Did you catch the training webinar on November 21, "New Features of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025?" In case you missed it, watch or listen to the archive now! freedomscientific.com/webinars…
Did you catch the training webinar on November 21, "New Features of JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025?" In case you missed it, watch or listen to the archive now! freedomscientific.com/webinars…
Learn how to connect Windows 10 or 11 to Linux Samba shares, with step-by-step instructions for seamless file sharing and troubleshooting.Jack Wallen (TechRepublic)
O medo da Burguesia.
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Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
"We’re handing our designs to Figma while it trains its AI"
"We’re handing our design systems to growth teams so they can squeeze every last penny out of customers"
"We're trading empathy for algorithms"
From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.UX Trends
A víte vy co? Mě ta reakce ČT (viz mastodon.social/@danielsnor/11…) vlastně docela sere, tak jsem jim napsal. Když nic jinýho, tak aspoň budou vědět, že nám to není úplně fuk. Jestli jim chcete napsat taky (info@ceskatelevize.cz), tak klidně vyjděte z mojí zprávy (je v alt textu).
Dobrý večer přeji,
protože mi jakožto uživateli otevřené sítě Fediverse nemohlo uniknout jednání Vašeho právního oddělení vůči zrcadlícím RSS botům pana Šnora, nemohu situaci ponechat bez reakce.
zpravobot.news/@CT24zive/11360…
Na začátek chci uvést, že nejsem s panem Šnorem nijak spřízněný a mým zájmem je pouze zachování normální kultury v rámci otevřených internetových komunit.
Nejprve mne sice jednání právního oddělení velice rozhořčilo, nicméně jeho zavádějící zhodnocení toho, co na síti reálně boti pana Šnora dělají přičítám neznalosti technologií systémů napojených na Fediverse a celkově principu těchto robotů.
Vezmu to postupně:
1. "(...) účty jsou koncipovány tak, že v běžném uživateli vzbudí dojem, že se jedná o oficiální profily České Televize (...)"
- Toto tvrzení se nezakládá na pravdě (viz přiložený screenshot) - všechny účty jsou označeny jako "boti" a že se jedná o zrcadlení oficiálních účtů + bot uvádí, ze kterých stránek importuje.
2. "K článkům a příspěvkům, které jsou veřejnosti sdělovány na oficiálních účtech a webových stránkách České televize, vykonává veškerá práva Česká televize (...) jejich další užití je možné pouze s výslovným souhlasem ČT (...)"
- Při této logice by veškeré vyhledávací enginy na internetu musely mít výslovný souhlas ČT k indexování obsahu. Protože však ani webové vyhledávací enginy, ani zprávoboti pana Šnora nevydávají tento obsah za vlastní, nemyslím si, že se tady jedná o jakékoliv porušení práva ČT k vlastnímu obsahu.
3. "Na Vašich účtech (...) žádáte o finanční podporu (...)"
- Pan Šnor sice na stránce zprávobota o finanční podporu žádá, nicméně nejedná se o monetizaci obsahu tak, jak to vyhodnotilo Vaše právní oddělení, ale o příspěvek na provoz, samozřejmě HW a jeho provoz něco stojí a veškeré dary jsou dobrovolné. Opět se rád vrátím k mému příkladu search enginů - při této logice by Vaše právní oddělení totiž muselo u Google požadovat odstranení placené inzerce u vyhledávacích výsledků zahrnujících stránky České televize - což si přes svoji právní naivitu rozhodně neumím představit, jako reálné.
Právní stránku ochranné známky vynechávám záměrně - tam situaci chápu, byť ji považuji právním oddělením za nesmyslně vyhrocenou.
Dopis adresovaný panu Šnorovi v podstatě říká, že i jako uživatel sociální sítě nemohu odkazovat na Vaše články, protože nemám výslovný souhlas ČT, což je naprosto absurdní a v podstatě v rozporu s účelem veřejnoprávního média vytvářejícího zpravodajství z povinných koncesionářských poplatků o jejichž navýšení televize usiluje. Chci tímto tedy požádat ČT o vyřešení situace tak, aby věc byla právně v pořádku - ať už se bude jednat o udělení výslovného oprávnění k sdílení příspěvků v rámci sociální sítě Fediverse (které si ale přes to všechno nemyslím, že je potřeba) anebo otevření Vašich vlastních účtů.
