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I’ve been using a Monarch for a year now, and it’s been the busiest year of my working life. But right now, I’m on vacation.
I expected to, and very much do, enjoy the benefits of multiline Braille for various work things, and I congratulate Vispero for doing a super job with Monarch support in JAWS. But now I am appreciating that there’s something very special yet intangible about curling up on the couch, grabbing a book from Bookshare, and reading for pleasure on the large display. I’m not sure I am able to articulate the full extent of the difference, it’s just more fluid, it’s better, it’s more relaxing somehow.
I think people will be very pleased with some of the updates that are just around the corner, and of course we’ll continue to articulate the value proposition, the improved outcomes, the equity, of multiline Braille to entities who can fund them and put them under the fingertips of more blind people.
So, back to my book.
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Marco Zehe

I definitely want to take a look at a Monarch at some point, but so far, nobody is selling it in Germany yet, as far as I know. I'm curious about its size and weight. The one multiline Braille display I saw at my last CSUN visit several years ago, was quite big and quite heavy. You'd curl up on the couch with it just fine, but do not expect to get up again any time soon. LOL! I suppose the Monarch isn't as heavy and bulky?

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1. User complains to #hackerone that I named his *previous* name when he renamed himself to a silly name after I banned them in a #curl report filed back in October.

2. Hackerone asks me to respond on their support forum, on which I have no account. Grrr. I refuse to.

3. Replying to the hackerone email about this instead, I get a bounce saying they don't accept emails on support@hackerone ...

Kill me now.

(The user who submitted this report was going by the name "b4sh0ne" up until their last comment when they renamed to this new name. Unfortunately, the HackerOne interface does not properly show this. We banned the user nonetheless.)
#curl #hackerone

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In 2009, I was with a friend in West Virginia, who had a gig playing for a school music program for 5 through 10-year-olds.

The youngest of those kids are now old enough to drink in the United States. Maybe not quite college graduation, at least with a four-year degree, but close.

In a few days, the very youngest licensed American drivers will have been born three years after the first iPhone was released. This includes one of my cousin's grandchildren.

I'm too young to be this old, or something.

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I woke up this morning, went into the kitchen, collected some spoons1, it's time to roll up my sleeves and release #iocaine 3.1.

  1. Drank 0.4l of caffeinated hot chocolate, and topped it with two pellets of Ferrero Pocket Coffee. So I'm like wide-eye awake for the next hour, and I'm hearing colours2. ↩︎
  2. iocaine's soothing green is, as expected, soothing, like a small breeze upon a field of wild grass. My burning red-yellow rage is the most metal sound you ever heard. ↩︎
#iocaine

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Как те, которые бояться потревожить россию, изъять ее деньги, сбить их дрон, наказать за перерезанные кабеля, трубопроводы, закрытые аэропорты, взорванные рельсы, сгоревшие торговые цетры…

могут ГАРАНТИРОВАТЬ безопасность?

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Das 240. WildMics-Special war unser Jahresabschluss 2025. In einem Ask us Anything konnte ihr uns Fragen zu Politik, Gesellschaft und dem Leben stellen. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bund Europäischer Jugend - Österreich.
Mit @SophiaKrappweis & @TommyKrappweis
hoaxilla.com/wildmics-special-…
Grafische Ankündigung des WildMics Specials: Das Bild zeigt ein stimmungsvolles Nachtlager mit einem Lagerfeuer im Mittelpunkt. Darüber steht in großer Schrift „Laberfeuer“. Um das Feuer herum schweben Wörter wie „Information“, „Fakten“ und „Forschung“. Links und rechts des Feuers sind Porträtfotos der Diskussionsgäste zu sehen. Am unteren Rand steht in weißer Schrift: „Ask us Anything (in den Farben der EU Flagge" - Mit Dana Buchzik und Dirk van den Boom Das Bild vermittelt eine einladende Atmosphäre zum gemeinsamen Nachdenken und Diskutieren über Kommunikation von Fakten. Links unten befindet sich ein schwarz-weißes Logo von Hoaxilla, das zwei stilisierte Gesichter mit Sonnenbrillen zeigt. Daneben ein schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: "WildMics – Special 240". Rechts unten ist ein farbenfrohes WildMics-Logo mit einem Mikrofon und Regenbogenfarben.

WildMics Special #240 – Jahresabschluss Ask us Anything – HOAXILLA®

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@Tommy Krappweis @Sophia Krappweis

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A short while ago I was explaining to a client the reason why his website has seen a very significant increase in load over the past few weeks. On many of the servers I manage, I see connections coming from residential users, yes, but mainly from unscrupulous AI scrapers that do not care about overloading everything. Someone on their side replied to me: "Wouldn’t moving everything to the cloud solve the problem? I mean... autoscaling!"

