You know, it's ironic to me when JAWS has to put a bugfix in for Explorer.exe's "working on it..." in Windows 11. That's right. Now if that message appears for less than half a second, JAWS 2026 will ignore it. Why? Because Explorer.exe in Windows 11 is still a leaky pile of hot shit. It really is. Builds 26100 never really got a fix, 26200 did improve navigation in one recent fix but it did not stop explorer.exe from still growing in RAM usage over time, or slowing down in performance in larger folders. Now, a screen reader had to do a bug fix for a bug they don't even own. Wow, what quality control.
You can feel free to ignore this, and it may be obvious to people who use Win11, I don't. What on earth is explorer doing? I mean I've never seen this working on it thing all the way back to XP. It's quite fast, again, back to XP. What's going on exactly, do you know? When I used 11, I kept hearing this and didn't exactly understand what was going on.
@techsinger so they now split Explorer into more modular bits. To be clear, that work started in Windows 10: we got explorer.exe, ShellExperienceHost.exe,(action center bits) sihost.exe,(shell basics), StartMenuExperienceHost.exe (start menu) - so the shell and other bits were no longer a part of it, but that also meant each bit needs basic application payloads to work. In Windows 11 things got more aggressive: SearchHost.exe, TextInputHost.exe, RuntimeBroker.exe (handles permissions for XAML apps), Widgets.exe (if you kept them), and if you use Explorer patcher, another DLL ontop of all that. Not to mention a greater split of SVCHost.exe processes, so the "Split threshold for SVCHost" hacks stop working for the most part. So really, explorer just got more bloated over time, especially once it began to pull in more bits from that "Experience Pack."
Thanks, but something happened between 10 and 11, right, in terms of speed? Why is it taking this long to display files/folders on the same machines? I mean, is something else being done, or is it just doing the same things more slowly?
is this a thread where we can whinge about how annoying they are and how their posts are always written with a god-like authority as if they're the world's leading cryptographer lmao
There's someone at work who has an auto-reply set for every email she gets. She proudly states she only checks her email twice a day. She also refers to herself in the third-person. I don't work with her. I've never even met her in person. I hate her. Smug, condescending bellend.
“The detection order will not be part of the EU presidency’s new compromise proposal. It will remain voluntary for tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material.”
Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, confirms today that Denmark is backing down and dropping mandatory scanning.
I have another sizable update to my Image Description Toolkit available. In addition to supporting geolocation when available on photos, this version allows for the specifying of a web page and having images downloaded and described. Read more on this at theideaplace.net/image-descrip….
With more AI-driven development I have another sizable update for my Image Description Toolkit or IDT. There is a full What’s New document available. Highlights for this beta release include …
For those interested in airport and airplane communication, here are interesting recordings. Note to Screenreader users, it takes a while to load liveatc.net/recordings.php
The #IzzyOnDroid website just got new content added. You'll now find an FAQ there, and also some resources (in the "Basics" tab). This should especially make it easier for devs to set up badges and shields: izzyondroid.org/basics/resourc…
V neděli budu mít na #OpenAlt kratičkou přednášku (10 minut) o tom jak jsme postavili počítač planetarních rozměrů talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/… Bude to legrace? Doufám, že jo! Je to vtip? Rozhodně ne! Data budou seriózní. Tak přijďte.
Relativně nedávno se nám podařilo dokončit superpočítač Hlubinu myšlení - stroj, který se vyrovná člověku a dokáže odpovědět na základní otázky života, vesmíru a vůbec. Krátce zmíním jak se nám to podařilo a co šlo dobře a co už tak dobře nešlo.
Hot take: if sighted people don't need an account just to use their monitors, then Vispero doesn't have the right to strong-arm me into making one just to use their screen reading software that I've already paid for.
If you uninstall JAWS (no need to remove shared components), create a file called AdditionalSettings.ini where your JAWS installer resides, and paste the following lines in it, you won't have to use the account when reinstalling JAWS:
@twynn OMG. going to use this probably until accounts roll out widely and that flag is removed, but this is a huge tip that'll save headaches at least for a little while.
@Tamasg No, they added that flag with JAWS 2026 as it was not there in the 2025 installer (`installer.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings AdditionalSettings.ini Default`). If all else fails, and this is the approach I'm taking at work, I'll go for the /DisableExternalServices command-line option, except I still want Face in View so will use installer.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings AdditionalSettings.ini DisableExternalServices instead: support.freedomscientific.com/… @sclower
Chceš zábavu, zasmát se a další vychytávky ? Tak to nesmíš chybět na naší stránce ! Takže přijď a bav se ;) ! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sedi-bagr-na-stro...
Hello people involved in distros and/or CVEs! Is CSAF something you care about? Should projects such as #curl bother about it and perhaps even provide CVE data in this format?
I've asked at work as I remember we have one or two projects consuming CSAF, but tomorrow is a public holiday in our part of Germany and I guess there won't be an answer before next week. 😄
Perfect time for the question! CSAF Community days will be Nov 13 & 14 Nüremberg, Germany - If you‘re interested in learning more and want to get in touch with the CSAF-folks csaf.io/community-days/2025/
As you might probably know it is often used to communicate full security advisory details in a structured way. And can references several CVEs.... Maybe it's interesting for curl. And since curl is already CNA, why not publishing a CSAF feeds.
