I must say folks, for screen reader users specifically, and often times many other groups as well, the command line is, and always was, the most rock-solid accessibility tool. If you've got a system of knowing and quickly retrieving commands and their sequences, be that from your head, a lookup database, the internet, provided its still there, you can do anything the software allows. Full stop. There is nothing preventing you from using any feature that the environment is programmed to allow, and often times, stuff it does not allow, to occur. There is nothing to click, nothing to do but read and write text. If you've got a screen reader you know well, and a good comfortable keyboard, and a good reference and understanding, you can do anything. This is why I choose Mikrotik. I can learn their CLI. I can read their insanely dense wall of text manual. Its all there. It is not an app that may get me what I need in five clicks today, and then all of a sudden shows me a blank screen tomorrow. So long as the CLI is maintained and updated, the rest is text, and absolutely nothing more than that. Plane and simple text. Learn it if you don't know it. Just pick up any CLI or API. Just learn it, and find products that make use of it. There are a lot more coming, all thanks to this new fangled AI thing.
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchHello. I am a totally blind tech nerd, in both my personal and professional lives.
I enjoy tinkering with computer software and hardware, coding, databases, client/server administration, diagnostics and technical support, and all the rest of that jazz.
I administrate servers around the globe for database and web application hosting, VoIP telephony and amateur radio communications. I also do backend database administration and web application programming.
Other interests include music, documentaries, biology, criminology, SciFi, being silly, and pondering the meaning of life.
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@arstechnica Not quite up to the hype, eh Amazon? See if any of the workers you fucked over by firing in the name of AI give two shits to come back to help you fix it. Perhaps if you increased their salaries by 10X.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social Consequences of illegal, inconsiderate parking. Keep it up! I need a new white mobility cain, as the current one is actually pitted and dented as a result of teaching objects in my way a lesson.
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@Marconius Yes! Do it! And if you're making a visual presentation there, also be sure to slip in a slide or two at random places in your deck that simply show a black screen. Then come up with some clever talk over. Act like your machine is broken, the projector is broken, the whatever reason the slide is showing nothing. Then, after pretending to struggle for five minutes with it, switch to the next slide, which will be a screen full of buttons with the actual words "unlabelled button" on them. Act all surprised that you even got the next slide to work, and then even more surprised at who ruined your slides, and how in the hell you're supposed to navigate this sea of unlabelled buttons. Then, after pretending to be frustrated at this outcome, and wasting the audiences time, switch to a new slide that says "the life of a disabled user: Accessibility barriers that cause real barriers. It might ruin your presentation reputation, by those who are too inept to get the demonstration, but there's nothing like showing a demo of the real thing in action either.
Since the peripheral known as a mouse exists, and it sits next to a keyboard, the keyboard should be called the catboard, so it can eat the mouse, and all it's UI implications.
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@Em0nM4stodon Absolutely spot on with this one. And in regards to the Discord news, which I'm imagining prompted this excellent post, among many other instances of this stuff going on, they can treat me like a teen, and I will treat them with the door.
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Four Green Crewmembers, AKA healthy and well, Stable 1 configuration of the vehicle, which means upright and stable. Textbook landing. Recovery procedures initiated.
I've been enjoying spending time with my special person virtually. The distance makes it difficult at times, but we're planning a visit in May. As for Easter, I was a bit uncertain as to her favourite things, and Amazon didn't have the one thing I was sure of, but I found something else that she enjoys, and she will be getting it, if a couple days late. But its the effort and thought that count. As for me, I'm going to see both sides of the family for dinners, both Saturday and Sunday.
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Splashdown confirmed! welcome home Integrity!
Seriously, if Mastodon would get their shit together, and finally, once and for all, fixed the "I don't know about you, so you don't exist" problem, when it comes to instances talking to each other regarding accounts, it would probably have more users.
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@treuss TL.DR: Read through all release notes and perform all steps unique to each set of notes, as well as all steps common to all release notes.
You can do a direct upgrade, but only if all of the release notes for each upgrade shows that the steps are the same. The real big thing is pre and post migrations. You must do these for most anything major. However, some versions require extra steps beyond these, and they would need to be completed during the upgrade to the final target release, even if they do not apply to that release. For example, a while ago, some secrets were required to be added to the env.production file. Many mastoadmins got caught here, as they would have skipped the version requiring these keys added, and then they would not have seen this requirement in the final release notes of the target version they were upgrading to, and thus would have resulted in a broken installation until this step was completed.
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@erin Congrats! Its about time those fuckers over at Robbers get put in their place and learn that just because they're a triopoly, doesn't mean no holds barred, and their own rules, nor the rule of law don't apply to them.
Bird of the day (birds@moresci.sale): Random bird in the ebird database. https://ebird.org/explore
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Local Communications appear to be one-way, NASA initiating satellite phone call to the crew. Rebooting the ground radio. Here's hoping its not running Windows.
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Integrity is powered down, and mission authority handed to the ground exploration team for final recovery and transport to the primary recovery ship.
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Coming in fast, but perfectly, with the main chute deployed.
