One thing I miss about old-timey "user unfriendly" linux was the way it wasn't bloated with every possible feature, tool and library that tried to cater for every hypothetical future user's potential needs.
Like, unpacking and building a tarball was annoying and time consuming, but it meant that you could install a PDF parser on a headless server without automatically pulling in a window manager, a print stack, several gigs of UI widgets.
Old days: "You will need 2MB of disk space, plus another 150KB for the compiled executable. It will take an hour to build, and you're gonna have to repeat the process if we release any updates that you feel you need"
Now: "You will need 15GB of disk space to install all the dependencies and their dependencies and their dependencies and their dependencies, and now you have to check for updates every 6 hours because we just added 1150 packages __that you don't even know what they do__ and they all have published CVEs but you haven't read any of them because nobody has that's too many CVEs to worry about, and if you try to remove any of them the entire stack auto-uninstalls to protect you from accidentally clicking 'print' on a subdependency that you didn't know was there and then it won't print"
Anyway, I'm just annoyed that today's must-fix patch is for 28 different packages all with "cupsd" in their name on a laptop that has never installed a printer and never will.
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Ein Email-Austausch mit einer Freundin bestärkt mich darin, meinen Ausspruch „Barrierefreiheit und PDF, ein Widerspruch in sich" auch weiterhin aktiv zu nutzen. Barrierefreie PDFs zu erstellen ist immer noch ein Hexenwerk, es gibt außer Adobe Acrobat anscheinend kein Tool, dass selbst in einfachen Dokumenten mit ordentlicher Struktur ordentliche Exporte hinbekommt, und beim Auswerten und Lesen der Tags über verschiedene Betriebssysteme ist der Zustand mit "katastrophal“ noch mild umschrieben.
@fasnix Ja, das stimmt im Prinzip, aber a) musst du es explizit einschalten, wenn du PDFs exportierst, was die meisten vermutlich übersehen werden, und b) übernimmt LibreOffice z.B. keine Alternativtexte für Grafiken aus aus Word importierten Dokumenten, und somit auch nicht in die getaggten PDFs. Ohne aufmerksame Handarbeit ist auch dies also eine echte Hürde. Dass dieses PDF sauber getaggt war, zeigt, dass sich da zum Glück jemand auskannte.
@oldperl @fasnix Eben nicht. Die einzigen, die wirklich PDFs testen, sind Funktionen im kostenpflichtigen Adobe Acrobat. Word und LibreOffice haben Testmöglichkeiten, ihre nativen Dokumente auf Barrierefreiheitsprobleme zu testen, haben aber beim PDF-Export selbst das eine oder andere Defizit. pdf.js kann wohl rudimentär inzwischen Tags verarbeiten, Vorschau auf Mac und iOS auch, aber sonst kenne ich keine Bibliotheken, die standardmäßig vernünftig getaggte PDFs erstellen.
@oldperl @fasnix Und da sind Tools wie die OCR-Software ABBYY FineReader noch nicht berücksichtigt, die Dokumente scannen und daraus eine Logik abzuleiten versuchen, aufgrund der sie dann Tags in PDFs reinschreiben. Das kann gut gehen, muss es aber nicht. Und als Entwickler kannst du Dir natürlich die PDF/UA-Spezifikation reinziehen, das bleibt Dir unbenommen. Ist aber ein ziemlicher Brocken.
Also braucht es eine Lib, und ein Tool, dass das kann. Ok...
Ich mach mir da mal einen Kopf dazu. Könntest Du mir eventuell, falls Du Zeit hast, zumindest ein paar keys, auf die man mindestens prüfen sollte, nennen?
@oldperl @fasnix Das resultierende Markup für Screen Reader ähnelt stark HTML. Also Absätze, Sprachauszeichnungen, Überschriften, Grafiken mit Alternativtexten, Listen, Tabellen mit entsprechenden Header-Zellen usw. Also viele "übliche Verdächtige“. Was aber die Darstellung für Sehbehinderte wie Kontraste usw. angeht, da bin ich überfragt.
* Für Word gibt es das Plugin axesWord, welches dich beim Erstellen der Tags aus Word unterstützt. * Für InDesign gibt es madeToTag. * Außerdem gibt es noch PDFlib für die programmierte Ausgabe von getaggten PDFs. * Die Umsetzung aus LaTeX wird noch etwas brauchen, aber man ist eifrig bei der Sache.
