"Just Listen" is a media player to play songs in background. Thanks to joint efforts of @obfusk identifying the culprit (sqldelight issue) and RLD-JL (the author) addressing it, we succeeded here.
This brings the number of RB apps at #IzzyOnDroid to 277, or in relative numbers to 23% now
Just attended the launch of Jackie Brown's book Braille on Display as presented by the Braillists Foundation. The book discusses all the available Braille Displays and is available for free as a word document, ePUB and in PDF format. If you'd like to download your copy, visit braillists.org/brailleondispla…
There is a sudden explosion in the popularity of AI Hawk — a program that uses bots to let applicants apply to multiple jobs on LinkedIn. This means that we now live in a world where people are using AI-generated resumes and cover letters to automatically apply for jobs, many of which will be reviewed by automated AI software, creating a bizarre loop where humans have essentially been removed from the job application and hiring process. Read more at @404media. #AI #Jobs #Hiring #Bots #Tech #Technologyflip.it/-Oiro2
Indeed the only fitting reaction to that statement. Not questioning it, but "falling from the couch to ROFLMAO", making clear one cannot take that serious. Well done!
I'd almost said "calling that man truthful is like calling a gun a peacemaker" – but ouch, wasn't there something… 🙈
This is a seriously great improvement for Youtube.com: When you press "Reject all cookies" it now just shows a blank home page and a search bar. No more random "popular videos", suggested videos, etc.
On Threads they have been using algorithms to moderate user content, but The Verge now reports how a large number of popular accounts have been banned, simply because Zuckerberg's software mistook their good content for bad content.
That is the difference:
On Mastodon, we have humans taking part in the moderation of humans. But on commercial social media, humans are pushed around like sheep.
Beyond excited for Erin Kissane’s new venture. Not only is this work of such deep, fundamental importance, but Erin is exactly the person we want tackling it. And the fact that she’s doing this work in community—with us, not for us—is evidence of that: wrecka.ge/into-the-wreck/
Urteil: Rechtsextremist hat kein Recht auf Referendariat
Ein Neonazi wurde zu Recht nicht als Referendar an einem Oberlandesgericht zugelassen. Das urteilte das Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Der Staat müsse niemanden ausbilden, der die Verfassung aktiv bekämpfe. Von A. Lagmöller.
From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Intro to Google Calendar: Thursday, October 10, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…
Classical and folk music are very common in ringtones, almost to the point of being cliche. It's understandable, though, considering that those genres are easily recognizable and in the public domain, so it probably saves money to just commission someone to make a remix of a traditional song rather than deal with paying royalties to record labels and collecting societies. However, possibly because it's so common, phone manufacturers often try to have fun with classical and traditional music, remixing it in various ways. In this thread, I'll be showcasing some of the most interesting remixes of Classical and Traditional songs I've found while browsing ringtones. Some will confuse. Some will horrify. Maybe you might even like one. First up, Beethoven's fur elise. This SMAF remix takes the piece in a Latin direction, replacing the lead piano with a trumpet, and adding its own background improvisation on other instruments. From Samsung PC Studio version 2.0. Arranger unknown. MMF: onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones…. Original piece: youtube.com/watch?v=s71I_EWJk7…
So glad to learn that Han Kang got this year's Nobel Prize in #literature. I read “The vegetarian” a few years ago and it left quite an impression in my mind. Very creative, and sometimes perversiveideas... Challenging the culture that is not easily challenged! . audible.com/pd/B01AKPENR0?sour…
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of re…
Let's keep the contributor appreciation from earlier going! Our most recent Contributor Highlight is out, and we're shining the light on Toad Hall, one of our Mozilla Support (SUMO) forum superheroes! The SUMO forums are the pillar of our support, and contributors like Toad keep it strong.
@73CC We don't track you and we don't have trackers! We have telemetry, which is a completely different thing that is fully anonymous and only collects technical pings . You can see the things we collect here: stats.thunderbird.net/
But also, you can already completely disable telemetry from the settings page.
I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This web book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.
New from 404 Media: people are using AI to auto apply for jobs. Bot scrolls LinkedIn, opens job applications, writes cover letter. Users say they've got interviews
Uber will let riders disclose whether they're hard of hearing or have low vision soon. The company will also start pilot testing another self-identification option for riders with service animals in the US and Canada over the next few weeks. engadget.com/transportation/ub…
Today I heard about Altirra, a free Windows emulator of 8-bit Atari computers. In the latest version it includes an accessibility mode, turned on from the configuration dialog under the system menu. After you do the emulated screen can be reviewed just like a modern command prompt (IE with NVBDA's review commands.) It aalso supports emulating a lot of peripherals and you can have authentic floppy drive sounds and I'm a total sucker for those. It's really cool to see another vintage #retro computer platform become accessible like this. #a11y #accessibilityvirtualdub.org/altirra.html
With people needing training in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America, it's impossible to find one single workshop time that works for everyone. So each month I pick a different time zone to best accommodate.
