This could be useful to some people. No support, only for info.
As background, I was needing to schedule a task regularly so as to work with the StationPlaylist Track Tool via command line parameters. The Track Tool is very useful to process files for use on a radio station. If you don't use StationPlaylist, still keep reading.
First I tried the Windows Task Scheduler. Everything worked, except that the computer would freeze while the task (which is fairly intensive) was taking place. Then I tried System Scheduler: splinterware.com/products/scheโฆ
Not only does it work perfectly, but it has very accessible dialogs and list view controls, plenty of shortcut keys, and more. I was very pleased at the way it works.
Of course you can schedule a task to undertake the kind of activity I was wanting to do. The list of tasks not only shows the title but when it was last run, something essential for what I was trying to achieve as I needed to monitor it.
You can also create periodic reminders or scheduled text notes. Those reminders can be snoozed for a period of time before the alert arrives again. The tasks can be run manually or via the schedule. Manual was also very useful for my testing. You can create desktop shortcuts for tasks if you did want to run them manually and regularly.
Not that I tried this, but you can also get it to action a series of keystrokes if needed when an application is focused. That was well outside the scope of what I was wanting to do.
Definitely worth giving it a try if you would like to. There is a free and paid version.
Considering COVID-19 hasn't gone away, and we want to be as prepared as possible for the next potential pandemic, a new study into the most effective type of face mask offers some important insights: and there is a clear winner.
A new COVID-19 variant called LB.1 is contributing to a recent rise in infections across the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a post on Friday.COVID-19 test positivity in the U.S. has increased to 6.
Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project
There's incredibly good news for people who use accessibility tools on Linux, but who were facing serious, gamebreaking problems when trying to use Wayland. Matt Campbell, of the GNOME accessibility team, has been hard at work on an entirely new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops, and he's got some impre
Donald Trump and his closest allies are preparing a radical reshaping of American government if he regains the White House. Here are some of his plans. nytimes.com/interactive/2024/0โฆ
Donald Trump and his closest allies are planning a radical reshaping of American government. Here are some of the policy stakes if he regains power in 2025.
Hallucinations (confabulations) in large language model systems can be tackled by measuring uncertainty about the meanings of generated responses rather than the text itselfย to improve question-answering accuracy.
@petit_suisse @steven We don't have a formal partnership or anything, but we are certainly happy to work together for user's benefit - just recently I was speaking with a Libre Office developer around functionality they were hoping to implement such that it would work with both NVDA on Windows and Orca on Linux - things like that benefit eveyrone.
@Tamasg Wish you all the best and I hope you can get back on your feet after so many attacks for just stating the obvious. As a blind individual myself who trys Linux over and over again just to cave and use something where I can actually get work done I respect you a ton to raise awareness of the technical problems as well as the ableist ones. Thank you and be save
@WestphalDenn @Tamasg Sending you lots of love and hereโs hoping some folks do some reflecting and things really do change at a systemic/cultural level.
when you are harassing the people working on fixing it instead of directing your 40k followers toward funding those people then yes, you are the problem social.treehouse.systems/@TheEโฆ
@greenWhale@dice.camp if that was the case, individuals from different groups (System76, KDE, elementary, etc.) wouldn't have stood up for us (GNOME) and/or have shared their fair share of experience with Aral:
- https://fosstodon.
It has long seemed to me that it would be prudent for corporations which derive their revenue from Linux to pool resources and invest in an accessibility effort. For example, they could support the current work of the GNOME Foundation, while educating their own software developers in accessibility and setting appropriate internal policies (e.g., proper testing, accessibility as a release requirement). This has never happened, however, suggesting to me that they'd all rather wait until the law compels them to change course. Meanwhile, very under-resourced, and dedicated, accessibility work continues. The regulatory environment is also changing for the better, e.g., the European Accessibility Act addresses "consumer" computers and operating systems, and it comes into effect next year.
To make up for #AudioMo day 21, here's a clip of a skype call that took place between myself and my friend Trenton Matthews. We were talking about impersonations, and his female impersonation led to him talking about birth control. Honestly, it's too funny and I crack up every time I hear this. I hope you enjoy this fun little clip. :) Have an awesome day!
If you're travelling this summer and have used up your mobile data, or are in areas with poor connectivity, fear not!
#Wifi4EU is connecting people all over Europe: ๐ Free access to secure and high-speed internet ๐ 93,000+ hotspots in municipalities across Europe ๐ซ In parks, schools, libraries, health centres, museums and other public spaces.
The WiFi4EU initiative promotes free access to Wi-Fi connectivity for citizens in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums in municipalities throughout Europe.
If you're travelling this summer and have used up your mobile data, or are in areas with poor connectivity, fear not!
