The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2024.4 is now available for download and testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2024.4 release.
Read more and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4r…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Release #ReleaseCandidate #NewVersion
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We can build the web that we want to see. Watch the recording of my talk from #XOXOFest!
Whoops, git 2.47.0 just shipped with a significant bug in the `git maintenance` subcommand that causes it to segfault immediately, because of a gap in the test suite.
The git project is doing an excellent job of responding to this in an exemplary way: fixing the bug, amending the test suite, and directly questioning their dev practices to solicit insight into their own process blind spots. And they're doing it all in public.
lore.kernel.org/git/CAG=Um+0mJ…
lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqh69thz…
Well done.
And by the way, git-maintenance is a relatively new git feature¹ (well, 2020-ish) that lets you set repo maintenance tasks to run on a schedule, such as running `git gc`, more aggressive object repacking, even prefetching of remotes that move quickly so that your morning `git fetch` is already primed to run nice and fast, with a minimal delta. It's simple, very useful, and worth using.
Hopping on the releases train. #PhanpySocial changelog ✨
💬 5 new languages: Dutch, Esperanto, Galician, Italian, Japanese
🐛 Bug fixes
Recap: Mastodon v4.3 features (github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…) already supported on Phanpy:
- Server-side notification grouping (opt-in)
- Filtered notifications
- Severed relationships notifications
- Timeline of public posts about a trending link
- Author highlight for news articles
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that will incorporate artificial intelligence literacy and media literacy into the state’s curriculum
Source: Local News Matters Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that will incorporate artificial intelligence literacy and media literacy into the state’s curriculum
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Montreal-area boy severely burned after stranger throws boiling water on him
After 30 years, Canadian cartoonist Michael deAdder has been let go from the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
"PostMedia acquired Atlantic Canada's largest media purveyor, Saltwire Network & The Halifax Chronicle Herald in July 2024."
#PostMedia #canada #conservatives #cdnpoli #cartoonists
Railway Sublime, Episode 1.
The Brusio Circular Viaduct, on the Bernina Line #Switzerland. It takes passengers through a complete 143-metre circle.
The viaduct was built after striking an agreement with local farmers—the idea was not to interfere too much with their pasture lands.
ABOUT THE .IO DOMAIN KERFUFFLE
this is one of those intersectional moments, many of you white folks in #tech need to learn from
not only is the .IO a geolocated internet TLD based on British colonial territories;
the whole origin and dispossession of Chagos people is a read:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos…
what makes .IO extra sketchy is the creation of the domain itself:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
so, .IO LITERALLY exists for EU/USA capitalists to profiteer from slavery, colonialism & genocide.
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"found in the San Fransisco bay area curling club" (according to Jef '🥌' Spaleta)
Yes, it does make me curious.
Ich musste feststellen, dass es auch Musiker gibt, die bei der Erwähnung eines veganen Produktes ausrasten, aber nicht vor Freude. Und das nur, weil das Musikhaus Thomann, lt. Wikipedia „der umsatzstärkste Musikalienhändler weltweit“, eine vegane Konzertgitarre ins Sortiment aufgenommen und dies bei Facebook beworben hat. Und ich habe wie so oft den Fehler begangen, die Kommentare zu lesen.
Es zeigt sich schnell, dass Musiker in der Tat kreativer sind als Kommentierende, die unter einen Beitrag über Veganismus Sachen posten wie „Darauf erstmal ein Steak!“. Musiker schreiben „Als nächstes will ich ein Drumset das nur aus Knochen, Fell, Fleisch und Blut hergestellt wird!!“.
Generell ist die Ahnungslosigkeit allerdings genauso hoch wie bei anderen kontroversen Themen. Was denn an einer Gitarre nicht vegan sein könne, fragen einige. Nun, dass die Instrumente nicht aus Hack gemacht sind, dürfte klar sein. Dafür kommen z. B. Perlmutt-Einlagen, Knochen, Schellack und Leim mit tierischen Bestandteilen zum Einsatz. Die von einigen Kommentierenden erwähnten Saiten aus Katzendarm werden dagegen bei Konzertgitarren schon lange durch Nylon-Saiten ersetzt. Es fehlt also auch hier das Wissen, wo überall tierische Bestandteile verarbeitet werden. Es sei denn, es geht darum, einer vegan lebenden Person Heuchelei zu unterstellen, dann ist klar, dass ein Smartphone nicht vegan ist.
