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Braille Screen Input users on iOS, I'm using the UK contracted table. How can I do hashtags, math symbols like plus, minus, times, divide by, decimal point etc?


Pokud máte vlastní doménu, ale nechcete přímo hostovat mastodont, můžete si aspoň zajistit dohledatelnost přes tu vlastní doménu. Současně pokud jste za hvězdu, můžete si v klidu nechat natisknout vizitky a plakáty s vaším ID a vůbec nevadí, že v budoucnosti přejdete na jinou instanci. Stále to bude fungovat 😎
Zde jak na to: blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2…


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Volá mi kolega že ma hľadá ten cyklista a potrebuje so mnou hovoriť... tak mi ho dá k telefónu a on mi začne hovoriť story o tom ako ho vo Viedni okradli potom ako si niečo dal a nevedel o sebe dva dni. Sorry jako ako čo ja s tým mám?
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Máš zkušenosti a to se cení. Tvoje vyjádření bude mít vyšší relevanci než když nějaký nevzdělanec řekne “drogy jsou špatné, ano?". Chtěl bych vidět tyhle “chytráky”, jak před operací odmítnou narkózu 😀.
in reply to DonBahno

@donbahno ale ja ho nepoznám a ani on mňa a neviem čo ho to napadlo kontaktovať ma.. to bol "random" zákazník ktorý bol zaujímavý tým že chodí po Európe na bicykli.. čiže my sa vôbec nepoznáme 🤔


Holy shit. The LA Times didn't just squash a Kamala Harris endorsement. They buried an entire series of articles about Donald Trump.

"According to internal memos viewed by TheWrap, the series, tentatively called 'The Case Against Trump,' would have ran throughout this week. The endorsement of Kamala Harris would then have been published on Sunday."

thewrap.com/la-times-case-agai…



The #UK school system confuses me and it seems y'all have way more tests than I did. When I was a kid, I had the SOL's, Standards of learning test every year until 10th grade in High school when i had the PSAT's and then in 11th grade, I had the SAT's. That was pretty much it. Y'all have all these crazy tests.
#uk
in reply to Nick's world

When I was at school we had 2 sets of Standard assessment tests at the ages of 7 and 11 (just before high school).
Then at about 16 I took my GCSEs, which are I suppose analogous to your high school diploma. Next were A-Levels, which are our version of your advance placement or International Baccalaureate before we end up specialising in a single field at college level (what we'd consider university).
in reply to Sean Randall

of course there were regular quizzes and in-class assessments, and you also tend to see people sitting mocks, practice exams. But I don't think, for all its problems, the UK education system had an unrealistic high number of assessment points when I went through it.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I just like the differences, so I'm guessing to get into Oxford, you have to have the highest score possible on your A-levels?
in reply to Nick's world

oh sure, an undergraduate degree is the first level of all of that if you o down the typical path. Lots of our universities hand out certificates and diplomas and lower level or more focused qualifications too before you get to degree level.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I see, so you don't leave your university to go to another higher degree school, You stay there to go get your PHD. I wonder, is there a separate school for law school or is that also done through the same university? Sorry for all these questions, I'm just interested.
in reply to Nick's world

you can get higher degrees from different universities. People might combine them with a job, so studying someplace else is quite common.
Specific fields have specific requirements.
Most of them mean starting with one degree, then obtaining more whilst working in your field (trainee teachers in schools, junior doctors in health care, legal professionals in law chambers) that sort of thing.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Oh, I see, so if you're a lawyer, you work at a firm and the firm has a school with it to teach you how to be a lawyer.
in reply to Nick's world

crtainly with teaching, you're free to gain your teaching from a university of your choice. You need to have a placement for the practical work, so in essence you're limited by geography and practicality, although distance learning has changed things up quite a lot in the space.

For a great deal of jobs, the one degree, or even none, is fine. Many employers encourage you to learn as you go.
We had an apprentice join the IT helpdesk at my last worplace right after his A-levels, so he'd have been 18. and earning £6.40 an hour and doing a full workweek, with half a day set aside for his ongoing studies.

When he finishes and turns 21, his minimum wage on a full-time job hopped up to £11.44 per hour.