That sparked a somewhat "conspiratorial" thought. Some colleagues have told me that, with the recent surge in AI bot traffic, their costs have skyrocketed. Given how much money is being spent, and not earned, on AI, are we really sure this is not, in some way, planned or at least welcomed as a way to increase costs for end users of cloud services and funnel them into AI budgets?

#SysAdmin #IT

#IT #sysadmin

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Europe is making a list, checking it twice… and upgrading its trains to high-speed – nice! 🚄

While you are sipping hot chocolate, we are cooking up 200+ km/h rail magic:

✨ Faster journeys: Berlin → Copenhagen in 4hr instead of 7hr
🚆 New routes: Lisbon–Madrid–Paris and Tallinn–Riga–Vilnius–Warsaw
🌙 More night trains for long trips
🎫 One ticket for your whole journey, and easier booking across borders

By 2040, your holidays might just start on the rails.

👉 link.europa.eu/hDyYBG

A watercolour-style illustration depicting a sleek, red and white high-speed train, labelled "EU Holiday Express in the making," speeding out of a swirling, abstract representation of the blue European Union flag with its yellow stars. In the background, there are snow-covered Christmas trees and picturesque, snow-dusted houses. The EU logo is also visible in the bottom right corner.

High-speed rail plan

Connecting Europe, shortening travel time.
Mobility and Transport

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So there are apparently people creating personal voices on Macs, because it's more flexible than on the iPhone. I have heard several times that people have even cloned all sorts of random voices. But since you can't upload audio files for recording, how exactly are you to do this, manipulate the folder, where ever it is, or whatnot?
#personal_voice #accessibility #a11y #voiceover #mac
#a11y #Accessibility #mac #voiceover #personal_voice
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Winter blue tardis

Honestly, I don't know and I haven't tried it. Now you gave me an idea, it's bad when I have ideas. :D Manipulating the folder? I am not sure, unless Mac saves it somewhere in an actual folder, but as far as I know, it's synced via iCloud, so if I were to create a personal voice on Mac, it will also be on the phone, which, to be fair, is fun. I should. Told you, giving me ideas is bad.

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Lately I’ve been realizing that I probably made a (small but important) mistake when choosing Proton Mail over @Tutanota Mail.

I truly respect and like both European companies, but what I’ve been noticing, and deeply appreciating, is how strong, healthy, and direct the relationship between Tuta and its users is. They communicate, they discuss, they listen.

It actually reminds me a lot of the @Vivaldi browser team, including @jon himself. And that kind of attitude is priceless, especially when it’s combined with such a clear stance on privacy & security, AI, and user-first values. That combination is simply top-tier.

I recently noticed Vivaldi starting some cooperation with Proton. Personally, I’d much rather see a collaboration with Tuta.

Rooting for you. Rooting for both teams (actually all three). Absolutely fantastic work.

#privacy #security #email #europeanTech #Vivaldi #Tuta #Proton

#email #privacy #security #proton #vivaldi #tuta #europeantech @Tuta @Vivaldi Browser @Jon S. von Tetzchner

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@Tutanota Hey, was sagt ihr zu der neuen Sau von #Vorratsdatenspeicherung die durchs Dorf getrieben wird und auch Mailprovider betreffen soll? netzpolitik.org/2025/anlasslos…

Anlasslose Speicherung: Justizministerium veröffentlicht Gesetzentwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Die Bundesregierung will Internet-Zugangs-Anbieter verpflichten, IP-Adressen aller Nutzer für drei Monate zu speichern. Das geht aus dem Gesetzentwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung hervor, den das Justizministerium veröffentlicht hat.
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#vorratsdatenspeicherung @Tuta
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Tuta

Danke für den Hinweis, wir schauen uns das an. Fraglich, ob es dieses Mal Bestand haben wird... siehe: tuta.com/blog/data-retention-g… Wir lehnen jede Form der anlasslosen Massenüberwachung ab und werden sicher dagegen aktiv werden.

Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all. | Tuta

According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.
Tuta

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Whatever else the future may hold, I'm hoping for a decrease in the yelling of "stochastic parrots!" in literally any conversation about so-called AI by people who wouldn't otherwise use the word "stochastic" in any other context. Memorising a phrase containing an obscure word and deploying it like a hand grenade to shut down a discussion has never struck me as a particularly helpful or inclusive strategy.

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