The Acer Chromebook 714 is here to dethrone its little brother
https://www.androidpolice.com/next-at-acer-may-22-lineup/
#acerchromebook #chromebooks #Tablets #News
Thank you @MichaelTunnell for remembering to discuss this in the episode 278 when discussing the new #Fedora release with @mattdm . I kinda agree that there should be an organization and funding entity to push this harder, but I think Fedora **is** in the position to push Gnome people to allocate more man-hour to Orca. At the moment Joanmarie Diggs is the only dev who kindly and actively working on this with average commit/day: 1.1
Report: Apple ML exec that left over in-person work policy joining Alphabet’s DeepMind
https://9to5google.com/2022/05/17/ian-goodfellow-deepmind/
#News
Study of 3,500 knowledge workers whose job can be done remotely finds that employees with more flexibility (location, schedule & work) felt more connected to their org's culture.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90752781/dont-force-your-employees-back-to-the-office-do-this-instead
In the ‘80s, there were Lisp machines — computers specifically designed to run Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
How long do you think it’ll be before we see a JavaScript machine?
Every time I get the itch to learn Ruby, all I have to do is look at this.
https://github.com/mjhea0/python-ruby
I mean look at that guessing game! Using a question mark as a Boolean checker? The `1.upto 6 do |guesses|` that... that doesn't sound readable. ` puts "What is your guess? You have #{7 - guesses} more guesses."` Like why is "- guesses" in the string replacement brackets? Like it's crazy. And colons and bars everywhere! Yeah let's not do that. Brew and Asciidoc are great but Ruby no!
I'm not happy with Proton Mail! Their bridge app to decrypt messages for third party clients is very much not accessible on windows. The password it generates is not focusable so the screenreader can't read it, so I can't sign in! Which is especially stupid given that their linux app has a commandline interface, but the windows one doesn't. Sent them an email and they were basically like "yeah you're right, it doesn't work, sorry no ETA, but let us know if you have any other problems!" Yeah, no.
Hello, a friend's wheelchair has broken and they're currently raising money for a repair/replacement, any donations would be greatly appreciated
re: FSF (-)
But before supporting broader organizations I prefer first supporting individual projects. Framasoft is the positive outlier here since it also helps develop useful software.
Some projects that come to mind:
The odilia screen reader, still in early stages
Your fediverse software of choice
Client and server implementations of open chat protocols (XMPP, Matrix, IRC). The Element company is investor-backed (ugh) so I’d de-prioritize the specific implementations they work on.
What these have in common is that in addition to being important projects of their own, they enable a larger platform to be viable. Desktop Linux isn’t viable without much better accessibility than if currently has, and communication networks need a diversity of implementations to stay open.
So, I have decided to stay home Friday. Almost all the people I work with are too, but because it'll be hot outside that day, like really hot. I'm not going because I'm not going to support ableism, since the waiver form needs to be signed with a mouse. I ain't got time to work around that bullcrap, so I'm going to stay home and probably, knowing me, do actual work lol
OK #Linux folks! I've rigged up Fedora Plasma on a spare laptop, and I'm giving it a shot for professional work over the next week.
Will try to keep updates as replies to this toot. Will likely do a follow-up blog post and/or video at some point.
Mutual Aid Request 🌸💸
Hi, fedi
I'm an autistic disabled & chronically ill unemployed enby who needs help paying (30€) for physiotherapy & (165€) for meds to deal ADHD & several MS symptoms (total: 195€).
IF you CAN chip in, it'll be v. welcome & appreciated!
Any amount you can spare really helps & so do boosts! Ty!
https://www.PayPal.me/eloisa85
Tysm for helping me survive so far!
Oh, and in case you're one of those folks wondering if I'm a "shill" for trying Fedora (eye rolls at YouTube comments), I only wish I was getting paid to promote Linux desktops!
I'd strongly consider dropping everything else to get paid to promote Linux. Hit me up. 😋
To be clear pdfs are the absolute worst way to consume or transmit info on the web, even for sighted people like myself. I even got in an argument on the bird site with Neil Gaiman himself arguing (and I still believe this) that the internet archive publishing PDF scans of books is not really piracy because nobody who had any other options would ever choose to read a pdf scan. Lol, he didn't agree with me. Anyway get rid of pdfs
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