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Trying to get this $168 refunded from Sling... Not sure how successful I'll be. Right now they're giving me their standard "we don't offer partial refunds" tactics, and I mentioned to them that since I was a prospective customer, I didn't have the option for a trial and thus couldn't find out that it wasn't accessible to me. That's not my fault. Been up all night just to call them right when their customer service line opens, because this is just infuriating me
in reply to Tamas G

As you should be getting a refund. That is just not right.
in reply to Tamas G

well, nope. Not my lucky day today, I guess. Based on viewership and the fact that my subscription itself is ended, they will not offer any refunds. What really got me was how the agent ended her conversation to me with "I hope you get better soon." As though my blindness is a temporary disease I will surely recover from some day. Ha. If I'm really going to have this subscription until January 19th, I'm going to make a lot of recordings humiliating how inaccessible every piece of their app is
in reply to Tamas G

Keep calling, keep calling, keep calling, that is what I have to do until I get what I want accomplished.
in reply to Tamas G

it's easy enough for me to use the screen recording tools in iOS or in my browser to make videos, send them along, and hopefully let others who use keyboards, are blind, or use voice access to not sign up for this shit of a service (Sling).
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in reply to Tamas G

I also hope that you complain about the agen'ts unacceptable, ableist comment.
in reply to Tamas G

keep reaching out. they might refund you simply so you'll go away! Sorry to hear about this experience.
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🎉 PSA: F-Droid users! 🎉 The Tuta Calendar app is now available on F-Droid 🥳

❤️ You can get the Tuta Calendar app here: f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tut…

#Fdroid #Tutacalendar #Tuta #Download #Encryption

in reply to Tuta

interesting. You say you have an Android calendar app, but you show an iOS screenshot. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
in reply to Tuta

I always appreciate how your team treats F-Droid and Linux as first-class citizens. It's one of the reasons I prefer your service.

Keep it up please! 🥺

in reply to Professor Code

@ProfessorCode Agreed. If I hadn’t gotten myself into the Proton ecosystem when I did, I’d probably have chosen Tuta as my primary email provider. Although, I might switch my business over to them.
in reply to Keagan

@governorkeagan @ProfessorCode And we'd be happy to welcome you. 😍 Any questions, we're here to help - we use Linux and F-Droid ourselves so our approach in this regard will never change!
in reply to Tuta

Is there any reason (besides available features) that I couldn’t use a free personal plan for my business until it starts bringing in money? Once I’ve got a more consistent income stream from the business I could then upgrade to a business plan.

I’m the sole employee in the business. I think the only major feature I’d be missing by taking this approach would be a custom domain — which I have setup already via my family plan on Proton.

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in reply to Keagan

@governorkeagan Hi there! Thanks for reaching out :) Please note that free plans are exclusively for personal use, not business. We would suggest choosing the Business Essential plan which is well suited to small businesses and freelancers.



somebody with an editor inserting tabs with a size of 2 has edited some files in this project that otherwise used an indent of 4 spaces

but no problem, they fixed this by doing two tabs everywhere so their code looked the same as the rest of the project

in reply to petur 🔵😶

that's why I like having a CI job that goes red if someone inserts TABs in the code...

in reply to Fred Brooker

nikdy som migrénu nemal a podľa mňa umriem na infarkt :kekw:

edit: tým som si istý

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"s krevietkami" 😄
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I felt this

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You can now buy Microsoft's shockingly expensive Copilot keyboard | Windows Central windowscentral.com/accessories…


Uzavření smíru se slovenským ministerstvem vnitra ohledně evidence u StB navrhl podle Eštoka sám Babiš. irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/smir-o…



What are some of the biggest accessibility fails you found on a website where the people building the site wanted to do something good but actually made the situation worse, e.g. by using verbose alt texts, overusing ARIA, etc.?
in reply to Manuel MatuzoWitch 🧙‍♀️

@svenja Forms that speak the number of characters that have been written, and the number of characters that remained, with every keypress.


Curioso que la Xunta se haya planteado implantar discriminación positiva en favor de los hombres y lo haya llevado a una mesa de negociación.
in reply to modulux

discriminación positiva en favor de los hombres? Donde se necesita tal?
in reply to Juan CBS

Pues según la Xunta en los procesos selectivos de funcionarios. Los sindicatos dijeron que ni de coña y se retiró la brillante idea.


LibreOffice advocates around the world help to raise awareness of our free and privacy-oriented office suite! Phil Shapiro is one example, and has developed a maths game using LibreOffice Calc: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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“We were excited about the internet because we saw it as a place where you could connect with other nerds about your niche hobby. What we did not predict was that other peoples’ niche hobby would be white supremacy.” — panama joe, metafilter.com/195580/The-Form…



Guidelines for chemistry in braille get modernized bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?re…


Braille Institute of America Announces Scott Blanks as Vice President, Accessibility and Employment brailleinstitute.org/about-us/…



Fools Experiments by Edward M. Lerner and Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert #Heinlein on the #reread shelf this week. enjoyed them both, very different #books
in reply to Sean Randall

Also, ending the week here in Reread |City are Heinlein's Sixth Column, Edward Lerner's Small Miracles, Mackey Chandler's Fair Trade (Sequel coming I hear), and The Unincorporated Man by the Kollin Brothers.


Bij Waag Futurelab zijn wij op zoek naar een conceptontwikkelaar/researcher voor de afdeling Life (32-40 uur p/w)!

