Here's my new project, a keyboard for one-handed typing. Tens of thousands Ukrainians have injured arms and hands during the war, and my goal is to make an inexpensive keyboard for anyone to assemble at home.
Blazie Technologies has released a new update for all users of the BT Speak. It includes the following features. • The help system now includes a text version of our Getting Started guide as well as a Getting Started audio tutorial. No Internet connection is required to access the tutorial. • The Options menu has been restructured, making it much faster to get to the Settings menu; just press O-chord, S and you’re there. • Link your BT Speak’s calendar with Google Calendar • Link your BT Speak’s phone book with Google Contacts • New languages available for the RH Voice text to speech engine • Make a .zip archive of the help files for copying or reading on external media • The Russian Braille table has been added.
Friedrich Merz verbreitet Falschbehauptungen zur Aufnahme von Geflüchteten aus Syrien und Afghanistan - aber aufgegriffen wird das nur auf Social Media und nicht von den etablierten Medien. Obwohl die Äußerungen bei einem Auftritt bei der Bundespressekonferenz gefallen sind und nicht an einer Wurstbude auf irgendeinem Jahrmarkt, wo keine Kamera dabei war. mdr.de/s/ap280824
Albert #Scherr (Soziologe, Schwerpunkt #Migration's- und Flüchtlingsforschung) zu seinem Auftritt in den #Tagesthemen: "Ich hatte ein längeres Interview geführt, in dem ich kritisch zu den unsinnigen Abschiebeforderungen und dem populistischen Anti-Flucht-Diskurs Stellung bezogen habe sowie auf die Defizite beim Zugang zu Begleitung und Therapie bei traumatisierten #Flüchtlinge'n hingewiesen habe. Gesendet wurde dann aber nur der [einleitende] Satz [...]." #Medienversagen @altpapier @tagesschau
Ach ihr habt sie doch nicht mehr alle. #NationaleNotlage .. ich glaub ich spinne. Wegen paar "Fremden" die zu uns kommen. 🙀
2015 ist der Kollege #Migrant hier über Felder & Wiesen geirrt und das war auch kein Problem. Großteil der Leute von damals stehen inzwischen in Lohn & Brot. Und zahlen #Steuern. (Im Gegensatz zu den Reichen.)
Oder gehts um #Terrorismus? JEDEN Tag werden hier mehr Menschen im so genannten "#Straßenverkehr" überfahren. Die Politik feiert das. 😒
Are you also concerned about the @EUCommission decision to cut the funding for #FreeSoftware projects?
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper 🗞️ to make their readers aware of the importance of funding #FreeSoftware solutions with a long-term sustainable funding:
I forget what the Drama™ was that caused me to stop using Bartender on #macOS, but I've been happily using Ice as a replacement github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
Today I just got Software Update message for the latest version, and it warms my heart because it adds #accessibility support
Whenever you see a good app adding or improving accessibility support, please share the news. We need to normalize adding accessibility to all apps.
As a reminder, don't forget to join Blazie Technologies to learn more about the BT Speak, a pocket computer for the blind, on Main Menu Live: Wednesday, August 28, 8:00 PM Eastern Time We're scheduled for the second hour of the show.
Holy shit, the Rijksmuseum used a 100MP Hasselblad camera to take almost eight and a half THOUSAND photos of the whole of Rembrandt's The Night Watch, for a total image size of 717 GIGAPIXELS. 😳
It's on their website as a zoomable image and you can zoom in so far you can see the individual cracks in the paint: rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/oper…
This & similar cartoons often pop up on social media.... but that doesn't make them any less telling about our political leaders current & continuing attitudes to climate change.
So here it is again; our short-term thinking will be the end of us
🔍 A search engine is only as good as its search index. Even alternative search engines might be using indexes built by Big Tech. 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-is-search-i…
What is your favorite search engine? 🤔 Let us know in the comments!
I really like @Mojeek tbh but I'd say I get good results less than 50% of the time. I try to give feedback to help whenever I can. I love their "focus" feature.
I also realised we sometimes know on which site we want to search so I created a bunch of alias to different websites and I use them. If I want something about public services for example, I have a shortcut to search on the governmental website of my country.
I have been using Brave Search for some time now and I'm really happy with it. There is this opt out telemetry and a little bit too much AI. But you can disable it and the Code LLM is pretty useful sometimes.
@Mojeek @jrod3737 A bit late to the party, but great to see a constructive discussion grow out of the comments. Let's keep making the internet a better place for everyone!
@Mojeek One example, I use a website called Refquest regularly. When I type Refquest into Mojeek the results have a refquest.com result as the third result and it’s the privacy page. I just want the main website.
This happens on a lot of results. When there is a direct .com or .co.uk, etc website I get a bunch of stuff from other sites way before the actual site. And the result from the actual site isn’t the main landing page of the site.
@jrod3737 thanks a lot, we're aware of issues when it comes to ranking homepages as the top result returned in the cluster (Mojeek is 1 result/site unless you change clustering in Preferences).
I've raised this as an example of that - something we're working on.
Selfhosted SearXNG, because i like different results from many engines in a clean UI. Many SearXNG public instances are limited in primetime, so i decided to selfhost for my family and me.
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in reply to altpapier • • •"Ich hatte ein längeres Interview geführt, in dem ich kritisch zu den unsinnigen Abschiebeforderungen und dem populistischen Anti-Flucht-Diskurs Stellung bezogen habe sowie auf die Defizite beim Zugang zu Begleitung und Therapie bei traumatisierten #Flüchtlinge'n hingewiesen habe. Gesendet wurde dann aber nur der [einleitende] Satz [...]."
#Medienversagen
@altpapier @tagesschau