It looks like Apple quietly broke "Get contents of URL" actions in shortcuts triggered in response to a Home device event in Homepod OS 18.2, and it's not fixed in 18.3. Multiple users have reported it, but apparently Apple don't care to fix it. This is very annoying.
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I posted a while back about my occasional (but regular) need to paste numbers, stripping out punctuation, spaces, etc. This is particularly useful when paying bills, since amounts, reference numbers, etc. are often written with spaces or punctuation, but banking sites tend to barf if you include those. It turns out you can do this with Ditto Clipboard Manager using a paste script. I originally thought that paste scripts always ran, which doesn't work for me, but it turns out that they actually appear as items in the Special Paste menu, which is IMO not very well documented. Anyway, go to Ditto -> Options -> General -> Advanced -> On Paste Scripts and add this script:
clip.AsciiTextReplaceRegex("[^\d.]", "");
return false;
The name you specify is what appears in the Special Paste menu. You can even assign a shortcut key to that Special Paste item. Then, you just have to open Ditto, go to the item you want to paste and press the shortcut key (or use the Special Paste menu).
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Is there seriously no way to move a row up or down in Google Sheets with the keyboard? I'd even accept a menu command (reachable either via the menu bar or with the alt+/ menu search), but I can't even find that. Please tell me I'm missing something? #accessibility
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Wait. Copilot will be taking over alt+space on Windows? That is not okay. How will we access the system menu that has existed since forever containing minimise, maximise, etc.? Also, wtf aren't they just using Windows+c or the Copilot key they forced upon us? https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/24318241/microsoft-copilot-native-app-quick-view-windows-10-11
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[#]rclone mount is amazing, but an annoyance on Windows is that the only way to safely unmount is to control+c, which means you have to keep console windows around. But there is an alternative which avoids this: rclone remote control. With that, you can mount and unmount as many remotes as you like using rc. Example:
[#] You don't need this console window, so you can start it hidden or whatever.
[#] No auth is obviously insecure.
rclone rcd --rc-no-auth
[#] Whenever you like later:
rclone rc mount/mount fs=drive: mountPoint=g:
rclone rc mount/unmount mountPoint=g:
[#] To exit the rclone remote control server:
rclone rc core/quit
Of course, after I spent a while figuring this out, I realised that keeping console windows around really isn't that bad if I'm only mounting one or two remotes at a time, but anyway... maybe this helps no one.
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I found a very ugly, not at all intuitive way to do it:
wt -w wsl wsl.exe ~
wt -w wsl ft -t 0
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Continuing on my journey to switch to Windows Terminal, I want my various terminals to have separate pinned icons on the taskbar so I can get to each one quickly with Windows+number. Nothing I do seems to allow me to do this. There are command line arguments to focus a specific tab in a specific window, but that doesn't help with the initial launch where you need to specify a command line. This all worked just fine with conhost and various shortcuts. 😩
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Ah. My issues with UIA notification events reading text they shouldn't are almost certainly due to me using tmux. I guess it redraws the screen when text overflows or something? Or maybe that's a bug in Windows Terminal's UIA implementation.
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Terminal doesn't fire UIA notification events when in the background, which is great. It turns out that the thing that's really slowing down NVDA's handling of those on my system isn't speech processing or anything like that. It's... logging! I tend to have my log level set to debug, which logs a lot. I never realised just how much that logging could slow things down when there's this much data.
Interestingly, if I set my speech mode to beeps, that's also very laggy. I guess it's expensive to continually generate and play the tone, even if we stop it very quickly.
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Nope, Terminal notification events are causing a bunch of stuff that isn't actually changing (just scrolling) to be read, so I'm back to conhost. There are no good options. I hate this so much.
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Well that didn't take long. Spamming the console still makes the system pretty much unusable if the console is focused when it happens. But interestingly, if the spam starts in the background or I can manage to alt+tab out (which is very difficult because it's so slow), it seems to behave. That either means that Terminal is smart enough not to send notification events while in the background (but then I'm not sure why NVDA has explicit code to ignore those) or that the poor performance is entirely due to NVDA struggling to process the notification events (but ignoring them is okay).
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Okay. I finally had enough of git pull and the like making my entire system unusable thanks to UIA event flooding that I took the plunge and switched to Windows Terminal with UIA notification events. I was having trouble with Windows Terminal previously, but that was with diffing. Notification events seem to be working fairly well so far. Let's see how it goes.
One concern I do have is that NVDA necessarily registers for notification events globally, which means that a notification event flood from a background terminal is going to impact performance. Hopefully terminal manages notification events better than it does text events. We shall see.
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Better Than This is now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z7M2JEgZymMlmG1DXYwR4?si=4e5a124526564f2d
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Fuck me I hate Jira. Fuck fuck fuck!
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Seriously, the keyboard and screen reader accessibility of Zoom text chat is abominably awful. How does anyone use this efficiently and without wanting to scream? How do Zoom just not care enough to do anything about it for so long?
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Better Than This is now on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/au/album/better-than-this/1779027582?i=1779027583&l=en-GB
And YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=essoJ-ZXcT4&list=OLAK5uy_nGTvqFubyfvZ_VOFyBhSo_0_h0YqIVOnU&index=1&pp=8AUB
Spotify and others to come in the next few days.
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I'm coping with heavy feelings by writing music, as I often do. So I wrote this little piano, vocal and solo cello piece today called "Better Than This". https://files.jantrid.net/music/NthDegree/BetterThanThis.mp3
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I love that Metatext and Semaphore are living new and enhanced lives as Feditext and Enafore, respectively. Unfortunately, both of these new projects have long standing, severe problems impacting accessibility, so I'm still using the old, unmaintained projects as my daily drivers. One of these days, I might get around to looking into these bugs myself, but until then, this is how it is.
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I see Microsoft still haven't fixed the crash in Phone Link when you focus the message list. So, here's my app module to work around this and add some other conveniences. I can't be bothered adding type annotations, etc. to submit to NVDA core, nor can I be bothered submitting this as an add-on, so this will require developer scratchpad to be enabled. https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jcsteh/a7c94e4c52219ebe93d71882021ac916/raw/296dd8e41b70b84b5d0ca7a1db735ed24587a5b4/phoneexperiencehost.py
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From the NDIS portal:
"The document with the file name xxx - Your xxx receipt [#xxxx-xxxx].pdf cannot be uploaded. Please upload a document with the file name which contains the following characters only a-z A-Z 0-9 # + , @ ^ . _ & -.']"
What the actual Zarq. Why should you care about the file name? You asked for a name for the file in a separate text box, so the file name on my local file system is literally irrelevant. Incompetence seriously annoys me.
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