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While I was attending the ACB virtual exhibitor showcase, I listened to a presentation from VisualEyes Access. This is a new visual interpreter service, operated by a former AIRA agent. Having only just learned about this service a day ago, there is little that I know about it and I have not had an opportunity to use this service. Their cost is $1.00 per minute but they are offering a discounted trial for the ACB convention. I wasn’t taking notes and so I don’t know if this discount is only for ACB convention attendees, whether a similar discount for the NFB convention is being offered or what the other terms and conditions are. For questions, please reach out to VisualEyes directly.
Phone: 517-630-1420, OK to Text
Email: Shawn@VisualEyesAccess.com
Web site:
visualeyesaccess.com/vip/

VIP

VisualEyes Access

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Verantwortungsvoll abgebautes Gold für das SHIFTphone 8

Für die ersten 8.000 SHIFTphones 8 haben wir 296 Gramm Gold in Form von Goldcredits erworben.⛏

Durch die Unterstützung der Bergbau-Community in Geita ermöglichen wir Investitionen in nachhaltige Praktiken und verbessern die Bedingungen vor Ort. So leisten wir gemeinsam einen Beitrag zu einer gerechteren und nachhaltigeren Rohstoffgewinnung.❤️🌍

Mehr: shift.eco/responsible-gold-cre…

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #ResponsibleGold #Geita


Verantwortungsvoll abgebautes Gold für das SHIFTphone 8 - SHIFT -

Für die ersten 8.000 SHIFTphones 8 haben wir 296 Gramm Gold in Form von Goldcredits erworben. Damit unterstützen wir den verantwortungsvollen Abbau von Gold im Kleinbergbau in Geita in Tansania.
Leon von Zepelin (SHIFT GmbH)
#shifthappens #shiftphone #shift #responsiblegold #geita

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THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.

If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

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#Accessibility #linux

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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

Nothing runs below PureOS by Purism which is private and secure the way an OS should be.

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating…


Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison – Purism

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.
Purism SPC

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One of these rare chances to get your hands on #curl stickers materializes tomorrow in Rotterdam when I appear at the Joy of Coding conference with a load of stickers waiting for new homes.

Less importantly, I will also talk. joyofcoding.org/daniel_stenber…


Joy of Coding 2025 - June 27, 2025

A one-day conference that celebrates the art, craft, science but foremost the joy of software development
joyofcoding.org
#curl
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Lucas Pardue

I'm liking that there's a URL with an ä in it behind you. When I visit it, I seem to be redirected to lagenhetsbyte.se/. Poor little ä gets not redirecte love

Lägenhetsbyte.se - Vi hjälper dig att byta din hyresrätt

Hitta bostäder som matchar dina önskemål. Gör som över 100 000 andra nöjda kunder, byt med Lägenhetsbyte.se!
www.lagenhetsbyte.se

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it's been a very difficult year or two for @gnome and, to continue to exist, the foundation really needs you.

however, we first want to ask you to *donate less*:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06…

#gnome


Donate Less

We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum....
Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)
#gnome @GNOME

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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors.

The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.

levernews.com/cryptos-new-bail…

Crypto’s New Bailout Fund: Your Savings Account

The GENIUS Act would require banks to prioritize stablecoin owners over customers if there’s a financial collapse.
The Lever
in reply to David Sirota

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feld

> The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.

They just made this up. That's not what this means. Depositors are insured by the FDIC. They would be made whole already. Anyone who has more than the FDIC insurance limit in an account is an idiot and deserves to lose their money, but they won't because current policy is to cover everyone. See also: Silvergate

Any other debts the bank owes: stablecoin holders are next in line as they're essentially a depositor who is not FDIC insured.

God modern journalism sucks

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Tired of the endless tap-back-tap dance? There’s a better way to browse the Fediverse. Have a look at my blog blost about introducing the Swipe Navigation pattern in Raccoon apps! 🦝🦝🦝

livefasteattrashraccoon.github…

Swipe Navigation: turn your Fediverse feed into a page-turner

Tired of the endless tap-back-tap dance? There’s a better way to browse.
LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon (Procyon Project Blog)

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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant…

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)

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As you probably heard animated PNG images (APNG) have been standardized! So here's a story on how I used an APNG file to cut a phone's power consumption by 10 times in a common scenario during the weeks leading up to the launch of Firefox OS 1.0. We'll talk about webpage layout, rendering, mobile hardware intricacies, driver bugs and of course APNG files. 🧵 1/16

social.linux.pizza/@knurd42/11…

#FirefoxOS #PNG


Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 2/4) (@knurd42@social.linux.pizza)

Attached: 1 image PNG is back! https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume) A new PNG spec was just released! […] […] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor! What's new? * Proper HDR support (future‐p…
Linux.Pizza
#png #firefoxos
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In a private #Github organization, in a private repo filled with NDA code, Github decided that to automatically start reviewing that code using Copilot.

Mind you, Copilot is disabled for this organization.

