My partner and I visited Norway and hiked (a surprisingly short hike) to a place called Litlefjellet -This was the view! Litlefjellet, Norwegian for ‘Little Mountain’, is the name of the center mountain. Plus, we found the iconic pond that perfectly reflects the whole scene. I loved it so much that I decided to make it into wood art! I hope you love it, too #woodart #artandairplanes #art #woodworking #wood #norway #mountains #hiking #sun
Loving the trend of all of these new free lightweight apps, both human and AI coded. Just in the past few months: * New lightweight Mastodon/BlueSky client * New Github viewer * New ebook reader * New RSS reader * a web-based typing tutor * And many more I'm missing. What other cool apps do we need to shoutout?
I made three NVDA addons. WikiSeek: NVDA+w, Type your query, searches wikipedia, comes up with a result in a text field. Cuts out all the guff. Downside it cuts out tables too, but you have the option of opening up the article in browser too. Configurable in settings as to whether it auto-opens, and which wikipedia language you want it to pull articles from.
dateParser: NVDA+E. Enter a passed or future date to find out how many days, weeks months or years ago it was either for curiocity, or to find out when a special date happened or will happen for you in the future. You can say things like: 2025-05-01 or 35 Mondays ago, or 19 Tue from now.
Minuter: NVDA+Shift+Backspace. Enable/disable beeps, spoken seconds or use the supplied sound files to go off every second, 5 seconds before the top of the next minute and at the top of the next minute. Your settings remain active even when the dialog is closed. All can be downloaded from here: onj.me/nvda
@serrebi Anything created by @midzi , including SARA - which is accessible radio automation software and some GUI tools for Shazam on Desktop: github.com/michaldziwisz
Working on a real beauty currently with the extensive help of gemini 3 pro and a sighted friend to help fix up the UI. It's not ready for release yet, but I reckon I'll post the link for when it is ready in your thread, if you'd like.
SonarIRC is the first 100% accessibility first irc client ever made for windows. No more of this horrible half hacked together accessibility support via scripts in mIRC or others of the same. It is also up to modern irc standards and has a ton of irc v3 capabilities supported. Compatibility also with all screen readers that uses UIA.
@pixelate I didn't want to put that out there since it's on a private web site but yes, it's new too. Also a new telegram client, but I haven't used it and don't know the URL. I'm told it's on a telegram group. Easygram?
My wife and I are fortunate to be in Iceland at the moment, and we managed to capture a timelapse of last night’s aurora. It was one of those moments in my life when I could hardly believe my own eyes. Enjoy! #aurora #iceland #timelapse
Our system has been all weird since our stressful weekend. I'd like it to not. I'm sure we'll be okay, it's just annoying that stressors continue to effect our headspace and system behavior for a couple days after. - Samara
Relatable. And I'm sorry. Here it's either everyone distressed, physical body pain, or daydreaming exessively, like, can't stop even if I want to. It'll all get normal, but I advice to usually checkin with everyone, to see if something is bothering one of you and to just provide each other comfort. Safety in numbers, and unity makes system stronger etc. I hope you figure out the headspace stuff soon. And you all get a little virtual hug.
@tardis We're not very touchy people actually. But yes I agree on the rest. Definitely there is a better caretaking network with all of us present. I think it's just lingering stress from all the weird stuff that happened on the weekend, I'd say it'll likely all clear by the end of the week, if even that long. We'll be okay I'm sure. - Samara
Not a touchy person here, either. Unless I know the person. If I don't, I freak out, then someone else takes over, because stressful, triggering, to be touched randomly by someone.
