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So, after electricity went out and I had a mini panic thinking that we had not payed our bill, it's back on. Also, how are people getting IPhone sixteens? I'm still on my ten because I can't afford it.
in reply to 🍂Melissa🌠

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I save money, I work, I get iPhone 16. Also, I am not probably going to get that, but, that's the usual way, also, payments is the other variant. I consider those shady, and quick to get the interest rate up up up, so I don't do that. I have the money, I do it. I don't, I don't do it. also, I used to wonder how people bought new things when I was younger and did not have money. Well, turns out blind folks don't go out much, lot of them live with family, create drama, and still manage to buy the nicest tech because their parents do everything for them while they still can. I didn't even have money for the bils when I was younger. :D So that could tell you how I have lived for most of my life. But meh, I really don't like when people brag, and then it turns out they get their stuff on monthly payments to the mobile provider. LoL. also, phones end up being more expensive than when you'd buy them yourself from a store. Just my experience over here.

Hmm, so you know sometimes when you record a message or audio on your iPhone, voice over switches to the other speaker and turns itself down very much?
That happens to me often when I open the google app...
What could that tell us?
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in reply to Jonathan

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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That this one is the fault of Google. Haha. Because it is designed to switch to the other speaker when you record a message.

Redesigned M4 Mac mini leaks: M4 Pro variant, up to 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB RAM, front-facing ports like Mac Studio 9to5mac.com/2024/10/28/m4-mac-…

Redesigned Mac mini and M4 Pro leaks: up to 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB RAM, front-facing ports like Mac Studio - 9to5Mac

We already know Apple is revealing the start of its M4 Mac line this week. The M4 iMac was the...
Zac Hall (9to5Mac)

The next #curl release is coming in 8 days

curl.se/dev/release-notes.html

Release Notes for next curl release

curl.se
#curl

Me siento tentado de votar a la derecha. Al menos, aparte de ser unos hijos de puta, también lo parecen, que es casi tan importante como lo primero.
Yolanda Díaz no preguntó a Errejón por los abusos pese a tenerlo en su equipo de campaña

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Yolanda Díaz no preguntó a Errejón por los abusos pese a tenerlo en su equipo de campaña

Las primeras explicaciones públicas de Yolanda Díaz sobre el caso de Íñigo Errejón siguen dejando al menos dos grandes preguntas por resolver. ¿Por qué nadie de Sumar...
Álvaro Carvajal (El Mundo)
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

modulux
modulux
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Nunca entenderé esas tentaciones. En particular, me puede decepcionar un partido y puedo dejar de querer votarlos, pero me abstendría antes que votar contra mis intereses y los de la clase trabajadora.

Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Esta semana tiene buena pinta. El tiempo no defraudó, y ayer el café lo tomamos al sol. A ver si hoy encontramos algún curruncho similar---el sitio de ayer está cerrado.

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Juan CBS
Juan CBS
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es muy malo el café de la cafetería interna? Conste que yo si podía también me iba fuera de la ONCE aunque el café de su cafetería era razonablemente bueno.
in reply to Juan CBS

modulux
modulux
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El café de aquí no vale para tomar por el culo. Si llueve a cántaros y bajamos aquí, tomo té.
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Iván Novegil
Iván Novegil
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oye, pues el resto de servicios en su momento no estaban tan mal. Supongo que tenía suerte de que no me gustaba el café. Y de que si me gustase creo que teníamos una cafetera de cápsulas para nosotros, imagino que no es algo especialmente común.
in reply to Iván Novegil

modulux
modulux
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Privilegio de gabinetero, jajaja. Pero es verdad que el resto de cosas no están mal. Las pulgas y la tortilla no las hacen mal, y los menús para la comida no son gran cosa pero son baratísimos. Eso sí, antes a partir del medio día ponían tapa y ahora ya no, hay que pedirla.
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Iván Novegil
Iván Novegil
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sí, es bastante posible, de hecho los menús siempre los cogíamos para llevar y comíamos todos en un office que teniamos. Se notaba que era un mundo bastante aparte del resto de la gente, para lo bueno y también para lo malo, porque todo el mundo se piraba a las 2 de la tarde y nosotros estábamos hasta las 6 y media o 7 por lo menos. Afortunadamente los becarios solo hacíamos la mitad de la jornada, a turnos, porque teníamos solo 25h semanales.
in reply to Iván Novegil

modulux
modulux
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Por aquí los gabineteros, sobre todo desde el último cambio, tienen bastante mala fama de rascarse la barriga. Pero supongo que habrá de todo.

