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The joys of finding an unexpected package of butter tea and Nag Champa waiting for me after coming home...


Docela by mě zajímalo jaká témata na fedi hledáte. Co vám tu skutečně chybí? Osobně nemám ten pocit, že by byl mastodon/fedi profilovaný jako geek místo. Jsou tu umělci různých oborů, vědci, zahrádkáři, je tu silná komunita kolem pletení a ručních prací. Mnoho z toho sleduju přes hashtagy na jiných instancích protože je toho ve výsledku tolik, že se to nedá v jedné timeline usledovat .... 🤷‍♂️
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Žena neví co chce, ale nedá pokoj, dokud to nemá.
Kachna nic nechce, ale je rád, že to má.
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in reply to Jan

@Jann podprahová reklama.. už už som sa chcel uraziť. :kekw:
@Jan


Following on from his excellent intro to #XR (eXtended Reality) #accessibility, Joe Lamyman's XR accessibility for people with seeing disabilities, is well worth a read:
tetralogical.com/blog/2024/09/…


I'm excited that I am now on Medium. My first post, entitled "An Introduction," is now live. I speak a little bit about my journey and some of the things for which I am really passionate, like accessibility and technology.

If you'd like to receive updates , you can find me on Medium.
Please follow me to get the latest.
medium.com/@tayarndt/an-introd…



Is it my imagination, or has Safari gotten better at describing HTML errors in the past year? I'm previewing an xhtml file, and in addition to an offending line number where the error stops the page display, I have a reference back to a missing or incorrect tag that caused the problem. Kind of cool.


T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records, and law enforcement information requests.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…



"Subject: ISSUES USING CISCO ANYCONNECT SECURE MOBILITY CLIENT VPN"

my #inbox and Cisco Anyconnect has a special relationship. Obviously.

in reply to manchicken

@manchicken they might, but I suspect that if they are Bluetooth-only they probably are not.


I started this mastodon account yesterday as a fresh start and a blank slate. I do not have an interest in seeing politics, hateful posts, or anything negative and impure. I am here for love, compassion, and mindfulness. If you have any interest in #Shinto #Buddhism #JapaneseBuddhism #Mindfulness #Meditation #Betterment #MentalHealth #MensMentalHealth #Sobriety or any similar concepts, please give this post a favorite, or me a follow so I can follow back.

I want to cultivate a timeline full of respect, unity, love, and compassion.

#bettermentjourney #mindfulliving #mindfulnessjourney #middlepath #compassion #compassionateliving #todayisanewday



Položme si zásadní otázku.

Co Mastodon, potažmo jeho komunita udělala za poslední dva roky od posledního exodu z Twitteru/X pro to, aby byla schůdnější pro koncového uživatele?

Po tom, co si odpovíte na tuhle otázku, si uvědomte, jak funguje Bluesky i když není decentralizovaný. Odpadá tam babylon všech možných i nemožných instancí, dá se tam vyhledávat napříč příspěvky a netechnickému uživateli nepraská hlava, když se ho snaží pochopit. Prostě funguje, dokonce out of box.

Ono se to zdá jako prkotina, ale polovina běžnejch šmoulů, kteří si sice umí nainstalovat Threads, protože jim to řekne Instagram, nedokáže pochopit, jak s ní pořádně nakládat.

Tohle není hate, jenom jeden z pohledů, proč to dopadlo tak, jak to dopadlo.

Čím dřív si určití lidé uvědomí, že to není masovka, ale vlastně docela underground, bude se jim najednou líp dejchat. Některý bitvy prostě vyhrát nejdou.

A ono je to dost možná ve výsledku určitě dobře.

#mknotwitter

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in reply to Johnny in Mirrorshades

Mně to docela vyhovuje, že nebude mastodon masovka, se dalo čekat. Pro BFU je to vše moc složitý.


@Piciok erklärt, wie der Inhalt des Getränkekühlschranks im @metalab durch taktile Profilschrift und Braille für Menschen mit Blindheit oder Seheinschränkung zugänglicher wurde.
#make #blind #inklusion
makertube.net/w/1t91D3vKsvBZLR…


in reply to Devin Prater :blind:

I also love chocolate-covered hazelnuts. But the most important that they must be raw, not fried. I rarely see that nowadays, but when I see it, I eat it!

in reply to Pffff...

So, I wrote a paper, I'm sure it'll be accepted in Nature.


5 ways to catch AI in its lies and fact-check its outputs for your research zdnet.com/article/5-ways-to-ca…

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Microsoft Mgmt Deteriorates GitHub UX - Goodbye Perf and Progressive Enhancement?

