From @baldur, this is the best article I have read explaining the differences between EU and US tech companies' view of competition and antitrust, and in particular why Apple has got its relationship with the EU horribly, horribly wrong.
In cases where the connection was fast, curl sometimes failed to open a connection.
This fixes a regression of c2d9736.
The regression triggered in these steps:
Create an smtp connection
Use ST...
možno je v práve a možno bude mať na čom stavať odvolania na Slovensku, tuším má ešte zákonné možnosti. Makó, a Makó je jeden z hlavných "kajúcnikov/donášačov" proti SMERu.
As an unofficial addendum to @JonathanMosen ’s reviews of the Zoom H1 Essential, H4 Essential and H6 Essential, I received my H4 Essential and H6 Essential today. Thanks to the reviews, unpacking, supplying batteries etc., was no problem at all. The first thing I did was install the German accessibility module. This works just like Jonathan demonstrated in his H1 Essential review. However, after the installation, German speech comes on, and English is completely gone from the device. So one cannot switch back and forth between accessibility languages like one can with the UI language. And: The accessibility language is totally independent from the UI language. At first, I still had the UI language set to English and had already installed the German accessibility pack.
Attached is an audio quickly demonstrating how the German voice sounds.
Apple follows EU Digital Markets Act by introducing hefty fines for independent software developers. Expensive fees will restrict the use of alternative app installation.
If apples so upset about Spotify not paying them, they can always tell them to pay up our get off the store. Same with Netflix or YouTube or whoever else there think isn't paying them enough.
What's that? People might not buy the phone if the apps aren't available? Well I'll be darned, it's almost like the apps are the thing providing the value, not the distribution channel.
For Apple to take notice You would have to add two zeros to the fine and double it if The appeal. Look what They have done to Epic Games... EU has to be prepared to do that to Apple.
create ascii version of the manpage without nroff
build src/tool_hugegelp.c from the ascii manpage
move the the manpage and the ascii version build to docs/cmdline-opts
remove all use of nroff fro...
In the OpenVPN project, we had the man page as a nroff/groff formatted page which was insane to edit. Some years ago, we converted it into .rst files and generate the proper man-page using rst2man. We also split all the text into several .rst files being included from a "main file", so the result is the same single man page.
This move gave us a few advantages ... some not even intended.
A lot more people were able to correctly edit and fix the man page content.
Using more advanced groff formatting is handled far more easier (like tables, "code sections", indented "blobs" for warnings/notes, etc)
The restructuring allowed us to even split out a whole section into its own man page very easily (like example configurations)
A single source of truth, the .rst files - regardless of rendering approach (plain text, man/nroff/groff, web)
GitHub and GitLab renders the .rst files quite nicely, which makes it easier to read when supporting users, just by giving them a URL to the right area from the code repos ... which then is always kept up-to-date.
Berlin, 31 January 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2 Community, the new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite and the first to use the new calendar-based numbering scheme (YY.M), is now available at https://www.libreoffice.
@eibhear This was discussed on our marketing channels, but the main reason is to make users more aware of how new/old their version is. Something like "LibreOffice 7.6" doesn't really say anything – but "year.month" has more relevance to end-users. We had requests for this, and some other open source projects use it too (most notably Ubuntu).
Of course, one version scheme won't satisfy everyone, but we think this is more meaningful for end-users.
Over the last months the Rust/cargo support in meson improved a lot.
It's now ready to build and install a GTK4 Rust application with around 70 dependencies without having to write almost any custom build glue for the dependencies.
The application in question is just a small experiment of mine for rayon and GTK4 input handling / rendering. The more or less same should work for other GTK4 applications at this point.
All this still depends on two unmerged meson PRs, but it's a huge step forward from the situation just a few months ago.
I hope in the future this will allow GNOME applications written in Rust to have a less strange and fragile build setup than what they have right now with mixing cargo and meson.
Marketing, solicitations, advertising, political contact, direct mailers, email campaigns, cookies, ads — it's all opt out. It puts the burden on you to opt out of each communication each message, each outreach from a loyalty program.
Veckans avsnitt är här: @bagder berättar allt om att gå på jättekonferensen FOSDEM, och om CVE-systemets små utmaningar och frustrationer. kodsnack.se/572/, eller överallt där poddar finns!
Fredrik snackar med Daniel Stenberg om konferensen FOSDEM och om utmaningarna med CVE-systemet för att dokumentera och publicera säkerhetsproblem.
Fredrik har varit sugen på FOSDEM i ett par år.
It’s the end of an era, Signal will now respond to subpoenas and hand over phone numbers when given usernames. I’ve seen first hand how this worked with Wire. Subpoenas come in in high numbers and you can’t fight them all. The only advantage Signal has over Wire is that usernames are not necessarily visible to contacts. But the problem is still there.
Push notifications are a mechanism through which applications can send and display notifications to users of smartphones. The infrastructure that drives these notifications in the background is a complex mechanism and not without privacy issues.
@ozzelot @archos to je hovad! won už ho kuchnul ... Takováhle věc patří pěkně do socketu v pc a to pc patří pěkně na půdu. Až to za 20 let vyhrabete, tak to bude mít konečně zase nějakou hodnotu (historickou #neasi)
Claude 3 can summarize up to about 150,00 words, (a length similar to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.) also It outperformed GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra on industry benchmark tests, such as undergraduate level knowledge, graduate level reasoning and basic mathematics. It allows users to upload images and documents for the first time. #LLm #AI #MLcnbc.com/2024/03/04/google-bac…
My Mastodon image shows two playful dolphins. This article explains why. Written 3+ years ago, still true today. Can Flipper, Lassie, and the Australian Skippy the Kangaroo help us do our work even in these times? lflegal.com/2020/09/dolphin/ #a11y #negotiations
My website just got a refresh and a dolphin swam into the header. Did I convert my law practice to an aquarium? Did I move to Miami? I did not. Many people think lawyers should act like sharks. I have chosen the dolphin instead.
Finding schedules for pairwise meetings between the members of a complex social group without creating interpersonal conflict is challenging, especially when different relationships have different needs.
NV Access is very pleased to announce the release of our updated Microsoft Word with NVDA training module. Available now from nvaccess.org/product/microsoft… Extensively rewritten, the module incorporates the latest NVDA and Office 365 features and keystrokes. At only $32 Australian (Roughly $20 USD / 19€ - converted at checkout), it's very affordable. #Training #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #ScreenReader #Learning #Word #Microsoft #Office
The official training material for Microsoft Word 2010 through to the latest 2021 and Office 365 with NVDA. Concepts covered range from getting started with Microsoft Word to advanced skills such a…
Okay so this is actually super confusing, but after you buy it, the first link is a product hyperlink with raw HTML code showing at the end. It's in a table, and the last column is the download link but I have table announcements disabled, whoops, but it also did not alert me that I bought this item and when I checked my download section before buying it still had the old version for me, but I didn't mind buying to test. @KaraLG84 @NVAccess
@weirdwriter @KaraLG84 Thanks for your support Robert, and for testing! The table usually has the name of the product you purchased - which is a link to the product page (in case you want to go back and check it), and the second link is to download the material itself. I'll have a look and see if we can do anything with that email to make it clearer
@KaraLG84 Kara, I'm never 100% sure, as I have broken it in the past, but .. I think so :) If you go to nvaccess.org/my-account/downlo… it will let you download the most recent version you can access. When you download it, you can double check the date. I haven't got any reports that I've broken it this time! 🤞
Just pointing out that the free sample section available in the link does not appear to be “extensively rewritten” and appears to be a 2016 copyright. That would appear to be a deterrent to a person evaluating the material.
Comme tous les jazzmen, Ahmad Jamal est un improvisateur. Mais il s'est personnellement toujours opposé à la notion d'improvisation comme élément différencia...
Presentation Jan Gheysen 00:00We Insist! Freedom Now Suite:Intro 2:30Driva Man 4:50 Triptych (Prayer/Protest/ Peace) 9:58All Africa 19:09Freedom Day 25:27Li...
[FOWM'24] What we learned from C++ atomics and memory model standardizationHans-J. BoehmThe C++11 memory model was first included with thread support in C++1...
@gtbray @Bruce_Toews I posted this to LinkedIn and one of my connections said that she would want to name her robot dog Java so she can tell people that she uses Java because she can't see sharp. I replied by saying, "Oh, you're very swift with the puns tonight. I thought that was a good sequel to your comment."
@Bruce_Toews @gtbray And what's wrong with naming your WiFi network Bruce, I'd like to know. Bruce, I'd have thought you'd be flattered at such a thing.
We made a new game called Brailliance! Count the dots and guess the word to win. It's simple and addictive, and also fully accessible. It's also a lot of fun for sighted people. It might even teach a little bit of braille along the way, or at least further the goal of awareness.
“Nielsen has given everyone who sees accessibility as an unnecessary cost center a way out. Listen, they will say, the experts are telling us that AI is going to solve this, so let’s deprioritize the work now so we don’t duplicate our efforts.”–Matt May
@acarson Totally agree. I've already had far too many conversations with well-meaning folks who see AI as the path to better accessibility across the board. Because apparently it's reasonable to pay many people to work on pixel-perfect design for "most users", but "you disabled folks" can just be served by that AI over there, accuracy, efficiency or delightfulness be damned. @vick21 @zeldman @weirdwriter
@acarson @jcsteh @weirdwriter Still, comes down to the human factor, and less a technological one, IMHO. AI is here to stay. It will help some, and probably break some! :)
@vick21 You're entirely correct. I'm not saying that AI is the problem. The problem is that Jakob's article explicitly dehumanises the humans with disabilities. It effectively says: everyone else deserves a hand-crafted experience, but you disabled folks aren't worthy of that. @acarson @zeldman @weirdwriter
@vick21 Perhaps I (and maybe others) misinterpreted. I thought you were suggesting Mat May's rebuttal was an overreaction. Perhaps you were suggesting Jakob's post was an overreaction (to something)? @acarson @zeldman @weirdwriter
@jcsteh @vick21 @weirdwriter Yes. And it's bad enough that we're essentially an afterthought, or at best a catalyst for performative empathy, but to have that coming from someone in the accessibility space is disheartening to put it mildly.
@yatil @weirdwriter Those same people were probably asking "how many blind people are using the Internet anyway?" So, no, I am not buying the anti-AI rhetoriceither! :)
@mattmay Ah yes, I remember the article now. I still think it’s a bit of an over-reaction, but you and I would probably have to discuss this in person. Too long to write. I completely see where you were coming from though. Sorry if I was too harsh with the word “over-reaction”.
@vick21 @weirdwriter No, actually they are very well aware of how accessibility works. They just see that “AI” can, for example, describe images. So they ask “why should we invest in training people and development time when ‘AI’ might be doing it for us good enough in a similar time frame”.
Companies want to make smart investments. Saving money because tech solves it is seen as smart, even when the outcome is suboptimal.
@yatil @weirdwriter I understand. I have heard similar arguments before, e.g. “why would a blind person care about fashion, cars, etc, and go to those websites?” The subject may have changed, but the underlying attitudes are the same. All I am saying is that these are just excuses 2.0, but in their nature not much different from what we have heard over the years. Not sure if I am expressing my point well though.
@vick21 @weirdwriter I don’t know how that relates to the root of the thread where the argument is refuted that individualized “AI”-generated UI means that nobody should invest in an accessible UI very soon.
Sure there are always excuses, but now the excuses are seen as something positive.
On behalf of the National Federation of the Blind, we mourn the profound loss of Senator Monthian Buntan, a pivotal #blind leader in the global disability rights movement, who passed away on March 2, 2024, at the age of 58.
I think this article, while somewhat radical and presumptuous, does have some good points, at least the ones I agree with. I do think generative AI might have a potential of creating on-demand user interfaces to “personalize” #accessibility, but I think we forget about a human element here. Someone has to build such smarts and, as long as disabled people are deprioritized, whatever the reasons may be, the outcome will likely be not much different.
I think the outcome could be different if we can run the personalized generative UI implementation on the user's own machine, decouple it from specific applications (maybe the generative UI should connect to application APIs), and ideally make it open source. Then the deprioritized groups of disabled people can hack on our own generative UI implementations, as we've hacked on our own screen readers etc.
The latest news is in the most recent Developer update. Sorry for the delay and one of our goals this year is to be more transparent about how we're progressing towards our goals!
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[Submitted on 1 Mar 2024]
Polyamorous Scheduling
Authors: Leszek Gasieniec, Benjamin Smith, Sebastian Wild
Finding schedules for pairwise meetings between the members of a complex social group without creating interpersonal conflict is challenging, especially when different relationships have different needs. We formally define and study the underlying optimisation problem: Polyamorous Scheduling. In Polyamorous Scheduling, we are given an edge-weighted graph and try to find a periodic schedule of matchings in this graph such that the maximal weighted waiting time between consecutive occurrences of the same edge is minimised. We show that the problem is NP-hard and that there is no efficient approximation algorithm with a better ratio than 13/12 unless P = NP. On the positive side, we obtain an O(log n) -approximation algorithm. We also define a generalisation of density from the Pinwheel Scheduling Problem, "poly density", and ask whether there exists a poly density threshold similar to the 5/6-density threshold for Pinwheel Scheduling [Kawamura, STOC 2024]. Polyamorous Scheduling is a natural generalisation of Pinwheel Scheduling with respect to its optimisation variant, Bamboo Garden Trimming. Our work contributes the first nontrivial hardness-of-approximation reduction for any periodic scheduling problem, and opens up numerous avenues for further study of Polyamorous Scheduling.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/525987 "Preview of arXiv:2403.00465 (cs)
[Submitted on 1 Mar 2024]
Polyamorous Scheduling
Authors: Leszek Gasieniec, Benjamin Smith, Sebastian Wild
Finding schedules for pairwise meetings between the members of a complex social group without creating interpersonal conflict is challenging, especially when different relationships have different needs. We formally define and study the underlying optimisation problem: Polyamorous Scheduling. In Polyamorous Scheduling, we are given an edge-weighted graph and try to find a periodic schedule of matchings in this graph such that the maximal weighted waiting time between consecutive occurrences of the same edge is minimised. We show that the problem is NP-hard and that there is no efficient approximation algorithm with a better ratio than 13/12 unless P = NP. On the positive side, we obtain an O(log n) -approximation algorithm. We also define a generalisation of density from the Pinwheel Scheduling Problem, \"poly density\", and ask whether there exists a poly density threshold similar to the 5/6-density threshold for Pinwheel Scheduling [Kawamura, STOC 2024]. Polyamorous Scheduling is a natural generalisation of Pinwheel Scheduling with respect to its optimisation variant, Bamboo Garden Trimming. Our work contributes the first nontrivial hardness-of-approximation reduction for any periodic scheduling problem, and opens up numerous avenues for further study of Polyamorous Scheduling.")
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