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It should be improving accessibility. It's year 2 of trying to get people to use teams. Even I can't figure out how the fuck to get blind users to use a hard app compared to apps in general. theverge.com/2023/2/20/2360703…

Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month

Microsoft is working on a new Microsoft Teams app that dramatically improves performance on laptops and PCs. The new Teams app will be available in preview initially next month, and should use 50 percent less memory.
Tom Warren (The Verge)

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Ruin, terror, and death have marked the life of millions of Ukrainians since 24 February 2022.

We have shown unwavering support by offering humanitarian and financial assistance and taking pivotal steps to hold Russia accountable.

We haven't been alone.

Europeans have offered exceptional and heartwarming support.

Their stories of solidarity have been Europe's firmest answer against Russia's acts of terror.

We collected nine to remember all of them and inspire more: medium.com/p/7b5ff763f3a3

A woman holds up a sign that reads "Ukraine needs your help" while a little girl hugs her.

9 stories of European solidarity towards Ukrainian people

Lights go off. Sirens go on. Suddenly, the thundering sound of bombs disrupts the silence of cold nights in the makeshift shelters of Ukraine. This is what war sounds like. Life in Ukraine has…
European Commission (Medium)

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So You Think You’ve Built a Good Infinite Scroll adrianroselli.com/2014/05/so-y… by @aardrian #webdev #webdesign #a11y

So You Think You’ve Built a Good Infinite Scroll

So you’re saying there’s a chance … that I’ll make it to the footer. TL;DR (added 12 December 2020): Can the user hit “back” and return to the exact same place? Is there paging for when the JavaScript breaks? Does the page have a footer? Can a keyboa…
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #webdev #webdesign @Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Huh, I can just upload music here. Music fans of Mastodon, I've been trying to find the name of this song and who sings it for the last 10-plus years. I found it on a burned CD randomly in High School, and that is all I got.

It would be of great help if you could boost this to try and get it to as many people as possible to hear this song. I'm sure someone out there knows who sings this.

#music #mastodon #help

LYRICS (To the best of my abilities)

Why is there war

This is the Reason

Human diseases plague upon ourselves

the more we survived, the more we lay waste

bring up the weak and tell them to fly

Follow my children. You are the saviours

Or just a number that dies in the storm

supposedly special, yet there is nothing

You cannot be done by some younger face

And who are our idols?

What do they teach?

Reflection upon us

We hate ourselves

Reality is lost

Higher than God

But you are our god, so who is the answer

Question your beliefs

You've been buried in oblivion

Live for today

Consequences tomorrow

Bloody for attention

Soil the floor

Not looking for the answer, just looking to ignore

How bleak is your weakness

[Can't understand the next few lines]

True power is money

Capitalist coin

Now we're back to the reason.

This question isn't solved.

So I drink to your health.

I smoke to your memories.

I shoot for the stars.

I dream of being heard

I entered your lies time and time again.

[Can't understand the rest]


#Mastodon #music #help

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Sometimes I find it very hard to know how to look for/describe #GNOME bugs. I could use some help with this one. It's a bug in #libadwaita as I can trigger it both in GNOME Files and GNOME Settings. I just have no clue how to describe it. I think searching on "dialog" might be too narrow of a search, and I also don't know what to give as extra info (platform, version...). I can't seem to find it in the gitlab repo, which surprises me as it's such a major regression...

#gtk #adwaita

#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #adwaita

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There’s still about a month left to enter our #InkscapeAboutScreen contest for version 1.3!

The deadline to enter is Sun., Mar. 19, 2023.

The theme is:

“Celebrating 20 years of Inkscape”

We’d love to see your art in the running.

inkscape.org/news/2023/02/17/1…

#ArtWithOpenSource

Image of three mountains, the third a high peak with climbers in shadows and the words "Inkscape 1.3 20th Anniversary Edition is coming!"

1.3 About Screen Contest — celebrating 20 years of Inkscape | Inkscape

inkscape.org
#artWithOpenSource #InkscapeAboutScreen

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Is there a high-level, statically typed language in the #GTK ecosystem?

#Rust, while better than C is overly obsessed with memory to use it daily.

