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United States government mulling a potential merger between Intel and AMD notebookcheck.net/United-State…

United States government mulling a potential merger between Intel and AMD

The United States Commerce Department is figuring out ways to keep Intel afloat after it posted $16.3 billion in losses this quarter. One of the options includes a merger with market rivals such as AMD and Marvell.
Anil Ganti (Notebookcheck)

I had no idea that North Carolina allows spouses to share a voting booth. Both must consent to that, but of course an abused (or otherwise scared or intimidated) spouse isn't going to complain.

ncnewsline.com/2024/10/25/alam…

h/t @MissGayle @Burnt_Veggies @cafechatnoir
#uspol #voting #NorthCarolina


Alamance County voters raise concerns about spouses sharing polling booths • NC Newsline

Some Alamance County voters at the polls were shocked to see spouses sharing voting booths — though the practice is legal in North Carolina.
Brandon Kingdollar (NC Newsline)
#voting #uspol #NorthCarolina @Play Ball!!! cafechatnoir @Burnt Veggies @MissGayle

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.

A thread, with links:

Chirag Shah and I wrote about this in two academic papers:
2022: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366…
2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

We also have an op-ed from Dec 2022:
iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-ma…

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All-knowing machines are a fantasy | Emily M. Bender and Chriag Shah

The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge.
IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks

I was wondering why the frisbee was getting bigger, then it hit me.

7 Signs You Have Malware and How to Get Rid of It pcmag.com/how-to/7-signs-you-h…

Tamas G reshared this.

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Herbie Allen
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I love how the first sign mentioned on the site is pop up adds, then I have to go past an add to keep reading.

Christmas Music Starts Early Across The Country radioinsight.com/headlines/285…

Christmas Music Starts Early Across The Country

The holiday season has begun en masse across the country with a larger number of stations than in the past
Lance Venta (Radioinsight.com)

Notes and Recording of Sound Without Sight MuseScore Demo groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

Notes and Recording of Sound Without Sight MuseScore Demo

groups.io
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Eden Linnea
Eden Linnea
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Hi. Do you have an email list you post a lot of these tidbits. Sometimes I don't feel social media, but I'd like to see these things.
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David Goldfield
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@EdenLinnea Hi, and thanks for asking. Many of the items that I post to Mastodon covering blindness technology get distributed to my Tech-VI announcement list. There are some items that I post to Mastodon which don't get posted to Tech-VI, as some of them are out of scope for that list.
To subscribe via email, send email to
tech-vi+subscribe@groups.io
The main page, which contains an RSS feed and a message archive, is available at
www.groups.io/g/tech-vi
@Eden Linnea

From Accessible Electronics: Early Black Friday Unbeatable Deal on Victor Reader Stream 3 Under $500! groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From Accessible Electronics: Early Black Friday Unbeatable Deal on Victor Reader Stream 3 Under $500!

groups.io

SensePlayer: A walk through of key features tavip.org.uk/senseplayer-a-wal…

SensePlayer: A walk through of key features - TAVIP

xxxxx-NEEDS CONTENT-xxxxx
www.tavip.org.uk

Hi all, it's me, An Old. Quick election reminders:

- If you are in line before the polls officially close, STAY IN LINE. You are entitled to cast your vote.
- DO NOT TRUST calls/texts/posts/TikToks from now until Weds. Deepfakes will be rampant.

Classic scams:
"your voting location has moved"
"your group votes on Weds" <- old Jim Crow shit
"have your payment ready" <- poll taxes are illegal

Vote! No later than Tuesday, even by mail! Demand a provisional ballot if anything goes wrong!
#USPol

#uspol

Ooh, wish I had the unlock code for this one, but it was my free article for the week.
Polish Radio Station Uses A.I. to Interview Dead Nobel Laureate nytimes.com/2024/11/03/world/e…
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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I wonder sometimes if it’s an AI-produced story. I just can’t find, for the best of me, the actual audio samples. I did find the original interview though, I mean in text! It’s funny, not funny.

I appreciate living in a place where a ten year old comes to your door for Halloween dressed as Google AI and if you consent, recites the recipe for gasoline spaghetti.

The people have spoken, I'll try my best to ruin everything!
Screenshot of youtube comment criticizing Thunderbird and Firefox

listen, I've had my moments, but at least I've never mansplained Margaret Atwood's book to Margaret Atwood
Tweet by Margaret Atwood. It's a cartoon of women dressed like handmaids (red dress and white bonnet) going into a voting booth. On the other side they emerge as regular modern women wearing various kinds of outfits. A reply guy writes: "the author of that boom used Islam, not Christianity, as a model for her imaginary world. This is obviously true, as it resembles Islamic culture and law, and not Christian."

