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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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KaraLG84, to random
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giving the latest version of JAWS a spin since I plan to update the JAWS to NVDA guide for the next version.
I keep doing NVDA commands and wondering why it's not working.

menelion,
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@KaraLG84 There is a bug with JAWS handling punctuation when Say All with Vocalizer voices, I guess.

arusha, to berlin
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Does anyone know a good online expat community in Berlin who can support with immigration advice?

#askFedi
#expats
#Berlin

menelion,
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@arusha Try https://internations.org.

alexhall, to random

For anyone wanting my Dice World username: mehgcap. My favorite game is Yatzy, followed closely by Farkle. I'm also happy to play Threes or Twenty-Four. I prefer bonus games if you have the bonus rolls for it.

menelion,
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@alexhall Oh, I started a farkle game because you mentioned it. then will also start a yahtzee :)

mnnwvn, to random Russian
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если вам интересно, как работает моя логика, то вот:

nix

nix звучит как six

nix+six

sinix

sin*ix

убираем i

snx

sell now xenomorph

значит nix связан с продажей ксеноморфов в друх измерениях, всё просто

menelion,
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@mnnwvn Гениально же! Если бы вы рассказали мне это на собеседовании, были бы немедленно приняты на работу, причём неважно кем, должность бы нашлась потом :)

alexhall, to random

I've played Farkle with someone whose Dice World username is lisa621 almost every day for years. We've even exchanged a few messages, usually when one of us rolls six 1s and gets a ridiculous store. If that account is yours, ping me. It'd be neat to know who's behind that account.

menelion,
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@alexhall What's your name in DiceWorld, btw?

menelion, to random
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I've just tried to call #HumanWare Europe in the UK. Guess what they told me to do? Call on the 2nd of January. Thank you so much.

menelion,
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@serichsen It's solved already, thanks Scott! I was wondering if I could reset a BrailleNote touch Plus. I was provided with a device for testing and added my main GMail account onto it, so wanted to make sure nobody could read it :)

menelion,
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@Yinshi Всякие слепецкие штуки: тифлоорганайзеры, плееры и прочее.

menelion,
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@Yinshi Слушай, вопрос совершенно не по теме. Как ты всё же учил или учишь китайский? Можешь посоветовать сайты, методики, что-то хотя бы?

menelion,
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@Yinshi Да уже давно думаю, как к нему подступиться, если честно. Там всё же многое завязано на иероглифы и их начертание, а тут без зрения как бы.

menelion,
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@Yinshi А вроде они латиницей печатают точно так же, а потом выбирают иероглиф. А для каны наверняка раскладки есть. А пиньинь — это хорошо, конечно, но всё же интересно, как ты его используешь. Специальную раскладку ставил? После пробела иероглифы выбираешь?

menelion,
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@Yinshi Нет, не пытался, потому что сначала очень хочу иврит из этой же группы. Но что тренировка, то тренировка. Я тут прочитал про языки первопоселенцев Америки типа навахо, и вот тут-то я понял, что такое реальный выверт мозга.

menelion,
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@Yinshi Да, они много где эпичные. Например, у бушменов Калахари есть прекрасный язык къхонг. Первый звук названия — это такой щелчок, как изображают пробку от бутылки, потом резкий «х», как в кавказских или нидерландском, а потом «о носовой». В этом великолепном языке что-то около ста шестидесяти фонем, из которых 83 только щёлкающих согласных, а среди гласных есть обычные, носовые, шепчущие (murmured) и придыхательные (breathy-voiced). И это только фонетика. Я в своё время дооолго охреневал.

TheQuinbox, to random

It just occurred to me that come June 22, I'll have had a phone for 10 years. Getting my 4S was truly my entrance into online communities, and so I'm very close to having been on the internet for 10 years. I definitely, definitely had access too young. In June of 2014, I was 8. That's just a tiny bit insane.

menelion,
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@cordova5029 @TheQuinbox I've been online since July 2003…

menelion, to opensource
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Dear fediverse, what is an adequate freeware (even better, if #openSource) replacement for #Adobe #Photoshop for #Windows? Current needs: take a painting made by hand, make it a vector graphics image and do some other stuff with it. Sorry for being so vague, I'm totally blind, it's for my wife who is not on fediverse (yet). Thank you so much! #Help

menelion,
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@Ryan thanks, I heard about Gimp before but thought it was for Linux only.

