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I just submitted a feature request to #NVDA regarding creation of a more useful mechanism for editing the configuration on secure screens, to replace or augment the current clunky and all-or-nothing settings copy feature. Please give it some love! I don't think @NVAccess actually partakes in the whole vote with thumbs-ups to increase priority, but doing so might serve as a useful metric for how widely desired this is anyway, which could theoretically help with triage. If anyone who sees this is skilled and willing enough to actually turn this into a pull request, I would be very greatful! Otherwise, hopefully someone at NVAccess will take it up! It's about time we got a more useful means of customizing that other layer of NVDA.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
#NVDASR #blind

Add a more useful mechanism for modifying the secure mode config

The current means of editing the config for NVDA on secure screens is rather clunky and has been giving many users issues for a long time. Much discussion has been had on the matter, and I'm coming...
ultrasound1372 (GitHub)
#blind #nvdasr #nvda @NV Access
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@ginsenshi Which feature is failing for you? Do you mean the "Use currently saved settings during sign-in and on secure screens" option? As it notes, it "requires administrator privileges", so you do need to acknowledge the user account control (UAC) dialog, and then it will copy the settings to the profile used on secure screens.
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@ginsenshi Can you send us a copy of your nvda.log and nvda-old.log after trying please? If you press NVDA+control+g to open NVDA's general settings, set the log level to "Debug" then NVDA+q and "Restart with add-ons disabled". Recreate, then press windws+e to open file explorer, then F2 to go to the address bar, type in %temp%
Note the percent signs either side of the word. Please attach the files to an email to us at info@nvaccess.org & we'll see if we can figure it out.
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@ginsenshi Thanks Sean! I got your email ok. It looks like you have a number of add-ons which are not compatible with 2025.1 which you've overridden compatibility on. Please note that does NOT make the add-ons work, it simply stops NVDA from telling you they are not marked compatible. In this case, they are causing errors, and this may be leading to random issues. Please restart NVDA with add-ons disabled and see if the issue still occurs.
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Prodlužovací kabel SKOTAT s vestavěným 45W USB PD zdrojem konečně už i v České #IKEA a za pěknou cenu!

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SKOTAT prodlužovací kabel, zelená, 1.8 m - IKEA

SKOTAT prodlužovací kabel, zelená, 1.8 m Také prodlužovací kabely by měly vypadat dobře a ladit se stylem místnosti! SKOTAT má minimalistický design a tvar, díky kterému se snadno vejde do rohu nebo na stůl – umístěte jej tak, jak chcete.
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#ikea
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Ondřej Caletka

@pavel v obecné rovině souhlasím. Na druhou stranu, ukazuje se, že USB PD je dostatečně stabilní už posledních ca. 10 let a nejspíš ještě pár let vydrží, na rozdíl od všech proprietárních Quick Charge standardů, které se měnily každý rok.
A zdroj od IKEA aspoň žere bez zátěže kolem 50 mW, takže se dají přimhouřit oči nad tím, že je trvale zapojený.
Jinak je samozřejmě možné koupit přesně stejný zdroj i v samostatné krabičce jako SJÖSS:
ikea.com/cz/cs/p/sjoess-45w-2p…

SJÖSS 45W 2portová USB nabíječka, rychlé nabíjení - IKEA

SJÖSS 45W 2portová USB nabíječka, rychlé nabíjení K nabíjení 2 zařízení současně použijte USB-C nabíječku SJÖSS, 45 W. Rychle a efektivně – doma nebo na cestách. Vhodná na telefony, tablety a většinu notebooků.
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ChatGPT’s Mac app now records meetings, but it’s nearly unusable with VoiceOver.
Buttons are unlabeled, transcripts are hard to access, and navigation is broken for blind users.
Full write-up: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/cha…
Demo: youtube.com/watch?v=nGhfTH1ZNW…
OpenAI needs to include accessibility in every release. This one missed the mark.
#Accessibility #ChatGPT #VoiceOver #MacAccessibility #BlindTech #InclusiveTech

ChatGPT for Mac’s New Meeting Recording Feature Is Powerful — But Almost Unusable for Blind Users

When OpenAI released the Meeting Recording feature in the ChatGPT for Mac app, I was excited.
Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#Accessibility #voiceover #chatgpt #inclusivetech #blindtech #macaccessibility

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postmarketOS v25.06 - "the one with systemd" is out now!

