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Intelligence truly is a weird thing, especially when it's super concentrated. I consider myself to be an at least fairly decent C++ and Rust programmer at this point, and I know many other programming languages as well to varying degrees. And yet, I struggle to spell words that many would consider basic in English, the one and only language I natively speak and grew up speaking. I do blame part of this on learning contracted Braille so young, as one example I didn't know how to spell "necessary" until I was like 13, but I also wonder how much of it is because I don't speak any other languages, and the part of my brain that I should be using for spelling English words is being used to remember all the syntax rules of C++ templates.

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Getting stressed out by the world unravelling around you? Has the doomscrolling raised your blood pressure?

Here: Have seven minutes and twenty-five seconds of contemplative bliss, gratis.

youtube.com/watch?v=-Zn79JZr5n…

#guqin #ChineseMusic


【古琴Guqin】弦上有舟《欸乃》｜The guqin lets you appreciate the timeless beauty of Chinese rivers and mountains.

本曲以柳宗元“欸乃一声山水绿”为题，一叶扁舟，悠游隐逸于江湖，到有风波处寻无波。曲调清新隽永，静中有动，有脱尘寓江海河汉之游，物外烟霞之思。 渔翁 唐·柳宗元 渔翁夜傍西岩宿，晓汲清湘燃楚竹。 烟销日出不见人，欸乃一声山水绿。 回看天际下中流，岩上无心云相逐。 据《天闻阁琴谱》管平湖打谱 演奏：白无瑕...
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#guqin #Chinesemusic

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No tvl to byla zase ostuda 🤦🏻‍♂️
Češi utrpěli v kvalifikaci MS šokující porážku na Faerských ostrovech
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Češi utrpěli v kvalifikaci MS šokující porážku na Faerských ostrovech

Tórshavn - Čeští fotbaloví reprezentanti v předposledním z osmi utkání kvalifikace mistrovství světa utrpěli na Faerských ostrovech šokující porážku 1:2.
ČTK

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OK #Blind #Linux people, is it really worthwhile to consider dual booting @elementary or at least testing it out in a VM? I’m probably not going to be able to give up windows completely, correct? What can I do natively under Lennox and what can’t I do? How is word processing, spreadsheets, making presentations? How about editing music notation? what works, what doesn’t, and what am I going to be giving up in terms of time and efficiency? Boosts appreciated and input very much welcome. #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind @blind #OpenSource #ElementaryOS #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11Y
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #blind #screenreader #elementaryos #blindmasto #blindmastodon #BlindFedi @elementary @blind 组 @Group 4 Blind & VI people
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Khronos

You have a couple of options that are accessible. #slint linux, #fedora. If you go the Fedora route install 41 then upgrade to 42 after it is installed. Use the #mate version.
If you try #slint things should work out of the bo, but it is #slackware based so the package install process will be different than most systems if you need to install something that isn't there yet.
#fedora #slackware #MATE #slint

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NVDA 2025.3.1 Release Candidate is now available for testing.

This is a patch release to fix a security issue & a bug.

- Fixed a vulnerability which could prevent access to secure screens via Remote Access.

- Remote Access now returns control to the local computer if it locks while controlling the remote computer.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #PreRelease #News #NewVersion #Update #ScreenReader #Security

#security #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion #prerelease

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
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#News #Education #Public #Schools #Teaching #Family #Children


Trump’s Education Department Is Working to Erode the Public School System

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#News #education #Children #public #schools #teaching #family

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I decided to write a post where I talk about my experiences finding work as a blind person and attempt to give some general advice to blind people who are either looking for work or looking for a position that better aligns with their goals or values. I'm not sure why the strange URL; hopefully it doesn't cause problems. mikegorse.substack.com/p/4834h…

Me, the disabled employee

For various reasons, finding gainful employment as a disabled person tends to be difficult for most people, so I wanted to write down my experiences.
Mike Gorse (Chronicles from an unstable era)

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This is one of those places where Linux accessibility drops off a cliff. The MOK screen isn’t accessible because it runs before the kernel (so no espeakup, no console, no Orca). Debian upstream knows about the issue, but it’s been considered “low priority” for years because most users just press the keys once and never touch it again. Unfortunately, for blind users, that makes Secure Boot basically unusable without sighted help.

