These people will stop at nothing. You cannot bring a sternly worded letter to a gun fight. You’ll be dead on the ground, bleeding out while some criminal pisses on you. When will we learn? thegodpodcast.com/p/donald-tru…
i was editing sculpture photos earlier, and i was wondering why. why i was bothering. the world is burning, people and animals and trees are dying, we're all trying not to drown in despair. why am i making sculptures and bothering to make sure their photos are accurate and why do i care?
and then i realised that it's the caring that makes us human. it's the creating and the trying to make the world better and more beautiful that will save what's left, if anything will. and they're what will save us too.
so to all of you, i just want to say please keep doing what you're doing. please keep making things and trying and putting whatever it is that makes you you into the world. we all need it. and we all need you.
I remember reaching out to a bunch of friends to put together this six year-old article about books for getting started with occult/magical practices. Lots of good stuff on this list, too. #books #occult #magic #morebooksarnemancy.com/articles/getting…
Happens to me every time I hear a non-American microwave. For some reason, it’s mostly microwaves that do my head in. Not sure why they don’t all do that.
Has to be confusing when it leaks into TV and such, though. E.G. I watched a BBC documentary on the history of electricity, and half the electrical noises in there were obviously from a 120 Hz base! Because hollywood sound libraries contaminated the space. And then some of them were 50 Hz based too, just to make it more confusing.
I've seen a Polish WW2 movie, played on Polish national television on some national holiday, where somebody was calling Berlin and getting your typical American ringing tone.
@x0 @FreakyFwoof And then you have all those TV shows where incoming texts have the standard iPhone notification tone, and you can hear the old iOS screen lock sound every time somebody pulls a phone out of their pocket.
The BBC isn't without fault here, I remember Sherlock being a particularly egregious example of this.
Yeah, the silly dryer song is very quiet and unassuming. It does nag several times if you don't open the door right away, but still not sure you could hear it.
President-elect Trump says he "ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches," to be moved to the Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985. journa.host/@w7voa/11384478460…
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President-elect Trump says he "ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches," to be moved to the Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland.
This needs to be luddited 🔥🔥🔥 Spoken as a (digital) historian, who uses #LLMs as tools.
I'm not one quick to anger, but I'm fuming 😤🤬🤬🤬 (Those kind of 'chats' are not new, but I hadn't seen this one until this morning in a post by @ct_bergstrom)
Agree 100% except for the use of Luddited -- that movement isn't what we've always thought it was. They were protesting for better pay and more hours, not against technology. Elite-owned media and businesses controlled the narrative then and now. smithsonianmag.com/history/wha…
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I've now found two separate instances where NVDA sees radio buttons in Chrome but they only show as clickable items in Firefox. I think they're screen-reader-specific radio buttons; NVDA detects them as off-screen, but this is becoming a pattern. One instance is on the beta deploy page for Vultr. Me and the frontend dev are stumped about this. Another is on this free personality test. I haven't done a code review yet because it's probably something CSS-related but I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what's going on here. @NVAccesshumanmetrics.com/personality/t…
Online test based on Jung and Briggs Myers typology provides your personality formula, the description of your type, list of occupations, and option to assess your compatibility against any soulmate
Interesting. Is this still broken for you on Firefox? Or are you referring to the version of the pannel prior to the fix from the other day. For reference, my testing of the Vultr pannel was with NVDA 2024.4.1/2024.4.2 and Firefox, and once the fix was implemented, it worked without issue.
@jackf723 Fwiw, this works totally fine with either Safari and Firefox on Mac, while on Windows I can confirm it doesn't work with NVDA but works fine with ZDSR and JAWS 2023.
@pitermach Ok, the cpu type radio buttons work perfectly, it's the location radio buttons that don't. NVDA 2024.4.2, Firefox 134.0.1. Can upload an audio demo if that would be helpful, if masto-scial doesn't rate limit me that is
That is quite the personality text - the navbar is half links & half nav buttons, the "clickable" buttons for the answers are visually presented as "YES", "yes", "uncertain", "no", "NO", but read as "Strongly agree" through "strongly disagree" (which is much clearer, especially with negatives in questions like "You are almost never late for your appointments"). I also don't like green for agree, red for disagree - they're options, neither is right or wrong as the colours seem to indicate
My strong suspicion is it's some quirk with the way the page has been coded and I would strongly recommend they talk to a web accessibility professional for guidance. If anyone wants to trawl through the code and work out what is going on and believes there is an NVDA bug, we'll happily take an issue though: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
Yeah, in general it definitely could be better. It's just interesting because they work fine in Chrome, and this isn't the first time I've seen radio buttons act like this. So I wonder if this is partially a Firefox / NVDA interaction issue, much as I suspect you're right about the page having a code problem.
