In-Process is now avaialble! A big one this week, which includes: - Official NVDA users email group - Using Google Groups - NVDA 2025.2 Beta now available! - Reporting issues with NVDA - Three quick tips from Noelia
@davetaylor2112 Really? If anything, I would have thought they show it's actually not so hard. I broke it down into key by key steps, and into specific tasks: Searching for an issue, creating an issue, and subscribing to an (already created) issue. Could GitHub make it easier to navigate? Sure, but I don't think the steps would be any shorter if I was describing how to navigate and post on Facebook or anywhere else :)
And right there, you're using another website that people find problematic, why do you think so many blind people used to use the mobile site And you don't even have to explain whatever those phrases were about statusses on FB or anything either. That sort of thing really confuses non techie people
@davetaylor2112 Ok well I wasn't trying to explain Facebook (and that's also one reason I've never attempted to write a guide to using Facebook - that and it changes every two weeks anyway). But really GitHub isn't so hard - not perfect by any means, but definitely useable. Of course, we don't have any more control over how GitHub works than how Facebook works, but if you have feedback on how it could be easier, we would definitely encourage you to raise them with Github themselves too
Thing is, it looks like its probably fine for devs and I think it's OK for techie types. It's not really meant for average end users, and yeah, I so agree with you about FB I really think I need per website settings in NVDA these days, I spend so much time flipping first letter nav or focus mode on and off!
@davetaylor2112 I believe we do have an issue requesting per-website settings. It would definitely be useful. In any case, you ARE still welcome to write to us if you do have a problem which may need an issue written up about it. If I can readily replicate it, I'll probably be willing to write it up for you. It's mostly where i can't replicate it or I'm not going to be able to answer any questions about it that I would be very keen for you to write it up (because you can test a fix etc)
To be fair, most of the issues I have are not with NVDA, especially now. Many of them are to do with websites, and often I don't understand why the issue is happening well enough to write it, and it's a website you have to actively have an account on to see the issue. Things like groups still being announced although I have them turned off, trying to get rid of the right verbosity so I can learlly hear a controlname without listening to all sorts of other stuff
The last heading, Three quick tips from Noelia, has an HTML list problem. The list which comes after this heading doesn't end properly, and the sentence "That’s all for this week" is wrongly listed as a list item belonging to "Press NVDA+b to read the controls available on the current Window"
@Piciok And that is because these fucking capitalists want to reduce costs. A;; people who even finished some translation studioes and philologies can clean their asses with their diplomas, if this trend continies.
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.
Watching on the partners @lemonzest TV here in England and stream has worked good today other then a small Youtube hickup but @pietrodc0 solved it properly
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.
That's also a good time to say thanks to @beeware, whose gbulb project provided async support for GTK for over a decade, and built up the experience that made PyGObject 3.50's async support possible.
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.
As someone who finds the general distaste for the recorder across the board to be very sad given what it's actually capable of if played well, I present this article. In praise of the humble recorder — a gateway instrument for millions of schoolchildren: npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-54562…
@a11yMel All fair. But 1 leads to 2 which leads to 3. :) I think the same is likely true for any instrument. I grant, however, that recorder is often not taught with real enthusiasm or skill, which leads to poor playing that never really improves. I was lucky to have a classroom teacher who actually really loved it as an instrument and was quite passionate about teaching us to play it well and in harmony.
It was a gateway instrument for me, but not as a student. Last year, I was recommended a Youtube video about this topic. This made me research more, and soon I had an alto and a tenor. Finding which of these I wanted led the Youtube algorithm to start serving me tin whistle videos. Now I have four tin whistles and am waiting on a very expensive low F whistle to be made for me by hand. I also still have the recorders.
I was just given my late uncle's tenor recorder. I've played soprano since a child, so was surprised how difficult it is to get a good tone. I'm going to have to spend some serious time on it when it's no longer open windows season.
@sbourne Oo nice! Is it wood? I think wood instruments can take a while to wear back in after they haven't been used for a while, so it could be partially that too perhaps?
CNN - Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job. Comey was a prosecutor in the case against Jeffrey Epstein and more recently against Sean “Diddy” Combs. cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/ma…
Audio Hijack 4.5.2 fixed a handful of bugs, adds full support for recording from Zoho Meeting, and even handles some issues on a forthcoming MacOS version.
