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So I've been reading "Surfing on the Internet", written by #JCHerz in about 1994. It talks about #MUD and #MOO. I had only heard of them in passing back then.
Reading the book, I realize: Whoa, these things are like multiplayer #interactiveFiction . Not just that, but the world can be programmed.
It's like the #Emacs of gaming.
Some #MUDs are still active now. Some of these games have been going for 30 or 40 years.
What are good resources to learn about MUDs?
So, I worked on a lot today. I got Ellama, LLM, Company-mode (I hope), and Nov-mode installed and set up. So, I can talk to AI, read EPub books (with formatting!) get autocomplete when writing (in a form a lot more like the Mac than Windows annoying bullcrap.) I still am amazed at how responsive Orca is. I feel like I'm flying around when using it. The closest I can come to that feeling on Windows is JAWS, when it's being good. Emacs and Emacspeak are that way for me too, but I've also had Emacs commands wired into me since I was like 15; I don't know why I'm so attached to that. Maybe it was my first look at Fss. Anyway, I'm gonna see tomorrow if I can back up my home directory to Dropbox or something, so when I install Fedora on my old laptop, I won't have to do things all over again.
Overall, so far, if you're techie and don't mind learning and breaking things and learning more, and aren't currently stressed out a lot, I'd definitely give Linux a try. Maybe start with Debian, and move up to Ubuntu, then Fedora. Read docs, all that. But it's definitely gotten better over the past year or so. And with Audiogame manager, which I forgot about, we can still play a lot of the games we have on Windows. Oh, and I've not had to pull out my Windows laptop all day.
#Linux #foss #accessibility #blind #Emacs #emacspeak #Mate #fedora
If you like to suggest some topics, please feel free to point them out.
My ideas are: copying and pasting, reading to the end of a line, looking for context sensitive help, using #emacs customize buffers, speechd-el review commands, adjusting speech properties at runtime. These are new to me as a novice emacs user.
A lot of #Emacs #accessibility tips, from the view of Speechd-el, which is a more traditional screen reader, as opposed to Emacspeak's more all-in-one package.
Quite number of things have happened since I have mentioned my occassional usage of #emacS:
* @Termux is trying to update its compatibility with recent #android versions returning into the Google play in the process.
* speechd-el the app that acts as a built-in screen reader for emacs got some polishing and fixes recently.
* Touch and speech have recently released an update to Corvus, suite of assistive apps for #android that also feature great liblouis powered braille keyboard that can emulate alt, ctrl and shift keys allowing me to use emacs keybindings on the braille touch keyboard.
* I'm on holiday these days and I can benefit from having a screenreader accessible linux terminal with powerfull tools inside my pocket.
So here is a short article I wrote on the matter last week
I’m building lmno.lol, a new blogging service
- No #tracking
- No #ads
- No #paywall
- No #bloat
- No #distraction
- No registration to try
- #privacy first
- #light #dark mode
- Read anywhere (even on #terminal).
- #markdown drag/drop
- Bring your own #text #editor
You can check out my blog mirror at lmno.lol/alvaro
Happy to send invites.
Please help me get the word out 🙏
#vim #emacs #vscode #minimalism #indiedev #indieweb #indie
When I am leaving my office I am often closing some 15 browser windows, some 10 terminal windows, about 5 different files open in the text editor.
Most used apps on my desktop include #Firefox #Thunderbird file manager (pcmanfm or nautilus), Gedit, VLC media player, electron based apps such as teamsforlinux, losslesscut and gnome-terminal.
Next I'm using @LibreOffice, I am also using #Emacs with #speechd-el a little and finally some other less frequently used apps.
As for the #TTS or the #audio setup I am using #RHVoice, speech-dispatcher and @PipeWire Project .
Finally with @Matt Campbell and @Lukáš Tyrychtr we do have tallented visually disabled developers dogfooding or partially dog fooding so let me finish this post by saying it really is gold era of a linux #a11y and we are looking forward for what it brings us in the future.
One of my favourite #emacs #magit features is `magit-cherry-donate`.
It moves a commit from the current branch to another branch without switching to the other branch.
This is really great when you work on feature X and see a typo or a mistake that isn't related to what you're currently working on: Just create a quick “Fix typo” commit and move it to `main` (or some branch where you'll process it later) and continue working on your feature – without risking including an unrelated, distracting change in your commit/PR, and without having to remember it for later.
How many of you recently getting started to Emacs?
If you love 
, please boost.
If you use for under 1 year, please share your experience.
If you use for programming or anything else, please share.
#Emacs #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #OrgMode
- Yes, I recently started to use Emacs (22%, 5 votes)
- Yes, with some issues (please share) (9%, 2 votes)
- Yes, I already use Org-mode (50%, 11 votes)
- Yes, but I need more resources to learn (18%, 4 votes)