Happy International Day of Mathematics! Click through to the IDM314 webpage for a series of accessible talks on mathematics by a range of brilliant speakers, beginning in one hour!

idm314.org/2023-global-event-p…

in reply to brabitom

@brabitom ja mam uz od zacatku sveho netbookoveho obdobi zazranou pod kuzi nenavist vuci vsemu postavenemu na electronu, takze mym nejstabilnejsim nastrojem byl Sublime a Vim (nyni teda Micro), ale zaroven neprestavam hledat nejaky FLOSS nastroj, ktery by me uspokojil nejlepe na obou frontach ... mozna v budoucnu neco jako Helix nebo Kakoune 🤷 Emacs neberu, dal jsem mu sanci dvakrat a na takovou intelektualni gymnastiku proste nejsem pripraveny
in reply to albi von skládka 🇨🇿

S Electronem jsem na tom podobně, ale říkal jsem si, že nebudu konzerva a dám tomu šanci. 😁 Atom docela ušel, ale VSCode je strašnej. Mám docela výkonný stroj a stejně se spouštěl větrák každou chvíli. Hrůza. Celkově je děsně těžkopádný. Nechápu jeho popularitu. 🤨 Za ty roky jsem toho zkusil fakt kupu. Dlouho jsem používal Komodo Edit, díky jádru jsem si snadno tvořil vlastní doplňky a to mi vyhovovalo. Pak jsem zkoušel kde co a nyní zakotvil u Kate. Rustu fandím, takže Lapce asi zkusím. 😁

Staying still in the land of open source projects, this slipped yesterday through my Reddit reading:
FeedGears is a web-based, self-hostable RSS client with particular attention to accessibility. According to the dev, it was tested against the WCAG 2.1 guidelines on the AA level, has integrated shortcuts, consistent keyboard navigation and automatic announcements for system events. It's pretty new so a lot of features might be missing but that's for the contact mechanisms and the feedback. :)
I haven't tested this myself yet but the landing page looks definitely alright.
feedgears.com/
#Accessibility #OpenSource #RSS #Blind #ScreenReaders

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@pitermach I use RSSOwlnix on Windows 11, and like it for its wealth of features. However, it gets quite sluggish as time goes by - I mean in a matter of a couple of months, so I'm forced to remove my database, add everything afresh, and re-adjust my settings for yet another couple of months. Really painful to say the least! Wish we had Lire for iOS/Mac on Windows 11.
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

@sten @ultraschall Things have evolved since 2004 (!) — so has email and so have podcasts. Chapter marks, chapter images, automatic sound quality enhancements …

Feel free to check it out at some point. 🤓
The open source team has worked hard for many years to make it extra nice for podcasters. It’s the best suite out there — incl. the free 1-click live broadcast feature.

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@sten @ultraschall Even though it comes from Germany there is a full English documentation & tutorials

ultraschall.github.io/ultrasch…

Unfortunately, in German, this is how it works under Linux, or maybe just ask chat GPT:

sendegate.de/t/anleitung-ultra…

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@Malik @sten

Here are the english tutorial videos:

ultraschall.fm/tutorials/#engl…

And for a quick start:

youtu.be/f9904vJzOhs

Microsoft wouldn't know what ethics is if it came up to them and bit them on the bum. Saying that Microsoft laid off its ethics and society team is about the same as saying that the NBA just fired a baseball team.


Microsoft, which has been moving very fast to deploy large-scale AI systems, just removed one of its responsible AI teams

platformer.news/p/microsoft-ju…


If you know the address of an account on the Fediverse, you can make it appear within your own server so you can follow and interact with it:

1. Copy and paste the address into the search box on your server
2. A link to the account's profile will appear, click on it to interact

This works with all kinds of Fediverse addresses including Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, BookWyrm, Friendica, OwnCast etc.

This also works with a profile page's web address.

Find out more at fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-ad…

Our current phone service provider's customer service has been completely down, I would say for nearly a whole month now. Initially, dialing either 611 or their listed support number both greeted us with an AI-generated voice talking about an internal system issue. Then 611 changed to a human voice a week or maybe a week and a half ago. Today, 611 still tells us in a human voice that they appreciate our patience as they work to restore their customer care systems as soon as possible, while the support line's AI-generated voice now tells us that their office is closed, and that we should call back between "6 am and 9 PM Mountain time." Yes, you read that right. It doesn't say AM, A M, like morning, it says am like I am. The worst part is that it said this at 7:15 PM Mountain Time. Not 9 PM, not 10 PM, 7:15 PM Mountain Time. They also tell me to go to www.help.ting.com if I need any help, and although help.ting.com does exist, www.help.ting.com of course does not; it shouldn't. OK yeah, maybe this is a step in the right direction ... maybe they're finally almost ready to let us talk to someone the next time something goes wrong, as has been the case a few times over the past week and a half as outgoing calls intermittently fail and incoming calls intermittently fail to ring our phones until a text message has been received. Still, the AI-generated voice needs to be replaced by a human who gets the script right, the office needs to still be open at 7:15 PM Mountain Time, the customer care line should tell us to go to help.ting.com, not www.help.ting.com, and of course, 611 and the listed support line need to both have the same greeting. Two months ago, I would have, and still did recommend this company to friends and family members who wanted good phone service at a good price with excellent customer service. But I've watched its customer service go from great to non-existent since then. It's sad to watch really.

