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Lasst uns über #CrippingUp sprechen – wenn nicht-behinderte Schauspieler*innen Rollen von Menschen mit Behinderung übernehmen. Das schadet der Repräsentation und schränkt Möglichkeiten für echte Inklusion ein, da behinderten Schauspielenden die Teilhabe verwehrt wird. /1



just a heads-up that if you're using Adblock Browser for Android, you should probably consider switching to something else. under the hood it's running Chromium 111 (from Mar 2023) while current stable is 129.
in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

ABB updates have slowed considerably since this past March. if you're looking for alternatives, Firefox for Android + uBlock Origin is one good option.


#лытдыбр #фалыстыннаш после общения на шиномонтаже я вспомнил мысль, подслушанную у Шульман. Каждый человек идентифицирует себя как то.

Отец, мать, сын, учитель, программист, мясник, шиномонтажник.

И только самые бессмысленные и опасные люди идентифицируют себя как еврей, араб, русский и т.п.

потому что кроме национальности в них ни хуя и нет и в других они ценят только это


in reply to Fred Brooker

@fredbrooker
Hele to nikdy nevíš, taky jsem si to říkal a už jsem stavěl chajdu na zahradě 😀😀


There will be 4 SSI payments in the next 3 months - Social Security makes it official lagradaonline.com/en/4-ssi-pay…



We’ve launched a comprehensive database to catalog TalkBack and Jieshuo (CSR) screen reader bugs affecting blind and low vision Android users. Our mission is to raise awareness of these issues and help developers address them more effectively and promptly. Join us in improving accessibility for all! Feel free to add your screen reader bugs to make the database more comprehensive. 🌍 accessibleandroid.com/bugs/ #Accessibility #TalkBack #Jieshuo #AndroidAccessibility

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‼️Mal día para los agoreros de los datos económicos.

📈PIB 2º trimestre +0,8% (3,1% en variación interanual)

📉Inflación interanual IPC septiembre 1,5%. Subyacente 2,4% y intermensual -0,6 (la mayor caída en muchos meses).



#лытдыбр

кто то спиздил с машины два колпачка от ниппелей.

из этого печального факта и легкой формы окр, не позволившей с этим жить оказалось можно извлечь много пользы:

- прокатиться с удовольствием и проверить, что может #tesla в крутую горку (все)
- немного вернуть веру в хороших людей. араб на шиномонтаже открутил колпачки от каких то валяющихся у него ниппелей и пытался всучить бесплатно. (лишился попутно единственной налички - 5 шекелей для отрицания тележки в супермаркете) ->

in reply to Galactic Jew 🇮🇱

О, у вас тележки тоже за шекели отпирают?) прям как у нас, только у нас еврошекели 😊
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion чаще всего так. почти везде. одно время пытались сделать так что в можно было взять по номеру ID. но по-моему почти везде это уже поумирало.


So a lot of things I've read about the new Braille screen input on iOS suggest that you dismiss it by pulling your fingers apart on the screen. Personally I find it easier to use both my pointer fingers and pinch them toward each other. It feels way more natural to me. Really it can be done either way, as long as your fingers are going in opposite directions.
in reply to Amber

Apple call it a "pinch" in settings, so I think that's the way they expect it to work.


The original Raspberry Pi was awesome because it ran cool. You could just set it up and forget about it, literally for decades. But now they require fans, they're just like any other computer. They've added a definite point of failure, given enough time. Well done, chaps.


My son proposed to his fiancée about six months ago and she said yes. They're super happy and we love her family too. I just found out today that another girl is in love with him and plans to propose next week; should I say anything? Oh and also, he's 4. They're all 4.


With great reflexes comes great response ability.


People, I know myself and a shit load of other people say this every fucking year, but goddam it needs repeating. Christmas does *not* begin in fucking September. It just doesn't. Huge corporations would love you to think that it does, but most normal people really don't find this stuff appealing at all.


Jako jeden z dlouholetých (ale pouze řadových) členů Pirátské strany jsem se vrhl do studia diskuzí na fóru (ostatně, viz včerejší anketa), aby se pokusil pochopit, jaké možnosti v dané situaci máme, jestli neúspěch v krajských volbách znamená konec pirátského experimentu s vnitřně demokratickou stranu v politice.

