NVDA bug in later releases of Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2: When focus is on the Desktop, NVDA reports the window as "Program Manager." JAWS 2026, however, correctly identifies it as "Desktop" and even specifies which one, such as "Desktop 1." Windows 11 supports multiple Desktops, so NVDA should really reflect that. Even Narrator correctly reports the Desktop title, though it doesn’t specify the Desktop number. @NVAccess
When I move between desktops, NVDA correctly reports the name of the desktop.
If I press NVDA+t to read the title, it does read "Program manager", although Narrator only reads "Desktop list" which is only slightly more accurate but not really more informative - it doesn't read the desktop name except when you move between desktops. Is that what you are finding?
Ideally yes. I'm not sure if that is actually exposed at that point - Narrator does not report that either (It does report desktop rather than program manager, but not the name of that desktop). It would be worth an issue though as it may simply be something we're not picking up that we can pass on. Or maybe Microsoft have changed something.
Thanks! Re picking up the desktop name, it may well be exposed somewhere, perhaps they have changed something and we are looking in an old place for the info. Perhaps the function to get the window title might not have been updated etc. Definitely something which looking into an issue would uncover :)
Brief summary NVDA, 64-Bit alpha or official 2025.3.1, portable and installed, fails to properly report the title of the Desktop window and its count, like "Desktop 2," when the focus is on the Des...
That’s exactly what I was doing over the weekend — creating a module for traffic news in DHT. By the way, that’s when I found out that, for example, our polish Regional Warning System doesn’t have any API you can hook into.
Sometimes an alternative can be obtaining access to the API after signing agreements and filling out a shitload of attachments where you have to confess why you need it, for what purpose, whether you intend to profit from it, blah blah blah. Seriously, it’s just easier to scrape whatever you need.
@midzi They might not even have an API, not even internally. From what I'm seeing, they're likely sending all their alerts through a web GUI of some external provider. See gov.pl/attachment/0e71d692-363…
It’s just that sending SMS messages isn’t everything. There’s also a mobile app where, for example, you can set alerts for an entire region. The publisher is the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. I suspect that internally these systems communicate with each other through some kind of API — unless, of course, someone is manually copying messages from one window to another, which honestly wouldn’t surprise me either. :)
@midzi Is the mobile app accessible to the public? If so, there's definitely some kind of API behind it, and it's probably not hard to reverse-engineer. Mitmproxy should do the job.
Yes — the app is called Regionalny System Ostrzegania. The proxy option does sound promising. Are there any iOS apps that can capture that traffic, or will I have to set something up on the local network?
@midzi iOS apps won't have enough permissions to do this. You have to set up mitmproxy on your computer, you'll also need to install its TLS certificate (as a provisioning profile on the iPhone) so that it can intercept encrypted https traffic.
This assumes the app doesn't have certificate pinning. If it does, that's a lot more reverse engineering, an Android device would come in handy here.
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"She left civilization to live in the forest with a lynx, a wild boar, and a thieving crow. Scientists called her crazy. She proved them wrong.
In 1975, a young Polish scientist named #SimonaKossak made a decision that baffled everyone who knew her.
She had a doctorate. She had credentials. She came from one of Poland's most prestigious artistic families—her grandfather was Wojciech Kossak, the legendary painter whose work hung in museums.
She could have had a comfortable university position. A modern apartment in Warsaw. A conventional career studying nature from a safe distance. Instead, Simona packed a single bag and walked into the #bialowiezaforest And she stayed there for thirty years.
Białowieża is no ordinary forest. It's the last remaining fragment of the primeval wilderness that once covered all of Europe—ancient, untouched, older than recorded history. Trees there grow so tall they seem to hold up the sky. Wolves still howl at night. European bison, extinct almost everywhere else, roam freely. It's the kind of place where you can still hear what the world sounded like before humans started building cities.
Simona found a small wooden cabin deep in the forest's heart. No electricity. No running water. No neighbors for miles. Just trees. Silence. And the wild things. Most people would have lasted a week.
Simona lasted decades.
But she wasn't alone.
She shared her bed with a lynx named Żabka. Not a pet—lynxes can't be pets. But Żabka had been orphaned as a cub, and Simona raised her. The massive cat would curl up beside her at night, purring like distant thunder.