Not everyone gets a full time job, of course, shift work like cleaning or catering is very common.

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Oh, so GCSE's are like the PSAT and A-levels are SAT, except they mean more because they get you into a specific schools?



okay, i'm being put under pressure to allow my (12yo) daughter to have snapchat, so i created myself an account to check it out.

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in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis @oliver I'll tell you smth funny: they *do* use whatsapp too. same group of kids, 2 comms channels. I can't fathom why anyone in their right mind would do this, it's complete chaos.
but I'm too old in the first place to comprehend the multi hundred messages they send each day in their groups, so there's that too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


#gnome got stuck on #Wayland on the menu again, I can't exit it and "Alt+F2 r" says not available on wayland.
Is there a way to recover from this without closing all apps?

Do you had problems like this with gnome before or am I one of the few people that has issues?

in reply to treefit

just found to that I can do "Alt+F2 lg" to get a javascript console. Pretty nice that it exists, has even an insect element button like browsers where you can select elements. But unfortunately I'm not a gnome developer so I don't know what code I could try there to fix my stuck menu/activity-view case.


Why are a couple of billionaires trying so hard to ensure the election of a convicted felon who has promised tax breaks to billionaires? 🤔


C is such a piece of shit language. Only language where "I need a dynamically growing array or a hashmap" is answered with "roll your own lol n_n"

EDIT: C (not C++, not Zig, not Rust) is the correct language for the job I'm doing. I am also very aware of how to implement dynamic arrays and hash tables. I have written my own stdlibs on freestanding C before. I do not actually need coaching in this matter, thank you. I also like C, sometimes, but sometimes I think it's a stupid piece of shit language, because it is

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And of course C doesn't have templates or generics or anything of the sort so rolling your own, assuming you want it to be reusable, involves gross macro abuse in order to do it and you have to use void* everywhere cause that's not an issue at all
in reply to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

look, all the best C coders trash talk C. the only time you should be worried is when someone's using C without talking shit about it


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My family is a Linux family: both my parents and my wife use Linux, and so will the kids once they have their own computers. Apart from my Dad, they're all non-enthusiasts.

Yet, none of them use a beginner-friendly distribution. My Wife, who's by far the least technologically inclined of them all, is a very happy and satisfied NixOS user. A distribution that's the exact opposite of beginner-friendly.

How is that possible? None of them maintain their systems. I do that for them. In the past two decades, what I learned from helping friends and family with their computers is that the vast majority of non-enthusiasts have absolutely no desire to install and maintain an operating system, or even programs. They're much happier if someone else does that for them.

Therefore, while I see value in distributions aimed at beginner enthusiasts, I see very little value in distributions aimed at non-enthusiasts.

I wrote a few more words about this topic on my blog too.

#linux #desktop #gnome



Hey, hi there 👋 yeah, you 🫵

It's almost Follow Friday and you seem pretty awesome :neocat_cool_fingerguns:

So if I don't follow you or boost your stuff, it's probably because you don't regularly include alt-text on your pictures or videos.

You see, I have visually impaired followers, and I like the stuff I share to be accessible to them.

I also won't boost things without reasonable CWs for similar reasons—I have followers that don't want to see some of that shit, and I want to keep their Fedi feeds a safe space.

Thx! I look forward to boosting your stuff soon 💕

#AccessibilityIsHotAF #UseAltText #UseCWs #FollowFriday #Boost

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Can’t wait until the next new moon because I embarrassed myself in front of the old one and it’s awkward now


Just got my hands on a Brailled Speak 'N Math. These things were super interesting, the Braille was literally embossed into the board! And, ah, good old EBAE/Nemeth, I missed you. No UEB. I shall have recordings tomorrow, when I'm not non-24ing and likely to wake everyone up.
in reply to Quin

A woman who is a Braille expert here in Wisconsin told me that Nemeth is way better than UEB for mathematics, that UEB kind of falls apart in higher math.
in reply to Kevin R Jones

@kevinrj @mcourcel falls apart is putting it politely, with all the extra indicators you need. But they're different in purpose, I think. Nemeth is a specific adaptation of Braille for those versed in the subject.
UEB is a universally readable format, applicable across data types, with additions in fields that matter (like math), without losing the initial structure.