People who wear glasses are disabled, BTW. We need disability aids to function as an active part of society. If you wear glasses, you are disabled; your disability is just one that happens to be highly (if not totally) accommodated. It is generally considered reasonable to insist that you need your glasses and cannot cope well without them, and glasses are readily available and prescriptions for them not heavily gated. Touching or taking them without your permission is considered rude and cruel.
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Xauri'EL Zwaan
Xauri'EL Zwaan
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This is by far the most popular social media post I have ever written lol. To be clear, as a person who wears glasses myself, I am well aware that financial cost is a major barrier to many people having glasses. These things tend to lie on a spectrum. The main point is how normalized glasses are, how wearing them rarely even excites comment. People who wear glasses aren't "brave" or "inspirational". To most, we're just treated as normal people living our lives

More and more as I try to untie myself from giant social networks, I find myself wishing that Fediverse software like Mastodon wasn't so seemingly allergic to algorithms. I don't think it should be algorithm driven, but if I'm new and I want to get a feed full of content that does have engagement, I think that should be possible. If I want to follow people who my friends follow, I shouldn't have to just look through all their followers lists. I don't know how you strike a balance and avoid excluding people, but it sometimes feels like we're too far in the other direction. I don't want to have to give people an entire checklist of ways to find people and content once they join, because then those people will be more resistant to joining. There has to be a happier medium between mindless algorithm-assisted scrolling and what we have now. And yes, I did post this with the expectation that people will tell me I'm wrong and I welcome that.
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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I think the “explore” tab does some of that, but I think I know what you mean. Some twitterness would be nice, I mean, the good old Twitterness, not the Elon one.
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Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)
Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)
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@vick21 You're right about the explore tab. There are some interesting functions in there that I could probably spend more time using.
@victor tsaran

skibidi(|_|())

*sigh* submitted an issue asking for some accessibility work to be done to a software package and the response was "there's no audience for this, someone who actually uses a screen reader should submit this request". I am definitely not the person to reply to this and have no idea how to do so in a reasonable manner.

#accessibility

#Accessibility
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Sam Whited
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@NVAccess @nellie_m @pixelate @FreakyFwoof I just realized y'all are the NVDA devs; I don't have access to a Windows machine, so I've never tried it, but I've heard great things! Thanks for what you do, and thanks for being on fedi, it's exciting to see you here!
@NV Access @Andre Louis @nellie-m @Devin Prater :blind:
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NV Access
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Thank you! It's great to be here - such a wonderful community!

Welcome to the RB family, Innertune 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.m…

InnerTune is a fork of InnerTune – a Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android.

Thanks to Malopieds (the author of this fork) for making this possible :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„InnerTune“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

A fork of InnerTune, a Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

who are these lunatics answering phone calls from unknown numbers and why are we polling them for election opinions?

Not if you delete your fucking account. #OneWeirdTrick press.coop/@Gizmodo/1134213933…

Gizmodo :press: (@Gizmodo@press.coop)

X Says It Has Begun Rolling Out Controversial Change to Block Function Now when you block someone they won't be able to interact with you, but they can still view your posts. #press https://gizmodo.
press.coop
#OneWeirdTrick

NVDA 2024.4 doesn't seem to read auto-completion info in chrome anymore, anyone have ideas as to what I can do to fix this? I hope it's just a me thing.
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NV Access
NV Access
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@twynn Thanks Andre, I can replicate on Gmail's login page - what site are you looking at? I originally tried with the autocomplete suggestions on google.com and that DOES seem to work. I created an issue at: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

Please do comment on the issue with any extra info there.

Autocomplete suggestions not read in Chrome · Issue #17360 · nvaccess/nvda

Steps to reproduce: Go to the GMail sign in page Start typing an address you have used before so it offers a drop down list of suggestions down arrow through the suggestions Actual behavior: At Ste...
GitHub
@Timothy Wynn
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@NVAccess @twynn Anything. Everything. From homebridge to PiHole to anything that wants my name/other details. Every single site I've personally tried since 2024.4 has failed. I can't think of one that hasn't.
@NV Access @Timothy Wynn
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NV Access
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@twynn It does seem to be a change in Chrome - I tried 2024.3 and 2021.3.5 and it worked exactly the same for me.
@Timothy Wynn
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Doug Lawlor
Doug Lawlor
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@NVAccess @twynn I just added a comment on GitHub to this issue confirming the same thing is happening on my system.
@NV Access @Timothy Wynn
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x0
x0
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@NVAccess @twynn While we're talking about changes in chromium, is anyone else getting the weird thing where cursor movement by caracter in edit fields is just, slow and half the time reports the wrong character now? Especially on DIscord I notice this, with regular text mind you not mentions and fancy embeds.
@NV Access @Timothy Wynn
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Tamas G
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@x0 @NVAccess @twynn I've seen this behavior more in Chromium-based UIs (like Slack) if there's a multiline field with multiple lines of text inserted. Depending on which line you are on, I think the cursoring can be offset by one or two positions, which is interesting and I suspect may have to do with the factors of how the line breaks are calculated in relation to the cursoring, but it's just a hunch for me.
@NV Access @x0 @Timothy Wynn
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x0
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Or text wrapping. That's probably a separate issue though. I know it behaves a bit strangely when you try to focus a user mention in discord but like, it would. It's a button in an edit field.
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NV Access
NV Access
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@twynn It's really no different to any other site - you need to create an account, but that only requires an email address (and creating a password).

