On December 16th, 2022, a journalist confused the Twitter handle joinmastodon (and the webpage joinmastodon.org) with a hypothetical "John Mastodon" ("founder of a competing social media company named after himself") in an article 😉.
I'm setting up a new MacBook, and I need #LibreOffice obviously. It occurred to me that it might be available in the App Store, which would be slightly more convenient than a separate download. It is ... for £8.99. What on earth is going on?!
Yes, there is a small fee for the Mac App Store version, to cover the costs of putting it there, and implementing some macOS-specific improvements: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… – Of course, it will always be free directly from our website.
Berlin, September 19, 2022 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the release of LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store, to support end users who want to get all of their desktop software from Apple’s proprietary sales channel.
Yes, I did get it from the website instead. Are the MacOS-specific improvements documented anywhere? (I don't see it described in the App Store itself.)
The Document Foundation is the small non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. It oversees the project and community, and is now expanding with new developer roles.
tech novice here, read a little about LibreOffice on here. Is it Microsoft Word compatible? Can you also read Outlook files in it? Sadly need to be able to read those files but don't want to pay for Office as would prefer to use LibreOffice if possible. Thanks.
Ist hier jemand, der mir Fragen zu Screenreadern für Personen mit Sehbehinderung beantworten kann? Ich schreibe gerade Alt-Texts für eine Website und habe eine spezifische Frage: Wie kommen Screenreader mit englischen Begriffen und Abkürzungen klar?
Die Frage kann ich mit einem eindeutigen "es kommt darauf an“ beantworten. Denn es ist stark davon abhängig, welche Sprachausgabe (Microsoft, Nuance, Apple/Siri, Android/Google TTS usw.) verwendet werden, wie gut oder schlecht englische Worte von deutschsprachigen Stimmen vorgelesen werden. Da hast Du keinen Einfluss drauf. Und Alt-Texte sind reiner Text ohne Markup oder Sprachauszeichnung. Also gar nicht erst versuchen.
Du kannst aber davon ausgehen, dass heutige Sprachausgaben mit gängigen Anglizismen klarkommen. Und wenn nicht, dass die meisten Blinden es gewohnt sind, englische Begriffe in deutschen Texten zu hören.
Falls ihr #Watchtower (automatisches Updaten von Docker Container) von containrrr eingesetzt habt: Das Projekt ist jetzt nach langer Zeit offiziell archiviert und bekommt keine Pflege mehr
It is with a heavy heart, and some sense of relief, that I'd like to announce that we are looking to archive containrrr/watchtower. Neither @piksel, nor I, are big users of docker anymore, and fran...
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
Ok, so you guys are probably tired of having to disable TalkBack just to play your audio games, and that frustration only grows when the game requires keyboard input. Well, not anymore! Introducing NVGT Bridge, your solution to this problem! It works on Android 11+ devices and lets you add apps that TalkBack should ignore. However, TalkBack will still respond to the keyboard, navigation bar, and status bar if you touch them, so you can type in your games without constantly turning TalkBack on and off. Sounds interesting? Go check it out! github.com/aryanchoudharypro/N… a huge thanks to @Bri for helping me test this!
allows games written in nvgt to have functionality like ios direct touch by using an accessibility service to remove the game from the explore by touch zone" - aryanchoudharypro/NVGTBridge
Considering visiting the Open Beats 2026, no idea if it's really known outside of Germany; it's right in the next city and there are some quite nice artists. The question is wether I'll find someone who's going with me, don't think my dad who's typically going to such stuff with me is much into electronic music.
I'm updating 370 something packages on a Raspberry Pi 2 from 2014 running Bookworm. This particular rPi is just a backup pihole (primary on that network is running on an old Intel NUC). Anyway, this will take a little while. A 900 mHz quad core processor can only go so fast.
@klittle667 This rPi is a backup on my parents' network. Go figure. It's hanging from the back of an 8-port managed switch with no case by a 10CM long Ethernet cable, and a short MicroUSB. Has been for years. Probably not the best idea, but whatever.
