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Regular reminder that while the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) bills itself as a copy/paste-ready pattern library, it is not.

Nor is it a W3C specification, standard, or even note. It is strictly reference info (mostly for keyboard use only)

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Uncanny A11y

The pun in the title is that some people pronounce the a11y numeronym as “alley”. That makes the full title sound like uncanny valley, the concept of human-looking things seeming almost, but not quite, human and therefore creepy.
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Fresh new start : 2025.
A few pictures of the opensource/remake project I'm working on📀, I get inspiration from ghibli universes, old multiplayer games🪡, enterprises from the cooperative world🍓
I hope to meet great people,
here this year! 🦤🦎🐜
#videogame #opensource #graphism
#creativity #linux #arm #android #game
#colorful #java #dev #developer #3dart
#2d #gaming #jeu #ghibli #anime
#animation #indie #indiegame #retro #pixelart #art #dessin #gamedev #dev
#steam #cute #computer #color #tech
#android #linux #opensource #java #gaming #art #steam #arm #anime #gamedev #pixelart #game #tech #dev #animation #indie #indiegame #computer #creativity #developer #retro #color #3dart #cute #colorful #2d #videogame #graphism #jeu #ghibli #dessin
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Sukil Etxenike

@FreakyFwoof @miki I don't know which one I find more infuriating between these. In re last you have exactly the same problems you (Andre) outline in some other ramification here (start of another thread, no mention of original) with the added bonus that you sometimes have to go to the profile of the guy to know what the hell they're commenting on because there is no context at all. Scrap that, I do find re last more infuriating.
@miki @Andre Louis
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Andre Louis

Yep, but quote-posting is unofficial, and I reiterate. Mastodon specifically is *not* twitter. Any client that supports it is not adhering to standards. There are forks that do support it, but Mastodon specifically doesn't. Talked about this time and time and time again, so won't, but seriously, bad.
No proper attribution when replies come in, IE: original poster is not mentioned, starts a new thread etc, etc.

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Here's another really cool recent discovery. The "phonetic punctuation" NVDA addon has been around for a while, and it used to do one thing, substitute various symbols (or more technically any regular expression you put in), with sounds. But, as I discovered accidentally while looking for something in the addon store, it was quietly updated in December, now renamed "Earcons and Speech Rules." And this new version is a huge game changer at least for me. If you ever used the JAWS speech and sounds manager to its fullest this addon is now basically an equivllent. You can give any control type or state a sound, and unlike something like unspoken, these sounds are played in sync with the speech and the addon has no problem dealing with something like multiple links on a line. It also allows you to have NVDA indicate various formatting attributes, like bold, italic and heading levels, with either pitch/speed/volume changes or sounds. The very latest version of this addon comes with built-in heading level sounds that I contributed, and in an upcoming version it will also support assigning spelling errors as a formatting attribute. github.com/mltony/nvda-phoneti…

GitHub - mltony/nvda-phonetic-punctuation: Phonetic punctuation is an NVDA add-on that allows to convert punctuation signs into audio icons. It can also convert any regular expressions into audio icons.

Phonetic punctuation is an NVDA add-on that allows to convert punctuation signs into audio icons. It can also convert any regular expressions into audio icons. - mltony/nvda-phonetic-punctuation
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Hui he fet una donació a un projecte de #ProgramariLliure
I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy. thunderbird.net/
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive!

El Thunderbird és una aplicació gratuïta de correu electrònic fàcil de configurar i de personalitzar i carregada de funcions genials!
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« C’est un outil qui aide à la démocratie »

« Tout le monde est là-dessus »

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Plateforme X | Un « outil qui aide la démocratie », selon le PLQ

Le chef par intérim du Parti libéral du Québec n’a pas l’intention de quitter le média social X, même si son propriétaire Elon Musk est membre de l’administration Trump, qui menace le Canada d’une guerre commerciale.
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Around this time last year, I did a rare thing for me, and wrote/produced a complete song, the first I had done in years.
This stemmed from what I call a "syno sequence" that had been running around in my head rent-free since 1992, associated with the word organism.

Being a blind, autistic Synesthete, pretty much anything goes.
Words can be associated with indescribable sounds, musical motifs, smells, other words, colors...
Ideas and concepts can have that, too. It's very hard to explain this particular brand of synesthesia even to other Synesthetes.

Did you know, for example, that all saxophones are called Steve, but Steve itself, not any particular person, just the word Steve, is usually a pizza box? Well, now you do!

If I took all the filters off, I could write about this for days.

Anyway, in late 1992, during my third grade science class, the topic of the day was organisms, and their different classifications.
As soon as my teacher said the word organism, this little four bar sequence in C miner popped into my head, and just never left.

