Hi there, the Artemis private beta rollout has just started! @hariette will be emailing 50 signup sheet users, while @lilkev will be adding 50 users from Artemis Discord. The order will be based on the submissions to the private beta signup form, as well as general activity within the Artemis community....
I have a nice set of packages ready for KDE Plasma6 Beta2 which was just announced two days ago.
As you see from below screenshot, it runs nicely as a Wayland session, both logged in via the SDDM login manager and by running "startkwayland" from a console in runlevel 3.
This means no new features are allowed in and it's now time to start testing your code. You might find things in your code to fix, or even better, you might find things to fix in Python itself!
If you are a #VoiceOver#MacOS#beta user, please! do not update to MacOS 14.2 beta 2 (build 23C5030f). They have completely broken the text box navigation, meaning that you cannot use your arrows to navigate the text. The cursor will indeed move, however the change will not be reported back, so you have to query your current line with VO+L.
I got this to work in a virtual machine. It wasn't a clean installation running the latest version. So I am not 100% certain if this will work on the latest version.
Beta Testers would be appreciated. - Truly, they would.
I just bumped the following bug in iOS 17 beta two. Basically what happens is when you're editing and you go to swipe up and down once you turn the rotor to edit, you cannot until you select the field go to cut copy paste, etc., same when you're in characters, words, etc. #iOS17#Beta
FB12257410 (Sometimes, when deleting a character voiceover will not voice the characters I’m swiping over when I swipe up and down when characters is elected in the rotor)
For one iOS beta, 16.5 beta 3 to be exact, we were getting closer to having more features of Eloquence supported by Apple devices. Shorten pauses, and toggles for phrase prediction and abbreviation expansion come to mind as features that are not there yet. Shorten pauses was... For beta 3. Phrase prediction doesn't work anyway, at least not for Finnish which is my native language. But abbreviations do... Unfortunately. Maybe I should be grateful for having Eloquence in the first place but I still think that being able to toggle abbreviation expansion, shortened pauses and phrase prediction would make it close to perfection. I'd much rather have Eloquence say "to" when encountering the word 'to' in a text read with the Finnish voice instead of "torstai" which has nothing to do with the word to, that means Thursday in Finnish, after all. Ah well, let the time pass and just maybe we'll see more improvement. #Apple#Accessibility#Beta#Eloquence#iOS#VoiceOver
Okay time to do a proper #intro post with tags because it’s cozy here and I’m so stoked to have a fannish home base that feels properly homey. I’m a #softwareEngineer by day. In #fandom spaces I sometimes write #fanfic and much more frequently act as an enthusiastic #beta (if you need one I might be able to help!). I’ve spent time in #ElderScrolls, #RustyQuillGaming, #VentureBros, #BlackSails, and many more fandoms. I love #DIY, talking about #writingTools, and breaking my computers. Hi!
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Negli ultimi tempi ho sentito parlare sempre di più di #HaikuOS; per chi non lo conoscesse, è un sistema #UnixLike#OpenSource, purtroppo acerbo in stabilità e compatibilità ma estremamente promettente in termini di esperienza utente. Diciamo che è Linux senza strane inconsistenze e che non richiede di imparare tremila cose per essere usato, ma è anche estremamente più prestante del sistema desktop pinguinastico moderno medio (è una bugia colossale che Linux non abbia bloatware e che giri bene), oppure che è macOS senza gestione dittatoriale e senza cacca a forma di mela dentro… qualunque paragone preferiate. 😏️
Boh, vedo sempre di più che viene usato sui laptop, viene testato di più, proprio prima ho visto questo video di #ActionRetro che lo usa giornalmente su un Thinkpad. Volevo provarlo #BareMetal già credo anni fa, ma non funzionava, non voleva partire. Ma ora, visto che a pare siamo finalmente alla #Beta 4, e che le cose si stanno muovendo in termini di compatibilità sia hardware che software (tante applicazioni libere di uso comune per task disparate stanno venendo portate), ho provato a flashare la ISO live su chiavetta, avviarla sul mio portatile #Acer Aspire v3-572G, e, incredibilmente… 🤫️
#Haiku funziona! Questa schermata l’ho catturata direttamente da lì, e ho #testato qualche cosa. Posso collegarmi al WiFi, anche 5 GHz, usare il terminale per collegarmi via SSH al server, la riproduzione audio funziona (ma ahimé non vanno le schede audio USB), e la grafica 3D anche (chissà se accelerata o meno). Il browser WebPositive è rottissimo e malperformante, ma mi sorprende funzioni abbastanza da permettermi di loggare in WordPress, superando il reCAPTCHA, e scrivere questo post tutto da lì (ma ho dovuto attivare il Classic Editor, quello moderno non inviava le modifiche al sito). In ogni caso, c’è Falkon sull’app store integrato, che usa il motore Chromium e dicono sia invece ottimo (e su Linux va OK). Non ho potuto installare cose da lì però, perché mi chiede di riavviare per applicare le modifiche (?), ma sono da live come detto prima. Magari poi installerò l’OS residente proprio sulla pennetta per provarlo meglio, per sfizio. La funzione per cambiare la luminosità del display però non funge, e non ho nemmeno provato cose riguardo la batteria. Il touchpad funziona quasi perfettamente, anche lo scorrimento con due dita (non scontato), ma non va purtroppo il click destro soft, e alla sensibilità massima è comunque lentissimo da muovere. I mouse USB funzionano però (duh). 🙃️
Edit dopo 2 minuti: LMAO è appena andato in kernel panic, dopo che il MicroBlog ha iniziato a dire che la sessione di login era scaduta, mi si sono aperte tante schede di login, e ho tentato di riavviare il browser… vabbé, può capitare.
Python 3.13 is now in beta, with the second of four beta releases out later today!
It's now time to start testing your libraries with 3.13 and report any problems back to CPython so they can be fixed before the big October release. And make any updates you need to upgrade your library; keep an eye out for removals and deprecations.
I'm looking for someone to read a chapter (3,700 words) from my women's fiction work in progress that I want to submit to a contest. I'd like someone with writing or editing experience in fiction to tell me what they think.
The contest closes Sunday, so I need comments by Saturday, 11/11.
Happy to trade comments on your WIP up to 5,000 words.
Artemis private beta rollouts have begun!
Hi there, the Artemis private beta rollout has just started! @hariette will be emailing 50 signup sheet users, while @lilkev will be adding 50 users from Artemis Discord. The order will be based on the submissions to the private beta signup form, as well as general activity within the Artemis community....