The rapid response networks people organize to defend their communities have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting ICE tactics.
Ok nice, just found the tool that's going to replace my quickly copy/paste link from PC to phone thing. NTFY. If I needed I could even make a script or something for it, though the web interface will be completely fine. I can then just open the notification on my phone, click on it and have it in the clipboard right away. Even more straightforward than roaming around on WhatsApp first, completely own infrastructure with a tool I use anyway.
@draeand Yup, I already use it for stuff like Kopia backup notifications, unified push for Pachli and stuff but I enjoy the way it evolves and how you can always find new usecases for it. So simple yet so powerful. Also hosting your own server is quite nice once you've figured out how to add a user and what you should or should not change in the config.
@draeand Hmm, makes sense. Well I only got started with it a while ago so it wasn't that critical, but yeah if you use it much/care about privacy a lot (not sure about how and what and when it encrypts) it would be a nice thing for sure.
Sonic onslaught makes its 2026 return! @nick and Christel are back with their usual mix of good vibes and great metal, featuring their reaction to the latest song from Charlotte Wessels and the obsession.
I'm feeling sad, maybe I should make a version of NVSpeechPlayer that self-destructs and switches back to the person's last synthesizer after 5 minutes, then deletes its dll so it can't be run no more. Sigh. The new phoneme table sucks, the old one was better, that's the end of that, the story of Speechplayer ends here. At least, that's how I'm feeling this morning and why no updates for awhile.
Aw, don't be feeling like that. Speech synthesis is a complicated thing to work on, but also super rewarding when it works. For what it's worth I think you've done a great job in making it support many languages, even if it isn't perfect.
@fireborn part of what I'm fighting a bit I feel like is ESpeak being the phonemizer, I mean it's a great engine for supporting a lot of languages, but then you have to work around some of its rules for speech and things like hyphen marks or if ESpeak itself already had issues with a particular sound. And things like Canadian English, even though it's there in support, enever a chance of it working well because ESpeak is just horrible at the IPA. But a larger rewrite with a different phonemizer and Lexicon set could drop already supported languages and complicate things, so sticking with ESpeak made the most sense architecturally until all the sounds in the phoneme table are correct, then perhaps a rebuild with another Open-source phonemizer isn't the worst.
@alexchapman @fireborn The most promising is github.com/rhasspy/gruut - it supports many languages, although still not quite the set supported by Espeak, although I'd have to see how hard adding language support is for those not in their set that we have. It would support speech tags for words like wind outside vs wind up. Eloquence has this so NVSpeechPlayer needs to as well, but without a better phonemizer like that one it ain't happening, so I've been looking at it.
@NVAccess Turns out the actual name is MyLab Statistics, not MyStatLab. I'll be trying it out over the weekend. I did try MyLab Math the other day, and it works pretty well.
On Monday I am recording another Coffee with Developers episode with Daniel Stenberg about curl and the AI slop they have to fight at the moment. What would you want me to ask him?
Whether you hate him with a leftest passion, or you were a fan of him, Charly Kurk spoke the truth when he said this. Men always desire what they can't have. This was ment especially in the context of relations with females. And guess what? I feel it again in the hardest possible way right now. But nobody asked. Nobody cares. Nobody would understand my other struggles already starting with school. But yeah life is great, I got a fu ing roof above my head! Emotions? Nah let's hide them, we only wanna hear the positives! Wow I'm sick of it. Guess what, my father noticed it sadly. But I'm not gonna tell him anything in the slightest unless it's nesesary, school things might be something there. Dude has seriously been messing with my trust, using it as a weapon against me in the past, several times. Now he'll need to regain it. And if the rest of the world doesn't give a shit, guess let's put on the shield after hiding some more tears of exhaustion.
It's a bit wild to me how much AI and tools I use for work and home are converging. For example, I use ChatGPT and Codex in both places equally, of course at work more of the tools have AI built into them, but just to casually open the same thing on both feels jarring to me every time for some reason. Not like it should, technically Office was something you'd have on your home and work computers too, but it's the context: Even when you used an Office product at home, you used it to be productive and get something done, whereas AI can absolutely be that with the right use but also be an incredible time-waster you have endless chats with because by design it's made to hook you in. Not sure. There you go, a Tuesday morning. That feels like a Monday :D because we had it off here in the states. So now, no more NV Speech Player work for a bit. It's work work time.
Seriously you guys. I know exactly where ny cheerleader uniform is, and I've lost enough weight that it fits. DO NOT make me subject you to the sight of a 50 year old in a short pleated skirt waving pom-poms just to get you to vote for your favorite language.
