The Amazon rainforest people who age more slowly than the rest of the world
Studies show the hearts and brains of Bolivia's indigenous Tsimane people are the healthiest on the planet.Alejandro Millán Valencia, Bolivia (BBC News)
Google tried to give new Pixel phones to influencers. Then it backfired.
Creators are leaving the Team Pixel program after its new terms sour trust.Elizabeth de Luna (Mashable)
Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals : ScienceAlert
The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.The Conversation (ScienceAlert)
Happy Birthday to the LVFS
9 years ago today I wrote 4 little PHP scripts and pushed it to OpenShift which was the beginning of the LVFS. We've since rewritten it in Python, switched the deployment from "sudo git pull" on the server under my stairs at home (literally) to deploying onto AWS with Terraform.
In 9 years we've onboarded over 140 vendors, shipped ~110 million firmware files and added support for ~85 firmware update protocols for ~1600 different devices. I'm pretty happy with that.
“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech.The Public Domain Review
Email Accessibility on Mobile: What Your Blind Customers Wish You Knew
Boost the effectiveness of your email campaigns with a real insights from our blind contributor who relies on a screen reader.UsableNet (UsableNet Inc.)
TIL that using markdown style underscores to emphasize a word or phrase _like this_ sucks for screen readers.
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it reads the underscores, which makes sense but…
I just wish there was a way to provide emphasis clues to people reading regardless of vision levels. Italics and bold and all that are incredibly useful tools for text communication and it sucks to not be able to use any of them on an effing messaging platform.
It's 2024 and I can't watch a random youtube video from the US. Why? I don't get it.
In-process 19th August 2024
It’s here, NVDA 2024.3 has arrived! Let’s cover what’s new – but first, what else is in this week’s edition: NVDA 2024.3 Released Note for Beta and RC users Thanks to SignPath Mouse Scr…NV Access
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Servo is participating in Outreachy, a three-month paid (7000 USD) remote internship program that runs twice a year.
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Hot on the heels of today's release, our In-Process blog is out with all the info you need! Highlights of NVDA 2024.3, a note for RC users, thanks to SignPath, how to make the most of the new mouse wheel scroll commands, and a head's up about A11y Camp.
Check it all out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersion #Release #Update #Blog #News #FOSS
In-process 19th August 2024
It’s here, NVDA 2024.3 has arrived! Let’s cover what’s new – but first, what else is in this week’s edition: NVDA 2024.3 Released Note for Beta and RC users Thanks to SignPath Mouse Scr…NV Access
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It’s literally Monday. Here is my unofficial guide to the HTML `<article>` element:
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When I work a year on #curl that amounts to about 1.5 milliseconds spent on each installation.
Seems worth it.😌
Have you heard about the restaurant on the moon?
Great food, no atmosphere.
#DadJokes #Puns #NotMyFault #Astronomy #Space
Trying to boot Fedora on a boring old x86 laptop... so I used Fedora Media Writer to write the image to USB, then hit F9 for boot options.
The drive doesn't show up as a boot option.
BIOS is set to legacy mode, no secure boot, nothing. It just doesn't even try to read from the USB drive.
I guess installing Asahi on Macs is officially easier than installing Linux on PCs... at least some PCs, anyway.
@matt oh sure, I was just curious, because I haven't considered that to be a problem at all.
But yeah.. the recovery path being accessible on macos sounds like an important feature, even if that's just a side effect.
However there are people working on using a slim Linux boot environment instead of grub, so that could also solve this issue, but I've heard that the kexec way of doing things doesn't work on apple silicon devices.
GitHub - rhboot/nmbl-poc: Proof of concept for the nmbl bootloader-less booting scheme
Proof of concept for the nmbl bootloader-less booting scheme - rhboot/nmbl-pocGitHub
@karolherbst @matt The endgame here is to have a thing in the Asahi Installer that can boot an existing install under qemu on macOS, or a rescue image, so you can fix (most) boot issues. If that is using text console passthrough (stdio) it should be accessible via the host macOS.
Then we can mostly just ignore the a11y story for our boot chain since it's largely hidden anyway. Though identifying what a problem is could be a challenge, but there's no practical solution for that inline (no, we're not adding a whole audio engine and screen reader into m1n1/u-boot...). It would make more sense to set up some kind of "breadcrumb" system that logs to a file or NVMe partition something that you can then inspect from macOS (bonus points for using the macOS kernel dump format and triggering the macOS error report dialog directly lol).
"a filename when none exists"
Starting in #curl 8.10.0, curl works a little harder to come up with a filename to store the download in when -O is used.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/19…
http://example.com/one/two/?id=42, what happens when the file 'two' already exists and then you change it to id=43?
I wonder what those people think, e. g., @shanselman, @davidfowl.
Sometimes big enterprises get caught up in business rules and compatibility requirements and forget about common sense and fair interactions between humans but there are always people in there who can see through all this and can escalate things in there.
As curl users we can probably agree that the alias is pointless.
Over at Twitter anti-nuclear Green loudmouth Hanno Klausmeier is calling for a full year prison sentence for the audacity of delaying the demolition of the #Grafenrheinfeld cooling towers last Friday.
Is Klausmeier calling for such draconian punishment for the mere inconvenience of waiting 1.5 hours longer before the towers got demolished?
Or is it something else and is he afraid for a louder pro-nuclear voice that he wants to scare into silence?
You decide.
@archos já jsem u Baltu byl nadšený z Uznojemu. Jen to není Polsko, ale Německo.
A asi i velmi záleží, co u toho moře chceš dělat.
irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/az-se-…
Až se Rusové zkonsolidují, odezva bude zuřivá, ví Ukrajinci. Neopakují ale jejich chyby, chválí Foltýn
Ukrajinci podle Foltýna útok v Kurské oblasti pořad rozvíjí, ale už zpomalují a vyhýbají se chybám Rusů z roku 2022. Nepředbíhají svoji logistiku, postupují velmi metodicky, byť poměrně rychle.Vladimír Kroc (iROZHLAS.cz)
This is what happened when I used the Galaxy Ring and Watch together
Samsung touts its new Galaxy Ring as the perfect supplement to a Galaxy Watch, but how well do the devices really work together?Kaitlyn Cimino (Android Authority)
What does Bitcoin smell like? AI startup wants to ‘teleport’ digital scents
Artificial intelligence startup Osmo is teaching computers how to smell through an artificial intelligence training process it hopes will one day lead to the “teleportation” of scents and a new method for detecting diseases such as cancer.Tristan Greene (Cointelegraph)
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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