For my latest story, I got to correspond with a Ukranian developer with cerebral palsy who uses ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to communicate and code. It was wild, because I don't think our interaction would have been possible just a few years ago.
Beyond that, though, #GenerativeAI is removing barriers for him to code and contribute. He even released his first #OpenSource project recently sharing his experience!
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Petition against the #tiktok ban. I will say, I actively use TikTok in the college classroom. It’s an important pedagogical tool and as a profession we should oppose this ban. Regulate *all* #socialmedia companies, instead of targeting a single app that has been a vehicle of progressive political education and organizing—and especially because a lot of the rhetoric around the ban stems from American #Sinophobia.
It looks like Reddit is working on a new Reddit UI, and it’s a joy to use from an accessibility perspective. It’s still beta quality, I couldn’t successfully log in, for example, but it looks very promising. It’s at sh.reddit.com/
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I faved and retooted but really need to say thank you for this. I saw at 8am (UK time) just in time to post a message on our company Slack and save us from being flooded by hundreds of engineers all having mild panic attacks on a Friday morning!
FWIW, while it was the number one when I search for this this morning, I didn't 100% trust github.blog being a real thing. The new hashes were also listed in the github.com docs. (it's amazing how strong the urge to find something to justify just blatting the known hosts entry is though)
#Pixelfed je v porovnání s Instagramem mikro sociální síť. V poslední době se na ní objevují skutečně kvalitní fotografie. Především nepatří společnosti Meta a jinému pochybnému svinstvu. Dost se vylepšila i oficiální mobilní aplikace. ☺️👍
So apparently, even as #MathML support is improving at the browser level, in order to get #NVDA to _read_ math, you need to install #MathPlayer -- which is fine in and of itself, but it really bothers me that the MathPlayer webpage (info.wiris.com/mathplayer-info) says both "Accessibility for web environments using MathPlayer is limited to obsolete browsers such as Internet Explorer 8" and (in bold) "We are not actively developing MathPlayer."
It seems really odd for such a necessary tool to have such prominent warnings (but then, of course, there's an #XKCD for everything: xkcd.com/2347/). And nearly every instructional page I found while looking for information on MathPlayer references using it in Internet Explorer, which is now officially dead (and is actually being remotely disabled on people's machines, which seems rather draconian).
On the bright side, once MathPlayer is installed, NVDA seems to be able to read (properly MathML coded) math just fine, even in Chrome, which the MathJax documentation says doesn't work; probably due to recent MathML support improvements in Chrome.
Accessibility in general I'm really enjoying learning more about. STEM accessibility is giving me headaches.
Tossing a fix back to you :) These days you are best using MathCAT rather than MathPlayer: addons.nvda-project.org/addons… Mary Stores and Brian Richwine from Central Indiana University did a presentation on this at CSUN last week, although I can't find their presentation resources online.
#Chromium landed support for fractional scaling on #Wayland a couple of days ago. It was reverted again today. Reason for revert: This change completely broke Chromium Ozone/Wayland on compositors that support fractional-scale-v1.
Nobody had ever tested it and the authors missed the whole actual scaling part with wp_viewporter.
Unofficial group to discuss usage of the Flickr API. Admin and moderators do not work for Flickr. If you have photos or screenshots that illustrate your use of the API, then feel free to add them.
Things that make you go hmmm: Blocking calls with an undefined user agent! I think you and I can easily work with this but yeah most non pseudo-hard core developers can't! <-- I am all about the "pseudo"
lolz you are just as much a "real" developer as I am ! A valid user agent is any non null string is far as I can tell from the flickr API forum thread. so "cogdog" is valid and "" is invalid AFAICT! "An empty User-Agent string is invalid. What you included is fine. " but it would be nice to have explicit examples of valid and invalid user agents! flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/…
Unofficial group to discuss usage of the Flickr API. Admin and moderators do not work for Flickr. If you have photos or screenshots that illustrate your use of the API, then feel free to add them.
