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Die #ubuntu 24 Neu #Installation scheint vor Veröffentlichung nicht einmal ohne Verwendung der Maus getestet worden zu sein...

#a11y #Accessibility #Linux

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in reply to FediVerseExplorer

ok, da hatte ich bislang eher positiv bemerkt, dass recht früh das Menü "Barierrefreiheit" kam.
in reply to Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom

Das betrifft meines wissens auch nur den dann installierten Desktop, nicht die Installation selbst .


Ressource utile: une carte collaborative qui référence les points d'eau potable (normalement désormais obligatoires dans les lieux publics)
watermap.fr/

Encore un petit effort à faire sur l'accessibilité de ces fontaines, celles en gare SNCF sont souvent dans des recoins et avec un design moderne, trop moderne peut-être, où on pourrait les confondre avec la moindre borne ou poteau signalétique.

#ressourceUtile #lienUtile #cartes #point_d_eau #fontaine #eau

in reply to Agou

mapcomplete.org/drinking_water has a worldwide map and allow to directly add new items to #OpenStreetMap



hey remember when teachers would tell you not to use Wikipedia because it wasn't a reliable source of online information? daaaaaaamn lol 😅


Is there a good portable asynchronous filesystem access crate for Rust yet? (I'm aware of a number of crates that use blocking filesystem operations from threads, and that's not at all what I mean. I want to issue large numbers of requests from few threads so the I/O scheduler can sort them out.)

(Thanks, POSIX, for assuming that disks are infinitely fast. 🙄)

#rustlang



📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 21. Oktober, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion


🚶‍♂️🗺️ Doe mee aan de LiLi-app mapathon in Brugge!

Op 29 november van 18:00-22:00 in het Hof van Watervliet helpen we OpenStreetMap België met het toegankelijker maken van de stad voor blinden en slechtzienden. Samen vullen we ontbrekende infrastructuur aan die de Lili-app gebruikt om de veiligste routes te bepalen.
Meer info: amai.vlaanderen/projecten/proj…

📍 Locatie: Hof van Watervliet, Brugge
⏰ Tijd: 18:00 - 22:00
💻 Meenemen: Laptop (muis handig)
osmcal.org/event/3228/

#OpenStreetMap



Got a question about LibreOffice? First check our FAQ page: libreoffice.org/get-help/frequ… – And if you still need help, see ask.libreoffice.org/


LifeHacker has a comprehensive article about Covid testing options in 2024 with a comparison of four at-home PCR test kits.

lifehacker.com/where-to-find-a…



Do you rely on alt text on social media?

#AltText #accessibility #SocialMedia #poll

  • Yes, because of a disability (6%, 13 votes)
  • Yes, it helps add context (60%, 116 votes)
  • Yes (other reasons) (16%, 31 votes)
  • No (33%, 64 votes)
192 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago




Recommendation time -- it's worth it to pay for an email subscription with the right company.

I've been using @Tutanota for a few years now and have been very happy with how they've grown. #Encryption for the common person in a simple no-nonsense platform is cool to see. Would love to see them continue to innovate with #privacy in mind like they have so far.

in reply to Luc

Thanks for sharing the love ❤️ We're glad to hear this!


Why is Linux OOM-panic a thing? This strikes me as the thing that it's most important for a system NOT to do.
in reply to Ben Cox

Linux OOM management lately has been... sorry I lack nice words to describe it truth-fully.

I think "Windows like" is kinda close, while still vague.



PSA Remember that filing taxes in both US and Canada is complicated thanks to the Intuit lobby.
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in reply to Jérôme Carretero

@cJ the Government should send it pre-filled forms with whatever the fuck they got from the various reports (employer, financial instituation)

I should NOT have to copy my T4 and R1 into a form when they already have that info.

And then log into their system and adjust it.

Like many European countries do.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Oh I'm with you, just trying to get some traction on the best solution I could come up with for that horrible problem.


Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode theverge.com/2024/10/21/242738…


I pretty much don't have any interest in the Steam Deck (besides of size) for the fact that the APU in there is starting to really show it’s age. Now there are more competition in the handheld with more powerful APUs at the expense of using a little bit more power.

The Radeon 890m really makes the Deck look more out of date as it has performance close to a Radeon 470/570 or a GTX 1060. Not to mention, we are seeing more games that are unplayable on the Deck or won't play well, and the lack of USB 4 support to use an eGPU doesn't help. After all, this is a computer
in a console form factor, and PC games are rarely optimized well.

