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The Summer COVID Wave: What to Know About the CDC's Current Guidance cnet.com/health/medical/the-su…


chat, this is the worst thing i’ve posted
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"You know what, I'm gonna search for it anyway, but surely the perfect image for this doesn't exi--"

#rust #rustlang



Incredible stuff from The Washington Post here.


Can't believe this runs in a terminal! 🤯

🐠 **lifecycler**: Terminal aquarium 🫧

🆙 ASCIIquarium reaches a new level! 🐟

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs + @bevy

⭐ GitHub: github.com/cxreiff/lifecycler

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #aquarium #terminal #asciiquarium #bevy #gamedev #game #gamejam



More often than not these days I use the ChatGPt app on my phone to find things out, instead of the browser to search. Quite simply I find it easier and more efficient to have a conversation than type on a touch screen device.

With Apple Intelligence set to inject Siri with ChatGPt capabilities, the conversational UI is about to undergo another evolution - but this time I'm wondering if and how it'll change the way I use my screen reader too?
apple.com/uk/apple-intelligenc…

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@vick21 Oddly I haven't really used it, at least, no other than in VSCode. I should try to use it more on Windows. Any tips?
in reply to Léonie Watson

I mostly use Copilot on my iPhone. The UI is pretty decent, so I don’t think you really need any tips to use it! Try it out! :)


Wow, this sounds quite interesting! Bookmarking… mastodon.social/@bjango/112879…


Wow, that’s quite a write-up! Lots of good advice though! dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/11…


If you're a blind person wanting to learn a language, I recommend reading Florian Beijers' article about it here.
florianbeijers.xyz/on-language…
@zersiax

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Bending Spoons Buys File Sharing Service WeTransfer tech.slashdot.org/story/24/07/…


Announcing Android Reproducible Builds at IzzyOnDroid with rbtlog

IzzyOnDroid is the largest 3rd-party F-Droid-compatible repository of open source Android apps [...] It provides [...] additional security and transparency via multiple custom scans and checks.

rbtlog is a Reproducible Builds transparency log for Android APKs. [...] It allows anyone to easily run a rebuilder for any apps available from a git repository with release tags plus accompanying APKs built and signed by the developer.

We are pleased to announce "Reproducible Builds, special client support and more in our repo": a collaboration between various independent interoperable projects: the IzzyOnDroid team, 3rd-party clients Droid-ify & Neo Store, and rbtlog (part of my collection of tools for Android Reproducible Builds) to bring Reproducible Builds to IzzyOnDroid and the wider Android ecosystem.

lists.reproducible-builds.org/…

android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

github.com/obfusk/rbtlog

#ReproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


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gender!! :ms_robot_headpats: :neobot_hug_bot:

video description: an quadruped animal-like drone sits perched on Odd_Jayy’s shoulder, then is in their arms and nestling their chest. the drone excitedly “looks” up as Odd_Jayy cuddles it.



I added a section to everything #curl about what we do to mitigate backdoor attempts:

everything.curl.dev/project/se…

Did I forget anything obvious?

#curl
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I think the review of commit messages (and rewrite if need be) should be there too. That’s part of making sure a commit message does not hide the intent of the change. (Or change more than it describes)


Katie Ledecky who just won another gold medal and is one of the GOATs, has POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), which causes a fast heart rate, dizziness, and fatigue. For years she didn't speak about the condition as she didn’t want it to shape the media narrative.

self.com/story/katie-ledecky-h…



🇩🇪 Schluss mit der Rumeierei – jetzt ist es Live! mehr als 18% der Apps bei IzzyOnDroid verfügen bereits über Reproducible Builds (also mehr als jedes 6. Ei – oops, jede 6. App; mehr folgen). Zwei wundervolle Clients werden Euch dies und weiteres transparent machen. Das & weitere spannende News könnt ihr hier nachlesen: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

All dies war nur möglich Dank der Hilfe von @obfusk – und ihrem github.com/obfusk/rbtlog :awesome:

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #FDroid #transparency

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It is time once again for me to ask all #unix #retrocomputing enthusiasts to dust off their old iron and run a test program. This one's about corner cases of mmap().

paste.sr.ht/~zackw/69f6fe80133…

I want to know about OSes that fail one or more of the tests, no matter how old they are.

I have already tested current versions of Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, and Solaris. Further testing with these is only useful if you can identify an exact version number where something changes (e.g. "FreeBSD prior to version x.y fails tests A, B, C"; "AIX prior to version w.z does not recognize XPG_SUS_ENV=ON"; that sort of thing). I don't expect any CPU dependence for this test, but if you discover some, that is also worth knowing about.

Please report results by following up to <lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aut…>. (You can write to this mailing list without subscribing.) Please do not reply to this post with results, or email me directly.

(I'm happy to talk about the test itself on here, say if you want help understanding what's being tested or you're having trouble getting it to compile or like that. But I really need all the results in one place.)

Please spread this call for testers widely.

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BBC Reporter calls his blindness an asset for key Trump shooting interview: ‘Vision could get in the way' theguardian.com/us-news/articl…
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Accelerate your Terraform development with Amazon Q Developer
aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/ac… #aws #blog
#blog #aws


My 7 years old daughter's rendition of #puffy #mascot from #OpenBSD. ✏️ 🐡 🥰



Any thoughts here on Fedi about the ISO week date system? Under it today's date is "2024-W31-3" (or "2024W313" in compact form, which I like less).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week…

I actually kinda really like it in concept and want to learn to use it. I've set up my bar to show me both the week date and the standard ISO date, to hopefully help me start getting a feel for it.



