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Whoops.
In trying to show a developer that the standard Win32 message box function can default to something other than the primary button, I sent a screenshot from some homebrew software which measures the amount of noise around my laptop in "wives-on-the-phone".
That's probably quite an offensive metric if you are a wife. Or a woman. Or use a phone. Or just speak at all, maybe.
in reply to Sean Randall

I was going to send someone a screenshot from WhatsApp today but then realised I have some groups with names I didn't want to have to explain to colleagues and they were in the recent chat history which is on the left of the WhatsApp window. I did a chat export instead.
in reply to Andrew Hodgson

@andrew hehe one of my techniques these days is to use the navigator object. the Openai NVDA addon can grab it as an image. Obviously you can use that file for your own purposes rather than sending it to AI.


apparently the MBasic version of Facebook will be depricated at the end of October. This is by far the most accessible interface in my opinion.

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in reply to TJ Olsen

@Tamasg Do you have an official source for this? I want to pass this information on a podcast I cohost. Granted parts of it have already been dying for months so it would make sense, but Google isn’t returning anything helpful for an official announcement.


Safari’s Private Mode doesn’t mean you are anonymous 🫣 Here’s how you can turn off Apple’s Private Browsing 👉 tuta.com/blog/turn-off-private…

A better solution? Start using a private browser 👉 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

#Privatemode #Privatebrowsing #Apple #ios #Browser #Anonymous

in reply to Tuta

Some of your criticism can be managed by subscribing to iCloud+ and using Private Relay.

For 1€ per month it's cheaper than most VPNs and also includes 50 GB of client side encrypted cloud storage.

It's decent privacy for value and usability.
For sensitive occasions Tor, Tuta and GrapheneOS

in reply to Tuta

regarding Firefox, I would remove it from the list as Mozilla faces GDPR Complaint over Firefox tracking users without consent. They are even moving to advertising blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…




Having to call to get refills on my ADHD medication is awful 🙃
in reply to Chris 🌱

Where I live I have to have an entire psychiatrist's appointment and get a new prescription every month cause Romanian law classifies ADHD meds as narcotics 😭


One for the Linux nerds out there:

🎶
Ra-Ra-Rasputin,
ls /usr/local/bin
🎶



Hi! Hi there! We've only gone and done another #GoToSocial release candidate innit mate!

github.com/superseriousbusines…

We fixed some small bugs, did a bunch of work around release note generation (not interesting for end users but tobi had fun), and documented GTS_WAZERO_COMPILATION_CACHE and nowasm.

Please read the migration notes carefully!

This is probably the final candidate before the real 0.17.0 release when we officially enter beta, we're all very excited here in the GtS treehouse! :gtspat:



I still want to go to Mars, but not if Elon Musk punches the ticket:

"It's not just Musk. The same goes for all the self-declared rationalists and tech-bro billionaires who think they're head and shoulders above the common herd. Far too many of them prove to be con artists, like Sam Bankman-Fried, or swollen with lethal hubris, like Stockton Rush, or wannabe mad scientists who believe that rules are for little people, like Marc Andreessen.

None of them are trustworthy. None of them have wisdom to match their wealth or their lofty rhetoric. If we're going to go to Mars—and, for the record, I do hope we eventually go to Mars—it shouldn't be the private vanity project of a billionaire. It should be a shared commitment on behalf of all humanity, with only our best representatives selected for the mission."

onlys.ky/i-still-want-to-go-to…

#onlysky #future #space

in reply to Adam Lee

I unfortunately lost the link, but I read an article a few weeks ago which argued that we don't have any chance of colonizing Mars because there are regions of Earth, like Antarctica, that we haven't settled, and those are far more hospitable to life than Mars.


Две нобелевки за ИИ. Интересно, через 50 лет ии будет получать все нобелевки? :)


The official #luesky app works fine with #voiceover on #ios for the most part. Everything is #accessible with some minor weirdness.


A security expert has recounted how close he came to being fooled by a new AI-based scam call that aimed to get his Gmail account details.
appleinsider.com/articles/24/1…


Is LibreOffice ever going to behave and stop freezing whenever you do nvda+down arrow? Seriously. I installed it again on my new windows installation and quite rapidly remembered why it was I wanted ms word instead...

I can't even read a document without having to manually do it. Pathetic that it is still like this in 2024.

