{Edit: Numbered instructions.} For anyone who does not want to use Vispero Accounts: 1. if needed, uninstall JAWS 2026 without removing shared components. 2. Create a new file named AdditionalSettings.ini in the same folder where you saved the setup package containing data starting from the ;. 3. launch the setup. 1/2
Thanks to @DavidGoldfield and @BTyson for reminding, to apply this file to an install, you must do the following: 1. This file must be named AdditionalSettings.ini. 2. This file must be copied into the same directory with the setup package before launching the install. 3. This file must be applied for every install and update. 2/2
I've seen some spammers on Telegram that leave how are you voice messages instead of texts. One particular one had loud, echoing music in the background, almost like it was recorded at or near a club or something similar. I was quite tempted to reply and ask what was going on in the background. Probably not worth it though.
Betty's been eating exclusively raw since I adopted her in 2020. Chicken+bones, frozen salmon (never frozen is dangerous), and supplements.
The vet was like "Is she really 9 years old? She looks to be in amazing health"
Yeah stop feeding your pets the absolute fucking garbage the pet food industry is shoveling out. It's not fit for any animal to be eating.
Her bloodwork results: perfect.
The number one thing harming your pets is the food you're feeding them. Stop it.
--- Hello Mr. feld,
Sorry I didn't get a chance to call you earlier today; I had multiple emergencies on my hands.
Betty's bloodwork results came in and everything looks great. Her complete blood count and organ function tests are all normal. I will see you next week for surgery.
@Somarasu good for you, you'll add years to their lives by making sure they totally avoid Foul Mouth AIDS that cats get which then causes organ failures
@Somarasu the thing is, it's not even an inconvenience. You just have to develop a new habit and learn new sources of where to get their food from. You'll have it sorted out very quickly if you actually care. And while you're at it you might even find better / cheaper sources of human food.
15% of that is cyclomatic complexity, which is imo a mostly very stupid metric... Here's what you can do to reduce it: make more methods out of your "complicated" code
@emma I think cyclomatic code complexity do have some value - could we have a graph of code complexity for each function that had a security vulnerability to have some metric? Higher complexity often leads to bugs, especially wrt error handling in C. I’m not saying low complexity doesn’t lead to bugs, though.
@jas @emma yeah, and we have actually worked quite hard over the last year or so to reduce the cyclomatic complexity in curl. Down from some rather extreme values. But not down to the rock bottom strict levels I presume some tools would like it to be.
@cuddlebug looking at include/curl/system.h where a large amount of #ifdefs are used, it is clear that some are accepted but some others are not, quite arbitrarily from what I can tell
There is a germ of truth there, but they are misunderstanding in what contexts "reserved" identifiers may be used. Really a correct linter for C would report double underscore prefixed identifiers anywhere *except for the place they reported the message*. 😂
(Also there are more reserved identifiers than that.)
It's true that a lot of programmers take names without knowing about [lex.name]/3, and a lint for this is appropriate.
It's also true that the whole point of [lex.name]/3 is to create space for implementations to speak about themselves so naming __AMIGA__ is the whole *point*.
Over the years I've come around to the position of treating metrics/ratings/certifications as basically useless unless I can be convinced otherwise, and this would be a prime example of why
Ah, the TICS score which in a corporate world is the ultimate middle manager's tool to have another completely useless KPI to determine "code quality."
Haven't had to use it in the past 10 years (phew!) but it obviously hasn't really changed.
As someone who has inherited a large and messy codebase: What kind of code analyzers are actually used by y'all and can be recommended? I'm a bit overwhelmed by the whole topic of static analyzers and code coverage/testing tools :(
first, start by enabling as picky compiler warnings as possible and fix all those issues. Then throw clang-tidy / scan-build at it and they will report more. In curl we then use two commercial ones (free to use for open source): CodeSonar and Coverity, which often find additional issues.
