Re: OT: Anyone blind 18+ from Japan / Taiwan around?

2023-07-15 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
For any and all who want to contact me (Japan, Nama audio recording software)\ jo...@pobox.com . Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello Joel! > > thanks for you quick reply! > > Please, could you send me your eMail, or another contact method? > > This list

Re: OT: Anyone blind 18+ from Japan / Taiwan around?

2023-07-15 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
for blind general discussion napísal(a): > Hiya, > > I'm not blind or native, but 18+, hanging around the list, > and did live in Japan for many years. Ask away, if you dare! > > Joel > >> Hello everyone, >> slightly off-topic, but I wonder, are there any blind fellow

Re: OT: Anyone blind 18+ from Japan / Taiwan around?

2023-07-15 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hiya, I'm not blind or native, but 18+, hanging around the list, and did live in Japan for many years. Ask away, if you dare! Joel > Hello everyone, > slightly off-topic, but I wonder, are there any blind fellows from these > countries hanging around on this list? > > I

OT: Anyone blind 18+ from Japan / Taiwan around?

2023-07-15 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello everyone, slightly off-topic, but I wonder, are there any blind fellows from these countries hanging around on this list? I love travelling and would like to visit these countries sooner or later, so it would be great to find someone native to ask few questions. Thanks! Best regards

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
The Fediverse is probably the best for what you want. I'm not sure whether Pleroma does it yet, but I know Friendica has the concept of forums, which are actually groups within the larger community that is the individual server or the universe that is the Fediverse itself. These forums or

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
TL; DR: mostly trying to clarify and perhaps resurrect the original topic... Although I (accidentally!) caused this thread to take off in the direction of "blind community" and now "blind culture", I've mostly kept out of the ensuing discussion. However, I'd like to j

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Okay, I missed most of this thread because I've never cared for Facebook, Twitter, et al. and frankly hate how they've caused a decline in more traditional web forums and tend to bring out the worst in people, but my general thoughts on the "Blind Community" are as such: As a general

re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
oysttyer cannot authorize with twitter and I expect all other 3rd party apps can't authorize either. Got no reply from oysttyer on twitter so downloaded the app and attempted an authorization and made no mistakes in entering the authorization url either. For those predominately using console when

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
The evidence I found surprising was blind community exists because of government  product orders? as if only members of this blind community live in the States, and that to belong some government must be providing your products? Perhaps this is the "blind culture" mentioned her

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
applies to some IOS and Android products as well. One need not be using a system to test that system. On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Le 30/01/2023 à 02:31, Karen a wrot : Hi, Fine description. But my speech is hardware entirely, with no known drivers written

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Kyle, Agreed...looking forward to this answer, though it may be off topic. The evidence I found surprising was blind community exists because of government product orders? as if only members of this blind community live in the States, and that to belong some government must be providing your

Re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
> On Jan 30, 2023, at 08:02, Kyle wrote: > > Not sure about Bonfire, but I know Pleroma runs its own Gitlab, so I find it > absolutely awesome that I won't have to get an account on a Microsoft website > to report such issues, unless Phoenix itself is hosted on Github or similar. > ... Both

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
boarding schools for the blind in the past and that made marketing to that created community that much easier. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 30 Jan 2

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
And if the blind community doesn't exist, then blind culture couldn't exist either. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 7:24 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > If the blind community doesn't exist, no blindness ind

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Le 30/01/2023 à 02:31, Karen a wrot : > Hi, > Fine description. > But my speech is hardware entirely, with no known drivers written to support   > the synthesizer..or not for Linux > given  this topic started with Orca as the solution, such is even less likely > to > exist. > Karen Karen, In

Re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-30 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Some Mastodon alternatives (e.g., Bonfire, Pleroma) are based on Elixir and Phoenix. Chris McCord, the main author of Phoenix, has said that a11y will be a major focus of his current efforts. So, if anyone is using one of these platforms and encounters a11y issues, be sure to report them! -

Re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Devin Prater staggered into view and mumbled: Thank goodness for Mastodon lol Problem is I heard that many of the Mastodon front ends were either going away or being dropped as well. And Mastodon tends to suffer from some pretty heavy-handed moderation that results in public servers being

Re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thank goodness for Mastodon lol Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com Https://devinprater.micro.blog > On Jan 29, 2023, at 11:53 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > I'm on twitter with an account so I asked the oysttyer people about their > project status. S

re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'm on twitter with an account so I asked the oysttyer people about their project status. Something on one of their web pages claimed to have been unmuzzled by twitter. No date on that post so don't know if that happened after that article that generated all of the traffic on this list. If I