How some audio in a Crazy frog song on streaming was changed 13 years later and almost nobody noticed, long post

So I was just scrolling through some playlists of popular music from previous years on Spotify and stumbled across the Crazy Frog version of Axel F, which at one point in time I might have listened to more times than it was probably healthy to. So I immediately noticed that something was very off about the infamous intro sounds, which were altered a bit and now that I heard it the song sounds very wrong and I don't think I'll be able to unhear it.

This probably happened at the same time as they decided to make some new Crazy Frog content because Ticktock, and as part of this the original Axel F video was replaced with a new 4K version that also includes this new audio while also removing CF"s infamous testicles. I don't get why they changed the audio in the song - I don't think they lost the rights to the original voice clips since most of them are still there, did they need to make the audio match better with some change to the animation? But what bothers me even more is how they were able to just replace both the song and video in place such that the original is much harder to find (or in the case of Spotify flat out impossible). So yeah, definitely archive the stuff that you like, because you never know what might happen to it.

Original unedited version:
youtube.com/watch?v=xsEUU-Q09o…
Current edited video:
youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMb…

And one last fun fact, someone else apparently noticed this too and made a petition for Spotify to change the song back, which currently has a wapping 98 signatures. There's your dose of random thoughts before I go to bed.

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How some audio in a Crazy frog song on streaming was changed 13 years later and almost nobody noticed, long post
@simon yeah there are many more changes to that song in there. The background bandpassed synth is much louder, overall the song seems to be quieter for some reason? Some of the frog samples were replaced and others weren't, there's also some... weird autotuning kinda thing going on? Also the "frooooog" used to be nicely cut off when the main beat came in, but now it just overlaps and sounds lazy. I am confused. Who thought this had to be done? This makes no sense. Not that I liked this thing to begin with, but now I like it even less.

Holy crap I just randomly ran across the way to disable those annoying "Log In With Google" prompts that appear all over the web.

1. Go go myaccount.google.com/data-and-…
2. Scroll way down to "Apps and Services"
3. Click on "Third-party apps with account access"
4. Uncheck the "Google Account sign-in prompts" option.

#Google

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 1 new and 19 updated apps:

* SubTune: a music streaming app for Subsonic API compatible servers

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

A little demo of my #Gothic #blind #accessibility #mod. If anyone here knows what #Gothic by #PiranhaBytes is and wants to help me (maybe)? Feel free to drop me a mention!
P.S. The polish version of the game is the only version I own, hence the Polish demo.
transfer.sh/PkPe7S/YagaD.mp3
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Yeah you seem to make quite an effort of #CommunityMetrics to measure the state of the project. I've seen them presented in multiple LibreOffice talks over the years. If others here want to step up their #Community #Metrics game they should take a look at the #CHAOSS community chaoss.community/ They define relevant metrics and develop software to measure and report them. And they are very open and welcoming.

Browsing Github last night, I came across two interesting, potentially accessible open source projects related to radio.
1. Salamandra Radio - an automation software for station in its early development. Screen reader specific fixes have been mentioned in the release notes and so were hotkeys, although these do not seem to be documented anywhere; the app starts in Portuguese by default but a change to English is possible in the settings; also buttons in the toolbar do not seem to be labelled but upon focusing them, a tooltip is read out so we can go by those to tell what the buttons are doing.
github.com/ocarolino/salamandr…
2. Axios - a simple radio player supporting the Radio Browser API. It is accessible in a similar way as Salamandra, allows for searching the directory, playing whatever is found, and controlling the volume.
github.com/z1lvis/Axios
Feel free to explore, hack, spread the word or do whatever else you usually do in such cases.
#Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReaders #Radio #OpenSource

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A must read for web professionals. "The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era" spicyweb.dev/the-great-gasligh… #webdev #webdevelopment #javascript

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in reply to Chris

@christopherklay you can and I can, and I bet @downey can as well. But many users are simply lost at that point. Furthermore, if faking the agent does the trick, the blocker was entirely unnecessary.

And as for "using multiple ones": I do that for multiple reasons. One of them is "compartments" (yes I know "container tabs", but what's in different browsers is an entirely different beast).

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

@IzzyOnDroid I completely agree that the blocker is pointless to begin with.

My point is mostly that simply having a user agent switcher installed that solves any of these issues down the line, is the easier solution compared to opening the page in a different browser every time it happens.

After all, the majority of people isn't running multiple ones, or is even logged in (if needed) in a second one.

I wanted to thank Tiana Lea for the photos were taken at State of Open Con 23. For the amazing collection of photos of open source leaders: openuk.uk/photoexhibition/

Tiana also was around for the whole conference taking photos of participants stateofopencon.com/

I am now using one of her photos for my social media headshot. I am wearing my CivicActions jacket and a “Make things open, it makes things better” t-shirt care of @Edent

CC-SA license creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

/c @openuk

China starts building long-distance nuclear heating pipeline world-nuclear-news.org/Article…

Initiée et coordonnée par l’association April, l’initiative Libre en Fête revient pour la 22e année consécutive : pour accompagner l’arrivée du printemps, des événements de découverte du Logiciel Libre et de la culture libre à destination du grand public seront proposés partout en France du samedi 4 mars au dimanche 2 avril, dans une dynamique conviviale et festive.

Les événements du Libre en Fête 2023 seront annoncés sur ce site : libre-en-fete.net/2023/eveneme…

⚖️La alcaldesa de Villalba se enfrenta a su inhabilitación por la oficina antiokupas.

Por Diego Sanz Paratcha
El juzgado número 8 de la localidad admite a trámite una denuncia contra Mariola Vargas (PP) por ocultar información sobre el contrato de una oficina antiokupas que cerró a los seis meses.
elsaltodiario.com/represion/al…