The ability to switch between NVDA profiles with different keystrokes and to tweak output settings for each one individually is just fantastic. Whenever I mess something up on my main audio interface, I can get things working again in moments by switching to my "rescue" profile (that's just what I call it) which is hard routed to always use my laptop speakers. Highly recommend this for anyone who plays around with virtual mixers, audio cables, etc. It did save my ass more times than I can count!

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It felt very weird to be on a plane that had a server with Nginx and Drupal installed on it. According to http headers at least, and those rarely lie. Definitely not a ground link, you aren't getting 5ms pings over satellite.

Their IFE system appears to serve MP3s ripped straight from iTunes (no DRM), with album metadata and such left intact. Is this legal? God only knows.

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It's concerning to me that arguably *the* way to get Linux apps, Flathub, has all of its packaging data hosted on GitHub, with seemingly no plans to move away from it. With the direction GitHub is going, I am worried that Flathub will want to move and it'll be too late to do it cleanly.

#Flatpak #Flathub #Linux

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in reply to Mike Gifford, CPWA

I fear that comes up against the buffers of present party politics.

Even situations like LocaGov Drupal that wouldn't exist witout Central Government funding. After they want it to "stand on it's own feet'.

Present political drift seems to be investment payments might be ok, but 'subsidy' (ongoing payments) bad. What is defined as (essential) infrastructure that needs subsidy is getting wittled away all the time.

in reply to Mike Gifford, CPWA

it's a subsidy, though not usually called it. It's a subsidy as it is for rail infrastructure. Even the subsidies for roads, beloved of the right, now see: charging, tolls, privitization & generally trying to reduce direct gov costs. Even if less quick than it's been done to rail.
Which is why I wondered about running up against the buffers of present politics.
But maybe it's the rallying cry that will motivate people to change governments.
in reply to ekes

If I dig harder into the LocalGov Drupal example. The ongoing development is supported by local government - directly, through time and involvement; and indirectly through contracted agencies. But I think the success of that is because of quite some individuals, the way those organisations work together and not any concrete political direction.
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There y'all go. Since a few asked for it, and I realized none of my code shared similarities in design or philosophy to the BTSpeak's tool, I released my Radio-browser Python CLI tool here: github.com/tgeczy/radio-browse…
- useful on Raspberry Pi or other Linux distributions where just having a simple radio station player is what's missing. Can't say it'll get any mooer fancy than this, but we'll see! Took like 5 or 6 days to write it up in the end, wasn't just going to throw it all to AI to write without thorough supervision and fixing bugs, errors.
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NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version.

Full info & Download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2/

This release includes improvements in Windows 11, browse mode, and Microsoft Word. Plus improved Braille display support, updated LibLouis and eSpeak-NG & more!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #News #Update

in reply to NV Access

I decided to update on a portable coppy. I'm still uncertain about doing my main on this dell, as last time i updated, this coppy i have installed went bad, and speech no longer output. Requiring a family member to help me reinstall. It's not NVDA's fault, it's something to do with my sound driver. My sound driver is Wav Max audio, whitch is notorious for memory leaks. Portable coppies seem to do the best after updates, when it comes to this little computer.
in reply to NV Access

my version of the driver is 5 years old. The computer itself was made back in 2017, and back then, the driver was Notorious for having memory leak issues, as well as audio device issues. I did attempt to disable it, and that has fixed the issue someone. However, that doesn't stop it from having a fun time every once in awhile. They did fix it recently, however, my computer cannot get the updates for the driver.
in reply to NV Access

Here's a free tip, which I hope may help in future. It's odd, but works.
I recently installed something that broke sound devices, so NVDA went to nowhere.
Thing is, I *always* have it connected to a remote server, so I just opened up the non-official NVDA Remote app on iPhone, connected to my PC and let my phone do the talking. I didn't need to connect a keyboard to the phone of course, since I was still at the physical machine, but just used it to reset my sound devices and get things going again.
If you set it up so that your machine connects with your custom key to a server of some kind, and you have either another computer, or your phone to-hand, you *should* be able to bring speech back without help in-future.
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You can now try out the #curl git mirror on @Codeberg: codeberg.org/curl/curl-mirror

Consider it a test pilot for now. We won't do PRs and issues there so there's an obvious risk this will just be too messy...

