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Luxembourg's Ministry for Digitalisation is contributing to the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…


Včera sem spolubývajúci dovliekol nejakých feťákov babu a chalana. Navarili si, zožrali mi vajcia a korenie, čo by mi až tak nevadilo ale nič neupratali, akože vôbec nič. Plus sú to fetky a tie ja už toľko nemusím ako kedysi.
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Jeden byt už mám vyhliadnutý ale zase mi to príde ako utekanie pred problémom lebo ja som sa sťahovať ešte nechcel.




Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Se acabó lo bueno. Vuelta al horario ordinario.



If your name is Theresa, you can write your name as ∃A.


What's a good book that has songs in it? Either songs are a big part of the culture, magical system or plot, or characters tell their stories through song, or they just like to sing a lot? Some examples: many of the Redwall books by Brian Jacques, Princess Academy and the Book of 1000 Days by Shannon Hale, and the Books of Bayern had at least 1, the Unicorn Chronicals by Bruce Coville, and the Hobbit. You know, things that a good reader or cast could do justice to. #Bookstodon
in reply to 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

A lot of stuff by Mercedes Lackey and friends, for example the Valdemar Series, has a strong emphasis on songs and bard. There's even some recorded music based on the songs that appears in the books, like an album called Oathbound: vows and honour.


Teda, taky se vám tak chce🫣
No už ať je čtvrtek #dobréRáno


Dobré ráno a klidný den milá slůňátka 🍀☕️🥰❤️ zase prší 🫣
in reply to Archos

@archos Tady v Praze s přestávkami už od pátečního rána. Dávejte na sebe pozor 🍀☕️🙋‍♀️🫂



No matter what I do and what I try, @elementary OS approach to UI and UX is always the most polished, balanced, and rich I find.
While rebuilding Akira in Rust, I've been exploring other design language libraries on top of GTK, and I always end up going back to their stylesheet and libgranite widgets
in reply to Aleca

Oh, didnt know you were rewriting it in rust, I guess it had too many advantages over vala?

in reply to infoek.cz

"searxng" - to si prostě nezapamatuju. Chce to lepší jméno.
in reply to Martin Kostera

@martin
No jo, už to běží skoro dva roky. Nějak jsem o lepším názvu nepřemýšlel 🤷‍♂️


It sure feels like the iOS 18.1 beta has some killer battery drain. Normally I don't experience battery problems during the beta cycle, but my 15 pro max is draining at an alarming rate. It still lasts most of the day, but this is Apple's best battery and it definitely used to be better. Naturally, nothing in battery settings looks suspicious at all.
in reply to simon.old

I observe the same on iPhone 15 Pro. I am truly hoping the final release will fix that. :)
in reply to simon.old

It absolutely does. Though I’ve had battery issues since before the beta.


For any #Blind folks interested in volunteering for Harris/Walz or other Democratic campaigns, I'm happy to report that Scale2Win, the dialer they use for phone-banking, is entirely browser-based and works well with screen-readers. (I used VoiceOver in Safari on my iPhone.) There is a script you're encouraged to follow and interact with during calls, so having a Braille display connected helped too. Didn't talk to many actual people but still had a positive experience.

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OK, those of you who use BSI on iOS 18. Did you by any chance notice some weirdnesses in certain apps, like the letters being mistyped, dots missed, etc, etc? This is after multiple dot calibrations. Not sure what to think of this. Is something happening to my fingers? But then, why it works well in some edit fields, while in others BSI totally chokes up. I really hope I don’t have to reset my settings. Thanks for any thoughts / ideas!
in reply to victor tsaran

Hi there. Do you use VoiceOver when composing posts on Mastodon for Mac? If so, when you hit your apostrophe key, does VoiceOver read it as an apostrophe, or does it say right single quotation mark. Please let me know.
in reply to victor tsaran

My mistake then. I just double checked, and mine also says right single quotation mark, and I have smart quotes and dashes turned off. Do you have use smart quotes and dashes disabled?
in reply to victor tsaran

Thank you for letting me know. I didn't know whether turning off use smart quotes and dashes was going to do anything. I really appreciate your help.
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in reply to victor tsaran

Hey there. I found a way to disable the smart quotes option in Mona for Mac. You have to go into the edit menu, and select substitutions, and then where it says checkmark and the specific smart quote or dash, just hit enter to unselect it. After that smart quotes and dashes should be turned off. I found this out through a friend of mine.
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in reply to victor tsaran

The issues you describe have always been there for me since I‘ve been using iDevices and are the reason why I‘ve never used BSI on a daily basis. A hardware braille keyboard is still the only way to go (at least for me).


Look, I do not care whether you support Trump, Harris or the man in the moon! Being disrespectful and insulting when people don't share your opinions isn't cool. We can't all agree, but we can all treat each other with kindness and respect. Ok, I'll go back down my hole now.


Cases for iPhone 16 are going to be tough for a while I've been searching for clear cases, and most are simply updated iPhone 15 cases with the same points of information. The problem with this is that the descriptions don't address how the case handles the camera control button. I just went with the official Apple one for now. I'll give the market a few months to catch up, then go searching again if I hate the Apple one. I've had an official silicone case for my 13 Mini for years, though.
in reply to Alex Hall

I think Apple sells clear case, but hehe yeah, $49? Not yummy!