Sta jij voor open, transparante en inclusieve ontwerpprocessen? Treed je de digitaliserende wereld optimistisch tegemoet, maar ben je niet blind voor de schaduwkant ervan? Dan hebben wij dé baan voor jou!

Als conceptontwikkelaar/researcher zorg jij dat innovatieve ideeën een plek krijgen in de stad. Bekijk de vacature: waag.homerun.co/conceptontwikk…



Finland approved mining exploration in Sámi territory without assessing its cultural impact or gaining Sámi consent.

Sámi sisters led the case, arguing that traditional governance structures were ignored.

UN ruled Finland must amend its laws to recognize Sámi collective land rights and fully implement free, prior and informed consent.

“Sustainability is an empty word if you don’t respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands.”
Näkkäläjärvi, Sámi leader.
ehn.org/mining-in-finland-viol…



i'm so glad the RISC-V vendor ecosystem has embraced reasonable and easy to remember extension names

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in reply to Allison Husain

ah, I see somebody took the same "tragic explosion in a consonants factory" approach that ARM used for the NEON intrinsics naming policy


Current status: Setting up a bunch of scheduled tasks on my machines while i'm away so I don't lose the remote links. Restart screenreader every hour, restart entire machine every day ... one thing I'm not sure how to do is to force a reboot if the system goes down somehow...
in reply to Florian

can you set something up with wake on LAN? If you don't have an internal battery you could withdraw power for a fixed period when the machine is ordinarily off such that if it's crashed it'll die. Might end up stuck in a boot loop, I suppose.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo how'd I trigger it from afar though? I thought there were KVM switches that did this but i haven't found anything yet... could supposedly set it up so I can send a shutdown /r /f command from a still running machine but that'd only work if the machine is still aware enough to receive that command



To je inak zaujimavy "twist", ze kym volakedy bojovali v "proxy vojnach" proti sebe USA a ZSSR, tak dnes mozno toto budu robit Juzna Korea proti Severnej.

Co je zatial konzistentne/to iste je to, ze sa nadalej jedna o cca "kapitalisti vs. komunisti".

via @kubicek

mamut.social/@kubicek/11334969…



Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/in…


to vždy keď idem do Telekomu, to už je skoro tradícia #caffedipraga
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in reply to Jozef

@Jozef predávajú určite. Stolár do pppp, ako sa máš? Mne z teba niekedy vyhadzuje poistky. :02_gao:


wonder what the best way to transfer all my data. I hate itunes for windows. is there a better way on a windows computer? I can do the phone to phone transfer but will that get all my passwords and things?
in reply to Brian Moore

there is now a stand-alone app in the Windows App Store called Apple Devices. It works very well with screen readers and allows you to make a full encrypted backup.


Join BITS and presenter Maria Kristic, as we take a look at Braille Screen Input in iOS 18.

When: Tuesday October 22, at 8:00 PM Eastern (5:00 PM Pacific).

Where: BITS Community Zoom Room.

With the release of iOS 18, there are many changes and updates to Braille Screen Input. Among the updates are enhanced accuracy and predictive text, new gestures, advanced keyboard layouts, and enhanced language support.
Join BITS member Maria Kristic as she helps us navigate through all the changes.



#Naev #Accessibility #Blind #Game #Development - Hi. These guys would like to make their game accessible for us. Do me a personal favour, jump on the topic and bring in your individual expertise. Wether you are a coder, audio designer or just an ordinary blind player who knows about the mechanics needed for an accessible game, jump in and help us. I whent to their #Discord server and just asked, if there is a chance, making the game accessible at all. and now, see, they put up the Github proposal. Would like to see this really happen. Thanks for your support. github.com/naev/naev/issues/26…


Wearables could ‘revolutionize’ Parkinson’s disease treatment, study claims myhealthyapple.com/wearables-c…




10 Custom GPTs That Will Save You Time and Supercharge Your Productivity pcmag.com/articles/best-custom…


Digitalizace stavebního řízení je velká téma, které se hodně přetřásalo médiích v posledních týdnech. @keddie na konferenci OpenAlt přiblíží jak digitalizace probíhala. Ve druhé přednášce pak shrne kam se posunul egovernment za poslední tři roky.

Přijďte se na něj podívat v sobotu 2. listopadu na OpenAlt.

openalt.cz/

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in reply to Michal Špondr

@michal
Budeme se snazit co pujde, ale muze se pokazit asi milion veci (selhat kamera, zvuk, obsluha neco podela, bude vypadek pripojeni, ...)

Osobne jsem se zarekl, ze online streamy ani zaznamy nebudu resit, protoze by mi z toho praskla hlava ;-D



- Dobry den, potrebuji se objednat k lekari, je to celkem akutni, moje potize se dost rapidne zhorsuji a potrebuji nutne zmenit medikaci.
- Samozrejme, hned vas objednam ..... Mame termin na 4/2/2025 na 11.15
- Tak dik, udelejte mi rezervaci a at se za mnou stavi na Cheltenhamskou rozptylovou loucku...
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in reply to Archos

@archos Tady je to od COVIDu se zdravotnictvim uplne v perdeli. Ne teda, ze pred tim by nebylo, ale ted je to o dost horsi. Holt budu zase hledat zkratky, ktere jsou beznym smrtelnikum neviditelne


The Whimsical World of Novelty Radios radioworld.com/columns-and-vie…


They are here again. I don't have to explain why we call them #chaosMakers right?


I work on #curl full-time

daniel.haxx.se/job.html

(probably even a little more than full-time but let's ignore that for now)

#curl