The longtime TV host, who died in 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, is being remembered with a new Forever stamp by the United States Postal Service.
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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, in 2023, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off the US EPA, who sent their env cops to raid Apple's plant in Aug of 2023. The US EPA finally released the report of their enforcement inspections & sent me a copy on Friday. 💀 ⬇️
US EPA Enforcement & Compliance conducted 3 onsite inspections of Apple's fab facility in 8/2023 + 1/2024. US EPA noted at least *19* potential violations of the RCRA hazardous waste statute.
After discovering what Apple did, I then spent three months requesting records & digging through regulatory filings to learn more - which led me to file a complaint to US EPA in June 2023. I met with EPA's investigators & sent them everything I discovered.
I told EPA I didn't want my whistleblowing to be anonymous, and instead, that if EPA shows up to inspect the plant, when they do, please have the EPA cops tell Apple: "Ashley says hi." 💀
The inspection was supposed to be unannounced so EPA surprises the inspected party who has no chance to cover up issues before EPA gets inside. However city HazMat tipped off Apple & EPA was greeted by Apple's EH&S team. Note: what EPA found was AFTER Apple had time to clean up.
TLDR; EPA discovered that Apple was: - illegally treating hazardous waste - illegally transporting hazardous waste to disposal facilities - illegally dumping hazardous waste into the ambient air outside the facility (into the apartment windows) - leaving stockpiles of extremely dangerous chemicals unattended on weekends
Let's start with illegal treatment: Apple set up a 1,700 gallon aboveground chemical storage tank to treat their ignitable solvent waste. The chemicals are clearly RCRA-regulated hazardous waste. The tank was even marked hazardous waste. But Apple obtained no permits for it, nor told the government about it, because Apple unilaterally (and incorrectly) declared it wasn't hazardous waste. #BadApple
But Apple's potential felonies did not stop there! Apple also decided to transport the illegally treated haz waste (which Apple claimed was never haz waste) to a disposal facility still claiming it wasn't haz waste (even though it was). In 2021 Apple's same waste stream included the TSCA regulated chemical NMP, which, in 2022, EPA proposed should be banned due to unreasonable risk of human harm.
This same solvent waste storage tank full of environmental crimes also featured illegal emissions too! The solvent VOC air emissions from the tank & all of the facility's solvent exhaust were collected into a mainline & then dumped into the ambient air on the roof, without a permit, & probably almost entirely unabated (so straight up solvent vapors into the outdoor air).
Because Apple wasn't monitoring its solvent emissions, & had no permit, its unclear just how much toxic waste Apple dumped into our bedrooms.
Also, it gets worse. Between 2020-23, Apple did monitor the air for vapors with an ad hoc, handheld, calibrated gas detector...ONE TIME.
Apple failed to calibrate the tool in all other tests. However, Apple did calibrate the tool a few times, but each time Apple then failed to actually use the tool to test anything. Great work, Apple.
We previously discussed how Apple didn't change its carbon filters for around five years (per Apple's manifests); so those filters were probably useless and doing nothing to control the gas/vapor emissions.
But there's more! US EPA also noticed that when Apple did start changing the filters in 12/2020 (after I reported my chemical induced illness next to the building), Apple then unilaterally claimed solvent drenched charcoal is not haz waste, & proceeded to illegally dispose of it.
We're not done, you guys. There's more!! However, if you feel like you just got a strong whiff of Apple's poison gases & you need a moment to catch your breath; I'll just leave this right here as a reminder of how important it is that we look out for each other and feel a sense of duty to the community around us.
It's a tale as old as time that industry will poison communities as much as it can, as long as it can, until every day people come together to demand to not be slowly murdered.
Next, EPA discovered that Apple had many smaller nonpermitted tanks of haz waste scattered around the plant; including 5-gallon containers of "highly flammable" & corrosive chemicals. Apple unilaterally declared they were not hazardous waste because Apple 1) never analyzed it & 2) did pour water into it. EPA said "no" & also pouring water into haz waste is still "treating" haz waste, and requires a permit that Apple did not have.
