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I didn't think this was possible but the real disappointment of the day isn't Apple Intelligence – it's the "updated" Magic accessories.

They literally just…swapped the Lightning port for USB-C. No multi-device pairing, no design changes, nothing else.

The mouse still has the charging port at the bottom too. 😂

macstories.net/news/apple-rele…


Apple Releases Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse with USB-C

Today, Apple finally released USB-C versions of the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad in white and black.
John Voorhees (MacStories)

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Switching from TalkBack to Jieshuo: Navigating the World with a New Accessibility Lens accessibleandroid.com/switchin…

Switching from TalkBack to Jieshuo: Navigating the World with a New Accessibility Lens - Accessible Android

Let's face it. Switching screen readers can feel like picking a new pair of shoes. We know our trusty old shoes, or TalkBacks in our case, have gotten us
Amir Soleimani (Accessible Android)

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After 6 years – we finally got to close our longest-running #accessibility ticket in Wagtail, github.com/wagtail/wagtail/iss…. Thank you @mush42 for reporting this initially. We benefitted immensely from your accessibility expertise and first-hand experience with a screen reader ❤️

This was the ticket I created our "accessibility" ticket triage label for. 38 of those still opened, 165 closed. Kick-ass!


Making Wagtail Accessible for users with disabilities · Issue #4199 · wagtail/wagtail

Hello everyone, After reading the docs, I've decided to use Wagtail on one of my personal projects. Since I'm blind, I've discovered that my experience on editing content would be rather unpleasant...
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#Accessibility @Musharraf
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Thibaud Colas

For me personally – this was a definite inflection point in my career, as I started investing way more into accessibility expertise. For Wagtail, we followed this with a project for a large govt agency to do even more testing and improvements of the CMS admin. Then got our accessibility team started. Then the accessibility team for @django. An #ATAG audit for Wagtail. Yearly reporting on our accessibility. There’s a long way to go but the journey’s been great already 🌈
#atag @Django

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Happens here in Canada w/ Post Merdia [not a typo, they're quite literally shit], as almost all of Canadian media have decided that the leader of the official opposition is justified in not obtaining a security clearance and that the LPC needs a new leader.

MSM DRIVES THE NARRATIVE.

Pollsters asking, on a scale of 1 to 10 how much I hate Trudeau? [I don't]

None ask about how concerned Canadians are about PP NOT having a security clearance.

!@#$%^&*() #cdnpoli

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somecanuckchick (@somecanuckchick@mastodon.world)

Despite having a Harris endorsement ready to go, The Washington Post, AKA Jeff Bezos, is refusing to endorse a candidate... hedging their bets... scared to piss off the orange shit stain.
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#cdnpoli

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[Blog Post] Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.1; Bringing both Improvements and New Bugs for VoiceOver Users applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…

Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.1; Bringing both Improvements and New Bugs for VoiceOver Users | AppleVis

Apple has today released macOS Sequoia 15.1, bringing the first set of Apple Intelligence features to Macs with Apple Silicon outside of Mainland China and the European Union.
www.applevis.com

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Finally got the chance to dig more into this story ”Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/re…

What’s confusing is that it mixes anecdotal evidence with studies, on diff versions of Whisper, wrapped in a range of different software, using a variety of audio types. Audio quality, length, number of voices, speech patterns all matter a lot. And the longer the recording the more likely it is to have errors


Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw
GARANCE BURKE Associated Press (ABC News)

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The videos on my YouTube channel have now been viewed 250,000 times combined

Mastering the #curl command line alone has had more than 54K views to date:

youtu.be/V5vZWHP-RqU


Mastering the curl command line with Daniel Stenberg

The slides = https://www.slideshare.net/DanielStenberg7/mastering-the-curl-command-linepdf0:00 Mastering the curl command line0:16 Daniel Stenberg0:36 curl s...
YouTube
#curl

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Why FLOSS matters: Open-source software means transparent code, community-driven security, and freedom from Big Tech control. puri.sm/posts/the-case-for-fre… #Purism #Librem5 #PureOS

The Case for Free/Libre and Open-Source Software: Enhancing Security and Privacy in the Digital Age – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#librem5 #purism #pureos

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In which Jake's school friends possibly think I'm a lazy sod who sits at home and does nothing all day, and Alice tells the story of how we got some very nice, free cupcakes delivered that weren't for us:
#StroongeCast E07: Jake And Alice youtu.be/Xcckya9tKKs

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/07_-…


StroongeCast E07: Jake And Alice

Welcome to episode 7 of StroongeCast with Andre, Kirsten, Jake and Alice Louis.In this episode we thought we'd bring the kids in for a bit of a chat.As a bli...
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#stroongecast

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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is a lot to read, and also we missed the toot about last week.

