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Loops.video


Hello All,

Congratulations and thank you @dansup for creating loops.video website.

I am happy my account has been validated, but did I do something wrong or is it stll waiting some more updates, but I cannot add any videos in it. Is that normal?

BTW, is there a log entry somewhere where I can see the development status ?

Thank you

#loopsvideo




Ne laissez pas un gars qui met de l'autobronzant decider à votre place.


I found what I think is the most unique high school running track I've ever seen.

I have been looking for marching band practice fields and came across this beauty in Mart, Texas:


#OpenStreetMap #MartTexas #Texas

in reply to BrassNuckolls

I was in choir, but my husband played a trumbone in his high school marching band.











Usando computadora y radio.
En la PC usando el software JS8CALL que genera tono codificado...que sale por la radio al eter.

El otro corresponsal del otro lado del mundo lo decodifica.
Y asi se genera un chat.

vm.tiktok.com/ZMh4vKJMV/

#radio #ham #js8 #js8call #ft8 #radioaficionado



Hola Mundo


Hola gente, nuevo servidor para variar un poco.

Soy de #argentina y hablare de todo un poco.

Mi hobby radioaficionado.

PD: antes administraba servidor reisub


#hola #nuevo



Is anyone else playing the new Pokemon TCGP that was just released? If so, looking to add a friend?

I am loving the art on these cards.

#Pokemon #PokemonTCG #Games

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This is just a test. Tweesecake still isn't working after many hours. I even restarted my computer a few times. I'm using TWBlue, which, while it won't allow me to edit posts (feature not included/not due to inaccessibility), it's still quicker to read, reply, and post to things here. If Tweesecake doesn't start working again, I really hope that the designers of TWBlue would consider adding the option to edit posts. It's extremely basic and would be very helpful.


This is just a test. Tweesecake still isn't working after many hours. I even restarted my computer a few times. I'm using TWBlue, which, while it won't allow me to edit posts (feature not included/not due to inaccessibility), it's still quicker to read, reply, and post to things here. If Tweesecake doesn't start working again, I really hope that the designers of TWBlue, would consider adding the option to edit posts. It's extremely basic and would be very helpful.


Someone recommended this page to me. It was quite interesting, but I found this confusing.

"My first week on Friendica I was puzzled by all the posts I would see in my feed from accounts I was not following. I only had 24 contacts then and yet my feed was populated by posts of people I did not recognize. I could not figure out why they showed up or how to “weed” those out. On Friendica you can follow hashtags - just like you can do on Mastodon - but those posts have a subtle hashtag icon at the top. I could not understand where the posts by random people came from... they did not contain hashtags I was following.
Friendica’s settings have a myriad of options. I finally figured out that what I needed to do was go to Settings > Social Networks > Followed Content Scope and select the option “only conversations my follows started”. That’s because the default setting on Friendica (as of August 2024) is “conversations my follows started or commented on”. This populates your feed with posts by people you do NOT follow, if one of your contacts replied to them."

I have the same problem. I went to Settings and couldn't find anything like this. Could it possibly be disabled at the friendica.world instance?

I had to laugh when I read that she doesn't like when Friendica is compared to Facebook. I actually joined precisely because Facebook was discontinuing their Basic Mobile site (not app) and I needed something that was actually accessible with NVDA! As for finding the page old fashion, I actually find it to be too modern for my taste, with collapsing menus, submenus, tabs, etc, instead of normal links. Using the main site, while nowhere near as bad as Facebook, is still a chore. For instance, I have to go through all sorts of links just to find the link to post, instead of there being an edit box and a post button right on the main page. Again, does all of this depend on instance, or is this the standard look of all Friendica pages?

On the positive side, I love the long posts here. In fact, that's why I chose Friendica in the first place. I never really format anything, other than indenting for paragraphs at times, but for those who do, it's good to have those options available.

blog.elenarossini.com/the-futu…

#accessibility #blind #Facebook #formatting #friendica #NVDA #timeline



It seems that I am unable to edit posts on the main Friendica page. No matter what I do, the edit link, or whatever it is, does nothing. Fortunately, I am able to do so on Pachli. However, there is no keyboard shortcut available for this, which forces me to use the touchscreen. Likewise, there are no hotkeys to easily navigate posts etc. I wouldn't mind it if I could easily navigate my timeline, etc, as I can on the website, by using headings and so on. But at least, I can now edit my posts with something other than Tweesecake..

