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Tech Blitz 2025: Assistive Technology Showcase Brings Together Blind, DeafBlind, and Low Vision Community for Innovation, Discovery, and Connection. helenkeller.org/tech-blitz-202…

Assistive Technology Event Brings Together Blind, DeafBlind, and Low Vision Community

Tech Blitz 2025 brought together assistive technology vendors and the blind, DeafBlind, and low vision community at Helen Keller National Center for hands-on demonstrations and direct user feedback.
Helen Keller Services

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I already decided right after Trump won for the first time that I will not travel to the US anymore. This announcement should send chills down your spine, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion). This is pure authoritarianism and proto-fascism.

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Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights. Today, | am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life — a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority. 4:11 PM - May 28, 2025 Foreigners who work to undermine the rights of Americans should not enjoy the privilege of traveling to our country. Whether in Latin America, Europe, or elsewhere, the days of passive treatment for those who work to undermine the rights of Americans are over. Source: https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1927729522855600365

Brain Bug (@junior42@norden.social)

Attached: 1 image US-Außenminister: Wer in deutschen Sicherheits- und Regulierungsbehörden arbeitet, um extremistischen Content aus den USA – etwa Holocaustleugnung, Gewaltaufrufe oder Lobgesänge auf den Nationalsozialismus – zu monitoren und zu fla…
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Jan Wildeboer 😷

@feld You said "if you're an American on American soil it does seem to be a bit of overreach for the EU to punish you for something you say" as if it that was true. It isn't. What really happens is that we have stricter laws on hate speak and certain symbols. So if you as an American post Swastikas and glorify the holocaust, your post will not be shown in Germany, as that is illegal content. Is all.
@feld

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My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com and i.reddit.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…#firefox #addons #firefoxaddons #reddit #imgur


Fucking JPEG – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Fucking JPEG for Firefox. Only allows image/* content-types to be sent from URLs instead of a shitload of javascript.
addons.mozilla.org
#firefox #addons #reddit #firefoxaddons #imgur

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How Big Tech Circumvent Privacy Laws

Privacy laws like GDPR & CCPA can be bypassed by apps via forced consent, invasive permissions & hidden trackers.

Want a real solution?

Try a Librem 5 phone supported by PureOS from Purism

Read at Purism: puri.sm/posts/how-big-tech-exp…


How Big Tech Exploits Apps to Circumvent Privacy Laws & a Solution from Purism – 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
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PublicLewdness

This is why I don't see laws as the answer to all of my problems. Many people would rather try to make privacy some legal right so that they can continue to use their devices that will more than happily trample on and bypass those laws rather than taking initiative and choosing to use devices that voluntarily follow the morals and ethics that they want. I trust a company that chooses to be good when they don't have to rather than trust a company only doing so because they want to avoid jail or a fine. Companies that do the right thing for the right reasons should be supported.

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Circa five years ago the browsers dropped FTP support.

#curl still supports it. In 2024, 23% of curl users said they used FTP within the past two years.

My post from April 2020:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/04/15…


curl is not removing FTP

FTP is going out of style. The Chrome team has previously announced that they are deprecating and removing support for FTP. Mozilla also announced their plan for the deprecation of FTP in Firefox.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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Reminder that this is tomorrow at 10am PDT/1pm EDT👇🏼

🔇🔇🔇Join us for an honest conversation with some of the people forging a better digital future. Event will be recorded for those who can't make it.

➡️ Register at eventbrite.com/e/imagining-mor…

More info on our amazing speakers below🧵

A flyer with the text, "heuristic instruments and DAIR presents IMAGINING MORE A Candid Convo About the Future of the Black Web Experience" with headshots of the featured speakers. Cat Small, product designer, game maker. Rudy Fraser founder, Blacksky Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam, indi scholar, artist. Roland X. Pulliam. Founder, heuristic instruments.

