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Say what you will about #MacOS but the professional software landscape is unparalleled. Today I have discovered Devon Agent which basically is a software which can search the web, but it can A: Save your searches in so called sets, so you can keep all your research in one place. B: searches many sources. C: Supports cross-source boolean operators, like and/Or. All of that for 50 euros for the pro version, absolutely mind-blowing, and #blind #accessible. Great work guys


Breaking: #MacOS #Sonoma 14.4 fixes the #VMWare Fusion issue that meant you couldn't run a VM with #VoiceOver active. Been waiting for this update for a long time. Happy day.


it's pretty crazy to me that #gnome is literally a better user experience than #macos, obviously minus all the Apple integrations...


"The 10ish Tools I Install on Every New Mac I Get", by @j9t

https://meiert.com/en/blog/10ish-tools-for-every-mac/

Other suggestion: Slack, Zoom, Dropbox, Evernote, Sublime, Krita (graphics)

#macOS #dev #techie #tools


So uh, the Mac has this interactive fiction client, called Spatterlight. And it’s amazingly accessible! Anyone with a Mac should seriously check this out. It even has Voiceover actions!

#accessibility #macOS #apple #InteractiveFiction #Spatterlight

https://github.com/angstsmurf/spatterlight


Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon

https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis


Okay, so. I have a strange bug that keeps on appearing in every single web browser that I use on Mac. Doesn't matter if it's Safari or Firefox. Voiceover will refuse to interact with the web content area thing to go through the page, and will say it's empty, when the page is not. I can tab around, but for example, in Bookwyrm, it won't read half the things. tabing around and then using the arrows somehow makes it work, but I shouldn't be doing that. It's happened on other websites, too. It's just frustrating. anyone else having that happen to them on the latest MacOS version? I tried everything, I even reset my VO settings. I have only my Safari to use UTF8 as its encoding, else I can't probably read half the languages in the world.
#Apple #Accessibility #Voiceover #Mac #MacOS #Safari


I have been using #Firefox since 2004 and do not intend to stop anytime soon. You need to take it out of my dead hands. What about you? #chrome #opensource #linux #unix #macos


Sadly, "Keyboard accessibility may NOT be enabled on your Mac, and historically has been turned off by default". Here's how to enable it. https://dequeuniversity.com/mac/keyboard-access-mac #a11y #keyboard #macOS #OSX #fail


Boost for visibility.

To the #Windows and #macOS users of Mastodon who have tried #Linux and ended up still using Windows or macOS:

What is it about the Linux distro(s) you tried that made it/them unsuitable for your use? If some problem or set of problems was fully resolved, would it be enough for you to be able to comfortably use Linux?

The poll is just a list of possible things that could make Linux difficult or impossible to use for some, please feel free to comment with specifics.

  • Too buggy (7%, 8 votes)
  • Too unfamiliar (4%, 5 votes)
  • Lacking any good alternatives to critical software (19%, 21 votes)
  • Lacking critical software, alternatives aren't an option (24%, 26 votes)
  • Overwhelming number of choices (3%, 4 votes)
  • Incompatible with media I use (4%, 5 votes)
  • Incompatible with my computer(s) (6%, 7 votes)
  • Simply didn't like it (2%, 3 votes)
  • Other (please comment) (19%, 21 votes)
  • ...what's Linux? (6%, 7 votes)
107 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago


In 2024, please switch to Firefox https://roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-2024-please-switch-to-firefox/ #privacy #security #opensource #unix #linux #macos


This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important.
A red panda (firefox) resting on a tree branch.Red Panda” by Mathias Appel is marked with CC0 1.0.

1. Privacy


Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There’s been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don’t even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.

2. Browser engine monopoly


Wikipedia lists four browser engines as being “active”. Browser engines are the bits that take a web page’s code and display it on your screen. Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards, and display all elements as it describes. If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers. No proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense, just glorious open standards at work.

It’s happened before


In the early 2000’s, Internet Explorer had a massive 95% market share. This meant that many sites were only developed for use with IE. They’d use experimental features that IE supported, in favor of things from the official HTML standard. This was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.

Currenty, Chrome, Safari and Edge all use variations of the closely related Webkit and Blink engines. If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox, and its “Gecko” engine.

Firefox is actually really good


If Firefox would be a bad browser, I would not recommend you to switch. It’s fast, has a nice user interface, and feels every bit as modern and elegant as its competition. I’ve been using it as my main browser for a couple of years now, on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. As a web developer, I usually have at least three browsers open, but when I go look something up on the web, I pick Firefox.

