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Important Apple-focused accessibility site to shut down
sixcolors.com/link/2024/07/imp…


Visited the father of modern GNOME icon style. Was surprised many of the younger folk at mini GUADEC didn't even know'im. Will be corrected next GUADEC!



My jsme na ceste do Tasova na Besedu a ve vlaku je prilezitost sepsat Unreleased update. Za posledni tyden pribylo nekolik umelcu a nejvetsi nadeje vkladam do unreleased.art/the-b-sides.

Borci do te kampane investovali mnoho sil ... hlavne po tom, co zjistili, ze maji vyvojare na WhatsAppu a muzou posouvat tlacitka tam a zpatky ...

Zena je prirovnala k Prago Union a do jejich beatu zpivala Katovy texty. Tak nevim, zhodnotte sami. 🤷

#music #album #pop #rock #alternative #satire



Happy Friday everyone! To celebrate, we have a new blog post, an interview with our newest board member (yes, a YouTube video and everything!), info on our latest beta, our survey, an update to Basic Training for NVDA, thanks to Elston's Better Future Fund AND how (and when) to reset NVDA to factory defaults! Check it out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Interview #ScreenReader #Accessibility #A11y #PreRelease #Foss #Training #Busy

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The best bit about having smart thermostats is now I can hate the summer heat *with graphs*. This is downstairs. It is *much* hotter upstairs.


Open Source spotlight from @ktn -- including an interview with @r10s about past and future challenges with #deltachat and #chatmail ...

infoservice.heise.de/ct-openso…
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Child A's first wobbly tooth fell out yesterday at nursery, and they didn't even notice! We only spotted the gap in the evening when I was helping them brush their teeth. They were very upset they couldn't leave anything for the #toothfairy , or get a coin for it. But don't worry, #German paperwork to the rescue. I created a mini 'lost tooth' form that we've filled out and put under the pillow instead, I'm sure it'll work out 😉

#FediEltern #Parenting




Bugfix rate in the #curl project is currently racing to an all-time high.

(yes, presumably this also means we insert more bugs as well as there need to be something to fix...)

#curl


FediMeta, FediNuke

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FediMeta, FediNuke
what's fedi nuke? that hashtag shows nothing else but this post on my instance
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re: FediMeta, FediNuke

@esoteric_programmer this article describes FediNuke. A subset of a subset of the pleroma.envs.net blocklist, with receipts, for the worst instances on Fedi. It’s designed to be suitable for new admins who don’t know a good starting point but are wary of most blocklists.

The linked article describes how it’s made and the criteria I use. The bar for inclusion is higher than most lists: staff with Nazi imagery, staff participating in targeted harassment campaigns against marginalized users by sending shock content and sui-bait, staff posting anti-Black and antisemitic racial caricatures, etc. are all common reasons to end up on the list.

You can either scroll through receipts and pick which instances you want to block, or just import and review later.



Kiosks, touch screens and physical devices: a couple of issues and good examples for physical and screen reader accessibility for ATMs, kiosks, charging pole for electric vehicles, etc., and what the European Accessibility Act requires for such devices
axesslab.com/ict-a11y-eu/
axesslab.com/ict-a11y-eu/


One would expect progress to go forward, not backwards. 🙄

news.schiphol.com/schiphol-rot…

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@ttyS1 At least now they have some working water taps after security - they removed them during covid.



Sovereign Tech Fund Preparing Fellowship Program For Open-Source Maintainers

phoronix.com/news/STF-Fellowsh…

#OpenSource #fellowship



A quick accessibility review of the new Lenovo Tab Plus accessibleandroid.com/a-quick-…


Screen Reader Basics That Both Blind and Sighted Should Know accessibleandroid.com/screen-r…


‘Sensational breakthrough’ marks step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers science.org/content/article/se…


Utah State University to open national center for digital accessibility of learning materials | StateScoop statescoop.com/utah-state-nati…


Konec Jaromíra Soukupa. Přišel definitivně o vliv na TV Barrandov. To je tak, když vsadíš na Okamuru, nebo zlodědka.
denikn.cz/1439913/prevzali-jsm…
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teda, v tom článku to popisují docela dramaticky. Zlomil vaz, přišel o srdeční záležitost,… Přitom před časem dal v jednom podcastu jasně najevo, že se toho chce zbavit 😀


