Bye bye, Windows 10! Microsoft is stopping support for the operating system today. If you're still using it, now is a good time to consider alternatives such as Linux, which is free and open source (like LibreOffice): blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… @Endof10 #endof10
Today, Microsoft is ending official support for Windows 10. This leaves users who want to continue using the operating system with few alternatives — especially if they have an old PC that is not compatible with Windows 11’s demanding hardware requir…
""[…] There is only one correct metric that should be counted when dealing with software, and that is the user's cognitive load. […] If my Windows/Python/Notepad++ setup is more ubiquitous, understandable, intuitive and replicable than your obscure Arch/Hyprland build with its hundred painstakingly typed-out customizations for every single software in it, then my setup is better and more minimalist than yours. Full stop. […]""
I, too, have been an avid connoisseur of linux distros and have had my fair share of distrohopping every time the next shiny thing barges into the Linux worl...
tumble out of bed and i stumble to the kitchen pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
OH MY GOD THERES SO MUCH BLOOD COMING OUT OF THE SHOWERHEAD OH MY GOOOD
In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:
AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.
Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.
European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.
I understand why governments want to exclude their data. But politicians have friends, families, business partners, they use "anonymous" accounts that won't be covered by this exemption, they retire at some point. There are many ways in which their sensitive information might be leaked just like anyone's else.
You wouldn't just be handing the key to law enforcement. The system would likely be outsourced to a private company that may not be based in the EU. There's also the system itself. Cast your minds back to the Post Office fiasco in the UK, where innocent people were jailed for fraud because the system had flaws.
It is not even able to scan for harmful content. It is impossible to differentiate between legitimate nudes or abusive ones. As well as it is impossible to differentiate grooming vs flirting simply by the chat content. #chatcontrol is a huge scam!! Only practical use-case is mass surveillance and information control.
hey Tuta. I appreciate the work you’re doing fighting for our privacy on social media. In return I’ll fight to adopt your email services within our company.
And you know what's worst about all this, after delving even deeper into the subject? That it would de facto be the end of *all* privacy 🚫🔐 Because, in reality, this law assumes the scanning of everything sent from our device, not just messages, as is usually said. That's the worst part. That this law normally seems bad because it will scan our messages. But the truth is, this law is the devil because it will scan everything
@Tuta you have to be precise with this: it did not fail! to avoid failure the vote was postponed because somehow surprisingly germany showed some resistance. i don't expect it to stay that way.
the eu commission's president Ursula von der Leyen, a member of the cdu, the actual ruling party in germany, was notorious for using the pretext of fighting child abuse to install internet censorship in germany (dns blocking list aso). thus her nickname in germany: Zensursula, from Zensur (censorship) and Ursula ...
a postponed vote can be added quite quickly back on the agenda and fighting the evil internet is a popular topic in party circles of the conservatives. also, don't count on the german chancellor Merz to keep promises he made ...
Maaaan... trying to build #GNOME control-center to do some tinkering and during the build I figure out 0pointer.de is down since a dependency lives there.
@pid_eins do you per-chance have any more information on when to expect the site to be functional again (or even if this planned downtime)?
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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while I'm at the topic of #screenreaders - just found out NVDA is a project by 'NV Access' - an Australian non-profit that develops NVDA as a free, open source screen reader for WIN nvaccess.org/download #screenreader #thanksguys
Good question. We don't do website audits - primarily because web accessibility is complex enough that there are entire companies dedicated to purely that. We do have a good relationship with @intopia and would recommend them. There are other companies who also do similar work.
@NVAccess thank you my company has hired them and we now work through their recommendations but it appears very hard to test because the three screen reader used all behave differently in their output
You're working with Intopia? Fantastic! Different screen readers shouldn't behave too differently from each other for the most part. Intopia should definitely be able to recommend why one is giving different information. In some cases the default settings may be different. EG NVDA does not report changes in text colour by default, but it CAN. Or one may read the same information but in a different order. That's ok & may be a reason why a user may pick one screen reader over another.
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)
@feld The screenshots I posted were not directly from the article itself. I copied & pasted the text. I do that with all the articles I post here. It allows folks to read at least part of an article without being bothered by pop-ups & advertisements. It also.helps if there happens to be a paywall.
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:
![a screenshot from a Wired article, which reads: "Altman is aware, however, that some people might not like this. "I've spoken with environmentalists," he said. Then, he offered a suggestion. "Maybe we put [data centers] in space," he said. "I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we're stumbling through this." Now, the idea of hurling data centers, the largest of which can cover over a million square feet, into orbit may seem impractical. But Altman's not alone in considering it. Jeff Bezos and Eric
Schmidt are also betting on the idea."](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/713180 "a screenshot from a Wired article, which reads: \"Altman is aware, however, that some people might not like this. \"I've spoken with environmentalists,\" he said. Then, he offered a suggestion. \"Maybe we put [data centers] in space,\" he said. \"I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but like, we're stumbling through this.\" Now, the idea of hurling data centers, the largest of which can cover over a million square feet, into orbit may seem impractical. But Altman's not alone in considering it. Jeff Bezos and Eric
Schmidt are also betting on the idea.\"")
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I agree. But it's closer to perfection than Windows
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LibreOffice - yes (asked my computer chap about it today)
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