Mu-An Chiou writes @muan:

"React got pushed down from Microsoft management and most of us on the [GitHub] front-end team quit."

muan.co/posts/javascript

#webperf #ProgressiveEnhancement #github #Microsoft

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To any #Voiceover users who are considering trying BlueSky, a word of warning.
It’s technicaly accessible, but presents a few problems. focus is never on a post, but on an element within a post. So you may find the Like button rather than the post itself, and you need to swipe through every element of each post. That’s a real pain. Also, some buttons either don’t work at all or do something unexpected.
I found navigation very difficult and was never quite sure where I was.
I haven’t found any images with Alt Text either.
The layout isn’t great.
All in all, it’s a bit of a trial to use. It’s almost as if they haven’t really bothered with #Accessibility. Fancy that!
Perhaps I should persevere with it, but, quite frankly, life’s too short, so I won’t be using it.
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in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes Thanks James, do you know about their API's possibilities? I.e., Is it possible to develop a fully-fledged app?
in reply to André Polykanine

It seems to be, yes. There are already alternative native apps in the iOS App Store, and they list clients as an expected use case in their API documentation. They also claim that their own mobile app uses exactly the same API they make available to developers, although I'm not sure how true that is.
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Walmart offers Aira Nationwide 🌟

Holiday shopping just got an accessibility upgrade! 🎁 For the first time, Aira is available nationwide in Walmart stores and online at Walmart.com – one of our most requested Access Partners! You asked, and Walmart delivered. Here’s what our explorers are saying:

"For the first time ever, I was able to go to my local Walmart and pick up an order I had placed independently. Excellent service!"

"The Agent did an excellent job guiding me through Walmart to the prescription counter and back. Exceptional navigation skills!"

'"The Agent helped me navigate to the customer service counter – so efficient and professional."

Download the Aira App for free for IOS or Android and visit your local Walmart today!
Learn more: aira.io/aira-at-walmart/ 🎄✨

#AccessibleRetail #InclusiveShopping #DisabilityAccess #HolidayShopping #OnMyTerms #AccessForAll

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Dear Mastodon,

If you could stop suggesting that I change my carefully chosen camel case hashtags to all lowers, that would sure be swell.

😠

#Accessibility

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You'd think Raspberry Pi of all companies would have a Mastodon presence, but they don't even have Threads bridging turned on 💀
in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

And the reason being: they were dogpiled off the fediverse for… *checks notes* …no real reason

TIL

techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspbe…




If you find yourself following fedi conflicts and getting exhausted yet unable to look away, step back. Follow CA/B and certificate authority root program conflicts instead for a palette cleanser.

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in reply to Seirdy

They’re the opposite of what goes on here. The issue at hand generally seems rather dry, and the parties in the wrong are generally obvious. But the fallout is fascinatingly measured, clear-cut, and diplomatic while the parties obviously in the wrong struggle to mitigate their errors as their entire business’ reputation is on the line. So there are enough stakes for it to matter, but for once you feel you have enough context and it doesn’t feel personal.


Finished @viscousplatypus’s “The Accessibility Operations Guidebook” this morning. Probably a good idea to read if you do digital accessibility and want to scale up your impact. I recommend.

This quote from a former independent consultant who has become an employee really lands.

Info on The Storygraph:
app.thestorygraph.com/books/82…

Buy (I did the Payhib ebook but read it on my Kobo; no Amazon in this house):
devonpersing.netlify.app/book/

#a11y #accessibility



What is your favorite browser? Feel free to share why.

#Vivaldi #browser #Firefox #Edge #Chrome #Safari #Opera #Windows #Linux #macos #iOS #Android

  • Vivaldi (35%, 11 votes)
  • Chrome (0%, 0 votes)
  • Edge (6%, 2 votes)
  • Safari (3%, 1 vote)
  • Firefox (58%, 18 votes)
  • Opera (0%, 0 votes)
  • Other (19%, 6 votes)
31 voters. Poll end: in 1 day

in reply to Jon S. von Tetzchner

WeasyPrint because holy shit they wrote a browser in Python! It beats major browsers at CSS fragmentation and paged media. And with much better (far from perfect) PDF accessibility.

The browsers I use 99% of the time are not my favorites.

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1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.


Koukám TrainingPeaks, už má aplikaci pro indoor cycling.
trainingpeaks.com/virtual/?utm…
in reply to Archos

tak Simpsonovi o tom už dávno natočili jednu epizodu 😃
Ještě sis tam mohl připlatit za to, že budeš mít coache, který ti říkal, jak máš jezdit
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A hidden catch of the new fancy EuroCity direct service between Brussels and Amsterdam: Since the train does not stop in Breda anymore, subscription holders with 100% discount on Dutch railways still have to pay for the journey from Rotterdam to the border.
Therefore the basic ticket price for such subscription holders went up almost twofold - from € 10,50 to € 20.

And of course, due to limitations of the NS international journey planner, you cannot force it to use the slower EuroCity service.



Great to see this ammendment from @openuk to this #COP29 Green Digital Action Day openuk.uk/cop29/


It's possible to build an app with zero #tracking. 💪
in reply to Tuta

Downloaded app, clicked sign up, get the “Loading” spinner and it goes nowhere.


