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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#223 Spooky Updates
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Something to brighten your weekend maybe.
Particularly yesterday I did see a lot of anger about the fact that some people cannot get access to the new JAWS feature, Page Explorer. This provides guidance in terms of how to navigate a page with JAWS, and it can be used to summarise the content and ask questions.
I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town.
Anyone who has been trained by me through the use of my AI training courses will have known about this for quite a while. But if you use Microsoft Edge, there is a feature called, Summarise with CoPilot.
If you focus upon a piece of static text on a page, not a link, you can activate the Context Menu and select Summarise with CoPilot.
Within a few seconds, that will summarise the page for you. You can then ask questions about that content if you wanted to.
A question that may be asked is:
Describe some good strategies I can use when navigating this page with JAWS for Windows, or whatever your screen-reader of choice is.
You type it into the edit field and press Enter.
You could submit other prompts such as, describe the images on this page. Describe if the device has any buttons and provide the button layout from left to right.
The primary advantage here is that it is very fast and will display the summary or answers to questions in a few seconds with well-structured heading navigation. Start at the bottom of the page and work up with Shift+H.
The disadvantage of course is that it's not going to give you guidance on screen-reader strategies unless you ask it, and the guidance may not be of the quality given by Page Explorer, because that has been coached to do a very specific job.
But you may not want guidance anyway. You may want to go straight to the summary. Take the case of a page on Audible. If you activate Summarise with CoPilot on a book title page, it is going to give you the relevant points including a book summary and similar books.
So if you don't have Page Explorer, there are other choices. As I say, it's good at what it does but it's not the only option. You could even ask an AI tool such as ChatGPT to summarise a page for you if the prompt was well constructed, but that approach does have some significant limitations. It would not for example work on all pages.
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So if anyone is interested, I just announced the categories for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge :)
It's a nonfiction reading challenge that has been running for 11 years. This year, long-time participants have submitted topics, and the final list was decided by random draw.
And for the first time, in 2026 you can find and join the challenge on StoryGraph too:
app.thestorygraph.com/reading_…
No NAT November.
Can you go the complete month without using NAT (Network Address Translation)?
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Of course, in the Netherlands, election loser Geert Wilders starts spreading messages suggesting a rigged election. It's what far-right people always do when they lose. But, unlucky for him, the Netherlands still votes on paper, so while a full recount will take time, it is perfectly possible to do. Democracy deserves the paper trail. It's something I will never stop preaching as loud as I can.
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The history on how the Netherlands returned to paper ballots after it was shown that voting machines cannot be trusted sounds rather boring on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron…
"In September 2007 a committee chaired by Korthals Altes reported to the government that it would be better to return to paper voting. The deputy minister for the interior Ank Bijleveld said in a first response she would accept the committee's advice, and ban electronic voting"
Trust me, it was quite the drama at the time :)
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Saturday.
The early hours of.
I'd forgotten just how ... different nights with a baby can be.
Wednesday night was atrocious - he slept 10, 15 minutes at a time.
Thursday into Friday? I got a solid 4 hours for the first time in a month.
A bit like last week, I'm still struggling to see how normality can resume. So much of our day and night is taken up with baby, it's hard to imagine being back at work and having that routine.
But now's the time to start building it back up, I suppose.
I'll be fueled by the leftover sweets from last night's escapades. Older daughter has a friend over - yes, it's 3:35 in the morning and yes, they've watched scary movies and are still up eating popcorn and chatting. TO be a teen again!
Baby Bertie doesn't understand why I kept walking him to the door and back, I suppose.
I did re-listen to a spooooky audio drama (Mike Walker's *Bad Memories*, and re-watch *The haunting of Deck 12* from Voyager's 6th season, just to get in the spirit of things.
i thought i would scare away any browser people 
#halloween #xml #Halloween2025 #pumpkin #JackOLantern
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in reply to Jonathan • • •But I am focused on a folder...
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in reply to Jonathan Rodriguez • • •So, on Mac this would totally work, right?
Refresh All Podcasts command f5
johann
in reply to johann • • •Trying to open the player gives me an index error.
And he said the Mac app is signed, it's not.
johann
in reply to johann • • •also this,
- Cmd+Tab/Cmd+Shift+Tab: Navigate between services
Like wtf I thought this was all tested, or something.
I want my refund.
Jonathan
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in reply to Jonathan • • •ahahahahahahah.
Jonathan
in reply to johann • • •@johann @Jonathan Oh yeah this is a thing that can also happen in the Podcasts when trying to reopen the player:
Playback Error dialog Failed to load episode: Access Ableton Trailer
I mean, totaly tested and absolutely working as expected.
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in reply to johann • • •Also this statement from a while ago supports my vibe coder theory, but that's just my personal speculation at this point.
Selling vibe coded untested garbage, this guy has fallen quite low at this point. And I thought I had a bad reputation.
Ivan Soto: @seddy Oh no man, Claude is a must have at this point. If you don't have it, you're just going to fall behind IMO., 11:34 AM, October 24, Mastodon
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in reply to Sam Tupy • • •I'll be fixing a bunch of bugs today, so be on the lookout for that.
It's very sad man, your software could be working really really well and one code change can cause lots of issues.
Thanks for the 20 bugs though, I have already fixed a few last night but I was tired (staying up 24 hours will do that to ya) you should see version 1.0.1 later today
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in reply to Ivan Soto • • •@MariahL Why youtube-dl and not yt-dlp?
And yeah, for age-restricted cookies, one needs to be able to import cookies from a browser afaik.