Kevin C
Kevin C boosted:
Boris Schapira (Pro)boostmarks@hachyderm.io
2025-06-10

I'm horrified by the inability of the digital press to apply a critical cribble involving accessibility to UI changes.

If you're a journalist and you're not able to see, during a major UI change such as wat Apple announced with Liquid Glass, that millions of people who are visually impaired or simply have poor eyesight are going to lose access to the use of their device, you're doing bad journalism.

#Accessibility #LiquidGlass #Apple

Example of the Looking Glass UI. Widgets feature white text on semitransparent background, over a red, black and white background. When the white of the background meet text, text is not readable due to the lack of contrast.
Kevin C boosted:
2025-04-20

lol, no

Screenshot from editor where GitHub Copilot suggests naming a variable "Maxerals" after the first one in the struct was named "Minerals"
2025-04-04

@devontechnologies Is it possible to do the 30day/150hour trial of the beta without extending the license yet? Or if not with the beta, when the release comes out? I’m supportive of the new licensing model, but with the economy going the direction it looks to be going, it unfortunately would be helpful to try out before committing. Congratulations on the beta!

Edit: it probably wouldn’t take a full 30 days to decide to upgrade obviously. :)

Kevin C boosted:
2025-03-15

New paper out: "Different explanations in grammar are mutually compatible: Structural, evolutionary and biocognitive", in the journal "Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters" (volume 7, 2024) tmp.sc/index.php/eng/archive/2

2025-03-01

@palmin It seems to have resolved for now.

2025-02-28

@palmin The iOS build just showed up. Trying to view the details still gives the same error. But since the Update button shows up in the list on iOS, I could actually update it. It reminds me of how much I dislike TestFlight's UI on iPad and Mac, where you have to load the details just to click update.

2025-02-28

@palmin Ok. Thanks!

2025-02-28

@palmin Secure ShellFish on Mac shows an update in TestFlight, but I just get the error "Couldnt Load App. TestFlight is currently unavailable. Try again." There is one other app that shows the same, but most other apps (including your other ones) seem to be fine. It's the same on iOS TestFlight. Any ideas?

2025-01-18

@ttscoff@nojack.easydns.ca I’m not sure about the keyboard nav/shortcuts, but I think the other things are covered. Also good custom actions and shortcut support. Though like you said, I’m not sure what you gain over DT. For me, the main thing is keeping things separate. I tend use GoodLinks to save and tag anything I might want to read later, where DT is for stuff I know I need to keep or add to an existing project/database.

2025-01-18

@ttscoff@nojack.easydns.ca I use @goodlinks, which recently added highlights and notes/annotations. It has a small subscription for access to new pro features, but in the spirit of @WorkingCopy. Not sure how it compares to Readwise.

2025-01-13
2025-01-13

@jessegrosjean Hahaha! My license missed this update about updates by one day! 😅 I've been considering a setapp subscription, but I'll get a new Bike license if I decide against that. Will I miss any features if wait a bit to think it through? I've already updated to 1.21.

Kevin C boosted:
Language Science Presslangscipress@openbiblio.social
2025-01-11

New IMTVault release available. This release containts 123,566 examples. Examples are annotated for languages, categories, and, NEW, for semantic concepts.
imtvault.org/?entities[0]=Kitc

A screenshot of IMTVault showing various examples for "Kitchenware", including knife, fork, pestle, jar, cooking pot.
Kevin C boosted:
2024-12-21

LSA president Tony Woodbury on Sapir's idea that each language has its own "genius", and that each language should be described with its own framework, rather than through a general ("theoretical") framework. muse.jhu.edu/article/948426

2024-12-20

@MonaApp I've been using the betas on Mac and iOS but have the app store versions installed as well. I noticed there were a couple of app store releases without beta updates. Should I switch to just using the app store versions, or will there be beta updates again as well. Thanks!

2024-12-16

@rcarmo Thanks for not disappointing.

Kevin C boosted:
2024-12-16

Wrote up some notes on Microsoft's new Phi-4 LLM. They trained it on a LOT of synthetic data, and the details of how and why they did that are really interesting.
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/

2024-12-11

@darknoise That seems to have fixed it! Thanks so much!

2024-12-11

@darknoise I managed to get a crash log from system settings and sent it to you!

2024-12-11

@darknoise I managed to get it to open this time, but then it crashed while trying to navigate to settings.

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