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The english REAPER Accessibility Dropbox folder has finally been replaced by a self-hosted solution that no longer eats up your Dropbox resources and doesn't require an invitation. Its just open for everyone! It has taken us about a year of tinkering to get it into a stable condition, but as of this day, the REAPER Dropbox is out of order. You can find The Hoard under hoard.reaperaccessibility.com/ now, with optional WebDAV support under webdav.hoard.reaperaccessibili…. Make yourself at home everyone.

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Yay! Does that mean that every second post on the RWP list will no longer be a "add me to the Dropbox folder" request? :) But seriously, this is awesome. Thanks for all of the work that went into this.
Also, HFS looks like a very cool and accessible piece of software. I've never seen it before.
Finally, the instructions mention that Windows File Explorer WebDav access is super buggy. Out of interest, what were the problems? I haven't tried it much, but was eventually able to access it with this path: \\webdav.hoard.reaperaccessibility.com@ssl\DavWWWRoot
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh The transition will take a while, but eventually we'll reach the point where every second post will ask for this URL instead. #OT
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh The Windows WebDAV implementation just can't do permissions right. It works if you're allowed to do all you want on the server, but as soon as you are forbidden to do certain things (especially delete files/folders), it'll hang up if you try to do so and even crash the entire network mount in the process. The only way to fix it is to actualy remove and reconnect, at least as far as we tried.
in reply to Toni Barth

I assume it's fine for non-admins though? Or does this impact users mostly downloading and occasionally uploading too?
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh Its kinda fine for admins yeah, although it sometimes gets hickups with the Windows-only locking mechanism as it seems, but it generally works quite okay-ish. Yeah for users who just download stuff it works fine, uploading works too as long as you only upload to the Uploads folder, if you try something else (which you aren't permitted to do as a normal user) you'll encounter similar issues like the ones I mentioned before.
in reply to Toni Barth

Fair enough. I feel a bit "caveat emptor" about that - if a user tries to do something they're not supposed to do, they get to deal with the consequences - but I guess that's not a conversation you want to keep having with people, heh. I was just wondering whether it might be an easier alternative than WinSCP for most folks, since they can just hit enter on a shortcut and off they go without any additional software.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh Yep, that is what we thought here too. In the end Scott decided to not advertise it in this way because we didn't want to dive into the "we're troubleshooting broken WebDAV connections every day on RWP" rabbithole. We still hope that the HFS only WebDAV implementation might actually be able to fix the MS errors server-side, as we're currently using a custom Nginx-based solution that is just bad to configure properly and pretty outdated. But HFS WebDAV isn't quite there yet.
in reply to Toni Barth

Fair enough. Of course, not questioning your judgement; just curious.
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@jcsteh Na its fine, I would have loved to offer them to connect it to Windows Explorer just like Mac people can mount it in Finder, and it basically works, people are using it already that way if they know about it, but this way we don't need to support it. Scott just decided against it. We'll test as soon as HFS builds its own WebDAV and maybe we'll be able to finally officially support it then.
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@jcsteh fwiw ms is depricating WebDAV in windows 10 and 11, so it’s probably a good idea to push people toward alternative clients because it might eventually just stop working randomly learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind…
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@jcsteh @pitermach Awesome. And here I thought MS would be able to at least support one file transfer protocol that isn't SMB within Explorer. I mean, they do support unencrypted FTP I guess, or at least they did at some point, but who wants to do unencrypted FTP nowadays? Too bad that most alternative mount solutions like Netdrive or Mountainduck are either inaccessible or paid.
in reply to Toni Barth

I just found this based on WinFSP, but no idea whether it's any good. github.com/KS2-FR/KS2.Drive @pitermach
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh @pitermach it installs WinFSP, but then can't find the service lol. I've checked that the service is definitely running, WinFSP.Launcher, have also restarted the service and the software. Tried running both as admin. No worky.
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@jcsteh @pitermach Rclone seems to mount the Reaper folder as a drive without fuss. I realise its command-line-ness isn't for everyone, but I wonder if it's feasible to create a simple way of getting it running in the background for folks.
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @jcsteh @pitermach We tried that one too before putting the Hoard out there, and found it to be to complicated as we couldn't find a way to basically makes it easy to use for everyone. We've got quite a few people on the list who can just do REAPER and don't work to much with a computer apart from that, setting it up on their own would be to complicated. Everyone more experienced can obviously use it anyway though.
in reply to Toni Barth