Finally, almost 32 years later, I couldn't stand it anymore, and wrote and performed a song around that little motif. I played all the instruments on this piece, except for drums and bass, provided by @FreakyFwoof, who also helped with the mix, and tightening up my crappy rhythm guitar playing. I'm not great with stringed instruments. I'm much more comfortable with buttons and knobs.

This features acoustic guitar, melodica (actually a melodion, because Hammond-Suzuki calls it that, probably for Hohner trademark avoidance reasons), clarinet, mandolin, piano (Spitfire Labs Mrs. Mills), an emulated Casio VL-tone 1, a doorstop, a Hammond XK-2 pretending to be a B3, drums, bass, and me clapping and yelling random stuff.
Except for the drums, bass, piano and organ, everything is acoustic, so about half of it, I guess.

I don't get to play music at home anymore for various depressing reasons. This was recorded in my parents' living room. I can't explain, after years of virtual musical silence, how much joy I got from making this silly thing happen. We could all use some of that right about now, so, in that spirit, I'm sharing this with the world again.

youtube.com/watch?v=WkyDr4eN1p…
#ActuallyAutistic


the Organism Song

In late 1992, I was sitting in third grade science class. The topic that day was organisms.Just the word organism caused this little musical motif to pop int...
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A new BT Speak update is scheduled for release this week. Join us for a live webinar this coming Wednesday, January 22 at 8:00 PM Eastern time to learn about the new features. This webinar will be hosted by Robert Carter, David Woodbridge and Allison Melloy, hosts of the Tech Doctors podcast. You’ll hear from Deane Blazie, as well as Bryan, Stephen and Chris Blazie, along with Steve Clower and David Goldfield. Learn about the update, meet the Blazie family
and participate in a live Q&A about the BT Speak. This webinar will also be available as a podcast from the Tech Doctors.
We’re looking forward to seeing you this Wednesday, January 22 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. Here’s the Zoom link to join us.
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Welcome to the RB family, TgMonet Theme 🥳

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With TgMonet Theme, you can create themes for Tg and TgX clients.

Thanks to Alexander's switching to CI builds, we finally succeeded establishing reproducible builds for his app. Thanks, Alex! :awesome:

RB status now: 413 apps (33.5%)

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„TgMonet Theme“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Simple Monet themes generator for Tg.
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@ElPamplina @mdione I have to admit I've grown a little accustomed to learning about curl getting used in many places but still: confirmed used by NASA involved in landing a vehicle on another planet is certainly next-level. Certainly one of the coolest accomplishments so far I think.
@Marcos Dione @El Pamplina 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

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I had a chat with @grimmy on #OpenSourceSecurity about maintaining an open source project for more than 20 years (Gary maintains Pidgin)

It's a fun conversation that brought back many memories as well as some lessons for everyone involved in open source

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/01-…


Open Source Maintenance with Gary Kramlich

I met Gary Kramlich a few years ago at the CypherCon security conference and we now chat on signal about open source things.
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
#opensourcesecurity @Gary "grim" Kramlich

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#cuba #socialism #socialismo
Al respecto de esta noticia, yo le iba a sugerir a nuestro Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel que le dijera esto al gobierno yanqui:
"Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América: Métanse por el culo su lista de países."
Pero no sé si sonaría un poco arrogante....

Esta es la dichosa noticia:
cubadebate.cu/noticias/2025/01…

Trump revoca la salida de Cuba de la infame lista de países promotores del terrorismo - Cubadebate

Donald Trump revocó este lunes, en las primeras horas de su Presidencia, la orden del pasado 14 de enero con la que el expresidente Joe Biden sacó a Cuba de la lista de estados promotores del terrorismo.
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#socialism #cuba #socialismo

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Hraju si teď s LLM DeepSeek R1 github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSee… Vypadá to, že tento open-source model, který je dostupný zdarma (chat.deepseek.com a zaškrtnout Deepthink), dosahuje kvalit OpenAI-o1 modelu.
Na lokálním stroji ale ten 32B nebo dokonce 70B model (zabírají cca 40 GB na disku) rozhodně nerozjedu, laptop se mně potí u 8B modelů. :)
#DeepSeek #LLM

GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#llm #deepseek
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Martin Wenisch

Me na tom trochu desi jejich strategie (a vladni, ktera to financuje). A trochu doufam, ze LLM jako takove narazili na technologicky strop a tohle pomuze demokratizaci podkladovych modelu k dalsim pouzitim a na cenove valce v zasade nevydela nikdo ani v Cine, ani v US.

Tuto je super rozhovor:
chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo…


Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race

Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview
Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk)

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Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 will no longer receive software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes after 14.10.2025.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

LibreOffice is free to use.
LibreOffice supports Office file formats.

Install LibreOffice and compare it with your version of Office.

Website: libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

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#Microsoft #Office2016 #Office2019 #Office #LibreOffice #CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

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

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #privacy #infosec #libreoffice #microsoft #office #cybersecurity #office2016 #office2019 @LibreOffice
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Blue Ghost

Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 are no longer receiving software updates, technical support, or bug and security fixes.

