Today is audio ducking day here at interfree! If you use the 64-bit #NVDA, there are a couple small releases for you: * eloquence: audio ducking now works thanks to akj: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v5* unspoken-ng: if you use this addon, you also need to update, or audio ducking will remain broken, because someone (glares at himself) didn't quite understand NVWavePlayer: github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/v1.0.3
@BlindHedgehogStew Is it running as admin? IE can it read the secure logon screen, UAC screens, etc? In my experience, whenever I see that error, it's because NVDA doesn't have the permissions it needs. Addons can't generate that error as far as I'm aware.
Here's my log as of this NVDA session: INFO - __main__ (16:59:42.179) - MainThread (7576): Starting NVDA version alpha-53763,79a07dc1 AMD64 INFO - core.main (16:59:42.248) - MainThread (7576): Config dir: C:\Users\synvo\AppData\Roaming\nvda INFO - config.ConfigManager._loadConfig (16:59:42.257) - MainThread (7576): Loading config: C:\Users\synvo\AppData\Roaming\nvda\nvda.ini INFO - core.main (16:59:42.293) - MainThread (7576): Developer Scratchpad mode enabled INFO - core.main (16:59:43.372) - MainThread (7576): Windows version: Windows 11 25H2 (10.0.26200.7462) workstation AMD64 INFO - core.main (16:59:43.372) - MainThread (7576): Using Python version 3.13.9 (tags/v3.13.9:8183fa5, Oct 14 2025, 14:09:13) [MSC v.1944 64 bit (AMD64)] INFO - core.main (16:59:43.372) - MainThread (7576): Using comtypes version 1.4.13 INFO - core.main (16:59:43.374) - MainThread (7576): Using configobj version 5.1.0 with validate version 1.0.1 WARNING - gui.__getattr__ (16:59:44.166) - MainThread (7576): Importing SettingsPanel from here is deprecated. Import SettingsPanel from gui.settingsDialogs instead. Stack trace: File "nvda.pyw", line 309, in File "core.pyc", line 791, in main File "speech\__init__.pyc", line 161, in initialize File "synthDriverHandler.pyc", line 514, in setSynth File "synthDriverHandler.pyc", line 480, in getSynthInstance File "synthDriverHandler.pyc", line 442, in _getSynthDriver File "importlib\__init__.pyc", line 88, in import_module File "", line 1387, in _gcd_import File "", line 1360, in _find_and_load File "", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 935, in _load_unlocked File "", line 1027, in exec_module File "", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed File "C:\Users\synvo\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\Eloquence\synthDrivers\eloquence.py", line 154, in class EloquenceSettingsPanel(gui.SettingsPanel): File "gui\__init__.pyc", line 123, in __getattr__ INFO - synthDriverHandler.setSynth (16:59:45.062) - MainThread (7576): Loaded synthDriver eloquence INFO - mathPres.MathCAT.MathCAT.MathCAT.__init__ (16:59:45.088) - MainThread (7576): MathCAT 0.7.2 installed. Using rules dir: C:\Program Files\NVDA\include\nvda-mathcat\assets\Rules INFO - core._setUpWxApp (16:59:45.102) - MainThread (7576): Using wx version 4.2.4 msw (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.2.8 INFO - brailleInput.initialize (16:59:45.104) - MainThread (7576): Braille input initialized INFO - braille.initialize (16:59:45.104) - MainThread (7576): Using liblouis version 3.36.0 INFO - braille.initialize (16:59:45.104) - MainThread (7576): Using pySerial version 3.5 INFO - braille.BrailleHandler._setDisplay (16:59:45.108) - MainThread (7576): Loaded braille display driver 'noBraille', current display has 0 cells. INFO - core.main (16:59:45.290) - MainThread (7576): Java Access Bridge support initialized INFO - UIAHandler.UIAHandler.MTAThreadFunc (16:59:45.416) - UIAHandler.UIAHandler.MTAThread (12088): UIAutomation: IUIAutomation6 WARNING - gui.__getattr__ (16:59:45.602) - MainThread (7576): Importing SettingsPanel from here is deprecated. Import SettingsPanel from gui.settingsDialogs instead. Stack trace: File "nvda.pyw", line 309, in File "core.pyc", line 916, in main File "globalPluginHandler.pyc", line 31, in initialize File "globalPluginHandler.pyc", line 23, in listPlugins File "importlib\__init__.pyc", line 88, in import_module File "", line 1387, in _gcd_import File "", line 1360, in _find_and_load File "", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 935, in _load_unlocked File "", line 1027, in exec_module File "", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed File "C:\Users\synvo\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\navSounds\globalPlugins\NavigationSounds\__init__.py", line 13, in from gui import SettingsPanel, NVDASettingsDialog, guiHelper File "", line 1412, in _handle_fromlist File "gui\__init__.pyc", line 123, in __getattr__ WARNING - gui.