At Game Developers Conference #GDC in March, I gave a retrospective talk about making my first game, Karateka.
You can watch it for free at youtube.com/watch?v=mHc2iCfDor…
As so often, I found many illustrations for my slides on @internetarchive (Examples below). It's a free online library, currently being sued by publishers who dislike its existence. To learn more, or to support their mission: blog.archive.org. In a world with fewer archivists and librarians, more slides will be text-only.
Classic Game Postmortem: 'Karateka'
Before Prince of Persia, there was Karateka. Released in 1984, the directorial debut of game creator Jordan Mechner was a worldwide hit, full of groundbreaki...YouTube
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Programming, hacking, gaming, composing music. These are all things a fully blind person using a screen reader can do, given enough technical know-how. On this channel, I show you how it all works. Come stay a while :)YouTube
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My colleague Changwoo wrote a new blog post about sched_ext, now that it's going to be merged in the mainline Linux kernel tree: blogs.igalia.com/changwoo/sche…
sched_ext: scheduler architecture and interfaces (Part 2)
This is the second blog post about the sched_ext, a BPF-based extensible scheduler class. In this blog post, I briefly update what has been happening in sched_ext, then introduce the scheduler architecture and the sched_ext API.blogs.igalia.com
I'm happy to announce the availability of my new app "eSIM Manager" on postmarketOS! With it you can manage and install eSIMs on your phone running postmarketOS! No more need to boot into Android to do the same!
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#postmarketOS #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #eSIM #eUICC
An eSIM manager for Mobile Linux - Luca Weiss
For a while eSIM management on Mobile Linux, such as postmarketOS, was just a dream. Now it’s real! Background Nowadays many smartphones and other devices have a so-called eSIM - or eUICC - built-in to the device.lucaweiss.eu
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I wrote a massive blog post this weekend. It explains half (!!!) of Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast and contains several demos/examples.
Thanks to my supporters who make these blog posts possible.
Block a few hours 😜 and read this: yatil.net/blog/non-text-contra…
In detail: 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (User Interface Components) · Eric Eggert
The Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) Success Criterion 1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast is one of the harder to understand requirements.Eric Eggert
docs.rs/gir-parser/0.1.0/gir_p…
It is written in #Rust, but a C binding would be very easy to write.
I am really thinking if it could maybe at some point be used as the GIR parser for #Vala
Overall it looks very complete and straight forward, also it will be used in the Rust bindings generator, so it will probably be quite stable.
@sonny @flyingpimonster GIR would be indeed nice, probably needs a bit of extra code to do some type registrations, but other than that, it shouldn't be a problem.
the GIR parser has a GIR API :)
LibreOffice social media in 2023 – TDF's Annual Report - The Document Foundation Blog
We use our social media channels to raise awareness about our work, share information and encourage new contributors to join us (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2023 – we’ll post the full version here soon.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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LibreOffice marketing activities in 2023 – TDF's Annual Report - The Document Foundation Blog
In 2023, the marketing team continued the deployment of the Strategic Marketing Plan, without overlooking ongoing activities to promote LibreOffice and support the efforts of native language communities (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annu…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
The state of Unix/Linux accessibility is even worse then I feared 🙈 . Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS?
Orca doesn't work on any distribution that ships with Wayland by default? 😭 (thanks @aral for bringing it my attention)
Do all the distributions and such know that next year they should be accessible?
I can't code and I am not familiar with testing desktop apps, but I would really like to know how I can help to fix this.
(allthough it shows a bigger problem in open source and it's culture)
Read more: ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
Luckily the Newton Project should fix this blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1…, but still: it shows accessiiblity is often an afterthought.
#accessibility #opensource #orca #gnome #wayland #screenreader
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me
Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.Aral Balkan
I am really dissappointed.
if you work in software or on a operating system: if you don't care or don't do anything on accessiiblity, you are ableist. Do better, open source.
@fireborn I agree it is disappointing, but the problem space is so big and complex, I find it hard to fault individuals spending their free time in focussing/contributing to things they can actually control and/or achieve.
