Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories disabilityin.org/releases/disa…

Color me surprised.

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Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology blindinstituteoftechnology.org…

The First Doctor and Steven reunited bigfinish.com/news/v/the-first…

Cool OSPO job at UC Davis, within the library system, focused on sustainability. This could be really interesting for the right person. CLOSES THURSDAY so pull the trigger quickly if this is you.

#getfedihired #OpenJobs #opensourcejobs cc @jobs @osjobhub

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El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco:

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos por balones o porque otros fueron despojados de sus tierras. Se trata de una zona declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad.

uspol but constructive and pro-fediverse

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I recently discovered that the OpenCore boot loader has a screen reader built into it, which makes it the only boot manager accessible to the blind. OpenCore contains UEFI drivers for different hardware and filesystems, and one of them is an audio driver that works with Intel HDA cards that are very common on both desktop and laptop motherboards. There is an option in its configuration file called PickerAudioAssist that enables the screen reader if the audio driver is configured. When this is enabled, OpenCore will speak which operating systems are available to boot, and then it will speak the selected option when you press an arrow key, and it will say which option it is loading when you press enter or when the timeout expires. It uses audio files of the words and phrases it speaks instead of using a speech synthesizer, so it is limited in what it can speak. For example, there are audio files for Windows and MacOS but not for Linux, so it will say "other OS" for any linux distribution. However, this is still much better than only hearing a beep and having to guess where you are or memorize the menu to figure out which option is selected. OpenCore was designed to boot MacOS on non-Apple hardware, so it implemented audio and screen reading functionality similar to what Apple implemented on Intel Macs but for all X86 computers, and you don't need to install MacOS to use OpenCore if you don't want to. dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Po…

Yep, a self-healing metal.

Scientists have discovered that metal-halide perovskite, a next-generation semiconductor material, can self-heal from radiation damage in space. And this could be a game-changer for space-based solar panels and future power generation.

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#Space #Research #Engineering #News

#uspol Republican playbook hilariously upset. Energy and hope.

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We've partnered with Abside to create a groundbreaking secure communication solution for government agencies. Our Liberty phone, featuring Made in USA Electronics and running our non-Android PureOS, now integrates with Abside's N79 5G private network. The result? A fully American-made, ultra-secure platform for government personnel to communicate and access critical data on the move. Privacy, security, and performance – all in one package. #Purism #Cybersecurity #Abside

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Elon Musk mocks Kamala Harris over video of her sharing pronouns and aiding the blind thepinknews.com/2024/07/22/elo… "What Musk didn't clarify was that the meeting was an event for the visually impaired"

new caning audio porn

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Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in global information ecosystem tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep…
The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, that paralyzed organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and even the delivery of uniforms for the Olympic Games represents a growing concern for cybersecurity professionals, businesses and governments.
#Tucson #Arizona

For the next 24 hours, all proceeds from our apps @mastowatch and #Audracity will go to the #Kamala campaign!

#usPol #usa #harris #biden #Election2024

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Notes from Nerdsville.

Since I started watching all the classic Doctor Who espisodes in order, I've come to appreciate the quiet horror of the first Cybermen.

With minimal paraphernalia, and face coverings like bandages, they're easily the most creepy, evoking the sort of body horror their increasingly shiny descendants have lost. The weird, elongated pronunciation adds to the effect.

Bill Potts transforms into one of these monsters in The Doctor Fails.

#DoctorWho

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Did you know? The menu theme for the old Monkey Business audio game is a MIDI file called rastamon from Passport Designs. Here's my attempt at replicating the render of the file that appears in the game. As played on the S-YXG50 VSTi, with the 2 mb ROM and XGLite enabled. Thanks to @pitermach for the initial discovery. MIDI: web.archive.org/web/1997070321…

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We are pleased to announce that we got selected in another funding round by the EU’s NGI via the @NLnet Foundation @NGI0 Entrust Fund to work on some important features in Monal: nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/

In short this consists of the following tasks (in no special order):
Implement Dialpad, Rewrite Chat UI, Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies and Stickers, XSF work and a documentation of Monal's internals

#monal #ios #macos #xmpp #nlnet

This coming Friday, July 26th, is the one year birthday of a major accessibility issue in documentation for website developers being pointed out, and little has been done.

Let's put it to bed without birthday cake.

Brain cancer has removed my ability to help, but I hope it's possible. If you've written HTML or CSS take the time to read over the issue, this is important.

Boosts appreciated 💜

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Aira Officially Launches Remote Incident Manager Integration, Making On-Demand Remote Visual Assistance Fully Accessible! pneumasolutions.com/aira-offic…
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@KE8UPE RIM is free if you're the person who is receiving assistance. I don't know if AIRA's free tier allowing for daily five-minute calls provides this capability so it would be better to ask them about this. Even if it did, you would be pretty limited as to how much help you could receive because of the brief time allowed per day. Now if Be My Eyes had agents who could do it that would be pretty amazing.

Verizon Just Added 378,000 5G Home Internet Customers, Putting Pressure on Comcast & Spectrum As Cord Cutting 2.0 Grows cordcuttersnews.com/verizon-ju…