I finally set firefox as my main browser. Last time I used it with NVDA, it kept crashing and crashing and crashing. Let's see what happens this time. All I know is that I cannot use a browser that kneecaps my ability to block ads. The web becomes borderline unusable with ads, especially if you're blind and have to manually trudge through iframes and janky Js coughed up by an ad server one DOM element at a time.
#nvda #blind #ublockorigin #accessibility #firefox
#Accessibility #firefox #blind #ublockorigin #nvda
in reply to Pepper The Vixen🏳️‍⚧️🦯

NV Access
NV Access
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Do let us know how you go. I'm not aware of an issue (current or old) which constantly crashed firefox - if you do encounter anything like that, please do let us know!

It’s great to be Abel to finally use iPhone Mirroring feature in Mac OS 15.1. It’s kind of magical with VOiceOver until you have to hit the “back” button from inside the app. Still can’t figure out how this is done. Web views don’t seem to work yet either. #accessibility
#Accessibility

Well my country is going to hell, but I just passed the new AirPods hearing test with flying colors, so at least I'll hear the bad guys coming.

Tajemná, magická a koupající se v mlhách. Krása podzimní Prahy na fotkách
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Tajemná, magická a koupající se v mlhách. Krása podzimní Prahy na fotkách

Fotograf Radoslav Vnenčák umí skvěle zachytit náladu podzimní Prahy. Je tajemná, magická a plná barev.
Radoslav Vnenčák (Aktuálně.cz)

10 Tips for Safer Online Shopping pcmag.com/explainers/tips-for-…

Ransomware Group Impersonates Microsoft Support to Breach Businesses pcmag.com/news/ransomware-grou…

Accessible Android's Review of Hermit Browser groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

Accessible Android's Review of Hermit Browser

groups.io

From YouTube: FCC Disability Advisory Committee Meeting: Topics Include Gaming Accessibility and the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Caption Live Video Programming groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From YouTube: FCC Disability Advisory Committee Meeting: Topics Include Gaming Accessibility and the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Caption Live Video Programming

groups.io

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Zoom meeting of Low Vision Now: Barry Greenbrat From Maxi Aids Discussing the Company's Products: Saturday, November 2, 12:45 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

Zoom meeting of Low Vision Now: Barry Greenbrat From Maxi Aids Discussing the Company's Products: Saturday, November 2, 12:45 PM Eastern Time

groups.io

I'm an idiot. Instead of taking my sleeping medicine, I took all of my medicine for tomorrow morning. Including my ADHD meds...
in reply to Chris 🌱

Mathilde
Mathilde
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oops, hope you still managed to find some sleep… 😓
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Ballots set on fire in three states as Election Day approaches
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168404/oregon-washington-arizona-ballots-drop-boxes-fires?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-npr

@politics-npr

Dario recently forced me to create an account to continue using a blood sugar monitor I already own (😡), so of course I gave my name as "Fuck Off."

This turns out to have been an amazing decision, because they inject your name into their marketing emails. 😂

A screenshot of an email with the subject line "Fuck, there’s a smart blood pressure monitor in town!"

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Dear geek/libre comrades, I have a queer-stion for you: Do we know if the first communities -in the 80's and 90's- around the development of critical computing (?) and its evolution towards free software were related to the homosexual liberation movement and the fight against AIDS? Thanks :unwanted_love:
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Cis: the blinking “00:00” of genders

World's first stereo recording from 1934. youtube.com/watch?v=e0qzIZaiPF…

World's First Stereo Recording June 1 1934

"This is the first single groove stereo recording, produced at Bell's Telephone Laboratories in New York City on June 1, 1934. AC Keller and IS Rafuse had al...
YouTube

Hey fellow #BlindMastodon users! I'm looking for recommendations on two types of writing tools for Windows:

1. Accessible text expanders
2. Word prediction software

I use both #JAWS and #NVDA screen readers. I tried Espanso (an open-source text expander), but it didn't work well with NVDA. I also tested Lightkey for word prediction, but it didn't seem accessible.

