So I have to fill out this whole audit thing proving that TJ is still eligible to be on my insurance. I not only have to prove that we got married, I have to prove that we are still married, as if I would willingly have someone to whom I was not married on my insurance. Honestly.
Hello @GrapheneOS screen-reader users and other #a11y friends,
There was an interesting debate going on at the end of may where screen reader users were asking for #tts engine included with GrapheneOS base system. grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
I understand this is very unlikely to change in the near future as I am not aware of a TTS system that is open-source and modern enough to be included. @Accessible Android has a list of TTS engines sorted by language at this page: accessibleandroid.com/list-of-… Except of eSpeak-ng and RHVoice there is another opensource app called SherpaTTS that can use Piper TTS and Coqui based voices at: github.com/woheller69/ttsEngin… Including eSpeak-ng, RHVoice, SherpaTTS and the list of TTS engines mentioned by accessible android, is there a viable TTS engine or at least one that is close enough to be viable to get included in the foreseable future?
Another approach I have been thinking about is to add / inject the TTS app or any other app I'd like as a part of the install process. It turns out I am not the only one speculating about that idea and it's not practical and feasible either as it's also breaking the security model. It's been discussed recently at: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/25899…
Another way on how to install an app on an android device would be using adb install from a computer. I am not definatelly sure on this but GrapheneOS does not allow enabling ADB on production builds. In order to instal a TTS app over ADB we'd need to find a way on how to install GrapheneOS with ADB preenabled on first run. This is a huge security hole as well.
There might be a way to build my own flavour of GrapheneOS, but that's too involved, I'd need very powerfull machine for the actual build process and I would again compromise security by either disabling or handling future updates on my own building each new release on my own.
So given the current state I am afraid we screen reader users are out of luck and there is no way to get this thing running on my own with no help from someone else.
The end result is that I'll either get security or I can look elsewhere to get accessibility.
Please am I getting it right or might I have overlooked something that might help me to install GrapheneOS on my own?
One of our full time developers is actively working on building our own text-to-speech and speech-to-text integration. It's where all of their effort is currently going. None of the available apps are suitable for inclusion. None are modern enough aside from Sherpa and it has issues including high latency making it unsuitable for use with TalkBack. Our own implementation is going to be significantly better.
ADB works fine on GrapheneOS but you'd have to enable it.
@GrapheneOS Thanks for the positive info and nice sounding prompt reply. Now I need to make up my mind if I should find someone else who will install current release for me and install TTS or use something else I can tinker with such as lineage in the mean time.
What is there apart from #SherpaTTS that is fast and supports many languages?
What components do you want to replace? My only issue currently is the need for multilingual models (german-english) as otherwise it is unusable for me.
I have asked a friend and @GrapheneOS community chat members for the help with initial setup and now I am fully configured with RHVoice as my current TTS of choice. Except of one GPS navigation app I am used to everything is working fine for me including proprietary stuff for my work like Microsoft Teams, banking apps including Poštová banka, George and Revolut and the other apps I like such as Bitwarden as a password manager, Arcanechat, Conversations, ElementX, FairEmail, Open Key Chain for chatting and emailing, Antennapod, BubbleUPNP, Foobar 2000, Kore, Voice, NewPipe, ytdlnis for podcasts, music, audiobooks and videos, , Catima for lojalty cards and tickets, some other apps. For downloading apps I am mainly using F-droid and Aurora store. I am not signed into the google account but I am using play services for push notifications and other compatibility reasons for apps which need it.
Thanks for everything you are doing, it's fantastic and I like it verry much.
