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So it seems like maybe the billionaires finally angered the proletariat?
in reply to Ben Foote

worker action always does more damage to the billionaires. So we need more of this.


Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2024: $273,000,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2024: $207,100,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2024: $200,000,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.



On repeat currently: youtube.com/watch?v=Lx3MGrafyk…




Hello, most North Americans.
Do you know what's happening next Sunday, November 03, at 2:00 AM local time?
If you said Daylight Savings Time, you're absolutely *WRONG* for three reasons:
1, The term is Daylight *Saving* time. It is not the Daylight Savings and Loan.
2. In places that observe DST, there will be two 1:00 AM local times.
3. It's the *END* of DST.
So NIIH!

I'm already seeing Daylight Savings things in my timeline, so it's time to make noise and continue dying on this hill, I guess.

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My chest was meant to have breasts on it.

I can't point to a biological reason for this; no optimal arrangement of ligaments or ideal balance of my torso. My chest was functionally fine before these breasts grew.

And yet. I used to slouch, now I stand tall, shoulders back, tits jutting out as if to announce to the world "here comes a woman". I used to wear baggy t-shirts, now I like them to fit to my form, my necklines slinking ever lower, pendant necklaces dangling in the hint of cleavage I now display.

My tatas are aesthetically and functionally correct.

in reply to Tattie o' Lantern 🎃

My brain was meant to run on estrogen.

I don't believe in any biological reason for this, either. My brain got me an MSc and a career in programming just as it was, people considered me witty and insightful.

And yet. I was scared to engage with my emotions, there was a constant stream of intrusive thoughts. Anxiety was a constant strum.

And now... I'm not at war with my own mind anymore. I feel more harmonious, more like I should be. I'm more capable, confident, clear-headed.

This is better. For me.



One of the most underrated things about #KDE #Plasma has to be the way you can just navigate to a folder in Dolphin and tap F4 to pop out a terminal at that location, instead of having to open Konsole and cd to the same location separately. It sounds subtle but it's actually super useful.


How to Install and Use uv: A Python Installer and Resolver lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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!


Starting soon: youtube.com/live/HltQBOKSLv8?f…

#thunderbird #live #coding



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

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in reply to 13 barn owls in a black cloak

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

in reply to Erion

@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…

in reply to 13 barn owls in a black cloak

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.

in reply to Erion

@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!

in reply to 13 barn owls in a black cloak

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 ☺️

in reply to 13 barn owls in a black cloak

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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Ukrainian Peace Plan

1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine

2. Russia pays for everything they broke

3. Russia leaves Ukraine alone forever

4. Now we have peace plan!
#SlavaUkraini



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…


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
in reply to Koldun

Только посты не перенесутся вроде.



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

yle.fi/a/74-20120217



OTD 1977: Digital Equipment Corporation announces the VAX-11/780. #ComputerHistory


Обычный пользователь Федивёрса сочиняет новый пост.



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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in reply to Alex Hall

I used to whiz around the park with my guide dog, but our stopping distance was pretty worrying.
in reply to Sean Randall

@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.
in reply to Sean Randall

@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.


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

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.
in reply to Pitermach

@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?
in reply to x0

@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
in reply to Pitermach

@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?
in reply to x0

@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
in reply to Pitermach

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.
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in reply to x0

@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.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh @pitermach Would it cause extra elements to show up onscreen or something though? Think Surge, when it announces preset changes.
in reply to x0

@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.
in reply to Pitermach

@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


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.

in reply to James Scholes

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.


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


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



#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

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in reply to Emmanuel 🌱

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.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo well, probably. I work on Linux and my native screen reader is Orca. It's the first test tool for my HTML code. If I had a list of what's supported and what's not, it would be a great help.
@SteveFaulkner


veeeenga que ya queda poquito para el magosto
in reply to modulux

@modulux yo no soy fan de las castañas, pero la fiesta me mola igual jajaja
in reply to JC

A mi sí que me gustan, aunque ahora hace tiempo que no las como.



Today is ✨ World Lemur Day ✨! 💜 💙 💚 Impish Indri is one of 2,500 celebrating their diversity and natural habitat. #art #fediart #mastoart



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
in reply to Azarilhⓥ

We don't think the domain will disappear. Here's our comment: tuta.com/blog/what-happens-wit…
in reply to Tuta

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
in reply to Andre Louis

well I must check it out, I do miss kindle if cobo works good will give it a go, does codex work or calibre?
in reply to Derry Lawlor

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.
in reply to Bruce Toews

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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in reply to Tuta

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

@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.


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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