This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.

This seems valuable for all public spaces.

#Blind #Accessibility

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🗓️ Planify mi bylo doporučeno v komunitní místnosti o #triliumnext – a musím říct, fakt super!
Konečně krásná co padne do #Gnome, jednoduchá a funkční aplikace pro správu úkolů, která se napojí na #Nextcloud #oscloud přes CalDAV.

Nextcloud (backend) + DAVx⁵ + Tasks.org (Android) + Planify (desktop)
Funguje to skvěle dohromady.

#FOSS #Planify #Nextcloud #CalDAV #Linux #OpenSource #oscloud
github.com/alainm23/planify

in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan Planify opakované úkoly umí a přes CalDAV se mi normálně zobrazují i ve webovém Nextcloudu.
Umí i podúkoly, ale ty už Nextcloud webové rozhraní nepodporuje.
Mně to stačí – to důležité řeším na PC a přes Nextcloud mám jen osobní věci, které potřebuju v mobilu.
Hrozně se mi líbí to rozhraní – je čisté, rychlé.
Navíc Quick Add umožní vytvořit nový úkol odkudkoliv pomocí klávesové zkratky, aniž bys musel mít otevřené hlavní okno.

NBC News:
Actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon among New York's protesters

Ruffalo told NBC News that he was marching "because democracy is in real trouble."

"We're not going away. We're not going to be quiet," he said. "We love each other, and ...we love this country..."
nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm…

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump #NoKings

My notes on Anthropic's substantial essay about how they built their multi-agent research system, which has finally talked me around to taking multi-agent LLM prompt engineering seriously simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/14/…
in reply to Simon Willison

I have a slight "unease" with the term "agent."

Not for the usual reasons, but because it encourages thinking of agents like we think of employees. Something you have a limited number of, difficult to hire/fire, can only do one task at a time etc.

A better way to think about them would be as (graphs of) ephemeral tasks / jobs, like in Celery, Sidekik and such. In this model, LLMs are essentially an autoscaling pool of compute that those tasks can always tap into.

This way of thinking gives you features like parallel sub-agents, checkpointing, crash recovery or surviving system migrations / power outages for almost free.

in reply to miki

@miki I think the term "agent" is mostly unusable, because if you ask five people you'll get five different (potentially *wildly* different) interpretations, and often people will have a weird confidence that THEIR definition is the right one which everyone else shares when it isn't

In this case Anthropic opened their paper by clarifying the definition they were using ("LLMs autonomously using tools in a loop"), and I'm fine with that

@miki

Cast iron and stainless. Stop buying this other bullshit

Toxic truth? The cookware craze redefining ‘ceramic’ and ‘nontoxic’ - The Guardian
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* Noted: an all-in-one entertainment tracker for movies, TV series, books, and more, including To-Do and Finished lists 🛡️

Current RB status: 623 apps (47.5%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

Statement on ICE Activity in Thousand Oaks.

"Statement from Mayor David Newman Regarding ICE Activity in Thousand Oaks

14 June 2025

Your city government is scrupulously nonpartisan and laser-focused on local matters. Despite frequent calls to do so, we don't comment on outside issues. When outside issues come to us in Thousand Oaks, however, that's another matter.

Yesterday agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted operations at multiple locations throughout the City. This is now a local issue.

ICE actions here and around Ventura County have caused fear, uncertainty, and confusion among residents, espeically within immigrant communities. Local businesses were closed or short-staffed out of concern for the well-being of staff.

This unease speaks to me personally. My immigrant grandparents fled pograms. For human rights advocay, my Ukrainian grandfather endured arrest and exile to Siberia. And it is hearbreaking to hear my in-laws -- first-generation immigrations who faced ethnic persecution -- worry about detection on our streets.

If you are feeling afraid, help is available. If you need counseling or legal advice, call 211. Interface Services, which the City helps support, can help you identify the appropriate agency to assist.

If you see anything you think is dangerous, call 911 immediately.... (more)"

#ThousandOaks #ConejoValley #VenturaCounty

⚠️ A reminder that like all social networks Mastodon is not end-to-end encrypted. It is not designed or intended as a way to send sensitive information.

