Trying an accessible way of shopping with Innosearch | AD - My Blurred World
There are one too many barriers when online shopping as a vision impaired person, here's what I think of Innosearch which promises an accessible experience.Elin (My Blurred World)
As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors.
#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
See my reporting on their previous violation, which is being reviewed by the FEC: citationneeded.news/coinbase-c…
#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation
Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake cryptocurrency-focused super PAC in May 2024.Molly White (Citation Needed)
SiriusXM Unveils 2024 Slate Of Christmas/Holiday Music Channels Including New Jimmy Fallon Channel
SiriusXM has unveiled its suite of Christmas and Holiday music channels for the 2024 season with many launching on Friday,Lance Venta (Radioinsight.com)
Stereo audio support for regular voice chatting · Issue #5626 · mumble-voip/mumble
Context I know there have been other tickets relating to stereo audio functionality in mumble. They appear to have largely been dismissed because they involve using mumble for use cases that are ar...GitHub
My first thought
man, we're so spoiled on Mastodon. There are like four #accessible web apps, multiple accessible IOS and Android apps, at least two accessible Windows apps (even if they both have some issues), and a couple accessible mac apps. As #screenreader users we can actually choose the one we like, rather than picking the one where the largest number of features actually work with a screen reader.
My Second Thought
Man, this should just be the default state of existence. #Blind folks need to demand more. But I get it, it's so easy to just accept the current state of accessibility as normal, and then be surprised by things that actually work.
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Meet Steve: a photographer who is deaf and low vision - TetraLogical
Meet Steve, a photographer from London who is deaf and low vision. He is an ex-civil servant who then went on to do freelance technology journalism and travelled the world.TetraLogical
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)
I'm thrilled to announce my first blog post on my homepage. Finally, after months of setting my site up, I now have acquired ✨content✨. In this one I share my experience as a volunteer for the matrix conference 2024. Thank you again for this opportunity @matrix @plainschwarz
10/10 would do it again
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Volunteering for [the matrix conference] 2024
Images by Jan Michalko for the Matrix.org Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0 Intro From September 19th to 22nd of this year the Matrix.org Foundation held their first own Matrix Conference in person here in Berlin.Arti-s homepage
The History of Radio!
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History of AM/FM Radio | From Waves to Airwaves | 1.1
Dive into the captivating history of AM/FM radio in our latest video. Join us as we explore the origins, technological advancements, and cultural impact of o...YouTube
AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses | AppleVis
Welcome to AppleVis Extra 101, where Dave Nason is joined by Xiaoran Wang and Huasong Cao from Agiga, the team behind the upcoming Echo Vision smart glasses. Check out some early demos, with more to come, on their YouTube channel at: https://www.www.applevis.com
Did you know undergrads at Oxford in 1335 were solving homework problems about objects moving with constant acceleration? This blew my mind.
As I explained yesterday, medieval scientists were deeply confused about the connection between force and velocity: it took Newton to realize force is proportional to 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. But in the early 1300s, a group of researchers called the Oxford Calculators made huge progress in understanding objects that move with changing velocity.
They discovered something called the Mean Speed Theorem: an object moving at constant acceleration over some period of time goes just as far as if it were moving uniformly with the velocity it had at the middle instant of its motion!
That's really cool. But it gets better. They gave homework problems called 'sophisms' to the students of Merton College at Oxford. And in 1335, one of them named William Heytesbury wrote a book called 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠, which gives us a look at what these problems were like. Some of them required students to know the Mean Speed Theorem!
Later in the 1300s, Nicolas Oresmus in Paris gave a picture proof of the Mean Speed Theorem. For example, he pointed out that the triangle ACG below has the same area as the rectangle ACFD.
Why did it take so long for Galileo to rediscover this stuff? How did the knowledge of the Oxford Calculators get lost?
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From my Newsletter:
Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know
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Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know
Git is a version control system that developers use to track changes in their code, cooperate with other developers, and even revert changes if something goes wrong. While most developers know common…Nipuni S Ranathunga (Code Like A Girl)
How to Upgrade to Fedora 41 from Fedora 40 | Linux Today
Need the newest Fedora Linux? Here’s our step-by-step guide to smoothly transitioning from Fedora 40 to 41.LinuxToday
If you were in the #Dropbox #layoff today (or just otherwise on the #jobhunt):
I’m currently #hiring a Sr. Software Engineer with a strong focus on #Golang/Containerization and several engineers with #DevRel experience. All are remote positions within Americas time zones.
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But when there is a restriction for motorized vehicles, nobody cares. Like literally every day on this road.
That's what #cycling in #Prague looks like.
The result of the annual "Stop the US embargo of Cuba" vote at the UN.
#Cuba #UnitedNations #Israel #USA #Politics
Minimus oculos rotundos et os subridens in peponi insculpit (Minimus carves round eyes and a smiling mouth into a pumpkin). Silvius cupit cultellum tractare, sed tata eum vetat (Silvius wants to handle the knife, but Daddy forbids him).
Really the best visualization of this dataset so far!
I find it confusing that only even years like 2000, 2002, etc. are listed. Did you skip every 2nd year? If data for each two years is accumulated please write "2000-2001" in the key.
May a make two (edit: three) suggestions:
a) write "2000 f." for 2000–2001 like common for giving page numbers in citations.
(I just learned that "f." is for giving someone’s birthdate in Swedish 😁 )
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b) Use "≤" or "≥" mathematical operators. As the key is most probably read from the top to the bottom maybe give the lower number year instead like
- ≥ 2023
- ≥ 2021
- ≥ 2019
- …
- < 2000
c) short form 2000/01 to 2023/24
You’re so quick! I find this better than take 4, for sure.
If you want to minimize text space I’d consider this the optimal solution.
But to be honest I think it’s a bit too technical even—for software people. it takes a moment to understand this means each color represents two years …
More than ½ h after posting my suggestions I tend to think option C (that I added to the post) might be the most common notation: just "2023/24". Don’t you think? At least Germans use that a lot.
@dboehmer for me, reading the graph part makes everything very clear. Like, the year number is just a point in time, at the transition between two years (e. g. black covers 2010-2012).
It would also be possible to work with dashes, like saying "up to 2002", though that needs a different numbering then:
- 2000
- 2002
- 2004
...
"Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is ‘very short-staffed’ amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama"
MAYBE THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOU DIPSHIT FIRING EVERYONE WHO'S NOT A FUCKING SYCOPHANT?
Goddammit. What a dumbass.
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Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama | TechCrunch
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is "short-staffed" amid WordPress's ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
"A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes, then asks the backhoe operator for directions."
Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti on 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…
add background color to adaptive icons by Bubu · Pull Request #4411 · thunderbird/thunderbird-android
This adds a desaturated version of K9-Mails envelope color as the adaptive icon background color. This should look a lot better than a plain white background. Also slightly enlarge the icon shape. ...GitHub
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·˚
@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.
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