It would be so cool if there was a music place that took the best bits of #Bandcamp and #Patreon and also let you set your own fees as an artist and maybe was a #coop too.
It's a lovely day out here, so I decided to trial a charging station that is out in Johnson Creek that @kaleb told me about ~6mo ago. If this goes well, I'm going to use it as a stop off between #Milwaukee and #Madison.
@feld I was planning on hitting up the pine cone inn for a cookie the size of a dinner plate, on the way home. Now you have me itching for a donut too, though. 🤔
For my fellow belarusian friends: I am now close to the moment, where i will be done with cleaning up of the homographs dictionary. I will also have three new voices to show.
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).
@smoon @archos Já tak spíše z donucení fotím na Pentax. Jednak jsem měl už klasiku Pentax (dar/nedar), pár dobrých objektivů se dalo použít pak i na digitál, navíc bratr šel také do Pentaxu. A pak alespoň základní odolnost proti dešti, mnohokrát nechtěně vyzkoušeno.
Mothers should be one of the most honored and respected groups of people on our planet. They certainly have my deepest honor and respect, my own mom being first and foremost in that category, along…
Distant Memory, from the new upcoming album (release date tbd)!I am playing all the instruments on this track.The video clip is from the Monaco's Larvotto Be...
If you’re blind? You boot into a live image and get nothing. No speech. No braille. No login prompt feedback. Maybe Orca starts, maybe not. Maybe you know the shortcut (Alt+Super+S?) but does that even work in this session type? Is it Wayland? Is it X11? Is the screen reader bound to a key combo that doesn’t exist on your keyboard?
You open the installer?
“Next. Button. Button. Button. Button.” That’s all Orca says.
Ubuntu MATE 12.04 had a working, labeled, navigable installer. Ubuntu MATE 24.04? It’s garbage.
No headings. No structure. No sense of where you are. Just unlabeled buttons and blank space.
I'm so frustrated at the ongoing adoption of Wayland despite the lack of accessibility features and how buggy and laggy and unusable it is, even with me being able to see. I'm really hopeful that a better designed replacement can be adopted instead soon. Maybe Arcan, or maybe someone else has an option. I'll probably try to build one at some point just to experiment. @fireborn
it was the installer, when booting and not selecting any option. It wasn't the live usb os, so maybe it's still not enough, I haven't used a live usb for a long time.
yes,,,, #braille, the main problem with a braille display is that such devices are quite expensive and quite niche. Therefore there will be little to no developers for that device.
A little something I do for my mostly invisible (to me) Bluesky followers is to keep my scheduled posts below the 300 character limit, so it gets correctly bridged to them. But if you want the premium Mastodon experience, click on the link every once in a while 👇
Did you know that David Zinn's little creatures even make waffles using the things they find on the pavement? I feel like I'd enjoy one this Sunday morning 🧇
If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?
I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.
Edit: I am also willing to pay! Read further down in this thread!
Is there a coop or collective of disabled people in tech where you can go to hire accessibility experts? I don't want to continue to release software unless I know its accessible, but I can't know that unless I have my software audited by disabled tech experts that know the pitfalls of these things. I don't need free labour either. I am happy to pay for this service.
@aaron @icy @JesseBot I don't think I can call my-self an accessibility expert, however I am on linux most of my time, I mostly use gnome terminal with orca screen reader. I am kind of power user. As for k8s and related technologies it's entirely new to me. Still I'd be happy to be helpfull so if you have some patience with me to introduce your project, let me know please. I am from central europe and evenings and weekends suit me better as during working hours I'm at the office.