Age verification laws are being introduced everywhere - including, Florida. 🔞🇺🇸
For Joseph, not knowing his own state had introduced age verification, was the final push he needed to take action and do something. So he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club @mtec
Don't miss this interview with him to find out why he started the club, its aims & goals, & why he chose Tuta Mail. 💪🔐
2025 was the year many people realized how at risk their digital privacy had become. For Joseph, it was the year to take action against this, and so he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club.
USA anektují ještě letos Grónsko. To bude mít za následek rozpad NATO a nejspíš nový obranný pakt bez USA. Současně celá Evropa vypoví smlouvy USA o umístění amerických vojenských základen, přestane se obchodovat mezi USA a Evropou. Díky některým evropským firmám, jako třeba ASML, bude mít USA velký problém. Budou si chtít technologii vymoct silou a začne válka USA proti Evropě.
Současně anexí Grónska potvrdí USA platnost ruské anexe Krymu a Rusko vtrhne po rozpadu NATO do Pobaltí a Polska, znovu zabere Kazachstán (ropa).
Současně anexí Grónska potvrdí USA čínský nárok na Tchaiwan a Čína tam vtrhne.
If you’re seeing this post, it means that my post went through and the server is up. if you see this later on today, it means that the server is back up and my post just got through. Have a good day everyone!
How do we know if it's now or later in the day? And what if it's later in the day, you only just now saw the post, but it sent now? Or when now was at the time? Not now now, but the then now. Yeah...
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Look, you can't ask engineers not to ship new features, you have to give them something to live for. Ask mozilla to be the leader on pop-up blocking again.
Just imagine, the Nobel Peace Prize, whether directly or indirectly, is the kindling for starting a conflict historians will come to call World War III. You know there's only one person in the world with all of the self-centered, idiotic, stupidity and unadulterated narcisim, qualities, and power to do it. And its not like he's some maniacle tyrant who grabbed power, his citizenry gave it to him, legally, twice! Just all kinds of LOLZ, irony, and insanity one would come to expect in 2026.
Age verification laws are being introduced everywhere - including, Florida. 🔞🇺🇸
For Joseph, not knowing his own state had introduced age verification, was the final push he needed to take action and do something. So he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club @mtec
Don't miss this interview with him to find out why he started the club, its aims & goals, & why he chose Tuta Mail. 💪🔐
2025 was the year many people realized how at risk their digital privacy had become. For Joseph, it was the year to take action against this, and so he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club.
Für Golem habe ich über "Hype" nachgedacht und wie er uns durch seine "ALLES IST SUPER KRASS" Narration das Denken über Technologien und ihren Einsatz erschwert
(Original title: Das Wesen des (KI-)Hypes: Betäubungsmittel für den Verstand)
"Vibe coding" really is indistinguishable from playing a slot machine.
There's (for some) a degree of fun based on the hope of getting something valuable for a relatively small investment. When it won't work you just keep pulling the lever. At some point you surely will win, right?
Also with slot machines the bank always wins while slowly draining your resources.
The Chat of the Future Initiative has its first focus session today from 18:00 UTC! As chosen by the participants, the topics are User interface & User experience and new Community Events.
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Ah well, the sighted and their emoji obsession. Did you know I don't need a sun in every message to understand you? Or that you can communicate your emotions by text and not by some chringe emoji that won't bring over what you're trying to to my screenreader anyway? We need a real life emoji blocker.
no. It's impossible to communicate without emoji. All communications before their invention was poor. The love poetry never communicated love, the scientific articles never communicated anything, novels were just shadows of their present selves...
At least make this blocker togglable. I don't want it, for example, I'm absolutely fine with emojis and use them myself. Of course, if there is like fifteen in the row, it's too much, but sighted people also complain about such style of communication.
@menelion I use them because I feel like sighted would think I'm emotionless if I don't. Like my message would be dry or something. Anyway I hope you don't use a sun in each of your messages. Or could you explain me why someone would say, tomorrow starts XY (colision emoji?) I think the only 3 emojis that I find useful are 👍, the red heart I don't have available to paste atm, and 💩.
No, I use far more. Like, hearts, thank you emoji, various food emojis, blushing faces, and so on, and so on. It makes the written speech more emotional, closer to oral speech, actually. No, not in every message, of course.
@JustinMac84 Because I don't need inflection. I want the text, that's the point of the message. Not to insert a sun or a colision or whatever you can spam on your frequently used emoji keyboard. Sighted can skip it, or ignore it, or yeah are bored of dry text but that's not my problem. What does a colision or a sun communicate to me? What is coliding? It's winter, no sun...
