I just launched a new site devoted to teaching how to create #TactileArt and #TactileGraphics using #SVG code. The focus is on #accessibility and opening up creativity to #blind and #low-vision folks who want to participate in building graphics, iterate on ideas, and use SVG for projects ready for embosser, swell-form, 3D print, and CriCut output. Come check it out! blindSVG.com
Hmm I guess it doesn't actually do the speech synthesis itself does it? It goes via speechd I think - so if you had a dummy speech synth you could capture that?
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences
A roadmap for the spec core team, matrix-appservice-irc escapes ZeroVer, an updated Home Assistant integration… that and much more happened this week in Matrix!
It is heartbreaking that the UK government mistreated Alan Turing. Many AI tech enthusiasts may not be aware of his contributions to the field. In 1950, Turing developed a test for artificial intelligence that is still used today, making him a valuable asset in computer science. Everyone should honor his legacy and memory. RIP, Alan.
Jon Keegan and Joel Eastwood, the Markup: If you spend any time online, you probably have some idea that the digital ad industry is constantly collecting data about you, including a lot of personal information, and sorting you into specialized catego…
You know what, why not. This is my extremely loud, extremely aggressive, and very EDM remix of the Zelda Breath of the Wild Calamity Ganon thing. I did warn you. It's loud. If you like relaxing, soothing and gentle music, this... is about as far from what you want as I can make it.
The call for #GUADEC2023 BoFs and Workshops is open for a few more days. If you would like to host a BoF in Riga make sure to submit your application by June 12: foundation.gnome.org/2023/05/2…
#Thunderbird Office Hours are BACK! We'll have 3 sessions starting Monday, June 12, at 10am UTC.
We invite you to join the video sessions to learn more about the first Thunderbird 115 beta, share your experience with it, or ask for help.
We're also welcoming ANY questions about general Thunderbird topics, so check in and share what's on your mind. We will take your questions on video, voice, or in Matrix.
On your roadmap, you announced that Thunderbird would have threading mail (like Gmail 🤢) like the add on Conversations. Is it still in the roadmap ? Thank you !
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
A CSB safety video about the April 2018 explosion and fire at the Husky Superior Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin. The incident injured 36 workers, caused rou...
hey could the criminals who somehow converted an application logic bug in a spam filter to “you have to throw the hardware in a shredder to be sure” please publish their own blog post about this rapid7.com/blog/post/2023/06/0…
Some more absolutely tectonic research results about mental health: in a small number of promising cases, clinical depression and schizophrenia have been successfully treated as autoimmune disorders. New approaches to other mental health issues like compulsive disorders, narcolepsy and even dementia are showing early signs of treatability by the same processes.
After a traumatic experience in college, April Burrell was catatonic for twenty years. She was diagnosed with a severe form of schizophrenia which did not respond to treatment. She was the first...
> HyperCard came very close to being the World Wide Web six years before the web. Stacks could be on servers and users could browse them. A stack could be a mini-application on a server. We just didn’t push it hard enough.
> Backgrounds are somewhat like classes in Smalltalk. A change there effects many cards. Alan and I argued for generalized objects and classes, but Bill wanted to keep it very concrete. He was right. A much wider group of end users were able to handle the objects in HyperCard.
SuperCard is simply the quickest path from ideas to results. Draw out an interface, and program it in English. Download the free trial version and try it for yourself.
“One of the best features of HyperCard was the easy user interface for card design and layout. It was so easy for a user to place buttons and fields and digital paint images on cards. When it looked really good, and there was a card for every part of the app, a user said to herself, “I’m almost done! All I have to do is make these buttons work.” That, of course, was the hard part, but the author was so jazzed by seeing her app right there, that she (…) made it work.”
Rozebral jsem nejlevnější robotický vysavač z Lidlu, Sencor SVC 7020VT, už nefunkční, asi 3 roky starý. Není divu, že sací výkon byl naprd, když se to honosí 14.4V, ale motůrek vysavače uvnitř je jen na 8V, zbytek jde asi na druhý elektromotor na pohon kol. Nedoporučuju, jsou to vyhozené peníze. #elektronika #Lidl #domácnost
@archos Jj, jak co, celkově nic proti zboží z Lidlu nemám, něco mají kvalitní za super cenu, něco je sice za super cenu, ale kvalita nízká. Jen se Sencorem jsem teda asi skončil, ještě jsme měli klasický sáčkový Sencor vysavač, po roce odešel vypínač, záruční oprava, po dalším roce po záruce se najednou rozlomilo celé jedno kolo (plast), tak jsme vysavač darovali někomu, kdo si to dovede opravit, já plasty nerad opravuju.
Přesně jak co. Koupil jsem si tam před lety větrovku na běhání a ta byla jak obrácená pláštěnka. Hned letěla a už ji mám na zahradě maximálně k ohni. 😀
This could be a game changer! 😮 #Project92 👉️ theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304… “The new standalone app will be based on Instagram and integrate with ActivityPub, the decentralized social media protocol. That will theoretically allow users of the new app to take their accounts and followers with them to other apps that support ActivityPub, including Mastodon.”
Meta is working on a Twitter competitor that might be called Threads and talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. It’ll be connected to Instagram and work with Mastodon.
Do you know about Thunderbird's "Compact View" for your Favorite Folders?
By default you'd need to navigate down through your accounts and subfolders, but clicking the hamburger menu and then checking "Compact View" gives you simplified, direct access.
Among freely available LTS Linux distros (Debian, openSUSE LEAP, RHEL rebuilds, Ubuntu), I wonder which does the best job of using all of systemd as the upstream authors intended, and particularly supporting the concepts described in 0pointer.net/blog/fitting-ever…
If I'm not mistaken, the only distro named in that blog post is Fedora, so my guess would be one of the RHEL rebuilds.
Welcome to Finnley's Audio Adventures! I'm Finnley the Dolphin, and I'm thrilled to take you on an incredible journey through the most unconventional spoken ...
I find the stability and backward compatibility fascinating. I’d love to read about your approach: Do you get the API right the first time? Do you learn to live with technical debt? Isn’t it slowing the development? Have you ever deprecated and removed something?
@OndrejMirtes I basically define "right" as the way we first designed it as that's the way we stick with for decades to come. I think we nailed the API model decently from the beginning and we've managed to do okay decisions since. The key is to have the API not expose too much internals so that we can keep evolving and changing while keeping the API. So yeah, there is a debt for sure but it's generally not a big bother I think.
"I got a brief moment of acknowledgement from my kids that I might be doing cool stuff before they forgot and moved on." hahahah, they still have no idea.
Cassidy James
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