It's just comments here will get lost and people fixing the problem will only look at the issue itself.

@Timothy Wynn
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Florian
Florian
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@NVAccess @twynn Yeah with respect, that is bullsh**. Reporting an issue on GitHub requires a bunch of extra steps, including:

- Navigating to the right repository;
- Finding the new isue button;
- Picking the correct issue type;
- Figuring out the issue creation interface;
- Filling out the issue template which involves figuring out what bits can be removed and what bits can't be;
- providing logs/other reproduction evidence.

While it is absolutely true that all of this is possible and for a lot of folks not all that hard, it is also true that for a significant amount of users this is way, way more than they want to bother with. I don't have a solution to this, perhaps a UI for users to report issues from within NVDA might lower the entry threshold, but let's not be dismissive about the complexities of filing/interacting with GitHub issues here

@NV Access @Timothy Wynn
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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This explanation is already complicated. With respect, you guys need a simpler way of bug reporting. Especially with the amount of people who use NVDA. Not everyone is going to bother creating a github account. It also goes from the fact that, github is complicated for most people who don't have knowledge of how a lot of things work. Github is complicated even for some of us who know how to report bugs. Let's just be realistic. It might've worked before, but it's not going to work that well nowadays.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@tardis @zersiax @NVAccess @twynn yeah, I think the cognative load to use GitHub is quite high if you are not coming from the dev space and know some of it already. I get that this is just a comment on an issue and you are amazing for pre-creating it at 17360, but for someone to go through account creation and profile config just to add a single comment is a bit too much. And yeah, sadly a good solution will probably be harder to implement.
@NV Access @Timothy Wynn @Florian @Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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NV Access
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@zersiax In fairness, 90% of that is NOT true IN THIS CASE given my suggestion to Andre to look on GitHubt was AFTER I had created an issue with the details he provided, and I included a direct link to the issue.

I'm not arguing that GitHub is the easiest site for everyone to use - but in this case, I did do most of the work.

The reason for encouraging people to use GitHub is that is where the developers are - the ones who fix issues. If they have a question, they won't find you here to ask.