There are some weird cases of off-screen radio buttons where Chrome exposes a width and height which aren't 0, but Firefox exposes 0 for one or both. I don't quite understand why, though we do have a bug on file for it. While I'm not suggesting there isn't a Firefox bug here, I do think this is yet another a good reason NVDA should stop ignoring 0 width/height things in browse mode. I'd prefer to argue that this off-screen radio button hack is poor authoring that should die in a fire, but I'm not going to win that in the wild.
If you can see them in focus mode but not browse mode in Firefox, this is the problem you're dealing with. If you can't see them even in focus mode in Firefox (but you can see them in Chrome), this is a different problem, most likely relating to aria-hidden workarounds in Chrome which don't exist in Firefox.
@jcsteh I think that's exactly what's happening because the fix the Vultr frontend developer made was also off-screen radio buttons. I definitely think NVDA needs to stop ignoring these. I wonder if there's an issue for that.
NVDA's browse mode currently ignores any controls with a width and height of 0. Unfortunately, I'm noticing a trend of using this type of control to add an accessible interactive element without th...
Only looked briefly - on holiday - but unless you already did and I missed it, I'd note two things: 1. No other screen reader has this 0 width and height check as far as I am aware. 2. The Firefox behapiour with off-screen controls only seems to affect some off-screen content techniques. I'm not exactly sure what specific styling causes the different behaviour in Chrome vs Firefox, which is one reason it's a bit tricky to diagnose and fix/work around.
@jcsteh Thanks for looking even while on holiday. #1 was heavily implied by the "Developers will test in other screen readers and conclude it's fine" sentament, but I can say that directly because I do think it's an important point. #2 is not something I knew. I'll add a note about it.
If it is something which is becoming common in the wild, then it could potentially be something we'd consider looking at. Part of the problem is that if they are using things in a way in which they weren't intended, then there's no guarantee to how browsers will interpret it. If you can put together some examples like those and feel inclined to create an issue, we can certainly look into it - github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
Studies have long shown that men are more likely to interrupt, particularly when speaking with women. New research by Johns Hopkins engineers reveals that this behavior also extends to AI-powered voice assistants like Alexa and Siri, with men interru…
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Zen in the Art of Archery [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Eugen Herrigel, trans R F C Hull, introduction D T Suzuki This book is not so much about Zen, and hardly about archery.
See, no need to constantly bang your head in a wall to solve this and that. Someone wrote a plugin or two, or many, for this and that, take the easier way, don't be like me. I have a talent to get myself in trouble.
it is not exactly what I want, but it has some good ideas. I might build my stuff in it in the end.
But! I think random experiments are still worth it, even if they end up shortlived. They help me figure out what I want, and how, and might learn a trick or two in the process, too.
The way I function is that I bang out some proof of concept, and then look if someone did it better. This way I have something quick, without spending weeks exploring options. If there is, I can then spend weeks exploring, but I will have the PoC running too!
I did need to learn to fail fast and let go. That was (and tbh, still is) hard.
Yeah, I used to be somewhat like that too, in other areas, not computers, but you get it. Nowadays I need something to spark my experiment with something spark, then I could return to that state of happy experimenting.
Benetech Launches Groundbreaking AI Initiative to Revolutionize STEM Education for Neurodivergent and Visually Impaired Students | Newswire newswire.com/news/benetech-lau…
If any of you use headphones/speakers with standard headphone jacks, and want to adjust the bass/midrange/treble you can do so with this device for less than $30. I got mine last night, and like it. It has an aux input, and an output. Goes in between your device and headphones, so if you don't have an aux cord you'll need one. USB powered. 7 Band Sound Equalizer 2 Channel... amazon.com/dp/B0D5RDG8B3?ref=p…
The time has come for a new Desktop Release! 🎉 Help us find the most annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on the website and in stores.
