Klares Nein, und das ist gut so: Umstrittenes Analyse-Tool - Bund rückt von Software Palantir ab
tagesschau.de/investigativ/br-…

This week's blog post is out! Featuring the Helen Keller Services AccessAbility awards, NV Access are hiring, RBlind on Lemmy, the Blind Accessible Research & Exploration Jam on Itch.io, and a walkthrough of #NVDA #Braille settings. Happy #DeafBlind awareness week! nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

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it's been some time since the last Muzika update, but I (and some people that joined along the way) didn't stop working on it.

A few changes:

1. Column view for playlists & albums on larger screens

2. Decent (not perfect) mobile support

3. All links are now underlined for better visibility/a11y

4. Simplified code & improved perf (not yet perfect)

5. We now have flatpak builds (CI)

6. The app now supports translations

etc, etc.

see it at github.com/vixalien/muzika

#gnome #gtk #libadwaita

in reply to Aleca

@alecaddd Could use some more Thunderbird stickers 🤔

But it's really nice! I got the DIY, and it was a breeze to setup (aside from some light bezel issues that were my b, it's good now.)

It's pretty sturdy, I'm also surprised on how well the bezel and keyboard cover feel. There's virtually no gaps.

The only issue I have with it right now is the keyboard layout. I'm use to the mac layout thanks to the work laptop. I'll have read up on swapping some keys around. However the keyboard is real nice to type on. Trackpad is okay, but it's hard to beat macbooks in that regard.

I yolo'd my usual distro, and aside from some light reading on the arch wiki, it works pretty well out of the box. Some of those "not out of the box on an unofficially supported distro" things are: disabling the ambient light sensor so the brightness buttons work, installing fprintd and editing a few pam configs to allow fingerprint on polkit, sudo, etc., and some power saving config tweaks.

In conclusion: It good.

This week we bring you another video testimonial completely in Spanish from Noelia.

A translation from Noelia herself is:
“Hello. This is Noelia, from Spain. I work providing real time captions at events, and thanks to NVDA I can access the software that I need in my job, such as the stenotype software, video-call programs to receive the audio events, internet browsing etc.”

Thank you Noelia for sharing how NVDA helps you succeed in your job as a translator!

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in reply to NV Access

The Spanish transcript of Noelia's video is:

"Hola. Soy Noelia, de España, trabajo subtitulando eventos en tiempo
real, y gracias a NVDA puedo acceder a los programas que necesito en
mi trabajo. Como el programa de estenotipia, programas de videollamada
para recibir el audio de los eventos, navegación por internet, etc."

Y de nosotras:

¡Gracias Noelia por compartir cómo NVDA te ayuda a tener éxito en tu trabajo como traductora!

busd 0.2.0 is out!

It now has all the basics, enough to have all the zbus tests successfully run against it.

release notes: github.com/dbus2/busd/releases…

See the README for more info: github.com/dbus2/busd/tree/0.2…

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Let it rain in my #magisk module repo as well! apt.izzysoft.de/magisk just got 5 updated and 3 added modules:

* Turkish Ad Hosts: hosts file to block tracking for typical Turkish sources
* LiveBoot: enable unix-style boot animation
* OLED2LCD: increase the saturation of the panel to 2x

Enjoy your (now 68) #free Magisk modules with the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

in reply to Nanda Queiroz

@vereda This also depends on what you want to do with your money. Locally-sourced products and services, think food and rent, are usually cheaper in places where salaries are lower, but this is much less true about flights, technology, cars and such. A programmer in Silicon Valley and a programmer in Nairobi might both spend 95% of their respective salaries on food, rent, medical expenses, schooling for their children etc, but the extra 5% in San Francisco will get you a top-of-the-line MacBook and a Tesla, where that same 5% in Nairobi will get you an used Dell laptop from 3 years ago and a mopet. Even better, if you make senior developer money in the US, live like a junior developer or worse and save up the difference, you can then move to a poorer country, perhaps the country you came from, and that difference will get you a long, long way, even though that money wouldn't be enough for three months' rent in California. This difference is much bigger for people who earn a lot, but it is still there, regardless of your level of income.
in reply to miki

@miki @vereda this doesn't apply to people on minimum wage however, because they often can't even afford basic necessities in US.

40% of the population can't afford a $400 unexpected expense. Meanwhile, 37% of the population now works two full time jobs.

The reality of the situation is that minimum wage isn't even livable in US.

fortune.com/2023/05/23/inflati…

denver7.com/news/national/more…

in reply to Yogthos

@miki @vereda actually imho raising minimal wage is temporary, and LEDs to inflation increase, cuz companies increases the prices by raise % with safety factor
Way better would be providing maximum wage (progressive taxes?), but it unfortunately seems complicated af to implement
Idk how its described in scientific papers, just my thoughts

I look over at Twitter API land every once in a while just to see what craziness is happening. This week? They decided to remove the API that returns the following/followers for users. No notice, no comments, nothing. API stopped working, documents remove any mentions about it.

