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Intopia's Australia & New Zealand Assistive Technology Survey is open, only until the end of this week.

The survey is open to users of assistive technology in AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND: intopia.digital/articles/intop…

If you are eligible, please do take part.


Intopia launches Assistive Technology Survey 2025 - Intopia

Take part in the Assistive Technology Survey 2025 for Australia and New Zealand and help shape the future of inclusive design.
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"Trump audibly shits himself on TV, immediately ends press conference." 💀

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Trump Does Not Take Reporters' Questions After Signing Executive Order In The Oval Office

After signing an Executive Order for the "Great American Recovery Initiative" in the Oval Office, President Trump did not take reporters' questions.Stay Conn...
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you know what, fuck it, im choosing violence today. notbyai.fyi is an ai industry op and i can fucking prove it.

tl;dr: it's actually pretty pro-ai, it's made by an ai bro, and it's directly enriching ai companies by giving them your data

the analytics and tracking cookies from known major ai companies: bing (microsoft), youtube (google), clarity (microsoft). these cookies last anywhere from 6 months to over a year

the "chart" directly under their mission statement specifically calls out the problem of training ai on ai-generated images

the first paragraph in their mission statement begins by mentioning "help audiences identify human-generated content" and then ends with some real tescreal shit about the advancement of humanity

The Not By AI® badges are created to encourage more humans to produce original content and help audiences identify human-generated content. The ultimate goal is to make sure humanity continues to advance.


this quote from further down their mission statement makes it clear that the site is definitely pro-AI, and has yet more tescreal pro-ai-but-what-if-it-replaces-us shit

It is worth mentioning that AI technologies mark a major milestone in the history of technology and the Not By AI badge is not designed to discourage the use of AI. Instead, it is to make sure that, while we celebrate the achievement, we work with AI instead of being replaced by AI.


and the 90% rule, which explicitly allows ai. for-profit is only allowed if you pay them. you have to pay an ai bro money to declare that your for-profit work is at least 90% ai free. dystopian.

if you estimate that at least 90% of your content is created by humans, you are eligible to add the badges into your website, blog, art, film, essay, books, podcast, or whatever your project is for non-commercial use, and, with a subscription, commercial use.


and continues into explicitly allowing AI even more, and their first example is for legal documents

The 90% can include using AI for inspiration purposes, supporting legal documents such as privacy policies (assuming that legal content is not the main focus of your content or service), non-user-facing content such as SEO tags, and grammatical error and typo checks.


their about page (notbyai.fyi/about) has a quote from billionaire warren buffet which is just weirdo shit (warren buffet cares deeply about eugenicist things like poor countries having too many people)

but here's the fucking kicker. the "founder", allen hsu (notbyai.fyi/about), is the ux design lead at modo modo (modomodoagency.com/leadership), which is an ai design company (modomodoagency.com/about)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is cool and we embrace it. But when it comes to solving complex business problems, we don’t just press a few keys to generate answers with ChatGPT. We research, interview, brainstorm, and go through a human-centric process to come up with content and solutions that are tailored to your unique business need.


there you go. its made by an ai bro. its full of tescreal shit. its literally not even anti-ai, and its letting ai companies track you. this is ai shit.


About Not By AI — The Badge to Showcase Human-Created Content

Not By AI is a badge to showcase your AI-free & human-first approach to content creation (writings, art, photos, paintings, videos, and music)
Allen Hsu (Not By AI)
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A Practical Guide to iCanConnect for Caregivers and Family Members icanconnect.org/icanconnect-fo…

iCanConnect for Caregivers: Practical Support Guide

A caregiver guide to the iCanConnect program, covering eligibility, equipment, training, and how families support people with combined vision and hearing loss.
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I’m still trying to process this… I just won my first ever Grammy 🏆

Winner for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for Super Mario Praise Break, arranged by Bryan Carter, Charlie Rosen, and myself with The 8-Bit Big Band. Deeply grateful to God, my collaborators, and everyone who’s supported this journey.

