I have listened to over one thousand pieces of classical music in the last three months, and I have prepared a special playlist a little out of the ordinary.
😈😈FEELING EVIL, SHOW ME THE FORBIDDEN CLASSICAL😈😈
The reviews are in: "I thought classical music was boring, but this playlist gave me an anxiety disorder." "A disturbing glimpse into the dark heart of guys who write ballets about pretty princesses." "Who knew that a toccata could fall down the stairs?"
Featuring the talents of every Russian composer ever and also a few other guys from Hungary and France
for Lawful Evil people and/or people who want to feel impending doom on the double.The reviews are in: "I thought classical music was boring, but this playli...
BambuLab basically locks down their entire 3D printer ecosystem with this ridiculous cloud authorization system.
You want to print locally via your LAN? Sorry, the cloud needs to authorize your g-code first.
Want to use another slicer to send your job to the printer? Sorry, no.
Would it really still surprise anyone if DRM'd filaments are next on their agenda? Their printers are good, their prices are cheap, but please, stop supporting this company.
@AccessOn Would you consider mentioning the passing of Ed Potter on an upcoming edition of Access On? Before we had podcasts, Ed recorded Playback Magazine which, in many ways, was quite similar to the work that you do with your podcasts today. He provided listings of toll free numbers for ordering merchandise by phone and also provided listener-submitted reviews and demonstrations of products which were available at that time. Ed Potter, in that respect, was a true accessibility champion of his time. While he clearly lived a long and full life, I am still sad to learn of his passing but I'm grateful for his contributions to the blindness community.
David, thanks so much for posting this. I'm really sorry to read about Ed's passing. He was a really nice person and if you ever talked with him on the phone, he could really tell the stories.
@douglas2005 I heard about it from @tinygirl. Had I not read her posts about Ed's passing, I might have missed hearing about it, at least for some time and so I thank her for alerting all of us.
David, thanks so much for alerting us to Ed's passing. We will most certainly acknowledge his considerable contribution in the next episode. If you, or anyone else reading, would like to send in any memories of Ed and Playback magazine, we will gladly receive those contributions and air them in his honor.
If you can dream it we can sing it! Comment your song ideas below!All Links!https://linktr.ee/beatsbyaiSpotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/2VL0G8nTevMkOCc...
For Playback Magazine fans, or fans of Coffee with Ed, I just found out that we lost Ed Potter at the age of 92 this last Tuesday. Obit follows. legacy.com/us/obituaries/legac…
Larry and I singed up for the Playback Pilot newsletter which came out in 1979l. he was testing to see if there was an interest in the audio magazine. We became friends and traded thousands of radio programs. We talked with him a couple of years ago and he was doing well except for a loss of hearing in one of his ears. I'm really sorry to hear this news. He was a long time good friend.
TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. Here's a pattern you can use to download all of the videos from a specific account.
I recently discovered this channel, Branch Education. While their videos (which all have to do with how parts of computers work) have nice visuals, I find I can nearly always follow them even though I can't see. This one has some really cool information on how graphics cards work. youtube.com/watch?v=h9Z4oGN89M…
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Mary Trump talks Trump’s vengeance presidency and global chaos fueled by Elon Musk.Want more Mary? Check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLApnnEs8u...
I would grab these anker earbuds for $15 ASAP if I were you! I'm not just saying this cause they are on sale but they are the best non airpods I've ever used. No connection issues with the sense player or Iphone SE 2 running IOS 18. 6-7 hours on the buds and 40 something hours for the case in terms of battery, the specs on the case battery say 700MAH which is pretty amazing. Go go go! amazon.com/dp/B0D22RLPP3/?coli…
There's one thing I miss about the late Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. His sharp tongue. For example, this is what the royal second fiddle said upon leaving a plane, when asked by a particularly unimaginative journalist what the flight was like:
"And how was your flight, sir?" "Have you ever been on an aeroplane?" "Yes." "Well, it was like that."
Anyway, here's a picture taken out a plane window in 2012, using the Retro Phone app on an HTC Sensation... a phone possesing a battery life so short it would die faster than a cordless Magic Wand.
Bambu Lab has just released a beta firmware for their 3D printers that includes DRM: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…. it removes the ability to control your printer over the network from anything but Bambu software.
Bambu claims that the negative response to their DRM is due to confusion, but nobody is confused. this new firmware doesn’t offer any security benefits; it has already been trivially broken. its only purpose is to be a DMCA hazard.
Developers having their apps available via the #IzzyOnDroid repo and curious how they perform, can look that up for themselves via our download statistics. We just included some examples on how to easily find out
* how often your app was downloaded since statistics became available * day-by-day download statistics
Very happy to be reporting on today's massive protest to keep the nuclear power plant in Almaraz open. The piece will appear tomorrow. Want it in your inbox first thing in the morning? Sign up today! For just €5 a month, you'll be getting a new piece every week.
Today I'll be releasing my interview with Johan Christian Sollid on Denmark's energy transition for the public, which can now be read on my website as well.
