Glad to see that some community members have stepped up and are taking huge role in maintaining and improving Bookworm.
I'm open for community contributions to some NVDA add-ons I've developed but no longer interested to maintain. all of them are very popular:
* Chessmart:
* Audio Themes NVDA add-on
* Spellcheck
Please get in touch if you're interested
So according to this thread, in addition to the AI resume screeners, I also have to contend with the fake job postings made as a fraudulent signal of growth to investors? Who cares if a thousand applicants waste their times applying?
No, sorry. The world is burning. I have more valuable things to do with my time than throwing resumes past AI screeners for fake jobs.
In related news, actively considering changing careers. Spent a few hours in court recently supporting families being mass-evicted by an Austin co-op. Even if the situation itself was bad, being present and wearing a support sticker felt like a better use of my time than continuing to build managed Postgres.
New: Two men stole more than $1 million from DoorDash workers by impersonating them with customer service, getting access to their accounts, then draining them. In some cases customer service workers were complicit, indictment says:
Nirgends begegne ich dem #Videokonferenzsystem #Zoom so oft wie in #digitaleKirche.
Mit meinem Bild von #Kirche, dass sich in der #DDR geprägt hat, passt das irgendwie gar nicht so recht zusammen. Da sehe ich wenig von der #Unabhängigkeit, #Selbstbestimmung und progressiven Herangehensweise von damals.
Vielleicht findet man diese Verknüpfung merkwürdig. Aber ich ahne langsam woher das Unbehagen kommt, was mich an manchen digitalen Entwicklungen bei Kirchens so beschleicht. Man kann es ebenso auf den Bereich #Office oder #SocialMedia übertragen.
Dieser Tage ist jemand auf meinen Vorschlag eingegangen statt Zoom #Jitsi zu nehmen und wir haben problemlos die Instanz des @luki@kirche.social genutzt, sie wird von engagierten Christen betrieben.
Sie erinnern mich an die 90iger. Es gab das #WWW noch nicht so wie wir es heute kennen, aber einen #Computerclub des #CVJM in #Chemnitz, der eine Instanz in dem weltweiten #Mailbox Netzwerk betrieb. Sie waren Wegbereiter einer nichtkommerziellen, selbstverwalteten internationalen #Vernetzung.
Einige wenige gibt es immer noch und es kommen auch neue hinzu, wie z.B. @librechurch@kirche.social oder @libori.social@libori.social. Ob dieser freiheitliche Geist in digitaler Kirche wieder stärker wehen wird?
@luki @librechurch @libori.social
Danke für die gute Frage!
Sie ist sicher nicht nur auf einer Ebene beantwortbar. Und es gibt keine einfachen Antworten.
Vielleicht wäre schon viel geholfen, wenn man sich auf einen gemeinsamen Weg machen würde.
Ein Aspekt: Digitale Tools sind anders als analoge. Der Hammer besteht aus Holz und Eisen. Es liegt in unserer Verantwortung was wir damit machen. Ein digitales Tool kann aus viel mehr Funktionen bestehen, als vordergründig erkennbar, besonders wenn es proprietäre Software ist. Welche (hintergründigen) Auswirkungen hat Software, die wir zur Kommunikation benutzen auf den Nächsten?
Wie @letterus@kirche.social in diesem Thread schon sagt "Den digitalen Raum als Gestaltungsraum wahrzunehmen, ist für die meisten ein sehr weiter Weg." Als Kirche könnten wir uns auf diesen Weg machen, und entsprechende Bildung anbieten 😉
A nice homage to the PC/GEOS operating system. Also lots of video clips that show how quick and zippy it was (remember, this thing is running on DOS-era hardware).
I made so many homework assignments using its word processor, and even a little newspaper. I even sent them a letter, asking for an SDK in Pascal rather than C!
(I think that was part of why I decided to learn C back in the day)
I’m happy to help anytime as well.
Is it weird to be nostalgic about high pressure sodium lamps?
I really do miss the orange Glow and I only really see them during travel in other countries now
Я отвечаю за сказанное мною, а не за то, как вы поняли мои слова.
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I work at a public administration with an obligation to keep its software and systems #accessible for its civil servants, who like me might be disabled, as well as for citizens who use its systems from the outside.