As someone who is interested in technology, specifically Internet and networking, I have to wonder, has any totally blind individual ever gotten the chance to either work at an Internet provider, or tour a network operation center or data center? And when I say work at an Internet provider, I don't just mean your low level script reading person, I mean the person that can actually go in and look at statistics for customer equipment, reset it if necessary, that sort of thing. The closest I ever got to either opportunity was, back in the late 2000s, when a roommate of mine happen to be a Cable technician for charter, he gave me access to his portal, and within that, I could enter the MAC address of any cable modem on the network, and get all the statistics and if need be, reset the modem. But my roommate was an actual cable technician, he actually did installs and the whole works, something I likely wouldn't be qualified to do. But I would love to do the tech side of that. As far as touring a network operation center or data center, my opportunities there have been even less interesting. The closest I ever got, was when a good friend of mine worked at Facebook as a security guard, and I got to go as far as the parking lot of the main Facebook data center where he worked. I never got any further, despite trying to get a data center tour arranged.
I really want to work at a provider at some point. I've always been super interested in how ISP's work, how they actually connect you to the internet, how switching ISP's works, etc.
> LeBlanc said it would have taken eight years to begin construction of the rail project, without the assistance of the major projects office, though it’s unclear where that number comes from.
It came out of his ass. Our out of a chatbot from the office of the minister of cheatbots..
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).
I really think there is a sense in which they feel entitled to OUR human decency since they killed off all of their own.
It feels as if our "bleeding hearts" actually do matter to them. They want to hurt & destroy us but they also want us to cry for them. They want the sympathy & compassion & simple human recognition that they refuse to give.
Can anyone recommend a headset for use with Jaws, J-Say and Dragon? My wife is still looking at the Poly Focus 2 which is wired or wireless but it sounds like USB wired would be the way to go for accuracy ETC. The hyper X cloud flight we have now works ok but she likes jaws in her left ear so I wonder if that is interfering with the microphone.
I've been very happy with the Audio-Technica M50xSTS. It's closed-back and does sit heavy on the head after a while, but the mic doesn't leak screen reader.
This release adds support for .pkpasses, removes the Stocard importer (as Stocard no longer exists) and removes images from the widget below Android 12L.
Do note that the widget change is not what we want. If anyone understands this crash and has a fix, I'd love to hear it, so we can support images on all Android versions: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
Thanks for the new widget! Great! But there is a problem: if the cards have no pictures, everything works. If you add a picture to at least one card, the application closes with an error and the wi...
I'm watching the F-Droid issue and it looks like Google may release a new version of aapt2 that can run on the older hardware of the F-Droid buildserver but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Hopefully this changes in the near future.
Affected apps under this label: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/?label_name%5B%5D=AGP-8.12.0 Between 8.12.0-alpha07 and 8.12.0-alpha08, aapt2 started to want a CPU that supports BMI1, CPUID, SSE4_1, SSSE3 ...
CANADA: The Alto high speed rail project is to benefit from a Major Projects Office which the government has established to identify projects that are in the national interest and streamline their assessment and approval to accelerate development.
Nedavno jsem tu nadaval na kulturu faktur v US. Dneska jsem narazil na borce, co nadaval ze za sluzbu vytezovani faktur chteji 5Kc/kus a ze on to radsi da do Gemini a ma to zadarmo.
O hodinu pozdeji psal, ze mu to na fakturach z US davalo celkovou cenu 0Kc ... firma "uplatnila predplaceny kredit jako slevu".
Jsem si vzpomel, jak nam kdysi ucetni nadavala, at to nedelame.
Maaaan. I hate the short menory thing. I followed a complicated path to building something from source. Now I can't remember where I put the damn thing. Trying to search for something in Windows is just a terrible experience.
Grr, so Happy it's "Friday. I'm getting really tired of people testing in browsers with screen readers and then reporting non-issues because they're using their forking mouse!
So I'll be deleting and reposting a bunch of random posts as public from the last 2 weeks, thanks to tweesecake marking all new posts as private by default and me not realizing it. They will mostly include electric shavers and orbit players and oh my! But feel free to ignore.
