Remember how there were multiple proprietary Unix vendors? The JavaScript announcement has testimonials from multiple ones: web.archive.org/web/2007091614…
“JavaScript and other developments will demand increased system performance, ideally met by Digital's Alpha systems architecture.”
@ebassi not sure if this is the correct place to ask but: isn't `gtk_widget_dispose_template()` supposed to remove all children created from a template?
I noticed it only removes named children. Is this correct behaviour? If so, why is it useful to remove only named children?
You know the trope of not finding your glasses because they are atop your head? I think I may have topped it. I’m in the shower, one towel on my hair, the other wrapped around my person, and I looked at the towel rack and wondered where my towels were. For much longer than it should have taken to realize I was holding them.
If I didn’t have appointments, I would call that a sign I should go back to bed. 🤣🤷🏻♀️
I was maybe 9 or 10, and I had a plastic plane that you fired from a small launcher thing. I did that, went looking for it, put it under my arm absent-mindedly and continued looking for it, even roping my poor mum into helping me. I'm blind by the way, so it wasn't outside the realms of possibility that it ended up in the far corner of some place I just couldn't feel... 15 or so minutes later, I realised 'hang on, I've been keeping my arm very close to myself this entire time. Why?' Sheepishly I turned around and showed my mum what was under my arm... she gave me 'The Look' and went about her business. One doesn't have to be able to see to know and perfectly feel 'The Look'.
@msbellows Same reason I'd throw a football or fling a frisbee. For fun. Probably seems silly, but I was just like most other kids, and that passed the time, you know?
@msbellows I'm glad you asked. I had to actually think about it, but it was always fun to throw a thing and then go find it. Better if it made a noise after landing, but a plane kinda didn't. Had a ball with ball bearings in it which is often used in blind sports, that made a noise after landing until they settled, but you'd have to be quick to find it before it stopped making noise 😏
@FreakyFwoof @msbellows One of my dad’s friends had been blind since birth. This never stopped him from going with the guys when it was hunting season. Now, it is important to note here that “hunting” mostly meant going up to the cabin and drinking beer without women and children.
But sometimes, they’d load themselves in the Jeep, and they’d let Mitch, who was blind, drive. He was probably a better driver than those drunken idiots. 🤣🥳. Oh, the 70s. How we all survived is a miracle.
One very funny hunting story, which to be truly appreciated requires voice and accent portrayals, but the gist was: It was deer season, and Mitch fired, and hit a duck. In front of a game warden. The ensuing conversation of the game warden trying to decide what to do about an out of season duck shot by a blind man who was aiming at a deer, is one of the funniest Florida conversations that has ever Florida'd. 50 years later, we all still laugh about the $50 duck dinner which the game warden attended.
@FreakyFwoof @msbellows Also, nobody has ever let me fly a plane! When I was in uni, and went to join the Navy, and they told me I was too short to fly jets, so I didn't join the Navy. To be fair, the concept of me, heavily armed, at mach 1 is a thought that should frighten everyone, so... heh.
Bruxelles frappe fort – X écope d’une amende historique de 120 millions d’euros pour ses pratiques trompeuses
C’est un jour important pour la régulation du numérique à l’échelle mondiale.
Ve věku 55 let zemřel Patrik Hezucký. Moderátor, bavič, ale především dlouholetý hlas Ranní show Evropy 2, kde dělal kolegu Leoši Marešovi, se poslední měsíce potýkal s vážnými zdravotními problémy.
It is the temperature where the cat wants to be let outside, doesn't listen to you when you tell him he doesn't want to do that, and then within 2 minutes is back at the door demanding to be let in with the fervor of someone trying to escape unspeakable cosmic horrors.
Today's aoc task 1 was really trivial if you did it the obvious, brute force way. Task 2 required a bit more thought for me. I did it the proper way, by calculating a union of intervals.