Sorry for the extreme delay. As I mentioned earlier, this is my hobby project, so I can only dedicate a lot of time to it when work isn't demanding on weekdays, but more frequently on the weekend! The project is called smol-k8s-lab (pronounced "small kay eights lab" which is the trick I used to get it to be pronounced properly by the tts library in python). You can install it using pipx, so pipx install smol-k8s-lab, but it has external dependencies for using kubernetes, so you'll also need to install with apt or brew kind and k3d. I have added screen reading elements for the terminal UI, but they're all prerecorded MP3s because I found orca and espeak to not sound very good. The TTS library I used with python has an irish accent, which I think is understandable, but I'd love your feedback on. Because the program uses MP3s, you will need alsa and/or pulse libraries installed to actually play the audio. If you would like, you can check out the project on github here: github.com/small-hack/smol-k8s…
If you have questions, or you would like to chat on a voice call, I can help out if we can find a time to link up. I can do weekends in the mornings after 10AM CEST, so tomorrow could work if either of you would like to do a call. I guess it makes sense to use something were we can share screens, that way if you run into any hiccups, I can see what you can't, and live fix any issues so you can continue. I've tested it form the point of running the smol-k8s-lab command, and then gone through the accessibility options. I am very interested in what you think of the accessibility screen and options and if I should improve them. I allow setting terminal beeps as well as reading various elements including screen titles. What I don't know how to do is make orca read the text. I know how to launch orca, and I know how to use the MP3s I added or espeak, but I don't understand how to tell orca, from the command line, to read a line of text.
☁️ CLI & TUI with a smol friendly vibe to get started with Kubernetes on metal, then bootstrap apps using Argo CD 🧸 Great for testing webapps and benchmarking. - small-hack/smol-k8s-lab
Sorry for the very long reply. I know they're a pain on screenreaders, but there's a lot of info here and I didn't want to leave anything out. If you're still interested, please let me know what app you'd like to meet on and I'll get you my info. If you'd like to do it on your own and just provide feedback that's also ok. Please don't hold back any negative feedback. If you think it's an awful experience, tell me, and tell me how you'd like it to be better. I am here to help, as long as you understand that it may take me a few weeks as I do this in my free time. If you'd like payment for your services, please just DM me your rate and how best to pay you. I can do paypal through my roommate, direct bank transfer if you have an IBAN account, and ko-fi. The reason paypal has to be through my roommate is that paypal canceled my account when I tried to change my name after transitioning my gender.
Oh, this is also the first project I am confident enough to introduce to the blind community, but if you don't mind working with me, I have others that I'd like to work with you on in the future. I'd love to develop a relationship where I can start working more closely with people in the community that passionate about accessibility. I promise to learn from anything you tell me and disseminate that info back to my other friends in the industry and my coworkers if they'll hear it 🙇
Yes, it's in a full TUI right now. There's also a CLI that can be used, but the purpose of the TUI was to make it easier to walk you through the process of setting everything up. Technically, if you're good with YAML, you could just use the CLI, but then you'd need to fill out the yaml using only comments in the yaml file.
Do you know of a CLI command to play some text, so something like: orca say "welcome to the TUI"? I know how to do this with espeak, but I'm not sure how to make orca read a TUI specifically. Alternatively, if you can tell me the command to make orca read everything in the terminal, that'd be awesome, or even just point me at a guide where I can learn myself. I can also spend sometime this evening reading this guide I found, but I'm not in a space where I can do that right at this exact moment. github.com/C-Loftus/orca-intro…
@JesseBot Thanks for the details. I'll check out the github project and I'll likelly ask some questions. As for the other things, I'll let you know. CC @aaron
Based on the feedback from @patricus and everything I've tried so far, it looks like this project is not ready for general use by the blind community. I am currently trying to figure out what's going on with it not reading elements on the screen on focus, so I will keep hacking on that and update you all when it's ready for another round of testing. I apologize for the delay. I spent the past few hours working with tdsr and breaking my terminal with that (I have a lot of ascii art features to my terminal experience that the screenreader hates and I've been adding more features to my shell to work with that). I'll spend more time on this today and tomorrow and if I can't get it to work, it may have to be a next week thing. Thanks for all your patience!