* Camera for OP6/6T and others 📸
* #GNOME 48 + 48.mobile.0
* #PlasmaMobile 6.3.5
* #Phosh 0.47.0 with Stevia now installed by default
* #Sxmo 1.17.1 (again, but this time with a systemd preview too!)
* os-installer images
* mobile-config-thunderbird

Thanks to all the amazing people who contributed to this release! :blobcatheart:

Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release as well as a lot of the systemd related work.

postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/…

#linuxmobile


v25.06: the one with systemd

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
postmarketOS
#gnome #phosh #linuxmobile #plasmamobile #sxmo @NGI Zero open source funding @NLnet

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We have stolen the labour of artists to *checks notes* automate murder

#Guillotine #EatTheRich #Spotify

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Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, becomes chairman of AI military start-up after €600 million investment

The company is now valued at approximately €12 billion
Rachael Pimblett (Far Out Magazine)
#spotify #eattherich #guillotine

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PM Carney on X endorses US bombing of Iran:

"Iran's nuclear programme is a grave threat to intemational security, and Canada has been consistently clear that Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
While U.S. military action taken last night was designed to alleviate that threat, the situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile..."

I guess this is what Carney meant by "a new security relationship with the United States."
#cdnpoli

Mark Carney on X 1h Iran's nuclear programme is a grave threat to intemational security, and Canada has been consistently clear that Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. While U.S. military action taken last night was designed to alleviate that threat, the situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile. Stability in the region is a priority. Canada calls on parties to retum immediately to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis. As G7 leaders agreed in Kananaskis, the resolution of the Iranian crisis should lead to a broader de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including a ceasefire in Gaza,
#cdnpoli

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Structured Negotiation Book Makes its Spanish Debut Hybrid event with government officials in Basque Country Spain on June 23 lflegal.com/2025/06/spanish-ed…

Structured Negotiation Book Makes its Spanish Debut

My book, Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits (2d ed 2021) is now available in Spanish thanks to translation done by The Collaborative Law Association of the Basque Country (Asociación de Derecho Colaborativo de Euskadi).
Law Office of Lainey Feingold

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Today at 1 PM Central, I’m doing something different.
No agenda. No filter. Just me, live, ready to talk about whatever comes up—from AI and accessibility to the behind-the-scenes of my work and anything else people bring to the table.
Come hang out and be part of it:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZtyruFJ5F_…
#Livestreaming #TechCreator #BehindTheScenes #RealTalk #AIForEveryone #AccessibilityInTech #BlindCreator

Live Hangout: Anything Goes

Anything Goes Stream | Live Hangout, Tech Talk, and MoreWelcome to the Anything Goes Stream. This is a laid-back, unscripted session where I explore whatever...
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#Livestreaming #behindthescenes #accessibilityintech #aiforeveryone #techcreator #realtalk #blindcreator

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I'm trying to document canoe routes in northern Minnesota, because the maps are disappearing from the USFS website. The Twin Lakes Canoe Route in northern Minnesota offers a short canoe route outside of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that provides a wilderness-like experience. No permit is required.

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Twin Lakes Canoe Route in Northern Minnesota

The Twin Lakes Canoe Route in northern Minnesota is a short canoe route outside of the Boundary Waters that provides a wilderness-like experience.
Bryan Hansel (PaddlingLight: Lightweight canoe and kayak travel)

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A man and his girlfriend die in a car accident and meet Peter at the Pearly Gates. Peter says, "Welcome to Heaven, do you have any questions?" To which the man replies, "Yes, my girlfriend and I never had a chance to get married while we were alive. Can we get married in Heaven?" Peter says, "That's a good question, I will be back when I have the answer." Left at the gates, the couple begins to talk about love and how long eternity is. 6 weeks later, Peter returns and says, "OK, I've found your answer. Yes, you can get married in Heaven. So come right in and enjoy eternity together." The couple responds by saying, "We have another question. Eternity is a very long time and we are not sure if our relationship will last. If things don't work out, can we get a divorce in Heaven?" To which Peter replies, "Fucking Christ! It took me 6 weeks to find a priest up here, do you have any idea how long it'll take me to find a lawyer?!"

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For those of you who are “nuclear curious”, the attack on Iranian nuclear sites could have resulted in trace amounts of radioactive material getting kicked into the atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere is a river that flows across the globe, and other places will “see” those isotopes with sensitive enough instruments.

