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libwps is still used by LibreOffice for MSWorks support, right? Is it still under development? It doesn't look very active from what I can see... sourceforge.net/p/libwps/wiki/… (All my documents from my childhood were stored in MSWorks format, and LibreOffice sometimes has problems with some of them...)
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I think it's great. Regardless of how we ended up here, this is a rare peek inside a large corporate code base.
In a post-truth world, where integrity and honesty are dead cold and rotting on the slab, and corporate vultures peck at the flesh of the living with lies and misdirection, is this is a massive attack on the system? A crazy leap of faith to try and actually restore some trust?
Při nehodě vlaku v Nizozemsku zemřel jeden člověk a dalších asi třicet utrpělo zranění, řada z nich je vážná. Souprava narazila do stavebního zařízení na trati ve městě Voorschoten nedaleko Haagu.
Zlidověly, citují se po hospodách, chtě nechtě je začínáme mít v krvi jako Cimrmanovy hlášky. Jak dobře znáte Babišovy perly, jimiž expremiér definoval své působení v české politice v druhé dekádě jedenadvacátého století?
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A little #AndroidAppRain in my Magisk repo (apt.izzysoft.de/magisk) today added 3 modules, 2 others were updated. And thanks to an update in repo-util (which allowed me the new additions) there's also an additional filter in the web interface now ("added in the last X days"). Enjoy
@brli Please look at the link I gave you. Timestamps don't help, Android goes by the versionCode to decide whether an APK is an update to an existing app. They decreased the versionCode, so all their newer versions are considered older.
Again, as described: tha APKs are downloaded by my updater, then thrown away as versionCode is much lower. Even if they'd get into my repo, you couldn't "update" as Android wouldn't allow you to "downgrade".
@brli That would mean manually fiddling in fdroidserver internals, which I rather avoid. The devs are already working on the issue, so it will hopefully be solved soon™ anyway.
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@MariahL I sent three emails to different companies, asking blindness the specific questions of them. We’ll see how that goes. The thread has given me some good ideas to try though that I don’t mind gambling on. Any suggestions from you would be greatly appreciated
I use the Arizer XQ2. I have 0 vision, the screen for checking temp is super easy to scan with seeing AI, it's got a remote with three different presets for temps so you can set your three favorites and get to them quick, and I can think of five different ways off the top of my head you can use that thing with dry herb and all the things you need for said ways come in its box.
looks like 210 celcius. and it has beeps to tell you when you're adjusting settings.. Mine just beeped at me now to tell me it was reheated back to where I had it before I checked on temps for you.
I don't think I'm very good at these but if you need more context I can record something better explaining things. I do better with software tutorials but I can try lol.
@MariahL No worries, it would be nice though just to learn about the pieces but I’m not gonna make you do it, I got most of that info from YouTube I need.
Sometimes youtube doesn't give as much info as someone who can't see needs which is why I offered. I"ve tried looking at youtube reivews for things I want and it just doesn't do it sometimes
full disclosure there are things I don't know about this thing but that's only because needing to know hasn't come up yet. What I need to learn like cleaning it will come up but that just hasn't been something that needs doing. It will need cleaning but not now.
seeing more stores refusing to apply the Scanning Code of Practice. they do know that this was a compromise reached to avoid a massive prosecution by the Competition Bureau, right? #SCoP laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-…
Hello, Windows-using friends. I know that this is a VM, but it's on a very fast CPU and very fast SSD. In a Linux guest, with the same virtualization stack (Parallels) and the same version of Python, the equivalent of this runs somewhere between 4 and 8 times faster. A second to create a venv is already depressingly slow but creeping up towards *7 seconds* is just bizarre. Am I doing something wrong here?
@matt Revisiting this after a really long time, and I tried disabling real-time A/V completely, and it took it from about 6 seconds to about 6.3 to 3.8 seconds. Which is… significant, but for reference, the host system does this in 0.8 seconds and every other guest in about 1.3. So Windows is introducing like a 300% overhead, which seems like a lot.
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@jamesh I looked at that when I was setting up my current box earlier this year, and decided I didn't want to fragment my storage space. Then again, I do have a 4 terabyte SSD, so maybe I should.
I made a tag for trurl 0.2, mostly because I was asked so that there is a way to build a fixed (pre-)release of trurl. I want to stick to 0.x versions for as long as we experiment with options and ...
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This is a new tool for "translating and transposing URLs", made by curl's Daniel Sternberg.
Intented as a companion tool to curl.
Introduction blog post: https://daniel.haxx....
Quiz show time again! In which I aim for the most ridiculous heading ever for a technical article covering the topic of Non-Text Contrast: tpgi.com/when-i-get-that-low-c…
“17.2% of home pages had a "skip" link present, up from 13% in 2022. However, one out of every 6 "skip" links were broken—either they were hidden in a way that made them inaccessible or the link target was not present in the page.”
@bagder just wanted to share that I now provide builds of libcurl for iOS, automatically updated whenever a new version is released: github.com/tls-inspector/curl-…
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).
Daniel Stenberg’s new tool for parsing & manipulating URLs might fit nicely into HTTP your utility belt. URLs are tricky to parse and there are numerous security problems in software because of this.
+1000 "Building minimal viable products (MVPs) means sacrifices. But sacrifice features, not critical functionality, like accessibility." davidakennedy.com/blog/accessi… #webdesign #webdev
I would like to add a Homebrew formulae for trurl, but it requires a tag for reproducible build. Could you please add a tag for v0.2? (kind of want to start utilizing in my script to simplify few things and homebrew is preferred method of deploying tools for my CI instance)
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This will never catch on, that curl guy just throws things out and abandons it!
