A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies. Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears. Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!"
A small human (3?) is looking with avid fascination at a Fancy Bantam rooster. Fancy Bantam suddenly crows with epic aplomb. Small Human jumps. Small Human scowls. Small Human studies Fancy Bantom with suspicion. Are birds meant to do that? He's not sure, but he's keeping an eye on this one.
At a doggy parade three young humans are walking a loaf shaped bulldog down a red carpet. But wait! Dog Loaf isn't stopping! (oh no!) Dog Loaf is off the carpet and headed for the horizon. (Ahh) Places to go and things to see! Can they manage to turn him around?! (They can... Eventually.)
Two small humans (3 & 6?) are pleading with Dad to take them to the bouncy castle. Jumping up and down, circling him while skipping and roaring: "PUHLLLLLEAAAASE." Dad's mouth twitches before he says deadpan: "Yeah. I dunno. You look too bouncy to go on a bouncy castle." Outraged howls ensue!
A man (60s?) with a long grey beard, wearing a broad brimmed hat, is sitting at a spinning wheel. Foot rhythmically moving up and down on the pedal, expression totally chill. Controlled mayhem happening at the nearby doggy fashion show and the shearing competition but he's an oasis of peace.
@schmaker čo si pamätám jeden dokument o domoch na dedinách ktoré nikto nechce a predávajú sa za nízke sumy a nie jeden a ani nie vo "vylúčených" komunitách. Podľa mňa čím menej ľudí na dedine tým lepšie a na cestu do mesta nejaký off-road stačí.
S těma barákama jako je tady toto mapy.com/en/turisticka?source=… je jeden zásadní problém. Nedává smysl jej rekonstruovat. Ty si reálně kupuješ stavební parcelu + více náklad na demolici. @schmaker
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.
Another new Let's Encrypt-secured website, another case of getting 82 hacking attempts in the first 30 seconds after it came online for the first time ever.
Do. Not. Kid. Yourself. "Oh, I'll delete the config files once I get it working." "Eh, I'm just some nobody. Who's going to care?" Yeah, I'll tell you who: people who watch for new sites come online and then immediately slam them with hacking probes.
"I'll get to it soon" means you better do it within 3 seconds.
And finally, because this is very important to kno and should complete your educationw. Which animals can and can’t fart? | Popular Science: popsci.com/science/which-anima…
hopefully that is a dedicated profile for public interactions? if not, I recommend you to do separated profiles, one for family and friends and another that you advertise publicly in social media, sharing that link you basically open the door to anyone to spam you, just saying
The real-time public snow plowing & maintenance map for main bicycle paths in Oulu. Of course you shouldn't even need one, since you can always count on paths being maintained anyway, but it's still a nice little thing to have 👌 #Oulu #MeanwhileInOulu #Finland
Lea sucks at web accessibility? IMHO that depends. I get the point about alt text, tab focus order, adding accessible names (like, icon-only buttons), setting document language, checking color contrast guidelines, but when it comes to aria-* attributes, I suck. I try to avoid aria attributes whereever I can.
Using less ARIA and more native HTML is always a good thing. Especially beasts like aria-hidden should be used very carefully and can do real harm when used incorrectly, because it nukes that whole subtree of the element it is applied on. For app-like roles and attributes, always refer to the Authoring guidelines for widgets. Remember HTML is still a document notation language, and all app-like features require all manipulation by hand.
writing this with the duet Cadence keyboard! Working well for typing this way. To answer some questions people have asked on duet mode: - Graphics: NVDA will extend graphics onto the second display. So, if you press capslock+I at the start button, the icon will extend itself to the rightwward display. As you pan, it will correctly move the image across them. - For buttons, it appears that when you're in Duet mode, the buttons from the right display get mirrored by the left one. That is, the D-pad, rocker buttons on the front all get same treatment, as though you were pressing them on the left one. - no, you cannot pair a device to the right display, switch to Duet mode and expect it to work on both. - weight: The weight of two displays is about a little more than one classic 40-cell display like the BI 40X. That is, perhaps 1.3 pounds.
Hey do you think if you ask for two more you can send them to me? Ugh the NVDA addon makes it sound so worth it. I guess I'll have to save up for a birthday present.
