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One of the benefits of eSpeak-NG is that it doesn't make assumptions like reading "CUP" is Cuban Pesos (hello US OneCore voices) - but the flip side is that eSpeak will read the year 1987 as "nineteen hundred eighty seven". If you'd like it to read that as "nineteen eighty seven" & learn a little #regex on the way, then @fastfinge has you covered with the "Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak" blog post: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/08/28/…
Thanks for this, this has been a bugbear of mine for many years. I initially thought it would replace years after 2000 and before 2099 with twenty, but thank God it didn't. Ewwwww!
I can't resist the temptation to discuss more OneCore oddities, we also can't forget the OneCore bug with reading ernesto, or have you been using applications where unchecking check boxes was necessary? Also fun fact. Microsoft David always uses its OneCore data even in SAPI5. Zira uses OneCore data in OneCore, but its older data in SAPI5. What this means, is that David will always exhibit these problems, but Zira will only if using OneCore and not SAPI.
Thanks to everyone at #SomethingDigital in Brisbane for a fantastic time this week!
Did you catch Mick Curran discussing "From voice interfaces to micro-interactions: The innovations powering digital accessibility" on Tuesday? He was joined by Allison Ravenhall from the Commonwealth Bank, Jim Hogan from Griffith University and moderator Vivienne Neilan from NIISQ.
Deloitte Australia wrote a major report for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) about the legal basis for AI-based automated welfare system penalties. DEWR paid Deloitte AUD…
some time ago my company paid a consultant for a 2-hour webinar on "how to become more productive with Copilot" and in the middle of it the guy proudly told us that a few weeks earlier he forgot he had to do a presentation for a client so before the meeting he "just pointed Copilot to the SharePoint folder and then used the result and everybody was happy," and in my mind I was like "we are the people that pay you for that crap, are you sure you should be telling us this 🤨"
"#Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors"
Precedent set? Both of my #Scarfolk books were downloaded and pirated from the LibGen 'shadow library'. Compensation would be nice. Anyone aware of other class-action lawsuits I can join, or have any other legal pointers?
Anthropic PBC told a pair of courts in July that a judge’s order approving class-action status for authors’ copyright lawsuit over millions of pirated books put “inordinate pressure” on the company to settle a case that could kill the company.
Oof. 4 of my books in, but I cannot send the form "due to high website traffic". If that means what it suggest, printing all the forms would make a thick book like "Voina i Mir"…
Edit, for other German authors: LCHB also has an office in München, Germany.
The EU needs a corporate “open source contribution tax” to fund open source maintainers
Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resource
Cyklista s upaženou rukou, co to asi znamená?👉️🤔 Tady už jsme se fakt málem střetli. 🚲️🚗Kdyby mi nebylo divné to vrčení hned za zády a neotočil bych se, normálně by mě sejmul. Jak jsem se otočil, ucuknul volantem. Nee, ani pak nezačal brzdit, aby mi umožnil odbočení. Šlápnul na plyn. Všimněte si, že jsem přejel svou odbočku. 🤦 peertube.skorpil.cz/w/uscVMDx5…
I've never been so excited seeing an "Internal Server Error" displayed on the screen, because it comes from the server!
In just an evening I got my CI-built container properly tested, reported some bugs, fixed an issue and got the ESP32 properly linked to the Fruitstand webserver with #esphome.
Been a while since I enjoyed hacking on stuff this much :)
Wouldn't surprise me if the Internal Server Error is me doing something wrong too, not trying to blame Fruitstand. Just, *sighs comfortably*, it's fun learning something new and progressing quickly :)
Hope you're having fun with the projects :) I have all the patience in the world, don't worry, take your time! I'm already very glad for what Fruitstand already is starting to shape up to be, it's exactly what I was looking for :)
I'm not seeing the DB migration in the README but yeah that was one of the issues I ran into (I'm thinking the Docker container should probably just auto-migrate on launch), but sadly that's not this issue: github.com/BasementCat/fruitst…
I'm starting to feel it may be some config issue, like, maybe there is no default config for plugins until you explicitly save. And maybe they're not saving on my side for some reason. I'll debug more later, I'm already glad about the progress of yesterday :)
Fixes #3
It was a bit longer ago then I remembered last touching Docker stuff on GitHub Actions (most of my more recent experience is on GitLab CI and Woodpecker CI, which I personally prefer).
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@aks Just noticed your progress on Queerminal (scalie.zone/@aks/1151257995352…), very cool! Given we both seem to really want a non-queerphobic TRMNL alternative, I just figured I'd ping you here to show you Fruitstand running on similar hardware in the hope it might interest you. If you'd rather I not bother you with this let me know! :)
Managed to make my TRMNL server "Queerminal" to support modules, so it now loops between an RSS feed and my calendar.