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
inclusion, still feels like a rich direction. Karen On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: This question was brought up on another list with quite a long thread and the answer appears to be no. Orca wasn't written to support hardware synthesizers. Jude

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
oysttyer written in perl rainbow-reader written in python and I can't remember the name of the emacs client all work in console interface or worked until having been blocked by twitter. It would be useful for any interested to monitor these projects since one or more of them may eventually make

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
owdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Is there a way of using this, or any hardware synthesizer with orca? > Orca is the baseline for these twitter alternatives after all. > Karen > > > > On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Is there a way of using this, or any hardware synthesizer with orca? Orca is the baseline for these twitter alternatives after all. Karen On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Isn’t it true that you can also use hardware synthesizers with Speech Dispatcher? I

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
According to Ryan Mann Isn’t it true that you can also use hardware synthesizers with Speech Dispatcher? I thought I remembered seeing modules for synths such as Apollo. I don't think so. I have seen hardware support in Speakup and available as Emacspeak servers, but not in

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Isn’t it true that you can also use hardware synthesizers with Speech Dispatcher? I thought I remembered seeing modules for synths such as Apollo. Ryan Mann Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist rmann0...@gmail.com 386-383-5175 > On Jan 29, 2023, at 7:43 PM, Linux for bl

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Fine description. But my speech is hardware entirely, with no known drivers written to support the synthesizer..or not for Linux given this topic started with Orca as the solution, such is even less likely to exist. Karen On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Le 30/01/2023 à 00:40, Karen wrote : > Speech dispatcher is, to the best of my knowledge, a software speech source > only. No. Speech dispatcher takes as input the text sent by screen readers like orca or fenrir or speechd-up or speechd-el or emacspeak and send it to a speech synthesizer (like

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
with main line sources like Apple causes issues. On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: According to Karen: I cannot use Orca, because the speech synthesis chosen for the program at the  very least causes dizziness for me, and at worse risks  episodes that mirror those

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. many factors fortify why a person uses the technology they choose. certainly not everyone is a programmer, i. e. develop your own tool for access. On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: There are different synthesizers that can be used with Orca. I’m assuming you

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
such  a blanket statement somewhat concerning. I made no blanket statements, and you are also not any kind of expert. How does this differ from those speaking of a blind community? Again, I made no blanket statements, I simply pointed out the fact that use of a more versatile screen reading

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
of the web sites I wanted/needed to use were either impossible or inefficient to use with this browser. Ryan Mann Certified Assistive Technology Instructional Specialist rmann0...@gmail.com 386-383-5175 > On Jan 29, 2023, at 5:46 PM, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > Onl

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
personifies, making such a blanket statement somewhat concerning. How does this differ from those speaking of a blind community? as for the definition of accessible, its a w3c one. Specifically that tools must be browser device, and user agent agnostic. Karen On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, Linux

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
According to Karen Yes, the new Twitter owner fired the entire accessibility team, but how are these services defining accessibility? First of all, by having API's that allow the applications you choose to interact with them. by its actual meaning regardless of technology used, works from

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Kyle, Thanks for echoing some of my thoughts. I honestly was confused, remain confused by the first posters question. There is no such thing as a blind community, because blindness is not a uniformed experience for anyone, at all. References to quote the blind quote as a composite whole

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
According to Jude: If the blind community doesn't exist, no blindness industry can or could exist either. The marketing of products from that goes out all over and interest from the community informs and drives Government purchasing decisions on some very expensive technology. Yet one more

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
According to Rich Morin: I'm delighted to hear that Pleroma is working on improving a11y. I'm already a big fan of the Elixir language (which Pleroma is based on), so that's a double win for me... Pleroma also runs their own Gitlab instead of relying on Microsoft to host their code, which

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
If the blind community doesn't exist, no blindness industry can or could exist either. The marketing of products from that goes out all over and interest from the community informs and drives Government purchasing decisions on some very expensive technology. This has been happening since

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'm delighted to hear that Pleroma is working on improving a11y. I'm already a big fan of the Elixir language (which Pleroma is based on), so that's a double win for me... - Rich Morin > On Jan 27, 2023, at 16:28, Kyle wrote: > > ... [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) is another that is