@Florian
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Florian
Florian
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@NVAccess You still need a GitHub account to begin with, which a lot of non-developers quite simply have no use for whatsoever apart from meeting NVDA in the middle, you need to work how the interface works which has like 1000 things in it that the average non-developer isn't going to need/use, find your way to the correct issue which at times is easy if you're given a direct link but at times really isn't, etc.
GitHub's great for developers and open-source enthusiasts. You're not dealing with developers. You're dealing with end users who in no way agreed, nor want, to help you develop a tool they need to get work done. You're dealing with people who are happy they got a free alternative to a 1000-dollar+ product that nevertheless needs to work exactly like they want it to, and that's not a fair hand, but it's the one you're dealt. So yes, you did most of the work, but the remaining work is going to make users not bother because you're asking plumbers to sign up for MIT
@NV Access
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Jamie Teh
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It's not like reporting bugs against most paid products is any better. Try reporting a bug against an Apple product, for example. Even assuming you manage it, you have the added advantage there that it'll go into a void and you'll never know whether there was any progress on it. Users aren't required to comment on GitHub. They just shouldn't necessarily expect any progress on bugs they report if they don't. There aren't staff paid to spend hours every day making sure comments from 5000 different places end up somewhere they can be actionable.
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Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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@zersiax @NVAccess Well put. I wonder how many people want to raise an issue but don't because of dealing with GitHub.
@NV Access @Florian
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@zersiax @KaraLG84 @NVAccess Sure, but those same people will happily figure out (and create accounts for) Facebook, Instagram, some random forum, Reddit, shopping site or whatever which is likely far less accessible. And that's entirely their prerogative. It's all a matter of priorities and that's fine.Some of the process described here is also inaccurate. There's a link to the NVDA GitHub repo in quite a lot of places, so the user doesn't have to find the repository. Users are often provided direct links to the new bug form or the issue they are interested in.
@NV Access @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Florian
Florian
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@jcsteh @KaraLG84 @NVAccess I thik forums, shopping sites etc. have far more of a ROI for the regular user, though. Forums have friends on them, reddit is a longterm thing that they can use for a whole bunch of different types of discussion, shopping sites are for buying stuff. Github ... is jsut because some developer doesn't want to meet them halfway and insists on having users make this account for maybe the one specific issue they're wanting to report/weigh in on that they may never ever need again afterwards. Not saying that never happens anywhere else but it does up the friction by a good bit
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Kara Goldfinch
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@zersiax @KaraLG84 @NVAccess I totally agree the ROI is likely lower, which is why I said it's all a matter of priorities. Maybe it just doesn't matter enough to the user to have their issue reported, and that's totally fine; that's their choice.
If we were talking about a paid product here, I might agree that it's reasonable for users to be met where they are: email, social media, whatever. If that's important to paying customers, you could have a dedicated person paid to do just that: maintain various support channels and make sure things get to the right place. But we're not talking about a paid product. Part of the expectation when you aren't paying for something should be that you don't get some of these niceties. We still want a way for users to report problems, sure, but they might have to go to just a little more effort to do that if it really matters to them.
@NV Access @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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NV Access
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@jcsteh @zersiax @KaraLG84 Also worth mentioning that we DO meet users where they are. I did create the issue which started this thread. I recommended the user subscribe to it on GitHub in case there were any follow up questions etc, but I regularly create issues from emailed questions, social media posts etc. Try emailing Google and asking them to file an issue for you on one of their products....
@Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Alex Hall
Alex Hall
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That's true. Every time I mention NVAccess to complain, no matter how frustrated and uncharitable I might be, whoever is behind this account always replies and, if it's something that should be tracked, they make an issue for me and send me the link.
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Andre Louis
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For all Q was a little excentric, he did have an in-app feedback reporting system. Perhaps building that into the help menu would get more issues reported in a concise and informative way. Hell, build it as an addon and crowd-fund it in the way NVDA Remote was if needed. I'm a power user of a lot of products, and I'm not here to be made to feel incompetent just because I found git-hub beyond irritating to use as a non-developer. I have things to do and need to do them. If getting such a venture off the ground costs money, I'll be the first to donate to something meaningful, if that means I don't have to go near git-ub. I am not stupid, but git-hub has a way of making me feel such. I don't at all appreciate it.
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@NVAccess @zersiax @KaraLG84 Putting maintenance and development cost aside, an in-app system isn't going to fix some of the issues identified here (granted not necessarily by you), for example the need to create an account. There just can't be a system without accounts these days given rampant spam and abuse on the internet.
Beyond that, I think it's constructive here to think more specifically about reporting or commenting on an NVDA issue, vs "using GitHub" in general. The former is a subset of the latter, but a much simpler subset. For example, if I open a direct link to the new bug page:
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
I'm immediately popped into a text box for the issue title. The next text box (just a few tab stops away) is the comment box, where you fill in the questions provided.
Similarly, if I open an existing issue, for example:
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
The only text box on the page is for a new comment, with the "Comment" button nearby. Existing comments are all marked with headings so you can navigate to and read them.
So are there specific problems with these two forms or is it more that you find these direct links hard to discover? If it's the former, it'd be good to understand what, not least because we wouldn't want to repeat the same problem with a new system. If it's the latter, perhaps we can do better at making sure those links are easy to find.

GitHub

GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
GitHub
@NV Access @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@jcsteh @NVAccess @zersiax @KaraLG84 I believe I was tasked with reporting issues on something called JamTabba back in 2008 or so. I made an account at that time on github, and of course that's a damn long time ago. I attempted to report issues as requested and ran into I don't know how many problems doing so. Admittedly it kind of tainted my view of github as a platform, and downloading from it in the intervening years hasn't really helped with that. I'm sure they change the name of the button every other week. From Code to Assets, I'm almost sure it was called Master at some point, etc. It's like going to the supermarket, where everything moves from place to place just when you started to understand it. With this particular issue, I admit I didn't once click the link and that's on me. My assumption was that it hadn't gotten any better. I take full responsibility for not looking into it beyond that.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@NVAccess @zersiax @KaraLG84 I get it. Your opinion of something gets tainted and it takes a long time to undo that. I'm no exception. I'm also not here to defend GitHub. They still have a lot of work to do. On the other hand, no one is asking you to use the other parts of GitHub, just the issue creation and comment forms, and as far as I can tell, those are pretty reasonable these days, regardless of how they were how ever long ago. Of course, anyone may disagree, but it'd be helpful to understand *why* they disagree, because the first piece in figuring out a solution is clearly understanding the problems we have.
@NV Access @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Jamie Teh
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@zersiax @NVAccess @KaraLG84 If I recall correctly, the NV Access site has a link to the GitHub project, but I'm not sure if we have direct links to the new bug and new feature forms. If we don't, that would probably be helpful, perhaps even in the NVDA Help menu or similar. I certainly agree there are areas of GitHub that are very suboptimal in terms of accessibility. Even the page to choose the type of new issue report has no useful headings, which is ridiculous, hence my suggestion of direct links. And yes, the releases section of GitHub is confusing to non-devs - most people don't know what the hell an asset is - but NVDA users are never asked to use any of that.
@NV Access @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@KaraLG84 @NVAccess @zersiax Going beyond even that, I understand some users will struggle to provide steps to reproduce, expected results and the like. Unfortunately, the only way to solve that is to have someone at the other end continually following up with questions and guiding you through the process. That might be reasonable for a paid product, but it just doesn't scale for a free one. Maybe something to consider would be paid email support in addition to the existing telephone support option to allow for things like that. Just to be clear, I don't have anything to do with operations at NVA these days, so any suggestions I make here carry no real weight; they're just ideas.
@NV Access @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
in reply to Andre Louis

