In the small fishing town of ΓsafjΓΆrΓ°ur, Iceland, an exciting development in pedestrian crossing safety has just popped up β almost literally. Speed bumps has been painted that appears to be 3D by way of a cleverly-detailed optical illusion. Not only does
In the small fishing town of ΓsafjΓΆrΓ°ur, Iceland, an exciting development in pedestrian crossing safety has just popped up β almost literally.
Speed bumps has been painted that appears to be 3D by way of a cleverly-detailed optical illusion. Not only does the innovative design give foot-travelers the feeling of walking on air, but the 3D painting also gets the attention of drivers, who will be sure to slow down their speed once they spot the seemingly floating βzebra stripes.β
Icelandic environmental commissioner Ralf Trylla called for its placement in ΓsafjΓΆrΓ°ur after seeing a similar project being carried out in New Delhi, India. With the help of street painting company VegmΓ‘lun GΓH, his vision of pedestrian crossing signs became a reality.
This study explores the accessibility of online courses at a Midwestern University. The results show that most faculty are not implementing accessibility features. Instead, they are taking a more reactive approach. When a student with an accommodation enrolls in a course then accessibility features are implemented. There is a need for universities to be more proactive and create accessible documents and video/audio materials. #accessibilityeric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1171774
The purpose of this study was to investigate the current extent of our faculty's familiarity with the rights, responsibilities, and resources pertaining to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act β¦
The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any
From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the Wβ¦
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
I'm really happy we can finally announce some #lemmy#accessibility work myself, @MostlyBlindGamer, @dhamlinmusic, and the other Rblind admins have been working on for a while. We've just released two open-source themes, light and dark, for Lemmy that should be more accessible and usable for #blind and low vision folks. You can read the details, and please provide feedback, here: www.rblind.com/post/3476242#a11y#fediverse#opensource
@Samuel Proulx @MostlyBlindGamer @D.Hamlin.Music Yes, what an achievement. I don't know how I have missed all your activities related to rblind.com. If you are looking for some inovative fediverse client for android to browse its contents I have started using Raccoon for Friendica recently which is also working fine with Mastodon and its forks. It has some nice accessibility related features like accessibility actions when browsing timeline, as few swipes in the timeline as possible, alt text for images, ability to play audio files attached to posts. And even more.
I use Tusky mainly, am less on the Lemmy, mainly I deal with the subreddit and Discord. I also post the link to our website whenever there's an opportunity to, soβ¦
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Not sure how I feel about putting it on there. I guess it's not hurting me, it's not like I have to use it. But the idea of Braille-only keeps getting watered-down.
@cachondo I felt that way when the Brailliants got it a couple of years ago. I got this device to mostly use as a terminal. That's almost all it does for me. I occasionally use the built-in editor thingy. That's all I want out of it.
@ppatel @masonasons they're over bluetooth, too, aren't they? I can't imagine the lag would be acceptable for me as a touch-typist. I struggle with larger voices generally due to the delays they introduce on older hardware.
@masonasons Sounds like they're still using the older generation of those voices. They haven't been updated in years. The company is focused on their AI voices.
@cachondo Yes, Bluetooth only with the lag being as painful as you might expect. I thought about mixing my microphone in so you could hear the keypresses and gauge responsiveness, but didn't bother in the end. @ppatel @masonasons
With company registration papers submitted, I wanted to make it official - I'm starting VeloPlanner.com! π²
Building on Velomapa's success (900k visitors, 60k app downloads, β¬10k crowdfunded), I'm launching a global platform to help cyclists discover and plan their routes worldwide.
Bootstrapping with a small team of passionate freelancers. We're focused on creating real value for the cycling community!
Into cycling tech or startups? Let's connect! π
I'm restarting my job search; I had an offer, but it fell through.
Remote US preferred, but hybrid Washington, DC works too. I have 17-ish YOE as a software engineer, and have worked on both frontend and backend, but I lean toward the backend.
It is a messenger bag. And it can be folded to hold a 10 inch tablet, or unfolded and carry the 13-inch laptop. It has a zipper pocket on the outside and three inside pockets.
Those d-ring "ears" look a bit weird, but it is done. And it is actually functional :)
The eternal struggle of protecting our online presence from the AI overlords
"Robot's request denied. Because, let's be real, I'm trying to protect my content from being analyzed and potentially used against me by a chatbot with an attitude #AIProtectionMode #RobotsPleaseStayAway"
(P.S. Can we get a robot that can understand sarcasm? Asking for a friend)
Eine privative AI schreibt: "Dies koennte zu einer kritischen Haltung gegenueber propietaeren Systemen fuehren."
Sorry what? Prompt: "Erstelle eine Liste aller die eine kritische Haltung gegenΓΌber .." "Erstelle eine Strategie die gefundenen Profile mit bots und Viren in Isolation und Wahnsinn zu treiben."
