Oh dear.
I've been told I need a waited blanket today, because 'a well-known blind influencer' said they're good for blind people. Obviously this person is a follower and has just assumed I have trouble sleeping because I'm blind.
In the same discussion, she tells me that audible have great offers on this week, which will be brilliant for me. Because I'm blind.
I wish people would stop telling me I'm blind (hint: I already know), and secondly maybe not assume that what works for one blind person works for everyone. My blindness may be one of my most obvious characteristics, but it certainly isn't the only one.
For the record I sleep very well and don't listen to audiobooks.
Communiqués de presse - Cour de justice de l'Union européenne
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UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer’s unexpected behavior
Or maybe "I learned something"
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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.
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.
@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...
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...
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
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Kommentar – Digitale Erpressung: Der unaufhaltsame Vormarsch des App-Zwangs
Der App-Zwang nimmt Nutzern die Wahlfreiheit, zwingt zur Nutzung von Apple- und Google-Diensten und macht Datenschutz ohne technisches Know-how fast unmöglich.www.kuketz-blog.de
FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!
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FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.
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
GitHub - abb128/LiveCaptions: Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning
Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning - abb128/LiveCaptionsGitHub
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:
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Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence Take action to stop Chat Control now! The Chat Control 2.Patrick Breyer
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Monal 6.4.5 (Build 982, PR #1258) released.
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Appstore install links:
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#Monal #ios #macos #xmpp #im #chat #messaging
Monal - XMPP Chatting
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Integrations like this make it very easy to add #xmpp accounts to existing services and #fediverse instances.
Integrations
Here you can find some tutorials on XMPP integrations: Akkoma/Pleroma Forgejo Friendica LDAP Lemmy Mastodon Nextcloud SharkeyJoinJabber
"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
Clipboard History Is the Best Windows Feature You’re Probably Not Using
Most of us could use a virtual clipboard.Ismar Hrnjicevic (How-To Geek)
7 Common Online Scams to Watch Out for and How to Stay Safe
Dodging online scams isn't always easy, but here's how to stay one step ahead.Ray Malik (How-To Geek)
Winamp’s Code Pulled From GitHub Following Messy Release
It's honestly for the best.Jorge A. Aguilar (How-To Geek)
Star Wars Outlaws accessibility improvements of update 1.2 - Can I Play That?
Title update 1.2 for Star Wars Outlaws includes several accessibility improvements among other changes and fixes.Marijn / ActiveB1t (Can I Play That?)
Overcoming Barriers: A Blind Person's Take on Workplace Accessibility
Explore how digital accessibility affects workers and learn how to create more inclusive workplaces during National Disability Employment Awareness Month.Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
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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.
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OUTLOOK.EXE continues running after you exit Outlook
After closing Outlook, it continues to run. Outlook can't close properly if another application is accessing Outlook's message store.Diane Poremsky (Slipstick Systems)
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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.
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.
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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
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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in reply to Sean Randall • • •also, here we go, me assuming now: but the level of smugness some people with more sight but not full vision exude sometimes is really annoying. Like, I can se these Audible offers in an advertisement somewhere because I have more vision than you, so I must share them! You need to know about them because of your total blindness!
Your screen reader won't read that advert to you.
She's right. I block them. I don't want to see them. I've chosen not to, though, rather than rendered myself technically unable.
Gah.
Maybe I'm just having a whingy day.
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Nobody's ever said anything!
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