At @circl we are maintaining Vulnerability-Lookup and we already monitor several CSAF feeds (Cisco, @bsi, Red Hat, etc). The interesting thing, is that we correlate automatically with the CVE. For example: vulnerability.circl.lu/recent#…
@cedric @circl @bsi the "why not" would be that it is work to put together and maintain and I'm curious what's in it for *us* to provide the data. We already provide data as OSV JSON which from what it appears practically nobody at all cares about.
@circl @bsi I get your point and I agree for OSV... for you it will be indeed just more work. And I think the quality of the advisories of the curl project as a CNA is already high. I am currently checking various advisories related to curl. I like this kind of pages curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-10148.ht…
@cedric @circl @bsi OSV was developed by Google to provide a simple format that all vulnerability databases can use. CSAF is able represent every security advisory and VEX - free and for commercial, closed and open source, software, firmware, hardware, software installed on hardware as well as specifications. This allows the information to flow in a single format through the whole supply chain. CSAF Profiles docs.oasis-open.org/csaf/csaf/… select a minimum set of fields that need to be present. Tests ensure validity, consistency and provide guidance for the usage. PS: CVSS is not mandatory, you can use aggregated_severity or in upcoming CSAF 2.1 qualitative_severity_rating 😉
Great that you are considering #CSAF. We think that CSAF is a gamechanger: CSAF works for open source as well as closed source, hardware, specifications etc. - basically anything you can think of writing a security advisory or #VEX for. Supply Chain Security: No one can secure single handed - everyone is needed. A single format: You can profit from the upstream CSAFs, your downstream users profit from your CSAFs.
However, it's the classic chicken-egg problem: Why should I start? The answer is: #curl is a mature project and can lead the way. We are happy to help you and others getting started. Feel free to reach out to our #CSAF team at csaf@bsi.bund.de.
@bsi we're entirely open source and so is our website and the tools generating the content on the site, so anyone can step forward and contribute a CSAF format generator.
PSA to #GTK and #GNOME app developers: if your application deals with saving files, it is extra nice to show an in-app notification with an "Open Folder" action button so the user can directly open the containing folder in their file manager afterwards!
Use case I don't always keep Nautilus open to the folder where Reco records, and that folder might be buried multiple levels deep within my filesystem. However, there are situations where I need to...
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
I'm very sad inside, because I feel so stuck "Between a rock and a hard place" as Americans say it here. Windows 10 is light, lean, Explorer.exe isn't leaky, but yet, I miss out on two key things: 6 gHZ Wi-Fi and better CPU scheduling for E-cores and P-cores on Intel machines. Windows 11 is bloated, leaky, has newer driver stacks, better support for built-in neural processors if that sorta thing matters, Bluetooth LE Audio on Intel, and Intel's thread director is more tuned for it of course. All of that adds up to an OS upgrade where I don't see the difference in day to day usage at home, where I'm mostly on Ethernet and for my laptops the lack of thread director has not bitten me yet. For GoldWave, 7-zip, or other things that crank out multi-threaded perf, I can always just change process priority to high and I'm good. Linux? Don't even get me started on it, as you may know from my posts around here. I'm still going to experiment with various flavors and distros, but even still, I would be using it to run mostly Windows programs and games, and there's no Mastodon client that has built-in sounds, so that's a deal breaker for me as it is. So, it's a sad day. Until I can figure out which OS is the best and can last years. That answer has nothing to it for me right now, because every single darn OS is like Swiss cheese in some way, once you start using it. Mac OS? VoiceOver gets exhausting and TDSR is your only Terminal reader. So, yes. Super sad, computing is changed.
@mhussain @EdenLinnea ha, that's what I was hoping someone would do on GitHub, but perhaps not enough folks care about losing or missing out. I'm also seeing a lot of move towards Linux, but only time will tell if this leads to any meaningful number changes or if it's just a 1-2% increase. This story would really change if we saw a massive 15-20% spike towards Linux, since then we know there's a lot more development on it too that polish it, but that's the optimistic version of this story.
Today, we were nicely surprised by @gianmarcogg03 with a new comprehensive (italian) #deltachat introduction video, going through initial setup, groups and chatting, second device setup, #webxdc apps, bots, calls and playing Quake -- all the nice things you can do these days :)
Ho fatto un tutorial su @delta@chaos.social, un sistema di messaggistica istantanea libero e privato basato sulle e-mail, ma con un'esperienza utente molto simile a WhatsApp, se non migliore.
:peertube: PeerTube: https://videos.gianmarco.
While it is correct that ACRA can be used as a tracker this has caused some worries with users who don't know ACRA in Catima is configured to never send anything without explicit consent and can be fully disabled in settings.
I understand Exodus can't tell the difference. However, to reduce confusion, is it possible to add a note explaining it? :)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe We explain the difference of "present" and "active" for trackers in https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/page/faq/#negatives : "Our static ...
