We're not specifically aware of an issue - can you give me more information / steps to reproduce the problem you're having please? Does it happen on any page, or specific ones - and if you are using any NVDA add-ons, if you press NVDA+q then down arrow to "restart with add-ons disabled" and enter, does it work (better / differently) then?
I checked again - it was tripping over me opening a new tab into Amazon and not announcing the Amazon main page. It read the Vivaldi header, some script (?), I had to reload the browser, THEN it seemed to work? No addons were on NVDA, and it might have been a "opened NVDA when browser is already open, tabs already active, and it didn't announce new tab" known feature. 1/2
THAT being said, I've been having issues with Windows and my keyboard lately bringing up (as I am typing) a keyboard combination - for example if I type 'type' sometimes it brings up a Ctrl+T combination; so, problem might be on my end.
President Riccobono and First Vice President Pam Allen will be attending the World Blind Union's (WBU's) World Blindness Summit and WBU General Assembly in Brazil. This is the largest global gathering of blind and low vision leaders, advocates, and allies. We are proud to partner with the World Blind Union to advance the lives of blind people around the world.
Trump administration considers stake in defence firms like Lockheed Martin https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/26/trump-administration-considers-stake-in-defence-firms-like-lockheed-martin?traffic_source=rss #News
Si quelqu'un veut voir et/ou caresser des animaux (chèvres et boucs, brebis, ânes, poneys) à #Strasbourg, — une excellente thérapie, à mon avis, — je vous recommande le parc animalier Friedel à Illkirch-Graffenstaden, non loin du terminus du tram A du même nom. illkirch.eu/culture-sports-et-…
Holy crap, YouTube has started doing AI upscaling on shorts *behind the uploader's back*, and now all faces look like glossy melted plastic with weird blobby edges
Upgradable laptop vendor Framework Computer is releasing a second-generation model of its 16-inch laptop, which now supports a modular Nvidia GPU. pcmag.com/news/frameworks-seco…
"La petite sœur d'une copine doit rendre son mémoire dans 15j et elle vient de commencer car TDAH non-diag et peur d'échouer donc self-sabotage donc svp remplissez son questionnaire pour qu'elle ait des datas rapidement à pouvoir analyser 🥲"
Hi all: my dad is trying to find a way to be able to record zoom meetings from his laptop. Probably for better notetaking and what not. Is there an easy way to be able to record both his microphone input, and the output of the zoom call? We thought of zoom recorders, and all manner of things, but nothing seems like this would be a simple fix. He has his own laptop, to which he has admin rights. In case it impacts suggestions, my father is also blind.
I guess, the easiest (like quick and dirtiest) would be to run something like goldWave and record what they call Stereo mix. but warning, it might be illegal, strictly speaking. If you record with Zoom built-in functionalities, it warns every participant of the meeting that the meeting is being recorded.
#freecadfriday my printer is currently printing the 5th of 6 segments that make up the Reed/beater of my loom. The segments were designed in @FreeCAD to slot together. One end segment, and one mid segment. So 2 ends, and 4 mids needed for my loom. More or less mids can be printed depending on size needed. The Reed is 1mm pitch ribs and gaps. (I tried 0.5mm but it failed. The ribs stuck together in places). Hopefully 1mm will still give a nice weave. :v
This is a geeky post. I made some spoons decorated with hanging hearts and have gotten some questions on how I make these. So far I carved them with only a pointy chip carving knife, but now I started using a few tools to make it a bit easier. I'm posting some shots from this process.
The talk covers a lot of ground and this is not at all the most important part, but she calls for study of why people like languages, with the specific example of Rust. I often cite this interaction as representative of an all-too-rare ethos that prioritizes human surfaces of the language ecosystem. Not as an afterthought, but as a major consideration in feature design and stabilization.
This interaction is between the author of the Rustonomicon and a Rust compiler team member focusing on quality of error messages, who often consults the community about quality/verbosity/ambiguity tradeoffs. The latter's bio reads: "We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one."
Title: Programming for All A Feminist Case for Language DesignDate: June 26, 2025Duration: 1HRSPEAKERFelienne HermansProfessor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam...
He recibido en estos meses muchísimos llamados que esperan a que yo diga algo para - comenzar su speech (voz automatizada o, a veces, real) - colgar porque tal vez buscaban ver si el número era válido, o beto.
