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I'm having an odd issue with my apple watch series 10. Frequently, voiceover seems to get stuck on a screen. Swiping gives me no feedback. Bringing up apple pay, then dismissing it takes me back to the watch face. Also seeing an issue where pressing clear all notifications does nothing. Is anyone else seeing this? Thinking it might be a watch os 11 bug.


Hey @NVAccess, how do you stop websites from pinging NVDA into focus mode? This is particularly problematic in for instance the Google Drive website.
in reply to Haily Merry

In NVDA"s browse mode settings you can turn off "Enable browse mode on page load": nvaccess.org/files/nvda/docume…
in reply to NV Access

See also the settings Automatic focus mode for focus changes and Automatic focus mode for caret movement in browse mode settings. I turned both of those off for focus-mode apps so it will just stay there. It still happens sometimes, especially when I press enter to go into a dialog or application, but at least that makes sense, the only quirk there is that it does it with no sound. This is useful for E.G. Discord and Pinafore+forks, but I originally enabled it for Skype years ago.


Among the many absurdities here is the question of why our legal system allows Walmart to sic the cops on her in the first place and does not punish Walmart for misuse of that process. It's an alleged underpayment of $67. Send a dunning letter and go to small claims court.
independent.co.uk/life-style/w…


I remember being in elementary school & we had some police liasons come to do presentations(indoctrination speeches) at our school assemblies. I distinctly remember all of them telling us: "No one is above the law." I believed that for awhile too.
I realized that statement was a total crock of lies, when I grew up some more. I saw how often police officers, politicians & rich white folks were able to do many different crimes without facing any prison time.
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in reply to Ms. Que Banh

Leftists didn't radicalize me.
Privileged white collar criminals, criminal cops & criminal politicians - radicalized me.


The solution to RTO? Unionize. You felt that there was no need to unionize in tech? Look at the RTO some of them being backwards (aka you were hired as a remote worker).

You have the power, exercise it.



re: my last boost: I wonder who started such a crazy topic?
in reply to David Goldfield

David, I don't see boosts from you. I see posts that look like your original content until I see the link. It would actually be really helpful if you did boost when you can
in reply to David Goldfield

It's like you are posting, not using the boost feature. With a boost, you won't be entering any text at all, simply pressing the boost button
in reply to David Goldfield

There, you've just done it with Bruce's post but most times I don't see them
in reply to Dave Taylor

@davetaylor2112 Odd, as I boost a lot of things, mostly using Mona on iOS but also from Tweesecake.
in reply to David Goldfield

And your post where you just said re my last boost, it wasn't threaded. Mastodon is silly with this Ithink, but to make it work, you boost the post, then you reply to the post you boosted, then you boost your reply! It's supposed to increase interaction, but Ithink it just makes things harder to follow. I wish we could quote!



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Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity reuters.com/technology/artific…


A Waydroid-specific gripe: there doesn't seem to be an easy way to copy something on my host and paste it into the terminal. In general the Waydroid environment and the host environment are far too isolated.



George Lucas got the idea for Princess Leia's iconic "space buns" from Mexican revolutionary women. Specifically Clara de la Rocha, a total badass.

Clara's descendant recounted:

"She crossed a river on horseback…and was able to take out a power station in order to allow the rebel forces to attack during night without being seen."

Just like Leia, eh?

On Clara:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_de…

Lucas interview:
time.com/archive/6911956/so-wh…

#HispanicHeritageMonth #Mexico #History #StarWars #PrincessLeia



Confession: I don't have a QFC/Kroger/Fred Meyer loyalty card. At checkout I always choose a random local phone number from my contacts and reap the rewards.


Compact #kei trucks were briefly banned in Massachusetts this summer for allegedly being "unsafe" but the Commonwealth has since changed course; the controversy reflects how American regulations prioritize safety for people inside motor vehicles at the expense of safety for everyone else.

mass.streetsblog.org/2024/09/2…

#kei





I let Notebook LM talk about Super Liam. I passed it the read me plus a text guide. here are the results. dropbox.com/scl/fi/xpw9bg3305v… #audio
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Florida Division of Emergency Management:

We have partnered w/ @Uber
to provide Floridians free rides to shelters in counties under a state of emergency for #Helene. Get a ride:

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Up to $35 each way, to & from a state-approved shelter: FloridaDisaster.org/shelter-st….