Right. And if they had to go through the standard flow of installing it, putting it in their PATH, configuring a remote, and mounting it, I would agree. But we use it at work in scripts, taking advantage of its ability to work without any predefined setup or config file at all. So I'm just curious if there is some sort of packaged-up thing that could live in the folder; you download it, run it, done. Maybe there isn't, particularly if the mounting functionality requires a separate dependency (I don't remember). @jcsteh @pitermach
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@jscholes @jcsteh I don’t recall needing a separate dependency on Windows for rclone mounts. On Mac you need Fuse but Finder can already mount webdav so that’s a non issue
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@jscholes @jcsteh Never mind, documentation says it needs winfsp to be installed rclone.org/commands/rclone_mou…

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Tak jsem si zase trochu zaprogramoval a musím říct, že mě to zase chytnulo. Raylib je fajn a budu si ho ještě chvíli asi zkoumat na dalších mikro projektech. A pokud chcete, můžete mrknout na výtvor adaptace Game of Life. A já jdu konečně spát... 😁

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I just had the Be My AI bluntly invent the UPS tracking number that did not exist on the receipt I took the picture of. That was rather grand! #ai #gpt4 #fail
#AI #fail #GPT4

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@elmyra Agreed 100%! This makes me want to find a YouTube video about how capitalism actually distort/hinders marketing and terminology
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@weirdwriter because it's marketed that way. People shouldn't have to be experts in technologies in order to find the correct assistive tools. Unfortunately capitalist enshittification says otherwise.

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I have to learn how to sing now because my company is using X-Factor Authentication.

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Hey guys, my friend has recently released a new song. It's in Ukrainian, but is really worth a listen, which I strongly recommend. It's available on all streaming services, but I'm going to post a YouTube link so everyone can listen. She wrote it for her boyfriend, and it's one of the most beautiful and emotionally genuin songs I've ever heard, no exaggeration, so I really want to share it with you, and hope you enjoy it too.

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I absolutely cannot tolerate this hovercard aria-description nonsense on GitHub, nor can I tolerate the headings that get added to every row of folder and file lists any longer. Thus, I just pushed tweaks to the GitHub Accessibility Fixes AxSGrease script to banish both of these. github.com/jcsteh/axSGrease/ra…

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@kaveinthran Sure, there's truth in that. You absolutely *can* navigate the interface with a screen reader. I *can* get things done. It's just annoying, clunky, inefficient, not at all delightful, and I expect better from a company the size of GitHub.
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@kaveinthran To be fair, there are parts of GitHub that are really nice to use. But seriously, having every row in a table marked as a heading makes absolutely no sense and is of no use to anyone.

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If you see a domain name ending in .ai that means the island of Anguilla got some money, as it is the owner of this country domain.

”For each domain registration, Anguilla’s government gets anywhere from $140 to thousands of dollars from website names sold at auctions, according government data.”

In 2023 just over 20% of the government’s total revenue came from these registrations.

”[…] the government used the money to provide free health care for citizens 70 and older, and it has committed millions of dollars to finish building a school and a vocational training center. The government has also allocated funds to improve its airport; doubled its budget for sports activities, events and facilities; and increased the budget for citizens seeking medical treatment overseas.”

The island was hit hard by a hurricane in 2017 and tourism essentially disappeared during the covid pandemic. The .ai domain revenue has been a welcome injection into the economy.

Now you can’t say I never talk about AI in a positive light 😉

per.ax/angui

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A friend just reminded me today that #braille watches for the #blind inspired by the soviet braille watch tradition are still being produced nowadays. I have found an eshop with world wide shipping meranom.com/en/vostok/vostok-t…
Also there is a nice article on the history of these watches: mroatman.wixsite.com/watches-o…


What a nice discovery. I am an occasional #emacs user and latelly I have found out built-in tramp can be used with #rclone to work with files on rclone remotes.

