General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.7 was released on October 31 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with a massive Help bookmark cleanup effort and improved the help for BASIC’s Option Explicit statement Pierre F.
Making blind accessible video games has been truly life changing, and it all started with making a game for a blind accessible game jam. I learned so much about accessibility, met wonderful people, was exposed to video games made in new and wonderful ways, and felt inspired in new ways to be creative. So that's why I help a yearly jam all about blind accessibility in video games, and I genuinely hope anyone reading this considers joining. itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga… #indiedev #Blind #gaming
A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of bli...
I followed this post to amazon.com an discovered that the website now offers new keyboard shortcuts, like option+shift+o for Orders, option+shift+c for cart, and others. Wow, that’s a welcome change. #accessibilitymastodon.social/@appleinsider/…
@technocounselor I’ve been seeing those links at the top of the Amazon website for a while now, and haven’t gotten around to looking at them. Thanks for the prompt to do so.
@Thumper1964 @technocounselor I don’t go to Amazon’s website unless I really have to, but this time I did, I was rather surprised. It’s a sacred cow for Amazon, so no wonder the accessibility improvements have been so slow and rather sporadic. Anyway, happy to see any improvement bit coming along our way!
Falls du dich schon einmal gefragt hast, welches bestimmte Aufnahmegerät, Audio Interface, Mikrofon, paar Kopfhörer oder Keyboard du benutzen sollst, und du zudem Sorgen hattest, das du ein teures Produkt eventuell nicht vollumfänglich nutzen können wirst, weil dir deine Sehbehinderung im Weg steht, dann ist eventuell meine Webseite etwas für dich. Dort gibt es eine Liste aller von mir handgeprüften Produkte, mit Begründung für die Empfehlung. toni-barth.online/de/gear/
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Du kennst sicher die Sorgen, sich ein neues technisches Gerät anschaffen zu wollen, aber im Voraus nicht zu wissen, ob du es überhaupt benutzen können wirst. Im Zeitalter der
NVDA 2024.4.1 has been released! This is a patch release to fix a bug when saving speech symbol dictionaries. Pressing the Close button in the Symbol Pronunciation dialog will now save the symbols dictionary and close the dialog.
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highl…
Hi. What about us who are on the beta and RC channel? Perhaps it would be good if there was 2024.4.1 RC1 release before the official release so we would have the fix as well. Unless if there is a new upcoming beta soon so we will have the fix anyway.
@nikosdemetriou Our apologies, we realised that after pushing out the release. We are looking at whether we can make 2024.4.1 cound for both channels (which might mean having to download 2025.1 Beta 1 manually like it used to be). In any case, you CAN download the release from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4-…
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highl…
A good billionaire would use $999,000,000 of every billion to make life better for those who have little or nothing. If you can’t live on a million dollars how do you expect people to live on $10,000?
Jedno malý-velký wtf po ránu 😂🙈. Aaaanyways: jak správně čistit dětem zuby víme? Do kolika? A čím? A proč jsou mléčné zuby důležité? A proč NENÍ Okay nechávat v puse zub s kazem? Plak detektory znáte? Nebo stále převládá mantra "staré školy", že jsou to zuby na zkoušku a vrtat netřeba? Popravdě v případě dětí mě ta pro zubaře (i rodiče) pohodlná dogmata, která pak rozdělují "starou" a "novou" školu, deptaji ještě víc.
To jednoduchý. Když rodiče nechtějí dětem čistit/dočišťovat zuby, tak si své svědomí uklidní podáváním takového přípravku. Nic víc bych v tom nehledal.
@brabitom no naopak jsou i tací rodiče, kteří čistí kartáčkem, jednosvazkovým, mezizubní, dočišťují, chodí na DH a pak v rámci dobrého svědomí navíc ditku podávají orální probiotika a narazí na tenhle shit.
Ano, pravda i tato situace může nastat. No, není nic snazšího, než se na DH nejprve zeptat. 🙂 Ale chápu, když to prodávají v lékárně, nemůže to být špatné ....