Then recently we also use ZeroPath which finds an additional crazy amount of potential problems.
to wit: an East-West pipeline is too expensive to be financially viable unless
* one of the existing TC Mainline natural gas pipelines is converted to carry oil, AND * there is an export market via the Atlantic, because the volume of oil that would go to Canadian refineries is too small
as well, there is still almost certainly political opposition in Québec, to some degree in Ontario, and likely also in Manitoba
oh lol I just realized the scope of this study includes carrying oil & gas "to new and established refineries in southern Ontario and new ports on James Bay, Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes"
first: nobody's building new refineries anywhere in N.America, let alone in Southern Ontario lol
second: Hudson Bay is iced in for 7+ months of the year. also much of James Bay is too shallow to allow ships of oil tanker size
third: oceangoing oil tankers are too big to fit up the St Lawrence Seaway. shipping oil on the Great Lakes would require creation of a whole new dirty tanker fleet that doesn't currently exist. also it has been tried before, in the 1950s; the fact that the oil companies built a pipeline through Michigan rather than continuing to ship oil across the lakes tells you basically all you need to know lol
increasingly tired of this idea that seems to have taken hold in right-wing parties worldwide: that all of our problems have simple easy solutions which previous governments haven't done simply because they were too Woke to push the Awesome Button
An interesting upcoming law in Canada that will change the tone of the hiring process quite a bit on January 1st, including obligations to disclose the expected compensation range and inform interviewees of the job's vacancy status and interview results within 45 days.
The people who keep saying crazy shit like "California should secede" clearly failed to be brainwashed by the Pledge of Allegiance they were forced to say in school every day
"one nation, under God, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty and justice for all"
They were literally trying to pound it into your head that you can't secede. It's not possible.
Please note this is not satire. I say again, I am 99% sure this is not satire but is from a Humanware email I just received. "The BrailleNote Touch Plus – My First Notetaker runs on Android 8.1. For the best experience, we recommend keeping internet use limited. HumanWare supports only the built-in KeySoft applications, ensuring a secure and dependable learning environment."
I seem to remember stories of them losing their Google Play certification and being unable to upgrade their Android version as a result. If so, this seems like an attempt to make do with the platform they have by changing their focus to children.
Introduce students aged 4 to 8 years old to braille with BrailleNote Touch Plus – My First Notetaker. Learn, read, and write with refreshable braille and accessible digital tools made easier for young children.
wow how nuts, way to put dated hardware in the hands of kids who will eventually lose support for way less time than they go through school. I wouldn't be surprised if Google's own Play services eventually began to move away from Android 8.1, at which point they would be very stuck.
A decade ago, I was an invited expert at a meeting to review the technical architecture of a £330m fraud detection system for Universal Credit at the UK Treasury.
My conclusion was that the proposal was not only massively over-priced (basically fraud-levels of overcharging), but that the system as designed would obviously have issues where automated decisions would leave vulnerable people in dire straits, against the legal requirements.
I'm still curious what people get out of posting their meals on social media. Do people engage? Are you bored? I really, truly don't understand it and I'm always a bit confused. I want to hear about the good food you have sometimes, but every single day? And it's also mostly the same kind of thing? Why...
@miki yeah, apparently. I see it every day and tbh I can't remember why I followed anymore. It's ridiculous. It makes me think that's all their lives revolve around. Social media and ... idk, a book and a cup of tea or something. Just... ugh. Sorry. I'm apparently in a shit mood and I can't filter anymore.
I can say with almost 100% certainty, and no, I have no insider info, that accounts are coming for NVDA too, because of the draconian EU regulations that are in the works. Guess what, they'll want your birthday, because they'll need proof of your age. We'll see if I'm right.
How does it even make sense for an open-source program that runs on one's own computer to require an account? Even if NV Access is compelled to require the user to log in before they can download the program, people will still be able to circulate copies as they like, and it's actually possible to verify that those copies are unmodified, thanks to Windows code signing.
You know, it's ironic to me when JAWS has to put a bugfix in for Explorer.exe's "working on it..." in Windows 11. That's right. Now if that message appears for less than half a second, JAWS 2026 will ignore it. Why? Because Explorer.exe in Windows 11 is still a leaky pile of hot shit. It really is. Builds 26100 never really got a fix, 26200 did improve navigation in one recent fix but it did not stop explorer.exe from still growing in RAM usage over time, or slowing down in performance in larger folders. Now, a screen reader had to do a bug fix for a bug they don't even own. Wow, what quality control.
