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ARIA in HTML has been updated. This spec defines the authoring rules for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 attributes on [HTML] elements. The primary objective is to define requirements for use with conformance checking tools used by authors (i.e., web developers).
w3.org/TR/html-aria/

ARIA in HTML

This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 attributes on [HTML] elements.
www.w3.org

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Happy Birthday to Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (Dec 17, 1913 โ€“ Jan 10, 1985), the first PhD in computer science in the US.

In 1958, Keller began working at the NSF workshop in the computer science center at Dartmouth College, a male-only institution at the time, where she participated in the implementation of the first DTSS BASIC Kernel for the language, working under John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

Pic: Sister Kenneth with the Bi-Tran Six computer at Clarke Univ.
computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/โ€ฆ
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Sister Kenneth with Bi-Tran Six computer. Photo credit: Clarke University Archives.

CSDL | IEEE Computer Society

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Long but really good article on tech (which is increasingly indistinguishable from the fascists):

"Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons."

wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-โ€ฆ

h/t @glitzersachen


Never Forgive Them

In the last year, Iโ€™ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where Iโ€™ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what techโ€™s โ€œbrightestโ€ minds might prโ€ฆ
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
@Glitzersachen
in reply to Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒฑ

"How are we not discussing the fact that so much of the internet is riddled with poison? How are we not treating the current state of the tech industry like an industrial chemical accident? Is it because there are too many people at fault? Is it because fixing it would require us to truly interrogate the fabric of a capitalist death cult?"

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How to get started on open-source development lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_lโ€ฆ

How to get started on open-source development

Learn how to get started with open-source development from Angela Lungati, a technologist and community builder. Discover the importance of open source, how to find the right project, and why collaboration fosters inclusive solutions.
Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)

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Lots of development and QA activity happening in #LibreOffice! Check out this summary for November: qa.blog.documentfoundation.orgโ€ฆ #foss #OpenSource
Pie chart of resolved bugs in November

QA/Dev Report: November 2024 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.3 was announced on November 14 Olivier Hallot (TDF) did big updates to screenshots in Help, added a help page for login/password dialog and improved help pages on Skia, Writer Navigator and Edit โ€“ External links inโ€ฆ
x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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It is days like today I wish truth.social was Federated so I could personally tell Donald Trump to stfu.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #fediverse
ctvnews.ca/world/donald-trump-โ€ฆ

Donald Trump says Canada becoming 51st U.S. state 'a great idea'

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is taking aim at Canada once more, saying it would be 'a great idea' to make it America's โ€˜51st state.'
CTVNews
#fediverse #canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli
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Activator Pro: New firmware version 1.3 available helptech.eu/post/activator-proโ€ฆ

Activator Pro: New firmware version 1.3 available

These innovations are waiting for you: โ€ข Safe Mode update capability: With firmware version 1.3, the Safe Mode of the Activator Pro - comparable to the BIOS of a PC - can be updated for the first time without having to open the device.
nkr776 (helptech.eu)

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UK: โ€œItโ€™s still illegal to rip a CD you legally own to MP3!โ€

Also UK: โ€œHey, letโ€™s exempt those AI guys from copyright law!โ€

FFS.

gov.uk/government/consultationโ€ฆ


Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UKโ€™s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
Intellectual Property Office (GOV.UK)

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J. J. Thomson, who was born #OTD in 1856, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.

Thomson was also a teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Charles Barkla, Francis Aston, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Richardson and Edward Victor Appleton.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thโ€ฆ

Books by J.J. Thomson at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38โ€ฆ

#books #science #physics

J.J. Thomson, Nobel Prize photograph (1906). Nobel foundation - http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html Joseph John Thomson (1856โ€“1940), often referred to as J.J. Thomson, is shown in a candid pose, engrossed in writing or drawing, likely related to his scientific work. He is depicted as a middle-aged man with receding hair, a neatly groomed mustache, and a composed, intellectual demeanor. Thomson is wearing formal attire typical of the early 20th century: A dark tweed suit jacket with a subtle texture. A high-collared white shirt and a decorative tie or cravat. A pocket square neatly tucked into his breast pocket, adding to the formal appearance. He is wearing round spectacles, which were characteristic of the period and contributed to his scholarly appearance.