She rescued a wild boar named Żabka who followed her through the forest like a devoted dog, grunting softly when she spoke.
And then there was Korasek. Korasek was a crow—but not just any crow. He was brilliant, mischievous, and absolutely devoted to chaos. He'd dive-bomb cyclists riding through the forest, steal shiny objects from tourists' pockets, and bring Simona "gifts": coins, buttons, pieces of foil.
He'd sit on her shoulder while she worked, cawing commentary on everything she did.
The locals whispered that Simona was a witch. How else could you explain it? Animals followed her. Birds landed on her outstretched hand. Deer approached without fear.
She spoke to them, and somehow, impossibly, they seemed to understand. But Simona wasn't casting spells. She was listening.
Most people walk through nature talking, making noise, asserting their presence. Simona did the opposite. She learned to move quietly, to observe patiently, to let the forest teach her its rhythms.
She studied animal behavior not from textbooks, but by living among them. She documented species that had never been properly observed. She proved that wild animals weren't just instinct-driven automatons—they had personalities, emotions, complex social structures. Her research changed how scientists understood wildlife.
But her most important work wasn't in journals.
It was in the forest itself.
Because while Simona was studying nature, others were trying to destroy it. #LoggingCompanies wanted to cut down the #AncientTrees. Developers wanted to build roads through the #wilderness.
Bureaucrats argued that the forest was "too wild," that it needed to be "managed," controlled, made productive.
Simona fought them all.
She wrote letters. She filed lawsuits. She gave interviews where she spoke bluntly about what would be lost if the forest fell.
She stood in front of bulldozers. She made powerful enemies. She didn't care.
"This forest has survived for ten thousand years," she'd say. "Who are we to decide it should end on our watch?"
Her cabin became a symbol. Journalists came from across Europe to photograph the woman who lived with wild animals. Documentaries were made. Her story spread.
And slowly, the tide began to turn. Public opinion shifted. International pressure mounted. UNESCO got involved. The ancient forest, in large part because of Simona's tireless advocacy, gained greater protections.
The trees she loved were saved. Simona Kossak lived in that cabin until 2007, when illness finally forced her back to the city. She died in 2007, at the age of 71.
But her legacy didn't die with her. Today, Białowieża Forest stands as one of Europe's last true wildernesses—a living monument to what the continent once was. Tourists walk trails where Simona once walked with Żabka the lynx. Bison graze in meadows she fought to protect.
Scientists still study the forest using methods she pioneered.
And somewhere in those ancient trees, maybe, a descendant of Korasek steals something shiny from an unsuspecting hiker.
Simona Kossak proved something the modern world desperately needs to remember:
That you don't have to choose between science and intuition. Between civilization and wilderness. Between being human and being part of nature.
She proved that sometimes the most rigorous science comes from simply paying attention. That the deepest understanding comes from respect, not dominance.
She proved that one person, living authentically and fighting fiercely for what they love, can change the fate of an entire ecosystem.
They called her a witch because she spoke to animals.
She called herself a scientist because she listened.
And she spent thirty years in a cabin without electricity, surrounded by wild things, protecting an ancient forest from a modern world that had forgotten how to be still.
Simona Kossak wasn't running away from civilization.
She was protecting something far more valuable than anything civilization could offer.
She left civilization to live in the forest with a lynx, a wild boar, and a thieving crow. Scientists called her crazy. She proved them wrong.
In 1975, a young Polish scientist named Simona Kossak...
🎉 Apple Podcasts now supports chapters—including the Podcasting 2.0 <podcast:chapters> tag!
This is the second time Apple has embraced a community-driven standard (after transcripts in March 2024), proving that the "not-invented-here" syndrome is NOT a fatality.
Chapters + transcripts = better discoverability, accessibility, and search for the entire podcast ecosystem.
Apple Podcasts' adoption of the Podcasting 2.0 chapters standard proves that community-driven, open specifications can triumph over proprietary solutions—and marks another milestone in making podcasts more discoverable and accessible for everyon…
🙏 Thank you to the entire Podcasting 2.0 community for contributing over the past five years, and for continuing every day to keep this ecosystem vibrant — and above all, to improve it with new features we’ve been asking for for 20 years. 🤩 My eternal gratitude to all of you, with a special thought for @adam, @dave, @james and @samsethi.