Několik rychlých tezí:

- ne každý v Pirátech, kdo je názorově nalevo (zejména vnitropoliticky) od Jana Lipavského (Tomáše Pojara), je "komouš". Liberalismus je často nalevo of konzervativismu. Deal with it.
- "menšinová" účast ve vládě, která nebyla závislá na podpoře zbylých pirátských poslanců (jejichž většinu vykroužkoval malý zlomek voličů koalice PirSTAN) od začátku směřovala k současné situaci, což bylo jasné. Jenže netušili jsme tehdy, že v sázce bude tolik (ruská invaze na UA, eskalace na Blzkém východě, do toho prezidentské volby v USA..)
- otevřenost a vnitřní demokracie Pirátů je experiment, který nemá v české politice obdobu a je hodnotu sám o sobě (a to by měli uznat i nevoliči Pirátů - že by měli být rádi za možnost _něco jako Piráty_ vůbec volit, i když se pro tuto možnost nakonec třeba nerozhodnou)
- nejzajímavější otázkou podle mě je, co v dané situaci před krajskými volbami mohl a měl udělat Ivan Bartoš (v současné době byl v podstatě vykopnut, z ne zcela dobrých a uměle vytvořených důvodů a víceméně nic moc se už dělat nedá)

#tldr #politika #pirati

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in reply to Chao-c'

@xChaos 1) ČR potřebuje nějaké prozápadní "komouše" jako sůl. / 4) Ivan Bartoš měl pochopit už někdy v červnu, co se na něj připravuje (systém DSŘ je nedotažený, naštve strašnou spoustu lidí, kteří už jsou stejně naštvaní dávno, že musejí každý den chodit do práce, a rádi budou poslouchat kecy od politických protivníků IB). Měl se starat o damage control a o změkčení zavádění a měl mít dávno vymýšlené způsoby, jak si mezi úředníky SÚ dělat přátele.


Meta has finally fixed a long-standing accessibility issue with Instagram for Android. With Instagram V350.1.0.46.93, TalkBack and Jieshuo users can utilize the standard one-finger double-tap gesture to open Stories. With older releases, the gesture would fail to open Stories in most instances, and only Jieshuo users could utilize the "direct click" function to open Stories.
#Accessibility #Instagram #Android #TalkBack #Jieshuo
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The sense player media player is getting sluggish/freezing again. This is after last weeks factory reset, just started today. Any good accessible players for android that can play folders of mp3 files?
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Clavicula is a hidden gem of a 3D editor, featuring various techniques, ranging from SDF modeling to high-poly sculpting.

A new version has just been released, with some pretty cool new stuff:

➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=gd8suba0vT…

Clavicula is free, and available for Windows, Linux and macOS…

➡️ clavicula.link

#design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #digital #DigitalArt #art #arts #arte #artist #artists #GraphicDesign #3D #clavicula #SDF #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

in reply to Metin Seven 🎨

It's same for Windows application, you need the most expensive trusted certificate on a physical medium to sign Windows binaries to avoid the"dangerous app warning".

On Windows it's just not that strict. Yet.

I did both and Widnows is more expensive and more painful to release software.

in reply to Martin Wenisch

I assume you only need to pay Microsoft if you publish your app via the Windows app store? I can effortlessly run trivial Windows executables I downloaded from the internet.

One warning message is OK, but I'd hate having to go into a terminal to shut down security on a deep level, just to be able to run something.

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School is back, #Fractal is back! Here is Fractal 9.beta. Read more about it here:

discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…




I am pleased to announce a new Cambalache stable release, version 0.92.0!

What's new:
- Basic port to Adwaita
- Use Casilda compositor for workspace
- Update widget catalogs to SDK 47
- Improved Drag&Drop support
- Improve workspace performance
- Enable workspace animations
- Support new desktop dark style
- Support 3rd party libraries
- Streamline headerbar
- Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements

Read more about it at blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2024/09/…

#GTK #LINUX #UI
@GTK @gnome

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Sneaking in some time for icon design seems to require a lot more energy than it used to. Anyway, app icon sketches on a Friday!

#gnome #app #icon #design #sketch #procreate



@Tutanota how can I make a custom repeating event? This is the main thing that's stopping me from using your calendar app.

Just tried it for my radio club and the 2nd event was on a Saturday, not the first Wednesday like it should be!

@Tuta
in reply to Tuta

how though?

I only have: daily, weekly, monthly or annually, listed on mine!




Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Llega el otoño y ya he cogido premio en forma de dolor de garganta. Dejé de usar la mascarilla en agosto este año, y está claro que la voy a volver a poner, de hecho hoy ya la llevo. Por suerte no tengo fiebre ni otros síntomas.

in reply to modulux

primero, la mascarilla no te sirve para no enfermar, sino para no contagiar a otros, dado que eres el único en llevarla, no te sirve para nada más que para que estés incómodo.
Segundo, muy posiblemente no te hayas contagiado en el trabajo sino en la calle. En los bares somos demasiados y demasiado juntos.
in reply to Juan CBS

Lo del bar es verdad, pero la mascarilla protege en ambos sentidos. La protección es mayor si la lleva la persona infectada, pero también reduce el riesgo para la persona que se expone, más si es FFP2. Eso sí, al tomar el café no hay mucha escapatoria, pero toda exposición que se evita reduce el riesgo.


Hungary would have given in to Russia, says Orbán’s top aide – POLITICO politico.eu/article/hungary-ru…


I’m gonna try introducing an Autistic space concept to fedi–color communication cards, we had them at all the autistic self advocacy events and conferences back in the before times of in person events, it was very helpful for communicating our varying levels of nonverbalness and desire to be left alone or approached. I think it could be a useful tool here in online space if normalized, using fedi’s custom emojis (it doesn’t need to be these exact ones, anything with the color scheme/shapes would work). that’s my idea today for us Autistics maybe communicating a little better on here.

also it’s ok to reply to this post whatever color I’m on since I made it informationally and intentionally made it shared to a group and all.

(descriptions paraphrased from ASAN’s document)

:Green: actively seeking communication; may have trouble initiating conversations, but want to be approached by people who are interested in talking.

:Yellow: only wants to be approached by people they recognize, not by strangers. might approach strangers to talk, and that is okay; the approached people are welcome to talk back to them in that case.

:Red: probably does not want to talk to anyone, or only wants to talk to a few people. might approach others to talk, and that is okay; the approached people are welcome to talk back to them in that case. but unless you have been told already by the badge-wearer that you are on their red list, you should not approach them to talk.

@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic

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Long vent about accessibility and struggles as a disabled person, strong language

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Oh my god.

I have FOREVER been trying to make librsvg keep track of the current viewport's transform by itself, instead of relying on Cairo.

But I could never get both values in sync.

While debugging something else today, I found the place where they diverge. And now they are in sync.

This will make it MUCH EASIER to fix The Big Viewports Bug that is blocking a lot of stuff!

:apartyblobcat:

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

CONGRATULATIONS!! 🎉

I know you've said previously that this viewport work is your major refactoring headache and it's great to hear you've got some answers.

Curious if you can share a short description of what it was?

in reply to Martin Owens

@doctormo So, initially, librsvg used cairo directly all over the place. There were a lot of open-coded "figure out the objectBoundingBox transform and set it on the cr" bits. They got gradually refactored away.

Nowadays the only real use of Cairo happens in a single file. The functions there take arguments like a StackingContext with a Layer which has a bunch of fields, including the transform needed by the current element.

(cont)

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

@doctormo So at some point, before setting the path on the cr, we need to set the cr's transform.

For a while librsvg has wanted to pass the current Viewport around, with the current viewBox and preferably the transform. We bookkeep the transform, but it's never used - it was always out of sync with Cairo's. Somewhere there was a cr.transform() for which we didn't update the viewport's corresponding one.

I've found why!

(also I needed pre_transform instead of post_transform, per usual)

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Yeah that sort of thing haunts the pdf importer and exporter code as you have to track state and in PDF there isn't just one viewport, there's sub-and-other root coordinate systems.

Sounds like it was one of those order of operations bugs that mostly does nothing except in rare situations.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

yes, we have two pathways, one through Cairo that we're getting rid of and on direct poppler which does way more like actually letting you decide if you want fonts to be rendered as paths or glyphs (not important for render only libraries)
in reply to Martin Owens

@doctormo I just realized what a monumental pain in the ass it must be to import PDFs and translate them to SVG concepts. Respect!
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Yeeeeaaahhh, keeping structure is one set of problems, but interpreting editable structure is quite a new level.

Like seeing a stroke and a fill right next to each other on the same path. Is it a stroke behind path in one object or two objects with the same path.

