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Quienes me conocen desde hace años saben que nunca fui condescendiente con la Universidad, que nunca fui corporativo, y que pasé buena parte de los tiempos de bonanza poniéndole el cuerpo a la lucha interna para mejorar lo que funciona mal.
Hubiera sido fácil acomodarme con mediocres y aprovechados, mi carrera académica hubiera progresado mucho más rápido, y hoy tendría muchos más amigos.
Pero yo no soy así. No podría ni aunque quisiera.
Yo di todas las peleas internas que creí necesarias, y sacrifiqué bienestar y proyección para hacerlo.
Esto me pone hoy en una posición especial.
Puedo hablar de la coyuntura sin que nadie piense que lo hago para cuidar un carguito o acomodarme con mis amigos.
It was my great honour to have been asked to speak earlier today at the launch of “Braille On Display Third Edition”.
#Braille is the most priceless, life-changing gift blind people have ever been given. It was invented by one of us, for all of us. Despite some predictions when talking computers came on the scene that Braille would be rendered obsolete, technology has made Braille more relevant and abundant than ever.
There’s no getting away from it, hardcopy Braille books are bulky. But with a Braille display that connects to a smartphone or contains its own storage, we can have hundreds of volumes of Braille at our fingertips.
The cost of manufacture of Braille displays must be spread across a small number of units, so they are expensive, even though their price in real terms has declined significantly. During my time in the Braille product management field, the thing I am proudest of is delivering on two separate 40% reductions in the cost of refreshable Braille display technology.
If you’re going to buy a Braille display, or you have been allocated funding for one, naturally you want to make sure you’re getting the one that will best meet your needs. Finding objective information about all the choices out there is very difficult. Some agencies recommend what they know, and, understandably, distributors recommend what they distribute.
When I ran Mosen Consulting, I was proud and honoured to publish two editions of Jackie Brown’s book, “Braille On Display”. Now, it’s back for a third edition, and it is available free from the Braillists Foundation.
This book begins with the basic concepts and not only covers Braille displays, but Braille-only input devices as well. The Braille display market is vibrant, with plenty of competition and innovation occurring. The line between Braille displays that only function in terminal mode and the more fully-fledged notetaker is blurring, and that means there is more functionality available to the user at a lower price. Then there is the new category of multiline devices that can display tactile graphics.
With Jackie around to cover it all, we are in good hands to ensure that our hands are on the display that suits us best.
So, pick up your free copy of “Braille On Display” today, and read objective evaluations of a wide range of Braille devices.
braillists.org/brailleondispla…
Sincere thanks and appreciation to Jackie for the huge effort she has put into this, and to the Braillists Foundation for being such epic Braille champions.
Most people in Montréal speak French and at least one other language...
We're supposed to celebrate multiculturalism and diversity...
Instead, this is Valérie Plante's priority...
This is what Valérie Plante wants to spend our taxes on...
This is why Valérie Plante keeps raising property taxes...
Valérie Plante needs to go. #polMTL #MTLpoli #montreal
montreal.ctvnews.ca/city-of-mo…
NO THEY DON'T
Montreal needs a French-language and Francophonie office: committee
montreal.ctvnews.ca/city-of-mo…
Bloat wasting tax payer money to go against their own citizen.
Welcome to the RB family, Just Listen 🥳
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"Just Listen" is a media player to play songs in background. Thanks to joint efforts of @obfusk identifying the culprit (sqldelight issue) and RLD-JL (the author) addressing it, we succeeded here.
This brings the number of RB apps at #IzzyOnDroid to 277, or in relative numbers to 23% now 
So with that in mind, what is your favourite registrar, and why, and how accessible is it?
Good to see an open source alternative arriving on the scene so soon.
Source: It's FOSS Good to see an open source alternative arriving on the scene so soon.
Source: It's FOSS search.app/uXqRP6sBovBFWroQ8
The book discusses all the available Braille Displays and is available for free as a word document, ePUB and in PDF format. If you'd like to download your copy, visit braillists.org/brailleondispla…
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I have the terrible habit of keeping track of it in my head, inevitably getting it wrong once in a while. Every so often the idea of doing it a better way occurs to me, and then I forget about it before I actually put it into practice. So this is me, holding myself accountable with a public post about how I'm going to do things the less insane way from now on, when it makes sense. This goes for HTML and XML too.
• Interactive Components: 25.
• Form Inputs: 20
• Navigation Components: 15
• Display Components: 20
• Feedback Components: 10
• Structural/Utility Components: 10
We estimated the number of relevant guidelines for each category:
• Interactive Components: 20 guidelines
• Form Inputs: 25 guidelines
• Navigation Components: 20 guidelines
• Display Components: 10 guidelines
• Feedback Components: 15 guidelines
• Structural/Utility Components: 10 guidelines
• Inputs: Buttons, Checkboxes, Text Fields, ETC. 15
• Navigation: App Bars, Tabs, Drawers, etc. 10
• Surfaces: Cards, Papers, Accordions, etc. 10
• Feedback: Progress Indicators, Dialogs, Snackbars, etc. 8
• Data Display: Avatars, Badges, Lists, Tables, etc. 12
• Utils and Others: Grid, Box, Icons, etc. 15
And you adjusted guideline counts accordingly, the low-end it gives is 846. A bit lower yes, but still a mountain of nuance.
Saying that, as I've tested O1 for 2-weeks now.
🧙 "Ridiculous!" 🧙
Indeed the only fitting reaction to that statement. Not questioning it, but "falling from the couch to ROFLMAO", making clear one cannot take that serious. Well done!
I'd almost said "calling that man truthful is like calling a gun a peacemaker" – but ouch, wasn't there something… 🙈
#InstantMessaging / #Messengers picks of the day:
➡️ @delta - Free open source end-to-end encrypted chat app powered by email
➡️ @joinjabber - Helping non-techy people sign up on XMPP/Jabber
➡️ @xmpp - Designs & maintains the XMPP federated open messaging standard
➡️ @briar - E2EE P2P messaging app, works online through Tor & locally on Bluetooth
➡️ @Jami - E2EE P2P calling & messaging app
➡️ @matrix - Federated FOSS communications platform
➡️ @signalapp - Centralised messaging app
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated and 2 added apps:
* PuppyGit Pro: Git Client for Android
* Vaani: a client for your Audiobookshelf server
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
This is an example of why Mastodon is the future:
On Threads they have been using algorithms to moderate user content, but The Verge now reports how a large number of popular accounts have been banned, simply because Zuckerberg's software mistook their good content for bad content.
That is the difference:
On Mastodon, we have humans taking part in the moderation of humans. But on commercial social media, humans are pushed around like sheep.
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