In-Process is out, featuring the results of our braille survey, Elston Changemakers event, the 2024.4 Release Candidate, an NV Access All-Hands, and using Data Validation in Excel.
Read now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Software #FOSS #Elston #Excel
In-Process 23rd October 2024
Over the past fortnight we had a fantastic response to our braille survey, thank you! We already have some learnings to share with you! Plus, we’re nearly ready for NVDA 2024.4, are you? We’ve also…NV Access
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Welcome to the RB family, WikiReader 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.n…
WikiReader is a lightweight Android app for reading Wikipedia articles distraction-free. Supports light mode, dark mode and Material You dynamic colors.
Thanks to Nishant's work on it, we were now able to build it reprocucibly 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
„WikiReader“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Read Wikipedia pages distraction-freeIzzyOnDroid App Repo
you know how some music gets faster and faster? 'accelerando' is the term for this i guess.
anyway, what i find interesting is when people sing or play together this kind of music, they seem to accelerate in unison, even though no one in particular is leading.
which made me think, is there some universal rate of acceleration that people unconsciously follow? like some fibonacci-style pattern? has this been researched?
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My @frameworkcomputer laptop 13 is in service. Just dropped the SSD in and it booted immediately.
Pros: I didn't have to install an OS
Cons: I still haven't ditched Silverblue.
@NostalgicKitsune it's just my fault I bought the hype. and them I'm being told there is a bug in the installer if I try to install workstation on top it might wipe my home partition/volume...
death by a thousand cuts.
It seems to me that the mainstream software industry is no longer attractive to our best and brightest young technologists. This is sad. dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…
"It might help if I had any idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I don't. Probably not a programmer, the thought of working on microservices and bloated web stuff all day does not appeal to me. But...what else? <shrug>"
Quin (@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space)
@jscholes Everything you've just described is exactly what I'm feeling. I'm in networking 1, and while the other students are being told what an IP address is, I'm probing all the subnets on the school's wi-fi network with nmap.The Dragon's Cave
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a few days ago there was a heated argument about whether developers should study the humanities.
well, i'd just like if most developers can just learn how to write concisely and clearly in any format. how about that
Absolutely agree, and if quoting the greats helps with it, here's E. W. Dijkstra, one of the most hardcore programmer-mathematicians ever:
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
Y ahora el Gobierno facilitado por Macron lleva a la Asamblea Nacional dicha derogación. Hilarante.
Well now.
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Apparently some fiddlery went on with the CPU, but even if Rustls is "only as fast as" the traditional solutions, I feel like it''s a hell of a lot safer from a security POV.
openssl-library.org/news/vulne… (about 10-20 a year) vs ... 2 for Rustls. Now 2 a year. 2 as in forever
Now granted Rustls has less legacy technical debt and baggage and is written in a memory safe language... Which I guess is sort of the point, it's more secure. So if it's as performant...
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.www.memorysafety.org
Ich glaube es wird #Zeit den #Uhrenumstellungsfilter wieder zu aktivieren.
#CEST / #CET / #DST
#Sommerzeit #Winterzeit #Normalzeit
#Zeitumstellung ist nicht, #Uhrenumstellung schon.
You matched my filter
Aber gute Idee, die Uhren woanders hin (um)zustellen, obwohl.. eigentlich steht die eine Uhr gut da im Küchenregal.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated, 10 removed and 2 added apps:
* Rate Your Pics: allows you to rate your pictures very quickly 🛡️
* Ease The Waiting: a mix between a calendar and a clock that makes you wait faster
Thanks to Aholic Gino for walking through older apps (see: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – still a lot to do there), 10 apps which were no longer working were removed.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
The BT Speak Users’ Manual is Now Available!!
Blazie Technologies is happy to announce the publication of a comprehensive manual for the BT Speak. The manual goes beyond what we provide in our Getting Started guide and offers the following sections.
• Introduction, including describing the contents of the packaging for new users who are unboxing their BT Speak for the first time
• Physical description and orientation
• How to power on, shut down, putting the device to sleep and waking up the device
• Battery considerations
• How to navigate menus and use shortcut keys for Quick navigation
• Adjusting speech, including how to switch to other voices and text to speech engines
• Getting help, including how to obtain context-sensitive help and accessing the text and audio versions of the Getting Started guides
• How to connect to Wi-Fi
• How to install new software updates
• Accessing the Settings menu
• Introducing the editor, including how to find and manipulate text
• File management, including how to create and open files and subdirectories
• Using applications, including the radio tuner, phonebook, agenda calendar and BT Learn for free Braille coaching, tests and games
• An introduction to desktop mode
• An introduction to using the Mozilla Thunderbird email program
• An introduction to Web browsing using Chromium and Firefox
• Concludes with an extensive list of commands
This is the first version of the users’ manual. We will be continually adding and modifying this document as new features are added, with newer versions of the manual being released on a regular basis. We welcome feedback from our users regarding how the manual can be improved. If you have feedback for us, please submit comments and suggestions via email to support@blazie.net.
Where to Download the Manual
You can find the manual on our Web site by pointing your Web browser to www.blazietech.com. You’ll find it from several locations, including the front page, from the Guides and Media page, from the BT Speak Pro product page and from the Documentation page.
For convenience, here are the direct download links.
Accessible PDF version:
blazietech.com/_files/ugd/4d64…
Microsoft Word version (also compatible with LibreOffice Writer)
download-files.wixmp.com/raw/2…
We hope that this first edition of the manual will assist you in learning more about how to use your BT Speak and that it will help you to become a more effective and productive user.
I always just default to the plain text view, but at least one mass mail fulfillment house (Constant Contact), while they do send their stuff as multipart mime, the text version has no line breaks. Just a solid wall of text.
Makes it easy to ignore them.
**No appreciation for the poor poor million dollar companies here. Shame.**
všechny tyhle firmy
Microsoft
Amazon
RedHat
Apple
Oracle
Google
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And that house isn't expensive compared to some.
£5000000 and beyond.
I believe Johnson lived in a £9000000 home.
MOST EXCELLENT NEWS: The judge dismissed the case against John. He will be freed today.
Please do consider supporting freefunder.com/donate/save-the…. It's been over a year since his last paycheck, and legal representation isn't free. Thanks.
Yay! Squee!
Aira ASL: On-Demand Interpreting for the Deaf Community - Aira
Aira is expanding its accessibility offerings with a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer on-demand interpreting to the Deaf Community. Learn more here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Ugh, my previous Lenovo laptop for work would often throttle to 400 MHz and stay there. Rebooting sometimes helped, but not always.
I tried many things. Nothing worked. Forums were full of other people complaining about the exact same problem, on both Linux and even Windows.
It was a hardware problem with the Intel CPU and poor chassis design that had no way to get rid of the heat.
I hope your laptop is fine and that it was a random aberration.
Have you tried updating the firmware yet?
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Garrett LeSage • • •@garrett it was running for less than 30 minutes since I got it. But then I ran an update (didn't before transplanting the drive because rebooting is a waste of my time). New kernel
Now it seems to not have had that problem. As I said elsewhere in the thread, it looks like the behaviour I recently observed when running on battery on the Dhell.