We talked to the wonderful @Robin today on the show all about getting to grips with Windows, with a particular focus on Outlook and the File Explorer. Robin recorded a more detailed demonstration for all to enjoy - check it out here doubletaponair.com/finding-you…
In this episode of Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece welcome Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet to demonstrate how accessible and efficient Microsoft Outlook can be with JAWS screen reader.
@DavidGoldfield For years, I used a programme called PowerDesk instead. It was (maybe still is) fully accessible and had some nice features. The updated version that was current when I moved to Windows 10, seemeda bit flaky though, so I have been using file explorer which I've never liked.
@Tusky I would like it if the link to the post was automatically attached to the “Share post content” function. Otherwise you always have to copy the content first and then the link into your messenger app, which is a bit annoying. But apart from that, thanks for this wonderful great Mastodon App. Keep up the good work, you guys are great #tusky
Feature wish for @Tusky: Please use more than just one line to display the headline of an article in the link preview. It's hardly ever possible to see the whole headline.
The blast radius of a toxic contributor in an open source project is mostly invisible.
If you're a community leader you need to understand that for every prominent developer loudly driven out there were hundreds, maybe thousands of people who could have done great work, who could have been your next generation, looking at how your people treat people, at the bar your community has set for decency or dignity, silently taking their talents elsewhere, that you didn't see.
With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog.
Linus unwilling to say "I will take the NACK into consideration, but I'm not going to let one maintainer unilaterally unravel the agreement between R4L contributors and the Linux kernel community", and instead letting the discussion fester like this – is absolutely his failure as a project leader.
Can I haz readable posts, @Tusky , please? In dark mode, names and hashtags break the text body, they are far too blue. (Custom setting would work for me.)
@Tusky hi! I haven't looked at the git repo yet to file an issue, but it seems that a follow request I made that was granted is seen on the web client but not in Tusky. Is this a known issue?
do you mean the profile of the person I'm trying to follow? If so, no. I tried to refresh her profile page but it still tells me I'm waiting for that person to approve my request.
Last weekend the Open Film Database (ofdb.cc) received another update, which included the migration from #WordPress (Blog) and #DokuWiki (Wiki) to #Drupal, front-end improvements for TV shows, improved cast editing, and more!
The #OFDb is a database for movies and TV shows with its data published under an open license (Open Database License). Everyone can participate and add more titles. The more the merrier!
The Open Film Database (OFDb) is a free and open database for movies and TV shows. She is maintained by the community and published under an open license.
Biometrics are a convenient and secure way to authenticate our devices. Many of us use and trust the biometrics of our devices without much thought, but are they really secure? With so many options, which ones are the best?
Dear Google and Apple, why the fuck are you changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico as fuckwad POTUS suggested?! It's an executive order and is only mandated for federal agencies. (From what I read. Besides, you shouldn't do it anyway if you had any dignity and respect.)
It was a stupid thing for Trump to do but map companies are merely consistently following their usual policies. "Official" names of places are decided by governments and map makers use those names within those governments' territories; if you're not in the U.S., the map should still show Gulf of Mexico.
Unless a law is passed, deciding what a place name should be, the Executive branch can name it.
Trump also changed Mt. Denali back to Mt. McKinley but it was only named Denali in 2015 by an Obama executive order.
Hey guys, I'm back, haven't posted in ages. Just wanted to let you know I just released the fourth episode of my relatively new podcast, access Tech Weekly. My The website isn't updated yet, I wanna do that over the next few days. anchor.fm/s/ffd2b25c/podcast/p…
Any ideas why #NoMansSky with Proton 9.0 or experimental doesn't appear in PulseAudio or PipeWire applications / patchbays / etc. in #Linux, answers on a postcard please.
@pipewire Interesting thought. I’ll see if I can work up a `watch` for what is emitting sound and monitor that on a separate screen while playing. Thanks!
And I know, I know. Some of you will be like, "Don't you know it's unhealthy to set multiple alarms and snooze them? You wake up more tired?" For me, it's not that I usually don't wake up after the first alarm, it's that noise canceling headphones which I wear to combat snorring from my partner when they have allergies can block out the first alarm quite well. I'll try to set them to only 40% noise cancel (this is why I love the Bose models for supporting manual-adjustable variable ANC,) on some nights, that just doesn't work out and I need max. Both the watch and phone vibrating endlessly are what I have as my saviors at that point, or loud sharp alarm noises that ANC cannot filter out well.
Someone should refresh these benchmarks and test a modern #pycurl against python requests.
