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If you are not yet convinced that Fedora Flatpaks is a hostile 'alternative' to Flathub, here's a good one for you:
An indeterminate amount of their packages are, in fact, directly based on existing manifests from Flathub. Not by manually inspecting code themselves; rather, by running a script which goes through Flathub's APIs and parses the respective apps' manifest to generate manifests for Fedora Flatpaks: pagure.io/flatpak-module-tools…
Food banker here with an IMPORTANT MESSAGE: You listening? PLEASE DO NOT use your money to buy cheap food for the food banks or pantries. Just give them that money. I'm 100% serious. Food banks, especially the really organized ones, can get WAY more for the dollar than any individual can, unless you're literally ordering by the truckload from a manufacturer like we are. Feeding America has a whole purchasing network with negotiated prices that make this system work. Also, every time you buy and donate random food items, it creates work for the food bank/pantry. We need to inspect it for safety, sort it into categories, and then work it into inventory. If you donate money, we use it to buy much more food, and we intentionally purchase based on what kind of item is needed. It can also be used to put fuel in the trucks that gets the food to its ultimate destination. We absolutely do appreciate every donation, and we use items donated from food drives and individuals every day. But look at it this way: You can buy a 5-lb sack of potatoes for $3.00, for example. I can get them for 50 cents per sack because my organization has negotiated the price with the distributor and ordered 10 pallets of them. We need every kind of support we can get right now, but PLEASE let us do the smart shopping
It just seems like the whole point is to show off how disfunctional everything is and I hope to god that that backfires, not just against the current adminis...
I sometimes here liberal apologists and defenders of wealth inequality point out that the rich live just like the rest of us, there's no big distinction in the bundles of goods we have access to. We eat the same things, use the same computers, sleep in the same beds.
Setting aside for a moment whether this is true (I personally don't have a private plane or a yacht) granting the hypothesis opens up a question:
So if wealth doesn't actually get you anything substantially better, how is it an incentive?
Because, those same liberal apologists keep telling us without the enormous incentives to the rich, they would not contribute their prodigious amoutns of value to our economies.
But they just told us they don't get anything meanignful back from it.
So what's going on?
This argument is self-defeating. Either wealth gives rich people something substantial (and therefore wealth inequality means most go without whatever that is, and therefore must be removed), or wealth does not give anything substantial and is not an adequate incentive, so it may as well be removed.
The more I use iOS 26, the more I think voiceover is essentially broken and cannot be repaired. Focus is utterly atrocious. Multiple times, I close an app, or open another app, only for voiceover to continue to read the previous app as if it were still up on the screen, the keyboard has a significant delay that I can’t get rid of. No matter how much animations and or haptics I disable. Every time I want to use the space bar, upon engaging the keyboard, there is a significant delay. Everything just has a colossal delay attached to it now and I really think this is the cause of their new glass view or whatever the hell the corporation is calling it. It seems to slow down apps also. Even though it is supposed to be smooth and otherwise, there are many instances where the apps just feel clunky and or broken in multiple ways. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but for example, search edit boxes/feilds in apps like the podcast app just feel as if they are struggling to function. I constantly feel as if I am using my own phone wrong, which feels utterly ridiculous because I am an expert user. This is honestly why I’ve reverted back to using a computer more and more nowadays. I don’t do anything complicated on the phone. My phone has basically transformed into a portable audiobook player and podcast player because browsing on the web on the mobile phone is a level of hell I will never willingly participate in again unless I absolutely have to do so. Everything feels that badly designed. #Apple #IOS
That's itneresting. Honestly that's always how I felt about iOS, but I realise that other people manage to use it for complicated things, so it must be me. It's a pity that even for people who found iOS usable, it's stopping to be so.
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Passports didn’t list sex until the 1970s when governments around the world stated freaking out about men with long hair and unisex clothes. Now we pretend like this was some always set, eminently important thing that must carry value. We only got it as enforcement of binary gender.
@NVAccess Hi, do you have an idea why MBrola support isn't available on NVDA's built-in ESpeak-ng? The MBrola voices, such as mb-br1, are missing. I discovered this fact when I went to investigate why MBrola support is missing on the ArchLinux package for ESpeak as well, the reason I haven't found yet.
