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Thunderbird for Android 8.0b3 is out! There are two things we'd really love help testing. One is the funding feature! (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). The other is the QR code sync between desktop and mobile (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). Thanks to everyone who has helped beta test and given feedback!

Release notes on our GitHub: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

#ThunderbirdForAndroid #Thunderbird #OpenSource



dobre hovorí

youtube.com/watch?v=jOOMoziHT5…

in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Bombic je z tej miniaturnej mensiny, pre ktoru sa podarilo naplnit tu cast programoveho vyhlasenia aktualnej vlady, ktora hovori o "bezpečnejšie žiť".

Lebo nackovia, fasisti, klamari, podvodnici, atd. a pod. sa tu teraz naozaj citia bezpecnejsie. (Volakedy by sli do basy.)

ref.: mastodon.social/@phanecak/1133…



I really feel sorry for the public sector employees working on meeting this #a11y deadline for PDFs.

"PDFs are where services go to die."

No doubt the people working on this will be super under-resourced, and actually meeting this deadline won't be seen as much of a win by anyone, but not meeting it has legal and dire consequences.

To be clear more #a11y is good! Under-resourcing teams is not!

deptcivicthings.substack.com/p…

#Government #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech

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Here in the United States, "I'm voting Green" is just a shorthand way of saying "I'm voting for the cheaper Putin lickspittle to help the more expensive Putin lickspittle get back into the White House."

To the Green supporters/Russian bots about to fume in the comments about how their vote is in fact something else than the above, here is my pre-emptive reply:



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



13 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Python Application Development Tools lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


"Idle thoughts for October"

baldurbjarnason.com/2024/idle-…

This week's post is short but manages to be a bit contemplative nonetheless.



¡Y aún dicen que el pescado es caro!
Obra de Sorolla, hoy es su centenario.
Que maravilla de pintura. Me fascina.
Todo.
Es como los niños correteando por la playa años después.


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

in reply to Tuta

Really nice looking logo, I like the rebrand! The old one made me think of the Cyprian petrol station Eko eko.com.cy/en/


“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…



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…



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?


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…



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-…


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 :( :(


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-…



[EN]Since new readers have arrived here, I think I should introduce myself again. My name is Berta, I am a Spanish-Ecuadorian #philosopher and #artist. I am especially interested in the transition from #nature to #cultures, #mythology, #religion, and #symbolism. In my current #photography project, I am reconstructing the myth of Persephone.


🇫🇷 La decadencia del macronismo, bajo sus diferentes formas y etiquetas:

2017: 450.000 simpatizantes
2023: 35.000 militantes
2024: 8.500 militantes

lefigaro.fr/politique/le-nombr…

#politicafrancesa



Say hello to #libssh2 1.11.1, just released => github.com/libssh2/libssh2/rel…


A couple years ago I opened a thread to add #AltText on #Mastodon banners and profile pictures. Now detailed todos are being posted. Is there anyone who could help in this case?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#a11y #Acessibility

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neat, Rogue Legacy source code is on GitHub now github.com/flibitijibibo/Rogue…