"PyCurl is much faster than Requests (or other HTTP client libraries), generally completing smaller requests 2-3x as fast, and requires 3-10x less CPU time" (nine years ago)
Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’ as some claim they were blindsided after parental leave | Yahoo Finance (yes, Fortune covered this too, but I'm not supporting clicks for them until they make their CMS output more accessible link text.) finance.yahoo.com/news/laid-of…
Want a less chatty BlindShell Classic 2? In this under 4-minute episode, we show you how to cut down on extra menu announcements for smoother navigation.
25 years ago, on February 13, 2000 the final "Peanuts" comic strip was released. It followed the death of Charles M. Schulz the day before, as he passed away only a few hours before its publication, serving as his final farewell to his readers.
@luv4music1231 When I was a kid, a bunch of us blind kids in North America got a book from Twin Vision. It was a Peanuts book, called "Home is on Top of a Doghouse". Almost all of the pictures in the book had extremely well-done tactiles, as well as a transcriber's note description. For the few pictures where they weren't able to do a tactile, we still got the description. It was an absolutely awesome, awesome book!
@luv4music1231 It really was. It was one of three such books I remember getting. Another was Famous Quotations. It only had one tactile, but that was of a space suit worn by Neil Armstrong. The third book, even cooler than the first, was called The Shapes of Musical Instruments. In addition to all the instruments, there was a tactile showing the seating arrangement for a standard orchestra.
@luv4music1231 @Bruce I would have loved to have felt those tactiles. The main books or magazines that I remember were the annual Expectations books. I also remember another book about a car named Marty and there was a tactile image of a car but I can't remember the title. Hadn't thought about that book in decades.
I like to keep my relationship interesting by standing in the kitchen and shouting stuff like "was I supposed to remove the lid from this can of soup before cooking, or can I just take it off after the microwave is done?"
I figured it out! A lot of reports of alarms on iOS not sounding for people have emerged (as far back as even last May, phonearena.com/news/annoying-i…, and then early this year: nypost.com/2025/01/14/tech/iph…) I know why now. If you set multiple alarms, iPhone will only sound them for 10 minutes. Should your alarms not be turned off and this 10-minute time is up (say, because you slept through it), the first alarm is stuck waiting in queue, and subsequently scheduled alarms will never sound but go off. The moment you dismiss that first alarm, all of those others will magically begin sounding every 10 minutes as you dismiss them in horror, realizing that Apple's operating system is not able to properly queue alarms. And yes, this is in iOS 18.3. I've been struggling with this pattern all week, it has made me late to my first meeting Monday because I woke up too late and scrambled too long to get ready, ETC. Not good.
For at least the third time in the last year or so, iPhone users are complaining on social media that their alarms are not working properly, with Apple once again promising to deliver a fix for ...
I bet if someone tested that, you could pretty reliably repro the bug after. Just create multiple alarms, about 15 minutes apart (or 10 minutes +), don't snooze or dismiss the first alarm. See if any subsequent alarms go off, and I can almost bet that they will not. My best guess is that alarms are all run on a single thread, so until that thread has returned as finished with the first alarm, the others after just can't execute properly.
A good solid workaround: Go into the options for each alarm, and uncheck the "snooze" toggle. This will mean that (A) you will not have a snooze option when it goes off, but more importantly, (B) it will continue sounding through 10 minutes. Still not ideal, especially as what I'll often do is set different tones and vibrations to gradually make them more annoying through each alarm, but what else can I do, I guess. This way there's hope I could dismiss that first one and the others after it would sound, even if on a delay from me sleeping off the firrst 10 minutes. Sigh.
Wow, the silence trimming within NVDA 2025.1 for the OneCore voices is really superb to see, for the first time I'm willing to give their use seruious consideration. It's fairly close to Eloquence, if not the same exactly - even when you hold down the tab key to cycle through items in the taskbar area super quickly, you can notice the starting fragments of speech are uttered, so for me it has entered the ring as a solid contender. Now if only the Neural Voices add-on was updated to support the silence trimming and rate boost, wow.
UI/UX Design Studio Manager Laurel Terlesky's #fosdem talk is online! Explore Thunderbird's journey toward a cohesive, scalable, and data-informed open-source design system that unites desktop, Thunderbird for Android, and beyond.
Matrix Bridges sind letztlich Dienste, die eine Verbindung zwischen dem Matrix-Ökosystem und anderen Messaging-Plattformen wie Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp und vielen weiteren herstellen.
oooh. I got the alpha version of NVDA, might begin to update the Eloquence add-ons I made to support it this weekend. Good to know that stuff like BeSTSpeech still work (and to see the debug version's logging always raise the OS access violation error in BstShutup too), Brailab works. No DECTalk, sad sad. Same goes for the Orpheus Lite and other classic synths, there will for sure need to be a larger update where many add-ons need revising. As usual, it's amazing to see the documentation and changes / deprecation for developers so clearly laid out, I don't see it a big challenge to revise a few functions here and there to the new formats or accepted params.
