Did you know? Ethiopia has its own calendar, which is also known as the Ge’ez Calendar. Based upon the ancient Coptic Calendar, the Ethiopian Calendar is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian Calendar, owing to alternate calculations in determining the date of the annunciation of the birth of Jesus. We have added a new app to our app directory. Historical Calendar by Alexandru C. Ene. This app allows you to explore history facts like events, births, deaths, and more. tinyurl.com/43bkravh

Motivace na pondělí
seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/ekonomi…
#zasrano #seznamzpravy #pondeli
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Fue el 15, pero no quiero dejar pasar que se cumplieron 15 años del enfrentamiento de emos vs punketos en la estación Insurgentes en 2008
Llegaron granaderos ante el temor de que se desatara una batalla campal, y para la sorpresa de todos llegó otra tribu urbana: los "Hare Krishna" y con sus cánticos lograron apaciguar a las masas.

Y YO ESTUVE AHÍ, bueno cerca :eo_cat: estuve antes, y después de que todo hubiera pasado jaja tuve una reunión ese día por ahí. que cosas.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2OKlddI_…

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Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss

In my time zone this is now #curl's 25th birthday.

If you want to send along your congrats or curl related memories, consider doing it here: github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

In about 8 hours there will be a new curl release. In 10 hours there will be a curl release video. There will be blog posts and there will be an online celebration starting in 18 hours.

This is the day. Thanks for flying #curl.

#curl

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Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter encouraged a dad to accept his trans daughter

Carter has stood up for trans people and their rights numerous times.

In October 2021, she wrote, “Trans women are Wonder Women. End of story.”

lgbtqnation.com/2023/03/wonder…

I updated to Firefox 111, where it told me it could edit PDFs.

I grabbed a tagged PDF, opened it in Firefox, added a text note & sketch, then saved.

I opened that saved PDF in Acrobat Pro and all tags were gone.

Bug filed: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#a11y #accessibility

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in reply to Adrian Roselli, pH0

Honestly, that bug is arguably worthy of dunking. I think we might need to get QA testing tagged PDFs more often. I've marked that as a bug with high severity a11y impact, as it could cause people to unsuspectingly break a11y for users reading their PDFs.
This is not my team's domain, so I can't promise a quick fix, but I'll do my best to advocate for it.

Do you want to get your first Android phone or want to find out more about Android and its accessibility? We handpicked 15 of the most asked questions for beginners on various communities, from initial set up to customization. Here you go 🔗 tinyurl.com/2kerazvs
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Oh yeah that's understandable. Travel costs and everything. The main one is in July in Birmingham but they have a few other smaller ones around the country as well.
It's mainly an exhibit hall but at least in the Birmingham one they also have a few presentations outside it, Other screen reader companies showing off what's new and such like. The first time I ever heard a screen reader being used was at Henter Joyce's one.
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@hub I hacked on reverse engineering the sync protocol back in the day and was thrilled when people got a gcc based toolchain working.

Before that I used an old Mac IIci that someone had given away for development.

This CW release claims Win95/NT support on the CD label, but I don't remember if I ever tried that. Don't have a CDROM drive handy at the moment to see exactly what's there.

Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research, on Web3 and cryptocurrencies: "Web3 is a flaming pile of feces orbiting a giant dripping hairball. Cryptocurrencies — ones not backed by the full faith and credit of stable nation states — have only a few meaningful use cases, particularly if you are a corrupt dictator of a nation with a broken economic system, or a fraud and scammer who wants to grow their wealth at the expense of greater fools."

infoworld.com/article/3689914/…

#AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 17 updated and 2 new apps:

* Tasky: a simple task management tool (ToDo-Lists)
* Clipboard Cleaner: show and clean your clipboard

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

New week recap is out: MoonRay source code release by DreamWorks Animation, new beta and final releases of @Siril_Official, HDRView, MFEKglif typeface editor, @qgis, toponaming fix starts landing to @FreeCAD

Details: librearts.org/2023/03/week-rec…

Featured #krita and #gimp artwork by @khrystynamatviyenko

I have started trying to learn Python again. This time I am determined not to bring back the typing pain, which is what forced me to stop again and again. So I fired up Dragon speech recognition software and I'm starting to add some coding shortcuts. It's slow and painful. But it's exhilarating because then I can go so much faster!