The US EPA inspector noticed Apple had a 55-gallon container of corrosive liquid chemicals sitting in Apple's "Chemical Bunker," & the container's cap was removed
EPA said: hey Apple, why is that haz waste container left open?
Apple responded: its open so the vapors can vent, you know, so it doesn't explode
EPA said: you need to buy containers designed for these types of chemicals
Speaking of Apple's Chemical Bunker...when US EPA started looking around, it saw 30 containers of corrosive liquid, & 12 containers of flammable liquids, all "stacked against the wall." The labels were not visible so EPA had to dig through the jugs to figure out what was there.
The US EPA inspector also came across a pile of random containers of hazardous waste, apparently thrown in the corner of the Bunker. Three container's contents were unknown. All 10 were not dated & had not been analyzed. Apple claimed they had just left them there that morning.
Finally, lets talk about Apple's factory exhaust into the ambient air next to thousands of homes and two public parks.
Much of Apple's solvent exhaust was vented out "as is" (unabated) from the main system.
The illegal solvent treatment tank exhaust did go through the untested carbon boxes, but then it was released out of a tiny vent pointed *down* at the building. Any gases heavier then air would be directed to the ground level to pool into toxic vapor plumes.
My civil lawsuit against Apple includes 2 toxic tort claims for what theyre doing at this factory. I alleged Nuisance + Ultrahazardous Activities. The US Judge is letting me proceed with both claims. casetext.com/case/gjovik-v-app…
Apple can keep flailing around, but we're in US court now & they will be forced to face the music. I'm also waiting to hear from US Dept of Labor Judge if I can add RCRA, Clean Air Act, & TSCA retaliation claims.
Finally, its also possible DOJ could pursue criminal charges.
Highlights include Sound Split, numerous new keystrokes, new Braille mode & other features, updates to eSpeak, LibLouis & other dependencies & programs.
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…
@carrottop1023 That was going to be my question :) Glad you got there - yes we do sometimes see weird things misbehaving in that time between updating NVDA and the next restart of the PC. We should perhaps be more insistent about restarting the PC, although it often works fine (which itself leads people to be complacent about rebooting). If you do have any more issues, please do let us know!
@davetaylor2112 Are other quick navigation keys working (H for heading, etc)? The first thing to try is restarting the PC. We do often see odd issues just after updating NVDA and before restarting the PC. Looking in the User Guide currently, I can use p / shift+p to move between paragraphs
@davetaylor2112 And if you press NVDA+n, h, a, it definitely tells you it is NVDA 2024.2 running?
Which browser are you using? And using say the user guide, you are definitely in the document itself (not in a browser toolbar or somewhere like that).
@davetaylor2112 If you restart NVDA with add-ons disabled, (NVDA+q, down arrow to "restart with add-ons disabled" and enter) does it make a difference? I wonder if it is a keystroke which is being taken over by an add-on rather than the paragraph function.
Right, the key conflict with P is caused by the screen wrapping addon. It doesn't have any keystrokes you can edit in input gestures that ican see, so this is an odd one, but I've contacted the author. I haven't had the control key problem for a while, and I'm not getting anywhere with what's causing my menu update debug entries at all. It seems to be when *any* addon is running.
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…
The longtime TV host, who died in 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, is being remembered with a new Forever stamp by the United States Postal Service.
Excuse me while I go ugly-cry: “Gilead’s experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.”
🚨UNVERIFIED 0-DAY🚨A threat actor is allegedly selling a 0-day for the OwnCloud product. This exploit affects all versions and is available for exclusive sale. The actor posted a link to a PoC, but the link is not working. If they repost, I will add it here.
Do they not have enough cash? Ah sorry, this is the Tory party.