If you are a conference organizer, please let me know which month and time you need training!
You can either fill out the form, or send an email to sharp@otter.technology
Kurzer Bericht im DLF über Behinderten-Ausbeutungsbetriebe ("Werkstätten").
Es gilt immer noch als Argument, dass behinderte Menschen mit einem feuchten Händedruck entlohnt werden können, weil sie dankbar sein sollten, überhaupt arbeiten zu dürfen. Es ist einfach nur empörend, wie unsere Gesellschaft mit Menschen umgeht.
Knapp 6 Minuten, es gibt eine Zusammenfassung als Text.
Ich kenne übrigens einige der Argumente aus meiner Erwerbslosenzeit, wenn mir irgendwelche Mistjobs oder Quatschmaßnahmen schmackhaft gemacht werden sollten: Geregelter Tagesablauf (als wäre das ein Wert an sich), "Anerkennung" (als stünde ein entwürdigender Lohn dem Anerkennungsgefühl nicht offensichtlich entgegen), "Sinnstiftung und Identität" (weil ein Mensch ohne Arbeit ein wertloser Niemand ist), blabla. Das alles sei viel wichtiger und toller als eine angemessene oder überhaupt eine Bezahlung.
Unsere verkorkste Arbeitsmythologie macht wenige Menschen reich und viele Menschen arm und krank.
Das ist eine Nummer, die du in einer Situation weitergeben kannst, in der du dich belästigt oder unwohl fühlst. Wählt die Person dann diese Nummer, erhält sie kurze Zeit später folgende Nachricht:
„Hey, hier ist Noa. Eine Person hat sich nicht wohlgefühlt und dir deswegen diese Nummer gegeben. Besuche noanruf.de/nummer-bekommen/ und schau, wie du diese Situation beim nächsten Mal vermeiden kannst. Grüße, NoA.“
The amazing thing about open source services is, you can create interfaces for it the way you imagine them best. Currently testing #Pipilo, an iOS Fediverse client by @luckkerr which presents each timeline as a horizontal bar you swipe through to get to the next post. From a VoiceOver perspective, a slider control is presented and you explore the posts by swiping up and down, then explore the screen to discover things like links, replies in the corresponding thread, attached multimedia. Łukasz also makes sure that everything works correctly with VO and more goodies are already there in the current Testflight build. Glad to see this level of attentiveness to accessibility and a fellow Polish person coding fedithings. Give it a try. apps.apple.com/pl/app/pipilo/i… #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #iOSDev
On a related note, it's worth it posting your thoughts under a couple of hashtags on the fedi. Łukasz happened to interact with my rant on inaccessible photopickers last week and that's how I discovered his app. That's how you can expand your audience on here.
Ok so just went and got this because I'm terminally curious to see how this works. I'm really intrigued, but also still very much in love figuratively with Mona, so it'll take something pretty special to move me over, but as a scroll-through companion, I could see this being pretty cool!
Hi hello from Pipilo! ... This is really a cool concept. I still like Mona best, but will keep this one and send its alerts to the watch. ... This really is a cool idea. ... Did I mention how cool a concept this is? lol!
@pianomarian I think @luckkerr will be glad to hear that. Just wait for the next update where the posts will be read straight away as soon as you move the slider.
What I'd really like to do is reverse the timeline, because right now it's backwards to my way of reading. I haven't seen a way to change that, unless I missed it somewhere.
we have a handful of online supermarkets in the UK, and only the one uses this approach so that you can literally swipe up on any search result to add it to your cart. It's the only provider with a single flick per item, too. No idea how it renders visually but it works well for VO.
@cachondo Ohh, there's one doing that here in Austria. Last time I checked, though, it read some random variable when you did that instead of reading out the current number of items in the card. Will have o check whether they've fixed it. It's such a handy mechanism.
The GOV.UK “exit this page" button (for pages that might be visited by e.g. domestic abuse victims seeking support) doesn't take you to the Google homepage but instead BBC Weather, and the reason why is interesting and well-thought-out: beeps.website/blog/2024-10-09-…
Currently at the #LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024: updates on right-to-left language support, and presenting new LibreOffice features created by Google Summer of Code students. conference.libreoffice.org/202…
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