Join Bryan Blazie and @DavidGoldfield on ACB Media's Doing Braille Digitally this Saturday, March 22 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. We'll talk about the latest batch of updates that were just added to BT Speak. We'll also have a teeny bit to say about the upcoming Braille display product we've named BT Braille.
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I hate VoiceOver so much that whenever I need to test some web or ARIA thing in Safari, I SSH in and launch the URL from Windows with the `open` command. I was very happy that it actually launched the window in my running UI session on the Mac.
@jscholes Hahaha, that's precisely why I needed to know how to do this. I have the unhappy misfortune of needing to support OSARA on both Windows and Mac, but I can't do actual development on the Mac, so I do it all via ssh. But I obviously can't test it via ssh. :)
@jscholes But after I discovered the "open" command, then I was annoyed that I couldn't get stdout so I could see my printfs in my ssh session. So I went looking and found that article.
There’s a joke about the Unix editor vi, that goes something like: I’ve been using vi for so long, because I can’t figure out how to get out of it. Vim, in my opinion isn’t …
Did you know I maintain the Podcast Guest Guide, a step-by-step guide explaining what to do if you've been invited to appear on a podcast? I just gave it a light update – podcast hosts, feel free to send your upcoming guests to podcastguestguide.com at any time 🎙👍
The Internet Archive is happy to announce a screening of a documentary, "Hacking at Leaves" at our headquarters in San Francisco. Tickets are available Here. \'Hacking at Leaves\' documents artist […]\n
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There's a famous library on the border between Quebec and Vermont. The borderline runs right through the library. It's been this way for 100 years and it is symbolic of the closeness between Americans and Canadians. In Trump's Amerikkka wonderful is no longer allowed. So they closed access to Canadians today. Canadians aren't just angry at the insults and threats, we are also grieving the end of a great relationship. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us…
🌏 This Wednesday almost 40 mappers joined a mapathon in Prague. They added more than 2300 buildings into #OpenStreetMap in Bamyan province, Afghanistan, where #msf teams are supporting local communities. Big thank you to all the mappers and organizers for their contributions! 👏
In case it is unclear: libgen is good. Subverting copyright cartels is good. Authors getting paid for their work is also good, but copyright does not serve that role and is instead a weapon publishers use to retain control as obligate distribution passages and thus control over payment. Meta being able to vacuum up the commons (without even seeding) and launder it into a tool of mass informational disempowerment and control is bad. Meta being able to torrent while the rest of us can't is bad.
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option (Gael Cooper/CNET)
A new major release with exciting changes including notification stacking, performance improvements, an improved image viewer, a new interface font, new digital wellbeing settings, a new audio player, HDR support and much more!
To find out more, and to see what else happened this week, check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!
Like the more famous Pompei, Herculaneum was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
In 1752, workmen discovered charred papyri and excavations of them started later. Over the years, attempts have been made to open and read them, but they have disintegrated.
Now, using volumetric scanning, the scrolls are beginning to be "unrolled."
From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Meet Patrick Long, Co-Founder & CEO of InnoSearch AI: Thursday, March 27, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/topic/from…
A local ordinance has banned grass burning because it poisons the air and kills insects, and there are organic waste bins on every corner. Unfortunately, the effect is just the opposite. People who aren't selfish idiots didn't burn grass even before, and the rest burn even more now to show that they aren't obedient sheep and that no one is going to take away their freedom to poison the air for their neighbors.
This graph shows what it does to the #airquality. It immediately jumps from OK to unhealthy.
@Urban_Hermit The problem with that is, some things cannot practically be enforced. Remember prohibition? Remember the "War on Drugs?" You might catch a few offenders but if the punishment is a slap on the wrist they won't care, and if it's more severe you risk filling prisons with non-violent individuals (or at least they were not violent before going to prison).
The correct answer (and maybe this is what you were going for) is "Don't ban a thing unless it really matters and a very significant majority of the people agree with the ban". And, I might add, don't make bans for political reasons or so that some bureaucrat or politician can feel like he accomplished something, people will always oppose those bans.
@maple @Urban_Hermit I agree. It should be about education and making it convenient to dispose bio waste a different way. In early 90s my father built a summer house on his old family property in countryside. When he was applying for a waste bin, his neighbors told him that it was waste of money, "you have a stream behind the house, just dump it there, and the next big water will take it away", it was normal there back then. My sister lives there now and no one would even think of it any more. The stream is clean, even trout and cancers are back. And no ordinance was needed.
@saasa not much I guess. It isn't reasonably enforceable. There was a case when thick smoke was coming from one garden, clearly burning something wet. Someone called the municipal police, the guy came out, told them he was having barbecue, that was it because they cannot enter his property without him permitting it.
I appreciate the sentiment and you shouldn't burn grass, but TBQH as a citizen with the city, country, etc, constantly telling me "you have to recycle, conserve, etc" while the giant mega corps pollute to no end is kind of uninspiring. Maybe solve the biggest issues first?
burning grass is so bad. I've asked 3 neighbors to give me their grass so that I can compost it instead. Two are doing so but one is still burning strong almost every Saturday. 🤷♂️
would be still good to observe the effect after some time + with historical comparison. Honestly I can’t imagine it could get any worse than it was before.
