What is my stance on the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses? It's good, helpful, and a more affordable assistive technology device than what's currently available... but it has it's challenges... I have never thought of connecting it to WhatsApp and using ChatGPT with it! Thanks Tim Dixon for sharing lots of insights! ⬇️ timdixon.net/blog/2025/04/blin…
NASA just pulled off another miracle save: 🛰️ The spacecraft’s primary roll thrusters, offline since 2004, were believed permanently dead 🧯 With backup thrusters at risk of failure, JPL engineers gambled on a high-stakes heater reset 🔥 If wrong, it could’ve caused a small onboard explosion 📡 If right, it would restore control — 15.6 billion miles from Earth
They were right. The thrusters fired. Voyager 1 can still hold its course.
This wasn’t a reboot. It was old-school problem-solving, deep systems knowledge, and the audacity to trust an idea that might just work.
The most distant human object is still flying — because a team believed it could.
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QRServ takes any selected file on your device and makes it available through its own HTTP server at an unused port number. The selected file can then be downloaded via web browser on another device or software that allows file downloads over HTTP from QR codes.
This was made possible thanks to the efforts by its author – and thanks to his SteamDeck running our RB framework
This evening I am porting my #Digalog #WatchFace to fenix 7. This is the first successful build. Btw I originally implemented this watchface for the first Pebble watch. ⌚
I thought 7€ on this kit would be a good splurge because I've been meaning to sew my own handbags and this way, I naïvely assumed, there would be a ready-made set of tools and clear instructions. but the instructions are wordless and I'm already stumped. unlike the zipper pictured mine has these little tails that make it jut out from the trim band, should I fold them? cut them out? sew them as is? am I supposed to sew the head or the tail of the zipper? does it make a difference? aah
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#curl build updates: curl-for-win Windows builds are now signed with cosign. Download page now includes links to these and to GPG signatures. The latest build uses zlib-ng instead of classic zlib as an experiment. curl.se/windows Daily builds (also for Linux and macOS) are also signed now with GPG and cosign: github.com/curl/curl-for-win/a…
This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!
While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want.
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want.
@bagder Essentially, #curl commit 0ae0abbe72514a75c10bfc4108d9f254f594c086 broke updating #HardenedBSD packages for certain users who use HardenedBSD behind a fully Tor-ified network (a network that uses transparent Tor proxying).
Those users were unable to update their HardenedBSD systems since the package manager uses libcurl behind-the-scenes. Some of these users live in malicious environments (malicious to human life), with actively-exploited applications.
So, this prohibition had a real negative impact, putting our users in harm's way.
If curl had a way to bypass the prohibition, we would've been able to keep our users safe.
This is why I mention #Radicle: they, too, do not support the .onion TLD by default, but can be configured to provide that support.
Radicle has three options:
Default: No support, .onion domain lookups will fail.
SOCKS support where .onion lookups succeed.
Explicit transparent proxying support, so .onion lookups succeed
right, but you also re-introduce the problem to those who mistakenly use .onion without the proxy setup. Like the RFC tries to address... So right, you opt the other option of the two.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday. As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years. In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).
Visit Orbit Research at SightCity 2025 to experience cutting-edge assistive tech, including the new Orbit Player, Braille displays, tactile graphics, and more. Let’s build a more inclusive future together. #SightCity2025 #InclusiveInnovation
Orbit Research is excited to participate in SightCity 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany! Join us May 21–23 at Kap Europa, Booth L2.33, to explore our latest innovations in assistive technology. #SightCity2025 #OrbitResearch
Geeky stuff aside, let's enjoy the hottest friday party ever. @Marek Macko is on air again with his awesome show called #playgroundLive. #dance, #trance, a bit of #hardStyle, #eurodance, #90s and other party genres in an incredible live mix performance lasting a few hours spiced up with some random chat messages of fellow listeners and friends.
Physicists at Cornell University figured out how to chop onions without crying and the results are FASCINATING.
tl;dr chopping quickly with a blunt knife releases larger onion juice droplets at higher velocities resulting in more contact with your eyes and thus, more tears. Slower slicing with a sharp knife = less tears.
At Microsoft, our journey with accessibility started in 1995, and our commitment continues today as we work to engrain accessibility into our culture, design of products, and skilling.
Today marks 10 years since the first stable release of the Rust programming language! To commemorate this special anniversary, the Rust Foundation recently commissioned a celebratory graphic from Karen Rustad Tölva: the original graphic designer of t…
In a seismic shift for the U.S. cable industry, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, two of the nation’s largest cable providers, announced a merger agreement on Friday, valuing Cox at $34.5 billion on an enterprise basis.
Microsoft has confirmed that some Windows 10 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 systems will boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the May 2025 security updates.
This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!
While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
I keep cycling between "man, I miss MagicPoint" and "man, I should learn Beamer", and "man, I am sick of LO Impress" but then I go make a presentation, and if there is any sort of friction in including an ad-hoc diagram, I'll just get super frustrated and go back to LO Impress.
Microsoft claims that 30% of the code is already generated by AI. Why isn't it 100%. So I tried it. I "created" an application whose code is 100% generated by AI. I didn't write a single line of code. The goal was not to create some large or complex application. Simply just a test. If you are interested, the app is available on Google Play (currently not for iOS, maybe later). I may publish the source codes later, but for now only here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
I chose a programming language in which I had never done anything. The entire code is the result of AI. 👍 Not only the code, but also any text changes were made by AI based on input requirements. I always wanted the entire file as the result, not just the part that changed.
What about my impressions? At the beginning it was very good. As the project gained in complexity, the problems grew. AI changed parts of the code that it should have kept or discarded them completely. I often had to point out completely obvious but essential precautions, etc. This means that some experience in application development or design was needed to fully develop this way.
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