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it just sucks that none of those work well on Android. I've been using Firefox, but it just breaks on Samsung Dex sometimes. I'm considering using Vivaldi now. Any opinions on that one?
This neatly highlights my issue with pretty much all of the current crop of Software-as-a-Service platforms. Almost all of them are in a hole with no plan for getting out of it. When a "cloud" SaaS goes, you're sunk as an end user, and most of them are sinking
Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...
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The anti-nuclear hysteria that captured the public imagination for generations has not only contributed significantly to climate change, it has literally been responsible for killing hundreds of millions of people.
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Momentka ze sudetske zoo. Maminka pronese k diteti:
"Podivej, gorila!"
Situaci plne rozumim. Taky jsem gorilu nikdy nevidel.
Doufam, ze tato neprijemna zivotni situace nebude mit negativni vliv na vyvoj ditete a ze se mu to nevymsti u statni maturity. Petici za zahajeni jednani o zapujceni goril do sudetske zoo muzete podepsat u vchodu vedle lednicky s pegasy.
V dalsim dile serialu momentek ze sudetske zoo se dozvite, jak po me pavian plastikovy hodil kamenem. Mrcha. Stay tuned!
Medida troglodita e trauliteira. Como é que alguém com um mestrado ou um doutoramento que queira trabalhar na União Europeia vai vir para Portugal depois desta medida quando quase todos os restantes países da UE impõem prazos menores e oferecem melhores condições de vida? Sinceramente, o governo deste país não quer transformar Portugal numa nação competitiva...
É só patetas neste governo? Não há sociólogos, nem economistas, nem antropólogos, nem especialistas em demografia que os possam ajudar a cometer menos disparates?
Cidadãos de países da CPLP terão de estar há sete anos em Portugal para pedir a nacionalidade, enquanto os restantes precisarão de dez anos de residência. É ainda introduzido exame à língua e cultura.
@fenixmaster voorlopig niet veel, behalve 't zelf programmeren... 't is vergelijkbaar met de #badge van #MCH21, maar deze heeft naast Wifi ook #lorawan aan boord (en een toetsenbord). Gps module aanhangen is ook mogelijk
The NVDA bug which I reported over 5 years ago was finally fixed in the latest alpha, coming in 2025.2, Courtesy of @jcsteh NVDA+Up fails to read or spell many controls and lines in Google Chrome: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… @NVAccess
Insert+Up (NVDA+Up) is used in NVDA to report the current line under the application cursor. Pressing it twice will spell the current line. Pressing three times will spell the line using character ...
I'd argue that one wasn't so much an NVDA bug: at least some of those controls clearly had visible labels, but Chrome chose not to expose them as part of the text content for some reason. There's no good excuse for that. But still, I'm glad the fix for the thing I was actually trying to fix fixed this one as well. LOL. @NVAccess
When an assistive technology (AT) user discovers an application that is inaccessible in some way, they will generally hold one of two parties responsible: th...
Users are part of that, though. I'll gently point out that this very much includes you. If you continually blame AT vendors rather than holding application and OS developers responsible, nothing will ever change. @NVAccess
Fair enough, and I really can't argue against that. However, approaching app venders and Microsoft is mostly flogging a dead horse. Getting Apple and iOS devs involved is far easier than interacting with Microsoft and Windows app devs. And it doesn't help either when a Windows screen reader takes care of an issue on its own and another doesn't. @NVAccess
Honestly, I don't think Apple is any better than Microsoft at actually listening to user or developer feedback, at least not these days. And as someone who has worked with quite a lot of Windows appdevelopers, it is entirely possible to make progress with some of them given sufficient effort. People just try much harder with iOS developers because they have no other choice: it's just assumed that Apple won't fix anything app specific. In contrast, if users complain enough to Windows screen reader developers, they generally end up hacking around whatever episode of crap is thrown at them today. And so the pattern continues. I'm not saying screen reader developers shouldn't try to make things better if the situation is severe enough, even if that involves hacks. But my point is that users at least need to recognise the double standards they hold here and be mindful of that when ranting publicly about how the tiny 6 employee not-for-profit isn't fixing their bug when trillion dollar companies can't be bothered. @NVAccess
We do have a good relationship with Microsoft. No-one else does anything like their Disability Answer Desk - good luck getting that level of support, as an end user, from most tech companies (I had a question about my router & couldn't even write to Netgear because it's out of warranty!) DaD monitors the feedback hub for issues tagged as accessibility & they do try to get accessibility issues prioritised. Where it can be hard is Windows can have an 18 month lead time.
