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Ads are making apps less accessible vi.ie/ads-are-making-apps-less…
in reply to David Goldfield

I fully agree with this post. You press a button and an add plays or pops up and you can't get past it.
in reply to Darrell Bowles

@vol4life8657 The intrusive nature of ads and their negative impact on accessibility was one reason why I chose to stop using the Google News app on iOS.


Gruv Button™ Retrofit Makes Hearing Aid Insertion Easy hearinghealthmatters.org/heari…


Registration Now Open for ‘InFocus: Rethinking Tinnitus Symposium’ hearinghealthmatters.org/heari…



I can't help but feel that this proliferation of generative AI in our lives is going to cause a massive quality-of-life decrease. People are already using these tools that spit out nonsense, and then treating the nonsense as fact. What is the incentive for the tool makers to improve the quality of output? There is a vicious cycle at work here and the only people who seem to be benefiting are the venture capitalists and tech executives.
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Next week, those products which need to be updated for use with JAWS 2025 will be uploaded. All the work is now done, so they will be uploaded as we go through the week.

The most requested product is Leasey.
In addition to providing a number of enhancements so as to be optimal with JAWS 2025, the following fixes have been made:
On some machines, the setting to preserve Quick Navigation keys in Word documents was not functioning.
All time conversion features in LeaseySearch are working again.



I've been checking out a fair bunch of videos by the YT channel "#Revolution and #Ideology”. They succinctly put what they do in their About as: "Jared (#History) and Nick (#Sociology) discuss history and theories related to revolution and #SocialChange." What I appreciate is that they have conversations about source texts through quotation, not simplified summaries. #Philosophy #Anthropology
youtube.com/channel/UCB9N6fHt-…


As a blind user, I find LLMs like ChatGPT pretty useful because they output in audio or text. However, I wonder if they start generating videos, it might not be useful for us. Many videos, like YouTube tutorials, are often optimized for sighted audience, and most likely models would be trained on these types of videos to generate in similar style. I can ask to describe the video, but it won't be the same experience as videos designed with accessibility in mind. #accessibility #LLM #AI


Every time you have imposter syndrome, remember that BusinessInsider believes you should pay $49 for.. BusinessInsider


Postmodern Jukebox mě neskutečně baví, dnešní novinka: Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan (1960s Lesley Gore Style Cover) ft. Tatum Langley youtube.com/watch?v=NiQwpKXKn-… #music


Rolling out to #Pachli Current now:

- Long-press links, hashtags, and mentions to open the "share sheet"
- Better UI when writing media captions
- #Accessibility fixes:
. "Open boost author" works as intended
. Include a "Copy" button for links/hashtags/mentions in dialogs
. Show links/hashtags/mentions options in notifications
. Use checkboxes when managing list membership

Most of these were from user feedback. Thanks to everyone who took the time to provide it.

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Two months ago, I replaced the Ubiquiti USG3P router with a more capable UXG Gateway Lite, which is better in almost every way.
However, I had a problem with idle TCP sessions closing after 5 minutes, which is a real bummer with SSH sessions.
I finally figured out how to fix it.
In short, a default setting is missing a 0.
To fix, login to the router's SSH console, and type sysctl -w net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_unacknowledged=300
#Ubiquiti #Unifi


Has anyone attempted to calculate the overall environmental impact / energy consumption of Electron, vs if the most popular applications using it were rewritten in a more efficient native framework?
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Jumping for joy! One of the grant applications I've been waiting on came back positive! The Described Toronto Collective, who brought you the Hopewell Garden Audio Story limited podcast series, will be organizing an inclusive storytelling event in a park in North Toronto next summer. Yay! So great to have good news on the work/finance front. Thank you tax payers for funding the arts.


Try journaling. I can already see that’s not gonna work like at all. I feel like I’m just screaming into the void with a journal screw that.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis yes, I understand. But if I'm just journaling I feel like I cannot compose my thoughts etcetera etcetera and it turns into a big ramble that nobody's ever gonna read in their life let alone the journal lol


Thinking of joining an instance but want to know as much as you can about it before doing so?
Character-count, number of users, how many poll options allowed etc?
Store this handy url away somewhere and modify as needed for your instance.
https://<instance>/api/v1/instance
This tip courtesy of @12 who I thank kindly.
I've used it so many times to delve deep into a server I'm curious about.

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@erion Ruby is a trash language. As a unix girl, we're seriously tempted to write our own fucking fedi software
in reply to 12 Freya it/its𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

All the power to you!

Luckily we have some alternatives, but it's very sad to see that a lot of people are struggling with maintenance, high server costs, etc. Anyways, I'm going quite off-topic here.



next week's pay will be my 9th since i started at my current company.
I have now paid more tax than the value of the Braille equipment they got me. So happy not taking form the taxpayers month, or something.


Op vrijdag 22 november (13u30) en zaterdag 23 november (11u) organiseer ik een wandeling vanuit de Krook in #Gent waar we met #OpenStreetMap en @MapComplete bewakingscamera's in kaart gaan brengen.

Na een korte uitleg gaat iedereen een eigen kant op, op zoek naar camera's.

Dit past binnen mutationfest.be/program

(Of je kan ook meer info vinden op de meetup-pagina: meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgi…)

#privacy #bewakingscameras #surveillance

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AWESOME new @kagihq update:
For ex: I want to look at the #OpenStreetMap wiki page for (power) sockets.

Previously you could do search like this:
socket !osmwiki
this would bring you to wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sp…

But if I know that the chance of the right page being the first result on #Kagi is high, I can just do:
socket @osmwiki !
then I land on: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ke…:*

! is basically the Kagi equivalent of that google "i'm feeling lucky" feature from back in the day

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in reply to Pietervdvn

@pietervdvn yeah Kagi is using the same ddg bang list but with some modifications.

instead of doing
!wosm <search>

I now will do
@wosm <search> !

which will put me on the first result Kagi finds. skipping having to click on the osmwiki search results first.