If I send you a weary face imoji for example, it is a lot more concise and elegant than expressing that feeling in the required number of words. It adds emphasis to text. Sometimes lack of inflection can be problematic and lead to misunderstanding so, with an imoji, things can be clarrified. Given that, if I send multiple consecutive imojis, speech should concatinate them, I'm not seeing that it takes up significantly more time.
@JustinMac84 Lol and here kicks the language barrier, I don't even know from the top of my head what a weary face is. Right so I searched, do you mean this? 😩 I mean why is it better though. In germany we literally have a word for that. Erschöpft, tired, overwealmed, you decide. See I'd rather take your description of the actual feelings rather than a dumb emoji. But well I guess that's where our opinions differ and that's also good, you don't always have to disagree. Just to clarify I'm not trying to go against you in anyway, it's just I really struggle to find a proper need/usecase for me and am annoyed by the constant usage of them by some people.
@JustinMac84 And I know it might be ridiculous to waste my time with complaining about it but otherwise, I think it's a valid discussion and I'm interested in hearing other peoples points.
@JustinMac84 Also, and it'll be difficult to describe this in english, but it's a similar situation to alttext, just a bit less significant. How would I know what a person is trying to say with an emoji that I can't perceive the same way sighted/the sender does? For example, recently in a Teams call we we're supposed to do the impression of a certain emoji someone would send into the chat, in this case, it was "Ermahnendes Gesicht", which, acording to AI, translates to shushing face. So in english I find this description to be more understandable than in german, but still, what is a shushing face? I didn't know, well shit. Turns out a face that has a finger over their lips to, idk, imply silence, make someone shut up? It's just useless. I can't, get them on the same level, same for gifs and stickers and all that crap.
@JustinMac84 I had this several times now, sighted sent me emojis they interpreted completely different than whoever decided what my screenreader should say when it finds this random bunch of unicode clutter. When I read out what the emoji was read out as to me, they were like, what, that is totaly not what this is etc. Well then, I rather just drop them completely.
Given that sighted people are going to continue to use them no matter what, might you not consider it a bit of linguistic expansion to learn how and why people use them? I struggled with the face with tears of joy imoji for a long while, but you can infer its meaning given enough context.
Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.
Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.
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On one hand, I absolutely love and adore pull requests. On the other hand, they make me realize just how bad I am at pretending to be a developer. Anyway, if you use #NVDA 2026, here's another release of unspoken-ng that fixes Firefox errors while also making everything better because I am apparently incapable of correctly thinking through the effect of threads. You should upgrade ASAP if you use this addon: github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/v1.0.4
Everything in this one is thanks to akj. If you use Firefox, you should upgrade right away to prevent errors.
Full changes:
Fix COM threading violations when navigating Firefox content by extracti...
La ley de montes define 'monte' como “todo terreno en el cual vegetan especies forestales, arbóreas, arbustivas, de matorral o herbáceas, sea espontáneamente o procedan de siembra o plantación, que cumplan o puedan cumplir funciones ambientales, protectoras, productoras, culturales paisajísticas o recreativas.”
Aplicando la regla de que Si A, entonces (A o B): (A ⇒ A ∨ B)
“todo terreno en el cual vegetan especies herbáceas, que procedan de siembra, que puedan cumplir funciones recreativas.” es un "monte"
Entonces: - un parque es un monte. - una plantación de marihuana es un monte. - mi maceta es un monte.
Observación interesante, aunque también hay que leer el 5.2--3:
2. Sin perjuicio de lo dispuesto en los demás apartados de este artículo, no tienen la consideración de monte: a) Los terrenos dedicados al cultivo agrícola. b) Los terrenos urbanos. c) Los terrenos que excluya la comunidad autónoma en su normativa forestal y urbanística. 3. Las comunidades autónomas, de acuerdo con las características de su territorio, podrán determinar la dimensión de la unidad administrativa mínima que será considerada monte a los efectos de la aplicación de esta ley.
Dicho esto me pregunto si el adjetivo forestal está modificando a todas esas frases (arbóreas, arbustivas, de matorral o herbáceas). Hay especies herbáceas forestales? Ni idea.
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Oh my, that clown service again. In the console, they report "harmful content" they write they detected – but at the same time, their engine confirms the file being fine at VirusTotal 🤦♂️
Most of the time I get the idea, they just want to keep us busy with nonsense, so we cannot do the work we are here for…
Requested a review, giving them their own results to check. Yuck.