@sun I remember when they actually debunked this but the internet still didn't believe it and still keeps pretending that this was a thing
> They told us the death was initially recorded as a COVID-19 death after the victim tested positive. After the medical examiner and epidemiologist reviewed the death, they say they removed it from the COVID fatality list.
the claim is that you can show that the inclusion process is incredibly bad and permissive not that there were secretly one million motorcycle crashes skewing covid numbers. people found a particularly bad one, and only AFTER a specific one was found, they got embarrassed and removed that single one.
furthermore tons of studies are based on scraping VAERS and there is no pre-verification at all.
> the claim is that you can show that the inclusion process is incredibly bad and permissive
but that's the way it should be. It's easier to go back and audit and remove entries that are not qualified, but it's going to be nearly impossible to find the ones you missed and record them properly, right?
two different systems in use. from the article it seems like the two-step verification process failed for this one anyway. bu yeah VAERS is supposed to be raw data and you can accept or discount a particular study by checking it, any study that is not employing people to manually check inclusions is going to have this problem
@sun I think the biggest problem is distrusting the professionals/scientists trying to get it right because the mainstream media announces everything like it's from the lips of God and suffers no consequences for it, so that whips people into a fury and it doesn't help that the internet has turned everyone into an "expert" on every possible topic
There has been a lot of talk about "raccoon domestication" lately because of one sciencey article discussing it and I saw there was this TikTok or whatever video with a caption like "I'm a raccoon biologist and this is why raccoon domestication is never gonna happen"
Ok sorry you lost me there you are a "raccoon biologist"? I'll believe raccoons can talk before I believe you have a full time career as a "raccoon biologist". There's no way you're making a living in that speciality this has to be a hoax video
@Tutanota I installed your app on my android tablet but have not used it yet. Should I be concerned about my privacy whilst using the app since Android was developed by Google? Thank you.
Excellent! I've had Tuta for over six months and love it. I just never accessed it on anything other than my laptop because I was uncertain about security on android. Good to know it's secure to use on my tablet and phone!
Anyway my wife was like, Australia should ban the rest of their guns to stop massacres like in Bondi. And I just said then they will use a truck to massacre people, like in Germany.
1. Focus indicators were added in various places 2. Events are focusable with a keyboard 3. Year/month spin buttons are navigable with arrow keys 4. Calendar grids are skippable with Tab, and cells are wrapped via keyboard focus 5. Calendar list box now behaves like a check box
For screen readers: events and year/month spin buttons have proper semantics!
I feel like if accessibility improvements in GNOME Calendar specifically is what someone is excited about, it might be better to donate to @TheEvilSkeleton, the person who made it happen:
Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.
Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.
I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.
These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.
I accept donations through the following platforms:
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
Welcome to my personal website! My name is Hari Rana (pronounced as Harry). I’m a 24-year-old transgender developer and content writer from Montréal, Canada, and use any/all pronouns.
My new EP Cocoon is now out everywhere! You can listen here: https://ffm.to/frankiecocoonLets be friends!www.frankiemusic.comwww.instagram.com/frankiemusicww...
To the peeps doing Suno. Please keep at it. Y'all are doing better then the shit on the charts. I'd much rather listen to your stuff. It is certainly more creative.
As a musician/producer who's been at this for like 15 years now, I don't agree, however AI music clearly isn't going anywhere so IDK what to say at this point. If it makes you happy, keep at it I guess, but please don't post your AI generated stuff on streaming.
@ZBennoui My thing is when this stuff sounds better then what is on the charts, then people need to do better. This stuff shouldn't be passing for music. The stuff in the Dose of Buckley was sad and should never made it anywhere.
Does it sound better than what's on the charts though? I personally don't think so, and I doubt many would agree with you. Then again I don't listen to most stuff in the charts anyways.
