#Canada passes new #righttorepair rules with same old problem Canada's #CopyrightAct allows circumvention of technological protection measures if done for purposes of "maintaining or repairing a product, including any related diagnosing," and "to make the program or a device in which it is embedded interoperable with any other computer program, device or component." As iFixit points out, neither amendment do anything to expand access to tools needed to circumvent TPMs. theregister.com/2024/11/12/can…
Almost all ticket vending machines of the municipal transport company in Amsterdam will stop working on 1 January 2025 and will be removed later. The reason is quite interesting: end of software support for the card payment terminals. 🙄
Sure you can now check in and out with your bank card directly, but if you want a day ticket, or discounted ticket, all you're left with is the mobile app.
@mkyral yes that's the situation virtually in every other country. Here, if you take the tram from Uithoorn to Amsterdam Centraal, when tapping in with a bank card, you'll get charged € 5,34 for a 51 minute long journey. If you instead buy GVB 1 hour ticket in advance, you will pay only € 3,40.
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round.
Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz.
Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator, mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin… bits.debian.org/2024/11/welcom…
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored...
OK... Either I am just super late to the party, or this just isn't very widely known / discussed in the macOS #VoiceOver community. As of macOS Sonoma, remotely controlling a Mac using Screen Sharing is actually very much accessible using the High Performance Mode connection option. VO needs to be enabled on the Mac being controlled, which will result in VO, as well as any other audio being routed over the network to the controlling Mac. @AppleVis
Come alongside the journey of implementing a new feature inside Thunderbird.From the initial idea and definition of the scope of work, to design mock-ups and...
Wien gewinnt EU-Preis für Barrierefreiheit. Erich Schmid, einer der Vizepräsidenten des Österreichischen Behindertenrates, freut sich, dass Wien neben „lebenswerteste Hauptstadt“ und „Demokratiehauptstadt“ nun auch den 15. Access City Award erhalten hat. In den folgenden Jahren bleibt aber noch immer genug zu tun, damit alle teilhaben können. wien.orf.at/stories/3283351/
Wien hat den „Access City Award 2025“ gewonnen. Der von der Europäischen Kommission und dem Europäischen Behindertenforum organisierte Preis geht an Städte, die „erhebliche Anstrengungen unternehmen, für Menschen mit Behinderungen barrierefreier zu w…
Listening to the @LWorksGames audio game streaming marathon (lerven.me/marathon2024/), and because I'm a total nerd, I'm curious about the programming language and game engine (if applicable) used by each game. The first game, Ball Bouncer, is apparently using .NET in ahead-of-time compiled mode. I wonder if there's a .NET audio game engine analogous to BGT or NVGT, or if they rolled their own, including self-voicing UI.
00Days00Hours00Minutes00Seconds Welcome to Liam’s 2024 Marathon. This page has all the details you could ever need about the marathon. How do I tune in to the Marathon? Use the info below to …
VRadio, one of the most accessible and user-friendly radio apps on Android, is currently unavailable on the Google Play Store. The developer is working to bring it back as soon as possible. In the meantime, you can download the app from the official website using the link below vradio.app/files/com.ilv.vradi… #Android #Radio
As holiday fundraising campaigns ramp up, remember that the #SalvationArmy is fundamentally an evangelical anti-LGBTQ organization that campaigns against equal rights while pushing its religious agenda.
Donate elsewhere. Ideally someplace more inclusive and local.
For those who build and experiment with large language models like GPT: after a year of on-and-off development, I've recently released version 2.0.0 of Gptcmd, a command-line large language model conversation and prototyping environment. Gptcmd lets you do things like create branching conversation "threads", edit the context arbitrarily, and save/load your conversations to disk (JSON files). See the readme for an overview of all it can do! github.com/codeofdusk/gptcmd/r…
Welcome to the 29 November 2024 release of Gptcmd! This is a very substantial release that introduces multi-provider and multi-account support, adds the ability to attach images to messages for use...
Not every conversation has to happen on instant messaging, but you want to make sure you reach people where they are. Let's learn how to bridge Discourse to ...