#accessibility #blind #epic #fail #LibreOffice

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in reply to Casey Reeves

All of those "De-googlin" and "de-microsofting" solutions preach about evil corporations that will eat our bodies and suck our souls, how good and cool they are, but actually they don't give a flying F about accessibility. Maybe "all" is too strong, but lots and lots of them.
in reply to André Polykanine

I mean, I am not a fan of ms, I am even less of a fan of google, and I am glad we don't use the latter at work. Because MS is enough to deal with. the amount of crap it likes installing, is a different thing. Even on a Mac. But at least it works. Not as good as Mac stuff works, but. Meh to all that. Open office is good, I played around with this kid's computer, but honestly, even if you find an ms version, which I have somewhere and could give you, it'll always show the close activation thing and you'd have to close it all the time. Not to mention sometimes it does not want to close and then, well, it dies.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis OpenOffice and all of this stuff may be considered good until you are up to some serious things, like track changes, comments, complicated formatting, formulae and so on, and so on. I'm talking even from a sighted perspective. Oh, and getting compatible with MS Word with those things is yet another level of madness. I mean, as for accessibility, if you ask MS or Google, they at least are obliged to fix. Maybe not so fast, but eventually. With open-source solutions of that size in most cases you'll get "you need it, you fix it" answer. there are some notable exceptions like @forgejo who are really great people and there are folks that do care about accessibility. But in general… OpenOffice/LibreOffice is bad accessibility-wise, MatterMost (a Slack competitor) is awful, Matrix also (at least I couldn't make it work), and so on, and so forth. You want accessibility, you pay, unfortunately.
in reply to André Polykanine

Meh, yeah, I pay for Mcc lol. I did three years or so ago hahaha. But mine was from a multilinguistic standpoint, and thankfully, I don't work with excel. There are absolutely things even in MS that we can't access, or Google. Also, google sucks but that's just because I never made it work. Slack works okay. Teams is a different topic, it opens as many windows as it can. But these guys suck about privacy, and try to make me use the stupid AI, which I don't want to.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis @menelion I also realized the ecosystem has changed too much in ms world and you can't even install anything but office 365 anymore. And I don't want office 365. So meh. I think I'm just going to convert this document to txt and too bad for the formatting. Or maybe not even bother anymore. Sigh.

I just wanted to have something that worked. Oh well. I even tried to install office via winget, called microsoft.office, and every time the installer is just spewing, couldn't install. It's not even trying. Hmph.

in reply to Casey Reeves

Bleh, yeah, MS office is no longer good for the average home user, not even for work unless it's a company hat uses 365.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis @menelion Hmph. Oh well. Too bad for me, I guess. I'm not going to pay a subscription for a product if I use it so little... Besides, I have no money, so I can't pay anyway.

I've looked and looked in the LO bugtracker and just can't wrap my head around this interface and have no clue what to even look for.

in reply to Casey Reeves

@tardis I guess, if you need basic stuff, reinstall WordPad if it's already removed on your system. I won't promise anything, but hopefully I have some better news in coming months for you.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion @tardis Huh huh. I think this only got removed in windows 11, or are they planning to also take it out in 10? Probably only the former since 10 is EOL pretty darn soon. yay for me I'm still on 10.
in reply to Casey Reeves

@menelion @tardis Fwiw I tried OpenOffice for the laughs. I couldn't even figure out what it was asking me to import in the file formats thing so I selected what I thought would fit, and it opened a totally unusable interface just saying something like, OpenOffice chart with nvda always saying unknown unknown. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with this, but it is even worse than LO for sure.
in reply to Casey Reeves

@tardis that's what I'm talking about. And if you report this, you most likely will get one of those:
A) "You need it, you fix it, here are contributing guidelines";
B) "We can't reproduce it, send a screencast". Variant: "What is a screen reader? How do you use a computer if you're blind?";
C) "Accessibility is a very important subject, but we have a roadmap with features X, Y,Z, Alpha, Beta and Gamma, and then we'll probably will consider thinking maybe about some kind of accessibility, sort of. Probably maybe".
I am not talking specifically about OpenOffice, I don't know their particular attitude, but unfortunately, being myself an open-source maintainer and advocate, I read and heard those things too many times.


Build 76 of the Zoom scripts is available.
This build is temporary and is designed to get us over a period while the Zoom calendar is being redesigned.
You are likely to see more updates during November.

In recent builds of the Zoom client, a new calendar has been introduced. This is often reached on the Home Tab and the Meetings Tab.
In some builds, it is no longer possible to see all of your meetings which have been scheduled. They are only shown for the day or week selected within the calendar.
In terms of how they are displayed, this too can vary.
If a calendar is connected to Zoom, such as from Office 365 Business, the meetings are no longer shown in a list. You need to Tab through them.
If you do not have a calendar connected, the meetings are shown in a list relative to the calendar view you have selected.
Are you still with us?

