Day 17 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. Check the traversal order of elements in your app. Sometimes the default top-left to bottom-right order might not be the most logical one. Sometimes you may consciously want to tweak the order. Other times, grouping is the answer.
Analysis: "Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine"
"Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films."
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#Palestine #Censorship #NetflixCensorship #USPol .
By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto (The Conversation) - Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian …Informed Comment
"Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province.
There is no isotope irradiation test function module in the original design architecture of the pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), People's Daily reported. It said this meant that the Qinshan project team needed to create a special device that could seamlessly embed the isotope irradiation test function and is compatible with the existing design of the reactor, as a core irradiation test platform. It noted medical isotopes are mostly short-half-life isotopes, which require the rapid loading and unloading of irradiation test targets during the normal operation of the reactor.
"After repeated adjustments, the project team and the design institute finally designed a prototype of the device concept," People's Daily said. The isotope irradiation test platform reportedly has the ability to automatically load and unload isotope irradiation targets online.
"During the debugging and verification process of the device, it underwent thousands of action tests, which fully verified the reliability of the device," People's Daily said. "On 3 April 2023, the National Nuclear Safety Administration officially approved Qinshan Nuclear Power to use the irradiation test device to conduct yttrium-90 irradiation tests. On 23 April, the project team continued to work for nearly 120 hours during the overhaul of Qinshan No.3 Plant, successfully completing the device installation, cold commissioning and system identification operations. On 14 December, with the first yttrium-90 target successfully unloaded from the reactor, the hot test of the device was successfully completed."
The report noted that this marks the official completion of the first commercial reactor isotope research and development platform in China.
"The platform has successfully realised the research and development and production of short-half-life medical isotopes for domestic commercial reactors, opening up a new path for the localisation of medical isotopes and the development of radioactive drugs," it added. "In the future, Qinshan Nuclear Power will continue to deepen the production of reactor-irradiated isotope irradiation, and contribute to the independent and controllable supply of medical isotopes and the expansion of diversified applications of nuclear technology in China."
China National Nuclear Corporation's Qinshan comprises seven reactors, making it China's largest nuclear power plant. Construction of Phase I of the plant - a 300 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) which was the first indigenously-designed Chinese nuclear power station to be built - began in 1985, with the unit entering commercial operation in 1994. Qinshan Phase II is home to four operating CNP-600 PWRs, built with a high degree of localisation. Units 1 and 2, comprising the first stage of Phase II, began operating in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Units 3 and 4 entered commercial operation in October 2010 and April 2021. Phase III consists of two 750 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and commissioned in 2002 and 2003.
In April this year, CNNC announced that the Qinshan plant has started mass production at one of its PHWRs of carbon-14, which is used in medical and scientific research and in fields including agriculture and chemistry as well as in medicine and biology. Apart from very limited production in experimental reactors, it was previously imported."
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Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang provin…World Nuclear News
Jieshuo screen reader comes in two versions: Jieshuo+ and Jieshuo Lite. The Lite version is sometimes referred to as the "International" version on the GitHubKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
"Esta es la última de una serie de esculturas en la que retomo las cabezas olmecas para hablar de temas específicos. Esta pieza está compuesta por dos elementos. Por un lado, tenemos una réplica de una cabeza Olmeca tallada en cantera, de aproximadamente nueve toneladas, y un Tesla model 3, el cual fue destruido por el peso colosal de la cabeza. Esta obra fue una comisión hecha con el apoyo y la ayuda de Colima 71, a quienes agradezco mucho por creer y por arriesgarse con mi trabajo"
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I did some testing with zlib-ng, which Fedora and Arch are already using as a replacement for the original zlib and Debian plans to as well, and I'm not happy with what I found.
[...] With the original zlib, you will always get an identical output stream given the same input stream and compressor parameters [...] I expected that zlib-ng would often produce a different output steam than the original, but what I found was a lot more non-deterministic than just that.With zlib-ng, feeding the data into the compressor in e.g. 1024-byte chunks always gave me a different output stream than using 4096-byte chunks [...] In fact, every chunk size I tried gave a different output. And that's with fixed size chunks, which is not a given if you're handling e.g. a stream of input.
Even using the same buffer size, I cannot get an identical compressed output stream with Python and Java any more [...]