__getattr__ (16:59:45.602) - MainThread (7576): Importing SettingsPanel from here is deprecated. Import SettingsPanel from gui.settingsDialogs instead. Stack trace: File "nvda.pyw", line 309, in File "core.pyc", line 916, in main File "globalPluginHandler.pyc", line 31, in initialize File "globalPluginHandler.pyc", line 23, in listPlugins File "importlib\__init__.pyc", line 88, in import_module File "", line 1387, in _gcd_import File "", line 1360, in _find_and_load File "", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 935, in _load_unlocked File "", line 1027, in exec_module File "", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed File "C:\Users\synvo\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\navSounds\globalPlugins\NavigationSounds\__init__.py", line 13, in from gui import SettingsPanel, NVDASettingsDialog, guiHelper File "gui\__init__.pyc", line 123, in __getattr__ INFO - _remoteClient.client.RemoteClient.__init__ (16:59:45.604) - MainThread (7576): Initializing NVDA Remote client INFO - core.main (16:59:45.617) - MainThread (7576): NVDA initialized INFO - config.ConfigManager.save (21:31:24.442) - MainThread (7576): Base configuration saved INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:21:34.093) - watchdog (664): Starting freeze recovery after 0.5007226999987324 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:21:34.295) - watchdog (664): Recovered from freeze after 0.7027228999977524 seconds. INFO - config.ConfigManager.save (22:32:42.587) - MainThread (7576): Base configuration saved INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:38:07.771) - watchdog (664): Starting freeze recovery after 0.500288700000965 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:38:08.023) - watchdog (664): Recovered from freeze after 0.7524827000015648 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:38:31.677) - watchdog (664): Starting freeze recovery after 0.5002370000001974 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:38:32.030) - watchdog (664): Recovered from freeze after 0.8534374000009848 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:42:02.649) - watchdog (664): Starting freeze recovery after 0.500347299999703 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (22:42:02.952) - watchdog (664): Recovered from freeze after 0.8033006000005116 seconds. 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INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (07:41:18.043) - watchdog (664): Starting freeze recovery after 0.5000438999995822 seconds. INFO - watchdog.waitForFreezeRecovery (07:41:18.397) - watchdog (664): Recovered from freeze after 0.8533956000028411 seconds. INFO - globalCommands.script_navigatorObject_devInfo (08:26:04.868) - MainThread (7576): Developer info for navigator object: name: "White Spy Adrian 'Musics' &&& Ruby [Eyeball] - Sonic 3 &&& Knuckles: Hard Bosses Edition (V.400.0) -OST- = Major Boss Theme || Username - PREVUE guide Era 2 Song #1 -- HIGHEST QUALITY!" role: BUTTON processID: 8664 roleText: None states: FOCUSABLE isFocusable: True hasFocus: False Python object: Python class mro: (, , , , , , , ) description: '' location: RectLTWH(left=1063, top=720, width=32, height=48) value: None TextInfo: appModule: AppModule(explorer, appName='explorer', processID=8664) appModule.productName: 'Microsoft® Windows® Operating System' appModule.productVersion: '10.0.26100.1301' appModule.helperLocalBindingHandle: c_void_p(2581291365184) appModule.appArchitecture: 'AMD64' windowHandle: 196860 windowClassName: 'Windows.UI.Input.InputSite.WindowClass' windowControlID: 0 windowStyle: 1342177280 extendedWindowStyle: 0 windowThreadID: 9816 windowText: '' displayText: '' UIAElement: UIA automationID: NotifyItemIcon UIA frameworkID: XAML UIA runtimeID: (42, 196860, 4, 4) UIA providerDescription: [pid:8664,providerId:0x0 Main(parent link):Unidentified Provider (unmanaged:Windows.UI.Xaml.dll)] UIA className: SystemTray.NormalButton UIA patterns available: LegacyIAccessiblePattern, ScrollItemPattern, InvokePattern
@BlindHedgehogStew Try that, yeah. Otherwise...I'm really not sure. Nobody else has reported this issue to me, and a couple folks have confirmed that audio ducking is now working correctly for them. Best I can say is file an issue on the repo and see if anyone else chimes in.
@BlindHedgehogStew Right, but they don't get any money from you for doing that. And it's not really planned as much as it is forced. Python itself is going to discontinue 32-bit support in the next couple of years. So NVDA doesn't have much choice. They couldn't keep 32-bit even if they wanted to.