Wie immer bei der Barrierefreiheit sind mehrere Beteiligte am Kochen, was das Ergebnis zu Experiment macht.
Der Autor/die Autorin, das verarbeitende System mit Exportfunktion, der PDF Reader, der Screenreader und das zugrunde liegende Betriebssystem.
Nur wenn alle ihren Job machen, ist das Gesamtergebnis zufriedenstellend bis gut.
Viele Schreibende verwenden die Formatvorlagen nicht, da kann der beste Export nichts machen – außer raten. Oder beim Export werden Inhalte, die über einen Seitenrand hinaus gehen, nicht zusammengefasst. Oder der PDF Reader gibt nicht alles an die Schnittstelle des Betriebssystems weiter. Oder der Screenreader ignoriert technische Normen.
Viel Potential für Fehler – wie bei der Erstellung von Internetseiten.
@dnkrupinski Das ist mir durchaus alles klar. Im Gegensatz zu HTML-Seiten, wo meist irgendwie noch irgend etwas geht, ist aber bei PDFs oft genug wirklich gar nichts lesbar. Oder der Textfluss von nicht getaggten PDFs ist so grundlegend kaputt, dass es keinerlei Logik gibt. Mach z.B. mal eine Rechnung von der Telekom auf, egal ob Mobil oder Festnetz. Haarsträubendes Chaos.
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity on your phone.
I haven't used Gmail for months so I don't even care anymore. I deleted the Gmail app by using Canta app. I'm not gonna install it again on my Android just to change some settings
I am a bit lost. Are you actually saying that Gemini could access third parties apps, like Whatsapp and things like that? What about the encryption, then? Sorry, I am not very smart in this field, just trying to learn!
Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. seattletimes.com/nation-world/…
Obedeciendo las instrucciones y órdenes profesionales de los superiores, salvo que constituyan una infracción manifiesta del ordenamiento jurídico, en cuyo caso las pondré inmediatamente en conocimiento de los órganos de inspección procedentes.
⚖️ Opinión | La sentencia al fiscal general y un cursillo acelerado sobre la historia del poder en España.
"Puede que no haya que llamar franquista a la justicia que ha despachado en un pispás y sin complejo alguno al fiscal general del Estado, pero la cuestión no está tanto en saber cómo llamarla sino en cómo desmontarla."
Gosh I feel like my english is just getting worse, I keep repeating words/phrases in following sentences without even recognising it, and generally, I feel it was better like a year before or so.
All the new Apple gear is doing quite well. Of course, the thoughts then turn to the insane amount of funds just laid out. Fortunately, the real big reason I even did this now was because I got a 10 month 0% APR balance transfer offer on a card that I did not use. So I now transfer the balance from the card I did use, to the one with the offer, and I get ten months to pay it off with no interest! Woohoo! So when I evaluated things from that perspective, I figure I can pay this huge expense off in ten months. Even though the initial moving plans are delayed until uncertainty, I'm still working on paying cleaners for this place. Fortunately, pest control is free from the building. For these things, I need to have liquid cash on hand, so I definitely appreciate the donations last month, and also this balance transfer offer that allowed me to spend free money that I don't actually have for ten months. So thanks to everything working out this way, I get to have some goodness with all the bull shit. Just wanted to clarify that I dind't not ask for donations to buy new Apple gear. Besides, I only really got $120. Doesn't quite cover it, LOL. In fact, the Apple gear wasn't even on my mind until I got the balance transfer offer. So I thank Mr. Visa for that one. And I most certainly thank my friends for the support on the bull shit side of the story, which is the damn pests. More cleaning happens Sunday, followed by more treatment. So yay or something like that. I can, however, see with clarity that this probably wasn't the best way to go about things, so if anyone who donated to the pest control assistance fund last month, and would prefer a refund, please DM me, and I'll get it done ASAP. If the donation still stands, I do much appreciate it, I thank you, and I appreciate an understanding that the Apple stuff was a totally new and different opportunity that came up.
Oh didn't even think of that, but thanks for the explanation never the less. Na I don't mind, you've deserved the donation never the less, if not for that then for the great instance administration. But it's good to know.
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I submit: if you are making plans for propagating the species with your own DNA, you're a sociopath who should have no place in public society. Without exception.
