My thoughts after using GNOME since September 10th:
I feel like GNOME does minimalism & modern design way better than Windows 11 tbh. The Adwaita design is pleasing for my eyes and the colours all look comfortable to look at especially in dark mode. The overview thing was a bit to get used to but now I feel it's very powerful and useful. The search bar works really really well even letting me convert units and do math. The touch-screen like design grew on me even though my initial criticisms of it circled around that. One thing I found hard to get used to was the lack of minimize and maximise so I just turned them back on. Getting KDE apps to use an Adwaita Qt theme was a bit fiddly but I got it eventually. I also love the GNOME Circle as it is full of powerful & useful software.
Obviously this is in no way a "GNOME superior, all other desktops suck" cause it's all personal preference in the end and all DEs serve their purpose to someone . There are some shortcomings especially with multi-monitor stuff but the community made extensions help fill some of the gaps.
Overall just really pretty and feels comfortable to use once you get used to it .
iOS 26.1 has been installed successfully, though it seemed to take longer than usual in my opinion. Anyway, one thing I'm not a big fan of at the moment is that the sound indicating actions are available is heard at the same time VO is speaking. I'm so used to hearing it after VO is done talking. Not a deal breaker by any means, but I hope it can be adjusted.
There are actions available in so many places , so even though I have most VO sounds disabled anyway, I set that one back to speaking "Actions Available" because it just got too annoying. I can't stand the clicks when you flick left/right and double-tap.
@NVAccess Hi guys! I know this is a pretty specific issue, so I didn’t post it on GitHub — and I’m not even sure there’s a solution. I play EA FC, and in previous versions, I used the NVDA mouse move command to select options. With JAWS, using OCR, it automatically selects the desired option when I move through them with the arrow keys. With NVDA, it only rarely works when navigating by words and moving the mouse. I recorded a short demonstration, although the audio might not be very good and my English isn’t the best. If you want, I can share the link via Google Drive. Thanks!
pretty specific issues are perfect for GitHub. In this case, it likely has applications beyond EA FC but it would definitely be worth having an issue written up on GitHub if you are intereste?
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@Drummerdaniels I have no doubt, though I'm always hopeful it won't get bricked. I've heard of that occasionally happening over the years, so I always like to be cautious.
looking at @feld 's profile after he was sent to private prison for pleroma crimes i discovered delta chat which is interesting and i set up a profile. delta me i guess!
Okay, I got the napkin out and did some math. I estimate $100k to put a 500W solar panel into space (where it will become 8x efficient) and power 8x 5090s. So that's only 4x the cost of the 5090s, lower than I thought, but about 25x the cost of terrestrial electricity for one year. No TCO savings, but I suppose it's somewhat feasible to build a spherical data center in orbit.
Though maybe if you use a hydrogen fueled rocket, you could claim to be water positive.
Asses: 500W panel 50 pounds. Other parts 50 pounds. $1k per pound to orbit. At 10c/kwhr something like $3.5k (~$4k) power.
The 15th World Socialism Forum opened in Beijing on Monday, bringing together nearly 90 foreign communist leaders, Marxist scholars, social activists, and diplomatic representatives from 35 countries. The forum, themed "At the Crossroads of World History: The Choices of All Nations", focused on Chinese-style modernization, the rise of the Global South, and reforms in global governance to safeguard fairness and justice.
Saw this in a repo somebody spun up containing source code of Apple's new web-based App Store.
Maybe they're being snarky, but you shouldn't take this advice to heart! Always ship sourcemaps in production! Always! #WebDev #ViewSource #Accessibility
So ...there's various situations where .NET UI #accessibility just isn't as automatic as it should be. Loads of times I see perfectly good label texts within buttons, listItems, etc. that for whatever internal reason isn't actually the button's #accessible name. This has been a problem for close to twenty years now and I doubt #microsoft is ever going to fix it, so I had a crack at it. All the disclaimers apply, this is mostly just a thing I wrote for myself and I figured it might be helpful to some: github.com/zersiax/dotnet_fix If you have to use .NET apps that seemingly have a bunch of unlabeled buttons, but object navigation reveals text inside, this might help some. No guarantees, and if it breaks you get to keep both pieces :P #foss #NVDA #screenReader #blind
i googled something that should *definitely* have multiple results ("fat simplex" barycentric), and apparently there is precisely one result: some slides from a talk I gave last year.
this is accompanied by an entirely wrong LLM summary (not just wrong, but doesn't-even-make-sense wrong) which cites ME as the source. but it's not ever a correct summary of what i said, so it's incorrectly attributing a lie to me.
Perhaps funny story. Today I met with one of my collaborators regarding a paper we are writing, where all but two theorems are formalized in TypeTopology.
We discussed how to formalize one of them.
In the end, we concluded that the opposite of what the alleged theorem says is true. 🙂
The original theorem was a negation of an assertion, but the assertion is actually true!
We haven't formalized this yet, but it is in the making.
So I just grabbed an app called #Ramblio and created an account, because there’s just not enough time to waste. The best way I can describe Ramblio is to think of it as perhaps Facebook only you post audio messages, not text. Over the years I’ve gotten sucked in by thesse things more times then I can count. I suspect that Ramblio will have its day in the sun and then disappear like all the Vorails and Clubhouses and others I can’t even remember the names of now. Should anyone be interested my username there is kl1964.
A few tidbits from Apple Vis regarding the latest version of iOS, 26.1: Our experience is that the following accessibility bugs have been resolved or meaningfully improved in iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1:
The Live Captions feature under Braille Access now supports FaceTime and phone calls. Double-tapping an episode in the TV app now plays the episode as expected. On iPadOS, it is now possible to move apps to the Dock using the actions rotor. Attempting to move a file in Braille Access when no folders are present no longer crashes the app. The button to show bookmarks in Safari's toolbar is now correctly labeled. New accessibility bugs
We are currently aware of two new accessibility bugs in these releases:
When downloading an app from the App Store, VoiceOver speaks extraneous text prior to speaking the download progress. This issue occurs both when downloading apps not previously on the device and when downloading updates. The button indicating that an iMessage was sent with Siri, located to the right of the message, is labeled as "Replay" instead of "sent with Siri."
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The goal of annually collecting and sharing salary data is to inform both organizations investing or ready to invest in accessibility, along with the individuals who make technology and digital products accessible as they start or progress in their c…
It boggles my mind that some people object to their taxes being used to help feed hungry children, but they are absolutely fine with paying more tax because billionaires don't want to pay their share.
I've recently migrated my MacOS usage from a Macbook I traded in to a new Mac Mini. I have tried several different backup strategies for MacOS over the years with various levels of success or rather satisfaction: Time Machine to an external disk (not…
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