mastodon - Link to source
Today I am releasing my Zoom H2essential audio recorder accessibility tutorial! Not only does it cover accessibility but all other features of the recorder. If I missed something, please let me know!
Youtube videos with timestamps
Zoom H2essential accessibility tutorial part 1: Unboxing, physical description, first time setup
youtube.com/watch?v=R6Pu7UXiHw…
Zoom H2essential accessibility tutorial part 2: Menus and settings
youtube.com/watch?v=1yUW09ELwj…
Zoom H2essential accessibility tutorial part 3: Recording and playback
youtube.com/watch?v=FBz0BuLSYy…
Zoom H2essential accessibility tutorial part 4: Other features and final thoughts
youtube.com/watch?v=sOYPGXkeJB…
Tutorial Youtube playlist
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSX…
Tutorial in mp3 format with resources document, zip file
dropbox.com/scl/fi/j5zr2i0xcvw…

Jay Pellis Zoom H2essential accessibility tutorial.zip

Shared with Dropbox
Dropbox

mastodon - Link to source

Although I’m offering a FOUNDINGMEMBERS discount to those who join the PWO Community by June 30, you won’t hear me calling us “members.”

We’re not building a club.

We’re building a community of Co-Conspirators.

Let me explain why.

But first, let me say plainly:

FUCK ALLIES!

Yes, I said it. And here’s why I feel this so deeply—especially after years of navigating harm in spaces that claimed to be “inclusive.”

Why PWO Doesn’t Have “Members”—We Have Co-Conspirators
in reply to Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

mastodon - Link to source

Kim Crayton ~ Her/She

The concept of “allyship” is flawed at its core. It reinforces a hierarchy that centers the privileged as saviors and the marginalized as passive recipients of that help. And far too often, this shows up as power imbalances that replicate the very oppression we’re trying to dismantle.

Here’s what I’ve witnessed again and again:
People who call themselves allies...

Show up for applause, not accountability.

Use discomfort as a reason to disengage.

mastodon - Link to source
Matt Ater joined hosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon for the Accessibility and Gen AI Podcast! They discuss Matt's journey into the field of assistive technology, his work with Vispero, and the importance of user experience in developing accessibility tools. Check out Episode 9: youtu.be/n6NGlE3qM3E?si=uxwNzO…

Ep 9 - Matt Ater - Senior Vice President, Vispero

Ep 9 - Matt Ater - Senior Vice President, VisperoHosts Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon interview Matt Ater, Senior Vice President of Vispero. The conversation c...
YouTube

mastodon - Link to source

🌍 Accessibility matters for everyone.

Whether permanent or temporary, disability can affect us all at some point in our lives. That’s why accessibility isn’t a bonus feature: it’s a necessity.

At Jami, we’re committed to making private communication truly inclusive. From screen reader support to keyboard navigation, here’s where we stand and where we’re going: jami.net/how-accessible-is-jam…

#Accessibility #Inclusion #TechForGood #OpenSource #Jami #PrivacyMatters #AccessibilityMatters

Smiling woman in a wheelchair, dressed in a black outfit and headscarf, sitting outdoors in front of green foliage. Text on image reads: 'Discovery – How accessible is Jami?' with the Jami logo in the top right.

How accessible is Jami ?

We can all be faced with some form of disability, whether permanent or temporary, at different times in our lives. That's why accessibility must be a constant concern at every stage of development.
jami (Jami)
#Accessibility #opensource #privacymatters #inclusion #jami #techforgood #AccessibilityMatters

mastodon - Link to source
А тым часам Воля зьняла арт-баявік «Гжэгаж» зь вехіром у галоўнай ролі
youtube.com/@tarkavola/shorts

Vola Kuzmich

Арт-мэнэджэр ў ІТ і мастак па жыцці 🌱 Малюю ад кніг і мультоў да гульняў з мільённай аўдыторыяй ❤️‍🔥 Новая кніга ўжо ў дарозе! 🌻 Цяпер у Warsaw
YouTube
Unknown parent

mastodon - Link to source

Zvonimir Stanecic

Кстаті, разночтения всегда есть. Аканье передаётся на письме, что приводит к огромному числу омографов. К примеру. пАмятаць или памЯтаць? Человек по контексту поймёт. Синтезатор уж, нет...

mastodon - Link to source
Coolest part of this: it somehow escaped Dutch Elm Disease and they are gathering its seeds to propagate what *may* be naturally resistant genetics. flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-sto…

One of Toronto's oldest elm trees is on its last legs. Researchers are racing to re-grow copies

One of the largest old elm trees in Toronto — possibly in all of southern Ontario — is on its last legs. But as the city finalizes plans to take down …
CBC News - Michael Smee

mastodon - Link to source

The SustainOSS podcast just published an interview with yours truly - hachyderm.io/@sustainoss/11467…

I had a lot of fun talking to @richlitt about the history of GNOME, GIMP, GTK, open source infrastructure, who gets to contribute, and we end up with book recommendations. Give it a listen!

