I was shocked last month when @PleaseDontRain was nominated for a Golden Apple award by @AppleVis .
I wrote a blog post with some thoughts about the experience and bunch of tips that will hopefully help others make their app more accessible.
chriswu.com/posts/swiftui/gold…
#accessibility #a11y #SwiftUI #PleaseDontRain #AppleVis
Thoughts after a surprise nomination.Me (Chris Wu)
Our friends at #KDE e.V. are hiring! The non-profit behind the software-development @kdecommunity@gnusocial.de is looking for a Project Lead and Event Manager for a new project funded by the German government to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use. It's a part time job (10h/week) for a duration of two years.
If you are interested, additional information is found here: ev.kde.org/2024/01/14/2024-01-… #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Sustainability
KDE e.V. is looking for you as an employee for a new project to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use.KDE e.V. is looking for a project lead and event manager for environmental sustainability project
Bit by bit, the brightly lit dining hall of a countryside hotel near Potsdam fills with people. There are about two dozen of them, a mix of AfD members, followers of the Identitarian movement and members of nationalist student fraternities (Burschens…Valentin Zick (correctiv.org)
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown inspired with differences: Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data Supports a small subset of markdown cd2nrof...GitHub
Are EVs the solution for transportation? Well, that depends. Below report by Volvo shows how EVs actually compare badly to ICE cars for relatively short distances. Only when you drive more than 146,000 km, charging the unit with globally average electricity, do EVs have a smaller footprint compared to ICE cars.
If anything, this emphasises the need for good, frequent, cheap and fine-grained public transport.
👉 volvocars.com/images/v/-/media…
The @NGIZero consortium, of which the 
#FSFE is a partner, has just unveiled the #NGI0 Commons Fund! 🏦
Are you developing any #FreeSoftware tech improving the Internet❓
This fund is for you! It will award 21.6 million euro 💶 to small and medium R&D projects developing #FreeSoftware technologies.
Learn more here:
fsfe.org/news/2024/news-202401…
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero consortium, of which the FSFE is a partner, has just unveiled the NGI0 Commons Fund. This new public fund will awar...FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
Už nějakou dobu provozujeme svůj účet na decentralizované síti Mastodon, konkrétně na instanci MastodonCzech.cz, kterou provozuje naše vydavatelství…Redakce (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
Does anybody have experience or expertise with the European Cooperative Society (SCE) legal form?
We're exploring options for a legal entity for @karrot and potentially it fits, but it's really useful to chat to people with more direct experience/knowledge. Boosts appreciated.
single-market-economy.ec.europ…
Statute for a European Cooperative Society, main characteristics, Directive on Employee Involvement, and supporting documents.Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
This is a cool new feature coming up in @libreoffice 24.2 next month:
You can now create styles for your comments!
Check out the release notes for more:
wiki.documentfoundation.org/Re…
#libreoffice #foss #freesoftware
Europäische Bürgerrechtsgruppen wollen sich von der EU-Kommission nicht länger abspeisen lassen. Derzeit laufende Beratungen über die Zukunft von Verschlüsselung dürften nicht unter Ausschluss der Zivilgesellschaft ablaufen, fordern sie in einem offe…netzpolitik.org
🔧️ Maintenance window 58 🔧️
On Tuesday starting from 21:00 CET we are going to do some maintenance work. We will make sure to keep as minimal downtime as possible. Following services will not be affected by this migration:
- Webmail (webmail.disroot.org)
- Forgejo - (git.disroot.org)
- LibreTranslate - (translate.disroot.org)
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Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.translate.disroot.org
LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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Even as development has resumed on Thunderbird, criticisms remain over its stability and features. For those frustrated by Thunderbird’s issues, there may be a solution: Betterbird, a fork of the main Thunderbird client.
#thundbird #betterbird #email
tchlp.com/3vBKC5n
The troubled history of Mozilla’s Thunderbird could fill a book, from an extensive period on life support to its shift away from non-profit ownership. Even as development has resumed on the once mo…BetaNews
Hallo Mastodon und willkommen in unserem digitalen Kaffeehaus! ☕ 😊
Um unseren Einstieg hier zu feiern, verlosen wir einen putzigen Mini-Tux mit schickem netcup Logo. 🐧
Wie könnt ihr ihn gewinnen?
Schreibt uns in den Kommentaren, was ihr euch von unserer Präsenz auf Mastodon wünscht.
Am 2. Februar wird dann der glückliche Gewinner ausgelost!
