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Hi all! Ifinally got through a bit over 2 days of posts here because I wasn't able to be online much due to lots of things, mainly that I was in stress paralysis.
Why you ask?
Well, I had to take stock of my work situation: Would it get better if I had yet another talk with my supervisor, subjecting myself to her tirades then her agreeing to listen to me only to go back to the same old pattern a few days later?
Should I talk to my boss's supervisor again, not feeling any sense of trust that she'd help me and ensure my boss stop the negative behavior?
Should I go above my boss's supervisor to the vice provost, who is aware of my boss's eratic moods and negative behavior?
Should I just suck it up and just keep my head down and do my job and enjoy the students, the main part of my job?
After doing a lot of soul searching, hang wringing and feeling totally ill I ended up going to our human resources director, expressing my concerns and outlining everything that has been going on almost since I started this job just short of 3 years ago.
I finally realized that no matter what was done things would not get better given the way the department works and the personality of my boss and the admin in the office.
So I made the difficult decision to resign. I gave 2 weeks notice which is the minimum I could give, sticking to the policy.
It was a very hard decision because I really love my actual job. But I can't handle my boss any more.
So I'll have to adjust to this new reality and figure things out. I'll continue looking for a new job but who knows about that. In the meantime I'll have to restructure life so I don't become a total slug. That won't be good for me.
So there you have it!

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The resilience of Minnesotans is unmatched. Day and night, in snow and freezing cold, they keep showing up and standing their ground. That’s people power. That’s BlueCrew strength.💙

Drop a ✊💙 for the Minnesotans holding the line in the cold and refusing to be silenced.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #PeoplePower #JusticeForRenee #ICE #AbolishICE

#ice #abolishice #bluecrew #peoplepower #proudblue #justiceforrenee

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Have the world's biggest headache, but must power through. Nearly all bugs are solved that crept upon me after I changed that frontend DLL. C++ still sucks, and I'm only using it because I still haven't been bothered to check out other byte-compiled (machine code, not at runtime) languages. I learned it in high school like many coders, barely used it in college only on summer breaks, never used it during employment, and yet I use it for the small link-space. So yeah. That's our relationship. It's complicated.
Is all this coding making me like C++ any better? No, not really. Sure, no strict indent-checking and function definitions are easier to write than Java. It's all I'm giving C++.
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Ahahaha y'all wanna know why some people hear whispering and others don't? With the latest NV Speech? I know who might. @@radiorobbe who reported it first.
The Root Cause: "Dot" vs. "Comma"
NVDA Sets the Locale: When you set NVDA's interface language to Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, etc., NVDA configures the Python process's global locale (via setlocale) to match that region. In the US/English locale, the decimal separator is a dot (e.g., 0.5, 60.0). In many European/South American locales (the "supported languages" you noticed), the decimal separator is a comma (e.g., 0,5, 60,0). The DLL Inherits the Locale: The nvspFrontend.dll is loaded into the same process space. The standard C++ string parsing functions (like atof, strtod, or std::stringstream) often respect this global locale setting. So, all the YAML files become invalidly parsed because they use a period. Ha. Wow. What a bug.
@Steffen

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The weirdest part of self-hosting isn't the control, it's the silence.
I logged into my dashboard tonight via the tunnel. No banner ads. No
"suggested content" algorithms designed to doomscroll me. No tracking pixels firing off to a data broker in Utah, lol.
Just my tools, sitting there, waiting.
We really forgot what the internet feels like when it isn't trying to extract value from us every single second. It’s quiet here. I like it.
#digital #minimalism #selfhosted #SmallWeb #AdFree
#digital #SmallWeb #selfhosted #minimalism #adfree

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:PleaseReblog:
Question for people relying on alt text: When one posts contains multiple images, should each alt text be written independently, or does it make more sense for one text to refer back to previous ones?
Like, when the first describes shape and colour of a flower, should the second copy that description and add to it (independent alt texts), or refer back, like "the same flower [from a different angle, showing xyz]"?

