As holidays can be a difficult time for many of us, be it family we would rather not visit, or would like to visit but cannot, or that one relative who keeps saying they’re praying for your vision, etc, we all could use somewhere to mingle with people who get it, grumble about trying to wrap shit at the last minute, or whatever. So for Xmas Eve starting at ~17:00 UTC (12:00 Noon EST) the event voice space on the r/Blind discord server will be opened to everyone and we may figure out pumping some bad holiday music into the channel just to really set the mood. So feel free to pop in and lurk, chat, complain about that parent who is refusing to accept that yes your vision is that bad and no you cannot just not walk into people, or off that curb, so yes you really do need your cane.
The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that Open Source software forms the backbone of modern development, the data shows that much of their software is shared (and most likely also...
I gave my best effort to make a post on a Lemmy instance accessible to the visibly impaired, but I don’t know if what I did was effective. Lemmy doesn’t provide for alt text on image posts, so I figured I would put it in the body of the post. It seem that rind.com hasn’t had much activity. Is Lemmy simply not workable for...
the use of color in the graph is not accessible to colorblind people
OOF
I didn’t make the image itself. Maybe I’ll give making my own version with better a color scheme and fixing the legend a shot.
Lemmy supports alt text via image caption notation, so images in the body of a post can have alt text.
Still no way to do it for an image post though, right? I’m not sure what image caption notation is. Is that a markdown thing?
Generally speaking is it better to keep alt text short ans provide more detail outside of the alt text? Is this a personal taste thing or an idiomatic practice?
Lemmy in general isn’t very active (compared to other platforms) and we’re sort of a niche within a niche.
I think Lemmy.world has a sustainable level of activity, but I would like to see it grow a bit. The Lemmy service software itself leaves a lot to be desired. Community discovery has a lot of friction. But I also see that it only takes a few enthusiastic users in a community to gain traction.
Also AntennaPod seems to be worse than Google Podcast at Bluetooth connections going into standby during conversational pauses creating jilted cutoffs.
I’m typically looking to entertain myself with a podcast and skipping silence would be like cutting parts of scenes in a movie because “nothing is happening”.
It’s probably more of an issue with the cheap Bluetooth devices I’ve tried to use.
Some people don’t mind watching syndicated reruns of TV sitcoms that have been sped up to provide more time for commercial breaks. I find that it ruins the experience for me. Conversations have natural pauses and cutting them out in a podcast similarly ruins the experience for me. Google podcasts has this feature and I intentionally don’t use the feature.
The labels are from the perspective of viewing the space of all possible functions of element set size to operations, so they don’t apply to any particular problem an algorithm is attempting to solve (that space is often smaller).
I’d probably accept the job and get paid to practice in the field while focusing on finding a more permanent position. Nothing is more attractive to employers than someone working in the field they want to hire in.
Not exactly. If no one on your instance has subscribed to the community, Lemmy fails to forward you to the community and returns 404. So the Lemmy way of making sure others can get to the community is to provide the URL. Lemmy has a lot of poor design in this way. It will be replaced with something better next year. Also, as a beehaw user you should be familiar broken ! links to communities that are not federated.
Make your objections known, offer to help the transition, but it’s likely worth it to accept the tradoff and participate via Facebook when they don’t make effort to change.
Most people aren’t going to know or care, but getting the word out that Firefox allows better, more useful extensions due to recent changes by Alphabet will make a difference.
Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed…
Joel Spolsky (and his ubuquitous book/blog “Joel on Software”)
This is the first time I’m read this person’s name. From the blog author’s description, it seems like he has lots to say, but not a lot of it is worthwhile.
RHEL has already agreed to giving the source code to anyone they distribute their software to. It doesn’t matter if they no longer like that agreement. They are bound by it because they willingly entered into it. RHEL doesn’t make money by selling their software. They make money by consulting to companies that want to use the software and augment that software for their needs.
Found some time this past weekend to work on a little “passion feature” that I’ve been wanting to implement for a while now; sharing the technical write-up for anyone else who is interested in automating headless screenshots with these tools or with others (the knowledge is pretty transferable!)
Join us for the Holiday Partyline on discord, it's like an office party but not I hope…, Heading (www.reddit.com)
FOSS Games, Part II (rldane.space)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6981448...
TC on open source evangelists (lemmy.ml)
[email protected] - Oh my gosh I just figured it out....
The most popular licenses for each language in 2023 (blog.opensource.org)
The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that Open Source software forms the backbone of modern development, the data shows that much of their software is shared (and most likely also...
AoC Input fetch tool (Rust) (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9117180...
FOSS Games are actually pretty good! (rldane.space)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6819337...
Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps (github.com)
I tried to make the linked post accessible. Did I? (programming.dev)
I gave my best effort to make a post on a Lemmy instance accessible to the visibly impaired, but I don’t know if what I did was effective. Lemmy doesn’t provide for alt text on image posts, so I figured I would put it in the body of the post. It seem that rind.com hasn’t had much activity. Is Lemmy simply not workable for...
Migrating from Google Podcasts to AntennaPod: why and how to do it – AntennaPod (antennapod.org)
Big O notation is about what matters when the numbers get big. (programming.dev)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6660679...
I was contacted by a recruiter, but I can't find anything on the company.
Preamble: I’m sure there’s a better community to ask this question, comment below if you’re aware of it....
get updates from facebook group without facebook ?
Hey, I hope this is the right community for this question :))...
Google Resuming the transition to Manifest V3 - Chrome for Developers (developer.chrome.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/6008113...
Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/5946015...
Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed…
Learning SQL
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/5296302...
I'm a hypochondriac, but It's About Programming (www.blobstreaming.org)
Open Source does not win by being cheaper (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6355296...
OpenELA - Community Repository for Enterprise Linux Sources (beehaw.org)
OpenELA is a non-profit trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers....
Using Rust, Chrome and NixOS to Take Headless Screenshots for Social Sharing (lgug2z.com)
Found some time this past weekend to work on a little “passion feature” that I’ve been wanting to implement for a while now; sharing the technical write-up for anyone else who is interested in automating headless screenshots with these tools or with others (the knowledge is pretty transferable!)
Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub (devclass.com)