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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thanks for saying that. If tech makes us feel super dumb and stupid, then it's not intuitive to use. I understand github is for developers, but the reporting page, or whatever it is considered, should be intuitive to use, not only to developers, but to the average person as well. and currently, github's structure is everything but, useable...
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NV Access
NV Access
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@zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Whatever reporting system we used would almost certainly involve the user creating an account. Try reporting an issue against Windows, or Chrome, Firefox, any other piece of software and you generally need to have it create an account on often something which is unique to that product. Ok you may not use GitHub for anything but NVDA, but it's no harder to use than anything else and it IS accessible.
@Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Yadiel Sotomayor
Yadiel Sotomayor
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@NVAccess @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 I'm sorry, but I echo Florian. average user does not care/does not have the technical knowledge to work around github. Hell, I consider myself a fairly technical user, and I find submitting issues on github annoying at best. With things like jaws, all they have to do is send an email. Now, I know that would not work with NVAccess, but something simpler would benifit the screen reader tremendously.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
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Yadiel Sotomayor
Yadiel Sotomayor
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@NVAccess @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 A huge reason why JAWS is still very much the default in affluent countries is how technical NVDA and its documentation tends to be. Especially for new users. Every student I have worked with mentions that. There is no doubt NVDA is superior in many ways, but until NVDA becomes more approachable, it will mainly be used by highly technical people, or those who do not have any other choice.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
in reply to Yadiel Sotomayor

NV Access
NV Access
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@ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 That is feedback I have not heard previously! Our Basic Training for NVDA tends to be highly praised for how readable and well structured it is. We have also recently included a quick start guide in the use guide and as previously mentioned, we will create issues if you email or message us (and I'm engaged in this thread). I'm really not sure what more you want us to do to be approachable and easy to contact? (Genuine question)
@Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
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NV Access
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@ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Yadiel - I am genuinely keen to find out what the problem with our training material you have found is? Please do reply or reach out at info@nvaccess.org. We've only had good feedback on how easy it is to use, so I would love to find out how Basic Training for NVDA is too technical for your users please? (I can't fix it without understanding what is wrong). Thank you very much for sharing!
@Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
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Jonathan Mosen
Jonathan Mosen
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@NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 For what it's worth, I truly think the training material is clearly written and informative. It's very well done.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Seconding the very high quality of the training material. I'd regularly recommend them to my students after a lesson to reenforce the learning.
Well worth paying for.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
in reply to Sean Randall

Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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@cachondo @NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh Thirded. I have the Word and excel modules and they're fantastic. Also not forgetting the included user guide. Years ago I think the object nav section needed work but they clearly sorted it out since.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Sean Randall @Yadiel Sotomayor
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Jamie Pauls
Jamie Pauls
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@cachondo @NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 NVDA's Excel training book is quite thorough. Honestly, users of other screen readers besides NVDA might still find their training materials useful.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Sean Randall @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
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NV Access
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@EdenLinnea @cachondo @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 @JamiePauls @jpellis2008 @jscholes

Thank you so much everyone! It's great to get positive feedback and even more heartening to know that what we do IS worthwhile to people and helping people!

Thank you again and have a great week everyone :)

@James Scholes @Jay Pellis @Jamie Teh @Florian @Sean Randall @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor @Jamie Pauls @Eden Linnea
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Michael Ryan Hunsaker
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@NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 I think that argument will be used against NVDA until someone starts setting up podcasts and YouTube videos like Freedom scientific has for JAWS. These podcasts/videos are no less technical than the NVDA and the JAWS training materials are NOT user friendly in themselves, but there is the perception that they are user friendly.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
in reply to Michael Ryan Hunsaker

NV Access
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@amazing_mrhunsaker @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 I wonder if the person suggesting the material is too technical simply wasn't aware of the training material at all, so maybe there is work we can do to better promote the fact there IS training material for people to use to learn NVDA.
@Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor @Michael Ryan Hunsaker
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Michael Ryan Hunsaker
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@NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 perhaps. I never had trouble finding it. I just think a lot of opinion about ease/difficulty of JAWS and NVDA has more to say about the person speaking than the materials themselves. My colleagues tell me NVDA is hard to use—but they base that on their assumption of JAWS as the “gold standard”. It takes a LOT of work for them to see that NVDA is not only valid but better for certain tasks
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor
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Naeem_1986
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@NVAccess @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Hi, I find the NVDA training material very accessible and easy to use. This bearing in mind that I do not consider myself an advanced computer user. thank you very much @NVAccess for this wonderful software. Keep up the excellent job.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor

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NV Access
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@Naeem_1986 @ysotomayor @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Thank you so much! We endeavoured to make the training material easy to use for anyone, including those who aren't advanced computer users. Thank you for your kind words!
@Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch @Yadiel Sotomayor @Naeem_1986
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MostlyBlindGamer
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@NVAccess @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 wow, what a huge thread this has turned into.

