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Bonnie was sitting next to me, talking very loudly to a friend on the phone. But with a simple press of a button, I was able to turn off the mics on my hearing aids, so I was able to concentrate on what VoiceOver was saying.
And I thought to myself, dude! Dude I thought! How many of us haven’t wished from time to time that their spouse had a mute button. I’m living the dream!

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#thunderbird #live #coding


Thunderbird Development #5 - Customizable Shortcuts (Coding Session - Part 2)

Come alongside the journey of implementing a new feature inside Thunderbird.From the initial idea and definition of the scope of work, to design mock-ups and...
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Hello everyone, I made an audio recording of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin for a friend.

I've licensed the audio to the public domain, so if you want to listen to it, or remix it, or use it in a thing, go nuts. (Note: the text itself is under copyright, see replies to this post for licensing contact if you have commercial requirements.)

I'm still working on my voice acting and narration, but I think it came out well. (And if you require this voice, please note that I need money and you can hire me to read things for you.)

You can read the story in text at:
usa.anarchistlibraries.net/lib…

Download it from theos-cloud.eu/index.php/s/Xys…

#LeGuin #SpokenWord #VoiceActing



The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 1973 Originally published in the New Dimensions 3 anthology, 1973. Later republished in The Wind’s...
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#VoiceActing #leguin #spokenword
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Erion
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Hello. Thought your friend and anyone else would enjoy a bit of an improvement, it's closer to a studio sound now. A very nice reading, reminds me a bit of Sophie Aldred at times. ENjoy!

The Flac format (as I have added some replicated high frequencies that the mp3 encoder threw away) can be downloaded from MediaFire here


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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
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@erion Thank you so much, Sophie Aldred is one of my favourite narrators, so I may unconsciously mimic some of her style.

And thank you for working on the track. if you'd like to put your production chops into further practice, here's a FLAC of my original WAV file (with minimal cleaning and noise reduction - I have an uncleaned version available as well).

theos-cloud.eu/index.php/s/Wdp…


Le_Guin-The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_From_Omelas_edited_cleaned.flac

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@Erion
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Erion
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You are most welcome, glad I could help.

Sure, I'll do a revised version, no problem. For best results, the original, unprocessed recording (flac or wav) would be fantastic if you don't mind posting it. The one I posted has some noise reduction artifacts that were not easily correctable from the original mp3 unfortunately.

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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
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@erion Here's one with no attempt to ameliorate the sound or erase noise. I've left a few seconds of ambient room noise (most egregiously a computer fan) at the end.

theos-cloud.eu/index.php/s/54E…

I'm in the process of building a studio space at this moment, but my acoustic foam tiles are still reinflating after shipping!


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@Erion
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Erion
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Brilliant, thank you very much. I'll post it when it's ready, shouldn't take too long.

No worries, this can be definitely salvaged ☺️

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Erion
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It's my pleasure to present the revised, final master that this reading deserves, this time from the original unprocessed recording, with a bit of added expensive analog magic 😀. Listenable here, and downloadable in lossless flac from MediaFire. Enjoy!


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i got SO SCARED that I couldn’t ssh into my server.

I tried a bunch of things.

And then I realized.

IPv6 wasn’t working. IPv4 worked fine.

<img class=:" title=":facepalm:"/> i hate USA residential internet

New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: SimpleNote by Automattic accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/simp…

SimpleNote by Automattic - Accessible Android

The Play Store is replete with various note-taking apps and it all boils down to what one is looking for. From those that have some capability of syncing to
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Инструкция. Как правильно переехать с одного инстанса #mastodon на другой.
1. Зарегистрировать новый аккаунт на новом инстансе.
2. На новом инстансе зайти в "Настройки" → "Учётная запись" → "Управление учётной записью" → "Переезд с другой учётной записи" и ввести там полное имя старого аккаунта "@имя@старый_инстанс"
3. На старом инстансе зайти в "Настройки" → "Учётная запись" → "Управление учётной записью" → "Перенос учётной записи" и ввести полное имя нового аккаунта "@имя@новый_инстанс"
Готово
#Mastodon
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Только посты не перенесутся вроде.

