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FYI. I saw this today when someone shared it in my Facebook feed, and it looks legitimate, as it also has a quote from OrCam. It is not entirely surprising, although I believe they were just exhibiting at the blindness conventions earlier this month. What a whirlwind the last few days have been in the blindness assistive technology world with the AppleVis closure and now this as well. OrCam to halt developing visual aid devices - Globes en.globes.co.il/en/article-orc… #blind #lowvision #visuallyimpaired

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Auf der Suche nach Hörstoff hab ich bei Uve Teschner gelesen, dass er von Cory Doctorow "Red Team Blues" eingesprochen hat, um dann festzustellen, dass der Link zu Audible nicht mehr funktioniert.

Und die CD-Fassung bei Amazon nicht lieferbar ist.

Kann es vielleicht sein, dass Herr Doctorow nicht möchte, dass seine Sachen über Audible laufen?

uveteschner.de/hoerbuecher-hoe…

in reply to Klaus

Rückmeldung vom Verlag:

"leider wird "Red Team Blues" weder jetzt noch in Zukunft als Hörbuch erhältlich sein. Es tut mir leid, dass Sie sich bereits auf die akustische Version der Geschichte gefreut haben."

in reply to Klaus

Also moment: Da wird ein Hörbuch produziert und dann erscheint es nie? Oder geht es nur um Audible als Plattform? Das wird vom Autoren ja nicht zu unrecht weiträumig umgangen. Ich habe das Gefühl, den Prozess nicht zu verstehen. So eine Produktion kostet zu Recht ja ordentlich Geld. Damit fängt man doch nicht vor der Rechteprüfung an oder?


Screen Reader Basics That Both Blind and Sighted Should Know accessibleandroid.com/screen-r…

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Best Password Manager in 2024 cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…


Here is a brand new ad for friend, an "AI" hardware product.

I can't speak to the merits of the product from an ad or a teaser site.

But on scifi, I am expert. And I think it's absolutely wild they're going full Black Mirror here. It invites so many questions.

Do they MEAN to go Black Mirror? Do they KNOW they're going Black Mirror?

Is this a wink and a nod? Is this a consequence of the ~Cerebral Valley~ echo chamber? I am very, very curious!

youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk…

in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

I'm surprised that they think people want that. I'd want an AI "friend" speaking to me in my ear; there's surely plenty of precedent for that in science fiction.


These OTC Hearing Aids Are the Best Deal for You. Here's the Math cnet.com/health/medical/these-…



For those of you interested in learning how to teach #Blind and low-vision kids and adults #TactileDrawing techniques, #Coding basics, then building up to creating their own digital #SVG graphics for tactile output and beyond, the Tangible Art & Design Adventures curriculum is now live online! Come check out the TADA adventure and share it far and wide! tada.wssb.wa.gov/

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Limited-time offer: Librem 5, our security-focused smartphone with hardware kill switches, now $649! Experience true digital privacy. Sale won't last! #Librem5 #PureOS #Pruism

shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/



Want to learn more about the Digital Executive Leadership Program and what we've learned from teaching it for over 5 years? Recently I hosted a webinar with some of our program instructors which you can find at: youtu.be/Sp4gfs4piY8?si=H5o9wa…

Thanks so much to Amanda Clarke, Jen Schellinck, @mgifford & Meghan Hellstern for sharing your perspectives!

Our next cohort is launching in October with new options for fully in-person, fully online, or hybrid. You can find all the details at: iog.ca/DELP



It's now been 9 years since #Windows 10 was officially released - anyone here upgrade day 1?
in reply to Jen Gentleman

Ugh, that brings back unpleasant memories as a third-party assistive technology developer back then (before I joined the Windows a11y team at Microsoft). The introduction of pre-Chromium Edge was disruptive for screen reader users, or perhaps more accurately, would have been if everyone hadn't just kept using their other browsers. When Edge switched to Chromium, it was a relief for me.