LaTeX and markdown are used for different things, y'know?



Sábado por la mañana y haciendo un cuestionario de un curso de la EGAP. Que vida más aburrida tengo.

PD: últimamente no hay tut sin errata.



we love Thunderbird at our both at the Ubuntu summit 💙

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Constantly persisting everything in a web form to localstorage in case of browser, tab accidents is such a cheap and effective trick!
mastodon.social/@timbornholdt/…


Someone just linked me to this analysis on the war in Gaza from the viewpoint of international humanitarian law: dohainstitute.org/en/Lists/ACR…


took a survey today in a fairly serious context which included the following question: "Do you identify as having a disability?" WTF? I'm confused. You either do or you don't in almost all cases. Fuck off with that.
in reply to Blink With A Kink

I dislike wokeness, but this makes sense to me. Imagine a person not legally classified as disabled because of bad laws, but still considering themselves as such.

To me, the question of whether you are legally considered disabled and whether you consider yourself as such are distinct, and it's worth emphasizing this distinction IMO.



It’s almost like #Israel has a Dahieh doctrine, first developed in #Lebanon, in which targeting and destroying civilian infrastructures is literally the military strategy.

Does this break international law? Well, of course.

Does it matter? Of course not, this is Israel.





„Lidem v sociální nouzi pomáhá stát formou příspěvku na bydlení, která se odvíjí mimo jiné od výše nájmu. Systém tedy funguje tak, že majitelé ubytovny nastaví nájemné kolem dvaceti tisíc korun za pokojík, který obývá pětičlenná rodina, a tuto částku prakticky celou uhradí příspěvek na bydlení. A tento byznys a s ním i existenci ubytoven hradíme všichni z našich daní. Nejsou to tedy Romové, kdo zneužívá dávky, ale podnikatelé obchodující s chudobou.” denikreferendum.cz/clanek/3680…


32 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Emulators lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



🕐Z #NowPlaying At the top of the hour why not jazz up your day with a new edition of Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. an hour of Smooth #Jazz, #Chillout and #EasyListening music. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio 🤎🎷🐝🎧🌬️🎵




I have a bunch of .brf files I need embossed, but I don't have an embosser of my own. Any ideas?


Natürlich für Werbung:

Moderne Datenkraken: Smart-TVs tracken sogar HDMI-Inhalte
heise.de/news/Moderne-Datenkra…

#privacy #werbung



Seeking advice from those who are familiar with the Wordpress.com desktop app for Windows with a screen reader.
I'm running Windows 11 23 H2, the September build of JAWS 2024 and NVDA 2024.4 RC1.
For years, I had successfully used version 6 of this app with JAWS with no accessibility issues. As it had been a long time since the app alerted me about any updates, I went to wordpress.com to see if newer versions were available and, as I suspected, there was a new version, that being 8.0.4. I downloaded and installed it over my older 6.0.3 installation. After installing it, I noticed that, while the JAWS virtual cursor was enabled, JAWS was not able to detect any readable text, even after maximizing the window and doing a screen refresh. The only way I could get the virtual cursor to behave in an expected way was to activate the touch cursor and click on an element with numpad enter. This would allow me to read text using the virtual cursor and everything would appear to be back to normal until I exit and restart the app, once again with no readable text. NVDA exhibits similar results.
I decided to uninstall v8.0.4 and reinstall v6.0.3. After doing this, JAWS couldn't even read any of the screens, even with the touch cursor. Has anyone seen this behavior with the Wordpress.com app and are there any possible solutions?


10 hours of babies crying, Because, why not? youtube.com/watch?v=2UJ_a7mxGp…


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 8 updated and 1 added apps:

* Canta: uninstall any app without root

Canta updates are stuck on F-Droid, so they reached out to us to have the app included here, and we gladly accepted.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



10 hours of squeaky toys. youtube.com/watch?v=2RABwFo7yY…


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What other stories did the LATimes or WaPo didn't publish because of their billionaire owners? Will we ever know?


Problem solved, a kind and friendly person at Bookshare customer support was able to recover my old account. I'm in!
in reply to 👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle

Congratulations; great news. I love Bookshare. They're one of my favorite libraries, along with the Internet Archive.