The cool new trend in open source software is private Discord servers. GitHub is public and searchable - you can even add a thumbs up to an issue.

As a developer, I prefer to get bugs handled by a customer service team and feature requests handled by the sales and product teams. I would very much like to not ask my users any questions.

That just goes to show 1. GitHub isn’t ideal for anybody and 2. other systems have their own problems, not the least of which are accessibility and the impact of layers between users and developers.

For what it’s worth, I know I could call NV Access for support at a pretty reasonable rate. If somebody has a problem and talks about it on here, another user may take the initiative and replicate and report it. There are also mailing lists.

We can, at the same time, recognize that there are constraints that make GitHub the least bad option for NV Access, from a customer support side, and that it’s neither an insurmountable obstacle nor the only option to get support.

@NV Access @Jamie Teh @Florian @Kara Goldfinch
in reply to Florian

Svenja
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@zersiax I agree to that. I am a Dev myself but rarely fill Issues on github because i am to worried to do things wrong. Once I tried filling an Issue the Project emediately closed it without a good Explanation, just throwing Keywords at me. @NVAccess @FreakyFwoof @twynn
@NV Access @Timothy Wynn @Florian @Andre Louis
in reply to Svenja

NV Access
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@svenja NVDA? Or another project? If you can give me a link, a number, your GitHub username or anything I can use to find your issue, I'd be happy to have a look and work out what may have happened?
@Svenja
in reply to NV Access

Svenja
Svenja
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@NVAccess its another Project, don't worry, I just wanted to say its not that easy. If you are interested I can send you the Link nevertheless :-)
@NV Access
in reply to Svenja

NV Access
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@svenja Ah no problem. You may get grumbled at for an NVDA issue which doesn't follow the template, but usually a genuine issue will be accepted and the issue wording will be fixed up if needed.
@Svenja

mage waddles somewhere in the middle of the night, visibly tired.

:neocat_hyper:

Drawing of a black cat knocking over a coffee mug while staring at the viewer. I DO WHAT I WANT

#time please boost far and wide, thanks

  • year-round standard time (67%, 867 votes)
  • year-round daylight saving time (22%, 294 votes)
  • keep switching back and forth (9%, 128 votes)
1289 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

#time

When the world gets a bit too much for you, play more music, listen to more music. Just get lost in that for a while.

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You know you’ve really messed up the spelling of a word when even spellcheck can’t figure out what you were trying to spell out.

Who will win?

  • the vacuum cleaner (89%, 33 votes)
  • the speakers playing while I vacuum (10%, 4 votes)
37 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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Hubert Figuière
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@nekohayo I tend to pause everything when I use cutting tools. I don't want lose fingers with the table saw.
@Jeff Fortin T.

Toto je kurva čo zase!? Dajte si...

zadlzilislovensko.sk/

NAJVÄČŠÍ SLOVENSKÍ GAMBLERI

www.zadlzilislovensko.sk
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Daniel Tóth
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Evidentne rovnaká firma ako to bolo pri falošnom webe o Korčokovi. A evidentne už mali túto doménu pripravenú dosť dlho. Autor sa ale bude určite iba zase vyhovárať, že s tým nič nemá a jeho firma bola zneužitá, rovnako ako to robil ohľadom jeho prvého webu.
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#Synology #NAS users: If you use Synology’s Photos app, read about this critical vulnerability. infosec.exchange/@kimzetter/11…

Kim Zetter (@kimzetter@infosec.exchange)

Dutch researchers @midnightbluelab found a critical zero-click vuln in a photo app enabled by default on Synology storage devices, putting millions of systems at risk of being hacked.
Infosec Exchange
#nas #synology

apparently toy capsule machines run about $100 🤔
in reply to aeva

aeva
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i'm tempted to buy one and fill it up with art and weird stuff and set it up in my living room and encourage guests to take a few and play it up like it's a magic capsule machine that periodically refills itself with new and exciting mysteries
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aeva
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dumb conceptual art idea

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Outside stream is very boomy today. 2.onj.me/outside.m3u
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Andre Louis
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@vick21 You'd still have to charge them up on the regular, so they'd die at random times. Personally wouldn't bother. These are Behringer XM8500 dynamics connected to a Raspberry Pi.
@victor tsaran
in reply to Andre Louis

victor tsaran
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I guess, my issue is that I cannot make these mics stationary at the moment, so would love an opportunity to remove / install them at will.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 16 updated apps, but also 2 apps were removed:

* DiviDoc contains a self-updater, and its author did not respond to our issue
* URL to PDF was rebranded to WebCapture more than a month ago, so the "old" app was removed

Further, several more apps could be confirmed as #reproducibleBuilds – bringing their total number here up to 315 (or relative: 26.2%).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

Caleb Maclennan
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Re DiviDoc ... You commented on an old closed issue instead of opening a new dedicated one:

github.com/Armand31/Dividoc/is…

Whether or not the author cares I can't say but for most projects that is a good way to go unaddressed. Also for the sake of every other potential user checking out known issues...