@tardis Yeah, that. People trying to do touch stuff without our initiating are just something we don't prefer. Especially if we've repeatedly told them to quit, and they keep doing it anyway. We regularly have to put up with that, very frustrating. - Kylie
If you run a mastodon instance, it's time to upgrade. There are some security issues fixed in the version released today: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Upgrade overview
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Got this error when updating to latest version. File "platforms\mastodon\__init__.py", line 3, in <module> File "pyimod02_importers.py", line 457, in exec_module File "platforms\mastodon\account.py", line 8, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cache'
Oh goodness, the internet is saying that the new Trek show that just came out is super cringey. Why oh why do they keep pulling this garbage? I'm all for DEI stuff, but can't it be done without making it so cringey that people just check out? Honestly, as a person who is both blind and gay, it's kind of insulting that something this aweful is supposed to help people like me feel more excepted and whatnot in society. #GetALife
The applyVoiceToFrame function loops through all frame fields (47) for each frame, which is heavy. Since only a handful of fields are modified by voices, precomputing the operations for each voice once could significantly boost performance. By mapping the voice operations to a precomputed list, I can reduce the 94 lookups per frame. That will help things out here a lot I think.
@FastSM Can we get an option so when you move someone to a list you can hide their posts from the home timeline? ON twitter I used to do this by adding them to a list and not following them. but on mastodon, you have to follow them so you get dupe posts. one in the list and one in home. I'm just wanting to make things a bit cleaner.
I know of a couple of options, Easygram and something called TGram, but since telegram support won't probably make it to FastSM, as far as I understand, know of any other telegram clients, especially for mac OS?
Thank goodness. I already fixed that language switching bug. No new link because it's so close to V4's release that V4's link was updated. If you really want it, grab the V4 link with another browser. This one also updates it so notification doesn't have a slight W sound in it, so yeah. That's fixed too. Now I can really work on refactoring and not adding updates for next version. Oh yay.
So my dad, who is a musty old conservative, but like, not in a stupid way, says he thinks the only way out of our current political mess is a civil war, most likely with ~100,000 dead. So, uh, that's fun. :/
I've been saying that MAGA would have to quit their jobs to build their militia and that means the banks would start foreclose and the repo men would be coming for their trucks pretty early into this endeavour, but Trump is giving them jobs at ICE now...
we also have to consider whether or not people are willing to lower their standard of living/safety by that much. You're going to have to give up a lot to wage a real war. Systems will break down, supply lines will dry up, suddenly you're wondering where to even get food from as the store shelves go empty and people start to panic AND PROBABLY TURN ON YOU FOR CREATING THIS PROBLEM
I type really fast. Too fast for eSpeakup apparently, because I was installing Debian 13 in VMWare Workstation 25H2 just now, got to the part where I enter my full name for my user account, started quickly typing my name, got as far as typing "Stu H" before eSpeakup just fell over and died. No problem, I'll restart the VM and try again. The exact same thing happened at the exact same point in setup. This is the state of Linux accessibility in 2026.
Speech dying in Linux when using Vmware has been an issue from time to time for years. If you are on an m chip based mac the first micro second of each read out is chopped off.
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Okay y'all, first public, alpha, version of Elmud! Basically, the install script should handle everything for you, if you're on Termux for Android, Linux, or Mac. Hopefully. If not, just load-file elmud.el and it'll load emacspeak-elmud.el too. If you need a screen reader, set up and use Emacspeak. For soundpacks, we have one automatically load for Erion MUD and Cosmic Rage. Those are the two I've found easily downloadable. So the client just downloads the sounds for you when you choose those two MUD's. You can also make your own gag or sound triggers. I'll put it up on Github soon but for now:
@khronos You'll need the Emacs package, so do pkg i emacs, then git clone github.com/tvraman/emacspeak, and then make inside the emacspeak directory, then get a speech engine working, I recommend just going with Espeak when starting out, make Espeak. If it doesn't work have AI fix it up. Then git clone ElMud, run the install script, and in Emacs, M-x ElMud.
Carney's action so far have been the opposite of his campaign promise. He is Neville Chamberlain. And if the US Army hummers cross the border, he'll be Pétain.
Today was nice; didn't have any new things demanding my attention, so just pushed a few existing things forward. Also managed to get back to looking at bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…. Found that, with my test, some text doesn't show up in the AT-SPI hierarchy if I just remove the conditionals mentioned in the bug. I'd really need access to the WebKit slack, since there is apparently some discussion there, but, when I try to join (from the Getting Started link on webkit.org), I get a message saying that the invite has expired. I wonder if the link works for other people. I emailed someone at Apple the other day; hoping that he gets back to me.
