Dear Geeks:
This code is hard to read (Every line requires translating abbreviations into english) & all of these variable names will be fucking obnoxious for any programmer who needs a screen reader.
This hurts maintainability & emergency bug hunting.
src_endp → source_endpoint
dst_addr_mode → destination_address_mode probably. I'm guessing WTF they meant by "dst"
dst_endp → destination_endpoint
req_dst_addr → request_destination_address
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One really cool NVDA feature that I'm absolutely loving is the thing it does where if I run scoop update * or another command that gives me a fuckton of console output, it'll just lock up and freeze, often continuing to read terminal messages while I'm focused on the desktop, and sometimes even crash if I'm unlucky. I'm sure an insane amount of development time went into this, so kudos! Loving it!
To be clear, I don't begrudge NV Access this too hard. I still donate to them and realize how hard making a free and open source Windows screen reader is. But this has happened to me at least 10 times this week, so I'm annoyed.
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent appreciation is for some of the Free Software languages that bring me both joy and income: Python & Golang
I've used Python at $DAYJOB since version 2.3 (it got woefully stuck at 2.4 for WAAAAY too long, and finally switched to 3.x some time in the last 2–3 years) and it simplified so many automation tasks there. I've used dozens of programming languages in my life for various tasks, and the hard part is rarely *writing* the code, but rather *reading* the code. And I find it a LOT easier to come back and read old Python code than just about any other language.
Meanwhile, Golang saved my bacon on a short-term contracting project where TB of (simple) CSV files needed to be processed, cross-referenced. Being able to spin up a pool of multithreading Go processes, have built in locking and hash-map structures, and operate on raw input buffers of bytes shaved a 3-day manual process down to about an hour involving running a single command. I find it pretty readable too, feeling a bit like C while ditching some of the most cumbersome aspects.
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
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В России заблокировали приложение для слепых Be My Eyes
Все, что оно делало — помогало незрячим ориентироваться в пространстве.
В нем можно было связываться с волонтерами через видеосвязь или просить ИИ описывать происходящее вокруг — видеозвонки внутри сервиса как раз и могли стать причиной блокировки.
Официально в реестр оно пока не внесено, но в Be My Eyes подтвердили, что доступ из России ограничен
hi-tech.mail.ru/news/139605-v-…
Пользователи Be My Eyes столкнулись с блокировкой в России. Узнайте, как сервис помогал незрячим людям, и какие альтернативы доступны.Никита Лактюшин (Hi-Tech Mail)
The Inclusive Design Principles (IDP) were first published in 2016 by myself, Ian Pouncey, Léonie Watson, and Heydon Pickering.TetraLogical
Na sítích SPD je po tiskovce jejich ministra veselo 😂😂
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Fanoušky a voliče SPD rozlítilo vyjádření ministra obrany Jaromíra Zůny (za SPD) týkající se pokračování pomoci napadené Ukrajině.Marie Kuželová (Novinky)
Just helped someone on Be My Eyes, he was walking from his house to a shop about 10 minutes away.
Helped him navigate the streets and cross the road and so on. Luckily he lived in the UK so I knew what I was seeing 😅
He was wearing Meta’s AI glasses, which help him a lot but don’t currently describe things like lamp posts/scaffolding etc, which was where I was needed.
He made the call from the glasses also, and it was great that I could see what he could see also.
One of my favourite things is helping people on Be My Eyes 😍
Such a great app.
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Hey, we appreciate everything you are doing :)
I personally find a bit less of a need for volunteer help these days because of image recognition, but there are still use cases for which it either doesn't work or is far too slow, so I do still rely on volunteer help once in a while.
amazing, I’m glad tech is doing something good for you all!
I still regularly get calls, one of my favourites was a man who was going out on a date and had recently shaved wanted to check if he looked sharp.
He really did :)
On Dec 27th at 3PM Eastern, one week from today, REAPER Made Easy's end of year wrap up/live listening party will be happening. This is where we hang out on a live stream and listen to a bunch of the productions people have done with REAPER and OSARA throughout the year.
If you've got something you'd like to share, we're all ears! Send it in here:
dropbox.com/request/mB2KhxVunz…
Anything you've made this year, anywhere in the world, in any language, with any amount of experience is welcome. The only limitations are one production per person so we can play as many of them as possible, and the majority of what we're listening to needs to have been made using REAPER/OSARA.
Feel free to post questions in this thread or via DM if there's anything you're not sure of. Boosts for reach appreciated.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone's been cookin'!
Scott and Jen
As an Open Source developer in Germany, I'd greatly benefit if our work was officially recognized as voluntary service (Ehrenamt).
If you are located in Germany, please help by signing this petition: openpetition.de/petition/blog/…
Thank you for your support! (Please do not sign if you are not living in Germany.)
Yes it's an ad for Big Tech, but it's really beautifully done and artful.
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Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...YouTube
Zwischen den Jahren ist es oft etwas ruhiger – genau dann lässt sich gut anfangen. IT-Sicherheit ist für mich kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess über Jahre. Kein großer Umbruch, sondern viele kleine Schritte: Passwörter, E-Mail, Smartphone, Heimnetz, Backups. Wichtig ist nicht Perfektion, sondern überhaupt zu beginnen. 👇
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Von »wird schon nichts passieren« zu echter Kontrolle: Mein persönlicher Weg zu mehr IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und digitaler Selbstbestimmung.www.kuketz-blog.de
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PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app which lets you track, analyze, and block the connections made by other apps on your device. It also allowsAccessible Android
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When it comes to @Delta Chat (39c3) do you know it features 1 to 1 audio / video calls since v2.22?
It has a very lightweight client side app built with web technologies and a minimalist server side component turn server called chatmail-turn.
I am wondering, am I alone running that turnserver behind a nat?
github.com/chatmail/chatmail-t…
This turn server enumerates all the interfaces found on the system, identifies globally addressable addresses and creates an UDP listen socket on the default port. Relay connections for this scenar...GitHub
Die Offenheit, mit der @AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social hier unterwegs ist, und ihr Engagement beeindrucken mich.
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André Polykanine
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🤔 Hadn't considered that, but unfortunately that's not really something we have much say over, as their use is either hardcoded into the language spec OR you'd be making non-idiomatic code and everyone who saw it would hate you. 😉
We can abolish the practice of prefacing private methods with underscores in most languages, but… 🤷♀️
Kinda sucks to have the only real accommodation option be to use a different language.
André Polykanine
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