That said, I would like to see an SoC using ARM with Radeon graphics, it would improve battery life, but x86-64 emulation on ARM64 is another story, but it’s possible given what Asahi Linux can do playing games from Steam using Proton.

tomshardware.com/video-games/h…



Want to build a thriving tech company? Easy! Just ignore user complaints, double down on those privacy-violating features everyone hates, and exploit user data to the max. That's the winning formula, right? 🤡
in reply to nixCraft 🐧

Forget innovation, user experience, and ethical considerations. In today's tech world, the fastest route to the top is questionable practices. Who needs happy users when you have soaring stock prices? It's a proven business model!


Congratulations to the people of Moldova and to you, Maia Sandu.

You’ve done it again!

In the face of Russia’s hybrid tactics, Moldova shows that it is independent, it is strong and it wants a European future!

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[Forum Topic] VoiceOver users wanted to test hack of Infocom's Journey applevis.com/forum/app-develop…


Got the videos from my aerobatic flight. Unfortunately, they had issues with the intercom audio so you can’t hear me and the pilot. Still getting the video audio described though. I will post it once I have that. The company has offered me a very cheap flight in their other aircraft to make up for it though.


The dominant narrative is that electric vehicles are heavily subsidised. In fact, it's fossil fuel cars that are still heavily subsidised in key European markets. Removing fossil fuel subsidies also means less spending on electric vehicles to compensate for this unjustified advantage.

transportenvironment.org/artic…
#EV

#ev
in reply to Jaap Burger

Excuse me, I don't get it.
I mean benefit-in-kind, depreciation write-offs, and VAT deductions are applicable to both the company EVs and combustion engine company cars. Naming this subsidy is factually incorrect. Using factually incorrect arguments is usually sign there are not enough of valid arguments. I believe this should not be the case, so why?


When the City they they don't have money to fix collapsing metro station or bus service, remember:

Notre-Dame Basilica undergoes $50 million restoration

montreal.ctvnews.ca/notre-dame…

Funded with public money.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

$1 million from taxpayers, the other $49 million from the non-profit that manages the building, according to the article.


we must combat the global scourge of underage baking


I didn’t really follow all the news around iOS 18. Can someone tell me about any serious bugs it has if it does, and whether it's worth upgrading now or if I should wait a bit?
in reply to Malia Suhr

@MS26 Oh that doesn't sound good. I guess I'll wait then because my battery is bad enough already lol.
in reply to Mariia Sydoruk

@MS26 I didn’t find this to be the case, but a lot of people do. I wonder if phone model matters.
in reply to Malia Suhr

@MS26 Hmm. Interesting that that’s happening. I tried 18 on a 12 pro max and a second generation SE and it didn’t seem that bad. Did you try all the usual stuff, restarts, redownloading VoiceOver voices, restoring from backup.u
in reply to aaron

@fireborn @MS26 for whatever its worth, if you use voice dream a lot, try killing it from app switcher instead of pausing. It does something weird and doesn't close audio sessions properly. This definitely impacts battery life of your bluetooth headphones, but I wouldn't be surprised if it also affects the phone itself.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki @fireborn No it's not VoiceDream, I use it sometimes but not enough for it to be the problem.
in reply to Mariia Sydoruk

@MS26 I had a 15 pro max, but I did also try 18 on a 12 pro max and second gen SE
in reply to aaron

@fireborn I didn't try all of that, no. The speed issue is better now, it just randomly has moments where it totally freezes up and spazzes out. Mainly in the trivia crack and lyft apps where it never used to do that before.


"Montenegro diz que revisão das aulas de Cidadania interessa à população portuguesa"
isto deve ter sido um inquerito que ele fez a saida da ultima convenção do chega


Ad hoc eine These zum Liveblogging mit Hashtags auf Konferenzen: diese Praxis ist (bis auf ganz randständige Nischen-Öffentlichkeiten) eingeschlafen.

Ich sitze hier gerade bei einer seit Monaten ausgebuchten Tagung mit +100 Teilnehmenden, vorwiegend professionell in der Medienbildung (!) unterwegs, aus ganz Deutschland.

Und jetzt kommt's: dieses Event hat keinen Hashtag. Es findet live quasi nicht statt auf Twitter, Bluesky, Insta, Facebook, aber natürlich auch nicht hier im Fediverse.

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in reply to Lambert Heller

Die Vielgestaltigkeit des #FediVerse finde ich dafür noch besser geeignet, als es Twitter je war. Frage mich auch, warum man diese Chance nicht nutzt.


If you are blind/vi, would you opt-in getting sight if the opportunity presented itself?