As an #ActuallyAutistic person, word prediction would really help with my autism-related communication challenges.

Have you found any text expanders or word prediction tools that work well with screen readers? What has your experience been like? I'd love to hear your recommendations and thoughts!

#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #TextExpander #WordPrediction #ScreenReader #Windows #AutismAccommodations #autism #blind @mastoblind @main

#Accessibility #blind #Windows #screenreader #actuallyautistic #nvda #jaws #autism #assistivetechnology #blindmastodon #textexpander #wordprediction #autismaccommodations @mastoblind group @Blind Main
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@hartgenconsult I think I encountered this behavior once or twice but it was a while ago and I'm now not able to reproduce this. What version of Leasey are you using?
For kicks, have you tried clearing the clipboard by pressing the Leasey key followed by the letter Z? Admittedly, you should not need to do this every time you want to expand an abbreviation but I'm just curious as to whether that might fix things going forward.
Please note that I'm just a Leasey user and am not intending to represent Hartgen Consultancy.
@Hartgen Consultancy

How to keep employees with disabilities from leaving your agency federalnewsnetwork.com/workfor…

How to keep employees with disabilities from leaving your agency

"To have a good program for accommodating persons with disabilities, you need leadership buy in," said Karren Brummond.
Tom Temin (Federal News Network)

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Wikimedia LGBT+/Hiring ! Spanish speaker preferred

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Wikimedia LGBT+/Hiring - Meta

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#getfedihired

Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google’s NotebookLM marktechpost.com/2024/10/27/me…

Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google's NotebookLM - MarkTechPost

Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google's NotebookLM
Asif Razzaq (MarkTechPost Media Inc.)

How to Install and Use uv: A Python Installer and Resolver linuxtoday.com/blog/how-to-ins…

How to Install and Use uv: A Python Installer and Resolver | Linux Today

Learn how to install and use a Rust-based Python installer and resolver named uv on Linux, Windows, and macOS with a practical usage guide.
LinuxToday

Have people found that things have improved regarding the Facebook #accessibility bug that meant you couldn’t read back what you’d typed when composing a post?
Any other pain points around Facebook you would like addressed?
#Accessibility
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Kelly Sapergia
Kelly Sapergia
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The main reason I stopped using Facebook is because it's too verbose. Every time I swipe to a new post in the iOS app at least, I hear the person's name, followed by "Profile image", followed by the message, which may or may not contain an image description, etc. It all became too much for me, and I temporarily deactivated my account.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

Jonathan Mosen
Jonathan Mosen
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@kjsapergia Thanks Kelly, I have this one on my list to discuss with them. I agree with you, the verbosity is not optimal.
@Kelly Sapergia

Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice, Not Fire, Says A New Study Of Ancient Volcanism eurasiareview.com/29102024-din…

Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice, Not Fire, Says A New Study Of Ancient Volcanism

201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth's five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species suddenly disappeared. The wipeout coincided with massive volcanic...
Eurasia Review

The show has been picked up by Netflix for a new season, and will be available on Netflix void in Canada.
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In seinem 1927 (!) erschienenen Buch beklagt sich Kurt Floericke, wie furchtbar die Tierwelt in den letzten 40 Jahren "verarmt und verödet" ist. Die Schuld dafür weist er hauptsächlich dem "Siegeszug von Industrie und Technik" zu.

Surprise…

Das eBook dazu kommt die Tage mit der nächsten Runde bei ebooks.qumran.org/ an. Der Titel: "Aussterbende Tiere"…

