I got a splinter in my foot from my old bookcase. I took a bigger splinter off of it and threw it away so it wouldn't happen again. That'll show it! lol
Ok, question for all my #sighted friends on here. Why are you guys seemingly obsessed with app icons? Apple announced their new Creator Studio bundle last week, and everyone is upset because the app icons look bad I guess? Like why do you care, it's like me getting mad because the app name is stupid or something. I don't get it.
I have another great tip here for those who receive emails or documents that contain tables with rows and columns. I just discovered that if for example you receive a daily spam report from your email provider that is set up in rows and columns. if using Jaws, when you enter the table by arrowing down, use alt control and left and right arrows to navigate each cell and using alt control up and down arrows moves down one cell or row and reads it. My daily spam reports can sometimes be 50 pages long and using the above navigation commands really cut my reading time in half. Wanted to share this with everyone here.
In addition to my previous post, I have found on an iPhone if you enter a table within an email or any table, you can use your rotor by rotating with two fingers either clockwise or anticlockwise until you hear Rose and then you can flick left and right to move between each cell and flicking up and down will read that particular column and move you from row to row. This is also very useful and I had no idea that this even existed on the iPhone even though I have been using the iPhone for years using VoiceOver. I have not needed this function until now so wanted to share this knowledge with others here.
### New features and other improvements
- Timelines (everything that displays posts) has been completely rewritten with Jetpack Compose https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/issues/5272
- Support for displaying quote posts https://codeberg.
In this episode Shawn dives into the world of Minecraft with coβhosts Kaia, Russell, and Clement to explore how a game that seems ultra-visual can actually be surprisingly accessible (and even educational) for blind and low vision players.
I used to send a spreadsheet to the Exec Team with "Fuck Off" in the very bottom right hand cell, white text on a white cell. Nearly got caught out when my boss couldn't email it to external auditors, failing the email profanity filter. IT never worked out why it wouldn't send.
Curious about using Googleβs NotebookLM with JAWS? This archived webinar shows how to use your own documents to get summaries, outlines, and answers, all in a keyboard-friendly way. Learn how to create a notebook, add sources, ask questions, filter results, and build reports.
I researched the living shit out of this last year and Mailbox won out here. If I didn't need support for widely adopted desktop clients Tuta probably would've been in the running. Migadu also looked good, only thing I didn't like was their webmail.
acronymVowelHiatusMinStressedSyllables. What a variable. Let's get it coded during lunch. New setting time. It's a needed one. Also acronymVowelHiatusFadeMs. Both doubles.
1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy 2. Click β― 3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts 4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to Bluesky
You may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.
If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.
We're currently working on an iOS app! We've just put a very limited alpha on TestFlight and will be adding more features to test over the coming year!
You can, though there is really minimal functions. Just a login but no ability to load, read, or send email yet! You can find the link in a recent blogpost (blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/tβ¦) but we'll let everyone know when we're more ready for testing!
I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't like the idea of appearing on an official list of "skilled" people. Until now that was a theoretical fear. One I wasn't even sure if it was warranted or just me being overly cautious.
In Belarus things escalated quickly. Radio amateurs - usually recognized as men of goodwill - have been declared enemies of the state and publicly shamed and indicted for high treason.
Like fleeing Jeffrey Dahmer's house and running past three verified safe houses to the house of Ted Bundy, above whose front door is sprayed 'I am also a serial killer, and you are my type. lol'
Haha. All 10 of these. And I think I'm going to start calling it "3D printed code" sounds way cooler than "vibe coding" LOL. 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents arstechnica.com/information-te⦠(although, 50 projects in a month? Holy hell, not even I could do that.)
Our farm may have to stop selling our hemp products in November, a casualty in a war between booze sellers and delta-9 drink companies that we werenβt even in.
A woman will head to court in March after the City of Burlington fined her for letting her garden grow wild. Similar cases have cropped up in other cities, raising the question of where our priorities lie thenarwhal.ca/opinion-burlingtβ¦
The City of Burlington is taking a woman to court for unpaid fines after letting her garden grow wild. Similar cases have cropped up elsewhere, to the detriment of the environment
A random question for blind people mainly, but really for anyone comfortable. What is your mental landscape like? What I mean by that is how do you picture things? Visual imagery? More sensory based? Nothing at all? Something else? I'm curious because even though I'm blind my mental landscape is very visual, I think in pictures, maps, recreations of places/objects/ETC in my head in a very visual way, which from what I've heard doesn't seem that common in the blind community. But maybe I'm wrong, I'd be really curious on thoughts here if you all are comfortable.
I'm the same, but I wonder if it's because when I was a baby I could apparently see a bit, honestly not sure but I think that might have something to do with it.
@ZBennoui I was thinking that too a bit, I had some sight when I was a baby, most of it in the first 3 or 4 months. So I wonder if that had some influence into my current very vivid mental landscape.
Buried on page 300 of the governmentβs omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canadaβone that allows all cabinet ministers to exempt any individual or corporation from any federal Canadian lawβ¦
Something I'd really like to see from @fosdem - a graph of which social media addresses speakers have on their profile / presentations over the years. Last year it was still quite disappointing that the number of people with Mastodon on their slides was quite low. Maybe something for the stats session at the end? #FOSDEM #fosdem2026
I'm currently exploring options for local LLMs to be integrated into Home Assistant. Does anyone here got experiences with this already? Like, did you try running a Raspi5 with one of the AI hats? What were your results? Do you have any other affordable local AI systems running with Home Assistant, which models work best for you? #homeassistant #ai #raspberrypi #ollama #smarthome
I've just seen YouTube videos about it but I think what the guy did was a bit beyond the scope. He basically made an entire voice assistant which was somehow connected throughh/with HA. And I think it didn't run on something like the Pi. But I'm very interested in what you're trying to do so feel free to keep us updated.
