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If you develop on #Windows, I could use your quick assistance on this #curl issue: github.com/curl/curl/issues/14…
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

- Found the problem, windows builds assumed the keepalive delays should be in milliseconds but newer windows builds use setsockopt and want seconds.


Are there any visually impaired recorder players out there? I'm waiting for my first recorder to arrive, an Aulos 309A (alto, baroque fingering). All the fingering resources I've found use PDFs or images to explain where the fingers should go for the different notes. I found r/recorder, where someone provided a number-based list for me to get started with, but I'd like a more comprehensive resource if one exists.

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in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I wish, but ChatGPT failed miserably when I tried to have it explain guitar playing to me. I wouldn't trust it to give me accurate information, and my musical ear isn't good enough to pick up small mistakes in tone.


New LeaseyBite. A Sophisticated Windows Clipboard.

As you know, Leasey contains a feature called LeaseyClips, allowing you to copy multiple text segments and paste them into a text edit area in any order of your choosing. However, Leasey version 9 also contains the ability to automatically append text to the windows clipboard for those people who would like to use it in this way.
This means that you can copy or cut text segments from multiple sources and paste them into a document or text edit area.

The audio for this item is here.
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First post on #mastodon, getting to know the place. Mostly interested in #science & #scicom content. Hello everyone! 👋
#introduction
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Gurman: AirPods 4 Still Launching This Year in Two Variants macrumors.com/2024/08/19/gurma…


“Oh great. It's no longer possible to download the Barnes & Noble Nook app, which means there's no way to install it on my new tablet. This in turn means that the ~100 books I have on Nook are now gone. Pffft. I will never be able to read them again.

Three cheers for the intersection of modern technology and crappy corporations.” #KevinDrum jabberwocking.com/no-more-nook…



The silent keyboard feedback while typing with VoiceOver in latest iOS Facebook update, is just the last one of a series of reasons why Facebook accessibility sucks more and more. dragonscave.space/@BlindGordon…


I know I have covid and my Brain is seriously on go-slow mode.
But writing the phrase
"back/forward"
and then taking more than 30 seconds to convince myself that I did use the correct delimiter was not on my agenda.
But my screen reader said "back slash", you see ...


S 1,000000000003 Abfahrt 13:12, heute voraussichtlich 9,9999999999997 Minuten später. Grund dafür ist ein Gleitkommafehler.



When it occurred to me that “yolo” is basically a James Bond title, I suddenly realized that most of our online acronyms would also make great Bond titles.

James Bond will return in...

Be Right Back
Not Safe For Work
In Case You Missed It
As Far As I Know
For What It’s Worth
To Be Honest
I Am Not A Lawyer
In [Her Majesty’s] Humble Opinion



@masukomi Apple does that a lot, unfortunately. Then they pick things up and add amazing stuff without warning sometimes decades on.

In fairness, TTS is objectively complex. People's use cases are hugely variable.

in reply to Sean Randall

yeah, agreed about the complexity, but they've been sitting on their asses not doing anything beyond the bare basics with the text-to-speech engine.


Naše instance mastodon.arch-linux.cz :arch: byla právě aktualizovaná na verzi Mastodon v4.2.12
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…


The Amazon rainforest people who age more slowly than the rest of the world bbc.com/news/articles/ceq55l2g…


Google tried to give new Pixel phones to influencers. Then it backfired. mashable.com/article/team-pixe…


Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals sciencealert.com/alzheimers-ma…


Happy Birthday to the LVFS

9 years ago today I wrote 4 little PHP scripts and pushed it to OpenShift which was the beginning of the LVFS. We've since rewritten it in Python, switched the deployment from "sudo git pull" on the server under my stairs at home (literally) to deploying onto AWS with Terraform.

In 9 years we've onboarded over 140 vendors, shipped ~110 million firmware files and added support for ~85 firmware update protocols for ~1600 different devices. I'm pretty happy with that.



“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech publicdomainreview.org/essay/e…


Email Accessibility on Mobile: What Your Blind Customers Wish You Knew blog.usablenet.com/enhancing-e…


lol I love little games like this. Physically I’m a little dog, but mentally I’m a cat.


TIL that using markdown style underscores to emphasize a word or phrase _like this_ sucks for screen readers.

🤦‍♀️
it reads the underscores, which makes sense but…

I just wish there was a way to provide emphasis clues to people reading regardless of vision levels. Italics and bold and all that are incredibly useful tools for text communication and it sucks to not be able to use any of them on an effing messaging platform.

#accessibility

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo apple’s does leave a lot to be desired as far as its pure text-to-speech capabilities go.

It feels like yet another piece of software they wrote a “good enough” version of, released, and then just wandered off and forgot about.



It's bad enough that we had region-locked physical media, but for the internet to have not given that up by now is just stupid.
It's 2024 and I can't watch a random youtube video from the US. Why? I don't get it.
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Rui Batista
you have also some weird broadcasting deals. There are a couple shows you can’t watch on some country on netflix or whatever because some company bought exclusive rights for that region.


NV Access | In-process 19th August 2024 nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

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Are you into Rust, Python, JavaScript, or CSS? Why not get paid to work on a web browser engine?

Servo is participating in Outreachy, a three-month paid (7000 USD) remote internship program that runs twice a year.

Apply before 21 August at 16:00 UTC → outreachy.org/apply/eligibilit…

#outreachy #internships #opensource

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Hot on the heels of today's release, our In-Process blog is out with all the info you need! Highlights of NVDA 2024.3, a note for RC users, thanks to SignPath, how to make the most of the new mouse wheel scroll commands, and a head's up about A11y Camp.