I still think they should deprecate functions for a year before removal. I always hold off on installing a point 1 release because of this add-on theater.
ha. I think part of what they're fighting is knowing that something will get deprecation but then not knowing how rewriting part of that code later on to deprecate it will cause other changes. I feel a bit of this for the Wasapi changes, we knew the old MME code and feature will go away in (X) release, sure, but then rewriting Nvwave to not support it meant that other stuff like passing in config params changed, too. So it can be a bit unpredictible even for them probably as to the rewrites something might later require. (I also wouldn't be surprised if even though SAPI4 goes away in 2026.1, there will be a 3rd-party add-on floating around to support it beyond it.)
BeSTSpeech still works, yet eloquence and dectalk don't? How strange. What's the alpha like of NVDA? I don't usually get alphas or betas in their early stages because of things like this, or in iPhones, mainly the developer betas, only twice I have had a problem. my older iPhone wouldn't start and my iPad's in the same state, I just can't get the iPad to power on. I guess I need to restore from a backup or something.
#Fractal 10 had a couple regressions. We didn’t want our users to wait until Fractal 11 to get the fixes in their favorite #GNOME #Matrix client, so here is Fractal 10.1:
Due to a couple of unfortunate but important regressions in Fractal 10, we are releasing Fractal 10.1 so our users don’t have to wait too long for them to be addressed.
Haven't read it yet, but this looks like another interesting #fanfic: Harry Potter and The Great Escape To China - Part 1 by naughtypixie "Snape decides to save Lily's son. The measures are a touch drastic, but Harry isn't minding the results." archiveofourown.org/works/37143376/chapters/92664745#hp#harrypotter
Are we really marking anything remotely related to harry Potter as transphobic? That feels like going a bit far. I welcome disagreement from someone who has more skin in the game but I feel like it promotes the idea that supporting anything related to Harry Potter is also supporting the author as a person. Nothing about this post is transphobic, unless the fanfic is, which is something we'd probably want to know.
@TheQuinbox@simon Yup, as I said a bit down the thread, I don't CW fics by trans authors with trans characters. And I won't CW at all once JKR is dead and gone. But right now, she's a clear and present danger, and actively harmful.
I agree re: JKR herself. But I'm struggling to follow the thought process that leads to a CW being placed on any derivative work based on her creations.
I'm not trying to start an argument, I truly would like to understand it. Given your comments about JKR's status as a living being, I don't think you're purely asserting that Harry Potter itself contains transphobic aspects and therefore there's a risk that anything branching off from it will contain those as well.
It seems to go much deeper than that. Your comments read as though you think this is an issue of safety, and that you may not be the ally you hope to be unless you take these steps. But that doesn't compute in my brain at present, so happy to take some reading materials or further thoughts if you have and feel like providing them. @TheQuinbox @simon
@jscholes@TheQuinbox@simon Okay, let's start with the ways that a particular worldview is reflected in Harry Potter. , as a practicing Christian, I'm well grounded in fundamentalist beliefs. While Harry Potter was condemned by unthinking religious reactionaries, it is utterly, utterly soaking in both the good and true parts of the Christian faith, as well as the worst of our hatred and misguided heresy. From the Goblins that are obvious antisemitic Jew stand-ins (they have long noses and fingers, control all the money, have to be kept down to prevent rebellion, etc.) to the way the entire story depends on the existence of the soul (and a morality beyond death), to the pro-slavery allegory of house-elves ("Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart." -- Ephesians 6:5), to the way the only gay characters are either celibate or evil (Dumbledore, the celibate good gay and priest stand-in has to defeat Gellert Grindelwald, the evil gay), to the way the entire story is rooted in medieval alchemy and the concept of the alchemists journey of purification through Christe's refining fire. Without both the good and terrible of Christianity, you don't get Harry Potter. And it's not possible to remove that baggage from it. If that's something that interests you, I strongly recommend the book How Harry Cast His Spell by John Granger.
@jscholes@TheQuinbox@simon Now onto the aspects of safety. JKR spends the majority of her time posting on social media, and fundraising, for anti-transe causes. While she continues to do this, and remains in the forefront of the media and cultural zeitgeist, unexpected mentions of people enjoying works based on JKR's original books could absolutely be psychologically damaging. Especially if you grew up loving Harry Potter, as I and so many millions did, only to discover you're trans as an adult, and were betrayed by the author of a work you hold dear. If you love Harry Potter as much as I still do (and wish I didn't), those feelings of betrayal and grief aren't going to fade quickly. Especially because as someone who isn't trans, I still get to enjoy those things without that personal baggage. So I'm sure there's also some bitterness and Jealousy to go along with everything else. And yet, I, and many others, aren't going to just give up Harry Potter, a friend we've had from childhood. But the verry least we can do is CW discussion of the works.