#Wifi4EU is connecting people all over Europe: ๐ Free access to secure and high-speed internet ๐ 93,000+ hotspots in municipalities across Europe ๐ซ In parks, schools, libraries, health centres, museums and other public spaces.
The WiFi4EU initiative promotes free access to Wi-Fi connectivity for citizens in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums in municipalities throughout Europe.
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For the 23rd #Audiomo, I was asked a simple question. Which transformative technology is used by not only you because of a disability but the rest of your family?
Rules out Braille, screen readers, etc of course.
TIL: Depending on the rendering engine, fonts can include and run WebAssembly code. This can be used to program some intelligence into them, e.g. for complex ligatures in Arabic etc.
What would you do in 2024, armed with that knowledge?
That's right, embed an LLM in your font so that it can auto-complete sentences.
Sรธren Fuglede Jรธrgensen did just that, with llama.ttf.
This page at the time of writing grades websitesโ progressive enhancement based on their ability to work without JavaScript. Everything, not just JavaScript, should be progressive enhancements.
HTML elements already have progressive enhancement built-in. CSS, JS, and embedded content should be progressively enhanced too. The page should make sense without scripts and styles, alt-text should be available in the absence of embedded media, etc. We shouldnโt put scripting on a pedestal above everything else.
A more minor piece of feedback: Iโd suggest re-sizing the badges to 88-by-31 pixels if possible. Itโs a very popular size for badges; at these dimensions, they would look good alongside others of the same size (examples from the W3C).
This page at the time of writing grades websitesโ progressive enhancement based on their ability to work without JavaScript. Everything, not just JavaScript,
Larger marketplaces like Amazon can help you sell online quickly. Local social platforms like Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist usually donโt charge fees, but sellers shoulder a greater burden.
"Lenลพe kaลพdรฝm ฤalลกรญm krokom tรกto garnitรบra dokazuje, ลพe okrem vlastnej moci a s ลou sรบvisiacich benefitov nechce zlepลกiลฅ niฤ. Naopak, ak nieฤo spรกja ลกpeciรกlnu prokuratรบru, nรกrodnรฉ parky ฤi RTVS, je to ฤistรก deลกtrukcia. ฤlenovia vlรกdy a parlamentnej vรคฤลกiny sa mรดลพu ohรกลaลฅ slovom nรกrod od rรกna do veฤera, maลฅ plnรฉ รบsta nรกrodnoลกtรกtnych zรกujmov a tridsaลฅ rokov pripomรญnaลฅ, kto hlasoval za zvrchovanosลฅ, na tejto republike im vรดbec nezรกleลพรญ."
I love Google! They're the most ideal company to have in Africa! With all of their knowledge, they're no way they'd play into caricatures of the contine-
i ran into something like this when provisioning an empty chroot for some of my services, and finding that most binaries required more system configuration files than the static Go binaries I started with. i now have a list of files to include by default whenever i make tiny images. resolv.conf, cert bundle, mime-types, etc.
Chaque รฉdition de Debian bรฉnรฉficie d'un nouveau thรจme brillant visible sur l'รฉcran d'amorรงage, l'รฉcran de connexion et, de la faรงon la plus รฉvidente, sur le fond d'รฉcran. Debian prรฉvoit de publier Trixie, sa prochaine version,...
Stรกle se ptรกm sรกm sebe. Proฤ instalace NVIDIA driverลฏ na Fedoลe je snad nemoลพnรก a naprostรฝ pain? Jรก prostฤ nemohu najรญt ofiko nรกvod na Fedora docs.
@ozzelot Ve Fedoลe 41 pลฏjde Nvidia ovladaฤe nainstalovat opฤt z GNOME Software/KDE Discover na pรกr kliknutรญ. Jinak balรญฤky s Nvidia ovladaฤi sice nejsou v repozitarich distribuce, ale jsou dostupnรฉ. Staฤรญ po instalaci zaลกkrtnout repozitare tลetรญch stran. Teฤ je potลeba je instalovat pลes DNF, v dalลกรญ verzi to pลฏjde opฤt z GUI.
@sesivany @ozzelot Nechci znรญt jako hnidopich, ale: 1. Teprve? To jako do teฤ management v RH usoudil, ลพe NVIDIA GPU nejsou? 2. Jedinรก otรกzka "Proฤ?", proฤ to prostฤ nenรญ v repozitรกลi? Jeden z nejvรญc pouลพรญvanรฝch HW v oblasti GPU a musรญ se s nรญm pลidรกvat repo? To bych spรญลก ฤekal na ArchLinuxu neลพ na Fedoลe.