I knew pretty early that the EU regulation for IM interoperability is not going the way we want it to go. However the regulator is now looking at push services (FCM, APNS) and I believe we can make some real impact there. We have working solutions and our demands are significantly more actionable.
I don’t know what I was expecting but it looks more and more like the Messaging Interoperability the EU promised will be each gatekeeper essentially publishing their client to server protocol and then you can either use multi protocol messengers or t…
I was just going to say that there is a 5 year revision to DMA where messaging interop regulations can be amended but I see the public consultation recently closed: digital-markets-act.ec.europa.… However it is henceforth reviewed every three years, but it needs people with the right expertise to engage with it. Hope XMPP folks (XSF board etc) have an eye on this kind of thing!
The Commission is consulting on the first review of the DMA that is due by 3 May 2026. The Commission will conduct subsequent reviews every three years and report on the results to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and So…
Who here uses manual configuration profiles in NVDA? What do you use them for? Do please let us know!
And if you're not sure what configuration profiles are all about, check out the recent In-Process blog, which covered them: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
public.monster, Roblox, Google Gemini, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It's a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: "Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder and BAM — your site was live for the whole world to see. No build steps. No frameworks. No deployment pipelines. Just pure, unfiltered creativity. We want that feeling back." …
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It’s a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: “Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder a…
Sonic synergy archive is up for the 9th of November. We are still holding onto the 17th until monday. Lastly dont forget about our crazy drum student joining us for the first hour of the show on Sunday. This will be must hear radio I guarantee!
Tekoälyä on povattu jo jonkin aikaa kuplaksi, mutta Nvidian marraskuussa 2025 julkistama tuorein neljännesvuoden tulos peittosi analyytikkojen odotukset.
Hei! Voisimmeko jotenkin kannustaa sinua käyttämään #NVIDIA-aihetunnistetta, kun viittaat kyseiseen yritykseen? Tiedän heidän NASDAQ-käyttäjätunnuksensa, mutta #NVDA on paljon laajemmin tunnettu valmistamamme näytönlukijan nimellä, ja #NVDA-aihetunnistetta käytetään erittäin laajalti näytönlukijoille. Se estää molempia yhteisöjämme saastuttamasta toistensa syötteitä. Jos haluat oppia lisää näytönlukijoista, verkkosivustomme on nvaccess.org/ - Kiitos!
public.monster, Roblox, Google Gemini, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, November 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It's a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: "Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder and BAM — your site was live for the whole world to see. No build steps. No frameworks. No deployment pipelines. Just pure, unfiltered creativity. We want that feeling back." …
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on LinkedIn: public.monster. It’s a 1990s-style Web host. From the About page: “Back in the 90s, you could just drop some HTML files in your ~/public_html folder a…
thanks so much for the trip down memory lane tonight! I spent the last hour going through my archives, including websites I haven't updated or touched in 15 years, and now I've resurrected a little bit of stuff! public.monster/~darkuncle/
Hi! Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
Hi! Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
"Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project
Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
A fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice.
Open access to every official document from the trial, held by the Harvard law school library, will be available to all researchers, whether amateur or professional, for the first time from Thursday after a 25-year endeavour by a 30-strong team of historians, metadata curators and librarians.
It began in 1998 with the removal of staples and paperclips from the delicate documents so they could be scanned."
"Search thousands of historical documents from the Nuremberg trials.
Examine trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany."
Tomorrow night join @Liz, from 6 P.M. eastern (US time), for Mellow Vibes. It’s two hours of Acoustic, mellow, and unplugged music. So tune in tomorrow night, and start the weekend relaxed. HKCRadio.com
have one more because I'm nice. :) A pregnant mother who was expecting 3 kids got shot 3 times. She was fine, the kids were fine, but the doctors couldn't find the bullets. One day after a bit, one of the kids, a daughter comes up and says, "Mom, I just peed out a bullet." The next day another one comes up, another daughter and she says, "Mom you'll never guess what happened." Mom says, "You peed out a bullet?" Daughter says yes. A few days later the third kid, a son comes up to mom and is like, "I'm so embarrassed, mom. You'll never guess what happened." Mom replies, "It's okay, your sisters told me that they peed out a bullet each, is that what happened?" The son is red in the face and says, "No... I was rubbing myself and I shot the dog."
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