Recently, #Firefox stopped working with my screen reader, after it was updated to version 115. After some investigation, requiring the aid of a coworker and far more knowledge about computers and #accessibility than should be expected from a civil service end user, I worked out what was happening. Can you guess?
Someone had the brilliant idea to set, as group policy, the following Firefox directive: accessibility.forced_disabled: 1.
Yes, that does what you think it does. It disallows accessibility providers such as screen readers to connect to Firefox and use the APIs. Who thought this was a good idea and why?
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I'm a bit more willing to give benefit of the doubt--I suspect ignorance rather than malice--but the effects are pretty bad all the same.
I might also add I issued a ticket on the user support system, and after a couple of days I only got confirmation that my diagnosis is correct, but no fix so far.
In tech, we need more people who enjoy maintenance and polishing existing features and fewer who enjoy adding new features. (And I’m saying that as a member of the latter group.)
Companies keep adding new features to useful products until they are no longer useful.
(As @Schrank points out, that’s partly due to how the economy currently works.)
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Well y'all, I broke something. I was using Emacs, and was committing a change to a repo like always, when my audio started to studder a bit. I'd noticed that Emacspeak sounds were a big sluggish, but I thought that was Sox being sox or Pipewire messing with something as usual. So I unplugged my Dell docking station, plugged it in again, and things returned to normal until the next time I committed. This time, audio stopped, and, well, never came back. I plugged the dock into my iPhone, and it worked. Windows, worked. Linux though? Nope. Not sure what's going on, but goodness I'm tired of technology. So tired of everything changing and breaking. Google Drive changed, so I'm having to redo the whole course on Google Docs/Drive. And this was not something I was expecting and definitely not something I needed today. So I'm gonna have to look for a way to reset the dock or something.
#linux #foss #accessibility #blind
Ideally, you want to report issues to the app's repository. The main repository, which covers a lot of general issues, is this:
github.com/nextcloud/server/is…
If you're unsure which app has the accessibility bug, you can try reporting it in the main repo.
The term "Mentions" on here means when you type an @ symbol and then the address of the account you want to mention. This is also known as @-ing (pronounced "at-ing").
Mentioning an account causes the account owner to get a notification about the post where they were mentioned, so they can go and see it.
There are lots of questions answered about mentions on Mastodon here:
➡️ fedi.tips/what-are-mentions-on…
If you have any other questions, let me know in the replies!
If you’ve heard of the old REAPER Dropbox folder, it’s been retired, and all the content has moved to The Hoard. No subscriptions, easy search, and no drive space worries – just grab what you need when you need it. You can download the whole package or pick specific files. It's a great resource for anyone learning/using REAPER!
Check it out: hoard.reaperaccessibility.com
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"Kto by povedal že to príde až sem
človek - smrtelný vírus pre Zem
ten čo miluje sladký sen
Kopec sladkostí Zukerberg
les v plamenoch fauna sa flambuje
nikoho to netankuje
nikto nič . . . tak to je
na Titanicu sa stale tancuje"
~ #Supa, #Vec, #KrissKrimm: Stačí
Recommendations from your own personal experience, please!
I have a lot of DRM-free ePubs for which there is no audiobook.
I'd like to convert one or two of them into audiobooks.
I use Linux.
I don't have any high end machines, but I am happy to wait for a conversion process.
I want all conversion to be done locally, using FOSS.
I am content with a generic voice, else I could provide voice samples.
Have you done this and, if so, would you recommend what you did?
If you have some extra money and would like to donate to assist with the Helene disaster in North Carolina, here are two reliable charities.
Money will be spent on food and personal supplies:
Money to help the many artisans and craftspeople who live in western North Carolina (including local acquaintances):
cerfplus.org/get-involved/ways…
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It's a version of the IQ Meme. It shows a graph with a gaussian function representing IQ score on the X axis and percentage of people on the Y. The meme features a dumb looking drawing of a guy on the left, a crying nerd on top of the bell (middle of the graph), and a person looking like some sort of monk on the right. The title says "email address validation". On the person on the left (least IQ) reads "check if it has '@'". The crying nerd (average IQ) reads "3 full pages of one regular expression". The monk at the end of the graph (max IQ) reads "check if it has '@'".
#ALT4you