Just heard about Bitrig, an iOS app that lets you "vibecode" apps in Swift UI from your phone. It was created by some X Swift UI devs who used to work at Apple, and although I haven't yet tested this out I have no reason to think it wouldn't be accessible. This could actually be a really fun way to learn, as you can not only see the final result, but also view and edit the code. You can even share your new app with friends and deploy to TestFlight. Link to the main site: bitrig.app
It’s actually quite good. I created a tiny visual metronome app for myself. My excitement is temporarily down because they lack some of the frameworks that I needed for another app. It is really accessible, at least enough for you to design your own apps. Give it a shot!
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South Korea has just launched a HUGE universal basic income pilot focused on rural areas. Around 220,000 people will receive 150,000 won a month for two years in 7 counties.
A similar pilot in the US would cost $1 billion and provide $180 a month to all of Wyoming outside of Cheyenne and Casper.
#PSA If you have a do-not-resuscitate (#DNR) order, make sure it's visible at all times from the entryway of your home. This PSA brought to you courtesy of my elderly uncle being resuscitated, intubated, and put on a ventilator by EMTs, against the wishes in his DNR, because they didn't know he had one, and now he's lying sedated in an ICU, and I, as his healthcare proxy, am responsible for deciding whether to continue providing the care he didn't want or withdraw it and "see what happens." 💔
I was writing to someone about them, and used one of my favorite pseudo-explitives, GARK! Except I messed something up while typing with my braille display, and it became Garblek.
So, I've now decided that Garbleks are only allowed to exist on Thursdays, and they are like super intense garks.
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Wow, Jackbox Party Pack 11 really took a slide back in accessibility that's for sure. No correct answers are shown via live regions, in fact that trivia game doesn't even do live announcing at all. Avatars are no longer accessible but unlabelled buttons. For all the ways packs were improving, this one was as though nobody took any lessons and just repeated the same inaccessible experience creation they were all familiar with. Unbelievable. (oooh!) update: Liam (who's a well-known gamer in this community) mentions they're aware of some of these, I might still write up an e-mail with all of what I can find but let's hope a game update will fix many of my gripes soon.
@lerven Hmm yeah, I will! Sadly when you think of it, this year most games have a drawing element. Hearsay, Cookie House, possibly suspectives. I think Legends of Trivia and Doominate could be doable. I haven't tried the latter, but did play a round of LoT with my partner, which was fun but also we had to guess by the noises of either sword or monster stomach growl to know whether we got something right or not. Was quite funny
Which reminds me. I did buy the game twice, Party Pack 11, once on Apple TV and second time on Steam. If friends whish to play and get together to do so, all here for that - we can explore issues together and see how good each title is. I get it for both platform types because with local friends, Apple TV works way better, but for remote playing and piping audio Windows or Mac OS is great. Haven't tried the Linux version, wonder if Steam would read the webview with Orca right or not, hmm.
@collectifission Yes and no. It's one of those things where once you understand the architecture, it's obvious. But you should at least be familiar with normal full/incremental/differential backup strategies and how you'd do it for a tape library.
I should make a blog post about how to set it up in a simplified configuration people will want: backups just go to to a regular filesystem location, they're written to files that are virtual volumes // simulate a single-use tape (has to be fully overwritten, not appended). And are limited to, say, 5GB each so they play nicer with file sync tools.
if you control your infra end to end, why do you need SSHFP? You can have all your servers publish their keys into LDAP automatically and then those can all be injected into the known_hosts on every admin's workstation. This is how I've seen it done. You always know the correct public keys for every server and don't have to involve DNSSEC in the mix.
If the attacker can get enough control to mess with those LDAP records DNSSEC wouldn't have mattered, they probably could also gain access enough to change the SSHFP records too.
I could see SSHFP being useful for internet facing sshd, but just put it all behind a VPN and then I think it doesn't matter as much anymore except in the most extreme security-sensitive scenarios.
@feld Well, that's another way to distribute them. You don't need DNSSEC, but you do need competent admins, and ldap distribution is one way to not require the user to do key verification.
One advantage SSHFP records is that openssh has the verification integrated, so you don't have to do extra work on the user's workstation.
automating getting those records into DNS is probably just as hard as getting them into LDAP, so it's only the distribution and verification that's harder with my suggested method
Если верить Платону, человечество потеряло способность мыслить, когда бог Тот подарил египтянам письменность. Не знаю, смог бы я с ним подружиться, но тут он точно не прав. Имхо, всё развитие человечества происходит скачкообразно — в моменты, когда мы находим новые способы обработки информации: изобретение письменности, книгопечатание, математическая нотация, компьютеры и вот теперь ИИ
Looks like I got parodied yet again a couple days ago. If you received a follow request from it, it was most definitely not from me, but rather a certain troll who is, I'm sure, very upset with me at the moment. Anyway, as a reminder, this account I'm writing from is genuine. You can look at my profile to be certain; it's got significantly higher numbers than the parody one.
I did report the parody account a couple days ago, but suspect it hasn't been suspended yet. It goes without saying, but this guy really needs to get a life.
I agree, even I have better things to do with my time than parodying Mastodon accounts, as I'm sure is true for most of the sane people who walk this planet.
@celrock Agreed. I did tell the troll that he did not have my permission to parody me during a conversation in The Global Voice's chat room, but it made no difference. He's now been permanently banned from the room for violating its rules and inappropriate conduct.
Good for him. I'm glad he's been banned somewhere at least. Hopefully, he'll run out of Mastodon instances to use to keep up his strange and disturbing hobby.