#Grammy #GrammyWinner #GrammyAwards #Arrangement #Composer #Arranger #Jazz #VideoGameMusic #8BitBigBand #SuperMario #Musicians #MusicLife #Grateful

#jazz #musicians #composer #supermario #grateful #videogamemusic #grammy #grammywinner #GrammyAwards #arrangement #arranger #8bitbigband #musiclife

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> hey I recognize that comment and code snippet

>> yeah they copied it from something I said in bugzilla years ago

>>> oh god, I did a technically incorrect (but likely fine) posix shell comparison of [ $? == 1 ] instead of [ $? -eq 1 ] and now everyone is pasting that everywhere

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For any Stardew Valley players using the Stardew Access mod, how do you drop an item you're carrying? By mistake, I managed to pick up the bed in my house, but am not sure how to drop it. I bring up the inventory with E, move to the bed, press Left Bracket until it says "Empty", then move all the way to the Drop button and press Left Bracket. At that point, I hear a descending noise, what sounds like footsteps, then I appear to be holding the item again. What am I doing wrong?

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A “phonemeSource” tag in the frontend handle + PassContext. hmm. Default it to "espeak" (so nothing changes today), but allow callers to set it. Yes. Add a new optional API (non-breaking) like: nvspFrontend_setPhonemeSource(handle, "espeak") Store it in the handle state. Pass it into PassContext so every pass can check it. This way we get different types of passes for different phonemizers if we wanted, rather than making this thing so central to ESpeak. Hmm. Maybe that would make me feel better.

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🗓️ 2024‑11‑08 • #Android #Privacy #Security

Here’s a quick showdown if you’re thinking of leaving proprietary Android behind:

Murena / e‑OS (Fairphone 4):

Price: €449‑€499
CPU: Snapdragon 750G (≈ 1.9 k Geekbench multi) – decent but slower
GPU: Adreno 619 (≈ 1.1 TFLOPS)
RAM/Storage: 6 / 8 GB RAM, UFS 2.1
Security: Standard verified boot, no dedicated security chip
Updates: Depends on LineageOS – often lagging behind Google’s patches
Pros: Modular, repair‑friendly, microG gives partial Play‑Services compatibility

Graphene OS on Pixal 7: (You could use any Pixal phone from the 4 up to the pixal 10 fold and Tablet)

Price: $599 (~€560)
CPU: Google Tensor G2 (≈ 3.4 k Geekbench multi) – ~2× faster than Murena
GPU: Mali‑G710 MP7 (good for everyday gaming)
RAM/Storage: 8 GB RAM, UFS 3.1
Security: Titan M2 security co‑processor + hardware‑backed keystore, verified boot, attestation
Updates: Monthly security patches, 5 years guaranteed
Pros: Strongest hardware‑rooted security on a consumer phone, pure Android stack (no Google services when using Graphene OS)
Why switch?

Better hardware trust – Titan M2 beats standard boot‑loaders.
Faster updates – stay protected without waiting for LineageOS.
Higher performance – smoother multitasking & AI tasks.
True de‑Googling – Graphene OS runs a clean, auditable Android fork.
💭 If you value privacy and solid performance, the Pixel 7 + Graphene OS is the more compelling upgrade, even at a modest price premium.

#OpenSource #grapheneos #fairphone #degoogle #dataprivacy
@grapheneos @e_foundation 🔗 grapheneos.org / e.foundation


GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
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GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is a privacy and security hardened OS greatly improving those compared to the Android Open Source Project. /e/ is the opposite of that and is a far worse option than an iPhone for privacy and security. /e/ is not at all a safe option and it's not a legitimate a privacy project despite being marketed as one. No privacy project it telling users to use their supposedly private speech-to-text service which actually sends their sensitive speech data to OpenAI and much more.
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GrapheneOS

Strongly recommend reading discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134… and the third party sources linked in there including the posts from Divested Computing, Mike Kuketz and the comparison from Eylenburg.

If you care at all about privacy and security, avoid /e/ and avoid Fairphones. Use an iPhone if you want a device with solid privacy and security without thinking about it. Don't fall for the false marketing of these phony privacy and security products. No device Murena sells is at all safe to use.


Devices lacking standard privacy/security patches and protections aren't private - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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#fosdem2026 was another awesome success for the open source community this year. I had a blast showing off what all we do at BlissLabs and what all is possible for the Android community. Got to finally put a face to so many of the people I have collaborated with over the years, and I can't wait to come back!!
Special shout out to @IzzyOnDroid , @shiftphones and @bene64 for helping show what an Open and Sustainable Ecosystem for Android could look like - From Hardware to Apps. You all rocked!!
#fosdem2026 @Bene @SHIFTPHONES @IzzyOnDroid ✅

