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Interesting #GUADEC talk by Lukáš about the screen reader infrastructure. Turns out, the org.fd.a11y interface (that I'm playing around with in niri) is very recent, first appeared in GNOME 48. No wonder I couldn't find many docs or examples for that
Basically, ChatGPT hallucinated a feature of a website so hard that the developers of the website made the hallucination real. This may be the first time that a feature was coded in response to a hallucination. I don't know how to feel about this. techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/chat…
Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, finally solved a months-long mystery: weird images of ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
One thing I miss in #OpenStreetMap, #Organicmaps and so on are contextual images. One thing I don't miss are all the ads. Wikimedia has a lot of contextual photos released under a #CreativeCommons license. (wikishootme.toolforge.org/) Couldn't it be possible to create an integration for OSM to pull images from Wikimedia into a map-app like Organic Maps? That would be awesome.
It is already possibly to tag objects with wikimedia or wikidata information. Some apps like OsmAnd use this to show images. More recently tagging for Panoramax images has also been added. Not sure which if any apps use those yet.
I often get asked about how I do software development with a #ScreenReader and I also have some thoughts about #DevTool #Accessibility. Finally found the time to write my thoughts down properly.
as per your footnote, I saw a tool called , I believe, xTool which SHOULD let you do iOS dev on Windows. No personal experience but what I saw of the docs looked promising
@zersiax Wow. I never knew about any of this, including libimobiledevice. I might need to poke at this some more. Very cool. Also, it'd be nice if Apple weren't so... well... Apple in the first place.
"We paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study."
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out
I'm going to present a new direction for one of the core libraries in the GNOME ecosystem, and how it will impact writing libraries, on Thursday, July 24, at 09:00
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
Finally, my colleague Patrick Griffis will present the current state of libsoup, the HTTP library in the GNOME application development platform, on Thursday, July 24, at 12:30
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
Od 2.6. otevíráme už od 10:00! Od pondělí do pátku si na naší vaší zahrádce můžete vychutnat navíc kávu a nějaký ten koláč :) . Současně je k dispozici standartní nabídka z odpoledního nápojového lístku.
A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.
"Long before Prime Minister Mark Carney made sweeping election promises of harnessing artificial intelligence to boost productivity in the federal bureaucracy, AI programs were hard at work in the public service.
Whether it’s tax questions, addressing Phoenix pay issues, translation services, or drafting documents, it seems there’s an AI bot for that.
In fact, the annual report about the federal public service itself was developed with the help of generative artificial intelligence."
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"Last month, PSPC’s Translation Bureau launched an AI translation tool prototype called PSPC Translate, spokesperson Jullian Paquin confirmed to The Hill Times.
The prototype was designed after a “noticeable decline” in translation request volumes, which suggested employees were using external translation tools like Google Translate and DeepL, an AI translation tool, Paquin said.
“To address this, the Translation Bureau sought to provide a secure, high-quality alternative that reflects Canadian linguistic standards and ensures data confidentiality.”
The tool is not intended to replace human translators, but to support the day-to-day communication needs of employees, and to reduce reliance on “unvetted external platforms," Paquin said."
Last week, Quentin was on The Digital Access Show with Narelle from DASAT, talking all things NVDA and Digital Accessibility. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=UWmVMdu03v… or however you get your favourite podcasts!
On this week's episode of The Digital Access Show, Quentin Christensen from NV Access dives into the NonVisual Desktop Access screen reader and shares his th...
We don't mean this figuratively or pejoratively: we mean this in a literal, factual sense.
Humans are part of the kingdom animalia, which comprises all animals.
As such, if you think, say, or write things like:
"humans and animals"; or
"humans versus animals";
... you're setting humans apart as something other than what we are, as if we're somehow above other animals, which is incredibly anthropocentric and flawed
It's a bit like saying "2 and even numbers", which implies that 2 isn't an even number. Instead, you might say "2 and other even numbers"
So, when you are talking or writing about any animals, please kindly specify whether you mean:
To be honest, that leads to even more flawed assumptions, like "humans *and* animals because humans are sentient, and animals are not". Who ever had a cat (and, most probably, a dog, but I didn't have a dog) will tell you it's total BS, they are absolutely sentient, those furry friends of us. And I won't tell you about cetaceans and great apes, of course.