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Chudáci hafani, místo abys je pustil dovnitř, jako každý den, tak musí najednou za sklem koukat, jak se jim tam roztahujou nějaký kočky. Styď se! 😁
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In case anyone who cares missed this, based on user feedback, I updated my AxSHammer Firefox add-on to add "Kill all aria-label" and "Kill all ARIA roles". As always, this could do as much harm as it does good, so if it breaks anything, you get to treasure all the little pieces. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
#accessibility
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@Jamie Teh Thanks for the notice. Most likelly I was not paying attention previously and this is indeed great addon with nice name according to what it does.
in reply to Jamie Teh

as a web developer, this tool seems immensely helpful, thank you


New entry in my “uses” page:

usvg is an SVG compiler, and one of the most under-appreciated tools I use. It compiles complex SVGs into simpler path-based SVGs. Edge-case SVGs may render incorrectly in some renderers (e.g. librsvg), but compiling them with usvg tends to iron these edge-cases out and make them more compatible. usvg is part of the resvg project, which is the most conformant SVG renderer I know of (and much smaller than librsvg if you include dependencies!).

I’ve sent all the SVGs on seirdy.one through usvg, and rasterized many of the emotes on pleroma.envs.net with resvg.

(sorry for the delete-redraft; I posted the wrong link and the link preview didn’t update when I edited!)

#SVG

#svg
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oh and both resvg and usvg are written in the orange crab language, which i know a lot of people on this network like.


the hardest part of being an admin is resisting the urge to delete someone else’s posts. /j
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Librsvg 2.58.93 is out!

This is for the GNOME 47 beta release.

There's a new Rust crate, librsvg-rebind, courtesy of @sophie, which lets you use the system's librsvg shared library from Rust via a generated binding. It's different from the idiomatic Rust API, but it saves you binary size if you can assume that librsvg.so is already in the system.

Also, a bunch of dependency updates and build fixes.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…

in reply to Wesley Moore

@wezm I'm generally of the opinion that "code has to live somewhere" and that hard drives are cheap... but for example, there was a genuine concern from people who use librsvg as part of an AWS lambda and binaries must be small there - they wanted to remove the legacy gdk-pixbuf functions, which they don't use.

For flatpaks, size doesn't matter much, but for Loupe it does make sense to just use the runtime's shared librsvg instead of embedding it in the app's binary.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

yeah the space is cheap but having to compile and embed a copy of hyper and tokio (for example) into every every little tool kinda seems silly if they could instead use a shared dynamic library.


I'm weird and I approve this message.

Remember people: "Normal" is a setting on the dryer.

There is no such thing.

We are all "weird" to someone. No biggie.

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Reflecting on our Music Industry Engagement Internship programme - Sound Without Sight soundwithoutsight.org/reflecti…

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unsolicited image description. feel free to edit it in.

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Olympic text-editor meme-posting

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Pensaba retomar el podcast hasta la próxima semana pero los Juegos Olímpicos tenían otros planes. Este episodio va sobre los ataques transodiantes a dos boxeadoras cisgénero. open.spotify.com/episode/2j0mO…


#GUADEC2024 photos from our Denver venue are now online! Take a look through this year's album here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBC58f

#GUADEC #GNOME #eventphotography

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@fabia_man počúval som to včera tak do polovice a niečo mi na tom rozhovore prekážalo ale neviem teraz čo... (nebol nasraný že musí dávať rozhovory cez prázdniny?)


Finally, someone explores "what the hell is going on with the International Boxing Association" in this whole case

usatoday.com/story/sports/colu…

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Yesterday, I wrote two stories in our @club email newsletter, neither of which mentioned or linked to
@gruber. Yet, here's the summary of that newsletter that I and many other readers get from Apple Intelligence 🙃:


Fluffy Coke sounds fun. Just don’t drink it. "...The marshmallow, of course, doesn’t mix with the soda for that dairy-fizzy interplay that the people oohing about it online seem to imply. Instead, when the sugary fluff comes in contact with the icy soda, it seizes up into a hardened goo, like tile mastic drying on a wall...." washingtonpost.com/food/2024/0…