So please, help save the web by using the best browser out there. It’s an easy thing to do, and it makes a big difference.

https://roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-2024-please-switch-to-firefox/

#Firefox #privacy



Man Reader - my Mac app for reading Terminal command man pages - has finally had its long awaited update. The new version is now waiting for review.

Currently, Man Reader costs USD 4.99 or the local equivalent. I will be increasing this to USD 9.99 when the update is released, so if you want to save some money, buy it now and get the upgrade at half-price.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/man-reader/id522583774?mt=12

#macOS #swift #terminal #zsh #bash


Interesting to see #gnome post about their #macOS CI builder issues the day after I posted a video about "understanding who your open source constituency is".

It's pretty clear that macOS users are not Gnome's constituency. Fine. But it also goes to show just how much #inkscape, #gimp and other Free Software downstream must also not be their constituency because we're so misaligned on this topic and there's no discussion about our relationship with gnome

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1QcEHzwlBA


If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/potential-retirement-of-the-macos-ci-builder-for-glib-and-gtk/16198

#gtk #gnome #macos #ci #gitlab


How-to: Use Logic's Built In Net Send and Net Receive Plugins https://youtu.be/837ApDYyH3A #Logic #LogicPro #DAW #MacOS


Does anyone care deeply about macOS support for GLib? If so, you might want to get involved

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3463

#GLib #macOS


Are #apple #macos users here who would want to test one of the submissions to the #game jam for #blind gamers?

It’s the only one that didn’t get any ratings yet, and that’s just sad to see. It looks like a pretty nice blind-friendly 3D stealth system: https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/rate/2043905


You want to help #Monal but you can't code?

Just help out translating the app! We have many unmaintained languages only half translated right now:
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/monal/

Every contribution welcome :)

#xmpp #ios #macos #federated


Been working on a new project the last couple of months and it's finally ready for beta release!

#Fedimeister is a #Java based #Mastodon client (available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS under the Apache #opensource license) with a focus on #writing and #journalism. Features:

* Break long texts into threads
* Scheduled posting
* Hashtag research
* #Twitter quote tweeting emulation

https://fedimeister.onyxbits.de

@fediversenews
@fediverse


#Monal is taking part in this year's #GSoC (google summer of code). There are already lots of interesting project proposals over here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2023#Monal

If you can write code and always wanted to take part in #GSoC, we'd love to have you on board!

Just pick a proposal or suggest your own project idea and simply drol us an email to info@monal-im.org

Let's move #Monal forward together! 😊

#gsoc #gsoc23 #GSoC2023 #xmpp #ios #macos


#libreoffice, #macos and #darkmode, a dark topic indeed...

(there is text in the fields at right, it just doesn't show)


Trying out this RDP based desktop sharing to see if I can use #gnome @gnome for remote work.

It's clunky compared to XForward. An entire desktop required and the shared computer is basically useless to anyone else since it won't share a desktop that's not showing on the monitor in the physical space.

Bit of a leap backwards if I'm being honest. Every time #linux copies #Windows or #MacOS I get this sinking feeling that we've just given up being great and are settling for good enough.


Super post from @SaraSoueidan on how to set up a screen reader testing environment.

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-environment-setup/

Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?

#accessibility #a11y #inclusion #mac #macos #windows #testing


Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳​

Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!

System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine

You can download the latest release from GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)

And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac


Love all the information #Apple provide with their #macOS software updates. 🙄

606MB update with apparently no changes I need to be aware of...


Just learned today there's a pendant to #FDroid for #macOS & #iOS users called "App Fair". I'm not using any #Apple device – but if you are, you might be interested to take a look. And if you're a developer and want your #FOSS #app there, I'm sure you'll want to take a look as well:

https://appfair.net/


We just released # 22.05 🌻

The new major release for #, # & # includes:

🐘 Jumbo spreadsheets with 16k columns
📈 Sparklines in Calc
⏱️ Performance improvements across all modules

Find out more in the announcement 📢 http://collaboraoffice.com/press-releases/collabora-office-22-05-introduces-new-features-and-performance-enhancements-combined-with-excellent-interoperability


Just watched the video https://youtu.be/-KYbHJulEo8 as suggested by @Suzie97 and as usual, while I agree about most of the complaints about macOS window management (it's awful), there's always something that's been overlooked.

There IS a real 'maximize' action in macOS:

- hold ALT (or option)
- double click the bottom right corner of any app
- thank me later :)

# #