I personally think people should use the official arch package instead, though the maintainer didn't have time to update it yet: archlinux.org/packages/extra/a…
fosdem leadership: "people are saying that we are giving the coinscam fascist guy a keynote because he is sponsoring us, but this is a vicious lie--we are giving him the keynote because we just really like what he has to say!"
Cybertruck is not being discontinued; that's horse shit from a fake news site. The actual news is that Tesla is offering discounts on it for the first time.
Apple fucking up news notifications and subsequently halting the product is real, tho
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Free our Feeds, un collettivo di leader della tecnologia tra cui il fondatore di Wikipedia Jimmy Wales e il presidente della Mozilla Foundation Mark Surman, vuole raccogliere 30 milioni di dollari per proteggere Bluesky
Free our Feeds, a collective of tech leaders including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman, wants to raise US$30M to protect Bluesky.
Ma perché si vuole proteggere Bluesky? Secondo me per mantenere un controllo su uno strumento mediatico per poterlo condizionare e plasmare secondo orientamenti politici e sociali che fanno più comodo ad una ristretta élite.
Well this is a piano I didn't expect the Sound Canvas to pull off. This is a cover of Two Sugars, a short piano piece, from Little Busters! a visual novel by Key. Composed by PMMK, arranged by Kamoto. MIDI: web.archive.org/web/2018100503…. Original: youtube.com/watch?v=jHLrUhAxVs….
Song: Two Sugars (also, "Osatō Futatsu," "お砂糖ふたつ")Composition: PMMKArrangement: PMMKAlbum: Little Busters! Original Soundtrack CD1Track: 19DISCLAIMER: This c...
Draupnir moderation bot turns 2.0, Fractal 10.rc is out with next-gen authentication, FOSDEM is just around the corner, and we've got security fixes released for matrix-media-repo and Dendrite. This and more happened this week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/01/17/thi…
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@hub Given how closely integrated our infrastructure is with the US, it’s hard to imagine anything that’s street-legal there not being legal here, too.
Still not coming to FOSDEM this year because of their extremely disappointing sanitary policy. Catching flu or covid at a conference shouldn't be considered normal. fosdem.org/2025/practical/covi…
It’s a bit of a pain to pepper updates within the sections of the post, so just scroll down to the latest update and work your way back up. Considering how much I charge for this site, I am hoping my readers will accept the extra effort.
If anyone is curious why I didn't just leave it at targetSdk 35 and opted Catima out of edge-to-edge: there appears to be a bug in Google's edge-to-edge opt-out code which caused the multi-card-selection bar in Catima's home screen to be displayed as a second app bar (like the good old days where everyone had browser toolbars 😉)
Este vorba despre campania #EchilibrușiVerticalitate, realizată cu influenceri pe TikTok, despre care un document desecretizat al CSAT susține că „este identică cu campania Frate pentru Frate derulată de Federația Rusă în Ucraina”, derulată de Rusia …
If/when #7829 is merged, the following UA style doesn't make sense. Can it be removed? In the following CSS block, x is shorthand for the following selector: :is(article, aside, nav, section) @name...
A cassette containing the radio edit of Subways of your Mind was found recently. The vocals have more of a stereo feel to them, and there were two drum beats at the beginning that were missing from Darius S's original recording. The master tape still hasn't been found, though. youtube.com/watch?v=vUAldzxk_5…
Provided to YouTube by Zebralution GmbHSubways of Your Mind (Original version of TMMS) · FEXSubways of Your Mind℗ 2025 FEXReleased on: 2025-01-14Composer: Tu...
Tuta Mail revoluciona la organización del correo electrónico con su nueva función de etiquetas
La eficiencia y la privacidad son prioridades, Tuta sigue marcando la diferencia. Esta reconocida plataforma, famosa por sus servicios centrados en la seguridad como Tuta Mail y Tuta Calendar, ha dado un paso más hacia la excelencia con una innovación que promete transformar la experiencia de sus usuarios: las etiquetas. @Tutanota
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The BBC isn't without fault here, I remember Sherlock being a particularly egregious example of this.
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