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Australian man interrogated at LA airport and deported back to Melbourne for his writings about pro-Palestine protests. His social media posts, too, which he said he deleted before flying, were used as material.

"Clearly, they had technology in their system which linked those posts to my Esta … a long time before I took them down,” he said. “Because they knew all about the posts, and then interrogated me about the posts once I was there.”

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Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne
Catie McLeod (The Guardian)

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Ghostty will soon be visible to accessibility tooling on macOS. This is increasingly important in the world of AI since this means that tools like ChatGPT, Claude, etc. can now read Ghostty's screen contents too (with permission). This feature is also relatively rare!

Only the built-in Terminal, iTerm2, and Warp also support this. Kitty, Alacritty, and others are invisible to a11y on macOS.

Beyond the screen contents, Ghostty's structure is also visible, navigable, and resizable such as its split as can be seen in the attached video. Ghostty and iTerm2 are the only terminals that expose structure too (splits, tabs).

This is a v1 implementation that is primarily read-only. I plan on iterating and improving a11y interactions in future versions.

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Mitchell Hashimoto

@miki I’m not totally sure. Right now our behavior mostly mimics iTerm. It’s admittedly not optimized for humans right now and more for AI (I note that in the PR), but the foundational work is all the same. It’s just all the last mile to get to the next spot.

My thinking thoigh was to break down the terminal into more accessibility groups e.g per command then per N lines of output, and notify AX framework that new data exists.

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miki

Autoreading on Mac is though (see that writeup I made on Github at one point) because Voice Over has no built-in queuing mechanism, and you really need one in a terminal. This is not a problem on any other platform, most screen readers let you decide whether you want new speech to interrupt all existing utterances or to queue up.

This means you basically need to handle speech yourself (Mac OS and all other platforms have APIs for that and they're decent), but that opens another can of worms, as then you need a way to manage speech preferences somehow.

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Dnes mě i přes neděli lovil v práci pan generální.
Napřed mi mazal med kolem huby, pak zkoušel oddanost práci a pak vytáhl nejvyšší kalibr.
Pořídil pro mě úplně nový Mercedes Tourismo, který bude jen můj, nikdo jiný mi ho nebude řídit, nikdo mi ho nebude týrat...
Nebudu to natahovat místo linky do Londýna jsem od příštího měsíce Long Executive trip driver ❤️
Příští stížnosti na dopravu budou z cest po UK a Evropě 😇

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Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children.

"Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health"

"So many children are getting Long COVID because COVID causes Long COVID, and children are not “immune” to COVID, they are not becoming healthier with each infection, and the adults around them are doing nothing to mitigate the virus."

"So if COVID is a virus that can disable them, damages their blood vessels, raises their risk of heart failure and cardiac arrest, causes autoimmune disorders, diabetes, and a range of mental health and cognitive problems, then we’d be doing something really awful by failing to deal with, or even acknowledge it. Maybe even unforgiveable."

Source: archive.md/c8aSv

@auscovid19

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children.
@AusCOVID19 group
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NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. This release introduces NVDA Remote Access, provides speech, braille, OCR & Office improvements, Native selection in Chrome & edge

Full info & Download: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #FOSS #NewVersion #Update #News #Free

Close up of NVDA Notification area icon

NV Access | NVDA 2025.1 Released

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #free #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion

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What would a Doctor Who missing episodes drama be like? blog.lovarzi.co.uk/doctor-who-… #DoctorWho

What would a Doctor Who missing episodes drama be like? - Lovarzi Blog

The story behind Doctor Who missing episodes is almost as gripping as Doctor Who itself. Could the hunt for lost material be transformed into a TV drama?
Alex Skerratt (Lovarzi Blog)
#doctorwho
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What bullshitery, Tiflotecnia's Vocalizer licenses have a limit, was just told that I've hit my max registered licenses, very sad, right away, just removed the add-on. Looks like back to the cracked Vocalizer we go, since they don't even have a portal where you can reset your license, wow. Here I had thought Tiflo got better, but nope. (Still sent them an e-mail to the address my license came from and I sent proof of purchase for the CF one, we'll ssee if it's one of those no-response ones, just listed as tiflotecnia@tiflotecnia.com.)
Can someone scan through their documentation and tell me if they reference anywhere a line about a license limit, needing to deauthorize a license to get the counter lowered, ETC? Because I sure ain't seeing it. tiflotecnia.com/documentation.…
Update: OK, that e-mail does work! FYI, they track your machine name, internal IP, and external IP of each machine. Very interesting, not entirely surprised this is kept to prevent sharing of licenses though.

Tiflotecnia Voices for NVDA Documentation

Tiflotecnia Voices for NVDA is a multilingual synthetizer based on Serence Embedded TTS.
www.tiflotecnia.com
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Tamas G

Hoping my Tiflotecnia Vocalizer issues will get solved today, I have 3 machines with my desktop, HP laptop, Asus laptop. So that's it, no work machine getting Vocalizer now. Ah well. They were not the ones to pay for it anyway, I'll just get them to invoice a license for me if I really needed to use it for work. Bye bye Vocalizer on Virtual Mac OS either, since that would count as a 4th machine. Argh. Guess I'll need to buy a second 3-pack license if I want it on more machines like that, what can I say, I just love computers. I sleep with 2 of them under the bed, 4 or 5 in storage bins like my old Macbook Air, so it's quite easy to hit that 3-machine ceiling for me.