SustainOSS

2025-06-13 14:02:26

mastodon - Link to source

Host Richard (@richlitt) chats with Federico Mena Quintero (@federicomena) about GIMP (gimp.org/), GNOME’s (gnome.org/) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.

Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/273


Maintainer Month 2025 with Federico Mena Quintero on GNOME

Host Richard chats with Federico about GIMP, GNOME’s history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.
Sustain

@Richard Littauer

Emmanuele Bassi reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

openculture.com/2025/06/how-br…

The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

This week, Brian Wilson became the last of the Wilson brothers to shuffle off this mortal coil. Dennis, the first of the Wilsons to go, died young in 1983 — but not before offering this memorable assessment of the family musical project: 'Brian Wilso…
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

mastodon - Link to source

Host Richard (@richlitt) chats with Federico Mena Quintero (@federicomena) about GIMP (gimp.org/), GNOME’s (gnome.org/) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.

Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/273

Maintainer Month 2025 with Federico Mena Quintero on GNOME

Host Richard chats with Federico about GIMP, GNOME’s history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.
Sustain
@Federico Mena Quintero @Richard Littauer

mastodon - Link to source

🎉 FLEXIREADS BLOG POST 🎉

New feature alert!

We've made it even easier to add events in Fantastical by forwarding them directly from your email. 🤯

Find out how on the Flexireads blog!

flexibits.com/blog/2025/06/fea…


Feature Spotlight: Forward emails to Fantastical

Fantastical and Cardhop: enjoyable calendar and contacts apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. Fantastical is also available on Windows.
Flexibits
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

mastodon - Link to source

Frisk

Ultimately I think it will be a bad look for entire Matrix ecosystem for its biggest server to basically commercialize the offering similar to how other commercial products do it.

There is a difference in how matrix.org is structured, being a non-profit and for example how commercial solution such as Discord is structured, but creatures don't really care about such difference, the point will be that both will have some kind of "better" offering for paid users and that kinda sucks.

I'm sticking to my opinion which I've already expressed in the past that instead of pouring more and more money into maintaining a single huge Matrix server (and the costs will continue to rise, maintaining a huge platform for social interactions is only getting worse the more it scales) it would be simply more efficient to focus on better UX and ecosystem experience to distribute the userbase across many public servers.

This move in a way may make some creatures decide to change servers, but that will be at the cost of Matrix reputation and is not a specific goal with which those premium accounts are created.

Matrix continues to be a massive undertaking, and while I see the value in matrix.org server, I worry that the funds going into its maintenance could be better utilized by Matrix foundation by focusing in other areas that would favor further decentralization of the network.

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

mastodon - Link to source

crispycat

it is absolutely ridiculous to be doing this instead of offloading to reputable community-run servers. matrix.org is *not* a good onboarding experience; in fact it is very slow as evidenced in last week's presentation of Aurora, is the source of a huge amount of abuse even proportional to its active users, and is terrible for privacy/security/anonymity given it sits behind #Cloudflare/#NSA's MITM and requires a google captcha to sign up (along with email)
#cloudflare
This entry was edited (6 months ago)

mastodon - Link to source
Last week, I gave a talk on web browser security research at a student-organized conference. I tried to make the talk reasonably beginner-friendly, so the slides (linked here) could hopefully be useful to someone as a learning resource. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Intro to Browser Security Research

How to Find Vulnerabilities in Web Browsers (An Introduction to Web Browser Security Research) Ivan Fratrić, Google Project Zero 2025
Google Docs

hometown - Link to source

Anybody knows what I should do to enable push notifications on #monal? My ejabberd shows as compliant with XEP-0357: Push Notifications on compliance.conversations.im/ but the messages don't reach the phone when the app is closed

#xmpp #jabber

Please :boost_ok: for reach

Server overview · XMPP Compliance Tester

Pick and choose your Jabber server from a list of compatible servers or check if your current server supports all required features.
compliance.conversations.im
#xmpp #Jabber #monal

mastodon - Link to source

curlmin

Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a #curl command while ensuring the response remains the same.

github.com/noperator/curlmin


GitHub - noperator/curlmin: Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a curl command while ensuring the response remains the same.

