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NVDA 2024.4 is now available Featuring many improvements in Microsoft Office, braille & document formatting. We encourage all users to update. There's more than will fit here so please check out the full details & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4/

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NVDA 2024.4 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…
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The Evil Chocolate Cookie
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I like the override you’ve given us. A lot of times the add-ons work fine, but the system just thinks they don’t.
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NV Access
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@evilcookies98 Yes - and that's why. It is good to carefully check or see what others in the ocmmunity think - just because NVDA starts with an add-on overriding the compatibility check doesn't guarantee that it will work, but it can help you keep using an add-on which wasn't affected by a particular year's changes while you wait for the developer to update it.
@The Evil Chocolate Cookie

Sometimes people think ‘I have a problem, I will solve it with an LLM’ and then they have an n-dimensional latent space full of problems.

(With apologies to @jwz)

@jwz

I think that fact that we're using AI to write emails because we find it hard and AI to summarise emails because we can't be bothered to read them suggests that we should take a look at how we communicate rather than boiling the oceans to have LLMs hallucinate at each other on our behalf.

Great news, everybody: the Librarian of Congress has stepped in to allow ice cream machines to be repaired.

I fucking hate it here. Even the “good” news demonstrates how terribly technocapitalism has fucked us up.

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US Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemption For Ice Cream Machines - Slashdot

The Librarian of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption allowing independent repair of soft-serve machines, addressing the persistent issue of restricted repairs on McDonald's frequently malfunctioning machines.
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Absolutely horrifying story found via today's Boonta Vista podcast, but my total 100% honest reaction is:

"This is what WILL happen if your healthcare system is profit-based. You will get mowed down by the machine. Change your system."

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Kentucky man wakes up before organ donation, sparks investigation

Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover woke up before his organs were about to be donated after his family was told he was brain dead, an organ preservationist said.
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)

Some of the music behind the Flintstones in the golden age was absolutely phenomenal. They really put a lot into it. Now you just hear um-pah umpah umpah umpah with a synthesized bass and drums.
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David Goldfield
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Yes, and in general, TV theme songs were amazing in the '60s and '70s.

Jeff Bezos has caved in to fascism by forbidding his Washington Post editorial staff from endorsing Kamala Harris in a likely quid pro quo with Mango Mussolini.

Jeff Bezos engaged in illegal union-busting tactics, spending over $14 million in 2022 alone to undercut his employees' rights.

Jeff Bezos spent $500 million to build his personal floating mansion Koru, the tallest sailing yacht in the world that is so big, it has its own 250-foot support yacht.

Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon, extorts 50% of revenue from sellers on the monopolistic retail website Amazon.com.

Jeff Bezos this year bought his *fourth* private jet for $80 million, a Gulfstream G700 luxury business jet that travels near the speed of sound. Bezos’ plane made 28 flights in 39 days — leaving a carbon footprint of 264 tons, or 17 times what the average American emits in a year.

Jeff Bezos, as reported by ProPublica, filed a tax return in 2011 showing he lost money and received a $4,000 child tax credit from the US government during a year in which his wealth held steady at $18 billion.

I can go on and on, but how many reasons do you need to boycott anything he touches?

Cancel your Washington Post subscription. Cancel your Amazon Prime membership. Boycott Amazon.

You have alternatives. Don't feed the beast.

#USPol #USPolitics #Amazon #Bezos #WaPo #BillionairesShouldNotExist #TaxTheRich #UnionBustingIsDisgusting #UnionStrong

#uspol #amazon #uspolitics #taxtherich #unionstrong #wapo #bezos #BillionairesShouldNotExist #unionbustingisdisgusting

I don't know what changed from GTS 0.16 to 0.17, but the mentions timeline works more reliably now with my client TWBlue. I think there was some sort of issue before. I got notifications reliably, but mentions didn't always fill or update. Now it works fine all the time.

How do you secure your shoes?

  • I tie them with laces. I'm old school. (28%, 2 votes)
  • Velcro man. I love the 80s! (0%, 0 votes)
  • I have slip-ons. I'd wear slippers all the time if I could. (57%, 4 votes)
  • What? Who wears shoes? (14%, 1 vote)
7 voters. Poll end: 2 days ago

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modulux
modulux
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Mostly laces, but I have some boots that zip, which are convenient.

Ahhh, finally a relaxing weekend of *checks ceiling* opening the walls to find the source of a leak and patching it before we get comfy with another insanely rainy week

Folks, there really is something sliding backwards in #Accessibility but I can't quite pinpoint it, but it's showing itself every time I invoice a client but I spent that whole time convincing the small business that, well, actually, accessible design is good. Toolbars won't fix accessibility. Your computer can make text bigger. Your monitor can brighten and lower brightness. your computer has a Magnifier in it.

