Hosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon interview Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub. They discuss how Ed began working in accessibility, some of the lat...
Dear @Andre Louis this sounds fantastic. I couldn't resist I've shared it with Michal from livingbraille.eu and he likes it too. Would you like to submit it also to their braille200@livingbraille.eu via email? I think it it's appropriate for this as well.
@pvagner If you would be so kind as to submit it, I'd be grateful. I had fun making it, but proper attribution has to go to @BorrisInABox who actually did the sampling of the Brailler to begin with.
@Andre Louis @Patrick Perdue So I'm finally looking at the process of posting this little piece as a so called #braille200 entry. However it also includes a bit of burreaucracy. They at #EBU wish to receive this along with so called Copyright Transfer Agreement. I was about to write short text mentioning Braille's friendship with Gabriel Gauthier more than 200 years ago, highlighting the fact he were able to make fun at that time, and now we can do the same using different tools and technologies and braille still remains one of inspiring points in today's blind artists creations. Please @Andre Louis @Patrick Perdue kindly look at their article, skim the part of the submission process and let me know if you are still fine with that. livingbraille.eu/invitation-to…
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My mom has been making these #amigurumi #KDE #konqui for a while, we bring them to events and people exchange them for donations to the project. According to her logs she has made 161 of them, which means people have donated around 2000 euros to KDE thanks to her. It's also her birthday, so happy birthday mom!
The newest Zenfone borrows cool features from the Asus ROG gaming phone line like fast charging and wired headphone support -- but it's not coming to the US.
Amazon is set to host a product event in New York City on February 26th, where the company is expected to unveil a significantly updated version of its Alexa digital assistant powered by advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
⚖️El líder de Desokupa, Daniel Esteve, denunciado por incitación al odio.
La asociación Acción Contra el Odio presenta ante la Fiscalía de València una denuncia por los bulos racistas, noticias falsas y amenazas contra las personas migrantes difundidas por Esteve.
As we welcome February, it is important we recognize this month as both Low Vision Awareness Month and Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Awareness Month;
At a time when visual content drives engagement and shapes brand identity, accessibility often becomes an afterthought. Yet, for millions of users who rely on image information and assistive technologies, accessible content is a necessity.
PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...
The new major release provides many user interface and accessibility improvements, plus the usual interoperability features Berlin, 6 February 2025 – LibreOffice 25.
@Gegenwind We have no plans to put any AI inside LibreOffice. But for people who want such functionality, the community is working on (purely optional!) third-party extensions, such as: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
#LibreOffice #foss #opensource #freesoftware I have a serious question. Will LibreOffice ever be a product with batteries included regarding grammar and spell check on a high level? I know that we have a very good spell checking, but I was wondering if there's ever something planned to have a really working grammar and style checking tool like languagetool out of the box.
@devSJR Hi! You can submit an enhancement request: bugs.documentfoundation.org/ – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. If you'd like a better grammar checker, please consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you!
@the5thColumnist Hi! You didn't say anything about your setup (eg the operating system you're using) but on Windows, in-app updating was recently added.
hello, just updated to 25.2, can't find the option to change comment color. Is it per comment, or per user? Where is it? Even used kde's global menu's search, and can't find it.
Hi, maybe it has something to do with theming support, but on MacOS I can’t set a fully bright UI style. While the icons and so on are light the background around the page stays dark gray. Can’t do a screenshot right now….
Friedrich Merz (CDU) will Kanzler werden – dafür rührt er nicht nur die Werbetrommel, sondern muss sich auch zu eher fachfremden Themen äußern. Er fordert eine dringende Reform des Sozialstaates, zu der auch das Gesundheitswesen gehört.