I'm sure a lot of you know that pressing alt, shift, win, and control on modern Windows opens the annoying MS Office thing. But it turns out you can combine that with letters to launch Office apps and services. For instance, all modifiers with w opens MS Word, n opens One Note, p opens Powerpoint, and so on. Also, here's a reminder that win-control-f24 toggles the trackpad. That's useless on its own, but you can remap that shortcut with AutoHotkey or a similar tool.
To turn off the office shortcut, press win+r, type cmd, press control shift enter, and paste this: REG ADD HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command /t REG_SZ /d rundll32
@TheQuinbox Did you know that Windows X followed by either A or I should open up a nice CMD window as well? One for standard, and one for elevated? It depends whether your shell is cmd or powershell as to what your excelerator is.
@FreakyFwoof @TheQuinbox Yep, though I've never gotten into the habit of doing this. For some reason, I still almost always use win-r, cmd, enter. I don't know why.
@andrew @FreakyFwoof @TheQuinbox I love it when someone tells me a windows thing I never knew about. alt+escape changed the lives of several of my students over the years, especially those who struggled to hold alt for any length of time.
@cachondo @andrew @FreakyFwoof @TheQuinbox Yup, that office 5 fingered shortcut is ridiculous ! If you buy a Microsoft keyboard, (like anybody does), there's a key that emulates the alt+shift+control+win keys.
I base my hotel reviews now solely on the quality of their loo roll. Strong and reliable is 4 stars and above, if I blow my nose and break through it then less. If my finger goes through it when I'm wiping my arse you're getting a one star review. You have been warned.
same people convinced they can use computer programs to replace workers are the ones convinced nobody can use computer programs to replace being in a building together
Assuming the OS doesn't unravel like Bazzite did, I think I've settled on Pop!_OS. Would I prefer a start menu and a more easily communicable distro name? Yes. But, holy shit, everything works.
@fireborn It began hard crashing (black screen, audio persists, but dies off after 30 sec to a minute). This began to be intermittent, then just when I was opening a video game, and then even while playing YouTube videos in Firefox.
Knock on wood, I haven't seen this behavior in Pop.
Is there any possible way for MacOS to be able to find your location without WiFi being enabled? Surely this must be possible. I mean even with a 3rd party GPS or something. I have a hotspot here that has GPS capabilities, why can't I wire that up so it can read that location data from its API or whatever
I had a boss Once upon a Time who was convinced that your MacBook would be able to triangulate its precise location by using available Wi-Fi signals. That felt like a conspiracy theory, but 🤷♂️. They have a maps app on the thing. I don't know why they would have that but not a GPS module.
I ask because I have automation that ensures WiFi is always off when I'm connected via Ethernet. The MacOS networking always resets the order of preferred network devices so WiFi is first, and even when I "roam" from Wifi to Ethernet it will keep the existing sessions alive over WiFi which defeats the purpose.
So I need WiFi completely off when I don't want to use WiFi.
It would be easier if there was a "DO NOT CONNECT TO WIFI" option but the radio is still on -- then this functionality would still work
it looks like the only thing I can do is automate disconnecting from a hardcoded list of networks I expect to want to disconnect from in this scenario and remove their automatic join preference, then later add the auto join back.
So, like, thanks to the SoundSource app from @RogueAmoeba I am able to move the sound coming from my Chrome window to the left of VoiceOver. Why is this important? Well, I am in a meeting and this helps me concentrate better on what my screen reader says. To top it off, I applied 10-band EQ to the Chrome source to shape the sound to fit in better with VO. I do wish I could pan different sources, not just the main output, though!
1. Guy gets autobanned by my moderation software for going on a 12-comment vomit about "libtards," how Muslims are destroying Canada, and how I'm "a queer" (I mean, fair) 😂
2. Guy realizes he's been banned.
3. Guy emails politely to ask for ban removal because he "really likes" my content.
An uncertain future looms over Nova Launcher, a name synonymous with Android customization and a vital tool for many users, including those with visual
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/edu…
The reaction to Charlie Kirk's killing shows us that the real danger if Trump's assassination attempt had been successful wasn't that the right would "make him a martyr." It's that *liberals* would do so. The tragic fact of his violent death would have somehow transmuted him into a better person.
