estava aqui a olhar para a roupa da Dina da Coelha, a unica explicação é ela não ter autorização para sair de casa desde 1986, e o André ter a televisão sempre a passar episodios da tv rural seguidos daquele programma do Herman onde ele cantava quanto mais me bates mais eu gosto de ti, e episodios da eurovisão anteriores a 1974
“Europe is a regulatory morass that is built on bureaucracy, and the layering and layering of rules that constrain economic activity.”
Scott Bessant, US Treasury Secretary
To which Europeans say:
Flint, Michigan East Palestine, Ohio Uniontown, Alabama
These places are global bywords for the poisoning of people and nature when you have no regulatory oversight of business and you prioritise ‘economic activity’ at all costs over health and safety.
Everyone is going to Threads. My professional community - iOS developers, AI researchers, accessibility advocates - they're all there. I'm completely locked out, missing networking opportunities and professional conversations. This is disability discrimination. I cannot access Threads without assistive technology, and their systems automatically suspend me for using it. ADA compliance issue.
I've noticed that some client, maybe FastSM? Is doing this thing where it will add you to a thread even if you just boosted a post in it, not actually replied, and I'm not sure yet if I like it or find it annoying, maybe a bit of both?
Phewphsh! We had a frying on this instance that lasted about 20 minutes. With the help of Gemini, we're back and successfully updated to 4.6.0-alpha.3+glitch.
Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?
edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!
This is a test of using Fast-SM with our J-Say technology. This application is quite timely, because I would like to demonstrate to somebody how we can use the programme with bluesky. He has always wanted to use Bluesky and now he has an ideal opportunity of doing so. Dragon is working exceptionally well in this application, and I can easily correct errors such as the name of the social media network that I have just described. It treated the name of the social network as two separate words with no capital letter, so I had to put that right. There was absolutely no problem in doing so and there is no deterioration in terms of responsiveness on the computer while we are using Fast-SM with Dragon and JAWS. I am even able to proof read the post that I have just dictated with no difficulty. All good stuff!
I'm currently using js-sequence-diagrams[1], which looks like it has similar syntax as PlantUML.
Putting the code/text representation of the diagram feels like it'd be helpful for a small diagram, but maybe too much to keep in ones head for a larger one?
First of all, let me tell you something: we appreciate every move like this. You know, every blind person struggles. They may tell you it's fine, we're good, someone will even say "I'm proud to be blind" (sic!), but… we struggle. And if a person comes and tells like: "I'm posting a diagram, I want it to be seen by my blind readers" — woosh, like a wave of warm air in a cold winter street. Why am I saying this? Because it's not even better than nothing, it's quite enough for a technically or scientifically inclined person to decipher what you're saying. I'm not proficient in this at all (JS-Sequence-Diagrams looks also good, also there's Mermaid supported by GitHub, I think) but if I need or want it, I'll read the docs and cope with it. Or… drop you a message and ask for help 😊 Anyway, thank you so much. It's really heartwarming.
@menelion Aww thank you André. ❤️ I'm touched, and not really sure how to respond!
I guess I'll just say that I want to live in the world where we all look out for each other's needs, and where we can ask each other for accommodations or help when we need to. Where we all get those warm breezes when we're cold :)
I have a blind friend studying data science, he says he found it very useful. I know plenty of blind folks, one internationally known mathematician among them, who use LaTex, for example, to read and write maths. Not the simplest thing in the world, but it works. I believe, it's the same with PlantUml/Mermaid/solutions alike.
