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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@sarajw Which language(s) do you primarily speak at home?

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@b0rk What are the problems you've found for users imposed by Anubis? I've never used it.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@JonathanMosen Thanks. I've developed a particular rhythm when dictating which doesn't suit iOS 27 very well at the moment but I suppose I will adapt. Particularly if there are other dictation improvements to work with.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Adding copying text to the clipboard to the list of things Siri AI can't do.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In iOS 27, I haven't found a way to disable automatic punctuation while dictating text and it's driving me up the wall. Has anyone managed to turn this off?

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

My Siri AI review: I asked it to set the value of a time picker that isn't accessible to VoiceOver, but it can't interact with elements on the screen. I asked it to locate a book on the StoryGraph that I was reading about on Wikipedia in Safari, but apparently the StoryGraph app doesn't […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In iOS 27, I can't seem to drag rotor items around in VoiceOver settings. I double tap and hold on the "reorder" handle for the relevant thing, move my finger up or down, and nothing happens. Is there a workaround for this? Moving things one by one is going to take me all night.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I've never had cause to used what3words for anything and rarely see it mentioned in Mexico. But "applauding astonishing compression" (for a package forwarder location in the US) is a great one.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Everybody say it with me: a Git commit comparison is not a changelog.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I just got this message from BookPlayer: "The database is corrupted and no backup is available. The library will need to be reset and rebuilt from your audio files." As a developer, I get it. Unexpected I/O errors happen. But what is this even saying? Why is there no backup? I back up my […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

In November 2022, following the discontinuation of the HearthstoneAccess project by its initial developer, Blizzard announced that they would be quote "exploring what it will take to implement native accessibility features that allow for our #blind and #lowVision community to get back into the […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@JonathanMosen I felt the same switching on a UK VPN to listen to BBC coverage of World Cup matches happening not far away in Mexico City.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@prism @matt For now they're against the EFF because the EFF is anti-copyright and that doesn't fit the "LLMs are stealing all our shit" narrative.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@matt I mostly bought tech stocks back when I started earning regular income and was excited to be building something for the future. Too excited to actually think through those choices at the time if I'm being honest, and I'm fortunate that it's worked out so well. Still, moving to another […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I always get a feeling of anxiety when logging into my investment account. Like I shouldn't be here; this is the place for people who know what they're doing with money and have more of it. Financial empostor syndrome or something. Or just anxiety disorder.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@glyph "So I was talking to Claude about my boat..." :(

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Oh, did not expect that: The Automattic Board put Mullenweg on leave of absence. www.404media.co/wordpress-automatti…

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I see The Guardian has entered the guilt tripping stage of fundraising: "Someone else is paying for the journalism you depend on". Thank you Someone for letting me continue reading reviews of bad TV.

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Related to accessible gaming, it definitely bothers me a little how overloaded the term “accessible” is, especially in blindness spaces. “Accessible gaming” does not solely mean “blind accessible”, yet the Accessible Gaming wiki is basically blind central. Blind people have dramatically […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Today, I'm releasing a new website for blind gamers, built for 2026 and beyond. So much of the information about blind-accessible PC and console games is scattered across the AudioGames.net forum, GitHub pages, Discord servers, and websites that haven't kept up with how quickly blind gaming has […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I recently had Libation (great software) replace a couple of hundred books with higher bitrate versions. It decided to do this by... Placing the files next to the lower bitrate versions and placing "(1)" at the end of the filenames. Which is one way to go about it I suppose. Still great […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@fastfinge I dunno, it would improve the realism of Freight Fate. Particularly if AI monitoring made me piss in a bottle on the shoulder.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I may end up switching from Mona to FastSMRW on iOS based on the "Move extra mentions to the end of replies" setting alone. I hate front loading many usernames in my replies but it isn't practically feasible to avoid it in Mona.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I feel bemused when people compare the ubiquity of AI to how the blockchain was supposedly crammed into so much software. Which software are they talking about? I don't know about you, but I've thus far managed to lead a completely blockchain-free existence. As far as I know, it wasn't added to […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@FreakyFwoof I count steps so I can berate sighted guides in my head when they get it wrong. Which is every time.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

With that out of the way, I'm moving onto releasing version 10.0 of my text editor. This release resolves a security issue for Windows XP users connected to a NetWare 6.5 domain controller with their system date set before April 15, 1982. There are no other changes.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@fastfinge Exactly. My assumption is that the training data was full of projects taking a similarly hand wavy approach, inexperienced vibe coders don't know to question it, and it turns out not a lot of supposedly real devs cared about it anyway. So SemVer might be dead. Long live the next […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Today I'm releasing version 4.5.8 of my web framework which removes all previously supported templating languages.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

If the way LLMs bump version numbers in vibe coded projects is anything to go by, people have largely failed to use semantic versioning as intended. A patch release wasn't meant to carry a note like, "and it's a big one," not that I think most software projects should use SemVer in the first place.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@matt Autonomy and equity over independence and equality.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

For a more relatable-to-fedi example, fedi is when you've got Home Assistant set up and you're going on a trip and someone's coming round to catsit so you write them a little couple-sentence guide to your weird lightswitches and it ends up being five pages long

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Fedi is me explaining the above joke in detail regarding how working class people of a certain generation know to never wind the window down *quite* all the way because a common way that car windows fail is by winding them down all the way and not being able to wind them back up again and […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Fedi is when a new friend comes with you on a trip and they wind the car window down all the way and then you have to stop and take the door apart

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

A random tech company, five months from now: "To implement our new age verification controls, we've partnered with IDScan based on their outstanding approach to user privacy, and proactive response to a hostile security landscape." […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@b0rk rclone. The customisable progress output is helpful with a screen reader.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

"12 months ago, our #accessibility dashboard showed 329 issues. Today, that number is down to 118. In this talk, I'll be sharing tips on finding the most unscrupulous auditors who'll report less problems so you too can see these kinds of results at your own organisation..."

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coyotebroad @coyotebroad.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

A detailed, sad analysis of what is happening in Germany now. www.politico.eu/article/hans-thomas…

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

How did I become a wealthy hedge fund manager when I was only 19, you ask? -I worked hard. -I didn't cut corners. -I murdered a wealthy hedge fund manager and stole his identity. There are no shortcuts in life.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@glyph "Alternate processes for verification are under consideration but none exists yet at this time." The plural "processes" should be matched by "exist" rather than "exists."

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@glyph "We have also found AI-generated contributions to be quite low quality, as well as distracting and exhausitng for code reviewers to keep up with. However, low-quality contributions are." Typo in "exhausting," and the second sentence is missing an ending.

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@fastfinge On one hand, I think NVDA add-on code quality is through the floor. Some add-ons don't even store things in the NVDA config to start with, and a "why do X when Y is easier?" attitude is rife. On the other, I'd be pretty annoyed if I copied a portable copy of my NVDA to a new machine […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

"Track Position: 33 seconds of 2562047788015215 hours 30 minutes 7 seconds, adjustable."

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Can anyone find an Aira Access Offer called A11yNYC?

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