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🧠📦 AddressSanitizer build
🌍📚 API docs now live again
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Today we're launching a new #Mastodon feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.
Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.
Biden, engulfed in a political crisis of his own making, isn't acting like it's a crisis. No news conference, no interview, hardly any interactions with the press or public. Is it fair to say, if he could, he would?
So apparently Snapchat harvests your private photos and hands them over to advertisers now? And this is legal because it says so in their confusingly-worded privacy policy. reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/…
When you check your StreetPass, it will show you a list of all the official accounts from the sites you've been browsing. It does this offline, your browsing data doesn't leave your machine, and the code is free open source.
Experts point out that the overuse of screens and decline in outdoor activity are some of the factors behind the rise of the condition which, if not corrected, increases the risk of blindness
BB(5) = 47,176,870 We are extremely happy to announce that, after two years of intense collaboration, the goal of the Busy Beaver Challenge has been reached: the conjecture “BB(5) = 47,176,870” is proved.
I've been writing a series of pieces about what I've learned about how various key systems work, and the latest is on money: How the ultra-wealthy see money in a fundamentally different way than the rest of us do. It's not a bucket! anildash.com/2024/07/02/money-…
Buy now, pay later loan company Affirm is warning that holders of its payment cards had their personal information exposed due to a data breach at its third-party issuer, Evolve Bank & Trust (Evolve).
Accessibility overlays are a peculiar approach to accessibility problems. They make many assumptions that demonstrate a failure to understand assistive
The Orbit Speak sounds neat, but it has 3GB of ram and 32GB of storage. It's also Android, so I kind of doubt the company will keep it updated and running on the latest software. Were I in the market for such a device, the Blazie one still sounds better. Besides, I hate every keyboard Orbit makes. orbitresearch.com/product/orbi…
The Orbit Speak Plus is a speech-based notetaker and entertainment center with a braille keypad, designed to offer a convenient and efficient way to take notes and access information.
oof. Beyond the basic apps offered, there's no mention of a Play Store or other way to install other apps you need for Android. My guess this is not play-certified or anything, but I may be wrong there, it's just odd that if it's Android under the hood (which it very might well be,) they don't mention at all Android capabilities or any screen reader like using Talkback or their own and the Braille keyboard. Hard pass for me.
@Tamasg I'm guessing it's Android mostly because the page mentions that Google voices are available. I don't believe platforms can use those outside of Android. But no, there's no app support at this time according to the product page.
@Tamasg From the description on either the regular or plus page. "The Orbit Speak Plus is based on a powerful octa-core Android platform, that has been specifically designed for low-power, high-performance mobile devices and comes with 3GB of memory and 32GB of onboard storage capacity."
New: the design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool after a user showed that it was clearly copying Apple’s weather app. 404media.co/figma-disables-ai-…
Listeners to my presentation over the weekend about AI in the workplace will note my observation that it would be wonderful if you could ask JAWS Picture Smart questions in advance of the image being submitted, such as, "Describe the pie chart only". I knew this JAWS feature was coming but could not say so. Here it is. Very useful for example if you've submitted a form on a web site and you've not moved to the next screen. You can ask, "what are the errors in this form?" You could also write, "solve this captia for me", without having to scan the image first. I really believe in this additional enhancement. Quoting David Goldfield: The July update for JAWS 2024 has been released. It includes an easier way of using Picture Smart, the ability to ask a question upon submitting an image, an alert warning if there's an issue with the image, like the window not being maximized, initial support for the new Outlook app replacing Windows Mail, lots of improvements to Web and Aria navigation, improved Teams support and lots more.
@kurtseifried this script gets it from the Mozilla release source code branch, so this is what they deploy for Firefox - and my job checks that source daily and gets the new one when there is a new one to get
curl-for-win build issued with the cacert update. Also cooking a PR that aims to allow embedding this database into #curl itself: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1405…
Add the ability to embed a CA bundle into the curl binary. It is used
when no other runtime or build-time option set one.
This helps curl-for-win macOS and Linux builds to run standalone, and
also ...
@kaveinthran Out of curiosity, is anybody reading this post going to purchase the BT Speak or Orbit Speak? They both seem nice to have, but I don’t feel like I could justify the price when I can do everything with either my iPhone or my light weight laptop. Heck, I’m typing this post using braille screen input on my iPhone. (1/2)
@Lprazdnik I do understand these are very different products, but given the BTSpeak is using open-source hardware and software with seemingly minor modifications, it's hard not to feel like the unit is overpriced compared to this. We know that the Raspberry Pi compute module in the BTSpeak is pretty affordable, it sounds like both have had work put into custom applications and a custom launcher, and while the BTSpeak does have a desktop environment on it, it's once again leveraging existing open-source tech to make that happen. I wonder what the real story is.
The June Development Digest is here, with updates right before the release of the new ESR next week! We're keeping things short and sweet, and so read on for:
🐛 So Many Bug Fixes 🎨 Account Colors - Finally! 🔄 Sync Updates 🙏 One More Beta Appeal
I converted the "blob" of text into a table and expanded it with additional details. I also moved the "what is curl user for?" above the feature table.
