In case you need a silly distraction, my sibling found this book in a free library and sent me a picture. This has to be high in the running for "Best Physics Textbook Cover Ever"
In einer Welt, die von rechtspopulistischen Figuren und Tech-Giganten beherrscht wird, stellt das #Fediverse (#Mastodon) eine essentielle Alternative dar. Es bietet einen Raum für dezentrale Kommunikation, der frei von kommerziellen Interessen und der Manipulation durch zentrale Plattformen ist, und fördert eine digitale Kultur, die Unabhängigkeit, Vielfalt und respektvollen Austausch anstelle von Hass und Desinformation in den Mittelpunkt stellt. ✊
Heh. My toot about trapping Claude is still murdering my notifications, and has taken over my previous most popular toot about a fake cookie banner, and the best part: much more engagement on it too! That's the best part. I usually have boost & fav notifications turned off, but... I'm in a sour mood lately, and the notification sound reminds me of a bot being trapped in an infinite maze of garbage, and that cheers me up a little. So they're temporarily turned on, and I get to enjoy a small dopamine hit every once in a while! Whee!
I do like the fact that my two most popular toots, like, ever, are these two: a silly fake cookie banner, and a delightful toot about trapping an AI crawler. If that's going to be my legacy, I'm happy.
Awww. Well, you leave a lot of nice things behind, friend, some of them curious experiments too. I like reading about your musings, they are certainly interesting. I must also ask you what app are you using that it gets GTS notifications, because we don't have notifications. :)
Oh, I don't think that's accessible very much, nothing shrimp is accessible, to be fair. I am using enafore which also has sounds, which you have to enable from the settings page, but it has the masto sound from the actual interface of masto. Why? I have no idea, but if I could, I would change it for sure.
While it is hosted at iceshrimp, it is a slightly hacked up Mastodon web UI. Not sure how accessible that is, but it's not a shrimp UI.
But yeah, it plays the mastodon sound. I don't mind much, most of it is obscurbed by the music I'm listening to - I just hear that something happened, because there was a momentary disruption in the music.
Oh interesting. Well in that case, Enafore plays the same sound, so I get that. I still don't get phone notifications though, which sucks. I guess they've not been implemented for anyone, yet.
Oh, yeah, no notifications on the phone for me, either (using Tusky on Android). But then, I have turned them off on my phone anyway, so wouldn't know even if I had any!
I use Toot! on phone, but I used to use Tusky when I had an Android before, I liked it. There was also an app called subway tooter, and for its funny name, it was pretty useable and cute if you were a blind person with good screen orientation, which I sadly am, so it's hard for me to relate to many blind humans, like some thing in between. I haven't bought any apps, besides Toot! a long time ago and that ws super cheap one-time purchase. But there are no notifications, at all. And my backup account on another instance does receive notifications, because it's Masto with Glitch, if I am not mistaken, so those work there. It's time for GTS to implement notifications, because I don't want to respond to someone 5hours later if I can help it. :)
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This pull request implements Web Push notifications.
Closes #1350
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I/we have read the GoToSocial contribution guidelines.
I/we have discussed the proposed changes already, e...
This is awesome! Thanks for that. I am not acquainted with Github, and it is very confusing to me, despite me learning how to use Jira and be able to submit issues, but Github. That's a whole different story, there's no cool company humans to simplify it super much.
Think twice before scanning QR codes: 60% of them are spam. Be careful when travelling for business, too - scammers are even putting fake QR codes on parking meters. Stay cautious to protect your business data
After nearly a full year in development, NodeBB v4.0.0 has landed, bringing federation between NodeBB instances (and a connection to the wider fediverse of social media) to forum software.
Fedi-what?
Fediverse! Here's a TechCrunch primer about it, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. All you need to know is that NodeBB plugs in to a wider social network so that you don't have to cultivate an audience, they're already there.
The genesis
It was back in mid-2023 when I had the initial idea of interconnecting NodeBB forums. Back then, I had far smaller ambitions... I wanted a singular NodeBB to be able to communicate with other forums running NodeBB. To do that, we'd need to build out a centralized service to act as a bridge between instances, and corresponding slim clients on individual installs to consume the relayed data. At the time, concept like decentralization were not even part of my thought process.
It was during this period when I was doing my research that I stumbled on Mastodon, and later, ActivityPub, the protocol that powers it all. Since then, it's been one wild ride getting NodeBB to speak the same language.
