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Accessibility | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.
Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
@Mike Gifford

The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Fringe (2008) cancelledscifi.com/2024/11/16/…

The Greatest Sci Fi TV Shows of All Time: Fringe (2008) - Cancelled Sci Fi

Does Fringe count as one of the greatest sci fi/fantasy shows of all time or was it too derivative and convoluted?
johnnyjay (Cancelled Sci Fi)

What's All This About NASA Working on a Time Zone for the Moon? cnet.com/science/space/nasa-is…

What's All This About NASA Working on a Time Zone for the Moon?

Coordinated Lunar Time will help with precise space-travel calculations. But first, NASA has to figure out how to make it work.
Joe Hindy (CNET)

MobileX's eSIM service is simple to set up and connects to one of the largest 5G networks in the US for fast, reliable cellular speeds at affordable rates. Here's our review: pcmag.com/reviews/mobilex-esim

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…

AI and Robots That Do Your Laundry and Dishes? Dream On, Folks

There's what we want technology to do, and then what it actually can do. Don't put off your household chores while you wait.
Lisa Lacy (CNET)
in reply to David Goldfield

Desiree Renae
Desiree Renae
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Technically kids should be good for that but that doesn't always work out either. Lol

Every now and again, I post this to wind up bigoted americans.
An image showing language selection options that you will often find in software settings. The top part of the image shows a Union Jack flag, and a ticked check box for English with the word traditional in brackets. Below that is the USA flag with an unchecked tickbox with English next to it, in brackets is the word simplified.

Are Identity Theft Protection Services Worth the Money? It's Complicated cnet.com/personal-finance/are-…

Are Identity Theft Protection Services Worth the Money? It's Complicated

In our busy lives, we often forget about or neglect personal security. Having a service to nudge you about best practices can be worth the money — in certain cases.
Neal O'Farrell (CNET)

3 New AI Smart Home Features Arrive With Gemini and Google Nest cnet.com/home/security/3-new-a…

3 New AI Smart Home Features Arrive With Gemini and Google Nest

Gemini AI is coming to Google Home and Nest -- here's what it can do for your home security.
Tyler Lacoma (CNET)

Tired of big tech companies mishandling your data? Switch to my favorite email provider, @Tutanota , for top-notch #security and #privacy protection. Your data is safe with them! 🔐💻
#privacy #security @Tuta
in reply to uon

Tuta
Tuta
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Thanks for the mention ❤️ Happy encrypting!

The true horror of the Nazi regime was not the hateful rhetoric, the atrocities committed or the death toll of the war, it's the fact that ordinary citizens just went along with it even if they weren't themselves evil. Something we should all think about in 2024.

I’m happy to see that the GOV.UK Service Manual’s “Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement” page was updated this week and made it to the top of Hacker News today. The technology industry would collectively save unimaginable quantities of time, money, energy and stress if this single page were required reading for everyone involved in building a web site. gov.uk/service-manual/technolo…

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK

How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.
www.gov.uk

Ok, apple, when I've swiped down to delete after choosing edit in any given folder and highlighted an app to get rid of, I don't need you trying to convince me that I'd be better off simply moving it off my home screen instead. When I choose to delete an app, I've done that for a reason, said reason being that I want to, you know, delete the app. Ok, rant mode disengaged.
in reply to Steve Mann

aaron
aaron
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I use pattern unlock on Android, because the pattern I draw is not read out.

I ran UnixBench (github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbe…) on my new Quartz64 SBC (RK3566 SoC, quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB eMMC). I ended up running it four times, with different settings of the Linux CPU frequency governor. Here are the results, in the order that I obtained them:

1. schedutil (default): mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
2. performance: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
3. powersave: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…
4. schedutil again: mwcampbell.us/quartz64-unixben…

1/?


GitHub - kdlucas/byte-unixbench: Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench - kdlucas/byte-unixbench
GitHub
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I ran it with the schedutil governor twice to make sure the first result wasn't a fluke, because what really stood out to me about the first result was how far the Pipe-based Context Switch test lagged behind the others on the single-core run. Bear in mind that the baseline is a SPARCstation 20-61, a 90s machine with a CPU clock frequency of no more than 200 MHz (if Wikipedia is correct). 2/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Regardless of CPU frequency scaling, it's clear that context switching performance hasn't improved as fast as raw computing performance. That's no surprise. But when comparing the results, it seems that the Pipe-based Context Switch test, when running in single-core mode, doesn't cause the schedutil governor to scale up the clock frequency beyond the minimum. So I guess that governor, at least on that processor, wouldn't be good for workloads that are heavy on context switching. 3/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I forgot to mention, this is on Debian 12 (bookworm), using the Debian generic ARM64 kernel (currently 6.1.0-27-arm64). It's nice that this SBC has decent support in the mainline kernel, at least for the functionality I currently need. 4/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I'm going to boot my M1 Mac mini into Linux (Fedora Asahi Remix), run UnixBench there with the different CPU frequency governors, and see what the results look like. I'm sure the M1 is in a different performance category than the RK3566, though they're both ARM64.