Olympic men’s triathlon postponed due to river pollution theverge.com/2024/7/30/2420944…


How do #LibreOffice developers maintain code quality? One of the tools is fuzz testing – learn about it here: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or… #foss #OpenSource

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youtu.be/l2bVdW9j97Q


#Christian love:
deadline.com/2024/07/french-dj…


This is a real picture, it has not been altered, just great timing as he launches over the wave

Gabriel Medina, #Brazil, he scored a 9.90, the highest single wave score in Olympics history

then he stood on air in a #photo which is instantly iconic

#surfing #olympics2024 #photography #photograph

Edit: credit to #olympics #photographer Jerome Brouillet

And Story: time.com/7005239/olympics-surf…

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put all of your stuff in the cloud, they said. it'll be grand, they said. #azure
narrativ.es/@janl/112875693670…


I am again reminding y’all not to auto-fail regions / landmarks that have no accName:
adrianroselli.com/2024/06/mayb…

I am also begging y’all to stop using `aria-label`:
adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria…
ericwbailey.website/published/…

If you aren’t testing in screen readers (not just VoiceOver or ChromeVox) then please just stop already.

#accessibility #a11y



I just learned there is a #QUIC in the #Linux kernel effort: github.com/lxin/quic

... as a draft PR making curl use it was filed: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1431…

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I mean... I kind of like it. IPPROTO_QUIC added to ye olde socket API looks neat/simple to me, and (as a transport layer) I think it belongs in the kernel anyway.

I assume you prefer QUIC in userspace? For portability reasons?

in reply to EricJ

@ericj kernel-side certainly makes a few things simpler, but I don't expect this to land in a mainline kernel any time soon and it will be Linux only so in effect it it does not simplify anything for us...
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

My thought: oh, it's finally happening.

I've been expecting this for a while...



I have this slide showing the 101(!) operating systems people have reported #curl to run on.

I now have a customer call scheduled about porting it to a 102nd...

#curl
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I don't see the Nintendo DS or 3DS on here. Surely they used it too, right?
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i tried to think of any OSs that weren't mentioned here, and the only one i could think of i can't even remember the proper name (the OS that the TI Nspire line of graphing calculators runs, it's based on some commercial RTOS shit)



Hey Linux users! 🐧

Did you know that Tuta offers a dedicated encrypted desktop client for protecting your emails, contacts, and calendar? 🔐

Best of all it's completely free!

What distro will you be installing it on?
#linux #privacy #email #security #distro

in reply to Tuta

Uninstalling as usual. It would be nice if some effort would be made on performance. All the Tuta apps are... sooooo.... sloooow... To the point where they even become glitchy to use.
in reply to Caveman

@caveman Thanks for your feedback. It works quite well on my end. Where are you based and do you use a stable connection? I'd like to pass the details on to our tech team!
in reply to Tuta

Oh, sorry I missed this. I'm based in the US, my connection is stable. And I'm sure it is/was the app. It would be great if there was a setting to disable animations to see if that causes the problem.
in reply to Caveman

@caveman Thanks for the feedback, do send details to hello@tutao.de should it happen again. We'd like to investigate!
in reply to Tuta

In mobile and on desktop, I'm mainly using mid to low end hardware, though it would be nice to see more thought given to those users not shelling out $500-$1000 on a new phone every couple years and those concerned about all the e waste needlessly generated to perform basic tasks in modern computing. If I can play 3d rendered video games from the early 2000s on the machine, I expect to be able to check a few boxes and scroll up and down in my email client without considerable lag.


Webinar, August 6 at 12pm ET: Using Screen Reader Testing Tools to Evaluate the Accessibility of a User Journey – Part 2 tpgi.com/webinar-using-screen-…
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David Goldfield
@startrek2024 Yes, there is. If you search for its name along with the name TPGI you'll definitely find the recording.



If you're out for a walk this weekend, and spot a memorial bench, please take a geotagged photo and upload it to openbenches.org/

We've got over thirty-two thousand benches - all added by people like you.

Every bench gets posted on our Mastodon-bot @openbenches

THANKS GANG!

in reply to CubeOfCheese

we have signed an agreement with OSM which allows them to use our data.

It doesn't get uploaded automatically because people taking photos don't always have the same precision GPS coordinates as needed for mapping.

in reply to Terence Eden

that makes sense. Lack of images is in my opinion OSMs greatest flaw. So I'm assuming you're hosting all the database in your own database and project it onto the OSM background layer?
in reply to CubeOfCheese

For what it's worth mapcomplete.org/benches.html makes it pretty easy to add images to #OpenStreetMap objects.

