Apropos of nothing, I'm constantly reminded, when dealing with security-oriented folks, of the epic Google rant from Steve Yegge—mainly, this central nugget:
@maco it's the infamous rant he posted on Google Plus (back when it existed) and was meant to be shared within Google, but the UX for limiting the audience was still such a mess that he ended up making it public. Somebody saved it for posterity, especially after G+ died: gist.github.com/chitchcock/128…
"...despite legislation, standards and a growing general understanding of the concept, only a tiny fraction of products and services are accessible to everyone." stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/c…
There is something strange about accessibility. Those of us who work with it every day think it’s obvious, something everyone should focus on in all communication.
🚀 Heinlein Gruppe gründet OpenCloud GmbH zur Stärkung des Open Source-Ökosystems in Deutschland 🇩🇪. @OpenCloud bietet sicheres, DSGVO-konformes File-Management und -Sharing und stärkt damit Europas digitale Souveränität.
Peer Heinlein betont: „Das digitale Ökosystem ist kritische Infrastruktur.“
This effort isn't restricted to government employees…
“Mr. Trump is also directing the attorney general to create a plan to deter the private sector from adopting or continuing DEI programs.” cbsnews.com/miami/news/trump-o…
The CNN piece Matt links references accessibility programs.
"Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'"
Tomorrow at 5pm is their last day. Agencies have to make a plan for firing them all by next Friday.
@masayuki60 Hi there! For now you can choose an email signature, but you're totally right! It would be great to be able to choose them. We will share this with the team.
I like this #FunkaFoundation post. Imagine how much less clear our writing would be without spell & grammar checking tools. The same goes for publishing to the web, but with accessibility. These tools exist, and they just need to be enabled by default.
Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
En Izquierda Unida, leemos con indignación la decisión de la Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias de aceptar el criterio de un tribunal médico, no de una evaluación educativa, y expulsar d
One does not simply go and replace getaddrinfo() in an afternoon, believe me. Here's me explaining it to the HAPPY mailing list as I thought this was common knowledge: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/…
@wolf480pl well, there is no "late answers" then because they are never seen... I would say that the problems are primarily: the blocking API and that we can't ask for additional DNS resource fields. And a third could be the lack of TTL in there.
right... so an advanced program like curl wound want an asynchronous API that can plug into any event loop you like, that returns responses as soon as they arrive, including TTL, all the extra fields from SVCB and HTTPS records, any TLSA records, and so on?
And I as a casual user would want an stdlib function thay just does all the happy eyeballs stuff and returns a comnected socket
And none of this matters cause noone knows how to reimplement GAI's nsswitch handling?
I submitted an idea for Thunderbird: suppressing the notification about remote content on emails, keeping it all blocked: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/s…
There's a setting to accept all remote content, which suppresses the warning; but no setting to deny all remote content. I never want to get remote content on my email, and the constant notification is annoying.
This is *the 5th time* Google Maps has been extremely inaccurate for me in the past week alone.
I've already been using Organic Maps quite a bit, but am depending on it more and more. Once in a while, the OSM map info is out of date, but so is Google. But OSM is never blatantly wrong like Google is lately.
I'm meeting a colleague (elsewhere) who sent me a Google Maps link right after this and that's wrong too. (6th time this week!)
Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (TechCrunch)
O rety, wreszcie! Każdy, kto prowadzi publiczny transport zbiorowy, powinien udostępniać rozkłady do takiej bazy.
Bo jak mnie to wkurza, gdy planuję różne wyjazdy. Warszawską komunikację miejską mam w jakdojadę. Część PKS-ów jest w epodróżniku. Ale już np. komunikację gminną w powiecie warszawskim-zachodnim (czy Bielsku-Białej) znajdę w Google Maps. Z kolei rozkłady autobusów gminnych dookoła Otwocka są tylko do znalezienia w jakichś PDFach na stronach przewoźników. Chaos, który ogarniają jedynie miejscowi, a jak ktoś ma korzystać z komunikacji rzadziej, to odpuszcza.
Resort zapowiada wprowadzenie baz danych, które zagregują informacje o rozkładach jazdy komunikacji publicznej. Pomoże to w stworzeniu wyszukiwarek połączeń zawierających dokładne, aktualne i kompletne informacje dotyczące wszystkich przewoźników.
