You might know that I've posted funny emails I've received on my blog several times in the past. The kind of emails people send me when they experience problems with some device they own (like a car) and they contact me because my email address happe…
Heh. Reminds me of the time some minor US school board official started throwing unhinged threats at a Linux distro because he interpreted the default web page as meaning he'd been hacked by them.
We're into a fresh new year, but here's a quick look at what the #LibreOffice development and QA community did in December! Including simplified dialog boxes, a better dark mode, and text effect improvements: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.4 was announced on December 19 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the warning in Help when JavaScript is not active and did many cleanups in help pages Dione Maddern created a help page for Alignment Sidebar deck Alain …
✨ I tried @jack's django-templated-email-md project tonight, which was easy to use and was all I needed. I tried out a few other libraries, but it checked the right boxes for me.
If you want a bit more than Django's default mail handling provides, I recommend checking it out.
I no longer have an excuse not to send emails in my projects.
WCK is distributing free hot meals to the public at the following locations in Southern California in response to multiple active wildfires near Los Angeles. For the most up to date information please check our socials.
I needed to do something for Los Angeles, so I just donated $100 to World Central Kitchen who has staff on scene now helping to feed both first responders and displaced residents.
One of the reasons I always choose this charity is that they do not pummel you with requests after you donate. And...Jose Andres is just an awesome human being. And good starts at the top.
Super-happy to share my recently-released single called "We Are Two" on SPotify and others.. LInks to popular streaming services can be found here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/vict…. Hope you like it! Please share if you do!
Ok, this is a weird day for me. Now I stitched together a bunch of tts engines saying the same thing that I believe was spoken in the source recording of the Infovox SA101 demonstrated by Klatt.
Right so I've redone this thing, because meh. Comparison of a bunch of software speech synthesizers against Infovox SA101 hardware synthesizer by having them all say the same text that was recorded by SA101 back in the day and used in Klatt's Demonstration of Several Milestones in Speech Synthesis recording.
Search for “Google Slides” & you may see that the first image they select for one of their flagship office softwares is... Someone’s SEO-cash-grab “custom product” spam. Plastic slippers with the Google slides icon on them? Google’s own intellectual property is being parasitized here. What chance do independent artists stand? Google doesn’t care, as long as they are paid by search spammers who, in turn, somehow think this will make money. #search #searchCrisis #AISlop #google #ai #sloppocalypse
Am I out of line for thinking this makes Google look very bad? As in “sell that stock they don’t know what they are doing” bad? This isn’t just me being a scruffy anti-capitalist hippie… this is just a bad look. For a company that is the front door to the web for millions to have so little consistency— for the SEO garbage to be lapping at their own projects. It’s tawdry, broken and depressing.
I have thought for a while now that we are witnessing the end of the internet as a useful tool for anything. It's only real function now is for communication by closed, invitation only, special interest groups, families, or organizations. Literally nothing else is trustworthy now. Ads are scams, articles are fake and wrong, search will not show you what you need, just what they're trying to push. It's useless.
NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program. Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a 'shifting legal landscape.' What they're saying inside the company ➡️ platformer.news/meta-kills-dei…
Hey mastodon, anyone interested in a really cool internship for the blind through the library of congress teaching you how to transcribe music and documents into Braille? If so here’s the link to find out more
The Program was established in 2020 through an endowment to provide legally blind individuals opportunities to work at NLS in areas of study or interest.
@robini71 Yep, around $17,900.00, if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure it'll come down in price over time, though. Remember how expensive 20-cell Braille displays were back in the '80s.
@robini71 And now you've got Orbit Research selling multi-line displays for the cost of a single line 40-cell display and so I think we'll see price drops over time.
@robini71 has anyone actually owned a Orbit Slate though. I can find zip on them. I know they aren't perfect, but depending on if they really work, it could meet my needs. I couldn't care less about graphics.
@robini71 I mean… The 80s were like 40 years ago. I’d like to be able to play with something like this before I am eligible for Medicare. What individual is going to pay 18,000 bucks for a first generation product? And I thought android based Braille notetakers are crazy expensive for what they are.
@Cristobalm @robini71 I think these devices are primarily being marketed in the education sector and perhaps some instances in the corporate sector. It's similar to how Kurzweil reading machines used to cost around fifty thousand dollars in the '70s.
