I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.
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can someone tell me how to force remove addons that are incompatible for #NVDA, and using the store to remove them does not work? when we try to remove them, NVDA restarts and says there is an error removing two addons, so we can't seem to remove them. any help on this would be appreciated.
@NVAccess I really can't as I don't know what happened. I was working on someones computer, helping them get things set up. it is a new computer for them. she made a portable copy of her NVDA from her old laptop, and she went to install it onto the new laptop, and this arror was popping up. we had to go delete the folders for the addons in appdata\roaming\nvda\addons, and that fixed things when she restarted her NVDA.
@munchkinbear You found a solution, that's the main thing - any chance you remember which add-ons it was? Maybe we can rule in or out whether it's something with a specific add-on?
@NVAccess @munchkinbear it was goldwave and resourse monitor. I am probibly spelling it wrong, but I am sure you can figurte it out from what I wrote. it looks like they were out of date anyway, and needed newer versions, which we will tackle more tomorrow, as tonight I got a crash course on using the remote control thing in NVDA.
A little PSA: if your library of choice is facing funding cuts, don't hold off on using their services because you're worried it'll put pressure on their existing funds.
Take advantage of everything and help them get some lovely stats to help them demonstrate impact as they fight back! If it looks like they're not being useful to folks, they'll get cut!
autism is a spectrum because some autistic people know every single word of every song they like, and some autistic people have never heard the lyrics to any song ever
I have a 14 year old niece. She's incredibly smart and extremely motivated when it comes to engineering things.
I want to get her some electronics stuff, like an Arduino kit, but maybe something with wearables, etc. to make it more relevant to her than just a breadboard.
She'll also need some books on electronics, since she doesn't have the background in that.
Sadly, some limitations:
- I can't help her. Her mother won't let my wife or I talk to her. This gift itself will have to be given through a third party.
- She has a learning disability around reading- likely dyslexia, and so we need material that's easy to read
- Her English is not amazing, especially because of the learning disability.
So I'm looking for a kit with a ton of instructional material. Programming, electronics, breadboard, the whole kit and kaboodle.
Well, WhatsApp for Windows has finally been updated on my baby PC. And it's not as bad as you puddle glums have made it to be. It's fine. Turn off your virtual cursor, or turn on your focus mode and everything is just fine.
Douglas Murray on the Rise of Anti-Westernism and How to Defeat It youtube.com/watch?v=wgldY_2LK_… I liked the most this part about individualism and the King Lear scene. To be honest, I'm really scared looking at returning of those communist/collectivist trends giving me hideous flashbacks from the USSR era.
Douglas Murray speaks on gratitude, action, and the defense of Western civilization at the PragerU West Coast Gala. He warns of the growing rise of “anti-Wes...
Давно понял что в Европе я бы скорее всего не прижился, особенно в северных странах вроде Швеции. Вот уж где весь этот коллективизм отлажен. Почему какой-то хрен с горы должен решать сколько мне работать. И так во всём, ходи строем, не выёбывайся, плати налоги, высказывай мнение совпадающее с мнением партии, иначе ты не с нами. Да блин, достаточно представлять что происходит с правом людей на собственность и налогами, хоть где, остальное уже очевидно как тапок.
Французы вообще более свободные люди, насколько понял по рассказам одного знакомого переводчика. По крайней мере раньше были, он всё-таки давно работал с ними, правда в Африке. Ну а Германия - десятилетия промывки мозгов, вот и результат. Есть хорошая книга Себастьяна Хафнера "История одного немца". Найди, почитай. Хорошо описано как ломали людей между двумя мировыми войнами. Актуальности не теряет.
So, my workplace recently updated JAWS to the 2026 Pro version. I can use it both on my laptop (which I mostly use at home) and on my work PC. Interestingly, even though I’ve told them I mainly use NVDA, they’re fine with it as long as I use JAWS for certain tasks. And honestly, I do prefer JAWS for some things in MS Word, Outlook, and Google Docs. Sadly, this will have to continue until NVDA performs equally (or better) in those areas, and until NVAccess addresses that well-known super-verbosity issue on the web... Don’t even get me started on that - LOL! @NVAccess
I remember we talked about it, but was there an issue for the verbosity complaint? And I can't even give you an answer on "those areas" that we need to address without specifics....