simon, to random

For several months now, I've been using an app called Due for reminders, and I think it is helping me more than any other app I've tried. It has interactive notifications that let you reschedule or complete reminders from the lock screen; Siri support; a set of really nice sounds that can be chosen per-reminder; all the usual recurring features; and best of all, customizable auto-snoowhze, which causes the reminder to repeat until you either reschedule or complete it. Its tagline is "never forget anything again", and I'm not sure the developer could have done a better job making that happen. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/due-reminders-timers/id390017969

menelion,
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@simon Wow, thank you! am I right that it will nag you until you turn it off? That's the feature I've been searching for in all reminder apps. Like, not beep twice and go away, but reeeeally annoy me till I shut the reminder up.

menelion,
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@simon Cool, thank you!

mariyadelano, to history
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The more I learn about #history of the Soviet Union, the more I realize just how much my native #Ukraine was actively stifled, prevented from developing and innovating, and forced into this image of a backwards and hopeless nation.

Our people have always been so phenomenal, talented, ambitious, kind, and creative. But they’ve been punished, scared, and intimidated into a terrible subservient existence for so many decades and centuries.

I love Ukraine, but god history is unfair.

menelion,
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@mariyadelano Not only Ukraine. I've just finished a book about how parts of modern China were devastated and terrorized by communists. Red plague and brown plague are basically the same.

menelion,
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@mariyadelano Well, I'm also Ukrainian, but still it's relevant for all of our poor planet. So many peoples oppressed, exiled, terrorized, murdered, just horrible.

weirdwriter, to random

I want to move my GitHub repositories to and my question is, github seems to have a robust terminal/Cli program. I tried to register for a codeberg account, but they’re accessibility solution for getting around the captcha is to send them an email with registration details. Has anyone else done this? And if you have, and if you got an account, what is their terminal support like on windows?

menelion,
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@weirdwriter I do have a @Codeberg account, but I really don't remember whether there was a captcha when I did sign up. I need to talk to them. In general, people behind @forgejo which is the Git solution powering Codeberg are very friendly and they listen to our accessibility needs. I'm mentioning some of them so they can chime in an join the discussion. @fnetX @Gusted

serge, to random
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Shabbat Shalom to all my Jewish friends

Stay strong and proud

menelion,
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@serge Fair enough. But what does it actually mean in your case? To me it can be anything from a grandmother to a pastern (the part above a horse's hoof) :))

menelion,
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@serge Wow! Thank you, that was really useful!

menelion, to iOS
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Dear blind #iOS users! Please note: in latest iOS betas there is an extremely nasty bug where several apps turn your phone into totally unusable state. You cannot reload VoiceOver, you cannot do anything at all besides restarting the phone. Be super mega careful! I know so far one German app (very important, it's PhotoTan app from #DeutscheBank which basically is needed for authorization of every significant bank operation), and one Russian app. I even don't know what to suggest if you have no sighted help and no spare device where you can run BeMyEyes or so. Anyway, if you encounter such an app, do the volume up — volume down — side button dance to force restart, I have no other idea. Again, be super careful! I'd like to CC @JonathanMosen because it might need to be spread for a wider audience, and @lynnskyi because I know you use only your phone, so again, be extremely careful, you'll never know what app will cause it to behave like this. Thanks.

menelion,
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@Yinshi короче, польские друзья докопались. Я не знаю, как такую херню можно было сделать, но факт: если у тебя телефон на языке интерфейса X, при этом есть приложение на языке интерфейса Y, и для этого приложения есть voiceOver Activity, то есть немалый шанс, что ты загружаешь приложеньку и получаешь кирпич. Ну смотри: у меня телефон на английском, приложение Дойче Банка на немецком. Запускаешь и ОП! — пипец.

cariefisher, to random
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Excited to share a new blog post detailing GitHub's journey in fostering accessibility through our in-house Champions program. Learn how we empower accessibility advocates within our organization to drive positive change and gain insights for fostering accessibility in your own organization! 🙌

https://github.blog/2024-05-01-empowering-accessibility-githubs-journey-building-an-in-house-champions-program

menelion,
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@cariefisher thank you for your reply. Yes, I have, and see the dates please: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/7876. It's a really longstanding but easy-to-fix one.

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