Changes introduced in Beta 3: - Added a WASAPI toggle to SAPI5. - Added a confirmation dialog to update root certificates when downloading add-ons. - When using NVDA Remote Access, speech from User Account Control screens on the remote computer now works reliably. - Updates to translations.
@MostlyBlindGamer That was to fix an issue where some corporate users were unable to download add-ons in their environment. I believe this was the original issue: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
OK, that was scary. Emails stopped reading in Thuderbird just now, after updating earlier. Not sure why. I got them working again, not sure if it was an issue with the TB addon I use, but disabling and reenabling it seemed to be the thing that fixed things
@davetaylor2112 It's always worth rebooting the PC if you notice anything funny after updating. We do sometimes see weird issues in between updating NVDA and the next restart.
A while ago I received an email with this question. I've been subscribed to your weekly newsletter for a while now, receiving your weekly updates every Friday. I'm writing because I admire your consistency, focus, and perseverance.
in order to claim a bug bounty post slop, you must provide a modest yet significant escrow, your missile coordinates, selfie, true name and of course steps to reproduce without sacrificing a chicken.
Most of the former are to discourage sloppers with poverty and suffering, or at least attempt it.
Someone suggested salting, there is a few ways one could do this, one of the more brazen would be to just write a bogus bug report yourself and put it in a comment, no AI could resist reporting on it, and you can identify it instantly. I'm sure there are ways this could backfire, but it might be worth testing.
capitalism, socialism, authoritarianism, communism, collectivism, individualism, utilitarianism and all the other ''isms' are quite hard to figure out these days ... it might be that open source was a utopian moment in time.
@jimfuller still curious that Open Source is clearly the *technical* winner in this capitalistic world. The ones with the most money fail to make "the most" software...
About 20 years ago, I saw an excellent rock. It was unusual, so I took a photo. But I couldn’t find the photo shortly afterwards and thought I’d deleted it by mistake. I was sad. I kept describing the rock to people, but they were strangely uninterested. I am clearing out my photo archive and I just found it. I am happy. I missed this rock. I thought of it often. I can show my rock to people now, whether they want to see it or not. You included.
I wonder if you could just write some easy test a real security researcher could easily pass but where those AIs fail. And in each report you send it to them privately and ask for the solution until you even read it. Something where variable names and comments are missleading maybe to confuse the AI? ``` // explain why this is vulnerable void vulnerable() {strncpy()}; // why is this ok void save() {strcpy()}; ``` something like that?
So AI-based, offline image descriptions are coming to NVDA. Apparently no follow-up questions or longer descriptions for now. The descriptions or captions are also initially in English. github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… @NVAccess #Accessibility #NVDA
…g and triggering via keyboard shortcut
Link to issue number:
Resolves #16281
Summary of the issue:
NVDA currently lacks a built‑in, offline image captioning feature. Existing solutions require a ...
I'm not an NVDA dev, but how easy would it be to have an input box at the bottom of a virtualised result for a follow-up question? I don't think I've ever seen a virtualised NVDA-generated document with an html-style input. DO you know? CC @tspivey, @jscholes
@cachondo `ui.browseableMessage` is extremely basic, and just lets you choose which HTML to display in the browse mode document window. It doesn't e.g. include a JavaScript bridge so that code inside the document can communicate back with the caller.
I suppose you could run an HTTP server inside the calling code, and include a form in the HTML document that POSTed to it. I'm not sure if that would be disallowed by some sort of security policy, or whether the HTML renderer being used is very modern. @amir @tspivey
@jscholes @tspivey Thanks. I've seen addons hook keypresses within the browseable, so I guess that's a far more sensible thing to do if you want extra functionality. :)
@jscholes Found another one. Double-tapping NVDA+F for font information in excel gives me a virtual document which includes buttons for copy and close.
@ner While initial testing is promising, exactly how this will work and things like how it will affect the download size are yet to be answered. It may be that it is an optional download, I'm not sure yet
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@leo You could consider addressing the "AI slop avalanche" in a future Intelligent Machines episode. It is of course a much bigger problem than "just" for curl and me, but I wrote about it here: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14…
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down.
Welcome to another curl release. A shorter cycle this time so we did not have time to merge many changes: there is just one logged. See below. This is the 269th release featuring 269 command line options.
EU age verifier app was released today on github, saying it'll include remote attestation
Is it just me who finds this terrifying?