@freedomscientific In JAWS 2025, whenever I navigate in and out of lists in Microsoft Word or on a Web page, JAWS speaks the messages "entering list" and "exit list." I can find no way of disabling these announcements in the insert+V Speech Options dialog or in Settings Center; I've looked under Configure Speech Verbosity as well as the Speech and Sounds Manager. Is this found anywhere in the UI? If not, could this be added in Settings Center so that we can disable these announcements?
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in reply to Brian Hartgen

@brian_hartgen Thanks for confirming. I'm going to suggest to them that this should be a verbosity option.
in reply to David Goldfield

@brian_hartgen Since going to Windows 11, I hear this all the time at work. Opening app.. Working on retrieving.... Not really necessary, this should be something that can be turned off or, as David suggested, set in verbocity settings


#latinoamerica #SoftwareLibre #latam #latampol #FOSS #flisol #askFedi

Estoy investigando el impacto del Software Libre en la economía y soberanía tecnológica en la América hispanohablante*. ¿Hay estadísticas, eventos, leyes, opiniones o proyectos que debería saber?

Ya he investigado FLISoL y las leyes que hicieron obligatorio el SL del sector público.

*(menos los EEUU, y no me permiten incluir países que no hablan español como Brasil - lo siento)

@federicomena @rikylinux_ar @canaimagnulinux



One of the things I love about Montreal’s alleys is people make an effort with even the barest of them.

#Montreal



Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is calling for the end of Canada’s public postal service because its workers have gone on strike.

The company’s leaders are increasingly pushing extreme right-wing positions in Canada. Gutting Canada Post would effectively end delivery in many rural and remote communities because it’s not profitable for private companies to serve them.

#tech #shopify #postoffice #canada #cdnpoli

in reply to Paris Marx

I am so shocked (NOT)

I wonder how much they donate to the right-wings...



268 / 365

The White Stripes: Fell In Love With A Girl

Včera parafráze na Gondryho, tak teď Gondry sám a jeden z jeho nejslavnějších kousků. A samozřejmě je to nabušenej love song, minuta padesát, jízda. Vtipný je, že Jack White chtěl po Legu, jestli by nebylo možné ke každému CD přidat LEGO figurky jeho a Meg a oni ho odmítli, že "We don't market our product to people over the age of twelve." Tak to by dnes asi dopadlo jinak 😜

youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXm…

Režie: Michel Gondry

#365adamovyklipy

in reply to Adam Zbiejczuk

Uau, skvělej klip. To muselo dát práce....
Klipy písniček teda obecně moc neznám, takže jsem často překvapenej 😄
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan tohle je opravdu hodně známý - Best of Michel Gondry nám představil kdysi na žurnalistice David Kořínek (je to v rámci série DVD režisérů) - je to volně na archive.org a je tam povícero geniálních věcí, takže doporučuju: archive.org/details/the-work-o…


On wednesdays swing social dance party at Prague national technical library cafe I noticed they use @mixxx as a music player.
Good music, good people, good dance, good software all at one spot... ❤️

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I think best ActivityPub : BlueSky analogy is X11 : SurfaceFlinger. The latter two have in common:

* Funded, capable product and engineering effort
* Open source bug no RMS vibes
* Many more users

The former two have:

* Some users who choose it on principle
* Fragmentation in the layers above
* Whining from the hangers-on

But fundamentally they solve overlapping but not identical problems. That's a fine thing.

Enjoy writing those modelines!

in reply to Raph Levien

Ouch. The fact that you compared ActivityPub to X11 and not Wayland implies that you think ActivityPub is already obsolete.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt That might not have been *entirely* fair, but it is what came to mind. I was thinking more about the intractability of solving problems like "high dpi" on the X11 side and "how to move instances seamlessly" on the ActivityPub side.


The UI for the cURL GUI tool is slick.

cc @bagder
@icing

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Botky super, dvě hodiny na kole a nohy v teple.
#cyklovylet #cyklistika no a málem byla #birellovka, ale bylo zavřeno


I'd like to see less criticism of how Bluesky isn't really decentralized, why it sucks that the Bluesky app uses React (I regret that I briefly piled onto that one), etc., and more discussion of why we're losing people to Bluesky and what we're going to do about it. For my part, I'm trying not to be a toxic reply guy.
in reply to Matt Campbell

We're not losing anybody. It just looks like the good old Twitter to them, and there is still considerable time left until it turns out it isn't that.

To join the Fediverse, some fundamental insights and some commitment are required, which just aren't there as long as a shiny alternative is available that looks, at first sight, exactly like what you are looking for.

I understand how they get that impression, and I'm not mad or angry about it, at all.

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in reply to Matt Campbell

@spaduf

I just wish bridging via Fedibridge was standard. Then I wouldn’t have to still open multiple apps.