#naturschutz #literatur

Textauszug aus einem 1927 erschienenen Buch: "Wer gleich dem Verfasser die freilebende Tierwelt unseres Vaterlandes vier Jahrzehnte lang fleißig und liebevoll beobachtet hat, der wird tief erschrocken sein darüber, wie furchtbar sie innerhalb dieser Zeitspanne, die doch vom naturgeschichtlichen Standpunkte aus nur als winzig bezeichnet werden kann, verarmt und verödet ist. Wir wissen alle, daß die sogenannte menschliche Kultur mit ihren mancherlei unangenehmen Begleiterscheinungen und Auswüchsen die Hauptschuld an dieser unaufhaltsam sich vollziehenden Veränderung trägt, und zur Abwendung des Schlimmsten ist ja als notwendiges Gegengewicht gegen den Siegeszug von Industrie und Technik die Naturschutzbewegung ins Leben getreten, die erfreulicherweise bereits weite Kreise unseres Volkes erfaßt hat. Es ist dringend zu wünschen und zu hoffen, daß es ihr gelingen möge, wenigstens kärgliche Reste einstiger Herrlichkeit in großen Naturschutzparken oder durch strenge und vernünftige Gesetzesvorschriften, die aber nicht nur auf dem Papier stehen dürfen, in letzter Stunde zu retten und den kommenden Geschlechtern zu erhalten."

Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#naturschutz #literatur
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
IzzyOnDroid ✅
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Bei so viel Interesse (Likes & Boosts) möchte ich Euch natürlich nicht zu lange auf die Folter spannen – das genannte #eBook steht jetzt bereit, wurde gerade mit 23 weiteren bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeladen.

Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

#eBooks #libre #gratis


Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#libre #eBooks #gratis #eBook

It has come to my attention that there are some folks in the vintage Macintosh community engaging in racist comments.

This behavior is intolerable. If you're one of those people: let yourself out right now, or we'll do it for you.

Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models linuxtoday.com/blog/raspberry-…

Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models | Linux Today

The biggest change in the new Raspberry Pi OS release is the enablement of the labwc Wayland compositor by default on all Raspberry Pi models.
LinuxToday

CAQ tables bill to limit international students at Québec universities.

FYI: Specific universities are being targeted.

SPOILER ALERT: THERE WILL BE EVEN LESS DOCTORS IN THIS PROVINCE.

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #racist #xenophobic #hate #fear #division

#hate #assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli #racist #xenophobic #fear #division

Accepted developer rooms fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-10-2…

FOSDEM 2025 - Accepted developer rooms

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Are you a software developer, and, if so, without looking it up, do you know what the THERAC-25 is?

  • I know what it is; I'm a programmer (37%, 9 votes)
  • I don't know what it is; I'm a programmer (54%, 13 votes)
  • I know what it is; I'm not a programmer (4%, 1 vote)
  • I don't know what it is; I'm not a programmer (4%, 1 vote)
24 voters. Poll end: 1 day ago

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in reply to Glyph

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I knew that it was often referenced when talking about buggy software, and I vaguely remembered something about radiation, but without looking it up, I couldn't say exactly what it was. So I voted no, then went to read about it on Wikipedia.

I updated a Linux distribution to a beta release recently, resulting in some empty directories being left in the file system. Unfortunately, as I found out, Erlang (used by Pleroma) was searching in the empty directories for various modules, and failing to find them, leading to fatal runtime errors.
The solution: "find -maxdepth 1 -type d -empty -delete", to remove all of the empty directories one level below the current directory.
Having solved the problem myself, I then queried GPT-4, as I was interested to know whether it could give a correct solution. Indeed it could, although the GPT-4 solution was unnecessarily more complex than mine, with an -exec option used to run rmdir on each directory. I did specify that I was using Linux, so GNU extensions to the find command would have been allowed in the answer.
#CommandLine #Linux
#linux #commandline

Exploring the Foundations of Linux: A Look at Major Distributions and Their Base Systems lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Exploring the Foundations of Linux: A Look at Major Distributions and Their Base Systems

In the world of operating systems, Linux stands out not only as a robust and versatile platform but also as a vibrant ecosystem with hundreds of unique…
Lucas Rees (LinuxConfig)

Federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto

cbc.ca/news/politics/high-spee…

Another High Speed rail report.

I'll believe it when it actually is in service. But at that pace I'll be dead.

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Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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"A source close to the file said the bidding consortia warned Ottawa that ridership would be lower with a high-frequency train than with a high-speed one, since customers are looking for the shortest possible trip."

So they paid somebody to tell them that? Maybe I should become Govt Consultant and make the big bucks here. I could have told them.

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