BTW, this is an improvised thread, not an artificially split-up long post. 5/?

in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I just remembered, though, that the Apple Silicon SoCs have two kinds of cores, performance and efficiency cores. That makes a generic benchmark like UnixBench less meaningful, unless I can pin it to one type of core or the other. 6/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Going back to the Quartz64 SBC, if I correctly understand the intended use case of the ARM Cortex-A55 microarchitecture from Wikipedia, then the RK3566 SoC in the Quartz64 effectively only has efficiency cores, not performance cores. 7/?
in reply to Matt Campbell

David Machaj
David Machaj
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Switches to the kernel context took a big perf hit when spectre/meltdown mitigations were put in place. Those impacted older/slower CPUs more. More caches and predictors and such need to be flushed before the switch is safe to continue. (Unclear if your particular device has these mitigations but this is a larger point about perf scaling over time)

AzuraCast 0.20.3 is now on the Stable release channel. This version includes improvements to the AutoDJ scheduler, playlist priorities, the ability for system admins to set maximum bitrates for stations, and many bug fixes and tweaks.

This is the last stable release that will be on Liquidsoap 2.2.x. Now that this release is out, our Rolling Release will be a test platform for 2.3.x, which has reached a stable Release Candidate stage. Help us test this new version if you can!

Máte vy nebo někdo ve vašem okolí (defaultně) aktivní Mobile Advertising ID? Pak počítejte s tím, že jste díky němu sledováni a tato data si může někdo koupit. Využití je mnoho...

#soukromí #kybez - #Google a #Apple v roli pasáků

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/th…


The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a…
krebsonsecurity.com
#apple #google #soukromí #kybez
in reply to Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧

Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧
Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧
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Navazuji na včerejší tip.

Tady je porovnání iPhone a různých odnoží Androidu. Většina lidí má "Android" - distribuci plnou šmírovátek od Google obohacenou o bloatware výrobce, který nejen že šmíruje po svém, ale často zavléká bezpečnostní chyby, zabírá místo v úložišti i RAM.

V GrapheneOS mimo jiné vůbec není položka "Reklama" s Mobile Advertising ID.

Zdroj: youtu.be/lb1BbT5fpwA

#soukromí #kybez #Google #Apple #grapheneos

What Is The Most Private Phone?

What is the most private phone and what makes a phone private? That is the question... and we have answers! Please support my work: https://www.patreon.com/t...
YouTube
#apple #google #grapheneos #soukromí #kybez
This entry was edited (3 days ago)

Let's roll! 🇨🇿

#17listopad #November17 #35let #35years #demokracie #democracy

Trikolora
#democracy #demokracie #17listopad #november17 #35let #35years

I wonder how CPU makers decide the minimum clock frequency that a CPU can scale down to for power management purposes. For example, I'm playing with a Quartz64 model B SBC with a RK3566 SoC, with four ARM Cortex-A55 cores, and the minimum frequency, according to the Linux kernel, is 408 MHz. (The maximum is 1.8 GHz.) Did they determine that lowering the frequency any further wouldn't save any power? I assume that number is set by the hardware and not by the kernel driver.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Radek
Radek
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I don't know about big application processors, but in an MCU there is usually no arbitrary lower limit of the CPU frequency. There are often limits on ratios between different clock domains. However, you have two parts of the power consumption: Static (or leakage) and dynamic where the leakage current doesn't change with frequency, so at some point it's better to just turn off the power - not just gate the clock.

@RaccoonForFriendica a new version 0.2.0 has been released.

Changelog:
🦝 feat: add support for MastodonRedirect;
🦝 feat: export/import app settings to/from JSON;
🦝 feat: export contact list from profile;
🦝 feat: allow changing markup mode in post creation;
🦝 fix: retain scrolling state after navigation;
🦝 fix: newlines after titles in Markdown preview;
🦝 fix: avoid self mention when replying;
🦝 fix: retrieve source to edit post;
🦝 enhancement: populate current app icon value in settings;
🦝 chore: update manual and project documentation;
🦝 chore: typo in Fastlane metadata.

