JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing.
A few notes about this if people are trying the public beta.

Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle.

On a personal note, I do think there are some very rough edges with this public beta.
Two good examples would be:
1. There are times when, if you move to the desktop, the response time of JAWS reporting the focus is significantly slower than JAWS 2024.
This has been reported by me a number of times.

2. If you open up Winamp, and press Insert+T to read the song title and artist of a radio station which is playing, the URL for the stream is announced instead.

For these reasons and a few others, I am not using version 2025 for my day-to-day usage with work or even pleasure.
But that is what the beta process is about; to report such findings.

Anyone who wishes to try it can do so:
support.freedomscientific.com/…

Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.

"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"

astron.nl/starlink-satellites/

It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navig…

seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: peoplemaking.games/@eniko/1131…

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Mit der Umstellung von #Thunderbird auf #Snap in #Ubuntu hat sich #Canonical echt ein Ei gelegt:
Nach dem Update auf 24.04 sind einfach alle Mails und Einstellungen weg. Es gibt keinen automatisch Import während des Updates.
Ich konnte das Problem damals glücklicherweise schnell lösen, weil das Profil natürlich nicht gelöscht war.
Ich habe darüber gebloggt und bekomme inzwischen fast täglich dankbare Kommentare, weil verzweifelte Anwender*innen ihre Mails retten konnten.
kaffeeringe.de/2024/05/27/thun…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Evakuierung nach Explosion im russischen Twer ++

Im russischen Twer hat es nach Drohnenangriffen Explosionen gegeben, mutmaßlich in einem Munitionslager. Die Ukraine hat nach Angaben örtlicher Gouverneure mehrere Regionen in Russland mit Drohnen angegriffen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog #Ukraine

‼️ The Free Software Foundation Europe needs your help ‼️

The EU Commission aims to remove funding from free software projects which are crucial to our digital lives.

We spoke with the #FSFE to learn more.
👉 youtu.be/mNZgSCvg6Ew

Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣

#freesoftware #opensource #eu #europe #freedom

The proposal to update the UnifiedPush specifications, mainly to make UnifiedPush endpoints explicitly web push endpoints with VAPID and urgency compatibility is open for review.

You can find the changes here: codeberg.org/UnifiedPush/speci… codeberg.org/UnifiedPush/speci…

Your feedback is most valuable, whether on codeberg or in our matrix dev room (matrix.to/#/#unifiedpush-dev:m…)

Připomínáme, že druhý ročník srazu Mastodon a fediverse uživatelů se blíží! 🎉
📅 Datum: 11.10.2024
📍 Místo: Hospůdka Do Větru,
Těšíme se na vás všechny, ať už jste #fediverse nováček, nebo veterán! Přijďte si užít skvělou atmosféru, popovídat a poznat nové lidi.
Potvrďte prosím svoji účast, ať víme přibližně, kolik nás dorazí. Zatím účast potvrdilo 18 účastníků. @mastopivo
#mastopivo #boost
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/R6Z…

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