Ach ❤️🙂 nic nepotěší víc jak 3 dny volna před námi. 😁

Unseen works by Moomin creator Tove Jansson feature at Helsinki Art Museum

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Unseen works by Moomin creator Tove Jansson feature at Helsinki Art Museum

Best known as the creator of the Moomin characters in books and illustrations, Jansson was also a prolific painter.
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OTD 1977: Digital Equipment Corporation announces the VAX-11/780. #ComputerHistory
#computerhistory

Обычный пользователь Федивёрса сочиняет новый пост.
В кадре рука держит некий духовой музыкальный инструмент: от раструба тонкая трубка завивается круглой петлёй. Серьёзный кот как будто дует в мундштук. Подпись: toot

So...

Nationalization of spacex?...

No?...

Ambutech just sent me an email, recommending their fiberglass cane. Pair it with their pathfinder tip for activities like... Jogging? Are people jogging with canes? There's next to no reaction time, and who can maintain two point touch at that speed? This seems like a terrible idea! Is this a thing people actually do?

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Sean Randall
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I used to whiz around the park with my guide dog, but our stopping distance was pretty worrying.
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Alex Hall
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@cachondo My dogs have always walked pretty fast, too. Still, jogging feels like a whole different ballgame. You'd be going about twice as fast as walking, maybe faster. At that speed, I don't know if I could react in time to a random cone, forgotten curb, or something else, let alone the worry of running someone over.
@Sean Randall
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James Dean
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@cachondo Oh…That reminds me, you should use a longer than recommended cane, but I think a lot of us do anyway, and I had to get good at stopping by planting my feet and locking my knees. This is a *crash* course on how to be dangerously safe, or something.
@Sean Randall

I'd love to know why the Rode Central app speaks the occasional message via SAPI. Seems very misplaced.
in reply to Andre Louis

Pitermach
Pitermach
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If they are using Juce, accessibility announcements (when a developer tells an app to speak something through the screen reader) go to SAPI. That's the only reason I can think of.
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x0
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@pitermach Huh. I wonder if Juce can do anything about that? I understand they wouldn't want to bundle direct SR libraries unless they had no other choice, but maybe some kind of UIA live region thingy? What are the cross-platform equivalents of that?
@Pitermach
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Pitermach
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@x0 There is an UIA notification API which is the equivllent of live regions, OSARA uses it. I guess either they ran into some issues when implementing it or missed it because of poor UIA documentation
@x0
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x0
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@pitermach Or cross-platform concerns. Is there something that works the same for VO? What about different versions of UIA on different builds of Windows they support?
@Pitermach
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Pitermach
Pitermach
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@x0 There is a Mac equivalent of this yes, and Juce actually does use it, it’s just Windows where it uses SAPI. I can’t comment on different builds but I know screen reader support used to be all over the place. NVDA and narrator support it great, though there was some variable in NVDA which would cause it to break sometimes on some systems, might have been an addon of some kind though I think things have stabilized. ZDSR also supports it, but as for JAWS I’m not sure how they’re handling it now. For a while they had no way to turn it on at all unless a script explicitly did it for an app, later they added a toggle for them which defaulted to off thanks to modern Microsoft’s love for extraneous verbosity. It might be on by default now that they have this notification manager which lets you selectively suppress or tweak specific announcements but it’s been a while since I kept up with JAWS.
@x0
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x0
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Hmmm. I wonder if someone who works with UIA often on the NVDA side could reach out to them and try to get this integrated, or already has done. @jcsteh would likely be perfect as he did it with OSARA, proving it works. It's just narrator says some control role after it.
@Jamie Teh
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Jamie Teh
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@x0 @pitermach Narrator used to say a role after the notifications with OSARA's old MSAA hack, but it doesn't do that now with the UIA notifications code. Honestly, UIA notifications are fairly well documented and straightforward. The only time you'll run into trouble is if you're trying to do UIA notifications using a hidden window like OSARA does, but there's no reason for them to do that because their UI should always be visible and they control it completely.
@Pitermach @x0
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x0
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@jcsteh @pitermach Would it cause extra elements to show up onscreen or something though? Think Surge, when it announces preset changes.
@Pitermach @Jamie Teh
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Jamie Teh
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@x0 @pitermach As long as the UI is open when you're changing presets, no. They can just deliver the UIA notifications using the UI window. OSARA has to use a hidden window because OSARA doesn't control REAPER's UI, but they should have no such problem.
@Pitermach @x0
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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@pitermach @x0 well, VO on the mac is complicated because it doesn't do queuing natively, so if you're providing a general API to developers, you're better off using system tts instead
@Pitermach @x0

So a duck walks into a pharmacy and says “Give me some chap-stick… and put it on my bill”

I discovered a great new language learning platform yesterday. One of its key workflows presents content in a dialog, and it works great with NVDA. When the dialog opens in Safari on iOS, though, VoiceOver decides that the entire screen is blank.

