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In-Process 23rd October 2024
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Over the past fortnight we had a fantastic response to our braille survey, thank you! We already have some learnings to share with you! Plus, we’re nearly ready for NVDA 2024.4, are you? We’ve also…NV Access
Police have confirmed the body of an employee who died at a Walmart in Halifax over the weekend was found in a walk-in oven.Atlantic
PQ leader says story time poster by Montreal library example of 'religious invasion'
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In short PQ is just like the CAQ. Racist AF.
A Montreal borough and Muslim leader are pushing back against the head of the Parti Québécois after he accused a local library of promoting a "religious invasion" by posting a photo of a young girl wearing a hijab for a storytime event.Montreal
¡Explora el calendario de actividades para el 25 y 26 de octubre en #GNOME Latam 2024!
No te pierdas las charlas y eventos que hemos preparado, con destacados expositores y una gran promoción del Software Libre.
¡Va a ser imperdible!
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Union raises concerns over cracks in newly poured concrete in Montreal's La Fontaine Tunnel
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.Quanta Magazine
In-Process is out, featuring the results of our braille survey, Elston Changemakers event, the 2024.4 Release Candidate, an NV Access All-Hands, and using Data Validation in Excel.
Read now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Software #FOSS #Elston #Excel
Over the past fortnight we had a fantastic response to our braille survey, thank you! We already have some learnings to share with you! Plus, we’re nearly ready for NVDA 2024.4, are you? We’ve also…NV Access
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Welcome to the RB family, WikiReader 🥳
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WikiReader is a lightweight Android app for reading Wikipedia articles distraction-free. Supports light mode, dark mode and Material You dynamic colors.
Thanks to Nishant's work on it, we were now able to build it reprocucibly 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
Read Wikipedia pages distraction-freeIzzyOnDroid App Repo
It seems to me that the mainstream software industry is no longer attractive to our best and brightest young technologists. This is sad. dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…
"It might help if I had any idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I don't. Probably not a programmer, the thought of working on microservices and bloated web stuff all day does not appeal to me. But...what else? <shrug>"
@jscholes Everything you've just described is exactly what I'm feeling. I'm in networking 1, and while the other students are being told what an IP address is, I'm probing all the subnets on the school's wi-fi network with nmap.The Dragon's Cave
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Well now.
Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL
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Apparently some fiddlery went on with the CPU, but even if Rustls is "only as fast as" the traditional solutions, I feel like it''s a hell of a lot safer from a security POV.
openssl-library.org/news/vulne… (about 10-20 a year) vs ... 2 for Rustls. Now 2 a year. 2 as in forever
Now granted Rustls has less legacy technical debt and baggage and is written in a memory safe language... Which I guess is sort of the point, it's more secure. So if it's as performant...
ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.www.memorysafety.org
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated, 10 removed and 2 added apps:
* Rate Your Pics: allows you to rate your pictures very quickly 🛡️
* Ease The Waiting: a mix between a calendar and a clock that makes you wait faster
Thanks to Aholic Gino for walking through older apps (see: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – still a lot to do there), 10 apps which were no longer working were removed.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
The BT Speak Users’ Manual is Now Available!!
Blazie Technologies is happy to announce the publication of a comprehensive manual for the BT Speak. The manual goes beyond what we provide in our Getting Started guide and offers the following sections.
• Introduction, including describing the contents of the packaging for new users who are unboxing their BT Speak for the first time
• Physical description and orientation
• How to power on, shut down, putting the device to sleep and waking up the device
• Battery considerations
• How to navigate menus and use shortcut keys for Quick navigation
• Adjusting speech, including how to switch to other voices and text to speech engines
• Getting help, including how to obtain context-sensitive help and accessing the text and audio versions of the Getting Started guides
• How to connect to Wi-Fi
• How to install new software updates
• Accessing the Settings menu
• Introducing the editor, including how to find and manipulate text
• File management, including how to create and open files and subdirectories
• Using applications, including the radio tuner, phonebook, agenda calendar and BT Learn for free Braille coaching, tests and games
• An introduction to desktop mode
• An introduction to using the Mozilla Thunderbird email program
• An introduction to Web browsing using Chromium and Firefox
• Concludes with an extensive list of commands
This is the first version of the users’ manual. We will be continually adding and modifying this document as new features are added, with newer versions of the manual being released on a regular basis. We welcome feedback from our users regarding how the manual can be improved. If you have feedback for us, please submit comments and suggestions via email to support@blazie.net.
Where to Download the Manual
You can find the manual on our Web site by pointing your Web browser to www.blazietech.com. You’ll find it from several locations, including the front page, from the Guides and Media page, from the BT Speak Pro product page and from the Documentation page.
For convenience, here are the direct download links.
Accessible PDF version:
blazietech.com/_files/ugd/4d64…
Microsoft Word version (also compatible with LibreOffice Writer)
download-files.wixmp.com/raw/2…
We hope that this first edition of the manual will assist you in learning more about how to use your BT Speak and that it will help you to become a more effective and productive user.
And that house isn't expensive compared to some.
£5000000 and beyond.
I believe Johnson lived in a £9000000 home.
Aira is expanding its accessibility offerings with a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer on-demand interpreting to the Deaf Community. Learn more here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
The Accessibility Operations Guidebook by @viscousplatypus is finally out!
Spoiler alert: I, along with many other accessibility practitioners, are quoted in and contributed to it. But don't read it for those quotes; read it because Devon is exceptionally skilled in this space and has put so much care into this book!
I've only gotten sneak peeks into this book, but I already know it will be one of the best accessibility books I'll get to read. Check it out!
The accessibility field has a burnout problem. People get into this work to make accessible products and services.Payhip
Expanding Access: Introducing Aira ASL 🌱
We are excited to announce a new initiative at Aira to support the Deaf Community with on-demand ASL interpreting services. Recognizing a gap in access to interpreters in public spaces like retail stores, airports, and banks, we've developed a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer immediate and reliable interpreting without the need for advance scheduling.
By contracting with ASL service providers and using our technology platform, Aira ASL will make interpreting services seamless and easy to access, just as our existing app benefits the blind and low-vision community. This initiative aims to remove barriers and improve communication access when and where it’s needed most.
Read the full announcement and FAQ: aira.io/aira-asl-on-demand-int…
Aira is expanding its accessibility offerings with a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer on-demand interpreting to the Deaf Community. Learn more here.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, ... schneier.com/blog/archives/202…
Proof-of-concept exploit code is now public for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Registry client that could be used to take control of a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process.
rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.
Security and performance: pick two!
memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…
ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.www.memorysafety.org
It's Lyriel Day for me!
My cohost Christel Tansø and I get to interview Jessica and Oliver Thierjung today on Sonic Onslaught, part of a packed metal show whose larger theme is friendship.
2 pm EDT!
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Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.Hayden Field (CNBC)
Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
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Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...GitHub
Services which stream videos via the Internet, some of which contain audio description tracks.The Audio Description Project
Hi friends!
We're working with a large technology company looking to understand deaf individual's needs as we build assistive technology. Please forward to all of your #deaf or hard of hearing friends in the USA. We're paying referrals!
Tim
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#AskFedi: are there any recent, smart articles about #ATProto and its half-baked decentralization (so far)?
My favorite piece on the subject has been @rysiek 's "Bluesky is cosplaying decentralization" rys.io/en/167.html from a year and a half ago, but significant changes have happened in the meantime... I wonder if there are any updated posts about it?
Oh and @rysiek is one of my favorite people to follow on here, so click on that Follow button if you haven't already.
Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager evenSongs on the Security of Networks
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