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What are the four freedoms (wrong answers only)
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Freedom to, freedom from, freedom reply all, freedom unsubscribe


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Unfortunately I've tried COM registration, restart, and using no add-ons. It does not solve the problem. The info of the completely unresponsive Firefox window with NVDA-f1 is:

Developer info for navigator object:
name: None
role: APPLICATION
processID: 2140
roleText: None
states:
isFocusable: True
hasFocus: False
Python object: <NVDAObjects.Dynamic_FocusableUnfocusableContainerIAccessibleWindowNVDAObject object at 0x09704670>
Python class mro: (<class 'NVDAObjects.Dynamic_FocusableUnfocusableContainerIAccessibleWindowNVDAObject'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.behaviors.FocusableUnfocusableContainer'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.IAccessible.IAccessible'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.window.Window'>, <class 'NVDAObjects.NVDAObject'>, <class 'documentBase.TextContainerObject'>, <class 'baseObject.ScriptableObject'>, <class 'baseObject.AutoPropertyObject'>, <class 'garbageHandler.TrackedObject'>, <class 'object'>)
description: None
location: None
value: None
TextInfo: <class 'NVDAObjects.NVDAObjectTextInfo'>
appModule: AppModule(appModuleHandler, appName='firefox', processID=2140)
appModule.productName: 'Firefox'
appModule.productVersion: '115.7.0'
appModule.helperLocalBindingHandle: c_long(131949872)
windowHandle: 196706
windowClassName: 'MozillaWindowClass'
windowControlID: 0
windowStyle: 399441920
extendedWindowStyle: 256
windowThreadID: 3824
windowText: 'Mozilla Firefox'
displayText: exception: cannot unpack non-iterable NoneType object
IAccessibleObject: <POINTER(IAccessible) ptr=0x7dc4318 at abd7e40>
IAccessibleChildID: 0
IAccessible event parameters: windowHandle=196706, objectID=-4, childID=0
IAccessible accName: exception: (-2147467261, 'Puntero no válido', (None, None, None, 0, None))
IAccessible accRole: ROLE_SYSTEM_APPLICATION
IAccessible accState: exception: (-2147467261, 'Puntero no válido', (None, None, None, 0, None))
IAccessible accDescription: exception: (-2147467261, 'Puntero no válido', (None, None, None, 0, None))
IAccessible accValue: exception: (-2147467261, 'Puntero no válido', (None, None, None, 0, None))


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Vamos adaptándonos al nuevo horario. La vice ya está de vuelta, así que a ver si también se van adaptando las competencias a la nueva estructura. Tendríamos que sacar una orden de delegación, ya puestos.



#Boomer: Ne, ich vergeb doch keine unbefristeten Verträge mehr! Wo kommen wir denn da hin?!

Auch Boomer: #DieseJungenLeute! Keiner will mehr langfristige Verpflichtungen eingehen! Keine Ämter in Vereinen mehr annehmen. Keine Verantwortung im Betrieb mehr annehmen! Denken nur an sich selbst!




September 16, 2024- Time Magazine: “Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?” “COVID-19 has been linked to serious cognitive problems, including dementia and suicidal thinking. And brain fog, a common symptom of Long COVID, can be so profound that people are unable to live the lives and work the jobs they once did.” “.. leading hypotheses suggest that SARS-CoV-2 may cause persistent inflammation in the brain, damage to blood vessels in the brain, immune dysfunction so extreme it affects the brain, or perhaps a combination of all the above. Studies have even found that people’s brains can shrink after having COVID-19, a change potentially associated with cognitive issues.” - time.com/7021575/covid-pandemi…


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The Carter Center is arranging a concert with performances by a broad range of musicians at Atlanta's Fox Theater on Tuesday, Sept. 17. search.app/GH7fD8fnzP7s8M5TA


🎑 中秋節快樂 🥮
추석 잘 보내세요
Chúc Tết Trung thu

The 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunisolar calendar marks the #MidAutumnFestival, when families from East Asia gather to enjoy gazing at the full moon 🌕. This year, it falls on September 17.

While the #MoonCake is a shared tradition among many East Asian cultures, others like barbecue and pomelo is unique to #Taiwan.

youtube.com/watch?v=2ykm-NdXwA…

#中秋 #中秋節 #추석 #Chuseok #TếtTrungThu



The seasons are changing and I am feeling it.

