1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?
Wow. I didn't expect the amount of resonance my writeup is getting. Thank you very much.
I did a lot of changes, split the document. Hopefully providing alternative, practical strategies for synthesizing sounds in a size-coding context:
ronnypries.de/notes/music-prod…
May also be generally relevant for folks struggling/are bored with their bassdrums.
#demoscene #sizecoding #sounddesign #mixing #patchdesign #musicproduction
Synthesis for coders - rktic's working notes
Hopefully actionable patch-programming insights for size-coders, who also make their own music.ronnypries.de
13 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Python Application Development Tools - LinuxLinks
Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
"Idle thoughts for October"
baldurbjarnason.com/2024/idle-…
This week's post is short but manages to be a bit contemplative nonetheless.
Idle thoughts for October
I decided to take a bit of a writing break after last week’s mammoth essay. Not because writing these things takes so much of my time.www.baldurbjarnason.com
Und es flattert gleich ein Beispiel in meine Timeline, warum es Mist ist, wenn Posts keine Bildbeschreibung haben.
Es wäre toll, wenn ALLE, auch Leute, die auf Screenreader angewiesen sind und zum Beispiel als Sehbehinderte oder Blinde die Buchmesse besuchen, wüssten, dass in Halle 3.1 B101 beim Gedenkprojekt zu den Bücherverbrennungen der Nazis Sticker und Buttons der Leseratten Antifa zu haben sind.
Es ya el tercer día y esto que no se pasa.
Sé que me queda sólo un día que sufrir, por lo general, pero ahora mismo me quiero morir.
Y para colmo, el termómetro parlante que tengo me dice: "su temperatura es 38,1 grados. ¡usted es la fieeeeebre e e e!", a sí, con una voz cavernosa.
Hey Tuta Fans! Want to know how Tuta's new visual universe is improving our growing range of products? 🎨
Read Tuta's rebranding story told by our talented in-house designer Daniel 👉tuta.com/blog/tuta-new-creativ…
#TurnonPrivacy #Rebrand #Tuta
#MadeinGermany #Design
Rebrand Tuta: Opening the source of our new visual universe | Tuta
Turn ON privacy. That's what we offer since day 1 of Tuta(nota). Now our brand architecture reflects this in a new app ecosystem.Tuta
“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…
@glyph
The Stallman report
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project.The Stallman report
👁️ @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)."
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
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.
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Hopefully it comes quickly!
AI-powered software narrates surroundings for visually impaired in real time
A world of color and texture could soon become more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, via new software that narrates what a camera records.University of Michigan (Tech Xplore)
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…
GitHub - SzczepanLeon/esphome-components
Contribute to SzczepanLeon/esphome-components development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML · Jens Oliver Meiert
The annual HTML conformance analysis, validating 200 home pages of the most popular websites. Despite improvements, there is no signal of commitment to valid output as a quality baseline to benefit end users as well as web development as a profession…meiert.com
*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…
City Bus Manager on Steam
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data.store.steampowered.com
Best password managers 2024: Protect your online accounts
The best password is one you probably can't easily remember—that's why a password manager is so crucial to your online security. We review LastPass, Dashlane, Keeper, NordPass, and others to find the best one for managing passwords.Michael Ansaldo (PCWorld)
Arranging Airport Accessibility Assistance - OE Patients
Getting through an airport is quite a challenge, especially when vision loss makes it difficult or impossible to read the signs or see the arrows that indicate you are moving in the right direction. ThereMarc Fernandez (OE Patients)
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…
How to Hack a Meal Kit Subscription and Get More for Your Money
Here's what you need to know to make the most of your next HelloFresh, Sunbasket or Blue Apron box.David Watsky (CNET)
#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…
Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century by Macfarlane
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
How Can I Maximize Battery Life on my Windows PC?
