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A few weeks back I read on Mastodon that the US Dept of Health and Human Services was getting rid of COVID tests. This is bad for all the reasons, but some enterprising government employee did a program where you could fill out a form and get anywhere from 300-3000 COVID tests (unexpired) sent to your home. I figured why not try? Last week I got seven boxes of COVID tests delivered to my porch. I posted to a local mailing list and I am getting them pointed towards my community. Thanks Mastodon!
My front porch with five bags and two larger boxes which all have people's names written on them in big block letters. The bags contain COVID tests.
a bench inside my house with seven large boxes full of COVID tests. They say "intelliswab" on the side of them and are stacked tightly but still take up a lot of room.

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Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26.
appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…

Apple's AI rollout leaves Siri behind & long-time fans are asking questions

Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed Monday that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26.
Andrew Orr (AppleInsider)

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Here's my first bit of WWDC 2025 coverage: I wrote about the early response to Apple's new "Liquid Glass" design language and reshared my newsy tidbit from my chat with the company's accessibility boss.

curbcuts.co/blog/2025-6-10-app…

Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ won’t make the sky fall

I was on the ground yesterday at Apple Park covering this year’s WWDC keynote . The star of the show was Apple’s introduction of its all-new Liquid Glass design language. The company has a great session on Liquid Glass in the Developer app.
Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)

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Hi everyone.

I wanted to share something I just finished making… an arrangement of *Kass’s Theme* from **The Legend of Zelda**! 🎶🪶
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!

\#LegendOfZelda #ZeldaMusic #KassTheme #VideoGameMusic #VGMArrangement #Nintendo #BlindMusician #MusicArrangement #AccessibilityInMusic #GameMusic #MusicianLife #TheLegendOfZelda #BOTW #TearsOfTheKingdom


#nintendo #gamemusic #blindmusician #MusicianLife #legendofzelda #zeldamusic #kasstheme #videogamemusic #vgmarrangement #musicarrangement #accessibilityinmusic #thelegendofzelda #botw #tearsofthekingdom

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Hey y'all! I put the iPadOS 26 beta on my iPad Pro M4 and must say while many general things feel quite allright, there are definitely some areas that are very beta with regards to VoiceOver. Control Center doesn't talk at all, the multitasking control at the top of apps isn't accessible, in Files, none of the file or folder names read, and so far, I haven't found a way to activate the much talked about menu bar in Mail, Notes or any other app. So yeah, unlike previous years, the beta feels like a beta indeed from the getgo. Has any other VoiceOver user experimented with the beta on iPad and found ways to accomplish accessing the menu bar?

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Rob Zombie interview in 2014:

Do you think you're promoting rape culture by depicting women the way you often do?

Rob Zombie: I think I'm making films with graphic content. Women play the role of killer in my movies as well.

Do you think you're glorifying murder and psychotic behavior?

No. I think I'm showing characters doing stuff that's really sick and wrong. If you want to see murder and psychotic behavior, look at Israel and Palestine. Look at what any number of governments do to innocent people every day. That's some killing.

thestranger.com/music/2014/09/…


Rob Zombie vs. Clinical Psychology

Rob Zombie: Too Wrong, or Not Wrong Enough?
Trent Moorman (The Stranger)

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While I understand and on some level commend Apple's dedication to requiring "apps" to keep current with platform technology (it's irresponsible to connect stuff to a network that doesn't have active security support), this is a good reminder that you should never buy games that you might care about from Apple because they all stop working eventually, with no compatibility layer, emulator, or shim that will help you get them running again arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2

Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won’t stay around indefinitely.
Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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Matt Campbell

Some kinds of programs are self-contained enough that they could run fine in a VM and basically bring their own platform, if someone implemented a lightweight desktop virtualization app (VMware Workstation/Fusion, VirtualBox, etc. tend to be clunky things). I think games would fall in that category given a low-overhead way of virtualizing the GPU. The Talking Typing Teacher program I mentioned is certainly that self-contained; the user is even supposed to shut down their screen reader.