We tested adobe illustrator and it pretty much entirely works this way. 😅

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

@doctormo so if all goes well:

1. I can cairo_set_matrix() with my own idea of the transform, instead of aggregating cairo_transform() without knowing what should be.

2. Since the transform is now accurate, I can actually contemplate finishing the render tree abstraction.

3. ... and fix the "shit renders incorrectly if the caller doesn't have an identity transform" bug, which is breaking many nontrivial uses of the library, e.g. using it to render glyphs from SVG fonts in freetype.



So it was only a hundred years ago - 1924 - when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts.

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to confirm the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_…

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Why New Outlook is the worst software ever designed, part 69105:

I’m arrowing through my inbox, and it suddenly stops responding,. No idea why, gremlins in the machine. Tabbing and arrow keys do nothing, so I go to close it. Alt+f4? Doesn’t work. Alt+ space? Works, I arrow down to close, hit enter–nothing happens. Odd.

Fortuitously, a notification appears informing me that new Outlook has detected that new outlook is using unusually high amounts of memory, prompting me to restart New Outlook. I hit the notification, new Outlook restarts, the end.

Allow me to underscore this.

They are clearly aware that their app is prone to memory leaks and hanging–so much so, in fact, that they designed a whole process specifically for the purpose of killing the app when it gets in this state. And yet, they still intend to force-upgrade everyone on the planet to this miserable pile of goatshit.

Incredible.



Scavengers Reign makes me want more things that feel like a nature documentary on an alien planet
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Long post about a weird dream I had last night

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in reply to Jayson Smith

So, this is tangential, but now I'm curious: What was the first computer you had where Infocom games were accessible to you? Did you have any way of playing them with speech on an Apple II? Of course, those original Apple II Infocom disks can't be used with Textalker.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Nope. Amazingly, the first time I ever heard of Infocom that I know of was in 1994 when I was reading the AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit) version 1.5 documentation in which some of the testimonials claimed that with its advanced mode you could creat games close to those of Infocom. I didn't actually know what the Infocom games were until 1996 when I got Internet access and eventually found the IF community. Both times I had a PC running DOS. By this point I'd played a bit of Zork I, but that's about it. I never legally owned any Infocom games. Partly it was the cost, I was eighteen but still living with my parents, and while I had an allowance, I could never justify the purchase of Masterpieces, which probably would have been my only real option. And yet that didn't include Hitchhiker's Guide or Shogun, and I figured if I wanted a collection, it might as well be complete. Also the manuals/feelies/etc were in PDF which I couldn't read at all at the time, as I recall.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Back in those days, of course, distributing Infocom game files (or story files as they were often called) on the Internet was a big no-no. These were the copyrighted works of Activision, and how dare you allow people to download them freely! I think it was in the late 90's when the BBC released a web-playable version of Hitchhiker's Guide. As far as I know, the Z-machine interpreter they used on the web wasn't at all accessible, but word got out that if you looked in your browser cache you could find the story file it ran. So of course I grabbed that and used Frotz to run it. Now, of course, the story files, not to mention source code, are all over the place.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt One really geeky thing happened in 1997 or so. IIRC as a promotion for one of their graphical Zork games, Activision released Zork 1, 2, and 3 in a downloadable package. Of course I eagerly downloaded it. No, I didn't need them, I already had those story files thanks to a friend who had sent me his small accessible PC games collection a year or two before. But I thought to myself, "Hmmm, Activision is going to want to put their own company name in the copyright notice for these games, which means they must have a working ZIL compiler!" ZIL was a huge fascination at the time, as it still is, and yet almost no information at all was known about it. Imagine my disappointment when I ran the story files only to see they were exactly the same story files I already had.
in reply to Jayson Smith

What's even more amusing is that Activision commissioned the development of a new Zork text IF game, a prequel or something, as a promotional thing for their new graphical Zork game, and that new IF game was developed using Inform.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Ah, here it is, in Jimmy Maher's old online book about IF: maher.filfre.net/if-book/if-10… Search for "undiscovered underground"
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Yup. But I understood that. This was a new game, being written from scratch. Zork 1, 2, and 3 were existing games, and assuming they had a working ZIL compiler and the sources (at that time it hadn't quite hit me that the Infocom development tools required a DECsystem-20 during most of their life, and couldn't just be run on a PC or something) they could change the Infocom name to Activision, at the very least.


it started as an innocent dare—"if you love floating point so much, why don't you marry it?" hours later, they were NaN and wife