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@BorrisInABox I doubt that is the case, but it does bring up a good point for all to consider, myself included, that those who truly care will stick around, those who don't, won't. And its better for all concerned not to worry about it so much.
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Also, clearly, I really aught to learn how not to care so much. People can do what they want.
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@mastodonmigration @FediTips Guilty until prooven innocent, in the court of society. No one knows what truly happened, the story certainly is scant on details, as that's usually how unresolved legal proceedings are. No one but this person knows what they did, and why. Most I can say is be aware, but reserve judgement. Perhaps refrain from engaging in financial dealings with the person and their instance until certainty of legal judgement is rendored, but don't make his life even more of a living hell.
Things have once again been an insanely intense, but insanely enjoyable and loving passtime over the throughout the last while. I am finding it difficult to break away from it and get some important matters taken care of.
I do thank the people in my life who have been ever so supportive and instrumental in my attempts to diagnose, and otherwise support me emotionally through this whole ordeal.
@announcements Thanks for the heads up. Good luck with the monster migration. I've been following it for months now, and the trials and tribulations, the sweat and tears, and the headaches along the way have sounded trying to be sure. But the time has come, and I do hope the endgame is a win!
@Extelec I whole-heartedly agree, but you know what? I didn't and don't have to reboot to agree, because Windows leveled me up even more! It completely hosed my primary Winblows machine.
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@evilcookies98@dragonscave.space You totally flip your lid, and tell them off. How else are they going to get the message? LOL.
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@i0null@infosec.exchange I don't come from the land down under, but I do maintain a VPS there, and the packets sure do drop, and the bits very often blunder.
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After a brief issue with satellite communications, local contact has been established. Thirty minute power-down suggested by Houston, however, crew will decide and confirm a return to the nominal fifteen minute powerdown, given re-established communications.
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@ablade@mastodon.stickbear.me I don't have the name of a lawyer, but writing to offer my support. I do hope there is some sort of rental increase cap law in your state, of which he cannot legally go beyond. That is likely the only way you will legally be able to fight this and win. Alternatively, there is hopefully a legal landloard and tenant tribunal of some form to whom you may register a complaint, and while those proceedings are in process, your eviction may not be enforceable until they are resolved in either parties favour. All these things are true in Ontario, Canada, which means absolutely nothing in your case, but hopefully opens the door to possibilities in your state. Hoping for the best here.
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@austinnix@dragonscave.space Global service providers require hundreds of localization parameters. Think languages, currencies, taxation formulas, telephony specifications, etc. all of it, for every single civilized nation on Earth.
My word, I truly do miss my main desk rig. I really aught to do something about getting it up and running. Basically, no display when entering BIOS/UEFI or one-time boot menu. Makes OS repair just a tad impossible. It needs a test bench with video diagnostics.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social You're not wrong buddy. All economic data of situations that have developed like this points to an inevitable crash. Right now, its in the crackle phase. Things will then begin to snap, and then things will pop. Just like Rice Crispies, although, not exactly in the same order as Rice Crispies, LOL. The key is to be smart by diversifying, and remaining calm. Its the panic buying and firesales that bring down economies.
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@simon@procrastodon.net That's a lot of TV equipment. I can't say I can relate in any way on that front, but what I can relate to is not caring for any of the multitude of inconsistent interfaces and user experiences across a multitude of platforms. I have multiple collections of things I got from sources who got them from their sources, and thus Winamp, a pair of Corsair HS80 headphones, or my mixing console and studio monitors do just fine for media consumption for me. When mobile, iPhone and some sort of media player that supports network playback over aVPN connection, and that's all I really need and want.
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@Bri@fwoof.space @BorrisInABox@fwoof.space @JamminJerry@mastodon.stickbear.me @remixman@kind.social In fact, so much A, that the version of Elloquence used in JAWS 2026, and probably a lot of other versions and incarnations say tripple A, as opposed to the quad A that it actually is. Fooled me for years, until I examined it by character. LOL.
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@Denise08 Unfortunately, hate to add to the ug factor, but the market is climbing faster and higher than ever in the history of computers. its bad. However, I do hope that your technology situation is able to improve through some means.
Wahoo! Ten years retroactive, as well as this year's Canada disability Savings Bond was just deposited into my Registered Disability Savings Plan account. Time to make a max catchup contribution to triple those funds with the Canada Disability Savings Grant, and then invest into a slumping market, LOL. But gotta start somewhere, sometime.
This minute is secure, when viewed in 12-hour format.
Wow! Looks like Glitch-soc broke something serious with the Mastodon API. Anyone else running latest getting "this page is not correct" responses to streaming API calls, rendoring streaming broken and useless?
Testing. Is this thing working?
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@simon @menelion The explanation is money. Apple and Google have been in bed since Safari debuted on iPhone. It is why Google is Safari's default search engine. So they have the friendliest of contracts with each other, and likely do this as a matter of coarse. Doesn't make it right, but it explains everything.
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@mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca Yes, poor kitty indeed. I'm glad he was saved and is doing well. I truly hope it was not an act of human malice that got him in the situation, but perhaps curiosity at an industrial site that almost, but not quite, killed the cat.