Some time ago we had a discussion here about the best successor to the Soundscape app. Was it Voice Vista that people agreed on or was it another app? Thanks for any hints! #accessibility
in reply to Léonie Watson

@tink Yep, Just had a chance to give them a good run here in Philadelphia! Pretty cool! I wonder if you or anyone else happen to know why I hear the word "yes" after some of the landmarks? "yes" for what? :)
in reply to victor tsaran

Hm. Haven't noticed that, but haven't used it in a while. I'll listen out next time I do.


Wonder how well someone could get #Emacs to work on the #BTSpeak Braille device? I should probably try. When I eventually get one in like 5 years or so.

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The European mind cannot comprehend this:

“The University of California just announced a list of military weaponry it wants in order to escalate its warfare on its students:
3000 rounds of pepper munitions
500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions
12 drones
9 grenade launchers

Read the full list here: regents.universityofcalifornia…



I wonder if I am the first blind person ever to experience the Windows NT 3.51 Shell Technology Preview nearly 30 years after it was released.
in reply to Khronos

@khronos This reader I am working on currently doesn't support the command prompt.


I upgraded #GNOME #Calls to #gtk4 + #libadwaita for fun. It's now released in v47.0! Should be available soon in your #LinuxMobile distribution of choice 🚀

Massive thanks to @devrtz, @agx, @brainblasted, and Maximiliano for putting up with my beginner-level GTK skills!



This person experienced what it was like to be a 911 dispatcher. I love this channel. youtu.be/sKD-bp8UJmE?si=wipzYj…


Sometimes I wish I was a bird... So I could fly over certain people and shit on their heads.



Who Could Ever Love You by Mary Trump review – family burn book dishes on Donald | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…


#writefreely is connected to the #FediVerse, but it seems, for now only in one direction?

I can follow writefreely blogs and have the posts in the FediVerse timeline. But comments from the FediVerse are not shown on the writefreeely blog website.

Are there plans to implement it, @writefreely@writing.exchange ?

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An article just went up on Eurogamer talking about the Periphery Synthetic game and the state of game accessibility for both blind gamers and blind developers. It features comments from many respected blind consultants and developers including @talon, @shaysters and yours truely. I think it's totally worth a read because it covers the topic from multiple angles very well eurogamer.net/periphery-synthe… #GameAccessibility #GameDev #IndieDev

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in reply to Pitermach

Glad to see Periphery Synthetic getting some love in the press.
in reply to Orinks

@Orinks I just wish I could figure it out. I really wish there was a sound guide to understand the different sounds. I want so much to get into this because it is such a chill thing.
in reply to Sarah Russell

@blindbat84 @Orinks What I would suggest you do to start with is go into the settings and turn down the music a bit at least to start. It’s really pretty and dynamic changing based on where you are but it can make things more confusing. Then, just keep doing the area scan which will reveal any materials you can collect with pings followed by a continuous sound that you can just center and move toward. After you collect a material, rinse and repeat. Eventually this will let you upgrade parts of the suit to let you drive around and eventually also fly. The other sounds you hear when you scan is a continuous rhythmic beeping for your next destination of interest which might be more prceptions you can read or a portal to the next world, and the other sounds you hear that quickly change in pitch is the terrain shape around you. So if you hear the scanner make very high pitched humming that tells you there are hills you might need to jump up to climb, while if you hear lower descending sounds that tells you there are valleys. @bscross32 did a short gameplay recording that demonstrates a lot of this in practice though his suit is already upgraded a bit which yours won’t be at first. audiopub.site/listen/f4205bca-…



Kennt sich jemand mit #Infrarotheizung en aus? Mich würde interessieren, wie viel Leistung man für ca. 20 m^2 braucht. Auch interessant fände ich mögliche Integration in #HomeAssistant

Bitte nur eigene Erfahrungen, danke.

:boostRequest:




@Tutanota

If you know it's a phishing email, why is it showing up in my inbox?

@Tuta
in reply to dwc (inactive)

Thanks for reporting, it shouldn't. I will inform the responsible team.


Seeing people installing Haiku on a single core CPU....

FFS in 1995 the OS this is based on what meant to run on multiples CPU which a multi-core CPU is.




Having an absolutely amazing time in Ottawa. Heard some awesome music and spent time with great friends. We are heading back home tomorrow. Today, we are just hanging around our place. Went to a farmers market this morning and picked up some Wagyu beef steaks for dinner.


Alternative app stores will be allowed on Apple iPad in the EU from September 16 tcrn.ch/3MKhrm3


I released #GNOME #Calls 47.0 yesterday 🚀 \o/

This is the first release running #gtk4 and #libadwaita

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed code, translations and bug reports!

Find the release notes at gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-…

And of course, it has already been uploaded to :debian: 🎉

#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian #Mobian #Librem5



ATTENTION ALL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS: workshop series to integrate disability theory into your research agendas and protocols. If you study technology and disability, this workshop series is for you.

Find details and registration at tinyurl.com/DTHCISeries

#HCI #DisabilityJustice #Research



Objednal som si zapekané hranolky a nejaké pivo. Taký nejaký som bez emócií. Dám prať ešte práčku nech zajtra nič také nemusím.