The video of mine and @hpk talk at @fosdem is now published. We tell the story of @delta from 2017 and up to now. If you're eager to learn how to replace billionaires with a zip-file, the answer is in the video! Hope you enjoy
Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.
Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆
-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.
I'm seeking recommendations for two different categories of blogs for my RSS reading. First, I'm looking for any blogs that post reviews of Doctor Who media, such as Doctor Who Verdict. Second, I'm looking for bloggers who write about blindness assistive technology, not only for myself but also for my Tech-VI announcement service. #DoctorWho #blind
I need to start writing a blog again. I used to write over at iAccessibility, but I am either going to look at writing on Medium, or another platform at my personal website. Whenever I get the time to set that up.
Reminder: Doctor Who magazine is included with an Apple News+ subscription. As a blind person, it's likely the most accessible way to read DWM. The Doctor Who Magazine app is somewhat accessible on iOS but ANP is still better, although it doesn't seem to have the special editions. #DoctorWho
Tune into ACB Radio on Thursday, February 13 at 3 PM ET for the Vispero Presentation: Use Windows Search with JAWS. We’ll show you how to use the Windows search feature with JAWS to quickly find apps, files, settings, and more. Request an invitation at community@acb.org
Is the macOS bug that unexpectedly turns Quick Nav off driving you crazy? Since this appears to occur particularly after focusing on a text field, you might not need to restart VoiceOver to get it working again, just focus on another text field, and Quick Nav should work when you move focus out of the field. If there are no text fields in the current window, pressing VO-F to reveal VoiceOver's find field, and then pressing Escape to dismiss it should do the trick. #TipTuesday
I wonder if this has something to do with the allow typing in text fields setting under commands, seems like it's their way of trying to prevent it from activating when you type letters. If you use the VO keys to move to another Element on screen quicknav should work again as well.
@ZBennoui I believe it does, however, since the release of macOS Sonoma 14.4, Quick Nav has not always come back when moving focus out of a text field, requiring the user to focus on and then off of another field or restart VoiceOver to restore the expected behavior. There are two entries on the AppleVis bug tracker that I suspect relate to Quick Nav's interaction with text fields or other single key press events in macOS.
@AiraVI I had a wonderful call tonight with agent Mindy who helped me set up a talking blood pressure device. I told her where I got it and how I discovered it so she could see a picture of it and found the instructions to assist me. She was fabulous. Thank you for hiring her. She also asked me if I'd like her to save a link to the manual in my profile in case I needed to call back with future questions. I've been a subscriber since 2018 and I had no idea that information could be saved to a user's profile for agents to reference during future calls.
Oh, I've been an #Aira subscriber as long as you have and I routinely save manuals to my user manuals folder in the Google Drive that they have. That way we can look up manuals in the future. I think the profile is just kind of like a dashboard that has all of your particulars and they can put a link up there for easy reference without going to various folders in your Google Drive. I can honestly say I've never had a bad call, not ever and I just love love love the #Aira service. We've done so many things together, including all those manual look ups. Glad you found it so very helpful and awesome!
That sounds like such a great experience! 😊 Mindy is an incredible agent, and we’re so glad she could support you in getting everything set up. Saving the manual to your profile is one of those small but powerful features that can make future calls even smoother. Thank you for sharing this with us- we will make sure to pass this along to Mindy!
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. It would be just a total shame if we all flooded Google with feedback telling them the Gulf is labeled incorrectly.
Open Google Maps, zoom out and center on the Gulf of Mexico.
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. It would be just a total shame if we all flooded Google with feedback telling them the Gulf is labeled incorrectly.
Open Google Maps, zoom out and center on the Gulf of Mexico. Click on your photo in the upper right. Select Help & Feedback. Select Send Product Feedback. Report an issue. Tell them the Gulf of Mexico is labeled incorrectly.
Super Egg Hunt scoreboards are technically back online. I say technically because I have 0.00 idea if they are going to actually function, but at least the web view portion of them works.
