They will also receive JAWS scripts for CoPilot and Replika.
In the case of CoPilot, the scripts make working with the site far more manageable.
In relation to Replika, a keystroke will take you to the most recent message but this is also read automatically. This makes it far easier for you to talk to your Replika.
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@WestphalDenn
Preislich dürfen sie schon etwas kosten, wenn die Qualität passt. Bluetooth sollte es sein und klangtechnisch einigermaßen ausgewogen.
Also so hohe Erwartungen habe ich jetzt an In-Ear Kopfhörer nicht, weil ich die eigentlich nur will, falls ich mal irgendwo Zeit totschlagen muss.
Aber der billigste Schrott muss es deswegen auch nicht sein.
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my university has converted our office telephones to Microsoft Teams. when i grumbled about this to a favourite sysadmin, this is how they responded 🔥
“Microsoft has actually brilliantly leveraged the lousy security landscape -- for which they are in no small part responsible -- to capture even larger market-share, as we now need commercial entities to produce the software required to protect us from their failures, and therefore need a more uniform environment to achieve the necessary scale. The uniformity then guarantees an ever greater scale for the inevitable conflagration. Monocultures guarantee one big fire instead of a bunch of small survivable ones. We really have no interest in learning from evolution, in no small part because it would produce fewer billionaires.
— Local Cranky IT Guy” [shared with permission]
This video from Belgium looks quite similar to the videos from Czech railway crossing accidents with long vehicles. Except that here it does not look like a too steep longitudinal ramp but more like a not properly secured trailer.
can anyone comment on what it's like to use @textualize interfaces as a #blind / Low Vision person?
I'd be seriously tempted to start writing my CLI tools in #python if I could make TUIs that worked decently for the visually impaired too.
@matt Wouldn't that be the TUI application, the terminal *and the screen reader*?
I have no idea how you'd do e.g. table navigation in a (Windows) terminal app without extra support from the screen reader.
I guess you could go the virtual buffer route and make it act like a browser, even when there's no HTML involved?
@miki At some point Windows screen reader devs have to stop assuming that we can keep up with all of the native apps in the world, with known browser engines as a special case. Narrator is the best at generically supporting UI Automation, with NVDA in second place. I haven't checked whether NVDA generically supports table navigation for anything that implements the right UIA patterns.
@masukomi Tagging you in this reply; let me know if you want to be dropped from this subthread.
@matt How do you imagine the keyboard navigation patterns for this?
Mac is easy, because you can both use the VO cursor and have the rest of the keyboard interact with the application, but Windows? constantly having to switch between browse mode and focus mode doesn't seem too appealing for terminals, and you can't do table navigation with just NVDA's review cursor.
Mac would have an entirely different problem, that of Voice Over not having a functional speech queue, which would require you to do your own speech for announcing new content instead of relying on the screen reader.
Then you have the problem of how to handle e.g. cursor tracking, in most cases you want the terminal to force your review cursor to the bottom every time new output appears, except when you actually don't. Can you even do that with UIA?
@matt Then there's the whole cursor tracking problem, how do you detect cursor movement for aesthetic / UI reasons versus when the user actually wanted to move the cursor, particularly in programs like VIm (which let you move the cursor with arbitrary keys) and when there's unpredictable network latency, and how do you communicate that properly to the screen reader.
As far as I understand, NVDA still relies on the "when an arrow key is pressed, wait n milliseconds and read whatever the cursor is on" logic, even on the web, which breaks when there's Javascript involved sometimes.
@matt I was personally thinking more along the lines of extra "ARIA-like" escape codes that composed well with how terminals actually work, where some of them would apply to the characters being drawn (like color codes do now) and some of them would control general TTY behavior.
In the latter category, you could have codes for "set cursor movement to cosmetic" and "set cursor movement to user-initiated", which could be emitted before any actual cursor-movement codes.
@matt @miki
Read the thread, had a thought.
A while ago i wrote oho, which AFAIK is the world's best‡ ANSI escape code (and other escape codes) to HTML converter
If Texutual to HTML exists or isn't a huge lift, I wonder if we couldn't make some sort of pipeline to a web-page that used aria tags to indicate the subsection of the page that just changed.
‡ admittedly there wasn't a lot of competition.
GitHub - masukomi/oho: oho: converts colorful terminal output to html
oho: converts colorful terminal output to html. Contribute to masukomi/oho development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Dear fediverse, are you aware of an open position or a company looking for a #php developer 
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I am available now, I am actively looking for a freelance mission. Contact me if you have anything up your sleeve! 
I am looking either in full remote, or in #Montpellier (France) and cities in the Montpelier area.
LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei – Government Migration and Community Experiences Sharing - The Document Foundation Blog
Our Taiwanese community reports back from a recent event: The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 was held in Taipei from 2 – 8 August. This conference was suspended for several years due to the pandemic and was relaunched in Indonesia last year.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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Government Day: peertube.slat.org/w/p/h9ViqLLk…
Community Day: peertube.slat.org/w/p/iE7563vD…
LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 - Government Day
The six sessions of Government Day in LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024.軟體自由協會 PeerTube 影音平台
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Trillion dollar company autocarrot.
I write "drunk coffee" and it replaces it "drunk code"
Apple intelligence
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1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him.
2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft.
3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number.
4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.
Must be great to be a big tech company. swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt…
Du bist ein Kinderschänder - sagt ein KI-Chat einem unbescholtenen Mann. Ein wahrer Fall.