Here is gamma radiation air monitoring open data, including data from #SNOLAB where I work. These data aid in nuclear non-proliferation.

remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advance…

Radiological Maps - European Commission

The Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu
#snolab
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today, I pass on some of my own music to take your mind off of all the ridiculousness in the world.
Instrumental, so no reason to pay full attention to it, but maybe while you sit and read a good book, relax on the sofa or whatever else you can think of.
I released this album a couple of years ago and you can stream it anywhere you normally stream music.

For my latest release entitled 'a Moment of Solitude', I decided to build down towards a state of calm. Starting out with up-beat grooves and rhythmic elements, by the last few tracks it's relaxed, drum-free and hopefully puts you in a place of contemplation and thoughtfulness.

On #Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/5oORtTK…

On #AppleMusic: music.apple.com/gb/album/a-mom…

The #Youtube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK…

The #Distrokid #Hyperfollow page: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/andr…


A Moment of Solitude by Andre Louis on Apple Music

Album · 2023 · 20 Songs
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#youtube #spotify #applemusic #distrokid #hyperfollow

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So! This audiobook's coming out in two days. I dunno about the book, but the music... The composer... I like him. I really do. He's nice. Very humble, too.
No seriously. I still can't believe this is a thing, but here we are. A nice and cozy fantasy with voices I'm sure you've heard before if you're into the genre, and somehow I've been lucky enough to make the music for it.
Disclaimer in case it matters: I'm not getting any commission or royalties or any kind of anything either for sales or for making noise about this, I just think it's a cool book and I'm super happy to have made the soundtrack for it!

soundbooththeater.com/shop/aud…


Natural Magic, Book 1: The Mudpuddle Manual of Natural Magic - Soundbooth Theater

A murder, a mystery, and a not-so-overactive imagination… Eccentric heiress, Maida Westabrook, treasures her peaceful, “ordinary” life in California — morning strolls along the beach, warm evenings by the fire, and losing herself in her beloved libra…
Soundbooth Theater

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Around 2013, someone created an add-on that allowed the old Siri voices to be used with NVDA, which worked because those voices were licensed to Apple by Nuance Communications.
The 2013 version of the US English Siri female voice, originally named Nicky, used in the add-on has interesting behaviors with the string "brr," from odd sounds to an interesting beat if "brr" is typed multiple times.

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

Wayland and systemd are both symptoms of the same behaviour, as was PulseAudio:

  • Observe that an existing system has flaws.
  • Don't engage with users to identify use cases.
  • Throw up some half-finished code (with incomplete or nonexistent backwards compatibility) that solves some of the problems of the old system but doesn't address all of its use cases and introduces more problems for other people.
  • Declare that the old thing is deprecated and everyone needs to move to the new thing.
  • Create a load of work in the rest of the ecosystem that other people have to do.
  • Silence all criticism by pointing out that the old thing was imperfect.

And that's the kind of thing that you can only get away with if you're able to act as a monopoly, by employing maintainers at key points across the ecosystem.

The biggest problem with Microsoft was not that their monopoly allowed them to be evil, it was that it allowed them to be stupid. A lot of things in the MS ecosystem are actually bad for Microsoft, but they're pushed out because no one inside MS cares enough to do the right thing and no one outside is able to fix the problems. I, personally, don't want the F/OSS OS ecosystem to end up like that.

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Simon Ser

@davidgerard@circumstances.run I have poured most hours of my last 10 years of life into listening to users and pushing things forward on Wayland even if I personally wouldn't need the feature. I really saddens me that someone would think that Wayland developers don't care.

We do care, but we only have a finite amount of time in our volunteer life. Yes, we don't copy-paste solutions from X11: we try to fully understand the problem space and do better. This does mean that coming to us with technical solutions rather than use-cases tends to be met with "please, explain why you need to do this?".

I don't really know what you mean when you say that we silence criticism. I've read enough in the past years to guarantee that it's not silenced. I appreciate constructive criticism better than rants, rants tend to demoralize me.

I am also saddened about the conspiracy that big corp deprecates X11 against the community's will. There is no single company with a monopoly here, please take a bit of time to look at Wayland developers' employers. Personally, I'm ex-SourceHut and now just a volunteer (my day job is unrelated: SNCF Réseau).

I've never said that X11 was deprecated, and I always tell people to use whatever works best for them. The only reason why X11 has less activity nowadays is because X11 lacks volunteers. (We severely lack volunteers on the Wayland side too.)

People, distros, communities move away from X11 if/when they collectively decide that they should. Nobody's pulling the strings here.

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