Interesting! I've been having great success lately with BrainFM, though I'm only using the "atmospheric" tracks. I'll have to check out the one you mentioned. The earbuds that worked for me are wired - the wire can be inconvenient, but with no battery, they're so much smaller than wireless, so I can wear them comfortably for 8-plus hours. Your mileage may vary of course...
@earthtoneone I always wake up with the wire around my neck. Not surprising brain.fm works for focus better than for sleep. I’ve never tried it for focusing as I have no issues in that area.
Hey I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea. I've been on CPAP therapy since March 18, and have trouble falling asleep with it. Furthermore, I'm not getting solid sleep like I thought I'd get with it.
I deliberately asked for a full face mask because during my sleep study about a year ago, the sleep technologist put me on CPAP for half the night and started me out on a nasal mask, but I kept opening my mouth, I guess to swallow and whatnot, and she noticed the air leaks and replaced it with a full face mask.
Are you familiar with the software called Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter (OSCAR?) It lets you pull data from an SD card used in your CPAP machine if you're using one. It's somewhat accessible, and I've found it to be useful in some situations. You have to be using an SD card in your CPAP machine for it to be very useful. If you're not, if you put an SD card in, it'll apparently write extremely limited data for the past several days (not sure how long) to the card at first, then if you actually have the card installed during a therapy session, it logs all sorts of events such as different types of apneas, air leaks, etc. Then if you move the card from your CPAP machine to your PC and run OSCAR, you can import that data into the system and get all sorts of graphs and statistics. sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
I have no idea. Mine also connects via cellular networks, but can use an SD card. On the left side of my machine, there are two rubber flaps, one of which hides an SD slot, the other of which hides a connector for other equipment such as a pulse oximetry unit.
@jaybird110127 The air mini doesn’t connect to cell directly. It connects to your phone via Bluetooth and sends data to the cloud that way. I have a basement bedroom with no cell signal. So I couldn’t use a cell connection anyway.
Okay that's weird, the product page I read clearly says it uses cellular connectivity. Here's the page I found, note this may be US only. cpap.com/products/airmini-airf…
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Do you want to start thinking digital sustainability but aren't sure where to start? Being literate in the fundamentals is a great place to start, and it's what our Green Web Foundation Estimating Digital Carbon Emissions workshop aims to facilitate. The next workshop is on May 7th, we'll cover the digital sustainability legislative picture, to estimating digital carbon emissions, and what models and tools are available.
NGC 346, a massive young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, is 210,000 light-years away. Its stars shape their surrounding nebula and trigger new star formation. This James #Webb Space #Telescope #infrared image shows the region's vibrant colors across 240 light-years.
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@Bruce I didn't initially realize it was only one cell but the accompanying video does make it sound like it is. If it is only one cell, it could be because of cost or, to be frank, maybe he never showed this device to many blind people.
@Bruce They're definitely not popular or in demand. The fact that the BrailleMate was likely the only commercially available single cell display is probably proof of that.
@Bruce I had the BrailleMate when I was in school. At the time, it met my needs as a notetaker, but yeah, that single-cell display was awkward. One time, a teacher asked me to try reading a paragraph I had written using the display, but soon stopped me after a few words. I saw the Braille Lite 18 a few years later, and really wished the school had waited to get it instead. I could've read that paragraph on it with no problems.
On the internet, they know you're a dog. They know what breed of dog you are, who your vet is, what kind of kibble you eat, and how often you go out for walkies.
Well, I turned off my Google Activity a long time ago, but being the foresightedly paranoid man that I am, I went above and beyond and developed a wide variety of tools and scripts designed to make all the data they gather about me as useless as possible.
Official Music Video for Somebody's Watching Me performed by Rockwell, from his 1984 debut album of the same name. Somebody's Watching Me became a major comm...
Made some raspberry coulis and burnt Basque cheesecake yesterday evening. The hardest part of the recipe is having to put the cake in the fridge overnight.
Minulej tejden vysla recenze Metroplexu v Pevnosti. Jo, ten brak od Neon Suns, kterej ma spousta lidi v literature za shitty samonaklad. Porad nemuzu uverit tomu, ze je mezi ostatnima knihama z velkejch nakladatelstvi, ktery zamestnavaji randal lidi. Je to neuveritelny...
🇨🇿 Český paradox - průměrný Čech se má objektivně skvěle, ale subjektivně se cítí mizerně. 🇨🇿
Zde jsou 4 klíčové indexy o České republice: 🥇 Nejmenší procento lidí ohrožené chudobou v EU. 🌍 12. nejbezpečnější země světa. 🌍 25. nejvíce prosperující země světa. ☹️ 2. nejpesimističtější země světa.
