André Polykanine

@acarson @serge @batzy Oy! I shivered with horror even after reading your post. so many hours spent by scanning and then correcting. Absolutely atrocious work I hated with all my passion!

@menelion @TheQuinbox I've tried that and at least here it doesn't stop some of the extra screen eacho. But yes here is their support article on screen reader mode for others. https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15924927-use-claude-code-cli-with-a-screen-reader

Ok, need your help.

I need a simple Python tutorial for an absolute beginner (i.e. my father). He used to program a bit in BASIC, but he needs something newer to mainly do some data analysis and visualization. He is not the most skilled admin, and he’s using Windows (no, forget about changing os).

Thinking about suggesting either IDLE to begin with, or Spyder (since tailored to data analysis, and simple-ish).

Any suggestions, and/or pointers?

Thanks!

#Python #PythonProgramming

@kellylford Actually, they now have a screen reader mode, at least for terminal. Thanks to amazing @TheQuinbox for discovering it.

An updated concept demo for Brain Station is now here. it comes with six games to try out. Get it for Mac, Windows, or linux at https://l-works.net/brainstation.php

Another appliance search blighted by the existence of touch screens and the fundamentally exclusionary practice of cramming them into everything regardless of suitability.

Want the best feature set? It's on the unusable model. Need accessibility? You'll need to sacrifice useful features, some of which would make the device more friendly to disabled people.

I'm struggling to come up with fresh ways of articulating how mentally draining this is.

To occasionally want to spend a bit of your hard earned money on something nice, only to repeatedly be shown that nice is synonymous with "we didn't think about disabled people." to see exclusion worming its way into cheaper and cheaper appliances, relegating disabled customers to an increasingly basic category of products that might eventually disappear.

But what's the use in articulating it at all? The only people reading this here already know it because they live it every day.

But at least I get to go to work and help make something I find morally deplorable more accessible in a bit! Happy Thursday.

@JenMsft Wait, windows+Shift+T? Where is this shortcut available?

I've just released version 0.3.0 of Taskmon, my lightweight, no frills replacement for the modern, bloated mess that is Windows Task Manager. Changelog:

• Added Ctrl+Q as a shortcut to exit Taskmon completely.
• Added 11 new columns: Service, GPU, GPU Memory, CPU Time, Elevated, Path, Window Title, File Version, Product Version, Session Name, and Package Name.
• Added File > Restart as administrator to relaunch Taskmon elevated.
• Added a hierarchical Process Tree view (Ctrl+T) that groups processes under the parent that launched them, with an End process tree action that terminates a process and all of its descendants.
• Added an option to start Taskmon already minimized to the tray.
• Added a Windows installer alongside the existing portable version, with an option to replace the system Task Manager with Taskmon.
• Fixed a stack overflow that could occur when sorting by CPU usage.
• Fixed Ctrl+A not selecting all text in the Run dialog's edit box.

Download links:
ARM64 portable: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.0/taskmon-arm64.zip
ARM64 setup: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.0/taskmon-setup-arm64.exe
X64 portable: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.0/taskmon-x64.zip
X64 setup: https://github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/releases/download/v0.3.0/taskmon-setup-x64.exe
Cheers, enjoy, and may you be free of a 5+MB application to manage your computer being unresponsive!

@kellylford An extremely useful feature! That's what many clients cannot provide.

If you're a blind Claude Code user, put the following line in your settings.json:
"axScreenReader": true
restart Claude Code, and have your life changed forever. I can now properly review and resume old claude sessions, I don't get endless Unicode symbols spammed at me, I can review the output with my review cursor much easier... OMG this is so nice!

@mcourcel @TomGrant91 @DavidGoldfield @x0 Please hold on buying from Orbit for a week or so. Watch for updates, follow me or the #RunaTTS hashtag. Thanks!

@x0 @DavidGoldfield TL;DR: Don't buy anything Runa at Orbit yet. It's merely an advertising/marketing page. We'll update as soon as it's ready, sorry.

@johann try the enhanced voices. Unfortunately it's the best quality ReadSpeaker provides right now. I also believe Kate sounded richer before, but we have what we have, sorry.

@LeonianUniverse Thank you!

@mcourcel @x0 @DavidGoldfield Linux is not planned in the near future.

@x0 @DavidGoldfield On Windows you'll see both.

@x0 @DavidGoldfield Yes. It was also developed by us. I'll get the marketing details afterwards, sorry.

@Lino0876 @mckensie Windows will be available even sooner than Android.

@mckensie You will have it for Android for sure, McKensie!

Wow, I really like the Mark voice from Runa TTS. It reminds me of Tuvok from Voyager