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Well, first I would say that I am not in "the blind community." Naturally, I belong to some communities that include or are specific to people who are blind or visually impaired, but "the blind community" taken as a whole largely does not exist, nor would I be interested in

re: twitter alternatives for blind users

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
The reddit platform is older than twitter and has been accessible for quite a long time. Android users can get and use red reader which so far as I know is the best of the reddit clients especially once the accessibility option in the app gets enabled. I don't know what's available on windows

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Unfortionetly, that is what a twitter client does or used to do. they have > disaboled thirdparty access to twitter as a resauolt, you could not even get a > weeb browser to d9o it unless it was the twiter web interface.  My windows  > clie

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, is the day I will delete my account. I am on mastodon which a lot of blind users are gravitating to since the CEO has removed the accessibility team over there. Matthew On 1/27/2023 1:58 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: The pity of it is that twitter used to be blind accessible

Re: Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
The pity of it is that twitter used to be blind accessible. Once upon a time I could use it with command line scripts and access it with the lynx (the cat) browser. But all that changed as the web evolved more and more towards hiding links behind javascript machinations. The problem

Twitter alternatives for the blind community?

2023-01-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
was: [TechTalk] Twitter Bans Third-Party Apps (fwd) I'm neither blind nor much of a Twitter user, so YMMV. That said... I wonder what Twitter alternatives (could) exist for blind users. Obviously, there are mailing lists (such as this one :-), but these mostly appear to be quite specialized

Re: Can a blind person run fedora as a live disk?

2022-11-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > As a side noote, > > > If you use workstation, you will need to do some tweeking and switch to x

Re: Can a blind person run fedora as a live disk?

2022-11-29 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
it is using, but it is still in testing. Thanks. Matthew On 11/28/2022 7:44 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: It is supposed to work. Just press alt+super+s about a minute after you boot it. You should hear it say "Screen reader on" and everything should start talking at

Re: Can a blind person run fedora as a live disk?

2022-11-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
It is supposed to work. Just press alt+super+s about a minute after you boot it. You should hear it say "Screen reader on" and everything should start talking at that point. ~Kyle ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com

Can a blind person run fedora as a live disk?

2022-11-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi the subject speaks for its self. I downloaded the fedora live disk ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-05-01 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, convenient keystrokes, not depending on a desktop environment being set up, etc. As far as I recall, some blind Linux users including me have been wanting such a browser for more than ten years, yet such software has never been developed, which in turn demonstrates one thing I've read in an article

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-15 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm personally using a Vintage 2016, possibly 2015 flip phone and the only reason I ever connect it to my computer is because that's the only convenient place to plug in a USB A to microB cable for charging... and I'd have text messaging blocked on my phone

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-15 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Answers inline So you don't want to be able to connect your phone to your computer and be able to manage texts, notifications, calls and what ever else from the computer then? I can do that. There are fre and open source apps on F-Droid that do exactly this, that is if I wanted it, though

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
on even midranged hardware. But I did join this list to have Linux questions hopefully addressed. The last question I asked didn't get any answers, boo! Cheers: Aaron Spears, AKA Valiant8086 General Partner at Valiant Galaxy Associates "we make (VERY GOOD AUDIOGAMES) for the blind com

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Meh, every other list I'm on, more than a dozen, can show my name without my email address, so I'm feeling like this is overkill. Cheers: Aaron Spears, AKA Valiant8086 General Partner at Valiant Galaxy Associates "we make (VERY GOOD AUDIOGAMES) for the blind comunity" http://valiant

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
locations. Karen On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: That actually makes a lot of sense when it's put like that. See I don't think showing names or adresses would solve that issue, if anything it'd just rear its ugly head again. Plus the scraping of email addresses

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
LOL you knew what I was gonna say before I even read the message. Yeah I guess all that stuff can be turned off, but even the slowest Linux with as much stuff installed and running by default as is possible, probably even tons of docker applications running on it, is much less sluggish than

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Yeah, it's slow and clunky until you run a tweaker tool to turn off a lot of garbage. And you shouldn't have to do that, before you say so Kyle lol. - Original Message - From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:15:22

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I could. I'll probably try that at some point again, since I know I'm not going to want to be installing and uninstalling desktos and such, pretty much settled on Mate. But Fedora shouldn't be *that* bad. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 4:25 PM Linux for blind

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Well Devin, Fedora being a way for RH to test new versions of software before they include them in RH and provide new release often, no wonder if you find some issues. Maybe you could try Debian? Didier Le 14/04/2022 à 21:56, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Because Fed

