Well, now I've bit the bullet and used Substack's editor for something, and it wasn't really as bad of an experience as I was making it out to be. I'll still write my initial draft outside of the editor, but I can paste it in to their control, and, where I need to make a link, I can select the relevant text, press ctrl-k, type in the URL, and I'm done. I'd still prefer to be able to write everything in markdown and directly import it somehow, but this will do I think.
Your irregularly scheduled reminder that Signal Messenger is encrypted by default and has way better screen reader accessibility than telegram ever did
Aujourd'hui on a vu le nouveau livre de Maxime #Chattam en papier. Je regrette ne pas pouvoir lire les livres en papier en ces moments. Par contre, le fait que le prix du livre papier et celui du livre audio chez Audible est le même ou presque, est bien rassurant. #Livres
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what is a better funding model for Mozilla than ads, search engine deals (now going away), or getting ahead of the AI business and building something like this?
Where are all the passionate Mozilla fans/users who want to shape its future and knows exactly how to generate enough revenue to support the project? They never seem to materialize
Thanks for this. Louder than an Orbit makes it a deal-breaker for me, since I use braille and speech simultaneously much of the time during work. I like the fast refresh. I like everything about it, actually, at least from what I've read and what you said, but that loud refresh noise is a problem. Not that I can afford one either way.
Can you use TW Recorder, turn off iOS Processing, put the mic at ear-level, and record the refreshing again? Because that was super loud, but I imagine the mic was a couple inches away from the display.
Um, that's...the pins? Holy crap, this makes the orbit reader seem like a perfect display for silent reading time in a classroom. I imagine the mic on the braille sense didn't do it any justice, especially towards the beginning the refreshing created clipping artifacts like sharp sounds used to do on iPhone microphones, but it got the idea across, and sheesh.
@TheQuinbox ahaaha. I might do a short one with my iPhone's. and at a distance. I found out this thing uses magnets. So it's kind of like a VersaSlate stylus in that way, makes sense the refresh noise too. Now I know where it sounded familiar, of course. It's like an electronic VersaSlate
@johann same price as dotPadX, around 5400. Although on DotPad you get a 20-cell display along with an area that shows graphics separately. On this one it's combined but: Unlike Monarch, there's no gap from one line to the next, so if dots 7 and 8 (like underlining) is used, the lines will squish into each other. Monarch keeps line spacing the same as well as cell spacing like regular Braille.
for some reason when I hear that sound of the braille refreshing, I'm thinking if you were at a press conference, that sound would blend in with other sounds like cameras and such. lol
this sounds fascinating, I’ve been slightly intrigued by multi line graphical brow displays but didn’t want to pay out like the Bajillion dollar price tag on the other ones. How much was this?
Also, I’m curious how this might produce a visual PDF for example. Like in my case, a LEGO friend booklet visual PDF
Over the next couple of days, this Braille display will move into my home. For almost thirty years, I've come back to Help Tech displays time and again, despite trying out other display vendors' products in the interim as well. But because of their quality and endurance, I keep returning to these displays, and am proud to add the Activator to the list of Braille displays I own, or owned.helptech.eu/braille-displays-a…
Activator Braille display with a laptop-sized QWERTY keyboard, SmartDock and iOS app. It's time for a Braille display that offers you completely new possibilities.
@JonathanMosen It definitely is. I was privileged to lay my hands on a proto type when it was still in development. I'm a friend of the Help Tech company, and supported them during the 2022 SightCity virtual conference. And I saw it at an exhibition or two recently, and now have my own Activator here. It must be the most beautiful display they've built so far. Although I was a huge fan of the BookWorm back in the late 90s, too. I know that 8 Braille cells are too few for many, but this little Braille reading device saved me and my sanity on hundreds of commutes to my computer science school back in the day. Remember, this was before even the Nokia smartphone era.
Ever wonder why the "vi" editor uses H, J, K, and L keys for cursor navigation, and why Unix shells traditionally use "~" as an alias for the home directory?
The ADM-3A terminal was a very popular and inexpensive Unix terminal in the 1970s. Notice where the arrow keys are, and where the "~" key is? It influenced a lot!
In den nächsten Tagen wird bei mir diese Braillezeile einziehen. Heute habe ich beim Tag der Offenen Tür von Helptech Hamburg ausführlich damit gespielt, sozusagen als Appetitanreger. Ich freue mich, auch von der neuesten Generation der Zeilen von Help Tech eine zu besitzen. Bin seit fast 30 Jahren zufriedener Kunde und kehre, trotz gelegentlicher Ausflüge zu anderen Herstellern, immer wieder zu Help Tech zurück. helptech.de/braillezeilen/acti…
When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!
Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…
I thought they were two separate means to similar ends. Can't see how to get from mapcomplete to the 'Bench' quest that has screenshots of Maproulette's web application. Would love to link some of the nearby benches, but can't quite work out how to get it.