@ozzelot 1. Nvidia ovladaฤe ลกly ve Fedoลe instalovat z GUI roky. Nejde to teฤ pลesnฤ 2 mฤsรญce. Teda jde, ale pลes sprรกvce balรญฤkลฏ. 2. V repozitarich Fedory nemลฏลพe bรฝt nic, co nemรก zdrojรกky pod svobodnou licencรญ. To mรก mimo jinรฝch ฤistฤ praktickรฉ dลฏvody: bez drojรกkลฏ nelze garantovat funkฤnost a bezpeฤnost, kterou Fedora u balรญฤkลฏ v repech garantuje.
@ozzelot Jeลกtฤ jedna poznรกmka: Fedora je komunitnรญ projekt sponzorovanรฝ Red Hatem. Management Red Hatu mลฏลพe jejรญ vรฝvoj ovlivลovat, ale rozhodnฤ ne o nฤm direktivnฤ rozhodovat. Myslรญm, ลพe zrovna Nvidia ovladaฤe v repech Fedory je nฤco, co by komunita ostลe odmรญtla. Z dลฏvodลฏ, kterรฉ jsem napsal.
@sesivany @ozzelot To uลพ asi chรกpu, proฤ se nikdy moc Linux neujal a asi ani neujme.
Vลกichni ลeลกรญme vnitลnรญ boje a mezitรญm Microsoft, Apple berou svobodu uลพivatelลฏm a my jednotlivรฉ komunity mรกme problรฉm se sjednotit a dรกt si za cรญl udฤlat z Linux distribucรญ vรฝkladnรญ klenot a definici toho, jak mรก vypadat operaฤnรญ systรฉm. Achjo no...
@ozzelot Jsou distribuce, kterรฉ majรญ Nvidia ovladaฤe v repech dlouhรก lรฉta a nedรก se ลรญct, ลพe by Windows nebo macOS nฤjak zatรกpฤly. ๐คท
Nakonec dlouhodobฤ nese ovoce pลรญstup "zdrojรกky nebo smลฏla". To nakonec dotlaฤilo Nvidii k tomu, ลพe pracuje na open source modulu, kterรฝ bude v mainline kernelu a vyลeลกรญ to problรฉmy s Nvidia ovladaฤi na Linuxu jednou provลพdy.
@sesivany Asi ani ovladaฤe v jรกdลe, vฤtลกรญmu rozลกรญลenรญ Linuxu nepomลฏลพe, ale aspoล to vyลeลกรญ problรฉmy s ovladaฤi Nvidia. @VildaVedo @ozzelot
Chaque รฉdition de Debian bรฉnรฉficie d'un nouveau thรจme brillant visible sur l'รฉcran d'amorรงage, l'รฉcran de connexion et, de la faรงon la plus รฉvidente, sur le fond d'รฉcran. Debian prรฉvoit de publier Trixie, sa prochaine version,...
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I just did some benchmarking of busd (my D-Bus broker written in @rustlang using @zbus) in comparison to 2 others that are written in C (including dbus-broker that's famous for being super efficient) and despite the fact that I have not actively added any optimizations to busd (yet), the results are almost identical:
Die Ampel ringt um den Etat fรผr das kommende Jahr. Kanzler Scholz betont trotz geplanter Einsparungen den sozialen Zusammenhalt. Er รคuรert sich auch zur Aufarbeitung der Coronakrise โ und zu den Erfolgen der AfD.
Termux quite unexpectedly got an update at the Google PlayStore yesterday. A statement regarding the released termux-app v0.120 has been made at github.com/termux/termux-app/dโฆ
A termux-app v0.120 release was made on Google PlayStore on 2024-06-04 by @fornwall, along with some Termux plugin app releases. These were not done by the current Termux core team. They are only a...
They fuckin' are though. You're just making that rule up, Visible. Numbers are in fact 100% allowed in domain names. So are a lot of special characters, actually.
๐คข Wow, someone raised request for an optional tab indentation support for accessibility on Blac, a popular formatter for #Python. They closed the issue and said "No, tabs for indentation are the devil. Making this configurable would go against Black's philosophy." #accessibility #indentationgithub.com/psf/black/issues/27โฆ
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I run an accessibility-based organization (https://github/com/grafeasgroup, https://reddit.com/r/transcribersofreddit) and we would li...
@vick21 Maybe bc money? ROFL According to Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey, "Coders who use spaces for indentation make more money than ones who use tabs, even if they have the same amount of experience. the median developer who uses spaces had a salary of $59,140, while the median tabs developer had a salary of $43,750. The model estimated that using spaces instead of tabs is associated with an 8.6% higher salary (confidence interval (6%, 10.4%), p-value < 10^-10)." stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/โฆ
@aeu @pete There's already fork with the feature. Are you saying no one should calling out someone spreading ablism just because it's free and opensource? Open source community is not justification for descrimination sexism, racism, ageism, etc.
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