On 2024-13-01 17:37:56 Akira Urushibata wrote:
> n October 2022 I posted here an article about a computer system named
> "Horizon" whose errors led to hundreds of false criminal accusations.
>
> British Post Office computer system scandal
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:24:41 +0900 (JST)
>
Blindfold vs magnifying glass.
Leslie
On 2021-01-19 23:15:34 Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
> |And also another PSA on proprietary vs. open/free standards. Not sure
> |what a good visual would be for that -- maybe dirty vs. clean?
> |
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An article about accessability, peripherally related to the Adobe
discussion.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/blind-people-advocates-slam-company-claiming-make-websites-ada-compliant-n1266720
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On 2021-05-05 03:17:41 Jean Louis wrote:
> The problem is that people working on those websites usually have
> enough money and very good Internet and they assume that all of the
> planet is the same, somehow funny when conference is planet related.
This is a serious problem for anyone
On 2021-05-05 09:08:52 Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> To me, knowing what gets into my machine --and the
> browser is the most used for intrusion, has the attack
> surface ridiculously huge and hard to control-- is as
> important as free software and hardware. Free software and
> hardware must be safe,
On 2021-05-20 06:37:35 Jean Louis wrote:
> * Yasuaki Kudo [2021-05-20 05:33]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you so much for your replies! I am so glad I asked!
> >
> > An idea came to us yesterday - to provide CompuServe/AOL-style BBS
> > interface.
> >
> > I think maybe the world has gotten too far
On 2021-05-24 08:11:58 quil...@riseup.net wrote:
> I doubt that a sight impairment issue can be solved by a window manager
> or by graphics. What I think that a computer which is friendly to blind
> users should do is get information (local or external) and interpret it
> in braile or in sound.
On 2021-07-07 14:04:02 Jean Louis wrote:
> * alimiracle [2021-07-07 21:35]:
> > its doesn't give you the same code.
>
> That for sure.
>
> > its rearrangement codes and integrate them, and then gives you the
> > result
>
> Yes, and that may be useful.
>
> > This thing make a lot of problems.
>
>
On 2021-03-18 09:33:25 quiliro wrote:
> Jean Louis writes:
> > I would send to government a letter that software is proprietary and
> > not a standard, and that government is thus favoring proprietary
> > company "Adobe" that is not even Canadian company -- I would ask for
> > reasons why they
On 2021-03-17 12:20:34 quiliro wrote:
> You can also search the FSF free software directory at:
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Works-with-format/pdf
> I am not sure if that is the best category. But I guess you can explore
> and ask here, if you have any further trouble.
Or
On 2021-04-05 11:45:46 Jean Louis wrote:
> * Lori Nagel via libreplanet-discuss
> [2021-04-05
19:32]:
> >I think a lot of this discussion about RMS is because most people
> >forget about freedom respecting software activism most of the time.
> >They don't live eat sleep and breathe
Esperanto? :-)
Leslie
On 2021-04-14 10:25:16 sergio hernandez wrote:
> I think that it's time to change the Universal language for another one.
> It's only a thought.
>
> El mié, 14 de abr. de 2021 a la(s) 10:17, mrf (itis103t...@gmail.com)
>
> escribió:
> > I made terrible grammatical
On 2021-04-20 10:42:29 Jean Louis wrote:
> * Greg Knittl [2021-03-21 22:27]:
> > Hi Jean Louis,
> >
> > This is generic problem across at least 2 Ontario ministries. I have also
> > encountered XFA forms for the Health Ministry Assistive Devices Program.
> > I don't know exactly where to send
On 2022-06-27 17:50:46 Yuchen Pei wrote:
> On Sun 2022-06-26 17:25:24 -0700, Marc Sunet wrote:
> >> I feel that one difference between the values of free software and open
> >> source is that the free software does not have a problem with taking
> >> people's work and re-selling it, as long as the
Indeed, the failure of Wikipedia to differentiate references to the
kernel (Linux) and
OSs that depend on it (GNU/Linux et al) is unfortunate. Many people, including
those who
actually use Linux-based systems, are wont to use 'Linux' as a short-hand for
GNU/Linux*;
and there are many
On 2024-05-14 20:49:08 Marc Sunet wrote:
> Which reminds me, how is it still legal for an OEM to ship a "default"
> OS in a computer without giving the customer any choice, esp. with
> BIOSes that now often don't let you boot a third-party OS unless you
> enable the option explicitly (and those
Google is effectively useless these days. Several years ago I switched
my
default search engine to DuckDuckGo, and that made searching a bit better for
a while, but that started to go downhill as well; now I'm using Kagi, which
is much better, but does charge a small fee for better
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