The UK has an opportunity to do something popular in loads of countries, whilst learning from the mistakes many of those places have made. I can't agree with the whole slippery slope argument here, not when so many people are literally crying out for this. There are safeguards needed, people in abusive relationships and without mental capacity need to be protected. But so to does the dignity of those who have reached the point when it is their choice and their want to go on thir terms. First time our MP's have done naything meaningful in years!
@cachondo Yeah that's pretty much how I feel about this argument. I think at this point it would put this country on the back foot if it wasn't voted in favour.
The assisted dying bill debate is just beginning, with Kim Leadbeater kicking it off.
For anyone unfamiliar with Parliamentary debates, free votes on moral issues typically introduced as a Private Member's Bill like this usually lead to very good debates demonstrating Parliament at its best.
Had to miss an hour for a work call, but the debate so far is very good. Still many folks just reading pre-prepared lines that have already been addressed, but on the whole much more reasonable a discussion than is to be expected of a Chamber including Tories and Reform. I am thankful the SNP have chosen not to be present.
Ministers are notionally neutral so I'm not expecting my MP, Stephen Doughty, to speak, but I haven't seen a speaking order and he may yet.
Free votes and PMBs are so strange in that they drive Tories to sometimes act respectfully.
Alicia Kearns of all people rightly defending the bill and pointing out it'll face vastly more scrutiny than most bills that pass the House — including the Police, Crime, Courts, and Sentencing Act.
She also called out the religiosity and the gall of imposing moral conviction on others in favour of freedom of choice. Fair dues.
Jake Richards highlighting that some members may be grasping at procedural straws as an excuse to oppose the bill rather than properly focusing on the *principle* of the bill as they constitutionally should.
I think he's right, especially when seeing Tories using the state of palliative care — utterly wrecked as much of the NHS has been by 14 years of Tory rule — as a reason to oppose the bill.
Robert Jenrick utterly debasing himself by suggesting the reasonable bill would be warped by "activist judges in the court in Strasbourg," making it less a slippery slope and more a cliff edge.
Such an utterly loathsome man. It is no wonder to me that he came so close to becoming Tory leader.
That's an interesting point from one speaker I didn't see the name of. He points out that there's a provision to allow So-Called Alternative Medicine (SCAM) practitioners to serve as the two doctors required to sign off on assisted death.
I'm very much not in favour of that. That should be worked out in the committee stage, and I hope secular/rationalist orgs campaign heavily through that phase.
I think this is what he meant. A 'registered medical practitioner' may make the first referral to a doctor, and may serve as the independent second assessor if these conditions are met. The language is left open for the Secretary of State to determine who counts as suitably qualified.
So no explicit requirement that SCAM artists be allowed to act this way, but that power being deferred the executive rather than to the House. That'll certainly be amended my the House if not the bill committee.
In 2015 I spent a couple of weeks in Singapore and I still remember sitting at a café and implementing the feature that merges multiple messages into the same bubble.
Today this feature has been removed from #Conversations_im in favor of moving the bubbles closer together. This gives better control over per messages actions such as sharing, quoting or adding a reaction.
Hi. I remember some years ago, a presentation from you, announcing the beginig of Conversations 3.0 development. May I ask what happened, is it still in progress? (Currently I am not active xmpp user and I miss some news about. I have your app on several devices from Gplay and I like it very much.)
I'm working over lunchtime due to some deadlines, but I have this to look forward to starting next time I have a break. I doubt it will be my favourite of his, but they're quick, escapist sillinesses.
my favourite of Strand, in case anyone is remotely interested, I read in 2014. It's the story of a school teacher infected by a parasitic critter and the resulting complications of those tasked to retrieve it. it had great father-daughter chemistry, and the internal voice of the main character just kept me chortling throughout.
Congratulations to Patrick Noblet Appiah and Divine Attah-Ohiemi, the Debian Outreachy interns selected for the December 2024 round from a pool of great applicants. To those who didn't manage this time, thanks for your contributions and never give up! outreachy.org/alums/2024-12/ #debian #outreachy
@KaterinaGloserova Tak pokud mas bryle takhle, tak to jsi stastny clovek. Ja bez nich nedojdu ani na zachod a k autu bych ani netrefil. 9,75 dioptrie na obou ocich...
