Hey Mark Shuttleworth's bonkers interview process for jobs at Canonical made Ask a Manager!
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job application is fixated on high school academic performance — Ask a Manager
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* Bookaccio Book Tracker: helps you manage and organize your reading list
! Jamie's Authenticator Pro is continued as a new app named Stratum (you'll need to switch).
ViMusic was removed as it is no longer working.
At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 3 #Magisk #modules were updated and 1 added: Low RAM Flag Enabler.
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That being said, I do still use OneDrive but I also regularly back up files to two external drives which are not synchronized with a cloud service. That way, if I unintentionally delete something that I later decide is important to me, I still have it available on my external backups. As long as users understand this, services like OneDrive are fine to use and are extremely convenient.
Thanks for such an excellent podcast and for everything that you and Kim do for the community.
5 Alternative Podcast Clients for Linux
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Sometimes, when I try to sign into PayPal using Brave, I get an HCaptcha challenge with no audio challenge. It's very tricky getting those "accessibility cookies" to play nicely with Brave and it's a step I shouldn't need to go through, anyway. What usually happens is that I give up and my second authentication attempt, for whatever reason, results in bypassing HCaptcha. Blindness organizations like the NFB or @ACBNational need to engage in advocacy with HCaptcha with the goal of getting them to be more inclusive and less discriminatory. If that fails, there needs to be a law suit filed against them.
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Popular Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp today announced a new transcription feature that's designed to provide you with a transcript of a voice...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
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More thoughts on the STUN server fallback question:
· This is something other #XMPP Clients just do quietly without having a big debate about it¹
· I don't think users should configure this. Anyone who knows what a STUN server is will likely switch to a server offering one.
· Treat it like channel search. On first use (call, file transfer), ask once: Use our fallback STUN server? Yes/No.
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I've just scanned through the Main Menu podcast of yesterday where they were talking about JAWS, and in particular, the ideas that came out of the Next Big Thing contest.
I've been around this industry for about 30 years now and so it takes a lot to cause some excitement, and I've got to say, I didn't think personally that the ideas were that exciting, but that's just me. But keep reading because I'm going to be positive at the end.
Let me sketch out the ideas that were in the top 3.
1. To have some additions to the Settings Centre so that various JAWS settings could be applied in different situations. The way this was sketched out in the podcast wasn't that clear, but presumably it would mean that specific settings could be applied for various applications and situations. That can vary enormously from one person to another.
2. To have specific codes or key words one could use between assistant and the person being helped in relation to JAWS Tandem. I think there are far more fundamental things which need to be done with Tandem before that is thought about to make it a viable proposition for regular use these days.
3. The winner. If you receive an application with what one might call an allegedly inaccessible button or control, using a combination of OCR and AI technology, JAWS could find that and click it. Now presumably, although again it wasn't clear, the user could interrogate it so as to identify what it was that he or she wanted to click.
So there you have it.
But in passing, Jeff Bishop, one of the podcast hosts, made some remarks relating to FSCompanion.
He wondered if it would be a good idea to have it so that, if desired, one instruction could be given at a time. The user could then hear the first instruction, carry it out, and then hear the next one. Now that is an idea which should have won the contest. That is well thought out.
I'd go a bit further. You should be able to work through the instructions with global keystrokes so you could carry out the activity and step through the instructions at the same time as working within the chosen environment.
That would be a tremendous training aid. I'm almost tempted to steal that idea because I think it's so good.
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I thought a lot about a context aware training tool for students when I was at the college. based on the window title and potentially even the current control, guided help or very context sensetive information about hotkeys and prior tasks learned could have been provided.
Never had the time to develop it, of course. They'd not have paid me for it in any event, and the numbers didn't really scale for mass-production.
At #MatrixConf, Jan Kohnert from gematik presented #TI-Messenger, the secure real time communications standard for the entire German healthcare system.
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I think they have some timezone issues, possibly since 27 October.
If you open treinradar and click on a train on the map, it will show you a timetable of a train that was passing that place 2 hours earlier.
Let's hope they will fix it before it gets automatically fixed at the end of March. 😉
Yeah, except I had to grab all the mods from the mods folder and copy them that way, but now it says this, even though I have the latest version from the repo.
Error loading mods
Failed to load mods:
• FactorioAccess
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• Kruise Kontrol Remote
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• PavementDriveAssistContinued
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• VehicleSnap
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• stop-on-red
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
Mods to be disabled:
• FactorioAccess (O. 15.2)
• (O. 1.11)
• PavementDriveAssistContinued (4.1 1)
• VehicleSnap (1.18.5)
• stop-on-red (00.5)
Disable listed mods
Disable all mods
Manage mods
Restart
Exit
You downloaded version 2, which has an entirely different gameplay.
Download version 1 and it'll work fine
I don't know why not. The only place I know of to get help is Discord.
Sorry I can't be more help
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