In order to try to get over these issues, the scripts have had the following changes:
1. Pressing Insert+H for Hotkey Help now gives you the option, Check for Updates, right at the top of the Virtual Viewer screen. It used to be at the bottom.
2. If you press the tab key repeatedly, and you end up in the calendar area of a Tab, JAWS now says "Calendar Area".
3. If focused within the Calendar area, pressing Control+N will allow you to create a new meeting.
4. Having entered the form for creating a new meeting, some helpful prompts have been included so as to get around the way in which some of the controls work. For example in the Date field, JAWS now says, "Enter to select, then use all four arrow keys to move through dates, Enter when finished".
5. If within the calendar area, all controls should speak the appropriate label.
When focused upon days, press Up and Down arrow to move by week, Left and Right arrow to move by day.
6. When within the calendar area, you can now use the keystroke of ALT+Windows+F4 so as to close Zoom, just as you can in the main Zoom interface.

We're exhausted already, but we now get to the most important point.

7. From anywhere in Zoom, you can now press Control+Windows+S. This takes you into the web-based view of your meetings. From here you can schedule, review and start your meetings which is a much cleaner interface. This means you can disregard the calendar entirely. For now, this is the recommended option.

Best of luck!

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After spending a week trying to find a durable water bottle as free of plastic as possible, I am happy to say that Soulbottles is the very best you can find in Europe, completely plastic free (including the cap).

According to their site, they donate 1 euro after each purchase for clean water, their packaging is plastic free and the padding is recycled material. Their product parts are produced in China, they pay attention to proper working hours and adequate breaks, their products are shipped via train to Germany where they are assembled, no airplanes.

Best of all, they also make glass bottles with a ceramic cap if durability is not as important. A small business absolutely worth checking out! #waterbottle #plasticFree #BuyForLife #affordable

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I asked chatgpt if it wanted tea or coffee, to which it (correctly?) replied and yet the speak to text is... nonsense (or is a language that I don't recognise?)


Ö1; Nachhaltig Leben; Fab Cities - Selbstversorger-Städte Nur das zu verbrauchen, was sie selbst produzieren: Das planen die Städte hinter der Initiative Fab City. oe1.orf.at/programm/20240927/7…


@Tutanota This is a screenshot from the new Calendar app on my Samsung smartphone. The old UI bug is still there annoying me. Waiting for this to be fixed to return to the paid plan.
@Tuta
in reply to Marcos D. Alves

Hi there! Thanks for sharing this. We will pass it on to our team to resolve :)


«La vivienda es la chispa del malestar social que existe. La complejidad del problema obliga a que las medidas sean audaces.

Hace falta cirugía radical. No hay que tener miedo al control del precio del alquiler ni a la intervención del mercado, porque el Estado no puede dejarle un derecho humano, como la vivienda, al mercado. Pero también hay que hablar de expropiación a los grandes tenedores si hace falta».

📌 Ya puedes leer la entrevista de hoy a Antonio Maíllo

lavanguardia.com/politica/2024…



how did you spend the 8 minutes of free time after finishing your meeting early this morning?
Fucking BitLocker.


How are things going in the UK? National newspaper is promoting shoving crisp packets down the back of the radiator as a solution to not freezing to death 👍

Pensioners urged to use crisp packets after losing £300 Winter Fuel Payments
metro.co.uk/2024/10/13/pension…



Y estos misterios? de la noche a la mañana me ha desaparecido el sonido del ordenador. Gracias a los auriculares he visto que el sonido de salida estaba en digital output o algo así, pero yo no he tocado nada. Si no hubiera tenido auriculares, me hubiera quedado sin sonido.
in reply to Tere Codina

Alguna vez me pasó después de una actualización del sistema, y es una mierda. No se dan cuenta de que para determinados usuarios el sonido es imprescindible, igual que lo pueda ser la pantalla para otros.


¿Creéis que hay algo serio en los casos de corrupción del Gobierno de España?

  • Sí (31%, 6 votes)
  • No. (21%, 4 votes)
  • Es posible. (47%, 9 votes)
19 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

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in reply to modulux

el tema Delcy me parece el más demencial, si se hace porque se hace, si no se hace... crisis diplomática. Ahí sí que no hay de dónde rascar. Además: no se entiende. Vas a un bar, preguntas a alguien para que te explique el Delcygate... Es imposible. No se entiende.
in reply to Alferecía enjoyer

Bueno, seguro que hay quien te lo explique, lo que pasa que a base de pura invención:

Delcy trajo maletines de oro al PSOE que se fueron en el mismo avión a Suiza (como acabaron en la sede del PSOE y en Suiza al mismo tiempo es mucho preguntar, sólo un socialista pregunta tanto).



My socially awkward and permanently anxious self just made a call and I neither lost my shit nor fumbled my words.