Whether you have a brand new Windows laptop or an ancient notebook PC, battery life's a challenge. Here's how to extend it with a few tweaks to your settings...Dave Taylor (Ask Dave Taylor)
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iPhone 16 Pro Max: A Review and Some Thoughts on Which Model to Buy | AppleVis
The iPhone 16 Pro Max is the largest iPhone Apple has ever made, and it offers the longest ever battery life on an iPhone. It also has the highest starting price tag of any iPhone (it starts at $1,199 and goes up very quickly from there).applevis.com
Android 15 features: Everything you need to know about confirmed and leaked features
Android 15 is finally here. Here are all the changes it brings, and the features that had leaked but didn't make it.Aamir Siddiqui (Android Authority)
Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities
Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities October 15, 2024, Clearwater, FL—Vispero today announced a strategic partnership with Aira, a leading technology company providing r…agraves (Vispero)
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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
Michael Vogel
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Gerhard Hallstein
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •@Michael Vogel
Ich verstehe Deine Antwort nicht. Sei doch so gut und beantworte meine Frage.
"Erstellt" werden diese Beiträge im Blog doch so wie so als meine eigenen Beiträge. Aber
1. Werden diese Beiträge automatisch an meine Kontakte verteilt?
2. Ist es Standard, dass sie nicht in meiner Timeline angezeigt werden?
Kommst Du auf meine private Nachricht noch zurück?
Michael Vogel
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Zur Beantwortung Deiner Fragen muss ich mir mehr Zeit nehmen, das geht aber nicht während der Arbeit. Da ich gestern bis nach 20:00 gearbeitet habe, habe ich am Abend nichts mehr getan. Im Moment sitze ich immer noch auf der Arbeit , dementsprechend wird es dann heute leider auch nichts mehr.
Zu den privaten Nachrichten: Ich habe keine bekommen.
Gerhard Hallstein
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Ich meine diese privaten Nachrichten ==> squeet.me/display/962c3e10-226…
Das native Teilen habe ich wieder eingeschaltet.
Michael Vogel
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Gerhard Hallstein
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Gerhard Hallstein
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Michael Vogel
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Es gibt keine Berichte anderer Leute. Der Account @Tagesschau (inoffiziell) ist identisch eingerichtet, d.h. er teilt automatisch die Beiträge eines anderen Accounts auf genau die selbe Art und Weise. Da sich der Account auch auf dem gleichen Server befindet (squeet.me) kann es also kein grundsätzliches Problem sein, was die Suche nach der Ursache noch mysteriöser macht.
Du hast Doch einen Account auf einem anderen Friendica-Server, oder? Könntest Du den nicht testweise so einrichten, dass er die Beiträge Deines Blog-Accounts automatisch teilt?
Gerhard Hallstein
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •@Michael Vogel Wenn Du die Funktion Natives Teilen nicht wieder herstellen kannst bzw. magst, fühle ich mich mit meinen Kenntnissen und Fähigkeiten außerstande, hin und her zu testen. Darum versuche ich zu akzeptieren, dass ich mich vom nativen Teilen verabschieden muss.
Die aktuelle Einstellung Spiegeln als meine eigenen Beiträge bewirkt, dass Blogeinträge und Kommentare auf dem Blog in meiner oldie-Instanz gespiegelt werden. Blogkommentare auf oldie werden jedoch nicht im Blog gespiegelt. Ich denke, damit werde ich leben können.
Michael Vogel
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Gerhard Hallstein
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •Der andere Friendica-Account ist mein Feedreader, den ich ausschließlich als Feedreader nutzen möchte. Und nur zu diesem Zweck habe ich ihn eingerichtet.
Von weiteren Tests in dieser Sache möchte ich lieber Abstand nehmen, weil mich das nur wieder verwirren würde.
Die aktuelle Lösung (siehe oben) ist zwar nicht die Ideallösung, aber sie kommt von allen diesbezüglichen Funktionen dem nativen Teilen noch am nächsten.