@jcsteh

Accessibility engineer/tech lead at Mozilla. Father, husband, pianist/keyboardist, tech enthusiast. @jcsteh@aus.social

 Brisbane, Australia
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Joined March 2009
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Alright. I'm now @jcsteh@aus.social.
Jamie Teh@jcsteh21 Nov 2022
Thinking about giving this whole Mastodon thing a try, but even figuring out what instance to use is a challenge i can't get past. Fosstodon is probably the closest match, but free/open source isn't my entire identity. It feels weird to have your identity tied to one group.
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Thinking about giving this whole Mastodon thing a try, but even figuring out what instance to use is a challenge i can't get past. Fosstodon is probably the closest match, but free/open source isn't my entire identity. It feels weird to have your identity tied to one group.
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With something like good ol' IRC or even modern Discord, there are multiple servers, yes, but it's kinda expected that you would have a presence on multiple. With social media, I don't really want to deal with that, even if I technically could.
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A few months ago I walked into a music store and a friend there showed me this new @Casio_USA CT-S1000V keyboard. It really blew my mind. So cool and so fun. Type in your own words using their app- enjoy a ton of built in phrases- lots of vocal sound choices. HAD TO HAVE ONE!!
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My 11-year son just said this at dinner: “Taxes are the subscription to your country, and childhood is the free trial.”
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I’ve written a column about the death of social networks which probably won’t be out until next month — I’ve asked them if they can put it online earlier — but here are two paragraphs I’d like to share regardless:
Witnessing what looks like the demise of Twitter actually hurts because it is the demolition of somewhere I have experienced meaningful beginnings and endings. It is like watching a youth club being torn down or a library burning. One of the stories of the late twentieth and early 21st centuries in Britain has been the theft and destruction of public spaces: the sale of playing fields, the closure of parks, the removal of water foundations and public toilets, the privatisation and gating of roads where once anyone could walk. What Elon Musk is doing to Twitter is the virtual version of that and that’s why this column could not be a cold exploration of internet history or business decisions. For those of us who found new kinds of life and new sources of friendship on Twitter, it’s all too personal.

ALT Witnessing what looks like the demise of Twitter actually hurts because it is the demolition of somewhere I have experienced meaningful beginnings and endings. It is like watching a youth club being torn down or a library burning. One of the stories of the late twentieth and early 21st centuries in Britain has been the theft and destruction of public spaces: the sale of playing fields, the closure of parks, the removal of water foundations and public toilets, the privatisation and gating of roads where once anyone could walk. What Elon Musk is doing to Twitter is the virtual version of that and that’s why this column could not be a cold exploration of internet history or business decisions. For those of us who found new kinds of life and new sources of friendship on Twitter, it’s all too personal.

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Here's our story on today @ Twitter, with @RMac18 @MikeIsaac & @Kellen_Browning nytimes.com/2022/11/18/techn…

Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave (Published 2022)

Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.

nytimes.com
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This interpretation of what’s going on with Musk is pretty much dead on. – at San Francisco, CA
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I've been using the Firefox accessibility cache thing for months now through the flag, haven't heard an instance of "loading document...." from #NVDASR since, even on larger populated pages. Think a lot of folks will be switching back to it once this rolls out to stable enabled.
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Now that Windows 11 supports AAC for Bluetooth audio, I thought perhaps responsiveness might be better with Airpods. Nope, it's still tragically bad, much worse than it is with iOS.
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Accessibility is very important to us. We’re pleased to announce that Cache the World, the re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine is now enabled by default for all @FirefoxNightly users! blog.mozilla.org/accessibili…

Significant Improvements for Screen Readers Now in Nightly Firefox – Mozilla Accessibility

A couple of months ago, we shared an update on our Cache the World project, covering the ongoing re-write of the Firefox accessibility engine. The project aims to improve Firefox's ...

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I'm super excited to announce that Cache the World, our re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine to significantly improve performance for users of accessibility tools such as screen readers, is now enabled by default in @FirefoxNightly! blog.mozilla.org/accessibili…

Significant Improvements for Screen Readers Now in Nightly Firefox – Mozilla Accessibility

A couple of months ago, we shared an update on our Cache the World project, covering the ongoing re-write of the Firefox accessibility engine. The project aims to improve Firefox's ...

blog.mozilla.org
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Here is my working draft on why I think the Mastodon model has the potential of curing the worst evils of social media and creating a workable public sphere: terikanefield.com/can-the-ma… You can find me here on Mastodon: @[email protected]

Mastodon v. Post v. Twitter v. Everything Else - Teri Kanefield

This page has been updated, and all the material moved to a new page here.   

terikanefield.com
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Word on the street is that as the Twitter revamp continues they're going to change the name of the service to Bitter. But don't worry, at least the logo won't change, they'll still continue giving us the Bird.
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Jamie Teh retweeted
Morgan@MorgynRae3 Nov 2022
If you've upgraded to macOS Ventura, you might've encountered a bug where VoiceOver's quick nav/rotor don't work as expected in Firefox. We've got a fix in Nightly and it should hit Beta soon :) bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…

1790435 - VoiceOver quick navigation keys stopped working with Firefox 105 Beta under Mac OS Ventura

VERIFIED (mreschenberg) in Core - Disability Access APIs. Last updated 2022-11-06.

bugzilla.mozilla.org
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So a dialog popped up saying Windows needed to restart to update, with restart and remind me later buttons. I pressed escape, which restarted, interrupting my work, because it totally makes sense for escape to restart instead of remind me later. Then the update failed... again.
Jamie Teh@jcsteh3 Nov 2022
Here's the thing, Windows. I don't want to restart to apply the Windows 11 update because the last 30 times I've tried, it's failed and rolled back. And then Windows downloads the same update again, and around and around we go. It's a good thing I don't have a download quota.
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I hate computers.
Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science@UWCheritonCS7 Nov 2022
“As soon as we realized this attack is possible, we warned people in industry as well as Wi-Fi chip manufacturers that this leakage of privacy-sensitive information is real,” Professor Abedi said. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/can-you…

Can your Wi-Fi devices be used to spy on you? | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of...

The many Wi-Fi devices that pervade our homes, workplaces and lives — from phones and smartwatches to TVs and voice assistants to desktops, laptops,

cs.uwaterloo.ca
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“As soon as we realized this attack is possible, we warned people in industry as well as Wi-Fi chip manufacturers that this leakage of privacy-sensitive information is real,” Professor Abedi said. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/can-you…

Can your Wi-Fi devices be used to spy on you? | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of...

The many Wi-Fi devices that pervade our homes, workplaces and lives — from phones and smartwatches to TVs and voice assistants to desktops, laptops,

cs.uwaterloo.ca
Toronto Star
@TorontoStar5 Nov 2022
Nicknamed Wi-Peep, the device can “see” through walls, surreptitiously identifying the locations of smart watches, phones, laptops and the like, with speed and accuracy. What does it mean for your privacy? trib.al/H5ahcNp
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Elon Musk said permanent bans shouldn’t happen, free speech is guaranteed and comedy is now allowed on Twitter. Until Kathy Griffin, a comedian, used her free speech to tease him and then he permanently banned her.
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