Imagining More: A Candid Convo About the Future of the Black Web Experience

Eventbrite - The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) presents Imagining More: A Candid Convo About the Future of the Black Web Experience - Friday, May 30, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
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Last year I gave a presentation at #ADC24 about #AbletonMove and finally that presentation is online. it's in a much longer video so I've shared where my bit starts, which is around the 1 hour 21 minute mark. I was told to keep it to 10 minutes, so that's what I did. youtu.be/ZkZ5lu3yEZk?si=zXyftn…

Workshop: Inclusive Design within Audio Products - What, Why, How? - Accessibility Panel - ADC 2024

https://audio.dev/ -- @audiodevcon​---Workshop: Inclusive Design within Audio Products - What, Why, How? - Accessibility Panel: Jay Pocknell, Tim Yates, Eliz...
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#abletonmove #adc24
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Toni Barth

@erion "it simply uses your source material as reference", that is training, lol. Apart from that, yeah, being able to use it locally is definitely a plus, and i'm not saying that it can't do well, but in my experience it heavily depends on the source material, sometimes it even makes up words that were never spoken and don't make sense at all, that is something that IMO is important to remember.
@Erion

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated & 2 added apps:

* MotionEaseTune: prevent motion sickness via 100Hz sound 🛡️
* IPv6Droid: client for IPv6 tunnels, supports IPv6 on IPv4 networks 🛡️

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 3 new #Magisk modules have been added:

* Anti SafetyCore: keep Play from installing stuff
* Bloatware Slayer: systemlessly remove bloatware
* Encryption Disguiser: disguise storage as encrypted

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps at #IzzyOnDroid :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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Did you know @drafts can send mail directly from your Gmail account via the Gmail API? Guessing not, since I just got an email from Google letting me know the OAuth credentials for this integration were at risk of being deleted because they hadn't been used in 6 six months! 🤦‍♂️

docs.getdrafts.com/docs/action…


Drafts User Guide: Services

Documentation for Drafts app, a quick-capture note taking app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
docs.getdrafts.com
@Drafts

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Google AI Mode for Search Has Arrived. Proceed With Caution. - AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on ... - nytimes.com/2025/05/29/technol… #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #contenttype:service #shoppingandretail #searchengines #e-commerce #googleinc
#artificialintelligence #SearchEngines #e #computersandtheinternet #contenttype #shoppingandretail #googleinc

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Perso, je pense partir sur #Wallabag ? (à tester). Dommage pour #Pocket, c'était super pratique avec une liseuse #Kobo... => « Comment exporter ses articles de Pocket avant sa fermeture le 8 juillet 2025 ? » (via @profduweb) youtube.com/watch?v=Hrpta2mPL0…

Comment exporter ses articles de Pocket avant sa fermeture le 8 juillet 2025 ? #pocket

Lien pour exporter vos articles https://getpocket.com/exportAide Mozilla sur le sujet https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-your-pocket-listLes alte...
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#wallabag #pocket #kobo @Mat - @profduweb 🇨🇦

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I was able to run the full version of the just-released DeepSeek R1-0528 on my M3 Ultra Mac Studio.

It worked…with 400 GB of RAM.

Here's how it went, along with some technical notes on the whole process for LM Studio and Ollama: macstories.net/notes/testing-d…

Testing DeepSeek R1-0528 on the M3 Ultra Mac Studio and Installing Local GGUF Models with Ollama on macOS

DeepSeek released an updated version of their popular R1 reasoning model (version 0528) with – according to the company – increased benchmark performance, reduced hallucinations, and native support for function calling and JSON output.
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Klinge FPGA Computer Targets Secure, Headless Linux Deployments lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Klinge FPGA Computer Targets Secure, Headless Linux Deployments

Klinge is a compact FPGA-based headless computer designed by Lone Dynamics Corporation. It targets secure networking and long-term Linux applications, and can be used as a blade server in modular enclosures or standalone setups.
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Don't Click It, Just Press It: A Guide to Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts On macOS applevis.com/guides/dont-click…

Don't Click It, Just Press It: A Guide to Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts On macOS | AppleVis

for macOS Sequoia Intro Have you ever thought, "I wish there was a keyboard shortcut for that"? This guide will teach you how to create a keyboard shortcut for any option in the menu bar, under any menu, including the Apple menu.
applevis.com

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One UI 8.0 Beta 1 on Galaxy S25 Devices: An Early Look at Accessibility and Samsung TalkBack 16 accessibleandroid.com/one-ui-8…

