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Thanks to the GNOME Infrastructure team's ongoing improvements, the GJS API Docs (gjs-docs.gnome.org) are being migrated to new infrastructure.

There may be some slight downtime, but it will be back up very shortly! Sorry for any inconvenience!

#GNOME #GJS #GNOMEShell #GNOMEExtensions

in reply to Andy Holmes

And we're back!

Enjoy the improved infrastructure and speed!




Is there a good source of free/paid generic HTML/CSS themes for tasks like apps/blogs that aren't tied to a given SSG/framework?

Specifically, if I as a blind person want to put together a decent-looking prototype for something in whatever framework I happen to be working with, I'd like to grab something with a simple set of pages/stylesheets and carve them up for whatever templating engine that framework uses. I know these sometimes exist for individual setups like Hugo, but it's harder to work backwards from a framework-specific theme to something more generic. Should also be friendly for editing by hand since the first thing I'll do is separate the layout from the content.

I think I'd prefer Bootstrap for CSS, or something a bit less semantically dense than Tailwind, which always sounds like alphabet soup to me.

in reply to Nolan Darilek

Have you checked out simplecss.org/

I haven't used it yet, but my understanding is it tries to do as much as possible using just standard HTML elements, not classes.

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in reply to Matt Campbell

I have not, will have to check it out. I like that Bootstrap's JS plugins for more advanced widgets generally do the right thing for accessibility, and that it looks decent. If this ticks both boxes then I may give it a shot. Thanks for the pointer!


In #CzechRepublic there is a traffic rule that cars have to keep 1.5m distance from a #cyclist. Nobody gives a shit. And even worse, cars often push cyclists out of the road. It's hard to find a day when I didn't have to do emergency braking like on the video...
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

Interesting. I cycle around #Brno quite a lot and my experience is almost completely positive. I cannot recall a situation when a car driver endangered me. Most also try to keep a 1-1.5m distance if possible.
My worst experiences with aggression on roads are from Prague.
#brno
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

send it to Police. There's the car identification plate clearly readable on the video.


Víte co to je #jokgu? Je to sport příbuzný s #nohejbal, který vznikl paralelně v Jižní Korei. Hraje se 4v4 s menším míčem a nesmí se hrát za sítí ani blokovat. Další porovnaní a reportáž z návštěvy českých hráčů u Jihokorejců najdete tady:

youtu.be/nFFTKXX7TYc



So many companies implementing PassKey so wrong that it’s mind boggling. What’s so hard to just ask for PassKey and not use it as a second factor?

It is a secure token, it doesn’t really need entering username+password and PassKey. I’ve even seen PassKey + TOTP on top (PayPal).

I am almost wondering that it is not incompetence but the corporate minds want the PassKeys to go away by making them hard to use.



Exploring Samsung Galaxy AI’s Live Translate: In-Call Translation Put to the Test accessibleandroid.com/explorin… #Samsung #AI


Actually don't even get me started on "transandrophobia."

I have entire _rants_ about the latter part of that word.

in reply to Hrefna (DHC)

Part two: some of the people who were responsible for popularizing the term originally were, uh.

Let's call them hellishly problematic and leave it at that?

Which is one thing, but then that legacy lives on in how the term gets used today.

Because, much like with MRAs, there are real things to talk about but I almost _never_ see the advocacy in those contexts. Rather it is almost always "time to talk about how trans women are terrible."

5/

in reply to Hrefna (DHC)

Much like how MRAs could talk about, say, circumcision or toxic masculinity but they usually end up spending their energy going after women and/or feminists, usually when I see "transandrophobia" (or transmisandry) it is going to be followed by talking, not about the medical establishment going after trans men, it's going to be followed by talking about "bæddelism" (in this, the year 2024) or—at best—how trans women "get to be loud and proud but not us."

6/

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ACL Awards Four Assistive Technology Alternative Financing Program Grants | ACL Administration for Community Living acl.gov/news-and-events/announ…


Webinar, November 14 at 10am ET: User Centered Testing with User Journeys tpgi.com/webinar-user-centered…


MacOS 15.1 brings a nice handful of bug fixes to Apple’s audio system, which will benefit users of all of our products. See this post for full details, then update your Mac to 15.1.

weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2024/10…



Webinar, November 6 at 12pm ET: Catching up with ADA Title II Regulations for Web Content and Mobile App Accessibility tpgi.com/webinar-catching-up-w…


Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories applevis.com/blog/apple-introd…


Increasing Electronic Possibilities: Connectivity on the Monarch aph.org/increasing-electronic-…


I am told that this solution is currently only for low vision users at this time. I have not investigated this.

Delta introduces flight map for flyers with visual impairment: Travel Weekly travelweekly.com/Travel-News/A…

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Is it considerate or is it passive aggressive to reply with alt text when the original poster neither wrote any nor asked for any?

[boost if you're so inclined]

  • considerate (0 votes)
  • passive aggressive (0 votes)
  • some other thing (0 votes)
Poll end: 4 days ago

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We just got back from a great #LibreOffice Conference 2024 – but we're already thinking ahead to next year's event! You can host it in your location: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource




Acabo de hacer el examen del curso básico de derecho social europeo y tengo un 10. Que gusto. Aún valgo para estudiar y todo.


phoronix covers my work on OpenPaX, a patch to restore userspace W^X and some other common sense functionality from PaX: phoronix.com/news/Edera-OpenPa…

this patch is the cornerstone of the new “alpine hardened” project, which is intended to produce a spin of alpine which is similar to the old grsecurity days of alpine.



Devastating scenes of piled-up cars in #Valencia, #Spain today after yesterday’s historic flooding. A year’s worth of rain fell in a few hours with a peak of 500mm.