Funding
Soon after dipping my toes into all that Mastodon had to offer, I discovered the NLNet Foundation, and their corresponding fund — NGI Zero Core. With the promise of funding, NodeBB could fully commit to implementing the protocol in short order, instead of piece by piece over time. We sent in an application and were delighted to be approved for the August 2023 call.
Their funding was instrumental in providing the financial stability to experiment with ActivityPub and to participate in developer circles, such as the SWICG, FediForum, and much more.
NodeBB v4 comes shipped with the capability to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-speaking software, right out of the box. We opted to make this a core feature instead of a plugin, since there were many changes made to core to support even the concept of accepting content from outside itself.
To that end, any users upgrading from v3.x will automatically have federation disabled, in order to reduce surprise. Any new forums will federate automatically.
You can turn federation on and off (and adjust some other fun toggles) directly from ACP > Settings > Federation (ActivityPub).
Even after turning federation on, how you use it shapes how well connected you will be. There is no centralized authority artificially boosting your content, so the name of the game is establishing two-way follow relationships to other sites.
The ActivityPub Equalizer
We're not alone in this journey to interoperate with other decentralized services. We're not even the only forum software to attempt to do so.
Discourse has a working plugin.
Ghost is building out in the open.
I specifically highlight these two because they both started in the early 2010s, same as NodeBB. It's always been a bit of an informal competition between us, and we always checked in on what the others were doing (growth-wise, pricing-wise, etc.) Truth be told, I don't think the ghost team ever really noticed NodeBB, but I digress...
The funny thing about ActivityPub is that at the end of the day, the overarching goal of seamless communication breaks down any barriers between competing organizations.
NodeBB and Discourse have been vying for the exact same market share (forums, community-building, self-started or enterprise) for over 10 years, and it was only after ActivityPub came around that the dev teams even started talking to one another.
Funny how that works.
So how does it all work?
Our documentation portal has been updated with the latest information about the ActivityPub functionality in v4.
If you have any questions about how it works or how to configure some aspect of it, please don't hesitate to reach out in the corresponding v4 support thread.
If you run NodeBB, the quickest way to see this in action is to upgrade to v4, and then paste this post's URL into your search bar. It should show up automatically, and you should be able to read and reply to it, directly from your own forum. Neat!
I got the $30 tape recorder. Spoiler alert: It's mono. However, the universe sometimes throws me a bone. When I was very young in the 90's, I had a tape from an a cappella group that started with a song called "Take a Holiday". I remember it quite well, have tried searching for it, and never found it. Today I pulled out a random take from a random stack in one out of two giant boxes of tapes. And I found ... Easy T's - Tape a Holiday (Shoestring Records, 1993). The internet still stubbornly refuses to agree with me that this thing exists. So Here's my proof. The tape is in less than stellar shape after 30 years and this is a recording from a shitty boombox that would probably make cassette enthusiasts cry. You have been warned.
A little imagination, a lot of AI, and a bit more audio production on top can go a long way. What If Mufasa Were President? an Inaugural Address Like No Other youtu.be/etP8onPDKQ8
In an alternate universe where animals can hold the highest office in the land, Mufasa from The Lion King not only survives but rises to become the President...
I just added the ability to check Go Train service alerts to accessgo.ca. For now, it's only on the Union Departures pages for the various lines. I'll be adding it to the pages for each station hopefully soon.
This is psychological pollution under the guise of caring. Saying this to me, in response to MY work, is a classic mastodon experience. Express your despair somewhere else if you need to but understand that it is profoundly threatening to dump this into the mentions of women in science. It accomplishes nothing but forcing me to imagine my life under threat.
@grimalkina@mastodon.social Well unfortunately, this is all going away.
In a few years, women will not be allowed to enter science - capable or not. Nor get abortions, work outside of the home, or leave their abusive husbands.
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FYI, the same-page links in the table of contents nav thing for the post don't work for me in Safari on iOS. VoiceOver just indicates that I've returned to the top of the page (to the NVAccess logo link) when I activate them.
@jscholes Thanks James, is that usual (if you look at previous issues)? I'm using the same setup as previously and they seem to work for me, though I haven't tested in iOS myself yet, I'll check that out.
@jscholes Do the links other than the first one (ie add-on survey, SPEVI conference etc) - Looking at w3schools.com/html/html_id.asp what I've done should work, ie: <a href="#C4">Jump to Chapter 4</a> which links to <h2 id="C4">Chapter 4</h2>
BUT I noticed in there "The id name ... cannot start with a number". The first TOC entry for the 2024.4.2 update has a number for the ID. I've never noticed an issue before, apparently it SHOULD work fine with HTML, but CSS may not: benfrain.com/when-and-where-yo…
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@jscholes I'm not sure if Windows / Chrome / Firefox / NVDA are happy to work with my numerical ID, and for some reason IOS / Safari / VoiceOver is not?