@modulux I can imagine. As I understand the issue is pretty polarised between the left and the right in Spain. More lefties should be vocal about being pro-nuclear because, as the guy who I interviewed stated, the leftwing is just unthinkingly carrying the deadweight of decades of anti-nuclear campaigning with it.
Based on the latest updates in ETSI’s GitLab, it looks like EN 301 549 section 11.7 will specifically remove web sites and apps, and although it’s not clearly spelling it out it’s clear than the intent is not to include dark mode in that: labs.etsi.org/rep/HF/en301549/…
Guess it’s time to update my blog post on the subject! But obviously, it won’t be part of EN 301 549 v3.2.1 which is what’s being used for the EAA’s initial launch, so let’s see what the regulators choose to do.
This same question has been raised twice: Pär Lannerö: Apropos Table A.1, could you please explain why clause "11.7 User preferences” is included and how it...
@mgifford yes, it’s not the outcome I was hoping for. But the good thing is that this at least stops the arguments about what should and shouldn’t be included from a web point of view.
Die Standortdaten von Millionen Handy-Nutzer*innen weltweit stehen zum Verkauf, sie stammen aus Zehntausenden Apps. Nach unserer jüngsten Veröffentlichung zu den #DatabrokerFiles fragen uns viele: Was kann ich tun?! Hier sind sieben Wege, um deinen Standort vor Databrokern zu schützen.
Databroker verkaufen die Handy-Standortdaten von Millionen Menschen weltweit. Zehntausende App sind betroffen, wie Veröffentlichungen von netzpolitik.org und Recherche-Partnern aus sechs Ländern zeigen. Das kannst du tun, um dich zu schützen.
#Accessibility challenge: Using the #screenReader of your choice, navigate to today's TV schedule for BBC Two. From the top of the page, what is the minimum number of keystrokes you can find to switch it to the listings for tomorrow instead?
Recent commentary on OpenAI's O3 large language model suggests, even to me as a non-expert, that it exhibits remarkable problem solving performance and adaptability to tasks for which it was not trained. If this line of research continues successfully, our prior assumptions about the limitations of machine learning systems may be due for revision, including our understanding of the relationship between AI and disability. The assumption reflected in the literature has been that AI systems have little capacity to respond appropriately to human diversity without detailed training in disability-related scenarios - whatever those are for the specific application. This view may soon cease to be valid, or at least not hold to the same extent as it does presently.
Schweigen oder widersprechen? Ex-Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter Ulrich Kelber erklärt die elektronische Patientenakte – und wie er sich entschieden hat.
@Marino13 "Privatpatient" ist da auch kein "Patentrezept". Die Hallesche Nationale richtet das auch für ihre Privatversicherten ein, sofern letztere nicht widersprochen haben. Da würde ich zur Sicherheit bei der Kasse nachfragen 😉 @ulrichkelber
In this podcast, Grace Blakeley gives a presentation based on her recent book, Vulture Capitalism, at the LSE. There follows commentary and discussion.
Are there any sounds that just utterly creep you out? For me, the 3DO boot up sequence does. Even though I'm an adult, I imagine hearing it as a child coming out of a big grumpy CRT at about chest-height late at night for some reason, and the sound jumping out of the screen and eating me alive. I really, really do not like it. Sound attached for reference.
Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers. Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables. But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir. Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all. So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no. Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
I gave it a quick look and it seems it has no accessibility support. This means it doesn't exist. I can't exactly use a GUI toolkit if I can't navigate the programs I produce. Thanks for the suggestion.
Alright, I've checked out egui, through eframe, and slint. Both work for some values of work. Unfortunately eframe is quite limited in terms of the widegts it offers, and the direct mode seems a little unsuited to my application idea. Slint fits better, but it's still missing a lot of widegts I need, such as menu bars.
Yes, I was looking at that as well through eframe, but it doesn't seem to support some of the widget types I need. Slint gets closer but is still missing menus.
I thought @matt's work to renovate the Linux accessibility stack was going to result in some level of GTK accessibility on Windows (because of AccessKit), but I haven't heard any updates about the project in a while. And I could also be completely wrong.
No es mala idea, el problema es que no encuentro librerías para usar WX en Rust que funcionen en Windows, por lo menos en principio. A lo mejor hay algo que no he localizado.
I mean, PyQT kind of sucks on the accessibility side in some places, or at least did the last time I tried. WX makes your app look extremely Windows-like if you run them on the Mac, not to mention its abhorrent and unpythonic style.
I wasn't aware of a11y issues with py-qt. Not so fussed about how things look, much less on the mac, for obvious reasons. But, sure, if someone wants to make multiplatform stuff that looks similar it does get more involved.
Oh, Qt has improved, as far as I know. At least I've used some Qt programs that seemed to be alright. Really disappointed that gtk's accessibility is limited to linux though.
it's not just about how things look visually, even if you're using VO, you get yes/no buttons instead of something like "keep"/"delete", very Windows-like shortcuts etc.
You can probably fix this if you go the extra mile, though.
One program I've seen, although I'm not totally sure what Toolkit it was using, used option+f4 to quit instead of command+q. That's what I mean by "apps looking Windows-like."