#Accesssibility, #Android, #blind #Friendica, #keyboard #keyboardaccessibility #navigation #NVDA #Pachli #posting, #Talkback #Tweesecake



Since I've been writing a lot about accessibility and the annoyance of modern websites and programs today, I wanted to show you a perfect example of a website that is accessible! Every single thing here reads perfectly. Everything makes sense and is usable. I have never had a single headache using this site. I wish these developers could be hired to work on other things, since they very clearly know what they're doing!

dreamwidth.org

This is my specific journal.

dandylover1.dreamwidth.org

If any Dreamwidth developers are here, thank you for making at least one technological thing in my life easy and enjoyable! At least I don't have to worry about your site suddenly becoming a nightmare, like Facebook. Now could you please consider making a social networking site or at least client for Friendica/Mastodon?

#accessibility #blind #Dreamwidth #Facebook #websitedesign



I think I know what I hate about modern websites, web apps, etc. They use these ridiculous menus, from hamburger menus that collapse, to menu bars. Whatever happened to normal links, radio buttons, checkboxes, and comboboxes? Why does everything have to be a menu, and half hidden, with a million steps to get to it? It's beyond annoying! As for the regular programs, many of those don't have normal menus (accessible with the alt key or alt+f) either, and either have ribbons, which I detest, or strange looping menus with no "okay" and "cancel" buttons. I like to know that I completed a task, not to just leave something. Plus, "cancel" means that I could undo any changes immediately. Fortunately, 99% of the programs I use are normal, since I mostly to use the modern rot. But I can't help it with websites or these new web apps, which is why I am always looking for good alternatives to things. The phrase "keep it simple, stupid", while crude, is most certainly true. Don't even get me started on appliances that use touchscreens instead of dials, switches, and buttons. I'm proud to say I don't own any of those!

#accessibility #apps #blind #computers #menus #simplicity #technology

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

Sensitive content

in reply to Jeff C

I have no idea why on Earth this had a sensitive content label, but anyway. That explained a little. I am not a programmer, just a blind user of NVDA who is sick of this rubbish. But yes, even then, things weren't standard. There are many programs, even from the past, that were far from accessible. But many were, and most did use the standard menus. Many still do. As for websites and certain programs that have adopted this other approach, Firefox was the first one I saw doing it, after version 28. The last version of Thunderbird with normal menus was 60. On both, menus can still be accessed with the alt key and navigated with arrows and tabs, but they are read like webpages, and the options look like links in some cases, all with no buttons to confirm or cancel things. Unfortunately, I don't know of a browser that doesn't do this, including Serpent UXP and Supermium.


Yay! This is much better!

"I'd use blue but right now it doesn't support edits to my knowledge, which is a dealbreaker. Cake and Enafore are the only accessible Windows clients I know of that do. Enafore is pinafore which merged in all the accessibility fixes of Semaphore and is more compatible with Glitch, which is what places like the cave have switched to anyway. So unless Semaphore starts to have a major uptick in development it should be regarded as superseded by Enafore."

Taken from

fosstodon.org/@NVAccess/112002…


We had a question from someone asking, what Mastodon client for Windows do people use which is accessible with NVDA. I thought here might be the perfect place to post that question? What do YOU use, or how do you access Mastodon on PC? Please let us know!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Software #Recommendation #WhatDoYouUse #Accessibility #A11y


in reply to Georgiana Brummell

Never mind. TI can't find a way to edit. I thought it would be a normal button or link. It's in a menu or some such, and when I tried to use it, it did nothing, both on comments and on the post itself.