Remove unnecessary headers, cookies, and query parameters from a curl command while ensuring the response remains the same. - noperator/curlmin
GitHub
#curl

mastodon - Link to source

A link in @simon's recent blog anniversary post led me to this post: simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/5/p… which contains this gem about using an LLM:

> It’s a programming activity that actually feels a lot more like spellcasting. It’s almost impossible to reason about: I imagine even the creators of GPT-3 could not explain to you why certain prompts produce great results while others do not.

I think that's no less true of today's LLMs.


How to use the GPT-3 language model

I ran a Twitter poll the other day asking if people had tried GPT-3 and why or why not. The winning option, by quite a long way, was “No, I …
Simon Willison’s Weblog
@Simon Willison

mastodon - Link to source

@libreoffice

nice export to epub - but need to be able to put in metadata and validate - especially now with the accessibility act from EU. a lot of schema fields to fill out like kb.daisy.org/publishing/docs/m…
and Daisy / Arc doesn't really cut it in making sense of it - nor provide the right code and validation. would you, please?

Schema.org Accessibility Metadata

Guidelines for using schema.org accessibility metadata in publications
kb.daisy.org
@LibreOffice

mastodon - Link to source

Politicians around the world want to #backdoor #encryption. But #Signalgate 2.0 shows the danger would be HUGE.

We're saying #NoToBackdoors 💪

Read Hanna's opinion: Signalgate 2.0 proves it - there’s no such thing as a “Backdoor for the Good Guys Only”
👉 tuta.com/blog/opinion-signalga…

Image of a broken lock with the headline: Signalgate 2.0 What a "Backdoor for the good guys" truly means

Signalgate 2.0 proves it - there’s no such thing as a “Backdoor for the Good Guys Only” | Tuta

Sensitives data fell into the hands of criminals because US officials were using a non-encryption version of the popular chat app Signal.
Tuta
#encryption #backdoor #signalgate #notobackdoors

mastodon - Link to source

“Montreal: A Metro Stuck in the Past” newsletters.feedbinusercontent…

I think the issue with accessibility is really the lack of funds at the provincial level. The STM has a programme to improve accessibility, but it has to be put on hold as the CAQ aren’t interested in funding transit.

But I agree, I wish we could bring the system forward in time.

/cc @reecemartintransit

Montreal: A Metro Stuck in the Past

newsletters.feedbinusercontent.com
@Reece Martin
in reply to Jean-Francois Mezei

mastodon - Link to source

Heliomass

@jfmezei I think it would be good for someone to do a full and proper analysis on the impact the REM had on transit development in Greater Montreal. I’m still on the fence about the whole thing as I feel transit planning is so broken in North America, this model was literally the only way we could have gotten a new railway of this scope. Was it worth the negative impacts? Not sure yet, but they need to inject money into the Metro before it collapses.
@Jean-Francois Mezei
This entry was edited (6 months ago)

mastodon - Link to source

Akce pumpa na půl ukončena.

Ve středu jsem byl u našich a všechno ve studni rozebral. Potřeboval jsem koupit nový sací koš a zjistit, jestli mají v Sigmě skladem i těsnění se zpětnou klapkou pod přírubu.

Jenže mezitím šla máma ven a táta to samozřejmě „rychle vyčistil a smontoval zpět“. Takže jsem neviděl, jak vypadá to velké těsnění. 🤦

Dneska tedy opět celá demontáž potrubí ve studni, nový sací koš nasazen – a jak jinak, teče to pod přírubou. Přesně tam, kde jsem to těsnění chtěl koupit. 😅

Takže zítra repete…

mastodon - Link to source

Lasst euch von Google, YouTube & Co. nicht einreden, Werbeblocker seien illegal. Das stimmt nicht. Adblocker sind kein Rechtsbruch, sondern eine bittere Notwendigkeit im heutigen Internet – als Selbstschutz vor Überwachung, Manipulation und aufdringlicher Kommerzialisierung. Dass Konzerne sie dämonisieren, zeigt nur, wie sehr sie auf Kosten der Nutzer profitieren wollen und wie kaputt ihr datengetriebenes Geschäftsmodell ist.

Werbeblocker: kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
YouTube werbefrei: kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…


Empfehlungsecke

Die Empfehlungsecke beinhaltet aktuelle Empfehlungen zu Messengern, Browser-Add-ons und weiteren Themen • IT-Sicherheit & Datenschutz aus Karlsruhe
www.kuketz-blog.de
This entry was edited (6 months ago)
⇧