Yet another point indicating NVAccess's unwillingness, or inability, to tackle this issue. On Github people keep opening issues for high verbosity on the web - like "out of list out of list out of list," and NVAccess staff or contributors keep closing them in favor of older, more general, and broader issues. This will get us nowhere, and as long as I see no mention of this in your roadmap, I'm not optimistic it will be tackled ssoon, or at all. As for MS Office, sure there are areas where JAWS does a better job in MS Word and Outlook, for instance. But I have to be honest and say that JFW vs NVDA comparisons in this regard and opening Github issues for them take a lot of time. It's more of an NVAccess research issue rather than a user-centric issue.
@NikJov @Stealthy Thanks for your support! I do try to be patient in answering Amirs concerns - and I appreciate there are things which frustrate users - about any software - and the problem is that different things frustrate one user but another user sees it as the perfect way something should be done. As with anything, if someone can give me an issue, or a specific description, I can look something up and prompt our devs or push for change.
I juggle (learned because SUN Servers came with three sand-balls and in the #SunOS manual, there was a chapter on how to juggle while you were waiting for the OS to install) and so Brah invited me to Tuesday Juggling at Capitola Beach!
I completely forgot I worked on those. Not Many of them mind you (expensive little buggers), bur occasionally in Engineering CAD/CAE/CAM I'd trip over them, and I knew xNIX so IRIX got shoveled in my direction. Good little machines tho.
Arby’s Steak Nuggets failed to disappoint. The sauce they bundled is a bit heavy for me but cut well with their more vinegary “Arby’s Sauce” and a dash or three of Cholula.
Their Deep Fried Turkey Club was not bad, but I would have rather had more of those steak nuggets.
I am happy to announce this book that i wrote a chapter in. My chapter looks at the ethics of #accessibility #sustainability and #OpenSource so touches on many threads. It is amazing to have contributed a small part of this first work of accessibility ethics. routledge.com/Digital-Accessib…
Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
This is pretty wild. Checkout.com got hacked by a group that claims to be Shiny Hunters again. Checkout said in blog post that it would not be extorted by criminals.
"We will not pay this ransom.
Instead, we are turning this attack into an investment in security for our entire industry. We will be donating the ransom amount to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford Cyber Security Center to support their research in the fight against cybercrime."
Far too many victim firms just pay up, to get back to business as usual asap. Imagine if a fraction of those victims instead paid into a fund for research that actively disrupts these groups.
Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
Mozilla is adding a new feature called the 'AI Window' to its Firefox browser, which will include an integrated AI assistant and chatbot. This new "AI Window" will provide users with a dedicated space to chat directly with the browser's AI assistant, offering real-time help and interaction while they browse. So yet another AI browser that will have full access to what you do on the internet 😏
🎙️ Joplin will be part of the Open Source Friday ! Laurent Cozic will join GitHub’s Open Source Friday podcast to present Joplin, give a demo, share our vision, and chat live with the community. 📅 14 Nov 2025, 18:00–19:00 UTC 🔗 Join live on Twitch: twitch.tv/GitHub
For people who just got dumped into Web WhatsApp, note that it too has keyboard shortcuts, and isn't entirely hopeless. You can arrow in the table of chats and within a chat while in focus mode, a la discord. You can press alt+r while focused on a message to reply to it I think. All the keyboard shortcuts are shown in settings → keyboard shortcuts. The main thing it lacks is really the convenience features of WhatsAppPlus, like moving to the first unread message and gestures to rapidly switch between list of chats, current chat, and the edit.
Let's for the moment say that generative AI is Absolute Evil. No wiggle room, it's just straight up bad for EVERY use case.
Can all you smart AI hating people out there come up with good tools to help fill the gap?
Like, if using AI to generate code is bad, can we make programming languages or paradigms that lower the bar to entry and make it possible for more people to be empowered to create their own programs?