No more open operating systems for your phone if you want to be able to use it for age verification. For now, it sounds like this will be for porn, but social media (hello Mastodon) recently got a "recommendation" from our government to not be allowed below a certain age
Will we need a Google or Apple attested device to get around on the internet in a few years?
In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...
@SylvieLorxu thanks for pointing that out. I've been hearing of IRMA for years now and also saw Yivi once or twice in the media, but somehow never properly looked into it. I'm curious how they solve the challenges for which these EU people think they need big tech. Didn't know they're on F-droid! That's an easy install. Will check it out :)
Frustratingly almost no website uses Yivi yet, but the test examples all work. I wish it was possible as regular website to just integrate, but they are quite limited in who they accept. Hopefully that changes at some point.
It is widely adopted and accepted in the country. I wonder what is the most common digital signature app in the Netherlands? My curiosity is closely related to the EU digital wallet initiative. Thanks for any info.
@Oleksii The main Dutch system seems to be DigiD currently, which is sadly proprietary. But they do also allow SMS instead of app so that is... something.
Neither the streetcar nor the MAX has level boarding. Wheelchair riders have to press a button to deploy a small ramp. Aubrie says, “It’s tragic because it’s so close to being level boarding. If they really wanted to, they could have.”
Today, we rode the MAX orange and yellow lines to their ends. Their routes seemed better than the blue and green lines, which were mostly along highways. These paralleled main line railroads and/or went down the middle of major streets.
In fifth grade, everyone in my class had to pick a state that wasn’t California and do a report about it. I chose North Dakota, because I thought it would be the most difficult one to find any interesting information about. I finally made it to North Dakota yesterday. I can report that what I saw of it, alongside the railroad, was not particularly interesting, but it’s satisfying to have finally (sort of) visited.
I’m late posting this, but we made it to Chicago from Portland yesterday. We went along the Columbia River for a while, then through the mountains of Montana, which turned into mostly flat land, then into North Dakota , then Minnesota, then Wisconsin. MI and WI looked a lot like Iowa looked from the California Zephyr: mostly flat, lots of farms. Our wheelchair-accessible room was at the end of the train, and I enjoyed going up to the top level and looking out the back.
The ride on the Empire Builder was extremely rough. The train went over loads of bumps, and jerked sideways very frequently, even when we weren’t going through a switch. It was very difficult to exist on the train. BNSF, whose tracks I think we were mostly on, has a terrible level of maintenance. Not surprising for one of the class I railroads these days, but still. #trains
We took the Lakeshore Limited from Chicago to New York on Saturday/Sunday. It uses the single-floor Viewliner cars, which we like a lot more than the Superliners Amtrak uses west of Chicago. For the first time, the dining car was right in front of our sleeper car, so Aubrie could roll right over in her wheelchair, which was a lot nicer than eating in our room. But as usual for Amtrak, trash receptacles were in the designated wheelchair spot.
Today we rode a New Jersey Transit bus. It was amazingly terrible. We will detail all of this in our video(s) after our trip, but the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan is a disaster, and we had to wait for the bus literally along a highway in New Jersey. My friend who often rides NJT says many NJT bus stops are like that. The bus was also a high-floor bus with a janky electric lift that pops out the side. This type of bus should be abolished in favor of low-floor buses with a ramp.
On Wednesday we took the New York Subway 1 train down to the tip of Manhattan. The subway is terrible in general, but especially for wheelchair riders. Even though 34th St Penn Station and South Ferry station are considered accessible, they barely have level boarding. The gap between train and platform is big, and the vertical difference is also big. Aubrie struggled to get her chair on. Also, two dirty elevators at each station.
We learned a few years ago that it’s best to board subway trains in the middle of the train, where the conductor is, so they can see you board and make sure the train waits. We have to look for the so-called zebra board on the station wall, which is sometimes way up above the edge of the platform and hard to see. At 34th st in the downtown direction was also a ♿️ boarding area sign that was partially blocked by a ceiling light.
Then we took the Staten Island Ferry, which was pretty nice. On the way back though, the boat we got had a steep ramp on each end and Aubrie’s chair needed help getting up it. They told us we could wait for the next boat, but we really shouldn’t have to wait 30 minutes for a properly-accessible boat.
On Staten Island, we took two wheelchair-accessible Lyfts, which was basically our only option for getting to someone’s house. It was ok, but both vehicles were rear-loading vans, where Aubrie is in a tight space between the back wheels, and the ride can be a bit bumpy back there.