Does anyone know what is going on with Tweesecake? It worked well until today. Now, when I start it, it shows the welcome screen and says "config", but when I try to use the arrows to select my Friendica profile, the whole program disappears. Then, when I try to restart it, I have to go to the Task Manager and end the task tree, or it will tell me that it's still running, even though I don't see it when I alt+tab through my open programs. For the first time in my life, I have to say that a phone application is better than a Windows client or even website, as I have full access to everything on Friendica with Pachli and not on Tweesecake, Semafore, or Phanpy. Obviously, I can edit things, from posts to my profile on the Friendica site, but it's not as intuitive as it could be and has strange menus and such, instead of normal links.
That is why I was seeking a simpler alternative.
#accessibility #Android #blind #Friendica #Mastodon ##Pachli Tweesecake #Windows
in reply to Georgiana Brummell

Yay! This is much better!

"I'd use blue but right now it doesn't support edits to my knowledge, which is a dealbreaker. Cake and Enafore are the only accessible Windows clients I know of that do. Enafore is pinafore which merged in all the accessibility fixes of Semaphore and is more compatible with Glitch, which is what places like the cave have switched to anyway. So unless Semaphore starts to have a major uptick in development it should be regarded as superseded by Enafore."

Taken from

fosstodon.org/@NVAccess/112002…

in reply to Georgiana Brummell

Okay. So how am I supposed to edit thing? I thought it would be decent, with a normal edit link or button. But of course, no one thinks with common sense these days! I tried the menu and selected "more" and "edit" but it did nothing! I tried looking for an edit box and found nothing. Then, I selected the checkbox and still nothing. But of course, it had a delete button. I guess it was too difficult to make an edit one, too.


I wrote this some time ago but can't find my file. Therefore, the experiences aren't as fresh in my mind as they were then, but it was earlier this month.

I've loved MS-DOS since I was a teenager. For perspective, I'm now forty. I've used various versions of Windows, and still use XP, 7, and 11, all with NVDA, as my primary systems. But every now and then, I've played with Linux to see if it would be a viable alternative for me, especially on an older, small system. This time, I tried three blind-specific versions and two mainstream releases. Only two worked well. All of these were tried on a Del Latitude 3120 running Windows 11, with VMware Workstation and Player 6. I used Mate whenever possible.

Slint: This was so difficult to install that I gave up. It would make sense if it were targeted to expert blind Linux users, but as anything for a general audience, or even those good with technology but not Linux, it's hopelessly complicated. I say this as a DOS user who is accustomed to commands. What on Earth were they thinking!

Accessible Coconut: This installed completely. However, all I could get it to do after that was to say "screen reader on". Nothing else worked, no matter what i did. It's also worth noting that there is no32-bit version.

Vinux: This one really surprised me. I ran it in the past with no problem, but here, I couldn't get it to install. I forget why. All I know is that I never even got to try it. Since I only attempted to install this with Workastation,I ay try with Player.

Trisquel: This installed and worked correctly. I don't remember why I switched. Perhaps, it was because my shared folders and thumb drive weren't being seen. However, I do highly recommend this if you can get it to work properly.

Debian: Again, this installed and worked correctly in both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It works on VMware Player 6 and Workstation 16. However, once again, my thumb drive and shared folders were not accessible, though I think I was able to have them listed some way.

My suspicion was that VMware Tools was not installed, and with a bit of research, I was proven correct. I tried installing Open VM Tools, using a dizzying array of commands, all to no avail. I eventually gave up, yet again. Maybe, I just need to take one of my computers and truly install Linux on it. I am strongly considering Debian, due to its long history, slow rate of change, and supportive community. It just frustrates me that I can't use it fully in a virtual machine, because I would like to learn it first and see if it is a good option for me. And for those who might say get a Mac, my answer is absolutely not. I tried it and didn't like it. If anyone can help me with Linux, please let me know.

