After a recent collaboration between the Jieshuo screen reader developer and VIVO to integrate the Blue Heart AI LLM into Jieshuo, driving the AI image
@GenTollis I started with adding the neighbourhoods into OSM with JOSM and iD (and lots of research).
Then, I created a custom @MapComplete theme showing those neighborhoods. I used the 'export as png'-function, put some extra text on it (top left) and sent it towards Kruidvat - a grocery chain which does print picture puzzles.
I don't have any Kruidvat's near me, but I can probably find some other source for printing. There are a few areas on #OSM I've contributed to significantly, so I will definitely be looking into making one or two of these (and sending you tax 😋).
Four projects will receive grants to contribute to the NGI @mobifree pilot. Many thanks to all four teams for contributing to a fair, open and privacy-friendly mobile software ecosystem. @termux Android terminal app and software distro/run-time OpenAGPS: Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service Android Translation Layer: Run Android apps on Linux LambdaNative F-Droid integration: Portable, Productive and Performant App Development with Scheme nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NG… #NGI #mobile
125 people have already won sticker packs in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! But we're only just getting started – so if you haven't yet contributed, find out how: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will…
I wrote about the need to review your icons when localizing, in order to make sure you're actually communicating what you intend to. ericwbailey.website/published/…
One of my favorite Singapore food writers / recipe developers lives in the Netherlands now.
“Having grown up in perpetual summer, living in the Netherlands with the cold as a constant companion often makes me hanker for foods that I’d never craved for in Singapore.”
That’s what I feel too: the perpetual summer.
The newsletter name is a joke because there are no Singapore noodles in Singapore:
You've directed this to U"S. subscribers, so perhaps you might know if there actually is a U.S. site for the Blindshell anymore? I know the primary company is in the Czech Republic, and the previous U.S. distributor is no longer in partnership.
Ah, thank you. I suspect they'll redesign that page to make the list of distributors more prominent. I just gave it a cursory glance after having seen the main site this morning, and they looked the same" In any case, thanks for posting.
@ricky_enger Today's @doubletap podcast has an interview with BlindShell and U.S. distribution is addressed. Whether BlindShell addressed it adequately is another story.
@Jage This is great to know. Is AT Guys still distributing? And what about support? This is my main concern, as I would love to keep recommending this phone for the population I work with, but there definitely needs to be a solid support system after purchase"
@ricky_enger Yes we are still selling the 2 at the moment. We are weighing interest in the 3 and also considering the amount of support it takes. We will always support our current customers.
@Jage Speaking of distribution, while other features such as AI Assistant doesn't seem transferable, the ability to copy/paste and make conference calls do seem to be back-portable to its second gen variant. Do you know if that is going to be the case? I don't have nor want one, but I am asking to see if this is artificial feature-limiting or if they will continue to support their previous devices for as long as feasible for the sake of their customers. @ricky_enger @DavidGoldfield
For Users of the Perkins Brailler: Paige Connect: Allowing You to Wirelessly Send What You Type to a Phone, Tablet or Laptop groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…
EPD Engineering from Greece uses Tuta Mail for their business. Here's why! 👇
"First of all, for principal reasons, we just don’t want anyone to have access to our data. This is crucial for us as a technical company working with sensitive information. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐏𝐃 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐮𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭."
nice service by @jaller94: find missing #stolpersteine on #osm in your berlin kiez. simply load the gpx file into your favourite osm app (e.g. osmand) and add missing stolpersteine to #openstreetmap.
@pietervdvn The GPX format was chosen because OsmAnd and Locus Map can import them. With the mobile apps we can map while walking around outside.
The data source is stolpersteine-berlin.de/. Because of it having no explicit licence, some typos and inaccurate positions we cannot import it or use it for online editing. MapRoulette and MapComplete don't have IRL mapping editors, right?
element-docker-demo gives you a basic Matrix 2.0 implementation.
Watch Matthew Hodgson, Element CEO and co-founder of Matrix.org, step through the set up.
I don't know how much of the speech generation is 16 bit versus the UI and other executive function. I've seen demo apps for softvoice that won't run because they're 16 bit and some that will, for instance. SO by that logic the speech synthesizer itself works across 16 and 32 bit platforms, just not its interface, if you see what I mean
All the energy used, all the carbon emitted, all the e-waste created and still every chatbot has the "anything this thing says might be false, you still need to check" label all over it. I cannot believe the resources we are spending on this bullshit instead of doing literally anything else. mastodon.social/@dw_innovation…
Generative AI not only consumes a lot of energy, it's also likely to produce a lot of electronic trash.
According to researchers, the total amount of global e-waste could grow by the alarming factor of 1.000 in only 5 years.
ICYMI: a few weeks ago, I put together a comprehensive guide for #blind #RetroTech people on getting a fully working Windows 3.1 installation fired up, screen reader and all. fuge.seediffusion.cc/emu-guide…
@cachondo The first version of Windows to really lean into Theming including sound schemes was 95, specifically with the Microsoft Plus! pack which was sold separately, though the base installation did include a few sound schemes on its own like Utopia, Musika, Jungle and Robots. Windows 98 had its own version of plus, which included a unique set of themes different from the 95 ones, but the base installation also included the sound schemes I listed above.
@pitermach I think I was still using a hardware speech synthesizer with 95. I don't actually recall having speakers on my desktop, and of course the PC speaker did its beeps without them anyway. Amazing to think that the entire audio side of things was just missing in my experience.
Anyone have suggestions on where to try to promote the Games for Blind gamers gam jam? We got 110 sign ups last year, and hoping to get more sign ups this year!
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 remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:
"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .
"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 11. November, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
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We're celebrating the anniversary of Sesame Street, which is as much an institution to Americans as Doctor Who is to the British, and guess what? The two series are linked in ways we – or their creators – never realized.
Breaking News: New BlindShell Classic 3 has been launched. Full details with the team from BlindShell on today's #DoubleTap. Read more here: blindshell.com/?gad_source=1&g…
Did you catch up on our last In-Process blog at the end of October? If you haven't yet read it (or even if you have) you'll be pleased to know I've now FIXED the table of contents links so you can easily get to: - the 2024.4 release info - Info about add-ons - Emphasising stability - Benefits for users and developers in our add-on approach - And all about reporting font attributes
It’s that spooky time of year for all those who celebrate Halloween. And it’s also Diwali for our Indian friends. Whether you participate in either of these or not, there is something we defi…
And as previously posted today, updated since that post, NVDA 2024.4.1 is now out, which includes everything from NVDA 2024.4, as well as one key bug fix. More on that update here: 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…
For those on the Beta / RC branch, we have also pushed a Release Candidate build of 2024.4.1 for you - note this is identical to the 2024.4.1 from yesterday, but will keep you on that path so you'll be the first to get NVDA 2025.1 Beta 1 when it comes out in time.
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…
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…
I have always been totally blind, but Visuals, have always interested me. I signed up for a class at work a month ago to better understand visual graphs and charts from an annalyst prospective, as …
GenTollis
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •Pietervdvn
in reply to GenTollis • • •@GenTollis I started with adding the neighbourhoods into OSM with JOSM and iD (and lots of research).
Then, I created a custom @MapComplete theme showing those neighborhoods. I used the 'export as png'-function, put some extra text on it (top left) and sent it towards Kruidvat - a grocery chain which does print picture puzzles.
Pietervdvn
in reply to Pietervdvn • • •@GenTollis mapcomplete.org/theme.html?z=1… is the resulting digital map.
If you make your own puzzle map with it, I'll be claiming tax though: you'll have to send me a picture of the end result ;)
MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap
mapcomplete.orgGenTollis
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