Mit einer neuen App ermöglichen die Wiener Linien die kontaktlose Steuerung ihrer Aufzüge per Bluetooth. Das soll Menschen mit Mobilitätseinschränkung das Einsteigen erleichtern.
I'm not overly happy with the way the audio turned out on this one, but I did read the book last week and enjoyed it. If you're looking for something without a happy ending, you might enjoy ... #bookstodon
A now-deleted blog post from Google suggests that the company is getting ready to roll out Material 3 Expressive, an Android design change that’s supposed to make the interface easier to use.
I generally don't understand this nonsense trend of hiding the user interface as well as possible. It's like on #android using gestures to navigate instead of three buttons at the bottom of the screen. You see less and less on more and more screen...
It honors a 19th-century battle between the French and the Mexican armies that, strangely enough, may have influenced the outcome of the US Civil War (via @USCDornsife) theconversation.com/americans-…
The holiday honors a 19th-century battle between the French and the Mexican armies that, strangely enough, may have influenced the outcome of the US Civil War.
ALONEFrom new album Songs Of A Lost World. Out Now: https://TheCure.lnk.to/SongsOfALostWorldYT Subscribe to The Cure YouTube: https://thecure.lnk.to/Subscri...
Will an emboldened Albo play it safe, stick to the middle, or reform? Expecting a “courageous” Anthony Albanese (as Sir Humphrey Appleby might say) following Labor’s spectacular re-election on Saturday? Andrew Gardiner reports the realities of politics dictate we rein in those expectations. michaelwest.com.au/will-an-emb… via @MichaelWestBiz
During the 2025 ATIA Conference, Sam Hyman from Talking Keyboards, showed us the Talking Keyboard for Children, which is a speech-generating learning tool to develop literacy skills. Check it out h…
"Since millions of Windows 10 users may believe their devices will become useless and contribute to the waste of fully functional devices, installing a Linux operating system like openSUSE or another Linux distribution is more reasonable": Upgrade to Freedom Campaign Shifts to End of 10 news.opensuse.org/2025/05/05/u…
Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14 and this will likely trigger a surge in unnecessary electronic waste (e-waste) on International E-Waste ...
Samsung Was Estimated To Lose Around $400 Million After It Decided To Drop The Exynos 2500 For The Galaxy S25 Series; European Galaxy S26 Models To Be Equipped With Exynos 2600 wccftech.com/samsung-lost-400-…
On one hand, I'm glad that screen readers can do something with this new API out of the box. On the other, long-standing bugs exhibited by using live regions are still present with this new API, such as #NVDA not interrupting a normal-priority message when a high-priority one comes in. #accessibility
@cachondo I think it's using the same machinery under the hood, so I would imagine that is still true. I can add a delayed announcement example to test. @fireborn
@fireborn begs the question, when is a notification not a notification? if I'm waiting for a background process to do something on the web, should my screen reader announce that even if I'm in a different tab or focused on a different app altogether?
I hope you’re doing well! I’m reaching out to invite blind musicians, producers, and artists to join an **accessibility feedback group** for Sessionwire — a platform I’ve been using and really enjoying for a couple of years now.
**What is Sessionwire?** Sessionwire is a remote music collaboration platform that allows musicians, producers, and audio professionals to work together in real time. It offers studio-quality audio, high-definition video, and seamless integration with popular DAWs, letting users collaborate on projects as if they were in the same room.
**Why am I reaching out?** One of the developers at Sessionwire has asked me to bring together a group of blind users to help improve the platform’s accessibility. They already know which areas need work and are eager to collaborate with us to make Sessionwire better for everyone.
**Interested in participating?** If you’re interested, **please reach out to me privately (one-on-one)** and send me the email address you’d like to use for communication. If you plan to use the same address to sign up for Sessionwire, let me know; otherwise, please also send the email you’ll use for your Sessionwire account.
If you have **any questions**, feel free to let me know!
Let’s work together to make Sessionwire more accessible for the blind community!