@carrottop1023 @celrock We've all had enough of him, believe me. Thankfully, we've got things squared away with the chat room, so we can now deal with situations like this more quickly.
o yea. for a domain I moderate, I had to suspend an impersonation account of the admin, whichjust happens to be this domain. he didn't sign up, but Chris only uses this domain, and the guy impersonated him on another instance.
@adisonverlice Believe me; you're not the only one. I even told him in a conversation in The Global Voice's chat room that it was getting old and nobody wanted it, but he refused to stop. We permanently banned him from the room immediately thereafter.
yeah. in fact, I just got a tip from, you would't believe it, mastodon themselves, that there was another impersonation account. I don't know how the hell I got this tip as i'm not sure reports can come here unless they're on this server or from this server, so I don't know how the fuck I got this report, but there was another impersonation account that I had to suspend. 1 after another...
@adisonverlice That's interesting about the tip, but I'm not at all surprised by the multiple accounts popping up like that anymore. I actually just disabled email notifications for both my account and The Global Voice's one that I manage. I'll get around to any follow requests when time permits.
I was just surprised that I got an account from mastodon themselves. that's something I didn't expect. I thought you could only send reports from this server to the server your'e reporting, not to every single person
I love Joplin so much. I set up the selfhosted Joplin Notes at some point, and I have never, not even one time, had to touch it. It updates itself, it doesn't crash, it doesn't take up enormous amounts of system resources for no reason, and all the apps just work with it on my Windows, Mac, and IOS computers. I've even got other users on it, and it works just fine. And the apps are also good. Offline? No problem! You can still look at the last version of your stuff. Need to publish a quick, well-formatted single page to the web? Done with a snap!
Ah, gotcha. ...Honestly, we're pretty awful with Docker and I don't think @quinn or I even knew what Watchtower was. Docker's one of those thigns we were dragged into kicking and screaming.
@nick@quinn You could also run cosmos-cloud.io. It'll run and update your dockers for you, configure your reverse proxies, manage your SSL certs, etc. But the nice thing is it uses the standard methods to do all of those things, so unlike other server management GUIs, you can do stuff via the command line or via cosmos-cloud and it doesn't matter.
I've been working with Docker and related tools for years; I even started playing with Docker before it reached 1.0. And this thread might be only the second time I've heard of Watchtower.
@matt@nick@quinn to be fair, it's not something you should do in an enterprise environment. In general, updates for things that aren't your hobby need to be deployed to staging, tested, and only then pushed to production. Watchtower just does an in-place update of the containers. But that's fine, and probably even better, for hobby projects.
Guess who found a random battery under his bed, and guess what handheld amateur radio that it is a secondary battery for? Yup, it was I who found the battery, and it is the second battery for the Radioddity G77 radio. How thoonking exciting, LOL. I think I will charge it up, and see if I can get a nice couple of thoonks out of it on ASL #55553, LOL.
Well, there are no doonking MicroSD cards here. I guess I could record some nice doonks with my Kenwood TH-D74 or my Icom IC-R30, both of which can record to MicroSD. Then the whole thing would work.
Whoever at Microsoft decided we needed a global Windows keystroke to launch Linkedin in the default browser, may you spend the rest of your mortal existence walking barefoot across floors made of legos with the pointy bits facing up.
I've been using IndentNav for a while to write Python. Recently I installed BrowserNav and now get way more positional info about HTML elements. It took some getting used to, but now the beeps and tones help me get an idea of the physical layout of a site or electron interface. It's similar to IndentNav, but it has more rules and works with web browsers instead of being focused on code in a text editor. Positioning is one of the pieces of information that I forgot how much I miss from my sighted days. It's especially helpful with API reference docs that rely on positional encoding. Since there's more info in the browser, I only have beeps instead of precise indentation levels to get a general idea of the structure #blind #nvda #nvaccess #browsernav #indentnav #accessibility #code
Hi @NVAccess I am planning to take the NVDA Expert 2025 Certification soon and have a question about purchasing the certificate. I have read that I can also have my details included on the page. Is this an all or nothing thing, or can I choose which details are listed on there? Thanks!
Great question - you can choose which details are publically included, and they don't necessarily need to be the same contact details as in your user profile
Perhaps November would be a good time for California to withhold taxes from the Federal Government and instead send money directly to states to cover their SNAP programs? That would be a very amusing development RT: friedcheese.us/objects/052ae3f…
For a while now, I've been trying to figure out why certain VST plugins would completely crash Reaper, or at best, break the entire plugin stack, which would at least give me enough time to save a project.
Turns out the problem was a virtual display driver I installed a while back, which apparently has some weird conflict with the AMD graphics driver on this laptop.
When certain VST plugins attempted to render their on-screen interface, bad things happened, and error code 87 occurred.
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@twynn I don't have the error message handy, but looking it up, apparently, it's somewhat common with autocad and AMD drivers. This laptop has AMD Integrated Graphics, but also an NVIDIA RTX-2060. So, I thought "hmm, have I done any other display related things other than updating the NVIDIA driver lately?" Only thing I could think of was that virtual driver. So I removed it, and everything's cool now.
A combination of looking up simptims associated with the error code and remembering that I installed that display driver around the time things started to break.
Apparently, it's a common problem with rendering apps, like autocad.
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The lack of object-selection / background removal being built into Linux/BSD desktop tools (gimp, krita, etc) is frustrating when you're used to those things just being there by default
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in reply to Zach Bennoui • • •It is really accessible, at least enough for you to design your own apps.
Give it a shot!
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