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The Halifax Explosion: The Devastating Maritime Collision That Produced The Largest Explosion Of The Pre-Nuclear Age

By Austin Harvey

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Books about the Halifax Explosion at PG:

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"A photograph of the Mont-Blanc purportedly taken 15 to 20 seconds after the explosion."

#disaster

Black and white photo that shows a ship on the water and huge plume of smoke in the sky.

Halifax Explosion: History's Largest Blast Before Nuclear Bombs

The Halifax Explosion occurred on December 6, 1917, after the SS Mont-Blanc and the SS Imo collided in Nova Scotia's Halifax harbor, killing 1,800 people and injuring 9,000 more.
Austin Harvey (All That's Interesting)
#disaster
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Roland's Virtual Sound Canvas is essentially gm.dls, but with newly added samples of SC-88 and 88Pro instruments. Among the newly added samples is a sample of the Yyoo Dude patch from the SC-88Pro Asia kit.
Interestingly, Roland seems to have used the original Yyoo Dude sample when adding the patch to Virtual Sound Canvas, rather than using the SC-88Pro version of the sample, which is slightly shorter.

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#AudioMo day 14:

On August 18. 2018. I took a Delta flight from Atlanta to New York City. During this flight, I plugged my Zoom H1N digital recorder directly into a headphone output at my seat, and recorded announcements from the flight deck during the entire flight, then edited out all the space between them.


#audiomo
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#AudioMo day 15:

Remember when computers sounded like this?

For some reason, on August 6, 2007, I stuck my Zoom H4 in front of the old, even for the time, Compaq Deskpro Pentium III computer in my bedroom, which, at the time, was running FX Radio on Windows 2000. It had two hard drives, both Western Digital. The operating system was on a 10GB 5400 RPM drive, and the media was on a 30GB 7200 RPM drive.


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📺 I went in-depth on new Apple Intelligence Shortcuts actions, including the ability to choose on-device models, summary tools, and show several real-world uses! youtu.be/Msde-lZwOxg?si=B6-iFY…

iOS 26 Shortcuts + Apple Intelligence is POWERFUL 🔥

Shortcuts in iOS 26 now tap into Apple Intelligence—giving you built-in tools for summarizing, rewriting, creating images, and even using custom AI prompts. ...
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* App Lock: provides powerful app protection with powerful biometric protection and privacy controls 🛡️

Traccar Manager will no longer receive updates, as its authors decided to no longer ship a FOSS build (the other one has a bunch of proprietary components).

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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The Decline of Cable News: A Warning Flag for Cable TV’s Last Holdout cordcuttersnews.com/the-declin…

The Decline of Cable News: A Warning Flag for Cable TV’s Last Holdout | Cord Cutters News

In a striking reflection of shifting viewer habits, the cable news landscape is undergoing a seismic transformation, with Fox News emerging as the lone victor in a sea of declining viewership.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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“Little House on the Prairie” Is Streaming Free on Amazon Prime Video as Netflix Gears Up for New Reboot cordcuttersnews.com/little-hou…

"Little House on the Prairie" Is Streaming Free on Amazon Prime Video as Netflix Gears Up for New Reboot | Cord Cutters News

Fans of the beloved classic series Little House on the Prairie have reason to celebrate as all nine seasons of the original show are now available to stream for free on Amazon Prime Video.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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ATU733 – BrailleDoodle with Daniel Lubiner – Part 1 eastersealstech.com/2025/06/13…

ATU733 – BrailleDoodle with Daniel Lubiner – Part 1

Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs. Special Guest: Daniel …
Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads

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So I found myself doing some actual calculations in a spreadsheet today. On if you could store meaningful amounts of energy by sinking & raising massive pieces of concrete into the ocean (yes). Doing such calculations *correctly* benefits tremendously from dimensional analysis, but a spreadsheet can't do it. In fact we barely do this. But it is so luxurious to have the computer check your work:
int main() { auto radius = 50_m; cubic_meter_t volume = (4.0/3.0) * M_PI * units::math::pow<3>(radius); auto density = 2400_kg/cubic_meter_t{1}; // concrete auto price = 200/cubic_meter_t{1}; // 200 euros per cubic meter kilogram_t effweight = volume*(density - 1000_kg/cubic_meter_t{1}); // it floats auto g = meter_t{9.8}/1_s/1_s; // 9.8 m/s^2 auto depth = 3000_m; kilowatt_hour_t kwh = effweight * g * depth; // m g h cout << "Radius of ball " << radius << endl; cout << "Density of material "<< density<<endl; cout << "Depth "<< depth<<endl; cout << "Price euros "<<price <<endl; cout << "Floating weight "<< effweight << endl; cout << "Energy contained: "<< kwh.value() / 1000000 << "gWh" << endl; double cost = volume*price; // forces it to dimensionless cout << "Cost of concrete " << cost/1000000 << " million euros" <<endl; }
Radius of ball 50 m Density of material 2400 m^-3 kg Depth 3000 m Price euros 200 m^-3 Floating weight 7.33038e+08 kg Energy contained: 5.98648gWh Cost of concrete 104.72 million euros
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It's time for another electric vehicle charging video.

Too many people believe EV charging solutions require expensive, huge electric circuits (or worse: service upgrades).

The really high-power ones people tend to go with can be a headache, but there are many other options!

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The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that

Seriously, make your life easier and don't go overboard for no reason.Links 'n' stuff:OPEN SAUCE:https://opensauce.com/Technology Connextras (the second chan...
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