Takže objektivně jsme na tom opravdu dobře, zásadně lépe než většina světa. Subjektivně ale lidé v ČR mají pocit, že "všechno stojí za prd" a "bude hůř".
Dává to smysl, protože naši spokojenost jen cca z 10 % ovlivňují vnější podmínky, ale zbylých 90 % dělají vnitřní faktory jako genetika a vzorce našeho myšlení.
Jak píše v jedné ze svých knih Pavel Vosoba: "Socialismus zanechal hluboké stopy. Některé věci nás naučil tak dokonale, že se jich zbavíme až za několik generací. Věty typu nejde to, to se nedá, to se nepodaří, protože... jsou ve slovníku nejen nás, dospělých."
Svět se koupe v omamné vůni šeříku a já dnes objevila další poklad jara - kvetoucí rybíz! 🌸🤍 Tyhle momenty, kdy se člověk zastaví a vnímá tu krásu jara, jsou k nezaplacení. 🤍🌸 Krásný jarní den všem! #jaro #šeřík #rybíz #květy #jarnímoment
Požiar bŕzd sa nerozšíril do interiéru vozidla hromadnej dopravy. Nedostal sa tam ani dym. Pre porovnanie, keď horia brzdy na železničnom vozni, neraz sa
I hate to be picky, but I feel the naming convention will still confuse people. Web ≠ native, even if many principles apply, web content ≠ native UI, etc. On top of that, we have web views inside each platform which have their unique behaviors because they are ≠ full mobile browser experience. I hope that one day either WCAG will be renamed to something more generic or there will be some sort of mobile UI Accessibility GUidelines that will act as a separate standard. (1/2)
@vick21 I believe/think that the next version of WCAG will/should be technology agnostic and the terms/framing of the requirements will/should be applicable to digital content/UI of most, if not all flavours
Dnes jsem si byl prohlédnout Farinovu zatáčku, památný úsek Masarykova okruhu, kde v roce 1949 havaroval italský jezdec Farina a zemřeli přitom 2 mladíci. Mezi milovníky závodů a Masarykova okruhu asi známá informace. Co se už ale moc neví, že jeden z těch kluků, Václav Hejtman, byl z mé vsi #Kobylnice, a byl úplně prvním pohřbeným na nově postaveném kobylnickém hřbitově. 2. října odpoledne se konalo otevření hřbitova a hned nato následoval pohřeb, kterého se zúčastnilo kolem 1500 osob. #Farina
Asi jen málo lidí si dneska dokáže představit, že by se ulicemi obydlených měst mohly rychlostí blížící se dvěma stům kilometrů v hodině prohánět závodní automobily sledované z chodníků špalíry diváků.
Čtvrtek: Ukrajina a Spojené státy podepsaly dohodu o nerostech. Co jsou hlavní body, na kterých se obě strany dohodly? Tak primárně: 1) Ukrajinské nerostné bohatství zůstane ve vlastnictví Ukrajiny. 2) Bude zřízen speciální investiční fond pro rekonstrukci Ukrajiny, do kterého budou obě strany přispívat stejným dílem a obě budou mít v radě fondu stejný počet zástupců. 3) Ukrajina nebude kompenzovat Spojené státy za již poskytnutou pomoc. 4) Pokud by se ukázalo, že smlouva bude bránit Ukrajině ve vstupu do EU, pak smlouva okamžitě pozbude platnosti. 5) Ukrajina bude do fondu odvádět 50 % z výnosů nových investic do těžby nerostů, plynu a ropy. Spojené státy budou aktivně vyhledávat nové investory a investiční prostředky a ani jedna strana nebude vložené prostředky danit. Dohodu už posvětila ukrajinská vláda a brzy o ní bude hlasovat ukrajinský parlament. Celkově jde o diametrálně odlišný dokument, než jaký do jednání přinesly Spojené státy. Teď se ukáže, jestli dohoda dokáže zajistit mír pro Ukrajinu. A ještě se stalo tohle facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz…: 1/4
Čtvrtek. Ukrajina a Spojené státy podepsaly dohodu o nerostech. Co jsou hlavní body, na kterých se obě strany dohodly? Tak primárně: 1) Ukrajinské nerostné bohatství zůstane ve vlastnictví Ukrajiny....
Měl jsem víc trénovat. V posledním kopci přišla krize. Měl jsem se dřív najíst. Ale možná ani to by nepomohlo. Už se netřepu, dostávám zpátky barvu a bolí mě...no, nebolí mě snad jen jazyk. 😅 Mějte lepší nápady! (Druhé kolo zítra 😜) #tateriJedou 🦽
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Looks like Corporate #infosec has made it's choice.
#RSAC is filled with talks embracing AI and making it "secure".
