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in reply to Trending Stocks 📈

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

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in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

@dhamlinmusic It does, but hopefully a human checks it from time to time. It would benefit both the blindness community and the finance community to use clear hashtags
in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

@dhamlinmusic @NVAccess

definitely not automated - will keep it in mind! just not sure how I would use that as a canonical standard

in reply to Trending Stocks 📈

@dhamlinmusic Thanks for your help! To be honest, aside from about yourself, 99.9% of the time #NVDA is used to refer to NVIDIA stocks, it's spam / scam - I certainly wouldn't follow the hashtag for stock information - I'd follow the Stocks or Finance hashtags you also use. I'd be surprised if it's the only one - just looking back through, 99% of toots about SNOW are not about the stock - and that's what I was trying to do - ensure people following a hashtag get primarily ONE subject
in reply to NV Access

@NVAccess I thought we were mostly using NVDASR as the hashtag for NVDA? I started that on Twitter because stock related things regularly used the NVDA hashtag.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh There weren't too many stock related things on here when we joined, so I've been trying to get the jump on them - no one actually calls NVIDIA #NVDA - it makes sense for them to use #NVIDIA if that's what they want to talk about. Most people are good with it, but I generally tag our posts with both #NVDA and #NVDAsr just in case
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh @NVAccess I don't think the average Mastodon user is big on AI investments. The distinct possibility of them gloating when the stock price tanks still exists, though.
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @jcsteh That was my reasoning for pushing the stock people to use the company name. If you use NVIDIA, there's no confusion - there is no other entity that I'm aware of called NVIDIA. And even though their code is NVDA, the screen reader IS much more widely known as NVDA. Users who have followed us post-twitter, might not actually know what NVDASR is. In any case, if we use NVDA and stock people use NVIDIA, then everyone can follow what they actually want - one, the other, or both


WhatsApp desktop: If you receive a link from a chat conversation, I notice that the link itself does not get placed in tab focus (update: It does, but your screen reader will repeat the message twice which was throwing me off), and I could not left-click it with NVDA, so how in the world do you activate links within WhatsApp desktop?
Solution: It will be in tab order, but you'll first need to hear the message repeated again before the link URL is told to you as the highlighted item.
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in reply to Tamas G

Were you able to scan the QR code to link your device? I am using the web portal for now.
in reply to Chris Hallsworth

@challsworth2 ah I didn't have to, I used the code / link devices section of the WhatsApp mobile client where I could then enter that code manually without a QR one.
in reply to Tamas G

Sorted. Transpired you can only link with code on Windows or web; I have a Macbook Air, but I do plan to use Windows in a virtual machine again some day.
in reply to Tamas G

Or just press tab once, and it's a link. At least in my experience.


I am proud to announce that I am working on a successor to #AppleVis - a website for #disabled #Apple technology enthusiasts. I kindly invite everyone to test it and give feedback.
You can find the invite link here

community.accessibleapple.org/…

in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

It keeps saying that the site can't be reached every time I click on it. I've tried it more than once, too. -T
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in web.yoursecurify.com.
If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

Will do. Although I hit enter directly on the link that was there. And that's what it opened. Odd how enter on the interactions works that way sometimes. Even though it shouldn't.
in reply to Scarlet Phoenix Collective

@we_are_spc I would check if you don’t have a virus of some sorts. That website shown on the error sounds very, very sketchy. Try to use ADWCleaner if you are on Windows.
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

Will do. But that is the only time I have had a problem with that particular thing. Everything else goes where it's supposed to.
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

... OKay this is effed up. I can't ghet to it from Google Chrome because of that shit you saw when I sent you the message. But when I type into MS edge...it works flawlessly. Don't ask me whly...I wouldn't be able to tell you. :( -T
in reply to Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

All it does is give me a search deal. I've never dong a ping response before, so I dunno what I'm not doing. Especially since I coppied direectly what you sent to the clipboard.




Thanks for sharing. These are the times I regret I don't live close enough to London. I still fondly remember the experiencein the Harry Pinter theatre. In the US theatre is not as popular, unfortunately. New York may be the only exception, but even then... I will leave my comments off the air! :) front-end.social/@tink/1130241…


Wow, this piece exposes a supposedly prominent accessibility contributor to gaming industry that ended up actually not existing in the first place. ign.com/articles/a-prominent-a…

#a11y #accessibilty #games #gaming #expose



What is Li-Fi and Could It Be the Next Big Thing for the Internet? cnet.com/home/internet/what-is…


Hello fediverse!

I need your help to feature all of the amazing services that are part of the #ActivityPub realm.

What are some of your favorite ActivityPub handles to follow on #Funkwhale, #Peertube, #Pixelfed, #Bookwyrm, #Wordpress, #Truefans, #Castopod, #Akkoma, #Friendica, #Lemmy and others?

Your replies will be categorized by @jejord, @AileenLalor, @miaq and @marci so that we can feature these accounts to our Flipboard users and work to ensure they render properly on Flipboard.

I'm excited to help evangelize the many great projects here and advocate for their adoption and funding.




Padla a darilo sa ale premkýna ma smútok.
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#Catima 2.31.1 is out!

This is a very minor release, containing a community-contributed fix for the back gesture on the home screen dismissing both the keyboard and clearing the search. Long story short, you can now hide the keyboard without clearing the search, allowing for easier browsing of your cards.

It also contains some minor community-contributed cleanups.

Available now on #GitHub, very soon on #IzzyOnDroid and hopefully soon on other supported app stores.

