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What are the best cover songs you've heard? Covers so radical they obliviate the original song.
in reply to Jeff Atwood

scary pockets did some great covers, I never got their MMBop cover out of my head: youtube.com/watch?v=fiShsfvbFU…


¡Buenos días con sueño! No hay nada como entender lo que sucede ahí arriba para que haya paz aquí dentro. Anoche tocó dosis de turbulencias, pero incluso sin medicación, todo fue bien. No me voy a aficionar a los aviones, pero al menos ya creo que puedo soportarlos un poco mejor que antes.


"Meloni no es que sea la Capilla Sixtina del pensamiento" Dani Álvarez en radioeuskadi, clavándolo once again.
in reply to Petarda of the dead

Están hablando de los "cordones sanitarios" con la extrema derecha. Ponen el caso de que la semana pasada en el parlamento de Navarra no debatieron una mocion de vox sobre inmigración porque estaba llena de "mensajes de odio". El supremo (o la AN, no sé) dice que es censura y se debe debatir todo lo que se proponga según las vías, sin embargo en otros casos ha prohibido debates en Cataluña sobre la monarquía.

Porque una cosa es debate y otra debatizaje.




Growls like a mad wuff puppy! Don't run a data center in your bedroom, if you intend it for sleeping, LOL.
But if you're like me, and won't give up your local data center, and don't have any other rooms for it, then this happens.
Ziggy? What's the outdoor temperature?
Right now, it's 2° Celsius...
Ziggy? What's the bedroom temperature?
The bedroom temperature is 26.4°.
It didn't say it was celsius, but it is.
in reply to Adam MacLeod

Yeah, warm for me to sleep in probably too. Although, the fact it's 7degrees sometimes is a bit. Bleh. So maybe I could sleep. If I am tired. Haha.


@modulux @swearyanthony Whilst #touchscreens can increase #accessibility and #longevity (no button / force needed) they also can hinder intuitive operation.

  • There's a resson we have buttons and knobs and levers in cars, ships, airplanes and even on bikes and scooters: You don't want to click through menues to be able to turn off the radio, activate warning lights or pull over...

You want immediate and blind control...

in reply to modulux

the only form of "accessibility with touchscreens" I've seen are either alternative menues & audio navigation (like on most modern ATMs in Germany) - bypassing touch entirely like a phone tree - or some #TTS reading where one swipes if not the entire screen.

I'd love to really dive into this...

#tts
in reply to Kevin Karhan :verified:

The model for touchscreen accessibility is mobile OSes like iOS and Android. They have the TTS approach, allowing to touch the elements on the screen and using double tap to select. It's not ideal for devices that may require quick action such as a cooker though, in my opinion.


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Digitale Erpressung durch App-Zwang: Immer mehr Dienste zwingen uns zur Nutzung von Apps – und das auf Kosten unserer Daten und Wahlfreiheit. Ob Online-Banking, Bonusprogramme oder Rabatte, ohne App geht oft nichts mehr. Datenschutz bleibt dabei auf der Strecke, während die Abhängigkeit von wenigen Großkonzernen wächst. Es ist höchste Zeit, Alternativen zu fordern und die digitale Selbstbestimmung zu bewahren! #AppZwang #Datenschutz #DigitaleFreiheit

kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-digit…



FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!

github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.

futo.org/projects/

All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me :D

#Accessibility #HearingAid #Deaf #FUTO #FreeSoftware #FairSoftware #MachineLearning



Users usually do not understand that it's not "their" #accounts, it's a #system #access with a
- #username (choosen by them) and a
- #password (not so carefully choosen by them)
cc: @tardis #ai #aiart by #dalle3
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in reply to iamdtms

I have no idea why I am tagged in this, and I have no idea what it means....


Last week the n0 team did get together in one physical place. We've figured out a path to 1.0 that all of us are happy with!
Why does 1.0 matter for you? It is when we'll promise protocol & API compatibility into the future. To get there we'll have to break the wire protocol one more time, but we'll roll this out slowly in a backwards compatible way and only actually break the backwards compatibility in a release candidate. Aiming for sometime next year!



Do you live in one of the countries in red?

If so, your government is pushing for the EU Chat Control law which mandates mass surveillance via fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats

See:
patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…



Accrescent recently surpassed 1,000 stars on GitHub 🥳! Thank you to everyone for your continued support!

