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In case you missed it earlier this week, Science Briefs Edition 24 has 20 stories on how science and medicine apply to blindness. worldblindherald.com/science-b…

Science Briefs – Edition 24

What's Inside River blindness effects in rural areas. Symptoms of Diabetic Retinopathy that you should know. Smokers twice as like to develop AMD and vision loss. And, about 20 stories about t…
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An amazing article about the treatment and understanding of #blindness in the middle ages
Quite a revealing read: wellcomecollection.org/article…
#disability #inclusion #accessibility #history

Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages

Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness.
Wellcome Collection
#Accessibility #history #Disability #blindness #inclusion

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@IzzyOnDroid #opensource at its best:

I recently installed vector pinball from @fdroidorg - great to kill some time, and especially fun because of the sound effects and background music. Out of curiosity I followed the link to the README in it's github repo. In it, the author thanks the guy who added the sound effects and music, who wanted to try out a sound library for android and therefore sought out a silent open source game and created sounds and music for it. He wrote an article about it here: twittering.com/webarchive_arti…

So thanks to this exemplary #FOSS collaboration I'm having a good time, whenever I have a five minute break.

A screenshot of vector pinball. Looks great. Unfortunately the awesome sound is not captured in the image.

FMOD for Android - O'Reilly Broadcast

FMOD for Android is like peanut butter and strawberry jam, together for the first time!
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#foss #opensource @F-Droid @IzzyOnDroid ✅

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#AndroidAppRain at Guardian today with 2 updated apps, and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 2 new and 10 updated apps¹

* OpenBl: the latest Bundesliga tables & results
* OpenBooksDownloader: download open published books

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

¹ oops, 9. 1 update had to be rolled back as my scanner yelled an alarm due to added trackers – a no-go in a root app caring for backups of personal data. Issue opened upstream, updates temp-disabled.


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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For #Linux folk, I have a list of my common typographic symbols using the Alt Graph & Compose keys, hosted on @Codeberg, derived from @aral blog post ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…

Might be useful
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Typographical typing habits for Linux

Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent.
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#linux @Aral Balkan @Codeberg
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

To the Compose list you might wish to add one very useful combination: (x)

With "x" being any alpha-num. Great e.g. with screenshots where you numbered a sequence of actions: ① click here, ② enter whatever, ㊷ don't overdo it 😝 and so on. Ⓐ I find that very practical, Ⓑ I use it frequently. And as you mentioned super-script, there's also ₀subscript₁for₃numbers (_1, _2 etc) :awesome:

/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for more 😝 & WinCompose for Windows folks…

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Odcházení Miloše Zemana: Deset milníků kariéry politika, který došel na vrchol. A pak si touhou po pomstě vše zkazil
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Odcházení Miloše Zemana: Deset milníků kariéry politika, který došel na vrchol. A pak si touhou po pomstě vše zkazil

Prezident Miloš Zeman po deseti letech na Hradě odchází, nejspíše už definitivně, z české politiky. Které okamžiky jeho politické kariéry, jež začala těsně před sametovou revolucí, byly ty nejdůležitější? A jaký účet po sobě zanechává?
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Your mailbox is the gateway to your online identity: Facebook, PayPal, Amazon - all of these can be hijacked easily if someone gets access to your emails.

But fortunately, it's easy to secure your mailbox! Check out Tutanota. 😍

yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=MFlF…

Big Tech Wants to See You Naked. Protect Your Privacy Now!

Tutanota - no tracking, no ads. Get your encrypted mailbox now: https://tutanota.com/big-tech-alternative?t-src=you Today's web is broken. You are being tracked when you search the web, shop online; even when you read your emails.
Tutanota | Invidious
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@Archos :distros_arch: :matrix: @Petr Řezníček :apple_inc: Podľa mňa je to fér. My, čo si chceme inštalovať vlastné servery môžeme si to zaplatiť vlastným pričinením. Tí, čo chcú utratiť doláre, si môžu všetko pohodlne vyklikať a nastaviť z pohodlia klienta beeper a zas nemajú starosti s databázou, hostingom, údržbou a pod. Všetky ich mosty podporujú end to bridge encryption, tak že používatelia ich platformy sa nebudú vzájomne ohrozovať ani v prípade bezpečnostného incidentu a prevádzkovateľovi domovského servera matrix je potrebné dôverovať od začiatku.
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Here's an early look at some fun content we're launching next week!

We're calling it "Meet The Team." It's a series of conversations with each member of the #Thunderbird team, about stuff like:

☑️ When they fell in love with tech or software programming.

☑️ What attracted them to #OpenSource.

☑️ What their day-to-day looks like hacking on Thunderbird

☑️ And whatever else we decide to ask them and they're willing to answer!

We'll start with @alecaddd's origin story... Stay tuned for more!

#opensource #thunderbird @Aleca

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Wow, Eugene Stoner, inventor of the M16, was 35 years old when he designed it (this was the result of years of ideas and hobbyist testing and the earlier AR10). It's been in service for 60 years. He went into the Marines and later spent years in a machining shop, which is where he learned how to design based on processes in the real world. He mentioned other engineers without that experience suffered despite their degrees. He was a high school graduate.

Interesting to hear directly from him. Particularly criticized Army substituting the powder and not strictly defining ammunition specs during initial deployment to Vietnam.