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Yeah, lots of stuff like that, trying to regain the web 1.0 vibe. I do wish NeoCities had used SSH/SFTP or something, that would have been a bit easier to get into. But I have WSL so it's all good. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 4:16 PM Linux for blind general

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I thought Geocities itself came back, or got forked and came back, or, something like that? There's at least two or three, oocities, neocities, geocities.ws, et al really... On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:11:46PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Win11 uses less system resour

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Years since I used it on a regular basis, but it's only been a couple of weeks since I used it for any purpose at all, and it's slow. Very slow, especially compared to what I'm used to using. I still don't want to have anything to do with Microsoft and their shady business practices, but the

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
that Windows hasn't fixed. But my thing is accessibility; I just can't let idiology override the need for good, solid accessibility. Usually. Android is another story, and is actually improving. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 4:05 PM Linux for blind general discussion

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
For what it's worth, I did find Windows XP far more stable than any of the Win9x family... and Windows 2000 more stable than XP when I threw it on the family computer around the time Vista came out... and the few times I've had to use a Win 7 machine it didn't give me any trouble... though

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Oh, well yeah I don't use Outlook, I use the Gmail web app. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:53 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > We have a machine here running Windows 10. It can be flaky--not so much > the oper

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
for blind general discussion wrote: Wow. None of that happens anymore. It's been years since you've used Windows, it seems. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:08 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: Also Windows just works. Nothin

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind, particularly Mutt, Emacs, and Emacspeak

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
ot;  I can only hope and try to work at it. Al On 4/14/22 14:11, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Al, to be fair I'm not sure when you last tried Mutt, ut I've run across a lot of sample configs that are just copy into a text file and plug your info in and save as .muttrc in your home

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 04:45:03PM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I beg to differ. I am registered to several mailing lists, none of them hide > the > names or addresses in the messages themselves (but they do hide part of the > email address in the archives).

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Wow. None of that happens anymore. It's been years since you've used Windows, it seems. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 3:08 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Also Windows just works. Nothing just crashes out o

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Also Windows just works. Nothing just crashes out of nowhere, When did that start happening? I always found just sitting down at a Microsoft computer to be a wrestling match. Random crashes usually at just the wrong time, many hoops to jump through just to do things I took for granted even

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
it's annoying how many services insist on using a person's e-mail address or phone number as a unique identifier... its one thing if they have legitimate reason to contact you outside of their platform, but there's plenty that would function just fine knowing nothing about me beyond my

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
a subsystem for Android now so I can run Android apps like Pocketcast. Of course, if Linux worked for me I could just use GPodder. Ah well. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:05 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Kyle and I

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
to several sample ones to use. Thoughh I'm still unsure if anyone's made sensible modern keybinds or emaccs/emacspeak however, I've no clue where to even begin with that with the sheer amount of keys/keystrokes that'd need changing up On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 02:01:27PM -0400, Linux for blind general

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, Linux for blind general discussion wrote > Forgot to mention, but yeah, it's annoying how many services insist on > using a person's e-mail address or phone number as a unique > identifier... its one thing if they have legitimate reason to contact > you outside of their platform,

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, and possibly Mutt, but now I don't feel like such a dummy for having had trouble with this software in my early and even later days with Linux. Best! Al On 4/13/22 19:34, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: These debates can be both informative and useful for those new to linux who

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Forgot to mention, but yeah, it's annoying how many services insist on using a person's e-mail address or phone number as a unique identifier... its one thing if they have legitimate reason to contact you outside of their platform, but there's plenty that would function just fine knowing nothing

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
In that case, take your attention-loving self to a Microsoft list instead of trying to advertise for them here. This is a Linux-related list, not a Microsoft list. We don't want or need the commercial advertisements here. ~Kyle ___ Blinux-list

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
as a conditioned counter balance to all the people on the Internet who over quote... and my annoyance with over quoting likely was older when I went blind than my blindness is now, though the inability to just tune out the quotes and scroll past has only reinforced said annoyance. As for being "

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Kyle and I get good, stable Linux systems however though Devin. What happened to you being the voice for oh just install Fedora, and use emacs. Why the sudden shift to MS's side of things then? On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Sir,

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
to change from whatever it is you're using. Like when I talked about Gemini and such. Also I don't *love* Microsoft. I get from them a good, stable system with community support by blind users and developers. And in return, they get whatever data they can out of my computer use. Personally