If you'd like to help us grow, check out accrescent.app/faq#contributin…. There are lots of ways to contribute even if you can't code!

github.com/accrescent/accresce…

#security #privacy #appstore #accrescent #android



Monal 6.4.5 (Build 982, PR #1258) released.

To see the complete list of bugfixes and improvements, check our releases page: github.com/monal-im/Monal/rele…

Appstore install links:
apps.apple.com/app/id317711500 (iOS)
apps.apple.com/app/id163707850… (macOS)

#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging

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We just added #forgejo and #sharkey integration to our list of tutorials, see: joinjabber.org/tutorials/integ…
Integrations like this make it very easy to add #xmpp accounts to existing services and #fediverse instances.


"You should be using an RSS reader" - yessss

for example the @delta bot at feedsb@mailchat.pl: i.delta.chat/#024C525D627CBF5A…

And then send "/sub pluralistic.net/feed" to it as the first command! You will not regret it.

---> @pluralistic




7 Common Online Scams to Watch Out for and How to Stay Safe howtogeek.com/common-online-sc…



Star Wars Outlaws accessibility improvements of update 1.2 caniplaythat.com/2024/10/06/st…


Overcoming Barriers: A Blind Person's Take on Workplace Accessibility blog.usablenet.com/overcoming-…

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in reply to David Goldfield

I have to totally agree with the author of this article. It is amazing how many companies are running old everything from software to computers to totally outdated phone systems.


Black Friday Came Early! Act Now to Get 87% off Surfshark VPN thestreamable.com/save-87-perc…


🚀 Phanpy byl aktualizován! 🎉
Právě jsme aktualizoval novou verzi Phanpy! 📢 Verze 2024.10.15.e3df9ff
💬 Máte návrhy nebo jste našli chyby v překladu? Lokalizace ještě není kompletní, takže uvítáme jakékoliv návrhy na zlepšení a pomoc s překladem.
phanpy.cz
#Phanpy #Mastodon #Update #Localization #OpenSource


Odkud k nám přicházejí lidé navštěvit náš blog zaměřený na popularizaci vědy, mediální gramotnost, boj s dezinformacemi a knižní recenze?
pepikhipik.com/
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in reply to Archos

@archos Moc děkuju za nabídku. Od září jsem teď v jednom kole, ne, že by to přinášelo potřebné peníze do rodinné pokladničky :) Vidím to až na leden a třeba osobní setkání? Jsem tvým dlužníkem a rád se naučím nebo aspoň seznámím se světem technologií, kde nejsem úplně doma.
in reply to PepikHipik

Úplně v pohodě, já budu rád, že se budou aplikace víc využívat.


ACB was proud to stand with our partners to draw attention to Uber’s and Lyft’s failures to stop discrimination against people who are blind or have low vision, particularly those accompanied by guide dogs. Read the press release: acb.org/acb-sends-representati…

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I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.


Running #chatmail servers is <2h effort per month, according to an ad-hoc poll with 10 operators responding. Some have 10Ks of #deltachat users. Typically 300MB ram is used and max 60gb disc space per server. And all interoperate safely based on high security standards (DKIM and TLS enforced, and only no-metadata #openpgp encrypted messages allowed) .... with typically 0.5 secs end-to-end delivery. Who said again that email is insecure, cumbersome and slow? :)


Calling #MicrosoftDisabilityAnswerDesk because when I exit out of Outlook it isn't fully exiting and can still be seen in task manager and thus won't reopen fun for a Wednesday night.
in reply to Robin Frost

You know, I remember recently hearing someone else having that problem with Outlook but I never found out what they did, if anything, to resolve it. Please, let us know what they tell you when you call them as I'm curious.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield I have a vague memory of having it on another machine in the past and back then I feel like it had something to do with a corrupted Outlook Profile but that's all I recall. The man who helped me tonight didn't mention that. Perhaps it was beyond his knowledge base. So he escalated me and supposedly an escalation tech will call me on Friday afternoon to solve this as a quick repair of Office didn't solve the problem.
in reply to Robin Frost

Robin, have you tried disabling (not removing) all of the Outlook addins to see if that solves your shutdown issue?
Also, what antivirus or antimalware program are you using and does that program have an option to integrate with Outlook? If it does, try temporarily disabling that option annd then see if Outlook shuts down properly.
in reply to Robin Frost

In case you haven't already seen this article, it may be worth reading. It's extremely detailed and much of it might not apply to your situation but, just in case ..
slipstick.com/problems/outlook…
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield Interesting read. Thank you for it. Only one add-in they mentioned do I find here. I'll keep you posted as to how it progresses.