Uruguay's electricity grid going 100% renewable in just five years proves how quick and easy the transition can be, and therefore how the failure of other countries to do the same is inexcusable
SpeechPlayer update: Huge one. This update removes all the "frame:" settings from the voice dialog. If you liked them, toggle " exposeExtraParams = False " to true in the driver's file. These are fun settings to play with and make it squeak in weird ways, but also, it's 47 sliders, and this way we only add the 16 for language settings. - new: settings no longer say "langpack:" but have human understandable names. This should make it easier to know what does what. - New: Croatian language. If Croatian sounds off, please suggest fixes to HR.YAML - new: Engine setting, segmentBoundarySkipVowelToLiquid That new setting only affects the boundary gap we insert when stitching two separate chunks (two separate “say” calls / queue items). - new setting: semivowelOffglideScale. Useful where you want the glide to join better with the vowel in your language, test with different values (default is 1.) Added in language editor only. - Fixed: The driver works on NVDA 2026.1 again, fixed to set argtypes and restype right after initialization for Espeak phonemizer. - Language updates to Portuguese (thanks @clv1), Polish (thank you @patricus). English glides should be less noticeable and more smooth. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Thanks. I couldn't open the pack root after upgrading, because indentation was wrong in pt-br.yaml from line 40 onwards. I fixed the indentation, and it opened normally.
ok yes, the v6 add-on is updated with this fix, thanks for noticing it, that's what I get by hand-editing the field at the time xD will be more careful. Yeah, the phoneme editor bails when it can't parse the indentations in the file, the driver is more leaniant on this and allows it in technicality but a more strict YAML parser will throw a fit. I'm getting used it to it now though, 4 indents for the outer blocks and 6 for the various replacements.
Also, although the alternative schwa is in the phonemes list, and the mapping is present for it to be added before r, it sounds as if it wasn't being inserted there. Can you double check it please? For example: when I command the editor to speak "tra", the IPA output is trˈa. when I mark the input is IPA checkbox and change it to tᵊrˈa, the sound is clearly other.
@spacepup ahaha, a setting for the settings? What an idea! :D Ironic though in a way. I thought of it but it's tricky because settings are enumerated when the driver loads, so like, we can't magically make checkboxes appear in NVDA's panel, they're precalculated. So while I could, they wouldn't show up until the person reloads the driver again, and then I'm sure some people might say "there's a bug!" xD
oh, i understand. Setting for the settings? What was i thinking, I must be just waking up. Also i noticed en-ca? Canadian english, perhapse? Also would it ruin the sound if i update some broken sounding phonemes with my own formants i calculated in praat?
@spacepup oh yeah. I was scared to add en-ca into the language list. People say ESpeak's Canadian is already horrendous, so I just don't know if we could ever make it sound good. I didn't want to anger the Canadians over there, even if they are hard to do so, best not test it. :D
@spacepup lol I always tell people to experiment, if you can send me your packs folder so I can also hear it and judge how it sounds better, well, even nicer. LOL. That's why I made this pack system, it makes it very easy to zip up the packs folder and just send it as a small file, or just like some people here have, tell me what value they changed to what and how it made it sound for them, then I usually will fold it into the main pack if it's really a nicer sound. That's what I'd really like from this, a community-driven sound. But it'll take time, which is why I built the phoneme editor. Speaking of which, I have to update it with the new values we added to the engine, gosh. Ah well, not hard.
@spacepup I've considered updating in the phoneme editor to add brackets next to the values with a one to two wrod explanation of what the value does to the sound, so they can change them even more easily. Things like: "Widens nasals" or "strengthens coupling with the Nasal" could really help people know, oh, I need to adjust this to get that.
@spacepup oh gosh I know, especially in a formant synth, I think we do have a good sound for it now in foreign languages but it'll get better. Once someone mentioned it was sounding more like a Z though that could actually clue me in on which way to tune it to make it slightly rolled. I definitely know ESpeak didn't get that one right until like the mid-2000s or later.
@spacepup oh actually good question, but yeah, it was in the Espeak-NG side days I first spotted it. I don't know if they had it in original Espeak though, probably not.
🇺🇸 We were asked for this in the past, and now it was done: our Liberapay account has been revived, find it at liberapay.com/IzzyOnDroid/
As @Liberapay has no option to upload a project avatar (or I haven't found it), and we're not using any of the hard-coded services, I hope you forgive us keeping my personal one in there for now. Should a change become possible, we'll of course update accordingly!
The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known …
🇩🇪 Wir wurden in der Vergangenheit danach gefragt, und jetzt ist es soweit: unser Liberapay Account wurde wiederbelebt, und ist (nach wie vor) unter liberapay.com/IzzyOnDroid/ zu finden.
