On this day in 2007, 17 years ago, #curl 7.16.1 was released and introduced the world to the --libcurl option. One of my favorite curl command line options:
Many of the ills of today’s internet have a single thing in common: they are built on a system of corporate surveillance. This Data Privacy & Protection Day, we're calling for a ban on the targeting of ads based on our online behavior. eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ban-…
Tech companies earn staggering profits by targeting ads to us based on our online behavior. This incentivizes all online actors to collect as much of our behavioral information as possible, and then sell it to ad tech companies and the data brokers t…
neat, this is something I’ve been spending a bunch of time thinking about, and I wonder if we can improve the experience here even more:
New hardware (like ARM MacBooks) also allow to inhibit charging at any point via sysfs, so we could do smth like stop charge at 80% but provide a button (maybe quicksetting) to continue up to 100% once.
I'm using extensions.gnome.org/extension… for some time now and am quite happy with it. That seems to have some more options, e.g. changing the charge limit ad-hoc or enable force-discharge.
Entrevista a María Rozas (Compostela Aberta), Concelheira de Direitos e Serviços Sociais, Promoção Económica e Juventude, e Primeira tenenta de alcaldesa de Santiago de Compostela.
Fala de cuidar às pessoas que cuidam, 'housing first', saude mental e mocidade, comércio local...
We've just updated the list of languages with available TTS engines on Android, bringing the total number of supported languages to 83 with the new voices provided by the RHVoice and CerePlay TTS engines accessibleandroid.com/list-of-… #Android #a11y #TTS
@patricus This is so unfortunate. Sending them an email explaining your frustration may help them improve their voice. They seem to take feedback seriously.
@patricus We recently contacted them to let them know that their voices weren't performing well with TalkBack. And they said they would work on improving the overall experience.
A new vaccine could eliminate Africa’s deadliest disease. Cameroon is rolling it out first – and the rest of the continent is watching very, very closely.
Am 28. Januar findet alljährlich der Data Privacy Day statt. Wir nehmen diesen Aktionstag (bzw. die Woche, in die er fällt) jeweils zum Anlass, um einmal mehr auf die Wichtigkeit von Datenschutz hinzuweisen, und jedes Jahr ist zu betonen, dass Datens…
Google Pixel 7a není na trhu ani rok, přesto dramaticky zlevnil V Česku ho nyní pořídíte levněji než v německém Google Store Za necelých 10 tisíc dostanete…
@mkyral Mě třeba obecně sere, že neudělají verzi s větší baterií, já bych rozhodně pár milimetrů navíc přežil bez problémů, kdybych věděl, že se tím dostatečně prodlouží provozní doba 😢
Rob Thornton, Vlada Savitskaia, Peter Schofield, B. Antonio Fernandez, Jean H. Weber and Olivier Hallot, volunteers from the LibreOffice Documentation community, are happy to announce the latest version of the Getting Started Guide updated to the fe…
There are new NVDA releases! - NVDA 2023.3.3 fixes a security issue. Read more & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-3-…
- NVDA 2024.1 Beta 6 incorporates the same security fix, plus documentation & translation updates. Read more and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-1b…
Which version is right for me? If you'd like to check out what is new in the next version of NVDA, then grab the 2024.1 beta. If you're happy staying on the stable version - grab 2023.3. #NVDA #NVDASr #ScreenReader
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This is a security patch release to fix a security issue…
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2023.3.3 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. This is a security patch release to fix a security issue…
The Trials and Tribulations of Setting Up Android Phones for Non-English Speakers in 2024: Google and Samsung are the Typical Culprits accessibleandroid.com/the-tria…
Question: how do you set up an Android phone if you're blind and cannot speak English in 2024? first option: ask someone to lend their sight and give them
As I've been noticing that the search for the BT speak and BT speak pro doesn't come up that easily at the moment in a Google search, this is the web link to the home landing page for both products from Blazie Technology blazietech.com/file-share/5b88…
this post @capjamesg wrote is almost plucked right out of my brain; been having these thoughts for a while, and i'm so glad to share it. thank you for writing it, james!
"To have a personal website is, presently, an act of rebellion. It is a statement. You are saying: I want to define my experience on the web. I'll let you in on an open secret: Big tech companies aren't the only ones who get to decide how we share ideas on the web. The web is yours. You can put up a website where you share whatever it is that you want to share with others."
I went twenty-two years not knowing how to cook an egg. Cooking classes were a rough time for an anxious student like I was. I did not know I was suffering from anxiety at the time; that is a recent realisation.
Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.
