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Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti for the Thunderbird Android release! 🎉

It's been a while since the Prototypefund [1] days and me complaining about the white icon background during 36C3 and being responsible for the pink icon background about an hour later [2]. (Which caused a steady supply of angry users after this was released as a stable version 1.5 y later.)

Sorry but not sorry😅.

[1] prototypefund.de/project/jmap-…
[2] github.com/thunderbird/thunder…



Question for #screenreader users: do text emotes like kaomoji generally cause your tools to read out noise or annoying nonsense, or does it just not pronounce it? I am wondering whether it's okay to use them or whether I should go back to good old emoji (that, to my knowledge, get properly read out).

Like this one:
˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚

#accessibility #totallyblind

in reply to NV Access

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You CAN set how NVDA reads words or character strings. I just made a dictionary entry to read ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚ as "Cute Crying Kaomoji". It works fine, but most users won't have set that. I did reach out to Microsoft about this recently as the Kaomoji panel in the Windows emoji panel is also inaccessible. They are aware of the issue, but don't have a solution. Unicode defines a standard list of emoji descriptions: unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-… if they add kaomojis we could utilise it.
in reply to NV Access

@NVAccess That's very enlightening, thank you! I suppose it's not really a solvable problem with dictionaries, because as opposed to standard smileys like colon and uppercase D - this one :D - Kaomoji are very, very varied and can be personalized.

I am wondering whether some traditional machine learning classifier could be good at detecting what is and what isn't a smiley.



Well, I went out for 2 minutes and was about to strangle one of the kids, so I went back in. I'm sorry, but a 9-year-old doesn't get to play blind games with me. My wife wasn't around, but she sure gave him a lecture when she came back out. I have tons of patience with kids, but when they try tricks, only because I'm blind? It angers me.
in reply to Scary Martin

lol that was one of the most common annoying ones for years in HS / college! Or when even people you thought were friends who wouldn't trick you would do the hiding one, trying to notice if you can sense their presence with your special super-sonic blind hearing. xD
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in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg when people ask me how many fingers am I holding up, I just say one, and put up my middle finger, and say this one. lol. I wouldn't do that to a kid, but there you go.


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#curl source code age, raw line numbers

Next I'll see if I can make a version where the early code stays at the bottom of the graph.

#curl
in reply to Jake Vossen

@jvossen I'm writing a tiny custom script for this that generates all the data, then I render graph from that using gnuplot. I have them all in a git repo, but I'm still polishing these ones.

Others have mentioned this existing tool for this: github.com/src-d/hercules



howtogeek.com/mistakes-beginne…

10 Beginner Linux Command Line Mistakes:

- Assuming You Know Your Location
- Reckless Use of Elevated Privileges
- Skipping Package Updates Before Installing
- Unintentionally Overwriting or Deleting Files
- Confusing Path Types
- Ignoring Built-in Help Resources
- Not Using Shortcuts to Speed Up Navigation
- Dismissing Error Messages and Logs
- Neglecting to Make Backups Before Making Changes

Each item above is explained in the article & how to avoid it.

#linux



> As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change.

So you firing yourself?



Something worth reiterating: The fediverse consists of people, no algorithms here. Anything you see happens because someone took the time to interact with a post (e.g. boost) or typed out a post or a reply.

A lot of posts deserve attention, so don't be afraid to boost or favorite what you read Favoriting shows that someone out there actually read the post and liked it. Engagement is key.

Be kind and interact away!

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