Work on adding QR code authentication in the spec, a terminal Matrix client that uses vim keybindings (but we promise you can escape the Matrix), and improvement to the (community maintained) synapse admin cli… that and more happened this week in Matrix!
Join Jeremy as he chats to Josh Triplett, the Co-Lead of Rust. They'll be exploring the trade-offs between usability and features/capabilities in Rust, looki...
"The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told."
Are you attending #SCaLE20x? We are! Stop by the GNOME booth to chat and pick up a GNOME tee or hoodie!
And make sure you join us for our GNOME Beers event at Craft by Smoke and Fire on Sat, March 11, at 6 pm. More details: foundation.gnome.org/2023/03/1…
Liebe SHIFT-Community! In diesem Video findet ihr die Highlights aus unserem SHIFTphone 8 - SHIFTtalk vom 08.02.2023. Sollte euch nur ein bestimmtes Thema in...
What impact, if any, does this work have on accessibility? Is there yet a standard way to tell screen readers that the equivalent of a new page load has happened, so the screen reader can provide its desired UX for SPA navigations, rather than the application having to provide its own off-screen ARIA live region announcement or focus something that shouldn't be focusable?
It’s hard to believe even with an approximately 80% smartphone penetration globally, most apps are still not accessible. Most companies still deem accessibility-related use cases as “edge cases”, and…
Our In-Process blog post is out, and it's a bumper edition this week! Info on NVDA 2023.1 as expected, plus all the details of our upcoming trip to #CSUNATC23, thanks to @dequesystems #Axe-Con #AxeCon plus an in-depth look at just what all these add-on breakages are about: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
We’ve got a bumper issue for you this week: A release candidate, conferences and add-on info! NVDA 2023.1 Release Candidate The big news this week is the release of the NVDA 2023.1 Release Ca…
Bei Meta gibt es Überlegungen, ein soziales Netz einzurichten, das ans Fediverse und damit auch Mastodon angeschlossen ist. Als Basis soll Instagram dienen.
Si sois o conocéis a jóvenes activos en el ámbito del compromiso social y voluntariado, cultura, medio ambiente, deporte, ciencia y tecnología, o derechos humanos, se presenta convocatoria para los premios nacionales de la juventud 2023: boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=B…
The no-cloning theorem says you can't build a machine that will duplicate a quantum state. But what about classical mechanics? Back in 2008, I raised the possibility that you can't perfectly duplicate a classical state either.
There's been a lot of progress since then. In 2010 Aaron Fenyes showed that you *can*, but only using a machine that is more complex than the system you are trying to duplicate. In 2012 Nicholas Teh wrote a great analysis of these issues.
Now Yuan Yao has shown that if the space of states of your classical system is topologically nontrivial - like a sphere, for example - you *cannot* build a machine that duplicates states of this system via any process that proceeds continuously with the passage of time.
These are rough versions of what Fenyes and Yao showed. Read my blog article for precise statements:
Yao's new work shows that there's a lot left to learn about classical cloning - or if you prefer, limitations on the accuracy of a purely classical xerox machine. As far as I can tell, nobody had thought before about the importance of topology in this business!
Huge huge gratitude to the brilliance & integrity of Dr Ichiro Matsumura at Emory U. He open-source published the sequence of a genetic tool he built back in 2010, free to use. I want to weep. It's a beautiful design, and his group (and many researchers he shared it with) showed it works in a truly stunning variety of microbes.
I can't tell you how many papers and sites I've slogged through to find this. So many perfect sounding tools that weren't usable because nobody uploaded the sequence to the national database and weren't for sale anywhere. So much stuff for sale built on proprietary data, so you have no idea wtf it actually is.
This, this is a true scientist. (I know nothing about him other than this. I hope he's a decent fellow.)
Ichiro Matsumura, thank you. We stand on the shoulders of giants such as you!
Math tutorials are the best anime. Re:Zero and Attack on Titan is nothing compared to this.filler vidAn Evangelion Opening ParodyBGM: A Cruel Angel's Thesis ...
Microsoft Authenticator prompts the user to accept sharing analytics during the first launch. The prompt only dismisses when the user taps on "Accept." In fact, the app starts sending analytics even before accepting the privacy statement.🤦♂️
In this video, we downloaded the authenticator app from the App Store and we opened it as we monitored the iPhone network traffic. While the app was showing the permission prompt, we captured at least 3 calls made by the app sending diagnostics to Microsoft. The app sent 14 KB of analytics even before accepting the prompt.
The message on the prompt actually says that Microsoft needs to collect diagnostic data in order to keep Authenticator secure and up to date. 😵💫
When opening Microsoft Authenticator for the first time after downloading it from the App Store, it prompts the user to accept sharing diagnostics with Micro...
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We just got a new completely blind friendly mainstream game release - BROK the InvestiGator, which is a point and click adventure with some RPG and Beat Em up elements. I played for about an hour and the work that was put into it is really impressive, going so far as to have additional audio descriptions of scenes, characters and objects. forum.audiogames.net/topic/479…
Wow, going to buy from GOG. I wonder if the developer would be interested in integrating AccessKit, at least to make the menus screen-reader-accessible as an alternative to self-voicing. We're finally working on non-Rust language bindings for AccessKit.
@matt Oh, that's really exciting, definitely something I'll look into when I finally get back into game dev but also it'll be something I can point at during advocacy efforts. For this game specifically you'd need to ask the dev, I'm also not sure whether Game Maker (the tool he used to make it) has any support for calling external libraries.
I know some Microsoft #a11y folks follow me here: the Accessibility Assistant for Word is all well and good, but the absolutely wretched Style mechanics and Word->accessible PDF workflows have been borked for years and are directly responsible for generating enormous quantities of inaccessible content. Detecting contrast errors comes absolutely nowhere close to covering the waterfront. And I wish journalists covering this stuff would be more skeptical. theverge.com/2023/3/9/23632562…
Microsoft has unveiled a collection of new products and services targeting disability inclusion and accessibility, including a new “Accessibility Assistant” for Microsoft 365 office software.
Ein Mann aus dem US-Bundeststaat Ohio sollte der Polizei Aufnahmen aus seinem Wohnzimmer vorlegen, obwohl nur gegen seinen Nachbarn ermittelt wurde. Als er sich weigerte, legte die Behörde einen richterlichen Beschluss bei Amazon Ring vor.
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Smarte Ideen für 500: Batterie mit Cloud-Anbindung.
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Am vergangenen Samstag sind morgens um 7 überall in Deutschland (und Europa, z.b. italien) die Lichter, bzgl die Batterien ausgegangen, der chinesische Hersteller Sungrow hat ungefragt einfach Firmware updates für die Batterien verteilt und diese verkackt, jetzt fliegt überall die Sicherung, neuflashen geht somit auch nicht.
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