This could be useful to some people. No support, only for info.
As background, I was needing to schedule a task regularly so as to work with the StationPlaylist Track Tool via command line parameters. The Track Tool is very useful to process files for use on a radio station. If you don't use StationPlaylist, still keep reading.
First I tried the Windows Task Scheduler. Everything worked, except that the computer would freeze while the task (which is fairly intensive) was taking place. Then I tried System Scheduler: splinterware.com/products/sche…
Not only does it work perfectly, but it has very accessible dialogs and list view controls, plenty of shortcut keys, and more. I was very pleased at the way it works.
Of course you can schedule a task to undertake the kind of activity I was wanting to do. The list of tasks not only shows the title but when it was last run, something essential for what I was trying to achieve as I needed to monitor it.
You can also create periodic reminders or scheduled text notes. Those reminders can be snoozed for a period of time before the alert arrives again. The tasks can be run manually or via the schedule. Manual was also very useful for my testing. You can create desktop shortcuts for tasks if you did want to run them manually and regularly.
Not that I tried this, but you can also get it to action a series of keystrokes if needed when an application is focused. That was well outside the scope of what I was wanting to do.
Definitely worth giving it a try if you would like to. There is a free and paid version.
Considering COVID-19 hasn't gone away, and we want to be as prepared as possible for the next potential pandemic, a new study into the most effective type of face mask offers some important insights: and there is a clear winner.
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Donald Trump and his closest allies are preparing a radical reshaping of American government if he regains the White House. Here are some of his plans. nytimes.com/interactive/2024/0…
Donald Trump and his closest allies are planning a radical reshaping of American government. Here are some of the policy stakes if he regains power in 2025.
@petit_suisse @steven We don't have a formal partnership or anything, but we are certainly happy to work together for user's benefit - just recently I was speaking with a Libre Office developer around functionality they were hoping to implement such that it would work with both NVDA on Windows and Orca on Linux - things like that benefit eveyrone.
@Tamasg Wish you all the best and I hope you can get back on your feet after so many attacks for just stating the obvious. As a blind individual myself who trys Linux over and over again just to cave and use something where I can actually get work done I respect you a ton to raise awareness of the technical problems as well as the ableist ones. Thank you and be save
@WestphalDenn @Tamasg Sending you lots of love and here’s hoping some folks do some reflecting and things really do change at a systemic/cultural level.
when you are harassing the people working on fixing it instead of directing your 40k followers toward funding those people then yes, you are the problem social.treehouse.systems/@TheE…
@greenWhale@dice.camp if that was the case, individuals from different groups (System76, KDE, elementary, etc.) wouldn't have stood up for us (GNOME) and/or have shared their fair share of experience with Aral:
- https://fosstodon.
It has long seemed to me that it would be prudent for corporations which derive their revenue from Linux to pool resources and invest in an accessibility effort. For example, they could support the current work of the GNOME Foundation, while educating their own software developers in accessibility and setting appropriate internal policies (e.g., proper testing, accessibility as a release requirement). This has never happened, however, suggesting to me that they'd all rather wait until the law compels them to change course. Meanwhile, very under-resourced, and dedicated, accessibility work continues. The regulatory environment is also changing for the better, e.g., the European Accessibility Act addresses "consumer" computers and operating systems, and it comes into effect next year.
To make up for #AudioMo day 21, here's a clip of a skype call that took place between myself and my friend Trenton Matthews. We were talking about impersonations, and his female impersonation led to him talking about birth control. Honestly, it's too funny and I crack up every time I hear this. I hope you enjoy this fun little clip. :) Have an awesome day!
If you're travelling this summer and have used up your mobile data, or are in areas with poor connectivity, fear not!
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The WiFi4EU initiative promotes free access to Wi-Fi connectivity for citizens in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums in municipalities throughout Europe.
If you're travelling this summer and have used up your mobile data, or are in areas with poor connectivity, fear not!
#Wifi4EU is connecting people all over Europe: 🌐 Free access to secure and high-speed internet 🛜 93,000+ hotspots in municipalities across Europe 🏫 In parks, schools, libraries, health centres, museums and other public spaces.