Windows Has an Emergency Restart Option You Probably Don’t Know About (Bonus: This works by pressing CTRL+space on "power" in the Alt+CTRL+Del dialog too!) lifehacker.com/tech/windows-ha…
Okay, let's try this, for the first time ever. I'm Quin, and I'm looking for a job over the summer, possibly longer as long as it's part time (I'm a college student with the summer off). I'm mostly interested in #remote work, due to my complete blindness traveling to a workplace is more difficult, all be it not impossible. I just prefer coding from my bedroom. I'm a software developer and hacker (in the oldest and best sense of the word) who loves nothing more than figuring out a good challenge. I prefer low-level coding in C, C++, Rust, etc., but things like Python and Lua have their place too. My resume is here: quinbox.xyz/resume.html #FediHire #fediHired
V tomhle videu se několikrát opakuje: „pokud platíte přes…“
Platit _přes_ něco je germanismus. V češtině máme sedmý pád, instrumentál, my dokážeme platit přímo _něčím_, nepotřebujeme pomocné slovo „přes.“ Jediný oříšek může být, jak správně skloňovat zkratkové slovo SIPO. Nejspíš prostě _Sipem_.
Od 1. května 2025 se televizní poplatek zvyšuje o 15 Kč na 150 Kč měsíčně za domácnost. 📺Poplatek platí každá domácnost s televizí, mobilem, tabletem nebo p...
Hello Masto #Strasbourg, si vous aimez la musique classique, il y aura un très beau concert (même plusieurs) à l'église St. Aurélie. Je parle de celui de ce jeudi en particulier, quatre clavecins live, ça doit être fabuleux ! sainte-aurelie.fr/osa/
L’association OSA et la paroisse Sainte-Aurélie ont de belles ambitions : le partage de la musique, une volonté forte d’animer le quartier gare de Strasbourg – qui n’a que …
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Hi everyone! 👋 We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So if you see someone recommending it, please inform them about the risks – but also that there are actively maintained successor projects (like LibreOffice). #foss #OpenSource
Some tech sites, bloggers and magazine authors also still recommend OpenOffice – also not aware of the unfixed security issues. So if you follow anyone like that, please let them know too! 👍
I never understood why OpenOffice people / Apache foundation still maintaining it - Is there some core difference to LibreOffice or is it like more a hobby pet no one wants let to die?
@DeltaLima There have been no major updates to Apache OpenOffice since 2014 (the last big release, 4.1). LibreOffice has hundreds of extra features, improvements and fixes. The OpenOffice Git log is almost entirely two people removing whitespace and changing HTML tags to create the impression of activity: github.com/apache/openoffice/c… – So we don't know why the Apache Software Foundation doesn't close it, especially with the unfixed security issues. It's bad for FOSS in general.
@DeltaLima Has anyone been able to ever get a response out of the Apache Foundation for why this continues? Or even comment from the two maintainers that are submitting the commits?
top tip: put link to #libreOffice before link to #openOffice so your toot shows the relevant project's logo - scrolling through I just saw OO's logo+website and thought: Ah no thanks.
Has Apache or anyone at Apache ever given a statement about why they haven't (or won't) close down OpenOffice and/or donate the name to The Document Foundation? Presumably y'all have asked them.
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I'm currently recommending @ONLYOFFICE instead of LibreOffice, because for some reason that one manages to not screw up formatting of docx and xlsx files...
I agree. Just by looking at the commits of the last 5 months suggests that OpenOffice is basically dead. There are commits, but mostly just syntax/whitespace being shifted around. That doesn't count!
So yeah, I support the call to deprecate OpenOffice because it's just practically unmaintained and insecure.
I switched from LibreOffice to OpenOffice about a year ago because for some reason LibreOffice had become excruciatingly slow and crash-prone. It happened in different computers - old and new.
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation.
👏 The UN is ditching Google Forms in favor of a self-hosted alternative! Specifically @CryptPad
Even the United Nations recognizes the importance of data sovereignty and privacy. If an org handling sensitive global diplomacy doesn't trust Big Tech, why should you?
You can follow the UN's lead: ✅ Try open-source alternatives to Google services ✅ Start with small, manageable changes ✅ Join communities that support FOSS solutions ✅ Advocate for privacy-respecting tech at work
Every small step toward digital autonomy matters! We have Google alts in our resources: techlore.tech/resources
1 cent per five years .... is the current marginal hosting cost for a #chatmail address, with which #deltachat apps facilitate world-wide private messaging including interactive #webxdc apps that run end-to-end encrypted in any chat group.
