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Based on the latest updates in ETSI’s GitLab, it looks like EN 301 549 section 11.7 will specifically remove web sites and apps, and although it’s not clearly spelling it out it’s clear than the intent is not to include dark mode in that: labs.etsi.org/rep/HF/en301549/…

Guess it’s time to update my blog post on the subject! But obviously, it won’t be part of EN 301 549 v3.2.1 which is what’s being used for the EAA’s initial launch, so let’s see what the regulators choose to do.


Re-examine appropriateness of 11.7 for websites and mobile applications (#23) · Issues · Human Factor TC / EN 301 549 · GitLab

This same question has been raised twice: Pär Lannerö: Apropos Table A.1, could you please explain why clause "11.7 User preferences” is included and how it...
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Die Standortdaten von Millionen Handy-Nutzer*innen weltweit stehen zum Verkauf, sie stammen aus Zehntausenden Apps. Nach unserer jüngsten Veröffentlichung zu den #DatabrokerFiles fragen uns viele: Was kann ich tun?! Hier sind sieben Wege, um deinen Standort vor Databrokern zu schützen.

netzpolitik.org/2025/databroke…


Databroker Files: Sieben Wege, um deinen Standort vor Databrokern zu schützen

Databroker verkaufen die Handy-Standortdaten von Millionen Menschen weltweit. Zehntausende App sind betroffen, wie Veröffentlichungen von netzpolitik.org und Recherche-Partnern aus sechs Ländern zeigen. Das kannst du tun, um dich zu schützen.
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#databrokerfiles

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This is in line with my own experience interacting with well-meaning but poorly trained medical professionals.

Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds - Northwestern Now news.northwestern.edu/stories/…


Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds

“Doctors do not know how to care for people with disabilities because they never learned”
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#Accessibility challenge: Using the #screenReader of your choice, navigate to today's TV schedule for BBC Two. From the top of the page, what is the minimum number of keystrokes you can find to switch it to the listings for tomorrow instead?

bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl97


BBC Two England - Schedules

This is the daily broadcast schedule for BBC Two England
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#Accessibility #screenreader
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Recent commentary on OpenAI's O3 large language model suggests, even to me as a non-expert, that it exhibits remarkable problem solving performance and adaptability to tasks for which it was not trained. If this line of research continues successfully, our prior assumptions about the limitations of machine learning systems may be due for revision, including our understanding of the relationship between AI and disability. The assumption reflected in the literature has been that AI systems have little capacity to respond appropriately to human diversity without detailed training in disability-related scenarios - whatever those are for the specific application. This view may soon cease to be valid, or at least not hold to the same extent as it does presently.

arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-b…
#AI #MachineLearning #disability #discrimination


OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub

OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.
ARC Prize
#AI #Disability #discrimination #machinelearning

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In this podcast, Grace Blakeley gives a presentation based on her recent book, Vulture Capitalism, at the LSE. There follows commentary and discussion.

lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=341086…
#capitalism #politics #SocialTheory


Vulture capitalism

Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism.
London School of Economics and Political Science
#politics #capitalism #socialtheory

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Are there any sounds that just utterly creep you out? For me, the 3DO boot up sequence does. Even though I'm an adult, I imagine hearing it as a child coming out of a big grumpy CRT at about chest-height late at night for some reason, and the sound jumping out of the screen and eating me alive. I really, really do not like it.
Sound attached for reference.

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Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.

This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.

To get a fucking window with a button in it.

I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.

(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)

#a11y #rust #gui #windows

#a11y #Windows #rust #gui

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modulux

I'm a bit nervous about the fact it uses an external crate for a11y, so it's not on by default, and it says some widgets have a11y support, so it's not clear if all of them do. Also can one do list views? I haven't seen them on the list of widgets.

PS Still trying to build Qt, got failures due to: lack of ATL, mismatch in architecture, and now some weird openssl link failure.

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modulux

I've been trying FLTK after running out of other options. I can see why you recommended it, the building situation is so much easier, just cargo add with the bundle feature and it's done.

Unfortunately the accessibility implementation isn't good. I've only given a quick look, but the example provided already doesn't work well. Specifically, the screen reader re-reads every time an input field is changed, so it reads the entire input whenever a new character is entered.

However if one day the accessibility situation improves I will definitely look into it again. It seems much easier to deploy.

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If you're a #blind user, you should really consider #Kagi for web search. Especially if you pay for chat GPT pro, you can subscribe to Kagi instead for cheaper and get more features. But even if you don't want AI, the search page is #accessible, fast, and light-weight. And unlike other big tech companies (Microsoft and Google) Kagi still offers a cheaper plan with no AI if you don't want it. Also, because they downrank websites with ads, the more accessible results tend to be at the top. Kagi also lets you block domains from your results. So I got rid of inaccessible stuff like instagram and pinterest, and downranked YouTube, because those results aren't usually #screenreader accessible. While I don't agree with many of the opinions of the @kagihq founder (especially his decision to do business with Yandex for image search), I still feel like using Kagi is more ethical than dealing with Google or Bing, and that these are reasonable differences of opinion that reasonable people can have, not just another clownishly evil tech company. I also find the idea that if you're a paying customer, that somehow guarantees the business will treat you better, really strange. I pay a lot to my ISP and they still treat me like dirt! Kagi will almost certainly sell out at some point. But for the moment, it's where it's at for search: www.kagi.com/
#accessible #blind #screenreader #kagi @Kagi HQ

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YouTube channel The Serial Port was on Radio New Zealand to talk about dial-up networking as a hobby and creating their own dial-up ISP:

rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…

Life’s Biggest Qs: Who Still Uses Dial-Up?