Uh, that's why! I recently tried out the native Podcasts-App on my iPhone and i was missing exactly this feature! My favourite podcast extensively uses chapters (maybe 10 per hour, sometimes more!) to show images that match current descriptions. Overcast works perfectly, and i didnt realize why there was only ONE cover image for the whole episode.
The little men in your computer do this every time you open google.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw I found this video so hilarious and awesome that I simply had to also mention it here.
This release brings read markers in group chats 👀 , improved file transfers 📂, more details for your account 🥸, and many smaller changes and bug fixes.
Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!
Dear #Prague (#digital) #privacy community. I am thinking about organizing a meeting once in a while in a cafe, so we can talk about common topics. WDYT? Do you know anyone who will be interested in joining?
A meeting for (digital) privacy aware people who would love to discover some common topics, exchange ideas and approaches and maybe have some drinks together.
RSVP no later than Nov-24, so we can book a table or two in a pub.
There is no agenda.
In this issue: XSF Open Letter, Interoperable Healthcare Chat and the Dutch NTA 7532, XMPP - an IETF standard protocol for chat with interoperability by design. XSF Membership Q4. XMPP at Hack or Di(y|e) 2025 in Italy.
I see a lot of downloads from my nextcloud and want to thanks all the community for its support and the development of all these solutions that give us the possibility of alternatives.
I would love to see more of these events, as I see then as a real opportunity of communication and development.
I am thinking - despite my lack of time - to create an xmpp group for Turin area and piedmont, based on cultural activities, food and free software, to continue the adventure.
Please give me your ideas or comments regarding that!
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🇩🇪⚠️ Perfides Täuschungsmanöver? EU-Rat droht durch die Hintertür 🚪 doch eine Pflicht zur #Chatkontrolle einzuführen: Artikel 4-Erweiterung soll „alle angemessenen Risikominderungsmaßnahmen“ inkl. Chatkontrolle VORSCHREIBEN, sanktionsbewehrt! 😡 cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/…
🇪🇺⚠️ A perfidious trick? The EU Council Presidency wants to introduce mandatory #ChatControl through the backdoor 🚪: An Art. 4 amendment would MANDATE "all reasonable mitigation measures," including scanning, enforced with sanctions! 😡 cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/…
@schmaker 😄 It depends where you look. There are very villigey parts of the city. This is one is called Slatiny and you can know them from the movie Obecná škola as Svěrák used to live here and it was also shoot here. mapy.com/cs/letecka?source=coo…
Popular map portal covering whole world by wide range of maps - basic, outdoor (hiking/cycling), traffic, winter. It offers possibility of aerial and 3D view. Extensive amount of travel points of interest.
@schmaker my favorite was always going to visit friend in cakovice where you see Praha sign in the middle of the fields and then suddenly you arrive at small block of flats and tou are there … in biggest city of the republic 😆
@Friendica Support - Has anyone worked on an alternative frontend for Friendica? I just realized that #phanpy, for example, seems to work quite well, and so does @Mona app
@Daniel de Kay @Mona app Friendica is compatible with the Mastodon API. This means you should be able to use almost all applications created for Mastodon.
@Matthias @Mona app Thank you for that piece of information. Unfortunately not every iOS app for mastodon seems to support that.
Yet the mastodon feature set is less than friendica’s - for example events and the calendar.
I was thinking that maybe someone has made, e.g. a fork of a mastodon frontend and added the missing features the friendica api offers. Is there a friendica api for all features, or is that hard coded in the theme code?
@Daniel de Kay @Friendica Support @Mona app if you are looking for an alternative web front end you can use pl.mkljczk.pl It doesn't have as many features as freindica, but it is faster so I use it anytime my instance is getting slow and the admin hasn't hit the reset button in a while. (or at work now that IT has decided to block libranet.de, yet facebook.com is still fine)
Download curl from curl.se. Release presentation As per tradition, there will be a live-streamed release presentation on twitch at 09:00 UTC (10:00 CET) on the release day. Available on YouTube after the fact.
The #curl release on GitHub is now marked as "immutable" and there's even something they call "release attestation" there now.