I am the guest on this week's Penny Forward podcast. I talked about my journey in terms of finding work that aligned with my values as a blind person and attempted to give some general advice for blind people who are looking for work or looking for a job that better aligns with what they would like to be doing. I also talked a little about investing and about moving across the country. To be clear, nothing that I said was intended as a linear "if you do this, then you will find what you're looking for," but, from the point of view of doing what we can as individuals, it is about positioning ourselves to increase our chances of finding opportunities.
The podcast is available from pennyforward.org/podcast-2/, or search for "Penny Forward" wherever you get your podcasts.
This morning a #Mastodon friend called me out on my name-calling of our current President. They said it was hypocritical to do something we tell our kids not to do. I’ve sat with this all day. I actually care about my friend’s opinion, and, hey, I’m not a malignant narcissist. Upon reflection, I must admit that they are absolutely, 100% correct. I am being hypocritical, and at the end of the day it’s really not a good look. But, will this knowledge cause me to stop? Very frankly speaking, I don’t think so. Before you condemn me as a bad person, please allow me to explain where I’m coming from. This presidency has been like none other in my lifetime. I’ve had presidents in the past with whom I disagreed on policy, oftentimes vehemently so. See also Bush, George W. But these were strictly policy disagreements. I never once questioned W’s humanity. But #Trump is something completely different. Almost all of his policies go way beyond abhorrent, but it goes deeper than that. He’s the first president I’ve ever known of who has actively, and deliberately, set out to actually punish those who didn’t vote for him or support him, to hurt them, make them suffer. I actually think that’s a lot of what this #SNAP hostage crisis is all about. He has shown, in countless ways, that he has zero respect for anything or anyone aside from himself. So, in my opinion, he deserves zero respect in return. (1/2)
I'm feeling ... kind of jaded and discouraged. Probably similar to what a lot of people are feeling, though. I was just talking to a friend last night, and he was saying that, when they were younger, a lot of our mutual friends hoped that my generation of blind people would be the ones who would break out and be successful beyond what previous generations have achieved, but, for a lot of the people we know, things haven't worked out for them in the way they might have hoped. I think that a lot of us, myself included, felt that the left had won the argument with the younger generation, particularly after President Obama, but now this doesn't seem to be so, either. I have an old album where the last song is about building a world for women, and I'm not sure if its author is still alive, but, if she is, then I am sure that she also no longer feels the optimism that she might have felt when she was young.
I try to remind myself that we are at a point in time. We have been through dark times in the past. This is not the end of things. Donald Tramp will not be in the Whitehouse forever.
@MikeGorse Sometime in the 80s Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote a book called The Cycles Of American History in which he posited that America’s history essentially reset every 30 years. I think, with the coming of tech and the revolution it brought in information availability and attention spans, that cyclical progression has been supercharged. Holy cow, I remember Election Day when #Obama won. It felt like my teams had won the Super Bowl and the World Series on the same day. I’m pretty sure I haven’t been that pumped up before or since. It truly did feel like we had reached a new, great day. And then, splat. It does occur to me that there were probably people who had that very same feeling when #Trump won last November. I can only hope their splat will eventually come. In the meantime, yes, I can related to your jaded and cynical feelings. To a great degree, I share them.
Fun fact: Microsoft purposefully left out Windows 10 from the Wi-Fi 6 gHZ party. As well as Wi-Fi 7. They could have updated the stack, but instead, quietly slipped that change into build 22000 at the time. Just so that if you're on Windows 10, you have another reason to upgrade. You'll never get any 6 gHZ network visibility or connecting on Win10, even if your Wi-fi card and drivers support it. The moment you in-place upgrade to Windows 11? Boom. all works.
The left wing will feed 100 people because there is 1 who might go hungry. The right wing will let 100 people starve because there might be 1 who doesn't need the food.
That tells you everything you need to know about the current state of politics.
Occasionally, a student asks me why being transgender is not considered a mental disorder. I can give you the scientific and diagnostic reasons why not. But I’ll usually answer the following way instead.
Because people who are transgender have shit figured out a hell of a lot better than most other people.
Think about that for a minute. Individuals who are transgender have gone through the long and painful process of self exploration to figure out why they don’t feel right. And after all of that, they came to the conclusion that their biological body is mismatched to who they really are.
Tell me anyone else that has gone through that much introspection that much study that much thought to figure out how they can live in a way that makes them happy. And they recognized that by making the choice that will make them feel happy, they’re gonna have to deal with social stigma, bigotry, and violence every single day.
Compare that to your garden variety bigot who gets angry when he sees a transgender individual, and who lets that person live in his head, ruining his mood and leading him to acts of verbal and possibly physical violence.
Now you tell me which one of those people has a mental disorder
Today we're releasing LibreOffice 25.2.7. This is the final update in the 25.2 branch – all users are then recommended to update to 25.8, the newest stable branch:: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Berlin, 30 October 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.7, the final maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. Users of LibreOffice 25.2.
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