Da Liberapay leider keine Option bietet, ein Projekt-Avatar hochzuladen (oder ich habe es nur nicht gefunden), und wir keinen der dafür hinterlegten Services nutzen, hoffen wir Ihr vergebt uns, das derweil mein eigener dort zu sehen ist. Sobald möglich, werden wir das anpassen!
The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known …
@donno Not before the drop-down shows Codeberg, sorry – as I wrote, "we're not using any of the hard-coded services" – except for Mastodon, and look what the avatar here is (yes, when I started this account, it was still "only me" – but now it's my account incl. personal things, while IzzyOnDroid is a team…)
Kuuntelen tosi vähän musiikkia paristakin syystä, mutta joskus lenkillä Vorssan Suvi-iltaan kasattu soittolista auttaa ryytyneenä jaksamaan. Listalla on 99 % uudempaa tradia ja bluegrassia eli lajeja, joita kestän ylipäätään kuunnella, mutta seassa on jokunen nostalgianumero ja raitoja, joiden bpm sopii omaan kadenssiin erityisen hyvin.
Tänään tipahti peräkkäin Les Misin Do You Hear the People Sing ja perään Elina Salo alkoi vetää Kolmea iloista rosvoa :’-D
Lapseton kuuntelee todellakin kotimaista lastenmusiikkia, koska täällä tehdään järkyttävän hyvää lastenmusiikkia. Vaikka joku Freija, Mutaveijarit, Mimmien fantastisen kaoottinen sovitus vanhasta Hirsilaulusta tai Lastenmusiikkiorkesteri Ammuun kaunis versio Kimalaisten kehtolaulusta, jota en saa kuunnella liian usein, koska jokin Mannerin tekstin tässä versiossa ravistelee aivan liikaa mun olematonta sieluani.
Very excited to see #Droidify implement the #IzzyOnDroid download statistics!
This means 2 out of the top 3 #FDroid clients now show download statistics for apps downloaded from IzzyOnDroid. Hopefully this convinces more repositories to adopt this!
The part I love most is the different directions Droidify and Neo Store took it. Droid-ify went for simple, just showing the total amount of downloads, while Neo Store went for detailed graph.
@donno Hopefully we can convince them to adopt the system, I think it would be great for users to have general popularity info for apps. We purposefully kept the system extremely simple to make adoption easy :)
@TheJnx I will be honest, my main reaction to this is that I am quite disappointed when people tell others about an issue they found but not actually tell the developer about it so it can be fixed: github.com/Droid-ify/client/is…
Besides that, I took a short look at the code and sha256 is used for the file integrity itself: github.com/Droid-ify/client/bl….
MD5 is only used to compare the signature with the installed one which Android itself would block if a false positive would occur: github.com/Droid-ify/client/bl…
So I don't really see the issue to be honest. The only possible risk is if you disable Android's signature verification with XPosed modules (which would be a horrible idea) and happen to get the one signature that somehow would match in MD5. But both IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid already use an allowlist of signatures per app, so this would already be blocked serverside there.
Lacking index-v2 is not a security risk at all but would be nice for faster update checks.
@TheJnx Obtainium on the other hand is often used to get APKs directly from developers with no malware scan or anything. So if a dev gets their system infected by malware and because of that uploads a build with malware, you will just instantly get that and infect your device, there is no party in between to scan or rebuild the app from source.
Personally, I find "dev gets their system infected by malware" a much more likely scenario, which is why I don't understand Obtainium as "more secure".
@TheJnx@bonito.cafe @SylvieLorxu@chaos.social Well yes I agree that Droid-ify does not have Index V2 or diffing but I don't see how thats a security issue. And the 3 point of it "uses a outdated signature algorithm".
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
Thanks to @threlm4280, it just so happens that you do not need to move the box onto every single switch in Oghma's Hideout. I'll be updating the guide to reflect this.