We’re now on a Metro North train for the first time. Buying tickets and finding the platform at Grand Central was pretty easy. The level boarding was also pretty good, with a minimal horizontal and vertical gap between train and platform. Also, no elevators all the way from the street to the train, which is awesome. Unfortunately, no windows in the wheelchair areas of the train, which is tragically common on trains.
Back on the Lakeshore Limited to Chicago. Photos: Moynihan Train Hall, a model of new Acela trains, Aubrie boarding the train, and a view across the Hudson River.
We boarded the California Zephyr in Chicago, but we’re not going back to California, yet. Amtrak parked the train in the wrong spot, such that a column blocked the ramp at the door to our car, so they had to move the train. It’s not the first time this has happened.
As we passed through western Iowa and into Nebraska, lightning was constantly flashing, lighting up the sky every few seconds. I’ve never seen such intense lightning, and it was quite amazing.
This sounds like an impressive project. Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process eieio.games/blog/a-million-rea…
The post says this game is running on a single $80/month DigitalOcean VM. I bet it could run on a Raspberry Pi or similar single-board computer. If I'm calculating correctly, the full game board takes about half a GB of RAM.
This project exemplifies something that Rachel by the Bay wrote a few years ago that has had a lasting impact on how I think about scaling server infrastructure. "One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly" rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/2…
Join @manuq and @cassidy this Thursday at 1800 UTC (11 AM PDT) as we share a bit behind the scenes of Threadbare, our collaboratively-built open source game made in Godot Engine!
It's currently pre-alpha, but Threadbare is a story-driven game where players don’t just explore a world—they co-create it.
Join Manuel and Cassidy as they share a bit behind the scenes of Threadbare, a collaboratively-built open source game made in Godot Engine. It's currently pr...
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Oh look. Another way AI hype is making the world a shittier place. Shocking right? Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop theregister.com/2025/07/15/cur…
question probably without an answer: we all (ok many of us who notice this stuff) know about AI enshittification & how it is wrecking the web... But what is the solution? Boycotting AI isn't going to work as long as others are still using it. But how do we turn it into... Not rubbish?
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Just got the following email from Orbit Research regarding the Orbit Player:
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I have some familiarity with the architectures of Chrome OS and Android, and it's not at all obvious to me that CrOS in its current form is faster or more secure than Android. Are there specific technical differences that make CrOS faster or more secure? I'm curious, not trying to argue.
@matt CrOS is massively better on limited memory because it isn't copying a ton of Java nonsense into every process heap (via the zygote) at the worst possible time (which slows down process creation). As for security, Android apps are a shitshow compared to a more constrained platform like the web.
* DHBW Horb Student App: study life app for students at DHBW Stuttgart Campus Horb 🛡️
And it seems we make a spot landing at the 1st anniversary of our public RB GoLive on August 1st. Current RB status: 648 apps (49.8%) – just 0.2% missing for the 50% mark! 🥳
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).
"Ottawa rushes to build its own AI translator as government use of free tools soars
Demand for official translation services is falling despite a rise in content creation. As public servants turn to free online tools, the government is racing to build its own AI translator.
If PSPC Translate works for staff in the department of about 19,000 people, the tool will be used more widely. It’s the first “lighthouse project” under the federal government’s artificial intelligence strategy, meant to help the public service learn how to build and implement new AI tools and create something that can be scaled across government."
@hub I expect some errors happen from time to time already, and they blame the lawyers and translators, everyone gets sued a bit, and it all takes forever and costs a lot to fix.
Sounds like it will get worse.
Legally fleecing entities via unverified AI produced content is going to be a good business.
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A bill to prevent the theft of catalytic converters and other precious metal car parts, and for other purposes.
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Soziale Netzwerke als demokratische Kraft retten Wer wir sind Nina George, Schriftstellerin, Ehrenpräsidentin European Writers’ Council (EWC) Foto: Heike Blenck Rocko Schamoni, Schriftsteller,...
@rmcpantoja @NVAccess Белорусский язык скоро будет опубликован! The belarusian language will soon be published as the part of the RHVoice project! github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/pul…
Belarusian language support for RHVoice
What goes in:
Dasha, Lyudmila, Michal, and their respective Russian pairs, many thanks to @tseykovets
Note: Ryhor has also a russian pair, but it will be pu...
Andrew Cuomo plans to run as an independent after soundly losing the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani. So far no protests from Democratic leaders. Imagine the reaction from Democrats if Bernie Sanders had run as an independent in 2016 or 2020--and he had a far better argument to run considering how unfair both of those primaries were. cnn.com/2025/07/14/politics/an…
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