Looking at bindings
gtk.org/docs/language-bindings…

things like #JVM and #.NET are missing, leaving the choice of unhelpful type systems, or caring about unneeded details, or both... Not a good outlook for quickly building apps.


The GTK Project - A free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit

GTK is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
The GTK Team
#gtk #rust #jvm

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I have enjoyed really diving into #Mastodon recently, but I have to say that the fatal flaw in the whole federated UX is the inability to explore remote users followers/follows without directly going to the remote instance. I have been doing what is described here: peterkellner.net/2022/11/19/fi… by @pkellner and frankly it sucks. Finding interesting people to follow has been *work* for this reason.

How To View and Follow Another Person's Following on Mastodon - Peter Kellner

It's tricky to see someone else's followers on Mastodon and then follow those you are interested in. In this article I'll give an explanation around how I do...
peterkellner.net
#Mastodon @pkellner@peterkellner.net

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Embloggeration happened: in which I expand on the topic of writing API that can be used by multiple languages in the land of #gnome hopefully to the benefit of people writing libraries and language bindings

bassi.io/articles/2023/02/20/b…


Writing Bindable API, 2023 Edition

In which I attempt at encoding best practices for API writers
halting problem
#gnome

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Un tema curioso que salió ayer en las noticias es el del COSER (Corpus Sonoro del Español Rural). Se trata de un corpus lingüístico recogido mediante grabaciones del lenguaje oral para investigar y plasmar las variantes dialectales y de paso recopilar información sobre la vida rural antes de la mecanización. Me parece un recurso interesante, y es accesible a través de internet: corpusrural.es/

COSER

www.corpusrural.es

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[Blog Post] AppleVis Launches Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card; Participate in Our' Survey That Will Determine the Report Card Ratings applevis.com/blog/applevis-lau…

AppleVis Launches Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card; Participate in Our' Survey That Will Determine the Report Card Ratings | AppleVis

We are excited to announce the launch of our Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card and invite you to participate in the survey that will determine the report card ratings.
www.applevis.com

Brandon reshared this.

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#AI #FutureOfWork #ML

Researchers discover a more flexible approach to machine learning.

quantamagazine.org/researchers…


Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning | Quanta Magazine

“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm’s nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
Quanta Magazine
#AI #ML #futureofwork

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Did you catch our most recent In-Process blog? There was a very popular article on RSS readers, and thanks to community suggestions and feedback, we've edited the post and greatly expanded the list of RSS readers our users recommend. Read more here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
RSS icon, an orange square with rounded corners, a white circle near the bottom left, and two white semi-circles radiating out towards the top-right

In-Process 10th February 2023

We’ve got a few pieces this week to help you get the most out of NVDA 2022.4: Tables in Excel Continuing our look at new features in NVDA 2022.4, here’s one for the Excel users. For tho…
NV Access

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There's a fairly broken hand-rolled cryptographic protocol on the HN front page. Its messages can be reordered, dropped, replayed, and reflected.

This is why I *don’t* like the “don't roll your own crypto” saying: it didn't stop this from being written and spending hours on the HN front page (but does stop smart folks from getting into the field).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…

Whisper: Wraps any Go io.ReadWriter in a secure tunnel using Ed25519/X25519 | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com
in reply to Filippo Valsorda

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Matt Campbell

But a developer taking the "don't roll your own crypto" advice seriously should surely conclude that they should only use the highest-level crypto facilities. In this case, for streams of data in motion, that would mean TLS. The blog post that, IIUC, popularized the "don't roll your own crypto" meme makes this explicit in the conclusion. web.archive.org/web/2009060606… But I suppose by now lots of people who know the general meme haven't read that post.

Matasano Chargen » Blog Archive » Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong!

web.archive.org

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JQ - is one of the most popular command line utilities for extracting and processing data from JSON files.

