This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
We definitely need more support for the Accessible Canada Act. It is only with political pressure that we are going to see governments actually regulating this. The Act is just the beginning, and is just one tool to make Canada more accessible.
OTTAWA — The federal Office of Public Service Accessibility is in limbo months after it produced a document accusing the government of falling behind on supports for public servants with disabilities.
Really annoying Orca behavior: you have to navigate by word to find spelling errors. rather than by paragraph or sentence. This is a massive productivity killer. If any #Blind #Linux users know how to change this, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll write to the Orca list and see if this can't be fixed.
Update: have written to the Orca list about this and hoping it's something that I can simply configure.
does it count to maintain curl recent releases on FOSS phone hehe, or trying to make FOSS beneficial tax wise (in DK) as Recognition of voluntary open-source work as a socially beneficial effort with legal and tax benefits, ? I mean , if one can’t see you in person !
for people where uh, going to large events isn't a possibility due to health concerns (im immunocompromised so... oof,), is there a chance of them being sold online later? or perhaps are the designs available for us to download to get them made?
see, this is why I don't use curl, the weird terms and conditions - I have to give stickers to friends AND grandparents. What if I only want to give them to grandparents and NOT friends?
Supposedly 'offensive' lyrics in seasonal classic songs could come under the watch of the Government's new workers' rights legislation, it has been suggested.
Вот какая она, ползучая оккупация. И так во всём. В Германии рождественские ярмарки отменяют, потому что не у всех есть деньги на обеспечение мер безопасности.
@Yinshi Именно. Вся эта исламистская шваль тихоооонечко так захватывает Европу. Благо, голоса уже есть, но они пока считаются фашистами. И кстати, хуже от этого только нормальным мусульманам, которых эта братия дискредитирует.
Ну это обычное дело - несогласен с DEI идеологией например и прочими мерами отрицательного отбора, тоже фашист расист и ещё хрен знает кто. Знаем, проходили.
I went for a walk this morning. A tree branch hit me in the face. It scratched my cheek, missing my right eye by not very much, and yanked my right AirPod out completely. I had to use Find My to recover my AirPod. If you own trees and their branches overhand public sidewalks, please, PLEASE keep them trimmed. Not everyone can see and avoid branches.
Oh, and yes, I've called the office for code enforcement about branches. They never called me back.
When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network.
You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming boxes for sale at the major retailers. There's a very good reason the country that makes this crap doesn't want it on their own networks. My advice: If you have one of these Android streaming boxes on your network or get one as a gift, toss it in the trash. I'll have a lot more about this in the New Year, but these things are responsible for building out a botnet that currently has ~2M devices and is growing rapidly. blog.xlab.qianxin.com/kimwolf-…
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On October 24, 2025, a trusted partner in the security community provided us with a brand-new botnet sample. The most distinctive feature of this sample was its C2 domain, 14emeliaterracewestroxburyma02132[.
How do those devices (along with all the fridges and IOT cameras that make up most botnets) get infected? Aren't most of them behind NAT? I understand "default passwords", but for that to be a problem, there has to be a way for the attacker to connect to a device in the first place, and that is the part I don't get.
@miki nat traversal technique are quite numberous, if they have put one in those that report to a server the nat is useless if no firewall is here to block it
@miki The bot forms the connection to the server. Bing bang boom.
There's also IP6. That may or may not be available for direct addressing.
That's all the issue is. The outside doesn't know how to address something behind a NAT. Once a connection is formed the NAT gateway deals with the translations and communication happens normally for the two sides. The NAT gateway does the work at that point.
It's difficult to get kids outside, especially in this weather. #Geocaching has turned out to be a good motivator, though. I wish I had thought of it sooner! Today, we found our first cache.
I read this too and I was about to respond that you should follow @ingalls and then I realized that he boosted your toot. I think #geocaching is a great way to get out and about with the kids.
the key for agentic commerce will not be model sophistication so much as UX and product data. Probably open and inexpensive models will be more than adequate, but designing chat-driven adaptive storefronts and making enough product data agent accessible will be the differntiator
For accessible open source software. You guys still have a little bit work to do there, especially on your windows desktop client, can't speak for anything else.
Official video for 'The Road To Hell Pt 2' by Chris Rea Stream Chris Rea's Greatest Hits here ▶ https://lnk.to/ChrisRea Subscribe here ▶ https://www.youtub...
Sad to hear that Chris Rea passed away today. I haven't heard Driving Home for Christmas yet this year, so I'm dusting off a cover I wrote and recorded a few years ago on a fundraiser album. This version is what might happen if a blind person decided to drive home for Crimbo, with everything you're hearing being done by actual blind people. Well, everything apart from the driving (didn't have the budget for a car or good lawyers).
Credits: David Eagle did the lead vocal. My guy Dwight Brady did the angry drivers/traumatic adlibs, was also the tiny child at the end. @technowitch was the police dispatcher. Ché Martin was the swat team commander. Satauna Howery was the news reader near the end. Dwight again on drums. Me on bass, all the button-pushy production stuffs and writing stupid lyrics (before AI could do that BTW, mentioning so you know who to blame). @daygar on piano/keys/strings. Chris Faelnar on guitar.
All told, the production went to 7 countries.
And all that to say, RIP Chris, you bloody legend.
Enjoy! x
Lyrics:
I'm driving home for Christmas Oh I can't wait to feel those faces I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah Driving even though I'm blind
And it may seem wrong But I will get there if I push on It's like the end of days When I'm borrowing your car Driving home for Christmas
It's gonna take some time, but I'll get there...