Rozkłady to jedno, dane o lokalizacji pojazdów to drugie.
Wrocław ma do tego wewnętrznie bardzo fajne API (jest pięknie opisane w dokumentacji przetargowej na pojazdy), ale to co wystawiają na zewnątrz to jest jakaś kpina.
I did this I tried to reproduce the Arch Linux curl package by repeating the build in the documented build environment and noticed the zsh completions do not match: https://web.archive.org/web/2025...
Nazis: “it was a Nazi salute!” Anti-fascists: “it was a Nazi salute” Jews: “it was a Nazi salute” Germans: “it was a Nazi salute (and we'd arrest him for it)” Media: “Musk makes awkward gesture” reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1i6…
Do you know I don't think I've ever actually encountered a braille book! I'm never sure how appropriate it is to ask questions about accessibility so I won't, but I have so many questions!
Ask away. I was born 100% blind and spent a decade teaching high school. I can guarantee that I have had all the embarrassing, crude and rude questions you can imagine and then some. I'm a proponent of the educate first, be offended later school.
Lol. I wasn't thinking of any rude or crude questions! Basically yes I wanted to know if you learned braille earlier or later in life (ie post-written word) and whether you read braille braille or tactile books (or both). I enjoy learning new 'languages' and would be fascinated to know whether it's something I could intuitively pick up or basically like starting again from scratch. I'd also be interested if it's direct translation or it there are shortcuts / iconography. Is it direct letter to letter or are you skimming whole words..... 'the' / 'here' / 'there' etc?
I learned Braille as my first writing system, so I visualise letters that way, even though I *know* they don't look that way. Braille is really a code to represent print.
The first level of Braille is called "uncontracted", and that is a direct letter-to-letter reproduction of the written word. if I wanted to ask > "How are you today?" I'd write > "⠠⠓⠕⠺⠀⠁⠗⠑⠀⠽⠕⠥⠀⠞⠕⠙⠁⠽⠦". Which if you count you'll see is similar to the print, except the first character is a capital indicator telling us that the h in how is uppercase.
After that you can move onto "contracted" Braille, where there are short forms, contractions and word signs. For example, our question now becomes > "⠠⠓⠪⠀⠜⠑⠀⠽⠀⠞⠙⠦" here, the "ow" of "how" has merged into a "⠪" (an o-w sign), the letter y by itself stands for a you, and "td means today. a bit like early text-speak.
disclaimer, I am doing the Braille blind so can't 100% verify my output by touch at the moment.
Go for it, questions very welcome. there's a cool website you can learn from called UEBOnline if you want to go further. Physical equipment for showing Braille electronically is very expensive unfortunately. if you want to just write Braille though, [Perky Duck](duxburysystems.com/perky.asp) is free
@cachondo very cool, thanks for the explanation. I have a little experience with American Sign Language as well as Signed English, and the differences between them have some similarities to your Braille examples.
Could you take a picture of the contents page of your kindle? I don't know if that's possible but I didn't even know about screenreaders before I came here so I'm assuming you have some magical device for that!
I have lost momentum in this week of reading and only managed to swallow 3 books, 3,750 pages.
the shoutout this week has to go to *The Boys*, a compelling work of literary fiction that pulls a childhood insecurity, grief and trauma into the light in an interesting way. I read it in a single sitting and it hung around my head for days afterward. The other 2 were Harry Potter fanfiction, one of which was rather amateur and immature both, and the other of which seems to have sadly had its sequel abandoned. #bookstodon
@jakobrosin I got very frustrated with abridged audio tapes, I suppose. so began doing OCR with paperbacks. When I learned to type pre-teen, my instructor would randomly up the text-to-speech rate by just a word per minute or so throughout the school term. I started in September and it wasn't until she played back my first session before Christmas that I realised. By then, it was a done deal. I'd go up until I asn't comfortable anymore.
So I've never been one for slowing down for leisure versus skimming, or changing the voice to give myself a breath of fresh air or whatever.