@BlindHedgehogStew Yup! I got an early start with eloquence because I knew it was going to be difficult and annoying work, with no help from NVDA themselves.
Short of reading material on a flight this afternoon I noticed the RNIB's Access IT magazine pop into my inbox just before takeoff. It's never exactly been on the front foot, but to arrive *today* with a whole section about deals *from the RNIB themselves* which expire on *December 5th* ... takes the editorial standard to a new low. Still, it killed 15 minutes at 37,000ft. Bertie has had 2 impressive bowel movements whilst out today. Shame the magazine wasn't in braille, could have used it to clean him up!
They mostly all have internal speakers, some are far better than others though. I have a Lenovo and the speaker is pretty crappy. I also have a Dell, and the speaker. on that one is better. Are you thinking in terms of TTS?
Mini is such a relative term these days. A few years ago I got a Lenovo P360 tiny. At the time that was classified as a Mini PC. It's six or seven inches wide and about the same deep. The Dell I have is about the same size. That said, I think some Beelink models include speakers, no idea how good they are though.
No speakers in mine. I got my GmkTek K7 a year ago and am very proud of its capabilities. I especially like the fact I can make hardware upgrades as needed. Check Amazon, as they have deals now for Christmas.
to be honest, Nextcloud are among the best in the open-source community, at least by far not the worst. Most of the open-source devs like to preach about European sovereignty, "great is free", "quit GAFAM" and all these sweet but practically useless things if you are blind, have reduced mobility or have other accessibility needs, but don't give a flying F about #Accessibility. It's better in the mobile land for some reason, but on desktop…You need it, you fix it, — that's what I read lots and lots of times. At least web version of Nextcloud is not bad. As for desktop… it's QT, so, I'm afraid, it will never be usable enough. I have plans to overcome it, and you'll know about it among the first.
@elettrona Even if you are a developer (I am, for example). So yes, I'm probably the best person to fix it: I'm blind myself, I'm a developer, I'm an #Accessibility specialist. Great! But I cannot fix all and all the stuff, from operating systems to messengers to office suites to editors to... you name it. Because it's my work, and I need money for some reason to pay my bills… That's why I'm so angry about this whole "Move to Linux/quit GAFAM right now!!" movement.
@menelion @elettrona Yep, I can confirm also. LibreOffice is coming along, and I can now grade student work with LibreOffice calc now but I'm afraid to rely on much else besides Emacs with emacspeak, Firefox, Pidgin, the old guard.
Husband loves Spotify Wrapped and hates Joni Mitchell. All year i've been playing non-stop Joni on his laptop every Sunday while he's at football. Now we wait.
When I tried to tell my mom about me wanting to change my name, she made an absolutely massive deal about how people would think it's unprofessional or that I was trying to hide my identity (whatever that means, never mind my legal name is on invoices and anything relating to finances). She hammered it into my head that I wouldn't get a job if I put anything other than my legal name on my resume. But would you look at that, first try putting my authentic self out there and I work at a company with some of the most supportive and awesome coworkers ever, and I love my job. So TLDR, my mom was wrong as is pretty much the norm for any queer issue, and supportive work environments are terrific things.
Wait that post I saw a couple days ago about the US State Department banning the Calibri font and ordering Times New Roman because Calibri is "too woke" wasn't a joke??
Můj první toot na GrapheneOS. Začínám se pomalu zabydlovat. Co používáte za aplikace na soukromém (bez googlu) účtu? Hlavně náhradu těch googlových, jako jsou Kontakty Kalendář E-mail
Jaké další aplikace si do toho hlavního účtu má smysl přidat? Na starém mobilu jich mám tunu, spíš občasně poużívaných 🙇
@Milu FairEmail umí také více účtu, ale Thunderbird není špatný. Já porad nevím co je špatného na Owner profilu mít Google play, které běží v sandboxu. Nemá v systému žádná práva, je to jak běžná aplikace.Sice teď mám také víc profilů, ale stále si říkám, jestli mi za to stojí. Newpipe mně momentálně nepřehraje žádné video.