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Well I have done it. as of November 4, or 5 my JFW will no longer work. it is still on the laptop, but I will get that removed as soon as I am done reading the fan fic I am reading. So basically, I am now on #NVDA for the fore seeable future. there is a reactivate button, if I choose to do this before the fifth. the fifth of next month is when I would be charged for it, so there you go. If something doesn't work with NVDA, I just won't use it I guess.
#nvda
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JamminJerry

@NVAccess I will say the one thing I really like ab out the program I use are two things. one is that I have it set up so that it shows up in my system gray, and if the CPU usage is over 2 percent, I not only see what it is, but what is using the most, so for example, it might say something like CPU usage: 10 percent, NVDA.exe 5 percent. the other thing I like, is another option I can have it show me in the system tray is how much ram I am using.
@NV Access

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Someone just sent me something to review for feedback. It's a PDF, but it's the kind that have absolutely no text. I'm guessing it's an image or scan. Paperback doesn't yet have OCR, so I'm kind of stuck. I want to reply to the sender (someone I've known for years), but I honestly don't want to try to explain the problem. To sighted people, if they can read the text, that's readable. People who aren't good with computers can't understand why some PDFs work and some are useless. I hate this stuff

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xAI to Raise $20 Billion After Nvidia and Others Boost Round

> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned, tapping backers including Nvidia Corp. to lift its ongoing funding round to $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
archive.is/2025.10.08-081137/b…

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#ElonMusk #NVDA #sticks #Nvidia #xAI #finance

XAI and Nvidia logos side by side

Elon Musk’s xAI Secures $20 Billion in Massive NVIDIA-Backed Funding Round

This asset-backed financing model could serve as a template for other tech firms looking to manage high debt exposure while building expensive AI infrastructure. Published: October 8, 2025 Elo…
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#nvidia #elonmusk #nvda #finance #xai #sticks
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If every country starts requiring that people provide official ID in order to "verify their age" to use social media, there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity.

This is horrible for democracy,
and should terrify everyone.

It doesn't matter if platforms use third-parties or not. It doesn't matter if they use some special encrypted code, the result is the same. This gatekeeps open discussions and government criticisms free from reprisals.

This is bad.
This is China "free-speech" bad.

#Democracy #AgeVerification #Privacy

#privacy #democracy #ageverification
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Mikołaj Hołysz

This is not true, there are cryptographic protocols that let you verify some assertion about your identity without revealing anything else about yourself.

The simplest, low-tech solution would be to require a single-use scratch card to sign up for any website. Stores could then be required to verify ID before such a scratchcard could be sold, just like they do now for alcohol and cigarettes.

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

@feld
Back when OSS was designed, keeping an output buffer filled to avoid stuttering or reading from a microscope input source before the ring buffer looped and you lost samples was hard. You basically wanted to read or write whenever you had cycles because otherwise you couldn’t keep up.

Since then, computers have become a lot faster and now sound is a very low data rate device. Rather than hammering the sound device as often as you can, you want to be told the microphone buffer has passed some watermark level (so you can process a reasonable number of samples at once) or the sound output buffer is below a watermark level (so you can give it a few ms more samples to write for interactive things, or a few seconds for things like music playback).

Things like music are great for this because you can decode a few tens of second and then sleep in a kevent loop just passing a new chunk to the device whenever it has a decent amount of space.

@feld
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JdeBP

@feld @david_chisnall
More generally: #kqueue still has several ragged edges, compared to poll/select.

tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457405478…

tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457514245…

Every little helps in order to fill in all of these gaps.

#FreeBSD

JdeBP (@JdeBP@tty0.social)

@meka@bsd.network It is always welcome to see more kevent(), if only because it lets other people share my pain, in the hope that that increases the push for kevent() to be fully completed and as good as select().
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#freebsd #kqueue @David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @feld
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Patrick Breyer

🇪🇺#ChatControl now officially removed from the agenda for Oct. 14th🥳: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/d…

⚠️However, EU governments continue to work on the proposal.
🗓️The next meeting of EU interior ministers is on Dec. 6/7.

🚫📡🔐Mission: No mass scanning, no backdoors!

#chatcontrol
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