Add automatic update · Issue #9 · Armand31/Dividoc

An Android app designed to assist the documentation of dead bodies in war, disaster and migration areas - Add automatic update · Issue #9 · Armand31/Dividoc
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in reply to Caleb Maclennan

IzzyOnDroid ✅
IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@alerque Yes, I commented on the issue that introduced this, Caleb. And I've pinged the author explicitly, twice even. Apart from that, the project has not seen any commit since 2/2023, and Armand seems "gone" since June. So chances of this being addressed are rather low to non-existent.

Should it be addressed later, the app can easily be re-established, metadata have been archived and not deleted.

@Caleb Maclennan

For many the Internet is Google. But Google profits massively from the data you share. The time has come to stop this unlimited data mining. That's why we are building Tuta. We do not track, log or share your information. And the best: No Ads.🥰🥰🥰
in reply to Tuta

peace
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you are right . But , unfortunately Big G has a lot of bots inside phones. Google hss stored anything about us . Only mode is a rooted device. Congratulations for last update on Tuta. Mail and Calendar.
in reply to Tuta

Strypey
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(1/?)

@Tutanota
> That's why we are building Tuta. We do not track, log or share your information. And the best: No Ads

Great stuff. Will you be implementing AutoCrypt, so people using Tuta can send encrypted email to people using other email services and apps, which also support the standard?

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

Having to use Tuta's clients to access Tuta mail is pretty much the only thing that's been holding me back from using the service.

@Decentralize


Autocrypt support · Issue #198 · tutao/tutanota

Hi there, is Tutanota planning to follow the path of other mail clients and implement Autocrypt? Seems like most major clients are planning on releasing support for it soon (K9, Thunderbird, Mailpi...
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@Tuta @The Privacy Advocate (dt.gl)

What does one do with a new cotton t-shirt that has a big rectangle of vinyl print on the front... making it unwearable? Straight up cut it into rags?
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Nuktal
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A) Is vinyl print solid color?
B) Does it have text/images on it?

If "A", take a Pilot marker and handwrite something funny.
If "B", yeah, cut it into rags.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

hpj
hpj
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Wash it once or twice. Or just put on that concert t-shirt from 1997 with the print still intact.

uspol

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Blake C. Stacey
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Spotted on an evening walk on an isolated beach in Aotearoa #NewZealand

A small human (5?) holding up a kite so her older brother can get it in the air. She's an expert holder, picking it up every time it falls on the sand. The patience and optimism that it'll fly eventually seems infinite.

A man (30s?) with a thoughtful aspect pushing a wheelbarrow down to the water line. He's got all the gear for a perfect few hours fishing. A while later he's spotted in a deck chair next to a low table with a picnic on it while waiting for a catch.

A small group of young humans directed by a man (40s?) in setting up a sand-drawn rugby pitch. He's wearing a bucket hat and has the air of a dad on a mighty mission. Within minutes he has teams sorted and is running up and down the sand umpiring. This is serious business

Two grey haired naturists walking along the treeline on a quiet patch of the beach. From a distance they look like two tranquil, rather pink wild creatures happily holding hands as one of them points out different cloud formations crossing the skyline.

A couple of women (20s?) smooching while standing in ankle deep water. They pause to take a selfie and then one abruptly stoops and splashes the other. Shrieking, chasing and more smooching to follow.

Any typos spotted in this post are lost after being locked in overnight after the sunset gates were closed at this beach. If spotted give them a drink of water and a ride to the nearest town. They will appreciate breakfast.

You're looking at a spectacular flat yellow/brown sand beach at almost full low tide. There's a massive expanse of sand in the foreground that feels quite coarse underfoot. To the left you can see a treeline of pine trees going into the distance. To the right is blue water and overhead is a stunning late spring evening blue sky with the odd fluffy picturesque cloud. In the far distance is a mountain range because this is New Zealand and those suckers sneak up on you.
#newzealand

Hey #openstreetmap people, i need your help again.
I'm using Overpass Turbo for the first time and struggling with a query that should be simple.
I've checked various help files but can't find anything.
I just want to show roads that have no speed limit. (So i know to go and fix that).

