Deafblind Engineer

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/* An Engineer powered by braille */
Website:https://deafblind.engineer
GitHub:https://github.com/DeafblindEngineer
By Day:An accessibility-conscious full-stack web developer
By Night:Ethics enthusiast && GNU/Linux advocate
Show threadDeafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
@larryhudson Publishing everything as webpages certianly improves accessibility. I'm currently looking at the PDF viewer in Firefox to see if that is better or worse.
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
FediTips has moved!Feb 11, 2023

Mastodon's core has just had a new update released, v4.1.0

You can see which version your server is on by looking at the bottom of your server's website.

Highlights include:

 Lists of hashtags you follow (go to your profile, click ︙ & Followed Hashtags)

 Hashtag search suggestion bug fixed

 Support for importing admin domain block lists, this will greatly help your admin keep your server safe.

...and lots of other stuff (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.0).

Release v4.1.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Added Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks (enbylenore, ClearlyClaire, dariusk, ClearlyClaire) Add listing of followed hashtags (connorshea) Add support for edit...

GitHub
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
I've gone bonkers and bought twenty-one #programming books this morning. Several are about #Rust and #Kotlin which I am currently learning. The remaining are up-to-date versions of C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Ruby, Perl, and Java as I want to brush up on these older programming languages, as my memory is a bit rusty.
Show threadDeafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
@larryhudson I've used Acrobat Pro for years but recently I have been using the PDF viewer in Edge as I can quickly read the content on my braille display. I'm not fussy about any formatting, etc ... just as long as I can read the content quickly. To be honest I don't like PDFs, if I can avoid them I will.
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023

Microsoft has announced it is replacing the fairly basic PDF reader currently built into the Edge browser, which is currently accessible with a screen reader, with a new one powered by Adobe's pay-to-play Acrobat PDF engine. #Accessibility #a11y

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/microsoft_edge_pdf_acrobat/

Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat

And yes, sure, totally secure

The Register
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
Electronic Frontier FoundationFeb 11, 2023
The Searchtodon episode illustrates how the fediverse empowers people to not just be social media users, but active participants in shaping their platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/participation-fediverse
Participation in the Fediverse

Parts of the fediverse have been in something of an uproar recently over an experimental search service that was under development called (appropriately enough) Searchtodon. The project aimed to enable people to search their own home timeline and worked by being authorized by a user to access that...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
LibreOfficeFeb 11, 2023
More dark mode and compatibility improvements are coming to #LibreOffice, thanks to the work of our QA team! Here's their summary from January: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/02/10/qa-dev-report-january-2023/
QA/Dev Report: January 2023 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundaries independent from text boundaries in Writer. He also added a help page for Calc’s STYLE […]

LibreOffice QA Blog
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
@src That is the conclusion I'm coming to with this, all I really need is to put my /home directory on the additional 2TB drive. More would be overkill.
Show threadDeafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
@swordplay @wx1g That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing that with me. My needs are a little more modest in this case.
Deafblind EngineerFeb 11, 2023
@rdfhrn That's good to know, thanks for sharing that with me.