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menelion

@menelion@dragonscave.space

A married and happy geek from Ukraine living in Strasbourg, France. #Backend software engineer, #accessibility specialist.
My main programming languages are #PHP and #CSharp.
Pro-Ukrainian, pro-American, pro-European. Technical progress must not be stoppable.
Pagan, worshipper of Scandinavian gods.
Pronouns: He/him.
This account is multilingual. Posts may contain strong language, not always behind a content warning, and personal opinions.
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bemyeyes, to random
@bemyeyes@mastodon.social avatar

Exciting News!

We are thrilled to announce that Be My Eyes has launched its award-winning app on Windows and it is available NOW through the Windows Store, for free!

Learn more about this new tool in our blog!

www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-desktop-app-on-windows

technocounselor, to random
@technocounselor@iaccessibility.social avatar

Maybe this makes me lazy, but if I hear, the app works quite well with voiceover, but there are a few areas where you will have to use screen recognition, I’m likely to look for another app. Screen recognition has always been a bit buggy and laggy for me.

verge, to random
@verge@mastodon.social avatar

Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24159258/microsoft-recall-ai-explorer-windows-11-surface-event

Revertron, to iran
@Revertron@zhub.link avatar

To the US government, EU, and the free world:

Do not express condolences to the thousands of victims of Ebrahim Raisi. Instead, express your support for the people of Iran.

Your condolences only pour salt on the wounds of the oppressed.
It is no surprise to see the world’s dictators and terrorist regimes, such as those of Putin, Xi Jinping, Lukashenko, and Maduro, rush to send condolences over the death of a major sponsor of terrorism like Ebrahim Raisi and his team.

Revertron,
@Revertron@zhub.link avatar

Raisi helped to oversee a mass execution of political prisoners in the late 1980s and as president, he escalated enforcement of the hijab law and increased repression against the people of Iran.

18+ quanin, to random

Question someone asked me a couple days ago: "So I heard your instance isn't blocking Threads... are you concerned?"
Uh. About... what, exactly? The 169 accounts on Threads that my instance is aware of pretty much have 0 interaction with my instance. There's a time and a place for domain blocking. 99% of problems can be solved at the user level. If you wouldn't block mastodon.social because of a few spammers, you shouldn't block threads.net.
Follow-up: "But Meta has no business on the fediverse!"
And Google has no business doing email, but you're a Gmail user. If you don't want to use Threads, don't make an account on Threads. But not allowing someone to talk to you because they want to be on Threads is a terrible reason to not allow someone to talk to you.

stv0g, to random German
@stv0g@chaos.social avatar

I updated my crowd-sourced list of , , and , security tokens:

https://l.0l.de/tokens

Feel free to have a look if you are in the market for a new security token :-) Contributions and feedback are highly welcome :)

NightDrake, to random

I'm not a very big movie watcher. But last night when we were out with friends. We saw the movie Her starring Scarlett Johansson. It was absolutely wonderful! I quite enjoyed it. It's definitely some food for thought.

PetitPas, to random French
@PetitPas@eldritch.cafe avatar

Maintenant on peut signaler un spam SMS en envoyant une capture d'écran sur https://www.33700.fr/ !
Pratique quand on est à l'étranger !

ernie, (edited ) to random
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

How I fixed Google so it doesn’t shove AI into my face anymore.

https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

new @tedium

EDIT: Nobody cares if you use DuckDuckGo, you do you

EUCommission, to random
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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger .

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

janl, to random
@janl@narrativ.es avatar

Well, officially in the market for a Slack replacement now. Hit me. What are you personally happy with in a small business setting, strong macOS/iOS support, user friendly, including nontechnical folks?

FluidEscence, to random

WinAmp is getting open sourced on September 24. This is great news! https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

alexhall, to random

I tried to use VSCode to make a git commit today. It seems the buttons to confirm or reject the commit message lack hotkeys. Is this right? It's faster for me to just type git commit -a -m "message" than to tab and f6 my way to the right button. Am I missing something?

stvfrnzl, (edited ) to accessibility
@stvfrnzl@mastodon.online avatar

Question to , , & folks:

How do you feel about duplicate links in articles, blogs, whatever? Meaning: A certain word is a link (let's say "HEALTH") leading to an external website.

Would it annoy you if this word was always a link and it's mentioned for example 20 times in an article? Or would you rather have it only once to make it easier to scan for links?

Is there a related success criteria?

alexhall, to random

I'm using Vim over SSH. In insert mode, every time I type a non-space character, NVDA says it twice and then says what I assume is the cursor's new column. For instance, if I type a p, I hear "p, p, 14". I know one instance is my character echo setting, but is there a way to have Vim not do whatever it's doing that makes NVDA speak the character and number?

alexhall,

In case anyone else runs into overly verbose screen reader echoing in Vim, the fix is to make sure you're not in insert mode, then type ":set noruler". Thanks to @tspivey for the tip!

pamelafox, to random
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I've added support for gpt-4o to my token counting helper package:
https://github.com/pamelafox/openai-messages-token-helper
The token counts for my test data were the same except one, and that was due to "jargon" being two tokens in cl100k and just one token in o200k.
(Most of my test data is English tho!)

audiomo, to Dragonlance
@audiomo@vivaldi.net avatar

A federated recording app / platform would be a cool thing. Like a federated version of now that would be great for

slothrop, to DadBin
@slothrop@chaos.social avatar

A question for people in Paris:

We´ll be on a family vacation in France in the 2nd half of May, and are pondering whether to visit Paris.

Are there any important limitations due to the preparation for the Olympics? Major sights blocked off, or anything like that? Lots of security hassle?

We´ll be travelling with children, so we´re trying to avoid long queues etc.

sarah, to php
@sarah@phpc.social avatar

Have you gotten a FREE copy of my book, Mastering Object-Oriented PHP, yet? You can get yours at https://masteringobjectorientedphp.com

koena, to accessibility French
@koena@mastodon.social avatar

Le saviez-vous ? On peut désormais signaler à l'@Arcom_fr des problèmes d' .

L'association @ValentinHauy nous explique comment 👉 https://buff.ly/4cR1Qgq
C'est discret, c'est sur la page Contact en pied de page, mais ça existe.
"

jane_jordan, to random

If I were,, hypothetically, to pay of $75 for a digital copy of a textbook from Amazon, would I get updates to it whenever the edition changed for free, or would I have to pay again?

A11yAwareness, to random
@A11yAwareness@disabled.social avatar

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

foone, (edited ) to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

18+ jscholes, to accessibility
@jscholes@dragonscave.space avatar

Thought about maybe making a user script or web extension to improve the of the web app. Unfortunately, after logging in, I repeatedly get an "Internal Server Error", and a message in the console that reads:

> TypeError: Cannot set property message of [object Object] which has only a getter.

People really need to understand how far this goes beyond accessibility. The new tech is a low-effort, low-quality mess. It does not work well for anybody, which I suppose is one depressing type of equity.

pianomarian, to random

I hate the English language! I mean, it's so easy to foul something up; accidentally reverse just two letters and the whole thing is urined!

wmj1102,

@pianomarian @technocounselor Here’s something to ponder, this is a nice long read about the English language.
We'll Begin with a Box
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and
get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out, and
In which an alarm goes off by going on.
And in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?

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