@brabitom a pak se nám ten problém zase komplikuje - ne každá DH je taková šťoura a zkrátka neví, doporučí, neptá se, nezjišťuje, neověřuje a BUM 😁 Žádný problém vztahující se ke zdraví nikdy nevidím jednoduše...
For the five thousandth time, NO, it is not. It sucks. The XEPs suck. The clients almost all universally suck except like *one* client on Android. The server hosting story is an overcomplicated mess.
@luiscarlosgonzalez I could be wrong, but Sonata utilizes ONX format, and except Piper, pretty much all the TTS models utilizing machine learning (at least the ones I know) don't support it. Also if you're hoping to use with NVDA, they are too slow for real time anyways.
@luiscarlosgonzalez Sonata defines the interface and text-front-end for neural TTS models. For Piper, yes we use ONNX. but I have models running locally that are implemented directly in native code, or using a native framework such as Candle.
@luiscarlosgonzalez LLM based TTS models, such as the one above, natively supports streaming. Use this with quantization, and you'll never know what you'll get.
Yep it is impressive indeed. Used it in another project and it delivers great performance and it can be easily fine tuned on new data in few hours. It uses Vocos as a decoder, so it is also very fast in decoding tokens back to audio.
The gall on these people. Leveraging the power of the state to benefit crony capitalists and protect their private interests, in detriment of their competitors and the public at large, is one of the main features of Fascism, by the way. Also, if they decide to act on this, the joke is on them, it's so incredibly stupid. Reconstruction contracts are usually absurdly lucrative [Halliburton in Iraq, Marshall Plan in Europe]. I suspect Vance will get quite a few phone calls from American corporations begging him not to say stupid shit like this. German companies will not only ramp up their production to meet demand (especially military industries) and extend their area of influence, a few German capitalists will become very wealthy because Vance decided to be a Putin puppet and wank on Peter Thiel's agenda (yes, this is Peter Thiel's game pulling the strings, Elon is a low-IQ, socially challenged buffoon who got lucky and hired good engineers who save his business every day, despite him).
The sandboxed-api project provides libraries the means to implement a separate api that allows to execute library functions in a separate process which can be effectively restricted using seccomp a...
I think it's not worth it atleast in Linux since there are already a lot of work in the kernel and, systemd and, ... As to to identify and isolate a given process. But maybe it can be referenced in everything curl for application use cases. Something like the chapter about how to use containerized curl
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this is #deltacat watching the ongoing 1.48 #deltachat releases carefully - thanks to @adbenitez and automated store watching, this is much less stressing, just right for a cat relaxing ~#caturday
When I was a kid, under the influence of science fiction, I dreamt I was going to the moon. It was so exciting! When I woke up I was crushed. When I grew up, I realized sending humans into space is a waste of money at present - though it was good to prove we could do it.
If we're serious about exploring airless environments with lots of radiation, we should be developing cyborgs and better AI. But meanwhile, we can explore space from the comfort of home using space probes and telescopes. We just need to get better at explaining to ordinary folks how cool this is. I can get thrilled by graphs and tables of data, because I can vividly imagine what they mean. Most folks would prefer a good animated video.
MeerKAT is an amazing array of 64 radio telescopes in South Africa. They want to expand this to the Square Kilometer Array, which will actually consist of thousands of telescopes in South Africa and Australia. But it's already seeing great stuff. Like just this June they found a weird thing that flashes like a pulsar - but really slowly, once every 54 minutes instead of a thousand times a second like an ordinary pulsar.
That's insane! What is this thing? We don't know, and that's exactly why it's cool. But for some guesses, read on - after I do the laundry.
