AI Voices need to improve significantly for me to buy audiobooks that use them. Right now, all the AI voices are just... so soulless and devoid of the humanity... and I don't know if AI could ever even come close to a human narrator.
goodereader.com/blog/audiobook…
Audible has developed advanced AI tools for publishers and later in 2025, AI translations.Michael Kozlowski (Good e-Reader)
The new version of the WhatsApp PC app will use more memory and have weaker Windows integration.Viktor Eriksson (PCWorld)
Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA):
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/…
Including the bit no-one talks about, EN 17161 Design for All:
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/06/…
And a set of FAQ just in case:
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/…
#EAA #accessibility #a11y #SustainableAccessibility
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) requires that products and services made available within the European Union (EU) are accessible.TetraLogical
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings 19 updated & 2 added apps:
* Mousedroid: transform your Android phone in an input peripheral; mouse, keyboard, or numpad 🛡️
* RvKernel Manager: a powerful and user-friendly open-source tool for managing your kernel settings (root needed) 🛡️
Our RB reports will be a bit late today, as one of our builders dropped off the network (we're on it) & the other runs all builds 🙈
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Single page apps can be problematic for assistive technology users.
TPGi's Doug Abrams explains some code examples that will help improve the accessibility of your app.
Read the full article: tpgi.com/client-side-routing-a…
#Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #A11y
Single page apps can be problematic for assistive technology users. These code examples will help improve the accessibility of our app.Doug Abrams (TPGi)
👁️ super short note: placeholder perfidy
"I made the mistake in a recent article of using the placeholder attribute content to illustrate when a label is not correctly associated the text label does not provide an accessible name."
#accessibility #HTML #UX
„Zemřel reklamní expert @bigvilik, Deníku N to potvrdila sestra zesnulé Rubešovy partnerky Báry Rektorové Natálie Hrozinková. Rubeš měl v posledních měsících vážné zdravotní potíže.“ 😢 denikn.cz/minuta/1790825/
Toto mastodonczech.cz/@bigvilik/113… je moje jediná přímá interakce s ním, ale bude mi chybět.
Zemřel reklamní expert Vilém Rubeš. Deníku N to potvrdila sestra zesnulé Rubešovy partnerky Báry Rektorové Natálie Hrozinková. Rubeš měl v posledních měsících vážné zdravotní potíže.Barbora Němcová (Deník N)
The App can speak subtitle by voice or generate wav file from subtitles file with timing (SubRib or WebVTT format).Accessible Android
Anybody ever ran into synchronization issues with e.g. Davinci Resolve and #Rusticl ?
I fixed some issues with gl_sharing and wondering if that resolves it for everybody as well: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/me…
We only synchronized the imported GL objects on import, however we need to do so also on each clEnqueueAcquireGLObjects call to have all writes from the GL...GitLab
Sharepoint is in the news again. It is never a good thing when Sharepoint is in the news.
The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/stuffmadehere12201Please consider supporting th...YouTube
18 Years to the day that I went out and bought the final Harry Potter novel, I'm still reading fanfiction based upon the characters. I had left it all behind for over a decade when the story was finally done, but I've been drawn back in strongly over the last 4 or 5 years.
My daughter is 14 and is really looking forward to the TV series to see the characters she already knows in a different light, and a couple years back when I was still a school teacher, I was shocked to see children drawn into the world not through the books and then the movies based thereupon, but from the Fantastic Beasts / Grindelwald films, an entire 'nother entry point into the saga.
It's powerful to see that an author has gone from being a wonderful luminary around children's charities to a practically despised and hated figure over trans rights. I would also love to peep into a parallel world where Pottermania wasn't a thing and the books were modest successes, just to see how the ending would really have been without all the pressure.
Part of the reason I devour the fanfiction is that I don't remember ever feeling the ending of the original stories were particularly satisfying, so seeing so many variations and outgrowths of the possibilities are a balm.
sorry jako.. zmanipulované! hoax!
ta3.com/clanok/1003729/spotreb…
Spotreba alkoholického piva na Slovensku vlani v prepočte na obyvateľa ďalej klesala a dosiahla dlhodobé minimum. Slováci skonzumovali tiež menej liehovín, naopak vypili viac hroznových vín.ta3
In a recent Bloomberg Technology interview, Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the widespread belief that building smartphones in the U.S. is economically unfeasible. Purism’s Liberty Phone—manufactured with made-in-USA electronics—stands as working proof.
Weaver pointed out a crucial detail: the Trump T1 is essentially a rebranded Chinese-made Wingtech device.
Watch the interview at Purism: puri.sm/posts/purism-ceo-todd-…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
gaaf!