"What you have is, in essence, a very grassroots and cheap approach to launder misinformation to the public.”
From @feed - Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
Here, you will find all sorts of obscure singers on cd, many of whom you can't find anywhere else, including Youtube! To say that I am impressed is an understatement.
> Open source X and Threads competitor Mastodon will begin experimenting with a new way to raise funds: in-app donations. The organization on Wednesday announced it’s launching a campaign that introduces banners inside its Android and iOS apps, prompting users to make a monetary donation.
The article doesn't mention federation at all. Federated rooms would have worked fine for people on other servers, right? And repairing a room could also be done by fetching the uncorrupted state from another homeserver?
correct, although msgs delivered while the db was corrupt may have been rejected because they couldn’t be authenticated. an emergency soln had we no backup would have been to have replicated the rooms back from other servers if possible.
It's the gift that keeps on giving--a number of years ago a disastrous record-merging misfire at OCLC left a bunch of records with hilariously incorrect summaries and subject headings, and every once in a while I turn up another one in our catalog. This 16th century edition of Sappho is not in fact a paranormal thriller. id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990063…
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.
@cachondo Remember our "stable genius" in charge decided we should be charging $250 just for people to enter, slapped tariffs on penguins, and claimed he had a great meeting with PM Shinzo Abe in February despite him having been assassinated in 2022, not to mention not having been PM of Japan since 2020.
I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.
Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.
I ended up settling on just hardcoding an exact size for each grid entry in "dp", then scaling it up until it "felt right" and going with that. It should work. I'm still annoyed Android widgets are so limiting but well, this will be good enough to ship I think.
I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.
Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.
I mostly keep checking in with the Wirecutter to watch the progress of their descent from once-great recommendation site to clickbait and Amazon spam farm.
Today they have a whole article recommending using a scythe to cut your grass (you read that right). The whole thing is full of details that SCREAM that it's the worst lawn tool idea ever, along with a link to buy one from Lee Valley Tools for a couple hundred bucks. nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews…
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).
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vp…
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP).
I'm always dubious of these claims. Tom says it’s also proven to be extremely reliable. In fact, I haven’t experienced any outages in my two years of being with the carrier — unlike T-Mobile and Verizon.
They're an MVNO. Verizon are still providing the infrastructure. I'm all for virtualising; I use an MVNO myself, but claiming reliability differences across the same physical hardware is always a flag.
I am not going to dive into the details of and . Go read Scott’s 2019 post How do you figure? for an overview. That said, since Scott’s post there has been movement on the AAPI mapping (partly by Scott).
A great article, BTW, as always. I always quote your name the first when someone asks me about something to read on accessibility written by a real expert. I'm like: Adrian Roselli, without a second of hesitation.
@saasa I was about to write the same. On small screens I can see barely nothing form the background image, so maybe make the white content to fill the whole screen and make the whole screen scrollable. I also get a vertical scrollbar (iPhone 16e).
@petr @saasa It was not intended. It was an oversight on my side.
I'll see what I can do about the scrolling discoverability. So far all my experiments led to even worse results. But I am no web developer and this reminds me why I never became one. :D
@usul because it's what everyone around me uses. I'm not super happy about it and prefer Signal, but I do use it because of the large number of contacts and people can find me there.
na mobilu mi tam chybí jméno, jinak to asi jako rozcestník pro ne-OSVČ stačí (původně jsem tam hledal ještě telefon, adresu, IČ a DIČ; nevím, proč mám v hlavě zadrátované, že co ajťák, to ičař🙂). A to prázdné Gnome bych asi nedával jako první.
@marekzprahy Right, I didn't even realise how few contributions to GNOME through Gitlab I have these days. But the primary intention is not to show off my work, but rather point to my identities in projects and platforms I'm involved with.
Headings are a bit hard to read because of the low color contrast. Using the opportunity to promote @FirefoxDevTools since it has a nice accessibility feature to detect color contrast issues :).
@FirefoxDevTools @dannycolin I've fixed the contrast. Now the a11y inspector says the color is OK. Thank you for letting me know. I didn't know about the tool.
Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to Ivan Molodetskikh • • •re:fi.64
in reply to Emmanuele Bassi • • •the source code for clients is the docs and examples *looks at source code* okay well maybe not