I feel like there are smart people making some very good points all around, but I can't help but wonder if all this negative energy is being mis-directed.
I feel like more people USED to have that vision. Remember Hypercard? Or Visual BASIC?
Where have all the tools like this that enable and empower gone?
I admit I'm as prone to the negative energy as the next person. What about Python, though? Guido used to have "Computer Programming for Everybody" as an explicit goal of Python. That reminds me, I should check on the status of accessibility in Tk, since Tkinter is the official entry point for GUI programming in Python.
@Feoh What do you think more people creating their own programs would achieve, realistically?
I'm a programmer by training and by trade, and I didn't create the overwhelming majority of programs I use daily.
Let's take your premise around and reverse it: let's say that generative AIs are absolutely good. They don't draw from a corpus of stolen work nor draw hazardous amounts of electricity and water and produce correct programs. What good would it be for most people?
@Hypolite Petovan @Feoh The majority of the code I've written never sees the light of day because it was some niche utility I wrote for a weirdly specific task that nobody else is ever going to give a crap about (highly customised scripts and stuff that wouldn't even make sense outside of my own personal system).
Programming is a useful tool to have in your toolbox, but most people can (and do) also generally get along quite well without it.
@Jonathan Lamothe Indeed, hence my question to @Feoh, what's the big deal about random people programming that somehow generative AI could address? (It can't)
@hypolite @me So, I want to apologize for my extreme response.
I'll admit I'm a bit frustrated with:
My perception that people do not in fact respond to the questions I pose and instead just keep restating the same absolutist stances that my daily workflow seems to me to refute
My perception that many people seem very out of touch with what current models can and can't do.I don't ask anyone to favor AI, it may in fact be a net negative for humanity. I just perceive that people often seem to work from incomplete information.
Re-reading your post it seems I over-reacted and you weren't necessarily doing any of those things.
@Feoh @Jonathan Lamothe Thank you for this. I am frequently equally frustrated in conversations about AI, specifically generative AIs based on Large Language models because the people who make any sort of claims about what they can or could do also are people with the least understanding of how it works technically.
The truth is that this crop of AI is engineered to fool us humans, including about their capabilities. Because that's the target model trainers have set for them. And it turns out machine learning systems are uncannily good at reaching their set goals, regardless of any other consideration.
And so you have people who use AIs casually who are rightfully bewildered by their apparent capabilities, while experts in their respective fields who try to use AIs to enhance their workflow end up dropping them for a variety of reasons (inaccuracy, lack of underlying understanding of the subject matter, loss of ownership of output, etc...).
Does this mean a fooling machine can't produce an accurate answers? Absolutely not, but it will make figuring out the inevitable inaccurate answers harder because it's already been so good at fooling the people who trained the model.
Even without considering the ethics (or mostly the lack thereof) of this current crop of AI, it cannot answer any need that isn't about fooling people at scale.
@NVAccess Question: Is there, or could there be, a standardized system in NVDA for layered commands, potentially supporting their own rebinding? Or can it already be accomplished? Let's face it, a user with many add-ons is likely to run into sheer mazes of arcane keystrokes and conflicts galore trying to juggle all the commands they expose. Some kind of system that would allow add-ons to declare a layer gesture and scope their scripts to only fire into it, or especially useful, for the user to define such a mapping via input gestures, would help ease this a lot. Some add-ons do already have layering, NVDA extension global plug-in is one of the big ones. But I wonder if a standard mechanism or an officially published extra would drive more add-ons to adopt this?
And just last week I discovered the "Check Input Gesturs" add-on which I mentioned in In-Process which does report conflicts: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
But in terms of a standard layer system, I'm not sure if we have a request or anything for that currently?
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Please refer to NVDA Group topic, NVDA and NVDA Shortcut Key Collision Avoidance - Does this exist?, for more information and the comm...
SwiftOnSecurity
in reply to SwiftOnSecurity • • •My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have condescending mollycoddled shit.
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in reply to SwiftOnSecurity • • •Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.