Wow, downloading Xcode and build tools, and the simulator, 22 GB easily. Then I must get our internal repo, another 13 gigabytes easily. You think I could ever work off a hotspot or one of those home internet plans that uses 5G data? Nope, never. Not with the work I do. I'm also curious how much XCode has improved. In terms of drag & drop, connectors to delegates and stuff like that.
I have unlimited data here in the UK on 5G, and I've seen it hit around 800 Mbps. My home internet tops out at around 70, so sometimes I will download big 40 50 GB sound libraries on mobile data.
@FreakyFwoof lol is unlimited, truly unlimited? Sadly probably yes over there. Here they tell us "unlimited" but most 5G home internet plans are actually at a 1 TB cap - the way fixed line is now trying to compete is by saying, "oh, we lifted all data caps!" So now my cable has no data meter even, I can't see at all how much I've used as they just stopped counting. Funny how that worked out in an ironic way because fixed-line were the first to aggressively jump on data caps, after seeing how mobile data companies could do it and still call a plan unlimited with a 5 GB secret cap back in the day.
Darn it, RHVoice does not respect punctuation either just like Vocalizer. What a shame. Tested it with: Hi. Hi! Hi? All 3 read the same with RH Voice SLT, CLT, ETC. Why can't natural voices get this punctuation thing right, I'll never understand.
Funny timing. I switched over to SLT a few minutes ago after that conversation about synthesizers, just to see how it was again. It is what spoke your post, and yep, no punctuation inflection at all. Maddening!
I've helped in a development phase of the Portuguese voice, namely, I have split in separate sentences the entire file containing the recording of phrases, made by an actress. She needed to record sentences ending in a period, sentences ending in an exclamation symbol, and sentences ending in a question symbol. then they were processed later.
@darwinwoodka @RezaHoss Let's put it like this: I prefer the originals. I mean, I personally prefer the books, but the original movies, especially first three of them, are also great.
LOL people are just discovering that using Explorer Patcher and setting it to Windows 10 Ribbon / Windows 7 command bar lessens RAM usage of explorer.exe? I'm amused. Yes, I've known this trick for years, it's now getting turned into clickbait headlines, wonderful.
A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses. But U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee voted to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive or whose infection status is unknown.
darn it I wish I didn't like the 22 kHZ quality Eloquence so much, it's all I ever use. On iOS, I check the "higher quality" box. I need it and want it, it'll be a sad day when I'm forced to use 11 kHZ Eloquence. One reason I don't use JAWS much despite it having Split Braille. 22 kHZ Eloquence is the bomb, it's the beast, the bee's knees. It sounds so much better and not like an AM radio Eloquence (11 kHZ)
I also hear this odd transition from some voiced to unvoiced sounds in 22 kHz. All I know is, I literally can't deal with it for more than about 10 seconds. The longest I ever lasted was a couple of minutes.
@BorrisInABox I find the same with natural voices--punctuation is a period, sometimes a comma, sometimes a question mark, and that's it. I hate that.
I like ESpeak because it's the best at figuring out how to say odd compound words, which I run into a lot as a coder. It's clearer, too, where I find Eloquence can mumble. I also don't like the way the pitch drops if it doesn't encounter the right punctuation.
Overall, I'm glad there are so many voice options.
So glad I've never liked Eloquence 22K - LOL! To me it sounds like a decrepit, old person attempting to read stuff, and it brings out the harshness of the voice, something 11k properly hides. @BorrisInABox
Espeak sounds like it uses 22K to me, like there isn't an AM Radio drop down when you switch to it. I wonder if a lot of blind people just got used to the dampened quality of 11K voices and now, when a higher quality 22K robot voice is offered to them, they find it it too harsh? Hmm. Very interesting to me.
One of the things that bugs me the most about eSpeak is those pre-recorded consonant sounds, especially the cl/kl variant, like in the word click. It bugs me about as much as this one Alex breathing sample with a mouth click in the middle of it.
