American public approval used to surge after something like this to show either some real or fake patriotic support, then ebb when reality (and US deaths) roll in.
That Trump has this level of disapproval now is a bad sign for him and a great one for sanity, because regardless of how you feel about the countries involved, he possesses no sanity or demonstrated ability to handle a complex situation.
Are you surprised Trump moved so quickly to try to force a ceasefire? Read this striking new survey data, and you won’t be. Americans don’t trust him to wage a long war.
#Firefox Progressive Web Apps sind ne praktische Sache.
Allerdings finde ich die #Installation auf #ubuntu etwas unübersichtlich. Deshalb diese Notiz an meiner Pinnwand mit dem #Workflow, der sich für mich bewährt hat. Vielleicht hilft's auch anderen:
Amazon says it plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to "tens of millions" of people who live in "more than 4,000" smaller US towns by the end of 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Was? Köpfe zur Zukunft von NagerIT mit Interessierten zusammenstecken, solidarisches Geschäftsmodell durchspielen und nichts Geringes, als die Zukunft unserer süßen, fairen Computermaus retten.
Considering how GNOME Color Manager's support for calibrating scanners (and printers?) has been broken for many years, and how it seems like the remaining code might get ripped out entirely from GNOME Control Center as a result, I have filed a new #GNOME app idea, in the wild hope that someone might find this interesting enough to create a standalone utility app for creating ICC color profiles for your photo scanners and printers: gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-id…
I searched far and wide for standalone calibration tools and they are either nonexistent or extremely hard to use (and typically commandline stuff requiring obscure arcane knowledge). Even...
@hub Hmm I don't think I mentioned display calibration in this app idea ticket, but I sure do wonder on a regular basis how DisplayCAL will fit in the new Wayland color management system, and about its general state of development/maintenance. I haven't kept a close watch on it in recent times, as I presume there's a lot of dust up in the air until the new Wayland color management middleware fully lands?
A few weeks ago, @joshbressers managed to hook me up to his mic. And then couldn't manage to stop me.
He still managed to get an amazing podcast episode about what it is to be a hobbyist maintainer, why it matters to talk about it and how failing to understand this is why nearly all policies around FOSS fail to move the needle.
You can listen to it and then come tell me what you think
Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist com…
I believe agreed with just about everything you said there... The challenge with funding projects who have maintainers with full-time jobs is something I frequently mention to people who talk about OSS funding.
i have always insisted that the best way for most to contribute to a specific (few maintainer) projects sustainability is usually by offering actual helping hands and minds. But that's also harder because that takes skill, knowledge and energy.
In a recent CNN report, skepticism surrounds the Trump Organization’s claim that its new “T1” smartphone is “Made in the USA.” Experts, including Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the claim, citing striking similarities between the T1 and a low-cost Chinese phone, the Revvl 7 Pro 5G, made by Wingtech, a Chinese manufacturer.
Weaver emphasized the logistical and technical difficulty of building a phone in the U.S.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
@draeath @Seb_Solon its in many more cars too, not only the Android ones. A few years ago, curl was used in some 22 well-known car brands. Virtually every car made in the last few years run curl.
@buherator I believe said person had a problem and while desperately trying to find someone to contact, they find my email address in a screen on their infotainment system. A screen listing the curl license (among many others).
I first discovered your blog through the „I have Toyota Corolla“ post and just noticed you’re actually keeping an email archive. This is the most enjoyable thing I’ve seen today and I’d like to thank you for it 😅
They should add "-k" in the option list of the line with subprocess.call(["curl", "https://tankfloat.local/status"]) in tank-display.py. Presumably the certificate has simply expired. *scnr*
hey I have a problem with my dog. There is a lady dog in the neighborhood and he keeps on chasing her, specially while she is on heat. Then I use the GPS on his collar to track him. In the App I found your address, so you must be the right person to ask: how can I train my dog not to chase female dogs?
@superviviansunshine the car probably has the cURL license in the mediaplayer or elsewhere, which contains @bagder 's e-mail address, so he gets these random car support requests from time to time. Several more in his blog
My brother-in-law knows someone who can fix it. And he is in Trinidad right now as that is where my wife’s family are. From reading the email I’m guessing he is from Venezuela - loads of people escaping from Maduro.
For those interested in #Catholic theology, Catholic Answers is offering discounts this week on its MP3 downloads. 160 files are available for $1.00, $3.00 and $5.00. These files are free of DRM, allowing them to be played on any device or with any software which supports Mp3 files. shop.catholic.com/mp3s/
it just sucks that none of those work well on Android. I've been using Firefox, but it just breaks on Samsung Dex sometimes. I'm considering using Vivaldi now. Any opinions on that one?