Ansonsten gibt es zur veganen Gitarre Kommentare wie „WTF? Are you serious?“, „Jetzt fangt bloß ned a no mit dem Scheiß da o!!!“, „Noch bescheuerter geht’s nicht mehr…“ und „Auch ein Baum ist ein Lebewesen…!! Aber okay, wer es braucht….“. Die Pflanzenversteher dürfen ja nicht fehlen, die zwar kein Problem damit haben, dass für ihr Essen leidensfähige Lebewesen getötet werden, aber Empathie für gefällte Bäume entwickeln.
Kommen wir zur Gitarre selbst. Bereits 2020 hatte der Berliner Gitarrenbauer Armin Hanika eine vegane Konzertgitarre für den American Guitar Shop, auch in Berlin ansässig, gebaut. Das Hanika Vegan Modell 50MF ist dort noch immer erhältlich. Und auch Thomann ist nicht erst gestern auf den Zug aufgesprungen, sondern bereits im September 2023 mit dem Modell Hanika H-Thomann KEF Vegan. Wenn ich mir die Arbeiten von Armin Hanika anschaue, habe ich keine Zweifel, dass die vegane Gitarre mit den herkömmlich gebauten Modellen mithalten kann. Leider gibt es bei beiden Shops keine Kundenbewertungen.
Ich finde es sehr gut, dass in vielen Bereichen mittlerweile tierische Inhaltsstoffe ersetzt werden, das Unverständnis einiger – online wie offline – ist jedoch immer groß. Was denn bitte an Weichspüler nicht vegan sein könne oder an Rotwein? Warum gibt es vegane Holzkohle? Müssen Veganer immer Fleischprodukte nachbauen? Das darf dann aber nicht „veganer Leberkäse“ heißen! Es ist noch ein sehr langer Weg bis zu der Erkenntnis, dass Veganismus kein Trend ist, keine Sekte oder Religion, sondern die Zukunft.
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at @djangocon about the finances of the Django Software Foundation. I wanted to give folks a high-level understanding of our current financial situation, and then imagine a world where we had a substantially-larger budget.
Here's a written version of this talk, with annotated slides, and expanded notes:
jerf.org/iri/post/2024/not_abo… Alternative title: "Engineers are not fans of technologies."
I stopped being a fan of Python many years ago. Of course, these days I risk being a fan of Rust.
Did you miss the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid a little? Well, get your capes out, I'm back from my vacation. So today, 19 updated and 7 added apps:
* QuickMDCapture: quickly create notes in Markdown format 🛡️
* Mock my GPS UnifiedNlp Backend: mock the GPS and Network location providers
* Mock Silently: mock the GPS and Network location providers
* IrisChat: IRC client 🛡️
* Grit: ToDo List and Habit Tracker 🛡️
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Could Toronto-Montreal route be Canada's first high-speed rail?
dailyhive.com/montreal/toronto…
It lacks of ambition. I guess that the values.
Max 200kph? FFS this is not the 1960s.
When TGV opened in 1981, the cruise speed on the Paris Lyon was 260kph. Paris Lille was 300kph when I commuted on it 20 years ago.
I guess lots of gloss on the report.
@samloonie th railroad were not interested in it. That's why VIA was created and remained a band-aid by still using the same badly maintained trackage on why the heavy freight has priority.
This is the root cause of the poor service. That and the lack of courage and ambition from politicians to do anything about it.
American Water shuts down online services after #cyberattack
American Water is the largest water and wastewater treatment utility in the US…
OT systems not affected - so appears this only affects their IT systems. Suspected nation state activity (Russia).
(I encourage everyone sharing this with their friends because cyber attacks absolutely can have direct “real world” consequences.)
For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
every.to/p/the-disappearance-o…
(H/t @mwl )
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I don't think this is actually going to happen.
There's so much stuff relying on .io at this point that I won't be surprised if major DNS providers just sidestep ICAN and take matters into their own hands.
ICAN isn't omniscient and omnipotent, if the majority of the world decides that they shouldn't be in charge of DNS any more and that we'd rather use a different set of root servers, their power basically goes away.
#Mastodon 4.3 is out! 🎉 We've made notifications easier to manage and improved the look and feel of the whole app across the board. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! See what you can expect once your server upgrades:
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