I will be taking cookies at this time, or gold stars, or squeezy hugs. Thanks for your consideration.

#ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #Anxiety

in reply to Estelle

Aw, you are welcome. I have the same issue though, so you are not alone, I am sure others do too.


I know a few of my followers are fellow Dungeon Crawler Carl fans. The e-book and print book for book 7 can be pre-ordered now, and will be out November 11, 2024. The audio book pre-order will start soon, and the release is February 25, 2025.
in reply to Mike Breedlove

@stirlock it's a very complicated business. I post-produce for far more hours than I read when it comes to recording audio. Whether that's a measure of my own lack of skills or not I don't know.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo It'll be worth the wait. I read new chapters as they release, but I still read the audio books because Jeff is so good that it feels like experiencing the story for the first time all over again.


You may not have known that majorettes are a sport. I only know because we have a group of majorettes in our little village that are pretty damn good. And now they've won first place in the European Championships! OMG you're good girls.


About 2.5 years ago, dozens profiles on some supposedly "free speech" #Mastodon fedi were blocked for a few posts like this one. I was one of them.
The fact that it's now a book is called vindication against some nazi friendly admins

Despite Chrystia #Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi #genocide
A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of #Ukrainian_Nazis in #Canada

breachmedia.ca/chrystia-freela…



📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 14. Oktober, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion


Working on some exciting updates! 🎉

Soon we'll auto-detect and let you edit photo metadata like camera model, focal point, and exposure—totally optional and perfect for our pro users.

Plus, with HDR support rolling out soon to everyone, your pics will shine brighter than ever!

Stay tuned! ✨

#pixelfed #HDR #photography



Hey I just found someone with precisely 404 followers. Not anymore though, sadly, I broke it for them.
in reply to Haily Merry

Yoouuu, noo, follower breaker, now you gave them another error to deal with. ;)
in reply to Haily Merry

I don't remember, but there might be a 505 one. Let's ask the internet.
in reply to Haily Merry

Oh, yeah, there is, in Mozila or something, 405, method not allowed LOL
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

Oh, we had a room 404, and we had lectures in it. All the jokes I never got tired of. Telling everyone that it doesn't exist because it could not be found. :D
in reply to Haily Merry

I think we had English. We had a room 101 I think, but not in the building I was in. We might've had even Spanish, honestly stuff changed a lot around.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis You won't get that joke if you haven't read 1984, but basically room 101 is the ultimate punishment room.


I am very excited to announce that beyondthegallery.app is now online! Beyond The Gallery is a community for sharing Shortcuts that have been created in the Shortcuts app on Apple devices. Create an account, and share your favorite shortcuts. Thanks to @tayarndt for all of the hard work.


Spolubývajúci nosí spať niekoho do vedľajšej izby a obaja sú rozjebaný, lezie mi to na nervy.
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Es gerüchtelt, die TU Darmstadt hat Beef mit einer Onlineabstimmungsfirma. Weiß wer mehr? Frage für einen befreundeten Wahlausschuss.


Boostered two weeks ago and now am positive for this Covid thingie. Should be mild, but better refrain from coding now.🙃


Am 14. Oktober 1970 löste Helene-Charlotte von Bothmer einen Skandal aus, weil sie als erste Frau in einem Hosenanzug eine Rede im Bundestag hielt. Zuvor hatte der Vizepräsident des Bundestages Richard Jaeger (CSU) erklärt, er würde es keiner Frau erlauben, das Plenum in Hosen zu betreten, geschweige denn an das Rednerpult zu treten. Die lautstarke Empörung im Plenarsaal und außerhalb war gewaltig.

Ja, mit so einem Scheiß haben wir uns als junge Frauen rumschlagen müssen.



Der 6-jährige heute so: "Gell, Papa, ihr seid aus den späten 19-hunderter Jahren".

Irgendwie hat er mich damit an einer Stelle erwischt, von der mir nicht bewusst war, dass sie wehtun kann.



Po poslední aktualizaci aplikací SchildiChat Next a Element X je Mxchat mnohem rychlejší, zejména při načítání chatů. Zlepšila se i synchronizace díky novému Matrix Sliding Sync. Pokud jste ještě nevyzkoušeli, teď je ta pravá chvíle! 🚀 #Matrix #SchildiChat #ElementX #Mxchat #SlidingSync #BestMessenger #mxchatcz


My social circles are all queer lefties in #Lebanon who have opposed Hezbollah for years and I *PROMISE YOU* not one of us has any doubt right now that Hezbollah is the only thing stopping Lebanon from complete extermination by the Israelis.

That bothers you? THEN STOP #ISRAEL