This neatly highlights my issue with pretty much all of the current crop of Software-as-a-Service platforms. Almost all of them are in a hole with no plan for getting out of it. When a "cloud" SaaS goes, you're sunk as an end user, and most of them are sinking
Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...
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The anti-nuclear hysteria that captured the public imagination for generations has not only contributed significantly to climate change, it has literally been responsible for killing hundreds of millions of people.
📱 Fairphone 6 leaked renders implicate its modular design for easy repairs • Android Central
｢ The device is set to launch on June 25 starting at €549, and the specifications of the upcoming Android handset include a 6.31-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, along with Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 under the hood paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB built-in storage, which is further expandable through microSD for up to 2TB ｣
Momentka ze sudetske zoo. Maminka pronese k diteti:
"Podivej, gorila!"
Situaci plne rozumim. Taky jsem gorilu nikdy nevidel.
Doufam, ze tato neprijemna zivotni situace nebude mit negativni vliv na vyvoj ditete a ze se mu to nevymsti u statni maturity. Petici za zahajeni jednani o zapujceni goril do sudetske zoo muzete podepsat u vchodu vedle lednicky s pegasy.
V dalsim dile serialu momentek ze sudetske zoo se dozvite, jak po me pavian plastikovy hodil kamenem. Mrcha. Stay tuned!
Medida troglodita e trauliteira. Como é que alguém com um mestrado ou um doutoramento que queira trabalhar na União Europeia vai vir para Portugal depois desta medida quando quase todos os restantes países da UE impõem prazos menores e oferecem melhores condições de vida? Sinceramente, o governo deste país não quer transformar Portugal numa nação competitiva...
É só patetas neste governo? Não há sociólogos, nem economistas, nem antropólogos, nem especialistas em demografia que os possam ajudar a cometer menos disparates?
Cidadãos de países da CPLP terão de estar há sete anos em Portugal para pedir a nacionalidade, enquanto os restantes precisarão de dez anos de residência. É ainda introduzido exame à língua e cultura.
Vijf beklaagden vrijgesproken voor weerspannigheid tijdens manifestatie van "Code Rood" aan luchthaven van Deurne: "Geen bewijs"
Vijf beklaagden zijn dinsdag voor weerspannigheid tijdens een manifestatie van "Code Rood" eind 2023. De correctionele rechtbank van Antwerpen vond het voor drie van hen niet bewezen dat ze aanwezig waren. De twee anderen namen wel deel aan de actie, maar de rechtbank zag geen bewijs dat ze weerspannig waren geweest. #news #vrtnws #vrt vrtnws.be/p.8eLEqNbDK
@fenixmaster voorlopig niet veel, behalve 't zelf programmeren... 't is vergelijkbaar met de #badge van #MCH21, maar deze heeft naast Wifi ook #lorawan aan boord (en een toetsenbord). Gps module aanhangen is ook mogelijk
The NVDA bug which I reported over 5 years ago was finally fixed in the latest alpha, coming in 2025.2, Courtesy of @jcsteh NVDA+Up fails to read or spell many controls and lines in Google Chrome: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… @NVAccess
Insert+Up (NVDA+Up) is used in NVDA to report the current line under the application cursor. Pressing it twice will spell the current line. Pressing three times will spell the line using character ...
I'd argue that one wasn't so much an NVDA bug: at least some of those controls clearly had visible labels, but Chrome chose not to expose them as part of the text content for some reason. There's no good excuse for that. But still, I'm glad the fix for the thing I was actually trying to fix fixed this one as well. LOL. @NVAccess
When an assistive technology (AT) user discovers an application that is inaccessible in some way, they will generally hold one of two parties responsible: th...
