So, #Elementary OS. Tried it. No, it's not blind friendly. Alt + Tab doesn't speak with Orca most of the time. In setup, the full name, username, password fields aren't labeled, so tabbing with Orca says nothing. After setup, the welcome screen is full of "GTK button checkbox" and other mislabeled stuff. It's not ready for blind people to use.
When anyone spends their resources making something and then gives it away for free they should be greeted firstly with gratitude. They should be greeted secondly with gratitude. They should be greeted lastly with gratitude.
Too much #FOSS#OpenSource community rage and contributor burnout stems from a strange forgetfulness that no one has to contribute anything this way. It's always a wonder. Let's chill out and be a little more kind and a lot more grateful.
So, I'm not sure if I've said this here, but with Emacspeak, a lot of stuff that's hard for a blind person to do in, say, a terminal or manpages or info documents, is really simple, because it's a keyboard-driven interface. Want to move up to the previous prompt to review output? Control + C, then Control + P. Or it may just be C-c p. Want to move to the next heading in a manpage? Just hit N or P. Like, it's a bit like Powershell, where normally terminals are just a stream of text, but Emacs is objects. And objects, like elements on the web, can be navigated or used as landmarks, or searched through if nothing else works.
Now, I'm not saying Emacspeak is perfect. It still suffers from being a programmer's tool, so definitely not for everyone. But what it does do well, especially not messing with my tags in HTML unlike VS Code's nonsense where it'll just jumble everything up for you, and even stuff like reading through processes in ProcEd-mode, Emacspeak makes that really visual information a lot simpler for audio.
A day ago: I'm gonna just stop talking about Linux.
Next day: Hey y'all Emacspeak and emacs are really nice sometimes.
The next day (probably): Hey y'all so I just installed Fedora 29 and here's what I found.
Next day: So I installed Fedora on my work machine and everything is up and going.
Next hour: I'm posting this from Mastodon-mode in Emacs and wrote an Emacspeak module to work with Mastodon-mode.
Next hour: I've submitted a patch to Gnus to allow new users to set it up by just typing in their email address and password, and Gnus looks up an alist of domains and their mail settings and just sets up the account that way. 2FA support coming soon.
Next hour: Oh no there's been an update that breaks ATSPI so I gotta go back to Windows.
Just writing it out so I don't try to experience it in real life, lol. Very exagerated, but that's kinda how my sense of humor is. Now maybe I will get emacs and Emacspeak working on the Mac again since that's where it's the most responsive.
The GNU folks: Hehehe, we called it GIMP. And the main branch is called master. Because GIMP, get it?! We couldn’t possibly change it because fart noises
Also GNU folks: Why does everyone think we’re three misogynistic 12-year-old boys in a neckbeard suit?
There are so many low hanging fruits for you folks to embrace inclusivity and make a dedicated effort to clean up your act but you seem too bloody busy pissing all over the tree to mark your territory.
People so wrapped up in "no restrictions on field of use" for Open Source are stuck in the same logic as people who say Free speech means you can say whatever you want in public.
Popper's Tolerance Paradox or whatever you want to call it.
Hyperscalers parasitizing and monopolizing revenue of FOSS projects is NOT OK.
Sure sure, I know, FOSS is not a business model. Keep ignoring the problem and we will end up with much less #FOSS
Zrobiłem prezentację "Signal i dlaczego warto zrezygnować z WhatsApp" dla mojego zespołu z pracy.
Udało się przekonać ich do zmiany 😎 Następny krok to przejście z GoogleDrive na selfhostowany NextCloud i instalowanie Linuksa :QueerCat: :happy_anarcat:
OS devs: please provide regularly-refreshed install images/ISOs with your cumulative updates between major releases.
I don't love downloading your entire multi-GB OS image just to have to wait for hours for all the updates to the OS and included apps to download and install.
Also, security updates! If CVEs have been fixed since your release, you're shipping known-insecure software, expecting a user to install all updates before they do anything on the web.
It took 4 months and 50 code commits, but my federated version of reddit (written in #python) can now follow and be followed by instances of #kbin and #lemmy!
Getting #ActivityPub working has been ... a journey.
OH: "Open Source software has an easier time copying than creating new things"
This statement is clearly too simple, but I've been thinking about it all day. In fact, I don't want it to be true. But the copying point being easier isn't wrong.
My theory is that communal decision making is hard to do well. That doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. Curious if others have written about how to manage consensus based teams? #FOSS#OpenSource
Your periodic reminder that Stellarium is an amazing planetarium tool. Free, #OpenSource and very easy to use. There are desktop apps, mobile apps and a web version.
You usually hear when people citing speed of development when they advocate for open-source software.
Yet reality tells a different story. I was surprised to learn that #Hypothesis, an open source project, after all these years, still doesn't have an official plugin for #Firefox, an open-source browser and a major counterbalance to big tech browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Safari. What gives?
So did I mention that no company or government pays me for the work I do?
But you can support my work if you want to live in a world where we have the Small Web as an alternative to the Big Web of Google, Facebook, and other people farmers.
TIL about another community on Slack who is now being asked to pay thousands to preserve basic functionality 😬
Proprietary tools that offer a lot for free, without fail, will squeeze you. And unfortunately, because of their nature, a lot gets left behind when you inevitably migrate.
When we select tools for our communities, we need to think over longer time horizons.
FOSS options like Matrix for chat and Discourse for forums are the better bet.
Mozilla's petition against in-browser censorship law (foundation.mozilla.org)
The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.
OC Creatives of all kinds: check out this delightful list with dozens of FOSS creative tools for artists, photographers, film makers, game devs, musicians, and more! (codeberg.org)
A curated list of delightful tools for digital creatives in a variety of mediums.