Could someone who uses a text reader tell me if when I post a link and it throws up an image do you see a blank image or does it not register the link image at all. When I post a link and it throws up an image I try to give a link image description in my post. It’s usually the header image of the linked article & I check to see if the article gave alt text for the image. If they did, I just note that.
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Pátek, začíná mi pracovní “týden”.
A zrovna dnes mě skolil nějaký moribundus, tak se láduju vitamíny, prolívám čajem a doufám, že to ze sebe vypláchnu, než ve 3 budu muset do práce 😪

we now do #curl scans with ZeroPath

@bagder I just realized that curl does not exclude localhost from proxied connections (while e.g. Firefox says 'Connections to localhost, 127.0.0.1/8, and ::1 are never proxied.'). Is that intentional?
I can't imagine why one would try to access localhost via a proxy, but I bet you've seen more obscure usecases ;)

I need to reinstall Windows on my Surface tablet, and I wanted to see if I could use AI to get into the boot menu and change the boot order to try USB first. I have a Chat GPT subscription, so I used voice mode with the video camera on, gave it some information about what I was doing, and let it be my eyes for a while.
I was delighted when the assistant actually knew how to get into the boot menu. It told me I could navigate the menu with my volume keys and select an option with the power key, much like navigating an Android phone’s recovery menu. I had to remind it I was totally blind a couple of times, but eventually, it helped me select USB as the first boot device and choose the “Exit and Restart” option. This was quite a few steps, and I was genuinely impressed at how easily I was able to fix this problem without interacting with a real person.
I eagerly waited for the Windows installer to come up. It never did.
So I used OCR on the screen, and discovered that not a single thing chat GPT claimed had happened … had actually happened.
It didn’t hallucinate just one thing. It hallucinated an entire multi-step interaction with the firmware of my tablet. It basically experienced a break from reality for about two minutes and started describing what it thought should happen, with no regard for what was actually happening.
Last week, the same app helped me learn the control panel of my heated mattress pad. It does work sometimes. But today, it led me on the wildest goose chase I’ve ever been on. I was actually trying to boot from the SD card, and as it turns out, that’s not even an option in the boot menu. But I made the mistake of teling Chat GPT exactly what I was trying to do, so it had all the material it needed to hallucinate a complex interaction convincingly.
Never let yourself forget the all important “A” in “AI”. That intelligence is not artificial as in “synthetic”, it’s artificial as in “pretend”. No LLM has the slightest idea of what it’s doing or saying. The companies that create these models have the all-important task of trying to make their intelligence more convincing than every other company.
That means they work most of the time, but the rest of the time, they will confidently lie. And that lie might be a missing digit, or it might be a whole entire interaction with a device.
I called Aira and got it sorted. I actually had to touch the arrows on the touchscreen to rearrange the boot order. Yes, I had a keyboard connected. No, there is no documented way to rearrange boot devices on a surface using the keyboard. Yes, everythyng about this is moronic. But, it’s done, and once I get Windows on my USB device, I’m pretty sure it will boot because an actual human told me so.
I can’t even begin to enumerate the possible clusterfucks that could arise from AI weaving such complex webs of lies. Do not use this shit for anything mission-critical. Ever. Even if it told the truth the last 99 times. Eventually, it will lie. When it does, you’ll have no idea.

Maybe I've said this before...Maybe I haven't? But I feel like Apple should rename VoiceOver. So, so often, I encounter people who hear "VoiceOver" and think they can control their devices entirely by voice. It says "Voice", after all! And we spent a long, long time discussing and looking at how it works and how you can't talk to it, and people seem disappointed in the end, especially in the beginning before they pick it up. Maybe that's just the process of learning overall, but still.

NVDA 64-Bit Development.
Important add-ons which function flawlessly as of this writing:
Eloquence, Enhanced Find Dialog Modification, ObjPad, Say control type before label, Say product name & version, SentenceNav, Speech history review and copying, SysTrayList, TextNav, Thunderbird+G5, UnigramPlus, Virtual Review, WhatsAppPlus.
Important add-ons which don't work or malfunction as of this writing:
1. ColumnsReview: can be loaded with the Compatibility flag, but doesn't function at all.
2. MSWord Accessibility Script: can be loaded, but doesn't work. In fact, if it's active, MS Word cannot be used with NVDA.
3. BrowserNav: can be loaded, but most features either don't work or malfunction. For instance, it can't find its bookmarks set on various websites.
4. Tony's Enhancements: issues an error message and cannot be used.
@NVAccess

Hearing the stories of peoples iPhone battery usage, I'm convinced some bug in my iOs setup is eating up battely.
Took my phone off of a charger at 4 this morning. A.few minutes of social media, 2 boarding pass scans on full brightness, a podcast download over wifi and 2 hours of podcast playback with about 20 minutes of taxy ride took it down to 40 percent by 10 in the morning. And its a pro max, not an air.
I guess starting my setup from scratch is in my near future.

So here's the scoop: LCUs (Latest Cumulative Updates) are language-agnostic — but their payloads aren’t. wow. The .msu itself is universal, but the moment DISM starts applying it, it looks for language satellite components (MUI files, language resources, etc.) under WinSxS. If the base image has en-US only, the update touches a small number of components and sails through. If the image has 10+ languages, every single one of those components must have a matching resource payload — or the update installer logs a “missing payload” error and bails mid-way.
Occasionally, a later LCU doesn’t have the full set of MUI payloads and expects them to already exist. If they don’t, it throws 0x800f0823 or a similar “pending component” error. On a single-language image, this never happens because there’s nothing to mismatch.
For language packs, downloading them as offline installers is limited: Windows Update Catalog rarely has full LP CABs; it’s mostly LCUs/SSUs. Visual Studio Subscriptions or the volume licensing center have them. So no, I cannot grab the latest language pack files easily.

darn yup. For custom installs, the new multilingual ISO is trash. For upgrades too maybe. all of it. I was able to get passed 88% on my original image. Things are installing like normal. Sadly you lose the in-place Win11 upgrade, but we might have to live with this until someone smarter than I comes out with a proper ISO. Sorry y'all, I tried. After a few tested it though and I tried to custom install, I'm even strongly considering removing the links to not mis-lead people with a broken ISO. At least the original one, while English only, can install just fine when you choose English US. This setup if booting from the media also gives you "upgrade" and unlocks it, so it may be that you can upgrade from Win11 that way, but I haven't tried without a proper Win11 VM (might do this on the weekend to do more testing though.) Either way, it's a bust. Will probably try to super-focus in on work and not think of this terrible disaster.