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VOANews, 1 month ago to random

Donald Trump is headed to trial on Monday, the first former U.S. president ever to face criminal charges and the threat of imprisonment if he is convicted.

https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-heads-to-first-criminal-trial-ever-of-a-former-us-president/7569424.html #voanews

isaackuo, 1 month ago to random

So apparently, RAF and US military jets participated in shooting down drones headed for innocent civilians, thereby preventing a regional war.

And ... this has upset a lot of people.

I'm not an expert in Middle East stuff, but ... come on, people.

There's only two people who benefit from a regional Middle East war - Netanyahu and Putin. I personally despise both of them, so I entirely have no reason to cheer on such a war. You know ... on top of the horrible death and suffering ...

heydon, 1 month ago to random

What if we started a political party called "Woke". Liberals and conservatives alike would shit themselves inside out. And while it would get attention as a "joke", the party itself could use that supposed novelty platform to be earnestly pro-LGBT/anti genocide/apartheid/and anti-capitalist?

Orinks, 1 month ago to random

What if Disney were to perform a theatrical show featuring Carl and Donut from Dungeon Crawler Carl? This is what it might sound like. Despite the few mistakes here, I'm impressed overall and if someone can help me with voice metatags I may consider editing sections now that it's all done. @blindbat84

objectinspace, 1 month ago to random

I was curious why we use red green blue with electrical lighting if the primary colors are red yellow blue. It turns out this is because, like so many other things, what we were taught in school about red yellow and blue being primary colors was totally wrong! https://science.howstuffworks.com/primary-colors.htm

HNguyenLy, 1 month ago to random

Target is looking to hire a Sr. Accessibility Consultant. This is a hybrid position in the Minneapolis area. https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/Senior-Accessibility-Consultant--Core-Digital_R0000335471

objectinspace, 1 month ago to random

I want a pony.

w7voa, 1 month ago to random

Trump is calling for Arizona, a pivotal swing state in this year's presidential election, to relax its strict abortion ban.

CenDemTech, 1 month ago to random

🚨 BREAKING: The House passed a two-year extension of #Section702 of #FISA, a controversial warrantless spying authority –– but in an extremely narrow tie vote, rejected critical reforms to stop rampant abuse of the law that has been well documented. https://cdt.org/press/u-s-house-vote-narrowly-allows-rampant-abuses-of-warrantless-spying-authority-to-continue/

JoshuaHolland, 1 month ago to random

I would love to see some reporter follow up just one time by asking if these clowns also think there were "legitimate concerns" when Trump accused Ted Cruz of rigging the 2016 Iowa caucuses or when he claimed the Emmys were rigged after his dumb game show lost to The Great Race.

Maybe also ask how legitimate those concerns could be given that throughout 2020, Trump said the election would be rigged if he lost but legit if he won.

atguys, 1 month ago to random

What is your favorite smart home brand?

objectinspace, 1 month ago to random

WB wants me to know that I have 1194 minutes in Mortal Kombat 1!

annaecook, 1 month ago to random

Just me telling designers they can’t make up a new component that will do 15 things and only work for mouse users

objectinspace, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

One of the funniest news takes I've ever seen was O.J. Simpson reacting to Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict with "you have to let the jury speak, it's the American way."
https://twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1384569447877267463

What an icon. RIP.

objectinspace, 1 month ago to random

Has anyone tried setting up a local skybridge instance, and if so, can I creep on it? The public one is basically unusable because it is rate limited due to all the people on it, and I am too busy+stupid to set up docker and spin up a host and all that. But it's a great solution for getting Bluesky content in my fediverse client, which is what I am after. https://github.com/videah/SkyBridge

18+ talon, 1 month ago to random

I saw another big thread about people talking at each other concerning Linux accessibility where one side goes "no this sucks" and the other side goes "But how?", and then it's a constant back and forth with no real resolution.
I wonder if a lot of this stems from the fact that a lot of people actually putting in work for Linux accessibility don't really need it? Like, for example if I boot up a Linux distro, sometimes I'll be able to do what I want, sometimes I won't. One of the biggest issues is that Orca and the accessibility stack will randomly fall over. Like I'll be in some app like Mate software update center or whatever and then it just stops reading. Even worse if Orca was playing a progress beep at the time, which then becomes stuck. So I have a constantly beeping unresponsive system. That's anything but pleasant. But here's the thing. These systems working together are complex. You can have just a slightly different config, or sometimes even just different apps open, and you'll get a completely different experience. Sometimes the update center works fine. Sometimes it doesn't. Telling me that this is a bug with the update center doesn't help because it's the screen reader that died, and without it, I can't do anything. So that's not the solution. The solution is clearly to make the screen reader or accessibility stack somehow work despite this.
But the real thing I'm trying to get at is that we're expecting a largely sighted developer base to fix this for us. Then they do some work, it works theoretically, so they throw on Orca and mess around for a few minutes and everything seems to work fine, so issue solved right? So off goes Orca, and back to visual working it is without a screen reader.
But not much longer and someone blind tries to use it, has lots of apps open, is doing complex and elaborate work, and something falls over again. So they report it. "Wait, but this was fixed wasn't it? Let me try." So they do. And it works for them. Can't reproduce, must be user error, and Orca gets disabled again and on with normal work.
And who can blame them? I mean this makes perfect sense right? We don't really want to use something we don't need to use. There's really no reason to keep using Orca if you can read the screen just fine.
Don't take this as fact. For example I know that there are at the very least a few blind devs and devs with assistive tech background working really hard on trying to make Linux accessibility better, and I'm not sure how many. But that's probably gonna take some time. Because if all this stuff was easy, we wouldn't even have all these issues right?
Anyway if you're working on Linux accessibility, don't take it personally. This is a hard problem to solve, and it's not your fault. Neither is it ours. If something sucks, listen to the ones who're complaining. It's the same stuff over and over. :)