#EpsteinFiles #MAGA It's going to get much worse. MAGA are furious and in open revolt and not just about Epstein. They're not happy with the level and violence of the deportations and want more. They're demanding the public execution of 'deep state' criminals they were promised for 8 years.
Trump's Epstein strategy could pit him against loyal supporters
In defending how his administration is handling supposed files... he says "some stupid Republicans" fell for a hoax. bbc.com/news/articles/cjrlg94w…
Aquí comenzando mis nuevos #huaraches. Otra vez voy a cambiar el diseño. Está vez las cintas son más gruesas y voy a quitar una para quedarme con dos cruzadas nomás. Ya me duelen mis deditos de coser y ya rompí una aguja.
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Anyone experienced with doing really long and repetitive json with Json-GLib that can tell me if there's something obvious I'm missing about how to make this less unpleasant to work with? This seems like a fucking slog
@ebassi over in gnome-crosswords / libipuz land, we are waiting for summer of code to be over and things to settle down before starting to move libipuz's JSON code to Rust for this reason. I have a MR for one of the awkards structs there with a ton of fields, and it's so nice to see the code become basically declarative instead of "does this field exist? stringify it? pass it to json-glib?".
@federicomena the simplest way possible is to have a GObject class with its properties, and then use JSON-GLib to serialise/deserialise the properties, because that has some level of reflection; but if you have a dictionary it falls apart…
no problem, glad it worked out. If you have custom data, I also recommend registering (de)serialization functions to boxed types, or overriding the JsonSerializable interface
Apologies - I updated it almost immediately - I had it ready to go earlier in the week but was waiting for the beta which came out yesterday :) New link with correct date: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
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Unfortunately, they seem to only be able to stably exist in low energy environments. Which sounds like a good fit for long term storage, but not so great for many-write environments.
DebConf25, the 26th DebConf, back in France, where the first Debconf took place in July 2000, is one of those with the largest number of attendees, nearly 470 from 50 countries reflecting the diversity of its community and its universal character. debconf25.debconf.org/register… #debian #debconf25 #brest
Do you think inviting Jeremy Bicha (offenderradar.com/offender-det…) to be a presenter at the conference was really a good decision on the project's part? What message does this send about Debian's values, and what does it say to the victims of sexual abuse?
Do I keep this stopwatch running or reset and stop it.
It's been going since July 2023 and has survived a phone transfer (intact, surprisingly).
This has definitely got to be a world record. It definitely isn't where Apple got to testing. It is broken, the milliseconds flash (not actually counting) and the seconds only update every 20 seconds or so. I did report to Apple but they never got back to me.
“In a time when so many people are careless, and so many people lack moral courage, it’s up to us to double down on care and courage. And that’s a hell of a lot easier, and a hell of a lot more powerful, if we do it together” — Andrew Kassoy, co-founder of #BCorp
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I have a microphone up in the room, which is connected to a DBX 286S dynamics processor, which is set up as a compander.
A couple of rooms away, a paper shredder was turned on.
The ratio of the gate, when I am speaking nowhere near the microphone, has an odd modulation effect, so naturally, I had to record it before the paper shredder got turned off.
there was a weird noise on one of our train speakers yesterday that sounded like this, although I'd presumed it was just something rattling around or loose. But it did sound a lot like that.
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@zoul Yep. They have their own language called MonkeyC. It's terrible really. 🙂 And in the SDK they provide an emulator which crashes a lot or for some reason doesn't emulate setting you ask it to. 🤷
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I'm impressed by the neoliberal circular logic here.
The U.S. DoD "had" to move off its own computers to the cloud to save money. But the only way the cloud was cheaper was if Microsoft employed people in China at much lower wages to maintain it. So they "had" to invent American "digital escorts."
Basically, the cloud is only cheaper for the U.S. military if it is completely and totally compromised by its most powerful geopolitical adversary... 🤔
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.
Ah, just ordered like $150 of meats, snacks, and other items from magyardeli.com/ - for Hungarians such as myself, this place is a nice haven of products shipped out of Florida, rather than Hungary directly. I had purchased some products from the european-products.net store, which appears to have a larger selection, but they ship direct from Hungary, which means shipping can take as long as 2 weeks. Super excited though to get this new set of stuff, including some yummy smoked sausage!
This Hungarian online deli store was created to supply to the Hungarian people that in live in America and to introduce the Hungarian cuisine to Americans.
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