You can feel free to ignore this, and it may be obvious to people who use Win11, I don't. What on earth is explorer doing? I mean I've never seen this working on it thing all the way back to XP. It's quite fast, again, back to XP. What's going on exactly, do you know? When I used 11, I kept hearing this and didn't exactly understand what was going on.
@techsinger so they now split Explorer into more modular bits. To be clear, that work started in Windows 10: we got explorer.exe, ShellExperienceHost.exe,(action center bits) sihost.exe,(shell basics), StartMenuExperienceHost.exe (start menu) - so the shell and other bits were no longer a part of it, but that also meant each bit needs basic application payloads to work. In Windows 11 things got more aggressive: SearchHost.exe, TextInputHost.exe, RuntimeBroker.exe (handles permissions for XAML apps), Widgets.exe (if you kept them), and if you use Explorer patcher, another DLL ontop of all that. Not to mention a greater split of SVCHost.exe processes, so the "Split threshold for SVCHost" hacks stop working for the most part. So really, explorer just got more bloated over time, especially once it began to pull in more bits from that "Experience Pack."
Thanks, but something happened between 10 and 11, right, in terms of speed? Why is it taking this long to display files/folders on the same machines? I mean, is something else being done, or is it just doing the same things more slowly?
is this a thread where we can whinge about how annoying they are and how their posts are always written with a god-like authority as if they're the world's leading cryptographer lmao
There's someone at work who has an auto-reply set for every email she gets. She proudly states she only checks her email twice a day. She also refers to herself in the third-person. I don't work with her. I've never even met her in person. I hate her. Smug, condescending bellend.
“The detection order will not be part of the EU presidency’s new compromise proposal. It will remain voluntary for tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material.”
Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, confirms today that Denmark is backing down and dropping mandatory scanning.
I have another sizable update to my Image Description Toolkit available. In addition to supporting geolocation when available on photos, this version allows for the specifying of a web page and having images downloaded and described. Read more on this at theideaplace.net/image-descrip….
With more AI-driven development I have another sizable update for my Image Description Toolkit or IDT. There is a full What’s New document available. Highlights for this beta release include …
For those interested in airport and airplane communication, here are interesting recordings. Note to Screenreader users, it takes a while to load liveatc.net/recordings.php
The #IzzyOnDroid website just got new content added. You'll now find an FAQ there, and also some resources (in the "Basics" tab). This should especially make it easier for devs to set up badges and shields: izzyondroid.org/basics/resourc…
V neděli budu mít na #OpenAlt kratičkou přednášku (10 minut) o tom jak jsme postavili počítač planetarních rozměrů talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/… Bude to legrace? Doufám, že jo! Je to vtip? Rozhodně ne! Data budou seriózní. Tak přijďte.
Relativně nedávno se nám podařilo dokončit superpočítač Hlubinu myšlení - stroj, který se vyrovná člověku a dokáže odpovědět na základní otázky života, vesmíru a vůbec. Krátce zmíním jak se nám to podařilo a co šlo dobře a co už tak dobře nešlo.
Hot take: if sighted people don't need an account just to use their monitors, then Vispero doesn't have the right to strong-arm me into making one just to use their screen reading software that I've already paid for.
@menelion You're Right, there is a difference though, we can use windows without signing in, , signing no tricks required afaik, I cpan be missing something here. You can use your browser and even chatgpt without signing in.
If you uninstall JAWS (no need to remove shared components), create a file called AdditionalSettings.ini where your JAWS installer resides, and paste the following lines in it, you won't have to use the account when reinstalling JAWS:
@twynn OMG. going to use this probably until accounts roll out widely and that flag is removed, but this is a huge tip that'll save headaches at least for a little while.
@Tamasg No, they added that flag with JAWS 2026 as it was not there in the 2025 installer (`installer.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings AdditionalSettings.ini Default`). If all else fails, and this is the approach I'm taking at work, I'll go for the /DisableExternalServices command-line option, except I still want Face in View so will use installer.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings AdditionalSettings.ini DisableExternalServices instead: support.freedomscientific.com/… @sclower
Timothy Wynn
in reply to Timothy Wynn • • •1. This file must be named AdditionalSettings.ini.
2. This file must be copied into the same directory with the setup package before launching the install.
3. This file must be applied for every install and update. 2/2