Als iedereen daar dan ook een mooie node mee opzet is dat in een klap een forse verbetering 😋
fingers crossed dan🤞🏼
Tot nu toe weinig te beleven/vinden in NL - zelfs in grootstedelijker gebiede.
Voor welk evenement is het? Dat heb ik gemist.
Und dann wären da noch die Dinge, die mit KI-Unterstützung richtig gut funktionieren können, vorausgesetzt man hat eine gute Idee. Ich arbeite hin und wieder mit CSV-Daten und wollte schon immer einen schlanken Editor haben, ohne gleich ein Office oder eine Web-App nutzen zu müssen. Herausgekommen ist Sivvy, ein CSV-Editor für das Terminal. Wer sich über mein Gefrickel amüsieren möchte, Quellcode gibts auf GitHub und unter gleichem Pfad auf Codeberg ⬇️
A CSV editor for your terminal. Contribute to schulle4u/sivvy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
⚠️ AI does not belong in your mailbox. ⚠️
Here's why 👉 tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers…
#AI #AIMailMaestro #Copilot #ChatGPT #Gemini #Mailmeteor
AI email generators can help write your emails quicker, but the risks often outweigh the benefits when granting them access to your private mailbox. Here’s why not to use AI email writers.Tuta
tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers…
You can tell a German wrote this, because that's not the order those words go in in English ;)
AI email generators can help write your emails quicker, but the risks often outweigh the benefits when granting them access to your private mailbox. Here’s why not to use AI email writers.Tuta
My background is in #AI and ML, even though I’m not working on it directly now.
One of the reasons is that I’m utterly disgusted by the kind of people who have taken over this field.
These are the same kind of sociopath cynical anarcho-capitalist cryptobros who screwed up the few good ideas about Blockchain and transformed it into just another speculative financial instrument.
And you know why I hate them from the bottom of my heart, why I believe that they have negative added value for society?
Because the previous generations of computer engineers, those who gave us the digital computer, modern operating systems and the Internet, would NEVER get a boner thinking of how many jobs they would have replaced. They didn’t repeat all the times “this will make all office clerks redundant so I can keep all the money for myself, it’s so beautiful!”
No, their focus was just on building things that improved society.
Not on creating chatbots that consumed as much energy as a country, and dreaming about how long it’d take them to kick people out of jobs and screw their lives.
And they don’t even bother to think how to prepare anybody for the transition, or how to build a sustainable post-employment world.
No, the only mission of these filthy motherfuckers is to make them and their shareholders disgustingly rich. Millions losing their jobs in the process is just a small collateral effect in the way of their wealth.
These are parasites screwing up one great idea after another just because they need a next-big-thing wagon to jump on and get rich. They are literally reversed Midas who turn whatever they touch into shit.
This kind of people would belong to a psychiatric facility in a functioning society, but unfortunately in today’s ultracapitalist world they are seen as technological gods - and even inspire new generations of tech enthusiasts to be jerks.
gizmodo.com/ai-will-replace-re…
Perplexity's CEO lays out a near-future where entire white-collar roles are automated by a new generation of AI browsers, transforming a week's worth of work into a single prompt.Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.Luna Winters (Luna's Blog)
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Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, which transforms into 'the world's largest mirror' (used for calibrating the altimeters of Earth observation satellites) during the rainy season, when a thin layer of water covers the surface. This creates a breathtaking natural phenomenon where the sky and clouds are perfectly reflected, offering surreal and stunning views.
Edit - images from thelegacyuntold.com/destinatio…
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Floridaapple.news
Meta is updating its WhatsApp for Windows app. It’s changing into a basic web app, instead of a native Windows version.Tom Warren (The Verge)
But they only collect data about you to offer you a better service, right?
I've always said that letting companies collect data about you only weakens your bargaining power.
theverge.com/news/709556/delta…
Delta Air Lines is leaning into dynamic ticket pricing that uses AI to individually determine the highest fee you’d willingly pay for flights.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
On weekend I managed to connect all my selfhosted services that support it to the #Keycloak #SSO (single sign on).
Namely #Mastodon #Peertube #NextCloud #FreshRSS #Matomo and #grafana
Why to bother with such complication for apps serving only a couple of users?
First it's quite easy nowadays.
And second, because I want to get rid of passwords and just use #passkeys .
This is one of many examples showing that good apps should just focus on one task and just use standards to cooperate with other apps focusing on other tasks.
Peertube for example focuses on videos, not user management. I am very OK that they don't support passkeys, because they implemented OpenId Connect standard to allow me use Keycloak for better login options.
On the other hand, I am quite sad that SSO is often the one feature, that is proprietary and reserved only for paying customers. SSO is not for huge corporations anymore. It's also usefull for us, selfhosters with couple of users.
❤️ 
Jiří Eischmann
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