@pvagner What I was describing is similar to that, but I was only seeing it with a patched local version. I was hoping that it might fix this evolution crash that I'm seeing when I try to authenticate a gmail account--that was really the thing that I'm most interested in trying to fix right now--but it seems not to make any difference. Anyway, is what you're describing something that you're seeing with an unpatched WebKit? If so, is there a bug open for it?
@Mike Gorse I can reproduce this all the time with epiphany and any tauri based app. I'm on arch linux with webkitgtk-6.0 2.50.4. As for the bug reports I have no idea currently. There is loads of issues and I am not familiar with them.
Oohaohaohaoaha I already see a bug comin' But it's so tricky to solve: When you change to another language, say, from the one current, it doesn't reload the configuration data for that language from the new pack. Gosh darn. It's good at updating it when the synth reloads, as it syncs the settings with the ones in config, but not so good upon a language change. Fixing that one now. Then it really is modularization time, this driver is horrendous in size and a lot of it is frontend and DLL loading stuff that will need splitting out now that we support both X64 and x86 too. (the driver itself should work on NVDA 2023.2 and above though)
NVSpeechPlayer update: dedicated settings panel with editable language pack data. This allows you to also edit a language pack in notepad and reload the synthesizer, then reapply the pack configuration - that part was tricky, but it will read them when reloading the driver. Voice settings panel: Anything with "lang:" starting before it are new comboboxes you can also tune. This applies realtime as you change, whereas the settings page helps you edit a language not currently in use. New settings added: spellingDiphthongMode, stressedVowelHiatusGapMs, stressedVowelHiatusFadeMs. Next update will mainly be a driver cleanup, as we can use getters/setters more efficiently for the new YAML parsing. The goal was to first get a stable settings panel and pack reloading so people can mess with settings realtime. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Ye I manually copied the link and added the missing t in Chrome looly. And then I forgot I already favorited the reply lol still getting used to the way things work with FastSM, I wanna get the same optimisations done on Thrive, and then start the beta phase of developing that.
High-functioning depression is scary because you can hide your emotions, feelings and thoughts very well, so no one realises that you're not okay. Even if you do say something, people don't realise how severe it is because you don't seem like someone who is spiralling out of control mentally.
So I’m just curious, has anyone actually thought to ask the people who live in #Greenland what they think or what they want? Because I’ve seen precious little evidence that anyone has. It seems that they’re being treated like the non-player characters #Musk used to talk about. I brought this up on a #Facebook post earlier today, and someone told me that 50,000 or 60,000 people live there, the implication being what they thought didn’t really matter. Meanwhile, we are seeing the dealmaking skills that so many people thought made #Trump a great President, though these skills begin and end with acting like a mob boss. #USPol
Well, I've heard people discussing it (on the BBC, for instance), but not Donald Tramp or the people who approve of him. I just saw a couple of my relatives share a fb post saying that Europe doesn't pay its fair share in terms of defense and Greenland is important for security and the US can't spend large amounts of money on defense projects there if we don't own it (it said nothing about what the people of Greenland would or wouldn't want).
My hyperfixation of the moment is getting 10Gb networking in my apartment.
My in-apartment build+backup server has 10Gb Ethernet as does my new laptop dock.
I also have two systems with 2.5Gb Ethernet, so I want a switch that has all that and a few extra ports for future expansion.
I thought fiber for 10Gb would be difficult, but it looks like it's end user friendly now? I'd just have to buy a switch with SFP+ ports and plug in all the pieces, huh!
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Yay, no new builds for a little while now with blindRSS, now that I got skip silence working properly. It's still experimental, but you won't go as crazy using it now.
telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USER environment variable received from the client as the last parameter.
If the client supply a carefully crafted USER environment value being the string "-f root", and passes the telnet(1) -a or --login parameter to send this USER environment to the server, the client will be automatically logged in as root bypassing normal authentication processes
I've been messing around with this FAstSM client today. I like it. Needs a bit of work, but I mean it's new so that's obvious, but I think once it gets more updates it's gonna be a good client.