A lady goes to the doctor and complains that her husband is losing interest in sex. The doctor gives her a capsule, but warns her that it’s still experimental. He tells her to open it and put the powder into his mashed potatoes at dinner, so that night, she does just that. About a week later, she’s back at the doctor, where she says, “Doc, the pill worked great! I put it in the potatoes like you said! It wasn’t five minutes later that he jumped up, raked all the food and dishes onto the floor, grabbed me, ripped all my clothes off, and ravaged me right there on the table!” The doctor says, “I’m sorry, we didn’t realize the pill was that strong! The foundation will be glad to pay for any damages.” “Nah,” she says, “that’s okay. We’re never going back to that restaurant anyway.”
Want to delete all Bluetooth connections to your PC and start from scratch? Paste the following in a Powershell.exe in admin mode: Remove-Item -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTHPORT\Parameters\Devices\* -Recurse
one of our local dance studios just dropped the plans they had to attend a competition in Michigan and added a different competition in the GTA instead. that's probably close to $100,000 in travel spending right there
Python virtual environment is certainly a convenient thing, but gee, things get really out of hand after a while. So much wasted disk space because of the duplicated packages, not to mention the need to keep track of all those environments. Is there a clean solution to this problem other than Conda?
@miki Funny you mentioned this. I was just looking at the langflow project yesterday and UV was mentioned there in the installation instructions. Looking at it right now.
Associated Press White House reporter blocked from attending this afternoon’s Oval Office event covered by the media after the wire service was warned to adhere to usage of “Gulf of America,” according to AP executive editor Julie Pace.
“The White House cannot dictate how news organizations report the news, nor should it penalize working journalists because it is unhappy with their editors’ decisions. The move by the administration to bar a reporter from The Associated Press from an official event open to news coverage today is unacceptable. The WHCA stands with The Associated Press and calls on the administration to immediately change course.” - Eugene Daniels, President of the White House Correspondents’ Association
Apple now lets users migrate their purchases between different Apple accounts, but the feature isn't available to users in the EU, UK, or India (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Elon Musk is the father of 12 kids with three different women. Here's what to know about the mothers of his children: Justine Wilson, Grimes and Shivon Zilis.
Oooh, successfully cloned my 1 TB SSD to the 4 TB Samsung 990 Evo Plus one. Compared to the WD 580, there's a slight drop in random IOps, but almost double the sequential write speed, and the drop in random IO is very minimal too. Since this mobo has two M.2 slots, it's not as though I could keep the second drive for work that requires the reading of small data chunks.
My motherboard has two SSD slots. Sadly, one of them is covered by some cooling pipes... which I only found out after buying an expensive new SSD and opening it up. I don't even think opening it up beforehand would've helped, because until I was holding the new SSD in my hand I didn't really know what I was feeling for.
@jscholes It can for sure be tricky! Getting the one connected to the CPU was one of the biggest pains of my life. The SSD slot is sandwitched between the GPU and CPU heatsink, so after connecting the bottom into the slot, you had to hold it down with one hand while screwing the driver using the other one. The entire time I feared the end snagging on the pipes and getting bent, thankfully that didn't happen. I was able to get it slightly twisted in to where it stayed afixed eventually and then use the screwdriver, but that itself took 3 times of it falling through to the bottom of the case and then me having to tip it upside down to get it out. Wow just wow. I don't get why they use such tiny ones for M.2, and from what I've experienced, each mobo can come with various sizes, so one M.2 screw may not end up fitting another slot later on.
Right! I took the heatsink off of my main SSD just to have better access to what was around it, and lost the ridiculously tiny screws multiple times. You have more patience than I; I just put my laptop back together and bought an external SSD instead.
@jscholes oh oh this was in a laptop? Wow that's a lot smaller space for sure though, needs even twice more the patience! Primarily why I went back to the ATX desktops, as unsightly and heavy they are compared to Micro-ATX, but the last Mobo was so tiny that I practically had to use pliars to fit the 256 GB M.2 between the HDD cage and heatsink on it, figured ATX would be far easier. In some ways yes, in others it's only a marginal improvement.