@pixelate ahah I wish! My bank's fairly drained after these and I had to get one with credit! But so worth it for the future. The only downside is that split in the line, but since it's two physical units there's just no avoiding it. It's less annoying when reading line to line, more so when just trying to scan the text to understand it, then the split lines can really make things worse for out ofc ontext reading. Wish I had a monarch to compare it to, wonder if NVDA can draw graphics on it at all.
Nope, Monarch is just text only with screen readers right now. Even if you sideload an apk on it it's just text only. It has a really weak processor too.
@pixelate didn't update that thing finally to run under Android 13? At least they can say they're one Android above Braille Sense 6? LOL. That's a bit shocking though since you pay $18K, practically 3 Cadences but don't get graphics on desktop readers. DotPad advertises the fact that icons on your iOS screen will be graphical, so perhaps it might be a better deal than Monarch that way for less price. Still think competition really narrows down to them and Cadence at that pricepoint.
@pixelate oh thank goodness yeah. Wow wish my work had tech toys to play with :D the one thing I miss about when I worked for the WA comission for the blind. But also when it's work you're spending more time researching features and how things work for consumers rather than just playing for yourself, so it also wasn't quite the fun I thought it would be looking in from the outside. xD
As November 23 is the 62nd anniversary of Doctor Who, I am hosting this Zoom call to celebrate with both fans as well as those who are curious about the series. All things Who are open for discussion, including books and audio products, such as dramas, audio books and missing episodes. While all are welcome, I am offering a special invitation to those who are blind or visually impaired. Video will not be used during this Zoom call.
Sunday, November 23 Time: 8:30 PM Eastern Time (apologies for the late hour for those in the U.K. and other later time zones.) Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/83688473653?… #DoctorWho
A good distraction for now from all the nervousness and dismay: Making Suno do covers of tracks from Sims4 in Celtic form. Quite fun. Now I have over 30 tracks re-covered this way, spent a good chunk of the day just doing that and forgetting about not having the duet display. I will temporarily steal my partner's right one though to answer questions about duet mode people have asked. Just don't have answers without my own set, LOL. (They got right when they paid for theirs, I got left.)
I'm still a little taken aback by the fact that you're stuck with the orientation selected. I thought that with a five-thousand dollar device, some sort of mechanism would exist to switch orientation at will. Still a neat device though.
There's grey teal ducklings with parents on an emphemeral creek along Robinsons Road (the first time I've seen baby grey teal here in the 22 years I've been biking this road to work): inaturalist.nz/observations/32…
Ring-necked Pheasant from Selwyn, Canterbury, New Zealand on November 20, 2025 at 09:47 AM by Jon Sullivan. They followed their mother across the road.
New Zealand Scaup from Christchurch including Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand on November 21, 2025 at 06:36 PM by Jon Sullivan. Mother scaup with seven ducklings.
This irrational fear of socialism from some politicians in the US looks so bizarre from Canada, a country with universal healthcare and some kind of social net that is still sadly very much under the grasp of destructive capitalism.
Are those politicians terrified the people could be healthy, fed, safe, and happy? What exactly terrifies them here?
The iOS Weather app is not properly accessible, flicks with VoiceOver jump backward on the list of hours and temperatures, then jump forwards over the wind/atmospheric pressure etc.
I mean... I don't think I'm demanding a lot.
It's a built-in app, on an OS one single company controls, which presents a list. And the commands to navigate the list don't work.
Today @ConnyDuck finally overcame one of the major roadblocks for timeline rewrite: keeping position with "oldest first" reading order. There's still a lot of work to do but the new timeline is getting closer now 😊
My friend seems genuinely baffled that I am an AI researcher who refuses to use AI! Not only that, but I argue against it from theory, not experience. Why don't I just give it a try for a while, and see what it's really about before I judge it?
I guess I see where he's coming from. Part of the problem is the word "AI." LLMs are not my research focus, so it's less of a contradiction than it sounds. But I admit, being a non-user makes my arguments against LLMs less credible.
I just don't understand why I owe it to anybody to give AI a shot. I know how LLMs work in gory detail, and I don't trust them. I've seen the mediocre work they produce. I've read studies about the seductive illusion of competence and caring they create, and how people fall for that. I know it's all built on an incredibly exploitative business model.