Just remember that the curl canonical releases are the signed tarballs uploaded by me. Reproducible, so you can verify them at will to not contain bad things. Signed to prove I did them.
@vbernat I work next to the team at GitHub that implemented immutable releases. It's off by default, but if someone else turned it on and you don't want it, you can disable it in your repository settings under General > Releases.
In an ideal world, security capabilities on GitHub would work equally well for enterprise users and open source maintainers. Immutable releases does skew more towards enterprise, but I'm open to feedback on how to make it better for open source as well.
@steiza @vbernat the immutable thing doesn't mean much to us but yes we have opt-in to use them. Our canonical releases are the tarballs we make and upload and the ones GitHub generates (and that can't be opted out from) are more of a disturbance/annoyance that trick users to download the wrong files.
> Our canonical releases are the tarballs we make and upload and the ones GitHub generates (and that can't be opted out from) are more of a disturbance/annoyance that trick users to download the wrong files.
100% agree there. The automatic source archive is a legacy feature of releases that the current team inherited. It is on the list of things to clean up, although of course there are other users who rely on that feature as well.
Ajustando mi actuación a los principios de lealtad y buena fe con la Administración en la que presto mis servicios, y con mis superiores, compañeros, subordinados y con los ciudadanos.
Victor Conte, bassist from Fresno (second from the left in photo), member of PFDA (with me), Tower of Power and Herbie Hancock's Monster Band has passed away. I knew he was very ill, but he never admitted being close to death when we texted, just days ago. Victor plays on a number of my recordings. I miss him already. In the PFDA days, he was the most spiritual and honest cat in the group. The press has widely covered his death, referring to the steroid scandal.
Mikie Sherrill, born in Virginia, is elected governor of New Jersey. Abigail Spanberger, born in New Jersey, is elected governor of Virginia. #Election2025
The whole Taco Bell situation in demolition man is a sideshow.
Consider this, the cryoprison is actually the essence of i know kung fu.
If they wanted a truly perfect society children could be frozen (negating abusive implications) or be frozen at 18 instead of going to college. Then be implanted with the information needed to be productive member of society.
They wasted the best technology to handle prisoners instead of making life better and banned sex and cigarettes. Fuck that I’m raiding the fridge.
For real. Republicans are fantastic at saying they're going to do a bunch of bad shit, and then doing a bunch of bad shit. Dems could learn from that. But, ya know, hopefully without the bad shit.
I was seven years old when New York's newly elected mayor was born. All the politicians are supposed to be older than me. Where did it all go wrong? LOL!
I’m trying to figure out if I should temper my excitement tonight but I feel like…this has been the most crushing, exhausting year. I’m just gonna be happy. This rocks.
My thoughts after using GNOME since September 10th:
I feel like GNOME does minimalism & modern design way better than Windows 11 tbh. The Adwaita design is pleasing for my eyes and the colours all look comfortable to look at especially in dark mode. The overview thing was a bit to get used to but now I feel it's very powerful and useful. The search bar works really really well even letting me convert units and do math. The touch-screen like design grew on me even though my initial criticisms of it circled around that. One thing I found hard to get used to was the lack of minimize and maximise so I just turned them back on. Getting KDE apps to use an Adwaita Qt theme was a bit fiddly but I got it eventually. I also love the GNOME Circle as it is full of powerful & useful software.
Obviously this is in no way a "GNOME superior, all other desktops suck" cause it's all personal preference in the end and all DEs serve their purpose to someone . There are some shortcomings especially with multi-monitor stuff but the community made extensions help fill some of the gaps.
Overall just really pretty and feels comfortable to use once you get used to it .
were on the UPS jet #UPS2976
. There are some shortcomings especially with multi-monitor stuff but the community made extensions help fill some of the gaps.
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in reply to Amir • • •When I move between desktops, NVDA correctly reports the name of the desktop.
If I press NVDA+t to read the title, it does read "Program manager", although Narrator only reads "Desktop list" which is only slightly more accurate but not really more informative - it doesn't read the desktop name except when you move between desktops. Is that what you are finding?
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in reply to NV Access • • •Windows 11 25H2 and newer 24H2 builds: NVDA fails to detect the Desktop window and count via Insert+T and calls it Program Manager
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