Is it a bug, is it on purpose? No one who knows is talking.

Imagine paying $100/5000/42,000+ a month for this.
twittercommunity.com/t/get-2-u…

This is @halfmexican; GNOME Outreachy student excited that their effort to make a modern and sandboxed Camera demo for Workbench has paid off 🛠️

Well done! 🎉

Thanks @philn and @slomo for your help!

#GNOME #Outreachy #development #students #GStreamer #PipeWire #Flatpak #freedesktop #libcamera #GTK

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13 SHIFTcycles♻
Weiter geht’s mit "repair". Blog: shiftphones.com/13-shiftcycles…
Für uns steht fest: Wenn Geräte nicht reparierbar sind, liegt ein Designfehler vor. Denn noch besser als Neues zu schaffen, ist Bestehendes zu erhalten. Die Reparatur eines Gerätes soll einfach und wenn möglich auch direkt von den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern übernommen werden können.

#shift #shiftphone #shifthappens #cycle #repair #righttorepair #reuse #recycle #reduce #sustainable

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in reply to Archos

@Archos :distros_arch: :matrix: Z těch debat je vždycky na poblití. Zvlášť, když ti větší pitomci začnou přirovnávat dobrovlnej vztah a styk stejnopohlavního páru k nekrofilii, pedofilii a podobným bonbonkům...

Ten boj s něčím, co stejně přirozeně jednou přijde, je prostě směšnej. Budu rád, když se to konečně schválí a stane se přesně to, co každej racioálně myslící člověk čeká - vůbec nic.

#AudioMo: Today it's a musical selection from a gig I played a few years ago as part of a #Jazz #Fusion #Quartet called Nuvorrian. We had headphone boxes for each musician as we were playing on an outdoor stage, so I took a patch-cable from the headphone box to my recorder and captured it that way.
Drums: Kwesi.
Bass: Kwesi (No not that one!)
Keys: Josh
Other keys: Myself

Good to see @heiseonline covering why gematik joined the Foundation and why Matrix matters for the whole healthcare sector!

The article in 🇩🇪 heise.de/news/Sichere-Kommunik…

What would you do for a free 55-inch 4K TV?

1. You must use the TV daily.

2. There's no way to hide constant ads.

Is surveillance capitalism acceptable if companies are being upfront about it and "you’re in on it"?

Read on: 👇
tutanota.com/blog/free-tv-tell…

Seeing AI: Making the visual world more accessible

youtube.com/watch?v=DybczED-GK… 3.5 Min #YouTube
Remember your #AltText, eh!

Featuring Andre Louis, talented Musician, Composer, Keyboard Player, YouTuber, Teacher (and all around nice guy)
Not sure about how to be more inclusive? #Follow @FreakyFwoof

#SeeingAI #VisualImpairment #Tools #Readers

guardian article, antiracism, takedown of "diversity training"

the guardian might be pretty shit in general, but sometimes they do publish absolute bangers, like this one by Arun Kundnani:

There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with ‘diversity training’

The liberal tradition sees racism as essentially a matter of irrational beliefs and attitudes. [...] [I]n societies where racial prejudices were widespread, liberal democracy could be undermined by political extremists inflaming race hatred to gain power. To remove this danger, they [call] on the liberal establishment to persuade the masses, especially the poor and uneducated, that racist opinions have no legitimate basis.

The radical tradition, on the other hand, sees racism as a matter of how economic resources are distributed differently across racial groups. [...] Radical antiracists argue that the only way to fight this oppression is to build autonomous organisations with the power to dismantle existing social systems and build new ones. To them, racism is closely connected to capitalism. This is partly because racism weakens class struggle by dividing white workers from most of the world’s working people. More fundamentally, race provides a means by which capitalism can more intensively exploit certain categories of worker – the enslaved, the indentured, colonised peasantries, migrant workers – as well as justify discarding peoples deemed superfluous to the economy.

[...]

By relocating racism to the unconscious mind, to the use of inappropriate words and to the extremist fringes, liberal antiracists end up absolving the institutions most responsible for racist practices. They are effective at getting more people of colour into senior jobs in police forces, border agencies and the military, but unable to get fewer people of colour killed by those same agencies.


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A great post by @lullabot that talks about how we're making Drupal's Administration UX better. The article not only gives useful information but also has many links where you can get involved and contribute. lullabot.com/articles/improvin… #drupal #ux