The NRSC’s AM Improvement Working Group published a study examining the effects of RF noise on AM radio reception in cars.Nick Langan (Radio World)
Be wary when adding additional context only for #screenReader users. An example:
Say you're working on an e-commerce site, and some products have two prices to show how great a sale discount is. The before and after is made visually apparent via some aspect of text formatting, and you want to make it explicit for screen reader users too.
The first step is to ask if this is necessary. If a user encounters two consecutive prices and one is lower than the other, they may intuitively understand what's going on without any explicit signposting, and can verify how much they're gonna pay during the checkout process. Only your users can provide this verdict.
If it's determined that some additional context is helpful, you could format it as something like: "Was $14.99, now $8.99" (optionally swapping the prices). It's short and punchy in braille and speech, perfectly descriptive of the situation at hand, and mirrors how it may be spoken out loud on an ad.
Resist the temptation to go further than this. You do not need to say "original price: $14.99, current sale price: $8.99". This is much longer and more verbose, while adding nothing. It also implies that you think screen reader users need to be told what a price is and explained the concept of a sale, even though you're not doing so for other audiences.
You also don't need to spell out the word "dollars", format the price in words, repeat the product name, and so on. If you find yourself with screen-reader-only text like: "The current price of 500 Grams of Premium Oolong Tea was fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, and is now on sale for eight dollars and ninety-nine cents", it has gone way too far.
In short: Set out to identify the problems that actually need solving, and only solve those problems.
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A Grubhub security breach has exposed personal data for both customers and drivers, says the company, after an “incident” involving...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
Another ringing endorsement of cryptocurrency:
El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment
ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-sa…
Understand the implications of Bitcoin's downfall in El Salvador. Learn about the failed economic bet and its impact on the country's financial stability.AFP (The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate)
The makers of Twitterrific just launched a new iPhone app for social and web feeds. Tapestry brings together Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and more.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Apple announced the new invites app which is available on the App Store now
apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/int…
Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.Apple
🎉 Tapestry by Iconfactory is here! Your favorite blogs, social media, and more in a unified and chronological timeline with no algorithms and no tracking! Try it for FREE from the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by…
Tapestry weaves your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.App Store
Carbon dating puts Saskatchewan first nation settlement site as 10,800 years old.
For settlers needing a reference point, this is as old as the oldest parts of Stonehenge, and five thousand years older than the pyramids. #archaeology
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📢 January 2025 Newsletter is here! We’re kicking off the year with exciting updates:
⚙️ Rust support progress for Native
🔤 Web font improvements in GL JS
💡 Read more: 🔗 maplibre.org/news/2025-02-03-m…
Spent a moment this morning reading some old Beautiful Soup bug reports and freshly appreciated my spouse. Example:
bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulso…
Leonard gives a calm and thorough explanation of why and how the issue emerges from another library, and how the reporter can pragmatically mitigate.
I'm just feeling mushy right now about the man I'm lucky enough to have married. 💞
Normally when parsing an xml file, bs4 converts html entities in a piece of text to the character they encode. Ex. given '', `soup.find("item").string` becomes ''.Launchpad
Hello, Mastodon family! It's been a long time coming, but Xubuntu has officially left X behind!
x.com/Xubuntu/status/188675427…
If you're still using X, consider sharing our update to spread awareness. We'll continue to bring you the best of #Xfce and #Linux... all in one place.
(edit: because everything is confusing and nothing makes sense... we're leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, not X11. Wayland is still very much in the future!)
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Tomorrow at 9:00 CET I release #curl 8.12.0 live-streamed. What could possibly go wrong?
github.com/curl/curl/discussio…
The feature window is closed. The pending 8.12.0 release is scheduled to happen on February 5. If things go well, we open the feature window again on February 15. The curl release cycle is explaine...GitHub
Fresh off the press: what's next for Flathub build infrastructure
docs.flathub.org/blog/flathub-…
There is a storm coming and we are re-architecting our build infrastructure.Bart Piotrowski (docs.flathub.org)
github.com/magit/magit/discuss…
Release Notes This discussion was created from the release v4.3.0.GitHub
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For the most part I only gain new maintainers when I add such a request to an announcement. During the quite phases I lose sponsors and while a few new sponsors join during the off-season, it's always fewer than those that stop.