There now look to be so many it raises questions: has this always happened and we are only just finding out? Is this some kind of coordinated thing? It's definitely feeling like the stupid kind of thing someone would post to a WhatsApp group.
Linux 6.10-rc5 Released With This Kernel Cycle Looking Good So Far
Linus Torvalds has just tagged Linux 6.10-rc5 as the newest weekly test release leading up to the Linux 6.10 stable release by mid-July... phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-r…
This could be useful to some people. No support, only for info.
As background, I was needing to schedule a task regularly so as to work with the StationPlaylist Track Tool via command line parameters. The Track Tool is very useful to process files for use on a radio station. If you don't use StationPlaylist, still keep reading.
First I tried the Windows Task Scheduler. Everything worked, except that the computer would freeze while the task (which is fairly intensive) was taking place. Then I tried System Scheduler: splinterware.com/products/sche…
Not only does it work perfectly, but it has very accessible dialogs and list view controls, plenty of shortcut keys, and more. I was very pleased at the way it works.
Of course you can schedule a task to undertake the kind of activity I was wanting to do. The list of tasks not only shows the title but when it was last run, something essential for what I was trying to achieve as I needed to monitor it.
You can also create periodic reminders or scheduled text notes. Those reminders can be snoozed for a period of time before the alert arrives again. The tasks can be run manually or via the schedule. Manual was also very useful for my testing. You can create desktop shortcuts for tasks if you did want to run them manually and regularly.
Not that I tried this, but you can also get it to action a series of keystrokes if needed when an application is focused. That was well outside the scope of what I was wanting to do.
Definitely worth giving it a try if you would like to. There is a free and paid version.
Considering COVID-19 hasn't gone away, and we want to be as prepared as possible for the next potential pandemic, a new study into the most effective type of face mask offers some important insights: and there is a clear winner.
A new COVID-19 variant called LB.1 is contributing to a recent rise in infections across the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a post on Friday.COVID-19 test positivity in the U.S. has increased to 6.
Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project
There's incredibly good news for people who use accessibility tools on Linux, but who were facing serious, gamebreaking problems when trying to use Wayland. Matt Campbell, of the GNOME accessibility team, has been hard at work on an entirely new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops, and he's got some impre
Donald Trump and his closest allies are preparing a radical reshaping of American government if he regains the White House. Here are some of his plans. nytimes.com/interactive/2024/0…
Donald Trump and his closest allies are planning a radical reshaping of American government. Here are some of the policy stakes if he regains power in 2025.
Hallucinations (confabulations) in large language model systems can be tackled by measuring uncertainty about the meanings of generated responses rather than the text itself to improve question-answering accuracy.
@petit_suisse @steven We don't have a formal partnership or anything, but we are certainly happy to work together for user's benefit - just recently I was speaking with a Libre Office developer around functionality they were hoping to implement such that it would work with both NVDA on Windows and Orca on Linux - things like that benefit eveyrone.
@Tamasg Wish you all the best and I hope you can get back on your feet after so many attacks for just stating the obvious. As a blind individual myself who trys Linux over and over again just to cave and use something where I can actually get work done I respect you a ton to raise awareness of the technical problems as well as the ableist ones. Thank you and be save
@WestphalDenn @Tamasg Sending you lots of love and here’s hoping some folks do some reflecting and things really do change at a systemic/cultural level.
when you are harassing the people working on fixing it instead of directing your 40k followers toward funding those people then yes, you are the problem social.treehouse.systems/@TheE…
@greenWhale@dice.camp if that was the case, individuals from different groups (System76, KDE, elementary, etc.) wouldn't have stood up for us (GNOME) and/or have shared their fair share of experience with Aral:
- https://fosstodon.
