The more and more I use the Cadence, the more I realize how Mac OS and iOS treat it just as a standard HID display. Perhaps the reason my panning keys don't work is because the keys themselves are not seen as mappable ones in that standard driver. I'm saying this because under Mac OS 15, it treats it as a single-line display. That's right, only showing me 12 or 24 characters at a time at the top, leaving the rest blank. I do believe Mac OS 26 and iOS 26 must have been first to introduce multiline display support. If so, it explains things more: The standard HID driver now sees that the Cadence has 4 lines, but you cannot reorient them to either a vertically stacked 12-cell-by-8 line display nor reassign the thumbkey buttons. Perhaps iOS needs an official Cadence driver along with Mac, until that comes it works over Standard HID but not 100% well. That's the landscape with iOS
I'm almost tempted to try the IOS 26.2 RC to see if maybe quietly a new Cadence driver dropped, but since it's so close to release, may as well wait for it. I don't know. It's such a new display on the block that quite frankly I just think there's low awareness and OS vendors haven't done much. Of course, Cadence's own NVDA driver (github.com/tactile-eng/cadendu…) works really, really well. Panning's great, typing is amazing, all of it as I'd want, minus the reorienting to vertical stack from a horizontal one, all works. But they were the ones to build that add-on, of course it does. Ah well. I don't mind being an early adopter of it if it means being a voice that can help shape not only this multiline display's trajectory but also how multiline support comes along within various screen readers. Why the hell not. I expected pain points, don't color me surprised here for that one.
There you all go. An NVDA Addon of Orpheus with 3 settings: Pauses, Word pause, phrase pause. They're the knobs Orpheus exposed in its dll, I just gave you settings to adjust them, that's all. eurpod.com/orpheus.nvda-addon
I've never tried Orpheus before. These voices are odd. I thought the were some kind of odd Irish at first, but they say U.S. English? Also, the male voice is extremely high.
Re last: That's what I've been telling on and on and on to those, especially European people, who are yelling "Go! to Linux!! Right now!!! Gafam is evil, aaaah!" Sorry, no. *First* you propose an accessible alternative or at least do something for it like sit down with accessibility experts, obtain grants and financing, so I could see I'm not forgotten at least, and *then* we'll think what to do next. #Accessibility
Им этого не понять. Мыслят не дальше своего носа. Как бы там кому не хотелось и не мечталось о тотальном переходе на Linux, оно так не работает. Тонна проблем помимо accessibility, когда дохрена какого софта под него нет в принципе. И не будет.
Только щас дошло. Ты по поводу подсчёта рабочих часов заморочился случайно не из-за очередного ЕСовского заёба? Просто несколько дней назад случайно в твиттере увидел про Бельгию, что с 2027 года обяжут работодателей внедрять эту хрень даже если оно вам не надо. Вот и подумал, а как у вас?
On 27 November 2025, it was announced that the recent budgetary agreement of the Belgian federal government provides that recording working time will become mandatory for all Belgian employers as of 1...
Правда я не знаю как в той же Франции или Германии с этим, насколько торопятся внедрять на уровне обязаловки. Вообще по мне это очередная ебанина, толку от которой нет, кроме проблем и увеличения числа халявщиков. Кто хотел, сам подобное ввёл и давно.
Ага, нет бы решать реальные проблемы, но зачем, когда можно вот такой хернёй заниматься. Вообще чем больше узнаю какой у вас там трэш происходит, тем больше понимаю почему бизнесы либо валят из ЕС, либо изначально открывают его в других местах. Знаю людей, кто мог бы перевести свой бизнес в Европу, но предпочёл Эмираты. А вот по этому в том числе, слишком много ебанины, ну и невыгодно.
@Yinshi Невыгодно — это точно. Налогов дохренища, GDPR грёбаный душит, ни посмотреть, что называется, ни пукнуть лишний раз как-то не так нельзя, иначе штраф-тюрьма-закрытие бизнеса. Отвратительный бизнес-климат, это правда. Но зато денежные люди, многие платят.
Про GDPR знаю, да. К счастью не разрабатывал бэкенд с учётом требований, но общее представление имею. Особенно небольшим командам, кому и без того есть что делать, заморочек добавляет знатно, да и в целом для проекта. А ведь помимо есть же свои законы в каждой стране, вроде немецкого Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, что тоже надо исполнять. Во Франции наверное тоже какая-то своя подобная фигня существует.