If you need to send private messages with sensitive content, use a secure messenger with end-to-end encryption both present and activated.

Some options are XMPP with OMEMO (joinjabber.org), @delta & @briar

Another is Signal, but Signal is centralised which makes it more vulnerable to enshittification or selling itself to Meta etc.

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They know what you clicked last summer - and what you are going to click this summer.

Stay safe, stay #private.

With these alternatives:
👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

What did you pick? Comment below.

How can you build modern, cross-platform applications that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving ecosystem of the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Friendica, etc.)?

Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform may be an interesting answer! Check out my blog post and stay tuned for more considerations stemming from my experience during the last 2 years maintaining the Raccoon apps.

livefasteattrashraccoon.github…

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8 Facts About Berthe Morisot, the Great Woman Impressionist

by Anastasiia Kirpalov

Degas and Renoir were fans of her work. Manet painted her.

thecollector.com/facts-berthe-…

"Impressionist painting: its genesis and development" by Wynford Dewhurst has a chapter about Morisot and other women Impressionists.

At PG:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/69533

Young Woman Knitting

#art

#art

Ok, the #Thunderbird chat interface for IRC and Matrix seems to have #a11y issues with #NVDA now. Sometimes NVDA completely freezes, especially when the interface is maximised, though not reliably in all channels. I filed a bug, appreciate anyone who can dig into what on earth is going on: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

Happy No Kings Day!

I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest today, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.

No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-to-…

I am very excited to announce that my full beginner to advanced Apple App Developer course will begin in mid September. The class will be held on Google Classroom, and registration is free. Use the Google Classroom link to join the class, and we will have announcements about the course as time goes on there. classroom.google.com/c/Nzg3MTA…

Less than 40 people and now this seems to magically not be a problem anymore?

Sorry, but toxic cultures don't go away if you speak to a tiny sample about them.
[Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say | Men | The Guardian](theguardian.com/society/2025/j…)

In recent weeks I have had the privilege of starting to participate in the American Printing House for the Blind’s Monarch RISE project. This is a thoughtfully developed and very well organized effort to engage professionals in the blindness services field, blind professionals more generally, and people who are seeking competitive, integrated employment in improving this Braille and tactile graphics technology to meet the needs of those in higher education and workplace settings.

aph.org/meet-monarch/rise/

I think involving real users in a grant-funded project of this nature is a very effective way of discovering what works well, what further developments could be made, and how the technology can best be applied to solving problems of accessibility as experienced in practice.
#MonarchRise #APH

Our next major #LibreOffice release is coming up in August! Help us to test the new features and iron-out any wrinkles before the release: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource

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in reply to Archos

gratulace. Ja po několika výletech do studny nebyl schopny roztočit čerpadlo. Myslím si ze po tech x desítkách let už má dost a povodně loni na podzim ho dodělaly. Bzučí bzučí, ale neotočí. Přemýšlím jestli chci sám celou soustavu tahat ven a zkoumat a nic nevykoumat. Nebo radši rovnou sehnat studnare co mi to demontuje, zhodnoti, vymění, zprovozní … vidim to na možnost B
in reply to Archos

jj je to presne jak rikas, uz nevim kolik let kazdy rok na zacatku sezony musime do studni "obouchat hridelku" aby se zaclo tocit. Proste pres zimu "zaroste" a ted po tom co bylo 100% pod vodou ... chce to nove. Ted hlavne premyslim jake a co s tim. Koukam na vysokotlaky ponorka co proste zavesim a tlaci kdyz je potreba a pak na domaci vodarny s nadrzi. Ted mame vodarnu s nadrzi. No uvidime ...

With REAPER 7.40, you might have noticed that playing your projects isn't possible anymore when you're in the OSARA Parameters dialogs.
An OSARA update is ready with a fix. As a bonus, now you can play using Space when focus is on the sliders, you don't need to remember to use Control+Space to hear results anymore.
Control+Space also works to play/pause in those dialogs now, pausing moves your edit cursor, useful if you want to cue up a different part of the project to hear the adjustments you're making in context.

Shout outs to Toni and Jamie for much help with many scary code.

osara.reaperaccessibility.com/…

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