Hmm I don't know, that might be more difficult than solving a typical captcha.
To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/16…
WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says "Pineapple is delicious on pizza.it.slashdot.org
Another week, another new & unsettling recipe for making a computational sausage. Today it was this massive text file enumerating how every button and axis from every known gamepad is reported on every known platform in order to map them to a standard taxonomy:
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I guess I should have known that ultimately it must boil down to this...
A community sourced database of game controller mappings to be used with SDL2 Game Controller functionality - mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDBGitHub
TikTok Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Temporarily Block Upcoming January Ban https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/16/tiktok-asks-us-supreme-court-ban-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodonMastodon
Continuous AI assistance through always-on cameras, plus translation, are coming to Meta's ever-evolving AI-equipped glasses.Scott Stein (CNET)
Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…
#Shopping #OnlineShopping #News #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #Blind
Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.Nas Campanella (ABC News)
Continuous AI assistance through always-on cameras, plus translation, are coming to Meta's ever-evolving AI-equipped glasses.Scott Stein (CNET)
Support Buckley: http://patreon.com/DoseofBuckleyBuckley presents his list of the Ten Worst Songs of 2024.Want to binge every Worst Songs video? Well here's ...YouTube
Was browsing Amazon for a book on British Fungi earlier (just browsing, fuck them).
Now I'm not sure what material this book is made of, or how previous owners have used it, but the product warning seems a bit alarming.
suddenly hacker news starts discussing my three year old blog post on HTTP/3...
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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-#EdZitron, Never Forgive Them
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In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
“Amazon chose not to act” to address safety risks, allegedly “accepting injuries to its workers as the cost of doing business.”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Daddy, why do CEOs get shot?
Amazon ignores strike threats, denies claims of “uniquely dangerous warehouses.”…Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Our team member Peter Schofield just updated the Impress, Draw and Math guides to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 release. The Impress, Draw and Math guides are the authoritative guides for the end user.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
@RaccoonForFriendica Finally we have a Weblate project for the translations of the app UI, changelogs and metadata. Hope this will help us all create a better user experience and correct some localization mistakes!
#raccoonforfriendica #procyonproject #foss #opensource #friendica #fediverseapp
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Steve from http://www.webstaurantstore.com shows us all how not to prepare gnocchi.The Wadsworth Constant applies...This video really heats up about one minu...YouTube
Stoked for today's Oxide and Friends: @ahl and I will be joined by @pfrazee.com to talk about the wild ride that @bsky.app has been on -- and get into the technical underpinnings in the AT Protocol. Join us, 5p Pacific!
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So it's unclear if #PeakDesign provided any info to the police that may have led to #LuigiMangione's arrest, but we do know this:
>> [Peak Design CEO Peter Dering] told the Times that he called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.
Don't do business with this company.
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Rumors claim Peak Design “traced” the UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect via a backpack serial number, but the company says it didn’t, and that it can’t.Mia Sato (The Verge)
funny (not) thing. The other day I almost pulled the trigger on buying one of their product. But to know how much I would have had to pay for shipping (I'm in Canada so it gets pricey crossing the border) they wanted my full name and delivery address (while all they need is a postal code).
So I skipped. Looks like my fear of giving that info unnecessarily are justified.
If anyone wants to send #PeakDesign a message (no threats or other misbehavior obviously) letting them know that WE know and won't forget about that the company is run by a snitch, here's their contact page:
peakdesign.com/pages/support#c…
I just like to directly inform companies when I'm putting effort into negative word-of-mouth about their brand—it's important to me that they know I am personally doing my part to damage their sales if at all possible.
The easiest way to get immediate answers to your Peak Design questions.www.peakdesign.com
#AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid, today with 11 updated and 1 added apps:
* SimbaDroid: a simple SMB file server 🛡️
RB status: 374 apps (30.6%)
at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 8 updated and 1 added #Magisk #modules
* zRAM Swap Manager
Count Count says: 123 modules there now 🤪
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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in reply to Christine Malec • • •I don't think I've heard that read without a Welsh accent before.
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in reply to Sean Randall • • •and mastodon isn't happy with that file. Here's a direct link instead.
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in reply to Christine Malec • • •It's still on my Braille display, though. Maybe I'll record the whole thing over the holidays!