It was a pleasure to have you on the show David. Come back soon! tweesecake.social/@DavidGoldfi…


I was thrilled to be interviewed for Double Tap, a daily blindness tech podcast, hosted by @stevenscott and Shaun Preece. This program is produced for AMI in Canada but is available wherever you get your podcasts.
On today’s show, Steven, Shaun and I talk about the BT Speak Pro from Blazie Technologies, a pocket computer featuring a nine-key Braille keyboard and speech output.
doubletaponair.com/relive-the-…

Blazie Technologies: www.blazietech.com
Mastodon: @BlazieTech
(772) 214-1616


Academic librarians of the fediverse: I could use your help.

There's a book that would be useful for my research that I can't get via ILL. There are three copies in Worldcat: one at the Smithsonian, one at the University of Alberta, and one at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. If anyone at any of those libraries is able to check something for me, I'd be *very* grateful.

Worldcat entry: search.worldcat.org/title/7569…

#AudioMo for June 14, 2024
This is an excerpt I recorded for "Blind Ham News," which is part of the CQ Blind Hams podcast feed.
The host, W0QA, asked for the story behind our callsigns, so I recorded this.
The full episode can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=QTvAie0zQs…

People who use screen readers! The level three headings are now removed from GitHub repository landing page file tables.

It might take a bit for the changes to propagate, and don't forget you might need to refresh your browser tabs. Please let me know if they still persist after that, and I'll try and get to the bottom of it. #accessibility

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Study (N=806 orgs; 1971-2015) finds some DEI practices increase managerial diversity while others decrease it:
Increase: hiring chief diversity officer, mentoring, childcare, flextime, parental leave, empowering training, targeted recruitment, diversity goals increase diversity
Decrease: Perf evals, harassment training, grievance procedures, job tests
Mixed results: Cross-training, employee resource groups, self-managed teams, skills training
hbr.org/2024/06/research-the-m…

⭐ We're delighted to announce the launch of Jami's newest version: ❤️ Astarte ⚔️

This release marks a major milestone for us in terms of the significant improvements we've made to reliability and connectivity. 😍

We invite you to update and try the latest version of Jami! 🙇

👀 Want to know more about Astaarte? Read our article:
jami.net/astarte/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters

Peter Vágner reshared this.

Join our team! We're on the lookout for a tech-savvy team member with a passion for helping others with hardware and software issues. If you have experience with GNU/Linux systems, Debian-based distros, and have a knack for support, we want to hear from you. #TechSupportJobs #jobopening #techsupport #Purism #FreeSoftware
puri.sm/job/support-staff/

Ok, the “Understanding Swift performance" session is doing a deep dive into a lot of low-level principles that I haven’t really felt I needed to understand with Swift, but they are integral to understanding C++. I wish I'd had this talk a year or two ago when I started getting into C++. So much stuff would have made more sense to me then.

I'm not 💯 sure every Swift dev needs this, but if you want to understand things at a deeper level, it's good info.

developer.apple.com/wwdc24/102…

#wwdc24

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt If you've already been doing stuff with Rust for a while and understand the concepts of memory management, there may not be anything new here for you. But when I got into C++, I had mainly worked in Swift/Kotlin/JS and didn't really know much about memory management, so there are a lot of concepts I had to understand or have learned implicitly that I haven't had explicitly explained until this talk.

#Rec #ShortStory #StoryRec

Blackjack, by Veronica Schanoes

reactormag.com/blackjack-veron…

➤ fantasy novelette about a jewish grandmother, after the death of her daughter, facing and dealing with the ways her troubled first marriage affected her life and her daughter

➤ Schanoes is so good at character and setting and emotion!

➤ and it's always great to have a story where the hero is an older woman

➤ 12k words in length

I know there's still a big contingent of people who believe that, at its core, the United States can be a force for good.

And I want to remind you that it's never been the case for those who don't fit the image or ideology of the core of America: colonial Europeanized identities (or an alliance to it), wealth (by means of forced capital extraction) and imperial moves (like having thousands of bases around the world and being the largest contributor to child slavery around the globe).

This is the type of shit that a state government aligned to those values and its acolytes sign off on.

reuters.com/investigates/speci…

in reply to Matt Campbell

@Matt Campbell @Cleverson Do you guys know that for android 13 and older devices rndis is used for USB tethering. Since linux 6.7 that's being removed in favour of NCM which is also supported by android 14. So If you have some older android device, you might need to watch out for the kernel updates if you are relying on this functionality.
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

Hi! Thanks for spreading the word.

One question regarding the appeal to send in bug reports about "Unable to decrypt" errors.

Unfortunately the message does not indicate how or where to do so. Would you have any pointers what they mean?

Like clicking some buttons in the Element apps, or writing down observations of the behaviours into GitHub issue, or joining some kind of channel to say hi? It's just not clear to me, and eventually others.

Thanks for the heads up!

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I was thrilled to be interviewed for Double Tap, a daily blindness tech podcast, hosted by @stevenscott and Shaun Preece. This program is produced for AMI in Canada but is available wherever you get your podcasts.
On today’s show, Steven, Shaun and I talk about the BT Speak Pro from Blazie Technologies, a pocket computer featuring a nine-key Braille keyboard and speech output.
doubletaponair.com/relive-the-…

Blazie Technologies: www.blazietech.com
Mastodon: @BlazieTech
(772) 214-1616