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Vozítko našlo na Marsu dosud nejzáhadnější horninu. Může být důkazem dávného života
Jde o další významný krok v hledání dávného života na planetě, kde se kdysi vyskytovala voda.ČTK (Aktuálně.cz)
Jak jednoduše získat data bláhových uživatelů? Nabídněte jim neužitečnou blbost, která je cool. Na oplátku dostanete přístup k obsahu všech stránek které navštíví.
Možná žádná data tohle rozšíření nesbírá a neposílá, ale zdrojový kód není k dispozici a ujištění na webu nestačí.
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Button Stealer - Rozšíření Chrome, které "ukradne" tlačítko z každé otevřené webové stránky https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealerMastodonCzech
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Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results
Updated robots.txt file hits Bing and others without a Reddit deal.Ars Technica
ThePhysical Keyboard Challenge: Evaluating the Experience of Using an Android Tablet with an External
From the very first day I purchased my Samsung S9 FE tablet and Logitech K380 Bluetooth keyboard, I planned to write this article. I finally decided to takeSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
This is a fresh 4K remaster of one of the most brilliant movies I have ever seen.
A+ sci-fi story with breathtaking hand-drawn visuals by a French-Hungarian team from '82.
If you get a chance, watch it.
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TIME MASTERS - Official 4K Restoration Trailer
Directed by visionary sci-fi animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius), The Time Masters is a trippy,...YouTube
1Password is ISO 27001 certified — and more | 1Password
1Password has achieved ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, and 27701 certifications. Learn what this means for you and your organization.Agile Bits, Inc.
Laura Medcalf’s Legacy
Unfortunately, we lost a key member of our team this month. In honor of Laura Medcalf, please join us for this look back at her life and work.ColesStaff (Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads)
TranscribeGlass™ Brings Captions to the Forefront
Learn more about TranscribeGlass™, a pair of new, affordable real-time captioning glasses designed and built for people with disabilities.ColesStaff (Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads)
Abbott Warns Small Number of FreeStyle Libre 3 Sensors May Give Inaccurate Readings
A small number of sensors that read blood sugar levels continuously may give incorrect info. Here's how to check your FreeStyle Libre 3 for a replacement.Jessica Rendall (CNET)
I Tried Improving My Sleep Quality With the Manta Sound Sleep Mask. Here's What Happened
This two-in-one sleep product has adjustable eyecups and built-in Bluetooth headphones. Is it worth the money?Aly Lopez (CNET)
Interview with Jessica Hipp, the COO of WayAround - Even Grounds
One of my big finds this year was the WayTags which let me label things around me, and I discovered how to enhance my travel with them.Tom (Even Grounds)
New scraper just dropped (well, an old scraper was renamed):
Facebook/Meta updated its robots.txt entry for opting out of GenAI data scraping. If you blocked FacebookBot before, you should block meta-externalagent now:
User-Agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /Official references:
- Facebook developer documentation for
FacebookBotno longer mentions GenAI. - Facebook developer documentation for web crawlers, including
Meta-ExternalAgentmentions “AI”.
Meta Web Crawlers - Sharing - Documentation - Meta for Developers
This page lists the User Agent (UA) strings that identify Meta’s most common web crawlers and what each of those crawlers are used for.developers.facebook.com
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Obligatory “the W3C/EU effort for a standard TDM Reservation Protocol would solve this by letting sites globally opt out of datamining for purposes like this, without having to play robots.txt whack-a-mole”.
People really ought to support the NoAI and NoImageAI X-Robots tags in the meantime. They probably won’t, though. Unlike the TDM Reservation Protocol, there’s no legal incentive to do so; unlike noindex, there’s no self-interested reason to do so (noindex is often used on pages that don’t belong in search results, like duplicates and non-public pages).
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🇨🇭 Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source - @ZDNet
｢ This new law requires all public bodies to disclose the source code of software developed by or for them unless third-party rights or security concerns prevent it. This "public money, public code" approach aims to enhance government operations' transparency, security, and efficiency ｣
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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The skydiver who survived a 14,000-foot fall - ESPN
In 2013, Emma Carey went skydiving for the first time and experienced an absolute nightmare. This is why she refuses to let the accident define her.Ryan Hockensmith (ESPN)
What should I do about this backpack food box that was dumped in my garden?
It's a little worn, but not excessively so. And it breaks my heart to see something like this go to waste.
Also, whoever you are, stop using my garden as a trash heap, k thx.
Really cool development, I must say!