#weather #wx #ClimateChange



🔥 Release Time 🔥

📨 Quick Actions for Email Notifications
🎉 Calendar Updates to Celebrate Birthdays!
🎨 Tinted Colors on iOS
📱 Import vCard Contacts on Mobile

Check out all improvements: tuta.com/.../release-actions-n…

in reply to Tuta

interesting. I can access your main page, but not this one. Any suggestions for me?


1. interview with the vampire
2. HR screening with the vampire
3. technical interview with the vampire
4. team interview with the vampire
5. Good evening vampire, unfortunately we're not able to extend you an offer at this time. We'd like to keep in contact and notify you of any available positions in the future
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If you want to mug a software engineer, ask them if a static code analysis tool should consider `if time.time() > 0:` to be considered the same as `if True:`

Then, while they're writing a 40,000 word blog post on the topic, hit them on the head and take their wallet.

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There’s a certain kind of person who excels at staying just on this side of any bright lines in a community code of conduct, but nevertheless manages to be so unpleasant as to drive other people away. I don’t have any good ideas about how to deal with those people, especially if they get into a position of power.
in reply to jacoBOOian 👻

I was just reading about this - intenseminimalism.com/2020/the…


Oh, that's great. Had to put BSI back in my roter, because the command to invoke it has broken in the latest iOS update. Not amused.



Re last: I thought I was done with shitty machine-learning #AltText but nope.
'Description: Photo by 9to5Mac on October 30, 2024. May be an image of 1 person, box, dental floss, bar soap, thermostat and text.'

I'm pretty sure this is in relation to #Airpods actually, not dental floss but there we go.

This courtesy of @9to5mac.

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in reply to Andre Louis

That sounds like Threads. They do the same nonsense as the other Meta platforms.


Seems like 95% of error messages fall into 2 categories. The first are so vague as to be useless. "Sorry, something went wrong." If it isn't that, it's something only serious techies can understand, such as the one I just got. “{"status":415,"title":"Unsupported Media Type","detail":"Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' not supported","errors":[]}.” No link to a support site, or back to the homepage, or anything. (1/2)

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in reply to Justin Ekis

I wonder if they've ever wondered why nobody ever signs up. Their form goes to a server that absolutely isn't expecting form submitions. Most people will have no idea what just happened. (2/2)


Today, JAWS version 2025 has been released.
All our products are compatible with JAWS 2025, even J-Say, the update for which has just been released.
So targets have been met and in some cases exceeded.

Within the next few days, we will be contacting people who have a J-Say SMA and providing them with their upgrades.
However, the vast majority of people who have J-Say have acquired it through a Distributor. So in most cases, it is the Distributor who would let you know that the upgrade is available.

If you think you do have a current SMA, your best course of action is to send to us your JAWS serial number so it can be checked. We may then be able to provide it to you faster.



Quickly hitting peak frustration with Thunderbird's accessibility issues. Are there any other good accessible local or web-based email clients?

Don't suggest Gmail, I don't trust Google not to torch my account and nuke my data because some AI somewhere had a bad day.

Also note that I've used Thunderbird for over a decade, I've done all the usual config changes but the updates continue to break accessibility in new and innovative ways. It's not me, it's them, and I can't just not read some messages anymore because Thunderbird can't do accessibility testing right.

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in reply to Cleverson

@cwb.social I'm still on .3. For me, some of my HTML emails don't read, but they do in other apps. They used to read just fine. Also, I'm hitting a weird issue where I'm focusing one email in my Sent folder but everything I do to interact works with an entirely separate email. I'm trying to reply to a message I sent to someone, and it's almost like I'm replying to an entirely different message. Hoping that's just a display bug and my IMAP server isn't hosed, but there've been enough regressions and I'm kind of done.


Welp, yesterday Apple notified me that my backordered new Ipad mini was now due after November's 8th. So today I walked into the Apple Store in Brussels and walked out with three exact same backordered model (then cancelled the order). Why does Belgium get them more than a week before Scotland?


The wait is over! Our first stable release of Thunderbird for Android is out NOW! Find out what's new, where to get support, and how to download it in our release announcement.

And to everyone who contributed via beta testing, giving us feedback on K-9 Mail, localizing, thank you. :) Your community team work has made the dream work.

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdForAndroid #OpenSource

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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

congrats on the release. But how come the f-droid version of k9 (stable verison) is now "Thunderbird Beta for testers" ? It's not very nice to suddenly be moved onto an unstable release stream.



masto hive mind, I've seen a lot of stuff about factorio, and the volunteer factorio access mod, is this worth investing in, and the factorio space rage expansion?
in reply to Jason Fayre

@jfayre I'll hunt up the mod discord after my meeting that starts in five minutes.


The 2025 releases of JAWS, Zoomtext and Fusion are now live.


#curl source code age (take 2)

How large share of the code was written after a certain date, over time.

#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Cool chart! The 100% are code base today? Does it mean curl is not growing significantly since around 2005? What happened there?
in reply to Daniel Nordhoff-Vergien

@dve 100% is the entire code base of the time. It has kept growing ever since before 2000.

But that confusion risk is also why I won't keep this version of the graph, I will go with the "take 4" I posted later.



so the commons are shouting "shame!" about crumbling schools, unfit hospitals etc. But a penny off a pint at the pump in the pub had them all on their feet.
in reply to Sean Randall

if I wasn't lucky enough to listen Live over lunch, the text feed on the BBC is behind by a good 5 minutes. That's a shame. This is the sort of thing our license fee should make handling of reliable and speedy.


Interesting. When I search for “Norton Password Manager” on Chrome Web Store, it first lists five completely unrelated extensions, and only the last search result is the actual Norton Password Manager. Somebody told me that website is run by a company specializing in search, so this shouldn’t be due to incompetence, right? What is it then?

#google #cws