I really appreciate it, but please don't stress yourself too much on this. If you don't have the time or your system isn't cooperating, you can always wait till next weekend.
Until then, I'm going to keep fighting pyobjc on macOS. I think part of my issues here are because I wrapped tdsr in a poetry project so I could develop with it a bit more quickly and then released it via pip. When I do a pipx install tdsr2 it doesn't work and says it can't find the objc library, but when I use poetry shell to create a local python virtual environment and use the tdsr command, it works beautifully. When I try to run smol-k8s-lab in the terminal after tdsr is running, it both plays the MP3s I mentioned before AND tdsr uses the default system TTS voice and you get both playing at once which is horrible. It also causes tdsr to start spitting out a lot of terminal escape key garbage to the screen and breaks the whole session entirely. I had to manually close my terminal tab, because it wasn't responding to control + D like it normally does. If I wrote the thing and I feel frustrated, I don't want users to also go through that.
As far as linux is concerned, I don't have easy access to a machine console with gnome on it, as I'm currently running KDE and tdsr doesn't seem to play well on kde at all. Let me give speakup a try though. I haven't tried that one yet. It looks like it uses espeak, which I have tried before, so maybe it'll work better. 🙏 (The other thing that makes this complicated is supporting both Linux and MacOS at the same time, because there's different tools across bother of these. I wonder if this is made any better by anything the wezterm project has done lately as that's a terminal that works on multiple OS. I brought this up to wez himself in 2023 github.com/wezterm/wezterm/dis…
I followed up with wezterm and it looks like he opened an issue where he's gotten about as far as I have in learning the tools he needs to learn, but hasn't put in any actual PRs github.com/wezterm/wezterm/iss… Having a single terminal to support across all operating systems though would make this easier, so I will push on this as well in the background.
I am working on a TUI for a tool I'm writing and I was wondering if there's any built-in accessibility features in wezterm for users with vision disabilities, such as support for screen readers, a ...
Yeah, I'm considering going back to gnome full time so I can actually ensure my normal workflow prioritizes screenreaders in the future, because if I'm not dogfooding it, it won't get the love and attention it needs. I honestly forget why I switched to KDE in the first place, so maybe it's time to give it up 🤷
Dneska je proud až za -5 Kč / kWh. Včera jsem vyjezdil auto a nabíjím za -55 kč za hodinu. Doma zůstala Tesla, která umí jen 11 kW nabíjení, takže ještě naháním zbytek jističe topením a koupelnovými žebříky, což je dalších cca 7 kW. Kdybych uměl používat pračku, tak zapnu i tu. #FVE jsem odpojil od gridu, aby dosbírala posledních pár elektronů do baterky na večer. Za 4 hodiny bychom měli mít účet za elektřinu nižší o 266 Kč.
takový domácí mařič výkonu. 🙂 Já mám spotřebu i výrobu na fixu, takže na tohle nehraju, ale jsem rád, že jsem s elektroautem téměř odboural přetoky. Loni v květnu jsem měl spotřebu v domě na 60 % výroby, letos jsem přes >90 %. Ani dnes to nevypadá, že něco do sítě pošlu. Ráno jsem měl v bateriích volnou kapacitu 50 kWh.
Dívám se, že denní rekord nabíjení auta z FVE mám zatím 28 kWh. Pokud to nepotřebuji nabít co nejrychleji, tak preferuji nabití domácí baterie. Až je aspoň na 80 %, sypu všechno do auta. Standardně nabíjím v "Green" módu, kdy to nabíjí 2,5-3,5 kW. Když je ale auto vybité, výroba velká a domácí baterie skoro nabitá, tak přepínám na "fast", kdy to jede nejvyšším nabíjecím výkonem, což je v případě mého auta 7 kW. Když po obědě jedeme pryč a je pěkně, tak to tam dopoledne nasypu na fast i z baterie, protože vím, že se mi odpoledne ještě dobije.
