New LeaseyBite. Getting Efficient With Reading Email Messages in Microsoft Outlook.
Through Leasey, JAWS has the ability to automatically speak the content of the Outlook reading pane as you move through messages in a mail folder. This means that if the reading pane is enabled, as you move to a new message JAWS will speak the usual details such as the presence of attachments, author and subject, followed by the content of the reading pane. In most cases, the reading pane displays the entire content of a message. This can be very helpful because you can read your Email messages without opening them. Listening to this information can help in making a decision as to whether you wish to open the message, move it elsewhere or delete it. This feature is a real productivity boost.
Matrix can support nation-wide deployments, and Renato Stalder will tell you why SwissPost used it for their secure communication system at The Matrix Conference in Berlin, on September 19-22
LibreOffice is always free to download from our website. But it's also in the Microsoft Store for a small fee, which helps to cover the costs of putting it there and fund future development. And now there's a 15% #backtoschool discount: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
LibreOffice is always free to download from our website, but it’s also available in the Microsoft Store for a small fee, which covers the costs of putting it there, and helps to sustain future development of the suite.
@mjdxp The vast majority of our downloads are for the Windows version, and we estimate around 200 million users – so that's still a lot of Windows users running LibreOffice 😉
I am using Windows 10 which came pre-installed with MS Office 2016. Still I prefer to install (not from MS Store) and use the latest version of #LibreOffice.
@mjdxp Are downlpads from package managers (distribution packages, Flatpak, Snap) and preinstalled packages also counted? I expect most Linux users to not download LO from the website.
@Lenni @mjdxp We can't count stats on infra beyond our control, of course, but we can make some estimates. In any case, yes, the vast majority of Linux users get LibreOffice from their distro's own package repos (which means they're often older versions, but that's another topic 😉)
Is it possible to a company to buy a bunch of copies to distribute with the colleagues with a single account? I think something like a licence to have more than one copy. Or the only solution is that anyone buys his copy?
The Sims 4 added attraction preferences in a recent Expansion, and Gen 4 of my legacy is the first to reach maturity with the new systems. I decided to randomize their preferences, and got some very fun results:
During Ruben's first day of high school, almost every single student was dealing with a loss in their family. Ranging from pets, aunts and uncles, and even their parents. Only four students in the entire school (including Ruben) weren't grappling with grief.
@NoFlexZone Story Progression doesn't account for the ages of parents and whether or not they'll live long enough to raise their children before they die of old age :/
During the 2024 ATIA Conference, Cody Mitchell, from Irie-AT showed us their braille embossers. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about Irie-AT Braille Embossers.
I just read on the fediverse about a trackball input system that is open hardware. When I looked at the website I found out that they design a headphone and several trackballs and mice.
I am happy with my computer mouse. But out of curiosity I might try a product of them later this year
Ich hab ja schon ein paar Mal über die #Barrierefreiheit des Portals lebensmittelwarnung.de berichtet und unter anderem deren kreative Lösung für Alternativtexte in der Software gelobt, für die sie eigentlich nicht ausgerüstet war.
Tatsächlich haben sie die Seite wie angekündigt diesen Sommer auf eine neue technische Basis gestellt. Das Ergebnis ist wirklich gut gelungen und weitestgehend zugänglich. Gute Arbeit, Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit!
New LeaseyBite: Using Enafore, Mastodon and Leasey.
This is the first of a number of LeaseyBites to be produced before the end of August 2024. In this episode, we look at how the September update to Leasey will help you to use Enafore to access your Mastodon account if you wish.
A more accessible version of xkcd that offers some transcript for the comic strip, a dark mode, and a link to an explanation in case you didn’t get the reference. Love it. By @mayank xkcd.fyi/
We invite you to participate in a survey to understand the current needs and challenges related to the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within EU public administrations.
Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
Apple gave us a great, #accessible graphing calculator on #iOS and #iPadOS in the form of math notes. Given, for example a quadratic function: y=2x^2 +x +1 it generates a graph which sounds like this. While such simple quadratic equations can be used only in schools I see huge potential in making math more accessible to the #blind. As a math nerd and someone who almost failed a year at school due to accessibility, I am really happy and grateful to #apple for making this accessible to us.
So am I to understand that a full 38% of my revenue may now be siphoned off by Patreon and Apple, neither of whom contribute in any way to the creation of my work?
And that this is because Patreon wants to have an iOS app, which I do not need, do not benefit from, did not exist when I selected them as my payment processor, and cannot opt out of?
Um, no thank you. I called this as a danger almost a year ago, btw:
The internet has become one big roach motel. I lay the blame for this development solely at the feet of The Platform; the proliferation of venture-capitalist backed walled gardens, which are incentivized to trap users inside and milk them like cattle…
Can you please provide a description (alt text) for that image? Having an image with no alt text and no text in the post itself is especially unhelpful. Thanks.
Well hello Mr. Fancy-Pants. So, you think you know everything there is to know about the Evil Dead series. You've watched them all countless times. You own all three on video. You own all three on laserdisc. You downloaded the scripts, printed...
There are at least two places in the Linux kernel where performance-sensitive code paths use a, uh, retrospective approach to memory safety, where you do the memory read first (and suppress the occasional kernel page fault) and worry about making sure it was memory-safe later.
One of the two is in the SLUB allocator's lockless allocation fastpath: elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10… It (1) first loads the pointer to the current top freelist element, then (2) reads the next freelist pointer out of that element, and (3) does a double-wide atomic compare-exchange to check if it raced and replace the freelist head. The read in step (2) can return garbage or fault if someone else concurrently modified the freelist (basically it can be UAF), but in that case step (3) that uses the result of the read is guaranteed to fail, so it's fine.
The other one is in the Virtual File System layer, used for printing pathnames (like for getcwd()): elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.10… As the comment there explains:
* The source of the prepend data can be an optimistic load<br> * of a dentry name and length. And because we don't hold any<br> * locks, the length and the pointer to the name may not be<br> * in sync if a concurrent rename happens, and the kernel<br> * copy might fault as a result.<br> *<br> * The end result will correct itself when we check the<br> * rename sequence count, but we need to be able to handle<br> * the fault gracefully.<br>
So this one can race so that OOB memory is copied into the path buffer, but the kernel will afterwards notice that the "how many rename operations have happened" counter has gone up (or that the "we are currently in the middle of a rename" bit is set), discard the result, and try again.
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New Release ❄️ Blizzard is a standalone version of Tor Project’s Snowflake proxy. It can be used to produce an I2P Plugin that will donate a Snowflake to Tor Browser users. The Snowflake uses I2P to manage its lifecycle. That means when you start and stop your I2P router you start and stop the Snowflake. If you can safely use I2P in non- hidden mode, you will have the ability to donate a Snowflake long-term. Instructions are available for Windows and Linux at this time. github.com/eyedeekay/blizzard/…
I could have sworn I saw someone else discussing this, but it seems to have slid off my timeline, so I'll just post a link to it. If you're fired up to build a competitor to Patreon this week, for…some reason… it would be useful to understand what it is that Patreon *is*. Most people have a partial view, in the way that Spolsky observed that most people trying to build Microsoft Word didn't really know what Word *did*; @siderea explains it lucidly: siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441…
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Updated iwad selector to follow simlinks so that it will work with the way lgm handles installed Blasphemer package.
Basically, Apple is going to steal 30% of Patreon's money that's supposed to go to creators. Because... Apple. If it's an app and it's in their store, they will squeeze you for every penny they can get.
Note: Android isn't innocent in this, either. Use the website whenever you can.
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