@amir @BorrisInABox It wasn't an instant transition for me, but once it clicked, I could never go back. I use other voices on my Apple devices. I've tried RH Voice (I like SLT best so far), Eloquence, Dectalk, OneCore, and others. Nothing matches the clarity, handling of odd words, and consistency of ESpeak.
@alexhall Using ESpeak is something, and liking it this much is something else. I have to use it for Persian as I have no other choice if you don't consider a terribly-sounding Vocalizer Persian voice, but, TBH, really hate it. ESpeak is much more robotic than Eloquence at least as far as US English is concerned. I've never been able to get used to it. @BorrisInABox @Tamasg
@BorrisInABox @amir I've never noticed that ESpeak uses recorded sounds. I thought it was all, what's the word, Klatt-based? But yes, I've never liked that one breathing noise Alex uses. I don't know if it's a mouth click or what. It always sounded like a weird hitch in the audio, like my speaker was about to go all staticky on me but it never did.
@BorrisInABox @alexhall @amir LOL wait the Alex voice has a mouth click in the middle of a breath? Now I'm going to be looking out for this on my work Mac, thanks for pointing it out. :D With Espeak for me at fast rates the letters N and M feel like they're slower than the rest of speech, which is what I notice. So like, 19 of 29 with fast Espeak, Max voice (default) and American English, it almost sounds like it slows a split hair down on the N, and I instantly notice it in the middle of other words as it speaks.
@JamminJerry @amir @BorrisInABox huh so there's a group of fellow 16K and 22K Eloquence lovers out there? Not sure. So far I've only come across haters of it. I'm amused that to my ears it sounds clearer, cleaner, not as sharp, like a soft blanket wrapping me in the soothing sounds of roboticness
@amir @BorrisInABox I don't even think the eloquence at 16K sounds quite as good as the 11K does. maybe it is just me so used to the 11K one, but I am playing with it on android, and set it to 16K, as there are people that say it makes it sound better. I personally don't think so.
@alexhall @BorrisInABox Absolutely. Eloquence just sounds pleasant to me, don't know how else to say it. Just as good pronunciation as the pete voice from double talk or paul from dectalk.
@alexhall I need to try those Blastbay voices. Perhaps they really will be the savior to all these problems, sound more natural, do punctuation right, sound consistent as a 22K voice to all, decently low lag, all of it , magically solved by one engine. I'm really, really trying to find something. Truthfully every day I do feel like the end of the road for Eloquence is drawing nearer and nearer. Sure it'll stick around for 3, 5 more years even, longer perhaps, but the architecture around it will change so much that it just won't be able to keep up with it. Already, if you run Eloquence on an ARM mac, you hear pops and clicks in the middle of words. It's annoying as fuck, because the ARM conversion somehow from X86 changes enough of the speech processing that pops and clicks appear. @amir @BorrisInABox
@alexhall I can give most of it to you. But as someone who works on Eloquence pronunciations and compares TTS engines, I can confidently say that eSpeak is relatively bad at handling odd words. Sometimes a bit better than, and sometimes worse than Eloquence. It doesn't respect proper English stress patterns with longer words, so sometimes you may wonder which syllable has major stress with eSpeak. @BorrisInABox @Tamasg
@amir @BorrisInABox Odd words for me often include coding things, like variable or function names. I've found that when Eloquence slurs everything together and tries to say it all as one word, ESpeak is much more likely to break it down into multiple, recognizeable words.
@JamminJerry @amir Yep. the 8 kHz isn't just a straight sampling rate conversion. The upper formants are shifted down. I have actually used that in some specialized applications.
@BorrisInABox @JamminJerry @amir weirdly on 8K Eloquence I hear a slight whistling sound, especially on the letters s and X, or the CH sounds (like much, crutch, ETC.) Pretty sure it would be the "tel" voice as IBMTTS called it, and what NFB Newsline used for quite awhile before later using standard 11K. To get the 22K version, it's more involved since it needs another DLL that's version 6.4 or newer of IBMTTS, and I think if you already dislike the 16K the 22 probably won't improve much for you anyway LOL.