@sesivany To je slušný, to vám zůstává hodně. Nám zůstane přes 20 kWh jen výjimečně, tak když nám někdo říká, že jezdíme zadarmo z FVE, tak mu říkám, že většinu sežere barák, že auto většinou nabíjíme ze sítě. Jaký nejmenší výkon dostaneš do auta? Těch 2.5 kW je minimum?
Jak auto, tak nabíječka umí minimální proud 6 A, takže teoreticky na jedné fázi by to mělo nabíjet už od nějakých 1,4 kW. Ale v praxi mi to zatím vždycky nabíjelo minimálně na dvou fázích 230V/6A, takže 2,8 kW a v aplikaci auta to ukazovalo nabíjecí výkon 2,5 kW. Když přepnu na "fast", tak mi to nabíjí na dvou fázích 230V/16A, takže 7,5 kW. To je limit AC nabíječky v autě.
V tom green módu by si to měla nabíječka řídit podle výroby, ale moc jsem nepřišel na způsob, jakým to dělá. Pohybuje se to mezi 2,5-3,5 kW (to co hlásí auto), ale nějakou jasnou korelaci mezi výrobou panelů a nabitím domácí baterky a výkonem jsem tam nevyporozoval. Mám Solax X1/X3-EVC přímo napojenou na střídač.
@sesivany Jasně, takže to máš propojený a nemusíš nic řešit. Nám jede wallbox jen ve třech fázích a 4 kW jsou teortické minimum, ale třeba Zoe tenhle výkon nemá ráda. Když chceme jet z FVE, tak auto píchneme na 1f 3.6 kW nabíječku od Tesly. Té ale chybí statistiky a regulace, takže to jde mimo tabulky.
@sesivany @RezzaBuh Proud můžeme taky nastavovat, ale funguje to tak, že na jednom z pinů wallbox posílá maximální proud a na tuhle informaci reaguje auto. Tzn. wallbox něco posílá, ale auto to může v extrémním případě i ignorovat. Ono se samozřejmě bude snažit vyhovět, ale pokud to je třeba změna už běžícího nabíjení, tak to může trvat.
@sesivany Tam bude korelace mezi výkonem z panelů, spotřebou domu a schopností auta měnit výkon. Wallbox výkon nereguluje, jen říká autu, kolik má k dispozici a auto reaguje jak uzná za vhodné. Na první pohled to tak nemusí dávat smysl, ale systém se určitě snaží. Já když změním výkon na wallboxu, tak to trvá několik sekund, možná i víc jak 10, než auto zareaguje.
No, byly situace, kdy byla výroba panelů kolem 7 kW, domácí baterie úplně nabitá, odběr domu 0,5 kW a stejně to nabíjelo jen 3,7 kW. Přitom by se wallbox a auto měly potkat ještě na 4,6 a 5,7 kW. Ale možná to prostě vyžaduje nějakou rezervu. 🤷♂️ Stejně tak všude čtu, že auta podporují buď jednu nebo tři fáze a mně ten wallbox v datech ukazuje, že nabíjí po dvou fázích, výkony tomu odpovídají. Tak nevím... Moc to neřeším. Když nespěchám, nechám to nabíjet kolem těch 3 kW. Když spěchám, přepnu na "fast" a nabíjím 7,5 kW.
nemá, umí jen jednu. Tři umí až verze s větší baterií. Proto mi právě nejde do hlavy, jak s tím wallboxem dokáže nabíjet výkonem 7 kW. Wallbox totiž umí jen 16 A. Na fázi tak dá max 3,5 kW. Jenže reálně nabíjí výkonem 7 kW, což by auto mělo dávat jen na 32 A, které wallbox neumí, a ukazuje při nabíjení 2x230Vx16A. 🤷
Nikde oficiálně v dokumentaci jsem to nenašel, ale na fórech jsem se dočetl, že ač ta nabíječka v autě je jednofázová, dokáže využít dvě fáze, sloučit je do jedné a udělat z toho 32 A na fázi. To by vysvětlovalo, proč se auto dokáže nabíjet výkonem přes 7 kW, i když wallbox umí jen 16 A.