Apenas el domingo recibí una llamada de un número de CDMX, como que falló el sistema un poco, pq sonó, entró la llamada, escuché un "bueno?" y se sobrepuso un audio que decía "está recibiendo una llamada del reclusorio [no se escuchó bien] de la ciudad de méxico", obvio colgué de inmediato
Quién sabe que nuevo sistema han ideado esos delincuentes que andan con todo.
has anyone seen a man page with a nice approach to providing a summary for a command with a lot of command line options, like this?
having something like [-0468openrsyncPRSTWVabcdefghiklmnopqrtuvxyz] always feels silly (it's almost the whole alphabet!) but I don't see an obvious better way to do it
(I don't mean to pick on openrsync here, this is an extremely common thing)
Rsvg-convert's approach is to *not* list all the options in a single block. Instead, it lists all the available options, but grouped by task. Each short option is listed together with the corresponding long option. Not all long options are mapped to short options.
A library to render SVG images to Cairo surfaces. GNOME uses this to render SVG icons. Outside of GNOME, other desktop environments use it for similar purposes. Wikimedia...
* Hacker's Diet Offline: track your weight and excercise and get a weighted moving average of your weight's change over time 🛡️ * Media Collection: helps you easily catalog and manage your personal blu-ray and dvd collection, including movies and TV series 🛡️
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).
My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑
Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?
What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS! I can't believe my ears!
I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…
Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.
AT-SPI has had a long-standing bug where, under X11, it might do the wrong thing in set-ups with multiple keyboard layouts. I could never figure out what should be done about it (someone who knows X11 better than I do might have had better luck). And someone appears to have used AI to help make a patch. I have to say that I'm impressed; I wouldn't have thought this possible. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2…
Update: Ended up backing out all of the AI-generated code. It was barking up the wrong tree and caused a couple of regressions. But it helped me in terms of figuring out how to think about the problem. Ended up finding a blog post that led me to a fix that was simple but not at all intuitive to me. I want to email the author of the post to thank him for writing it--I feel like I don't remember to thank people enough.
So. there's something that I would like to share with the world. Something kinda big and scary and wow but also amazing. There are some people I would like to introduce you to.
I think we all contain multitudes. Not many of us feel that so strongly as to be able to do what you've done. 'tis a brave thing to be so public about it. Congratulations on your freedom :)
Tonight at 4:30 pm I’ll be streaming a new branching interactive fiction game set in occupied Netherlands during World War II and is inspired by real events. It should be completely accessible and below is the steam link and Twitch is RossMinor!
We do not aim for #deltachat to be another social media app. No #ai summaries or suggestions. No public directory of contacts. No discovery via outside identifiers (mobile phone or email). Just you and your contacts privately messaging, in a solid simple user interface on all platforms. End-to-End encryption enforced on two layers. #chatmail relays know and retain nothing, no content or metadata. #webxdc apps allow for custom interactions on top of chats.
The UK's national drought group is falling ridiculously short when recommending to delete old emails. How about
- stop building any new data centers, progressively tax on their size and resource consumption, no free riding
- legislatively focus on software to become more resource efficient (hint: AI hurts not helps with that)
In any case, #chatmail relays unconditionally remove emails, no user action needed. Everything interesting happens on end devices see en.reset.org/decentralised-eff…
this whole Lidarr situation is crazy. The software broke in June and still hasn't been fixed.
They rely on Musicbrainz as their metadata source. They stopped having the software directly talk to the Musicbrainz API because it was too slow and causing too much load on Musicbrainz.
Ok, so first red flag. If Musicbrainz can't handle the load, someone needs to fund Musicbrainz so they can handle people using their API. Even if they required you donate a few $$ for access it would have been fine.
Well, the "solution" was for the Lidarr team to run their own Musicbrainz servers. So they did. It's a lot of data, and even this was too slow to handle the load. My spidey senses are telling me these devs just don't know how to deploy infra.
After all, they're talking too much about running k8s for their current stack and have mentioned that they didn't even have backups to fix the initial outage.
What was the initial outage? Well, Musicbrainz does schema updates that are pretty severe maybe once a year and they try to let all stakeholders know it's going to happen.
Schema change. Big deal, right?
Well, since they run their own Musicbrainz server and it was too slow... they made their own API that directly queries the Musicbrainz database instead of going through the MB API
The schema changes broke their own code.
So now they're rewriting it all because this certainly will solve their problems
And it's been months. There's not really any comparable software. The whole situation sucks.