I just found this. Read the word Skill over and over again with Espeak. OMG. Yes. Pre-recorded. You're absolutely right. Skill, skill, skill. @alexhall @amir
@amir @BorrisInABox I don't know about the 22K ones, but I have seen I think two people say they like the 16K version as apose to the 11K version. I just looked, and my IBM one in NVDA only has 11K, and 8K of all things. it doesn't even have 16K, let alone 22K.
@GamingWithEars That one I can actually see a bit. I think for me it took some time to get used to it, but now going back to 11K actually sounds worse after forcing myself to just get over the S's thing and use 22K for awhile, it's so odd how the brain just can accept it if it's consistently the same.
OK, that's it, DECTalk is the winner then. Clearly. DecTalk. 11K version sounds not quite as AM quality just a little bit, 22K variant is over-bassed and too thick, but hey, it's the OG. Klatt at its finest. LOL. So we have: Bestspeech, ESpeak, DECTalk, Eloquence, Orpheus as our formant voices. Not sure if I'm missing one there. I honestly do wish we had more options, wish I could revive the Doubletalk voice under Windows somehow but it was too monotone for many and there's no DLL of it that exists anyway. @alexhall @BorrisInABox
@alexhall @BorrisInABox ESpeak literally makes my ears hurt after a while. Such a grating voice. Some variants are a bit better than the default, but I even prefer RHVoice over Espeak!
@alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox Thye really do check all those boxes, and the sub20ms latency is only going to go down further still as further optimizations get made. And it's coming to Android next.
@alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox I like the Blastbay voices, but don't use them with NVDA all the time as they aren't as responsive as Eloquence or Vocalizer, I need to check again to see if they do punctuation inflection and let you know.
Jumping in here because I'm weird and use a voice that about 0.0001% of people use. Orpheus. Can't work well without it. It's my Eloquence. Without access to that, I'd probably still not be an NVDA user at all. @alexchapman @Tamasg @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@FreakyFwoof heh, I was very sad, my Orpheus broke after getting the last NVDA, never found a newer add-on version for it that fixed it. So it now sits there in my synth dialog all abandoned and broken, ha. @alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox I've tried using that and after a few minutes, it does my head in IDK why. And I don't know if that is gonna work with 64Bit NVDA.
@alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox Nope, mine still works unless you're talking about the 64-bit version. It's working fine here in 2025 builds.
@alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox That's me and Eloquence. I'm a snobby Brit and cannot stomach US voices as my daily driver, and UK eloquence is well.... Let me not pollute the air with my filth.
@FreakyFwoof Oooh, I had 0.21, not 0.22 driver, so now I updated it and it works. I do like this voice a lot. For me honestly it might be closest to replacing Eloq, even if it is 8K, but at least it sounds consistently good and very lag-free. Consanants at 8K don't sound muffled or like a filter is before his mouth. However, Orpheus does have a bit of a sound of, man gritting his teeth and talking through them. Like if I had my mouth closed. It's about the one thing I would duck it for. @alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox Well, no. In the advanced tab it says 22 K, you can try changing it to 11 if you really want but I wouldn't advise it.
@alexchapman yeah was surprised but both the Light and regular versions there got an update this April, I just never re-checked to see if the file timestamps changed until now. @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@FreakyFwoof @alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox i use it on occasion. I actually use a voice that no one wants to use anymore, or people can't get as easily anymore. Acapela Heather! Even on my android phone, used to end up using Dectalk as a daily driver because google TTS, is a nono, and ESpeak, I don't really mind it, but, it changes languages a bit too often and that's a glitch I'm not gonna deal with. Me personally though, I prefer Dectalk over Eloquence, because it has more inflection. But if for whatever reason, multi TTS won't work, then i'm just going to use Dectalk, when I get a Pixel that is, because Google TTS is, no. Not really reliable.