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The Man Behind the Gun. The AR-10, the AR-15, and the M16. Eugene Stoner Stories presented by IMT

#ar15 #m16 #vietnamwar #eugenestoner The Man Behind the Gun. The Eugene Stoner Stories and the development of the AR15 & the M16. Presented by : The Institut...
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The importance of cross-domain experience:

"For example, consider Eugene Stoner, father of the M-16 rifle and acclaimed genius in the world of small-arms experts: IS "Eugene Stoner was a genius. An engineering genius of the first order." Says one expert. "Stoner was probably the most gifted small-arms designer since Browning," says another expert.
Stoner's own explanation of his insight, however, makes clear how his creativity was an act of brokerage, moving knowledge familiar in one group to a second group in which the knowledge was a breakthrough idea. Stoner was an engineer with Fairchild Engine and Airplane Company when he entered the company's start-up prototype-gun division, ArmaLite. Before joining Fairchild, Stoner served in the Marines as an ordnance technician. Stoner's familiarity with ordnance and the use of plastics and aluminum in aircraft gave him an advantage in designing a radically new, ultra-light assault rifle, the AR-10. The novel rifle impressed Army observers in the 1955 trials to replace the World War II Garand rifle, which began a winding path that would lead to the AR- 10's des-cendant, the M-16, being used across the American military services. As Stoner explains in a 1988 interview with the Smithsonian Institute, "I think my aircraft background and experience allowed me to get into some of these light-weight materials, for instance forged aluminum receivers, which were rather unknown at the time in weapons. But it was nothing particularly new to what I'd been doing all along in the aircraft equipment, in the fiberglass and all that.""

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Do you know @adam? Video-Jockey on MTV in the 80s, pioneer of the podcast in the 2000s, he launched the “Podcasting 2.0” movement in the summer of 2020 with @dave. To find out what this is about and understand everything about this revolution, read this interview!
👉️ blog.castopod.org/the-podfathe…

The Podfather 2.0 (The pioneers strike back)

In the summer of 2020, Adam Curry and Dave Jones co-created PodcastIndex, a free, open directory that now has more than 4 million podcasts (the Apple directory has 2 million), and launched the “Podcast 2.0” movement to add new features to podcasts.
Benjamin Bellamy (Castopod Blog)
@Dave @Adam Curry

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Connaissez-vous @adam ? Video-Jockey sur MTV dans les années 80, pionnier du podcast dans les années 2000, il a lancé le mouvement “Podcasting 2.0” à l'été 2020 avec @dave. Pour en savoir plus et tout comprendre sur cette véritable révolution, lisez son interview dans le numéro 2 de Podcast Magazine qui vient de paraître !
👉️ podcastmagazine.fr/boutique/

Boutique → Podcast Magazine

✅ Votre accès au site web 6 mois ✅ Liseuse sur le numéro en cours et les archives ✅ Version audio...
Podcast Magazine
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Coders – learn more about how LibreOffice works "under the hood"! Our latest dev blog post looks at VCL, the internal GUI toolkit: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or…

VCL application in its minimal form - LibreOffice Development Blog

Here we discuss structure of a minimal VCL application, and take a look into a C++ example, minvcl that creates a simple window.
Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)

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Did you catch the article on the new NVDA "Paragraph Style" option in our In-Process blog last week? It's a great option which will make control+up arrow and control+down arrow more useful in programs like notepad! Read it and all the other news, especially about NVDA 2023.1 in In-Process: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2… (Thanks to Timothy for pointing out the mistake in this post)

In-Process 24th February 2023

The big news this time around is that we’re now in the beta period for NVDA 2023.1, so let’s start there: NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 It’s beta time! That’s right, NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 is now avai…
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Cycling is now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in the City of London, according to a new report.

Cyclists represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

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Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In City Of London

At peak times, people cycling represent 40% of road traffic in the City and 27% throughout the day.
Carlton Reid (Forbes)
#uk #cycling #climatechange #transportation #urbanism #mobility #biketooter #london #urbandesign
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@matt on macOS the default button in an alert dialog is indicated by a colored highlight in a color defined by the user’s preferences. Doing this kind of button rainbow is an egregious violation of the human interface guidelines in two ways: it disregards the user’s preferences and it makes it look like the enter key will simultaneously press every button.
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Coming up at 00:00 UTC (7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: two hours of relaxing #newage, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Northern Lights: The New Age Show

Northern Lights is a weekly live and interactive show featuring the best mix of relaxing music from independent and mainstream artists. Genres you’ll hear include New Age, Ambient, and music …
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L'atelier hébergement et diffusion est désormais en ligne. N'hésitez pas à aller le regarder. Nous restons disponibles si vous avez des questions.

Un grand merci à @@podCloud @Castopod et @vodiofr pour leur présence.

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Atelier podcast - 12 - Hébergement et diffusion

BadGeek vous propose ses ateliers podcast. Découvrez nos nombreux conseils afin de produire vos émissions de A à Z.Dans cet atelier, on parle de l'hébergemen...
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🕵️‍♂️ Today, the Open Source Programme Office (@EC_OSPO) held a Secrets Management Hackaton for the developers from the 🇪🇺 Commission.

The goal was to remove secrets from the internal projects' codes so that more 🇪🇺 projects can become #opensource and be shared on code.europa.eu.

The photo shows a group of people in the room, working on their laptops.

README.md · master · About Code Europa EU / About code.europa.eu · GitLab

This is the project for the readme file and guidelines of code.europa.eu
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Recently I've found a lightweight modern #opensource #audio #recorder app for #Android called #RecordYou. I like it that much so I've attempted to submit some #screenReader #accessibility improvements.
Let me know how do you like it once it's accepted.
github.com/Bnyro/RecordYou/pul…
This is my first experience with #Jetpack #Compose so bear with me and try to suggest improvements if you can please.

Add some screen reader accessibility improvements by pvagner · Pull Request #48 · Bnyro/RecordYou

Set content descriptions and other tweaks where it makes sense so the app is usefull for screen reader users. Visually disabled and blind people are likelly to enjoy using modern audio recording ap...
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#Accessibility #android #opensource #screenreader #audio #recorder #RecordYou #Jetpack #Compose

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