is it a mailing list? or a newsletter. I always mentally think of a mailing list as a discussion forum. Intresting how the terminology is set in your head based on your own experience.
Adding @NVAccess to this. In my opinion, using a term like "announce-only" or "announcement only" mailing list might have clarified this for some users. Users who are already subscribed to the NVDA discussion list on Groups.io might have found this announcement just a bit confusing because they'll just conclude that they already are subscribed to a mailing list from NV Access. To be clear, this appears to be an announce only list specifically operated by them. I'm glad they're doing this as I'm sure there are many people who just want information about what's happening with NV Access without having to deal with questions and comments from users.
@cachondo Fair point. Hopefully most people are aware that the list at nvda.groups.io/g/nvda is community run, and not from NV Access, but yes, the post here could have been worded differently - it's always hard trying to squeeze as much info into a social media post as possible AND as clearly and concisely as possible :)
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is screen reader software. The central purpose of this group is discussing *how to use NVDA*. This includes configuring NVDA's settings or familiarizing oneself with its modes and commands.
A recent writing posted by Mr O reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write about my own experience as a long-term cuckcake! Since I’ve only engaged in this dynamic with O and toy I will be writing from a very personalized perspective.
BestSpeak 0.16 (eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo…): Changed self.executor to only allow a single thread worker to perhaps address TTS stability even further. If you've had issues, do test this out - again I notice a very slight performance decrease when you hold down your tab key in terms of how much of the first syllable it gets out before cutting itself off, but this may be the price we live with. I'm personally OK with that. I suppose anyone can change their line back to 4 again if they feel having it be a single worker is a big decrease. For the safety of others having the squeal / memory corruption issue, it's worth it. Remember that BestSpeak came out at a time when having a multicore processor was not even a thing. One core, 1 thread for most processors. The DLL just can't handle concurrency well.
@joshknnd1982 DECTalk is interesting as it was hacked to use Nvwave player. The engine produces audio data in memory. The code then manually pulls that audio from the DECtalk buffers and feeds it to a WavePlayer class, which manages audio output independently. Essentially, DECtalk is bypassing the engine’s internal audio device selection and handling all audio routing at the application level, but something like that is impossible to do with BestSpeech.
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Lol. "Compilers and getting increasingly fussy about memory leaks, even in command-line programs where they do not matter. So this code is provided to hush the warnings." #SQLitegithub.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/…
Apparently due to deliberate jamming around the venue for Russian President Putin’s marathon annual press conference, GPS showing attendees they are in Baghdad, not Moscow. https://t.me/youlistenedmayak/34711
But festival voices no longer work for NVDA, so I only see fit that someone made a new addon and stuff. Plus, it's open-source, I see nothing wrong. A lot of old stuff gets rebranded these days.
Happy to have finally managed to wrench myself away from the computer for the evening to get on with a more fulfilling gear repair task while cooking tea #caving #repair #handbag
Today marks 51 years since Sarah Jane Smith, played by the wonderful Elisabeth Sladen, made her debut in The Time Warrior on the 15th December, 1973. The story also introduced the Sontarans, the slit-scan titles sequence and the iconic Doctor Who diamond logo! #DoctorWho
"The Happiness Patrol" (Sylvester McCoy) (This was a great season, but I don't have this one on DVD. This is the next season for their Blu-Ray release series, BTW, also includes "Silver Nemesis" and "Remembrance of the Daleks", both great)
"Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (Jon Pertwee) "The Time Warrior" (Jon Pertwee) (I think had these on VHS, recorded off-air, but it's been a long time since I watched them). #DoctorWho#JonPertwee#SylvesterMcCoy
In the age of various streaming services as well as commercial media such as Blu-rays, not having access to a television series or film might seem like a problem that only existed in the Dark Ages,…
It's interesting reading my reference books from before the serial was rediscovered and how perceptions change, and how they have to theorise about different aspects we now *know* (About Time spends a lot of time considering when this was set).
Interesting what you say about perceptions. One of the reasons I gave up on Doctor Who podcasts was after listening to a twenty-something year-old podcaster slating another Troughton story, The Space Pirates. The thing is, unlike him, I'm old enough (ancient) to have watched that story when it was broadcast, and I recall how much I enjoyed it. Watching The Space Pirates one episode a week in a Britain that had yet to experience Star Trek was quite something. Context counts. 🙂
I think that’s one of the many reasons I love #DoctorWho - it is in many ways a chronicle of the history of (British) tv and how we experience it over the years - experiences like your childhood are not the prominent way anymore in this streaming/binging age (for good or ill).
And surely how a modern audience ‘consumes’ old tv changes that relationship so I think we should put increasing effort into recognising the original experience/context. If only for the die-hard fans or tv historians.
Prodejní automaty jízdenek PID nově umožňují i nákup dlouhodobých kuponů. Automat má na sobě další čtečku NFC, po přiložení mobilu se telefon zeptá, jestli se chci prokázat aplikací PID Lítačka nebo Idolka, což je její nedokonalý klon pro Liberecký kraj.
Nejsem si jist, pro koho je služba určena, v každém případě k dokonalosti už chybí jen možnost zaplatit roční kupón mincemi 😁
Služba je možná určena pro ty, kdo mají sice v mobilu aplikaci Lítačka, ale nechtějí platit kartou v mobilu, resp. ji tam vůbec nemají. Tenhle stroj jim umožní zaplatit přímo kartou.
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I hate big shopping malls. That's why I always need to find the best way to the business and back. #Mapycz and #GoogleMaps are useless for that. POIs are missing, wrongly placed or grouped in the middle of the mall.