@Milu Já jen ještě dodám. Třeba originální Grapheneos kamera je nic moc. Ja mám klasickou pixel kameru a vypnutý u ní internet. Zase když už má člověk trochu dražší telefon, chci ho pořádně využít. Jinak k tomu Google play, samozřejmě nechci nikoho nutit co a jak má používat, jen si říkám, jestli se někdy zbytečně netrápíme 😀 Na počasí mam BreezyWeatheer f-droid.org/packages/org.breez… A ještě přidám Syncthing - fork f-droid.org/packages/com.githu…
@GuloGulo Jo, chápu 🙂 Každý to má nastavené jinak. Když to korporát dovolí a vyhovuje ti to, tak proč ne. Apple má výhodu v tom, že spoustu věcí řeší za tebe a nemusíš se v tom tolik vrtat, ale na druhou stranu jsi tam víc zamčený. Hlavní je, aby tě ten telefon neotravoval víc, než musí.@Milu @nacelnik01
@schmaker Já mám taky Aurora store na apky co na fdroid nejsou a potřebuji je.
Jinak mě asi ta jejich kamera stačí. Nejsem zas nějaký fotící maniak a pro mě je to dobrá kvalita. Skromná jsem 🥸 Na počasí mě asi nejvíce vyhovuje Cirrus. Vyzkoušela jsem jich hodně a toto rozložení mi vyhovuje. Jinak asi máte Zdeňku pravdu, že u GOS ty apky z play nebudou problém ale za mě osobně se mi líp dýchá čím míň jich tam mám. Jen pocit.
A ted mi při mé hlouposti došlo, že už máte Milane ten pixel s GOSem? Já myslela až po novém roce? 🙃 @archos @nacelnik01
@Milu Přesně tak — u GrapheneOS je to hodně i o pocitu. Technicky ty aplikace z Play problém nejsou, ale když jich má člověk míň, prostě se mu líp dýchá. Hlavně má každý jiné potřeby — já se v práci bez WhatsAppu neobejdu a pravidelně potřebuju navigaci. Pro mě je důležité, aby kalendář, kontakty, e-mail a další věci neměl Google, stejně tak vyhledávání. To, jestli mám Google Play v sandboxu, je mi v zásadě jedno.@schmaker @nacelnik01
@GuloGulo Jj dva telefony jsou opruz. Mě vadí u iPhonu hlavně cena, ale když ho dostaneš, tak super. Jinak navigaci teď TomTom @Milu @schmaker @nacelnik01
It's totally OK to have strong opinions either way, but I feel like in certain circles it's becoming a purity test.
Do you hold the RIGHT opinions about AI, how it's trained and how it's used?
I think pointing out the dangers is important. Pointing out the risks is important, but recognizing that the situation is nuanced and complex is important as well.
I think the appeal of the purity approach is that completely refraining from using generative AI is something concrete that some of us can do right now. So it's easy to feel that it's incumbent on us to do so.
@matt To make an analogy to something much less divisive: it was clear to me that at some point, we would want to move away from subversion to some other version control system. It was also clear that the market would eventually settle down, and whatever won would have a clear upgrade path from subversion -- but that couldn't be said for all of the intermediate contenders.
So it was prudent to avoid moving until the winner clearly emerged.
I am letting people play with LLMs in controlled circumstances, wtihout ever putting their results into production and clearly marking what they do and how they got there. Someday it may crash and burn; someday it might produce something worthwhile and sustainable. But until then, the responsible thing to do is not to do it.
@dashdsrdash The one that I still get hung up on is: Did using an LLM to generate this code meaningfully plagiarize other people's work or use their work without their consent? And I'm not sure of the answer.
Gosh, no. "The web interface looks the way I want" is not "the web interface is correct", and the entire history of software development as a craft slowly working its way into an engineering discipline is the story of why those things are different.
There are things which have provably correct answers, and beyond the trivial ones, they tend to be things like "use this well-tested theorem prover".
The problem with repeatedly feeding LLM output to a theorem prover and checking for correctness is the same problem as with bogosort, the canonically worst of all possible sorting algorithms.
In case anyone is standing next to the computer help desk... With the ever increasing number of IOT devices in my house, I'm looking to migrate to a more secure networking strategy with 0 trust approach using segmented VLANs. Does anyone have experience with Firewalla vs. equivalent Ubiquiti gear? I'm currently running an Eero POE gateway with an Eero 7 Max mesh. The network functions well enough, however I'm finding the lack of control over basic routing functionality on the Eero maddening.
I've done this with Ubiquiti stuff. By default, VLANs are not completely isolated, I.E. they can still talk to each other, and editing firewall policies is a bit odd from an accessibility standpoint using the web app, where you get all the controls. That being said, I did eventually figure out how to fully isolate each VLAN.
In this case, I was using a Gateway Light with a remote, multi-site controller, but I think it would be the same with a Dream Machine based deal.