Jiné vysvětlení mě nenapadá. Ale každopádně jsem za to rád, protože nabíjet 3,5 kW už by bylo dost omezující a jet na 32 A, když mám hlavní jistič na 32 A, by byl život doslova na hraně. 😅 @electricCZ na to si dej potom při nákupu EV pozor, protože jsi říkal, že myslím taky nemůžeš mít 32 A. Já se přiznám, že tyhle "detaily" jsem při výběru neřešil. 🙈
@sesivany @electricCZ 11 kW ve třech fázích po 16 A je takové rozumné proti 1x32 A. Mám pocit, že to přišlo z USA, kde si hrají na 2 fáze a nižší napětí. Třeba Tesla díky tomu umí 32A na jedné fázi. Asi to interně pošle do dvou fází své palubní nabíječky.
Tyhle detaily se řeší jen u BMW, kde už u i3 bylo k dispozici několik variant nabíjecího portu a teď to je past na sekundárním trhu. U naší Zoe to je podobné, ale v ČR se prodávali jen 22kW AC + 50 kW DC verze.
Jasná věc, díky 👍 Já mám momentálně zprávy, že od července by měl začít Solax oficiálně dodávat do ČR nový typ wallboxu, který umí vehicle to home a možná i vehicle to grid. To je pro mne jasná volba, takže momentálně čekám na wallbox. Koukal jsem, že třeba elroq už to umí a to mi dává velký smysl. @bycx
@electricCZ Tak na tohle si ještě počkám, snad s příštím autem. Ale teď jsem se nad tím zamýšlel a nevím, jestli bych pro to aktuálně měl doma využití. Domácí baterie má 18 kWh, tím celý den pokryju. Snad na překlenutí několika dní pod mrakem nebo dlouhodobějšího výpadku. Zajímavější to bude, až bude stát motivovat, aby to lidi používali k vyrovnávání sítě. A je dobré být na to připravený.
@sesivany @electricCZ Já bych si dokázal představit pro dva scénáře. Když je 1 kWh za 20 Kč, tak vyleju auto a udělám na tom 1000 Kč. To se minulý rok stalo minimálně jednou někdy v prosinci. Pak za to auto pětkrát nabiju až bude zase levněji. To je pro nás týden ježdění. A pak bych si to dokázal představit jako nouzový zdroj, kdy vypadne proud a autem půjde zajet někam k nabíječce a přivést si s ním 50 kWh. To by nám na dva dny stačilo.
Jaký máte instalovaný výkon FVE a co vám to v domácnosti tak vyžere? My máme na elektřinu úplně vše od topení/chlazení a ohřevu vody (TČ), přes spotřebiče v kuchyni až po elektrický gril na zahradě. Plus nám jede každý den X hodin filtrace bazénu (700 W) a přesto nám dům v létě vezme tak 15-20 kWh a ve slunný den nám zbyde klidně 30 kWh pro EV. Co dost pomohlo, bylo dokoupení dalšího bloku baterky. Měli jsme 11,6 kWh a byla to dost hrana, na jaře a na podzim, kdy se ještě topí, to nestačilo a v létě to bylo tak tak. Teď máme 17,4 kWh a je to mnohem komfortnější už kvůli EV, kdy můžu být s autem celý den pryč a večer do něj pořád něco nasypat z baterie.
@sesivany Máme 5+5 kWp ve dvou stringách na Z a V. Máme výrobu podobnou tomu co je na obrázku, málo kdy jdeme přes 6 kWh za hodinu. Tenhle den z grafu jsme vyrobili 47 kWh a denní maximum máme jen o 10 kWh víc. Na auto toho tedy moc nezbyde.
