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Our not so spooky Halloween In-Process blog post is out - No tricks, but plenty of treats - particularly from NVDA 2024.4, including all the highlights, and the new options for reporting font attributes. Plus a big walkthrough of NVDA's stability in the leadup to 2025.1. All that and more, here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

@mastoblind

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News


In-Process 31st October 2024

It’s that spooky time of year for all those who celebrate Halloween. And it’s also Diwali for our Indian friends. Whether you participate in either of these or not, there is something we defi…
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Did you know that @tdforg has a Certification Program for #LibreOffice developers? Rafael Lima just joined us – and tells us about his experiences: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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Interview with Newly Certified LibreOffice Developer Rafael Lima - The Document Foundation Blog

The LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) has appointed Prof. Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, from Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPr) as the newest certified LibreOffice developer. Prof.
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice @The Document Foundation

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Two can play at this game! Chinese sanctions against Skydio — the U.S.’s largest drone maker — have left the company (which supplies UAVs to Ukraine's military) scrambling for a new battery supplier. Yes, folks, Beijing has pulled the batteries from the drones. (The reason for the sanctions is the sale of attack drones to Taiwan.) ft.com/content/b1104594-5da7-4…

Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine

Move by Beijing leaves California company rushing to find new battery providers
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ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH
Dubya's grandda, Prescott, most likely bought his way out of a life in prison when his bank was closed down by FDR because he was the main banker to the Nazis.

this from the Guardian, back in 2004:

"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"
theguardian.com/world/2004/sep…

the Senator for Connecticut got away with it and that ushered the era of USA nazis hiding in plain sight, in and outside the government.

The Bushes are literal architects of American #Fascism


How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's…
Duncan Campbell (The Guardian)
#fascism

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Exploring Samsung Galaxy AI’s Live Translate: In-Call Translation Put to the Test accessibleandroid.com/explorin…

Exploring Samsung Galaxy AI's Live Translate: In-Call Translation Put to the Test - Accessible Android

This is the AI Era. Companies are racing to incorporate as many AI features as possible into their devices. While some features may seem like gimmicks, others
Salih Kunduz (Accessible Android)

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AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses applevis.com/podcasts/applevis…

AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses | AppleVis

Welcome to AppleVis Extra 101, where Dave Nason is joined by Xiaoran Wang and Huasong Cao from Agiga, the team behind the upcoming Echo Vision smart glasses. Check out some early demos, with more to come, on their YouTube channel at: https://www.
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Molly White

See my reporting on their previous violation, which is being reviewed by the FEC: citationneeded.news/coinbase-c…

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation

Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake cryptocurrency-focused super PAC in May 2024.
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#crypto #uspol #cryptocurrency #uspolitics #coinbase

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SiriusXM Unveils 2024 Slate Of Christmas/Holiday Music Channels Including New Jimmy Fallon Channel radioinsight.com/headlines/285…

SiriusXM Unveils 2024 Slate Of Christmas/Holiday Music Channels Including New Jimmy Fallon Channel

SiriusXM has unveiled its suite of Christmas and Holiday music channels for the 2024 season with many launching on Friday,
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I'm thrilled to announce my first blog post on my homepage. Finally, after months of setting my site up, I now have acquired ✨content✨. In this one I share my experience as a volunteer for the matrix conference 2024. Thank you again for this opportunity @matrix @plainschwarz
10/10 would do it again

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Me in a yellow shirt, sitting on grass and staring straight into the sun (camera)

Volunteering for [the matrix conference] 2024

Images by Jan Michalko for the Matrix.org Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0 Intro From September 19th to 22nd of this year the Matrix.org Foundation held their first own Matrix Conference in person here in Berlin.
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[Podcast] AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses applevis.com/podcasts/applevis…

AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses | AppleVis

Welcome to AppleVis Extra 101, where Dave Nason is joined by Xiaoran Wang and Huasong Cao from Agiga, the team behind the upcoming Echo Vision smart glasses. Check out some early demos, with more to come, on their YouTube channel at: https://www.
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Did you know undergrads at Oxford in 1335 were solving homework problems about objects moving with constant acceleration? This blew my mind.

As I explained yesterday, medieval scientists were deeply confused about the connection between force and velocity: it took Newton to realize force is proportional to 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. But in the early 1300s, a group of researchers called the Oxford Calculators made huge progress in understanding objects that move with changing velocity.