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Accessibility is an area #Mixxx has struggled with for a long time, and as an all-volunteer project we have struggled to recruit devs to address it. If you have a passion for accessibility and are interested in a chance to have a big impact, hit us up.

cdm.link/apple-at-wwdc-on-acce…


Apple at WWDC on accessibility, inclusion - music devs, tune in - CDM Create Digital Music

Inclusion and accessibility are the answer. They're why we're here—and they're a way for developers to support themselves by reaching new audiences.
Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
#Mixxx

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AI is massively accelerating environmental crisis

AI Boom Drives 150% Surge in Indirect Emissions at Major Tech Firms, UN Warns

Amazon’s emissions spiked the most—up 182%—with Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet also posting triple-digit growth.

Without aggressive intervention, AI-linked emissions could reach 102.6M metric tons of CO₂e annually, straining energy grids globally.

esgnews.com/ai-boom-drives-150…


World Economic Forum 2026

Event Title: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026Dates: January 19–23, 2026Location: Davos-Klosters, SwitzerlandOrganizer: World Economic Forum (WEF) The 2026 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will convene over 2,500 global leaders...\n
ESG News

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#a11y Experts, I've a question:
How is the the state of #hidden #content support in 2025?
That seems outdated:
stevefaulkner.github.io/HTML5a…
I wish to display a list of words only for #screenreader users.

It will be the real text content for a canvas element (wordcloud). I hope, I can it make #accessible for #blind users.

Or is there a better way to provide the word list?

Maybe @SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social have an idea?

hidden content

stevefaulkner.github.io
#a11y #accessible #blind #screenreader #hidden #content @Steve Faulkner
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Přátelé, kamarádi i nepřátelé a nekamarádi :)

Pokud tvoříte, nebo chcete tvořit obsah na #VHSky a potřebujete se poradit, nebo nám jen doporučit nějakej kanál, kterej ještě nemirrorujem, tak nám @Archos nahodil #Matrix místnost právě pro tyto případy.

Často se mi stává, že mě kontaktujete DM tady na #Fediverse, tohle bude funkčnější, rychlejší a možná někdo zareaguje rychleji, než já :)

matrix.to/#/#vhsky:mxchat.cz


Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#matrix #fediverse #vhsky @Archos

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The #XMPP Newsletter for May 2025 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and updates on our #standards!

xmpp.org/2025/06/the-xmpp-news…

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕ :xmpp:

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation

The XMPP Newsletter Logo

XMPP

XMPP - The universal messaging standard
xmpp.org
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #chat #interoperability #decentralization #standards #rtc

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Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do…

Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.

#accessibility #a11y #UX


I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational dec…
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #UX
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Adrian Roselli, pH0

For anyone tempted to respond with the apologist's de facto, “but it’s beta!”, you can get into the sea.

I don’t accept failures like this in MVPs, so beta is even more offensive.

adrianroselli.com/2022/11/acce…


Accessibility ‘Gaps’ in MVPs

“Tires are foundational to all our concept cars! You can tell because we left a wheel well to hold one!” A common refrain I see from companies is a variation of “Accessibility is a core principle!” They will include it in messaging, brag about their …
Adrian Roselli
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Adrian Roselli, pH0

Incidentally, the company unleashing a new wave of contrast problems on the web (see today’s Codepen Spark for liquid glass copycats) is also the company that seems uninterested in supporting `prefers-reduced-transparency`:
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

#CSS #Safari #accessibility #a11y


prefers-reduced-transparency - CSS | MDN

The prefers-reduced-transparency CSS media feature is used to detect if a user has enabled a setting on their device to reduce the transparent or translucent layer effects used on the device.
MDN Web Docs
#a11y #Accessibility #css #safari

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Seriously thinking about going to INIT HELLO (init-hello.org/), the new conference for fans of the Apple II family of computers. On the one hand, I'm not really seriously into retro-computing. On the other hand, I do dabble in it (I have a working Apple II emulation setup using MAME), and I grew up with an Apple IIGS at home and Apple IIe at school, so it sounds like a fun nerdy thing to do over a weekend (plus two days off work for travel there and back).

INIT HELLO - Celebrate the Apple II - July 26-27, 2025 in Hunt Valley, MD

A new Apple II conference is coming to the System Source Computer Museum north of Baltimore, Maryland, this July 26–27, 2025.
INIT HELLO

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Czech-speaking friends, how legit is supraphonline.cz/ for buying FLAC albums?