And they invited and encouraged the Trump regime to spread its disinformation - fully sanctioned and encouraged by the conference leadership(and by conference attendees who laughed at the regime's jokes and lies and issued no challenges or stands during the talk).
With the ostracization of #ChrisKrebs by industry and the full embrace of Kristi Noem as a speaker, this was the moment that infosec made its bed.
@NVAccess I wonder if there are some features like this one where the default setting should be changed for new installations? Trying to set laptop layout automatically comes to mind as well, but some things have changed since 2007.
@Jage Desktop / Laptop keyboard layout largely depends on both personal preference, and what type of keyboard you have. These days there are laptops with full size keyboards, and external keyboards without a number pad, so it would be hard to try to guess what would be best - hence why it is one of the things we ask during a new install.
@NVAccess There are definitely many permutations. For instance I use a full size keyboard with a numpad and still opt for laptop layout in NVDA.
I suppose usage statistics could come into it though. If 90 percent of users were switching to laptop, 98 percent enabling the caps lock as a modifier, and 84 percent turning off screen layout, those would be pretty strong numbers that I just made up out of nowhere. @Jage
@NVAccess @Jage I used to be one of these strange people that used desktop layout even on a laptop without a num pad, back in the days when most laptops let you use num pad keys (even with num lock off) by using the FN key. These days, most laptops seem to have dropped support for this, so I switched to laptop layout a few years ago and now I tend to think that way even when I'm using a desktop keyboard.
@jcsteh @NVAccess Ya perhaps laptop layout was not the best example. But I wonder what are the most common settings that a new user who knows a tiny bit would change.
@NVAccess @Jage Defaults have been changed in the past. For example, the default synth was changed to OneCore. But yeah, I think real usage statistics is the real path forward if defaults like this are to be changed. Of course, then there's the question of priority, developer time and relative impact...
@jcsteh @NVAccess @Jage I always default to laptop layout. I think a few years ago I tried to push an idea to set it as default for NVDA but as I recall there were issues with laptop layout for international users who pushed back and so it was left as is except for adding easy setting for it in future startup screen.
@valiant8086 @NVAccess @Jage The original laptop layout was also much different, simulating the num pad on letter keys rather than using the arrow keys. I can't remember when we redesigned it, but that was probably a tricky change to socialise.
@Jage Absolutely. I'm not sure it's too far one way for any particular settings, and there are quite a lot which many people have firm views one way or the other about. But could be worth us looking into more statistics gathering on
@Sean Randall @NV Access @Kara Goldfinch @James Scholes I guess switching it off might affect performance and it reflows the document not respecting how the author has designed it. I am using the default setting i.e. browsing with screen layout turned on.
@cachondo I do agree with that. While the advantages and use cases described in this thread are valid, on balance I think it's probably a poor default. @KaraLG84 @NVAccess
@simon @KaraLG84 Not wanting to colour the results, but honest question: how do you deal with it?
E.g. you encounter a group of links or radio buttons all on the same row. To activate/check a particular one, do you then just switch to quick navigation keys to jump through them?
@pvagner @cachondo @NVAccess @KaraLG84 The document is reflowed regardless, and screen layout is not a 100 percent faithful representation of how a page looks.
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As part of our volunteer-driven accessibility initiative in GNOME Calendar, and for the first time in the 10+ years of Calendar's existence, we finally completed and merged the first step needed to have a working calendar app for people who rely on keyboard navigation. This merge request in particular makes the event widgets focusable with navigation keys (arrow left/up/right/down) and activatable with space/enter. This will be available in GNOME 49.
Most of GNOME Calendar's layout and widgets consist of custom widgets and complex calculations, both independently and according to other factors (window size, height and width of each cell, number of events, positioning, etc.), so these widgets need to be minimal to have as little overhead as possible. This means that these widgets also need to have the necessary accessibility features reimplemented or even rethought, including and starting with the event widgets.
We also hope to get other parts of GNOME Calendar accessible before GNOME 49, but I can't promise anything at the moment. We did start working with making the month view accessible: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
This implements button functionality to make it able to focus and activate it. This also sets the appropriate accessibility role and labels/descriptions. Related:
Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.
Accessibility on Calendar has progressed to the point where I believe it's safe to say that, as of GNOME 49, Calendar will be usable exclusively with a keyboard, without significant usability friction!
There's still a lot of work to be done in regards to screen readers, for example conveying time appropriately and event descriptions. But really, just 6 months ago, we went from having absolutely no idea where to even begin with accessibility in Calendar — which has been an ongoing issue for literally a decade — to having something workable exclusively with a keyboard and screen reader! :3
Huge thanks to @nekohayo for coordinating the accessibility initiative, especially with keeping the accessibility meta issue updated; Georges Stavracas for single-handedly maintaining GNOME Calendar and reviewing all my merge requests; and @tyrylu for sharing feedback in regards to usability.
