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Alternatives to readline, libedit, for C? -
The more I talk to people about how to make software sustainable, I'm reminded that most people haven't spent time thinking about how anything gets paid for. Most employees haven't really considered exactly how it is that money ends up in their paychec...@polotek Do you think we need to push back against the whole idea of FOSS and go back to more proprietary software with enforced paid licenses? Actually curious, not trying to argue; I'm not sure myself.
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I need feedback from sighted people about the website for my open-source project.@inthehands Well, I got some negative feedback about putting those subsections in one big list, especially about the increased indentation and how that affects small screens. That was a somewhat weird structure anyway. So I backed that out and made the font size of h3 smaller. What do you think?
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I need feedback from sighted people about the website for my open-source project.@inthehands Ugh. If the h2 and h3 styles are hard to distinguish, that's arguably the browser's fault. But if all the browsers have that problem, e.g. because they're all keeping slavish compatibility with something Netscape did in 1994, then maybe that's on me to fix.
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I need feedback from sighted people about the website for my open-source project.I need feedback from sighted people about the website for my open-source project.
Here's the current version, using a third-party theme; I know the typography on the home page has problems: https://accesskit.dev/
And here's my proposed new version, using a minimalist template and CSS derived from an existing site (I stripped it down quite a bit): https://preview.accesskit.dev/
My main collaborator says the new appearance is from a past era. What do you think? Is it off-putting?
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Hot take: Websites or publishing platforms including estimated reading time in blog posts is ableist. It says, "We estimate that a normal person reads at this speed, and if you don't, we're going to remind you at the top of every post that you're not n...Hot take: Websites or publishing platforms including estimated reading time in blog posts is ableist. It says, "We estimate that a normal person reads at this speed, and if you don't, we're going to remind you at the top of every post that you're not normal."
For users who need or want an estimate of reading time, their user agent (e.g. the browser or a browser extension) should do that, in a way that's tailored to them.
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?@drewdevault Good to know, thanks. Both of us who worked on the site have low vision.
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?@drewdevault *checks to make sure the static site's theme doesn't do anything egregious in computational or bandwidth cost*
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?@drewdevault And, come to think of it, why *should* 3 seconds be acceptable, with computers and (some) Internet connections being as fast as they are?
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?@drewdevault I guess it doesn't really matter for my little open-source project site. But then again, by hosting only in North America, I'd be giving preferential treatment to those in or near North America, right? Shouldn't we care about doing what we can to treat everyone equally?
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?@drewdevault Isn't it more like hundreds of milliseconds depending on how far the visitor is from the single server?
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?Context: The AccessKit website (https://accesskit.dev/) is on GitHub Pages, but I'm wondering now if there's a better option.
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What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website?What is the least objectionable content delivery network (CDN) for a fully static website? That is, the CDN from the company that does the fewest bad things. Yes, I could run the site on a single server (dedicated, VPS, or even a machine in my home if I get a static IP address), but that would privilege visitors in a single geographic location, and static sites are of course the ideal use case for a CDN.
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Forrest Brazeal:@simon For many years I haven't liked calling myself an X-language developer anyway, because when working on a whole product as a solo developer, I have to work in whatever set of languages is most practical for getting the job done, and learning different flavors of imperative language isn't that hard. Plus, I don't want to tie my identity to a particular language (as I possibly did with Python early in my career), because then I'd be more resistant to using new languages when appropriate.
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About my last boost from @drewdevault, this makes me ashamed to consider myself part of the Rust community, especially since some of the comments he quoted in the thread were posted in places where the Rust code of conduct are allegedly in force (that ...About my last boost from @drewdevault, this makes me ashamed to consider myself part of the Rust community, especially since some of the comments he quoted in the thread were posted in places where the Rust code of conduct are allegedly in force (that is, it's not just Reddit and Hacker News). We've got a problem with tribalism in our community. I know it's not up to me to police the community, but still, what can we do about this?
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This kind of treatment is exactly why I started @redox_os from scratch and written primarily in Rust. -
This kind of treatment is exactly why I started @redox_os from scratch and written primarily in Rust. -
Can modern screen readers read academic papers that are published as two column PDFs? Do they know how to separate out the two columns?@simon I'd be really worried about both hallucination and prompt injection when using an LLM for document conversion, as an accessibility tool for blind or other disabled users. But the tools I've tried on this paper do worse than what you got out of Gemini.
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hmm, this musl-perf thing effectively makes musl LGPL, but they don't supply the source for the glibc string functions they borrowed.@ariadne And of course, ifuncs enabled the xz backdoor.