Looking for a new role as Sr. Staff or Principal SWE to work on a product. Remote or hybrid (Berlin area). Open Source is a big plus.

Bringing +20 years of experience in Engineering, especially around standards, processes and software architecture to the table.

I love DX, enabling people and AIDD (AI driven development).

So, if you look for someone to transform and lead your engineering department, let me know.

Sharing is caring.

#FediHire



ahoj, fediverse!

I'm doing a little experiment #selfhosting a single-user instance

I'm also @asl

Not sure what account I will ultimately roll with, but just following everyone in both places to stress test if the potato hosting this can handle federation 😅

in reply to alexa lake

Sounds fun, enjoy navigating your own ship in fedispace, I sure do.


NVDA 2024.4 Beta 4 is now available for download & testing.

Changes introduced in Beta 4:
- Fixed the visual layout of NVDA’s Braille Settings page.
- Fixed an issue causing text not related to shortcut keys to appear in the Commands Quick Reference.
- Updates to translations.

Full information and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #FOSS #PreRelease #Software #Beta #ScreenReader #Accessibility

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I feel like in iOS 18, certain VoiceOver pauses are longer, like the one between the name of a control and its role. As an example, find the "VPN" option in Settings. The pause between "VPN" and "not connected" is huge. The pause between "not connected" and "button", less so, but still longer than it was before (I think).

Here's hoping that one day, Apple will make this a configurable option. Naturally, for at least one version of iOS after they do, the increased customisation will mean control names aren't spoken or something equally broken. But then it will be great.

in reply to James Scholes

A setting I believe is new in iOS 18 that I haven't seen mentioned: VoiceOver -> Rotor -> Change Rotor with Item, the description for which reads:

"Changes the selected rotor based on the VoiceOver-focused item."

This sounds like a great thing to turn off in certain activities, e.g. the rotor switching to "Actions" each time you swipe in Mail or Dystopia can be frustrating. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be one of the settings that's editable on a per-activity basis, limiting its usefulness. I'm not sure I want to turn it off system-wide.

(Edit: this apparently isn't new in iOS 18, just new to me.)

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in reply to James Scholes

I think per-activity configuration is a hard problem to solve, mainly from a user experience/workflow perspective. There are still certain parts of NVDA config profiles that constantly trip people up, for example, and many of them without obvious solutions.

Having said that, Apple's decision to explicitly define a subset of settings that can go in an activity seems like the wrong way to do it. It only leads to fragmentation, and the feature being far less amenable to creativity than it otherwise could be.

in reply to James Scholes

The VO utility approach seems the most sensible.

Create an activity, choose which settings categories should be different for that activity, have the ability to display the settings panes for these categories in an activity context to change the settings.

The NVDA approach is fundamentally broken.

in reply to James Scholes

JAWS seems to have worked well with the app-based scripts for a long time, although even that's caused problems with webapps in recent years.
Activities sound like they should work more of the time than they do because context is key.
in reply to James Scholes

As an example, activities include an "audio ducking option", the options for which in iOS 18 are: "Default", "On", or "Off". In other words, the new ducking modes exposed by the rotor haven't made it into the activities system, because it's isolated and fragmented from the rest of the screen reader.

It requires Apple to explicitly opt aspects of behaviour into activity readiness, and make a new UI for their configuration even though one already exists elsewhere. The result, unsurprisingly for something that relies on humans to put in extra work, is activities feeling like an outdated island, or a feature that's still very immature.

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Aside: apparently the setting to not change the active rotor on focus is not new in iOS 18. Which makes it even more disappointing that it can't be set on a per-activity basis, and only proves the point about the activities feature being badly designed.
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in reply to James Scholes

According to Messages settings, my iMessage is disabled, and I'm not signed in. But I just received an iMessage from the Apple Store, and sent one to someone. Doesn't matter that much to me, given that I used the Messages app about once a year, but I'm not sure what's going on.
in reply to James Scholes

Live Recognition claims that there's a group of people in my living room, standing in the snow.


Coining the term “bork-walled”.

As in a paywall (or TOS, cookie banner, ad overlay, privacy notice, whatever t.f.) but the overlay is borked. (Bad js, bug, adblock, CSP, network, whatever)

Unable to dismiss the overlay because it’s broken, the site becomes permanently inaccessible





I shared a link to the family chat iMessage group. Focus landed in the "to" field, not the "message" field, which isn't good. I wrote my whole message before realizing the problem. Worse, iOS created a new thread, and included the same people that are already in the family chat thread it claimed it was sharing to. Way to go, iOS 18.


