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


AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses applevis.com/podcasts/applevis…


"I went to work for VICE, and made working at VICE part of my identity. I wanted the company to succeed so badly because I believed in what we were doing and I believed in the institution. I worked zillions of hours of unpaid overtime, took on side projects, canceled vacations and worked on vacations thinking that, if I did my job well enough, the company would succeed and we would get to keep doing what we were doing. I spent the vast majority of that time doing work that made money for an over-bloated apparatus that existed to make a bunch of middle managers and executives large salaries and bonuses."

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I’d like to upgrade from my old komplete Kontrol s88 mk1 midi controller to an mk3. What do you all suggest I do with the old board besides dropping it in the Gulf of Mexico to create an artificial musical reef? Works but I don’t see myself selling it.
in reply to Noel Romey

@BorrisInABox Yeah, NI have done a great job of leaving new accessibility customers in limbo.


Trying an accessible way of shopping with Innosearch | AD myblurredworld.com/2024/10/27/…


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

in reply to Molly White

See my reporting on their previous violation, which is being reviewed by the FEC: citationneeded.news/coinbase-c…

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol




SiriusXM Unveils 2024 Slate Of Christmas/Holiday Music Channels Including New Jimmy Fallon Channel radioinsight.com/headlines/285…


TeamTalk truly is a piece of garbage. But I still use it, and will continue to do so, until at least one other voice chat program gets this one simple thing right. Just send the raw fucking opus data over the wire! No compression, no processing, no boxyness, just, send, the raw, fucking, audio! Then I'll be happy! Why is this so hard and seemingly a novel concept for every app in existence minus TeamTalk?
in reply to Tech Singer

@techsinger @modulux Omg...mumble doesn't support stereo audio input? See this is what I mean! Why does nothing get this right! TeamTalk gets everything wrong, from storing passwords in plain text to its UI, but it fucking nailed the audio.
in reply to Quin

I have to admit I don't really need stereo audio input, but sure, it would be nice if it had that.
in reply to Quin

@modulux I just had a quick look at the audio issue github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/… and it looks like it's still not supported.
in reply to Tech Singer

Yep, it seems to support it for audio streams and such but not input. Hopefully they'll get around to it eventually.


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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in reply to Scary Martin

I am using enafore and there are souns. You have to enable push notificaions, and also enable sounds checkbox.



Meet Steve: a photographer who is deaf and low vision tetralogical.com/blog/2024/10/…


Si alguien va a Nerdearla.mx, pregúntenle a Mullenweg durante su charla por qué está destruyendo WordPress.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

eso pensé cuando vi el anuncio 🤷🏽 cada quién trae a los ponentes que quiere I guess
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@categulario siento que en el Tercer Mundo(tm) tenemos un lag con respecto a enterarnos de las personas desagradables. Este güey acá, Stallman de gira por Perú...


Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…


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diet, alc

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in reply to Seirdy

food (veg), re: diet, alc

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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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The History of Radio!

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in reply to Robin Frost

Oh, my heavens, I certainly remember him from WCAU back in the '80s. Thank you for alerting us.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield Yes that one made me sad he was a very nice person so say all I know who met him.


[Podcast] AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses applevis.com/podcasts/applevis…


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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plato.stanford.edu/entries/hey…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_C…

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Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know

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btw, the way the commodore 64 mastodon client (which is called "MOStodon", very clever...) works is you host a server on another computer using a python script and connect to the computer like you would with a BBS, which is pretty neat. it would be cool if someone made a web proxy that worked similarly


How to Upgrade to Fedora 41 from Fedora 40 linuxtoday.com/blog/how-to-upg…


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.

If that’s not you, I also offer LinkedIn profile optimization for fedi friends at no charge.

Here to help :blobfoxheartcute:



#XDC2024: The individual videos for each talk from this year's XDC are now available on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/xorgfoundation
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I honestly couldn’t tell if this was a joke but it did make me want to bike past doing a loud monologue



who called it creating a new python package manager and not reinventing the wheel

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TFW you write lava in you D&D notes and realize you may have mispelled Java. Not really.

#dnd5e





Very often drivers yell at me something like "go ride a bike way". It's often on a road where there is no bike way nearby and there is no legal restriction for me riding the road.
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.


humor negro, negrísimo, la curiosidá mató al gato

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humor negro, negrísimo, la curiosidá mató al gato

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The media just conceded on #CBC their relentless push to expel Justin Trudeau has failed. Can we now get back to the business of the whole foreign interference thing and how the leader of the opposition won’t get a security clearance while he has foreign agents in his cabinet*?
#cdnpoli #Canada



#fabulamurina (mouse story) 323
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).

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Watch out for diamonds or other gemstones in the older layers near the bottom, from the digital mesoproterozoic age.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

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.

in reply to Daniel Böhmer

@dboehmer as said in the top, they are two-year segments. It's just a limit I decided on to keep the number of fields reasonable.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Oh, I didn’t see/read this bit 🙈 Maybe that’s an indicator that this might be too subtle …
in reply to Daniel Böhmer

@dboehmer I wanted to keep the labels simple to reduce the amount of text, as it quickly becomes "heavy" otherwise. But yeah, I'll think of how to improve it.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

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 😁 )
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#Adje…

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

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

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.

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in reply to Daniel Böhmer

@dboehmer unfortunately I think that version gets too messy, probably because too many numbers. Without being crystal clear what it means. I think I'll stick with the ≥ for now.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@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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