I'm so tired of #accessibility workarounds being needed for everything in life. Trying to apply my mental energy to something useful and interesting, only to end up spending it on the same old shit is exhausting.

#Accessibility
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Just Martin
Just Martin
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Voiceover issues in Safari have been there for years; despite reporting them over and over again. It's very annoying. I now use Crhome on IOS.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I still use VO and Safari, and haven't had issues. Is this paid btw?

Thank you to LWN.net again for another DebConf24 related article: Debian's secret sauce lwn.net/Articles/990177

Debian's "secret" sauce [LWN.net]

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I donated to @glyph and co's #SuperSwingDistricts slate. Properly resourcing state-level candidates increases the chance that voters in important swing districts might actually get to meet someone they're going to vote for, or be persuaded to show up and vote for something that matters to their local community.

Learn more, consider supporting: superswingdistricts.org/

#USPol

Super Swing Districts

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#uspol #superswingdistricts @Glyph

#accessibility question:

Does anyone know if a HTML support for Orca screen-reader exist?
(like @SteveFaulkner's tests on github.com/stevefaulkner/scree…)

#Orca #screenReader #a11y #Linux


GitHub - stevefaulkner/screen-reader-HTML-support

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#a11y #Accessibility #linux #screenreader #orca @Steve Faulkner
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Sean Randall
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Given that only 2.4% of people who responded to the latest [Screen Reader Survey](webaim.org/projects/screenread…) use it as a primary, I can't imagine a comprehensive or freuqently updated thing would be very robust.

WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #10 Results

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veeeenga que ya queda poquito para el magosto
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JC
JC
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@modulux yo no soy fan de las castañas, pero la fiesta me mola igual jajaja
@modulux
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modulux
modulux
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A mi sí que me gustan, aunque ahora hace tiempo que no las como.

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Today is ✨ World Lemur Day ✨! 💜 💙 💚 Impish Indri is one of 2,500 celebrating their diversity and natural habitat. #art #fediart #mastoart
An Indri is the largest living lemur. I've painted her in front of an impressive landscape. It is sitting on a wooden chair, wearing colorful fur (rainbow & pastel) and a slight smile ;). https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Impish-Indri-891364196"
#art #mastoart #fediart

rainbow spiral | 64 second loop

#pico8 #postcart (256 chars ~ src in reply)

#pico8 #postcart

i think the privatization and financialization of everyday services and goods has done more than anything in culture to make society decohere. interacting with the world on basically any level now largely consists of attempting to outwit giant systems designed to exploit you. from the perspective of an individual, there is virtually no consistent expectation of any duty of care, moral responsibility, or trust evident in daily life, so there's little to suggest you value those qualities either

@Tutanota What can we do about the .io email addresses that many people own on Tuta? Is there anything we can do before the .io disappears?
Is it really gonna disappear? :(
#io
#io @Tuta
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Tuta
Tuta
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We don't think the domain will disappear. Here's our comment: tuta.com/blog/what-happens-wit…

Will the .io domain cease to exist? | Tuta

Great Britain is returning Chagos Islands to Mauritius. How will this affect the .io domain?
Tuta
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Azarilhⓥ
Azarilhⓥ
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This is good to hear. And i got to know the history of the Chagos, happy to see people can go back to live there, even tho it took so long...

It's #Kobo, not Amazon that will be the death of my wallet. Since I found a way to read books purchased from there, I've ditched kindle and well, it's gonna cost me a lot. So much to read.
Love it though.
#kobo
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Derry Lawlor
Derry Lawlor
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well I must check it out, I do miss kindle if cobo works good will give it a go, does codex work or calibre?
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Bleh. I had sooo many issues with kobo. Like Viber, they suck! Same company lol.

I'm editing my symbol description file, trying to get rid of the emojis that annoy me the most.
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David Goldfield
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That's excellent. I've always wanted to see a screen reader feature where you could optionally disable the speaking of emoji.

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Get the encrypted Tuta Calendar app.
Now also on ❤️ F-Droid ❤️

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Vinz
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Nice, does it have a calendar widget? So far not having one of those is the main reason I am not actively using the Tutanota Calendar yet. Cheers!
in reply to Vinz

Tuta
Tuta
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@vg Not yet, but it's one of the next things we plan to work on!
@Vinz

Not only is it Friday, it’s also World Pasta Day - so here’s an old poem to celebrate.
Remembrance of Things Pasta She blew her fusilli, my pretty penne, when she found me watching daytime tagliatelle.   Je ne spaghetti rien, I responded in song, but she did not linguini for long,   just walked out without further retort: a hard lesson to be tortellini, orzo I thought.   And so here I am, on my macaroni, and now my days feel cannelloni. Brian Bilston

Trying to see something.