On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters attached 43 weather balloons to his lawn chair, filled them with helium, put on a parachute, and strapped himself into the chair.
Later, when a reporter asked what made him decide to take a patio chair aloft, Walters explained:
This is about a strange crossover I found between two separate workshops I do with art students at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague: oscilloscope music ...
@Seirdy While it does seem Ladybird has problems, it may be the case that the founder leaving SerenityOS has improved its community and made it more likely to e.g. respect trans people. chaos.social/@networkexception…
@Seirdy Yeah, I'm sorry to report that SerenityOS is still *like that*, and has not yet improved due to the BDFL leaving: hachyderm.io/@Mara/11271851577…
I shouldn't be surprised, of course the BDFL attracted people like him in leadership positions.
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Apparently the concept of users who are not men is "too controversial" in the SerenityOS project, "as to not alienate anyone*".
(*Anyone, as long as you go by he/him, of course.)
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24647
@Mara@hachyderm.io @alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648
please refrain from escalating this further, there is a lot more going on behind the scenes that you are not able to consider at the moment
The July update for JAWS 2024 has been released. It includes an easier way of using Picture Smart, the ability to ask a question upon submitting an image, an alert warning if there's an issue with the image, like the window not being maximized, initial support for the new Outlook app replacing Windows Mail, lots of improvements to Web and Aria navigation, improved Teams support and lots more.
This article is referring to printers and the need for info on paper, and I'd say, for the same reason hard-copy Braille is still so very valid and needed in today's digital world. Why isn’t print dead? | TechRadar techradar.com/pro/why-isnt-pri…
"What would happen if any of the Bluetooth hearing aids manufacturers decided not to provide updates for models of which the warranty expired? Well, if the software on these hearing aids were free (as in freedom), then the free software community could help keep it updated." Read the full article: u.fsf.org/448
If you want me to use CSS container queries, while acknowledging support can be tricky, maybe don’t use SASS in your examples. chromium.social/@developers/11…
Nothing more frustrating than reading about features native to the web platform that are demonstrated through abstractions which are not part of the web platform.
nope! That is not unreadable 🤣 It is Greek that any Greek can read and it is not cyphered! Just it doesn't make sense as we see only a small portion of the text but still some words are readable.
We get what you want to say though 😉 and the scytale (σκυταλη) is the perfect example to explain simply encryption and decryption of a message.
Wenn über die Wiedereinsetzung der Vermögensteuer gesprochen wird, kommt immer wieder das Argument der Steuerflucht auf. Mit unserer neuesten Studie zusammen mit Oxfam Deutschland räumen wir endlich damit auf.
Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse der Studie:
➡️ Seit die Vermögensteuer in 🇩🇪 ausgesetzt ist, fehlen 380 Mrd. € in der Gemeinschaftskasse. Das sind ca. 80% des Bundeshaushalts 2024. ➡️ Die Vermögen der 100 reichsten Deutschen sind seit 2001 um etwa 460 Mrd. € gewachsen. ➡️ Unter den 226 🇩🇪 Milliardär*innen aus der Liste des manager magazin finden sich nur 29 Personen, die sich der Steuerpflicht durch Wegzug entziehen wollten. ➡️ Seit 1972 wurden die Gesetze gegen Steuerflucht und Maßnahmen gegen illegale Steuerhinterziehung verschärft. ➡️ Steuerflucht ist teuer. Wollte BMW-Erbin Susanne Klatten mit ihrem Vermögen wegziehen, müsste sie ca. 30% ihres geschätzten Vermögens an Steuern zahlen.
Also: Keine Angst vor Steuerflucht! Es fehlt nur der politische Wille, um die Vermögensteuer wieder einzusetzen. (1/2)
If you want to dive deep into guaranteed end-to-end encryption and how green checkmarks protect against compromised servers ("MITM attacks"), the "Cryptographic Analysis of Delta Chat" from Applied Cryptography researchers at ETH Zuerich has been published at eprint.iacr.org/2024/918.pdf -- earlier this year we had blogged from our side how we addressed all findings delta.chat/en/2024-03-25-crypt…
We released guaranteed end-to-end encryption in November 2023 and were in for a pleasant surprise three months later. The Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich handed us a cryptographic security...
OMG, okay, so COVERS. I'm so excited about covers. First, I make many of my own (and make some for sale). But.
BUT.
I'm starting the Actual Writing part of my next series and I collected the ten covers (made by and then made into a cohesive set by a different designer) for the series and... I'm so fucking excited about these.
Queer romance in a modern-with-magic universe, based in an AU version of San Francisco.
From Peter Greco: radio interview, refreshable braille displays being used in real time for surtitles during a New Zealand Opera groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/72…
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in reply to Alex Hall • • •Alex Hall
in reply to Tamas G • • •Jay Pellis
in reply to Tamas G • • •"The Orbit Speak Plus is based on a powerful octa-core Android platform, that has been specifically designed for low-power, high-performance mobile devices and comes with 3GB of memory and 32GB of onboard storage capacity."