It's also the only *arr software where the devs are receiving a copy of all your search queries. Nobody else had to do this, but they blame Musicbrainz.
This also explains why when I make changes on Musicbrainz it takes so long for Lidarr to see it. Because they're not serving the realtime Musicbrainz data...
>So they did. It's a lot of data, and even this was too slow to handle the load. I'm probably missing something, but the full pgsql exports from their download page are under 30GB bz2 compressed. That is missing cover art, but that should be hostable on your own if you are feeling adventerous. So instead of making their own copy of Musicbrainz, they should have probably asked the community to set up mirrors which are publicly available to others. In similar way Linux/BSD mirrors operate. That way everybody would win.
@phnt it's more than that. There's a Solr index too which they say requires 350GB and materialized tables you have to generate in Postgres. Bloat bloat bloat ...
🇨🇿 Czech Republic is now OPPOSED to Chat Control, as announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala:
"On behalf of myself and the entire TOTAL coalition, I want to say clearly: we will not allow the monitoring of citizens' private correspondence. We do not agree that any emails or messages on platforms such as WhatsApp or Messenger can be monitored. Protecting our children is important, but we have to do it differently."
prevent minor abuse, better ideas than chatcontrol
Sensitive content
is there already a list of easy effective steps to protect the kids?
It's not hard to come up with ideas once you watched just a few documentaries:
- Some German journalists landed a big blow against the predator scene by mass-reporting their file links: youtube.com/watch?v=Ndk0nfppc_… - so police should delete more
Snapchat ist ein dunkler und gefährlicher Ort für Kinder, viel zu wenig Eltern, wissen über diese App Bescheid..._________________________________Mein letzte...
I finally learned what type of radio we've had mounted under the kitchen cabinet since we moved into this house. It's a GE Spacemaker. It probably dates back to the 1980s or earlier. It mostly still works too. The only thing that's broken is the cassette player.
@BorrisInABox @cachondo For a brief time I remember television stations having a corresponding radio version. I also remember having some tiny MP3 player that had a radio, which I used to listen to shows on my way home from school.
@BorrisInABox There was an educational TV show while I was at school. It confused me as to how we'd be covering topics in class,only for the TV show to match up on a Friday when I got home. took me several weeks to puzzle out that they were following a specific syllabus
@cachondo That was mostly incidental because of the frequencies they used being harmonics on the very low side of FM. There were also, of course, TV radios, which actually did pick up those bands.
@cachondo For years, my mother had a TV/radio combo thing in the kitchen. It had maybe a 4 inch screen on it. At some point, they hooked cable into the external antenna port. What was weird about this is that the tuning knob was just a regular analog control with no clicks for channels, and tuning up and down cable like that was weird. We can pick up maybe four or five stations with an antenna, and well over 40 with cable, so the channels were all right next to each other. You could tune between them, etc.
@BorrisInABox interestingly, I've just signed-up to my first paid-for IPTV package and the remote has channel up/down buttons. Obviously there's no real numerical ordering with streaming, but they've built the UI to mimic the idea of channel numbers.
I have very fond memories of tuning into the analogue broadcast from the BBC on a black and white portable to watch Star Trek from 1994.
I feel that way about adding ALT text. A lot of Mastodonsters complain when images don't have ALT text. I put a lot of effort into adding ALT text for all my photos but I haven't gotten one bit of praise or positive feedback #disability
it's even worse for admins: if things are running just fine, why should they get a "good job" message or even a promotion? But if things are not running fine, then they are the ones to blame ..
In my experience (with Xournal++) there is a lot more positive feedback than that. Yes, the feedback usually accompanies a bug report or feature request, but it's definitely quite frequent and by far outnumbers demoralizing rants or overly harsh criticism.
based on how people respond to reviews of their work, i expect developers wouldn't care about the positive feedback at all. I understand and sympathize greatly with the difficulty of the experience you describe, don't get me wrong. the problem of lacking positive feedback is extremely personal for me, depression is depressing to talk about so I will leave it at that.
I feel like it's the exact same with other sectors too though. I bet, if restaurants started prompting and asking if everything is good, they wouldn't get many compliments either.
In my experience, developers don't make it easy either. There are clear channels for bug reporting, but positive feedback seems out of place in a bug tracker (like, filing a praise report?). You have to look for an email or a chat, and sometimes those aren't as visible. You can leave a comment in Flathub, but there's nothing to show that the developer has read it.