If anything, focus scorn not on 'the community', but on companies' c-suite who make money off of FOSS and not caring enough to specifically invest back in inclusivity and thus enabling/empowering those developers who do care.
product.supertone.ai/clear
Nejhloupější slovenský politik. Jste dobře mimo, smáli se mu v televizní...
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Nejhloupější slovenský politik. Jste dobře mimo, smáli se mu v televizním studiu
Ondřej Formánek se musí k něčemu přiznat. Účinkoval v jednom videu společně s Filipem Turkem. Jakém videu, ptáte se. Podívejte, se říkáme my. K tomu bude i s...YouTube
Hnutí ANO nám objasnilo samo sebe
Andrej Babiš vlastně jde i po stejné stezce jako jeho přítel Viktor Orbán, který také svůj Fidesz zakládal jako liberální stranu a nyní je pevně zakopán v národoveckých pozicích.Petr Honzejk (iROZHLAS.cz)
Ako by k tomu prišli Liehovisti, že sa na nich zabudlo?
liehovisti.sk/stary-zakon/desa…
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid@mastodon.social)
Maybe instead of only posting the Ten Commandments, we can also post the Five Pillars of Islam, the Eightfold Path of Buddhism, the Ten Disciplines of Hinduism, the Five Virtues of Sikhism, the Three Tenets of Jainism, and then maybe we can compile t…Mastodon
I just had s̶e̶x̶ the best mango lassi of my life.
And it actually could be improved, so I get to keep working on this 🥳
I wish I could've made a glass of this for @skinnylatte and the guy from that TikTok reel going feral in praise of the mango. From an amateur to two connoisseurs, what an honour that would've been for me. This is the good stuff worth waiting a whole year for. I feel reborn, you guys ✨
Woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3
The US’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization is calling for #hate #crime charges to be filed against a Texas woman accused of 🔸trying to drown a three-year-old Palestinian-American girl 🔸while saying that the child’s mother wasn’t really American.
For now, the suspect in the case has been booked on counts of attempted murder and injury to a child.
The case dates back to 19 May, when police in Euless, Texas,
were called to an apartment complex swimming pool where there had been reports of a disturbance between two women, according to the local NBC affiliate.
Witnesses told police “a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother”, said a police news release reviewed by CNN.
The child’s mother told police that the alleged attacker
– since identified as 42-year-old Elizabeth Wolf
– questioned where she was from and whether the two children playing in the pool were hers, police said.
Wolf also made statements about the mother not being an American, police added.
In a news release on Friday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said the child’s mother wore a hijab and modest swimwear,
and she was watching her children play in the shallow end of the pool when Wolf approached her.
“The alleged attacker reportedly approached the mother with racist interrogations then
jumped into the swimming pool and
grabbed the children to the deep end of the pool to allegedly drown them,”
the statement said, adding that the mother’s six-year-old son was able to escape but her three-year-old daughter was unable to do the same.
“The alleged attacker snatched off the mother’s head scarf and used it to beat the mother as well as kicking her
to keep her away while forcing her daughter’s head underwater,”
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Texas woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3
Civil liberties group calls for hate crime charges against suspect in alleged racist attack at apartment complex poolMaya Yang (The Guardian)
Vor 2 Wochen habe ich mir neue Kopfhörer gekauft. Modulare Over-Ear Kopfhörer von Repeat. Das Versprechen dieses jungen niederländischen Start-Up ist, dass man hier seine letzten Kopfhörer erwirbt. Durch die modulare Bauweise lassen sich einzelne kaputte Module einfach austauschen, ohne gleich die ganzen Kopfhörer wechseln zu müssen. Für einen Aufpreis kann man zu den Kopfhörern die lebenslange Reperatur dazu kaufen. So geht nachhaltiges Design.
Das wichtigste aber, der Klang begeistert.
Ich kenne mich mit sowas absolut nicht aus, habe mich über die Symbole auf der Seite gewundert und hatte eine Theorie die eine kleine Recherche bestätigte:
Auf der Seite sind Überwegsymbole nach DIN 32981 verbaut (es ist ein crossguide EK533 von Langmatz).
Faszinierend!
#Barrierefreiheit
Late "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek to be honored with new Forever stamp
The longtime TV host, who died in 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, is being remembered with a new Forever stamp by the United States Postal Service.Lucia Suarez Sang (CBS News)
There’s a reason why tech-savvy users love Fastmail!