I got Jake to update the addon with a dictionary that myself and Derek C maintain, but we've been adding to it since the addon was last updated, so I'd advise loading this up if you wish to. Also for more inflection, under the voices tab, select the voice you're using, click Edit, find Intonation and knock it up to 100%.
@TomGrant91 it requires the IBMeci.dll file, version 6.6, to even show up, and most people are running the standard 6.1 DLL. Quite a bit of fiddling to get it working right, I host it at eurpod.com/eloq66.zip people just have to install datajake.braillescreen.net/tts… for Viavoice light, then replace files in program files from the zip with the ones in there, pointing IBMTTS to it afterwards. May or may not work so have another synth ready if you decide to try it, but most people hate it from what I'm seeing.
@FreakyFwoof wow it really is 22K, changing it to 11K makes it sound like a chipmunk because then you have to edit the player to also use the correct sampling rate inside the _init.py file. Very interesing, would not have thought they defaulted it to 22K, wow. Another reason to maybe switch to it, LOL. @alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox I just tried installing it and got the following: Error dialog Some operations on add-ons failed. See the log file for more details. The following add-on failed to be installed: orpheus.
@alexchapman @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox 64-bit or 2025.x? If so, did you install the most current version? Doesn't yet work with 64-bit but I'm hoping someone will make that a thing.
@alexchapman that's odd, you could try seeing if it made the .tmp folder for the add-on, which it does when it extracts. If so you know it got passed uncompressing stage. Another option is to just manually create an orpheus folder in your add-ons directory and uncrompess there. Brutal but works when I get that error. @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox The Blastbay voices are nice and responsive but no, they don't solve all those problems. If anything they add some new ones.
I have one, Libby, but it lags randomly and isn't great with punctuation. I loaded it up to test it, and lost all speech in NVDA after 20 seconds. I had to restart NVDA, and when I did, it came up using ESpeak again. Libby doesn't seem reliable enough for daily use.
@Scott yeah just tried them. They still treat exclamation marks and period marks the same. Question marks do get pronounced right, but that really only puts at the point of where Vocalizer is in terms of punctuation handling. A bit disappointed by them, but glad I had the trial. @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@alexchapman It really is not a bad voice. It also doesn't inflect on exclamation marks versus periods, same reading. But I tried the same passages with Eloquence, and it's the same! I just can't believe people read stuff without ever knowing there's an exclamation at the end! Eloquence handles that slightly better at long passages with exclamation marks, but to think that we're so ignorant of them because of our TTS engines is a bit unreal to me.@TomGrant91 @mckensie @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@alexchapman @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox It does with intonation set to 100, but it's more a feeling. I think I can usually tell when there's a period or exclamation but I've used it for 20 something years.
NVDA >Tools >Configure Orpheus. Control tab twice, set the language to UK, then either tab to Exceptions Editor or do alt e. Follow that up with File >Import, or Alt F, I. @alexchapman @Tamasg @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@mckensie Not yet. I am trying the latest copy of the voices on there, it reads them the same. It's crazy how I'm having a hard time finding a voice that handles this well. The unicorn voice that does exclamations good. At this point I wouldn't mind if it yelled loudly when it encountered one, like as though fireants were stinging the voice's butt. @alexchapman @TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@FreakyFwoof do you know any way to reduce pauses? Like when it says buttons. "new.... button." huge pause there. If there's a way I'd love to improve the add-on is to remove those, but no idea if even Orpheus would support such a thing. @Scott @alexchapman @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@Scott @alexchapman @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox Paperback for example, has an Open button with three dots and it pauses before telling you the control. I'm always annoyed when a voice doesn't pause in that space, probably because that's what I got used to.
@FreakyFwoof oh that's wild. For me having "shorten pauses" on with Eloquence did quite the opposite. Wow. Well, I might craft it up. Inside "edit" I only see: age, gender, headsize, intonation, pitch, voicing, and voicing pulse. No phrase pause setting there sadly. But I wonder if I could just do a rule where it throws away extra punctuation marks and makes them just one instead, at the very least it's a hack. @Scott @alexchapman @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
@TomGrant91 @mckensie @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox I finally got Orpheus working, and am trying Andre's suggestion of 100% intonation and its weird lmao, oh and the monotone way it reads letters as you type, I'm so used to individual characters at least being read out with some inflection lol.