@Bri I wouldn't be surprised if the developer started charging us out the ass for it. Like all the greedy developers for accessible apps do. I mean come on. I live in my parents basement, and I'm 50 something. Do you really think I can afford all these ridiculous insane charges for what these greedy developers charge? I mean, I already have huge Xbox game purchase bills to pay. I don't need this on top of everything else!
@Bri well if he does start charging that, I'll put up a GoFundMe. I know my other blind friends, and even cited people in the world will take pity on me and i'll play the poor blind person card. I should have enough at least for a month or two.
Okay, I finally decided to check out what everyone is on about and try Braille screen input on my IPhone. I definitely needed to look for and read some instructions, since I needed to know how to calibrate it, and how to enter a space, and how to erase the last character that I entered. Anyhow, as an experiment, I went into Notes and tried typing "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" with touch typing and then with Braille screen input, timing myself. Took me around 40 seconds touch typing and around 35 seconds with BSI. I might be able to do BSI faster if I practiced some. With touch typing, I feel like I'm slowed down waiting for Voiceover to tell me if I, in fact, typed the correct key.
I’d be much slower. I haven’t typed Braille input since I was using the Braille N Speak 35 years ago. I really have to think about what dot combinations equal each letter and punctuation.
@Thumper1964 I haven't typed Braille input much in a long time, either, so I'm a little out of practice, and I needed to think about it a bit, too, but I wanted to experiment and time myself with it.
@dodecahedron We're supposed to get a bunch of that junk here. They're talking about ice and junk, the kind that likes to make March 7, 2014 type situations happen. Time to charge junk.
@dodecahedron I... do not. I do have a bunch of battery banks, a laptop that lasts pretty much a full day on it's internal battery, and all three U.S. mobile providers though. So, if one breaks, maybe one of the others will not. Then I can be online, low power, and cold.
@BorrisInABox @dodecahedron Wondering, say that hypothetically, all of your power banks died tomorrow, what power bank might you buy next, and why? It’s interesting seeing how you think.
We are @fdroidorg (#fdroid) Meet us at #fosdem #fosdem2026 Our stand will be at UD1 (Building U, Entrance D, Floor 1). We are also close to Saturday's FOSS on Mobile devroom (located at UB4.132, just on the opposite side of the Group G Square).
![Subject: Web3 community-driven funding initiative for curl
Hi Daniel,
I wanted to reach out because the impact you’ve had through curl and libcurl is genuinely foundational.
Also, lately in the crypto world, developers who had fundamental historical impact on the ecosystem are going viral; people are rediscovering the “builders behind the builders.”You are absolutely in that category, and that momentum creates a strong window to do a Web3, community-driven funding initiative that could meaningfully support you and the work around curl.
There’s a real opportunity to raise significant community funding around that impact. This has been done already with Isaac Z. Schlueter (the creator of npm), where a web3 community funding initiative raised $100k+. The point is: when the story is clear and the contribution is undeniable, the community can move in a big way.
I tried contacting you on X, but it looks like your DMs are closed. If you’re open to it, I can share more details to make this work without wasting your time.
You can reach me here:
[bla bla bla]
Thanks for everything you’ve done for the internet and for developers.
Best,
[name]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/750903 "Subject: Web3 community-driven funding initiative for curl
Hi Daniel,
I wanted to reach out because the impact you’ve had through curl and libcurl is genuinely foundational.
Also, lately in the crypto world, developers who had fundamental historical impact on the ecosystem are going viral; people are rediscovering the “builders behind the builders.”You are absolutely in that category, and that momentum creates a strong window to do a Web3, community-driven funding initiative that could meaningfully support you and the work around curl.
There’s a real opportunity to raise significant community funding around that impact. This has been done already with Isaac Z. Schlueter (the creator of npm), where a web3 community funding initiative raised $100k+. The point is: when the story is clear and the contribution is undeniable, the community can move in a big way.
I tried contacting you on X, but it looks like your DMs are closed. If you’re open to it, I can share more details to make this work without wasting your time.
You can reach me here:
[bla bla bla]
Thanks for everything you’ve done for the internet and for developers.
Best,
[name]")
![Hi Daniel,
My name is Sean, and I’m reaching out with a genuine idea that I believe aligns closely with the ethos of cURL and long-standing open source work.