8 'til Late does a bit of retrospecting on the use of Dial-up internet, then Mark Price and Ben Grubbs from The Serial Port come along and tell us how they're still keeping Dial-up alive.
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As someone familiar with the XMPP Standards Foundation, I can explain this one 🙂

The answer is rather simple... it's not "finished" yet.

Most clients are on an earlier version of the XEP (0.3.x).

The crypto is 99% the same, but some other things were changed to make the protocol better, more efficient, etc. We need more implementations of the latest version before it can be moved on to "Stable", which is the next stage for XEPs.

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Andy Yen, founder and CEO of ProtonMail has decided to post on Reddit with the username andy1011000 [1]. 1011000 being the binary representation of the decimal number 88, a well-known dog whistle towards the far-right [2].

I am sure that he will say it’s just a joke, or his birth year. And that is most likely true. But still — I am happy that I cancelled my proton mail account already a while ago.

[1] reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/commen…
[2] adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/…

Andy Yen on reddit: „Going forward, I will be posting via u/andy1011000. Thank you for your feedback and inputs so far, and we look forward to continuing the conversation.“
The meaning of 88 explained „88 is a white supremacist numerical code for "Heil Hitler." H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 = HH = Heil Hitler. One of the most common white supremacist symbols, 88 is used throughout the entire white supremacist movement, not just neo-Nazis. One can find it as a tattoo or graphic symbol; as part of the name of a group, publication or website; or as part of a screenname or e-mail address. It is even sometimes used as a greeting or sign-off (particularly in messages on social networking websites).“

88

88 is a white supremacist numerical code for Heil Hitler. Read more about the meaning behind the numbers, as well as how it’s used in non-extremist forms.
88 (88 | ADL)
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This everything-as-a-service craze is a cancer that must be eradicated.

And I want the PMs that only worship the cult of yearly recurring revenue out of my industry for good.

If I buy a product, and that product cost me a lot as well, I want to be able to use that product however I like, for its intended lifetime, without having to pay for an extra subscription.

I honestly don’t give a single fuck about how you are supposed to make money after my purchase - you already made money THROUGH my purchase. If it’s not enough then I’d rather be charged $50 more for my purchase than paying $5/month forever.

romanzipp.com/blog/no-you-cant…


No, you can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5

$30 billion company want's you to pay $5 for using your own camera as a webcam
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Anyone else remember when URLs were just nice and short and simple? I recently sent a new book recommendation to my wife and it's 733 bloody characters long. Such unnecessary crap. Anyway, you can all have it too because who doesn't want a URL that reads like a poorly constructed essay?
amazon.co.uk/gp/f.html?C=3O4XC…

I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin: The deliciously dark, hilarious, twisted new thriller for 2025 from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It!: Book 2 (Kitty Collins): Amazon.co.uk: Brent, Katy: 9780008656737: Books

Buy I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin: The deliciously dark, hilarious, twisted new thriller for 2025 from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It!: Book 2 (Kitty Collins) 1 by Brent, Katy (ISBN: 9780008656737) from Amazon's Bo…
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the irony is that the 0008656738 part of that is all you need. pass it to SeanRandall.me/recommends/0008… and you get the same page.
The rest is tracking crap.

I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin: The deliciously dark, hilarious, twisted new thriller for 2025 from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It!: Book 2 (Kitty Collins): Amazon.co.uk: Brent, Katy: 9780008656737: Books

Buy I Bet You’d Look Good in a Coffin: The deliciously dark, hilarious, twisted new thriller for 2025 from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It!: Book 2 (Kitty Collins) 1 by Brent, Katy (ISBN: 9780008656737) from Amazon's Bo…
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Help from #podman or #docker users welcome!

We have started to offer open alpha access to a hosted Forgejo Actions CI runner. Unfortunately, there are many jobs that can crash the runner for every user reliably, and many users execute them inadvertently.

To save cost and disk wear, we want to keep temporary writes inside the CI builds in RAM and only store the images persistently.

However, the setup is apparently incorrect and we need help figuring it out.

See codeberg.org/actions/meta/issu…


Help with the setup appreciated

Currently, I am the only person actively maintaining the setup, with occasional help from some others for debugging. However, the setup turned out to be more complicated than I anticipated and I would be happy to receive assistance.
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#docker #podman

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Od Muskova rozhovoru se šéfkou německé krajně pravicové strany AfD na jeho sociální síti X získal účet Alice Weidelové přes 230 000 nových sledujících.

170 000 z těchto nových sledujících přibylo v den rozhovoru s Muskem.

To je důležité i pro posouzení toho, zda tato událost na X může být vyhodnocena jako dar politické straně.

Stranickým darem by nebyl samotný rozhovor, ale algoritmické zvýhodnění, které dostávají všechny Muskovy aktivity na jeho platformě.

Toto "zvýhodnění" běžně síť X prodává.

Pokud ho AfD dostala zdarma, jednalo by se o peněžní výhodu, což by bylo nezákonné, protože Elon Musk i síť X sídlí v USA a stranické dary ze zemí mimo EU nejsou povoleny.

Podle očekávání se konverzace také mnoha uživatelům zobrazila jako zvláštní oznámení a připnula se do postranního panelu, i když Muska tito uživatelé nesledovali.

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