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Forgive me for sharing this via our company account, but this is a subject I am passionate about and is very important to us.

For some time now, it has become more difficult to link a Humanware Victor Reader Stream product with the Audible book service via its Audible Sync application.
This means that it is not possible for those people to use the Stream with the Audible book service.

Audible is one of the primary methods these days for listening to audio books and this is undoubtedly the device on which many people choose to hear them.

As a company, we often recommend that people use the Victor Reader Stream. As of this moment, anyone who wishes to link such a device to Audible cannot
do so and certainly the new upcoming version 3, to be released in February, will not be supported.

I urge you please if you have a moment to sign an accessible online petition to try to persuade Amazon and Audible to work with Humanware so as to ensure
this service is reinstated. Even if you are not a Stream user, I would be grateful please for a minute of your time so that those of us who use Streams
on a daily basis have a chance of protecting our listening to Audible books in the future.

openletter.earth/to-amazons-au…

Thank you for reading.

To Amazon's Audible.com division: Please reinstate support for HumanWare's popular Victor Reader Stream player for the blind and low vision community

openletter.earth

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To je přesně český #Twitter. Místo radosti, že nevyhrál Bureš, řeší budoucí hradní mluvčí Markétu Řehákovou.
cnn.iprima.cz/pavlova-mluvci-k…

Pavlova mluvčí: Kritizují mě lidé, kteří nikdy nevyhráli volby. Ukážu i vážnou tvář

Budoucí hradní mluvčí Markéta Řeháková se brání kritice, podle které bylo její vystupování ve volebním štábu Petra Pavla nedůstojné. Velkou roli v jejím výkonu měla hrát davová euforie z vítězství.
Dáša Šamanová (FTV Prima)
#twitter
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Marie Kondo is trending again, so here's a queer reflection on Marie Kondo I wrote a few years ago: medium.com/@creatrixtiara/a-no…
#konmari

A (Not So) Quick & Dirty Queer Reflection of Marie Kondo

Originally written 17th January 2019 by Creatrix Tiara (‘Tiara’/they/them). Current version edited by Tove. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 Twitter |…
Creatrix Tiara (Medium)
#konmari
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Miroslav Suchý

přirozený úbytek je 28000 lidí ročně. Tj. 1166 lidí za 14 dní. czso.cz/csu/czso/obyvatelstvo_… V lednu je typicky špička. Takže 2k je očekávatelné. 3k je zajímavé, ale nikoliv podezřelé.

Obyvatelstvo

Data o počtu obyvatel, narozených, sňatcích i rozvodech, věkové struktuře atp. Demografické ročenky, dlouhé časové řady od roku 1785, demografické údaje za obce a vybraná města ČR.
www.czso.cz

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So liebe Leseratten, ich habe meinen Teil getan: Soeben gingen weitere 23 #eBooks live. Es sind nun also zum 12jährigen Bestehen von "Izzy's freier Bibliothek" in selbiger über 12-tausend eBooks verfügbar 🥳

Nun schaue ich auf die von ebooks.qumran.org/opds/catsugg… gesammelten Eingaben und… Keine einzige? Funktioniert die Maske nicht? Oder lässt sich keines der über 2.500 unkategorisierten Bücher einer Kategorie zuordnen? Oder lest Ihr einfach nicht 🙊? Menno… 😭

Kategorie-Empfehlungen

ebooks.qumran.org
#eBooks

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To be honest – I have not really used Playhouse since I published it 4 months ago.

Just now, I needed to test mermaid rendering in #WebKitGTK to build a “lightweight” renderer for Apostrophe.

It was very satisfying to use Playhouse for that.

If you're curious:

Playhouse
github.com/sonnyp/Playhouse

Mermaid
mermaid.js.org

Apostrophe
apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.g…

A screenshot of Playhouse demonstrating mermaid rendering

Apostrophe – Apps for GNOME

Edit Markdown in style – Focus on your writing with a clean, distraction-free markdown editor. Features: An UI tailored to comfortable writingA distraction-free modeDark, light and sepia themesEverything you expect from a tex...
apps.gnome.org
#WebKitGTK
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Sonny

I ended up making a CLI and #pandoc filter to render Mermaid to SVG.

Doesn't do as much but thanks to #WebKitGTK it's 50% faster than Mermaid tools.

github.com/sonnyp/mermaid-webk…

Tomorrow I'll test the integration with Apostrophe.

gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostro…


GitHub - sonnyp/mermaid-webkitgtk

Contribute to sonnyp/mermaid-webkitgtk development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#pandoc #WebKitGTK

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 new apps:

* Meshtastic: an inexpensive open-source GPS mesh radio for hiking, skiing, flying, marching

(soon to come to F-Droid itself)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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"Cistercian Numbers" are incredibly cool

It's a rare numeric system designed by 13th century monks

Each number is a based on a single vertical stick, with patterns you draw in all four quadrants off it -- top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left

A single glyph can represent a number from 1 to 9,999

It's in my recent weekly "Linkfest" newsletter, here: buttondown.email/clivethompson…

Want to subscribe? Pay-what-you-want here: buttondown.email/clivethompson

I call it "The opposite of doomscrolling"

The cistercian numbers in rows, with the first row showing from one to nine, the second row from ten to ninety, then from one hundred to nine hundred, then from one thousand to nine thousand. The numbers are vertical lines with lines sticking out of the top at right angle and forty-five degree angles, and also sometimes square boxes.