Check it all out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersion #Release #Update #Blog #News #FOSS

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Ever since the latest version, renaming files in the Windows Explorer with F2 is inaccessible. However, the context menu option works...


Content, for content's sake, leads to discontent.

#aphorism



NPR: America's only native bamboo was once plentiful along river banks, before making way for agriculture. Now it's a rare plant, and there are efforts to bring it back.#news #NPR npr.org/2024/08/19/nx-s1-50738…
#News #NPR


It’s literally Monday. Here is my unofficial guide to the HTML `<article>` element:

heydonworks.com/article/the-ar…

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Šiel by som na nejakú dedinskú punkovicu, podotýkam dedinskú.


Opasok nepustí, blížim sa pomaly opäť k poslednej dierke. 😈


Good news Monday: covid test was negative this morning. (Will test again in a couple of hours in case it's a duff test/bad sampling technique. Then if the second test is negative, wait 48 hours and test again before giving the all clear. But feeling mostly better today.)
in reply to Charlie Stross

Congrats! I've been positive since Saturday morning, but the days before were a buildup of irritations. Those 2 lines seemed to be my bodies justification just to sleep, though. The weekend has vanished in a blaze of just not being awake.


When I work a year on #curl that amounts to about 1.5 milliseconds spent on each installation.

Seems worth it.😌

#curl



Trying to boot Fedora on a boring old x86 laptop... so I used Fedora Media Writer to write the image to USB, then hit F9 for boot options.

The drive doesn't show up as a boot option.

BIOS is set to legacy mode, no secure boot, nothing. It just doesn't even try to read from the USB drive.

I guess installing Asahi on Macs is officially easier than installing Linux on PCs... at least some PCs, anyway.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@karolherbst What I really meant is that there's no inaccessible firmware/BIOS UI to deal with.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt oh sure, I was just curious, because I haven't considered that to be a problem at all.

But yeah.. the recovery path being accessible on macos sounds like an important feature, even if that's just a side effect.

However there are people working on using a slim Linux boot environment instead of grub, so that could also solve this issue, but I've heard that the kexec way of doing things doesn't work on apple silicon devices.

in reply to karolherbst 🐧 🦀

@karolherbst It seems to me that it would be better to boot straight into the full OS (with whatever accessibility features it has), with as few intermediate stages as possible, and, in particular, no stages that have their own UI (like u-boot and GRUB). I understand there are reasons to have emulated UEFI and GRUB in the mix for Fedora though, for consistency with other platforms.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt yeah, maybe. I'm not that deep into the topic myself, I just remembered that people were working on it and that it might make sense to bring up accessibility there if that hasn't happen already. Maybe it's one of the reasons of doing that, I just don't know.
in reply to karolherbst 🐧 🦀

@karolherbst @matt The endgame here is to have a thing in the Asahi Installer that can boot an existing install under qemu on macOS, or a rescue image, so you can fix (most) boot issues. If that is using text console passthrough (stdio) it should be accessible via the host macOS.

Then we can mostly just ignore the a11y story for our boot chain since it's largely hidden anyway. Though identifying what a problem is could be a challenge, but there's no practical solution for that inline (no, we're not adding a whole audio engine and screen reader into m1n1/u-boot...). It would make more sense to set up some kind of "breadcrumb" system that logs to a file or NVMe partition something that you can then inspect from macOS (bonus points for using the macOS kernel dump format and triggering the macOS error report dialog directly lol).

in reply to Hector Martin

@karolherbst Definitely agree with not adding an audio engine and screen reader into m1n1 or u-boot. I much prefer the Apple approach of having no UI at all in the happy path (other than the logo and sound that happen in all cases), and falling back to a full OS for anything other than the happy path.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @karolherbst Yeah, we literally install recoveryOS for Asahi because we have to (platform reqs) so it's silly not to use it and slowly grow it into more of a boot recovery environment for *us* too.
in reply to Hector Martin

BTW, thanks for documenting how the Apple Silicon boot process works. I was really impressed when I read, in that Asahi documentation, that even the boot-time volume selector uses a full recovery OS so it can run VoiceOver and other accessibility tools.


Dnes znovu 🙄 právě se mi do timeline "nasypaly" tooty #timothysnyder , které jsou 1 až 3 dny staré. Nějaký nápad proč a či s tím? Jsem na #mastodonczech a používám #moshidon .
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@archos díky, zkusím. Ještě se mrknu na apku #trunks , kterou jsem dřív zkoušel a celkem se mi líbila. Nebo máš ještě nějaké jiné doporučení pro android app? Děkuji
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Já používám Fedialb, nebo phanpy.cz
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"a filename when none exists"

Starting in #curl 8.10.0, curl works a little harder to come up with a filename to store the download in when -O is used.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/19…

#curl
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in the case of http://example.com/one/two/?id=42, what happens when the file 'two' already exists and then you change it to id=43?



Exactly eight years ago #Microsoft made powershell open source and I *immediately* filed a pull request to remove their #curl alias...

Did not really work.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I know that there are some people at Microsoft who care about open source, fairness, mutual support etc.
I wonder what those people think, e. g., @shanselman, @davidfowl.
Sometimes big enterprises get caught up in business rules and compatibility requirements and forget about common sense and fair interactions between humans but there are always people in there who can see through all this and can escalate things in there.
As curl users we can probably agree that the alias is pointless.