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Possibly unpopular opinion: the reason I never got into mainstream videogames with accessibility features is because it feels like it basically just plays itself for you. The two largest examples of this that come to mind are The Last of Us and Forza. I'm not shitting on people who play and enjoy those games, I'm glad they enjoy them. But for me, having the game effectively cheat/play itself for "accessibility" reasons just takes all the fun out of it for me. I'm not playing, the computer is. I'm not much of a gamer, but think I'll mainly stick to my audiogames.
wait. OK I generally agree with you, except for Forza. That game does not play itself for you if you don't want it to. You can have audible indicators only, without any of the driving assists, which is how a lot of us like to play it, including me.
@talon see, I like when games do that, because I struggle a lot, and if something becomes super hard to play, and I have to keep struggling. I don't feel like I can enjoy the game anymore, I become strest, and then I lose motivation to even play
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion as much as it is an incredibly mislead and, by extension, misleading one. What's your sample size? Have you *actually* played Forza and looked into the settings that can be adjusted and the amount to which they can be adjusted? Are you counting games that have been modded or only ones with built-in accessibility features? Are you counting games that might not read menus but are otherwise completely or even mostly playable? Assuming the most conservative responses to those questions, in what world is the computer playing itself in Mortal Kombat 1, Skullgirls or Forza (yes, Forza, without full driving assist)?
I agree with you 500% on the opinion that games that advertise accessibility features which end up making the game essentially not a game just aren't very fun. I like being challenged by a game, at least a little bit, and I know that isn't the case for everyone so absolutely to each their own. But I can't fathom how you 1) got to the generalization of games with accessibility features mostly playing themselves and 2) used Forza as an example, which literally lets you adjust how much you want the game to play itself to a huge extent without disabling any of the blind-specific cues. I don't think you could have chosen a worse example! :)
@guilevi Lmao seems I didn't know quite what I was doing when I name dropped Forza, that one was drawn from me seeing someone play it on beginner mode for a couple hours, it looking incredibly fucking boring and easy, and as a result me getting a very negative impression of the game and thinking of it in the same light as The Last of Us 1. That was my bad, but it seems you got my original point despite one of my examples majorly missing the mark due to an admitted lack of research on that particular game.
Absolutely, Forza with full driving assist is just a very good background noise generator if you like your background noise to be angry cars, and I also completely agree with your original point insofar as there are games that will do that if the right set of accessibility features are on. But seriously. There are so, so, so many more now than before that are just, not even remotely close to being like that. And it would be very sad indeed if your opinion was based on TLOU (disclaimer: I have not played TLOU and am sort of turned off of trying it precisely because I've heard it's a little bit like what you describe) and Forza on beginner mode. At any point, I will more than happily advise on something with low-effort setup if you let me know what style of game you'd be interested in trying. The set of available titles is not massive, but it is diverse and hella fun.
@guilevi Re TLOU I think the game is still worth playing, you do get a lot of agency in how you wanna approach the combat encounters and what you want to focus on with character upgrades. The story itself is very linear and I agree the nav assist could make exploration for collectables easier, because right now if you want to find them you have to keep scanning for items and can easily miss things. If you want to see how a system like that can be improved, keeping the option to turn you to an objective but also adding a lot of passive radars for items, doors and walls, look at 1428 shadows over silesia. But back to TLOU in the part 2 remake they added the no return mode which is pure combat with added roguelike elements and that's my favorite part of the game. And in that mode you can ironically decide where you want the navigation to take you.
So since we all still have free speech, I want to give true prayers, not hypocritical ones to the families of Mark and his wife Minnesota democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman as well as those of state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. If anyone can't figure this out, those were assassinations as well.
none of those people are even remotely equipped for this, which makes it easy to not experience any cognitive damage from repeating it—and I say this as one of the least online people currently on social media
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