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Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
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@sclower I suspect it would work better if I wrote the project requirements document myself. Then fed it into the AI for implementation. Maybe it would shift me from thinking "What do I want coded" and towards "What are my requirements". I tend to start thinking too low level, about what libraries I want to use and what language, when I still haven't one hundred percent laid out what I want to do. The example that prompted me to post was reformatting a set of files. If I'd have thought just a bit harder about what I actually needed, I would have ended up with three regular expressions and a batch script, not a C# DotNet app.
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@x0 it's interesting, Jess was telling me how "classic pitch" reminds them of the Braille & Speak, which is maybe why people asked for it back. But it's something about the way it stresses and intonates words, and then realizing that creating phonetic rules and normalizations that "fight Espeak's rules" will mean later troubles when switching to something new. I'm being pulled in two directions over it and it's a bit distraughtful. We can kind of "cheat" the system with multilingualness by using ESpeak, sure, but we're also locked into what it outputs and redefining it. Sure, we can write our own G2P layer, but then all hands off and new languages actually become harder to map out in some ways because lexicons and tables need to be added by ourselves. Ugh.
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@sclower it it's interesting, if you turn up aspiration color to 100, glottal sharpness to 0, then suddenly consonant clicks really emerge. So if anything it's taught me just how much the DSP can help soften sharp phoneme transitions. It won't "magically" fix the sharper phonemes that click against the teeth feeling, but it can blend them better in with the source. With that high of an aspiration and not-pressed glottal feeling you're essentially asking to hear consonant clicks. And while SpeechPlayer didn't use the same triangle wave, the original one was very Sawtooth, which didn't help with consonant clicks really showing up. The cosign wave we're using now helped hide them too, so I think it was the better direction to move it in.
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That was a great #FOSDEM again, met so many old friends and new people, saw interesting talks and had good technical discussions and some new ideas for things to try out now.

Some people I didn't run across, but the next event will come soon. :)

See you next year hopefully.

I'll be in Brussels for the #buildroot developer meetup still for the next three days.

#fosdem #buildroot
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Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. At Bellacorick Wind Farm, 21 early-generation turbines have been removed so Oweninny Wind Farm can expand. Each new turbine now generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how three decades of innovation have radically compressed land use while multiplying output. RTE rte.ie/news/regional/2026/0116…
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Last turbine on first commercial wind farm dismantled

The last wind turbine of what was Ireland's first commercial wind farm at Bellacorick in Co Mayo has been dismantled.
George Lee (RTÉ)
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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon, Speech Dispatcher module version 2.5 is out!
The focus this time: more control over voice quality.

New in DSP Version 5:
The engine now has 12 voicing tone parameters for shaping the overall voice character, plus 5 new per-frame parameters for things like creaky voice, breathiness, jitter, shimmer, and glottal sharpness. That last one is key for getting that crisp Eloquence-like attack some users prefer.
For NVDA users, this means 10 real-time sliders in voice settings instead of 4. Dial in your preferred sound without editing config files.
The Windows phoneme editor has a new Voice Quality section with full access to all the new parameters. Useful for anyone tuning phonemes or building voice profiles.
Linux users get an updated renderer with command-line flags for every new parameter. Speech Dispatcher configs are included. Voice profiles from phonemes.yaml now work across platforms.
While no change yet for Danish support, the foundation is now here for it in the future.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
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Sunday.
made the daughter happy by buying another accessible card game for the collection.
It's a Mille Bornes knockoff but was very reasonably priced.
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an unboxed card game called 1000 yards. There are 2 stacks of playing cards visible with Braile on them and the box has print, Braille, and a QR code visible.

1000 Yards (Full Game)

[This game contains braille already on the cards and no additional setup is needed] In 1000 Yards the kids compete to be the first one to go 1000 yards.  Kids use skates, skateboards, bikes, scooters and more to make it.
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Pain of an unemployed person:

• You wake up late, but still feel tired
• Every day feels the same
• You apply for jobs daily, no replies
• Money feels tight all the time
• You feel guilty even while resting
• Confidence slowly goes down
• You start doubting yourself
• Skills are there, opportunity is not
• Nights are full of overthinking
• You feel stuck and helpless
• You are trying, but no one sees it

Being unemployed is not laziness.
It’s mental pressure no one understands 😔.

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On my way back from my parents' to Vienna and I was driving through the Czech Republic. In tribute to that fact, have my first NVDA Composer thing - Jozin z Bazin by Ivan Mladek, because we all need some more songs about swamp monsters called Joseph, or something... Could be better but given that it took most of the 4-hour ride to put it together, I don't think it's bad. Haven't found the special Nokia mode with the wav exports yet which could have saved it. Shall we call this #Composituary?

#composituary

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