#Android #FOSS




"Y Combinator, the San Francisco start-up incubator that launched Airbnb, Reddit, Stripe and Coinbase, is backing a weapons company for the first time, entering a sector it has previously shunned." #Technology werd.io/2024/start-up-incubato…


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid this weekend brought you a load of updated and 1 added app:

* Recording Studio Lite: an Audio Recorder

2 updated #Magisk #modules at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk as well.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



Finally got around to informally documenting the GNOME Circle review procedure! This should be really helpful for the Circle Committee going forward.

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/…




Hypothetically, is there any interest in a D&D campaign on Fedi?

Also hypothetically, what's the best way to pick a weekly timeslot?

Update: to clarify, I'm open to other systems - Fate might work better for a text social media campaign. But D&D is a way bigger market.

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I just explained how the fediverse works to my mom and she thinks I'm some kind of dark web cyber criminal now I think.


Bilanzskandal: Ehemaligen #Wirecard-Managern droht ein finanzielles #Desaster

"17 frühere Führungskräfte müssen mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit für #Anwaltskosten und #Schadenersatzforderungen persönlich einstehen. Das könnte manchen finanziell ruinieren."

Na ich hoffe doch! Betrug und Missbrauch darf sich nicht lohnen 👌
handelsblatt.com/finanzen/bank…



Diese Forderung von #Merz nach einem Asylstop von Syrern und Afghanen ist ein größerer Schritt weg von der freiheitlich-rechtlichen Ordnung, die unsere Verfassung vorgibt. Wieso wird darüber nicht so berichtet? #CDU
#cdu #merz



One of my favorite surprises from researching the introductory chapter of "50 Years of Text Games" was how many women were integral to the tech and design work behind early computer games. Mabel Addis, Dorothy Kneeland Clark, Grace Hopper, Judith Harris, Alexis Adams, Myra Breen (not to mention queer folks like Christopher Strachey). Love to see more of these pioneers getting their (belated) due.
oldbytes.space/@PlayHistory/11…
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ARRL Pays $1 Million Ransom To Decrypt Their Systems After Attack yro.slashdot.org/story/24/08/2…

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Prince of Persia 35th anniversary update: This week in 1989, I "finished" PoP. After three years of work creating the game (on an Apple II), it was time to let go.💾

I have trouble letting go. As my journal reveals, I went on secretly fixing bugs... Which is strictly verboten, after QA has signed off on a master disk. But I was confident my last little bug fixes wouldn't break anything, because my pal Roland and I would "test the hell out of them" ourselves.

You can guess where this is going.



Why is it important to challenge disinformation, especially for journalists and the media?

Because disinformation sticks around!

Christopher Columbus claimed he could get to India through his chosen route, basically every educated person said no. He managed to get funding to go anyway, totally ended up in the wrong place, but called the indigenous people Indians, despite it not being India at all. To this day, people still use the word, they're not Indians, they never were, they knew that at the time. It's been over 500 years!!!




After a lot of work, I got Windows TTS for Doom pretty much the same as it has been in Linux for a while now. While working on the Windows version, I noticed that a lot of people who were playing wre not native English speakers.

I added in a setting so that the language could be set, and if the language is not English it uses Google translate to translate the text to their specified language before sending it through as speech.

I am wondering how many people who use the Linux version in Linux Game Manager would be interested in this functionality?

  • It's fine like it is. (0 votes)
  • This would be awesome, I would use it a lot. (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 months ago

in reply to Billy

Well now I have to have it for windows! That’s so freaking cool.
in reply to Drew Mochak

there is this huge article on the audiogames forum where a lot of the work is on going, and there's a lot of information from both me with the TTS stuff and one of the Toby Doom developers.
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Triple alignment captured near Turin, Italy. The photograph took six years of attempts and was recently featured on the NASA Astronomic Picture of the day.

Credit: Valerio Minato

#space

in reply to Pomaranč

Toto je tak genialny zaber, ze som si to az siel overit na NASA... neskor som zbadal, ze niekto uz tento kontext pridal.



I gave a guy the thumbs down instead of a middle finger when he cut me off. His face was confusion and shock. I whole heartily recommend this action.



If MIT cancelled their Elsevier contracts how long until they copy the UNAM and get a sci hub mural




Carmen McRae with the Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five" (vocal version) youtube.com/watch?v=uEMzWuvUX4… #music


Beim ZDF Spezial zum Messerangriff in Solingen fühle ich mich fast wie ein Monster, weil es mir persönlich reicht, wenn der Täter nach geltendem Recht bestraft wird.
in reply to Sarah bleibt müde

Markus Söder will mir auch erklären, dass wir uns in Deutschland nicht mehr so richtig Zuhause fühlen. 🖕


Recently I encountered a thread where someone was asking “Does having a kid become less expensive once they are easy enough to not need childcare?”

I don't have the kind of experiences that would let me answer this question yes-or-no, but what struck me as interesting was 99% of the respondents said “No, after they grow out of childcare, you are paying for summer camp!” Almost every single one talked about the immense burden of paying for summer camp.

I am sure summer camp is a great experience for many kids, but I am really struggling to see why so many people think this is mandatory ?? I was not sent to summer camp when I was a kid... but somehow it seems like the majority of American parents think that it is a requirement / fixed cost that their own decisions can have no impact on. Very bizarre.



Ruský Elon Musk hraje vabank. Je zatčení ve Francii jeho další šprým, nebo se tentokrát přepočítal?
denikn.cz/1503888/rusky-elon-m…