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I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…

The Computer Chronicles - Computers and the Disabled (1992)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
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Well and there you have it.
Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop:
I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is.
I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name.
But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.

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I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
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Alex Hall

It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
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Was könnte denn eine passende Fedi-Instanz für einen jungen Transmann sein, der sich u.a. für alles, was fliegt, interessiert, und auf den Hund gekommen ist? 😄

Würde ihm gern eine Community hier schmackhaft machen.

#Followerpower #trans #LGBTTPIQ* #SafeSpace #Community

#followerpower #trans #community #safespace #lgbttpiq
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Episode 03 von "Dada & Welf - Kommando Katze" ist soeben auf den gängigen Plattformen erschienen und ich spreche einen K.I. Schlitten 😁

Viel Spaß und Frohe Restweihnachten!

album.link/dadawelf3


Dada & Welf - Kommando Katze. Folge 03: Testfahrt by Dada & Welf & Ghostsitter

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
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Marco Zehe

Den hast Du richtig gut getroffen! Diese überenthusiastische Art, wie die KI-Chatbots sprechen, die Illusionen, die auch bei Bildbeschreibungen gern mal, zuschlagen, und dieses erstmal nach dem Mund reden. So herrlich! Allerdings wirft die Folge auch Fragen auf, wer die stiftende Entität war z. B. Schätze das wird an anderer Stelle nochmal wichtig? Euch einen geruhsamen Jahreswechsel!

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Home Alone II is the last movie that will run and will be the shutdown of Christmas automation proper. Directly thereafter, HKC Radio's annual Christmas replays will begin running - replaying all the live Christmasy content we did as a station. This will end on January 1 at 7 PM when the Digital Domain does its New Year's Day show, which we can tell you will feature Christmas leftovers. Sonic Synergy will interrupt this on Sunday, however.

HKCRadio.com

The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

www.hkcradio.com

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Арестован музыкант известной белорусской группы “Стары Ольса”. Сильно на нас (курганских неоязычников) повлиявшей в своё время…

#хроники_дна #lang_ru


Арыштаваны гусляр «Старога Ольсы» Алесь Чумакоў

Яго абвясцілі членам «экстрэмісцкага фармавання» «Да Зораў». Па меркаванні КДБ, туды ўваходзяць ён, а таксама Сямён Малашэнкаў
Наша Ніва
#lang_ru #хроники_дна

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Sure thing, my mobile carrier here in Saskatchewan Canada sends me a text message from a number in the Philippines urging me to redeem “points” by clicking a link to a Chinese domain (fun looking up .xin a new TLD that has a meaning of “trust”).

I like looking things up and I’m fascinated people will use their finite amount of life and some measure of tech skills to devote to phishing for phools.

+63 907 618 2669 > iMessage Today 9:49 AM SaskTel Reminder: Your 11430 points will expire on December 27, 2025. Please redeem them before they expire. Redeem at: https://sasktel.mobile-gnk.xin/ca Reply Y to activate the link using Safari (Apple browser), reply R to unsubscribe, or redeem using the official app.

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This advice is dependent on AI-induced errors being treated as an externality and thus not something the company is liable for.

I dearly hope that this does not become the case - the limited liability of corporations is bad enough. If companies are given any kind of legal pass for AI mistakes and hallucinations...

Somebody always has to bear the pain of mistakes. Capitalism and AI could combine to make sure the wealthy are never that person.

fosstodon.org/@atoponce/115787…


Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (@atoponce@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image Do you want a CVE? Because this is how you get a CVE.
Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (Fosstodon)

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so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement.
I'm still about 1300$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

#mutualaid


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Here you go, don't bother installing additional tools on servers when you don't really need them.

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/12/tmu…
RT: friedcheese.us/objects/7d8c76e…


Tmux and SSH Agent Forwarding

Tools are being developed to fix SSH Agent forwarding so when you ssh to a server and attach to a tmux session your agent forwarding still works. But this requires you have this custom tool on every server, available on every OS/distro, etc.
Makefile.feld

feld

2025-12-26 21:58:40

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What a giant waste of time. You don't need any of this; you can make a custom shell alias which updates your SSH_* ENVs for you

blogsystem5.substack.com/p/ssh…



ssh-agent broken in tmux? I've got you!