It has long seemed to me that it would be prudent for corporations which derive their revenue from Linux to pool resources and invest in an accessibility effort. For example, they could support the current work of the GNOME Foundation, while educating their own software developers in accessibility and setting appropriate internal policies (e.g., proper testing, accessibility as a release requirement). This has never happened, however, suggesting to me that they'd all rather wait until the law compels them to change course. Meanwhile, very under-resourced, and dedicated, accessibility work continues. The regulatory environment is also changing for the better, e.g., the European Accessibility Act addresses "consumer" computers and operating systems, and it comes into effect next year.
To make up for #AudioMo day 21, here's a clip of a skype call that took place between myself and my friend Trenton Matthews. We were talking about impersonations, and his female impersonation led to him talking about birth control. Honestly, it's too funny and I crack up every time I hear this. I hope you enjoy this fun little clip. :) Have an awesome day!
If you're travelling this summer and have used up your mobile data, or are in areas with poor connectivity, fear not!
#Wifi4EU is connecting people all over Europe: 🌐 Free access to secure and high-speed internet 🛜 93,000+ hotspots in municipalities across Europe 🏫 In parks, schools, libraries, health centres, museums and other public spaces.
The WiFi4EU initiative promotes free access to Wi-Fi connectivity for citizens in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums in municipalities throughout Europe.
If you're travelling this summer and have used up your mobile data, or are in areas with poor connectivity, fear not!
#Wifi4EU is connecting people all over Europe: 🌐 Free access to secure and high-speed internet 🛜 93,000+ hotspots in municipalities across Europe 🏫 In parks, schools, libraries, health centres, museums and other public spaces.
The WiFi4EU initiative promotes free access to Wi-Fi connectivity for citizens in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums in municipalities throughout Europe.
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For the 23rd #Audiomo, I was asked a simple question. Which transformative technology is used by not only you because of a disability but the rest of your family?
Rules out Braille, screen readers, etc of course.
TIL: Depending on the rendering engine, fonts can include and run WebAssembly code. This can be used to program some intelligence into them, e.g. for complex ligatures in Arabic etc.
What would you do in 2024, armed with that knowledge?
That's right, embed an LLM in your font so that it can auto-complete sentences.
Søren Fuglede Jørgensen did just that, with llama.ttf.
This page at the time of writing grades websites’ progressive enhancement based on their ability to work without JavaScript. Everything, not just JavaScript, should be progressive enhancements.
HTML elements already have progressive enhancement built-in. CSS, JS, and embedded content should be progressively enhanced too. The page should make sense without scripts and styles, alt-text should be available in the absence of embedded media, etc. We shouldn’t put scripting on a pedestal above everything else.
I suggest replacing references to JavaScript with references to non-HTML content. See also: “curlable” on the IndieWeb wiki.
A more minor piece of feedback: I’d suggest re-sizing the badges to 88-by-31 pixels if possible. It’s a very popular size for badges; at these dimensions, they would look good alongside others of the same size (examples from the W3C).
This page at the time of writing grades websites’ progressive enhancement based on their ability to work without JavaScript. Everything, not just JavaScript,
Larger marketplaces like Amazon can help you sell online quickly. Local social platforms like Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist usually don’t charge fees, but sellers shoulder a greater burden.
"Lenže každým ďalším krokom táto garnitúra dokazuje, že okrem vlastnej moci a s ňou súvisiacich benefitov nechce zlepšiť nič. Naopak, ak niečo spája špeciálnu prokuratúru, národné parky či RTVS, je to čistá deštrukcia. Členovia vlády a parlamentnej väčšiny sa môžu oháňať slovom národ od rána do večera, mať plné ústa národnoštátnych záujmov a tridsať rokov pripomínať, kto hlasoval za zvrchovanosť, na tejto republike im vôbec nezáleží."
I love Google! They're the most ideal company to have in Africa! With all of their knowledge, they're no way they'd play into caricatures of the contine-
i ran into something like this when provisioning an empty chroot for some of my services, and finding that most binaries required more system configuration files than the static Go binaries I started with. i now have a list of files to include by default whenever i make tiny images. resolv.conf, cert bundle, mime-types, etc.
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