Terri Garr Stood Up To Gene Roddenberry's Sexism During Star Trek
The late, great Teri Garr put her foot down on Star Trek when creator Gene Roddenberry let his sexist tendencies get the best of him.Jeremy Smith (SlashFilm)
Received my yearly rejection from @Rustnationuk yesterday. This time I was sure my talk will get shortlisted since IMO it's a very interesting topic but I guess it's not as interesting as other submissions. 🤷♂️
Before you ask, my submission was titled "Profiler-drive optimizations: how I optimized away 94% CPU from zbus".
PSA
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!
Fighting Fascism. #vote #DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
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Former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Vice President Harris
#ArnoldSchwarzenegger #Trump #politics #electionday #elections2024
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.
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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My worst experiences with aggression on roads are from Prague.
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 - Accessible Android
This is the AI Era. Companies are racing to incorporate as many AI features as possible into their devices. While some features may seem like gimmicks, othersSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
Actually don't even get me started on "transandrophobia."
I have entire _rants_ about the latter part of that word.
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."
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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."
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Webinar, November 14 at 10am ET: User Centered Testing with User Journeys - TPGi
Join TPGi's Charlie Pike for a webinar about developing and harnessing user journeys to connect directly with users.Charlie Pike (TPGi)
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…
Update to MacOS 15.1 for Helpful Audio Bug Fixes
We recommend updating your Mac to MacOS 15.1 as soon as you can.weblog.rogueamoeba.com
Webinar, November 12 at 12pm ET: Catching Up with ADA Title II Regulations for Web Content and Mobile App Accessibility - TPGi
Join TPGi's David Sloan for a webinar and learn more about ADA Title II and what it means for your organization.David Sloan (TPGi)
Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories | AppleVis
Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.applevis.com
Increasing Electronic Possibilities: Connectivity on the Monarch
Technology bridges the gap between access and learning. Without screen readers on computers, applications like Google Chrome and Microsoft Word...Devon Price (American Printing House)
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…
Host the LibreOffice Conference 2025! - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Luxembourg) group photo Once a year, the LibreOffice community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#Android #OpenSource
Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
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.
OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch
Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a 'new open-source alternative to GrSecurity.www.phoronix.com
🔥 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…
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
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.
The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities
There’s a common character that can be often spotted in many online communities. It’s the “toxic influencer” (sometimes referred as “intellectual bully”). A toxic influencer is a person…Intense Minimalism
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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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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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
Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
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We've been waiting for this!
Signed a loyal user since version 1 of thunderbird and firefox, and netscape before that.
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in reply to Lauren Weinstein • • •@cstross Easy quip; correlation, not causation. The downward quality has more to do with management priorities like wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki… than engineering tools. (Google’s management is deeply broken)
I’ve seen the AI code generation at work and it is *deeply impressive*, like categorically better and different than the code refactoring and LSP stuff from the last decade. It enables an impressive “intent-to-implementation” speed.
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)Lauren Weinstein
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in reply to Lauren Weinstein • • •Lauren Weinstein
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