I don’t understand how any ole string helps; won’t the spammers just change their code? Why not have more fine grained permissions? Mine just read photo info. It just puts the burden on folks like us. I was proud how long Flickr had not fubarred their own API.
I agree with you 100%. A non nil user agent string is meaningless unless flickr specifies a structure for the user agent?!?! The flickr API key should be sufficient to identify an app as others have stated in the thread so i'm just as confused as you are! What else am I missing ?!?
New: US Wellness, a major provider of healthcare and wellness programs in the U.S. with millions of customers, confirmed a breach involving a third-party vendor.
That vendor is likely Fortra, given US Wellness was a GoAnywhere customer at the time of the ransomware attack.
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Nur 18,8 Prozent der Bundesbürger sind dafür, dass Forscher automatisch auf ihre Gesundheitsdaten zugreifen dürfen. Bei Ärzten halten dies etwas mehr für OK.
#Germany is when weird far-right idiots can legally hoard weapons and ammo but the City of #Munich decides that climate activists will get fined 1.000€ for carrying (not using) superglue. (Article in German, possibly paywalled) Also - another wonderful German word: Sekundenklebertransportverbot. sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/klima…
Ich brauche einen Patronengurt. Habe kürzlich gerade eine Vorratspackung geliefert bekommen. Und es gibt doch noch keine Sekundenklebervorratspackungspartronengurttrageverbotsanordnung, oder? 🤔
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
I really loved @thunderbird 's first episode of their new podcast, ThunderCast! And wanted to shout out on Mastodon for this awesome community. #thunderbird #opensource
#Germany is when weird far-right idiots can legally hoard weapons and ammo but the City of #Munich decides that climate activists will get fined 1.000€ for carrying (not using) superglue. (Article in German, possibly paywalled) Also - another wonderful German word: Sekundenklebertransportverbot. sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/klima…
Just came across an example of a Java Swing app with a Chromium web view inside (using the Chromium Embedded Framework). github.com/hydraulic-software/… The embedded web view is kind of accessible on Windows, but for some reason, NVDA doesn't recognize it as implementing IAccessible2, so browse mode isn't activated. I don't think I'd ever want to ship an app that combines two heavy runtimes in this way, but hopefully the accessibility problem isn't hard to solve. Surprised it worked as well as it did.
An example of how to package a JVM app that uses embedded Chromium. - GitHub - hydraulic-software/jcef-conveyor: An example of how to package a JVM app that uses embedded Chromium.
Purism President @kyle caught up with Matthias Kirschner, President of @fsfe to talk about the inspiration behind the children's book "Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", and the need to raise awareness about free software
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is there any chance you'd reconsider something similar to a bridge, for those who'd like to use Thunderbird/K9 as their client? It is useful to have 1 client for all emails you might have
can you add an option to select multiple spelling checkers, for example someone that writes in two different languages need to constantly change the setting back and forward. That would be greatly appreciated.
Well then. So far this congressional committee seems pretty clearly to want to ban TikTok, gut Section 230, and promote the interests of US social media giants.
Happy Birthday to Walter Rodney, who was born #OTD in Guyana in 1942! After becoming a professor in Jamaica, he was barred from the country for his communist views, a decision which caused riots in his support. He later taught and lectured around the world, especially in Tanzania. His book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” made him a towering figure in anti-colonial circles.
Dělá mě to ještě mladším, když kromě titulků skrytých titulků zapínám taky audiopopis? 🙂
K dokonalosti mi jen chybí titulky k audiopopisu. S nimi by se audiovizuální díla mohla vydávat knižně 😆 --- RT @jilm Většina mladých lidí nyní preferuje sledovat televizi s titulkama i ve svém vlastním jazyce. 🤯 twitter.com/YouGov/status/1629… twitter.com/jilm/status/163877…
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Insta-bought one!
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