I just updated it to ensure ALL the ID's start with letters now. I'd be interested to know if it works now? If not, maybe there is an iOS / Safari / VoiceOver bug?
That hasn't made a difference. But based on your mark-up example, you're missing a tabindex="-1" on the target headings to make them programmatically focusable (headings can't receive focus by default). It's possible that Windows browsers/screen readers aren't picky about that anymore (relying on scroll position only), while Safari still requires it.
@jscholes This seems to be a Voiceover bug as far as I can tell - the ID should be all that is needed to tell the browser where to go, and that WC3Schools article (& other tutorials I can find) only requires the ID. As far as I can tell tabindex is only required where you want to override the default order of things when physically tabbing around the site (with the tab key)
A `tabindex` value of `"-1"` either: 1. removes an element from the tab order; or 2. makes an element programmatically focusable when it isn't already.
The second category is what applies here, because a heading isn't focusable by default. If you want focus to move to it (in this case by clicking a link) as opposed to the browser only scrolling the page, it should be made focusable via `tabindex="-1"`.
Here's an example page which does work correctly with VoiceOver, where the "Tuesday", "Wednesday" and "Thursday" links cause the corresponding headings to be correctly focused because the `<h2>` elements have `tabindex="-1"`.
I'll also note that the links on the In-Process page don't actually work correctly in Chrome on Windows either, even though NVDA gives the impression that they do. If you activate e.g. "Add-on survey" and then press NVDA+Tab, you hear:
@marco @jscholes Actually, a target is not required to be focusable in order for a same page link to target it. Target scroll and focus are two different things. If that isn't working on iOS (and there isn't some other bug on the page), Safari or VoiceOver is doing it wrong. This has been allowed and supported by browsers and AT for years.
We still run into instances where skip links targeting headings fail to provide an equitable experience without the target being focusable. It's possible that in such cases, there is something else wrong on the page. At the same time, adding the tabindex fixes the problem, allows SR users to determine the new focus point instead of it being on the body, and provides a visible indication of focus for people who benefit from that (particularly if coupled with :focus-visible).
I think it's good to know if a given technique should no longer technically be required especially if it leads to knowledge of an Apple bug (that they won't fix), but I maintain that there's an easy way to improve this situation with no negative side effects, and so whether it should need the workaround or not is practically moot for users.
On the other hand, we've now spent more time talking about the problem than it would've taken me to read the whole page so... shrug :)
@jscholes @jcsteh @marco Also, you need to think about those links for more than just screen reader users.Programmatically moving focus to the main content allows sighted keyboard-only users to bypass repeated content as well, something simply scrolling the screen doesn't do for them.
@jyarbrough @jscholes @jcsteh @marco I'm still looking into this - if it helps make it better to access in future, then it's worth it. As well as Wc3 schools, most other guides on creating same page links don't mention tabindex either (specifically adding it to a search I can find some A11y pages talking about it) - it seems like needing an extra tag to provide functionality the same page link should just DO. In what situation would anyone want a same page link to scroll but not move focus?
@jscholes @jcsteh @marco The guidance we provide where I work is to include a tabindex and it's something I was asked about in a technical interview with one of the big accessibility consulting companies here in the US.
@jyarbrough @jcsteh @marco Moving focus can be a sticky topic because it causes an outline/ring to appear around the thing that receives it (at least on accessible sites). Many web designers for some reason have an aversion to this happening when a focus change is triggered with a mouse, and this may explain why browser developers have been hesitant to do more than just scrolling for skip links.
Then again, this is a complete guess and could be wildly off the mark.
@jscholes Re what NVDA+tab reports - That seems to be exactly the same even if you arrow down to the same place, so while possibly a sepearte bug, I don't think it's relevant here.
NVDA-Tab reports the system focus. If you arrow down the page in browse mode, you're not moving the system focus so the behaviour you're describing is expected and not a bug. I was pointing out that NVDA-Tab is relevant to the discussion because if you allow the heading to receive focus as I'm suggesting, the system focus will move when one of those links is activated, and hence NVDA-Tab will report the heading accordingly.
Decades of Israeli warmongering show a pattern of the Israeli military trying to provoke the "other side" into responding in order to use it as "justification" for further slaughter.