Managing files on Linux isn't just about adding or deleting them. Sometimes, you need to control who can access, modify, or execute those files—or identify who owns them. I will show you different tools and
Häufig erreichte mich die Frage, ob der Beitrag zu Gmail noch zutrifft – und die Antwort lautet: Ja! Google, beziehungsweise Gmail, liest weiterhin eure E-Mails. Das betrifft nicht nur eure eigenen Nachrichten, sondern auch E-Mails von Absendern, die selbst kein Gmail-Konto haben, aber an eine Gmail-Adresse senden. 👇
From the Florida OutReach Center for the Blind: Reading and Finding Books With Guest Presenter David Goldfield: Thursday, February 13, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/85…
Jan Kowalleck, Sarah Hoffmann, @hugovk, @matk, Stefan Eissing, and Denis Ovsienko are the Sovereign Tech Fellowship's first cohort. Please join us in welcoming the six maintainers in the Sovereign Tech Agency’s one-year pilot program to support critical digital infrastructure and the people who work on it. Meet the fellows ➜ sovereign.tech/news/meet-the-s…
#NextCloud #accessibility is highly impacted by this thing that seems very small. What they did is they removed (!) the Copy Public Link from the context menu in their File Explorer integration. I don't know who to call, but I'm pretty sure we need to create more noise in there. I'm thinking about starting a petition. Please join me! github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i… // CC @nextcloud
Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
Yup, I absolutely agree. Sounds stupid but that was a very big reason for me to not spin up NC on my new server again, the clients GUI is garbage anyway, and use GoogleDrive instead. I know it's not the same, and I wish NC would get more useable again, but I'm sick of that kinda half accessible weird crap they're doing with the desktop client, the rest is acceptable imo.
Seafile's web interface was more accessible last I checked. And there was a long standing horrific data deletion bug that caused me to immediately avoid Nextcloud
Expected behaviour Nextcloud Desktop should not remove files from the server that are not gone from the machine. Actual behaviour Two days ago, Nextcloud desktop removed all my files from the serve...
can you open a new issue about accessibility concerns in regards to removal of the Copy Public Link option? It's good to have a dedicated report to review and address it.
Are there any news on this so far? Like, I know the GH issue is still desatesfying, but do you plan to do more yet? Like, I'm so bored I would actually get up a nextcloud again but that link generation thing makes me not doing it.
@jonathan859 As suggested by an actual person from NextCloud, I will create a separate issue about accessibility implications of this removal. Also, I'm considering trying SeaFile as an alternative. I tried also OCIS (it's kind of a new OwnCloud thing), but there sharing seems to be over-complicated.
A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He has high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code. Access granted as debt ceiling crisis looms, officials in charge of the area have resigned in protest.
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments, tax returns, and more.
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
I thought I would show off another recording in my train sounds collection from Melbourne. I was very lucky to get these from a man who recorded them at the time in 1982. This is what they called a tait train, An old wooden electric set which were the first on the Melbourne network. Apart from the traction motors, you will also hear the jingling sound of the handles that people could hold which were on leather straps that would swing wildly as the train moved. These trains did not have electric doors, you opened and closed them manually, a lot of people used to keep them open as the train was moving in hot weather because there was no air conditioning. These trains were at the very end of their lives When this recording was made.
Ofcom replied to our earlier questions regarding the #OnlineSafetyAct, and declined to answer essentially all of them. We try to understand Ofcom's vague guidance, and contrast it with the stern warnings in today's livestream:
In today's livestream (58:00), Ofcom's James Proudfoot told service providers, "If people reach out, what's useful is we can talk to you a bit more speci...
#ČNB si hraje s používáním #LLM pro prognózování inflace. Čekám, že tam mají daleko větší odborníci na AI než jsem já, ale LLM mi pro číselné predikce přijde naprosto nevhodný. Aspoň že tam zmiňují, že si hrají i s jinými metodami strojového učení. cnb.cz/cs/o_cnb/cnblog/Prvni-v…
"Předpokládej, že jsi v čase 𝝉 a nejsou ti poskytnuty žádné další pozdější informace."
LOL, čestné soudružské, že nebudu brát v potaz data, z kterých jsem se učil, když už byla inflace pro dané období známa. To se pak nedivím, že jim ty predikce vyšly tak dobře. 😄
@sesivany Jojo, přesně to je ten důvod, proč si myslím, že to není vhodně vybraný model strojového učení. Jako ať si to zkouší se současnými daty na letošní rok a v roce 2026 ať řeknou výsledky. Good luck s chaotickými událostmi typu válka na Ukrajině a Trump v Americe.
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