LibreOffice communities around the world help people to use the suite more effectively. Here's our Nepalese community training students on making CVs: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
The Nepalese community mentored CS50 students in Nepal create their very first resume for securing internships! Our Nepalese community writes… LibreOffice is a powerful open source office suite for many users worldwide.
Please do criticise #Mozilla – we need an independent, privacy-preserving, feature-rich web browser, not another tracking-infested piece of garbage software.
However, the frequently expressed opinion that “Firefox should be abandoned because Mozilla is the worst bullshit company” is not helpful. Without #Firefox, all your favourite forks (Tor, LibreWolf, Zen…) would struggle to survive and the Google-Apple complex would fully control the browser market.
New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed:
* Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines.
@codecat just me going back and backfilled the list with names from the past. So the bump really would not have been there if I just had been doing my job proper from the start...
New Mozilla TOS diff. This is what they just removed:
* Does Firefox sell your personal data?
> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
The purpose of the new TOS appears to be to enable them to do this - such as for their advertising and AI sidelines.
„No super, tak máš čuryMuriel,“ poplácal mě včera po ramínku @stepan . ❤️
Komiksovou cenu Muriel v kategorii Nejlepší překlad jsem dostala za Clevera a Smarta, padesátiletou španělskou humoristickou kultovku o dvou agentech, kterou loni začalo vydávat Nakladatelství CREW. Loni první dva díly, letos jsou v plánu další tři. 😊
Technology developed specifically for people with low vision has historically been bespoke, specific, and expensive, requiring the creation of new technology for a relatively small population of users.
Another Web Access Overlay Company Sued by a Small Business Class action lawsuit against UserWay alleges violations of Delaware Consumer Fraud Act and other laws lflegal.com/2025/02/userway-ov…
Another class action lawsuit has been filed by a small business that purchased an overlay monthly subscription, yet still got hit with a lawsuit claiming its website was not accessible.
The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."
No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. No Meta. And no Google or YouTube. I will not be posting on YouTube tomorrow in...
The fuck? Is this real? What drugs are they on over there? Something needs to be done about this now, enough. Do they really think the American people are just stupid?
I haven't mentioned it here, yet, but in the last few weeks I:
- Swore in and got my New Zealand citizenship - Got my New Zealand passport - Renounced my US citizenship
Things have finally slowed down where I can just absorb all of that. Giving up my citizenship was never part of the original plan but more and more it's felt like I was never moving back, especially as I watched the US from afar the last 8 years. I wrote about it here for folks curious: sophiajt.com/stopped-believing…
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After reading these medium term goals, I'm honestly glad I stopped donating because I know some corporate thing will sponsor them now they will/want to add AI, even an AI Chat bot, to NVDA.
The below are just 2, but there's more AI stuff they have planned.
• Integrated AI image description: Free, secure, performant, private and VI-focussed on-device AI image description available out of the box. • Help chatbot prototype: Exploring the development of an AI-powered chatbot to provide instant support and answer frequently asked questions about NVDA.
They're things we're looking at exploring - they may or may not work out. And they're things we've been asked about repeatedly by USERS, not things we're doing to attract sponsorship. There are a handful of AI image description add-ons already, and have been for over five years. And as with any other functions, they would be there for those who wanted them, and can be ignored if not desired :)
2/2 Aside from the "A large corporate will buy them out and push their own interests" concern (not possible due to the way NV Access is structured & overseen by a board who would prevent that) - what is your worry with image description and a chatbot which scours the user guide for you? (ITo be clear, such functionality wouldn't replace the existing documentation / training material etc)
The impetus for doing any of this is 100% user wants, not corporate sponsorship. Re the chat bot, yes I tend to feel the same, I'd rather refer to the manual or material - but others (probably younger than me!) like the chat bot style - so it's worth looking into. With Image recognition, like the existing add-ons, the intent would be "something is better than nothing" - not to replace people writing proper alt text - and yes, licensing of any AI model would be a key consideration
@NVAccess Not to mention instances where the expectation isn't that good alt-text should be written, but the app should be accessible from a usability standpoint, but very much isn't. But waiting on the app to become accessible isn't an option since the thing you're trying to do with *insert inacccessible app here* can't wait. But before you ask for some sighted assistance you'd like to at least get an idea of what's on the screen so you know what to ask for.
Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
A solid indication that the #AIBubble has passed its peak is #NVDA posting massive sales and revenue, but their stock still diving because the market doesn't think it can continue growing.
Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
Thanks! We're aware NVDA is the stock code for NVIDIA, althoguh to be honest, aside from in posts like this I've never seen anyone refer to it & doubt anyone actually searches for it as a hashtag looking for NVIDIA. I figure if we can each use hashtags which refer to their own area of interest, then people looking for stock / AI trend information, won't get bogged down with screen reader stuff - and people looking for screen reader info won't need to wade through finance info :)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a significant update to its Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system on February 26, 2025, aimed at making the life-saving tool more effective for public safety officials and less intrusive for cons…
Today marks the 39th anniversary of a transformative moment in American governance: on February 27, 1986, the United States Senate voted to allow its debates to be televised on a trial basis, pulling back the curtain on a chamber long shrouded in mys…
Sinclair has made history as the first broadcaster to introduce real-time, AI-powered language translation for local newscasts, a pioneering move aimed at making news more accessible to diverse audiences.
From the Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.: Real Time AI Assistance with Smart Glasses and Live Video; Wednesday, March 12, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/87…
I am extremely pleased as well as impressed that ACB Media will be presenting the following program on Friday, February 28 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time.
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The MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to Trump’s actions illegally freezing aid. “This is a major crisis for our sector and it’s a time when those of us who can do more should do more.” apnews.com/article/macarthur-f…
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years. Its president John Palfrey said the Trump administration’s freeze on federal foreign aid and the now-suspended freeze on federal grants has created a …
When combined with this research about security vulnerabilities in reverse proxies when connecting to HTTP/1 backends: portswigger.net/web-security/r… I'm inclined to just disable HTTP/2 on servers I'm responsible for, and in fact have already done that in some places.
I'd like to know what @glyph or others working on Twisted think of HTTP/2. I infer from the fact that Glyph's blog supports HTTP/2 (and that site is served directly by Twisted) that Glyph or some other Twisted developer felt it was worthwhile to implement HTTP/2, and presumably they weren't doing that as a checklist feature for corporate customers.
I am running HTTP/2 mainly to exercise the code, and because it does in fact have fewer TCP connections, which, given the network & resourcing situation in my deployment, is a resource vastly more likely to be exhausted than anything else.
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