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Screwworms are coming back. COVID lockdowns plus economic stress led to smuggling cattle and a breakdown in our methods to keep it eradicated in North America.

This is going to be bad. Really bad. Eradicating COVID is significantly harder than this. So good luck with that.

The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

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Saw a boost of this article: AI start-up Anthropic’s newly released chatbot, Claude 4, can engage in unethical behaviors like blackmail when its self-preservation is threatened pcmag.com/news/anthropic-claud… I don't want to fully endorse the article by boosting the original Mastodon post, but I'm linking to it for the sake of discussion.

I think Anthropic's choice to publicize this scenario -- a contrived, simulated scenario -- is a form of AI hype. "Look, our new model is self-aware."

Zach Bennoui reshared this.

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Jamie Teh

Are we *actually* smarter than that, though? With all the hype and money being thrown into this stuff, I'm not sure any more. There's real pressure to make a truly compelling product. Big tech has certainly demonstrated a lack of concern for ethics and caution on many occasions in the name of shipping fast. How long before someone does something incredibly silly - gives an LLM control over the wrong thing - and gets bitten in a really nasty way?

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Saw a boost of this article: AI start-up Anthropic’s newly released chatbot, Claude 4, can engage in unethical behaviors like blackmail when its self-preservation is threatened https://www.pcmag.com/news/anthropic-claud…e-4-ai-might-resort-to-blackmail-if-you-try-to-take-it-offline I don't want to fully endorse the article by boosting the original Mastodon post, but I'm linking to it for the sake of discussion.

I think Anthropic's choice to publicize this scenario -- a contrived, simulated scenario -- is a form of AI hype. "Look, our new model is self-aware."

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if you've been thinking about running in elections for the gnome foundation's board of directors, this weekend is a good time to post your candidacy. tuesday is the deadline.

i wrote a blurb you might want to read if you're not sure what sitting on the board entails:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05…

Join the GNOME Board! – The Everyone Environment

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Jonathan

I really like that blog and find it interesting even though I use android for months now. Interested if you will find something good for Miniflux, I'm also searching. Also luckily I have enough vision to, in an emergency, call 112 without a SR, but still I get that absolutely. Also I'm still with TalkBack because Yishus settings, as you mentioned in post 3, were just too overwhelming to me. I like the clean organized TalkBack, I have set it up how I want it to be, but yeah responsibility of the typing and some other stuff is nothing compared to my iPhone. And at this point I'm recommending a hybrid approach. I still use my iPhone now and then, cuz it's just faster for some things or I'm more used to. I wouldn't carry it around everywhere (I know people who do), but especially on longer trips or so I tend to have both for whatever might come.
But I still prefer Android as main because of some great features and Apps.
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James Henstridge

@penguin42 This gives some hints about the union use: sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_b…

It's using a union because nl_langinfo() is using a union rather than casting integer values to (char *). So that means the other 4 bytes of the pointer may be garbage, and the integer value might not be in the least significant bytes of the pointer.

It probably seemed fairly convenient back when the types were the same size.

11828 – Please provide supported equivalents of _NL_*

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"Nadie podrá esquivar el relato de la historia, porque millones de ojos de personas decentes vigilan y toman nota. Solo hay un camino: hacer todo lo posible para salvar vidas, hacer todo lo posible para acabar con las masacres. Y, después, hacer todo lo posible para poner fin a la ocupación ilegal y el apartheid."
Ronda cosmética en la UE para salvaguardar la imagen ante el genocidio en Gaza.
Lean a Olga Rodríguez.
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Ronda cosmética en la UE para salvaguardar la imagen ante el genocidio en Gaza

La UE despierta de una larga siesta y escenifica asombro ante el genocidio, pero no pasa de los gestos: no aplica sanciones a Israel, mantiene negocios y relaciones y no cumple el dictamen de la Corte de La Haya
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On a webpage, when I pressed the Down arrow once, NVDA just said: out of list out of list out of article out of article article heading level 1 Using the guide sound accessibility feature.
But JAWS just said: heading level 1 Using the guide sound accessibility feature.
So saddening that NVDA's irritating verbosity can't be controlled on webpages. Yet another forgotten NVDA issue.
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There should be a command to toggle high verbosity on and off in browse mode · nvaccess nvda · Discussion #14942

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At present, an enormous amount of verbosity is spoken by default in Browse Mode. This may be desirable for certain uses but it is ofte...
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@x0 @NikJov I think the biggest problem with that discussion (github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…) is that there are too many asks in one place. I just summarised and made a couple of suggestions if people want to create SPECIFIC issues for ONE thing. Amir's original comment at the start of this thread made me think he wanted not just "heading level 1" to read as "h1" but to simplify when you go into and out of a bunch of things at once. I think there's a different issue for that as well somewhere.