Habs geschafft. Mein erstes Video ist auf #loops zu sehen. Antwortet mir, wenn ihr es geschafft habt, dort reinzukommen. Ist alles noch beta, aber es sieht sehr vielversprechend aus! Die Mail zur Anmeldung braucht ein paar Tage, so viel Andrang gibt es dort. loops.video/@ebinger Cc @dansup
Today we remember that the FBI, acting in its lawful and official capacity, tried to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr. into committing suicide and we almost certainly would not know that for a fact if a bunch of hippies hadn’t literally burglarized an FBI office in 1971, an action which is definitely illegal.
this is cool as I am looking for something similar up until now I was using <summary> <details> . I am a bit concerned that it might be a chrome only thing?
do you know that the technique of the article is applicable only to the old way to do this type of collapsible section (eg. <div class='details'>) or it's applicable also to the <details> tag? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
The element. HTML element creates a disclosure widget in which information is visible only when the widget is toggled into an "open" state. A summary or label must be provided using the
Myself and my good friend @bumble (who runs a variety of server types on the fediverse), are joining forces to offer #hosting for #GoToSocial servers.
It's early days but we'd be keen to hear from anyone who wants to try running their own GoToSocial but doesn't have the skill, want, or equipment to run their own server.
The aim is to simply charge for running costs for the server. We will not take any costs from this (unless we end up with hundreds of them!). We anticipate a basic instance for one user (or a small handful) will be 5 euros per month and the charge is month to month. You pay each month in advance, and can cancel any time.
All you need is a domain name (or a sub-domain of your existing domain). We can help with this, or help you buy one for a few dollars/euros. We will handle all admin of the server.
Initially we are only looking for a few people to participate. If you are interested send me a direct message.
Android 16 deprecates accessibility announcements, characterized by the use of announceForAccessibility or the dispatch of TYPE_ANNOUNCEMENT accessibility events. These can create inconsistent user experiences for users of TalkBack and Android's screen reader, and alternatives better serve a broader range of user needs across a variety of Android's assistive technologies. developer.android.com/about/ve…
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Yes, I have a pair, I've been using starkey since 2015. I tried out the premium advanced Genesis AI, but since voc rehab wouldn't pay for those I got the ones that were only a small step down from the premium advanced ones, I love them, I've been fighting for these for almost 5 years. I've wanted them since they came out, they are awesome!!!! I have one gold, and one silver and actually they were out a little earlier than 2019, but only for those who could pay for them, I saw them at headquarters in 2017 and that's when I decided I wanted them and had to have them. so I will be reposting this, :)
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Shake Shack, BurgerFi, and Chipotle are the only major fast-food chains with strict no-antibiotics meat policies. Find out why this matters for your health.
Seventy-six years ago today, on January 20, 1949, a new chapter in American history unfolded, not just in the political arena, but in the realm of media and technology. Harry S.
Jenny had married Roger, a man much older than her. Concerned about his health, she decided they should have separate bedrooms after the wedding to ensure he didn’t over-exert himself.
That night, after the celebrations, Jenny got ready for bed. Soon, there was a knock at her door. It was Roger, her 85-year-old groom, ready for some romantic time together.
They enjoyed their time, and Roger left. Jenny was about to fall asleep when she heard another knock. To her surprise, it was Roger again, full of energy. They spent more time together, and he left once more.
Just as she settled in, there was yet another knock. Roger, as lively as ever, was back for a third round. Jenny laughed and went along with it again.
Afterward, she looked at Roger in amazement. "I’m so impressed!" she said. "At your age, you’ve got more stamina than men a third your age. You’re incredible!"
Roger paused, looking puzzled. "Wait," he said. "You mean I’ve been here before?"
There are two modern ways to capture HDMI video into a computer using OBS. Both require a video capture card.
A PCIe video capture device allows you to capture and record video and audio from a device and save it to your computer through HDMI.
Besides a PCIe capture card, you can also use a USB video capture card. A USB video capture card is more portable, but you can only use one in each USB port.
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* VpnHood! CLIENT: a new variant of the existing one, but without proprietary parts – so no Anti-Features anymore! Please switch before we remove the "old one" 😉 And thanks, Trudy, for making this possible!
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While it is hosted at iceshrimp, it is a slightly hacked up Mastodon web UI. Not sure how accessible that is, but it's not a shrimp UI.
But yeah, it plays the mastodon sound. I don't mind much, most of it is obscurbed by the music I'm listening to - I just hear that something happened, because there was a momentary disruption in the music.
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FYI: there's a pull request implementing push notifications for GoToSocial: github.com/superseriousbusines…
So it looks like it might be coming sooner rather than later!
[feature] Push notifications by VyrCossont · Pull Request #3587 · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
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