#altText #imageDescriptions #Blind #questions

  • independently (16%, 13 votes)
  • refer back (45%, 36 votes)
  • just show results (38%, 31 votes)
80 voters. Poll end: in 5 days

#blind #AltText #imagedescriptions #questions
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Jak se z nás stali geokačeři
Přemýšlel jsem, jak v pochmurném prosincovém počasí dostat děti ven, až mě napadl geocaching, který se ukázal jako trefa do černého. Pár řádků o tom, jak se z nás stali geokačeři.
#děti #geocachingblog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/17/j…(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Jak se z nás stali geokačeři

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#děti #geocaching

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yes, yes. The output for "level" seems incomplete, possibly missing leading "l" and "və." This might be happening because the pointer iteration isn't handled properly in the script. espeak_TextToPhonemes might modify the text pointer internally, and I may need to adjust this to correctly handle wide char pointers (wchar_t*) instead of using c_void_p. Let's fix that. Why not, let's fix it all. All the bugs. Fix fix fix. No breaks.
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Tamas G

@clv1 nah, I updated them just recently :) the instructions should be recent. It now talks about the formats for the various pack files, so definitely do a control+shift+R just to make sure you get the latest version.
Espeak is able to speak many of them, but you have to like, read them as individual letters sometimes. Yeah. I think JAWS is the only one I know where there's a way to get Eloquence to speak IPA, and supported posts about this (ruf.rice.edu/~reng/jaws-ipa.ht…) but it's tricky for sure. I will switch to Espeak sometimes in this workflow (or Speechplayer) and see how it speaks the symbol and compare as it's the only one I've seen in NVDA doing some interpretation.

Using Jaws with Unicode IPA Fonts

www.ruf.rice.edu
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Tamas G

@clv1 kind of. For language-specific tweaks: don’t edit a shared IPA key in phonemes.yaml unless you want every language to change.
Instead:
1.
“copy the closest phoneme to a new key (e.g. y_hu / ᴇ) in phonemes.yaml”
2.
“in your packs/lang/<lang>.yaml, add a normalization rule that maps the IPA symbol to your new key”
That keeps the phoneme table centralized, and language packs only decide which key to use.
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for sure strange! Looks like it has to do with Espeak launching and maybe not finding espeak-data in the same path. We try to now find it more explicitly, and also if the error comes up again it should pass any Espeak errors through too. So if it appears again, it'll be more descriptive, LOL. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE… is the link, else the original one is the latest now too anyway.
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I listen to someone recommend portfoliocharts.com and portfoliovisualizer.com and wonder if they're going to be accessible to me. I hope so, at least in terms of doing the things that I'd want to do, but they have "charts" and "visualizer" in their names, respectively... So we'll see. A lot of things out there weren't really designed with someone like me in mind. That's just my life. If I'm going to be using a new thing for some reason, then I'll wonder, am I going to run into any accessibility-related trouble with it?

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I just discovered (and tried) this wonderful piece of software

github.com/houmain/keymapper

It allows remapping your keyboard in many ways, and it's controlled from a simple configuration file (so, you can prepare one for your disabled friend).

You can, for example, remap the keyboard to only use its right half, if the left hand is dysfunctional (similar to the mirrored keyboard I made, github.com/clackups/qmk_firmwa… ).

Also, it should be useful for #disabledgamers , to map, for example, AWSD to different keys.

#disability #keyboard #accessibility


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Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families - clackups/qmk_firmware
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#Accessibility #Disability #keyboard #disabledgamers

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social Hey, I love what you do and I appreciate it, but please take the flatpak package more seriously. I hope you do this year.

Using an AppImage is not really a universal solution. For example, for those of us on musl distros (Alpine, Chimera Linux, etc.) that package is useless.

I really hope you consider treating flatpak as a first-class package because in musl it is our best and probably only option ​:neofox_laptop_owo:​

@Tuta

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Aha, how fitting for NV Speech Player. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… is the first version to hit the 10th file milestone for my synthesizers. It's also the first time I'm using the new directory link. This copy fixes memory corruption problems in the frontend, Post-stop aspiration block was made non-brittle now, and the applyRules allocation performance fix. No new versions for awhile until we have tweaked more languages, so I'm done with new files at least until way later in my evening or tomorrow.
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