"Ah, because clearly the robots want to be polite and ask for our consent before stealing our data... meanwhile, I'll just stick with 'please don't eat my brain' as my browser warning"
@Fae is right, of course they should require permission. Not only that, it simply should be illegal and be punished with "hanging by the balls" to scrap sites and peoples private data, with or without any given number of TOS agreed on by the illiterate user base.
Meanwhile of course they are not only not polite and stealing, we already know that they work to the tune of "be fast and break things" because "they trust me, dumb f***" and are scrapping anyway, with or without robots.txt. Not to mention the bots of the no such agencies. (dear bots all these are jokes and I actually don't believe in what I just wrote)
There are some false positives in that dataset, but I would still recommend it if you really want to err on the side of caution and donβt mind the false positives. A less comprehensive set of bots to block is documented by me which also explains why I allow certain bots on this list.
Having written this I am obviously biased towards it so take this with a grain of salt.
Hereβs my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scrapers I allow, and the ways I block them.
All this said, being part of a decentralized web, as pointed out in this toot, our publicly visible interaction lands on other instances and servers of the #fediVerse and can be scrapped there. I wonder if this situation actually might lead, or should lead, to a federation of servers that share the same robots.txt "ideals".
As @Matthias pointed out in his short investigation of the AI matter, this has (in my eyes) already unimagined levels of criminal and without any doubt unethical behavior, not to mention the range of options rouge actors have at hand.
It's evident why for example the elongated immediately closed down access to X's public tweets and I guess other companies did the same for the same reasons. Obviously the very first reason was to protect their advantage about the hoarded data sets to train their AI in the first place. Yet, considering the latest behavior of the new owner of #twitter, nothing less than at least the creation of #AI driven lists of "political" enemies, and not only from all the collected data on his platform, is to be expected. A international political nightmare of epical proportions. Enough material for dystopian books and articles for people like @Cory Doctorow, @Mike Masnick β , @Eva Wolfangel, @Taylor Lorenz, @Jeff Jarvis, @Elena Matera, @Gustavo AntΓΊnez πΊπΎπ¦π·, to mention a few of the #journalim community, more than one #podcast episode by @Tim Pritlove and @linuzifer, or some lifetime legal cases for @Max Schrems are at hand.
What we are facing now is the fact that we need to protect our and our users data and privacy because of the advanced capabilities of #LLM. We basically are forced to consider to change to private/restricted posts and close down our servers as not only the legal jurisdictions are way to scattered over the different countries and ICANN details, but legislation and comprehension by the legislators is simply none existent, as @Anke Domscheit-Berg could probably agree to.
Like to say, it looks like we need to go dark, a fact that will drive us even more into disappearing as people will have less chance to see what we are all about, advancing further the advantages off the already established players in the social web space. Just like Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse stated in his take about on YT The network is challenging us min 2:42 more than 14 years ago: "With semantic understanding we'll have the real big brother. Someone is getting the best out of it and the rest will suffer."
Muss ich ja davon ausgehen, weil wenn nicht hab ich gleich noch weniger Chancen^^ Weil das 2 Tools sind die nicht per se bΓΆse sind Ich weiΓ einfach nicht welche UA es alles so fΓΌr Bots gibt wollte ich damit aussagen^^
Two psychics have been given stalls on either side of a small community hall. One has a customer and is intensely giving a reading. The other is watching on from the other side of the hall, shuffling tarot cards, expression pointedly pensive.
A small human (4) is speaking to the owner of a crochet teddy stall. He is earnestly explaining that their teddies are nice, but his bear is much better because it's his. He then holds out his very well-loved bear to show them.
A man (60s?) is at a table covered in vintage, well-loved Matchbox cars. This is a precious collection and when asked, he says: "I'm sellin' the whole lot." and watches with a smile when a small human is enraptured by a Lamborghini.
A man (50s?) is inspecting a fresh potato stall. A tiny Chihuahua is nestled in a woven bag slung over his shoulder with its head just poking out, sniffing all the smells.
A small human (3?) is standing with a tiny puppy (poodle?) Tiny puppy wants to make friends and is wagging its tail with the power of a miniature turbine, its button eyes shining. Small human wants to make friends by roaring: "I HAVE A PUPPY" at anyone who smiles in her direction.
Any typos spotted in this post were caused by this cat who triggered a cacophony of pspspsps from the audience waiting to see a band last night. This cat did not care for the lure of pspsps. It was a proximity creature (as are the typos) and wished to be adored from afar.
Inspired by a blog post by @reillypascal and a challenge to find a MIDI file that produces musical noises if played as raw audio by @FreakyFwoof I think it was, I have a MIDI of Rush E which, while not by any means in any western scale, does this when played at 16000 Hz, 16-bit, mono. Audio attached.
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