Users are part of that, though. I'll gently point out that this very much includes you. If you continually blame AT vendors rather than holding application and OS developers responsible, nothing will ever change. @NVAccess
Fair enough, and I really can't argue against that. However, approaching app venders and Microsoft is mostly flogging a dead horse. Getting Apple and iOS devs involved is far easier than interacting with Microsoft and Windows app devs. And it doesn't help either when a Windows screen reader takes care of an issue on its own and another doesn't. @NVAccess
Honestly, I don't think Apple is any better than Microsoft at actually listening to user or developer feedback, at least not these days. And as someone who has worked with quite a lot of Windows appdevelopers, it is entirely possible to make progress with some of them given sufficient effort. People just try much harder with iOS developers because they have no other choice: it's just assumed that Apple won't fix anything app specific. In contrast, if users complain enough to Windows screen reader developers, they generally end up hacking around whatever episode of crap is thrown at them today. And so the pattern continues. I'm not saying screen reader developers shouldn't try to make things better if the situation is severe enough, even if that involves hacks. But my point is that users at least need to recognise the double standards they hold here and be mindful of that when ranting publicly about how the tiny 6 employee not-for-profit isn't fixing their bug when trillion dollar companies can't be bothered. @NVAccess
We do have a good relationship with Microsoft. No-one else does anything like their Disability Answer Desk - good luck getting that level of support, as an end user, from most tech companies (I had a question about my router & couldn't even write to Netgear because it's out of warranty!) DaD monitors the feedback hub for issues tagged as accessibility & they do try to get accessibility issues prioritised. Where it can be hard is Windows can have an 18 month lead time.
We do, but to be fair, they also haven't fixed really significant UIA stability issues going back years, among other things, so we keep hacking around them. And the plethora of bugs in their various accessibility implementations, including core OS functions like the Start Menu, are just woeful and never get addressed. This is all on public record. @amir
and yes, that's not to say there aren't longstanding Windows accessibility bugs :)
But where something IS a Windows issue, raising it with Microsoft should ALWAYS be the first action. Just as if something is a bug in Chrome, or Firefox, do definitely raise it with them in the first instance. If you raise it with us, that will be the first thing we do in any case, and indeed, the more people who raise an issue with them, the more likely they are to prioritise it.
Then why not utilize some of that relationship to fix many long-standing issues? Yes, their accessibility desk does help, but what we want is either less erratic implementations or decisions, or more responsiveness when it comes to taking care of odd bugs lurking around Windows, Office, etc. Can you engage them, based on our NVDA issues on Github, to fix glitches with, say, Modern Notepad? I've seen more responsiveness from Google on the Chrome side compared with Microsoft. @jcsteh
We do regularly take issues to Microsoft, but we can't influence their priority. But this is also where, for say many of those issues which don't only affect NVDA, the more people who can take up the issue with Microsoft the better. And it's tricky, because you could spend all your time finding and reporting issues
And, Microsoft, like anz other corporation, has their own waz of sazing a simple fuck off to users. I have experienced that mzself. Thatćs the world we are living in.
For example, i have a very bad experience with some app developers and hardware vendors. You cannot contact the company as an individual. More people should be engaged in this accessibility communicating process. Not just one person.
Sometimes I wonder if that could be a fulltime job title. "issuue finder in MS syystems" Job description: Beat wWindows OS/various MS products black and blue to route out annoying screen reader and UI isues... LOL Sorry, it was there.
@we_are_spc It just about could be! And some of the things we do naturally uncover some of those - for instance, when we first wrote the training material in our shop, particularly the office modules, I'm pretty sure we documented things no-one had ever documented before as not working with the keyboard, or with a screen reader - and in some cases issues which needed to be fixed in NVDA instead.
In my opinion, if Microsoft actually cared about Accessibility, like they say they do, the tab viewer in Microsoft edge on Apple devices would be fully accessible to voiceover. As it currently stands, and has been for a year, voiceover will not read it. If you want to know what tabs you have open, you have to close one of them first.
Fair point! Now I'd be happy if you also accidentally fix NVDA's Modern Notepad issues with misspelled word identification and the use of the Systems menu to minimize/ maximize it - LOL! @NVAccess
I'm not willing to put time into that. My guess honestly is that Microsoft have once again screwed up the UIA implementation and JAWS is probably using some older API to access it. But that's just a guess without direct evidence except my past experience with Microsoft. @NVAccess
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![Hello Daniel.
I am a owner of one of the Opel Astra vehicles in Trinidad
and Tobago. My car has a failure, looking like not have a
gasoline. Is what that say in the electronical gauge in the
car, but the tank is full. And never started when I tried to
do it.
My car is automatic and has a presence key. To start the
engine is pushing the bottom.
This is the serial number for this car [redacted].
Let me know what you recommended to do.
Regards.
[redacted]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/680027 "Hello Daniel.
I am a owner of one of the Opel Astra vehicles in Trinidad
and Tobago. My car has a failure, looking like not have a
gasoline. Is what that say in the electronical gauge in the
car, but the tank is full. And never started when I tried to
do it.
My car is automatic and has a presence key. To start the
engine is pushing the bottom.
This is the serial number for this car [redacted].
Let me know what you recommended to do.
Regards.
[redacted]")
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