Okay, I hung up the laundry. Imagine an enormous star flinging off its outer layers after it runs out of fuel and its core collapses under its own gravity. If it doesn't become a black hole, the core can shrink down to a ball of neutronium just 20 kilometers across. Just as a ballerina spins faster as she pulls in her arms, this ball spins really fast - like 1000 rotations a second. And since neutronium conducts electricity, it can blast out radio waves as it spins, creating a blinking radio signal, called a pulsar. Pulsars are so precisely periodic that when Jocelyn Bell first spotted one, people thought it was a signal from aliens!
Like the rest of us, pulsars slow down as they age. But this also means their signal weakens. So we usually don't see pulsars in the gray region of this chart - to the right of the line called the 'pulsar death line'. Pulsars are the gray dots to the left of this line. The pink squares are called 'magnetars'. These are the squalling infants in the world of pulsars: young and highly magnetized neutron stars that do crazy stuff like put out big bursts of X-rays now and then.
But then there are weirder things. A telescope array called the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder was searching for radio waves connected to a gamma ray burst in 2022 when it stumbled on something that blasts out radio waves about once an hour. It lost track of this object, so folks brought in the more powerful MeerKAT radio telescope and found it again.
Now it's called ASKAP J1935+2148. It's well to the right of the pulsar death line. What could it be?
The radio source ASKAP J1935+2148 is an amazing thing. It blasts out radio waves once every 54 minutes, which is incredibly slow for a pulsar. Pulsars usually pulse somewhere between 1000 times a second and once every few seconds.
ASKAP J1935+2148 puts out 3 kinds of pulses in a rather random way: bright pulses, weak pulses, and no pulse at all. But if you fill in the missing pulses, you'll see the pulses keep the same period with an accuracy of 1/10 of a second. So I imagine it must be something quite heavy slowly spinning around, which has a patch that switches between 3 modes of radio emission.
It could be a really weird pulsar, but nobody knows how a pulsar spinning so slowly could put out radio waves. Another candidate I've read about is a 'magnetic white dwarf'. These are white dwarf stars that have strong magnetic fields. Nobody knows why! But also, nobody has seen one put out radio pulses. So this also seems like a long shot.
In short, it's a mystery! And that means we'll learn something cool.
This is a valuable article for those who are involved in any way in online spaces (read: all of us). I'm looking forward to reading the research paper. Some of their findings:
1. Members Don’t Leave After Experiencing Toxicity 2. Online Toxic Behaviors Are Not Isolated Incidents 3. Toxicity Stems from Culture, Not a Few “Bad Apples” 4. Rivalries Don’t Boost Communities — They Tear Them Apart 5. Self-Moderation Is Not Enough to Keep Toxicity at Bay
If there are any #Lorcana fans out there interested in donating $6.52 towards helping children in hospitals, doing so in the next half hour at desertbus.org/donate will enter you into a giveaway for one booster box of each set of Lorcana released so far. All 5!
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Do you know this situation? You really want to get into making music, but don't know which keyboard to pick? You're visually impaired and you fear that the instrument of choice might not be accessible enough that you feel confident in your purchase? I've got a website where Ilist all the products I tested for accessibility and can wholeheartedly recommend to other people. I'm here to answer any question that might come up. The list will be expanded over time. toni-barth.online/gear/
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You may be worried about buying a new piece of technology, but not knowing if you will be able to use it. In the age of touchscreens, not every device on the market can be us
thanks a lot for this. If you're not there yet, you could talk to the RWP discussion group, where blind people talk about Reaper and instruments in general. Also, I believe we should contact smart glasses software developers to ask them to make a specialized AI capable of helping us to operate musical keyboards, in particular arrangers. It should be able to detect changes at the screen as we press buttons, and tell us accordingly.
@clv0 I'm already an active member on RWP. And well, Envision AI is close to releasing their Ally to the public which should kind of do exactly what you want. Maybe check them out.
so I discovered yesterday that gotosocial has support for local-only posting similar to glitch/hometown, which is great! unfortunately none of the clients I'm aware of appear to support it
if you're an android or JS dev, adding this to Tusky or Pinafore/Semaphore/Enafore would be a really cool contribution IMO!
there's an existing issue for Tusky but I couldn't find anything for Pinafore & co
I've been testing Takahē (jointakahe.org) with Tusky - it has a Mastodon compatible API. One feature it has is a post visibility setting of "local only". It would be good to see this in Tusky. Appa...