I used to be like that. My broken ears have caught up to me though, and now I pretty much have to slow things down a bit if I'm not using Braille. I've found recordings of past me casually using speech at 750 or 800 WPM or whatever. Ah, the good ol' days.
@jscholes Apex By: JustBored21 Harry has spent years pretending to be someone he was not, but in his fourth year he had finally had enough. He would no longer pretend. Now the real Harry Potter is out, and everything is changing. Dumbledore bashing, Hermione and certain Weasley bashing. Grey/Dark Harry. fanfiction.net/s/13536654/1/Ap…
On the one hand, to most people, it doesn't make much more sense than modern art. But on the other, when you're familiar with the platform a demo runs on enough to understand its limitations, it blows your mind to pieces.
(I'm not familiar with C64 at all. I've seen one IRL at the Yandex museum, and most of the things I know about C64 is from 8-bit guy's videos.)
@grishka yeah, nowadays it is even more strange to people since they are so ancient and weird, but even at the time "mere mortals" saw no point at all in demos and I can sympathize because of course they really didn't have a lot of greater purpose.
But I spent all my awake hours working on demos for several years back then.
in the modern days, on modern systems, those size-restricted demos (4k, 16k, 32k etc, is there a proper name for that category?) are still damn impressive to anyone who understands anything about programming on a level lower than React :D
@troed Writing demos teaches some skills that are hard to acquire otherwise... while also creating some bad habits.
Oh, and I'm writing that literally as I'm starting work on a new ST demo, I just did the first git commit of a trivial program that'll grow into some demo over the next few weeks.
Walkthrough of how the security of the Minut M2 IoT sensor was defeated. Contains both hardware attacks as well as cryptographic analysis.This is part 2 in t...
@troed @harrysintonen I think it also made an excellent intro to embedded systems development in general with the lowlevel thinking combined with lots of assembler knowledge etc. Made poking on bootloaders with occasional inlined assembly etc feel "at home".
Good morning, friends of the #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse, it's Wednesday, the day of the Sea. Let’s begin this new day by focusing on the beauty of nature, forgetting for a moment the problems of life and the world.
curl features an alternative progress bar. When you invoke it with -# or the longer version --progress-bar, curl will show the transfer progress using a single "bar" on the screen instead of the default meter that shows a lot of data like amount of d…
@icing We’d happily invite you to the LRPN - Long Retro Programming Night this summer.
“You think you’re good at programming? We’re taking away autocompletion and classbrowsers from your fingertips. Have fun solving one of the following problems […], in a language of your choice, from this list:
* Turbo Pascal 3.0 on CP/M * GFA-Basic 3.6, Atari ST * Microsoft Fortran 77 for Mac * BCPL on Amiga * Megamax Modula 2 * Turbo C 2.0 * BBC Basic for Acorn ARM * Think Pascal 4.5 w/ debugger for 68k Mac
All on real hardware.
Have fun using this to get data from our Wimodem, send graphics to our pen plotters or bridge world wide data to our impact printers. All on glorious amber, white & green screens. Are you up to the challenge?”
@3rz @icing Sorry, but for me the retro part is firmly left in the rear view mirror. I have enough current and future development to deal with. I reminiscent over those days but I don't relive them myself.
El Ministerio Público reconoce que la infiltración se llevó a cabo sin "una regulación expresa", pero avala que la agente engañara un activista independentista para mantener una relación con él
Throughout his 2024 campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to give pardons to his supporters who had been criminally charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“The DC Police Union wishes to express its dismay over the recent pardons granted to individuals convicted of assaulting police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots at the US Capitol Building.”
"Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'"
Tomorrow at 5pm is their last day. Agencies have to make a plan for firing them all by next Friday.
@vick21 According to the memo, they’ll be walked out at 5pm Wednesday, and there’ll be a plan to fire them by next Friday. I think some judge will issue an injunction to stop it, and they’ll be in limbo for months to years.
General strike? I’d say days to weeks. Not later than March.
I thought it would be interesting to see what happens when you get a practice session from the tennis player Alex de Minaur at the Australian Open and slow it down by a ridiculous degree using reaper. You get some very interesting sounds here particularly with the serving of the ball and the squeaking of the tennis shoes on the hardcourt.
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