We do, but to be fair, they also haven't fixed really significant UIA stability issues going back years, among other things, so we keep hacking around them. And the plethora of bugs in their various accessibility implementations, including core OS functions like the Start Menu, are just woeful and never get addressed. This is all on public record. @amir
and yes, that's not to say there aren't longstanding Windows accessibility bugs :)
But where something IS a Windows issue, raising it with Microsoft should ALWAYS be the first action. Just as if something is a bug in Chrome, or Firefox, do definitely raise it with them in the first instance. If you raise it with us, that will be the first thing we do in any case, and indeed, the more people who raise an issue with them, the more likely they are to prioritise it.
Then why not utilize some of that relationship to fix many long-standing issues? Yes, their accessibility desk does help, but what we want is either less erratic implementations or decisions, or more responsiveness when it comes to taking care of odd bugs lurking around Windows, Office, etc. Can you engage them, based on our NVDA issues on Github, to fix glitches with, say, Modern Notepad? I've seen more responsiveness from Google on the Chrome side compared with Microsoft. @jcsteh
We do regularly take issues to Microsoft, but we can't influence their priority. But this is also where, for say many of those issues which don't only affect NVDA, the more people who can take up the issue with Microsoft the better. And it's tricky, because you could spend all your time finding and reporting issues
And, Microsoft, like anz other corporation, has their own waz of sazing a simple fuck off to users. I have experienced that mzself. Thatćs the world we are living in.
For example, i have a very bad experience with some app developers and hardware vendors. You cannot contact the company as an individual. More people should be engaged in this accessibility communicating process. Not just one person.
Sometimes I wonder if that could be a fulltime job title. "issuue finder in MS syystems" Job description: Beat wWindows OS/various MS products black and blue to route out annoying screen reader and UI isues... LOL Sorry, it was there.
@we_are_spc It just about could be! And some of the things we do naturally uncover some of those - for instance, when we first wrote the training material in our shop, particularly the office modules, I'm pretty sure we documented things no-one had ever documented before as not working with the keyboard, or with a screen reader - and in some cases issues which needed to be fixed in NVDA instead.
In my opinion, if Microsoft actually cared about Accessibility, like they say they do, the tab viewer in Microsoft edge on Apple devices would be fully accessible to voiceover. As it currently stands, and has been for a year, voiceover will not read it. If you want to know what tabs you have open, you have to close one of them first.
Fair point! Now I'd be happy if you also accidentally fix NVDA's Modern Notepad issues with misspelled word identification and the use of the Systems menu to minimize/ maximize it - LOL! @NVAccess
I'm not willing to put time into that. My guess honestly is that Microsoft have once again screwed up the UIA implementation and JAWS is probably using some older API to access it. But that's just a guess without direct evidence except my past experience with Microsoft. @NVAccess
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I chatted with Philippe Ombredanne about Package URLs, or PURLs. He created them, so he knows a thing or two.
We do complain about CPE quite a bit :)
But it's a really hard problem. It feels like a package identifier should be easy, but it's way harder than you think it is. There's nobody better than Philippe to drop some knowledge.
I’m joined by Philippe Ombredanne, creator of the Package URL (PURL), to discuss the surprisingly complex and messy problem of simply identifying open source software packages.
we just need to remember that there are still a whole range of Open Source that cannot be identified by pURLS: namely everything that isn't included in one of the "types". Like most system libraries, the Linux kernel and more.
indeed. I just find that pURL advocates sometimes forget this gap and there are even online forms now where the pURL is a mandatory field, which have prevented for example me to enter curl in some places because curl nor libcurl have no pURL. So I keep having to remind people...
DocumentDB is the open-source engine powering vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. It offers a native implementation of document-oriented NoSQL database, enabling seamless CRUD operations on BS...
"Currently, wide practice is for Web sites to identify non-browser clients using IP addresses, the User-Agent header field, and/or reverse DNS. All of these techniques have limitations and deficiencies, and at the same time the need for stronger identity for bots is becoming stronger, as non-browser traffic on the Web grows in volume and importance."
"as non-browser traffic on the Web grows in volume and importance" -- the growth is all in ai crawlers, which is not "importance". Quite the reverse, ai bots ignore all the usual leave me alone processes, and are a total needless, energy wasting pile of....
importance to drop none compliant bot traffic as they behave like DDoS attacks. Especially looking at all the "AI" and "SEO" bots which caused numerous outages and unexpected performance degradations for me in the last months as they don't respect robots.txt or any good manners.
tldr send lawyers, crackers, assassins, and dynamite probably in that order.
1. We would appreciate it you didn't defecate on the Internet. 2. Ah, you automated web defecating machine broke. So sad. 3. The dead do not enshittify the web. 4. Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
I'm not enough of a cryptography nerd to evaluate the signed-HTTP-request proposal this is fronting for, but most "bot" usage that I'm aware of is sites making "API"s available over HTTP, of which I'm aware of many -- precisely none of which use User-Agent or reverse DNS to validate anything. IP block is sometimes used, but only as an extra sanity check on top of other authenticators.
The current ID at least mentions OAuth, but... solution looking for a problem?
