The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems
Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.
The Alternative?
Librem 5 Phone running PureOS, a Debian-based, fully auditable Linux OS, built for security from the silicon up.
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if he was arguing for the looks and style of 20th century user interfaces, sure, I'd get it. But I think he is arguing for the technology that was backing all of that... I wonder if he has read the ICCCM or EWMH specs. He probably wouldn't be this loud if he had.
here, "late 20th century user interface standards" means maybe 15 years at the most. And a lot less if we're talking about accessible graphical user interfaces.
So I should be releasing a comprehensive 2 and a half hour Zoom H2 Essential audio tutorial covering all accessibility options plus everything else with in the next week. From recording to IOS control, it should be all there. It will be on YouTube and also available as zipped mp3s. I will also be including links, resources and articles regarding H2E features. Please cut me some slack since this is my first project of this kind so the editing might be a little rough.
GNOME: goes out of its way to pay for accessibility work that no company wants to pay for, regardless all the billions they make
The Register:
> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.
A few weeks back I read on Mastodon that the US Dept of Health and Human Services was getting rid of COVID tests. This is bad for all the reasons, but some enterprising government employee did a program where you could fill out a form and get anywhere from 300-3000 COVID tests (unexpired) sent to your home. I figured why not try? Last week I got seven boxes of COVID tests delivered to my porch. I posted to a local mailing list and I am getting them pointed towards my community. Thanks Mastodon!
Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed Monday that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26.
Here's my first bit of WWDC 2025 coverage: I wrote about the early response to Apple's new "Liquid Glass" design language and reshared my newsy tidbit from my chat with the company's accessibility boss.
I was on the ground yesterday at Apple Park covering this year’s WWDC keynote . The star of the show was Apple’s introduction of its all-new Liquid Glass design language. The company has a great session on Liquid Glass in the Developer app.
I wanted to share something I just finished making… an arrangement of *Kass’s Theme* from **The Legend of Zelda**! 🎶🪶 Hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!
Hey y'all! I put the iPadOS 26 beta on my iPad Pro M4 and must say while many general things feel quite allright, there are definitely some areas that are very beta with regards to VoiceOver. Control Center doesn't talk at all, the multitasking control at the top of apps isn't accessible, in Files, none of the file or folder names read, and so far, I haven't found a way to activate the much talked about menu bar in Mail, Notes or any other app. So yeah, unlike previous years, the beta feels like a beta indeed from the getgo. Has any other VoiceOver user experimented with the beta on iPad and found ways to accomplish accessing the menu bar?
Do you think you're promoting rape culture by depicting women the way you often do?
Rob Zombie: I think I'm making films with graphic content. Women play the role of killer in my movies as well.
Do you think you're glorifying murder and psychotic behavior?
No. I think I'm showing characters doing stuff that's really sick and wrong. If you want to see murder and psychotic behavior, look at Israel and Palestine. Look at what any number of governments do to innocent people every day. That's some killing.
While I understand and on some level commend Apple's dedication to requiring "apps" to keep current with platform technology (it's irresponsible to connect stuff to a network that doesn't have active security support), this is a good reminder that you should never buy games that you might care about from Apple because they all stop working eventually, with no compatibility layer, emulator, or shim that will help you get them running again arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
The contrast with the Windows platform is striking. I recently helped a blind student get started with a program called Talking Typing Teacher that, as far as I can tell, was last updated in 2006. It runs fine on his Windows 11 laptop.
@matt On the one hand, commendable, I also enjoy reading The Old New Thing; on the other, Windows's security story kinda speaks for itself. Somebody *really* needs to find a way to unify these approaches
Some kinds of programs are self-contained enough that they could run fine in a VM and basically bring their own platform, if someone implemented a lightweight desktop virtualization app (VMware Workstation/Fusion, VirtualBox, etc. tend to be clunky things). I think games would fall in that category given a low-overhead way of virtualizing the GPU. The Talking Typing Teacher program I mentioned is certainly that self-contained; the user is even supposed to shut down their screen reader.
Accessibility is an area #Mixxx has struggled with for a long time, and as an all-volunteer project we have struggled to recruit devs to address it. If you have a passion for accessibility and are interested in a chance to have a big impact, hit us up.
@🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @Mckensie parker If you press shift+alt to open the menu, all the actions will be displayed there including those actions you can map a keyboard shortcuts to.
Event Title: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026Dates: January 19–23, 2026Location: Davos-Klosters, SwitzerlandOrganizer: World Economic Forum (WEF) The 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will convene over 2,500 global leaders...\n
Pokud tvoříte, nebo chcete tvořit obsah na #VHSky a potřebujete se poradit, nebo nám jen doporučit nějakej kanál, kterej ještě nemirrorujem, tak nám @Archos nahodil #Matrix místnost právě pro tyto případy.
