Another random thing that made me happy tonight: I discovered that at some point #wordweb added a feature to disable linking of words in addon dictionaries. That makes reading definitions with a #screenreader much faster. It's a bit expensive, but if you frequently find yourself resorting to Google, or even worse #AI, to define words for you, it's worth the money and is largely #accessible as well: wordweb.info/#a11y
Great to hear! I used to use WordWeb. I'm trying to remember why I stopped, whether it was an accessibility issue, or I just didn't want to pay for it. Someone was asking about a program which did basically what WordWeb does the other day, so it's good to know it IS accessible in any case.
The original Sandia Long Term Warning report is worth a read beyond just the memetic potential of Appendix F section 4.1. I tracked down a scan and uploaded it to the Internet Archive (which is a place of honor etc): archive.org/details/long-term-…
Sandia National Labs report SAND92-1382, the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Message, by Kathleen M. Trauth, Stephen C. Hora, Robert V. Guzowski.This place is...
The word 'lana' (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English 'wool'.
For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other.
Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana.
The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.
Is it just me reading the news from Lebanon in a way that suggests that IDF is targetting military installations there more than they do in the case of Gaza? The number of such military targets is carefully listed, for example. journa.host/@w7voa/11353984669…
“Twelve command centers were struck by the IAF in Dahieh, Beirut, including sites used by Hezbollah's Intelligence Unit, coast-to-sea missile unit, and Unit 4400—responsible for smuggling weapons from Iran through Syria into Lebanon.” - IDF statement
Putting the issue of what should and should not be taught in schools aside, I challenge the statement that Christianity is not being taught in church. This is nothing more than a hateful statement from atheists or from other non-Christians with no basis in reality and I'm not letting that go unchallenged or unnoticed. Which church? Which pastor? What doctrine has consistently and specifically been taught that contradicts Christian teaching? As a practicing Christian who has attended many different churches for decades, I can say that anyone who makes such a stupid statement doesn't know what he or she is talking about.
Calling all #Blind #Windows users! 🖥️👥 I briefly tried #Beeper after seeing another blind person recommend it, but it didn't seem the most accessible with the #JAWS #ScreenReader. Do you use any all-in-one social media apps like Shift, Franz, Ferdium, or Beeper on Windows? I'd love to hear about your experiences with #accessibility and usability. Please share your thoughts! #AssistiveTech #tech @mastoblind @main
To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:
"I don't care, I use Linux"
Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?
This is a systemic problem.
You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.
Evidence of oldest known alphabetic unearthed in Syrian dig. The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations… #Writing #Language #Script #Archeology #Anthropology #CulturalGeography hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient…
* LibChecker: view and analyze the third-party libraries used by apps * Clock: Alarm, clock, timer, stopwatch and bedtime mode * Harmonic: Material design client for HackerNews 🛡️ * Exodus: show trackers and permissions in installed apps 🛡️
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
In this episode of Environment Variables, host Chris Adams dives into the evolving landscape of sustainable web development with Alexander Dawson and Tzviya Siegman from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan, and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics. techpolicy.press/documenting-t…
Philip Napoli is a professor of public policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at the Sanford School at Duke University.
I made a to-scale picture of American and European cloud players, but you may have to squint a bit. (don't take this too seriously, btw, haven't done the actual math).
Používáš osmičky? Pro mě je hlavní no-go mikrofon, a tak nějak ve skrytu duše doufám, že časem přijdou s modelem co bude trochu víc zaměřený i na Paragliding. Mít tak deník letů by byla paráda. A tak stále čekám s FR945 👍
@tasmandevil Ne, já mám Fenix 6 pro, mám už je tři roky. Zatím nemám ani potřebu je měnit. Na kolo má Garmin Edge 1040 a hodinky vlastně je turistika a běh.
The recent Let's Go Shopping event was the best ever, and if you missed some - or all - of the two day holiday gift extravaganza, then you'll want to tune in to the audio below.
In this episode of All Things Lady A, Lucy takes us through the "My Talking Books" skill, a tool in beta testing that provides access to audiobooks from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS).
Episode Overview Learn how to adjust JAWS verbosity settings to control the level of detail during navigation. Optimize your experience with these quick customization tips.
Most people likely know me as a musician first and foremost. Recently however, I started a podcast with my wife about various topics, none of which are music-related. A different side to me, and a side to my wife I didn't know existed until a few weeks ago.
I found out she's an incredible speaker despite being mic-shy.
Playlist for the StroongeCast podcasts with husband and wife team, Andre and Kirsten Louis. RSS feed: https://onj.me/media/stroongecast/index.php?xml_feed=y
"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street.
We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word.
It couldn't last because of capitalism. This isn't some glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be fulfilled. Because such promises required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don't want shifting."
As we approach the five year mark of the first known case of covid-19, as we contemplate a half decade of watching a novel virus rip through our communities, our countries, our world, I wanted to do a retrospective on the pandemic.
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