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Glam Canes: O&M that’s functional and fashionable – BlindNewWorld

Arthur Gwynne, founder of Glam Canes and manager to blind recording artist Lachi, makes canes that sparkle with pride, glamour and confidence
Leah Barrett Demers (BlindNewWorld)

#deltachat_desktop finally has Automated E2E testing again! 👨‍🔬 🧪 🚀

Thanks to the desktop team and #deltachat_web for making this possible.

Also thanks to #playwright for making such a nice testing solution.

playwright test interface with test results for delta chat desktop. Many technical details are shown, like the tests that ran, their status and how long they took. Also logs, the source code of the test and even screenshots that were taken during the test.
#deltachat_desktop #deltachat_web #playwright
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Scammers Love Your Bank Accounts. Here's How to Keep Them Safe cnet.com/personal-finance/scam…

Scammers Love Your Bank Accounts. Here's How to Keep Them Safe

As AI accelerates attacks on consumer bank accounts, the best defense is still "HI" -- human intelligence.
Neal O'Farrell (CNET)

The article discusses VMware Workstation's move towards using upstream KVM instead of proprietary code. This change will likely improve compatibility and efficiency, benefiting users of the virtualization platform.

Link: phoronix.com/news/VMware-Works…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


VMware Workstation Shifting From Proprietary Code To Using Upstream KVM

This isn't an off-schedule April Fools' Joke or anything like that but an exciting sign of the times: VMware Workstation will be shifting off its proprietary base and onto leveraging the upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualiz…
www.phoronix.com

The latest update to CoPilot no longer keeps echoing what I type in the edit field. What a relief!!

It was just announced on the StationPlaylist Email list that the new version of the SPL suite should be released between 12 and 17 November.

🗣️ CANADA, DO NOT LET THE FASCISTS TURN YOUR COUNTRY INTO A BAD COPY OF THE UNITED STATES
mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

seriously, the world needs to do a billionaire purge STAT

somecanuckchick

2024-11-01 01:09:54


Despicable. Alberta wants to police pronouns, sex education, and youth healthcare. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al… #cdnpoli #polcan

Valérie Plante "doesn’t want Muslim women to feel erased", but a sign depicting a woman in a hijab at city hall will be removed nonetheless b/c it caused discomfort among the xenophobic pieces of garbage in Montréal. montreal.ctvnews.ca/woman-in-h… #purelaine #BS #xenophobia #racism #MTLpoli #polMTL #cdnpoli #polcan

Woman in hijab on signage sparks debate in Montreal

The City of Montreal found itself in the middle of a debate this week after complaints were made about a sign that featured a woman wearing a hijab.
Montreal
#racism #cdnpoli #polmtl #xenophobia #polcan #bs #mtlpoli #purelaine

Despicable. Alberta wants to police pronouns, sex education, and youth healthcare. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al… #cdnpoli #polcan
#cdnpoli #polcan
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Elon #Musk Could Have US Citizenship Revoked If He Lied on Immigration Forms - wired.com/story/elon-musk-citi… probably another reason he is desperate for #trump to win - to pardon him....
#Trump #musk

If you pay close attention, there are some fun additions to the @thunderbird website (thunderbird.net/) to welcome their new mobile app. This is one of our favorites gems (made possible because @Blender is awesome and #OpenSource)

Thunderbird — Free Your Inbox.

Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
Thunderbird
#opensource @Blender 🔶 @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Aww a twinge of sadness as I turned off find my and signed out of my Apple ID. Now Jimmy Mac is back in his original manufacturer's packaging just like the day he arrived here as we now wait for his trade in kit to come tomorrow. Goodbye Jimmy Mac it was nice knowin' ya.
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Robin Frost
Robin Frost
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@DavidGoldfield I did for a spell. We just never connected as others seemed to do so it was time to let it go for now so away it'll soon fly.
@David Goldfield

Ever find it hard to keep track of links, buttons, and form fields on a cluttered webpage? NVDA’s Screen Layout feature helps! When enabled, items like links and buttons stay in their visual flow, appearing on the same line. When disabled, NVDA separates each link and control onto its own line, making navigation smoother for some users. Toggle Screen Layout on and off with NVDA+V to customize your browsing experience! #NVDA #Accessibility #ScreenReader #TechTips
A computer screen displays the NVDA settings window on a laptop, specifically in the "General" configuration settings. The text above the laptop reads: "NVDA TIPS! NVDA+V for Screen Toggle - Master Your Screen Layout!" The image has a bold red background with the "innosearch.ai" logo at the bottom, emphasizing accessibility and control over screen layout settings in NVDA.
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvda #techtips

Code Factory und Acapela, alternative Sprachausgaben für NVDA
Wer sich den kostenlosen Screenreader NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) installiert, wird mit der freien Sprachausgabe eSpeak oder den Windows-stimmen leben müssen. Diese sind brauchbar, für längeres Arbeiten allerdings eher weniger geeignet. Sie sind zwar tief in Windows integriert...
merkst.de/code-factory-acapela…
#Android #Apple #Computer #Google #JAWS #Lautsprecher #Microsoft #NVDA #Screenreader #Test #VoiceOver #Windows

