Unboxing the Monarch: A Technological Approach
Imagine accessing materials by viewing one line of braille at a time. Now, picture interacting with them by intervals of...Devon Price (American Printing House)
Okay, so I just have to rant a little. So Apple has been doing some pretty shitty stuff regarding developers and money lately. They act like they're above the law. And sure, they'll gladly follow it for Russia and other places where they're asked to take apps like VPN's off the App Store. But in the EU where they're being asked to open some stuff up and give developers and users freedom? They just continue to kick and scream all the way. And I sit here, with a Pixel 8, one of the newest, supposedly best phones there is, and I hate using it. I love my years old iPhone SE 2020, much more than a year old slightly high end phone. And yep, it's all about accessibility for me. And y'all know I'll change my mind when I'm presented with something better. I mean, I sit at work all day and use Linux and barely even notice anymore. But give me an Android, and TalkBack drives me crazy.
Like, we have Braille Screen Input on Android. We even have reading and selection commands on the TalkBack Braille Keyboard. But when you go to use it, you always have to turn the phone to where the USB C port is facing left. Now, I know, that's not terrible, but it's something that turns me off a lot. And I've told Google accessibility, and I've talked about it ever since it came out, but it's still how things work. And it just slows me down. It's pointless, and they could easily just flip it around.
Now, there is an option to flip the *dots* of the Braille Keyboard, but that doesn't flip the commands. So, when you swipe right for a space, it actually backspaces.
Now, I do need to give Commentary Screen reader more of a chance, and see if they have an extention that'll send a screenshot to AI to be described. And if they don't, I'm sure there's an HPPT client for LUA, so one can be scripted I'm sure. But Commentary doesn't even *have* Braille support.
Meh, everything is a mess. And here I am about to give Apple yet more money in a month, because I do want a new phone, and I don't feel like getting a new Samsung, just to be disappointed. Again. With Android.
Aaand… Welcome to the RB family, Push Notifications API 🥳 Having fixed the nondeterministic build by upgrading to a more recent Gradle version (7.0.2 -> 8.1.0), #reproducibleBuilds finally succeeded. Find the green shield at #IzzyOnDroid with the next sync!
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„Push Notifications API“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
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Nassau County, NY just passed a mask ban and now residents say they are going to take pictures of anyone wearing a mask and send them to police.
This is why we need to stop any kind of mask ban legislation. They empower vigilantes to harass and surveil people wearing masks for health reasons.
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Interesting. Thunderbird 128.1.0esr (64-bit) and NVDA now reads the 'From' address when scrolling through emails, which slows me down. Anyone happen to know a way to stop that from being a thing? Here's an example:
Unread, TestFlight <no_reply@email.apple.com>, <AppName> for iOS is now available to test., 14:37 2 of 2 level 1
Edit: Solved by Tyler Spivey who wrote:
'Tools, Settings, General. There's a radio button that says Full name and email address. Change that.'
This fixed it immediately.
The Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why
After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded, which could impact weather around the worldJames Dinneen (New Scientist)
#musc #elon #billionaires
Debian Day 2024 in Santa Maria - Brazil — Debian Brasil
by por Andrew Gonçalves Debian Day in Santa Maria - RS 2024 was held after a 5-year hiatus from the previous version of the event. It took place on the morning of August 16, in the Blue Hall of the Franciscan University (UFN) with suppo...debianbrasil.org.br
Reminder! Registration for #LAS2024 is open. Join us for a deep dive into Linux applications. Register now: conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/…
#KDE #GNOME #OpenSource
I'm running for the Board of Directors of the W3C. You can read about why here, in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
I also nominated @tink for re-election to the Board.
Here's her nomination statement. misc.tetralogical.com/w3/2024-…
I’ve worked alongside Léonie at @w3c for years. She's been instrumental to the success of the current Board. She's calm, methodical, well-informed, and possesses a keen sense of the W3C's mission. I trust her judgment and admire her tenacity.
If you can vote, please help to re-elect Léonie to the Board.
Léonie Watson nomination statement - 2024 - TetraLogical
Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.misc.tetralogical.com
The RNC is intervening on Trump's behalf to fight for the right to continue removing voters from Georgia rolls. The revelation comes in a federal lawsuit alleging Republican violations of the National Voting Rights Act.
#GOPCorruption #TFG #Election #USPol #NVRA
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Trump’s RNC Is Backing Georgia Republicans’ Voter Purge in Court
The RNC moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit over Georgia county election boards removing voters — many of whom are homeless — from the rolls.Justin Glawe (Rolling Stone)
As I think I mentioned before I like listening to traditional music, especially lullabies, from different cultures and in different languages. This album of indigenous lullabies I just found is beautiful!
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Under the Green Corn Moon - Native American Lullabies (full album)
Various Artists - Under the Green Corn Moon - Native American Lullabies Label Silver Wave RecordsRelease 19980:00 Lorain Fox - Tu Tu Teschcote (Aztec) 3:01...YouTube
One of my frustrations in digital activism is how much of it occurs in spaces that are not friendly toward us. I am not trying to shit on, for example, discord, they have done great things yada yada. But let’s be honest: these platforms suck for us, and we are only there to reach more people. We should be building our own power so that they feel compelled to come to us rather than the other way around.