#FLwx #Helene #hurricane



A few hiccups building our NAS. Thinking tonight I'll finally get to install TrueNAS. Blog post: chaslinux.com/2024/09/25/build…


Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: lighter and comfortable with improved ANC and transparency, but underwhelming Gemini Live and no high-quality Bluetooth codecs (Chris Welch/The Verge)

theverge.com/24254109/google-p…
techmeme.com/240925/p51#a24092…



Donald Trump wants Apple to unlock his attackers' phones

From Stephanie Lai's "Trump Calls On Apple to Decrypt Phones of Would-Be Assassins" posted Wednesday by Bloomberg.

ped30.com/2024/09/25/donald-tr…





Some good thoughts from Mike Blumenkrantz on the latest debates happening in and around the Wayland project, strongly recommend a read: supergoodcode.com/My-Wayland-Y… #linux #wayland


When going into File Explorer, I now hear the silly "workking on it" message, which I gather is only sent to screen readers? I thought that was only in insider builds and was removed. Apparently, it's now in public builds. It's absolutely stupid.
in reply to David Goldfield

Yep, I can confirm that it is in public builds, and it's annoying.
in reply to David Goldfield

Yes I have heard it with JAWS from time to time. Things really are going backwards.


Ever wondered why semiconductors are called "digital oil"? 🤔💻 Dive into the world of chips and discover how they're shaping our future! #Semiconductors #TechInvestment #TSMC #NVDA🚀

globalcitizen.world/investment…

in reply to The Global Citizen

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!

in reply to Hubert Figuière

still can't fix a container whose entry-point fail. Or the doc search is shit. Or something.

I guess that's why everyone uses it. Like Windows.



I love Fast API as a framework, but God is their style of documentation awful.

I didn't think I'd ever complain about something being over documented, but Tiangolo frameworks definitely suffer from that problem.

in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes It explains things like you're five, assumes 0 knowledge about things like status codes, considers headers an "advanced" concept, has an obverabundance of examples, documents one concept over multiple pages, one keyword argument at a time and so on.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

Ah. One of those. It may not be a coincidence that the Pydantic docs are similarly bad.
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes I consider Pydantic not great but bearable compared to Fast API and Typer, TBH.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@jscholes This guy also made SQL Model, which is a thin wrapper over SQL Alchemy that makes it work better with Fast API.I decided not to go with it when setting the (project up and used raw SQL Alchemy instead, because I frankly couldn't be bothered to go through yet one more explanation of what a join is and how a select differs from an update.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

SQLAlchemy is an interesting example. They've clearly made the decision that the aim of their docs is not to teach you about database basics, but yet that is the number one thing that beginners constantly complain about. At the same time, the SQLAlchemy docs manage to be frustrating for completely unrelated reasons.
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes TBH, one of the better resources to learn about how to use that stack properly is looking at polarsource/polar on Github (Apache) and trying to figure out why they do the things they do, in the way they do them.

We're not copying blindly of course, but took plenty of inspiration from that codebase.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@jscholes Basically the way you accept data in Fast API is by having arguments in your handlers and annotating them with types. If the argument has the same name as an argument in the path, it's taken from the path. Otherwise, it's taken as a query param if it's a simple type, deserialized from JSON if a Pydantic model. You can use Annotated[type, annotation] to influence this behavior.

That was 4 sentences, and would grow to 10 if you described the annotations. The actual description is half a dozen subpages with copious examples.



Does Microsoft actually believe blind people need to hear messages every second of the day so as to prove that they are working on it.
Working on it doesn't seem to come up as a phrase you can get rid of with the JAWS Notification manager.
in reply to John Gassman

Oh, I wrote about it here. The thing that puts me off the most is that it's "working on it" when I try to move from one folder to another in Windows Explorer! Come on, it used to be one of the fastest things in the world for at least last 25 years! What are you working on?!


For posterity's sake, a fix for Gaggia coffee makers giving you "Error 5" on first run.

exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/09/2…



I read that the official Mastodon instance of the Swiss government will be closing down.

They say there are few active users, low engagement, and minimal interaction, which seems quite plausible. Additionally, they claim that "on platforms like X or Instagram, the Federal Council and the Federal Administration have many more followers." I believe that too, of course.

However, I do not agree with their decision. I think a government shouldn’t be overly concerned about follower counts and interactions, but rather about providing free, autonomous communication that is independent of third-party companies. In my view, a government shouldn’t operate like a business focused on "numbers."

Still, I appreciate their experiment - many governments, like the Italian one, haven’t even tried.