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:05:50AM -0400, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Please try this in a VM first. I tried to dualboot once, it didn't work, > > > That's because Microsoft still thinks they're the shizz and they overwrite > your sensible bootloader with their o

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Please try this in a VM first. I tried to dualboot once, it didn't work, That's because Microsoft still thinks they're the shizz and they overwrite your sensible bootloader with their own. The virtual machine is in fact your best bet, and I would take this one step further and say just

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
OK enough with the Microsoft commercials. We are past tired of them by now. We see more than enough of them on TV. What happened to your beloved EMACS? You will not convince anyone here that your new-found love of Microsoft is any good for anyone. Go crawl back into your microsoft hole and

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
They can use their phone number instead. What? You want me to give my phone number to Microsoft? That'll be the damn day for sure. My cell phone number is something I won't give out to companies I don't trust, and the companies I don't trust don't like disposable ones. Forget that. I'll

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'd like to know why identities are not revealed, I have my guesses, privacy, security, avoiding harvesting by bots and being suddenly swarmed with spam just for posting on a list...but it'd be good to know the reason why from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Well, I'm not the horse, but I

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
unsubscribe. Have a good day, Didier Le 14/04/2022 à 16:06, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > That actually makes a lot of sense when it's put like that. See I don't think > showing names or adresses would solve that issue, if anything it'd just rear > its ugly head again. Plus the

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
That actually makes a lot of sense when it's put like that. See I don't think showing names or adresses would solve that issue, if anything it'd just rear its ugly head again. Plus the scraping of email addresses, too.i On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 06:53:59AM -0700, Linux for blind general

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Many years ago, whenever myself-and-others would post here, almost immediately a graphic language reply from a spammer would get sent. So eventually hiding our mail addresses solved those issues. Chime ___ Blinux-list mailing list

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
You don't draw a line anywhere. People are going to use their computers however they want and trying to segregate them by category doesn't make much sense. Deaf people need specialized phones. Quadroplegic people need specialized hardware. Deaf Blind people need braille. So what? Getting upset

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 08:37:19AM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > I am Didier Spaier, Slint maintainer and sighted. > > hello Didier. > > > I am frustrated not to be able to follow this

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Also true as far as that goes, so where do you draw that line then? On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 08:03:38AM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > That can be said for any specialized software. High end photo editing > software is really only good for that special niche group for e

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 08:37:19AM +0200, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I am Didier Spaier, Slint maintainer and sighted. hello Didier. > I am frustrated not to be able to follow this discussion as I would like, as > in > most cases I do not know who speaks, answe

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
That can be said for any specialized software. High end photo editing software is really only good for that special niche group for example. And they have to go out of their way to buy it and install it. - Original Message - From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
See to me, I see Orca as part of the installed system, not some special app you have to go install a laJaws or NVDA on Windows however. So to me, no, Orca's a part of the distro that helps out disabled (Not just blind) users however. Something like Fenrir that you have to go out of your

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hmmm, interesting, about "the blind" and being human. I have no problem with it anyway, because I just wonder: "The blind" has and will always refer to humans and not some animals. Then about blind-specific products: the Orca you are using on the computer is certainly a

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
however. Now I just need to quit being lazy and set up a signature for my messages. On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 02:05:39AM -0700, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Well, Didier, I am Chime-and-I-and-a majority of folks identify at an end of > messages, before the list headers. I for one

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Well, Didier, I am Chime-and-I-and-a majority of folks identify at an end of messages, before the list headers. I for one almost never quote, as for me, listening to several lines of text which I've already heard are seemingly a waste of time. In alpine I have quoting set at a loest level, but

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, Apr 14, 2022 at 01:32:19AM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > They can use their phone number instead. > Devin Prater > r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com > > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:20 PM Linux for blind general discussion < > blinux-list@redh

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
uff. But nope. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 9:32 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > I don't have anything against projects specifically targetting blind > end users, or any other niche for that matter, but

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thankfully, the place I work at teaches NVDA unless JAWS is absolutely needed. We don't want our students going home and not even being able to afford JAWS if they're not going into college or something. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:03 PM Linux for blind

Re: FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

2022-04-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
on these things, because it gives us some of the speed that a sighted person gets from widgets and such. Devin Prater r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 7:31 PM Linux for blind general discussion < blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: > Kyle, I'm unsure on something. Not anything you said...

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