Could we please just fucking not ?! Not even mentioning the fact that the Github organization didn't enabled this, there is no data policy to be found in sight. I have no clue what Copilot does with the data after it "reviewed" the code and I could potentially be breaking the signed NDA.

#AI #Github #Copilot

A screenshot of a Github organization which clearly states that Copilot is disabled.
A comment on a Pull Request made by Github Copilot
#github #AI #copilot

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Dear @creativecommons ,

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

creativecommons.org/2025/06/25…


Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons

CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons i…
Anonymous (Creative Commons)
@Creative Commons

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Die Leseratten sollten ja erst einmal versorgt sein, aber auch die Bücherwürmer dürfen natürlich nicht zu kurz kommen. Also mal eben 63 #eBooks auf ebooks.qumran.org/ hinzugefügt. Bohrt Euch rein und genießt! Insgesamt 13.295 eBooks warten auf Euch :awesome:

Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#eBooks

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Un nouveau lien apparaît sur mon profil : Un moyen de me poser des questions de manière anonyme (ou pas)

ask.lou.lueder.wf/

Merci @codimp pour la découverte de l'appli !

#AMA #AskMeAnything #DemandeMoiNImporteQuoi


Ma boîte à questions

Demande moi ce que tu veux et j'y répondrais au choix : – Ici si la réponse est courte. – Sur mon blog si la réponse est longue ou que je réponds à plusieurs questions d'un coup. – Par mail si tu me laisses ton adresse.
ask.lou.lueder.wf
#ama #askmeanything #demandemoinimportequoi @Codimp

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After listening to today's Access On podcast, I've learned and can confirm that the home annual license is now back on Freedom Scientific's Shop page but you must call them to order products with this license.
store.freedomscientific.com/co…

JAWS Home Annual

This product is available in the US only. Your JAWS Home Annual subscription license includes: One-year automatic renewal managed from user portal Noncommercial use on your personal computers at home Installation on up to three of your computers Tech…
Freedom Scientific eStore
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David Goldfield

@drew My guess is that
A. they can make more money from the more expensive home subscriptions,
b. there were probably a lot of non-U.S. residents who wanted to order the home annual license, found out they couldn't and felt very cheated and, maybe, possibly,
c. Some non-U.S. residents may have tried to order them and provided U.S.-based addresses and, maybe,
d. Some individuals and corporations might have ordered home annual licenses for workplace use..
Please understand that this is all speculation on my part.
@Drew Mochak
in reply to The Evil Chocolate Cookie

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David Goldfield

@evilcookies98 @drew The home annual license is their way of selling directly to the consumer. And, as I pretty much knew, that option never went away but it was rather hidden with no explanation, making many of us think that it either had disappeared or that it soon would do so. I'm glad to see that it's back at the same price but this silliness with forcing consumers to purchase by phone is, as I wrote in an earlier post, a step backward. Also, those who still have the home annual license can renew it online, as far as I know.
@The Evil Chocolate Cookie @Drew Mochak
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The Evil Chocolate Cookie

@drew I would argue that they should’ve been looking at the consumer from the get-go. Not everyone has an agency that actually gives a crap. Look at mine for example. Had I relied on them to get jaws, I would still be waiting because they never pick up the darn telephone and they can’t be bothered to check their emails. Even when I pick up the telephone, I get the standard leave a message with your name and number and will call you back. Guess when they call back
@Drew Mochak
in reply to David Goldfield

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Drew Mochak

I mean, if any of that’s true, they could easily state who is and isn’t qualified, by publishing it on their blog post in public. Speculation over! Instead they waste everyone’s time with a bunch of word salad like “the main difference between licenses is the price,” then never quote a price. Clearly they want the strategic ambiguity, for reasons known only to them. 🤷‍♂️
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Bernie Sanders Says If AI Makes Us So Productive, We Should Get a 4-Day Work Week slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/19…

Bernie Sanders Says If AI Makes Us So Productive, We Should Get a 4-Day Work Week - Slashdot

Senator Bernie Sanders called for a four-day work week during a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, arguing that AI productivity gains should benefit workers rather than just technology companies and corporate executives.
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Freedom Scientific published a blog post discussing the differences between the various licenses for JAWS, Fusion and Zoomtext. They do mention the home annual license but they just say that there are specific eligibility requirements for purchasing it but they don't indicate what those requirements are but they just advise people to call them about this.
This is very different messaging compared to past years regarding the home annual license. Obviously, the requirements are that you have to live in the U.S. and that you have to use the software in a home setting and presumably not in a work from home situation. Are there more requirements?
I left a comment about this on the blog post, as well as asking why the home annual license is no longer listed on the main shop page.

How to Choose the Right JAWS, Fusion, or ZoomText Software Edition and License
blog.freedomscientific.com/how…


How to Choose the Right JAWS, Fusion, or ZoomText Software Edition and License

Choosing the right Edition and License option can make a big difference in your JAWS®, ZoomText®, or Fusion™ software experience. Whether you’re a professional, a home user, or an organization prov…
Freedom Scientific Blog

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