Something like:
nwr["highway"]["maxspeed"=null]

#openstreetmap
in reply to Simon Hobeck

Joost Schouppe
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thus should do the trick as well openstreetmap.org/user/Branko%…

Maxspeed freshness tool

tl;dr I created Maxspeed freshness tool where you can see if tag exists, and if it does - how old it is!
OpenStreetMap
in reply to Joost Schouppe

Simon Hobeck
Simon Hobeck
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@joost_schouppe thanks, this is useful and essentially what I was looking for with Overpass.
I currently prefer MapComplete simply because I can quickly fix any missing values rather than jump between browser tabs.
Once I've completed the gaps, maybe then I can review older inputs.
@Joost Schouppe

To je ale bumbrlíček…

#gentoo

>>> Running pre-merge checks for dev-qt/qtwebengine-6.7.3 * Checking for at least 40 GiB RAM ... * Checking for at least 8 GiB disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/dev-qt/qtwebengine-6.7.3/temp" ... * Checking for at least 360 MiB disk space at "/usr" ...
#gentoo
in reply to Marián Kyral

mahdi
mahdi
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taky mam vzdycky "radost", kdyz vidim update tohohle molochu. Bohuzel mam jednu appku, kde to nejde vypnout a zatim sem byl linej ten -9999 ebuild poradne prozkoumat, jestli bych to nevypl nebo je to nak vic zadratovany. Naivne sem si myslel (tak pred pul rokem), ze zkusim prepnout par balicku na binarni, ale ono to nejde (zatim?) uplne mixovat. Jen pokud existuje -bin alternativa separe, i u LO sem musel prejit na kompilaci, protoze -bin je zoufale stara a dle bugzilly to moc nevypada.
in reply to mahdi

Marián Kyral
Marián Kyral
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@mahdi No je to na …

Firefox 30 minut, libreoffice cca 1 hodina, qtwebengine 2 hodiny 🤷‍♂️

@mahdi
in reply to Marián Kyral

Jiří Pavlík
Jiří Pavlík
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@Marián Kyral @mahdi Já mám Firefox a Thunderbird binární, protože tam jsou updaty hodně časté, Libreoffice kompiluju na svých třech strojích pod hodinu (jsou to děla), na čas Qtwebengine se mi nechce vzpomínat.

Zkoušel jsem binpkg gcc, protože mi chvíli zlobila jeho kompilace, ale jinak té binpkg větvi Gentoo rozumím tak, že je spíš pro případ, kdy člověk spravuje síť a nechce kompilovat na každém PC.

@Marián Kyral @mahdi
in reply to Jiří Pavlík

Marián Kyral
Marián Kyral
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@jiri @mahdi

Ta binární větev je pro všechny, kdo využívají nejčastější kombinaci USE flagů. Pokud člověk moc nedivočí, tak se použije binární balík. Jinak se kompiluje.

Bohužel čím větší balík, tím více USE flagů a tím větší šance, že se bude muset kompilovat. Nebylo by špatné, mít nějaký nástroj, který by mi řekl, kterými USE flagy se liším.

@Jiří Pavlík @mahdi
in reply to Marián Kyral

Jiří Pavlík
Jiří Pavlík
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@Marián Kyral @mahdi Je to teda tak, že se portage sám rozhodne, že bude ignorovat option --getbinpkg nebo podobnou?
@Marián Kyral @mahdi
in reply to Marián Kyral

mahdi
mahdi
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byvalo i hur :) kdyz sem s gentoo zacinal, tak muj 6kg notas s P4 daval OO.org ~24h :-P (nastesti pomerne rychle byl pak i binarni) ... btw firefox ma udrzovanej www-client/firefox-bin (esr i nejnovejsi), takze tady du cestou nejmensiho odporu.
in reply to mahdi

Marián Kyral
Marián Kyral
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@mahdi Ten FF mě vůbec netrápí. Ani LO. Zato Chromium byl jiný příběh. Tam bin balíček byl, ale zrušili ho, kompilovat to nechci, tak jsem skončil u FlatPacku. Občas v něm potřebuji něco otestovat a na to mi flatpack stačí.
@mahdi
in reply to Marián Kyral

mahdi
mahdi
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taky pouziju Chromium zridka, jen kdyz chci neco otestovat, existuje github.com/PF4Public/gentoo-ov… odkud beru

gentoo-overlay/www-client at master · PF4Public/gentoo-overlay

Personal Gentoo overlay. Contribute to PF4Public/gentoo-overlay development by creating an account on GitHub.
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in reply to mahdi

Miroslav Suchý
Miroslav Suchý
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@mahdi 😀😀😀 to jsou pro mě zprávy z jiného vesmíru. Se divim, že vás to baví.😀😀
@mahdi

Fairphone 4 and sensors

Full post here. rene.seindal.dk/2024/11/03/fai…

I bought a Fairphone 4 as a part of my project of de-googling my life.

Playing with different operating systems, I somehow ended up with a phone where most of the sensors didn't work, even if they did when I got the phone.

#EOS #DeGoogling #FairPhone4 #FP4 #MurenaOS #UbuntuTouch


Fairphone 4 and sensors

A Fairphone4, which has had UBports installed, doesn’t show most sensors to a later installation of Android.
René Seindal (René's old blog)
#UbuntuTouch #eos #murenaos #Fairphone4 #fp4 #degoogling
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