I'm not joking. Back in 2006, you had to use those advanced accessibility talks, but not anymore! Now I get paid to tell people that there are themes in Wordpress that make stuff more accessible without toolbars and yes you can increase your mouse size.

Seriously, what's going on? I mean, I'll have income for a hell of a long time without really doing anything super taxing these days but wow! #WebDev

#Accessibility #webdev
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victor tsaran
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I think it’s cyclical. This makes our jobs somewhat harder because instead of making the future technology accessible, we have to explain the stuff that was explained years ago. But then, it was a different generation, remember? So yeah, one way to advance the future is to forget the past! :)

This may sound naive. But why would a multi-billionaire Jeff B and others be afraid of Trump? Then, what can a single president really do to a newspaper which is considered to be a private enterprise? I mean, seriously…
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Kevin R Jones
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It’s not what Trump could do to a news paper, it’s what Trump would do for other companies of those billion heirs. Or positions in his cabinet to those billion heirs.
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CJ
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I suspect it has more to do with Amazon, such as government contracts and regulations.

When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939

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When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939

Night at The Garden, a film that revisits a night in February 1939 when '20,000 Americans rallied in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism -- an event largely forgotten from U.S. history.
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Afgekeurd! 😁 Geen #NVA in #Gent!
#gent #nva

Cijfers, jongens, cijfers met uitkomst ipv vage woorden...
4 minuten geleden Akkoord voor coalitie met N-VA in Gent afgekeurd door Vooruit "Na een open en zeer diepgaand debat hebben we onvoldoende draagvlak gevonden bij onze leden om toe te treden tot een coalitie met N-VA. De leden spraken grote waardering uit over het sociaal en progressief ontwerp-bestuursakkoord dat de onderhandelaars konden voorleggen. Voor te veel leden bleek de samenstelling van de voorgestelde coalitie evenwel een te groot struikelblok. Nu het initiatiefrecht wordt doorgegeven, zal Vooruit zich blijven constructief opstellen", klinkt het bij de partij zondagavond.

Onion rings. Usually on Mondays.

#cibulovekrouzky #lessontwentytwo

#cibulovekrouzky #lessontwentytwo
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Jiří Pavlík
Jiří Pavlík
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@Tomáš Vít Je to dost hororový obrázek. A co je hororovější než Bible a Ježíš Crispus?
@Tomáš Vít

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 3 added apps:

* Swift Notes: lightweight and secure notes app 🛡️
* NotallyX: Minimalistic note taking app 🛡️
* splitcat: split and merge files

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

Does anyone have a huge amount of experience in running a daily driver laptop using windows on Arm? I know that jaws has an Arm variant. Of course Mac has Arm going on like a house on fire, but does the hive mind think it’d be better for my sanity to run things like email,, web, word and other basic stuff. Heavy load things like audio production/creative stuff will happen on “mini-roarbox”
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Khronos
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In the latest version of windos for arm 24h2 things have gotten better. At this point unless you need the aws workspaces driver for arm you should be ok. Arm isn't 100 percent ready yet, but it is getting close. I don't know if linux sub system for windows works on arm yet Last I checked it did not yet though.
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Khronos
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From what I have read on here though iClud doesn't work on arm as of yet so this may be an issue for you as well possibly.

Tuhle Kovyho tvorbu mám nejraději
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Americké prezidentské volby | KOVY

Spojené státy míří k volbám! V dnešním videu si shrneme to nejdůležitější: představíme si kandidáty i jejich viceprezidenty, program, mrkneme na debaty, rozh...
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You. Are. Fucking. Kidding. Me.

If you wondered how all these business in the 40s could have done it for Nazi Germany, look no further. We have demonstration before it even started.

The rich won't save the people.

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Opinion

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I would like to see us get *well* past “accessibility is good, actually”-level talks about accessibility.

With the title of this talk, I was hoping for a case study on an open source project that put effort into having accessible tools & processes and how that made it possible for disabled devs to participate…because I think often it’s assumed that sure, disabled people can be users, but they wouldn’t be devs.

#AllThingsOpen2024 #accessibility

#Accessibility #allthingsopen2024

The moral meltdown at the LA Times and Washington Post is a reminder that independent journalism is needed more than ever. It's also a reminder that being an independent journalist is HARD work, with challenges the "professionals" rarely see or grasp.

I urge you to read this from Molly White (hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff), one of the best we've seen:

citationneeded.news/i-am-my-ow…

and then please consider joining me as a paid subscriber.


I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”

Independent publishing is one important facet of the media ecosystem, and while I love it, I know it is not the path for everyone.
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Please people who put on events I'm begging you, have a mailing list or a physical website where I can look up dates in advance. Just saw a post on Instagram about a craft workshop I would have liked to go to but didn't see before hand, asked the artist if she had a mailing list and was told "no but I post all my upcoming workshops on Instagram and Facebook". I don't think a lot of people realise these don't show most of your posts to your followers, and what they do show isn't chronological?
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Lots of people can't use FB cos of the real name policy or it making you visible to stalkers/harassers or similar.