@alexchapman @TomGrant91 @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox Speaking of TTS engines and Exclamation marks, I don't know if you guys knew this, and perhaps it might be up now, but Philip is planning to update Blastbay TTS to make so that it handles exclamations and such. I don't know if he has added that in but maybe we should check. I'm almost tempted to check his page.
@TomGrant91 @alexchapman @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox I wasn't exposed to Orphius in my early days of technology, so when I hear about it I was like, what even is this? Guess it partly comes from me being from the US lol
@mckensie @alexchapman @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox I think when I was younger, I assumed every piece of talking tech had an american voice and thought supernova would. Talking LM-6000SE dictionary, Bestspeech US. Keynote gold using a very old JAWS on a laptop for touch type practice using megadots. From then on to Dolphin Supernova V5 and Orpheus, it seemed weird that the first language is UK, expecting US English.
@mckensie @alexchapman @FreakyFwoof @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox with ya on that one! Despite the roboticness of orpheus, I could use it daily, the UK accent is much much better than eloquence's. Orpheus was the rfirst synth I used straight with the UK voice in new college worcester and it became their version of Eloquence to me there.
@FreakyFwoof @Scott @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox Oh wow, I also noticed the dictionary editor is basically a list, and its easy to add new entries, so if I notice it saying something odd I can try to correct it.
@luiscarlosgonzalez requires the IBMeci.dll file, version 6.6, to even show up, and most people are running the standard 6.1 DLL. Quite a bit of fiddling to get it working right, I host it at eurpod.com/eloq66.zip people just have to install datajake.braillescreen.net/tts… for Viavoice light, then replace files in program files from the zip with the ones in there, pointing IBMTTS to it afterwards. May or may not work so have another synth ready if you decide to try it, but most people hate it from what I'm seeing. You can always do synth dialog and press W for Windows OneCoreVoices to get back if it fails. @FreakyFwoof @Scott @alexchapman @TomGrant91 @mckensie @alexhall @amir @BorrisInABox
Am I the only person who likes UK Eloquence? In fact that's my normmal voice. I sometimes even read Spanish with it if I'm too lazy to change the language.
Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
We're holding X accountable for: 🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ 🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository 🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers
So helping my wife make a 40 question google form. It looks like splitting questions in to sections is not accessible since you can't move the sections after they are added. Same for questions, I added them in the order we wanted but they are now in a random order and cannot figure out how to move them. I assume it is a drag and drop them. The shuffle order for questions checkbox settings has always been unchecked? Is there a better/more accessible platform for form creation out there?
Syncthing-Fork für Android: Original-Maintainer verschwunden, Repo & Signaturschlüssel landeten bei neuem, kaum bekanntem Account. Kein bestätigter Schadcode, aber Supply-Chain-Risiko. Empfehlung: Auto-Updates stoppen und auf letzte als vertrauenswürdig geltende F-Droid-Version 2.0.11.2 einfrieren, bis die Lage geklärt ist.
Welche F-Droid-App (bzw. quelloffene App) kennt ihr, die großartig ist, aber kaum jemand auf dem Schirm hat? Exotisch, nischig, unterschätzt – egal, Hauptsache spannend. Stellt hier eure Geheimtipps vor! 👇
the last 3 releases (2.2.4 to 2.2.6) have no APK attached – hence, IzzyOnDroid is stuck at 2.2.3 (the last release that had an APK). Could you please attach them again? Starting with the currently ...
This year brought great improvements to #accessibility in GNOME, including:
• Accessibility from the start on the login screen • Full accessibility of GNOME Web • Tons of improvements to Calendar • Screen reader integration for Notifications • Configure #Orca screen reader from Settings • GTK apps integrated w/Windows & macOS accessibility
Help us reach 1,500 #FriendsOfGNOME so we can focus on accessibility even more in 2026!