PS: Snippet updated, find it at gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577 for reference. So far, all we receive from either of those services, are false positives – needlessly wasting our time.
Edit: No, we did not sign up willingly for either of those. Both are forcing us into (useless) action.
They broke #WhatsApp for #Windows completely. At least with JAWS, I hear "Press right and left arrows" instead of each and every message with virtual cursor turned off. Also, it randomly starts calls on arrow keys sometimes. Absolutely unacceptable behavior. UPDATE. Tested without Doug's scripts and with #NVDA, same results. Random messages, especially missed calls, are read as "Press left and right arrows...". #Accessibility #Blind
Today in 1961, 65 years ago: in the United States, John F. Kennedy takes office as president. What I heard:
Today in 1965, 61 years ago: in the United States, John F. Kennedy takes office as president. So, uh... yeah... About that... He died in 1963. Anyway, it's bedtime.
we continue our cold cold. we get a very little break tomorrow, and then the weekend is even colder than it has been. for those of you that live in the area here is todays channel 10 weather
@BorrisInABox they are saying our high on Friday of this week is only going to be 6, and for saturday a high of 8. then sunday threw tuesday upper teens it looks like.
@BorrisInABox I still rememember when I lived in greenville. a half inch of snow practically shut the whole city down. I don't remember what the temp was, but it didn't last long.
In late January of 2000, Greensboro got 17 inches of snow. Talk about completely shutting the place down. I think we were out of school for like a week and a half.
At the moment, the only stable, fast, and high-quality internet connection from Iran is either through Starlink, which is illegal here and extremely expensive and smuggled, or through stealth VPN services that operate using Starlink, which are also very expensive. I’m currently using one of those services. Each gigabyte costs around 5 to 6 dollars. Damn these murderous dictators!
Second, with all that going on, I am intrigued as to how anyone is providing any kind of VPN over there given the state of things. Are you technically on some kind of intranet that still operates when the country is off the global internet, or... how does that work?
@BorrisInABox Thank you. I’m OK physically, though mentally and emotionally not so much. Regarding the internet situation, the country has effectively been turned into a large intranet. Governmental and domestic services are still accessible, but access to international websites and services is blocked. I managed to find this VPN only after days of trying to connect, through a Telegram channel. In addition to this VPN, which is Starlink-based, there are also a very limited number of VPNs that connect to the global internet using L2TP, but they are extremely slow and barely usable.
How do those VPN services operate? How do you initially connect to them? Are they just servers on some kind of national intranet which still works? How is payment handled? crypto? in-person?
@miki My understanding is that one end of the tunnel is definitely inside Iran, while the other end keeps changing, for example sometimes Germany, sometimes the UK, and so on. Payment is handled by transferring money to a bank card number on their side. I then send the payment text or a screenshot via Telegram. The card is not in the operator’s own name, and they usually have multiple bank cards to avoid issues caused by a high volume of transactions. As for the connection itself, it’s mostly based on V2Ray. On Windows I connect using NekoRay, and on iPhone I use Shadowrocket.
@miki Telegram has been blocked for several years. I only managed to connect to it using a very basic L2TP VPN in order to obtain this Starlink-based service. That L2TP connection is extremely slow, to the point that it’s basically useless for normal web browsing or even opening WhatsApp. According to NetBlocks data, right now only around 1% of people in Iran have access to the global internet.
@miki That sounds so insane. I mean I'm often upset with my country but that's nothing against this. Hope you stay safe and hopefully this connection stays as stable as it can.
@jonathan859 Thank you. I hope so too. For now I’m just grateful this connection exists at all though given its price tag, I'm limited in what I can do with it. No major downloads or streaming for now @miki
Any blind followers on here using Meshtastic? I'm interested in finding out more but not sure how usable it is for us if it relies on low powered devices to operate.
I am not yet, but I am interested in such things as well. Apparently, the web/app interfaces are accessible, at least for Meshtastic. There is also MeshCore, which runs on the same hardware, but I don't know much about that. Apparently fixes a lot of issues with Meshtastic, especially in densely populated areas with lots of nodes.
At some point, I want to run a solar powered Meshtastic (or MeshCore) node near the top of my roughly 10 meter long antenna mast, and another node inside the house to relay it. There is apparently quite a substantial network in NYC. Might be fun to play with.
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Hey, I'm looking for a part-time job in Berlin or remote! I finished my Master degree in Computer Science in 2024 and I've been looking for a job in IT. I thought maybe Fedi can help me. All info on what I can do and what I'm looking for is in the picture below (with alt-text)! #GetFediHired
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