Caused a 10 mile tailback Oh I hear sirens all around But this is kinda freeing, yeah Making people go to ground
So I facetime you 'cos Aira said they can't guide me through Don't fear, it's just me Borrowing your car And driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas, making memories...
I hear the shout of a driver next to me He's up in flames...
I made it through the tailbacks There's a police convoy in bound I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah Laying waste to every town
Now I'm on the news There's helicopters, a swat team too I hope you'll forgive me Borrowing your car And driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas, with a thousand casualties...
Say a prayer for the family next to me They've all been mamed...
In our latest blog post – dyalog.com/blog/2025/12/taking… – we look at keyboard shortcuts in the Dyalog IDEs, and explain ways in which you can reclaim use of the Ctrl key.
Before we begin, I want to level set that this is not an article about why you need to make images and SVG elements accessible. There are plenty of great re...
A video shared by the banned protest group shows the 22 year-old activist holding a sign reading: "I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide."
Following the Bari Weiss-moderated sitdown with Erika Kirk that was a massive ratings flop, CBS News has doubled down on the format and is launching a new town hall series in partnership with Weiss’ “anti-woke” digital media outlet that the network’s…
“Surviving CECOT” is a ProPublica production for FRONTLINE in association with Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Fake News and The Texas Tribune. Explo...
I went on FSCast to talk about Paperback! "This month, Mitchell Smedley shares his experience hosting his own radio show and serving as president of a college radio station. Quin Gillespie introduces Paperback, a fully accessible ebook and document reader for Windows. Finally, Elizabeth Whitaker highlights upcoming training opportunities from Vispero." blog.freedomscientific.com/fsc… Thanks @freedomscientific for having me!
This month, Mitchell Smedley shares his experience hosting his own radio show and serving as president of a college radio station. Quin Gillespie introduces Paperback, a fully accessible ebook and …
While NV Access enjoy some well earned rest, we may be delayed in replying for the next few weeks. Please do refer to the tips and links in our last In-Process: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
It’s pretty damn customer hostile to implement these features only in the EU - so Apple can do these things, they just choose not to, so as to keep the walled garden’s wall as high as possible. mastodon.social/@macrumors/115…
iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices in EU Under DMA https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-26-3-dma-airpods-pairing/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Remember kids, it's absolutely illegal to create an archive of the Spotify library, but it's totally OK for big tech to scrape the vast majority of created content on the internet to train LLMs...
Tänään ihmetyttää joululauluissa esiintyvät oudot nimet. "...Senjo tonttu näki, tonttu näki.." Senjo. Varmaan joku vanha nimi. "...Liinakomme kiitää ja valkoinen on maa". En tiedä hevosten nimeämisestä mitään, mutta Liinakomme on outo nimi.
New result: you can build a universal computer using a single billiard ball on a carefully crafted table!
More precisely: you can create a computer that can run any program, using just a single point moving frictionlessly in a region of the plane and bouncing off the walls elastically.
Since the halting problem is undecidable, this means there are some yes-or-no questions about the eventual future behavior of this point that cannot be settled in a finite time by any computer program.
This is true even though the point's motion is computable to arbitrary accuracy for any given finite time. In fact, since the methodology here does *not* exploit the chaos that can occur for billiards on certain shaped tables, it's not even one of those cases where the point's motion is computable in principle but your knowledge of the initial conditions needs to be absurdly precise.
This result is not surprising to me - it would be much more surprising if you *couldn't* make a universal computer this way. Universal computation seems to be a very prevalent feature of sufficiently complex systems. But still it's very nice.
I'm Not a fan of Christmas music whatsoever. And so far I've not heard a single note of Last Christmas, nor many others. However: I'm heading out to grab some groceries shortly, and experience has taught me that the supermarket's Christmas playlist hates me. It has sent me to Whamhalla numerous times before. Wish me luck!
This is my take on the Donny Hathaway classic, 'This Christmas' redone with Audio Modeling SWAM Clarinet, alongside ProjectSAM Swing! and Swing More! Librari...
@Onj That’s indeed better. One song I don’t really mind is this version of 12 days of Christmas, because it’s musically nerdy and mostly instrumental, except the throat singing section. youtube.com/watch?v=g-vCauX4lY…
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupTwelve Days Of Christmas · Bela Fleck & The Flecktones · Alash EnsembleJingle All The Way℗ 2008 Rounder Records, ...
The Twelve Days of Christmas in 12 Keys & 12 Time Signatures Bela Fleck & Flecktones featuring AlashJingle All the Way Tour 2025Béla Fleck- BanjoSierra Hull ...
Let's take a look back and remember some of what this year brought. commits At more than 3,400 commits we did 40% more commits in curl this year than any single previous year! Since at some point during 2025, all the other authors in the project have…
I consider DoH in browsers to be data collection enabled by default. I always customise the browsers to use a DoH server I trust or disable DoH entirely.
I really want a local Shazam equivalent for working out where the sound of something came from. I have a sound from a keyboard that I recorded years ago, and I can't find it in the plugin version of that keyboard. There are preview files for all the sounds, so I want to run an audio match tool against all the preview files, using my original sound as a base. Even if it's not quite the right key or pitch, if there are enough similarities, the tool should surface the closest available options.
Don't forget the Meta platforms (FB, Insta, W'app, threads). Mark Zuckerberg is possibly greedier and more evil than Elon, who is merely stupid. Smart organisations move to open source digital, and out of the "cloud".
Hubert Figuière
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