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Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾

Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/expe…

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this is not how we push for better accessibility. PLEASE reconsider this "AI" shift
in reply to morgan

This is additional accessibility, concurrent to whatever other push in whatever other direction can and should be done.
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Alt text will absolutely still be required on websites and social media posts; this is just to patch over where people couldn't be bothered to be inclusive, basically :)

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The next version of Retroarch will work with TalkBack on Android!

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Goodbye #Sonos 2005-2024. You provided me nearly 20 years of audio playback, but this latest update was the last straw...

1. Install PiCorePlayer on a Raspberry Pi connected to speakers, add a DAC/AMP board and/or WiFi dongle as needed:
picoreplayer.org/

2. Install LMS on a local server:
lyrion.org/getting-started/

3. Install Squeezer on your Android device(s):
play.google.com/store/apps/det…

4. Repeat Step 1 for Additional Rooms.

5. Play Your Tunes.

#OpenSource #HomeAudio #Upgrade #Sonos

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BTSpeak: May 2024 update offers further synthesizer options! and voices! drewsound.com/2024/05/28/btspe…

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I hope that in one day they add the Amazon or Ivona. voices to this little thing.

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Linux blind users, listen to this and let me know what you guess this actually is, and most importantly, what you think! I'm just gauging interest as this is still in its early infancy, and I was wondering if it was worth continuing. As you can infer, I'm already far enough to have a working yet incomplete prototype!

#linux #accessibility #blind

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@storm it's on its way to being NVDA serving as an output module for speech-dispatcher so you can use NVDA's synth drivers. NVDA itself runs through wine and serves as the speech server only.
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Oh that is very cool. I know a lot of people aren't willing to give up Eloquence, will it work with that addon? If so, you are going to make a lot of people very happy with this. ☺️

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edit: still trying! please keep on boosting!

we're moving to #Prague! and we need some friends.
we're moving to #Czechia in September and we might be a bit lonely. so if you want to befriend a couple of quirky migrants, let me know!

I'm into #music, #FOSS, #linguistics, #DoctorWho, #TTRPG and #DropoutTV. oh, and I'm #trans.
my girlfriend likes #medicine, British television, #Disney, #Eurovision and #TrueCrime. "I am the bisexual stereotype".

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@prague

#Praha #Prag #PleaseBoost

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PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio

Following the recent PipeWire 1.2 release candidate, a second release candidate is out today that also includes the ability to stream to Snapcast servers...
phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-1.2…

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WHAT'S THIS? HMMM! ReaHotkey: An AutoHotkey script for blind musicians and REAPER users github.com/MatejGolian/ReaHotk…

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I've just pushed a bunch of #accessibility changes for screen readers to the main branch of FediThready. ( It makes long texts into post sized chunks)

I've run through it with #VoiceOver and it _seems_ ok. HOWEVER it all feels like it's "usable" instead of "good".

If there's a #a11y geek out there who uses screen readers regularly I would REALLY appreciate some suggestions on how to make this actually feel good for folks who rely on screen readers.

github.com/masukomi/fedithread…

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finally ready to announce that my git zine, “How Git Works", is coming out in ONE WEEK! on Friday May 31!

it also comes with this (free!) cheat sheet which you can download and print out here: wizardzines.com/git-cheat-shee…

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Okay y'all, Retroarch is now accessible on iOS! You *will* need a keyboard or gamepad to play and use the user interface. PSP games work great though! Just download all the core updates and needed core files for PPSSPP, if you plan on playing PSP games, and you're good! #accessibility #RetroArch #blind #blindGaming #emulation #emulators #gaming #iOS Link to the App Store page: apps.apple.com/app/id649953943…

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ICQ is closing down. It was really at its height in 2000 and that is when we integrated ICQ into Opera. We made a small (5k) client and it worked really well.

