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Happy mooncake festival! It’s today 🥰 I almost forgot but went past Kenzo’s Kitchen and they were baking! One is lotus seed and the other is red bean #food #Launceston #AsianMastodon #moonCake #Chinese


Gente de TeleNVDA: juraría que, antes, TeleNVDA transmitía la elevación de tono al leer caracteres mayúsculas, y ahora no me lo hace. Me estoy perdiendo algo?
in reply to modulux

Ah, arreglado, hay que activar la opción de procesar comandos de habla al controlar otro ordenador.


The duckyPad Pro adds more keys, rotary encoders, and Bluetooth to the popular open source macropad.

hackaday.com/2024/09/17/new-du…



@Tutanota I tried to sign up for an account but you said my IP was blocked. I'm just using my ChungHwa Telecom mobile phone as a hotspot. This is the national carrier of Taiwan. Don't tell my you've blocked Taiwan from using your service?
@Tuta
in reply to Kerim 傅可恩

We've not blocked Taiwan - we do not block any country, if so it's the other way around like Russia blocking us. So it could be that your Telco is blocking us. Could you try a different connection?


I have a question about the new Braille screen input. If I’m in a text field, and I want to use the new gesture to activate it, double tapping with a finger at each end of my phone at the same time, how do I get that not to activate dictation instead? I tried to use that method and kept getting dictation turned on accidentally. I always evoke Braille screen input when I’m in a text field that is already editing.
in reply to Amber

Do the gesture slower. Also try using your 2 index fingers when already holding the phone in screen away mode.


I spent today wrestling with a test environment whose idle timeout couldn't have been more than 2 minutes. This made it quite a challenge to start a Webex personal meeting, start recording, set up screen sharing, and do my introductory voiceover for the screen reader testing video before getting logged out. And I could re-log-in without clearing cache and cookies. #fml
#fml


Um... So find and replace in Windows 11's Notepad just... Doesn't work. Nice!
in reply to Mason

They replaced the feature with a broken version of the same feature. Nice.


I really wish folks were more careful about the videos they post of their kids. Infrequent clips of activities like singing in a choir or playing a sport are one thing, but increasingly I see videos of small people (kids are in fact people) having meltdowns, or crying (even from happy overwhelm), or otherwise being vulnerable. Consider that if you took videos of your friends while they were crying, then posted them, you'd be an unsafe person for them to hang out with.

Be your kid's safe person.

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This is why Republicans fight tooth and nail against "wokeness."

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Uploaded to Debian unstable just now, should be available in the repos within the next 2 hours.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

and official curl-container v8.10.1 is released on quay and docker hub - try it yourself > podman run quay.io/curl/curl:8.10.1 -V

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El PCE va a invitar, a su fiesta,a Sumar,IU, EH Bildu, Compromís y Podemos.

De quién no probarías las tortillas que llevara como invitado.

in reply to Pablo Masegoso

Las de Podemos. Con las ganas que les tienen a todos los demás...


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Hoy en noticias varias sobre Administración Electrónica.

Nueva app de la seguridad social: administracionelectronica.gob.…

El INAP publica resultados sobre ideas para la reforma administrativa: administracionelectronica.gob.…

Por lo demás todo bien.



Why is everyone hating on Mozilla Corporation for shutting down a Mastodon instance with barely any users? Doesn't it make sense that they should focus on making Firefox better? There are many, many great Mastodon instances. There's not that many good browsers that aren't Chromium-based.

/me ducks in anticipation of the Fediverse's fury

in reply to Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅

For whatever reason it's acting as the straw that broke the camels back, a mastodon instance ultimately doesn't really matter, especially a fairly small one. I think the issue is there's a lot of negative reaction to anything remotely AI related right now whether or not is justified is up for the individual to decide
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I just... can't get there on any of this. Is Mozilla Corporation infallible? Certainly not. But experimenting with new technologies such as ActivityPub/Mastodon and Generative AI is what any tech organization (or open source project) should do to learn more about it and see what opportunities there are.

The Firefox folks are working hard and making real progress to diversify their revenue beyond just Google. They compete against true monopolists (as classified by the US gov).




We love hearing wonderful success stories from our users. This week, we are very pleased to present to you Mykael, who is busy making it happen in Brazil!

nvaccess.org/post/mykael-makes…

Thanks Mykael! Would you like to share how you are using NVDA with us? We'd love to hear from you! Please do drop us a line at info@nvaccess.org

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Employment #Software #FOSS #Success #GoodNews



Blogs about technology, HTML, hand held game consoles and humane use of technology do not usually make me cry.

This one did. shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-u…



"I'M DOING MY PART!" 🫡

Saving the 900 MHz band for @meshtastic and other hobby uses. You can too! fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?p…



Die Begriffe, mit denen über Migration gesprochen wird, haben meist starke Konnotationen. Historiker Jochen Oltmer über die Tragweite der Sprache. taz.de/!6028786


I just learned (from Reddit, of all places) that there is a whole website dedicated to accessible builds for Guild Wars 2, created by gamers with accessibility needs.