Tool support · Ollama Blog
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.Ollama
Is there anything that republicans do not mock? A party of mockers! :) mastodon.social/@chikim/112854…
@FreakyFwoof Also this is a good time to remind folks that bunch of republicans mocked #Kamala providing a brief visual self description at the roundtable discussion with #disability rights activists. Regardless whether self description is useful for visually impaired people or not, at least she acknowledged and tried to be inclusive. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…Kamala Harris accommodating disabled people provokes GOP attack
The Vice President began a recent meeting with “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."Eric Garcia (MSNBC)
"Welcome to our website! As we have the ability to list over one million items on our website (our selection changes all of the time), it is not feasible for a company our size to record and playback the descriptions on every item on our website. However, if you have a disability we are here to help you." Talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Manny's Appliances - Appliances
Manny's Appliances is a family owned Appliances store.www.mannystv.com
Screen reading eff eff conf
In a recent (personal) audit of accessibility and continued struggle to get my head around Voice Over (for macos), I remembered that the spoken sound of "…remysharp.com
@cachondo perhaps a strong opinion, but when I'm on stage introducing the event, and when I talk about the event, I say it as "F F Conf" (and we correct people who call it "Full Frontal")
It's definitely mad that I've tried to jump through hoops when in reality a screen reader is going to sound it out differently depending on the software you use.
As for the right - I've always argued for small and personal sites, you should have the right to experiment, so long as this doesn't hurt anyone.
I think the lengths you've gone to for inclusion are remarkable and I admire the technical aspects greatly.
As you say, though, a person's choice of screen reader, speech synthesizer, voice characteristics ... it all impacts. Blind users will spell what they need to, if they don't already use Braille. It's the difference between calling me Shaun or Shawn or (If you're very british and blind, shorn), when the spelling is sean. It's part of our lives already.
@cachondo on your closing point, I do agree. That's where I nearly (or should have) ended with "am I doing it wrong" in the blog post.
I did also consider changing all instances (across 14 years of micro-sites) from (lowercase) ffconf to (mixed case) FFConf. I didn't mostly because, well, I think screen reader users don't really think (or care) that the event is actually called ffconf (where the F letters aren't pronounced).
there's also a huge disparity between speech engines. Some people want a Human-sounding version of the onscreen text, others see a screen reader as more of a way of accessing data. The predictability of a more monotone voice can allow for faster speeds, for example.
The models used to generate speech have varied wildly over the years as technology has changed.
And then there's the matter of how much the engine should do for you. Is "Dr." drive or doctor. Is MB always Megabyte? Sometimes it's millibars. One of the best examples of this is the Windows properties dialog box, the title of which reads "OS (C:) Properties".
One engine interprets the colon and closing parenthesis as a smily face emoteicon. as a kid I thought it did that when you had loads of space, and it'd change to c:( when space was low.
The post, and eventual "solution" (in quotes because there was no problem) were interesting, and I think the attention to detail is excellent. I always enjoy seeing people learning more about what makes screen readers tick.
Unfortunately, the end result is that screen reader users everywhere will be copying the incorrect event name to the clipboard, creating an impression that they can't write a conference name correctly when they paste it on social media. It also uses more braille cells than needed (10/11 vs six, depending on translation table, repeated across the website).
Given that they end up hearing the "wrong" (in quotes because it isn't) version in the page title before they read any of the "fixed" (likewise) versions, I think the effort was disproportionate to the return on investment. @eric
@jscholes @eric there's a lot to parse (and it's late for me, which is why I'm getting muddled), but! I'd say that *if* someone copies the text on the FFConf.org site, they're going to get the *correct* way to their clipboard (FFConf is correct, ffconf, looks "better" but not the letters I want copied).
Absolutely 100% that the effort was disproportionate to the actual problem - the small upshot is that I learnt more about navigating screen readers and a tiny bit about ligatures
Was just reminded of the TV show called "Stingray": imdb.com/title/tt0090077/
Anyone remember this?
It's kind of the same idea as Vengeance Unlimited imdb.com/title/tt0158421/ a decade later.
The Matrix Conference programme revealed, Circles going to the community, and bots updates.
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
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This Week in Matrix 2024-07-26
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
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Channel from the Matrix.org foundation on Matrix protocolInnovation Hub Peertube
I think the whole community is glad to see focus on hardening the base of protocol and targetting long standing problems. 🙌
Do you plan to publish recordings somewhere?
KDE signed an open letter for funding for Open Source. I'm not opposed, but I do want to say - given the billions that go in 'funding' to proprietary software - that changing the purchasing rules in the public sector is, in my opinion, far more important.
re-upping this one again
so many forms of writing are rendered nearly useless if they have no info on *when* they were written
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to quote an old tweet of mine: Put the date in your paper. Put the date in your pastebin. Put the date in your blogpost. Please, the date, put it.Infosec Exchange
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