Linkfest #3: "Cistercian Numbers", Robots That Hug, and Dice That Roll Negative Numbers

1) 🧮 Cistercian numbers I’d never heard of Cistercian numbers before, until I stumbled upon this brief post describing them … Cistercian numbers are an...
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Heard about #commonvoice (commonvoice.mozilla.org/)? This is an easy way to contribute to #FLOSS. Such projects need contributors (e.g. people who give data samples or review data).
We used this for teaching statistics (#rstats). Students should find out if there are gender differences by counting male vs. female contributors. There were significantly more men in our sample. Bad for unbiased #AI! If more use such projects, we can also grow the open datasets faster and fairer. #genderinequality
Shows data sample (N = 404) of man an women contributing to Mozilla Common voice. We collected data during a statistic lecture and recorded if a voice sample is provided by a male or female. Male dominate.

Mozilla Common Voice

commonvoice.mozilla.org
#floss #rstats #AI #commonvoice #genderinequality
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Episode 212: All that’s new in HumanWare’s Victor Reader Stream third generation, is it time for us to do visual interpretation differently, and an Australian bar says if you’re blind and by yourself, it’s a safety risk for you to drink mosen.org/episode-212-all-that…

Episode 212: All that’s new in HumanWare’s Victor Reader Stream third generation, is it time for us to do visual interpretation differently, and an Australian bar says if you’re blind and by yourself, it’s a safety risk for you to drink

Kia ora Mosen At Largers. A reminder that this podcast is indexed by chapter. If you listen with a podcast client that offers chapter support, you can easily skip between segments. We also make tra…
Mosen At Large

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In today's episode of 'website security theatre' we present the US Government's "TreasuryDirect" site.

They don't just disable copy-and-paste into the password field, they disable *keyboard entry* into the password field. You are required to click buttons on this virtual keyboard in order to enter your password. Kudos to them for making high-entropy random passwords difficult to use!

Oh, and the password is also case-insensitive, probably because implementing shift-key support in the virtual keyboard would have been too complex.

#Password #SecurityTheatre

screen capture of web form with a disabled 'password' field and a large virtual keyboard.
#password #securitytheatre

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Would not want to travel alone blind. paddleyourownkanoo.com/2022/12…

Blind Couple Traveling With Their Baby Claim Airline Refused to Let Them Board Unless They Had a Sighted Helper With Them

A blind couple who were travelling with their baby and trying to get back to their home in Iceland after a holiday in Greece were stopped from boarding two separate flights and stranded for a week because they didn’t have a sighted escort with them.
Mateusz Maszczynski (Paddle Your Own Kanoo)
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The Old Cheese

Issues like this are becoming more regular. A woman in Adelaide was refused a drink at her 5 Star hotel because she did not have a sighted assistance person. This is beyond stupid. As an experienced blind airline passenger both with and without assistance, I have always notified the airline that i was blind and only needed assistance from the Gate to my seat. Never had a problem. So I am unsure why an increasing number of airline staff are putting barriers out there.

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Sometimes I forget just how much goodness Rust stuffs into its syntax and semantics in such a tight and well-integrated package: matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/r…

Rust's Ugly Syntax

People complain about Rust syntax. I think that most of the time when people think they have an issue with Rust's syntax, they actually object to Rust's semantics. In this slightly whimsical post, I'll try to disentangle the two.
matklad.github.io

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@khalidabuhakmeh Hey there. I found an idea for the problem with SecretStorage using the hardcoded path. If you are on .NET Core or later, you can use the startup hook to override the property!
medium.com/criteo-engineering/…

[C#] Have some fun with .net core startup hooks - Criteo R&D Blog - Medium

How to use .net core startup hooks to make apps behave in crazy ways
Kevin Gosse (Criteo R&D Blog)
@Khalid-a-tron ⚡
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AreYouDeeWhy

I understand. It is the startup hooks I've got my doubts about.
It could allow anyone with enough permissions on a server to inject code for any doubtfull purpose. Maybe I'm missing something, but the article sure made me think so.

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Coders: explore under the hood of LibreOffice, and find out how VCL (the Visual Class Library) is used to create UI widgets on different platforms: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or…
Interactive VCL demo

VCL example applications and tools - LibreOffice Development Blog

Here we discuss various example applications and tools created with VCL that can work across various platforms with different GUI toolkits.
Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)

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“We didn’t try to make it attractive to humans. Other than feebly block access to cars, we did precisely bugger-all to make the space something people would want to flock to. It’s like we deliberately set ourselves up for failure so we’d have no choice but to bring back cars because hell, we tried nothing and it didn’t work let’s hurry back to what we’re used to.” brigittepellerin.substack.com/… #ottwalk #autowa @TheWarOnCars

We tried nothing, and it didn't work

Why oh why does Ottawa always make the wrong call.
(Mx) Brigitte Pellerin (Brigitte Pellerin)
#ottwalk #autowa @The War on Cars
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