"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf

welcometothejungle.com/en/arti…

reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g6c…

usesthis.com/interviews/jean-b…

#OpenSource #NonExtractiveSystems



If you're an EU citizen and you hate DRM and planned obsolescence, here's an easy petition for you to sign:

stopkillinggames.com/eci

TL;DR: If online-only DRM servers shut down, publishers would be required to keep your game working regardless.

Only targets video games because that is where this practice is by far the most prevalent today, but it would set a precedent that we might soon need for things like phones, cars, and all the other things that are increasingly getting CPUs shoved inside them.

1 year to reach 1 million signatures.

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Video with more explanation, if you have an 11-minute attention span:

youtu.be/mkMe9MxxZiI



Are you running Chrome 127 on Windows? I can use your help for a quick test.

1. Go to this URL:
cdpn.io/pen/debug/bGLrYBo

2. Zoom or resize so the table has a scrollbar at the bottom.

3. Without using your mouse, Tab to the table.

4. Use your arrow keys to scroll it left-right.

If it works, cool. If not, less cool. I have a case of someone where the keyboard scrollable containers feature added in Chrome 127 does not work.

in reply to Adrian Roselli

I have filed a Chromium bug:
issues.chromium.org/issues/356…

If anyone here knows someone on the Chrome team, probably let them know their latest attempt to make scrolling areas focusable is not working for everyone.

#a11y #accessibility

in reply to Adrian Roselli

Thank you for doing all this investigative work. I passed the bug onto the team.
in reply to Adrian Roselli

Updating this post with Chrome’s stutter-step release of this feature is becoming a part-time job:

adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb…

in reply to Adrian Roselli

If you read this from the Google Chrome Developer Blog, when do you expect this feature to be available?

Ref: developer.chrome.com/blog/new-…

#accessibility #a11y

in reply to Adrian Roselli

Confirmation that this feature is not really in 127:

“Currently, 10% of users see it. By 128, 100% of users should expect keyboard focusable scrollers to be enabled by default.”

“Because we need to be a bit nimble as we do that ramp-up, we didn't put all of the nitty gritty details of that ramp schedule into the blog post. But it's true that some people will see this feature enabled in M127, potentially up to a majority of users.”

So Chrome’s claim was 90% wrong.

toot.cafe/@aardrian/1128773450…

in reply to Adrian Roselli

Not sure what you are saying here. If it is rolling out as part of 127, and it is already available to 10%, then it will get to 100%, which will ultimately complete the 127 release. What am I missing? You can’t have a partial roll-out for one release and the rest in the next release.
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 “From now on scrollers are click-focusable and programmatically-focusable by default” is not the same as enabled for 10% of users today and then later up to 100%.

Given the feedback to the Chrome Developers blog post announcement language question that I asked here and elsewhere, I am not alone in thinking the feature was available for everyone.

in reply to Adrian Roselli

@vick21 In other words, the post makes no mention of a partial release nor a rolling release.
in reply to Adrian Roselli

Sorry, I am on all sorts of builds, but did the 127 release already rolled out completely? If not, then this is how Android / Chrome has always worked. The announcements are written with the complete roll-out in mind. I assume you have done your due diligence. I was just confused with the way your argument sounded to my ears.
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 I guess I need to understand what a “complete roll-out” means.

Everyone who tested this for me was running a point release of 127. As far as I am concerned, that is a complete roll-out.

in reply to Adrian Roselli

No, not really. Just because you have 127 on your computer does not mean everyone else has gotten it. It may take several days before most of the world gets the update. That’s how it always worked… There is probably a description of the process somewhere online. I know it puzzled me the first time I heard about the process.


linux-game-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the linux-game-manager project First attempt at updating custom game scripts to use the new directory layout. Operation mdk with Project Brutality the only one so far.



Hunting down fixes for PDF accessibility errors? Check out taggedpdf.com for clear and thorough explanations and solutions. #PDFAccessibility #Accessibility #a11y
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Chrome appears to be first to have hit all the 2024 Interop #accessibility test goals:
web.dev/blog/interop-2024-a11y

Interop tests (which you can read to balance against the Chrome claim):
wpt.fyi/results/?label=experim…

While I want more (more done, more aggressive goals, etc), this is good. Kudos to the team for getting there.

#a11y

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I'd like to wish everyone a very merry delete that platform.

Edited: apparently the tweet about "weird" being a slur is a fake and has been debunked, so I am taking it down (see, even I have to check my sources sometimes!) However, I am leaving the post up and replacing the fake tweet with a real one where he calls the word "cis" a slur and whines about how he will punish people who use it.

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Goodbye to a very scammy product from a sleezy company with questionable motives.
OrCam to halt developing visual aid devices
en.globes.co.il/en/article-orc…


Im #September finden drei sehr interessante #Konferenzen statt. Zwei in #Berlin und eine in #Dresden .

Es handelt sich um die #Datenspuren des phänomenalen Teams der @datenspuren des @c3d2

Die zweite ist die #BildetNetze Konferenz von #Netzpolitik
@netzpolitik_feed
in Berlin.

Die dritte Empfehlung ist die erste #Konferenz des #Matrix -Messangers in Berlin, veranstaltet von der The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix ebenfalls in Berlin.

Na dann - viel #Spaß!

katika-kuehnreich.com/blog/202…



Good old days 😔
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Gerade auf Droidblind gepostet: Ein kurzes Accessibility-Review des Lenovo Tab Plus droidblind.de/blog/lenovo-tab-…


Open source nonprofits are weird. Why don't they just focus on hiring more developers?

The answer is long and complex, but the short version is that open source nonprofits are weird because they (need to) go beyond tech.

Here is a tale about fiscal status, fundraising, governance and two worlds colliding.

A particular thank you to @al for demystifying the world of nonprofits for me, and @richlitt for sharing his extensive nonprofit experience.

ergaster.org/posts/2024/07/31-…

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