I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back
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Erinnert ihr euch daran, dass ich sagte, Ralf-Alexis hätte keine Ahnung, wie man Screenreader benutzt?
Er mag jetzt gerne rechtliche Schritte gegen mich einleiten. Die Mail kam heute um kurz nach 0 Uhr. Und im darin verlinkten Toot gehts nicht mal um ihn, sondern um die ableistischen Auswüchse der Branche.
Ich glaub ich hab dazu schon genug gesagt.
We have a CI job to spot unwanted utf8 letters in #curl PRs as we have noticed that GitHub will gladly show the for example (identical) Cyrillic version of a letter next to the Latin version in a diff and it is yes, entirely impossible for a human to spot the diff. I mean the diff is shown, but the significance of it is not.
Changing just a single letter like that in a URL hostname opens up for a world of grief.
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back
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Read this article! I promise this is not another “I’ve tried Linux but it is too hard” post but a very insightful and well-written piece on accessibility across the Linux landscape.
The official repository of Mozilla's Firefox web browser. - mozilla-firefox/firefoxGitHub
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.bbb.metalab.at
I strongly suggest reading this well-written blog post about experiences of a blind longtime #Linux user:
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Accessibility is not an optional "feature" in GUI. It is a must. We all should feel responsible to make the GUI accessible. Period!
I love an early press conference with Björk where a reporter asks how her name is pronounced.
"My name is Björk, it rhymes with Jerk"
Too good to be true? That's what a German buyer experienced when he bought a 2TB hard drive for just over €2 at a flea market. A purchase that turned out to be a real deception. The story goes back to 2023: a man buys a unit stamped as a…farmingdale-observer.com
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Ladies and gentlemen I predict a Red Monday in the stock market.
But if this actually sticks ... it's good for America after the fires are out
Live the bleeding edge life, help out the #curl project and test the fresh 8.14.0-rc2 build: curl.se/rc/
(Do not use release candidates in production. They are work in progress. Use them for testing and verification only. Use actual releases in production.)
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An update to Leasey is now available via check for updates!
New in Build 1069.
Today we give you for the first time Leasey Sports and Games. Covers soccer, baseball, cricket, tennis and basketball.
When using the keystroke Leasey key then ALT+Shift+S to shut down the computer, or Leasey key ALT+Shift+R to restart, the processes to do so should be faster than before.
When using the Focus 14 Braille display, it is now possible to press With-Sign Chord to mute or unmute speech. This was functioning on the Focus 40 model but not the 14.
Don't forget that our new training course is coming up, where Leasey Sports and Games will be covered in depth, among many other utilities.
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📢 Big news for Yunohost users!
Prosody is now packaged for Yunohost, replacing Metronome.
Prosody is a lightweight and easy-to-use XMPP (Jabber) server.
With Prosody, you can easily host your own instant messaging service, giving you full control over your data and privacy.
Thanks a lot to every contributors!
As a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap and links into things like Wikidata, I present my DecomissionedAircraftMap. It pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.
Feel free to link some more, the bot pulls new thumbnails once a day.
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#OpenStreetMap #Wikidata #planes #museum
Host the style file and images for an Ultra based airplane map - GitHub - watmildon/DecomissionedAircraftMap: Host the style file and images for an Ultra based airplane mapGitHub
@f13rf3k Oh god, why must everything be so complicated in the real world...
Perhaps add the wikidata-code of the original model AND the wikidata code of "replica" (Q1232589)? Or add a replica=yes tag on it?
TBH, does it matter that much?
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Because life can be full of bullshit, here's some pleasant counterprogramming:
Meet 3.3 m/11 ft #InspectorClouseau
(Old people like me will get the #PinkPanther reference)
First spotted off #Australia in 2015
The only #pink #mantaRay we've discovered in the world, now or ever
Researchers have studied him (yes, a he) as to cause
Diet: no. Stress: no. Toxins: no. Infection: no
They now think it is just a rare genetic mutation
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#Ocean #Biology #Zoology #Fish #Oceans
Researchers suspect a genetic mutation may have gifted the giant fish, named Inspector Clouseau, his rosy hueKatherine J. Wu (Smithsonian Magazine)
NVDA 2025.1 Beta 5 is now available! Changes since beta 4 include:
- Updates to translations
- Fixes for reading math attributes in PDFs
- Minor improvements to the user experience of Remote Access
Read the full details and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…
We are getting closer to NVDA 2025.1! Thank you to all those who have been trying out betas and giving us feedback, we greatly appreciate it!
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #PreRelease #Testing #Accessibility #NewVersion
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if you are interested in our certification exam as proof of your skills - or even just to see if you can pass it - the exam itself is free to sit! Head to certification.nvaccess.org/
When you pass, if you WOULD like to support us, and receive a certificate, you have the opportunity and I do look forward to sending out your certificate!
Happy to share that we made the poster and visual identity for (Onge)wild. 🪰💦🕊️🌿
A nature-cultural project that challenges us to look beyond what we find ‘beautiful’ or ‘useful’ when it comes to the natural environment of our cities. (Read more in the comments)
Fixables je sbírka náhradních dílů pro výrobky Philips, které lze vytisknout na 3D tiskárně - navržená tak, aby oprava byla snadná pro každého.Philips
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Update: Can a poor little trans angelgirl please get enough to afford to replace her wardrobe with feminine clothing she likes? pwease? 
Main: I live in an abusive and transphobic home, my family hates me because i am trans. i am disabled and unable to get a job. i will literally die without donations. Please donate to me to help me afford my basic necessities like HRT, food, clothing, phone bill, etc. Anything helps please!
Current Goals:
immediate necessary expenses: $250/$250
feminine clothing: $0/$300
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hrt blood tests: $0/$200
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@mutualaid@a.gup.pe @disability@a.gup.pe @trans@a.gup.pe @vegan@a.gup.pe
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #donate #donation #fundraiser #crowdfunding #crowdfund #transmutualaid #transcrowdfund #queermutualaid #disabilitymutualaid #emergencycrowdfund #helpfolkslive2025 #begpost
If you’re a developer writing a GTK app and you want it to be accessible, you might want to check out the following links:
developer.gnome.org/documentat…
docs.gtk.org/gtk4/section-acce…
Here are some things you can do in your code to make your program work as well as possible with assistive technologies. For components that don’t display a short string (such as an image button), s...GNOME Developer Documentation
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@pvagner @modulux @clairie I am not aware of any binary builds for Windows; I personally have a full life already, and I don't particularly plan on wasting it on the foibles of Windows.
As far as I know, the accesskit backend was tested with a custom gnome-text-editor build, but that was last year. If people want to pick this up, I'd recommend starting with a small hello world to ensure that building all dependencies actually works.
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my brother takes me to the Pine Cone Inn when I visit (perhaps next weekend!)
That place is exactly the type of truckstop diner that I love. Delicious, cheap, greasy food.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •That's very interesting, as Forgejo displays a big warning on top if something like this is being detected, a button to escape them and is marking the line with a warning:
"This file contains Unicode characters that can be confused with other characters."
Really confused that this is missing in GitHub.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •GitHub recently added warning for Hidden Unicode characters.
Maybe they will get to homograph attacks next.
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GitHub now provides a warning about hidden Unicode text - The GitHub Blog
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Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)dusoft
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •That means that somebody actually sat down and browsed all the fonts to find the 2 characters which look exactly alike?
Just imagine these people would spend their time doing something productive for a change...
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in reply to Brokar • • •Unicode Utilities: Confusables
util.unicode.orgMustaque Ahmed
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