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Libre software engineer with physics background.
Maintainer for @hare date/time.
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I love good serif monospace fonts. A favourite of mine is Triplicate.
https://mbtype.com/fonts/triplicate/
You can see it being used throughout this site:
https://beautifulracket.com/explainer/contracts.html#a_fzPMp
List of keyboard “complications” that should become commonplace, from a mostly laptop & terminal user (in descending order of importance):
a. Thumb keys. Long spacebars are a waste of space. Split ‘em!
b. A Control thumb key. I might just consider using emacs. Damn emacs’ pinky. Scrolling in vim is a pain without this.
c. Scrollers. Those flat scroll wheels or barrels on some keyboards that adjust the volume. Should be remappable; imagine whizzing through tmux windows, cmus track entries… a tonne of unforeseen possibilities.
d. Context Menu key (analoguous to “right click”). Usually found on your typical boomer 2000’s GUI desktop setup. I sometimes miss this on my laptop.
e. “fn numpad”. Some keyboards have a mode where m=0, j=1, k=2, l=3, u=4, etc. I’ve not much experience with it, but could be useful with rapid entry. But software can also do this, so meh.
ThinkPad mouse “bean”? I haven’t fiddled with it, and doesn’t look effective.
Flat joystick? I have a keeb with one and it sucks.
Split/Ergo keebs? I tried the Moonlander, wasn’t for me. I like my keebs flat and low.
That’s it. If a keyboard with the aforementioned complications exists, please bombard me with your wisdom.
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@devinprater Terminals are not "more accessible" to blind users because they lack metadata. Screenreaders need to know when a piece of text has a different locale because they can switch TTS settings; they need to know semantic meanings because blind users can't just "see" text with different meanings.
Single-locale line-mode interfaces without any ascii art or other prettification *is* quite accessible, but this is a subset of programs for the terminal.
I say this as someone who hardly uses GUI apps besides the browser and inherently graphical tasks (e.g. viewing images/videos). Whenever I do a "blind for the afternoon" challenge (something I highly recommend), accessible widget toolkits (ideally supporting AT-SPI) are ten times easier to operate.
I'd recommend reading documentation for assistive technologies/standards like AT-SPI to see what all is required; not all of this maps well to a terminal.
Single-locale line-mode interfaces without any ascii art or other prettification *is* quite accessible, but this is a subset of programs for the terminal.
I say this as someone who hardly uses GUI apps besides the browser and inherently graphical tasks (e.g. viewing images/videos). Whenever I do a "blind for the afternoon" challenge (something I highly recommend), accessible widget toolkits (ideally supporting AT-SPI) are ten times easier to operate.
I'd recommend reading documentation for assistive technologies/standards like AT-SPI to see what all is required; not all of this maps well to a terminal.
Amazing illustrative article on GPS
https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
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TIL about https://lichess.org/ , one of the world's most popular chess servers, run entirely on free software by a nonprofit, ad-free, supported by donations with a budget of ~$420K/year according to https://lichess.org/costs
They've been around since 2010.
As awesome as this is to see, imagine how many free/open nonprofit alternatives to Big Tech platforms would exist if, down to the municipal level, we decided to support them with funding & infrastructure.
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I love federation
Email/web rant
@chambln
I'd imagine, if you account is tied to other important accounts, that email notif gives you a chance to "cancel your credit card" or "declare your encryption keys compromised" before they do real damange.
~b
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We have closed the loop.
The launcher can now assemble tal files on the fly, you can use Left to write #uxn programs, Nasu to make graphics, Dexe to include them into your projects.
That means you can have a complete workstation on a NDS, GBA, Playdate, etc..
Thanks to everyone who helped to put this together.
~b
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>[centralized service] banned me
>oh i know i'll sign up for [different centralized service]
>it'll be different this time
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>oh i know i'll sign up for [different centralized service]
>it'll be different this time
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Go outside
Live
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“wow the fediverse federates… let’s keep it to 2 or 3 instances guys, let’s never use this awesome power to actually do anything”
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Dino (XMPP): Decentralized End To End Encryption Messenger/+ Chatroom Client (Linux/Pinephone Shown) https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/86d8b6df-8000-41f6-a92c-1d8ba2501972
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This blew our socks off - #PineNote 's e-paper display now works on mainline #linux ! 🎉
Thanks to Samuel Holland (https://github.com/smaeul) as well as other contributors for this incredible achievement.
- lichess
- https://lichess.org/@/torresjrjr
Libre software engineer with physics background.
Maintainer for @hare date/time.
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