@ZBennoui There is so much slop out there, I only post stuff that sounds good. And yes, I do recognize that you have much more talent than I do, but this AI stuff gives me a chance to express myself as well. I do not want to take anything away from you.
@mcourcel Oh for sure, and let me be clear that I'm not mad at people just playing around with Suno for fun, my main issue is that tools like this are being used to make music to post on streaming and take money away from musicians who put a lot of effort into writing, producing, mixing, etc.
> Don’t buy this program unless you have lots of RAM to spare. The program itself wants 8 MB (minimum is 6 MB) and you must run a browser alongside it.
This was 30 years ago. Today we have chat programs that want a thousand times this amount of RAM.
Just learned (from tailscale.com/blog/chat-tails-…) of this simple personal chat server (max 4 connections, connections made using nc or telnet) github.com/bscott/chat-tails.git
@virtuous_sloth I was not asking for chat program recommendation. I was just outlining the exponential growth of memory wastage. When all the chat program are just a new instance of Chromium, you know something has gone wrong in that timeline.
Kiddo: 🐀 I've been playing a lot of Kitsune Tails lately Me: 🦝 Oh aye? What do you think of it, I'll tell the developer 🐀 ...😯 you KNOW the developer? 🦝 We're mutuals on Mastodon 🐀 *jumping in her seat* OH MY GOD 🦝 😏 heheh yeah your dad's kind of a big deal 😏 🐀 OH MY GODDD
Across India, 118 million adult women in 12 states now receive unconditional cash transfers from their governments, making India the site of one of the world's largest and least-studied social-policy experiments.
Long accustomed to subsidising grain, fuel and rural jobs, India has stumbled into something more radical: paying adult women simply because they keep households running, bear the burden of unpaid care and form an electorate too large to ignore.
On today's episode of are you fucking kidding me?: I'm trying to get a Texas ID. On the website, it states that an ID from a different state can be used as one of the documents that you can use for the process along with a social security card and birth certificate. My visit to the DMV told me different. Apparently, because my ID from California that I got in 2020 which doesn't expire until 2027, wasn't a "real" ID, as in the newer ID's that are required for something like flying, isn't a viable form of indentification, and yet the pamphlet that was referenced and website say otherwise. "federal limits don't apply." was what the guy said. Iff this is true, information needs some serious updating.
@arfy yeah, neither can I. My ID can't be used to fly. i mean it can, but starting in February I'll have to pay $45 or so I've been told, but it's valid for literally everything else.
WOW! What the stupid? When I came to New York from North Carolina, I lost my ID, and was able to get a New York ID with a birth certificate, social security card, and I think a printed bank statement or something that had my current residence on it. Might have been an energy bill. Anyway, that's just all kinds of dumb.
If you fancy a game over Christmas, you might want to try this. It is a similar concept I built for the ZX Spectrum back in the 80's. I get a pretty decent score. Quoting ChanceyFleet I'm a Blind tech educator but this is my first game design! If you support Blind or low-vision learners, please consider sharing the retro audio Space Invaders game i built with Gemini and @Marconius — you can play with any screen reader, right in the browser. I wanted to build something with a simple interface and a progressively hard game mechanic so it would be fun for tech novices and for me. The game is free and open-source and we welcome your feedback. marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…
Another milestone for us at Icelandic Met Office 🎉
This week we launched a new site with #avalanche forecasts and conditions, including recent avalanches. A major update was required in the background, migrating to #Postgres and building the APIs and of course the website handled by our friends at Origo & Metall with maps from MapTiler
We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.
Yes. Actually because of weird circumstances, I ended up sleeping in a room next door to him in a house in North Carolina for a few days. He was even more interesting when he was off the job.
Is the small market justification for the cost of #AssistiveTechnology still valid in 2025, or is it an easy copout for companies to continue charging high prices? #Accessibility #A11y
Yes, it's still valid (50%, 1 vote)
No, this argument is no longer valid. We have found ways to make these tools more affordable. (50%, 1 vote)
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