But some shopping malls in #Brno are so well mapped in #OpenStreetMap that it can navigate me right to the business. And that even includes changing floors and using escalators. 👍
In my neighbourhood I am trying to add indoor details to shopping malls, so that individual rooms can be rendered floor by floor. I hope OsmAnd will implement an indoor view to maps one day.
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Thanks to everyone who worked to document and clarify this important format for sound and music archive and exchange on the internet, to Martijn van Beurden for maintenance of the reference implementation, and to Josh Coalson for originally publishing his work for everyone to use.
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The European Commission is going through Apple’s OSes feature by feature, with the help of interested parties and industry collaboration, and deciding where the API lines should be drawn. It’s absolutely fascinating.
And remember, Apple brought all of this on itself through its years of misconduct and inability to follow the law.
Don't miss the 30 pages of proposed specs in the PDFs here (summarized in screenshots here; no alt-text, follow through to original link): digital-markets-act.ec.europa.…
The commission is consulting on the proposed measures that Apple is to implement to ensure effective interoperability with its iOS operating system for connected devices, as required by Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”)
"If Apple presents end users of [3rd-party apps] with a choice regarding the level of background execution capabilities or background connection to a connected physical device, it must present the same choice in the same manner, including regarding time, place, and cadence, to end users of Apple’s connected physical devices. Apple may only present end users with a specific choice […] if Apple implements and offers this choice for its own connected physical device.”
@miki Pretty much. EC required the same from Microsoft regarding security software – any APIs that are available to MS have to be available to 3rd party developers.
@miki I think ClownStrike would've happened regardless of whether Microsoft allowed API access or not – they had a broken parser running in a kernel driver, and that doesn't need any special API access to break.
@jernej__s It needs you to be able to run in kernel mode, a capability which Microsoft wanted to deprecate for security software following Apple's lead, but was forbidden to do so by the European Commission.
"Apple shall provide a protocol specification that gives third parties all information required to integrate, access, and control the AirDrop protocol within an application or service (including as part of the operating system) running on a third-party connected physical device in order to allow these applications and services to send files to, and receive files from, an iOS device.”
"For future functionalities of or updates to the AirDrop feature, Apple shall make them available to third parties no later than at the time they are made available to any Apple connected physical device.”
"Apple shall make available the possibility for a third-party connected physical device to become an AirPlay receiver, i.e., allowing the iOS device to cast content to a receiving third-party connected physical device, to all interested third parties independently of the product category, for video, audio, and screen mirroring”
"Centralised availability: Apple shall allow third-party casting providers to centrally provide their casting solution on iOS, e.g., through an extension, such that end users who install the casting solution can access the third-party casting provider in any third-party app that uses standard media playback APIs without the need for the third-party app developer to integrate an SDK in their applications.”
"For the purpose of ensuring that effective interoperability continues in the future, third parties must also have access to any future feature functionalities and updates of the media casting feature insofar and as soon as they are available to Apple’s AirPlay. For example, if Apple updates AirPlay to stream video at higher resolution, or to allow end users to initiate screen mirroring via an AI assistant, these updates should be made available to third parties as well.”
"Apple shall not impose any restrictions on the type or use case of the software application and connected physical device that can access or makeuse of the features listed in this Document.
Apple shall not undermine effective interoperability with the 11 features set out in this Document by behaviour of a technical nature. In particular, Apple shall actively take all the necessary actions to allow effective interoperability with these features.”
"Apple shall not impose any contractual or commercial restrictions that would be opaque, unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory towards third parties or otherwise defeat the purpose of enabling effective interoperability. In particular, Apple shall not restrict business users, directly or indirectly, to make use of any interoperability solution in their existing apps via an automatic update.”
EC having to legislate around Apple's poison pills, which is wild. Apple is that untrustworthy
My takeaways from the proposal: the EC is prepared to go into detail on specific features, mandate various avenues of interoperability and APIs required, ensure that Apple can't make them burdensome in implementation or by policy, set a concrete timeframe for the changes to be made (i.e. by next release of iOS), and ensure that Apple can't pull the rug out from under these APIs in the future or self-preference for new or unannounced devices. All the proposals are great, necessary changes
It's always amusing when detractors cry that the EC’s policy-makers know nothing about technology, but even a casual reading through their proposals and specs would tell you they have extensive amounts of input from subject matter experts
(From the case PDFs at digital-markets-act.ec.europa.…, a separate set of studies/proposals on Apple's interoperability mechanisms)
The Commission is consulting interested third parties on the proposed measures that Apple is to implement to ensure effective interoperability with its iOS and iPadOS operating system, as required by Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”)
This proposal effectively states that Apple should provide private headers to internal frameworks on request, and developers should subsequently decide whether they need to submit an interoperability request to make the frameworks or APIs public
He visto a alguien del lado oscuro compartiendo la captura de un artículo, publicado en un blog de The Times of Israel, en el que se empleaba el concepto nazi "Lebensraum" (espacio vital, en alemán). No me lo podía creer, así que he decidido comprobarlo yo misma. Y sí, es cierto: algunos israelíes abrazan la retórica de quienes fueron sus verdugos hace menos de cien años.
Alle Jahre wieder, leider heute zum letzten Mal mit Hubert Zitt: Die Star-Trek-Weihnachtsvorlesung am Campus Zweibrücken der Uni Kaiserslautern. Live-Stream läuft schon mal ➡️ twitch.tv/lastgeektonight
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ejabberd 24.12 is here and we've nicknamed it the "evacuate_kindly" release, inspired by one of its new commands, with a playful twist. As the year winds down, we hope this update helps you smoothly manage your messaging infrastructure—and also reminds you to kindly "evacuate" the stress of 2024.
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