I feel entirely justified in not giving them a chance. I guess I'm just as baffled by how badly he wants me to try it, and how sure he seems to be that it would change my mind.
It will only make him more annoyed if after you do (not saying you should) you are still not impressed.
I have tried it.
In good faith too. Let me see if I can make this work. Can it save me any time?
But the time savings are an illusion. I tried it for feedback on a poem and it was very flattering but then on reflection that felt hollow and I didn't want to trust the advice since... well I didn't write the poem for machine validation I write a poem to impress my friends.
@futurebird Indeed. I'm also confused that he feels it's been such an improvement in his life! In our exchange, he let an LLM edit one of his replies. Not only did I spot it immediately, but it was noticeably worse than the rest of our dialog. "Hollow" is a good word for it.
There's no convincing him. And I wasn't trying to convince him, which is the weirdest part. He just got defensive and started trying to convince me...
People are scared that people look down on them for leaning on this tech, he may have been using it much more in ways you don't know about.
I think that there is an impulse to hide the use kind of says everything. The shame isn't coming from other people, it's ones own self-respect saying that this is lazy, inconsiderate, hollow.
I know of some one who asks AI things like "my co-worker asked me to cover for them, how do I say no without making them mad?"
It might be OK advice, but by using it one is avoiding the friction and danger of human interactions.
I get it. Social interactions are terrifying. But, if I use a machine to help me never make a "mistake" will anyone even know who I am anymore? I am an annoying person. That would be lost.
I guess that's why doing that for an email to a boss seems less offensive than doing it for an email to a friend.
That said, I don't even really think the tech is very good at this type of thing. You will always need to proof-read and edit, and edit and edit.
By the time you are done it's the same process.
Unless you close your eyes and hit "send" and hope no one notices you sound like a creepy overly friendly creature from an advertisement. And some people are doing this.
@futurebird My wife is incredibly much more productive if she starts with something on the page and can edit it. Almost all her scientific papers started out with me writing some bullshit about the topic and her then writing an entire paper about how wrong I was 😅 anyway now she outsources that to AI! AI took my job! @ngaylinn
@dlakelan @futurebird You know, this is a great point though. I think LLMs can be useful for some tasks, one of them being just getting a kind of template to start from and do your own thing. I think some of the backlash against these models is absolutely justified, but we miss nuance here. There are many LLMs to pick from, and much of how they sound comes down to what training data they're based on. I've experimented with many of the models out there, and I think some of the most interesting things you can get are actually from local models that you train on your own. I see them as more of a fun toy than anything serious right now, and I don't think it's going to be the AI revolution many are hoping, but you never know. I wonder what's going to happen in the next 5 to 10 years.
After not using it for a couple of weeks, my steam deck wouldn't turn on. Not with a charger connected, not after leaving it to charge for 15 min. Not with the booting into bios combination, not with pressing the power button for 10+s.
reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comment… had the answer that helped, even 3 years later. Opening it up, disconnecting the battery, connecting a charger, and it boots as if nothing was ever wrong. Also after conncting the battery again and re-assembling it.
The National Federation of the Blind reached out to Facebook the moment members became aware of a serious regression involving the truncation of Facebook posts in the iOS app. It is good to see that Meta has responded, and fixed this bug in the latest release. If you don’t have it yet, you can visit the App Store, choose the My Account button, swipe down with three fingers to refresh the list of updates, and update the Facebook app manually.
When will the #NFB remember not all #Blind people use #Apple products, the #Android users have been complaining about many of the same issues for months, or years without any response when brought to the NFB but as soon as impacts one person on iPhone it's an immediate priority. @mastoblind
I'm moving a few domains away from Namescheap. Is Porkbun good? Or maybe a different registrar? Looks like Porkbun is about $15 cheaper per domain than Namescheap.
It depends on the tld. Mostly porkbun is really good and cheap, but I could get a .me domain for 7 dollars less at cloudflare. Porkbun is my favorite though.