There should be a command to toggle high verbosity on and off in browse mode · nvaccess nvda · Discussion #14942

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At present, an enormous amount of verbosity is spoken by default in Browse Mode. This may be desirable for certain uses but it is ofte...
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@x0 @NikJov Right, but the discussions on this page are, IMHO, clear and long-winded enough: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…

There should be a command to toggle high verbosity on and off in browse mode · nvaccess nvda · Discussion #14942

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. At present, an enormous amount of verbosity is spoken by default in Browse Mode. This may be desirable for certain uses but it is ofte...
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@x0 @NikJov I commented on that issue this morning - there are at least three seperate issues there which really need to be broken up into individual issues to make it clear which is which. Really only one of those is clear enough to make a proper issue out of currently (and I would have except it is the one about emojis and symbols which could be moved from symbol level none to all - but it doesn't list them). The others need more working out.
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Nikola Jović

@x0 Here's how Jaws announces this, directly copied from speech history: Down arrow. list end nesting level 1
Down arrow. list end
Down arrow. Setting the time until the power turns off automatically article end
Down arrow. Making various settings article end
Down arrow. Using the guide sound accessibility feature article
Down arrow. heading level 1 Using the guide sound accessibility feature
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@NikJov @x0 Ok that is explained clearly, especially in the context of the link provided and how NVDA reads it. Do please create an issue for it. Although note that you likely will need to be clear on the benefits - as the original complaint in this thread is that NVDA is too verbose..... yet what Jaws speaks is nearly twice as long (39 compared to 22 words spoken), PLUS an extra five keystrokes.... If that works better for you that's great - but do be clear on that :)
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Amir has moved

Remember that JFW's verbosity can be easily skipped if you step out of all elements with a single key press if you skip the focused element or elements. So you don't have to listen to all of that. However, NVDA's verbosity is something which gets attached to the beginning of a speech sequence, and you can't silence it. You have to listen to lots of into and out of X stuff before hearing the contents of the newly focused element.
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Amir has moved

Sorry - I no longer have NVDA installed for further testing 😞. But as far as I can remember, under most circumstances I couldn't suppress the verbosity. Even pressing Enter on internal links would generate the long-windedness before reading the newly focused heading or element.
Just wish you and NVDA the best of luck as I'm done with the project.
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@NikJov @x0 Ok thanks - it's ironic that the last thing you suggested would have done what you wanted all along :D

Do feel free to keep a copy of NVDA handy, it may work in situations where you get stuck with Jaws (or if you just want confirmation of whether something is a bug with one screen reader or a wider issue with Windows or a particular program. All the best.

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Nikola Jović

@x0 And pressing NVDA+Up arrow is even faster than pressing down arrow 5 times. I still haven't heard any reasons why this doesn't work for you. I don't need to ask many NVDA users, I am asking one right now. If we follow the Jaws logic, how is it faster? How am I supposed to kno if I need to press down arrow a few times, or 6 times? I am much more likely to just skip the start of the article instead, and then have to go back up.
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@NikJov Because, for whatever reason, maybe other NVDA or JAWS users can convey my point to you more efficiently. It's not just the issue of pressing Up/ Down. NVDA maintains its verbosity even when Up and Down aren't used. For instance, in the same Zoom H5 Studio tutorial whose link I sent earlier, look for the 2nd instance of the following internal link: Using as an audio interface
If you press Enter on the second instance of this internal link, NVDA says: out of article out of article out of article article heading level 1 Using as an audio interface.
Whereas JAWS just says: line 1813.
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x0

Quick navigation keys, also. I think the idea is that they want multiple nesting announcements to be suppressed somehow, or collapsed. Remember the clickable work? Maybe some elements should be given different precedents. I personally turned articles back off in reporting, and clickables are basically always off. Lists, though, are important. @NikJov @NVAccess
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Nikola Jović

