Do you use D&D Beyond for your sessions and you hate how clunky and slow you would be with it with a screen reader? I've got something for you! I've started work on a browser extension called Enhance Ability (pun absolutely intended!) It does a lot to make the site more intuitive and bring your speed on par with a sited user who can just glance at information. Read the readme below here for a preliminary feature list. I've sent it for review on the firefox and chrome add-on stores, and I'll publish links whenever they're available. I'm happy to discuss or answer any questions here! If you like to sideload it or look at the code, or read for more information, visit on github! github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…
Or the releases for packages: github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…

#blind #dnd #accessibility

GitHub - the-byte-bender/enhance-ability: A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond.

A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond. - the-byte-bender/enhance-ability

^GitHub

Hello! I hope you're all doing well. Does anyone have any experience with either the JetKVM or the GL.Inet Comet units? If so, are they accessible for screen readers? I'm going to have to buy a KVM soon and am curious which one I should buy.

Please boost if you would. Thanks!

LLMs are spam generators. That is all.

They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".

But really, all they are is spam generators.

We have hit the spamularity.

"The MetaVerse is the future and if you don't adopt it you're gonna be left behind"

mashable.com/article/meta-hori…

Remember Meta's creepy Horizon virtual office? It's being discontinued.

Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.

^{Stan Schroeder (Mashable)}

Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.

Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.

Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.

They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.

Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?

Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.

Good morning 😘

For #RSS on #Android I just switched from Readrops to #CapyReader. It both is able to sync with #FreshRSS server, but Capy's UI better suits my needs.

Readrops looks fine, but it feels kind of wrong when using it. Especially in article listings. It seems like they use wrong UI components for the task.

Capy's UI feels less cluttered, more text focused. I better orient in the article titles. So far good work @_jocmp 👍️

f-droid.org/packages/com.capyr…

Capy Reader | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A smallish RSS reader

^f-droid.org

The Right is obsessed with manufacturing reality for your consumption.

#KristiNoem #SouthDakota #InfantMortality #TheyAreNotProLife
#RightWingLies

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The FreeBSD Foundation announced they're funding development of a new agentic AI based on an Alibaba model which will run in your kernel called Kirk.

There will be no way to remove it from the OS beginning with FreeBSD 16.0, because this model is completely replacing the TCP/IP stack and the CPU scheduler. All of these decisions will now processed by Kirk. Instead of being based on the time-tested monolithic kernel design, this will be the beginning of a new era of hybrid-cystolithic kernels.

I added livekit and lk-jwt-service to my #matrix homeserver so I can initiate calls and conferences.

Element X audio/video calling pretty much feels like Face Time. Better than Signal calls.

You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch

Every time you buy a Chinese electric EV it makes baby Doug Ford cry.

Go ahead and buy a Chinese electric EV.

Making your list of @fosdem talks to try and get into/watch online? We are too! Be sure you don't miss @bogo and his talk, "What translating Thunderbird taught me," Sunday 1 February at 14:50 in the Translations dev room (K.3.401) 🌍

#Thunderbird #Community #Translation

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2026 - What translating Thunderbird taught me

^fosdem.org

“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”

musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn…

5.1tn annual music streams… but 120.5m tracks had 10 or fewer

Music-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over.

^{Stuart Dredge (Music Ally)}

YEAR ZERO p1

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #mata

The future of software development is Gemini adding and removing the "status/needs-triage" tag from an issue on GitHub 5,000 times.

Gemini is made by Google, a company once famous for incredibly high quality software engineering.

github.com/google-gemini/gemin…

allow exit and quit commands without leading slash (/)

What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...

^{pm-bhatt (GitHub)}

Everyone is freaking out about Orion's heatshield and its ability to withstand a free return trajectory from the Moon.

But did they ever get around to fixing the O-ring issues on the Shuttle/SLS boosters? February can get pretty cold.

#Orion #SLS #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA

RE: climatejustice.social/@termina…

Oh, good. It's driving up spinning rust prices too.