I've never had to use it. like, call a place for actual support, that required like, a thing I couldn't have done myself if I knew how. LIke, back at the beginning of may when this old thing had to go to the hospital, dude was all flabergasted that I was even still running it.
Happy to try to answer any questions! Do you mean how screen readers behave to each other? Or how they make the computer behave compared to not having one running?
Aside from NVDA, You mentioned Narrator and I mentioned Jaws, Narrator comes with Windows and is less full featured. Jaws is a commercial program which costs around $2,000 (plus upgrade costs every couple of years). NVDA is completely free by philosophy. Feature-wise, NVDA and Jaws are quite similar
@NVAccess thanks for this, yes I meant what one SR reads out (nvda) while another does not read out that same line (narrator) ... am just puzzled about that behaviour, but have since established that nvda is 'superior' and or widely preferenced to narrator (unsurpsingly, the latter being a MS product >.<)
@NVAccess JAWS does not cost 2000 dollars, unless you purchase a professional license. In the united states, users can get a home anual license for 104.00 per year. Currently JAWS sma's cost 228.00 per two years, but they will be going up at the end of october by 10 percent. I am not as well versed in pricing for JAWS outside the US, but there are other options for purchasing JAWS in the US.
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: 🧵👇wired.com/story/satellites-are…
When picking fonts, use simple, familiar, and easily-parsed fonts. Avoid character complexity and ambiguity. Use a limited number of typefaces, fonts, and variations. Consider spacing and weight. Ensure sufficient contrast between the text and background. Avoid small font sizes.
For all the Mouse's deep flaws, the mass transit system at Walt Disney World is sterling proof of just how good our cities could be if we stopped worrying about keeping the nice services away from the brown people.
The parks are super walkable, and getting anywhere across the southern part of the property (Epcot/Animal Kingdom/Hollywood Studios) Just Works™ in a way that most municipalities could easily replicate if they didn't have to fight property owners for every cent of taxes.
...Also happy Microsoft end-of-life for Windows 10 day.
It's estimated that 400-600 million computers still run Windows 10, and many of those don't meet the higher specs required for Win 11, which in addition to more RAM and a faster CPU includes having UEFI bios.
For those with some level of tech literacy upgrading to Linux is an obvious workaround, but the sad truth is that enormous volumes of ewaste will be generated by this unnecessary act of corporate greed.
We really have to stop uncritically accepting the batshit drivel that billionaires come up with. Their main qualification is exploiting people at scale to enrich themselves with power and money, and they will do and say anything to keep it that way, especially if they pitch it as "the future."
@fu yeah so Bud Selig bought the bankrupt Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee, but that technically means there is no direct relation between the defunct Milwaukee Braves (moved to ATL) or the original Milwaukee Brewers (moved to St Louis and became the Browns)
Microsoft Viva Insights “helps people and businesses thrive with data-driven, privacy-protected insights.” It’s workplace spyware for your boss. [Microsoft; Microsoft] Viva Insights now has an exci…
grrrrrrrrr! so I installed the station playlist studio addon for #NVDA, and it isn't as bad as it was, but the whole system hult things are happening again! I know I can't be the only one that is seeing this, but here it is, and nothing happened with the last time, when I tried to show people what was going on. maybe I should just get rid of the addon again.
@joslee Well better than it was a couple of months ago is at least an improvement. But Joseph is an expert and I'm sure he'll be able to track down the issue with you.
@NVAccess The current maintainer is Chris Duffley. Also, we need to know what's going on when the freeze happens and on which Studio release/add-on relesae.
A few weeks ago, I learned that Dolphin Computer Access is offering a 50% discount on their Supernova products for users who have a JAWS, Zoomtext or Fusion license who are willing to switch from t…
Every time I try to use an LLM, it always gets things terribly wrong. Nvlist binary format is undocumented. Ask an LLM for it and of course it gets confused with OpenZFS similarly named nvpair, and talks about that (don't know if it's correct or not, but probably isn't from what I briefly saw).
I really don't understand how anyone uses this stuff for work.
you can't just ask it for answers and expect good results from only its internal corpus. Always request that it use official docs or provide it links to docs / code and tell it to reference that before answering.
> If I have to hunt down and provide source/docs for it, I might as well look at them myself to understand it and not depend upon an LLM to do so.
yeah true, but when it's something without good docs or really confusing docs without examples, or projects where I have no idea what the structure is I find it very useful as it can read and find what I'm looking for faster than I can by grep-guessing
I started documenting kernel side #kqueue on #FreeBSD. At this point it is just a brain dump, so I need help improving github.com/mekanix/freebsd-src…. @dexter got any tips except contacting man page author?
I was thinking we need to get more people active on the FreeBSD wiki too so at least examples, gotchas, and best practices are *somewhere* associated with the project and not just on random blogs and web comments, like this one from the other day:
More metro Phoenix home sellers have grown tired of demands from buyers and have given up.
The number of canceled home listings is on the rise in the Valley as buyers continue to insist on lower prices, expensive remodel projects and interest-rate buydowns. Trevor Halpern of Halpern Residential at eXp Reality said 35% to 40% of his sellers are pulling their listings if buyers won't give them the price they want.
During the past few months, about 30% of Phoenix-area homes listed for sale were called off by homeowners, according to the Cromford Report.
A colleague is asking how many #Neuroscientists are here on Mastodon / Fedi. If you are one, could you make yourself known in this poll? Also, more specific comments about your field welcome! 🧠
Chris McCausland: “I thought my neighbour was ignoring me, and he thought I was ignoring him, until he found out I was blind, and I found out he was deaf.” ...
Calling all #Signal experts. I'm getting this: "Something went wrong with your username, it’s no longer assigned to your account. You can try and set it again or choose a new one." Tried setting from the phone and from the laptop (iOS and Windows respectively), no dice. What should I do now? @signalapp
@André Polykanine I know nothing about @Signal but this is great opportunity to remind that @Delta Chat is fuLly encrypted, privacy oriented, puts you as an user in control and has great #a11y
From YouTube recommendations, a short video documentary about the first auto GPS system that was tested in Orlando between 1991 and 1992. It was in some ways ahead of its time because in addition to GPS it used radio communication for real-time traffic updates. Also featuring a very familiar text to speech voice that I bet a lot of my fellow blind followers will recognize youtube.com/watch?v=iVzD6HzBXe…
TravTek, short for Travel Technology, was one of the first large-scale experiments in computerized car navigation and driver information systems. It ran in O...
@JamminJerry Yeah, the talking language master use this system as well. It’s called bestspeech, more famously known as the voice of the Keynote synthesizer. Though the version used for that was newer than the one used on the language, master and in this video so it sounds a bit different
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