Face the facts: AI is here to stay. Don't like it? You anti? Sorry but, bye Felicia. This stuff's existed for years now, it just wasn't so exposed. And it isn't going to receed. It'll continue to build. Your anti-barriers shall crumble. Your computer will be artifcialified, and if you don't like it, might as well use ancient ones. Even those processors! Wonder why prices are rocketing up? AI. Run as much as you like. But it'll catch up. It's everywhere. It's been everywhere. That won’t change.🤖
I can't tell if this is satire... I've never appreciated the "it's inevitable, get used to it or <insert consequence>" framing. Nobody knows if this stuff is inevitable. All the boosters say it's inevitable then provide no evidence that it actually is. Hasn't Star Trek and many other Si-Fi shows tought us something about supposed "inevitability" yet?
@draeand Most of that was me screwing around, but from a serious perspective... yes. We don't know what's truly going to happen. There are theories, hypotheses, conspiracies, that sort. What we do know however, is that it is altering the balance. What was once locked in a box has been unleashed, and is flying high in the sky. The more serious part of my ridiculous post is that we're nearing that boundary where AI is sort of the new norm, and only so much can be done to suppress it.
Fair enough. Time will tell the real story, I suppose. For my part, it's rather hard to take anyone seriously when they claim that something like AI is inevitable, because right now AI is pretty much propped up by vibes and people with wayyyyyy too much money. But we'll see how the future plays out
I used to think it was unrealistic in a zombie film when someone would get bit and would hide it from from the rest of the group. Then the fucking COVID pandemic happened.
They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true. Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.
I really love this one bug where Firefox dev tools' right-click Inspect Element button works reliably for a bit, then inexplicably stops and pulls up the browser console instead, meaning the item doesn't actually inspect the element. It pulls up the browser console input area instead, which is of course what I wanted to do in the first place when trying to inspect an element.
Related, I like this other bug where tabbing from the browser console switches focus between the text input and console messages, but shift-tab lives in its own world with its own unique list of elements, navigating instead through the console messages area and what looks to be a long list of CSS selectors and styles. I tried using this to reach the element inspector but can't do that either.
Becoming less and less apologetic about my AI use by the day. Want me to not use the water-and-power-guzzling mechanoid? Don't make it so difficult to use every basic tool that I have to ask another tool to use it for me.
Greenland’s government unveiled a new brochure on Wednesday offering advice to the population in the event of a “crisis” in the territory, which U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to seize from ally Denmark.
During the early pandemic, everyone was using online tools for lessons, work, & events. As soon as hegemons wanted not just "essential workers" but everyone back at the grindstone, the accessibility that online can offer was yanked back from disabled ppl.
We warned at the time that the lesson to take from how "horrible" people thought online schooling was was to *improve* it. That the years of ableist underinvestment in creative accessible online tools & training for presenters/teachers was largely to blame. Abled ppl ignored this or wrote op-eds saying online was inherently bad.
Just this week alone, we've heard how schools in Minnesota are trying to instruct students online and doctors are doing telemedicine because of ICE kidnappers. A rail crash in Catalunya resulted in a university cancelling exams because students can't commute to school.
Even if you're naïve enough to assume there will only be one pandemic, there are other reasons for accessibility.
Reading about #Nvidia CEO crying about people not liking #AI, though it was a good time to recover this historic piece of art from the Copyright wars of the start of the century. Cc'ing @pluralistic
In episode 1 million and 1 of Google breaking accessibility, someone decided to slap aria hidden on basically the entire page on google drive public link pages, but here's the weird thing, only in Firefox. I don't know if chromium and Safari browsers just have a workaround just for this kind of developer/AI stupidity and bypass it and firefox doesn’t, or if something in google's code only breaks this on firefox.
Either way recovering out of this is fun. I have to use AXSHammer to kill all aria hidden. But, this doesn't always work. If I get lucky and the right thing gets focused Shift+F10 will give me the firefox context menu and I can do it. If not, well, just gotta keep refreshing the page until it does because due to the whole invisible to the screen reader problem NVDA/VoiceOver won't let me bring the mouse to anywhere useful to pop up the menu.
@zersiax I do get an object, though it's not a document, but either using OCR then rooting the mouse or just doing that on the navigator object moves it to the top left corner and clicks on a firefox toolbar.
