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Ballots set on fire in three states as Election Day approaches
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168404/oregon-washington-arizona-ballots-drop-boxes-fires?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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World's First Stereo Recording June 1 1934
"This is the first single groove stereo recording, produced at Bell's Telephone Laboratories in New York City on June 1, 1934. AC Keller and IS Rafuse had al...YouTube
Hey fellow #BlindMastodon users! I'm looking for recommendations on two types of writing tools for Windows:
1. Accessible text expanders
2. Word prediction software
I use both #JAWS and #NVDA screen readers. I tried Espanso (an open-source text expander), but it didn't work well with NVDA. I also tested Lightkey for word prediction, but it didn't seem accessible.
As an #ActuallyAutistic person, word prediction would really help with my autism-related communication challenges.
Have you found any text expanders or word prediction tools that work well with screen readers? What has your experience been like? I'd love to hear your recommendations and thoughts!
#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #TextExpander #WordPrediction #ScreenReader #Windows #AutismAccommodations #autism #blind @mastoblind @main
For kicks, have you tried clearing the clipboard by pressing the Leasey key followed by the letter Z? Admittedly, you should not need to do this every time you want to expand an abbreviation but I'm just curious as to whether that might fix things going forward.
Please note that I'm just a Leasey user and am not intending to represent Hartgen Consultancy.
How to keep employees with disabilities from leaving your agency
"To have a good program for accommodating persons with disabilities, you need leadership buy in," said Karren Brummond.Tom Temin (Federal News Network)
Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google's NotebookLM - MarkTechPost
Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google's NotebookLMAsif Razzaq (MarkTechPost Media Inc.)
How to Install and Use uv: A Python Installer and Resolver | Linux Today
Learn how to install and use a Rust-based Python installer and resolver named uv on Linux, Windows, and macOS with a practical usage guide.LinuxToday
Any other pain points around Facebook you would like addressed?
Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice, Not Fire, Says A New Study Of Ancient Volcanism
201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth's five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species suddenly disappeared. The wipeout coincided with massive volcanic...Eurasia Review
In seinem 1927 (!) erschienenen Buch beklagt sich Kurt Floericke, wie furchtbar die Tierwelt in den letzten 40 Jahren "verarmt und verödet" ist. Die Schuld dafür weist er hauptsächlich dem "Siegeszug von Industrie und Technik" zu.
Surprise…
Das eBook dazu kommt die Tage mit der nächsten Runde bei ebooks.qumran.org/ an. Der Titel: "Aussterbende Tiere"…
Izzy's freie Bibliothek
Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!ebooks.qumran.org
Bei so viel Interesse (Likes & Boosts) möchte ich Euch natürlich nicht zu lange auf die Folter spannen – das genannte #eBook steht jetzt bereit, wurde gerade mit 23 weiteren bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeladen.
Viel Spaß beim Lesen!
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Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!ebooks.qumran.org
Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models | Linux Today
The biggest change in the new Raspberry Pi OS release is the enablement of the labwc Wayland compositor by default on all Raspberry Pi models.LinuxToday
CAQ tables bill to limit international students at Québec universities.
FYI: Specific universities are being targeted.
SPOILER ALERT: THERE WILL BE EVEN LESS DOCTORS IN THIS PROVINCE.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #racist #xenophobic #hate #fear #division
- I know what it is; I'm a programmer (37%, 9 votes)
- I don't know what it is; I'm a programmer (54%, 13 votes)
- I know what it is; I'm not a programmer (4%, 1 vote)
- I don't know what it is; I'm not a programmer (4%, 1 vote)
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The solution: "find -maxdepth 1 -type d -empty -delete", to remove all of the empty directories one level below the current directory.
Having solved the problem myself, I then queried GPT-4, as I was interested to know whether it could give a correct solution. Indeed it could, although the GPT-4 solution was unnecessarily more complex than mine, with an -exec option used to run rmdir on each directory. I did specify that I was using Linux, so GNU extensions to the find command would have been allowed in the answer.
#CommandLine #Linux
Exploring the Foundations of Linux: A Look at Major Distributions and Their Base Systems
In the world of operating systems, Linux stands out not only as a robust and versatile platform but also as a vibrant ecosystem with hundreds of unique…Lucas Rees (LinuxConfig)
Federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto
cbc.ca/news/politics/high-spee…
Another High Speed rail report.
I'll believe it when it actually is in service. But at that pace I'll be dead.
"A source close to the file said the bidding consortia warned Ottawa that ridership would be lower with a high-frequency train than with a high-speed one, since customers are looking for the shortest possible trip."
So they paid somebody to tell them that? Maybe I should become Govt Consultant and make the big bucks here. I could have told them.
ame thing.
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Age of Empires Mobile.. jako ja v tej tímovej hre až tak dobrý nie som 😬
edit: ale tvárim sa tak
With JAWS, you do have two options.
First, Doug Lee has a free set of scripts to do this called JGauge.
dlee.org/jgauge/
Also, Leasey from Hartgen Consultancy has a similar capability.
www.leaseycentral.com
In my opinion, JGauge's sounds are a bit closer to what you might be used to with NVDA. Of course, Leasey offers way more features and so is definitely worth paying for.
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Since we have a bunch of Apple Intelligence features launching today, and I've had a little bit of time to test them on macOS, I thought I'd grade them based on my experiences so far.
There are three separate downloadable models at work here, one for Apple Intelligence, one for Xcode, and one for Photos’ Clean Up.
Mail Summaries: A
Notification Summaries: B
Photos Clean Up: B
Writing Tools: C-
Safari Summarization: C-
Smart Reply: D
Xcode Autocomplete: D-
'New' Siri: F
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Via journalist Bill Grueskin:
Unfathomable: Washpost has lost 200,000 subscribers since Bezos pulled the #Harris endorsement. That's 8% of its base in a few days.
Keep in mind its net gain for most of 2024 was only 4,000 (not a typo) subscribers.
Le rapport sur papier glacé.
Ottawa ira de l’avant avec un train à grande vitesse entre Québec et Toronto
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2…
I will believe it when it actually is there.
Ottawa ira de l’avant avec un train à grande vitesse entre Québec et Toronto
Le gouvernement Trudeau annoncera dans les prochaines semaines un projet de train à grande vitesse (TGV) pour relier Québec et Toronto, a appris Radio-Canada.Thomas Gerbet (Radio-Canada)
Also, in case anyone is counting, Starlink is now 63% of all active satellites.
2 out of ever 3 satellites up there now are owned by that awful billionaire. He effectively controls Low Earth Orbit. That should terrify everyone.
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...just in case anyone needs more to be terrified of. Sorry.
You know what you can do? Not buy Starlink internet. (And if Starlink is your only option, write to them as a customer and tell them that you are concerned about their safety practices on the ground and in orbit, and they need to make fewer satellites with longer functional lifetimes)
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