FYI - Command Line Programs for the Blind

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 21:20:47 UTC 2022


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.prater at gmail.com




On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 4:16 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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 resources, so it's a bit snappier. Of course,
> people
> > will complain about any and every change. I complain about having two
> > things to manage in web navigation in Orca, focus/browse mode, and quick
> > navigation keys. But other people like it, and I sort of saw a few good
> > uses for it, but focus and browse mode switched on and off without my
> > control more times than I liked. So it's all about how a change makes a
> > person feel, and how many people feel that way, and then how many people
> > speak up about their feelings. Because more people will talk about the
> bad
> > things they find than the good, me included. I was getting into
> NeoCities,
> > a replacement for the old GeoCities, today and found that Linux users
> could
> > mount the webdav drive just by opening their file manager and pasting in
> > the address. Windows users have to use a whole separate app due to some
> > SSL/TLS stuff 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.prater at gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 4:05 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
> > blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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 admittedly, those Win7 machines were always in a
> > > school setting with actual IT people around to keep the things up and
> > > running... never used a Win 8 or 10 machine, but I've heard plenty of
> > > gripes about bothand people wanting to stick with Win 7 even after
> > > Microsoft dropped support... admittedly, much of the Win8/10 criticism
> > > I remember hearing was about Microsoft replacing  Aero and forcing
> > > people to get used to a new interface... and I suspect some of it had
> > > more to do with trying to run them on insufficient hardware rather
> > > than the OS itself having stability issues(For all its infamy, I
> > > understand Vista is halfway decent on a rig that actually has the
> > > horsepower to handle it).
> > >
> > > Haven't heard anything one way or the other as to whether Win 11 is
> > > the new good windows or the new bad windows... but then again, the
> > > Internet has been quiet about it to the point I totally missed it
> > > coming out last year and didn't know it was a thing until it got
> > > brought up in this... I hesitate to call this a thread because we
> > > stopped talking about the original subject a long time ago and its now
> > > a mish mash of perhaps half-a-dozen conversations... ooccupational
> > > hazard of mailing lists I guess, it's so easy to go off topic while
> > > forgetting to change the subject line and split off a new thread.
> > >
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