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Question about accessible remote tech support across platforms:

I was using RIM to help troubleshoot a Mac issue, me on Windows, target machine is Mac OS. One side of the internet connection was kinda patchy and latency of the speech feedback felt like 3 years per keypress.
We made a change that accidentally caused the target machine to lose all audio output. I killed VO, started remote access from the RIM menu, got prompted to get the accompanying NVDA add-on, and within a handful of seconds I had text from their Mac coming straight to my NVDA. Man, what a difference! It's honestly the first time I've done Windows to Mac remote support and felt like I could be productive here.

My questions are these:
1. How do I enable that setup without killing VoiceOver on the target? There are many scenarios where the target hearing what I'm doing is important, but I want to work without feeling like I'm swimming through a swamp. At the moment it seems like the remote access option disappears from my RIM menu when VO is running on the target.
2. Does anyone know of any efforts to get this sort of transmission from VO to NVDA happening as an add-on? Failing that, do I know any intrepid hackers who'd be interested in a session to sniff at traffic if I provide lab rats and potentially some sponsorship? It wouldn't need to have all the nice onboarding that RIM has or send audio (I'm aware that's difficult to do well from prior conversations).

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Discovered I have a dying SSD tonight, but that's nbd

Opnsense upgrade went sideways probably because I was messing with a custom kernel on there a long time ago and forgot, but the recovery from a USB stick was super easy -- it auto imported the config, cloned everything over including all the packages that were installed, and was running "from a live environment" while that was happening which was neat. and then when it was done it was just a simple reboot to boot off normal storage again

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Today is the LAST DAY of my Black Friday sale! ⌛️

If you've been thinking about grabbing access to the Practical Accessibility course, now's the time to do it 👇🏻

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A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
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"QMux version 1 provides, over bi-directional streams such as TLS, the same set of stream and datagram operations that applications rely upon in QUIC version 1"

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QMux

This document specifies QMux version 1. QMux version 1 provides, over bi-directional streams such as TLS, the same set of stream and datagram operations that applications rely upon in QUIC version 1.
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Thank you for writing this @aardrian 🫶🏻

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There's a short story of frustration and comfort behind this post. A friendly discussion led to a writeup by Adrian, and I will follow up later with a little more about the backstory as I know it can bring some much-needed comfort to many people getting into or already working in #a11y


You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone

This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y @Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Heute, am dritten Dezember, ist der internationale Tag der Menschen mit Behinderung. Zur Feier des Tages werde ich heute richtig doll nervig rumbehindern.

Eigentlich wollte ich heute das Tool zum Barrieren melden in einer Testphase veröffentlichen, aber meine Behinderung kam dazwischen und hat mir neben allem nicht erlaubt, in den letzten Tagen was zu programmieren. Dauert also leider noch bisschen.

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Casey

Ich meine, schaut euch den NVDA Screenreader an. NVAccess ist eine zu sehr großen Teilen von Behinderten getragene Organisation, die die beste verfügbare Screenreader-Software und unzählige weitere Tools open source und frei zur Verfügung stellt, damit Blinde weltweit mit Computern arbeiten können.

Große internationale Konzerne verdienen auf dieser Grundlage Millionen, und geben überhaupt nichts darein zurück.

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Casey

Wenn ihr eine Gesellschaft seid (UG, GmbH, AG, …) sagt bescheid — ich nehm auch mehr Geld von euch ohne Steady und schreib‘ euch ne Rechnung. Ihr dürft mich auch gern für Qualitätsarbeit für euch fest einstellen, wenn ich dabei hier so weitermachen darf.

Fest steht: Diese Arbeit muss dringend finanziert werden, und als Firmen habt ihr mehr als alle Anderen die Ressourcen dazu.

Ja, ich guilt-trippe euch absichtlich.

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After some years of using an iPad Pro 12.9“ with an M1 chip more or less frequently, I’ve now treated myself to an iPad Pro M5 11“ with its Magic Keyboard. And boy, do I love this combo! It reminds me why I loved the 11“ MacBook Air so much in its day. This iPad has the right size for my hands. The bigger screen was too big for me, and the smaller screen of an iPad Mini is too small, and there are no good keyboard choices. But that 11“ iPad Pro is exactly my fit. And I went for the pro because of Face ID. I don't like the Touch ID sensor in the Power button on the iPad Air and iPad A16 models. And now that the camera is in the top center of the wider edge, its use is much more natural than it was on the older iPad Pro where the camera was at the top in portrait mode. And this thing is fast! Holy moly! The last time I felt this comfortable with an iPad and keyboard combo was when I was using the iPad Air 2 and a Logitech Type+ keyboard cover. This M5 iPad Pro and its magic keyboard are just the right combination of size and weight to feel super portable to me.