Good question - we do have a request to add this: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… and it looks like there was an add-on created, called, logically: "Espeak with Mbrola included" - This is available in the add-on store but has not been updated since last year. It is currently listed as not compatible but it may still work if you override that check - I haven't looked (but of course, do be careful if you do override that check and keep an eye out for any issues).
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Yes. In previous versions before Espeak-ng it was possible to copy the Mbrola files to Espeak and use the voices. Describe the solutio...
I just saw this post on the eSpeak-NG list: groups.io/g/espeak-ng/message/… from Tobias Platen noting that he "will take mainainance of the MBROLA synthesizer, and start working on version 4." - and that he is going to give a talk on it as well.
Maybe the real reason Big Tech turned on us is that their original plan was to monetize our search history by advertising things we were looking for, but we were all looking for things nobody wants to sell, like "better working conditions" and "social justice" and "affordable housing."
That figures. I get my PC back from the shop just now, and while setting things back up, my webcam's USB C cable separates. I unplugged it, not roughly either, and the cable with bare wires just pulls straight out of the connector. Only a month old too! (Elgato Facecam Neo). Ordered a replacement. This fucks up work for awhile.
@BorrisInABox hahahahahaha! Why yes, yes it is. I didn't even think of that. Although lately, my bad luck has not been happening on Thursdays. I really want next week to be stable and predictable.
After a Con MP crossed the aisle yesterday... Another Con MP (who was rumoured to cross the aisle) has resigned. And that's after we've heard of talks of threats made to them from PP's team.
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(I really do hope they're not actually getting threatened... I want our politics to be better, damn it)
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(Don't ask why this equation "works" or why a specific number or constant is there. Part of the process was just me combining constants and praying it works)
I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. This is the longest distance direct train trip in Finland, covering most of the country. It lasts around 11+ hours with around 900km distance.
I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine!
I guess his point is that bridging between languages can add more scope for bugs and vulnerabilities than the original C or C++ code. But some projects are in fact bringing in Rust in this incremental way. I wonder how such efforts are going in practice. One success story I know of is GNOME's librsvg, which is now completely in Rust.
Rust has honestly never made sense to me. If you want hardened C, there are projects like https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c and if you want to write a new "apt-ng" in a new language and migrate users over to it at some point, have at.
Rust was *designed* for replacing select parts of Firefox. I can see doing it for heavily entangled cross-cutting stuff not providing security value, but lots of things have pretty cleanly separated components that have notably different security properties.
I remember a grand total of three bugs in the C-Rust layer in the time it was being ported, and none of them made into production releases. All were caught and fixed pretty fast.
One thing I did appreciate, at intermediate stages of the port, is that Rust forced consistency in the C code it touched, in terms of memory/resource management. The C code got cleaner around the interface points, and then it disappeared.
@janvhs For librsvg, not really. The C API has been stable for many years, and it doesn't expose much. You get a handle to a loaded SVG, and you can render it and query one or two things from it.
It was interesting to write a somewhat more idiomatic Rust API and then reimplement the C API on top of that. I wrote about it in viruta.org/a-rust-api-for-libr… and viruta.org/exposing-c-and-rust… - the code has evolved further from that, but the principle still stands.
almost every software project which exists is layers of wrappers across different languages, which works fine for the most part. The question as always is where you draw the boundaries.
I usually use either #ChatGPT (for everyday tasks) or #Claude (for coding), but I found #GitHub #Copilot extremely useful when a CI job fails. There is a button that opens a menu, and one of the items is "Explain the error". It spawns a chat with a premade prompt, so no need to frentically sift through logs, first finding the failing job with a screen reader, then trying to find the error in question. It can be done of course, but afterwards, if Copilot's explanations are not good enough. #AI #AITip #Accessibility
Let me say what I tell people, and this has nothing to do with you, as I don't know what you said that was deleted, but because get asked this a lot.
When a non-Jew wants to join Babka, so often this seems to be because they think we're a place that is safe for other forms of bigotry, such as Islamophobia, and that's just not the case. We're against bigotry and if something is Islamophobic, we encourage folks to report it and we'll take administrative action.