A re-introduction of the ssh-agent-switcher tool and its recent changes
Julio Merino (Blog System/5)

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No matter what I do, I can't get a PHP dev container to work right. It seems to connect, and the terminal works, but f12 on an object type doesn't go to the class definition how it should. My plan was to use a PHP dev container for local PHP projects, since I can't get PHP to work natively on Windows. Or, I'd attach right to the container the project itself creates. But I've been at this all day with nothing to show for it except a lot of ChatGPT usage. Come on, end of the week!

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Christmas Dash 1.1.1 is out. This is a patch update with some helpful additions.
Occupants and cookies no longer spawn in places you cannot access. This especially applies to cookies since they used to spawn in walls.
Pressing O now tells you how many occupants are in the house, but this is only if you are inside.
Small and medium snowballs have been improved. Small now stuns for 2 seconds instead of 1.5, and medium stuns for 4 instead of 3.

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Please share what you got for Christmas because I feel deprived of information. I got some Mrs. Cavanaugh’s dark chocolate orange creams that I haven’t tried yet, and a bunch of gifts from the neighbors, including a bag of bite-size candy bars, a scarf, lotion, and a small round tin of cookies. And some kind of a strange wallet/purse thing. Also a six pack of fuzzy socks from the boyfriend to replace the ones I lost.

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Spent a few days with the new #whatsApp UI on Windows.
So far, the experience is not as bad as it could be, but it's far from good as well:

- The time this Ui takes to load is painfully long. Understandable given essentially a whole entire browser is being spun up but that is a regression.
- Focus often doesn't stay where it's meant to when you leave and then return to the window. This worked fine in the previous version,thus a regression.
- Something in the underlying browser wrapper REALLY doesn't play nice with NVDA, often failing to properly focus or provide meaningful accessibility properties leading to an "unknown unknown unknown" reading. Not sure to what degree the Meta folks have control over this but if you're going to use third party wrappers you take on the responsibility of those wrappers malfunctioning and thus, regression.
- Resource usage has gone way up, I consider that a regression. #accessibility

#Accessibility #whatsapp

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Tänään (26.12.2025) Absoluuttinen Nollapiste julkaisi ensimmäisen kappaleen vuonna 2026 ilmestyvältä levyltä "Magneettipohjoinen".

Kappale on "Rohkeus", ja sitä on kuultu myös tämän vuoden keikoilla.

Kappale on ainakin tällä hetkellä kuunneltavissa vain YouTubessa: youtube.com/watch?v=Zloc2i58Kg…

#absoluuttinenNollapiste


Absoluuttinen Nollapiste – Rohkeus

2026 julkaistavalta levyltä "Magneettipohjoinen".Säv. Liimatta – Lääkkölä – Otsala – Krutsin San. LiimattaVideo: Pauli Hokkanen© & ℗ Diu Dau Records 2025Jake...
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For anyone using Airpods Pro 2 or Airpods Pro 3 as OTC hearing aids:
I'm trying to figure out how to take another hearing test. Mine is from October of last year, and my hearing has changed since then. My right ear is a little better than it was, and my left is possibly a bit worse.
I don't have a current audiogram. I just want to take the hearing test again, and use the settings from the new test, but can't find an obvious way to do that.

I'm probably reaching the limit of what these can do for me, but I want to give it a try before investing in something expensive that will be inevitably annoying and/or disappointing, even if it turns out to be useful.

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Signs you are expendable to the #CAQ?

1000+ cases of #COVID19 last week.

Why won't the CAQ cover the cost of the COVID-19 vaccine for all the Québécois/ses?

Because ~1000 cases of #COVID19 per week, since September, is A-OK to the #CAQists.

quebec.ca/sante/problemes-de-s…

#polQC #QCpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #polcan #CAQASTROPHE #COVIDISNOTOVER #WEARAMASK


Données sur la COVID-19 au Québec

Situation au Québec en lien avec la COVID-19 : le nombre de cas, d'hospitalisations, etc. ainsi que les scénarios de l’évolution de la COVID-19.
Gouvernement du Québec
#COVID19 #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #canpoli #cdnpoli #polqc #caqastrophe #caq #qcpoli #polcan #caqists

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I've never used a Mac in my life, and part of me would like to buy a Mac of some kind and play around with it to see what they're like and see what would be needed to get yasr to work in the terminal, but then exactly 0 people have asked me to do this, and it isn't as though I have a shortage of things that I should get around to doing... (If I were to lose my day job and wanted to look for another one, then that might change things; it could be an interesting project for me to up-skill and learn a little about Mac development.)
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