What happens when a MIDI cover of a Classical piece gets written on and for an SC-88Pro? Big things. Very big things. This is a MIDI cover of an excerpt of "Daphnis et Chloé," a piece by Ravel. Arranged by Yu Nakajima (中島 祐), played on my ST Pro. MIDI (SC-88Pro sysex, multi-port): web.archive.org/web/2007012017…. Human performance: youtube.com/watch?v=14OM6Ysnk6…
With advancements in smartphone technology, today’s Android phones come equipped with multiple cameras, each serving a unique purpose. Understanding the role
Dnes už jsem schopen nějaké práce s textem, tak jsem sepsal, proč odcházím od Pirátů. Mnohým z vás bych to jinak dlužil po těch letech, co tu #piráti dělám reklamu. Už nebudu :(
@archos ok, ale když se rozhlédnete ze své osobní bubliny, tak vidíte co? koalici Spolu, ve které je dominantní ODS z ECR. a ANO, které vlezlo do Patriotů pro Evropu (proboha!). A mezi těmahle dvěma stranama se bude rozhodovat.
A ODS to bez Pirátů nedá (ale pravda, někteří už měli plné zuby toho být béčko ODS a s Babišem nechtějí).
De facto v téhle zemi vznikne systém dvou stran (nebo koalic), ze kterých si nepůjde vybrat. Pirátů je škoda. Mohli jsme být hlasem občanů, kteří sice Babišův populismus nechtějí (a od té doby, co je Patrioti a ne ALDE, tak je už fakt mimo jakoukoliv diskuzi a dalo se to čekat), ale současně chtějí najít způsob, jak stopnout největší excesy ODS.
Reagovat na procedurální nesmysl, který prošel o 4 hlasy, hromadným vystupováním ze strany, mi přijde zbrklé. Ale zřejmě někteří vědí víc, než já byť jen tuším.
@Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🏴☠️ Díky za zprávu. je to škoda. Se ztrátou lidí jako Janka Michailidu se z Pirátů stává řadová středopravá strana s trapným dětinským názvem. Už ta disciplinace Janky Bartošem byla pro mne varovným znamením, že něco smrdí.
Oh cool. The Prudence Screen Reader for Android is still being developed.A few annoyances to get it working, but man it's snappy: prudence-screen-reader.en.upto…
> כל מפעל הנצחה מכוון לגעת בלבם של אנשים שלא נכחו במאורעות. אך יש הבדל בין יצירת חיבור רגשי לבין מאמץ מכוון להכניס את הצופים למצב טראומתי ולהופכם להלומי-קרב. מאמץ זה הוא הסיבה לכך שחלק גדול מהמיצגים של הנצחת 7 באוקטובר מתגאים בהיותם "אימרסיביים"
Happy 55th Anniversary to #SesameStreet! To celebrate this milestone, this account will be exclusively posting GIFs featuring the Sesame Street Muppets each day through Friday, November 15th! Wishing you a week full of sunny days!
Cvičení "Core Killer"/10min 💙❤️💪 Začal jsem cvičit. I když to ukrutně bolí. Bolí to, jako když jsem poprvé cvičil v RÚ Kladruby (u Vlašimi). Začínám zase od začátku, ale já to zvládnu. Nechci se odevzdat, vzdát to, jen pro to, že to bolí a ještě to bolet bude. A pak půjdu na ten cílený opich do páteře a to mi zase na čas pomůže. Nevzdám to...
Vlivný člen ODS Zdeněk Zajíček nabízel Ivanu Bartošovi na pozici náměstka pro digitalizaci sobě blízkého člověka. Bartoš se podle informací Deníku N následně obrátil na BIS, která mu jej ale nedoporučila.
Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄
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