The use of AI is becoming common place at work, in school, and at home. The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is currently conducting the survey "Exploring Artificial Intelligence Use by People With and Without Disabilities." Complete the survey and share how you use AI: afb.org/research-and-initiativ…
in reply to Freedom Scientific / Vispero

A note of caution. If you begin to complete the survey, and select that you do not live in the United States, you receive a statement to say that you "Do not qualify for this particular study". As someone who uses AI extensively and daily, and who has almost delivered 12 hours of highly concentrated training on the subject of AI to blind people, I think I have a great deal to contribute. They could learn a great deal from me. But if they're not interested, then, so be it.

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in reply to Luis Carlos

@luiscarlosgonzalez @menelion @brian_hartgen We understand the frustration that the survey not being made available to those outside the US. This is not a survey that we are conducting or have any input in, however, we thought it was interesting so we shared it. If you have feedback on using AI in work, school, at home, we would love to hear it. You can share it here or with our training team at Training@Vispero.com.

This is, to put it mildly, utter bullshit.

You can store a decade of email for a million people—call it 10-20Gb each—in a 10-20Pb storage array that costs under £1M per year (and is constantly getting cheaper). 10 year old emails are *cold* storage: drives not even spinning most of the time: you only really need 5-10% of it available on demand.

The environment agency are gaslighting us. One wonders who put them up to it?
social.lol/@robb/1150165791501…


"Delete your old emails to save water" - the environment agency

you wot?!

(gov.uk/government/news/nationa…)


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🎥 OwnGalaxy hat uns besucht. Es ist ein tolles Video geworden!🙂

youtube.com/watch?v=kX1SnPLsnF…

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shiftphone8 #owngalaxy

Just moved al my #git repos from #GitHub to my own #Forgejo instance.
I did complete setup with #sso (single sign on) using #KeyCloak and with in-docker runner.

Up until today's morning I was going to install gitlab, but I was persuaded by being presented as lightweight, fully selfhostable, 100% open and with federating features on the way.

Looking forward to try some federation stuff.
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Since we published our blog post on the future of Accrescent, donations have increased dramatically.

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TSA claims face scan opt-outs cause an “overwhelming + chaotic environment" but thanks to @ajlunited ’s new report we know this isn’t the case.

They found that 99% of the time, travelers weren't even told they had the right to opt-out of face scans.

ajl.org/flyreport

in reply to Fight for the Future

There are plenty of things that make traveling through security a nightmare, but valuing peoples’ privacy + basic dignity were never one of them.

Tell lawmakers to support the Travel Privacy Protection Act + fight facial recognition in airports: fightforthefuture.org/actions/…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

maybe you can create a lower tier of bounty ("hey, curl can access file://, isn't that dangerous somehow?!") where reviewers are a wider circle, but the reward is primarily a t-shirt "I found an exploit in cURL and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" for the submitter and reviewer.
And an AI one where, if someone can show *reproducibly* how they can effectively use AI to screen code for weaknesses, they get a good reward (set a false positive threshold to qualify).
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Asi nikdy, kromě prvního setkání pana Havla s Dalajlámou, jsem nebyl hrdý na českého prezidenta … a že už jich bylo…
A to jsem zažil doslovné znovuzrození čestného alkoholika (hluboká úklona všem zdravotníkům, protože ti odklonili Smrtě z poslední pravé před vrcholem) i mentální pád profesora ekonomie …

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Reddit will block the Internet Archive. “The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.” AI scraping will kill the open web — everyone’s shutting the gates. theverge.com/news/757538/reddi…