I thought @MapComplete had a carousel of nearby WikiMedia images for easy crosslinking but it's not showing up for me for the themes that I thought had it.

Edit: there's a "browse and link nearby images" button much further down the form.

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in reply to Terence Eden

@cubeofcheese I did set up a maproulette challenge for it a while ago and integrated that into @MapComplete , but never promoted it because of performance issues. Maybe time to attempt this again


Hra, co se hrávala na Twitteru, než se z toho stal Xitter: Kde to jsem? #praha


Can any of my Blind Canadians confirm that this is digitally available?
I've only ever seen it on audio tape.
nnels.ca/node/7276
in reply to Sean Randall

Well unfortunately I can't help, as I'm not a Canadian so don't have access to that particular library.
in reply to Jayson Smith

@jaybird110127 LOL no me neither. The RNIB here and the CNIB have done some exchanges but not recently, as far as I know.

in reply to treefit

as workaround, if the log folder works you get into the sandbox folder, so you could navigate the directories and find the stickers folder from there
in reply to 🌸🇪🇺 Dreamy Mia 🏳️‍⚧️🌸

now there is an GitHub issue for this: github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

thanks for reporting ❤️



Otro pasito para desenmascarar a este elemento!

Procedimiento penal abierto contra Nacho Cano por tener a trabajadores irregulares en su musical

lavanguardia.com/gente/2024073…

in reply to Óscar Gorri

La única pena que tengo es que no se proceda así con más explotadors.


youtube.com/watch?v=H6CNdEBkTQ…


Here we go again. Literally seeing japan in the olympics made me reread [Antiquity Link](semprini-stories.blogspot.com/)



No matter how still you’ve been, he’s…


In everyday life we encounter two kinds of forces: energetic forces and entropic forces.

When you hold a rock you feel it pushing your hand down. This is an energetic force: raising the rock increases its energy, while lowering it lowers its energy.

When you stretch a rubber band, you feel it pulling back. This is an entropic force. You're not mainly increasing its energy as you stretch it. You're decreasing its entropy! You are taking the tangled polymers in the rubber and forcing them to line up more neatly.

We see here a fundamental truth of thermodynamics: when the temperature is constant, the world wants to minimize its 'free energy', which is energy minus temperature times entropy. So the rock pushes down to reduce energy, but the rubber band pulls back to increase entropy.

Now for a puzzle. When you compress a cylinder of gas, it pushes back. Is this an entropic force or an energetic force... or maybe a mixture of the two?

Yes, the force is due to the pressure of the gas. When you compress the cylinder, molecules of gas inside are bouncing against the cylinder's head, pushing back. That's a perfectly fine explanation at the microscopic level. But you can still ask: are you increasing the energy of the gas, or decreasing its entropy... or both?

Think about it a minute, and then I'll tell you. Someone told me the answer, but I decided it's not quite that simple, so I'll explain the answer I came up with.

If you can handle some math, check out my blog article about entropic forces. If you can't - fear not, the answer to the puzzle uses essentially no math!

(1/2)

johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2…

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TWO. DAYS

until kitsune tails bounces onto steam and itch like a bird riding a giant boot but then leaving it during a jump like a sacrificial yoshi (... these are becoming a bit hard to write ok? 😭)

more info & wishlist via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

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@fireborn well, the pixel font is large and pretty legible at any resolution, keyboard and gamepad are fully rebindable, and there is a toggle for reducing any flashing visual effects



Hacía falta este artículo? Diría que no, pero allá cada uno con su conciencia!

Cómo engañar a la empresa y fingir que estás trabajando

noticiasdenavarra.com/ciencia-…

in reply to Óscar Gorri

Hay una canción yanquie que me viene a la cabeza:

Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime,
that's why I shit
in company time.

El jefe se lleva un dólar,
yo diez centavos,
por eso voy al baño
en horario de trabajo.



I've just seen the unpossible. A broken #nokia phone. I think I understand how Cockcroft and Walton felt when they split the indivisible atom.