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“Under [Stallman’s] ideological leadership, the free software movement is unsafe, particularly for women. Women represent just 3% of the free software community, compared to 23% of industry programmers generally. This is no accident.”

This, 100%. Thank you for saying out in the open what we have all lived, survived, observed, and known to be true for decades. Now that F/OSS can’t look away, what will we do about it? The fish rots from the head, after all…

stallman-report.org/

@glyph



👁️ @w3c AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) Teleconference
15 Oct 2024 - draft minutes

"RESOLUTION: We will explore having a set of required provisions that is somewhat comparable to WCAG 2.2 A & AA and a set of provisions and assertions that can be used to build upon that through points, percentages, or predefined sets of provisions (modules)."

#WCAG3 #WCAG #accessibility #WebStandards

w3.org/2024/10/15-ag-minutes.h…



A question to people who attended schools for the blind. When I was mainstreamed, I loved the science experiments, except for the fact that so many of them were very visual in nature. What kind of experiments did they have you do in a curriculum designed for blind people?


Um einen Service wie ÖPNV anzubieten braucht es eigentlich gar keine Kundendaten #DB #Datensparsamkeit #opnv #Datenschutz
Nur komplexe und absurde Preismodelle und die dahinter stehende Gewinnoptimierung brauchen das.

Prove me wrong.



Tune into ACB Radio on 10/17 at 3 PM ET for the Vispero Presentation: Personalize JAWS Commands with Keyboard Manager. We’ll show you how to use Keyboard Manager to assign and manage keystrokes for commands in JAWS. Due to Hurricane Helene, we are repeating this event so everyone who would like to attend can be there. Request an invitation at community@acb.org

#FreedomScientificTraining #JAWS



Can someone in Corporate Media explain why Biden’s age was 100x more important for US to understand than Trump’s plans for ethnic cleansing!?!


Just got back from my dentist. Her boss has introduced #AI into the clinic. It claims to automatically detect many conditions and right away it found 4 issues affecting my teeth.

The only downside was that its findings were 100% wrong, which my dentist of many years' experience spotted immediately.

#AI

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Hey! I'm getting my package delivered early! It's out for delivery now! They say delivery by 9:00 pm but its only like 10 or so miles away.
in reply to Nick's world

Gotta love those A non-deterministic polynomial-time hard problems.
Hopefully it comes quickly!
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo It's fun when something like this happens because I've been looking forward to this for a week.


AI-powered software narrates surroundings for visually impaired in real time - Tech Xplore google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…



This weekend I managed to get #wmbus receiver working. 🎉

Our housing cooperative installed new hot water and heater meters with radio readings. I found out it uses 868Mhz wmbus protocol and that there is an #ESPHome extension adding support for this.
I only needed encryption keys, which I was provided with by the cooperative.

Now my #HomeAssistant tracks out heating and hot water #consuption. Yay...

github.com/SzczepanLeon/esphom…



Joder, que mal escribo últimamente. No sé que me pasa. Y ni mi cliente ni mi instancia permiten editar tuts sin borrarlos.


I'm surprised it's that high. "2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML" meiert.com/en/blog/html-confor… #html #webdev #webdevelopment



*This* is the type of game I was talking about. This game uses #OpenStreetMap so that you can play "in" your local town.

store.steampowered.com/app/136…

#VideoGames #Games



Best password managers 2024: Protect your online accounts pcworld.com/article/407092/bes…
in reply to David Goldfield

Unless I just missed it, 1Password isn't even in that list. That really surprises me.



Arranging Airport Accessibility Assistance ophthalmicedge.org/patient/arr…


In case you missed it over the weekend, I needed to get this out of my system because Canadian cities are stuck in a toxic cycle.

🛤️ Managed Decline - Montreal's Transit Crisis: heliomass.com/posts/2424-montr…

#Montreal #Canada #transit #devolution



How to Hack a Meal Kit Subscription and Get More for Your Money cnet.com/health/nutrition/how-…


#OTD in 1843.

William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a 3D system of complex numbers.

Important precursors to this work included Euler's four-square identity (1748) & Olinde Rodrigues' parameterization of general rotations by 4 parameters (1840), but neither of these writers treated the four-parameter rotations as an algebra. Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered quaternions in 1819, but this work was not published until 1900.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaterni…

gutenberg.org/ebooks/9942

#mathematics



How Can I Maximize Battery Life on my Windows PC? askdavetaylor.com/how-can-i-ma…

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iPhone 16 Pro Max: A Review and Some Thoughts on Which Model to Buy applevis.com/blog/iphone-16-pr…


Android 15 features: Everything you need to know about confirmed and leaked features androidauthority.com/android-1…


Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities vispero.com/vispero-and-aira-a…


You ever seen something so painfully out of touch and oblivious it hurts?


Something I learned very intimately lately is just how variable disabilities can be. And this extends not just to mental disabilities but physical disabilities as well. The main disability I had before was static. Each day was like the last more or less. I always knew intellectually of course that this isn't the case for everything. And going through it is something else. So don't judge disabled people on their good or bad days. Sometimes it can be almost completely ok. Other days it'll be beyond a struggle to keep going. And often you don't know what it's gonna be until you're there. Don't be so quick to judge people one way or the other. If you see them then it's likely because they could manage then. It doesn't mean tomorrow will be the same.

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in reply to Keri Svendsen

@sapphireangel Yeah. Currently going through something similar. It's one thing to know it but quite something else to feel it. You can understand it intellectually but just like with most disabilities it's something that's very hard to get for someone who doesn't live it.
in reply to Talon

Yeah. It's a hard shift. You then beat yourself up a lot. Just know if you need to vent/talk it out I'm here. It took me a while to come to terms with it, and I'm more stable than not these days.