So please, devs: you want to hear positive feedback? Enable channels for that, like you do for bugs or donations.
"we need you to report any issue in order to keep your pleasure using our project, AND we need you to keep our pleasure developing this project by reporting your pleasure using it" something like that 😁 on every project
@eikaron I was actually recently thinking of something like Issues on a repository but in reverse ie. tickets for things that actually work. Firstly, the devs would know they have done a really good job on a specific part of the software, secondly, if we kept to the step-by-step description antics, we could have a nice map of examples of what feature makes the product the right fit for whom in which situation.
I've noticed this sometimes where there's a project that I really like but I don't want to file an issue just to say I like it because it feels like spam.
I get annoyed when someone then reports an error and assumes that I must already have 100s of reports about it and wonders why it hasn't been fixed a month ago.
If you get 15M users on your "product" The money you get from said product is more than enough. You're already more privileged that 90% of people if you make money with a job like that, so no, you don't deserve a thank you. In the same way, I don't think you thank the people filling the shops you go to, or the people working for your city's basic infrastructure, because you assume payment is all that's needed.
@TheFrenchGhosty wow...what an incredibly privileged and toxic statement.
I do thank the people I interact with. I always say hi to the shop workers and thank them when they help me. I might be crazy in your eyes, but when I pass an intersection where a construction worker stops digging to let me cross, I thank him.
It's called being a decent human being and not assuming that "You're getting money so I can treat you like shit".
@TheFrenchGhosty You're interacting with shop-workers inter-personally so of course you'll say thanks.
That is not the equivalent of what you're demanding.
The equivalent would be getting in contact with the manufacturers of all the consumer goods you purchase and thanking them for making them. Do you do that?
@uoou @TheFrenchGhosty no, but when something is not working or wrong, I share my feedback with kindness and respect. That’s also a way of thanking people for their work, even when reporting issues.
People, this is a simple concept, be kind and respectful.
@TheFrenchGhosty That is a very different thing from what you were talking about. Of course we should always be civil.
But, particularly when everything's getting worse, people get pissed off when things get shitter. Humans have emotions. Most human interaction isn't mediated by a HR department, thankfully.
You're a "Director of Product Engineering" at Mozilla (I didn't know that before). Your argument would actually be worth something if you were working for free (and not for 100 000+ a year - and I'm being generous considering you're literally corporate).
I did/do software as volunteer and got thanks. Here's the reality rich guy, a thank is almost worthless to me (and most of those people you mentioned) because it doesn't pay the bills.
@TheFrenchGhosty To be clear, if I encounter the dev of something I really enjoy using or anything I use where the dev is a *volunteer*, then I'll thank them.
But going out of my way to thank the devs who - as paid work - make the majority of software which gets worse and heavier constantly, no, that's insane.
A regulation capping ATM withdrawal fees at €1.5 went into effect in #Greece on August 11. What's the reality today? One ATM charged €5.90, and another charged €3.49. The #Euronet ATM added the "Cash & Balance" scam on top of that.
Got charged 5,95 for 50Euro withdraval in Kurtort Oyibin, Germany. Accepting card payments is apparently too much to ask for in a tourist spot like this 🤯 #ddr
@alatiera I thought the €1.5 cap was for third parties, but apparently not. But the problem isn't special to Greece. Some ATMs in Czechia charge up to €7 for withdrawal if you use a foreign card. It's sympathetic that there is a country which is trying to do something about it. So far I've been able to pay with a card almost everywhere. I wanted to withdraw some cash just in case.
#illumos #omnios is absolutely incredible. The system is very well designed IMO, I had already experienced the more cohesively designed #BSD but here it feels a bit *more* (although quite similar in some aspects to #freebsd of course).
Linux feels like a duct-taped amalgamation of random ideas, don't get me wrong I love Linux and all it represents, but it's a system that has been grown in any direction.
With Illumos instead it feels like you have orthogonal powerful building blocks you can compose into something greater than the sum of its parts. #zfs #dtrace #zones #crossbow it all works beautifully, both on their own and together.
After seeing how virtualized networking can be done in solaris, the docker networking stack feels so sad in comparison.
VibeVoice by Microsoft: a TTS designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio up to 90 minutes #TTS #LLMmicrosoft.github.io/VibeVoice/
A colleague pointed out today that we’ve spent decades convincing developers not to mix data and instruction streams because of the huge security concerns.
Then LLMs come along and basically wrap an eval() around anything anyone types.
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