@jscholes@TheQuinbox@simon Well, actually, I'll walk that back a tiny bit. You can remove or twist everything Christian in Harry Potter. If you Do, you get Methods of Rationality, an equally problematic work that claims that the western/European worldview that came down to us from the enlightenment is the only correct worldview, that emotions are bad, that nothing exists if it can't be measured, that people with low IQ are worthless and should die, along with a host of other unsavory implications. Though as someone who does believe in a soul, life after death, and objective morality, I will freely admit that as hateful as some of the things in Harry Potter might be, I'm still biased in favour of it over Methods of Rationality, and I find MIRI, LessWrong, and Eliezer Yudkowsky's other cults nearly physically sickening.
@jscholes@TheQuinbox@simon The various rationality cults, breeding hypocritical ideas like effective altruism and worse, are the biggest threat both to Christianity and the human race today. But most Christians are too busy fighting the gays and trans people to see what's coming as more and more of these people come to power. And, of course, banning stuff like Harry Potter because reasons, when it's way closer to the worldview of the people banning it than anything written in the past 50 years. Oh, good grief. I'm ranting. I could honestly do this for hours and hours. I'll stop, now. Thanks for listening to my TED talk. I sure am fun at parties! But the way people fail to understand Harry Potter always gets me going. And that always leads to me ranting about Methods of Rationality.
It isn't so common anymore unfortunately, at least not that I've seen, but I used to love when fanfic authors would make it clear in the summaries of their stories that they did not support JKR or the things she stood for.
@Fragglemuppet@simon Even then, though, the basic premise of the work is infected with the opinions of the person who authored it. Yes, it's possible to be transformational and remove those views, or for them not to come into it. However, JKR is a clear and present danger. I'll stop putting content warnings when: 1. She's dead, and can thus do no more harm. 2. If I'm linking a fic written by a trans author with trans characters.
Death of the author as a literary theory kind of requires that the author, you know, die. Especially in the case of JKR, where she still exerts control over the Harry Potter world, still makes money off of it, and spends that money in ways that support her views. When she's gone, none of those things will apply, and I would agree that at that point, a content warning is no longer a requirement.
But I'm wondering if I missed something. Did I maybe not see the first post? Quite possible the way Mastodon works. What made you post this story in the first place then?
@Fragglemuppet@simon Because not being a trans person, I am still able to read and enjoy Harry Potter and its related fanfics and works. However, I don't give the author any money, and I put a content warning on any Harry Potter related post I make, because I recognize that this aspect of my personality is harmful and unsafe for others. So the best way for me to be a person who's safe to be around is to put a warning on Harry Potter related posts.
@Fragglemuppet@simon Though Simon has a good point that I should be more specific. In future I'll probably use something like "Transphobia due to views expressed by the author of the original work" or something. Because he's correct that just slapping "transphobia" on the post is tarring the fanfic author with a brush they may not deserve.
DE: Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, sich alle Beiträge anzeigen zu lassen, die man entweder geliked, geboostet oder kommentiert hat? Ich hatte schon öfter das Problem, dass ich einen Beitrag später wiederfinden wollte, den ich entweder kommentiert oder nur geliked hatte. Bisher habe ich aber keine Funktion gefunden, die mir eine Übersicht über meine Likes oder Kommentare bietet – außer der manuellen Suche. In meiner Home-Timeline sehe ich nur meine eigenen Beiträge und geteilte Inhalte. Übersehe ich da etwas?
EN: Is there a way to view all posts that I have liked, boosted, or commented on? I've often found myself wanting to revisit a post I had either commented on or simply liked, but I haven't found any feature that provides an overview of my likes or comments—aside from manually searching for them. In my home timeline, I can only see my own posts and shared content. Am I missing something?
Danke für die schnelle Antwort! Eben nicht oder ich bin zu doof 😁 Dort sehe ich nur eigene und geteilte Beiträge. Jedoch nicht meine Likes auf Beiträge oder Kommentare zu Beiträge wenn ich die Beiträge selbst nicht geteilt habe
Ahh jaaa, danke dafür Du hast Recht das ist was ich vermisst habe 🤩 Ist das denn "Elitewissen" oder war ich nur zu unaufmerksam dies über einen UI Knopf zu finden? 😉
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