Looks like this imac is either 2012 or 2013. I'm now mildly annoyed because this uses ddr3l RAM which means I didn't need to buy RAM for the mini PC. Oh well, ddr3 is cheap and now I have spares if I get another mini PC from the same era
Audio editing in sound forge yes, but not music anymore, other than QWS occasionally. It's my daily driver. I'm using it right now. It's running win 10 and a GTX 1080.
@xmpp FYI providers.xmpp.net/ is not answering on #IPv6 . This is making it difficult to reach you for those of us without a clean fallback to legacy IP.
In this issue: XMPP Summit 28 & FOSDEM 2026, Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat, Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON, Movim Blog - The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub explained through the Blog feature, …
Good friday to those who celebrate, and a GET REKT to Docker for still not rotating container logs by default in 2025 causing a 3.5TB log file to happen overnight and kill the server
this woman is not hiding her power level but it's so subtle that people will get through 70% of the video without noticing it youtube.com/watch?v=gN2HDLkfi0…
In a world where "heroes" and "villains" have become increasingly difficult to identify, where does the antihero fit? And why have antiheroes become the most...
Thought: if #open, #federated, and #distributed solutions were the most #accessible solutions, people with disabilities would be some of the biggest allies in pushing adoption. I already constantly have to get my friends, co-workers, etc, to switch tools for me. If we're working or playing together, the tool needs to be accessible if I'm involved. But unfortunately, that's almost never the case, and I find myself having to force my friends to switch away from open tools and into closed ones: * Jitsi meet doesn't offer captions or transcripts, and still had an unlabeled button or two last I checked. So I usually have to force people working with me to switch to Zoom. * github is still more accessible than Forgejo and codeberg, even with the recent regressions. So I won't contribute to projects that aren't on github. * None of the existing Matrix clients offer good accessibility; they either lag, have unlabeled controls, the message list won't scroll, messages won't read as they come in, etc. So I have to force people onto Slack or Discord. * Neither Only Office or Next Cloud offer a web interface that works for collaboration with screen readers, so I have to force people to use Google Docs. * Linux accessibility remains a joke compared to Windows or mac.
USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an
In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.
In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung in die Politik der EU zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.
Remember how there were multiple proprietary Unix vendors? The JavaScript announcement has testimonials from multiple ones: web.archive.org/web/2007091614…
“JavaScript and other developments will demand increased system performance, ideally met by Digital's Alpha systems architecture.”
@ebassi not sure if this is the correct place to ask but: isn't `gtk_widget_dispose_template()` supposed to remove all children created from a template?
I noticed it only removes named children. Is this correct behaviour? If so, why is it useful to remove only named children?
full 2025-12-01 security patch level (has already been fully provided by our security preview releases for at least a month and most of the patches since September)
add experimental support for the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold (there were 2 standalone experimental releases prior to this via 2025112500 and 2025113000 along with corresponding security preview releases for each)
Cell Broadcast Receiver: switch back to our modified text for the presidential alerts toggle
kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.1.158
kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.116
kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.12.60
All of the Android 16 security patches from the current January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025120401 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:
You know the trope of not finding your glasses because they are atop your head? I think I may have topped it. I’m in the shower, one towel on my hair, the other wrapped around my person, and I looked at the towel rack and wondered where my towels were. For much longer than it should have taken to realize I was holding them.
If I didn’t have appointments, I would call that a sign I should go back to bed. 🤣🤷🏻♀️
I was maybe 9 or 10, and I had a plastic plane that you fired from a small launcher thing. I did that, went looking for it, put it under my arm absent-mindedly and continued looking for it, even roping my poor mum into helping me. I'm blind by the way, so it wasn't outside the realms of possibility that it ended up in the far corner of some place I just couldn't feel... 15 or so minutes later, I realised 'hang on, I've been keeping my arm very close to myself this entire time. Why?' Sheepishly I turned around and showed my mum what was under my arm... she gave me 'The Look' and went about her business. One doesn't have to be able to see to know and perfectly feel 'The Look'.
@msbellows Same reason I'd throw a football or fling a frisbee. For fun. Probably seems silly, but I was just like most other kids, and that passed the time, you know?