I saw y’all introduced an end-of-year donation nag similar to @kde! (I say this endearingly and happily; FOSS needs to be okay with asking for user support!) Perhaps it was already there, but it seemed new. Do you know at this stage if it’s provided a significant boost in donations, similar to what KDE experienced last year?
@moshimotsu we introduced the desktop notification in the latest release (GNOME 49), so only folks running the very latest will see it. But yes, we started with zero #FriendsOfGNOME through the new donate.gnome.org and are now at 777 recurring donors!
We don’t currently track the source of donations (e.g. whether someone is coming from the notification versus social media or the GNOME.org site), so it’s hard to attribute it all to the desktop notification, but we consider it successful!
@moshimotsu it is also patched out or disabled in some popular Linux distributions, which can affect its success; we’re chatting with folks from those distros to see if we can work something out together.
That’s unfortunate, and feels a little counterproductive. As for the “source” of the donation, I’m not sure KDE tracks those either, but the perception of success was largely brought on from seeing an unprecedented spike in user donations right about the time of the nag. Yes, correlation is not causation, but Occam’s razor may apply!
@moshimotsu To the crowd, this is deeply saddening because the reminder is the only way we can reach folks that do not participate as an enthusiast. For instance, the parent that had their computer installed by one of their kids. They are not participating in social media or in spaces that enthusiasts are. A gentle reminder that this is a community and we need their support is perfectly reasonable.
@MikeGorse Orca configuration, within Settings, makes sense; glad to see it! I haven't done with GNOME Web lately, but should have a look. Awaiting latest changes, to Calendar accessibility, in GNOME OS Nightly. Good Work!
@wx1g @MikeGorse we were a bit constrained by the character limit; to clarify, you can launch the Orca settings from within GNOME Settings, now. It’s not currently configurable within the Settings app itself.
I will try out your Desktop GUI.......not sure I like the way it is laid out since GNOME 2.x but thank GNU for your hard work. I wish I could program to help support free software but I am not that gifted. ❤
if you want to build a secure system, you have to assume the dumbest (who isn't dumb, just not a nerd like you), most naive (who isn't naive, just doesn't know tech like you do), most helpless (who isn't helpless, just doesn't understand tech terms, especially in terrible documentation), most impatient (who isn't impatient, just doesn't want to study computers for 15 years) user and design your system around it.
Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in `django.tasks`. But don't expect to phase out Celery, Huey or other preferred solutions just yet.
LibreOffice Conference 2026 in Pordenone, Italy, and LibreOffice Conference 2027 in Gothenburg, Sweden LibreOffice Conference 2026 will be organised by PNlug (Pordenone Linux User Group) and the University of Pordenone in the city of Pordenone, on th…
Latest release of IVPN for Desktop (v.3.15.0) is out with Custom DNS and stability improvements. You can now specify multiple custom DNS servers with optional DoH support.
The Most Unworkable Internet Law in the World: Quebec Opens the Door to Mandating Minimum French Content Quotas for User Generated Content on Social Media michaelgeist.ca/2025/12/the-mo…
The Quebec government has amended its Internet streaming legislation by removing an exemption for social media services, establishing the most unworkable social media regulation in the world with companies required to meet both French language minimu…
2 Cadence Braille Tablets is definitely better than one. If I had to compare the gap, it's like half the width of a word spacing character. So think of the spaces between words, cut it in half, that's your gap size.
Castopod focuses on podcast hosting with ActivityPub, happy to answer any questions! Anyone using Castopod or other solutions - please share your thoughts with @everton137 !
Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Diegovsky • • •Mainly because removing all widgets is complicated and needs additional bookkeeping: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/i…
There's a merge request that needs to be completed: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…
dispose_template causes unparenting twice when using widget subclasses (#5834) · Issues · GNOME / gtk · GitLab
GitLabDiegovsky
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