This is what I think about whenever infosec wonks on here start telling people they should use matrix or xmpp+omemo or whatnot instead of signal
To be fair, I understand the arguments and to a large extent I agree with the critiques. However, I think anyone making these recommendations is vastly underestimating the capacity or appetite for most people to deal with the user experiences presented by these alternatives.
User experience is the ultimate force multiplier. For anything that requires network effects to function (ie most anything involving communication), if it doesn't *just work* then you've lost 90% of your audience.
#matrix #xmpp #infosec #cybersecurity #signal #ux #design #ui #encryption #privacy #crypto
My talk "A Universal and Stable API to Everything: XMPP" is already available online, thanks to FOSDEM staff for their amazing work, and thanks to people who attended or we met at the RT Lounge.
video.fosdem.org/2025/k3601/fo…
If you have questions, you can ask me here.
Tuta Desktop: Tu búnker digital para correos y calendarios ultraprotegidos
¿Cansado de elegir entre seguridad y comodidad en tu correo electrónico? Con los clientes de escritorio de Tuta para Linux, Windows y macOS, esa disyuntiva desaparece. @Tutanota
Somos el portal de información tecnológica con mayor variedad en contenido de todo Costa Rica.acortar.link
🚨 Security Alert: The new Outlook shares your password with Microsoft. And in 2029 you'll be forced to switch.
Why not switch now - but to a better alternative⁉️
➡️ tuta.com/blog/outlook-business…
The new Outlook for Windows is a security nightmare and does not respect data protection rules that businesses need to comply with.Tuta
Šéf ruské státní televize vyjádřil naději, že se zúčastní země BRICS, sdružující kromě Ruska také Brazílii, Čínu, Indii a další rozvíjející se ekonomiky.ČTK (iROZHLAS.cz)
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#bookstodon
"what is magic if not a way to transform the world through the power of our thoughts? What are books if not spells? What are stories if not the most powerful and mysterious force known to man?"
Not since King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald and Angelica by Arthur Phillips has a fantastic mystery had this sort of impact. I was very pleased to see that Dan's managed to do it again, in terms of writing a book without any actual narration, and I was even happier that the table of contents didn't give it away. Whoops? I've spoilered that for you now. I love this chalkboard-style of writing, the idea that this whole work is a huge tapestry of interconnectedness. I enjoyed every page, and I think the ending just clicks so well that, even if it's predictable, it's so hard not to cheer along and want things to fall out.
Brilliant book, best read of the year so far.
[Sean Randall’s review of Dreambound](goodreads.com/review/show/7295…)
5/5: "what is magic if not a way to transform the world through the power of our thoughts? What are books if not spells? What are stories if not the most powerful and mysterious force known to man?" Not since King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDo…www.goodreads.com
Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks. - tcgoetz/GarminDBGitHub
For those encountering random video playback application crash heisenbugs on the open source #AMDgpu #Mesa drivers on #Linux (thankfully, with #Wayland this no longer crashes the entire system), with the suspicious "CS has been rejected" error, here is the bug I reported upstream: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/me…
The theory is that the DRM's implementation of AMD's Unified Video Decoder does not properly keep track of #Flatpak process IDs. A patch is underway.
#opensource #AMD #Radeon #GStreamer
Brief summary of the problem: This has been an unpredictable, somewhat random occurrence for me on Fedora 40 and Fedora 41....GitLab
what I'm saying is that losing the whole graphics is like rebooting... so
I have been suffering that shit too. Often triggered by Firefox in flatpak
Apple’s line of rhetoric here which agitates the supposed safety of children and blankets the entirety of porn and sexual contents with the term “hardcore porn” is exactly the kind of language you’d expect to hear from the mouths of conservative politicians and far-right extremists when they try to justify the eradication and persecution of marginalized groups online.
This encompasses a wide range of marginalized communities, from LGBT people, to sex workers themselves, who seldom live in anything other than deeply precarious conditions throughout their lives.
9to5mac.com/2025/02/03/apple-f….
Both Apple and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney have provided responses below… Apple has been legally required to approve a...Zac Hall (9to5Mac)
New post: “Which VoiceOver?”
adrianroselli.com/2025/02/whic…
Just because something behaves a certain way in VoiceOver doesn’t mean it behaves that way in VoiceOver.
You may have seen this as a thread on Mastodon (my primary social short-form platform) or on BlueSky. Imagine these as the opening to a series of conversations between a vendor or client or boss or PO or whomever and me.Adrian Roselli
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