Sharing for reach:

aw2.help/

#gaming #GuildWars2 #accessibility



We're happy to share that the Micro-Speak Digital Voice Recorder is back and will start shipping next week. The new model now uses Micro SD cards, has a more tactile power switch, and records in 128K MP3.
atguys.com › products › micro-speak-plus-talking-digital-voice-recorder-3rd-edition
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For a book, I'm looking to conduct interviews with experts on creativity in diverse fields.

The book is for creative ppl & dismantles the myth of the "tortured artist" & unhealthy creative cultures. I suggest better ways to relate to creative work, and supply many paths for better personal & collective care.

If you know about:
- neuroscience of creativity
- meds & creativity
- art history
- creative labor org & rights
- something else relevant

Please send a short email to: me@daphnemir.com




Own your media.

Own your networks.

Own your means of computation.



I finally got around to implementing the MacPaint file format, so now you can not only convert all your old MacPaint files to PNG, but also the reverse.

If you rescue any old MacPaint files please send them to me for archiving on macpaint.org!

github.com/thejoelpatrol/macpa…

#retrocomputing #vintagemac



So, Amazon wants everyone to return to the office. Does that mean they also want us to return to the mall and supporting small local businesses?


I've got #covid again, for the third time.

Shame that my individual act of masking every single time I use public transit or enter a store isn't enough to protect me.

Almost like #publichealth policy can't be based on individual risk assessment.

Stay safe out there, y'all.

#CovidIsNotOver



I dreamed about drowning in an ocean made out of orange soda last night. It took me a while to work out it was just a Fanta sea.


Is all the stuff stored in Firefox Sync basically in my home directory? I'm starting to worry about Mozilla as trustworthy storage for that shit.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

I still consider Sync pretty trustworthy.

Everything that Firefox puts into sync is downloaded by every other synced Firefox - it's only used for sync, nothing's accessed "on demand" from the cloud - so you won't lose any data if it goes offline. And my understanding is that the encryption design for the sync protocol is pretty well done - Mozilla can see how much you're syncing between how many and which browsers, but not *what* you're syncing.

in reply to kepstin

@kepstin Oh, yeah, I am fine with the privacy. I'm not sure about how long the service will last.


CAQ are just fascist.

La CAQ c'est des fascistes.

#qcpoli #polqc

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I once lived in a place that had a photo lab downstairs. I only started shooting film again after they moved out.

#believeinfilm


in reply to David Goldfield

Do you or anyone else on here, have experience !with radio-browser.info? That's the database Selvas BLV uses for the #WebRadio feature on the #BrailleSense & #SenstePlayer. I found a broken stream link and cannot report it, due to accessibility issues.



Ok rpmbuild worked, I now have an RPM.

Why? Because this needs to be installed in the system prefix. And also SilverBlue.

What?

It's my camera raw thumbnailer for use in Nautilus.





Accessibility preference settings, information architecture, and internalized ableism ericwbailey.website/published/…



We deserve an amazing Android Email client, help us create it.

K-9 Mail is on the final stretch to becoming Thunderbird for Android. If you want to participate (even finding bugs is helpful), you can find the repo here:

github.com/thunderbird/thunder…



I often remind people that the progress we have made, be it rights we have won or technology that is accessible, has come about because brave advocacy pioneers knew that blind people are worthy, that we do not choose to be second-class citizens. That being able to maximise our potential is a human right.
Sometimes, people don’t believe we can change anything, so figure we may as well suck it up and accept the status quo.
Well, a few weeks ago, a group of blind leaders took on Vision Australia, after they said they weren’t going to advertise externally for their CEO. This significantly constrained the pool of blind talent from which the Vision Australia Board could pick. And make no mistake, we need more blind people leading the organisations that serve us. Lived experience matters when you’re a minority. And it certainly isn’t right that capable blind people are too often passed over for leadership roles in our own organisations. It is with great pleasure that I pass on the following message from Emma Bennison.

🎉 Victory for Blind Leadership! 🎉
United Blind Leaders is excited to announce a major step forward in our campaign! Thanks to the incredible support of 1,408 signatories, Vision Australia has revised its CEO recruitment process. The Board has confirmed that lived experience of blindness or low vision will now be a desirable attribute for the new CEO, and the search will be conducted externally with a focus on removing barriers for blind and low vision applicants.
This is a huge win, but our work is far from over. United Blind Leaders will keep pushing for blind and vision-impaired representation in leadership roles at all levels in Australia and globally.
📣 Join our movement! Stay connected by joining our mailing list and be part of our future campaigns: UnitedBlindLeaders.org
Together, we’re making a real difference! 🙌 #UnitedBlindLeaders #BlindLeadership #Inclusion #DisabilityAdvocacy.

That is Emma’s message. Congratulations to all involved. And to all reading this, never doubt, you can make change when you stand up for what is right. Know your power, and use it for good.