Yes, what a thrill to hear a politician say "we can't go back, there is no value in pretending the powerful nations follow international law"
But pay attention to what Carney offers as a solution! People keep sharing the lines with pretty metaphors, instead of his incredibly depressing policy proposals
In his speech, Carney equates "building strength" with transfering wealth to rich people ("[cutting] taxes on incomes, on capital gains and business investment") and exempting corporations from existing laws ("fast-tracking a trillion dollars of investment in energy, AI, critical minerals, new trade corridors and beyond.")
But wait, isn't that how America got into this fascism mess? 🤔
Carney correctly names that international human rights laws and organizations like the WHO are under attack, but did you notice his proposed solution?
He wants to forget about them and focus on.... multilateral trade agreements. That's the least inspiring drab banker shit I have ever heard. Do you think he's going to opt-in to a trade coalition that endorses UNDRIP?
"Countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation"
He is saying what alert Canadians already know: Mark Carney is a moral coward and he will violate any principle under any threat. Can't be trusted to protect anything except wealth.
I mean sure, take inspiration from parts of Carney's speech, but don't get suckered into supporting his strategies that will see us all die of poverty and climate change in an AI-powered global police state, surrounded by unregulated tailings ponds
If the most inspiring parts of Carney's speech are "facing reality" and "strength through cooperation" I have such good news! Neoliberals like him always co-opt their inspiring rhetoric from *actual* liberatory movements, and you could be getting your inspo straight from the source. See if land back, mutual aid, prison abolition, anti-fascism, community self-defense, labour solidarity, or privacy rights movements get you anywhere
If the parts of Carney's speech that inspire you are about building up national power at the expense of ethics and ideals, maybe spend some time reflecting on whether building homegrown corporate fascism would actually do anything to resist the American regime or whether that would be complying in advance and land us in the exact same place
After a good 30 minutes, I've gotten Emacspeak working rather well with mastodon.el. Goodness all those Emoji. For now, n and p read next/prev post well, and t lets you know you're doing new toot. And that's all the making stuff I can do right now.
Happy to provide detailed documentation to NFB for escalation to Meta. This needs human review from people who understand assistive technology, and it needs to be escalated to Meta's accessibility and legal teams. How are blind users supposed to access Threads if screen readers trigger automatic suspensions? #Accessibility #A11y #Threads #Meta
I just added 13 more instrumental tracks to my collection. If you need some music for your upcoming project (game, podcast, video...), Look at ondrosik.sk/music #cc0 #music
Looks like @Tutanota wins in the screen reader accessibility department. Both the iOS app and the web version appear to be quite accessible with screen readers. Tested using both VoiceOver and Chromevox… I had no issues navigating the interface with either screen reader. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReader #Email #Calendar #Contacts
Have you ever helped people use their computers by talking to them over the phone, without seeing their screen? It can be frustrating if they tell you mostly irrelevant details that bury the important stuff.
This is the major problem with image description by AI. AI has no idea why the image was posted, so it gives irrelevant details.
Human-written image descriptions are much better at communicating an image's purpose.
I live in a small town in Sweden. This morning I went out to my car (realising that I'd once again forgotten to lock the front door last night), drove along empty, wide roads to the nearest largeish town and parked in the brand new multistorey carpark by the railway station, where the first two hours' parking is free and the remainder of the time is very cheap.
I got out of the car without checking my surroundings, and as I leaned back in to get my bag out, I thought "In large parts of the world, I'd be asking to get mugged, or worse".
Then I walked along the clean, well-kept streets to the hospital, where I waited for less than 2 minutes for my mammography, which was completely free of charge.
This is Sweden. This is Europe. Why the FUCK are we trying to emulate, listening to, investing in or in any way having anything whatsoever to do with the utter insanity coming out of the USA?
And I don't just mean under the current, obviously barking, incumbent. I mean ever? They don't do things like we do. They don't believe in the same things that we do. This really is an us and a them situation, and we've been kidding ourselves for the last 80 years that they're like us.
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