#AccessibleCoconut #blind #computers #Debian #Linux #NVDA #Orca #Slint #Trisquel #Vinux #virtualmachines #VmWare #WindowsVista

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I know that, technically, this is a bad thing, due to global warming, etc. But I can't help but love it! I hate the cold, so if I can find an excuse to stay outside in the sun, I will. The last week has been wonderful!

patch.com/new-jersey/across-nj…



Hello, everyone. I am interested in using a mini pc with a power bank. However, my use case is a bit different from most. I am totally blind, so I don't need to worry about a monitor, mouse, or touchpad. My main goal is to get something portable and light-weight to carry in a fanny pack. I already do this with aGalaxy A15 and an iClever BK03 keyboard, but as good as Android 14 is with Talkback, I would like a truly small Windows pc. As much as I love umpcs, from what I understand, the current ones have strange keyboard layouts and many cost several hundreds or even thousands of dollars! I use Windows XP, 7, and 11 on both physical and virtual machines. I am interested in Debian Mate, but I can't seem to get it to work fully in a virtual machine, since it won't recognize shared folders or my thumb drives. Of the machines currently in use, the least powerful is my Aspire One D270 and the most powerful is my Latitude 3120 with a Pentium N6000 processor, 8gb of ram, and 128gb solid state drive. I want something that will at least equal or surpass this.

These are the programs I use. Keep in mind that I won't be using a monitor or mouse, nor do I engage in any graphically-entensive tasks or do any sorts of collaborations with others, use cloud storage, etc.

NVDA (screen reader, all versions of Windows)
Firefox (115 on Windows 7 and latest on Windows 11), Serpent UXP Firefox fork that works with Xp and up/still updated), Supermium (fully modern fork of Chrome for XP and up
Notepad2 or Jarte
MPCHC (light-weight media player)
Virtual Recorder v1.4.0.2 (very simple mp3 recorder)
Thunderbird (Legacy 102, Outlook Express
Cook Timer
KCleaner
Revo Uninstaller (much older version, modern one is not accessible)
Openbook (for ocr/used rarely)
VMWare Player 6.0.4 or Workstation 16

With that in mind, I am considering the MeLE PCG02 Pro with an N100 processor. Since it already has a 3.5mm jack, I wouldn't need to connect a usb adapter to use earbuds (Bluetooth audio doesn't work well with NVDA).

amazon.com/MeLE-PCG02-Pro-Comp…

I would pair this with a Energrid VS820PD 20,000mAh Power Bank.

accessibility.energrid.us.com/…

Would this computer and power bank meet my needs? If not, can you recommend others? Please do not recommend bare bones systems or converters/triggers. While I am comfortable with all sorts of software, I don't feel safe modifying hardware, since I can't see it and don't want to damage anything or get electricuted. At any rate, the thing I like about this power bank is that I could check the battery status, which is important, since the PCG02 Pro doesn't have an internal battery. At any rate, is 10,000mah enough for four to eight hours of use, or should I consider this one with 20,000 mah? The voltage and wattage seem to be compatible with the computer, unlike my current INIU power bank with only 22w output. Plus, it has powered USBc (pd 3.0) which esential for working with a mini pc, from what I've read.

#blind #computers #Energrid #MeLE #minipc #NVDA #powerbank #technology #Windows7 #Windows11 #WindowsXP #virtualmachines

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I made my first upload through #Panoramax yesterday. The entire process was incredibly smooth and the imagery was available right away.

So far, I like it a lot better than #Mapillary.

#OpenStreetMap

in reply to Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

I haven't been brave enough to try the CLI tool yet... I've only tried the web interface! It worked well with 999 pictures. I assume the CLI tool would be a bit faster?
in reply to end0fline

I’m not sure for faster. But once you’ve done the initial login (which is also very painless) you just give the path to the folder with the images you wanna upload and that’s it. The main benefit to me is being able to track progress easily and that you can resume uploads to the series in case your connection drops out!

docs.panoramax.fr/cli/COMMANDS…

in reply to end0fline

@gedankenstuecke
The CLI tool is very sleek. Good upload status, colour use.
One can even track server-side processing from the CLI tool.


I found that many pages and groups from Facebook that I like are on Flipboard. I've heard of it, but only in passing. Apparently, there's a way for me to connect a Flipboard account to Mastodon, which probably means I can do it with Friendica as well.

about.flipboard.com/inside-fli…

#Flipboard #Friendica #Friends #groups #Mastodon