We work with a small number of creators and maintainers on optional, community-driven projects designed to financially support important software without changing ownership, governance, or how the project itself is developed. The intent is not speculation or hype, but a way for communities to voluntarily support the people behind the tools they rely on.
The reason I’m writing is cURL. It is difficult to overstate how foundational it is to modern software, and yet the economic upside for its creator has historically been limited relative to its impact. We believe there is a respectful opportunity to change that, if and only if you were comfortable with it.
In practice, this would be a web3-based community project where supporters can voluntarily participate, with royalties transparently assigned to you. Importantly, nothing proceeds without explicit approval, and there is no expectation of promotion, endorsement, or ongoing involvement from you unless you choose otherwise.
We have seen this model work in a grounded, non-speculative way already. One recent example is an infrastructure-focused community project supporting Isaac Z. Schlueter, the creator of npm. That project has generated approximately $115k in creator royalties to date, driven primarily by developers who wanted a direct way to give back.
[cut]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/750905 "Hi Daniel,
My name is Sean, and I’m reaching out with a genuine idea that I believe aligns closely with the ethos of cURL and long-standing open source work.
We work with a small number of creators and maintainers on optional, community-driven projects designed to financially support important software without changing ownership, governance, or how the project itself is developed. The intent is not speculation or hype, but a way for communities to voluntarily support the people behind the tools they rely on.
The reason I’m writing is cURL. It is difficult to overstate how foundational it is to modern software, and yet the economic upside for its creator has historically been limited relative to its impact. We believe there is a respectful opportunity to change that, if and only if you were comfortable with it.
In practice, this would be a web3-based community project where supporters can voluntarily participate, with royalties transparently assigned to you. Importantly, nothing proceeds without explicit approval, and there is no expectation of promotion, endorsement, or ongoing involvement from you unless you choose otherwise.
We have seen this model work in a grounded, non-speculative way already. One recent example is an infrastructure-focused community project supporting Isaac Z. Schlueter, the creator of npm. That project has generated approximately $115k in creator royalties to date, driven primarily by developers who wanted a direct way to give back.
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Bri🥰
in reply to Blind Bargains • • •Andre Louis
in reply to Blind Bargains • • •I made three NVDA addons.
WikiSeek:
NVDA+w, Type your query, searches wikipedia, comes up with a result in a text field. Cuts out all the guff. Downside it cuts out tables too, but you have the option of opening up the article in browser too. Configurable in settings as to whether it auto-opens, and which wikipedia language you want it to pull articles from.
dateParser: NVDA+E. Enter a passed or future date to find out how many days, weeks months or years ago it was either for curiocity, or to find out when a special date happened or will happen for you in the future.
You can say things like:
2025-05-01 or 35 Mondays ago, or 19 Tue from now.
Minuter: NVDA+Shift+Backspace. Enable/disable beeps, spoken seconds or use the supplied sound files to go off every second, 5 seconds before the top of the next minute and at the top of the next minute.
Your settings remain active even when the dialog is closed.
All can be downloaded from here: onj.me/nvda
Index of /nvda
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Paweł Masarczyk
in reply to Blind Bargains • • •michaldziwisz - Overview
GitHubCasey Reeves
in reply to Blind Bargains • • •Working on a real beauty currently with the extensive help of gemini 3 pro and a sighted friend to help fix up the UI. It's not ready for release yet, but I reckon I'll post the link for when it is ready in your thread, if you'd like.
SonarIRC is the first 100% accessibility first irc client ever made for windows. No more of this horrible half hacked together accessibility support via scripts in mIRC or others of the same. It is also up to modern irc standards and has a ton of irc v3 capabilities supported. Compatibility also with all screen readers that uses UIA.
Scott
in reply to Casey Reeves • • •Tech Singer
in reply to Blind Bargains • • •GitHub - gozaltech/NVDARemoteCompanion: A cross-platform NVDA Remote client
GitHubDevin Prater :blind:
in reply to Tech Singer • • •Tech Singer
in reply to Devin Prater :blind: • • •Michał Dziwisz
in reply to Tech Singer • • •Support - AccessibleGram - VoiceOver First Telegram Client for IOS
accessiblegram.net