Moved the desktop into the living room last night, to put it nearer to the router, as a sort of curiosity. Have been using it remotely, as I have a solution that works for me to do this with super low latency. Works loads and loads better.
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How do I get into this SonoBus thing I keep hearing about? Does it have chat features too (you mentioned TeamTalk)?
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The site is www.sonobus.net It's an audio transmission program mainly meant for musicians to play over the internet. Some of us are using it to route our computer audio over the network because it has very low latency and does not need ASIO drivers, though it can use them. I think it does have chat but I've never used it, as I said, I use it for routing computer audio from one of my own machines to another. As for Teamtalk, I used to use that for the same thing, but the latency is higher. I still use it over the mobile network but, for the home network, I prefer sonobus.


Discovered a massive bug to iOS 18 for VoiceOver users only. Updated one of my phones and the passcode entry field will not come up no matter how you swipe, turn VoiceOver off and the passcode field comes up on first swipe attempt you can then toggle VO back on and enter your passcode. Really bad one if it happens to you


Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Big Brother as a cautionary tale

Tech Company executive Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Larry Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place. "We're going to have supervision," he continued. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."



We've already had two external contributions to Thunderbird Appointment after just a short time of the repo being public (also already 178 stars)!

Written in Python, we'd love to have more contributions. Come and join us. Jump in - the water's fine!

github.com/thunderbird/appoint…



Curious about people's favourite accessibility features in iOS 18?
I just added Live Recognition to the VO rotor. Very interesting.
in reply to Andre Louis

I like TTS equalizer and Braille Screen Input. I also like the ability to enable / disable live regions per website, the new “voices” rotor setting and, as you pointed out, the fact that it’s possible to add Live recognition options to the rotor. Although I wish the latter played better with VoiceOver output stream.


I don't understand why I sometimes see people's closed laptops on tables in the office, upside down, with their little protective feet helplessly sticking up into the air.


Why do I doubt that statement somehow? Elon did it on purpose to achieve people talking about him, which is what we are doing now! :) Elon Musk Says He's Learned a Lesson - Business Insider businessinsider.com/elon-musk-…


My dad's on a business trip, and just sent me a picture of the view out of his hotel room's window. I ran it through Be My AI, and got a description that was later confirmed to be completely accurate. This is where this research needs to keep going, it unlocks an entire other layer of the world for blind people.


It seems there's still no way to get to the transcript of a voicemail without also playing it. The whole point of transcripts is so I don't have to play the actual voicemail. This has been the case ever since iOS introduced the feature. Please tell me I'm just missing something obvious...
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Yeah, I’d love to meet a product manager responsible for this feature. My suspicion is that there’s got to be some privacy / policy / security / whatever legislation that they had to comply with. Otherwise, It simply does not make any sense…


Yeah, #Boeing employees are on strike in union plants (non-union ones are still working).

However, what is interesting is that Boeing’s quality issues started around 1997 after an acquisition/merger with a problematic company. Great article by @NPR!

👉🏾 The Boeing Strike: 4 moments the company fractured its bond with workers npr.org/2024/09/16/nx-s1-51116…


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@menelion Yeah, the Arm varient of the XPS 13. I don't get it, as laptops are frequently used in music production and audiophile uses.
in reply to mohaneds

I mean, built-in audio, especially on Dells, is crap anyways, but stay without an audio jack in a trip… no, thanks.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion We can always use a USB dongle, but I don't want to take up a USB port for just audio.
in reply to mohaneds

given that in those modern laptops you have so few USB ports, yes.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion If you have to get a laptop, I suggest getting a mobile workstation if you can afford it. I mean a real, half-inch thick workstation, not an ultrabook pretending to be a workstation. I have the Lenovo Thinkpad P16 Gen 2. As a general rule, if it weighs less than four pounds, it's probably not worth owning.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion Also: I hate Dell laptops. Their audio has high latency even on headphones, due to extensive processing in the driver itself.
in reply to mohaneds

Me too. You probably read my complaints about it, the thing that really puts me off is that they "improve" (in big quotes) even sound coming from USB! I mean, it's none of your Dell business what I connect as an external audio source! Sorry, just irritates me too much.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion I wasn't aware that they try to improve the sound via USB and I didn't even know that was possible. What do they do, replace the Microsoft USB audio driver with their own?
in reply to mohaneds