At this point, can we all just agree that the menu options recently changing when you call a place is implied now?

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in reply to Justin Yarbrough

What, you mean you don't like waiting for an extra 75 seconds at the start of a call to hear those messages?


Subscriptions are getting much easier to manage thanks to the new FTC "Click to Cancel" rule that blocks companies from deceptive or malicious tactics that keep customers from canceling.

appleinsider.com/articles/24/1…



Good day people.
There any android OS with accessibility enabled or with accessibility related components bundled which I can install to my system? I know about android x86 project, but to my knowledge, they don't bundle talkback with it.
in reply to Thaqib

I know of Blue Stacks, but I've never tried it. bluestacks.com/
in reply to Cleverson

@clv0 That thing sucks. Can't even use ocr to enable accessibility. It uses some sort of bloated custom launcher with game installation ads.


When Québecois journalists learn to speak just one indigenous language, then they just might have a semblance of a reason to criticize our Governor General

cbc.ca/news/politics/gov-gen-s…

#QCPoli #CdnPoli

in reply to Harold Jarche

Franco fascism is in full force in the newspapers. It's very shameful.


Am I the only one who, when I hear the term "boot loop" I always think of Fruit Loops?


My thoughts on the AirPods 4 with active noise cancelation after using them for a few weeks.
1. They sound a lot better than my AirPods 3. More balanced, less cheap, more treble. That goes for calls too—the difference is night and day.
2. Transparency is subtle but effective. No accommodation settings, but that's not surprising. It'd be hard to make amplified transparency on open-ear buds.
3. Noise cancelation is okay but not amazing for me. The way others talk about it, I suspect this has to do with the way they fit in my ears, which is quite loosely. It blocks out a lot of lows and mids but the highs are still there. Also, speaking while ANC is enabled feels really weird because the natural reverberation of my own voice gets canceled out a lot. I don't notice this effect nearly as much with the pros or any other ANC headset, for some reason. There's some kind of pressure in my ears and it's not to the point of being uncomfortable, but it's a strange feeling that I wouldn't call pleasant.
4. They die a little more quickly than I'd like. I have to swap back to my 3's a few times a day and wait for them to charge again.
5. I don't think the ANC version was worth the extra $50 USD but the $129 version comes with a case that doesn't make sounds. This is annoying because...
6. They replaced the button with a double-tap gesture. To pair the AirPods, you double-tap on the front and wait for an indicator light. If you have the case with sounds, you'll also hear a beep. I don't know why they did this, but because the gesture doesn't always work perfectly, we have to pay the accessibility tax to get audible feedback when pairing mode is engaged. I'd happily go back to a button.
7. I am really disappointed that even the ANC pods don't have the swipe gestures for changing volume. That doesn't feel like something that should be a pros-only feature.

Overall, I think the non-ANC AirPods are a steal at $129 US, the ANC versions are not bad for $179 as a sort of halfway point, but if you're already paying upward of $179 and don't mind ear tips, the pros are a better investment. I actually own the pros and like them, but I would have liked to see a midrange option that took on as many pros features as possible while remaining open-ear, and Apple almost got there, but didn't. In addition to the lack of volume swipes, we have no stereo audio on phone calls, which is a much smaller deal to most people but would still have been nice.

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Meta lays off even more of my friends theverge.com/2024/10/16/242721…


We can say all we want about VOiceOver shortcut keys, but VO+a is certainly one of the coolest in my books. Just press it whenever you want to read everything on the web page. This is, of course, valid only if VO can navigate the content. #accessibility


Fable Raises $25m in Series B Funding to Protect Digital globenewswire.com/news-release…


Any friends know if the new Braille pen 24-cell is available to purchase in the US somehow? BraillePen by Harpo. (their contact page is at braillepen.com/contact/)
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in reply to Tamas G

I haven't seen Harpo products in the U.S. for a minute. I wonder how much it's going for? That size of display is a harder sell now with the free eReaders.
in reply to Jage

@Jage ah yeah interesting, didn't realize they're a Polish company. Wanted to pick one up for my partner - they like the portability of the smaller displays. Looking at the Dealer page they list some in Mexico for North America, and their UK dealer does not list the product which was odd and thwarted me from finding a price. (braillepen.com/contact/) - suppose I'll also fill that form out and see what they get back to me with.
@Jage
in reply to Tamas G

@Mendi_Tech I was just looking at their site. I can't seem to find a user manual for the 24 cell version.