One of the many, many clear signs of entrenched societal sexism. Masculinity is seen as normative by both men and women.
(The test was designed to look for masculine overcompensation, so there wasn’t a clear “more feminine” path, but women did not seek to compensate when told their answers were “masculine”)
I can't get over this sentence no matter how often I read it.
"Women showed no effects when told they were masculine; however, men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in pur…
It also kinda horrifies me (but doesn't really surprise me) that "war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in purchasing an SUV" are apparently strong predilections of masculinity. Oof.
Doing a talk this Friday on energy efficient coding. I have a power meter connected to my desktop right now and wow just wow. Free company gift idea, give every developer such a real time meter. Opening open.spotify.com costs me 25W for example! NON-STOP! Talk details: joyofcoding.org/bert_hubert.ht…
[Edit] The issue has been resolved with the latest app updates. getmona.app
[Original] PSA: Mona and Spring are currently crashing on launch with the iOS/iPadOS 26 beta 2. I’m aware of the problem and will begin investigating shortly. Appreciate your patience while I work on a fix.
Is there any reason one should become a GitHub sponsor rather than using the existing donation system? I assume GitHub takes a cut, but I also know they've had sponsr programs that actually match sponsrships for a certain amount of time.
@simon Good question - no, for someone who is already a donor via PayPal etc, there is no real reason to change. It was really just another option and when we first joined GitHub sponsors, I believe they had a promotions where they waived the fees for a year from memory. And, since we use GitHub for our code and issues ete, a lot of people who know and support us do already use that platform. We'll have to share the love around and post about a PayPal donor next time :)
TRUMP OFFICIALS PLAN TO STRIP PROTECTIONS FROM NEARLY 59 MILLION ACRES OF NATIONAL FORESTS AG Secretary Brooke Rollins said the admin would begin the process of rolling back protections for millions of roadless acres in the National Forest Systen. This would include about 30% of the land in the federal system, encompassing 92% of Alaska's #TongassNationalForest, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world.
Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest
I only recently learned that a Wisconsin Governor Phillip said "state forestry is not a good business proposition" and in 1915 the WI Supreme Court declared Wisconsin's State Forest Reserves unconstitutional
Voters passed a referendum in 1924 to amend the state constitution to apply state funds to be for acquisition, development and preservation of forest resources.
Maybe we can convince the public we should have a constitutional amendment protecting this ?
@feld I remember in my schools they push citing sources strongly on us. Now I wonder if this caused my current resistance to using LLMs because I simply can't tolerate unverified answers.
Just someone trying to explain why you need their product.
Having seen the trends over the years, no one need FTTR, not even businesses. The reason is that gige is fine for 99.99% of needs. Most places don't have enough internet bandwidth where you could even use more than gige speeds (and there's not 2.5gbps and 5gbps) to do anything.
Yes, if you're doing >1gbps, fiber is significantly less power, but again, existing wire plant can likely do 5gbps over copper and still be fine for the rooms that need it.
Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t
Also points to important markets among the 300 million people who will soon work as delivery riders or influencers Huawei’s chairman Xu Zhijun – aka…
maybe the new 2.5G and 5G transceivers are good, but I can say from experience (homelab and datacenter work) that the 10g copper transceivers are terrible, evil wretches from the pits of hell
US Embassy Thailand - All who are applying for an F, M or J nonimmigrant visa must adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ for vetting. th.usembassy.gov/visas/
Disabled people have fought for decades to get remote work accommodations.
They allow us to remain in the workforce longer.
They help us do our jobs while also taking care of our health.
The early days of Covid showed just how easily companies could make these accommodations happen, yet they were ripped away in favour of “back to normal”
The human rights tribunal of BC just found in favour of an immunocompromised employee! They ruled employers MUST accommodate remote work.
JOE ROGAN: “These ICE raids are fuckin’ nuts… if Trump had said we’re gonna go to Home Depot and arrest everyone, tackle people at construction sites, I don’t think anyone would’ve signed up for that… It’s crazy.” (PSA: You were warned, Joe. Yet you signed up for it.)
From They Thought They Were Free, a book about interviews conducted with German men shortly after the fall of Nazi Germany:
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked — if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ‘43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ‘33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose."
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Just out of pure, genuine curiosity, can anyone use the date picker on this website with a screen reading product? Its such a simple thing but it fails fundamentally. nationalexpress.com/en
Another news item today, as seen a long time ago in “Halting State” by @cstross. After an attack on a server used by the police in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a federal state in Germany, all special “patrol” mobile phones run via this server as well as the server itself have been shut down. Apparently, attackers were able to gain access to the server and the phones in a way that survives reboots.
Ein Angriff auf die Diensthandys der Polizei in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern könnte größere Folgen haben als angenommen. Derzeit sind die Handys nicht im Einsatz.
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Opera, Brave and Vivaldi are good options.
Safari is also OK.
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