Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this" windowscentral.com/microsoft/w…
The new Steam Frame thing seems to rely on 6ghz WiFi but I thought that still wasn't officially legal in the EU yet as they were still deciding if that should be WiFi only or shared with cellular?
> Foveated Streaming is a new feature that optimizes detail where your eyes are looking, and typically offers over a 10x improvement in image quality and effective bandwidth. Behind the scenes, we're using low-latency eye tracking data to steer the best quality pixels only to where you're looking. This is all happening without you noticing, and works for your entire Steam library.
The hall effect joysticks are nice too! Now the question is, what is next for full body tracking with this headset, idk if they will ever make their own inside out tracker maybe
Its very much a durability thing, they last MUCH longer, and ontop of that, it looks like they are on their own daughterboard too which I think MIGHT ™️ make them more user repairable if they chose to sell replacements!
Thumbsticks are like the #1 thing to go on the controllers, I am on my 4th or 5th set of index controllers, all because of broken joysticks, all of them!
> The [Bush] album title [Sixteen Stone] comes from a real life experience. Sixteen stone translates to 224 pounds, allegedly the weight of a young woman who catfished one of Rossdale's friends via a personal ad.
Question for the fediverse tech folk: work has asked me to learn Google’s Big Query. Does anyone know how #accessible it is with a #screenreader? And where is the best place to start for someone mostly familiar with small scale postgresql deployment? #bigquery
I had to use Big Query a few years ago, IIRC there are multiple sections to the screen but it is essentially the same as any SQL tool - queries, results, error panes and similar. That's the web interface though, also IIRC we mainly used sbt which is a command line tool for building up that queries. There are some complexities there with versions and other stuff I frankly didn't understand but the bottom line is that you can use that or other tools so you are only dealing with a terminal, would this make it easier for a screen reader?
ooooh the Musicbrainz issue is due to server load but I'll never know if they post updates about it because Mastodon.social is preventing me from seeing their posts
It shouldn't prevent you from seeing posts from mastosoc, but you are unable to follow any mastosoc users, so federation is effectively disfunctional. They also don't have signed fetch requirement enabled, so federation shouldn't break either way. t. I've been deactivated there for over a year.
Search with the @-URL is half-broken. Maybe try replacing it with /users/<user>/statuses/<post number>. There's something wrong in Pleroma where it deletes the slash before the @, but it should then try to fetch using the expanded URL.
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
At this point if you have no kids and no real health issues you should just opt out of the health insurance system in the USA.
Join us. Don't be afraid. They still have to treat you in the ER. You can negotiate hospital bills down significantly when no insurance scam is involved.
We can break the system so there is no other option but a full reform.
@RandomDamage sorta yes but sorta no. More people are aware now that paying cash is significantly cheaper than via insurance, that if you HAVE insurance you can't ever get the cheaper prices for anything, and that if you just refuse to pay and the debt is low enough you can demand debt collectors take pennies on the dollar for your debt AND scrub it from your credit history, which they have the capability of doing.
Also the credit monitoring agencies are stupid, so if you don't have this medical debt reported on all of them they have to remove it
@RandomDamage I paid over $80,000 in premiums (still with a huge deductible!) between 2017-2024 for absolutely fucking nothing when that money could have been invested. I got the best deal I could possibly get being self employed by getting a group plan for my 2-member (me and wife) LLC which most people don't know you can do
Even just having that $80k in a bank account would be better than relying on insurance for almost all medical incidents, especially because they STILL demand more money from you regardless
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
I love how they're calling the woman evil for reaching out to churches to see if they'd help a struggling mother and recording their denials instead of calling the church evil
Ja mega. Mal wieder ein und halb Stunden meines Nachmittags damit verbracht, mich darum zu kümmern, dass meine Berufsschulmaterialien barrierefreier werden. Weil ich sonst kein Leben hab, ne? Ja, schlechte Barrierefreiheit gibt's wie Sand am Meer. Ich hab auch ehrlich gesagt nicht mehr Worte. Ich bin einfach enttäuscht davon, dass sich nichts geändert hat. Und ich hoffe, es läuft nicht wieder darauf hinaus, dass ich das Problem bin und die Problematik mit jedem Lehrer einzeln auslöffeln darf. Weiß was ich schon, es macht mich traurig und es macht mir Sorgen. Kann's doch echt nicht sein, oder? #Barrierefreiheit #Schule
Data layer designs are done, so I figured I’d jettison a few sanity points and let the internet try naming it.
In case you haven’t a clue what I’m on about, here’s the idea.
Blind / VI user struggles to use website or app because accessibility sucks. They hit a button that lets them report the product as inaccessible, and why. Other users can search for up to date accessibility info, and get an early warning if the try using something that’s clearly broken for their setup
While waiting for the project I'm currently working on using webpack to build, I thought to myself "I wonder how much faster this would be if Webpack were written in Rust?" And it turns out someone has already done this! Too bad I won't be able to try it in this case. rspack.rs/
One of my first jobs was in a support role for a technology company and I never understood why a company would want to outsource customer care. From my experience, customers would often contact us with a simple question, but the easy answer wasn't going to get to the root cause of their problem. As a human, we could interact with them to quickly understand what they were trying to accomplish and propose alternative solutions based on our knowlege and experience. 1/
Am Donnerstag, den 20. November, startet der Freiburger Weihnachtsmarkt. Eine Neuerung im Sicherheitskonzept soll vor Terror- und Amokfahrten schützen.