@Jonathan These domains that I am thinking about moving tld is .life
$45 at Namescheap. $29 at Porkbun. Not a big deal for 1 or 2 domains, but I have 4 that expire soon. And some others that will expire in the next 3 months
Well yeah, then go for it I guess? Always check with the renewal price, porkbun often has like 1st year deals, but even afterward they're pretty price worth. I had a bunch of domains there over the last 2 years and never faced any issues. Transferring the mentioned .me domain away worked fine as well. Just give it a try.
No, Google wants you to write and maintain the code, and then, in their infinite kindness, they will accept to include JPEG XL support. Totally what you expect from a scrappy team in a tiny company.
I am so done masking. I am who I am. People can take me or leave me. Clearly, they always have, so the difference will be that I'm not changing for anyone anymore.
I read these #AIGeneratedStories and they always leave me with questions. There's always some element that's left out or changed mid-story. By the end rather than smiling I just feel old and cynical and am amazed how they spread with such ease like wild fire. What a strange world.
In the early days of the COVID pandemic, there was a brief but widespread outburst of solidarity; of people protecting each other, supporting each other through difficult times. In many cases across demographic boundaries. For a brief time, people could experience what widespread solidarity might look like, what it might be able to achieve.
And then suddenly, as if by magic, a disinformation campaign spawned - about masks, vaccines, the severity of the disease, and so on. A disinformation campaign that many (capitalist) governments gleefully participated in, all in name of 'the economy'. A campaign that quickly became explosive and drew lines in the sand, often with violent consequences.
And it seems like by now, almost everyone - including most leftists! - have completely forgotten that this period of solidarity ever existed. It doesn't show up in retrospectives, it doesn't show up in discourse. And everyone now talks about COVID purely in terms of "us versus them". As if there have always been 'teams', always been 'sides'.
France's cybersecurity agency was previously actively using GrapheneOS. They helped us by auditing our code and submitting bug reports such as this one:
They also made suggestions for security improvements to improve protection against exploits.
France was actively using GrapheneOS on a national level via ANSSI. They benefited from our open source code available to them for free as it is to everyone else in the world. This makes it all the more ridiculous that French state agencies are now heavily attacking GrapheneOS.
We're being contacted by a bunch of journalists about French law enforcement agencies sending out warnings about GrapheneOS and contacting the media to fearmonger with false and unsubstantiated claims. Meanwhile, ANSSI actively sought out our code to defend their infrastructure.
Every user of Android and other Linux distributions, macOS and iOS in France has benefited from GrapheneOS contributing to open source projects used in these systems. Ideas we came up with for defenses were also deployed in these. French law enforcement literally uses our code.
Based on our update server download statistics, GrapheneOS is approaching 400k users around the world. A majority of those users are in Europe with a large number in France. Only a small handful of people being arrested who use it is in fact strong evidence against their claims.
Meanwhile, the FBI and European law enforcement facilitated years of organized crime in Europe via Operation Trojan Shield while infringing on our copyright and trademarks. How about they start by arresting themselves? See our other thread about this:
I dearly wish Apple would condense some of the voiceover feedback into fewer words. "stopping Braille Screen Input" takes 6 syllables when "Braille Screen Input off" although only marginally gker to say is better. Syllables cost time. That being said I'm going to see if I can find the setting to just have it play the noise and not speak going in or out of BSI. And I really wish iPhone wouldn't confuse my rotor gesture as starting up help! #iPhone #VoiceOver #Accessibility
The XMPP Community is very excited to announce its presence at the coming FOSDEM 2026!
Once again, many members of the XMPP community will be attending, and will happily welcome you!
Realtime Lounge The XMPP community invites you to the Realtime …
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck • • •Nemovitost by teď v ČR kupoval jen šílenej masochista, ty ceny jsou hrozně přepálený.
Dneska už bych nejspíš nakupoval v zahraničí (když jsem se naposled díval, bylo za dobře Španělsko, Itálie, Bulharsko a tak...)
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck • • •On je průser, že to stojí nesmysl i v těch prdelákovech.
Rozhodnutí koupit před jedenácti lety byl jeden z mých nejlepších životních manévrů, protože dneska bych si neškrtnul...
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in reply to Schmaker • • •FoxVK
in reply to SuspiciousDuck • • •Heh zkus karvinou 😄
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in reply to FoxVK • • •FoxVK
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