This has happened more than once, and for people who want to join us because they are "Pro-Israel" (whatever the heck that means), it doesn't end well.
It's also challenging for gentiles who join because they can come in and feel like there are conversations that find confusing, or they feel need their perspective, not realizing that Jews coming together to be around other Jews aren't looking for the Christian perspective on topics.
@serge got your position, it's honest and thanks for that. BTW, I'm not Christian and I have… enough exposure to the Jewish culture to understand most of what's going not (not all of course), if the conversation is going in a language I understand. but again, thank you so much for your openness without being rude.
@EdenLinnea To put it short, I'm not on the left, and it seems to be extremely unpopular on Mastodon. I don't support "Free Palestine" movement which also makes lots of people angry. I don't support anticapitalism because I don't know what's better than capitalism, acknowledging the fact it's not an ideal system, but I'm definitely against communists, anarchists and other destructive movements. And on and on it goes 😊
@EdenLinnea Oh, also, I don't hate AI and don't like cycling and cyclists and, more than that, I believe they are dangerous as hell, especially for vulnerable categories of pedestrians such us blind people or people on walkers.
Just registered for this #Yiddish #Braille zoom discussion on Nov 13. at an earlier stage I consulted a bit with Matthew and his Yiddish teacher though I'm not sure how much I really contributed😅 jbilibrary.org/programs-events…
@menelion should register to hear about it! it's definitely not fully developed (not a full system of rules and contractions etc), but it was to help him learn and read Yiddish, and he seemed happy with its functionality last I heard.
it's partly based on the Hebrew braille system, iirc, which makes sense because they share an alphabet, even if some changes needed to be made as well due to the languages being very different.
Can I register if I'm in France? I'm totally blind and can provide a (French) blindness certificate (card) if needed. I see I need a phone, a patron ID... can you help please? Or can I just register as is? Thanks! also, just I don't know if it matters: I'm not Jewish myself, but I go by "your friendly goy" since I'm highly interested in Jewish culture, I work with Jewish people and I have lots of friends 😊.
@menelion you should be able to register, I don't have any connection to this institution, I live in Vancouver. I just left the patron ID field blank and it allowed me to register. I saw they also give an email address to contact with issues underneath
Blind friends, how do you typically activate a credit card? I'm wondering whose way would feel the least painstaking to me. I have a new card to activate, if you couldn't guess. :)
I boosted but I'm interested how it's done in your country (the States, I guess)? Because sometimes you need to call a number (PayPal business card in France), sometimes you need just to buy someting (usual procedure in Ukraine).
As Day4 hits the home stretch, I'm happy to say that I've got Slack working as well as I can for now. I'm able to do with it what will be needed for work, even if it's a little slow going right now. I can now click on links within messages. I really hope they put me on Safari and give me access to the mac mail and calendar apps. Maybe it's cool on Windows, but chrome plus the gmail web interface equals a less than desirable experience. But slack has been conquerred. Just wish there was a more audible alert if new messages come in
@MikeGorse Well stuck with slack for mac. It works, just doesn't read as well as I'd like it to. But still learning the mac so may find other ways to retrieve info easier as I get more experience
I'm surprised if you can't also put it on your phone, but maybe your set-up is different from ours somehow. I've never used MacOS, so I don't really know anything about it. Hopefully you can figure osmething out as you become more familiar with it. Or maybe try asking on BITS or NFBCS if you're on either of those (I'm assuming BITS has a mailing list, anyhow).
but still it's better than writing in Unicode pseudo-letters, that is absolutely unbearable, I scroll past. You know, when people use fancy Unicode math symbols as letters.
I do indeed know exactly what you're talking about. I used to use those a decade or so on Twitter, and even built a tool that made it easy to create them, but as soon as I learned that most screenreaders don't do the correct thing and fall back to the normal Unicode letter, I stopped and killed my tool.
My huge respect, I appreciate your commitment. Although, to be honest, I think screen readers should also do their job a bit better, like if there are two or more of those, transform them to normal words. Will suggest such a feature but not sure they will do it. Anyway, thank you!
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