Google lässt ab Februar das Tracking von Verbrauchern per Device Fingerprinting für Werbezwecke zu – eine fundamentale Abkehr von seiner bisherigen Position.
Say I consider "Audacity" to be a frustrating program to use.
Is there a Linux audio recording program which is a little more stripped down than Audacity? Like say some sort of "voice memo" program that lets me just record voice clips and recover the wavs. Export as MP3 a bonus but not required.
Super ultra bonus points if it's in either the GNOME Software repository or on Flathub.
I remember using arecord in bash scripts to do this sort of thing. Might be worth a tinker. Pretty sure I had rec as a command which I just ctrl+c'd to send sigint when I was done and boom. You're capturing audio from your shell by typing rec.
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Follow-up: NVDA Alpha 34909 and newer also break the BrowserNav add-on. So it's not just TTS-oriented add-ons which are affected, though BrowserNav apparently has some audio components. Issue posted here: github.com/mltony/nvda-browser… @NVAccess
With this alpha and newer releases after that, BrowserNav no longer works. Its panes in the NVDA's Settings window also disappear. The following might be behind this breakage: nvaccess/nvda#17547 @...
@jscholes Anyone know the rationale for that decision? I wonder how far back that code goes. I recall using JSON in a Python project in late 2006, but maybe I was a slightly early adopter on that.
@simon The coolest part, too, is all of the endpoints. Just go to nvda.zip/a and see them all. You can put anything wrong there; the 404 page gives a list of them.
@BrailleScreen I saw that. This is going to be absurdly useful on new Windows installs in particular. Annoyingly, Windows curl seems to choke on it, but I might just be missing an option.
@simon @BrailleScreen Using it with curl is slightly annoying. It seems that curl can't automatically get the output filename from the final redirected URL. So you have to do it like this:
@simon @BrailleScreen No, when you use curl with the -O (note: capitalized) option, to make it automatically infer the filename, it errors out instantly.
@matt @BrailleScreen You're supposed to be able to use -J to determine the file name from headers, but this doesn't work. i'm not sure if it's because this conflicts with following redirects, but oh well. I can just manually name the file.
I guess Mark really thinks that Meta smart Glasses is the iPhone of today: AppleInsider, @appleinsider, During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone.
During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone.
https://appleinsider.
A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade —
Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.
RIP to Ben Caldwell. The world and web accessibility benefited from Ben's knowledge and dedication and will continue to do so. Condolences to Ben's family and friends. Some sad news for folks who may not have seen this in other places. Obituary and funeral details for Ben are at:
From Brian Vogel: Announcement Only: The choice of "Outlook (classic)" and "Outlook (new)" should both be available under M365 Family (and probably Personal) at this time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…
The center of a triangle is an interesting idea. Unlike circles, a triangle’s center isn’t always the same point because triangles aren’t generally symmetric, and there are lots of different ways to define what you mean by the center of a triangle. Years ago, when the internet was young, I remember finding Clark Kimberling’s online Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers, which had documented hundreds of different ways to define a triangle’s center. The Encyclopedia now contains nearly 40,000 different definitions.
The four most famous triangle centers are the center of mass, circumcenter, incenter, and orthocenter. These were all known by the ancient Greeks, making them more than a couple thousand years old. All four of these can be easily demonstrated by folding paper. So get yourself some paper and scissors, and follow along.
Remarkably, some triangle centers can fall outside the triangle, especially if you use an obtuse triangle—one with at least one obtuse angle. So start your exploration with an acute triangle. To keep it interesting, try not to make your triangle too close to equilateral. Make each of the sides at least 2-3 inches long. Cut out four copies of your triangle.
If you're just now jumping onto the Linux train, you might be wondering what apps to install first. Here are the first 10 I find should be installed by all.
- We will remove the "gentle update" from F-Droid 1.22.0-alpha, as it is not stable enough. Thank you for testing (and finding bugs)! - there is a new article on how to replace most common apps with open source versions - Fossify Paint was added - we recommend to switch from Mull to Fennec (as Mull has stopped development) - OpenTracks is now available as reproducible and non-reproducible variant - Exclave, a SagerNet fork was added
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Heh. Reminds me of the time some minor US school board official started throwing unhinged threats at a Linux distro because he interpreted the default web page as meaning he'd been hacked by them.
(I'd post a link, but Google no longer works.)