All my work so far has been unpaid and voluntary; hundreds of hours were put into developing and testing all the accessibility-related merge requests. I would really appreciate if you could spare a little bit of money to support my work, thank you 🩷
After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
I don't really understand how pushing buttons to the bottom follows typical GNOME design. It is absolutely confusing and jarring. Shame this app is consistently inconsistent
@lecroix74 it doesn't follow GNOME's design on purpose. GNOME's HIG works pretty well for simple apps, but it starts becoming infeasible for complex apps such as Calendar
After two long and painful years, several design iterations, and more than 50 rebases later, we finally merged the infamous, trauma-inducing merge request !362 on GNOME Calendar.
The calendars list in the quick-add popover has undergone accessibility improvements, providing a better experience for assistive technologies and keyboard users (to a limited extent). Specifically: tabbing from outside the list will focus the selected calendar in the list; tabbing from inside the list will skip the entire list; arrow keys automatically select the focused calendar; and finally, assistive technologies now inform the user of the checked/selected state.
Admittedly, the quick-add popover is currently unreachable via keyboard because we lack the resources to implement keyboard focus for month and week cells. We are currently trying to address this issue in merge request !564, and hope to get it merged for GNOME 50, but it's a significant undertaking for a single unpaid developer. If it is not too much trouble, I would really appreciate some donations, to keep me motivated to improve accessibility throughout GNOME and sustain myself: tesk.page/#donate
It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌
Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡
The thing that makes me really happy, probably as much as receiving donations themselves, is people are actually donating through Liberapay rather than the proprietary alternatives.
Just a few months ago, I had no idea how to set up Liberapay and gave up on it, because I got overwhelmed. A friend nudged me to reconsider it. I tried to set it up again, and got it properly set up this time. They were the first donor in Liberapay, and eventually, more and more people started to donate via Liberapay, surpassing GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi.
Seriously, thank you @Liberapay for the wonderful platform, and to my friend who motivated me to set it up again!
Do note that the screen recording attached won't have any alt text, to avoid redundancy. Everything written below is a detailed explanation of the experience, and the recording is essentially a visual demonstration:
- When entering the month view with Tab, focus is set to the first event widget, and pressing Tab will focus the next event widget horizontally. - Ctrl+Tab will move focus to the month cell located at the focused event widget. Ctrl+Arrow will move focus to the edges of the view. - When out of boundaries horizontally, the focus moves onto the other side of the view. - When out of boundaries vertically, the view will automatically scroll to that direction. - Shift+Arrow will move focus and initiate selection; pressing arrow keys will select ranges of cells, and letting go of Shift will display the new event popover. - When a month cell has overflowing events (as in, there are not enough event widgets that can fit inside the month cell), pressing tab will focus the overflow button, and activating it will show a list of events.
This goes without saying: If you have some money to spare, I would genuinely appreciate it. I am not getting paid a single dollar from the work I'm doing (I wish I did).
At the time of writing this post, the merge request for making the month view accessible is sitting at around 500 lines diff, but that diff will only get bigger and bigger. A good portion of that time is also spent with my eyes closed with a screen reader. It takes a lot of time and energy to understand how everything connects in GNOME Calendar and researching about accessibility in a calendar app.
Thank you for the great work. I think it would be great if we could also have a GUADEC 2025 workshop on GTK/Libadwaita accessibility since that’s often overlooked.
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl.
Don't forget to sign up for OpenInfra Forum on May 22 in #Stockholm to come and hear me blab about #curl. Or just extract some stickers from me and listen to the others instead.
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Live the bleeding edge life and take curl-8.14.0-rc1 for a test spin for us!
Thanks to users testing our rc builds, we can reduce the regression risk once we ship the actual *real* release on May 28. Today I shipped the rc1. There will be two more rc builds before the release.
Lots of good talks were given at this year's #LinuxAppSummit — but the 24 hours of livestream footage are a little messy to navigate. I've extracted the talks into individual videos, created branded thumbnails and posted them on the LAS YouTube channel for easy browsing and sharing. Enjoy:
The Linux App Summit (LAS) brings the global Linux community together to learn, collaborate, and help grow the Linux application ecosystem. Through talks, pa...
💬 Matrix isn’t just a chat protocol — it’s a platform for rich, interactive experiences! In this session, Kim Brose @HarHarLinks how to enhance Matrix with widgets, bots, and integrations, making your chats more dynamic, productive, and fun at #FOSSASIASummit2025
Matrix is more than just a chat protocol—it’s a platform for rich, interactive communication. In this talk, Kim Brose (aka HarHarLinks) will explore how to t...
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