AOL had purchased ICQ and they were concerned about MSN taking users from them by connecting to their service, so they stopped supporting 3rd party clients. We contacted them, to see if they would make an exception for us, but they did not.

They said that if we removed our 5k client, we could maybe discuss bundling their client, but it was bigger than Opera, so that was not going to happen.

#Windows #Computers #PC #ICQ #AOL #MSN #Vivaldi

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Oh, cool somebody finally figured it out...

As you probably know, the Microsoft Security Center has an API that lets you query which AV is installed and whether it is up-to-date.

What is less well-known, is that it also has another, not publicly known API, that lets you tell it "I'm installing another AV now, please disable Defender". This is what all other AV products use. Microsoft has provided to them documentation of this API but under NDA.

Many years ago, I made a proof-of-concept - a small VBScript script that would use this API via WMI to "install" an imaginary AV, thus turning off Defender - but since it was based on information learned under NDA, I obviously couldn't make it public.

Now somebody has reverse-engineered the API from AVAST and has done pretty much the same (albeit a bit over-complicated) in C++:

github.com/es3n1n/no-defender

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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the invention of the Braille code. The International Council on English Braille, which has a General Assembly every four years, met this time in Auckland, New Zealand.
I was profoundly honoured to be invited to deliver the keynote address to mark the 200th anniversary of the code that gave blind people literacy. The address is called “Safeguarding the Legacy, Investing the Inheritance”.

Whether you’re blind or not, whether you read Braille or not, if you’re interested in the cultural impact and the history of a system that gave an uneducated minority literacy, I hope you find this address informative. You can read the text, or listen to the audio.
It is of course presumptuous of me to think I might be remembered at all when my life is over. But if I am, I would like to hope that this address might be a reason. I put months of work into it, because Louis Braille is my hero. I do not have the words to truly convey the impact his work, his genius, has had on my life.

I hope you enjoy it, and I thank with deep appreciation ICEB for the opportunity to deliver it.
mosen.org/iceb2024

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For those interested in computer virtualization, this may be of interest here. VMWare Pro, not just the player, is now free for personal use. This also holds true for VMWare Fusion on the Mac.

This blog has some details.

https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2024/05/vmware-workstation-pro-now-available-free-for-personal-use.html… (1/2)

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Message Reactions just landed in Gajim! 👍
The next release will bring both Message Replies (XEP-0461) and Message Reactions (XEP-0444)! 🎉

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For those interested, here’s a sneak peek: Be My Eyes for Windows at a Glance. Currently in beta, it’s poised for a public release soon. For the curious, this is a chance to preview what Be My Eyes for Windows will offer and the features you can anticipate. Enjoy the experience! :)

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Are you blind? Have you heard of the commandline, but don't know what it means or how to use it? I recorded a tutorial that shows how to use a popular commandline utility called YT-DLP to download the audio version of a video with a screenreader, and how you can apply this to other commandline applications. This will accomplish jobs more quickly and bypass inaccessible graphical user interfaces. I hope you find it helpful!

#a11y #accessibility #screenreader

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Winamp is not going open source. Here's what it is doing - and why zdnet.com/home-and-office/home…

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New instance, new introduction. Hello, I am Adam from Ottawa Canada. I am a totally blind man, identifying as he/him.
My primary interests are technology and music. I was a former professional drummer, playing the bar stages of Ottawa and the ocasional out-of-town show.
I've always been rhythmical, annoying the heck out of my parents at the tendor age of four on up banging on pots, pans, spoons, and whatever else I could get my grubby little hands on.
I got my first drum kit when I was 12, back in 1999. I got a couple of upgrades over the years, and then switched to electronic kits in 2007 when I managed to save and purchase a Roland TD-12 kit with my own money. That was like buying a car for me, LOL.
I was professionally active from 2007 until 2019.
Some hearing issues with extended loudness causing anxiety and unease started my issues with playing live shows, and then COVID19 really finished that career.