For those who have lost it, there has been a 0.1.1 in the meantime, which was mainly due to a metadata issue which blocked the submission on F-Droid, but it also included:
🦝 feat: add support for alternate (classic) and monochrome app icon;
🦝 fix: rendering images of different heights in carousels;
🦝 fix: rendering GIFs (or images with unbound constraints).

After the app gets published on the stores, we're going to move towards a more predictable release cycle (e.g. monthly stable versions and weekly betas).

Hope you are having fun on Friendica (or Mastodon) and as always #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #procyonproject

#friendica #foss #opensource #kotlin #androiddev #Compose #androidapp #multiplatform #friendicadev #kmp #FediverseApp #livefasteattrash #procyonproject @RaccoonForFriendica

"Tesla's vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America, according to a recent study that analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System."

Tesla's fatality rate is double the national average. Driver behavior is a contributing factor to the high number of deaths (i.e. shitty-driving assholes are more likely to buy Teslas and die or kill someone else while driving them).

roadandtrack.com/news/a6291913…

#Tesla #DeathTrap #cars #CarAndDriver

Road & Track Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report. By Joe Kucinski Published: Nov 15, 2024 11:11 AM EST
#cars #tesla #Deathtrap #caranddriver

Winamp users, how am I meant to navigate the main UI with a screen reader? V 5.9.2, build 10042.
in reply to Stu

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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why? there are newer and better tools out there. People use it for nostalgia and familiarity these days, I don't know anyone under the age of 25 who'd want to bother
in reply to Sean Randall

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@cachondo I switched to Foobar2000 a few years ago, now I keep winamp around for... Reasons I don't even know why. Not sure the last time I used it in fact. I have zero uses for it.
@Sean Randall

Špaček je dnes najlepší lebo chodí hore dole po centru Prahy.

Mráz je nemilosrdný.....
in reply to Archos

Kateřina
Kateřina
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@archos Díky. Jen, fotograf by měl hustou fotku se správným foťákem. Takhle jen mobil, ale úžasný moment. 🤷‍♀️
@Archos
in reply to Kateřina

Archos
Archos
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Náhodou, hustá je i fotka mobilem. Hlavně když jsi ve správný čas, na správném místě 👍👍

Tak jsem doufal, že ještě dneska vyhraje odpoledne kolo, ale začalo u nás pršet.
Tak holt kratší výběh no.
Nějak se na tu Prahu 2025 musím připravit 🏃
in reply to Archos

Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧
Jan Korbel 🇨🇿 🐧
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Já už byl na záchodě a umyl jsem se :) I tak to byl s pár zanedbatelnými domácími pracemi po jedné noze výkon :-D

Another Brexit fiasco.... British cheeses failed to get to the World Cheese Awards in Portugal as they failed to clear customs in time (now being from a non-EU country).

In the scale of the disasters of Brexit its not going to to be a big thing (although it will be for the frustrated cheese makers), but is emblematic of how myopic the Brexiters were about the impact of their successful plan to leave Europe....

#brexit #cheese #food

theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/…


UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs

At the World Cheese Awards in Portugal, British entries were conspicuous by their absence after failing to clear import controls
Tomé Morrissy-Swan (The Guardian)
#food #cheese #brexit
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Hey Firefox, could you stop asking for location access when I use Google? Thanks.
in reply to Stu

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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It's Googgle, not Firefox.
Firefox is passing on google's request, just as it would for a website that wanted to use your mic.

I've reached the end of my first full week of using a terminal-only interface for my personal computing in 2024.

It has been quite a week.

I've had to pick up git, which is a whole new learning curve for me, and my knowledge of tmux has increased rapidly too.

But, in terms of getting done what I actually wanted to do? It has been absolutely fine... right up until the point when it was not, and then I struggled.

I'm writing notes as I go, for a future blogpost.

#Linux #FOSS #terminal

#linux #foss #terminal
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in reply to Neil Brown

RevK
RevK
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You know some of us used an 80x25 text only screen and keyboard (connected via a serial line) all day, long before these new fangled "browser" things.