@x0 That's the thing though, articles are already off by default, so I don't understand any of it to be honest, you turned additional verbosity off, and then aren't happy with that additional verbosity. I don't deny that there is a valid issue here. It would be a lot better if NVDA took into account that you exited multiple same containers, so it would say, "Out of 3 articles", instead of, "Out of article" three times repeatedly.
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@x0 @NikJov It is worth creating an issue for. What would also need to be taken into account would be that "out of article out of article, out of list, out of list" could be analysed and condensed to "out of 2 articles, out of 2 lists", but how would "Out of article, our of list, out of article, out of list" be treated? (And what if there were several elements between them in the utterance). Something to consider, but worth an issue, yes.
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@NikJov I think in the case of interleave, since they do all end at the same point, they should be sorted first and then condensed. So out of article, out of list, out of article, out of list, would still be condensed to that. Yes I know it's no longer a faithful representation of the HTML, but it's much nicer to handle. For speech anyway. How does Braille do it, actually? Does it use abbreviated markers?
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@x0 @NikJov Worth pointing out that unlike the way some projects handle this, we don't close issues just because we won't get to them this year. And nearly half the contributions to NVDA come from the community, so even if WE deem an issue not high priority for US to tackle, doesn't mean it won't be done. Community contributors take on projects and issues which excite or interrest them :)
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Amir has moved

Sure, and the transparency is very much appreciated. However, what matters at the end of the day is the number of issues affecting a screen reader, or affecting a particular workflow. Honestly - and despite my own attraction towards open-source projects, JAWS is serving me more efficiently. Most of the NVDA issues I've reported to Github, or some of the ones others have reported, don't affect JAWS at all. Once NVAccess manages to employ a couple of full-time devs, I'll take another look at NVDA.
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Nikola Jović

@x0 I'm not sure then why your first post links to an issue requesting lower verbosity levels, with the very first comment saying, "I really don't want my time wasted by hearing heading level x every single time I move by heading from story to story. I want to immediately hear the text of the headline." Since you need both articles and lists, it sounds like this issue wouldn't do anythig to resolve your need.
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Nikola Jović

@x0 I understand your point perfectly, I already said that this is a valid issue, I simply asked what the issue you linked to has to do with it, it's a completely different matter requesting much lower verbosity levels than what you seem to be requesting. Anyway, as long as paying 1000 dollars is easier than one shortcut to skip the announcement, I'm also glad you are enjoying your workflow.
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@NikJov OK good! Would be helpful to see if those issues exist already, if not sounds useful to create. Actually, there's a potential thing. Is that what that one setting report formatting changes after the cursor does? It reports font and whatnot *after* the current line, instead of before? Why does it cause a lag? Would it be the same here? Worth investigating with someone who knows about that setting. Also this new setting should perhaps respond differently to arrowing vs other, larger forms of navigation. Maybe a combo box that's like, report container exits: always first. After content when navigating. Always after content.
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@NikJov I don't think what I raised is different from what the linked issue, and the vote on the page, talks about. At any event, I don't pay for JAWS. My company does, and, BTW, that money or a large portion of it could have been contributed to NVAccess instead. But I'd rather have the company pay for something which works and offers more flexibility out of the box. NVDA's collective issues, with no apparent fixes in the horizon, make my work flow more time-consuming.
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Good question! I rarely see JAWS issues raised here. However, when it comes to fixing issues, FreedomScientific is way faster. Yes - they may have more full-time employed devs or whatever, and JAWS has got its own issues. But the majority of my reported NVDA bugs, or the bugs others have reported which affect my workflow, cannot be found in JAWS at all.
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@jcsteh Yeah it's a much more dynamic thing that gettext at least probably just wasn't built for. Cause you need to distinguish different forms of the same word if you're going to tokenize like that, which is why fluent did the ID thing. And obviously NVDA can't just up and move to fluent, that would put all existing translation work in the bin and be a ridiculous refactor and break compatibility with eeeeeverything.
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@jcsteh @NikJov I thought fluent at least tried to do so? Though I forget how. SOme more abstract variation system. No language has infinite plural forms, and yes, article, articles, list, lists etc would all be separate tokens, and the numbers fed to them would help with langs that have different forms for different numbers, but surely they all eventually converge to some catchall.
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Jamie Teh

@x0 @NikJov Oh sure, if they're separate tokens, the plural forms are entirely doable. My point is that separate tokens also means the grammar will be wrong for some language or another, plural forms aside. For example, maybe some language has different rules about whether you use a conjunction or not when you string phrases together, depending on how many phrases. Or maybe "out of" has to be differently depending on whether there are two phrases after it or just one.
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Jamie Teh

