A look at VMware one year after Broadcom's acquisition: some customers say costs have risen 300%, Broadcom stopped selling perpetual VMware licenses, and more (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
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Ars Technica speaks with users and channel partners disgruntled by Broadcom’s changes.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#curl source code age
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(what happened live here on mastodon converted into a blog post)
In every software project that has been around for a while there is of course newer code and older code.daniel.haxx.se
If you're coming from Windows, the Linux file system structure can seem particularly alien.How-To Geek
The government’s deeply flawed attempt to force tech platforms to pay Canadian news outlets for linking to news is nearing its payout.Michael Geist
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff as the cloud storage company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a "transitional period."Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
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Explore the Dot Pad, a revolutionary tactile graphics and Braille display for the visually impaired. Perfect for education and creativity!Florida Vision Technology
The app provides the ability to read text files smoothly with several features that readers need. Key Features include:Accessible Android
Amazon’s extensive Echo ecosystem helped bring its Alexa smart assistant into many homes, but not every Echo product was a success story.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
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V sobotu 2. listopadu se už tradičně zúčastním 9. ročníku konference OpenAlt pořádané na Fakultě informačních technologií VUT. Hlavními tématy budou otevřená data a software, IT bezpečnost, DIY a IoT. V rámci konference nabídnu hned dvě své přednášky.
👉 V 11:00 Si povíme něco o DSŘ a nejasnostech kolem ní.
👉 Ve 13:00 si projdeme hlavní úspěchy digitalizace za poslední 3 roky, rozjeté projekty ale i chybky, ze kterých je třeba se poučit.
Odkaz na stránky konference dávám do komentářů ⬇️
ARIA is great. /s
If aria-current had an HTML equivalent, this person probably wouldn’t have found aria-activedescendent and used it wrongly. It’s one of the main reason I want stuff that works well to get HTML equivalents. This should be a no-brainer.
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In the example code in the README, it shows the following code:GitHub
Connect the world.
Reflect the world.
Vivisect the world.
Fly Delta ✈️
Have you ever heard of an undecillion? It's a truly staggering amount, a number followed by 36 zeros. And Google has just been fined that amount by Russia.
Sky News: Russia fines Google more than world's entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts.
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The US firm can reportedly only return to the Russian market if it complies with the court decision.Sky News
YouTuber Brian Tong brings us a nice video of Apple’s Los Angeles hands-on showroom event on Wednesday, which let creators...Benjamin Mayo (9to5Mac)
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…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News
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…NV Access
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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.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
Move by Beijing leaves California company rushing to find new battery providersFinancial Times
Před více než dvěma lety vývojáři Thunderbirdu oznámili, že plánují převzetí projektu K-9 Mail a jeho proměnu na Thunderbird pro Android. Cesta trvala…Petr Krčmář (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
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"
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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
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)
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, othersSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
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.applevis.com
There are one too many barriers when online shopping as a vision impaired person, here's what I think of Innosearch which promises an accessible experience.Elin (My Blurred World)
As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors.
#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
See my reporting on their previous violation, which is being reviewed by the FEC: citationneeded.news/coinbase-c…
#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
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.Molly White (Citation Needed)
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SiriusXM has unveiled its suite of Christmas and Holiday music channels for the 2024 season with many launching on Friday,Lance Venta (Radioinsight.com)
Meet Steve, a photographer from London who is deaf and low vision. He is an ex-civil servant who then went on to do freelance technology journalism and travelled the world.TetraLogical
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
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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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.Arti-s homepage
The History of Radio!
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Dive into the captivating history of AM/FM radio in our latest video. Join us as we explore the origins, technological advancements, and cultural impact of o...YouTube
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in reply to David Nason • • •We still have a Flex and Connect here somewhere.
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