@jonathan859 Nope, that is basically what happens in the end. You need a part that processes speech to text, interprets it, acts on it and generates either text output that then again is output via TTS, or voice directly. Technically all of that can happen locally, but you can off-load it into cloud services like OpenAI too. I'd like to run as much as possible locally, or on hardware controlled by me. If push comes to shove, i'll be getting a VGPU server I guess.
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No but following. I also think I may consider running a self-hosted model on the cloud, but on my own server. What are you looking to do? For me it's doorbell footage which is going to take a reasonably accurate and fast model.
@Jage Thinking about the same, but renting a VGPU server would be way more expensive than buying even 1 graphics card now, at least in the long run. That is why i'm asking if people got experiences already. I don't need to interpret live video, I don't think images either. Mostly just text to control entities and such, at least for now. But having a bit of GPU power in reserve won't be bad either.
Ya good point I could just build a desktop, and that would give me another excuse to do it. and for you with text that's way easier. Sorry I haven't gone further down the road yet.
@Jage Nah, you don't need to be sorry for anything lol. We'll figure it out eventually. Its just an experiment after all, i'm not willing to go full in on it, don't think that is really necessary for tasks like these.
It is but also if prices aren't going to come down for 3 years I may just have to do this now before shit gets even crazier. Actually, I may have an extra 32GB stick or at least 16 from a recent laptop, probably at least DDR4 so that could be something, though I know 5 is ideal.
@Jage Laptop will be SODIMM and not DDR4, so you'll have to hope for a proper adapter solution instead of the self-build ones that are coming up on DIY shops right now.
Dear Lord, I ask you, seriously, when does this nonsense finally stop? Please! What comes next? "AI"-powered Coffeemakers, "AI"-Hairbrushes, "AI"-Toilets? Please, oh please my Lord, the pain is unbearable, please let this bubble burst, I beg You!
"Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities.
#Code is a #liability. Codeβs capabilities are #assets. The goal of a tech shop is to have code whose capabilities generate more revenue than the costs associated with keeping that code running.
β¦that's the thing: any nontrivial code has to interact with the outside world, and the outside world isn't static, it's dynamic. The outside world busts through the assumptions made by software authors all the time and every time it does, the software needs to be fixed." @pluralistic
The rapid response networks people organize to defend their communities have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting ICE tactics.
Ok nice, just found the tool that's going to replace my quickly copy/paste link from PC to phone thing. NTFY. If I needed I could even make a script or something for it, though the web interface will be completely fine. I can then just open the notification on my phone, click on it and have it in the clipboard right away. Even more straightforward than roaming around on WhatsApp first, completely own infrastructure with a tool I use anyway.
@draeand Yup, I already use it for stuff like Kopia backup notifications, unified push for Pachli and stuff but I enjoy the way it evolves and how you can always find new usecases for it. So simple yet so powerful. Also hosting your own server is quite nice once you've figured out how to add a user and what you should or should not change in the config.
@draeand Hmm, makes sense. Well I only got started with it a while ago so it wasn't that critical, but yeah if you use it much/care about privacy a lot (not sure about how and what and when it encrypts) it would be a nice thing for sure.
Sonic onslaught makes its 2026 return! @nick and Christel are back with their usual mix of good vibes and great metal, featuring their reaction to the latest song from Charlotte Wessels and the obsession.
I'm feeling sad, maybe I should make a version of NVSpeechPlayer that self-destructs and switches back to the person's last synthesizer after 5 minutes, then deletes its dll so it can't be run no more. Sigh. The new phoneme table sucks, the old one was better, that's the end of that, the story of Speechplayer ends here. At least, that's how I'm feeling this morning and why no updates for awhile.
Aw, don't be feeling like that. Speech synthesis is a complicated thing to work on, but also super rewarding when it works. For what it's worth I think you've done a great job in making it support many languages, even if it isn't perfect.
@fireborn part of what I'm fighting a bit I feel like is ESpeak being the phonemizer, I mean it's a great engine for supporting a lot of languages, but then you have to work around some of its rules for speech and things like hyphen marks or if ESpeak itself already had issues with a particular sound. And things like Canadian English, even though it's there in support, enever a chance of it working well because ESpeak is just horrible at the IPA. But a larger rewrite with a different phonemizer and Lexicon set could drop already supported languages and complicate things, so sticking with ESpeak made the most sense architecturally until all the sounds in the phoneme table are correct, then perhaps a rebuild with another Open-source phonemizer isn't the worst.
@alexchapman @fireborn The most promising is github.com/rhasspy/gruut - it supports many languages, although still not quite the set supported by Espeak, although I'd have to see how hard adding language support is for those not in their set that we have. It would support speech tags for words like wind outside vs wind up. Eloquence has this so NVSpeechPlayer needs to as well, but without a better phonemizer like that one it ain't happening, so I've been looking at it.
On Monday I am recording another Coffee with Developers episode with Daniel Stenberg about curl and the AI slop they have to fight at the moment. What would you want me to ask him?
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