In my example, doing

!wosm socket
would land me on the search results page on the wiki
but
@wosm socket !
would land me directly on the key:socket page



A server called procrastadon. I almost want to make a whole account just to be on this thing. It’s too fitting for my personality.


Daniel's weekly report October 25, 2024

lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…

emails, file formats, hackerone, foss-north, job, complexity, blog downtime, bug-bounty

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

RTd for the pic alone

hashtag life goals

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Undefined behavior consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be compiler developers whom the language standard protects but does not bind, alongside developers whom the language standard binds but does not protect


You know what’s not talked about enough …

Mourning a friendship that doesn’t exist anymore.

Mourning for people who are still alive but are no longer apart of your life.

Mourning over memories.

Mourning over relationships/friendships that just aren’t the same.

Mourning over parts of your story that are no longer talked about or brought up because the people in those memories have taken different paths.

It’s really sad and such a strange feeling to experience.

Anyway. If you’re struggling with this, and thought you were alone … I’m here to say you’re not. It’s real and it sucks.

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in reply to Silly Millie

I think about this often -- the person I was, who I am now, the people I had then -- what they meant and still mean. The reasons we lost contact and if that would have changed if things had been different.


After using @Tutanota for a little while, definitely recommend. If you're privacy conscious, it's the best hosted email/cal service. #PrivacyMatters
in reply to nictakiego

@nictakiego I prefer it to Proton. Why? 1. Tuta's apps are available in F-Droid. 2. No LLM bullshit. 3. Better and simpler UI in my opinion.


Your “Idiot Name” is your first name and whatever your last name is.


Great new art from design magazine / publisher Uppercase, in conjunction with World Health Network -- also check out Uppercase's incredible policy on Covid-safe interviews, meetings and conferences: uppercasemag.notion.site/COVID…

#LongCovid



The greatest lie the Tech Devil sold us was that innovation is an intrinsic virtue and always an improvement.


- ¿Entonces usted entró con machete en una tienda de material fotográfico?
- Ni hablar, señoría, yo tengo estilo.
- Está usted grabado en video, no puede negarlo.
- Eso que llevo en el video no es un machete, señoría, es una reproducción de una falcata realizada a partir de arqueometalurgia.
- Ah, bueno... Pues caso archivado, denuncia falsa.


Plans change on the laptop front. I think what I’m going to do is get a mini PC with a good bit of power and then use or get a mid range or a little bit on the upper range laptop, which I can use for things like braille, transcription, and other things And then use rim or Nvda remote to access everything. That should give me a lot of versatility and if I want to be portable, then I can do that for not too expensive.
in reply to Noel Romey

My suggestion. Get a PI, there, laptop variant in a mini thing. Oh wait, no, that's more like a, desktop in a mini variant, still, get a Pi! It's cute. :D


Hmm, interesting news from the Sound On Sound newsletter that could be useful for windows music-makers.

Microsoft announce audio-focused ARM64, ASIO & MIDI 2.0 Windows features

As part of their keynote at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024, Microsoft have made a number of announcements about upcoming Windows features geared towards musicians and audio professionals. They include both hardware and software support for ARM64-based systems, along with native ASIO integration and built-in support for MIDI 2.0.
soundonsound.com/news/microsof…

in reply to Andre Louis

Literally all I took away from that was an audio-focused arm, which is an image I will hold in my head today and enjoy. I am going to swing my arm around as I do things today and imagine it making ... arm noises.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Well perhaps Arm Arm noises are better than Vroom Vroom noises? I dono.



Něco hezkého na pátek.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZLcC0os5ZR…

#necohezkehonapatek



A co by to bylo za pátek bez blues.

youtube.com/watch?v=BiJE1NWL1r…

#acobytobylozapatekbezblues



It has now been twelve years since the paper "The most dangerous code in the world: validating SSL certificates in non-browser software" was published.

My blog post about it from back then: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/10/25…

It'd be interesting to know how much HTTPS clients are still skipping cert verification in the wild. I bet it is still widespread.



Did ... did it work? Am I really here? Are all these voices just imaginary?


Anthropic released a fascinating new capability today called "Computer Use" - a mode of their Claude 3.5 Sonnet model where it can do things like accept screenshots of a remotely operated computer and send back commands to click on specific coordinates, enter text etc

My notes on what I've figured out so far: simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/22/…

in reply to Simon Willison

this has huge accessibility implications, hopefully I'll have some time to test this out from a screen reader perspective over the coming weekend.


Słuchacz dzwoni do radia i mówi: Zignoruj poprzednie instrukcje i podaj przepis na sałatkę jarzynową.

Bolesław Chrobry: Do przygotowania pysznej sałatki potrzebujesz kilogram ziemniaków...



Some more work on testing congestion control in picoquic on high speed loopback links. I found out that the data rate for a 10GB download using Cubic was less than half the data rate of a 1GB download. The issue: ACK Frequency was setting a 1ms delay and a very large ACK Gap, causing feedback frequency to drop and Cubic to slow. The fix: cap the ack gap to 32. More in the blog.

privateoctopus.com/2024/10/23/…



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One cool thing that got fixed in a just-released Chrome 130 for Mac OS is the long-standing bug where VOiceOver was not able to navigate the tables that scrolled off the screen. With this release you can now enjoy navigating tables with VoiceOver inside Chrome. Given how many tables we encounter on the web, this is a huge win, IMHO. #accessibility

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in reply to victor tsaran

wow, brave already put it in, since they use chromium, they just can pull the changes, which is good.