1- If you have an Indian name, and if there are different common Romanizations (e.g. Shanti/Shanthi, Adarsh/Aadarsh/Adharsh/Aadharsh), does it bother you if people use the wrong one?

2- Do you do any reading for pleasure in an Indian (by which I mean non-English) language?

one of my staff just shared an error message from an internal system that just said "nope" and I think that system is my secret spiritual leader

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The five stages of weekend:
1. I will do so much stuff
2. Tomorrow I will do so much stuff
3. Later I will do some stuff
4. Eventually, I will do stuff
5. Oh no

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macOS Sequoia Complications: VoiceOver Issues Could Affect Technicians’ Privacy pneumasolutions.com/macos-sequ…

macOS Sequoia Complications: VoiceOver Issues Could Affect Technicians’ Privacy - Pneuma Solutions

At Pneuma Solutions, we’re constantly working to deliver innovative, accessible solutions like Remote Incident Manager (RIM), which helps visually impaired…
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Production teams win commissions for new BBC Sounds music streams radiotoday.co.uk/2024/10/produ…

Production teams win commissions for new BBC Sounds music streams

Production teams from across the UK have secured shows on the new music streams for BBC Sounds, launching in early November.
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Ads are making apps less accessible vi.ie/ads-are-making-apps-less…

Ads are making apps less accessible | Vision Ireland

This article is not here to complain about ads. I know the title might seem to contradict that, but honestly speaking ads are a part of life and can never b ...
Sean Doran (Vision Ireland)
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Darrell Bowles
Darrell Bowles
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I fully agree with this post. You press a button and an add plays or pops up and you can't get past it.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@vol4life8657 The intrusive nature of ads and their negative impact on accessibility was one reason why I chose to stop using the Google News app on iOS.
@Darrell Bowles

Gruv Button™ Retrofit Makes Hearing Aid Insertion Easy hearinghealthmatters.org/heari…

Gruv Button™ Retrofit Makes Hearing Aid Insertion Easy | Hearing Health & Technology Matters

Global Award-Winning Retrofit Could Help Millions, If Adopted by Hearing Industry “It Fits the Fingertip!”
HHTM (Hearing Health and Technology Matters)

Registration Now Open for ‘InFocus: Rethinking Tinnitus Symposium’ hearinghealthmatters.org/heari…

Registration Now Open for 'InFocus: Rethinking Tinnitus Symposium' | Hearing Health & Technology Matters

Unlock the Future of Tinnitus Care The InFocus: Rethinking Tinnitus Symposium, a groundbreaking 3-day virtual event, will take place from November 19-21, 2024.
HHTM (Hearing Health and Technology Matters)

Même "What do we want?/When do we want it?". - What do we want? - An end to autocorrect errors! - when do we want it? - Cow!!! Crédit : je sais pas.

I can't help but feel that this proliferation of generative AI in our lives is going to cause a massive quality-of-life decrease. People are already using these tools that spit out nonsense, and then treating the nonsense as fact. What is the incentive for the tool makers to improve the quality of output? There is a vicious cycle at work here and the only people who seem to be benefiting are the venture capitalists and tech executives.
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Next week, those products which need to be updated for use with JAWS 2025 will be uploaded. All the work is now done, so they will be uploaded as we go through the week.

The most requested product is Leasey.
In addition to providing a number of enhancements so as to be optimal with JAWS 2025, the following fixes have been made:
On some machines, the setting to preserve Quick Navigation keys in Word documents was not functioning.
All time conversion features in LeaseySearch are working again.

I've been checking out a fair bunch of videos by the YT channel "#Revolution and #Ideology”. They succinctly put what they do in their About as: "Jared (#History) and Nick (#Sociology) discuss history and theories related to revolution and #SocialChange." What I appreciate is that they have conversations about source texts through quotation, not simplified summaries. #Philosophy #Anthropology
youtube.com/channel/UCB9N6fHt-…

Revolution and Ideology

Jared (History) and Nick (Sociology) discuss history and theories related to revolution and social change.
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#history #révolution #philosophy #sociology #socialchange #ideology #anthropology
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