They arrived. the new multiline displays. Cadence tablets. Really interesting, and I love the cells are made of metal. Refresh is somewhat loud. Only 4 keys on top surface of device. I think they could use the outer thumb keys as dots 3 and6 though, if they really wanted to. As long as it is pressed together with another key, then quick double-press to enter just dot3 or dot6 alone. Trust me it is a viable way to type on one single unit. But the units are meant to fit together. Each has an opposing ril, that docks in. There are rails on the top and side of the device, so they fit together and slide-click into place. Fascinating. Thus, each display is mirror-flipped from the other, but you have flexibility in how to orient it: Side-by-side (as one long 24-cell-by-4 line) or up-down (as an 8-line by 12-cell display.) Either way you do it, it's going to have a seam and small gap where the two come together. Some might find this a bit annoying when reading content as it won't perfectly flow together, the middle of the line will always have a noticeable gap as words get placed on the next display, or a larger gap between two lines if you choose the top-orientation for docking them. Interesting indeed.
I'm curious ...these report as a braille display to screen readers, but how would you place (moving) images onto them in that case? Is that only something the internal software allows for or can I tell , say, Windows, to see it as a screen and just show a grahpical representation that way?
@twynn @zersiax The lines themselves don't have a break in it, like a gap that is with the cells, and they show random graphics when you wait after the pairing screen and nothing pairs. very interesting and odd. But iOS itself, no Graphics with VoiceOver. I wonder if it normally does.
@twynn @zersiax hmm, can we find the manual? It really threw me off when it displayed these random symbols that were not Braille but felt like Braille just longer LOL. Then I realized I waited too long at pairing screen and it does that weird thing. I've heard of Monarch users feeling the icons on their iPhone screen though and I'm not sure if that was VoiceOver printing the icons or through another method of connecting it to the iPhone screen itself. Hmm.
@twynn the website talks a lot about being able to see graphics and even animated graphics, being able to play videogames for example, but I feel those might be capabilities that might one day exist, not so much something that is possible now. Unless there's some kind of internal thing that does that ... maybe there's like a braille Snake or something
Cool! The braille community finally has our own version of the crease in a folding phone. Some won't notice, some will notice but consider the annoyance worth it, and some will hate it. Does slotting them together automatically tell the screen reader how many lines and cells there are, or do you have to configure that somehow?
@SuspiciousDuck Aha, to mně nenapadlo. Ten problém je i na polském trhu. Celkem by to bylo nemilé, protože kdybych potřeboval nový mobil pro matku, tak bude problém.
Apparently an American using metric in his video when making things is "dumbing it down for people who can't deal with conversions".
Dumbing it down is what we do in Canada where the official units are SI (metric) but we have so much courage that we import everything from the US without forcing them to use metric (look at the building / hardware stores).
And as a European I had to learn these non metric units. At least for length. I still ignore ounces.
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Hi, can you help: It seems that #deltachat notification system goes to "sleep" from time to time in android (Google Pixel 6a) so that I don't receive push notifications until I open the app. I haven't yet figured out the mechanism in this problem. I have set notification priority to max. It seems that I need to activate Background Connection from notification settings for things to work. But it shouldn't be necessary nowadays since Google push notifications should do the trick..?
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic tomshardware.com/networking/yo… The owner was puzzled why a clothes washer would need so much data.
Wenn das Schulsystem nichts mehr taugt, liegt das übrigens nicht am Lockdown in der Pandemie. Können wir bitte mal mit diesem QuatschNarrativ aufhören, dass seinerzeit der Ausfall von Präsenzunterricht ganze Jahrgänge ins Höhlenzeitalter zurückgeworfen hat?
True story: I once spent an afternoon scrolling through someone's Facebook account to find out when he had acquired each of his cats because he had named successive releases of a software package he maintained after the damn things in the order in which they joined his family and I needed to know whether Pickles came before Chocolate or vice versa.
The only correct versioning scheme is year.month.day (perhaps prefixed by a "generation id" if it's a library and you really, truly need that semantic versioning).
gave Navidrome a fair shot, but it seems to make zero effort on metadata for your media library unless it's baked into the tags so it doesn't fetch album art, artist into, etc. Kinda lame really.
seems buggy as hell too, wtf? No albums or songs but if you click on the artist there it shows albums...
also these aren't even all the albums so it's drunk as hell and I KNOW my music is tagged properly as I use Beets for that. Doesn't matter how many times I tell it to re-scan, it pretends the albums don't exist.
LMS seems to have the best potential as a SubSonic-compatible server. Simple, fast, seems to work. The web player is missing gapless playback and the replaygain support it has doesn't do EBU R128, but this could potentially be done in a SubSonic compatible client.
However, my first attempt at logging in with my first test app, SubStreamer on iOS, indicates its API isn't fully compatible and it errors...
edit: it's also not filling in album/artist artwork... grrrr
@rude I don't see an option for this, only whether or not Musicbrainz and/or AudioDB are enabled. Nothing seems to indicate there's an option to exclusively use local metadata; it just seems to ignore some of the local metadata completely for some reason.
I twiddled some more settings, try to force refresh on some albums/artists, nothing happens.
I'm aware that Musicbrainz has been suffering under heavy load lately and API calls time out so I'll be patient but this is just not looking very good 🫠
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