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I miss the days where if you had a problem, you could just look up a phone number or email of a company, and call or send. I don't really approve of all these companies directing you to a website full of support articles, submission tickets, and whatnot. Live chat's fine. But I want answers directly. It's even more frustrating if what you are looking for isn't even in the articles they offer. I understand they do it for the high volume of customers but, it's still disheartening.
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Minionslayer

I'm not sure I agree actually. I'm a bit of an autodidact; if I have a problem, I want to read up about it myself so I can fix it... myself.
100% get this isn't how everyone works obviously, and that definitely doesn't excuse poorly-written or blatantly useless inaccurate articles, but the problem there is just outsourcing support. That, or companies just not having it high on their to-do lists rather than the medium of the support itself. Shit support is shit support, no matter what form it comes in.
I don't want to feel like I'm wasting someone else's time over the phone when I could solve the issue myself, and frankly 85% of the telephone support I've tried these days is just as useless as those slop articles.

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AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price
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AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price

Making myself unemployable by running my mouth one video at a time. I am also very happy with the raise of AI because my inability to speak properly now prov...
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Very excited - got the second Cadence Braille display! Now I can really use it with NVDA, still surprised how little panning I need to do for reading desktop icons or other text around the OS. The gap still does not much bother me. Sure, it's noticeable if you're reading slower, but when reading through to the other line it's so little (like .5 inches) that it really does not become bothersome. Now to try and figure out panning on iOS, whether it can be remapped properly.
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Tamas G

oh, they're a small company out of Indiana. I think the display itself has been in development since 2017 or so at its early days and founding, and probably in the last year they got to the point of really selling it. They're first target is schools and governments which is why I don't think it's been featured on many podcasts, although Double-tap did a CSUN interview with them I believe.
Their site is at tactile-engineering.com/

Tactile Engineering

www.tactile-engineering.com
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I'm guessing that a lot of Americans don't know who Thabo Mbeki was, and we ought to. He succeeded Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. He had a degree in economics, and the expectation was that he would implement Mandela's vision, but he became notorious for HIV denialism. He said that people were dying as a result of poverty and poor nutrition, not HIV. He alleged that HIV was being used as a mechanism to commit genocide against black people. He blocked the availability of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa for several years, saying that they were not safe. Public health experts sometimes get things wrong for various reasons, and they sometimes revise their conclusions as new information becomes available, but Mbeki should be a cautionary tale in terms of what can happen when policy-makers ignore advice from scientists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mb…

President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on earth who finds lyrics in songs actually distracting. Where everyone else seems to enjoy them, in 98% of cases I won't like them, and will find they detract from my experience of a given song. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of songs I like to listen to, I'd say only 30 or 40 actually have words. If someone references song lyrics around me, there's a high likelihood that the reference will go way over my head. This thought brought to you by a discussion I was having with somebody who's the absolute opposite of me. Alright mastoverse, tell me how crazy I am. Lol.

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Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.

Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.

#fediverse #Mastodon

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"Kohler can access data and pictures from toilet camera"

It's amazing what passes for a totally normal sentence in 2025

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Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” - /var/log/simon

Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data
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all I did was power off my server after dropping in a new FreeBSD kernel so I could clean the fans and whatnot while I was taking it offline for the upgrade and then the damn thing wouldn't POST and I took it all apart and started troubleshooting yanking everything out and reseating RAM and then I realize it's the BMC being naughty and it had two settings enabled:

one does a hardware inventory on boot which it says can take minutes

another doesn't let the server POST until BMC and hardware are fully in sync which it says can take 90 seconds

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Have certain folders you always want quick access to in macOS? Add them to the Finder sidebar so they always appear under the "Favorites" section, as well as the "Where" popup menu in open and save dialogs, by selecting them in Finder and choosing File > Add to sidebar (or pressing Command-Control-T). Remove an item by focusing on it in the sidebar and choosing "Remove from sidebar" from the context menu (accessed by pressing VO-Shift-M). #TipTuesday applevis.com/podcasts/quick-ti…

Quick Tip: Adding and Removing Items from the Finder Sidebar | AppleVis

In this episode, Jonathan Simeone shows us how to add and remove items from the Finder sidebar on macOS. The Finder sidebar is a list of folders and devices that can be quickly accessed from any Finder window or open and save dialog in macOS.
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