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This gorgeous saffron spice tea popped into my mind today so I have made myself a pot. I first had it in a Kashmiri shop in South India. They serve this tea as you wander around. It was so so good so I asked what it was. Simply saffron, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves.

For a full Kashmiri experience you can add Karshmiri green tea leaves, organic dried rose petals and slivered almonds.

For a pot:
4 cloves, or more if they are small. Sometimes I use up to 10!
4 cardamom pods
2cm piece cinnamon
1 pinch strands of saffron

method
Crush the spices roughly in a mortar – no need to grind them at all, just to break them up a little. Place in a teapot, pour hot water over and allow to seep for 5 minutes. This will allow the saffron time to develop colour, and the flavour from the spices to emerge. Strain into a special teacup and sip slowly.

Aaaah! How relaxed you feel.

#food #FromTheArchives #WhatIAmCooking #WhatIAmEating #Vegetarian

A pot of the saffron tea, and a bowl of the poured tea.
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1/2 This video is probably a good example of one which, aside from the "The TRUTH about the ADHD Superpower" heading, really doesn't need a screen reader to read the text. The text is captions of what is being said in the video - that is a great thing for those who are deaf or otherwise benefit from captions. For a screen reader user listening to text, in this particular case, they are generally better off listening to the dialog being spoken direclty
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2/3 NVDA CAN read the captions - press NVDA+r to have NVDA use OCR on the text. Note that NVDA has a setting to periodically refresh OCR. It's not perfect, but could be used in a situation like this (if that text WASN'T already being spoken for instance). By far the best option is for the video to ensure needed information is conveyed both visually and audibly to suit all audiences.
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You're welcome :) In this particular case, a screen reader user can ignore that text - there are other videos where similar such text may be useful, and it may also depend on the platform the video is on as to how accessible that is - On some platforms you don't need to use OCR at all, just move NVDA's focus to the text as you start the video, and it will keep reading out new text as it changes.

Have a great weekend!

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Our In-Process blog is out. Today we have a reminder of NVDA 2024.3, info on NVDA 2024.4 and our Beta / RC program, details of the upcoming SPEVI conference 2025 and a walkthrough of creating a portable copy and the highly anticipated change to the process which now creates a folder for you.

Read now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-5…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #FOSS #Portability #Portable #Bea #PreRelease #News #Blog #Newsletter

"Create portable NVDA" screen with the folder C:\NVDA set and overlaid with turquoise and orange colours
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I wrote this blog post in 2019 with the confidence that the WordPress starter theme I built would stand the test of time, no matter how many things changed in the WordPress core.

I'm happy to say that after upgrading to the latest WP version, including PHP, everything works as smoothly as it did on day one.

Blowing my own horn here, but this is a great testament to how a modular and lean source code can be resilient and reliable without needing constant maintenance.

alecaddd.com/embracing-wordpre…

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So... any zlib/deflate experts here?

I have a weird issue: an APK (i.e. ZIP file) with deflate-compressed data which I cannot recreate using python + zlib, even with code that tries every possible combination of parameters (with the obvious exception of providing a predefined compression dictionary) instead of just varying the compression level.

One file's compressed data can be reproduced using strategy Z_FILTERED, but for all the other files I've tried the script doesn't return any matches (it works fine with the APK we built ourselves, which should have had identical compressed data as the build is supposed to be deterministic).

Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

Test code: gist.github.com/obfusk/d9d1223…

Original issue: github.com/enteraname74/SoulSe…

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Reminder of how much we like to criminalize being poor.

Skipping a $3.50 transit fare results in a $425 fine while skipping a $20 parking pass lands you a $70 fine that rich people complained to high heaven about. What justification, other than hating poor people, is there for this not scaling?

Make parking fines $2000 and then let's talk about the fictional "war on cars"

#Toronto
#FareIsFair

As for paying fare. $235 to $425 for not having proof of payment on transit.
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I've finished adding subtitles to my 4th DebConf presentation, and with that I wrote a blog post with a summary of everything.

There's some background into curl and wcurl, including the draft wcurl logo and the recording of the Debian curl maintainers BoF, if you want to have a peak at the maintenance of curl on Debian.

DebConf24 was fun!: Security, curl, wcurl, Debian's quality:
samueloph.dev/blog/debconf24-w…

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Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.

The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.

theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958…

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The August 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project has been published.

"In Android news, the IzzyOnDroid project added 49 new rebuilder recipes and now features 256 total reproducible applications representing 21% of the total offerings in the repository."

Featured are Holger Levsen's DebConf24 talk (and the related LWN article), PostgreSQL removing intermediate build artifacts from tarballs, various improvements to our website, and more.

reproducible-builds.org/report…

#ReproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

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Welcome to the RB family, YTDLnis 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.d…

Was quite a ride to get there (github.com/deniscerri/ytdlnis/…), but thanks to joint efforts of the app team and the IoD team, we got it tackled! :awesome:

YTDLnis lets you download audio/video files from more than 1000 websites, and offers a lot of features.

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

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I am pretty much against biological essentialism and I do my best to ensure my work reflects that.

Unfortunately that is relevant to this review of representation in the 2024 D&D player's handbook which covers quite the range of topics.

It's spicy stuff! 😋 And quite refreshing to hear in honesty.

#5e #Dnd #wyrmworksPublishing

wyrmworkspublishing.com/wotcs-…

#dnd #5e #wyrmworkspublishing
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