I have no idea, but it corrupts my Samson Q2U sound. Also, this particular machine has a nasty bug that causes sound to change sides very often (like, often you hear from the right what you should hear from the left and vice versa). It's my work machine, and if I decide what to buy next, it won't be a Dell, no way.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion That's fascinating, and it swaps channels? Honestly that sounds like a bad electrical implementation of the USB spec, which wouldn't surprise me in the least, because Dell. Like either something is up with power delivery or the clock, or there is just too much interference
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion I suggest not getting an HP. I have a female friend who owns one, and her JAWS constantly drops in volume as it speaks. I tried fixing it by switching Windows to the generic Realtek driver, but it keeps switching back to the HP driver
in reply to mohaneds

My wife has an HP EliteBook 640 as a work machine, and it's a lovely piece of hardware, I must tell. Not fancy-schmancy characteristics, but good enough for heavy Visual Studio use, for example.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion Oh I haven't seen an Elitebook in years. The last one I saw had a pretty nice laptop keyboard, on par with Lenovo.
in reply to mohaneds

As home laptops (i.e., chosen and bought by myself) we both have Asus VivoBook. they are five years old and still rock, in my opinion.


As I have abandoned Android and am now daily-driving Gnome mobile / PostmarketOS on my OnePlus 6, I feel the urge to contribute to filling the app gap. Nobody seems to have asked for an app to record push ups and track progress, but that's what I want to accomplish now. Here are some first impressions of my Libadwaita app, which I call "Pushup Sessions":

#Oneplus6 #linuxmobile #PostmarketOS #GnomeMobile

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Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.
-- David Graeber

#anarchism #quote #bot

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A billionaire dumping waste in the river: "This is just the way I act when I'm free to do as I choose. Others are free not to drink from the river or to get into a shoot out with my private army."

An all white town lynching the only black family: "This is just the way we act when we're free to do as we choose. They're free to buy more guns to defend themselves against us."

A small town refusing service to the only trans person: "They're free to move somewhere else."

in reply to raccoona_nongrata

“A billionaire dumping waste in the river” is enabled by the coercive state.

“An all white town lynching the only black family” is enabled by the coercive state.

“A small town refusing service to the only trans person” is enabled by the coercive state.

It’s easy to imagine people already powerful in our society acting with impunity, because they already do right now, under the status quo of the coercive state. This is the antithesis of what anarchists are talking about when we discuss and advocate for freedom, which includes the freedom to resist these depredations.


in reply to Hubert Figuière

There have been some effort. This may present an excellent opportunity.
in reply to Ian McKellar

@ian and lot of busting. but that what's I'm getting at. I think it applies also to other big tech. The RTO policies ARE a good reason.


¡El llamado a charlas para GNOME Latam 2024 está abierto!

¿Tienes algo que compartir sobre el ecosistema #GNOME o el software libre? ¡Esta es tu oportunidad! Envía tu propuesta y únete a nosotros en Medellín, Colombia, o en línea.

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@bagder what are your thoughts on providing dedicated `curl_easy_setopt` method for the value types it supports?

Languages like Swift don't support the macro, so folks have started writing shim files to work around this. Wonder if maybe this would be better to be a part of the API itself.



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It appears that Mozilla's recruiting marketing is finally acknowledging the demographic that really runs the internet.

The jobs in question, in case anyone feels, ahem, senior enough (sadly, US only): mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posi… mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posi…

#job #GetFediHired #mozilla

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@brainblasted The only thing that looks off to me is the index finger. Is that a fingernail or a toepad?

What makes it so clear to you?



Having the wedding at #Chříč brewery was a good opportunity for proper survey for #OpenStreetMap
Yes, I am turning more and more into a #nerd...


📣 Join us Tomorrow! Explorer Town Hall: Meta Ray Bans Integration

Tuesday, September 17th | 5:00 PM PDT
Where: In-app, Zoom, Youtube

Join Aira's Meta Ray-Bans Glasses Town Hall to get the latest updates on our integration progress, upcoming beta launch, and Aira's continued commitment to exploring innovative smart glasses solutions. All explorers are invited to attend and will have access to this event through the Aira Explorer app (“more,” “events”) or directly via zoom.

Zoom link: aira.zoom.us/j/88931260595#suc…

*Event recording to be posted on our YouTube channel*

Read more at our blog: aira.io/explorer-town-hall-lau…

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