Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Hoy con algo menos de frío que ayer, pero llueve más.
Pour rappel, je serai à Saint-Cergue, en Suisse, ces 24 et 25 janvier aux Rencontres Hivernales du Libre !
J'y donnerai une conférence « XMPP ou comment ne pas réinventer la roue : Messagerie fédérée et sécurisée en 2026 » où vous pourrez découvrir XMPP et son écosystème moderne pour ne pas dépendre de produits centralisés pour la messagerie.
Ça sera également l'occasion pour les personnes qui le souhaitent de poser des questions sur XMPP, venir discuter, découvrir plein de choses …
N'hésitez pas à venir engager la discussion !
Here's a random harry potter what if for you. What if Modesty Barebone grew up and married some squib great uncle of Penelope who's branch of the family moved to America, and he decided to start a band, named in rememberence of her late brother? What do you get? Creedence Clearwater Revival!
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Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College (now Virginia State University).
She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1952 and went on to earn a master’s degree in 1955.
In 1956, West began working as a mathematician at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
She was only the second African American woman hired at the base and one of just four African American employees at the time.
What followed was a career that would quietly change the world.
Over many years, Jane Plitt, founder and board chair of the Alexandria-based "National Center for Women’s Innovations" (NCWI), made it her mission to put Gladys West on the map
—quite literally.
West’s story became the centerpiece of NCWI’s inaugural work,
culminating in a lavish gala celebrating her 93rd birthday on October 27, 2023.
Emceed by Deborah Roberts, the evening showcased West’s extraordinary contributions,
with West herself declaring,
“This is the best day of my life.”
thezebra.org/2026/01/18/dr-gla…
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95Mary Wadland (The Zebra--Good News in Alexandria)
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My guide for #discord with #nvda isn't finished yet, but I've laid out the new structure for where I want it to go. It's got more headings and lists to make jumping around with a screen reader easier. Sections that need more work are tagged in the unrendered markdown.
The guide focuses on the structure of the Discord desktop and web interface from the perspective of someone who knows screen reader basics and can move around a website but struggles with very complex web interfaces.
There's some useful info in there already. It'll take me a while to write up all the features, but if you know how something works and want to help fill it in or make a correction, feel free to make a PR on the rework branch!
github.com/PepperTheVixen/Disc…
GitHub - PepperTheVixen/Discord-With-NVDA at rework
This is a guide for using Discord on Windows with NVDA - GitHub - PepperTheVixen/Discord-With-NVDA at reworkGitHub
*Update. RIM may work with screen readers other than JAWS.*
(Note: You will need to skip down several headings to find the beginning of the article)
I can't comment on this from a business perspective. But I do know that I have never been able to connect remotely to any of my computers, either from Windows to Windows or from Android or IOS to Windows, with any commercially made program for the purpose. The only one that works for me is NVDA Remote, which works on all three platforms, with Windows and the NVDA screen reader being a requirement. The limitation, however, is that I can't hear the sound on the controlled computer, nor can I transfer files between it and the controller. Fortunately, I don't really need these features and am happy just being able to control my machines at all. But for those who do need them, RIM allows this, but only for users of JAWS (which costs several hundred dollars/NVDA is free), and the last time I checked, it is also very expensive for an individual user who doesn't require it for work purposes. I'm also not sure if it is cross-platform, so it may only work with Windows. If anyone knows of a free, accessible solution that works with NVDA, please let me know.
Remote Incident Manager (RIM)
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#accessibility #Android #blind #computers #IOS #JAWS #NVDA #RemoteAccess #Talkback #technology #Voiceover #W
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Remote Incident Manager (RIM) From Pneuma Solutions - AT-Newswire
Here, Aaron Di Blasi describes a familiar failure mode in enterprise remote support: organizations deploy “best-in-class” remote tools that work fine for most staff, but quietly shut out blind and low-vision technicians and users because the experien…Aaron Di Blasi (AT-Newswire)
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RIM should work with NVDA. I found this guide on their site: manual.getrim.app/en/windows/w… Otherwise, I'm glad NVDA Remote Access is working for you - we do have a request to add file transfer ability, but no timeline on that as yet. Another option is the Remote Desktop Accessiblity add-on which "allows using speech and braille with Microsoft Remote Desktop, Citrix Workspace, Parallels RAS and VMware Horizon". From the add-on store or addonstore.nvaccess.org/?chann…
this seems to have ben a oneoff, a fluke if you will, but have a look at the #NVDA error I got when trying to do insert q then telling it to restart NVDA.
Error dialog Couldn't terminate existing NVDA process, abandoning start: Exception: [WinError 5] Access is denied.
That's the Hotel California bug. You can exit NVDA, but you can never leave.....
Ok, late response - but did you work out what happened? I'm not sure myself offhand, but if it hasn't happened again, that is good and likely, as you said, a fluke.
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