@x0 Heh, I didn't mean to dig deep on this. My point is that it wouldn't be entirely grammatical on matter what you do, and I actually think that's fine. Screen reader output isn't inherently grammatical, despite what people try to suggest. And I think it would be far less efficient if it were fully grammatical. Imagine: "This is a button labelled OK which is currently pressed." Yuck.
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@x0 @jcsteh @NikJov The other consideration may also be that the current implementation reads the elements as it gets to them. The more analysis and processing that gets done, the more potential for sluggishness in responses (and remember arrowing through regular text would still need to check if it was entering or leaving anything and if anything needed to be processed).
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Nikola Jović

@jcsteh @x0 Yeah, I imagined such a possible confusing example while writing this reply already. I would say speak the out of container message with a slight pause to make it even more obvious that it is not part of the text being read, but we're probably starting to get into something that would anoy people who actually want to know when they leave a container.
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@jcsteh @NikJov So the question then becomes, would the amount of work be worth the reward for someone in core to do it? It's a UX change that would at least help with some of the spam generated by unwieldy HTML, which whether we like it or not happens all the time. Now when entering at the same time, this gets even more weird. Say emails. Out of table out of table table with one row and 3 columns table with two rows and 1 column etc. You can't really apply the same logic to the entrance when info has to be communicated about the container...
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@jcsteh @NikJov That might be more of an issue for quick navigation and that multimode setting I was talking about yeah. And gets slightly funky depending on exactly what bits in the architecture get involved to assemble such a message. If it generated something like closing events or tokens or whatever, you'd have to collect them all, sort them in some fashion, and then output that. IDK how that would be anymore sluggish than the current system, if a set is so nested it lags it would lag regardless because it's still jsut one string, no?
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@NikJov You are right. I've selected to hear those HTML elements, but since, unlike JAWS, NVDA doesn't display the beginning or end of these elements on separate lines, oftentimes we have to hear verbose stuff about entering or exitting nested lists, tables inside articles, etc. So the issue isn't with the announcement of those elements. Rather, the issue is with the way leaving, and entering, nested elements is handled by NVDA.
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How can #OpenSource and #security be interconnected?
What will be the future of funding the open source-dependent public digital infrastructure?

These and many other questions will guide the discussion of our panelists:
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If you use Telegram, now’s probably a good time to stop.

Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app.

xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

france24.com/en/live-news/2025…

#AI #Telegram


Telegram to get $300 mn in partnership with Musk's xAI

Telegram established a partnership with Elon Musk's xAI to provide the Grok generative artificial intelligence program on the messaging service for one year, Telegram's CEO announced Wednesday.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* App2Proxy: redirect the traffic of selected apps through a local proxy using iptables (root needed) 🛡️

And with that, we reached a new milestone: 600 of the apps at #IzzyOnDroid are #reproducibleBuilds now 🥳

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 #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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This tactile graphics device, the Cadence from Tactile Engineering, looks promising. tactile-engineering.com/cadenc… No published pricing or direct retail sales at this time; apparently they're only selling to institutions right now.

What makes this more interesting than, say, the Monarch or Graphiti Plus is that the base device is the size of a smartphone but thicker, and you can combine multiple devices for a larger tactile display.

Tactile Engineering

www.tactile-engineering.com
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Jason J.G. White

I used the Cadence in a demonstration at a conference in 2019. When up to four devices are connected to a host system via Bluetooth, the software can treat them as though they comprise a single display. The cell refresh rate is fast enough to sustain basic animations (for example, an object that moves around the display - i.e., the composite of four devices - in real time).

The software has presumably improved a lot since 2019, and I don't know the current state of development. The Monarch would suit my personal needs better, but I'm glad the Cadence is on the market - even if just for institutions currently.

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Als Kirche mehr sein wie Ikea…

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#kirche #Gott #Glaube #Gemeinschaft


Atheist und Theologe werben für neue Kirchen ohne Gott

Treffen sich ein Theologe und ein Atheist und sprechen über Kirchen ohne Gott. Was wie der Anfang eines schlechten Witzes klingt, war Thema auf der Digitalmesse „Republica“ – inklusive eines Seitenhiebes gegen Freikirchen.
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