<1 Million EUR per year is the estimated marginal hosting costs for 350 Million EU citizens. Such scaling requires, however, research and development, including careful UX and #cryptography work. Related writing from @gordon
Join Blazie Technologies for our next webinar on Tuesday, May 6 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Join us as we demonstrate a few of the new features we’ve added in the May 2025 BT Speak update. Following the demos, you will have an opportunity to ask questions to Blazie Technologies team members. We look forward to your participation.
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Sweet puppies and kittens what fresh hell is this?
No Matt, you can't offload WordPress accessibility into a plugin. To say nothing of the part where all the work gets offloaded to the community and the official project gets to wash its hands.
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has suggested that accessibility improvements could be developed as a canonical plugin to help contributors respond more quickly to the needs of users who rely on assistive technologies.
TeleMessage, an Israeli company that sells an unofficial Signal message archiving tool used by some U.S. government officials, has suspended all services after reportedly being hacked.
I haven't used Skype for at least 10 years, but I remember using it quite a bit at one time. It's hard to believe I was introduced to it back in 2005, and had only been using the computer for just under two years. I remember thinking when you heard the other person or people on it that you were talking to, that it sounded a bit like you were hearing them on the radio, just because it was better than phone quality was. androidauthority.com/skype-shu…
@fireborn @ChocolatePie yeah I remember that happening if someone's internet signal went weaker or something, and calls would sometimes drop completely.
In modern web applications, controllers often need to process data URL parameters (query strings) or Request body.
Handling this data efficiently while ensuring it’s properly validated is a critical…
@Yinshi Нет, это недавно занесли, очень удобно. И вообще PHP сейчас не тот. Наташа моя жалуется, что она современный PHP с пятого на десятое понимает (она прям мощно писала ещё на пятом). Так вот, я её подкалывал до тех пор, пока современный Питон не увидел: какие-то объединения типов, странные конструкции, в общем, придётся разбираться, хоть я его и не люблю.
Тогда это нормально почему раньше их не видел. Видимо современный код на PHP я бы понял, по крайней мере в общих чертах. Атрибуты это хорошо, можно на аспектах многое упростить, главное не перестараться.
@Yinshi Команда Симфони, как мне кажется, иногда их переупотребляет, код становится хуже читаемым. По крайней мере, я хуже воспринимаю атрибуты на аргументах функций.
Обновил наконец-то Jaws с 22 версии. Всё настроил за исключением одного - не могу найти как включить повышение тона при чтении заглавных букв, вместо этого происходит звуковой сигнал. Как-то это отключал в предыдущих версиях, но хрен помнит где. Можно было бы мигрировать настройки, но не даёт, так как удалил предыдущие версии, притом что сами файлы остались где были. Думал, он по путям ищет, но нет. Есть мысли где искать? Подозреваю, оно где-то рядом, но мозг ломаю со вчера.
Дада, но в русской версии допустим Jaws 22 было без этой херни, либо оно настраивалось. Ладно, похоже и правда проще переключить на английский и сконфигурировать, просто меня этот ёбаный звук отвлекает только, проще когда тон меняется.
В остальном всё работает, хуже вроде не стало. Правда видимо окончательно забью на твиттер - при перемещении по постам, они то читаются то нет, ровно как имена юзеров, так логики происходящего и не понял. Может что-то надо для веба подстроить, но хрен с ним, без того бывал там не каждый день, так что переживу.
Вобщем не стал заморачиваться - переключил джоз на английский, тупо скопировал скрипты и конфиги, так что теперь всё работает. Значит оно где-то ещё запрятано, не в JCF файлах, собственно там похожего ничего и не видел внутри. Так что если и выяснится как это настроить, то только случайно. Всё равно собирался переключать с русского, мне локализованный никогда не нравился, на английском более лаконично.
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in reply to Oskar • • •"Bluetooth und Standort müssen allerdings aktiviert sein"
Wieso muss ich den Standort angeben um eine Bluetooth-Verbindung mit einem Lift herzustellen? 🤨