If you're curious, I am following Tavis Rudd's example.

Demo:
youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI

Some notes:
gist.github.com/saltlakeryan/7…

Q&A:
reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1…

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I'm typing this now with Dragon speech recognition, because why not. And because I can. And Mastodon supports it!

Unlike WordPress and Twitter and WhatsApp and Simplenote. The errors are myriad and baffling, involving dancing text or just plain disappearance. There are workarounds, but they're a pain.

But I had faith that Mastodon would be accessible, and it is! :D

But I have to admit it's very slow. This computer is 7 years old and speech recognition is resource-hungry software.

Very interesting paper on recognising bisexual people by their voice. the results are counter-intuitive if one holds the hypothesis that bisexuals occupy a position in the middle of hetero and homosexuals. Bisexuals are identified as more masculine-sounding than gay men, but also, bisexuals with equal inclination towards both genders are identified as more masculine than heterosexuals, whereas bisexuals with a preference for one gender are identified as no different in masculinity from heterosexuals. I have some ideas about this, but I'm finding hard to formulate them in accurate language. Link to paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Zažil odchod šamana, ayahuasku i uctívání Matky Země. Jižní Amerika očima fotografa - Aktuálně.cz
magazin.aktualne.cz/foto/zazil…

A big update to SuperTinyIcons
github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcon…

Loads of #SVG icons for popular services - each one UNDER 1,024 bytes. Yup, less than a kilobyte each.

Take a look!

#svg

John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next - Conservancy Blog

sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/ma…

I'm very glad to see farmers win the right to repair their tractors. It's a win for consumers against bogus #IP objections from manufacturers.
bbc.com/news/business-64206913

#RightToRepair, #RightToTinker

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Update. In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power.
theconversation.com/in-rural-a…

"Under the agreement, John #Deere promises to give farmers and independent repair shops access to manuals, diagnostics and parts. But there’s a catch – the agreement isn’t legally binding, and, as part of the deal, the influential #FarmBureau promised not to support any federal or state #RightToRepair legislation."

#patents

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Update. Turns out that John #Deere has been using open code under the #GPL w/o living up to the license. The Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) is calling on it to comply — which would greatly enhance #farmers' #RightToRepair.
sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/ma…

"We…publicly call on John Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations…by providing complete source code…that the GPL & other copyleft licenses require, to the farmers & others who are entitled to it."

#OpenSource

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Happy sunday, and Happy mother's day for those in the UK. 119th episode of the Blind Android users podcast has landed on your favorite podcatcher of choice. Our co-founder Salih Kunduz is there, as always to talk about your new app, what you can find and how you can contribute. Go ahead and download Accessible Android if you haven't, and please take a few moment to review us on Google Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Die @Bundesregierung klagt gegen Bescheid des Datenschutzbeauftragten @ulrichkelber, weil jener der Regierung ihre Facebook-Page untersagt hat. Die DSGVO wartet seit 2018 darauf um- und durchgesetzt zu werden, vor allem in Irland. Ich bin gespannt wie das entschieden wird, weil egal wie: es hat Folgen. Entweder sagen alle: „Ach, dann ist die DSGVO egal(er), die Regierung muss ja auch nicht.“ oder plötzlich darf im Grunde nach keiner mehr. Aber was dann?🍿🤯😱
golem.de/news/dsgvo-bundesregi…
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Ich hab das im DLF-Interview auch als Beispiel gebracht: deutschlandfunkkultur.de/meta-…

Das Festhalten an Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. ist wie das Festhalten am Verbrennermotor. Wir kommen alle gemeinsam weiter, wenn wir uns von gated communities verabschieden und auf offene Netzwerke setzen, wo ein Austausch möglich ist, ohne dass wir unsere gesamte Kommunikation und Außenwirkung an die AGB von US-Konzernen und die US-Gesetzgebung ketten.

Just a note for people hesitating to try #DNF5 - I have been trying it for more than half a year. And in the past few months, I have not found any issues. So I use it as a default. And it is much faster. DNF5 is present in #Fedora 38, and for older Fedoras, there is #Copr repository fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes…