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The Amazon rainforest people who age more slowly than the rest of the world bbc.com/news/articles/ceq55l2g…

The Amazon rainforest people who age more slowly than the rest of the world

Studies show the hearts and brains of Bolivia's indigenous Tsimane people are the healthiest on the planet.
Alejandro Millán Valencia, Bolivia (BBC News)

Google tried to give new Pixel phones to influencers. Then it backfired. mashable.com/article/team-pixe…

Google tried to give new Pixel phones to influencers. Then it backfired.

Creators are leaving the Team Pixel program after its new terms sour trust.
Elizabeth de Luna (Mashable)

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals sciencealert.com/alzheimers-ma…

Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals : ScienceAlert

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies.
The Conversation (ScienceAlert)

Happy Birthday to the LVFS

9 years ago today I wrote 4 little PHP scripts and pushed it to OpenShift which was the beginning of the LVFS. We've since rewritten it in Python, switched the deployment from "sudo git pull" on the server under my stairs at home (literally) to deploying onto AWS with Terraform.

In 9 years we've onboarded over 140 vendors, shipped ~110 million firmware files and added support for ~85 firmware update protocols for ~1600 different devices. I'm pretty happy with that.

“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech publicdomainreview.org/essay/e…

“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech

Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech.
The Public Domain Review

Email Accessibility on Mobile: What Your Blind Customers Wish You Knew blog.usablenet.com/enhancing-e…

Email Accessibility on Mobile: What Your Blind Customers Wish You Knew

Boost the effectiveness of your email campaigns with a real insights from our blind contributor who relies on a screen reader.
UsableNet (UsableNet Inc.)

lol I love little games like this. Physically I’m a little dog, but mentally I’m a cat.
This is a predictive text game. Physically I’m predictive text, but mentally I’m predictive text.

TIL that using markdown style underscores to emphasize a word or phrase _like this_ sucks for screen readers.

🤦‍♀️
it reads the underscores, which makes sense but…

I just wish there was a way to provide emphasis clues to people reading regardless of vision levels. Italics and bold and all that are incredibly useful tools for text communication and it sucks to not be able to use any of them on an effing messaging platform.

#accessibility

#Accessibility
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masukomi
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@cachondo apple’s does leave a lot to be desired as far as its pure text-to-speech capabilities go.

It feels like yet another piece of software they wrote a “good enough” version of, released, and then just wandered off and forgot about.

@Sean Randall

It's bad enough that we had region-locked physical media, but for the internet to have not given that up by now is just stupid.
It's 2024 and I can't watch a random youtube video from the US. Why? I don't get it.
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Rui Batista
Rui Batista
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you have also some weird broadcasting deals. There are a couple shows you can’t watch on some country on netflix or whatever because some company bought exclusive rights for that region.

NV Access | In-process 19th August 2024 nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

In-process 19th August 2024

It’s here, NVDA 2024.3 has arrived! Let’s cover what’s new – but first, what else is in this week’s edition: NVDA 2024.3 Released Note for Beta and RC users Thanks to SignPath Mouse Scr…
NV Access

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Are you into Rust, Python, JavaScript, or CSS? Why not get paid to work on a web browser engine?

Servo is participating in Outreachy, a three-month paid (7000 USD) remote internship program that runs twice a year.

Apply before 21 August at 16:00 UTC → outreachy.org/apply/eligibilit…

#outreachy #internships #opensource

screenshot of servo’s flow layout code and the wikipedia page for servo rendered in servo

Outreachy | Internships Supporting Diversity in Tech

An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software. Learn more by visiting our website!
www.outreachy.org
#opensource #outreachy #internships

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Hot on the heels of today's release, our In-Process blog is out with all the info you need! Highlights of NVDA 2024.3, a note for RC users, thanks to SignPath, how to make the most of the new mouse wheel scroll commands, and a head's up about A11y Camp.

Check it all out here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersion #Release #Update #Blog #News #FOSS

Photo of the input gestures dialog with "Scroll" in the filter box

In-process 19th August 2024

It’s here, NVDA 2024.3 has arrived! Let’s cover what’s new – but first, what else is in this week’s edition: NVDA 2024.3 Released Note for Beta and RC users Thanks to SignPath Mouse Scr…
NV Access
#foss #blog #release #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion

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Kevan
Kevan
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Ever since the latest version, renaming files in the Windows Explorer with F2 is inaccessible. However, the context menu option works...

Content, for content's sake, leads to discontent.

#aphorism

#aphorism

NPR: America's only native bamboo was once plentiful along river banks, before making way for agriculture. Now it's a rare plant, and there are efforts to bring it back.#news #NPR npr.org/2024/08/19/nx-s1-50738…
#News #NPR

It’s literally Monday. Here is my unofficial guide to the HTML `<article>` element:

heydonworks.com/article/the-ar…


The article element

An unofficial guide to the HTML article element
Heydon Pickering (HeydonWorks)

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Šiel by som na nejakú dedinskú punkovicu, podotýkam dedinskú.

Opasok nepustí, blížim sa pomaly opäť k poslednej dierke. 😈

Good news Monday: covid test was negative this morning. (Will test again in a couple of hours in case it's a duff test/bad sampling technique. Then if the second test is negative, wait 48 hours and test again before giving the all clear. But feeling mostly better today.)
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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Congrats! I've been positive since Saturday morning, but the days before were a buildup of irritations. Those 2 lines seemed to be my bodies justification just to sleep, though. The weekend has vanished in a blaze of just not being awake.

When I work a year on #curl that amounts to about 1.5 milliseconds spent on each installation.

Seems worth it.😌

#curl

Have you heard about the restaurant on the moon?

Great food, no atmosphere.

#DadJokes #Puns #NotMyFault #Astronomy #Space

#puns #astronomy #space #dadjokes #notmyfault

Trying to boot Fedora on a boring old x86 laptop... so I used Fedora Media Writer to write the image to USB, then hit F9 for boot options.

The drive doesn't show up as a boot option.

BIOS is set to legacy mode, no secure boot, nothing. It just doesn't even try to read from the USB drive.

I guess installing Asahi on Macs is officially easier than installing Linux on PCs... at least some PCs, anyway.

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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@karolherbst What I really meant is that there's no inaccessible firmware/BIOS UI to deal with.
@karolherbst 🐧 🦀
in reply to Matt Campbell

karolherbst 🐧 🦀
karolherbst 🐧 🦀
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@matt oh sure, I was just curious, because I haven't considered that to be a problem at all.

But yeah.. the recovery path being accessible on macos sounds like an important feature, even if that's just a side effect.

However there are people working on using a slim Linux boot environment instead of grub, so that could also solve this issue, but I've heard that the kexec way of doing things doesn't work on apple silicon devices.

@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@karolherbst It seems to me that it would be better to boot straight into the full OS (with whatever accessibility features it has), with as few intermediate stages as possible, and, in particular, no stages that have their own UI (like u-boot and GRUB). I understand there are reasons to have emulated UEFI and GRUB in the mix for Fedora though, for consistency with other platforms.
@karolherbst 🐧 🦀
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karolherbst 🐧 🦀
karolherbst 🐧 🦀
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@matt yeah, maybe. I'm not that deep into the topic myself, I just remembered that people were working on it and that it might make sense to bring up accessibility there if that hasn't happen already. Maybe it's one of the reasons of doing that, I just don't know.
@Matt Campbell
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Hector Martin
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@karolherbst @matt The endgame here is to have a thing in the Asahi Installer that can boot an existing install under qemu on macOS, or a rescue image, so you can fix (most) boot issues. If that is using text console passthrough (stdio) it should be accessible via the host macOS.

Then we can mostly just ignore the a11y story for our boot chain since it's largely hidden anyway. Though identifying what a problem is could be a challenge, but there's no practical solution for that inline (no, we're not adding a whole audio engine and screen reader into m1n1/u-boot...). It would make more sense to set up some kind of "breadcrumb" system that logs to a file or NVMe partition something that you can then inspect from macOS (bonus points for using the macOS kernel dump format and triggering the macOS error report dialog directly lol).

@Matt Campbell @karolherbst 🐧 🦀
in reply to Hector Martin

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@karolherbst Definitely agree with not adding an audio engine and screen reader into m1n1 or u-boot. I much prefer the Apple approach of having no UI at all in the happy path (other than the logo and sound that happen in all cases), and falling back to a full OS for anything other than the happy path.
@karolherbst 🐧 🦀
in reply to Matt Campbell

Hector Martin
Hector Martin
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@matt @karolherbst Yeah, we literally install recoveryOS for Asahi because we have to (platform reqs) so it's silly not to use it and slowly grow it into more of a boot recovery environment for *us* too.
@Matt Campbell @karolherbst 🐧 🦀
in reply to Hector Martin

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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BTW, thanks for documenting how the Apple Silicon boot process works. I was really impressed when I read, in that Asahi documentation, that even the boot-time volume selector uses a full recovery OS so it can run VoiceOver and other accessibility tools.

Dnes znovu 🙄 právě se mi do timeline "nasypaly" tooty #timothysnyder , které jsou 1 až 3 dny staré. Nějaký nápad proč a či s tím? Jsem na #mastodonczech a používám #moshidon .
#moshidon #timothysnyder #mastodonczech
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nacelnik01
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@archos díky, zkusím. Ještě se mrknu na apku #trunks , kterou jsem dřív zkoušel a celkem se mi líbila. Nebo máš ještě nějaké jiné doporučení pro android app? Děkuji
#trunks @Archos
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Archos
Archos
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Já používám Fedialb, nebo phanpy.cz

Phanpy

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
phanpy.cz
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"a filename when none exists"

Starting in #curl 8.10.0, curl works a little harder to come up with a filename to store the download in when -O is used.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/19…

and old world map with the curl logo outline sort of "bleached" the map across

a filename when none exists | daniel.haxx.se

daniel.haxx.se
#curl
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Gustav H Meyer
Gustav H Meyer
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in the case of http://example.com/one/two/?id=42, what happens when the file 'two' already exists and then you change it to id=43?

Jak oči přátelé.. #objem
#objem

Exactly eight years ago #Microsoft made powershell open source and I *immediately* filed a pull request to remove their #curl alias...

Did not really work.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19…

Removing the PowerShell curl alias? | daniel.haxx.se

daniel.haxx.se
#microsoft #curl
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Brar Piening
Brar Piening
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I know that there are some people at Microsoft who care about open source, fairness, mutual support etc.
I wonder what those people think, e. g., @shanselman, @davidfowl.
Sometimes big enterprises get caught up in business rules and compatibility requirements and forget about common sense and fair interactions between humans but there are always people in there who can see through all this and can escalate things in there.
As curl users we can probably agree that the alias is pointless.
@Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮 @davidfowl

Just want to let folks know that I’ve moved on from Vision Australia. Thos that know me personally can contact me on my personal mobile or by the usual social media things. iSee will still be happening and growing plus a few more things.

No tak se ale dohodněte!

...for you are the last one.

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #runbsd #technomage

Mage visits the ruins of the Museum of the Open Technology and stops by the 'History of UNIX' section where stands a statue of a fish.
#OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage #runbsd

Over at Twitter anti-nuclear Green loudmouth Hanno Klausmeier is calling for a full year prison sentence for the audacity of delaying the demolition of the #Grafenrheinfeld cooling towers last Friday.

Is Klausmeier calling for such draconian punishment for the mere inconvenience of waiting 1.5 hours longer before the towers got demolished?

Or is it something else and is he afraid for a louder pro-nuclear voice that he wants to scare into silence?

You decide.

Screenshot of tweet by Hanno Klausmeier, saying: "This criminal who delayed the demolition deserves 1 year in prison."
#grafenrheinfeld
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Máme krásne zamračené a vyzerá to možno aj na dážď. Dlhý týždeň, tak nech ho máme úspešný. #dobréRáno
#dobrerano

Alright, time to update #NVDA. Hopefully all goes well...
#nvda
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modulux
modulux
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Yep, it all went fine. The notification for add-on updates works. The one I maintain also works fine without changes. Had to restart Firefox and Thunderbird, but everything else is fine. And I sent a donation to the project. Thanks a lot!
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NV Access
NV Access
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Thank you so much! We very much appreciate it (both the donation, the confirmation, and the feedback that the new features work as expected). Have a great week.

Zase někdo nezavřel a víkend nám utekl. Doprdele, lidi, naučte se zavírat.

Vrátili jsme se z víkendové dovolené, tentokrát jsme byli bez dětí. Po Polské S3 to bylo celkem 5.5h k moři. Bydleli jsme 50m od pláže. Všechno šlo jak po másle, dokud jsme pronajímatelce neoznámili, že je rozbitá sprchová hlavice. Řekla, že jsme to udělali my a chtěla ji zaplatit. Doma jsem navíc zjistil, že jsem ji tam nechal na klíčích SmartTag.
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Archos
Archos
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My tam chceme vyrazit příští rok, jak se vám tam líbilo? Teda kromě problému se sprchou.
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Adam Štrauch
Adam Štrauch
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@archos Bylo to super. Jsme tam byli letos už podruhý. V té první lokalitě (na východ od Gdaňsku) ale bylo mnohem méně lidí. Tady (Pobierowo) nebylo kam šlápnout a to tam ještě nedokončili tu hrůzu z fotky.
@Archos
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Věroš 🦥 K.
Věroš 🦥 K.
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@archos já jsem u Baltu byl nadšený z Uznojemu. Jen to není Polsko, ale Německo.

A asi i velmi záleží, co u toho moře chceš dělat.

@Archos
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Archos
Archos
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@verosk Zatím vyloženě v plánu nic nemáme, jen jsme přemýšleli vyrazit do Polska, příští dovolenou.
@bycx
@Adam Štrauch @Věroš 🦥 K.

Rozdíl mezi ukrajinskou a ruskou armádou...

#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Russia

#Russia #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

linux-game-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Updates to the installer for Doom and the launcher scripts for custom games contain Project Brutality. Some manual intervention is required if you do not want to reinstall. See forum.audiogames.net/post/8631… for details.

Toby Doom Accessibility Mod V7.5 Released (Page 9) — New releases room — AudioGames.net Forum

forum.audiogames.net

Až se Rusové zkonsolidují, odezva bude zuřivá, ví Ukrajinci. Neopakují ale jejich chyby, chválí Foltýn
irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/az-se-…

Až se Rusové zkonsolidují, odezva bude zuřivá, ví Ukrajinci. Neopakují ale jejich chyby, chválí Foltýn

Ukrajinci podle Foltýna útok v Kurské oblasti pořad rozvíjí, ale už zpomalují a vyhýbají se chybám Rusů z roku 2022. Nepředbíhají svoji logistiku, postupují velmi metodicky, byť poměrně rychle.
Vladimír Kroc (iROZHLAS.cz)
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Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
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držím jim palce ať to udrží co nejdéle s co nejmenšími ztrátami. 🙏

#ostrava
#ostrava

Re what I was just talking about, going right to the other end of tech, does anyone remember the Creative Zenstone? The tiny littlest MP3 player I ever saw, beautifully easy to use. I loved that little thing!
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Kelly Sapergia
Kelly Sapergia
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Ah, the Zen Stone! My first portable MP3 player. It was pretty neat for the time. I still remember recording voice labels for the various folders I put on the device.

I've been using the Galaxy Ring and Watch together to see if it's a synergistic or parasitic combo (verdict: The pairing is great in theory but needs refinement to be worth hitting checkout on two pricey wearables at the same time.) androidauthority.com/samsung-g…

This is what happened when I used the Galaxy Ring and Watch together

Samsung touts its new Galaxy Ring as the perfect supplement to a Galaxy Watch, but how well do the devices really work together?
Kaitlyn Cimino (Android Authority)

What does Bitcoin smell like? AI startup wants to ‘teleport’ digital scents (The technology could also help detect diseases such as cancer. ) cointelegraph.com/news/what-do…

What does Bitcoin smell like? AI startup wants to ‘teleport’ digital scents

Artificial intelligence startup Osmo is teaching computers how to smell through an artificial intelligence training process it hopes will one day lead to the “teleportation” of scents and a new method for detecting diseases such as cancer.
Tristan Greene (Cointelegraph)
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