@BorrisInABox Thanks for confirming this. From what I’ve been reading, ubiquity gear is super powerful, however it requires a lot of fiddling to get settings just right. I guess this is why I am also interested in Firewalla gear which is supposed to segment VLANs and isolate things by default. I’m not particularly trying to become a network engineer just to get things set up correctly.
@kevinrj Yeah. You can have it as basic or not as you want. Everything pretty much just works by default if you just want a standard network configuration.
Könnte man der #Nextclout mitteilen, dass man das *High-performance backend* nicht benötigt, und bekäme dann wieder einen grünen Haken im Admin-Panel, fände ich das sehr schön.
Doch, das kannst du bei den Talk Einstellungen vornehmen. Da kannst du einen Haken setzen, dann kommt die Meldung nur noch als Bemerkung, nicht als Fehler.
This version adds RwLockWriteGuard::downgrade(), adds Location::file_as_c_str(), improves diagnostic and validation for various attributes, no longer warns for unused Result<(), Infallible>, and more!
I'm happy that my proposal for an introductory course on Homotopy Type Theory / Univalent Foundations at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2026 in Prague was accepted!
This is an introductory textbook to univalent mathematics and homotopy type theory, a mathematical foundation that takes advantage of the structural nature of mathematical definitions and constructions.
Es gibt eine #Liste von öffentlichen #Chatgruppen in #XMPP. Leider finde ich die #URL dieser Liste nicht mehr. Weiß jemand, was ich meine und kann mir helfen?
for some reason a lot of people are convinced that it's the same as Microsoft's nagging and that such projects would somehow end up the same way, except they would have nothing to gain as they have nothing to sell.
You usually see the response at the bottom on social media; then you scroll their comment history and, just like clockwork, you'll find the first sentence somewhere
hyprland asked me to do that and I was tempted to go full theo t3 and offer them money in exchange for removing vaxry and replacing him with a security expert
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I noticed the upcoming chatmail ‘relays’ feature in #deltachat. Changing the relay in the app (version 2.33) seems really easy, fantastic!
@delta I was wondering (for a friend) if there will be any publicly available relays published as a *#tor #onion service* as well? In combination with the app’s proxy support this would be awesome for any user’s #privacy.
We want to be able to accept mails from .onion domain. We cannot have DKIM authentication as there is no support for DNS (see https://forum.torproject.org/t/mock-dns-records-for-onion-services/4671...
the "IM2000" description is somewhat dense and trying to account for a lot of past efforts in modifying SMTP, but the im2000 issue is just background for a mechanism that will likely be quite straightforward and simple. 😅
During a recent re-audit of one of our client's Flutter applications, we discovered something alarming. Headings were no longer being announced as headings by TalkBack on Android.
Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy.
Krátce po jmenování Andreje Babiše premiérem došlo v Ústí nad Labem k tragédii. Pětapadesátiletý muž se stal první obětí nové éry blahobytu, když zemřel na následky udušení poté, co mu dokřupava upečený holub vletěl rovnou do huby a zasekl se mu v krku. az247.cz/muz-v-usti-s...
I got invited to submit a proposal for the social web dev room thing to talk about Smithereen but unfortunately I'm not coming because I can't get a sensible Schengen visa any more. Every country I looked up now only issues single-entry visas. Belgium itself stopped issuing non-immigrant visas to Russians in 2022.
I would think that something developed by software people would search literal strings when using a "dash" in the search team. Like `some-key` and not pop `some` or `key` as most relevant.
Was just thinking realistically, are you going to pull out your DotPad, Monarch, other larger graphic Braille display at the airport to check your Uber ride status? Or look at a transit /navigation app at directions? Was looking at the dimensions for the DotPad, the smallest of them all, and it's still the size of an iPad 11-inch, slightly larger and thicker. Good to pull out at your gate or in-flight, bad when walking around as it's too large. Some of you have asked if Cadence uses a membrane or film over dots, and the answer is no. I'm told this was a deliberate choice, to make the cells feel more crisp and sharp. Indeed, their rigidity reminds me of Orbit cells, but you can push down on them and when you lift your finger they spring back up. While you lose out on uninterrupted graphics (since Cadence uses Braille spacing, meaning there's a gap every 2 columns,) you get a pocketable reading device that's prioritized for that task. I was thinking to myself how most of these companies approached the multiline Braille concept purely from the graphic side, not so much making reading portable. For many of these companies Braille is another product alongside magnifiers or screen readers, or big-name medical groups sponsor them. (Dot Inc is an exception here.) So they didn't have the creativity to think, "what if we made smaller versions of this? 4 lines of 12 or 20?" Still find this a bit astounding and sad, until Cadence came along. They took a lost opportunity and made it real.
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