Immer wieder spannend diese sprachliche Unsitte, dass alles einen eigenen Willen zu haben scheint. Ich glaube ja, dass so ein Weihnachrsmarkt in erster Linie gar nichts will.
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.
We are working towards support for these modern certificate types on keys.openpgp.org
For this, we need to overhaul and extend our user-facing workflows, as well as the API that KOO exposes. The KOO board has decided to move forward based on the HKPv2 protocol:
This document defines a post-quantum public-key algorithm extension for the OpenPGP protocol. Given the generally assumed threat of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, this extension provides a basis for long-term secure OpenPGP signatures…
Waiting for this whole cloud, ai, kubernetes nonsense to blow over so I can come out of retirement at the last minute and show kids how a vlan works again for triple my salary and a part time schedule.
Nextcloud will invest 250 million euros until 2030 in sovereign Open Source solutions and we expand our channel partner program. Interesting times ahead. nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-c…
Filing this one beside "I will face god and walk backwards into hell" and "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" on the list of Impossibly Powerful Phrases With Baffling Origin Stories.
"The light inside is broken, but I still work" - a sign taped to a vending machine, spotted by a Twitter user. (originally "the light inside has broken".)
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.
I’d love to use Libre but a surface design that takes me back to the 1990s really puts me off. Is there a way to modernise appearance? (I’ve tried all tricks I’ve found but it still looks like Nirvana is in the charts)
@christianschwaegerl I'm switching between word processors based on the task and often, there's no way for me to figure out where anything is in MS Word, while I find it intuitively in LibreOffice.
Once, I literally spent an eternity figuring out removing yellow highlighting in MS Word because I wasn't prepared that there are two distinct types of yellow highlighting in the software that look the same, act differently and are found in very different non-obvious places of the user interface. (There are a lot of Google hits of people asking for help with the same problem in MS Word, so I'm not the only one who tripped over this.)
Yes, LibreOffice isn't a UI beauty, but MS Word's reputation of being user friendly can only be explained with muscle memory of people who trained on these weird inconsistencies since years and by now are able to stop thinking about them.
@hzulla Fully agree and there are many more reasons to avoid MS Office and Apple pages is at least as bad - it’s just that @libreoffice could easily offer sth more modern and somehow doesn’t care.
@christianschwaegerl @hzulla Why would you say this is a "1990s" design, when office suites didn't have tabbed interfaces in the 1990s? Also, saying we "don't care" is really unfair to the hard-working volunteers who do so much to give the whole world a free office suite. They do all they can, with extremely limited resources, in their spare time, and then people on social media say they "don't care". Very demoralising for them.
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla when someone offers feedback about your UI they aren’t under any obligation to cite exact reasons for their dislike nor are they required to be accurate in their comparison.
The message is they don’t like it and they don’t feel it is modern. It is enough of a concern for them that they avoid using the software.
I’m not saying I agree or that you should do anything about it, but your…
@christianschwaegerl @whatevs Well first, would you like to retract your statement that the hard-working LibreOffice volunteers "don't care"? Maybe join the Design team calls and see what they're working on, or read their minutes: listarchives.libreoffice.org/g… – Does that look like people who "don't care"? There is a lot of work going on, from volunteers in their spare time, who get hugely demoralised by such flippant remarks. Why not contribute back and help them, or fund someone?
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla Personally I find the LibreOffice interface refreshingly functional, after the persistent nightmare that is ribbon interfaces. ("Why use one click when you can force users to do it in three?")
FWIW, my 15yo much prefers it, too, so it's not just "what I was used to in the 90s" (or "before Office 2007 made everyone re-learn how to use MS Office from scratch", as the case may be).
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla Imagine choosing not to use a screwdriver or hammer because they don't look different than they did when last used a decade or more ago.
LibreOffice works. It has worked. It's what Microsoft has feared for two decades even if it doesn't have a glossy corporate-funded 2025 appearance.
Bonus: Libre Office isn't going to steal users' IP to train its LLM.
@libreoffice @christianschwaegerl @hzulla I grew up with the 90's Windows UI and have formative memories of using MS Office as a schoolkid in the early 2000's. A few years later the ribbon UI appeared, making me not find anything, while Windows has lost all semblance of the visual clarity it had in those days - I know enough about computers to have forgotten more than most will ever learn, yet I'm also blind to Windows 11's new context menu's copy/cut/paste icons.
LibreOffice intuitively works "the way office suites have worked all my life". I'm glad that when I need it, it hasn't gone and changed to follow some new (or resurgent old) design trend.