Code Factory und Acapela, alternative Sprachausgaben für NVDA

merkst.de
#android #apple #google #Windows #test #screenreader #microsoft #computer #nvda #jaws #voiceover #lautsprecher
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NV Access
NV Access
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Sehr informativ! Wir haben hier auch eine Seite mit zusätzlichen Stimmen: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…

Beachten Sie, dass die Seite auf Englisch ist, aber hier ist eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche mit dem Übersetzungsdienst von Google: github-com.translate.goog/nvac…


ExtraVoices

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvda
GitHub
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Stephan Merk
Stephan Merk
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Das stimmt, aber die Seite ist für deutsche Nutzer völlig uninteressant, weil es nicht viel mehr Auswahl gibt. Zudem sind einfache Anwender zumeist mitGithub meist total überfordert, weshalb ich diese Seite nicht verlinkt habe.

what the hell is up with Mastodon? I'm getting posts in my feed from over an hour ago like they were new.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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They're experiencing a glitch with space-time. Please, don't respond to those posts as you could create a temporal paradox and cause irreparable damage to the timeline.

🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶

Welcome to The Global Voice - The Global Voice

The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.
The Global Voice
#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is conducting research on the accessibility of health care for people with disabilities. They are looking for adults with disabilities or caregivers of adults with disabilities to take a short survey. The GAO will use the survey input in a report to Congress. Click here to access the survey:

gaosurvey.gao.gov/jfe/form/SV_…

GAO Survey on Disabilities and Health Care

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
gaosurvey.gao.gov

Had someone from the Deaf-Blind Centre visit me this afternoon. Now my Coke Zero stockpile is once again a stockpile, as opposed to half a bottle, which is what it sas before her arrival. And our associate pastor came to visit for a couple of hours, and we had a great time.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@kgs49 I like cold Coke but I agree about not wanting it with ice; I definitely get that. Now I'm remembering part of a Foreigner song parody I started writing when I was a kid. It was a parody of "Cold as Ice' called "Coke With Ice ..."
@K. Stanley
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Bruce Toews
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@DavidGoldfield @kgs49 Oops. youtube.com/watch?v=XNesn2_AjW…

Ice Ice Baby

Provided to YouTube by RhinoIce Ice Baby · Big DaddyCutting Their Own Groove℗ 1991 Rhino EntertainmentProducer: Big DaddyFlute, Saxophone: Bob SandmanPercuss...
YouTube
@K. Stanley @David Goldfield
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Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
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@DavidGoldfield @kgs49 Here's another improvement. youtube.com/watch?v=IXPnz6cFAV…

Born to Run

Provided to YouTube by RhinoBorn to Run · Big DaddyCutting Their Own Groove℗ 1991 Rhino EntertainmentProducer: Big DaddyFlute, Saxophone: Bob SandmanPercussi...
YouTube
@K. Stanley @David Goldfield

If Apple completely rewrites voice over from the ground up, or if there is a viable third-party screen reader developed, I will consider getting another Mac, but sadly, I don’t see either of those things happening for the foreseeable future.

'Lot of demoralized people': Ghost jobs wreaking havoc on tech workers sfgate.com/tech/article/ghost-…

Damn. I imagined that now that the M4 Mini is out, the M1 Mini would be super cheap on the used market.

Nope! They're still like $400 for a base model! For a four-year-old computer! A new M4 model is $600!

I mean, for Pete's sake, an M1 Mini with 16G RAM is like... $600... on ebay

why would anyone order that

During Canadian Federal Elections, poll workers have been known to direct husbands and wives to booths at opposing ends of the room, so as ensure spouses are not ‘monitored’ by each other. I have worked one once and was told by the husband “I just want to make sure she doesn’t make a mistake.” I told him that she was probably old enough to manage in her own to make an ‘X.’ She looked down as she smiled. He wandered off grumbling. I didn’t care how he reacted.
mstdn.social/@DemocracyMatters…

Democracy Matters :verified: (@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social)

Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands? A lot of households are not democracies; they’re dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression. https://www.theguardian.
Mastodon 🐘

Potential dark side of vote-by-mail. mstdn.social/@DemocracyMatters…

Democracy Matters :verified: (@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social)

Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands? A lot of households are not democracies; they’re dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression. https://www.theguardian.
Mastodon 🐘

Here is the newest level of accessibility at Dreamhost - we can not revert your account to use the legacy control panel. However, until this issue is resolved you can contact support and ask us to do anything for you on your behalf. I would strongly urge everyone to file tickets by emailing support at dreamhost dot com and see how much we can get this issue prioritized.

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Michael Doise
Michael Doise
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I think that they have lost at least me as a customer over this.
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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@mikedoise I had such a dreadful experience with one service. You need a subdomain? Write an email. You need a DNS record? Write an email. You need to point a subdomain to another IP? You guessed it. Just humiliating and disgusting.
@Michael Doise

Back in the old days, we used alt text because folks didn't always want to wait for them to download.

I'm sitting at the end of my driveway, ready to hand out candy, connected to the house wifi.