Here is a ultimate cheatsheet to the most useful JQ functions for #osint, #dfir, and #forensics:

sans.org/posters/json-and-jq-q…

Contributors twitter.com/SANSInstitute twitter.com/DavidSzili

JSON and jq Quick Start Guide | SANS Cheat Sheet

This guide is a supplement to SANS FOR572: Advanced Network Forensics and Analysis. It covers the basics of JSON and some of the fundamentals of the jq utility.
www.sans.org
#OSINT #dfir #forensics

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A to jsem myslel, že se toho nedožiju 😀
Světový rekord Kratochvílové padl. Nizozemka Bolová překonala 41 let staré maximum na trati 400 metrů | iROZHLAS - spolehlivé zprávy
irozhlas.cz/sport/atletika/sve…

Světový rekord Kratochvílové padl. Nizozemka Bolová překonala 41 let staré maximum na trati 400 metrů

Dvaadvacetiletá čtvrtkařka a překážkářka na domácím šampionátu v Apeldoornu překonala časem 49,26 sekundy téměř 41 let starý výkon české atletky o 33 setin.
ČTK (iROZHLAS.cz)

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Seems like a good idea, but it'll probably get illogical nay sayers like every other good idea these days, you know because we have to think about whether they like us or not. independent.co.uk/news/uk/esco…

Charity calls for e-scooters to emit a sound as blind people do not ‘feel safe’

One pedestrian was killed and 62 were seriously injured in collisions with e-scooters in Britain during the 12 months to the end of June 2022.
Neil Lancefield (The Independent)

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Meetup dot com Follows Through on Commitment to Improve Website Accessibility wptavern.com/meetup-com-follow… #meetup #a11y

Meetup.com Follows Through on Commitment to Improve Website Accessibility

In November 2022, Meetup.com raised concerns with the WordPress community (and the broader community of accessibility professionals) after it added an accessibility overlay to its website, powered …
WP Tavern
#a11y #meetup

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"Brandenburg: Minister will Kennzeichen auf Vorrat speichern und Section Control"

Es ist einfach unfassbar. Obwohl es gegen geltendes Recht verstößt und dies schon mehrmals höchstrichterlich festgestellt wurde, wird es wie ein untotes Mantra ständig neu gefordert/wiederholt. Vielleicht sollte da mal der Verfassungsschutz ermitteln?!

#verfassung #recht #gesetz #vorratsdatenspeicherung #niewiedercdu #niewiedercsu

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Kennzeichenscanning: Brandenburg plant Vorratsspeicherung und Section Control

Entgegen den Bundesvorgaben will das brandenburgische Innenministerium eine Befugnis zum Aufzeichnen gescannter Nummernschilder zur Gefahrenabwehr schaffen.
Stefan Krempl (heise online)
#niewiedercsu #niewiedercdu #vorratsdatenspeicherung #gesetz #recht #verfassung
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MaryMarasKittenBakery

Die machen mich auch komplett wahnsinnig - aber kostet sie ja nichts, genau, wie die Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Wie oft ist die jetzt schon gekippt worden?
Aber das bindet wieder die Zeit, Energie und Finanzen derer, die dagegen kämpfen.
Für die ist es somit win win. Entweder die kommen damit durch, oder zumindest verschleißen sie die Ehrenamtlichen. Politik ist einfach so ätzend, unmoralisch und blargh.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@MaryMarasKittenBakery würden die jeweils angefallenen Gerichts- und Anwaltskosten der Partei des jeweilig verantwortlichen Politikers aufgebrummt werden, wäre es deren Geld (und das ihrer Mitglieder) – was "eventuell" ja zu etwas (materialistischer) Vernunft führen könnte. Aber "hätte, hätte, Fahrradkette…" 🤢
@MaryMarasKittenBakery

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V minulosti jsem měl telefon od Redmi i OnePlus, ale první, co jsem s nimi udělal, byla reinstalace na alternativní OS (u Redmi tedy po několika týdnech, až nějaký číňan schválil odemknutí bootloaderu, do té doby jsem ho ale nepoužíval, nepřipojoval do interní sítě a byl bez dat a SIM). Ani to nemusí být dostatečné, protože firmware není otevřený. Ale věřím, že drtivé většině prasáren výrobců zabrání. #kybez #soukromí
securityaffairs.com/141989/mal…

Android mobile devices from top vendors in China have pre-installed malware

Researchers reported that the top-of-the-line Android mobile devices sold in China are shipped with malware.
Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
#soukromí #kybez
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