Want a cool #LibreOffice sticker pack, and chance to win extra merch? Join our community this month, contribute to our projects, and grab your prize at the end! 206 people have already taken part, and you don't need to be a developer: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Month of LibreOffice banner

Month of LibreOffice, November 2024 - Half-way point! - The Document Foundation Blog

Yes, we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024. And already, 206 contributors have already won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name …
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

@modulux what am i supposed to do while libera is down?
@modulux

Very impressed and very surprised, one of my service providers sent me a spreadsheet in '.ods' today. 👏👏. #SouthAfrica #LibreOffice #OpenOffice #Collabora #OpenSource #FOSS
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #southafrica #collabora #openoffice

Hardcoded shortcuts in #LibreOffice are still a joke in 2024:

- F1 still cannot be modified. (I hate you so much for this.)
- Ctrl-P is Print, except editing shortcuts shows it's not actually bound to anything. Lulz?

Thankfully at least one can modify Ctrl-P to do something actually useful, like Export Directly as PDF.

But then… the Print tooltip still mentions Ctrl-P, the Export Directly as PDF doesn't.

A restart later, both tooltips mention Ctrl-P.

Lulz!

#libreoffice
in reply to Cyril Brulebois

LibreOffice
LibreOffice
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Sorry to hear that! We have very limited resources and do all we can, but we'd appreciate help to fix the things that matter to you: libreoffice.org/community/get-…

Get Involved | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

community, LibreOffice, office suite, free office suite, Document Foundation, get involved, opportunities, developers, testers, localizers, translators, documentation writers, users support, native-lang, designers, marketers, marketing, design, admin…
www.libreoffice.org

Super nice #macOS related fixes upcoming in #LibreOffice💪❤️
macOS dictation had a problem where dictated text would only show, once you make a pause speaking. That was inconvenient as it is much easier to gather your thoughts when spoken text appears immediately.

Another issue that has been ongoing for many many years was, that when you scrolled the sheet in calc and while scrolling was still ongoing pressed cmd for some operation, the zoom level would change. This extremely annoying behavior is no longer.

Both fixes done by #PatrickLuby of #NeoOffice - we should all thank him!

Will take some time for those to trickly down into stable, but 25.2 will bring those fixes for sure.

dictation: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163764calc scroll: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151423
@libreoffice

151423 – Unintended zoom in or out on command key press if Calc is still scrolling.

bugs.documentfoundation.org
#libreoffice #MACOS #patrickluby #neooffice @LibreOffice

ísť sa teraz pretŕčať nebude asi naj nápad, mám PNku a stále ešte kašlem zase ma niekto uvidí a budem za... ehm

Je to rebel! 🤣

#humor

#humor

Once again, @Tusky ate the alt-text of an image when I clicked OK. I don't have the gumption to rewrite it. It would be great if this bug could be fixed.
@Tusky
This entry was edited (1 week ago)
in reply to Bryan Wright

Tusky
Tusky
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thank you for the input, we will have a look at it to correct it, sorry for the inconvenience

@Tusky i love you, but you have to stop throwing away drafts when reopening the app.

Several times a month I lose my posts while switching been apps to copy text snippets and so on. It doesn't happen all the time, which is super frustrating. I convince myself it's okay, probably was just user error, it's stopped now, and then 💣🕳️

i can't do this anymore, sorry

@Tusky
in reply to matt wilkie

Tusky
Tusky
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it is a known bug and will be corrected in the next update, sorry about the problem

@Tusky Hi, I'd like to see Tusky to be able to export all settings and accounts to a backup file. After moving to a new smartphone I was missing this badly. Lots of apps are offering this feature nowadays: NewPipe, Tubular, FairEmail, Feeder, AntennaPod, RedReader.... Thanks and I appreciate your work! #Tusky ❤️
#Tusky @Tusky
This entry was edited (4 days ago)
in reply to nubicuculia

Tusky
Tusky
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Hi!!! We will take it into account for the future :) Thanks for the input!

@Tusky how do I add a tab for the federated/global feed?
@Tusky
in reply to Richard K

Tusky
Tusky
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you have to select the advanced view in Mastodon to see the global feed

📣 Sei unser #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 18. November, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7698… #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.
#a11y #blind #inklusion #make @metalab

📢 Oznámení o plánované údržbě
Dne 29. 11. 2024 od 8:00 do 11:00 proběhne přesun naší Mastodon instance na nový server.

Během této doby nebude instance dostupná.

Děkujeme za pochopení a trpělivost! Pokud máte jakékoli dotazy, neváhejte nás kontaktovat.

These Zen masters wish you a happy Monday. Deal with it.

#MondayMotivaton #mondaythoughts #monday #humor #humour

a group of capybaras sitting on the grass, and looking chill AF
#humor #humour #monday #mondaythoughts #mondaymotivaton
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