I've been interested in technology from a young age as well, receiving my first electronic note taker for the blind, a Blazie Engineering Braille Lite in 1996 at the age of 9.
I then got my first computer in the summer of 1998, learned DOS, then eventually Windows 3.1, 95, and on up.
I've had many, many, many computers and other technological devices since those days, and I have done any serious compute work in Linux, where in I am mostly referring to running servers, hosting things, and distributed compute projects.
Professionally, I am currently a systems/server administrator, backend web developer, database administrator, and infrastructure administrator.
Other interests include animals, documentaries, listening to most kinds of music, having deep intellectual conversations, and pondering the meaning of life.
#Mastodon #Introduction #Ottawa #Canada #Blind #Music #Technology

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Following the latest updates and changes to WhatsApp, we have updated our accessibility notes to address the regression in usability with TalkBack. Please spread the word. accessibleandroid.com/app/what… #Android #Accessibility #TalkBack
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Mozilla has released Thunderbird 127. I hope there will be a build 127.0.0.1 and then we’ll see how many scripts break

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Did you notice? We have almost 5.000 followers!
Now we're wondering: might we find among you (or your network) two experienced UX/UI designers who are willing to engage in a 6-month volunteer project? We need to come up with a way to fit a bunch of new functionality into the already busy player screen. We're looking for two people (one for each role) to help us with this.
Interested? More info? Send a DM or email keunes@mailbox.org.
Boosts appreciated!
#UXdesign #UIdesign #OpenSource

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@AntennaPod Who is going to cover the living cost of a 6 month volunteer project?
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@jrp
The day job, or whatever existing source of income contributors might have. We should probably have specified that, but that's the reason for it taking six months: it's only a few hours per week, a hobby thing for evenings. Just like all other AntennaPod contributions (including these very toots).

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Modernizing #accessibility for @gnome and desktop #Linux was the subject of a recent talk by Matt Campbell, long-time a11y advocate and developer of screen reading technologies across multiple OSes.

Watch the talk about GNOME leading an effort to design & prototype a new accessibility architecture:
youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9…


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#Suno? #Udio? Who needs those? #ElevenLabs has just blown my actual mind and I am here for it! Cannot wait to get access to this.
I have not been so excited by AI-based music until now.
Don't skip anything, just listen.
Pay attention to the extremely fast Rap section too. It's up there with the best of them.
You've never heard AI music like this, trust me.

youtube.com/watch?v=GpYd8hU_EV…

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The AI model made up a freaking trumpet solo?! OMG. My jaw is on the floor.
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@drew I guess, one big question we should now be asking: are we amazed at the technology or the art it created? I am personally amazed about the former. <grin>
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Yeah no I would call this demo-quality stuff, it's not anything I would use for a final anything. But you don't have to! You can just throw out ideas and hear something back, if you like it you develope it, if you don't just throw it out. You've gotta apply your personal touch to the thing to make it unique and interesting. But this cuts out so many stages in the endless noodling process.
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@drew @vick21 A lot of comedy AI artists have been popping up lately and they're using the generated track as final. Some I guess prefer Suno. youtube.com/watch?v=2P2g_pXZ6J…
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@drew One thing I would love to have on my local machine is an AI band. Say, you have a group of bandmates that you can play with, you and the rest are AI cats, dudes or whatever you’d call them! :) Would love to see them co-creating with me in real time! That would be wow!
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@vick21 @drew That just cannot be far off. Logic 11 (which comes out on Monday) has a virtual keyboard and bassist that can apparently follow your chords and jam with you, I will of course be testing this.
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@drew Wo wo wo! For real? You mean, it comes out as in for the rest of us? :)
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@vick21 @drew They need one for guitar! that's something I can't fake well on keyboard. lol
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@chikim @drew The same could be said about a guitarist trying to play the keyboard on the MIDI guitar. I gave up long time ago!

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In Europe, flying is cheaper than taking the train.

It's an embarrassment, and a major problem: we have to stop flying for silly short distances. Realise that the overheads of flying (reaching the airport, awaiting 2 hours, the flight, the unloading, reaching the destination) largely cancel out any time gains of flying. And the carbon costs are utterly untenable. Not to speak of the modern, dire conditions of the whole flying "experience".