Siori e siore: ecco a voi il #PORACCIVERSO! Ecco l'operazione necromante per #Diaspora: pochi, soli ma defederati da #Threads 🤣
Udite, udite, oh! Rustici Attenti, non fiatate. Io già suppongo e imagino. Che al par di me sappiate. Ch'io son social discreto, più brutto che obsoleto...
PER CHI AVESSE DUBBI, NO! NON L'HO FATTO IO PER TROLLARVI. È PROPRIO CHE LA GENTE NON STA BENE 😷🤯😷
General Relativity for babies brings complex ideas to children through simple explanations to ignite their imaginations and help create little geniuses! :)te...
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round.
Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored by Thorsten Alteholz.
Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator, mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin… bits.debian.org/2025/11/welcom…
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored...
I want to write my own cross-platform and accessible for blind users #Mastodon client. There are no #a11y friendly clients for Linux (only some TUI software) and there are only one buggy and unstable proprietary client for Windows called #tweesecake. I already know the stack I'll use but I have one problem. I don't know Mastodon well enough to be sure that I implement every feature which is supported there. For sure I can read the whole API reference but maybe there are easier ways, maybe some list of features, maybe some feature guide for developers, etc.
As a blind user I can't just install any popular and cool client and take all features from it... That's the problem: they are not accessible at all or not accessible enough for every day use.
So, maybe someone helps me with some sort of docs or I don't know :D
Answering some of your questions: the language filtering happens at the preferences level, so if you set it on the preferences it will propagate to clients getting timelines through the API. Filters are an API thing (there are two types, client-side and server-side). User recs is also an API feature.
@modulux Yep, it's true. But I'm not so experienced in WX to change something major in twblue source. And also for me it is a kind of challenge - developing my own mastodon client. Kind of a pet project important for my feeling as a developer and gaining some experience in desktop apps.
Oh, I think it's a great idea to make a new client. I was more suggesting that you might be able to get some notion of what's possible from TW Blue's sources.
@pvagner Actually, the Tuba client looks that it might be made into an accessible Linux client, except we might need to fix an Orca regression (reading complex list item rows and a11y labels together behaves weirdly), and we must definitely fix github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/issues/…
Describe the request Hello @GeopJr Huge thanks for taking screen reader accessibility seriously. It's working fine for me. When using up and down arrow keys to navigate in the list of toots the ite...
The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024 is nearly over – but you can still get a sticker pack by saying what you use #LibreOffice for (with hashtag) 😊 blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss opensource
Yes, we’re half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024. And already, 206 contributors have already won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name …
i use LibreOffice at my work for docs and spreadsheet work. Also use it to generate my Church backgrounds for our livestream and also to transform PDFs into fillable forms as well. It’s an essential tool in the box without the MS baggage of AI stuff and forcing cloud storage of docs. #libreoffice
🇫🇷🏛️ Ayer el macronismo impidió que se votara la propuesta de Francia Insumisa para derogar la reforma de las pensiones en un espectáculo lamentable. Obstruyendo el debate durante horas.
La situación institucional es de fin de ciclo, crisis de régimen, y quién sabe si de algo más profundo.
Les « insoumis », qui avaient décidé de consacrer leur journée d’initiative parlementaire, jeudi, à la réforme adoptée en 2023, ont échoué en séance face à l’obstruction des groupes de la coalition présidentielle et de la droite.
Donations help us to build the LibreOffice community, support our projects, and continue to make the software even better. Every amount helps 😊 libreoffice.org/donate/ #foss #OpenSource
Protesters clashed with police in Tbilisi tonight after the government of Georgia suspended for four years talks on its bid to join the EU. euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11…
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets surrounding the Georgian Parliament to voice their objection to the ruling party's decision to suspend EU-accession talks.
For the first time in five years, I'm on sale, both individually and as part of the Space/Time bundle with some amazing apps like DaisyDisk, KeyQue and TextSniper. This is strictly for a short time only, when the sale is over, it’s over and unlikely to be repeated for a long time. unclutterapp.com/bundle/?coupo…
Just a note to my fellow Canadians, that this is most of the cause of the Canada Post strike that you're all complaining about during Christmas. Harper gutted public funding for Canada Post and told them to run like a business. They are an essential public service, and should not be run for profit!
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