Next up I need to make a weather view. Then clean up the code **a lot** and maybe it's ready for more public usage.
I'm not super familiar with how the GitHub wiki thing works - having it easy to access would be great, but it'd be nice if it wasn't tied to GitHub (though that all still lives in the repo, right?)
GitHub wikis do get their own semi-hidden repo (URL visible on the bottom, see github.com/TheLastProject/frui…) but the wiki format is kinda... GitHub-specific. If your goal is to have less vendor lock-in I would personally suggest GitHub Pages instead as you can mostly move that as-in to GitLab Pages or (sadly in maintenance mode) Codeberg Pages. Or build it with a third party tool like Netlify. Of course, you should put that behind an own domain to not be stuck with a github.io domain.
"Mostly" as in, whatever is in the "pages" branch gets published as HTML, so you will have to modify your build scripts for the CI system you switch to. But given the commands will stay the same that would be fairly minimal amounts of work.
Then we get to the level of multiple repositories though, so you may want to move Fruitstand to a GitHub organisation for clarity (though not required).
Could also just put markdown files in the current Fruitstand repo but that is more limiting.
for now the wiki probably makes the most sense (path of least resistance and all that) - better to have documentation at all than to spend way too much time trying to find the "best" solution (I'm not likely to move this off of GitHub soon so I'm just not going to worry about it for the moment)
Understandable! It seems I have permission to edit the Wiki (it might be set to public), so it accidentally published the moment I hit save. I hope that's okay anyway :)
I might tweak this if more stuff comes up, but for now, I'm considering github.com/BasementCat/fruitst… to be "correct documentation". Feel free to change/ask as you see fit :)
Part 3 of the GNOME Shell gestures work by @verdre has landed in Mutter/GNOME Shell main. This is one of the main dependencies for upstreaming the rest of GNOME Shell mobile 🙌
Huge thanks to everyone involved in review, especially @fmuellner, Carlos Garnacho, @jadahl, Bilal Elmoussaoui, @rmader, and @swick!
Oh, please... $20 of groceries was already nothing much during the Bidenflation years, either. It'll take a while for ANY repair measure from ANYONE to reverse it.
I stopped taking "blind libertarian" pills 20 years ago, kid. That's like 20% of the cause. There is a very real and very immediate inflation effect when one shuts down industry, shipping, and retail for a prolonged period, and artificially creates scarcity. That's easily 80% of Biden's inflation. That and giving kickbacks to other crooks at the expense of honest business practices.
@tophmac We recovered from the covid recession, find a new victim to blame that actually makes sense and isn't a rounding error in an economy measured in the upper tens of trillions, and we printed trillions ... it's not rocket science, connect the dots
curl added support for OpenSSL immediately when it was first released, as they switched away from SSLeay, in the late 1990s. We have since supported it over the decades as both OpenSSL and curl have developed.
🎉 226 new and updated icons!
💡 Added support for 640 apps using existing icons.
🔥 13460 icons in total!
⛰️ We are planning on moving away from GitHub to Codeberg!
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Am 9.9 laden wir um 19:00 zu einem Online-Treffen ein. Ein Pray. Ein neues Format, das auf dem Kirchentag geboren wurde und dass sich entwickeln wird. Sei dabei.
Am 9.9 laden wir um 19:00 zu einem Online-Treffen ein. Ein Pray. Ein neues Format, das auf dem Kirchentag geboren wurde und dass sich entwickeln wird. Sei dabei. Hier die Zugangsdaten über Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.
Maybe if this guy embraced AI he could build a real website instead of relying on Github pages because of his ignorance RT: social.v.st/users/becha/status…
“I am an [AI] hater, and I will not be polite.
The machine is disgusting and we should break it.
The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance.
I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
I bought this microwave 3 years ago, and it's still going strong. I got it because it has braille on the numbers, start, and cancel already. What it doesn't have is braille anywhere else. In case you have/will get this model and need to know, there's a mode button just below 5. This cycles through power settings. Press 5 times to get to defrost, enter your time, and hit start. I've been using high power and short times to defrost. Now I, and you, know. amazon.com/dp/B005GSPVHS?ref_=…
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@jcsteh Me neither. Finding this one was the first time I'd ever run into braille like this. I wish mode selection and other functions were accessible, but this is still a step up from what I'm used to.
I honestly don't understand why it would be so hard to just have braille on mainstream appliances like this more widely. They already have to design and mass manufacture at scale, so it could just be part of the design. I doubt it's a technological or even cost issue, likely more a "don't care enough" issue.
@jcsteh Can the design you're proposing deliver a "DOOR OPEN" prompt uncomfortably loudly in braille though? Not sure I'd know how to get at the food without that.