@jscholes yeah, building computers that's one of the fun challenges putting those ssds on. My own desktop has this funky wing nut looking dudad that replaces the screw, tool free m.2 slots I guess. But most of the time I build with Asrock motherboards that don't have that.
NBC News - Military families protesting the Defense Department's anti-DEI push heckled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on his arrival at United States European Command headquarters in Germany on Tuesday. nbcnews.com/politics/national-…
Military families protesting the defense department's anti-DEI push heckled Defense Secretary Hegseth at United States European Command headquarters in Germany.
Christian and Jewish groups sue DHS over its policy of conducting immigration enforcement actions at places of worship. nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/poli…
After taking office, President Trump rescinded a policy that instructed immigration agents to steer clear of sensitive locations like churches, schools and hospitals.
I had some time at work while waiting for responses, so tried to get a little deeper into Emacs. I'm kind of getting some of it, but beyond the basic terms, I'm not sure. I wanted a PHP mode, for instance, and installed one after some problems. Now I have no idea what to do. Emacs is saying something about unbalanced parentheses, though my file is blank, and the config page for this mode assumes more Emacs knowledge than I have. I haven't even gotten to EmacSpeak or Speech-L yet.
I really think you should do it the other way round. Install and configure Emacspeak, then start exploring. As for the PHP Mode, to see the effect, you need to open a php file, then dig into shortcuts, etc.
@vick21 It's worth a try. I'm on the installation instructions page, and I'm not finding Speech Dispatcher or ESpeak in the list of supported synthesizers. Do I have to do additional setup to get whatever modern Linux uses for speech to work, or is the documentation out of date?
“The attack on the civil service is unacceptable, unconscionable, un-American and we are going to stand with you until each and every one of those unlawful executive orders are fully and completely reversed, buried in the ground, never to rise again.” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told demonstrators at an AFGE rally today.
Elmo is standing in the Oval Office and is 100% giving a book report for a book he has not read. Anybody who hasn't heard him ad lib before are watching their belief in him as the smartest man alive evaporate with every word.
Are we sure that he is actually in the oval office and this is not just a virtual background? Although, I understand, it doesn't matter much for this context. :)
@vick21 He was standing next to Trump at the Resolute Desk, with his kid, and the White House press corps, so if that was a soundstage it was pretty convincing.
ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the billionaire.
I was called sheltered not too long ago by a longtime friend who knew of what she spoke. It sounded like an insult even though I knew it wasn't meant that way and she confirmed that. Very open-ended, what are your thoughts on the word as used to describe a person?
It is not an entirely nice thing, though usually it's something that'd done to us, so I wouldn't see it so much as an insult as an observation. If someone hasn't been allowed certain experience, it's not exactly their fault.
New and only on Assigned Media: Wikipedia editor Pax Ahimsa Gethen writes about transphobic harassment, defacement, and attempts to turn Wikipedia into a source of anti-trans disinformation, and of the determination of trans editors to preserve the site as a vital source of unbiased, truthful info.
I know I've talked about Ditto before, but I'm gonna do it again. I just wanted to paste something I last copied two weeks ago. Windows would have long since forgotten it in its clipboard history. I opened Ditto, typed a few characters, tabbed once to get to the results list, and hit enter to paste. Ditto is clipboard history done right, and everyone needs to know about it. ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
I've heard about this program for a while but your latest message about it has convinced me to give it a try. I can't resist anything that gives me enhancements to the clipboard. The only reason why I've waited to try it up until now is because of Leasey clips. This works well with JAWS but once you run NVDA that solution is not available.
@Ernesto Wong García estaba pensando en hacer algo así para los hashtags, a ver... ¿qué te parece?
Se va a poder hacer clic en cada elemento (por ej. "linux" aquí) y abrir la corresponde pantalla con todos los post que contienen el hashtag seleccionado.
The OnePlus 13 is a reasonably priced flagship Android smartphone offered for $899 in the US. It has the latest Qualcomm SnapDragon 8 Elite processor, 12GB or
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