes sense though why I could never get Sapi5 Eloquence working with Narrator then, it only reads the SAPI64 reg voices, you've solved a longstanding mistery for me :D
@matt I am in favor of improving other options, or even creating another, similar, formant-based synth. Perhaps record more voices to RHVoice, or improving ESpeak plus MBrola, etc.
@clv1 RHVoice has true potential and I think momentum for it has gotten greater as time has gone on, to me performance comes almost as close as Eloquence but not quite as I don't hear the start of letters when holding down the tab key like I do there. Perhaps that's the other bit, some people are sensitive even about the smallest amounts of lag, wish I didn't count myself in that group. ESpeak had the potential but I feel like we saw the limits of it with SpeechPlayer in Espeak's project, so far though that was the closest for me if ever that I considered switching away permanently. @matt
For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritely, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/
*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle the threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the present-day fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What can we do?
What can we do? Is there hope? Is it possible to build something better?
Spritely was born out of this work, and the strive to create infrastructure allowing for "Networks of Consent". More on that here: spui25.nl/programma/we-can-cha…
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.
User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit.
And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab.
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