In short:
- F-Droid client 1.21 was released, but you should wait for 1.21.1 before you update
- there were some bugs in DAVx⁵, Nextcloud and Tailscale, so be careful in updating these too
- we're working together with @Codeberg to get our builds from apps hosted there working again
- any much more

Read the full details at
f-droid.org/2024/10/24/twif.ht… and f-droid.org/de/2024/10/17/twif…


This Week Is on Fire | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43F-Droid coreJust after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice...
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#fdroid @Codeberg
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ACB Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs Claire Stanley joined Carl Richardson and Kim Charlson at a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Disability Advisory Committee meeting. The meeting covered a range of topics, including gaming accessibility and the use of artificial intelligence to caption live video programming.

Access a recording of the meeting on the FCC YouTube page:
youtube.com/watch?v=geMYRdohxV…

Picture of Carl Richardson and his guide dog Dayton (left), Kim Charlson and her guide dog Idabelle (center) and Claire Stanley and her guide dog Tulane (right). The group is standing in a meeting room at the FCC.

Disability Advisory Committee Meeting - October 2024

The DAC provides a means for stakeholders with interests in accessibility issues to exchange ideas, facilitates the participation of consumers with disabilit...
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#RIPE89 kicks off online and in Prague, Czechia! From IPv6 to IoT, we’re diving deep into the future of the Internet this week. Tune in and follow the talks live at: ripe89.ripe.net/live/ #RIPEMeeting

Main – RIPE 89

A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.
ripe89.ripe.net
#ripemeeting #ripe89

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My wife and I did an interview with storycorps which was archived at the Library of Congress in teh United States. If you'd like to learn more about us and our story, have a listen. It's free and fun, and there's thousands of stories from others like us ready for the listenin. archive.storycorps.org/intervi…

Noel Romey and Tabatha Brown

Spouses Tabatha Brown (43) and Noel Romey (44) discuss how they first met during guide dog training, their long distance friendship, and finally deciding to get married.
StoryCorps Archive

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🔐 Sending a password-protected email to anyone is easy with Tuta Mail! 🔐

Check out our latest guide on how to send encrypted, password-protected emails here 👇👇👇
tuta.com/blog/how-to-password-…

#encryption #security #privacy #email

A graphic showing how to send an end-to-end encrypted email to a non-Tuta user on a mobile device.

The easiest way to send password-protected emails | Tuta

Unsure of how to send a password-protected email? Find out how easy it is in this quick guide.
Tuta
#email #privacy #encryption #security

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The fact that the Whisper transcription service from OpenAI just fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo should get it recalled.

But no, as long as OpenAI say they are continually working to improve the tool, everything is apparently good to go.

One example:
What the person said: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat.”

What Whisper transcribed: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat. All he had was a smelly old ol’ head on top of a socked, blood-soaked stroller.”

Reporting in the Verge: theverge.com/2024/10/27/242811…

The research paper:
facctconference.org/static/pap… (check out the table of examples!)

My March 2023 article on AI responsibility:
axbom.com/ai-responsibility/


Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model

Hospitals routinely use a tool powered by OpenAI’s Whisper transcription model, which researchers find can hallucinate entire passages during periods of silence.
Wes Davis (The Verge)

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It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties — Adrian Roselli

Grat article with tons of updates on this topic. Thanks @aardrian

adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-… #a11y #accessibility


It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties

It was late 2020 when I last tested how browsers use CSS display properties to break the semantics of elements.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility @Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Remember in August when I gave a talk about HTML tables for the WebAIM online conference?

That video is online!

I have embedded it on my site:
adrianroselli.com/2024/08/talk…

Or you can go to YouTube directly (where you can find the other swell talks from that day).

#accessibility #a11y #HTML


Talkin’ Tables — WebAIM Conference 2024

I spoke at the 2024 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (in partnership with PopeTech). As soon as the video is available I will embed it.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #html

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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML [an anecdote] shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-u… #html #webdev

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places.
Terence Eden’s Blog
#webdev #html

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Some of you may have noticed a new logo appearing in various places around the web.

🎉

We now have a new logo for Librecast thanks to @mray
You may already be aware of his work as he designed the #ActivityPub logo.

It's been a work in progress and if you're curious about the progress @mray has been livestreaming his progress as the design came to shape.

peertube.stream/search?tagsAll…

PeerTube

Instance PeerTube principalement dédiée aux directs. Bien entendu vous pouvez également publier vos vidéos favorites ici !
peertube.stream
#activitypub @mray
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Librecast

It's been a fascinating process. Mray also created the librecast matrix room, so he's a great community player. Having such a contribution is amazing, our ecosystem needs more than code. It needs people being inspired and contributing by documentation, packaging, talking to others about the projects you love.

Helping us to improve.

Thank you so much Robert, for contributing so much of your time to create this logo for Librecast!

We're happy to have you as part of our community.

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They go against hospitality! [¡Van a por la hostelería!]

Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends | Hospitality industry | The Guardian

Os traigo esto para que sepáis que la hostelería no es solo un refugio de llorones explotadores e incapaz de vivir sin subvenciones sólo en España. Aquí además la calidad es pésima.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…


Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends

Joint statement by lobby groups calls on chancellor to make Covid-era rates relief for hospitality permanent
Jasper Jolly (The Guardian)
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