Často se mi stává, že mě kontaktujete DM tady na #Fediverse, tohle bude funkčnější, rychlejší a možná někdo zareaguje rychleji, než já :)
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
@Milu Ale není problém, když si uděláte účet na mxchatu. Zašleme vám token nutný k registraci. Aplikací pro Matrix je hodně v F-Droidu a není problém pomoci s nastavením. @schmaker @Kipe
Což o to, to by asi nebyl problém, jen jsem myslela, že by to mohlo jít přes XMPP abych nemusela mít další apku ale asi to zkusim. Ja jsem i tak s technickou podporou tady na mastodonu spokojena👍 Víceméně zatím jsem na nic nespěchala. @schmaker @Kipe
@archos Voda z něj teče ke Kolínu a je napojen i Nový Bydžov. Míchá se voda z Náchoda, místních vrtů a Orlice. Dále se na střídačku pouští voda do Pardubické sítě a nebo naopak z ní odčerpává. Tak je jasné, že Perníkov nemá lepší ani horší.
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational dec…
“Tires are foundational to all our concept cars! You can tell because we left a wheel well to hold one!” A common refrain I see from companies is a variation of “Accessibility is a core principle!” They will include it in messaging, brag about their …
Incidentally, the company unleashing a new wave of contrast problems on the web (see today’s Codepen Spark for liquid glass copycats) is also the company that seems uninterested in supporting `prefers-reduced-transparency`: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…
The prefers-reduced-transparency CSS media feature is used to detect if a user has enabled a setting on their device to reduce the transparent or translucent layer effects used on the device.
Seriously thinking about going to INIT HELLO (init-hello.org/), the new conference for fans of the Apple II family of computers. On the one hand, I'm not really seriously into retro-computing. On the other hand, I do dabble in it (I have a working Apple II emulation setup using MAME), and I grew up with an Apple IIGS at home and Apple IIe at school, so it sounds like a fun nerdy thing to do over a weekend (plus two days off work for travel there and back).
Fwiw there's an open issue on the AppleWin GitHub repo to add Echo II emulation. The dev knows I really want it along with a few other blind folks, but obviously it's not a huge priority. The reason I'd love to be able to use AppleWin is because of its accessible UI for switching disks and whatnot.
Online obchod s českou a zahraniční populární i vážnou hudbou a mluveným slovem (audioknihami) v digitální podobě (MP3) i ve formě fyzických nosičů na CD, LP (vinyl) a DVD. Obsah nabízíme i v jedinečné nejvyšší kvalitě, formátech FLAC a Hi-Res (WAV).
By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…
I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.
Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️
I'm usually a binge reader, so I like to get through the whole series if it's available, but sometimes, when the series (or the books) is long, I take a break. How about you?
For me, it depends more on how "heavy" the books are. Page turners I usually do all at once, darker books or those with complex plots I take one by one.
With an ever-growing contributor base, GNOME infrastructure has an increasing number of demands placed on it — and only two engineers. AWS saved us from the burden of manually scaling our infra. Thank you AWS!
Different Fedora Linux variants (Spins/Labs) have different default environments. For example, the Fedora workstation uses GNOME as its default desktop environment, while the KDE spin will use KDE. Irrespective of…
@ebassi hi, non-expert Linux user here. This is a genuine question, I would like to learn and understand. How is this decision any good under the current landscape? Was it not possible to find other providers? Be it other US companies or companies in the EU? Thank you!
@apposada good luck finding a provider that gives the same features, allows a team of two part time SREs to manage a complex, ever growing infrastructure, and on top of that, it does all it for free.
an actual question (no malice): if GNOME needed to move away from AWS, would it require a significant amount of work, or is it sorta plug-n-play with any other provider?
With macOS Tahoe, you can now dictate Swift code, and navigate Xcode with Voice Control. Designed for developers with limited use of the keyboard, we strived to make the experience natural and intuitive. Just say the code like you're talking to a person, and let Voice Control handle the formatting for you.
Please check out the demo video (starts at 03:10), and give it a try. We can't wait to hear what you think.
Visto che su #ServiziLiberi stiamo sperimentando un server XMPP per la messaggistica, e visto che un buon client come Gajim non era tradotto completamente in italiano, abbiamo appena concluso la traduzione! 👍 #XMPP #Gajim #Traduzioni #SoftwareLibero
APPLE!! OMG Apple! They wrote a very smart paper showing LLMs don't do reasoning! I love Apple now!
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