Web Developer Domenic uses personal domains, rules, folders, and custom themes to organize his inbox.
Check out our blog to learn more:
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Fastmail makes it easy to organize and prioritize the messages that are most important to you. Domenic, a web developer, uses Fastmail personal domains, aliases, folders, labels, and more.The Fastmail Team (Fastmail)
Já jedu na 100%
Pondělí 25%
Úterý 25%
Středa 25%
Čtvrtek 25%
Víc ze mě nedostanou 😃
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Finally, lets talk about Apple's factory exhaust into the ambient air next to thousands of homes and two public parks.
Much of Apple's solvent exhaust was vented out "as is" (unabated) from the main system.
The illegal solvent treatment tank exhaust did go through the untested carbon boxes, but then it was released out of a tiny vent pointed *down* at the building. Any gases heavier then air would be directed to the ground level to pool into toxic vapor plumes.
There were no permits.
My civil lawsuit against Apple includes 2 toxic tort claims for what theyre doing at this factory. I alleged Nuisance + Ultrahazardous Activities. The US Judge is letting me proceed with both claims.
casetext.com/case/gjovik-v-app…
Apple can keep flailing around, but we're in US court now & they will be forced to face the music. I'm also waiting to hear from US Dept of Labor Judge if I can add RCRA, Clean Air Act, & TSCA retaliation claims.
Finally, its also possible DOJ could pursue criminal charges.
iPadOS 18 Adds Another Very Useful Files Feature You Likely Haven’t Heard About
And it isn’t “Keep Downloaded” in iCloud Drive.Kaleb Cadle (ByteBits)
NV Access are very pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2024.2! Please download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-2/
Highlights include Sound Split, numerous new keystrokes, new Braille mode & other features, updates to eSpeak, LibLouis & other dependencies & programs.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #A11y #Accessibility #New #Release #FOSS #Update #NewVersion
NVDA 2024.2 Released
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…NV Access
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@davetaylor2112 And if you press NVDA+n, h, a, it definitely tells you it is NVDA 2024.2 running?
Which browser are you using? And using say the user guide, you are definitely in the document itself (not in a browser toolbar or somewhere like that).
NVDA 2024.2 Released
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…NV Access
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Late "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek to be honored with new Forever stamp
The longtime TV host, who died in 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, is being remembered with a new Forever stamp by the United States Postal Service.Lucia Suarez Sang (CBS News)
Excuse me while I go ugly-cry: “Gilead’s experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.”
cnbc.com/2024/06/20/gilead-pre…
Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trial
Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.Angelica Peebles (CNBC)
🚨UNVERIFIED 0-DAY🚨A threat actor is allegedly selling a 0-day for the OwnCloud product. This exploit affects all versions and is available for exclusive sale. The actor posted a link to a PoC, but the link is not working. If they repost, I will add it here.
x.com/DarkWebInformer/status/1…
Textual Analysis for Network Attack Recognition — Background
The background of the network attack threat environment — what is happening, and what should we worry about?Bob Cromwell: Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity
More people investigated over general election bet allegations
More people investigated over general election bet allegations
The regulator is looking at other people with links to the Conservative Party, Chris Mason writes.Chris Mason (BBC News)
Do they not have enough cash? Ah sorry, this is the Tory party.
There now look to be so many it raises questions: has this always happened and we are only just finding out? Is this some kind of coordinated thing? It's definitely feeling like the stupid kind of thing someone would post to a WhatsApp group.
Linux 6.10-rc5 Released With This Kernel Cycle Looking Good So Far
Linus Torvalds has just tagged Linux 6.10-rc5 as the newest weekly test release leading up to the Linux 6.10 stable release by mid-July...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-r…
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in reply to Florian • • •I do gaming stoofs too on this tiny little #twitch channel simply called Zersiax, and will be checking out some #diabloIV over there in half an hour. If the new #openSSH vuln is making you sad or the ladybird dev's got you down on your luck, come see stuff getting exploded, it helps, I promise :) See you then, over at https;//twitch.tv/zersiax #selfPromo #gaming #noTechStuffForAChange