They discovered something called the Mean Speed Theorem: an object moving at constant acceleration over some period of time goes just as far as if it were moving uniformly with the velocity it had at the middle instant of its motion!

That's really cool. But it gets better. They gave homework problems called 'sophisms' to the students of Merton College at Oxford. And in 1335, one of them named William Heytesbury wrote a book called 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠, which gives us a look at what these problems were like. Some of them required students to know the Mean Speed Theorem!

Later in the 1300s, Nicolas Oresmus in Paris gave a picture proof of the Mean Speed Theorem. For example, he pointed out that the triangle ACG below has the same area as the rectangle ACFD.

Why did it take so long for Galileo to rediscover this stuff? How did the knowledge of the Oxford Calculators get lost?

plato.stanford.edu/entries/nic…
plato.stanford.edu/entries/hey…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_C…

Two squares side by side F.E.D A.B.C have the same area as the right triangle .......G ....E.D A.B.C

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From my Newsletter:

Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know

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Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know

Git is a version control system that developers use to track changes in their code, cooperate with other developers, and even revert changes if something goes wrong. While most developers know common…
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#XDC2024: The individual videos for each talk from this year's XDC are now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/xorgfoundation
XDC 2024

X.Org Foundation

The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.
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Very often drivers yell at me something like "go ride a bike way". It's often on a road where there is no bike way nearby and there is no legal restriction for me riding the road.
But when there is a restriction for motorized vehicles, nobody cares. Like literally every day on this road.
That's what #cycling in #Prague looks like.
#Prague #cycling
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Daniel Böhmer

May a make two (edit: three) suggestions:

a) write "2000 f." for 2000–2001 like common for giving page numbers in citations.
(I just learned that "f." is for giving someone’s birthdate in Swedish 😁 )
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#Adje…

b) Use "≤" or "≥" mathematical operators. As the key is most probably read from the top to the bottom maybe give the lower number year instead like
- ≥ 2023
- ≥ 2021
- ≥ 2019
- …
- < 2000

c) short form 2000/01 to 2023/24

f. - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Wiktionary
#adjective
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Daniel Böhmer

You’re so quick! I find this better than take 4, for sure.

If you want to minimize text space I’d consider this the optimal solution.

But to be honest I think it’s a bit too technical even—for software people. it takes a moment to understand this means each color represents two years …

More than ½ h after posting my suggestions I tend to think option C (that I added to the post) might be the most common notation: just "2023/24". Don’t you think? At least Germans use that a lot.

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"Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is ‘very short-staffed’ amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama"

MAYBE THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOU DIPSHIT FIRING EVERYONE WHO'S NOT A FUCKING SYCOPHANT?

Goddammit. What a dumbass.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/matt…


Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama | TechCrunch

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is "short-staffed" amid WordPress's ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress.
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Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti on the Thunderbird Android release! 🎉

It's been a while since the Prototypefund [1] days and me complaining about the white icon background during 36C3 and being responsible for the pink icon background about an hour later [2]. (Which caused a steady supply of angry users after this was released as a stable version 1.5 y later.)

Sorry but not sorry😅.

[1] prototypefund.de/project/jmap-…
[2] github.com/thunderbird/thunder…


add background color to adaptive icons by Bubu · Pull Request #4411 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

This adds a desaturated version of K9-Mails envelope color as the adaptive icon background color. This should look a lot better than a plain white background. Also slightly enlarge the icon shape. ...
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@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @cketti
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@jvossen I'm writing a tiny custom script for this that generates all the data, then I render graph from that using gnuplot. I have them all in a git repo, but I'm still polishing these ones.

Others have mentioned this existing tool for this: github.com/src-d/hercules


GitHub - src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.

Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history. - src-d/hercules
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howtogeek.com/mistakes-beginne…

10 Beginner Linux Command Line Mistakes:

- Assuming You Know Your Location
- Reckless Use of Elevated Privileges
- Skipping Package Updates Before Installing
- Unintentionally Overwriting or Deleting Files
- Confusing Path Types
- Ignoring Built-in Help Resources
- Not Using Shortcuts to Speed Up Navigation
- Dismissing Error Messages and Logs
- Neglecting to Make Backups Before Making Changes

Each item above is explained in the article & how to avoid it.

#linux


10 Common Mistakes Beginners Make With the Linux Command Line (and How to Avoid Them)

Avoid common Linux command line mistakes with these tips.
Richard Dezso (How-To Geek)
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