@robini71 Yep, around $17,900.00, if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure it'll come down in price over time, though. Remember how expensive 20-cell Braille displays were back in the '80s.
@robini71 And now you've got Orbit Research selling multi-line displays for the cost of a single line 40-cell display and so I think we'll see price drops over time.
@robini71 has anyone actually owned a Orbit Slate though. I can find zip on them. I know they aren't perfect, but depending on if they really work, it could meet my needs. I couldn't care less about graphics.
@robini71 I mean… The 80s were like 40 years ago. I’d like to be able to play with something like this before I am eligible for Medicare. What individual is going to pay 18,000 bucks for a first generation product? And I thought android based Braille notetakers are crazy expensive for what they are.
@Cristobalm @robini71 I think these devices are primarily being marketed in the education sector and perhaps some instances in the corporate sector. It's similar to how Kurzweil reading machines used to cost around fifty thousand dollars in the '70s.
Google lässt ab Februar das Tracking von Verbrauchern per Device Fingerprinting für Werbezwecke zu – eine fundamentale Abkehr von seiner bisherigen Position.
Say I consider "Audacity" to be a frustrating program to use.
Is there a Linux audio recording program which is a little more stripped down than Audacity? Like say some sort of "voice memo" program that lets me just record voice clips and recover the wavs. Export as MP3 a bonus but not required.
Super ultra bonus points if it's in either the GNOME Software repository or on Flathub.
I remember using arecord in bash scripts to do this sort of thing. Might be worth a tinker. Pretty sure I had rec as a command which I just ctrl+c'd to send sigint when I was done and boom. You're capturing audio from your shell by typing rec.
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Follow-up: NVDA Alpha 34909 and newer also break the BrowserNav add-on. So it's not just TTS-oriented add-ons which are affected, though BrowserNav apparently has some audio components. Issue posted here: github.com/mltony/nvda-browser… @NVAccess
With this alpha and newer releases after that, BrowserNav no longer works. Its panes in the NVDA's Settings window also disappear. The following might be behind this breakage: nvaccess/nvda#17547 @...
@jscholes Anyone know the rationale for that decision? I wonder how far back that code goes. I recall using JSON in a Python project in late 2006, but maybe I was a slightly early adopter on that.
@simon The coolest part, too, is all of the endpoints. Just go to nvda.zip/a and see them all. You can put anything wrong there; the 404 page gives a list of them.
@BrailleScreen I saw that. This is going to be absurdly useful on new Windows installs in particular. Annoyingly, Windows curl seems to choke on it, but I might just be missing an option.
@simon @BrailleScreen Using it with curl is slightly annoying. It seems that curl can't automatically get the output filename from the final redirected URL. So you have to do it like this:
@simon @BrailleScreen No, when you use curl with the -O (note: capitalized) option, to make it automatically infer the filename, it errors out instantly.
@matt @BrailleScreen You're supposed to be able to use -J to determine the file name from headers, but this doesn't work. i'm not sure if it's because this conflicts with following redirects, but oh well. I can just manually name the file.
I guess Mark really thinks that Meta smart Glasses is the iPhone of today: AppleInsider, @appleinsider, During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone.
During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone.
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A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade —
Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.
RIP to Ben Caldwell. The world and web accessibility benefited from Ben's knowledge and dedication and will continue to do so. Condolences to Ben's family and friends. Some sad news for folks who may not have seen this in other places. Obituary and funeral details for Ben are at:
From Brian Vogel: Announcement Only: The choice of "Outlook (classic)" and "Outlook (new)" should both be available under M365 Family (and probably Personal) at this time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
The center of a triangle is an interesting idea. Unlike circles, a triangle’s center isn’t always the same point because triangles aren’t generally symmetric, and there are lots of different ways to define what you mean by the center of a triangle. Years ago, when the internet was young, I remember finding Clark Kimberling’s online Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers, which had documented hundreds of different ways to define a triangle’s center. The Encyclopedia now contains nearly 40,000 different definitions.
The four most famous triangle centers are the center of mass, circumcenter, incenter, and orthocenter. These were all known by the ancient Greeks, making them more than a couple thousand years old. All four of these can be easily demonstrated by folding paper. So get yourself some paper and scissors, and follow along.
Remarkably, some triangle centers can fall outside the triangle, especially if you use an obtuse triangle—one with at least one obtuse angle. So start your exploration with an acute triangle. To keep it interesting, try not to make your triangle too close to equilateral. Make each of the sides at least 2-3 inches long. Cut out four copies of your triangle.
If you're just now jumping onto the Linux train, you might be wondering what apps to install first. Here are the first 10 I find should be installed by all.
- We will remove the "gentle update" from F-Droid 1.22.0-alpha, as it is not stable enough. Thank you for testing (and finding bugs)! - there is a new article on how to replace most common apps with open source versions - Fossify Paint was added - we recommend to switch from Mull to Fennec (as Mull has stopped development) - OpenTracks is now available as reproducible and non-reproducible variant - Exclave, a SagerNet fork was added
This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Jan 2025, Week 2F-Droid coreHow is the new Client 1.22.0-alpha0 update working for you? Did you notice any u...
More info: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-nextMNT Reform Next is a future-proof, open hardware laptop with an iconic retro-futuristic aesthetic.B...
"One of our deepest, most fundamental problems as a craft is that we have enshrined «velocity» above all else, willfully blinding ourselves to the long-term consequences of gimcrack software." Great quote by @bcantrill , from bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/09/1….
I feel this so much right now. I want to deeply understand the foundations I'm building on, and simplify them wherever possible, but I feel the pressure to just find good-enough solutions and keep moving on.
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* Pixelix: a client for Pixelfed 🛡️ * Droid Pad: create control interfaces for BLE, WebSocket, MQTT, TCP, and UDP protocols 🛡️ * sms2call: automatically call a configured number when an SMS with specific content is received 🛡️
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).
To all the people that came to me after my talk on @termux recommending me to use postmarketOS, PureOS or a Pinephone:
There will be theme night specifically on mobile Linux on the Jan. 30 at @chaostreffbern where we can discuss all the different kinds of mobile Linux variants. I hope I get to play around with some of them. Maybe I'll be convinced. 😉
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk about @termux at @chaostreffbern yesterday. A lot of people came and I had a blast telling everyone how crazy my phone setup is. If you need the slides, ma...
#webxdc apps are back to #iOS homescreen: as the old pwa-hack stopped working, we this time get all-in and created a nice widget - 💄 - where you cannot only place apps, but also any chat! and when going multi-profile, even from any profile #deltachat
Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.
"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".
The Quest to Create the Most Accessible Museum in the World -- The refreshed museum of the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky, is slated to open in 2026 with a novel invitation to visitors: please touch. groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
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