The WiFi4EU initiative promotes free access to Wi-Fi connectivity for citizens in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums in municipalities throughout Europe.
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For the 23rd #Audiomo, I was asked a simple question. Which transformative technology is used by not only you because of a disability but the rest of your family?
Rules out Braille, screen readers, etc of course.
TIL: Depending on the rendering engine, fonts can include and run WebAssembly code. This can be used to program some intelligence into them, e.g. for complex ligatures in Arabic etc.
What would you do in 2024, armed with that knowledge?
That's right, embed an LLM in your font so that it can auto-complete sentences.
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen did just that, with llama.ttf.
This page at the time of writing grades websites’ progressive enhancement based on their ability to work without JavaScript. Everything, not just JavaScript, should be progressive enhancements.
HTML elements already have progressive enhancement built-in. CSS, JS, and embedded content should be progressively enhanced too. The page should make sense without scripts and styles, alt-text should be available in the absence of embedded media, etc. We shouldn’t put scripting on a pedestal above everything else.
I suggest replacing references to JavaScript with references to non-HTML content. See also: “curlable” on the IndieWeb wiki.
A more minor piece of feedback: I’d suggest re-sizing the badges to 88-by-31 pixels if possible. It’s a very popular size for badges; at these dimensions, they would look good alongside others of the same size (examples from the W3C).
This page at the time of writing grades websites’ progressive enhancement based on their ability to work without JavaScript. Everything, not just JavaScript,
Larger marketplaces like Amazon can help you sell online quickly. Local social platforms like Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist usually don’t charge fees, but sellers shoulder a greater burden.
"Lenže každým ďalším krokom táto garnitúra dokazuje, že okrem vlastnej moci a s ňou súvisiacich benefitov nechce zlepšiť nič. Naopak, ak niečo spája špeciálnu prokuratúru, národné parky či RTVS, je to čistá deštrukcia. Členovia vlády a parlamentnej väčšiny sa môžu oháňať slovom národ od rána do večera, mať plné ústa národnoštátnych záujmov a tridsať rokov pripomínať, kto hlasoval za zvrchovanosť, na tejto republike im vôbec nezáleží."
I love Google! They're the most ideal company to have in Africa! With all of their knowledge, they're no way they'd play into caricatures of the contine-
i ran into something like this when provisioning an empty chroot for some of my services, and finding that most binaries required more system configuration files than the static Go binaries I started with. i now have a list of files to include by default whenever i make tiny images. resolv.conf, cert bundle, mime-types, etc.
@ozzelot Ve Fedoře 41 půjde Nvidia ovladače nainstalovat opět z GNOME Software/KDE Discover na pár kliknutí. Jinak balíčky s Nvidia ovladači sice nejsou v repozitarich distribuce, ale jsou dostupné. Stačí po instalaci zaškrtnout repozitare třetích stran. Teď je potřeba je instalovat přes DNF, v další verzi to půjde opět z GUI.
@sesivany @ozzelot Nechci znít jako hnidopich, ale: 1. Teprve? To jako do teď management v RH usoudil, že NVIDIA GPU nejsou? 2. Jediná otázka "Proč?", proč to prostě není v repozitáři? Jeden z nejvíc používaných HW v oblasti GPU a musí se s ním přidávat repo? To bych spíš čekal na ArchLinuxu než na Fedoře.
@ozzelot 1. Nvidia ovladače šly ve Fedoře instalovat z GUI roky. Nejde to teď přesně 2 měsíce. Teda jde, ale přes správce balíčků. 2. V repozitarich Fedory nemůže být nic, co nemá zdrojáky pod svobodnou licencí. To má mimo jiných čistě praktické důvody: bez drojáků nelze garantovat funkčnost a bezpečnost, kterou Fedora u balíčků v repech garantuje.
@ozzelot Ještě jedna poznámka: Fedora je komunitní projekt sponzorovaný Red Hatem. Management Red Hatu může její vývoj ovlivňovat, ale rozhodně ne o něm direktivně rozhodovat. Myslím, že zrovna Nvidia ovladače v repech Fedory je něco, co by komunita ostře odmítla. Z důvodů, které jsem napsal.