PS: Wer seine Chancen erhöhen möchte, kann den Beitrag kräftig "boosten". 😊
Teilnahmebedingungen: anx.io/5s335
Kúpil som si apku pretože štatistika batérie od Samsungu je meh #bleh. (meh bleh - o ničom)
edit: 5G, 120hz, QHD+, cez bluetooth párované hodinky, Sync on, Adaptive brightness... stay tuned
Hi! This is just a quick note to let everyone know that Team Kodi will be present at the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels on 3 & 4 February 2024. We will have…kodi.tv
Včera jsme sestavili nový stan a zavěsili světlo. Zahradničení pod lampou může začít! Vidím to z kraje na pouhé testování, abych měl za měsíc aspoň nějaké zkušenosti pro ostré předpěstování sazenic.
Zatím můžu jen říci, že stan skoro neprosvítá (což je super) a na práci s rozsvíceným světlem je skutečně potřeba hodně tmavé sluneční brýle.
#ZahradaPodLampou #IndoorFarming
On this day eleven years ago, I completed the conversion of making the entire #libcurl internals non-blocking: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/01/17…
"internally, we’re all multi now!"
Looking back over the years, it is kind of amazing how many refactors and overhauls we have done of the libcurl internals while still providing the exact same and functional API...
what is amazing to me, is how many times your tool has saved my ass over the years 😅.
I spent yesterday making the same curl request all day to debug my code, while my code didn't work, yours did 🫡.
trurl is a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation. - GitHub - curl/trurl: trurl is a command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.GitHub
Jak složité je udělat podvodné video se známou osobností? “Je to až směšně levné a může to udělat každý,” říká IT specialista Ondřej Svoboda.Tým Spotlight (Aktuálně.cz)
Seeking Blind Software Developers
From: Job-Listings <
job-listings-bounces@nfbnet.org>
On Behalf Of Richard Davis via Job-Listings
Kevin Fjelsted of R. D. Partners, Inc. is interested in hiring blind persons as software developers. They are engaged in developing telecommunications
software for their customers, including CRM LIght and iOS applications for iPhone.
As you may know, finding software developers who know accessibility is a big problem today. Kevin thinks hiring blind persons is the solution to this problem.
Given the demand for software developers today (100,000 job vacancies nationwide) companies are no longer requiring four year degrees in computer science
or information technology. Instead, a number of "boot camp" training programs have cropped up, some of them quite expensive. R.D. Partners has found a
nonprofit that has agreed to train people for them at no charge to trainees.
What do you need to do to take advantage of this opportunity? First of all, be a power computer user with knowledge of accessibility. Some training and/or
experience in software development is recommended, but a solid interest in learning and a commitment to this type of work is definitely required. They
will be able to determine if you have the aptitude pretty quickly.
This is a job for a creative person. Many software developers are writers, poets, and artistic types. That may surprise some of you, but it is true.
If you feel you are qualified, contact
kevin.fjelsted@rdpartnersinc.com.
He is willing to answer the kinds of tecnical questions I cannot.
Best wishes,
Dick Davis
NFB Employment Committee
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The Access Infinity platform from Tata Consultancy Services is transforming the lives of millions with print disabilities in India. A recent agreement with WIPO opens the possibility of extending these benefits to more than 50 other countries.www.wipo.int
The Fluance RT85N is our favorite turntable under $600 because it’s easy to set up and use, and it sounds great with all types of recordings.Freddy Gerngross (Wirecutter)
LibreOffice 24.2 – with a new year.month versioning scheme – will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
And what did he make of the 60th anniversary specials?The Doctor Who Companion
We found a Facebook scam that aims to redirect victims to sites promoting PUPs, adware, or other fraudulent sites.Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
Martin Peck
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •right...so, take what you need and nothing else? Makes sense. And would stripping/ignoring unwanted/unsupported stuff from a MD file be harder?
The reason I ask is partly editor support for MD is pretty good, so if users are editing something with a .md extension they get a bunch of stuff for free. Even GitHub will nicely render a .MD file for you.
I suspect your approach is a safer approach though. Just thinking out loud.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Looks cool! Btw how does this differ from something like a yaml frontmatter? Can you have more than on in a page?
(sorry if a dumb question, I couldn't find any examples of the actual syntax)
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Either way, good luck with the format, will be interesting to see how it pans out!
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •big +1 on making it easier to contribute. I opted to skip man pages entirely in my more recent projects largely because I find that the *roffs are so unfriendly to use and maintain.
PS: scrolling through the PR I smiled when I got to the perl parts: definitely written by someone, like me, that did tech stuff in the 90's and early 00's 🙂
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Authoring man pages in Markdown with Pandoc
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