I finally got back into the Lloyd's Bank mobile app the other day, and I have to say they've really done a tubular job of ensuring the app is as accessible and easy-to-use as possible with VoiceOver. On-screen elements are clearly labelled, item focus is never lost, everything response as it should when interacted with, and so much more. Sure, some stuff is weirdly positioned, but you can easily explore by touch if needed. Are other UK/US/other countries' banking apps this accessible? #LloydsBank #banking #OnlineBanking #MobileBanking #blind
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in reply to Seedy of Chucky

I hate the redesign. All this spaces stuff, no consistency as to your inbox location within the rest of the apps navigation ... I had no issue with the old layout at all.


Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition

“aria-label is one of a number of secondary methods to label native HTML UI elements. It works particularly well on interactive elements, it also works well on most block level elements old skoolterm that have explicitly or implicitly defined structural roles. It works less well or not at all on text level semantics.”

#aria #HTML #accessibility #WebDev

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…



Скрипучий старенький компостер
В трамвае старом за депо
Жует беззубым ртом влетевший
В пустой вагон кленовый лист
(с) не моё
in reply to Green Sadness

Ну и красотища! Обожаю такие пирожки.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion Вот и меня это четверостишие чем-то зацепило


The Stallman report

stallman-report.org/

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Player 1: stallman-report.org/
Player 2: stallmansupport.org/

FIGHT!

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/free-…


Le digo la lotería es un impuesto a la estupidez me dice vamos a ver gilipollas no te das cuenta de que es una manera de crear tribu, de unirnos, de cohesión social, qué quieres ser condenado al ostracismo le digo dame dos décimos.
in reply to Alferecía enjoyer

@modulux La envidia vende mucha lotería. Nadie quiere que le toque a sus compañeros/familia/amigos y ser el único que no llevaba. No juegas para ganar, sino para no perder. Si le toca a cualquier desconocido, no has jugado, tampoco has perdido pero si le toca a tus compañeros y a ti no la sensación es de haber perdido y ser un pringao. Esos anuncios en los que le regalan un décimo al pardillo que no llevaba es una forma pasivo-agresiva de recordártelo
in reply to Javi Domínguez

Cuando lo hablo con extranjeros siempre les digo que la lotería no es un tema de ilusión y de pensar que vas a ganar, sino de despecho. No te puedes permitir la posibilidad de que tu jefe, o el compañero al que odias, se vuelva rico y tú no.


So so many reviews of audio equipment don't actually have any audio. Good to see that different here.
[Best Headset Microphones for Podcasting: USB Headset Mic Guide](thepodcasthost.com/equipment/h…)


„Naposledy za námi přijela někdy na podzim. Jen na pár dní. Ustlala si tehdy mezi mnou a klukem, na zemi, přímo pod stolem. Prý že tak je zvyklá, že takhle se cítí v bezpečí. Celé noci tam pak naříkala. Vyla jako zvíře a křičela ze spaní. Nikdo si prý neumíme představit, co se tam na východě odehrává.“

reportermagazin.cz/80585/jak-p…



Ever find that sitting in front of your unnecessarily complex music rig is hard sometimes? Creative block hits and there's nothing you can do about it?
I certainly find that lately, more often than not.
One device has come into my life and changed a lot of that however. Ableton Move.

In this world-first video, I take you through making a beat without sight, just using the undocumented screen-reader function within the web-based Move Manager.

It's incredibly freeing to be able to just load a fresh set, be presented with four random sounds and perhaps one of them will inspire you so you just begin doing a thing that you had absolutely no plan to do before you started.
#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
#Accessibility #Ableton #ScreenReader #Blind #Music #Composition

in reply to Andre Louis

@talon Given that you, like me, appreciated Ableton Note, methinks you'll appreciate this stand-alone thing which is sort of like Note but not quite. Link in-thread if you end up being curious. It has sparked such creativity in me and I'm loving it.
in reply to Andre Louis

I did see your video about it and I want one really bad. But I'll have to probably wait a little. Can't really afford it right now :( :(


What's a good podcast to have on at work these days? Ideally around tech but not overly US-centric and def no techbro energy, also: social justice, and probs arts.
I'm determined to make podcasts happen in my life, but if I have to hear one more smarmy US podcaster giggle at some quip about some serious topic or an other or attempt "humour" I will lose my actual shit
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This may be a bit too niche, but I'm the co-host and co-producer of a podcast called Talk Description to Me. Our main target audience is the blind and low vision community, but it's a lively fun and informative dive into the visuals of many things, conversational between myself and a professional Audio Describer. Given the delightful popularity of alt text here, you might find it diverting. www.talkdescriptiontome.com


Showing up for more interviews at the tech company and when they start insisting that I was turned down for the job so I should go away, explain that the only options are "yes" or "maybe later"


Liebe Männer,
wenn ihr einen Post über Mansplaining lest und das dringende Bedürfnis verspürt, witzig drunterzukommentieren (z.B. "Ich mansplaine hier mal drunter haha"), lasst es einfach.
Es ist nicht lustig und tausende Männer vor euch hatten schon dieselbe Idee.

#Mansplaining



Do not downplay this. The Wall Street Journal editorial endorses murdering UN peacekeeping troops. This is all this means. They have adopted Netanyahu's line. It's a choice.

What follows is Israel bombing the UN.

They already did that: look up the 1996 Qana Massacre.

wsj.com/opinion/unifil-israel-…



Kind of a jarring experience to have dudes publicly in my mentions defending Stallman over individual nitpicks on one item in a thousand-page dossier while right next to them on my TL are locked posts from women detailing decades of trauma and ruined career opportunities from him and his ilk.

Stallman is a piece of shit, he has demonstrated this over the course of decades, and if you want me to think highly of you, you will not defend him in my replies. I am not open to being persuaded!

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