Regarding costs and management effort: an instance with 5 users and 3,500 followers (numbers provided by them) can run on a VPS for €3 a month and doesn't require heavy moderation. The cost for them is nearly zero. Yet, the freedom of information and discussion, especially for a Neutral Country, should always be a priority.

I believe that maintaining control over one’s information channels is crucial, especially in today's world. But, I fear that decision-makers only consider the numbers, which often favor the flashiest - but worse - solutions.

Encouraging citizens to use closed platforms is, in my opinion, a wrong choice.

Thanks to the Swiss government for at least giving it a shot.

admin.ch/gov/it/pagina-inizial…

#Mastodon #FreedomOfSpeech #Switzerland #Fediverse #SocialNetworks

in reply to Stefano Marinelli

The cost isn't 0, as the risk is potentially unbounded.

Imagine if somebody hacks into the VPS, waits for a Twitter outage, and posts a message from a top government official that Zurich is under imminent nuclear attack from Russia, then conveniently forwards the link to that official government instance to all the media.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki the same could happen if the X accounts gets hacked. Or the website. Having multiple communication channels is the key to avoid those kinds of problems.
Monoculture is always a problem.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki
I would argue that hacking into the (correctly set up, maintained and updated) VPS is harder than hacking into Twitter

One can also employ better protection against such vulnerabilities: move official accounts to another instance and lock the login page behind the firewall, allowing only connections from inside their office network. This is a trivial task.

@stefano



Idem domov električkou, trochu nezvyčajne si dávam Desperado na lavičke za rohom, tri metre dopadne prázdna fľaša Amundsenky. Čo som mal urobiť, idem domov, muselo to padať z vrchných poschodí to na ten chodník z jednotky ani z trojky nedohodíš a pri tom ako sa to rozbilo to vyzerá tak tiež.
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Nič, vôbec ani slovo som nepovedal a v tej tme ma poznať nebolo ale aaaaah to bol nejaký alkoholik lebo bol úplne ticho. Dopil to a vyhodil to von z okna alebo balkónu.. úprimne rád by som ho stretol.
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The application deadline for the GNOME Foundation’s Executive Director role has been extended to October 15! We encourage every qualified applicant to apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement.

Position details and how to apply: foundation.gnome.org/careers/

#OpenSource #Leadership #GNOME #TechCareers #FOSS

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oooh got an update to the Meta Glasses, so far I do notice that there's shorter response times when talking to it, but not many of the new features are rolled out quite yet. Was surprised how quick that took to update and little battery life it used (like 5% in total.) Also submitted my S/n for the Early Access program so we'll see.
in reply to Tamas G

I just signed up for a 4th time. Maybe they'll take me? Haha!


What are your thoughts on #AI and #accessibility? Do you think AI can actually help developers make more accessible software, or can play more of a role in users' lives? I'm going to take computer vision off the table because that's been talked to death. And yes, i'm using the word AI deliberately even though I understand it's kind of just a buzzword. I just want to see what comes back from this.
in reply to Tristan

@tristan Yeah, this is pretty much what I think. Someone could probably learn a lot from an LLM and I'm sure they could probably detect and fix accessibility with some degree of accuracy above 0%, but who's going to notice when GPT gets it wrong? If you have to ask an LLM how to do something you yourself can't test in a meaningful way, you'll never know whether it's correct. My friend loves to point out that GPT 3.5 will confidently and consistently insist role="dropdown" is a thing that exists.
in reply to simon.old

@tristan Not a software dev... yet, but LLM hallucinations are a serious problem that really need to be solved before truly useful and accurate AI applications can be developed. I'm honestly a little wary of the blind communitie's general enthusiasm for LLM powered descriptions, we are at a particular disadvantage when it comes to hallucinations. We can't necessarily verify whether GPT is telling the truth or just spitting out garbage, and the General lack of understanding with regard to how these tools are working under the hood is concerning to me.


Something to add to your CSS reset from now on:

```
:root {
interpolate-size: allow-keywords;
}
```

It enables things like transitions from `height: 0` to `height: auto`.

developer.chrome.com/docs/css-…

in reply to Bramus

remember to only enable this if the reduced motion media query is supported and doesn’t return true.



Dear #blind friends from #Europe, do you have any experience with those famous Meta smart glasses? Where did you buy them and for how much? Are they able to speak in different languages? Thanks! #accessibility #SmartGlasses