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hahahaha I don't remember this in Neclothitania. This must be the real version!
Boosting lizzard (lizzard): When wearing a bow tie, it's important to give it a little test lick #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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Here are my "nothing lists, broken into unaffordable (but real), and non-existant.
Unaffordable
Edwardian suits, made with real materials/no modern nonsense (morning, sack/lounge suit, black tie, and white tie ... lounge suit is the most difficult to find in reality and it's what I need) and... accessories, including shoes and socks (that require suspenders)
a Glidence (mobility aid for the blind, expensive but don't remember price)
a modern braille display (costs thousands, except Orbit, which I heard is low quality)
a tactile graphics display (see above for price)
singing lessons with a teacher in the style of Alceste Gerunda (would take six and a half years and are very intense/old bel canto)
Non-existant (or no longer exists)
the album of Beau Brummell (really did exist and contained all sorts of lovely poetry and letters, but now probably lost to time, sadly) ... and memoirs of Beau Brummell (he wrote them but then destroyed them)
full operas with Tito Schipa (only Don Pasquale recorded professionally, others are fragments)
a full opera with Mattia Battistini recorded electrically (none exist, either electric or acoustic)
a text-based operating system (commandline and menu options) with a screen reader being a crutial component, and with full control by the user
a version of DOS (MS or otherwise) that can be installed with speech ... and eSpeak for DOS
a time machine
Boosting Curated Hacker News (CuratedHackerNews): Just Buy Nothing: A fake online store to combat shopping addiction
https://justbuynothing.com/
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A delicious dinner, a glass of wine, and the beautiful voice of Tito Schipa filling the air with it's sweet, melodious sound on this Saturday night. Who could ask for more?
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haha It's rare that I get to quote Captain Jesse, of all people, when discussing something modern. But I just did, and for a good reason. Not much is known about him, other than his fame at being the first true biographer of Beau Brummell. But he did love nature, as demonstrated by this quote. Here, then, is what I wrote, along with the quote itself. It was in relation to the allottments in the UK, but it's true everywhere.
This was written by Captain Jesse (as himself, not quoting anyone) in the biography of Beau Brummell, first published in 1844, and then revised by his son in 1886. In the prior section, he discusses the lives of the poor of the time, how they lived in small rooms and then worked in factories. But while that may have changed in the twenty-first century, this part is still true. I find it very sad that it should be when we have more than anyone of Brummell's or even Jesse's time could have imagined possible.
"To them, alas ! Nature
is unknown ; the carol of the lark, the call of the cuckoo, the cheerful hum of the bees returning from their toil, are sounds that the ears of many could not recognise ; of the colour of the harebell or the gorse, the smell of the honeysuckle or the new-mown hay, they are equally ignorant and the fresh air of the early morning in the spring has never fallen on their brow, to gladden their hearts, or invigorate their bodies and their minds. If the artificial state of society with us has created a population thus unhappily circumstanced, it surely is a duty imperative on those who profit by their misery, to alleviate it, and on the legislature of their country, to secure to them the enjoyments of these natural pleasures created by the Almighty to bless alike the rich and poor."
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Great. More stupid changes. What is wrong with the Control Panel!
Boosting The Verge (verge): A decade later, Windows is still bringing Control Panel features to the Settings app https://www.theverge.com/news/756958/windows-11-settings-control-panel-update-mobile-app-notifications-start-menu
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First on my list, touchscreens! Then, inaccessible websites! Fortunately, I can, and do, avoid the first. I also try my best to avoid the second.
Boosting BGR (BGR): Inventions That Actually Made Lives Worse
https://www.grunge.com/1914316/inventions-made-lives-worse/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-BGR
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I finally got the new version of TWBlue to work, and I am very disappointed to find that it still! doesn't offer the ability to edit posts! It is clearly possible to do so, since TweeseCake can and Mastodon certainly can. Why is such an important feature not included here? It does, however, offer the ability to pin and unpin posts and to work with filters, which TweeseCake doesn't. It also seems that, although there is an option to view them, TweeseCake doesn't show favourites. That section is always blank, no matter how many posts I like. TWBlue shows them, though as with many of its other features, it only shows forty. Can't someone just create a client that actually contains all of the features of Mastodon? And before someone says "do it yourself", I am not a programmer. Both clients are excellent for most things. It just frustrates me that, if I really wanted to do everything via a client, I have to use two of them just to accomplish my goals. Fortunately, unlike Akkoma and especially Friendica, someplace.social really is accessible from the main site.
#accessibility #blind #clients #NVDA #Mastodon #posting #TweeseCake #TWBlue #Windows
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Yay! I just filtered all sorts of political posts from my timeline! I love this feature of Mastodon.
https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/
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I just tried QB64, and it was completely inaccessible. Nothing read at all. I have no idea what that's about or why they would break accessibility like that.
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Yay! I found the answer! I tried QuickBasic with JAWS, and it reads everything perfectly! I can, indeed, tab to get to the file list. Flipper isn't good with this program for some reason. No matter. It's working now.
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I am trying to learn QuickBasic 4.5. I am using the files that I found here.
https://qbasic.net/en/top-ten-downloads/
I am learning from this tutorial.
https://www.pcjs.org/documents/books/mspl13/basic/qblearn/
Unfortunately, I don't have any of my real DOS machines or synthesizers available at the moment, so I am using Talking Dosbox. While I am familiar with VocalEyes, at the moment, I am using Flipper, since it comes with built-in speech and is quick. At any rate, the menu system looks like standard menus in Windows, and for that matter, in edit.exe. I can access them normally with the alt key, alt+f, then use the arrows and enter. I am trying to open qcards.bas. I have tried both entering it via the full path "c:\qb45\inc\qcards.bas", and looking for the file list as instructed by the tutorial. But how do I get to the file list? I tried tabbing as I would do in Windows, but that didn't work. Then, I saw "okay, cancel, help", but again, I couldn't activate either one. I tried the first letter of each with no success and tried using the arrow keys and enter, all to no avail.
Perhaps, it's just because I don't know how to use this particular screen reader very well, since I haven't yet read the manual for it. This machine also has ASAP and JAWS installed, and I do have a demo of VocalEyes that I can use if worse comes to worst, but I am very surprised that this isn't working, considering that it's all text-based!
I could skip this section and go straight to writing my first lines of code, but I really want to know how this works. I also know of Quickbasic 7.1, and even a 64-bit version, but I have no idea if they are accessible or how different from 4.5 they are. Any help would be appreciated, particularly from my blind peers. No, I have no interest in programming for Linux. I also prefer procedural-based languages and text-based programs, not graphical ones. If I programmed for Windows, it would be 32-bit XP or 7.
#accessibility #ASAP #blind #DOS #Flipper #JAWS #programming #QuickBasic #VocalEyes
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I just tried QB64, and it was completely inaccessible. Nothing read at all. I have no idea what that's about or why they would break accessibility like that.