Another embarrassment is that train connections can't be guaranteed when across countries or companies. They aren't even coordinated. As if those who commission and set the schedules didn't travel by train themselves, at least not internationally. In considering how tiny most European countries are, it's frankly bizarre.

There are so many destinations one could travel by train to, yet in practice, it's not sensible. A disgrace.

The upside is that it can be fixed.

#trains #EuroRail

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The unsaid part of this is that the cheap airlines are private (and hence efficient), while most train companies are either public or semi-public, and hence both expensive and inefficient. If you take a look at Polish train prices, which aren't that bad compared to other places, going by car instead becomes more affordable at 3 to 4 people, assuming normal tickets. This makes no sense, there's no way a car is more efficient than a train.

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@miki do you know how much subsidies European goverments provide to airline companies by chance?
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@cybertailor Do the cheap airlines get any of these? I was under the impression that most subsidies go to the expensive state-owned enterprises like Lufthansa, KLM, British Airways or Lot.
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@miki
Cheap air travel IS NOT due the public/private split.

Cheap air travel is due to government subsidies. Why do *private* airlines get taxpayer subsidised fuel in the first place?

Germany has the best and cheapest train system I used in Europe - all public.

England trains are all private and their service is atrocious and crazy expensive.

Private companies think only about profit. Expensive crap services = profit for shareholders.

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@miki
There is a prevailing belief in Poland that private is good, public is bad.

This has nothing to do with the reality and it stems from post communist attitudes.

If you want to see the true difference between private and public operations look at English vs Scottish Water companies.

Or German public trains vs English private trains.

Private companies have only one goal - to sell cheap products & services for as much money as possible.

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@miki
Thatcher’s government privatised water in England 35 years ago. Scottish water remained fully public during this time.

I don’t think there has been a better case study to compare private vs public ownership.

weownit.org.uk/public-ownershi…

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@RaffKarva Water (and other similar utilities, like electricity / internet / TV cables) are somewhat different, because you can't just lay new pipes / cables without government approval, and even if you could, it would be far too expensive. If one monopolist owns all the pipes and no other competitor can realistically lay more, there's nothing stopping the monopolist from raising the prices beyond all reason. This is why I'm not opposed to the government owning train track, undecided on them owning stations and related infrastructure, but definitely against public ownership of the actual trains and railroad companies themselves.

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🚇 Před 50 lety se poprvé rozjelo pražské metro i s cestujícími. Po slavnostním zahájení, které obstarala muzika a projevy komunistických potentátů, vyrazila souprava ze stanice Kačerov do stanice Sokolovská, což je dnešní Florenc.

irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/h…

📷 Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy

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I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! *Extremely* useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

#GNOME #productivity #gratitude

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@DavidGoldfield Do you know if it is possible to install an LTE modem on the BTSpeak? Its usefulness to me would go up considerably if I could replace my phone with it.

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Sure, but if I'm already bringing a perfectly good phone along, then I will just use that and save myself $1500. The idea is to only need one device to take everywhere.

Certainly this adds cost, decreases battery life, and makes things more complicated. That's okay! I'm not suggesting it should come standard with all devices (though that would be awesome if they could!) What I am asking is if a modem can be installed after the fact, via a PCMICA slot or USB or whatever. Can the software take advantage of it? If the 10 grams of additional weight makes this totally impractical, I understand.
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@fireborn That said, I do have a second phone that I use for work, and it happens to be duel-SIM, and fi doesn't charge extra for hotspots. So for me that option is actually pretty viable since I kinda need to have it close by anyway. I am still curious though! I don't think most people would solve it that way. And it would sure be useful! I do understand why Blazie is not spending R&D on it though.

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I've updated my Sonos #accessibility blog post with more information. This includes a link to a statement issued today by Sonos, and info on dialogue I've been having with their product team. mosen.org/sonos2024

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@simon Yup, still a debacle, still not acceptable. But we are where we are, and we have to get them to move forward quickly.

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The US is a fascist state.
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