  • Heck yeah, let me fill out the NDA papers! (15%, 3 votes)
  • Not on your life. I'm happy the way I am. (45%, 9 votes)
  • I'll let others test out this stuff and jump in when I see improvements. (30%, 6 votes)
  • The answer to life, the universe, everything, is... 42! (10%, 2 votes)
20 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

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in reply to Just Martin

I can't say I'm happy the way I am. This would be a false statement. However, I am pretty sure that suddenly having sight, having never had it before, would drive me crazy.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox We talked about that with my wife and daughter, and yes, it would be a tough first time, probably a tough year even when you'll blindfold yourself for most of the time, you'd probably have headaches. My wife told me she would support my endeavor, might it happen one day. But the colorful world that would be available to me afterwards is worth paying this price.


Hiya, we've just done bugfix release 0.17.1 for #GoToSocial.

github.com/superseriousbusines…

Fixes a bug in the streaming API that may have been causing problems for some clients, and adds alt-text for default avatar + header images.

Updating from 0.17.0 is very simple and quick, but if you're updating from 0.16.0 or below then please read the migration notes carefully and be aware of the big database migrations from 0.17.0.

Enjoy!

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I personally don't need the FSF (Free Software Foundation) or RMS (Richard Stallman) to be a Free Software person that promotes the merits of Software Freedom. Back in the days I was part of the first court case in Germany that established the GPL (v2 at the time) as a valid and enforceable license under German law. We won that case without needing any help from the FSF(E). I have always focused on ideas, never on "heroes" and personification, because people fail. Ideas are bigger than people.
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I would like to buy me a good mechanical keyboard, preferably 75percent, because I like those. Anyone know anything good in Europe? Must be pretty good for typing, of course, but also for games. II am tired of my 10Eur cheap USB keyboards, so I'd like to change those to a mechanical one. Also please, something not super expensive. :D Thanks. #keyboards

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🎉 noyb WIN! RTL Belgium was ordered to add a "refuse all" button to the first layer of its cookie banner and stop using deceptive colors.

In case of non-compliance, the company will have to pay €40.000 per day.

👉 DPA decision (FR): dataprotectionauthority.be/pub…

👉 Our original complaints: noyb.eu/en/belgian-dpa-let-new…



In case you missed it, I recently made a video named “What Is React.js”

briefs.video/videos/what-is-re…

If you haven’t watched it, please do. It is very short. If you have and you liked it, please share it with your friends.

And if you are able, please support me on opencollective.com/webbed-brie…. I want to do more of these, but they take a lot of time. Thank you!



But Why?? A look at common patterns found on the web, how they are harmful for accessibility, and what to do instead. noti.st/melsumner/7dgask/slide… Slides by @melaniersumner from EmberFest in September 2024. #webdev #webdesign #a11y #uiDesign #uxDesign


Came across the term DINK for the first time last week and it is about as bad as it sounds.

in reply to David Goldfield

Oh man I loved the technical difficulties, especially if they were in the middle of something my family was watching but I found boring. Back in, I think it would have been 78 or 79, one of our TV stations had a huge, huge on-air meltdown. It went off the air for almost a week. But no one seems to remember it but me, and I can't get any verification.

in reply to David Goldfield

Pardon my cynicism but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before.
in reply to Kevin LaRose He/Him

@Thumper1964 I just report the weather. If the forecast calls for sunny weather and suddenly there's a major downpour I'm not responsible. 😀


Daniel Stenberg on Curl's Journey: From C64 Demos to Internet Transfers

vpetersson.com/podcast/S01E17.…

#podcast #curl



"We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
"Thanks, Dad," he said.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot



Controversial suggestion: A future edition of Rust should make no-std the default for new library crates. Safe Rust code that uses core and alloc, no extern references, and other such code as transitive dependencies is, if I'm not mistaken, object-capability-safe. If that's true, then it should also be, by extension, deterministic unless explicitly given references (object capabilities) for sources of non-determinism. It'd be great to have all that by default for most transitive dependencies.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@chadaustin For a large set of libraries, I think interior mutability should be pushed outward, to the caller, as much as possible. I realize that can only go so far, though.


Announcing The Launch of Access Park: My Mission to Build a Global Marketplace for Assistive Technology and Empower Buyers and Sellers Within the Access Community | Donna J. Jodhan | AT-Newswire.com
at-newswire.com/announcing-the…

I, Donna J. Jodhan, am thrilled to announce the official launch of Access Park (accesspark.shop), a new, fully accessible, global online marketplace that will connect assistive technology buyers and sellers around the world.