Consider migrating to LibreOffice.

Microsoft recommends migrating to a Microsoft 365 subscription.

LibreOffice supports the features that a majority of users need for free.

Website: libreoffice.org
Mastodon: @libreoffice

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

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #privacy #infosec #encryption #libreoffice #microsoft #office #cybersecurity #office2016 #office2019 @LibreOffice

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I spent few hours hacking together a proof of concept authorization for @panoramax using an existing OAuth2 access token from OpenStreetMap. Basically, I'm already logged in, so why should I log the second time in a Panoramax instance?

Partly solved the issue that @MapComplete had, and circumvented by having a single user uploading everything, adding original authors to an Exif tag.

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What issues with this solution can you spot?


OAuth authorization via proxy (#227) · Issues · Panoramax / Server / API · GitLab

The idea was: to upload photos from a mobile app, I need to seamlessly login to Panoramax. But I already have an OpenStreetMap OAuth2 token, and I don't...
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Don’t CW this. I beg you.

My wife is on Instagram. She just did this.
She heard there was weird stuff happening. She searched “#Republican” and “#Democrat”.

She had to do it herself to see if it was true.

It is.

She is beside herself.

This is the 2025 version of marching into CNN and telling them to broadcast only his stuff.

This is him taking over the NYT.

This is new age Oligarchy. This is Authoritarianism. This is Fascism2025.
Edit: we’re in Canada, so this is worldwide? Or NA?

A screenshot of Instagram showing a group of posts all of various republican and Trump related propaganda. With the #Republican.
Screenshot with the #Democrat.IsBlank
#republican #democrat
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🚨 Exciting news! 🚨
The Linux App Summit 2025 will be held in Tirana, Albania from April 25-26! 🎉
This week, we’re opening the call for papers! 📝 Be sure to check our website for the latest updates and details.
🌐 linuxappsummit.org/

Linux App Summit 2024

The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
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Preparing for 2025: The Digital Accessibility Landscape allyant.com/preparing-for-2025…

Preparing for 2025: The Digital Accessibility Landscape

As we kick off 2025, digital accessibility continues to evolve from a niche consideration to a mainstream priority for organizations across industries and the globe. It is important to note that this shift isn’t just about compliance.
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Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox accessibleandroid.com/google-l…

Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox - Accessible

Lookout includes several features that are accessed through modes ranging from short text and document scanning to image recognition, currency identification,
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Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox accessibleandroid.com/google-l…

Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox - Accessible

Lookout includes several features that are accessed through modes ranging from short text and document scanning to image recognition, currency identification,
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Meet the #LibreOffice community at FOSDEM in Brussels, on 1 – 2 February! We'll have a stand with cool merch (stickers, pens, beer/coffee mats) and a devroom with technical talks: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
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Meet the LibreOffice community at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels! - The Document Foundation Blog

FOSDEM is one of the largest meetups for free and open source software projects, and it takes place every year in Brussels at the ULB Solbosch campus.
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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My grandmother's 90th birthday present ready: a chronicle of her family all the way to the late 16th century.
If you ever want something like that (in the Czech Republic), I can only recommend @rodokmeny/ @margo.

#genealogy #rodokmeny #FamilyHistory #familytree

A blue book in 4 format with hard cover. The title in gold says "Rod Skalický".
An open book with text and pictures of scanned documents.
#genealogy #rodokmeny #familyhistory #familytree @Marie Glöckner @Marie Glöckner - genealog

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Jiří Eischmann

@mormegil Ještě bych doplnil, že v té zakázce nebylo jen zpracování rodokmenu a kroniky tohoto rodu, ale doplňování rodokmenu z dalších dvou linií, které už jsem měl sám rozpracované a měl jsem individuální požadavky (pomoct tam, kde jsem se sám zasekl), takže moje zakázka nebyla úplně typická.
Původně jsem si říkal, jestli to tak neudělat se vším, ale ta zpracovaná kronika má opravdu přidanou hodnotu. Nejsou to jen suchá fakta, ale paní @margo to dokáže velmi pěkně zasadit do historických reálií a dějinných událostí a napsat k tomu opravdu pěkné povídání. Babička dárek ještě nedostala, ale mamka je z něj nadšená.
@Marie Glöckner @Mormegil

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It is now *six* years ago since I first blogged about how the #QUIC API situation was going to slow down QUIC (and HTTP/3) deployment. Unfortunately I was entirely correct.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/01/21…

The follow-up post a few years later on OpenSSL's decision to be a laggard:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/25…


QUIC and missing APIs

I trust you've heard by now that HTTP/3 is coming. It is the next destined HTTP version, targeted to get published as an RFC in July 2019. Not very far off. HTTP/3 will not be done over TCP.
daniel.haxx.se
#quic
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