Dům si bere kolem 30-40 kWh. Máme taky všechno na elektriku a žena dost peče a vaří. To je klidně 10 kWh za jednu session.
my máme jen 8,6 kWp, ale prakticky ideální jih. Dnes jsme vyrobili 59 kWh (měřeno na panelech, ne to, co vyteče ze střídače a baterek) se třemi hodinami, kdy jsme měli přes 7 kWh. O co víc ale vyrobíme v tomto období, o to méně vyrobíme v zimě (rovná střecha, malý úhel).
(And its ableist culture will sooner make you the villain for criticising it rather than acknowledging the failing and fixing the status quo. ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be… There’s a reason I’m back on Mac after six years on Linux. As a developer, it was impacting my ability to make what I’m building accessible. And I reject the unspoken premise that the source being open is somehow more important than the human right to universal access. Ethical technology requires more than just the “four freedoms” web.archive.org/web/2025041809… This is why inclusivity is a core Small Technology principle. small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)
this is puzzling to me, I'm on fedora and have had some specific browser screenreader things to test at the end of last year and it just worked. At least from the pov of a sighted.
I know there are big efforts to modernize the whole accessability stack, driven by the gnome team and the stf. You are probably right and we should be mad it's not IBM spending their money on it.
@razze It wasn’t a claim, it was my experience. Unless they’ve fixed the Orca modifier key, you cannot navigate a page to test it with a screen reader. How did you do it under Wayland? The screen reader experience is an interactive one; it’s not just having it read the whole page in a linear fashion.
@RaccoonForFriendica This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).
What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?
@RaccoonForFriendica a basic version can be built, and even OAuth2 login appears to be working, which was not to be taken for granted; so there are changes I will release a beta in the second half of the year…
I think having a Friendica app on iOS would be great. You could be joining @fedicat on the fediverse iOS support territory which would be a win in my book!
@feb It only lists open source projects but it's been around longer (for community contributions) and is pretty comprehensive. The list of platforms is good, too.
Die #EKM will offenbar ihre #SocialMedia Arbeit stärken. Ich bin gespannt, welche Zielrichtung das bekommt. Und ob es eine kritische Reflexion teologisch-ethischer Grundlagen geben wird.
Oder eben einfach nur einen Insta-Account und Youtube... 🥱
｢ Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia are rolling out offline card payment systems to provide a back-up if internet connections are lost, including due to sabotage, Bank of Finland board member Tuomas Valimaki said on Wednesday ｣
@dvl A lot of this is being done by users who have unwittingly opted in to letting their personal computers act as scraping proxies. I'm not entirely sure how this happens, but it's some software they've been tricked into installing. Likely a "free" VPN...
There are efforts to track this sucessfully, though. Crowdsec has an IP blocklist that is updated multiple times per day but if you want access to that list they want you to pay for their premium which is ~$3600/mo I think??? Crazy...
@mWare @dvl @atpfm I wouldn't doubt if the long term solution for "self-hosting" is going to be forced to move to something like Tor which is harder to scrape at scale unless they start building a search index for it, which feels unlikely.
I predict we're going to have two internets within 10 years, and I don't mean something like "the Western internet and China's internet".
The worse it gets the more effort will be put into making it easier for users to access services on that side of the net
If you are in the US and used a Siri-supported device between Sept. 17, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2024, you might be eligible for part of a $95 million payout from Apple. pcmag.com/news/how-to-claim-yo…
Current guess seems to be somewhere in the ocean near the Andaman islands - which is a shame as, there don't seem to be any pictures of reenty; I saw a picture someone had of a faint track over Italy on it's near-to-last orbit.
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in reply to Joe Steinbring • • •my brother takes me to the Pine Cone Inn when I visit (perhaps next weekend!)
That place is exactly the type of truckstop diner that I love. Delicious, cheap, greasy food.