Supraphonline.cz

Online obchod s českou a zahraniční populární i vážnou hudbou a mluveným slovem (audioknihami) v digitální podobě (MP3) i ve formě fyzických nosičů na CD, LP (vinyl) a DVD. Obsah nabízíme i v jedinečné nejvyšší kvalitě, formátech FLAC a Hi-Res (WAV).
Supraphonline.cz

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Dear Fedi friends,

By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.

Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️


📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it
Elena Rossini
#GoToSocial

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GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner: Welcome AWS!

discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-ha…

With an ever-growing contributor base, GNOME infrastructure has an increasing number of demands placed on it — and only two engineers. AWS saved us from the burden of manually scaling our infra. Thank you AWS!


GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner: Welcome AWS!

This post was contributed by Andrea Veri from the GNOME Foundation. GNOME has historically hosted its infrastructure on premises.
GNOME Discourse

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With macOS Tahoe, you can now dictate Swift code, and navigate Xcode with Voice Control. Designed for developers with limited use of the keyboard, we strived to make the experience natural and intuitive. Just say the code like you're talking to a person, and let Voice Control handle the formatting for you.

Please check out the demo video (starts at 03:10), and give it a try. We can't wait to hear what you think.

developer.apple.com/videos/pla…


What’s new in Xcode - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer

Discover the latest productivity and performance advancements in Xcode 26. Learn how to leverage large language models in your...
Apple Developer
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Colour palette support for charts in #LibreOffice is coming! Along with many other improvements: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
Screenshot of "Chart Area" tab showing colour palettes

QA/Dev Report: May 2025 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.7 was announced on May 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Page Layout, expanded help for paragraph justification, updated menu paths in Help, added help pages for newly-added Calc functions and of-pie cha…
x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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LibreOffice

@rzeta0 Don't just hope – help to make it happen! We love improvements too but we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. We get a huge amount of requests to implement or improve things but unfortunately little help. Please consider joining our community or funding a developer: documentfoundation.org/certifi… – Thank you! 😊

LibreOffice Certified Developers — The Document Foundation

LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…
www.documentfoundation.org

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We have packaged MapComplete as an Android app (available for testing on app.mapcomplete.org)

We are however also looking to get it published into the Google Play Store - but are facing difficulties. @pietervdvn (who will maintain this) can't get verified. Does someone have hints on what documents to submit?

Or is there someone out there whom already _has_ a verified developer account who want to publish the apps on our behalf? (Maybe @streetcomplete , @vespucci_editor or @CoMaps ?)

MapComplete App

app.mapcomplete.org
@vespucci @StreetComplete News & Support @Pietervdvn @CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive
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Libre BusTO

In our feed there are some interesting horrible stories about Play Store against our Free Software app. Good luck with Google semestral censorship surprises.
F-Droid is honestly very slow in releasing each tagged version (e.g. 4-5 days) but we still love F-Droid.

Congratulations 🍾 app are nightmares. We hope only the best after this choice.

(tip: toot about Google/F-Droid issues, people is happy to help also on fediverse)

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Telegram wirbt mit Sicherheit – doch laut einer Recherche kontrolliert ein russischer Netzwerktechniker namens Vedeneev große Teile der Infrastruktur, inklusive IP-Adressen und Serverzugang. Seine Firmen kooperierten mit FSB & Militär. Selbst »Ende-zu-Ende«-Chats lassen sich laut Experten zur Nutzerverfolgung ausnutzen. 👇

occrp.org/en/investigation/tel…

#Telegram #Überwachung #Surveillance #FSB


Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
OCCRP
#telegram #surveillance #überwachung #fsb

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The recording of my #RustWeek talk about #AccessKit is now published. youtube.com/watch?v=OI2TzJ6Sw1…

AccessKit: reusable UI accessibility - Matt Campbell

Rust’s modularity enables reusable, cross-platform UI accessibility infrastructure. And Rust’s minimal runtime overhead enables reuse across languages as wel...
YouTube
#accesskit #rustweek

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