Books by Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John) (sorted by popularity)

Project Gutenberg offers 74,754 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
Project Gutenberg
#books #science #otd #physics

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ooh, I do have it in my model picker now. Excellent. "2.0 Experimental Advanced Preview gemini-exp-1206 5 of 5"
9to5google.com/2024/12/17/gemiโ€ฆ

Gemini subscribers can now use โ€˜2.0 Experimental Advancedโ€™ with โ€˜significantly improved performanceโ€™

Following 2.0 Flash Experimental, Google is now letting Gemini Advanced customers access a new 2.0 Experimental Advanced model.
Abner Li (9to5Google)
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11 HTML best practices for login & sign-up forms evilmartians.com/chronicles/htโ€ฆ #webdesign #UIDesign #ixd #UXDesign #forms #html

11 HTML best practices for login & sign-up formsโ€”Martian Chronicles, Evil Martiansโ€™ team blog

Even popular sites fail to implement the 11 best practices mentioned in this article, and thus have at least one mistake. Use this checklist on your next pull request review that deals with any form.
Andrey Sitnik (Evil Martians)
#html #webdesign #uidesign #uxdesign #forms #ixd

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A great paper on the effects of RTO mandates. In news that will surprise no one with half a brain:

  • You disproportionately lose women.
  • You disproportionately lose your best people.
  • You find it hard to replace the good people that you lose.

For a long time, companies were excited about offshoring because it meant that they could take advantage of a global labour force to increase supply and drive down labour costs. Now theyโ€™re starting to see the flip side: with a lot of places offering remote work, the demand is also global and they are competing with companies worldwide. If you donโ€™t offer a good work-life balance for your best people, someone else will and they may be anywhere in the world.

After running a successful research project at Microsoft with a team spanning several thousand miles between the furthest members, I was quite surprised to be told that we all needed to come back into the lab because research requires people to be face to face. Especially by people who had spent two years doing nothing to promote collaboration and who were pushing policies that would exclude my close collaborators in other countries.

At SCI, weโ€™re remote first. My most recent hire is on a boat in the South Pacific. As long as people can communicate and have a decent Internet connection, I donโ€™t care where they are (the accountants may, for tax purposes). You need to actively build teams when people are remote, just as when theyโ€™re local. Mostly of the people who felt RTO was important were the ones who werenโ€™t doing this in either setting and were relying on similarity biases to create teams (Iโ€™d love to see a correlation between managers who advocate RTO and managers who have a higher turnover for folks who are not white cishet males: I suspect it would be strong).

Return to Office Mandates and Brain Drain

By tracking over 3 million tech and finance workers' employment histories reported on LinkedIn, we analyze the effect of S&P 500 firms' return-to-office (RT
papers.ssrn.com

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Support for our #Ecovacs Deebot N8 #vacuum cleaner was removed from #HomeAssistant.
I hope it's only a temporary problem. ๐Ÿคž
From github discussion it seems that maintainers have problem with testing changes on the variety of devices as the API they are using is not documented nor public and is sligthly different for each device.
Screenshot of a card in Home assistant saying that vacuum entity is not available
#homeassistant #ecovacs #vacuum

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$ pip3 search something
...
RuntimeError: PyPI no longer supports 'pip search' [...]. Please use pypi.org/search (via a browser) instead. [...]

Sure, no problem. Let's see โ€ฆ

ยปJavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed.ยซ

Urgh, but okay, #pip is a #Python package manager, they're good guys. Let me just open #NoScript and temporarily allow pypi.org ... oh no, it wants to run #JavaScript from โ€ฆ

ethicalads.io
fastly-insights.com
googletagmanager.com
gstatic.com
statuspage.io

That's what you get after 30 years of using the term #OpenSource instead of #FreeSoftware.

#FreeSoftware #opensource #python #javascript #noscript #PIP
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Welcome to the RB family, PuppyGit ๐Ÿฅณ

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.cโ€ฆ

PuppyGit is a Git client for Android. Thanks to the enormous efforts by its developer who even rewrote their entire build workflow, PuppyGit was now confirmed reproducible :awesome:

RB stats now: 376 apps (30.7%)

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


โ€žPuppyGitโ€œ โ€“ IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

An Android Git Client
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Edit: We've moved to a dedicated account, so if you're interested, please follow @StroongeCast. Thanks.

New podcast with my wife, and more to come, the next time I can persuade her to sit behind a microphone again.

#StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange? youtu.be/XeVO8pTfrK8

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/01_-โ€ฆ


StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange?

RSS feed: https://onj.me/media/stroongecast/index.php?xml_feed=yWelcome to episode 1 of StroongeCast, a husband and wife team consisting of Andre and Kirsten...
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#stroongecast @StroongeCast
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Emmanuele Bassi

life with cats

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