@msbellows I'm glad you asked. I had to actually think about it, but it was always fun to throw a thing and then go find it. Better if it made a noise after landing, but a plane kinda didn't. Had a ball with ball bearings in it which is often used in blind sports, that made a noise after landing until they settled, but you'd have to be quick to find it before it stopped making noise 😏
@FreakyFwoof @msbellows One of my dad’s friends had been blind since birth. This never stopped him from going with the guys when it was hunting season. Now, it is important to note here that “hunting” mostly meant going up to the cabin and drinking beer without women and children.
But sometimes, they’d load themselves in the Jeep, and they’d let Mitch, who was blind, drive. He was probably a better driver than those drunken idiots. 🤣🥳. Oh, the 70s. How we all survived is a miracle.
One very funny hunting story, which to be truly appreciated requires voice and accent portrayals, but the gist was: It was deer season, and Mitch fired, and hit a duck. In front of a game warden. The ensuing conversation of the game warden trying to decide what to do about an out of season duck shot by a blind man who was aiming at a deer, is one of the funniest Florida conversations that has ever Florida'd. 50 years later, we all still laugh about the $50 duck dinner which the game warden attended.
@FreakyFwoof @msbellows Also, nobody has ever let me fly a plane! When I was in uni, and went to join the Navy, and they told me I was too short to fly jets, so I didn't join the Navy. To be fair, the concept of me, heavily armed, at mach 1 is a thought that should frighten everyone, so... heh.
Bruxelles frappe fort – X écope d’une amende historique de 120 millions d’euros pour ses pratiques trompeuses
C’est un jour important pour la régulation du numérique à l’échelle mondiale.
Ve věku 55 let zemřel Patrik Hezucký. Moderátor, bavič, ale především dlouholetý hlas Ranní show Evropy 2, kde dělal kolegu Leoši Marešovi, se poslední měsíce potýkal s vážnými zdravotními problémy.
It is the temperature where the cat wants to be let outside, doesn't listen to you when you tell him he doesn't want to do that, and then within 2 minutes is back at the door demanding to be let in with the fervor of someone trying to escape unspeakable cosmic horrors.
Today's aoc task 1 was really trivial if you did it the obvious, brute force way. Task 2 required a bit more thought for me. I did it the proper way, by calculating a union of intervals.
Wow, downloading Xcode and build tools, and the simulator, 22 GB easily. Then I must get our internal repo, another 13 gigabytes easily. You think I could ever work off a hotspot or one of those home internet plans that uses 5G data? Nope, never. Not with the work I do. I'm also curious how much XCode has improved. In terms of drag & drop, connectors to delegates and stuff like that.
I have unlimited data here in the UK on 5G, and I've seen it hit around 800 Mbps. My home internet tops out at around 70, so sometimes I will download big 40 50 GB sound libraries on mobile data.
@FreakyFwoof lol is unlimited, truly unlimited? Sadly probably yes over there. Here they tell us "unlimited" but most 5G home internet plans are actually at a 1 TB cap - the way fixed line is now trying to compete is by saying, "oh, we lifted all data caps!" So now my cable has no data meter even, I can't see at all how much I've used as they just stopped counting. Funny how that worked out in an ironic way because fixed-line were the first to aggressively jump on data caps, after seeing how mobile data companies could do it and still call a plan unlimited with a 5 GB secret cap back in the day.
Darn it, RHVoice does not respect punctuation either just like Vocalizer. What a shame. Tested it with: Hi. Hi! Hi? All 3 read the same with RH Voice SLT, CLT, ETC. Why can't natural voices get this punctuation thing right, I'll never understand.
Funny timing. I switched over to SLT a few minutes ago after that conversation about synthesizers, just to see how it was again. It is what spoke your post, and yep, no punctuation inflection at all. Maddening!
I've helped in a development phase of the Portuguese voice, namely, I have split in separate sentences the entire file containing the recording of phrases, made by an actress. She needed to record sentences ending in a period, sentences ending in an exclamation symbol, and sentences ending in a question symbol. then they were processed later.
@darwinwoodka @RezaHoss Let's put it like this: I prefer the originals. I mean, I personally prefer the books, but the original movies, especially first three of them, are also great.
LOL people are just discovering that using Explorer Patcher and setting it to Windows 10 Ribbon / Windows 7 command bar lessens RAM usage of explorer.exe? I'm amused. Yes, I've known this trick for years, it's now getting turned into clickbait headlines, wonderful.
A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses. But U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee voted to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive or whose infection status is unknown.
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