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In this episode of Double Tap, Mike Shebanek tells his story of the creation of VoiceOver and how it led to today when all major consumer operating systems have built-in screen readers.
Someone should make this into a movie.
https://doubletaponair.com/double-tap-

🚌 Valencia licita el mayor contrato de #autobuses del año: 113 millones por 116 buses
🧮 Son 94 eléctricos y 67 híbridos, divididos en 2 2 lotes
🤑 el BEI lo financiarš con 69 millones para favorecer la #MovilidadSostenible

Pomegranate seeds and blueberries together in a bowl is a winning combination. Snappy and crunchy with balanced tang and sweet.

Carol of the Belmonts by Doctor Octoroc reimagines the Ukranian / American Carol of the Bells as a Castlevania stage.
https://doctoroctoroc.bandcamp.com/track/carol-of-the-belmonts

#A11y #Accessibility

Robby Duguay's Silent City, a remake of the Christmas carol Silent Night in the style of the SNES game SimCity.
Duguay's 3-volume collection, 12GB of Christmas, includes many excellent 8-bit and 16-bit pastiches like this.
https://robbyduguay.bandcamp.com/track/silent-…

The "going out of business" signs have gone up at our local Big Lots discount shop.
#BigLots #Retail #Ohio

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DragonflyDB reduced Mastodon storage from 22 GB to 8.5 GB:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@renchap@oisaur.com/113522923632…

I had mentioned that Russian freight trucks weren't doing well, but... things are getting uglier.
Large numbers of them are getting out of the business entirely, or trying to downsize their truck fleets due, in part, to the high key rate and general unprofitability of trucking in Russia under current circumstances.
They're even facing high incidences of non-payment by their clients!

I’m just not losing the opportunity of going snarky on NVidia

Thank you to the Flickr Foundation. As they pursue preserving digital photos of historical interest, they also put the effort into descriptive alt text for social media posts. @… @flickrfdn.bsky.social #AltText #Flickr

Ich wollte ja gern beeindruckt sein von #DieSaatDesHeiligenFeigenbaums. Er hat drei tolle Frauen in den Hauptrollen, keine Frage. Schöne Bilder. Ein brandheißes Thema.
Aber irgendwo in diesem Drehbuch hakt es ganz gewaltig. Irgendeine Info fehlt mir, warum der Mann, der seine Familie retten will, sich dann gegen sie wendet.
Ich versuche, mir das zusammenzureimen.…

So a HUGE box showed up at my doorstep.
It's the pre-order of my #XboxSeriesX #IndianaJones & the #GreatCircle - Collector's Edition.
It's the size of a small r…

Reminder that you can get updates on the Fediverse (and bsky) from any website with a proper RSS feed by entering it into https://fed.brid.gy/web-site !
This means you can get updates from your favorite news site/blog/whatever without it needing to be on the platform!

"Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable"
Erik D. Demaine; Stefan Langerman 17 Sep 2024
Abstract
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.
...
It remains open whether tiling …

"…Carter often struggled to implement key parts of his agenda, and disability rights was no exception. So disabled people had to step in to do the work that the non-disabled simply couldn't get done on their own."
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/01/jimmy-…

Keep the chip in Christmas! After scouring Spotify for 8-bit and 16-bit holiday tunes, here's a playlist with covers of hymns and carols, midcentury standards, and more recent pop songs. Enjoy chip artists like Tee Lopes, Dj Cutman, Rush Coil, 8-bit Weapon, Computeher, Jim Kulakowski, Doctor Octoroc, Bulby, Mr. Joyrider in a Scrambler, CoolAm7, and Robby Duguay.

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'A rare copy for sale of "Lisp Style and Design" by Molly Miller and Eric Benson (Digital Press, 1990), a great book cited by Paul Graham in On Lisp that covers often overlooked topics. All the proceeds will be donated to the Medley Interlisp Project.'

Lisp Style & Design - Molly Miller, Eric Benson - VERY RARE - VERY GOOD cond | eBay
Good design and style enhance programming efficiency because they make programs easier to understand, to debug, and to maintain. Lisp Hackers' Delight. Paul Graham cites this book in his classic text,On Lisp.

Which kid would you want?
#kids #humor

[ May 31, 2030] CFP for publication or other deadline: null https://philevents.org/event/show/101922

Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology, French phenomenology, pre- and post-phenomenologies, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The relation between phenomenology and religious experience can be considered in a variety of modes: epistemic (phenomenology as a "rigorous science" of religious experience in Husserl's sense); ontic (phenomenology as a way to access the core motive, or regulative ideal, of religion); analogical (phenomenological …

We are committed to ensuring the Chinafake community will always be a safe space for everyone, no matter what.
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
Crisis lifeline: text START to 741-741
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AI chatbots are like that one uncle you see at Thanksgiving. Over his life he became a true expert in something, say, ice sculptures, and can speak with authority on it. But he's convinced he should speak with authority on any subject at all — medicine, law, business, how rainy it will be next spring — stating with 100% certainty things he heard or made up.
Many things he says are right, many are wrong, and you can't judge which is which from his words alone.

Use discount code 05Nov24 to save 40% on Urgency of Indigenous Values, The – Syracuse University Press https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/5835/urgency-of-indigenous-values-the/

Happy Solstice
#Solstice #Chiptune

Have A Day

#A11y #Accessibility

This year I started reporting rainfall measurements in the #CoCoRaHS volunteer weather observation system.
And every single time, I can't help but sing: 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Co co rahs, rahs done by you 𝅘𝅥𝅮
#Weather #EltonJohn

Have you remediated a PDF file with Acrobat? Have you ever accidentally clicked "Autotag document" and wiped out your manual tagging?
If so, please consider voting to remove this action from the context menu.
#Acrobat #PDF

Article on media treatment of people with disabilities after the ADA was enacted in 1990.
A quote from the article:
"In the mind of the public and the media, there are 'legitimate' and 'worthy' disabilities, usually those visible to the naked eye, such as mobility impairments and blindness. At the other end of the spectrum, there are the 'undeserving disabled,' people who are thought to be to blame for their conditions."

#SilentSunday

@… updated his browser extension "Social Visual Alt Text" to add Bluesky support.
I install this addon whenever I can to quickly see what alt text people have written on Mastodon.
Go get it for Firefox or Chrome:

I switched from Windows to Linux for personal home use a few years ago. Here's a hot tip. After running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while, I moved to OpenSUSE Leap and love it. Everything works just the same, but updates are significantly faster.
#OpenSUSE #Linux

Thank you, @… . It's been decades since I thought about DOS Shell.
Our first PC came with MS-DOS 5 and also Windows 3.1. So even then DOS Shell seemed quaint and antiquated. But in a fun way.
https://

Today I learned the English word "access" has been a noun for centuries, but seems to have only become commonly used as a verb in the mid-20th century with the advent of computers.
#Access #Accessibility #English