@sesivany @ozzelot To už asi chápu, proč se nikdy moc Linux neujal a asi ani neujme.
Všichni řešíme vnitřní boje a mezitím Microsoft, Apple berou svobodu uživatelům a my jednotlivé komunity máme problém se sjednotit a dát si za cíl udělat z Linux distribucí výkladní klenot a definici toho, jak má vypadat operační systém. Achjo no...
@ozzelot Jsou distribuce, které mají Nvidia ovladače v repech dlouhá léta a nedá se říct, že by Windows nebo macOS nějak zatápěly. 🤷
Nakonec dlouhodobě nese ovoce přístup "zdrojáky nebo smůla". To nakonec dotlačilo Nvidii k tomu, že pracuje na open source modulu, který bude v mainline kernelu a vyřeší to problémy s Nvidia ovladači na Linuxu jednou provždy.
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I just did some benchmarking of busd (my D-Bus broker written in @rustlang using @zbus) in comparison to 2 others that are written in C (including dbus-broker that's famous for being super efficient) and despite the fact that I have not actively added any optimizations to busd (yet), the results are almost identical:
Die Ampel ringt um den Etat für das kommende Jahr. Kanzler Scholz betont trotz geplanter Einsparungen den sozialen Zusammenhalt. Er äußert sich auch zur Aufarbeitung der Coronakrise – und zu den Erfolgen der AfD.
Termux quite unexpectedly got an update at the Google PlayStore yesterday. A statement regarding the released termux-app v0.120 has been made at github.com/termux/termux-app/d…
A termux-app v0.120 release was made on Google PlayStore on 2024-06-04 by @fornwall, along with some Termux plugin app releases. These were not done by the current Termux core team. They are only a...
They fuckin' are though. You're just making that rule up, Visible. Numbers are in fact 100% allowed in domain names. So are a lot of special characters, actually.
🤢 Wow, someone raised request for an optional tab indentation support for accessibility on Blac, a popular formatter for #Python. They closed the issue and said "No, tabs for indentation are the devil. Making this configurable would go against Black's philosophy." #accessibility #indentationgithub.com/psf/black/issues/27…
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I run an accessibility-based organization (https://github/com/grafeasgroup, https://reddit.com/r/transcribersofreddit) and we would li...
@vick21 Maybe bc money? ROFL According to Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey, "Coders who use spaces for indentation make more money than ones who use tabs, even if they have the same amount of experience. the median developer who uses spaces had a salary of $59,140, while the median tabs developer had a salary of $43,750. The model estimated that using spaces instead of tabs is associated with an 8.6% higher salary (confidence interval (6%, 10.4%), p-value < 10^-10)." stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/…
@aeu @pete There's already fork with the feature. Are you saying no one should calling out someone spreading ablism just because it's free and opensource? Open source community is not justification for descrimination sexism, racism, ageism, etc.
Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!
Here's another good idea coming from the #curl user survey:
Support "curl -h --insecure" etc to output the manpage section for the --insecure command line option in the terminal. Should be possible to work with either long or short versions of command line options.
Support "curl -h --insecure" etc to output the manpage section for the --insecure command line option in the terminal. Should be possible to work with either long or short versions of command line ...
First shot.
The extracting of the help texts is still a little crude: because we typically have 270KB of text zlib compressed into a single blob, we have to scan for the text to show. As of now, I ...
Did you consider adding a help command instead of an option? The option --help now is playing an active role to help the user, but does not influence an actual HTTP request
For Lynis I created a helper "show help", that well, shows help. Without any command, it will give the output as in the screenshot.
Crazy idea: create helper that allows fuzzy search. So "curl help head" will report about --head, but also the relevant lines about doing a HEAD request.
It makes sense, at the same time confuses me a bit. When I use two options with a program, I expect them to fine-tune the action it is about to take. Like --head --verbose will change the request type from GET to HEAD, yet gives me more verbose output. That makes sense. While -h is not influencing the actual HTTP request or behavior, but instead a hard interrupt to show information. Not what I would expect if I would see the command written on a blog post, for example.
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