My tech skills are average. I thought about getting the BrailleSense because people have said that one of them could potentially have a dtropbox app. Can you tell me which one that is?
@kjw810 Sure, no problem. I don't use any of the blindness-specific players anymore, at least not hardware players. However, with all of the frustrations I'm having with Voice Dream Reader, I'm tempted to get an Evo12; at least its interface is likely not to unexpectedly change and make it difficult for me to load books. 😀
The EVO 12 is OK. I guess my favorite was the Bookport Plus. But I would want the Braille Sense for its Braille capabilities, if it really can access dropbox.
@kjw810 the Bookport Plus was a great player. It was a modified Plextalk Pocket. I loved what APH did to it but it's no longer available and the Evo is still more inexpensive. It doesn't play protected Daisy books but most of the books I've been reading aren't in that format, anyway.
I use Edlin when I want to write something quickly, like a test program or a brief note.
Edlin is also very useful if you want to capture some commands into a FreeDOS batch file— you can write the new batch file while any commands you ran are still visible on the screen.
Found out recently that Mapillary broke the navigation in their web explorer. Couple years ago it showed a trace as a series of points: you click on one and see the photo.
Now it displays a line. You cannot click anywhere on the line, but have to trace your mouse cursor along it, searching for a photo. And only then you can click and see it.
I think they don't use Mapillary anymore at Meta, that's why all its parts are getting worse with time.
The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:
Okay just, like right off the cuff here. But why does Vispero, a company making blindness software/hardware want videos for there Big Thing thing? Why not just text? Emails? Like, what? Why? Meh, whatever. I'll submit mine I guess. I'm sure some of you know what I'm gonna suggest. Feel free to submit your own ideas, goodness knows we need more grand ideas for screen readers.
Exactly, I asked this question last year. First, why only three countries or so are privileged, and second, why videos? It's infuriating, why should we then ask for respect from other companies if even a blind-specific company requires bloody videos? totally incomprehensible.
@DavidGoldfield What happened to the idea being the most important thing? Would they not be able to figure out what to do for the presentation if the application is accepted?
Sorry to bother you Daniel. What's the recommended way to get the absolutely latest version on Debian? My current version on Debian is 7.88.1. Obviously I could get the code and compile it but would like to use apt if possible (e.g. get the coming 8.10.0 release when it's out). Cheers!
I have ported #systemd to #musl. Properly. Passing all tests, properly. Booting my 2012 Ivy Bridge in 3.2 seconds, properly.
I'm aware of how unpopular this will be in some circles. But change does not happen without competition, and musl environments deserve more than what they have right now. systemd isn't a panacea, it isn't even that great, but it's here, it solves real issues people have, and it's now an option. Not a requirement, but an option.
I like that a lot as well, my favourites are probably Story of Isaac, Good old bad old days, March of the jobless corps, Silver window, Ballad of Edward the young... There's a very nice album as well in collaboration: Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Oy Division - The Unternationale - The First International.
Very exciting to see the closed beta announcement of Thunderbird's Appointment service for scheduled meeting times - I look forward to hopefully trying it out soon! I'm regularly planning across time zones and definitely have the pain point of using email threads to find a time which it promises to solve, so it sounds like it's going very helpful! Haven't really jumped on similar services because I haven't spent the time to work out if I trust them or not. I trust the Thunderbird team with this though @thunderbird #thunderbird the post announcing it: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/p…
We're glad you're excited, and seriously, thanks for being interested in testing it! And this typist feels you - I have tried SO many services but this is something I'd try even if I wasn't working at Thunderbird for my day job!
- removed 3 old Corona apps which were no longer working. + EnforceDoze: Enable Doze mode immediately after screen off 🛡️ + Tomato Potato Clock: Distraction-free pomodoro timer 🛡️ + Gesture Drawing Practice: Displays pictures for a set time with optional timer - for drawing practice 🛡️
Am Freitag, den 6.9. demonstrieren Fahrer*innen von Lieferando Workers Collective gegen Gewalt gegen Fahrer*innen, gegen Rassismus, gegen ausbeuterische Arbeitsbedingungen.
Exploring more of the Dynamicland website eg dynamicland.org/publications and this document is particularly full of bangers: dynamicland.org/2022/Radical_D… "Many modern technologies are too complex to be learned and practiced by communities, and are instead bound to industrial modes of production, creating a class divide between “developers” and “consumers”. These complex technologies will never be decentralizable, and any attempts to decentralize them will fail."
SIDN digitaal toegankelijker sidn.nl/nieuws-en-blogs/sidn-d… Onze missie is ‘een kansrijk en zorgeloos digitaal bestaan voor iedereen’. Daarom zetten we flinke stappen in toegankelijkheid. We willen dat iedereen met of zonder beperking, gebruik kan maken van onze website #accessibility
This is (even more) aggro than I'd be about React (and, surprisingly, religion), but this line is the pure, uncut truth:
"React is useful for making complex interfaces like Facebook’s or for making otherwise simple interfaces, and their underlying codebases, complex like Facebook’s."
Christ on a cracker, @heydon; leave something for the rest of us!
@tedmielczarek if your organization could not seriously consider building a basic version of React/k8s itself, it is not equipped to deal with the complexity costs they will incur
Not much concrete stuff yet, but I've published the first post in my series about Using The Platform: dev.to/zkat/i-was-isekaid-into…
Over time, I'll fill this out with both what I've done so far, and with any interesting tidbits I'm figuring out along the way. I think it'll be a good exercise for me to document this stuff as its getting built from the ground up. The app is still really early, but I've still learned SO MUCH. I hope you do, too.
Let's hold hands and take down the JavaScript Industrial Complex with the Power of Friendship!
Join the State of the Browser #SOTB 2024 conference on Saturday, 14 September, at the Barbican Centre in London.
This one-day, single-track conference, organized by the London Web Standards, covers the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more.
TetraLogical's director, @SteveFaulkner, will be speaking on "No Industry for Old Men," reflecting on key developments in the web accessibility space over the years.
@thunderbird #thunderbird
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