How do we do that? One way is to refuse to use things made by people who won’t work with us. But we also need to build better alternatives that are still friendly enough that anyone can easily access them.
I’m curious what pieces of this the community thinks are “solved” by various existing solutions, and which have yet to be built.
I think the first lesson about tech that activists shoud learn is that people will only change platforms because of either lower prices or better UX.
As far as I'm aware, there has never, in the entire history of the internet, been a significant migration to a different platform when one of those two wasn't at least a very large concern. I'm very interested in this space and would love to be proven wrong here, though.
It's worth noting that, as extremely polarized as US politics has been over the last few years, neither Elon buying Twitter nor Twitter banning Trump really caused any significant migrations on either side. You can't get more political about those two events, and yet they end up not mattering at all in the long run.
A question for you all.
When I'm out and about I can check my emails on my phone. I can even reply ... but I find it *really* hard to compose a detailed, nuanced, *useful* reply when I'm on my phone as opposed to at my "proper" keyboard.
There must be a phrase for this effect but the device which I use to create emails affects the emails I send.
Maybe it's because I type on a keyboard much more fluently than I do on a phone, so at my computer more of my brain can be devoted to the actual words.
It's not quite "the medium is the message", but something along those lines.
Thoughts? Is there a pithy phrase for this analogous to the Marshall McLuhan original?
(Boosts welcome to increase reach beyond my (admittedly eclectic) followers ... thank)
A technical overview of the Kolibri app for GNOME
This blog post has been floating around as a draft for several years. It eventually split off into a presentation at GUADEC 2022, titled Offline learning with GNOME and Kolibri (YouTube). In that p…Dylan McCall
Not what was written, but how it was announced. "67 plugins for producing, mixing and mastering
48 Hour Flash Deal
Platinum Bundle
67 Plugins • Only $9899"
*only* $9899. What a deal. For the record, the real price was the slightly lower $98.99.
#screenReaderFauxPas
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Today we entered string freeze 📜🧊 for #GIMP 3.0.0!
One more step towards the next major version of GIMP! 🎨
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Linux Continues to Grow: 4.45% Desktop Market Share in July 2024
Linux has reached a new milestone in desktop market share. As of July 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.45% market share for desktop OS worldwide.LinuxToday
Disney is not admitting that its forced arbitration claim was legally wrong. It's just "decided to waive [its] right to arbitration" in *this particular case*.
It's deliberately not letting that legal argument be tested in a court, which means it can try it again anytime in the future.
Until their "the arbitration clause applies to any and all dealings you have with us" argument is definitively struck down in a court of law, no one is safe.
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Disney stops trying to use Disney Plus excuse to settle a wrongful death lawsuit
Disney has now agreed that a wrongful death lawsuit should be decided in court following backlash for initially arguing the case belonged in arbitration.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor
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Sorry… War das letzte Mal für eine ganze Weile, aber bei #IzzyOnDroid liegt der Anteil von Apps mit #reproducibleBuilds jetzt bei 20.03% 🥳
Welcome to the RB Family, Disable Target API Block: After a minor cleanup of left-over images, it now carries the green shield 
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„Disable Target API Block“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Xposed module for disabling Android 14's installation block for old appsIzzyOnDroid App Repo
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Open Source Funding Research InterviewCal.com
A wealth of real human knowledge lives on reddit, stack exchange, etc-- Given the sheer volume of AI slop and SEO fake pages with "articles" the better content is hard to find. This is most true if looking for help on a subject you know little about.
How could we motivate a collaborative not-for-profit catalog of the better content silo'd off from the commercial web? How to fund it and keep it current?
Basically a *staffed* online library for the world. And not just of books and publications.
I dread the day that YouTube becomes unprofitable and starts dumping their old video content to save money.
It's going to be a huge resource loss, particularly for practical trades, DIY, and crafts. Because there is so much stuff that isn't formally documented -- but somebody made a video tutorial.
Where is that going to go when YouTube dies?
Make `zvariant::Signature` completely static & turn `Type::signature` to trait const · Issue #882 · dbus2/zbus
When I wrote zvariant, I was still very new to Rust and didn't make the best choices in some regard. Recently I looked into the postcard-rpc code, and that project also seem to have something very ...GitHub
Debian Day 2024 in Pouso Alegre - Brazil — Debian Brasil
by Thiago Pezzo and Giovani Ferreira Local celebrations of Debian 2024 Day also happened on [Pouso Alegre, MG, Brazil] (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/315431). In this year we managed to organize two days of lectures! On the 14...debianbrasil.org.br
Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but!
The Fediverse governance research @darius and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out:
write.as/fediversalist-papers/…
Releasing our findings
It has been a whirlwind several months in our research—our interviews with people who run Mastodon and Hometown servers proved so fruitfu...The Fediversalist Papers
Question for #screenreader users:
If there’s a text that has a lot of references and footnotes after almost every sentence, would you prefer the references to be linked to the bibliography at the bottom of the page? Footnotes are currently linked. The references, however, are not. References are always the name of the author and year in brackets, like (Last Name, 2020).
Would linking them be helpful or just overwhelming with many links disrupting the text flow?
Jamie Teh
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