Careless redesign doesn't work for Windows, it doesn't work for MacOS, and it certainly doesn't work for for underfunded FOSS productivity tools used by millions of people daily. Change can be good and necessary, and I certainly tend to resist it at first, but change also needs a good justification. Constancy and stability over time is one of the best features for a tool to have.
And if you read this far, thank you so much for your work.
Link to Issue
Closes #20393
Description
Navigating the torrent list with arrow keys did not announce selection changes to screen readers.
Development Approach
Call QTreeView::currentChanged() to en...
Canceled my accessibility meeting today because, I’m just really not in the mood to put pants on, and explain to a marketing executive that, no actually, your dog shit accessibility toolbar solution doesn’t work and here is 90 reasons why. They tried to follow up and say, it’s only just a few pages, bullshit. but I just really don’t have the patience and I looked at their website, which was designed using Shopify, and they need a new theme but they don’t want to install the accessible theme I pointed them to. They said, but we really need someone to review our website for accessibility, and I can’t express how much I hate doing work like this. Makes me want to retire from freelancing early because this is ridiculous. I’ve seen their website. It’s a giant e-commerce website with over 300 links, and they use AccessiBe. I’m perfectly happy in my nice warm bed, writing a romance scene where a protagonist and a love interest share a cookie together. #Rant
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesEl Intocable · La Polla RecordsHoy Es el Futuro℗ 1993 Cultura Rock Records SL / La Polla RecordsReleased on: 20...
It looks like #libreoffice #impress does not react to the forward and back buttons on my mouse at all. Would be very handy to be able to use that as a presenter though. Is there any way I can set this up easily? (And maybe a bug report to make it happen by default?)
@libreoffice is that broken just for me or a missing feature in general?
Hi! Without any details (LibreOffice version, operating system, type of mouse etc.) it's pretty much impossible for us to say. You can try reporting it to our QA community at bugs.documentfoundation.org
Are you implying that, in general, the mouse forward and back buttons should work in impress? My first assumption was that it just isn't implemented anywhere. And I couldn't find any documentation about it either.
LibreOffice 25.8.2.2 580(Build:2) on Fedora Linux 43, Gnome/Wayland
Mouse: Logitech MX Anywhere 3 and MX Master 3S
Those forward and back buttons on the side of the mouse work for navigation in many apps, for example in Firefox, Thunderbird, Nautilus. When using impress it would make a lot of sense let them switch through slides in presentation and editing mode.
My previous experience with using the bugtracker was not that great, didn't get any helpful replies or acknowledgment of the issue - not sure it is worth my time to add another bug there to be honest 🤔 (I'm still grateful and appreciate the work put into libreoffice, don't get me wrong ❤️) bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh…
LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…
Every year around this time, I start tuning into the various #Christmas Music #radio options I have access to. This year, at least for background listening, it seems like Apple Music's Holiday Hits wins Christmas. Decent variety of styles and artists, the promos and transitions are good, and it's ad free. Then, of course, for more intentional listening, my playlist of tens of thousands of rarely played Christmas songs. Other options: iHeart has too many ads and not enough variety, sky.fm hasn't updated the Christmas offering in like 15 years, YouTube Music is just AI generated playlist slop, and all of the public #shoutcast streams I know of are either low sound quality, full of ads, or low variety. LiveOne, as every year, is a close second; good variety, few ads, and that radio sound I enjoy at Christmas. CBC Music and Stingray Music are also good, but unfortunately they have way too many different Christmas channels, resulting in not enough variety on each one, and too many choices for all day work day listening. Where are you getting your Christmas #music this year? #InternetRadio#streaming
@feld@JamminJerry The big ones are mushroomfm.com, hkcradio.com, the plague, and radio free dish nuts. I don’t know any sighted folks who listen to any of them though.
feld
in reply to DalekCoffee ☕ 🛫Holiday Matsuri • • •> Foveated Streaming is a new feature that optimizes detail where your eyes are looking, and typically offers over a 10x improvement in image quality and effective bandwidth. Behind the scenes, we're using low-latency eye tracking data to steer the best quality pixels only to where you're looking. This is all happening without you noticing, and works for your entire Steam library.
this is smart, very impressive
DalekCoffee ☕ 🛫Holiday Matsuri
in reply to feld • • •Now the question is, what is next for full body tracking with this headset, idk if they will ever make their own inside out tracker maybe
feld
in reply to DalekCoffee ☕ 🛫Holiday Matsuri • • •DalekCoffee ☕ 🛫Holiday Matsuri
in reply to feld • • •Its very much a durability thing, they last MUCH longer, and ontop of that, it looks like they are on their own daughterboard too which I think MIGHT ™️ make them more user repairable if they chose to sell replacements!
Thumbsticks are like the #1 thing to go on the controllers, I am on my 4th or 5th set of index controllers, all because of broken joysticks, all of them! 
feld
in reply to DalekCoffee ☕ 🛫Holiday Matsuri • • •I have to admit I have literally never tried any of the VR gaming systems yet (except the VR Boy from Nintendo in 1995 or whatever lol)
they all seemed too immature. This is starting to look better.