The link to the kitty graphics protocol is useful all by itself. I've been thinking of designing a terminal protocol for conveying accessibility information, for modern TUIs that are complex enough that they're not practically accessible with a screen reader because there's nothing conveying the structure of the UI, only the text and the current cursor position. I'll have to study the kitty graphics protocol to learn how a new terminal protocol can be defined.
If you're thinking of writing up a protocol, I would suggest using OSC sequences rather than doing what kitty does for the image protocol, as they are a bit easier for most terminals to recognize and ingest than the family of sequence used in the kitty image protocol.
So, our little curl HTTP/3 benchmark made it to the orange site.
Mostly positive comments, only a small thread about C vs. Rust. I wish more people were aware that ‚cargo‘, rust‘s build tool, is using libcurl to get all the rust packages you need.💁🏻♂️
Same btw. when you use ‚git‘ with https: urls. It‘s a bit more ubique than people think.😌
@bagder so you are saying that a core part of Rust is written in the "insecure" C language? ;) Sounds like somebody will sooner or later make a pure Rust edition then
Starting with a toot asking for advice, yesterday saw many changes to the design of openmentions.com. These decorative and explanatory changes are intended to make the primary purpose of the site clearer - combine open web ideas for topic and discuss…
An amazing piece of sculpture by the artist Frances Bruno Catalano, which symbolizes the vacuum created by being forced to leave your land, your life, your people... for any reason.
New article on Accessible Android: The Trials and Tribulations of Setting Up Android Phones for Non-English Speakers in 2024: Google and Samsung are the Typical Culprits accessibleandroid.com/the-tria… #Android #Google #Samsung #a11y
Question: how do you set up an Android phone if you're blind and cannot speak English in 2024? first option: ask someone to lend their sight and give them
I was in the Philippines recently, and gave away a Nokia phone that was purchased in Canada. When I reset it, it somehow remembered my region and changed the language. I had to call Aira, figure out how to close the Talkback tutorial (with non-english text), figure out how to change the language back to English and then set up the phone. It is so discouraging that Google has allowed such a showstopper of a bug to persist for this long. Even having Talkback default to an English voice when it can't speak the language would be better than having no Tts at all. Yes, people would still complain and for good reason, but at least they'd be able to navigate their phone. I did not try putting a SIM card with mobile data in the phone; I wasn't aware that was a solution. This article touches on a lot of good points—particularly, the lack of testing outside the US is a very big problem. Android is much more popular in other countries, so I imagine Google is only hearing from a tiny fraction of blind Android users, and at least 90% of them are probably native English speakers. At this point, it feels like there is a lot of good work happening with Google accessibility—talkback itself is nothing to sneeze at—but some really significant areas feel very neglected. I would love to be able to pick up an Android phone and say "Yes, this is perfect, I'm going to switch to this full time. Screw Apple." And I'd love to be able to recommend Android to everyone I know, as a friend or as a tech trainer/advisor. But I can't do that yet, and things like this are a really good example of why. I hope this gets better and I sincerely hope my country of residence won't stop me from being able to provide valuable feedback for much longer. Google has a history of regional gatekeeping for no apparent reason. If this is present in the accessibility space, I feel like I have no choice but to see that as a major strike against them.
@simon This is the main reason why we decided to create Accessible Android. The majority of Android users come from the rest of the world where English is not their first language. Their voices need to be heard and we will be as loud as we can for them. We are here for the ignored majority, but really for all Android users, no matter where they live and what languages they speak. This was the very first attempt to get people's attention.
I remember when setting up my Pixel 6, 6 Pro and 7 Pro the language I needed (not English) was preinstalled. So it seems like with Google Pixel Phones from the 6 Series you should be good. Other brands will drop the ball till the world ends.
yes but even that is relatively new. I am using a Pixel 5 nowadays which does not come with the German TTS preinstalled. Even after all the updates that phone got. In general though I don't even get why not all the TTS-Languages are installed by default.
@WestphalDenn Pixel 7 came preset with I believe it was 7 languages or more, I remove a bunch right away, it also will detect region from sim or gps believe on setup or offer to select a language.
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, GitLab, Codeberg).
It's a masterclass in deflection and denial, in love with the idea that being maximally dickish (as Apple has been) is always the best policy. Wild, wild stuff.
Playing around with Cairo, using the Rust bindings! I don't have any practical ideas to utilize what I'm learning yet, but it's fun to experiment with nonetheless ✏️
In this stream, I attempt to play no return on the remastered version of the last of us part two and I fail at it miserably -- Watch live at twitch.tv/trainingwords
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