Zároveň bych chtěl připomenout, že pokud jste schopni za peníze z koncesionářských poplatků umožňovat zisk soukromým sociálním sítím, bylo by vhodné neházet klacky pod nohy tam, kde si plátci poplatků poradili sami. Naopak si myslím, že je třeba brát v potaz, že se v principu jedná o reklamu na stránky ČT a za to by ČT na jiné sociální síti platila.
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Rozhodně, ale už se mi nejednou stalo, že podobnej předem-prohranej boj vyšel.
Třeba Budvaru jsem psal/volal (už je to dlouho, nejsem si jistej), že jim utekla vadná šarže piva. Zavolal nějakej jejich manažer, že moc děkuje a tahle šarže měla bejt dávno celá stažená. Pak přijela krásná obchoďačka a s úsměvem mi dovalila 50 plechovek :D
Calling all #WordPress users, especially those passionate about #Accessibility! I need advice: My current contact form on this page of my #Website (laniecarmelo.tech/connect-with…) is very basic. I'm using WPForms Lite, but improving it would require manually adding fields since advanced features are locked behind their premium plan.
I’ve tried the Fluent Forms plugin, but I didn’t find it accessible. Can anyone recommend a free, #Accessible contact form plugin that allows for creating more robust forms? Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
#Blogging #Tech #Technology #WebDevelopment #InclusiveDesign #WebAccessibility
Discover various ways to connect with Lanie Carmelo, a blind, autistic accessibility advocate and programmer. Find social media profiles, professional networks, and direct contact options.Lanie Carmelo (Life of a Rare Bird)
TIL Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimf…
#Health #Insurance #Claim #Denied #Appeal
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file from your health insurance company.ProPublica
It's December 1st, and you know what that means: For the next 24 days, we'll publish articles about HTML by 24 authors. You can read them on the website or subscribe to the RSS channel.
Enjoy!
An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell
On day 6 Weston Thayer discovers what happens if aria-labelledby points within. #HTMHellAdventCalendar
htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/202…
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.aria-labelledby = self - HTMHell
App request for IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo:
Lith
"Multiplatform, mobile-focused WeeChat relay client"
#AndroidApp
#F-Droid
#IRC
#WeeChat
Multiplatform, mobile-focused WeeChat relay client - LithApp/LithGitHub
Sorry, but the APKs they provide are not signed, so we cannot use them (as you could not install them):
$ apksigner verify Lith-android-1.6.5.apk
DOES NOT VERIFY
ERROR: Missing META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@FreakyFwoof
Just started this. Harry is - so far - an Intersex skateboarder - braught up by his Maternal grandmother.
Harry Evans was almost like any other boy growing up in Cokeworth. He lived alone in a house nobody else could see, he stole food from the supermarket and never got caught, and he had a little brother who had been hidden after the night their mother was killed. Harry was a secret, and he promised not to tell.
A letter in an empty vault, a small boy with broken glasses, a portrait of a scowling girl. As Harry begins unraveling his own past, the threat against his brother grows. How long will his secrets keep when Harry is the only one standing between his brother and the world?
A story about family, friendship, growing up, and, of course, the most powerful magic of all.
[The Evans Boy, lonibal ]](archiveofourown.org/works/5135…)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Worksarchiveofourown.org
@SeveraSnape @rowdyamerican I remember getting cross at my book courier because it only supported ascii. so you wouldnt have any smart quotes or dashes, which was ok.
But you'd also have words like 'couldn t' and 'haven 't' and so on. Really frustrating!
it's interesting how txt just survives on, though.
Good morning #fediverse !
I'm feeling #KISS today...
« Keep
IT
Simple
Stupid »
(Amazing, how many things you can do with just simple,
#html
+
#css
+
#javascript
cc @cferdinandi ... who amongst others, inspired me , thX
A new version of Compose Multiplatform 1.8.0-alpha01 has been released 👇
#AndroidDev #Android #Kotlin #JetpackCompose #Compose #Multiplatform #ComposeMultiplatform
github.com/JetBrains/compose-m…
Changes since 1.7.1 Highlights iOS LocalUIViewController moved to the androidx.compose.ui.uikit module Update AccessibilitySyncOptions and remove AccessibilityDebugLogger from public API ComposeUI...GitHub
Wishing everyone a great time at EmacsConf by EmacsConf team starting today in the Internet
foss.events/2024/12-07-emacsco…
#emacsconf #EmacsConf #EmacsConfteam #foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe
Everything in a nutshell about EmacsConf 2024 on // foss.events - The most comprehensive collection of FOSS events in Europe (and online)foss.events
EU's open source academy to convene experts and recognise excellence
sciencebusiness.net/eu-debuts-…
Open source software and hardware are boosting Europe’s economy, with annual investments surpassing €1 billion and contributing significantly to GDP growth[1].Science|Business
Diversi altri editori e professionisti del pubblico hanno segnalato tendenze simili presso le loro testate, per lo più di piccole dimensioni, ma la cosa davvero importante è soprattutto che i follower Bluesky diventano più facilmente clienti abbonati.
pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/b…
A Guardian audience editor says Bluesky sent more referral traffic to the news outlet in its first week there than X has any week in 2024.Bron Maher (Press Gazette)
𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 likes this.
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KUOW - Tanya Woo not ruling out another Seattle City Council run
kuow.org/stories/tanya-woo-not…
Tanya Woo said her supporters wanted to know whether she'd run for a seat on the Seattle City Council less than 48 hours after Councilmember Tammy Morales announced she was resigning in January.Katie Campbell (KUOW Public Radio)
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Audience also taunted Canada in chant of ‘51’, suggesting northern neighbour should be 51st US stateRobert Tait (The Guardian)
The film depicts the events surrounding a Dec. 12, 1979, coup in South Korea, a theme also tackled in Han Kang's novel 'Human Acts.'Sohee Kim (The Japan Times)
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Quebec premier says he wants to stop people from praying in public
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/re…
He wouldn't see systemic racism... because he is the systemic racism.
Fascist.
Added this provocative note to my Llama 3.3 post concerning the CO2 impact of training the model, which Meta calculated as 11,390 tons CO2eq
"I believe that's equivalent to around 20 fully loaded passenger flights from New York to London (at ~550 tons per flight)." simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/l…
This new [Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct model](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct) from Meta AI makes some bold claims: > This model delivers similar performance to Llama 3.simonwillison.net
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I haven't had the time to dive into the Llama 3.3 technical report yet, but from what I heard, their improvements are concentrated mostly around post-training, which I understand to be the far less compute-intensive part of the process. It's also a pretty small model, compared to the likely size of GPT-4o and such. I woudn't be surprised if a full training process for a large model had far more impact than that.
I also wonder whether these numbers are for training the specific models that were shared, or if it also included all the experiments and work that their team performed but that didn't pan out.
Our Czech community provides insights from the LinuxDays 2024 conference, which took place over the weekend of 12 – 13 October in Prague: At the LibreOffice booth, there was a very large group of people (with a few exceptions) of satisfied LibreOffic…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…www.documentfoundation.org
A Matrix advent calendar, version 2 of the NeoBoard Widget released, Python bindings for Vodozemac, a React Native SDK, and an awkward namespace collision in the news.
All that and more happened This Week in Matrix: matrix.org/blog/2024/12/06/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMTRNord (matrix.org)
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#177 Scrolling Performance
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today gives you 12 updated, 1 added and 3 removed apps:
+ Flip 2 DND: Toggle Do Not Disturb mode by flipping your phone face down 🛡️
Removed as no longer maintained / reported broken:
- Reeder
- ApkGrabber
- Wi-Fi Timer
RB status: 361 apps (29.6%)
At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 2 #Magisk #modules were updated.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Today is Bandcamp Friday, where Bandcamp doesn't take a cut of sales.
If you want Bandcamp shopping recommendations, I'll mention my list of Philly music, although it could use expanding and updating: buymusic.club/list/skyfaller-p…
And you could browse my profile for more ideas: bandcamp.com/skyfaller
As you can tell, I've sunk a lot of money into Bandcamp over the years, but I've developed mixed feelings about it.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Alternative • 99 collection items • 6 followersBandcamp
On the one hand, Bandcamp is one of the best ways to pay artists and preserve music through downloads and physical media. Streaming services like Spotify are a bad deal for musicians, and songs can disappear at any time.
On the other hand, Bandcamp laid off their union's entire bargaining unit in the middle of contract negotiations, and never experienced consequences.
jacobin.com/2023/12/bandcamp-m…
union.place/@bandcampunited/11…
orbital.horse/@emma/1126734131…
We need music options that don't screw over labor.
Bandcamp was meant to be an alternative to the corporate behemoths of music’s streaming age, giving a better deal to independent artists.jacobin.com
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