I'm not getting photos 🤣

I am currently very thankful for those who have added alt text to their images and videos!

#Halloween #a11y = #accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #halloween

So, the entire Dreamhost pannel is completely inaccessible to screenreader users at the moment. This is very upsetting. I and I'm sure many others will be moving to other platforms.

PSA A reminder that your Spotify subscription pays to promote fascism in America. It doesn't go to your favourite musical artists.

Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

cnbc.com/2024/10/31/amazon-amz…
techmeme.com/241031/p46#a24103…


Amazon shares pop on earnings beat, cloud growth

The company's cloud and advertising units showed strong growth.
Annie Palmer (CNBC)

So the media player on the sense player is still freezing at least once a week. Mostly happens when you perform anything while listening, moving tracks, playing a new folder, adjusting main volume ETC. I wonder if any programs like chrome or who the hell knows what else have to be running in the background for it to function? I know that sounds crazy but I can't think of anything else. I wish I could down grade the firmware but I never downloaded the last version, if anyone has it, please please let me know.
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Jay Pellis
Jay Pellis
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@fireborn Well literally everything else works fine, both first party and third party apps. This started as soon as I updated to newest firmware, even a factory reset didn't fix. Along with the not being able to switch voices in the document reader, obviously they screwed soomething up big time, although not sure if others are having the same issue.
@aaron

My Dude, if you think that a wife or girlfriend voting for Harris is the same as adultery, you richly deserve that fate, and may she find freedom from you real soon

"Yes, but Jason, if the super-rich left the UK, what would we do without their money?"

Precisely what we *have* been doing without their money, I imagine.

You can keep waiting, or start encrypting! 🔐🎃👻💀

Happy #Halloween everyone!

Meme with sceleton "Waiting for Big Tech to start respecting my privacy"
#halloween

Put my wallet in my right jeans pocket instead of the usual left jeans pocket for the day. A rollercoaster of emotions. The highs of finding it after that horrible sinking feeling of when you think it's lost. Exhausted now. What a day

So you don't like my jokes about ghosts having sex with owls? Well, boo-fucking-hoo

Me: What should I be for Halloween?

Hereafter follows a series of siri's answers:

1. I see London, I see France, I see you dressing up as the English channel.

2. Wear yellow and white, put on some little red horns and you can be a deviled egg.

3. Put a radio on your head and dress up as a creep.

4. Put on a duckbill, carry a basketball and a slide rule, and be a technical fowl.

5. If you stayed home, and just chilled with your iPod, I suppose, you'd be a HomePod.

6. You could put on surgeon scrubs, hold some instruments, and tell people you're an operating system.

7. Put a little red microphone icon on your shirt. Then, pretend to talk without making any sound. You're that person on every video call who's stuck on mute.

8. Get a rhinestone jumpsuit, sideburns, tinted glasses and some pointy ears. Tell everyone you're elvish.

9. jump up and down over and over and shake your fist. You can tell everyone you're anti gravity.

10. Just smile and nod. Then you can be your own bobblehead doll.

11. You could be a pirate. I'll be your co-pirate.

12. Just carry around a martini glass filled with some guacamole, go around clinking glasses with everyone, and yell: Ävocado toast!".

13. You could carry around a squirt bottle and say you're a streaming service.

14. Be a ghost. All you need is an old spreadsheet.

15. You could go as an eclipse. Just dress in black and stand in front of things.

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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Hahaha! I guess I am a home phone. Also we don't celebrate here, maybe that's why I am a phone. Nooo! What a tragedy! One more, be the scariest but cute world map ever. :)

Blind TikTok Brings Attention To Facial Expressions Understanding letsenvision.com/blog/blind-fa…

Blind TikTok Brings Attention To Facial Expressions Understanding

And can AI make emotions more accessible?
www.letsenvision.com

A handmade set for Bee lovers with yellow Agate and blue Sapphire gemstones. Only one available, let me know if you are a bee lover or if someone in your life does, and I'd be happy to send it your way ❤️🐝

#bee #bees #handmade #art #arts #artists #artist #shophandmade #gifts #giftideas #fedigiftshop

A handmade set for Bee lovers with yellow citrine, yellow Agate and blue Sapphire gemstones Gold plated bee main pendant and golden bee beads
#art #artist #artists #arts #handmade #fedigiftshop #bee #gifts #giftideas #bees #shophandmade

Do you think if Jurassic Park was real they'd give the dinosaurs pumpkins to play with and smash on Halloween, the way zoos and wildlife parks do? Imagine the photo opportunities! 🎃 🦖🦕

NINTENDO DID YOU THINK THIS THROUGH
some donuts from a 2021 Nintendo/Mr Donut tie-in. The bags they're served in have a few pokemon (Pikachu, Eevee, Piplup/Pachirisu/Glaceon) on them with their butts/tails in the foreground looking back at the viewer. The donuts are colour themed to look like the pokemon, so eg. the Pikachu one is yellow with a couple of brown stripes across the bottom. The problem is that this makes them look like Pokemon Anuses.

#precositorobim
#precositorobim
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