Ah yeah, functional issues. I never got along with macs is the thing, so I wouldn't really think of producing software for them. Of course if you can let the library deal with it that's great.
Iced has no accessibility. Thanks for the suggestion of Slint, that might work. Unfortunately up to now windows has the best accessibility around, so that makes it imperative for me to keep using it. Hopefully this changes one day.
Mm, from a quick look at eframe it seems it's quite limited about the sort of widgets it supports, but maybe I need to read more docs. Looking for things like listviews, menu bars, etc.
Gtk .18 will have a11y support on Windows thanks to the Accesskit backend, so, just wait a few weeks or compile it from source? Did not try that on Windows yet, though.
@Lukáš Tyrychtr @modulux GTK 4.18 that is. Still it's a shame #a11y work by @Matt Campbell is not continuing the way it has been envisioned from the start.
@graydon May I recommend FLTK? I can’t say I’ve completely mastered it, but it seemed easier to get a basic GUI working than what you have suffered with.
I'm a bit nervous about the fact it uses an external crate for a11y, so it's not on by default, and it says some widgets have a11y support, so it's not clear if all of them do. Also can one do list views? I haven't seen them on the list of widgets.
PS Still trying to build Qt, got failures due to: lack of ATL, mismatch in architecture, and now some weird openssl link failure.
I've been trying FLTK after running out of other options. I can see why you recommended it, the building situation is so much easier, just cargo add with the bundle feature and it's done.
Unfortunately the accessibility implementation isn't good. I've only given a quick look, but the example provided already doesn't work well. Specifically, the screen reader re-reads every time an input field is changed, so it reads the entire input whenever a new character is entered.
However if one day the accessibility situation improves I will definitely look into it again. It seems much easier to deploy.
If you're a #blind user, you should really consider #Kagi for web search. Especially if you pay for chat GPT pro, you can subscribe to Kagi instead for cheaper and get more features. But even if you don't want AI, the search page is #accessible, fast, and light-weight. And unlike other big tech companies (Microsoft and Google) Kagi still offers a cheaper plan with no AI if you don't want it. Also, because they downrank websites with ads, the more accessible results tend to be at the top. Kagi also lets you block domains from your results. So I got rid of inaccessible stuff like instagram and pinterest, and downranked YouTube, because those results aren't usually #screenreader accessible. While I don't agree with many of the opinions of the @kagihq founder (especially his decision to do business with Yandex for image search), I still feel like using Kagi is more ethical than dealing with Google or Bing, and that these are reasonable differences of opinion that reasonable people can have, not just another clownishly evil tech company. I also find the idea that if you're a paying customer, that somehow guarantees the business will treat you better, really strange. I pay a lot to my ISP and they still treat me like dirt! Kagi will almost certainly sell out at some point. But for the moment, it's where it's at for search: www.kagi.com/
Funny how you just settle into using a product like this. I signed up in December 2023 and have been a happy customer since then, but that's probably also around the last time I looked at the preferences pages. I should really set up some prioritisation rules too.
@jscholes@kagihq You can also do it by pressing the domain info link beside a search result that you don't like. Just select the block radio button and hit escape to close the dialogue. The only real issue is that answers from the assistant aren't read out automatically in real time as they come in. I filled an issue for that if you want to upvote: kagifeedback.org/d/5996-announce-new-results-from-assistant-using-aria-live
I did this a few months ago and have been very happy. I pay $5 per month and have yet to run out of searches, even running it on my computer and phone.
@alexhall I did the $25 a month plan because I was previously paying for Chat GPT, so why not cancel that and have everything on one bill. Plus Kagi gives GPT4o, as well as a ton of other models for when OpenAI starts censoring too hard.
That makes sense. I use the free ChatGPT site, mostly for the odd coding problem. I haven't yet found a use case in my life that would make it worth paying for.
@alexhall I use it for pulling data out of graphs or CSV files and answering questions about it. At least on Windows, there's still no good sonification tools for random online graphs. But AI does good enough if you just give it an image. And when it goes wrong, at least for graphs, it's usually completely obvious.
8 'til Late does a bit of retrospecting on the use of Dial-up internet, then Mark Price and Ben Grubbs from The Serial Port come along and tell us how they're still keeping Dial-up alive.
This specification defines a protocol for end-to-end encryption in one-to-one chats, as well as group chats where each participant may have multiple clients per account.
As someone familiar with the XMPP Standards Foundation, I can explain this one 🙂
The answer is rather simple... it's not "finished" yet.
Most clients are on an earlier version of the XEP (0.3.x).
The crypto is 99% the same, but some other things were changed to make the protocol better, more efficient, etc. We need more implementations of the latest version before it can be moved on to "Stable", which is the next stage for XEPs.
Learn about the latest enterprise features in iOS 18.2 & macOS Sonoma 15.2, from MDM enhancements to improved security & enrollment for Apple IT admins.
"Night shift again, Harry?" "Someone has to patrol the streets." "Get you something to eat?" "How's the tuna today?" "Edible." "I'll have a sandwich then, Doreen." "You got it, hon. Back in a jiffy."
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