(Fun fact, cURL has a better track record of support than all of Google. All of it. Not a single thing they have released have been supported longer:))
I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.
I would put myself into the third group. I really like the general idea behind Rust, want to apply it in production, but still, use all kinds of tools other than Rust. The first category would not…
I mean, the niche you describe was IMHO filled just as well by Java.
Java is definitely not the be all and end all in this space, I especially feel like it has fallen out of time quite a bit, but Go hasn't exactly moved forward from 70s either... @AstraKernel
Browse by Touch, also known as Explore by Touch in TalkBack, is a feature that allows users to navigate onscreen items and activate them by double-tapping anywhere on the screen using accessibility focus.
It'd be great if GNOME & KDE could talk *both* Nearby Share & AirDrop in one UI (in the file manager, I guess, with "Nearby" showing both, when available). It'd work with whatever phone you have.
A sharing app would be OK too. But integrated would be better.
(Yes, I already know about Bluetooth, KDE Connect, and GSConnect.)
@hub I'm not sure. I was assuming so. I use an Android phone and don't have a (current) Mac, so I haven't had a reason to look for it.
(I do have an iPhone 7 phone for testing for work, so it'd be useful for transferring screenshots, so I probably should search for something that works on Linux. Otherwise, KDE Connect for iOS perhaps.)
it was my understanding that a lot of AirDrop functionality was at the driver level and that wasn't really documented. (older iPad never supported it, or even older Mac)
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It's not built-in by default, but it does integrate into GNOME once you add the extension.
And then you run KDE Connect on your Android device or iPhone. Plus, you can use GSConnect or KDE Connect to connect with another laptop or desktop too.
@hub The only problem with KDE Connect (and therefore GSConnect too) is that the KDE Connect app ships an older version of an ssh server for Android 7 support, which uses ssh-rsa, which was dropped a while back in distributions, which means file browsing no longer works (and now no longer do the workarounds).
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@hub That's payback for Android VNC clients refusing to connect to GNOME remote desktop because the encryption protocols supported by vino are too old/insecure.
Poprvé byl státní podnik ve ztrátě v roce 2018. Přesto od té doby politici nechali poštu dál padat do červených čísel. Problémy státní pošty, která se ocitla před krachem, mohly být dávno vyřešeny a situace nikdy nemusela dojít tak daleko.
I've never heard of the 125 character limit? Maybe it was with screen readers other than NVDA? I thoguht the limitation was from the application side. Twitter & LinkedIn both allow 1,000 characters. I checked for someone last year & Facebook allowed me to post the entire Wikipedia WWI page as alt text. NVDA read through the first 42,158 of 259,432 characters. Not sure if that limitation is from facebook's side or NVDA's TBH, but I don't anticipate many real world users hitting it
@NVAccess if you haven't heard of it, then we've been reading different articles 😅 css-tricks.com/just-how-long-s… indeed a search for "screenreader alt text 125 characters" finds a plethora of articles probably all copying from each other.
And I guess from this myth, lots of applications set limits which have changed a lot over time.
Great to have another data point that it works for NVDA :) It works fine for me with TalkBack as well.
I teach a class over at the local college here in Long Beach and a majority of the content is hosted on the Canvas LMS so students can access it online. And,
Someone asked me about limits last year, and that must be where they got the idea from. FWIW, at the time (June last year), LinkedIn only allowed 300 chars where it now allows 1,000. I haven't tried dropping an entire Wikipedia page in Facebook's alt text today, but based on my result from last year, if there is a limit there (lower than 42k), it will be on the Facbeook side.
@NVAccess and re: your mastodon comment, yeah, every mastodon server can set different limits. Just like every other website, hence the question for me as a website operator: do I set a limit.
The specific use case for me is online scientific tutorial content, where the images can be quite complex
So, having real hard evidence that there is no limit is extremely useful to know and I can stop thinking about how best to support long descriptions.
I guess the question is how will having (or not) a limit affect your users? It may encourage people to be more succint - and alt text is supposed to be succinct. But whatever limit you set, you will then potentially have people say "But I need more room to describe this really complex chart!". I haven't seen many complaints about limits of around a thousand characters. It's double the average Mastodon post lengh & 4 times a tweet so that might be a place to start if you want a limit.
@NVAccess yeah given what you and others have said, we will not impose a limit.
Conciseness is good, but getting scientists to write ANY alt text is not a fun experience, so, it is unlikely they would even reach 1k characters.
It was /only/ going to be necessary if some screenreaders would just stop announcing, then we'd probably still support longer but have to write some complicated workarounds to ensure that it got chopped up into smaller blocks when too long, or announced as "follow the next link for the long textual description of this image" which would let the user navigate to a text block and then somehow back.
That was a development activity I was not especially looking forward, and now I can just mark the issue resolved and move on! Less work for me, I'm happy.
& from our side - getting some web developers to write even vaguely accessible code sounds like a similar exercise to getting your scientists to write alt text (big generalisation I know!) - so for someone like you who IS doing the right thing, the last thing we want to do is make you do MORE work. If there was a limit from the screen-reader side, then I'd definitely encourage you to contact us (if it's in NVDA at least) as that is something we should be looking to fix rather than you.
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