You might think, “why do you care about sports? Why does this matter? This doesn’t affect you”. Sports bans are about creating precedent to justify further discrimination. They start with sports and denying care to minors and then expand to bathroom bans, forced detransition for inmates, denying care to adults and ID laws and the whole time their goal is to sound measured and reasonable and play to respectability while they legislate trans people to death. Literal death bsky.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profil…
Sports bans are about getting you to agree that trans women are not equal to cis women and that they are something dangerous, to be feared, something invasive, something other that needs to be stopped. It’s about villainization. The science doesn’t support it. It’s 100% feels based scaremongering. If you think, “I’m a progressive person but it’s about fairness” or whatever the fuck, you’re being duped. You’re a mark and you’re enabling genocide
The Republican appeal to “common sense” is about getting you to stop thinking, ignore facts, ignore evidence, ignore science, and make laws purely on vibes.
By the way the vibes are racism, misogyny, sexism, queerphobia, xenophobia, ableism, etc
(Correctly Formatted and Corrected Time From the List Owner) From Blind Access Journal: Unlocking the Power of AI: Saturday, March 22, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/89…
Today, in dystopia. This looks like it's directly lifted from a Cory Doctorow novel.
CBS News: DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer an eat now, pay later plan
"...DoorDash customers will have the option either to pay in full, to pay in four equal installments or to postpone payment to "a more convenient time, such as a date that aligns with their paycheck," DoorDash said Thursday in a news release...."
Coca-Cola is installing what the company claims to be the world’s first hydrogen-powered vending machines at the World Expo 2025, which will open to the public in Osaka, Japan, on April 13th, 2025. Co-developed by Fuji Electric, the machines don’t need access to a power outlet and instead rely on replaceable hydrogen cartridges to fuel a chemical reaction that generates electricity, @theverge reports: theverge.com/news/633779/coca-…
Zoom is about to release the H5studio Recorder. It talks like the essential stuff does, but it has the superior F-series microphone preamps and 192 kHz recording, as well as the H6 Essential's mic capsule system.
This basically looks like a Zoom F3 that talks, plus the replaceable X/Y microphones of the H6 Essential.
Hmm... I might have a hardly used H6 Essential for sale soon.
Wanted to run your own builder for #reproducibleBuilds and were disappointed our RBuilder Setup was only available for Debian-based systems? Then we have good news for you: a few min ago, 2 PRs have been merged. The setup scripts now also support RPM & Arch based systems 🥳
RPM/Arch lack packages for apksigner & dexdiff (which are needed for debugging). We're on it, those will follow hopefully soon™.
Thanks to @Iamlooker and Patrick (from FlorisBoard) for your help!
This package is an incorrectly named because it doesn't build from sources, just repackages upstream built sources—it should be -bin. If I were to put something in official repos it would have to be a source build. Is building these from sources possible?
In the mean time that bin package is built and hosted in my unofficial user repo, but signed with official keys:
@alerque which one is "this"? I'm unsure if it would be a good idea to pull in the entire build tools package just for dexdump and apksigner. But I must admit I didn't check how much overhead that means. So as it's not essential for *running* a builder, it's just mentioned as a manual install option for now. But if the overhead is small enough, or if there were separate package(s) for those two, that could be included in the default install of course. @Iamlooker
android-sdk-build-tools should be android-sdk-build-tools-bin. Except in special cases upstream generated binaries are not eligible for official packaging, we need to be able to build from source. The AUR allows such recipes that fetch and wrap upstream but they should have bin suffixes on the package names.
Are dexdump and apksigner sources available? Do they have some sort of stable versioning scheme that applies to them upstream?
At first blush packaging those each separately as stand alone tools looks doable. Is there a specific series of tags it would be most useful to follow? Remember Arch is rolling release and we can only (easily) have one latest release at a time.
Thanks @alerque! I'm not that familiar with their WebIf, but at least for apksig they show some tags on the left pane; picking the latest android-*-r* one (currently android-15.0.0_r23, visible after following the "More..." link) should be fine. Same tags are on the art repo where dexdump is in. @Iamlooker
If you've set up a builder, we'd love to hear from your experiences – concerning the setup (was it easy enough and straight-forward?) as well as from operation
Нейронные центры, обрабатывающие русский и английский языки, схожим образом реагируют и на клингонский с валирийским – но при этом игнорируют языки программирования.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/my… This is the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. It's not something you would imagine in a democratic nation. But this is the reality of life in Trump's America.
And this is why I went to Canada's Parliament to issue a travel warning to Canadian citizens: avoid all unnecessary travel to the USA. #cdnpoli
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯
Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.
Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
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How I’m Using Textedit beyond VI and VIM to edit files from the Mac os terminal – Accessibility Insights
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