One UI 8.0 Beta 1 on Galaxy S25 Devices: An Early Look at Accessibility and Samsung TalkBack 16 - Accessible

Samsung has begun rolling out the first beta of One UI 8.0, based on Android 16, to its flagship Galaxy S25 series. For visually impaired users relying on
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It’s actually kind of amazing how often Ellison, who largely rides under the radar compared to Elmo, Altman et al., shuttles back and forth to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.
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Attached: 1 image A #gulfstream G650 (Reg: N817GS) reportedly used by #larryellison has just been detected in flight at Thu May 29 2025 15:56:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time).
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Here We Go Again: Internet Age Verification and Website Blocking Bill Reintroduced in the Senate (With Some Changes)
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Here We Go Again: Internet Age Verification and Website Blocking Bill Reintroduced in the Senate (With Some Changes) - Michael Geist

The last Parliament featured debate over several contentious Internet-related bills, notably streaming and news laws (Bills C-11 and C-18), online harms (Bill C-63) and Internet age verification and website blocking (Bill S-210).
Michael Geist
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Alex 🔜 39c3

@Bubu learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind…

Keeps more stuff awake than regular standby. I think the idea is to get laptops closer to the “instant on” of phones and tablets. But in my experience it seems to be usually implemented pretty badly and just results in laptops overheating in bags and draining power in just a few hours.

I have old ThinkPads I can leave in standby and forget about for 3 weeks. With modern standby they’re usually dead in under 8 hours.


Modern Standby vs S3

Outlines the primary differences between S3 and Modern Standby system power models.
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@Bubu

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Something's bothering me, wanted to write up a Masto post about it up for a few days, but it wasn't until today that all my thoughts snapped into place.
I read an article, "The Sony XM6 are an accomplished set of cans, but they’re not replacing my Sonos Ace anytime soon", at techradar.com/audio/wireless-h… - well written.
However, it's also highly critical of the XM6 for the comfort. I have a few folks on my TL interested in these, so I wanted to weigh in with my perspective too, owning both sets of cans.
For those who have super tiny earholes, or those with very large earflaps, the XM6 may indeed be a lesser-than-ideal fit. Not only are the earcups more shallow, but there's a plastic protrusion in the middle, something the XM line has had and helps with noise canceling, from what I understand. It's not large, about .7 inches long and .4 inches thick, but can dig into those with smaller earholes or if their ears are too large to align it to it comfortably in the earcup. Both can be problems.
The Sonos Ace, however, has far inferior noise cancelation, in my testing. Mids in particular don't get attenuated well at all. It's far heavier, though the workmanship is very solid, with metal hinges (the XM6 has hybrid plastic-metal hinges, Sonos went all-metal on this inside the band.) The choice is yours, but for me, XM6 works well. Not others, maybe, and that's OK.

The Sony XM6 are an accomplished set of cans, but they’re not replacing my Sonos Ace anytime soon

And my reason might not be music to everyone’s ears
Max Langridge (TechRadar)
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Tamas G

I still enjoy the Sonos ace as night-time headphones. They're far more comfortable to lay on (I've had very sore ears from time to time when the XM6 dug into the outer perimeter of the ear.) This has taught me to always adjust the fit and band if it's too loose, but beyond it, daily wear for me is great for hours. Since the Ace does have the less ANC, for hearing alarms and other morning noise to wake up to but blocking out snores or other lighter background TV speech, it works well. I still think Bose stands out for their adjustable ANC and ambiance modes, something neither of these pairs of earphones have. Sigh. No perfect one exists, they all really do have strengths and weaknesses huh.

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#COVIDISNOTOVER

A new #COVID19 variant is coming... NB.1.8.1 has been detected in California and other US states, as well as in the eastern Mediterranean, etc. globalnews.ca/news/11201389/co… #WEARAMASK #GETVACCINATED #cdnpoli #polcan #NB181


New COVID-19 variant sees rise in cases in some countries. Here’s where

Airport screening in the United States has detected the new variant in travellers arriving from those regions to destinations in California, Washington, Virginia and New York.
globalnewsdigital (Global News)
#COVID19 #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver #cdnpoli #polcan #GetVaccinated #nb181
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