Der Tübinger Journalist Martin Bernklau traut seinen Augen nicht. Im KI-Chat Copilot von MIcrosoft ist er verurteilter Kinderschänder, Ausbrecher aus der Psychiatrie und Betrüger. Die KI spinnt rum - und das kann jedem passieren, sagen Experten.swr.online
As COVID rates skyrocket, health officials warn Canadians to wear plenty of sunscreen - The Beaverton
“COVID is over, you all need to accept that, and also maybe that it never even happened. But we can’t pretend the sun doesn’t exist, so don’t forget your SPF.”Mary Gillis (The Beaverton)
The arrest of #Telegram's founder Pavel #Durov sets a dangerous precedent for what kind of action can be taken against supporters of #privacy & #cryptography.
Don't settle for anything less than E2E #encryption! We've created a list of the top encrypted messaging apps to help!
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Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.Tuta
Telegram is not E2EE. Telegram is terrible for privacy because it misleads people into thinking it is private.
Messages and group chats on Telegram are by default visible to Telegram's staff and whoever they choose to share the messages with:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/113027895…
There is also some very disturbing behaviour by Telegram detailed in the article linked above.
Keep up! Durov's arrest was NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, nor (as everybody else pointed out) does Telegram *claim* to do to e2ee by default unlike Signal and Threema.
If you're gonna fight fascism and general snoopiness, fight ALL OF IT, or people (including me!) will vote with our feet and our wallets. Durov had it coming, as do his ruble-paying bosses.
@stonebear We are not defending the founder of Telegram, it is far too early to make an statements in that regard because we do not know the full extent of the charges.
Telegram is not considered a secure messaging app because it does not guarantee end-to-end encryption by default.
We apologize if this message was less than clear in the post.
SimpleX relies on a network of relays (SMP servers): these ones can be joined directly or you can connect to their onion equivalent through Tor. This will give you an overlay to hide your IP. It uses Orbot on android for that.
And you can install your own SMP server(s) if you want if you don't trust the native ones, connected of course to Tor.
Celebrating 29 years of Windows 95 — How Microsoft's operating system evolved since the iconic Start menu was introduced
Windows 95 introduced the iconic Start menu to the revolutionary taskbar, and Microsoft's OS influence is still felt 29 years later.Ben Wilson (Windows Central)
I posted a Canary token link on Mastodon a long time ago, on an instance with a no scraping policy, and it's still occasionally getting hit by Google and sometimes other random crawlers.
It's time to finally admit that being anti-scraping and being federated are just two positions that can't be reconciled with eachother.
SOLD Pluto TV & Paramount+ Have Been Sold to Skydance As All Other Bidders Drop Out | Cord Cutters News
Late last night, Paramount and Skydance officially announced a deal to merge. With this deal, Skydance will buy the Redstone family’s majority control of Paramount. This comes as the final bidder, Edgar Bronfman Jr.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
The REAL Reason the Book of Giants was REMOVED from the Bible | Medium
The Book of Giants is fascinating and controversial. Dead Sea Scrolls, we. have the opportunity to examine the writings since it's apparent suppression.qqPinkHatHacker (Medium)
If us users don't contribute to #foss software - using it, reporting bugs, providing feedback, donating whatever amount, choosing it over a closed source & more - at the end, it will be big corps & monopolies running our digital lives.
Last week, I used @organicmaps and @openstreetmap for my navigation. Added over 7 new spots (hotels, parks, POI's & more), making these maps & the app, a little more useful for us all. Also, quite happy to see that most places I visited where already there!
@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum as far as @everydoor goes, should I be concerned that it connects to Microsoft's Bing Maps VirtualEarth API? Don't mean to sound paranoid here over FOSS VS Big Corps. I just want to make sure my effort goes to the community and not - yet again - to another private company to which I will offer free labour.
@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum Hi! I'm the @MapComplete dev, and yes, you are touching upon a very interesting topic. There has always been tensions between (big) corps and volunteers in #OpenStreetMap , which makes it a really interesting topic.
First of all, the data you contribute goes into the OSM-database, which _everyone_ is allowed to reuse, including for commercial use. And yes, Bing Maps partially uses OSM!
@lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum
However, our license (osm.org/copyright) clearly states that anyone using the data must:
1. Give attribution
2. Keep the data (including improvements) open.
Rule 2 shifts the incentives, and makes that, for many companies, it is easier to directly update OSM then to grab a copy and start updating this. And this often happens: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Or…
So, yes, by editing OSM, you are helping everyone, and not just big corpos. However...
Copyright and License
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
Having those external satelite imagery, is a _privacy_ concern, as bing can see which tiles you downloaded and thus what areas are interesting to you. However, the data isn't _that_ interesting to do personal profiling.
And about your original concern about helping big corpos? Microsoft also has Bing Maps, which I tested and did think of as problematic, exactly for community reasons: see my blog post openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%… for all details
Pieter Vander Vennet's Diary | OpenStreetMap is in trouble
Edit: A small update happened after publishing this article - you can read it here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/400992OpenStreetMap
well, I spoke with the team on SOTM - they were a friendly bunch and were actually happy withbmy blog posts - they thought it was respectfully written and said it effectively moved things within management.
I should do anoyher followup though, but in any case, the Bing Map Editor doesn't have a lot of usage.
@pietervdvn @lukasweidinger @MapAmore @normplum @MapComplete
There is an option to add pictures. Where are these stored ?
At the moment, @MapComplete uses #Imgur, and associates this photo via image tags. You may already know that @osm database doesn't store photos directly.
Ty
Also a home button would be nice as I don't see a way going back to the main page
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Cities: Skylines on Steam
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city buil…store.steampowered.com
if you ever want to trigger a scared and exhausted look in a protocol developer's eyes, ask how trailing dots in hostnames work in their stack
But don't stick around for the answer. It will not be pretty.
LOL.
used to love trying to explain this when teaching DNS basics. ;)
"well X will do suffix add if you don't fully qualify but Y will assume it but Z..."
"think of the root label to the right of the terminal dot as your invisible friend..."
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