Driving on a road trip. Stop to get gas at a random gas station in #WestVirginia. Not only can I get gas here, but I can buy #bitcoin. I wonder how much bitcoin gets sold at WV gas stations.
Fredericton, New Brunswick - Despite decades of research, a Fredericton man says that autism didn’t exist in his day and that he would like to show us a replica map he created of the 1920 Caledonian Railway,
Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…
Windows 95, arguably the first PC gaming OS, is still being used... to sort eggs in Germany "...For one thing, it may not surprise you to learn that egg-counting software is actually pretty niche, or that the programmer that originally built the software is no longer around to provide updates compatible with later operating systems. So, unless some young upstart wants to bring chicken farming into the modern age, hen farmers like Huber have few options but to stick with Windows 95..." pcgamer.com/hardware/windows-9…
Spirits maker Diageo says it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some of the bottling volume to the U.S.
“This kind of thing should make everybody stop and really think before deploying any AI agents. We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks.”
“It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there.”
Nice indirect prompt injection attack: Bargury’s attack starts with a poisoned document, which is shared to a potential victim’s Google Drive. (Bargury says a victim could have also uploaded a compromised file to their own account.
Spirits maker Diageo says it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some of the bottling volume to the U.S.
@hub Guinness - I don't like beer anyway. Baileys - Coole Swan is Irish and tastes incredible. Smirnoff - Lots of Canadian vodka options I'll be okay 👍
What the actual hell? They really want to alienate Canadian customers, don't they?
I've always preferred Wiser's anyway, but shades of Heinz abandoning Leamington. At least Heinz is an American company. And bottled in the USA will NOT be an appealing selling point in liquor stores. They haven't been paying attention to the empty shelves that used to have American products on it? Maybe they sell more to Americans, so don't really care.
*for Champagne lovers, there are several wineries in Ontario who make bubbly that’s as good as or better than most of what Moet et Chandon (j.v. between Diageo and LVMH) produces. Some of those include: Westcott Estate Vineyards, Hidden Bench, Mason Vineyards, and Honsburger Estate Vineyards (those are our favourites). #BuyCanadian #SparklingWine
**Beer lovers, please share some of our great #CanadianBeers that we could be drinking instead of anything produced by Diageo
@Lynnd @ZenHeathen @CStamp @Chigaze for beer, my local grocery store has an incredible selection of local micro breweries. (Québec) No need to feed Molson-Coors or Budweiser.
@CStamp @Lynnd @ZenHeathen @Chigaze My rule is: if you want wine go to SAQ. If you want beer (local) check the grocery store (usually Metro or IGA, less so for Weston) or even the dépanneurs (some are treasures).
I have never lived in Quebec and not be able to get beer at the dep or grocery store.
@CStamp Ontario now has wine, beer and coolers in grocery and convenience stores, and I absolutely do not see the need. As an example, there are many small communities in Ontario which *do* have an LCBO (which also has beer, including a great selection of Canadian craft beer), and *don't* have a grocery store or convenience store. Alcohol was already very readily available in this province, but our boneheaded premier is obsessed with it. @hub @Lynnd @Chigaze @jace
Ha, thanks to Hungarian radio, song stuck in my head that I cannot knock out with any other catchy song for now. Excited to travel to New York Sunday though, taking today and Friday off work just to be in the right mental space. When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" - Sparks: open.spotify.com/track/70RYaTW… or: youtube.com/watch?v=gqH-HpqZsY…
Has @thunderbird for Android removed the direct Archive email button from the UI?
What a terrible change to make.
Edit: Export to Mobile from Desktop disables the Archives folder settings in 11.1 so these have to be reapplied manually for Archive button to work in the UI
We're sorry for any frustration with this, and we'll get this feedback to our mobile team to see how we can get this improved in a future version of the app.
Byli jste dnes behat? Nebo na vylete? Ja se taky dnes nabehal...nechapu, proc mi to meri v kilometrech. Metry by bohate stacily! (Na spanek nekoukejte, hodinky na noc sundavam.)
Reading For Fun Is Plummeting In the US, and Experts Are Concerned - alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you sett... - news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/… #books
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the U.S.
![Photo is the panel discussion at Something Digital Conference 2025: From Voice Interfaces to Micro-Interactions: The Innovations Powering Digital Accessibility. L-R: Vivienne Neilan [NIISQ], Jim Hogan [Griffith University], Allison Ravenhall [Commonwealth Bank], Michael Curran [NV Access].](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/698915 "Photo is the panel discussion at Something Digital Conference 2025: From Voice Interfaces to Micro-Interactions: The Innovations Powering Digital Accessibility. L-R: Vivienne Neilan [NIISQ], Jim Hogan [Griffith University], Allison Ravenhall [Commonwealth Bank], Michael Curran [NV Access].")
Fucking alcohol monopoly
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