I have an FB but I hardly ever use it, if an event only organises via FB I won't be going. It's a social justice issue to put event info somewhere properly publicly accessible that doesn't track users.

Did Pierre Poilievre get his security clearance yet? No?

How about now? No?

Now? No?

TICK, TOCK, eh.

#cdnpoli #polcan

#cdnpoli #polcan
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Hubert Figuière
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he is scared to shit what they would discover. Maybe it's time for real investigative journalism. Except: who is left?

It's #CyberSecurityMonth! Time to #deGoogle 💪💪💪

What are your favorite privacy-first apps?

Check out our list:
tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

App icons of Google alternatives like Tuta, Firefox, F-Droid, and more.

How to De-Google your life – The ultimate list of best Google alternatives.

Start DeGoogling today and stop Big G from exploiting your data! In this in-depth guide learn how to quit Google apps for good, and start using Tuta’s privacy expert’s recommended apps instead.
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Hardening Linux Servers Against Threats and Attacks lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Hardening Linux Servers Against Threats and Attacks | Linux Journal

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Psalo by se o dnešku v dávných kronikách... "Toho pozdního podzimu... rozkvetly fialky a lidé bez kabátů chodili."

My current ear worm, "1952 Vincint Black Lightning" by Richard Thomson, fantastic guitar work, great writing, so catchy and enthralling, the rhythm/story voice are on repeat in my head and I don't mind! youtube.com/watch?v=5yw2yKNLEP…

Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

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to kooperovanie v aliancii mi robí strašnú nostalgiu na Prahu

A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.

Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.

facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography

Comet C/2023A3 and a fireball seen together in northern Hungary.

Yasutaka Saika

Yasutaka Saika je na Facebooku. Přidejte se na Facebook a spojte se s Yasutakou Saikou a dalšími lidmi, které znáte. Facebook dává lidem příležitost sdílet a dělá tak svět otevřenější a propojenější.
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#photography #science #astronomy #space

Instead of saying "AI hallucinates conversations which never occurred," say that "it is not fit for the purpose of transcription."

Toto je jedno z nejvíc nejkrásnějších videí vůbec a pravidelně se k němu vracím. youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg

When you're overqualified for the job

SUBSCRIBE ► https://www.youtube.com/c/ENTERTVINMENT?sub_confirmation=1
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Aaaa, pekne! Ja par poslednich tydnu zkoumam vody japonskeho metalu, tak toto je super objev. I kdyz to bude asi hluboka nora.

So if my wife ever needed a miracle now would be the time. The pain from the leukemia is growing worse and worse. And it looks like she is headed for hospice very soon. Her blood counts are not rising as quickly as everyone would’ve liked. Which is what they used to determined after each cycle if the chemo is still working or not. The chemo is keeping her alive. They call it maintenance chemo. She has acute my leukemia with a TP 53 mutation. Basically it makes the type of leukemia extremely difficult to treat and almost impossible to eradicate. A bone marrow transplant is out of the question, Since the doctors are 99% sure it would kill her. Also, her heart cannot handle more toxic forms of chemotherapy. I am asking everybody to pray for my wife. So for those of you who believe in the power of prayer, please share this. I am not a very religious person, I don’t go to church every Sunday, but I am a very spiritual person.#Health #Healing #Medicine #Prayer #Hope #God #Jesus #Christian.#Fediverse #Leukemia #Cancer
#fediverse #health #cancer #medicine #christian #god #hope #healing #prayer #jesus #leukemia
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William, please know that I will pray and offer for the health of your wife. I only wish that I could do more. God love you.

I wonder, what would’ve happened if WaPo just ran the endorsement - was Bezos gonna run down to the printer and shut off the press? Turn off the web site.

I know that it’s easy to say this, but… if I was EIC or whatever, I’d have tried to run the endorsement anyway. social.coop/@chrisjrn/11338000…

Christopher Neugebauer (@chrisjrn@social.coop)

I see *someone* at the Post was allowed to file an endorsement column: https://wapo.st/3UqHWRM (Gift link)
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Hubert Figuière
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my understanding is that the sign off would have been Lewis and this guy is ultimately the one who made the call.
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I can't find a speech synthesizer that says eye balls and eye tubes the same way other than Eloquence.

Air Canada has this cool system now where there are no human employees at the check in counter at all, and instead you register your baggage with a little touch screen and place it on a conveyor belt, and then the touch screen displays an error, and there's nothing you can do because there are no fucking human employees present to deal with it

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air canada: we are not happy until you are not happy.

New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Hermit Browser accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/herm… #Android #App

Hermit Browser - Accessible Android

We’re living in times where our information is the new gold. Thus, it is not uncommon for companies to harvest information of users, mainly intended to
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