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New AI tool for people with learning disabilities converts information into easy read formats - AT Today - Assistive Technology

Photosymbols has launched EasyMaker, a new AI-powered tool created in collaboration with people with learning disabilities.
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Free guide provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and improving the assistive tech market attoday.co.uk/free-guide-provi…

Free guide provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and improving the assistive tech market - AT Today - Assistive Technology

WHO has launched a free guide that offers a practical framework to help countries and stakeholders improve access to assistive technology.
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Free guide provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and improving the assistive tech market - AT Today - Assistive Technology

WHO has launched a free guide that offers a practical framework to help countries and stakeholders improve access to assistive technology.
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Court allows Trump administration to proceed with efforts to destroy Institute of Museum and Library Services as case continues ala.org/news/2025/06/court-all…

Court allows Trump administration to proceed with efforts to destroy Institute of Museum and Library Services as case continues

A federal judge has declined to block the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The ruling, issued today in ALA v.
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I prompted Eleven Labs to create a sound effect with the following: “A joyful jingle that combines the sound of mirrors, crystal glasses, water drops, brushes and aspen trees.”
Among a few choices I got, this one really caught my attention! #AudioMo

#audiomo
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Introducing Eleven V3 (Alpha): elevenlabs.io/blog/eleven-v3
Wow, listen to the sample of that sports commentator. Amazing!
Also, love the idea of audio tags. Make it easy! :)

Eleven v3: Most Expressive AI Text to Speech Model Launched | ElevenLabs

Eleven v3 (alpha) introduces advanced audio tags, dialogue mode, and 70+ languages for nuanced, emotionally rich AI-generated speech.
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Configured auto-mounting of USB storage devices on FreeBSD courtesy of `sysutils/automount` and instructions by @vermaden ... tested with my Kobo ereader and it works good!

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#FreeBSD #RunBSD

FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Configuration – Automount Removable Media

In this article in the FreeBSD Desktop series I will introduce various methods to automatically (or not) mount external/removable devices such as USB or eSATA disks/pendrives or SD/microSD flash ca…
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Here’s rare audio of Bill Atkinson talking about HyperCard at a 1987 NY Mac Users’ Group meeting, courtesy of Charles Mann’s wonderful Powersharing Series. soundcloud.com/thepowersharing…

PS165 - Clip - Sculley - Atkinson - Hypercard

Creator of Hypercard, Bill Atkinson, presents to the New York Macintosh Users Group to basic concepts underlying this landmark innovation in personal computing, illustrating with examples. This clip
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The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer.

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Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74

The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William D. "Bill" Atkinson, died on June 5 of complications from pancreatic cancer.
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This well explained video brought back a lot of memories. There was a group of us in east London who were seriously into our CB Radios. I was lucky enough to have an antenna on the roof of the house and I had a specially adapted set so I could flick between channels more quickly than most. I could easily use the regular sets but mine was better.
CB Radio Retrospective. youtube.com/watch?v=KG2jDr7u3L…

CB Radio Retrospective | The Retro Shed

Not our usual subject matter, but our viewers asked for it, so here it is! A look back at the world of Citizens Band radio - from its origins in the US to th...
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Since I've left my last job, I've been thinking about the guy who used me as an alternative to ChatGPT whenever he hit a problem that he couldn't vibe code the answer out of at work.

He basically rotted his own brain by compulsively using ChatGPT in lieu of actually thinking with most any of the projects he was working on. Instead of taking the time to read through code in our framework, look up documentation, or do any sort of debugging, he instead just begged and pleaded with ChatGPT to try and get somewhere because "it was faster." Basically just really hammering his brain with the Programmer's Slot Machine. (@davidgerard wrote a really good article here about this specific gambling addiction angle here. I highly highly recommend reading/watching the corresponding YouTube video:
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen… )

Back to the story; When that wasn't working, which was a significant portion of the time, he'd then just turn and use me as a "more informed alternative" to ChatGPT.

I worked fully remote and the majority of our interactions was via a Teams chat. which apparently crossed some wires in his monkey brain and made him start just... Basically verbally barraging me like he would with the company ChatGPT instance. No thoughts at all, just an immediate process of:

- Ask vague question
- Get guess for an answer with a request for more details
- Try applying the guess blindly without thinking if it's applicable at all
- Have it not work and just report back that it didn't work.
- No follow-up details, no further explanation of what was going on or what he's trying to do. Nothing added past the original vague situation
- If lucky, I might get a screenshot of part of the error, meticulously sliced before it gave something useful in the output because he stopped reading error output to things and made no attempt to understand it. (Why? ChatGPT can do that part!)
- Rinse and Repeat until I get fed up and get into a call with him
- Fix the thing in less than a minute, pointing out that he should have been able to tell what was wrong almost immediately if he actually dropped a break-point and debugged the code at *literally any point* along the way
- Fuck off immediately after getting his fix, no thank you or anything
- start the process anew the following day when he vibe coded himself into a corner all over again

I literally had to go to leadership and make them have a talk with him and get him to leave me the fuck alone at work, after repeated attempts to establish boundaries about it, due to how much time it sucked out of me being able to work on other projects. Effectively just doubling up my work and slamming me with burn out right at the start of the year for absolutely no reason other than his belligerent insistence to just Not Do His Job Without His Hand Being Held By A Chat Window.

It rapidly went from a "He sometimes asks informed questions that I can answer and help him with. I enjoy working with him" to "The dude isn't even trying in the slightest and is now basically offloading his work onto me because he broke his capacity to actually do work independently of an external chat window. I fucking hate him and I hope he gets in a car wreck so I can get a break from the bleakness of dealing with him every goddamn morning"

ChatGPT has basically just been an absolute blight for me since it's inception. Going from the team being generally pro-crypto to intensely pro-genAI/LLM because their favorite scammers (er.. I mean YouTubers) had them hooked on a fantasy of some day making it Big by jumping from one Hype cycle to the next. I sincerely was very close to just finding an entirely different career path altogether because of just how incredibly shitty it was working with that team on just about anything, but lacking the job experience on the resume to land someplace else.

Nobody wanted to be an actual expert, nobody really wanted to learn anything. They had their degree and ChatGPT, which means they learned all they ever will need. ...While working in an industry that tends to re-invent itself every half decade or so while half-assing solutions with an outsourced bullshit generator. 🫠

All in the name of "Well it got me from point A to point B faster." and leaving it at that, despite taking significantly longer than they should have from the get go over it.

I've seen and lived what an AI Fueled future looks like:
Mediocre men harassing their talented and likely autistic peers until their peers just up and fuckin leave to a different organization out of frustration and exhaustion.

I think down the road, we'll be able to measure the negative impact using LLMs has on people's cognitive faculties by comparing it to horse kicks to the head, and only be exaggerating it by a little bit.


Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!

You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…
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Music for and with piano by David Del Tredici, Scott McAllister, Allen Sapp and Neil Thornock - featuring Tricia Dawn Williams, Eric Moe / Rob Frankenberry & Norma Bertolami Sapp - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (6/9/25) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming wmbr.org

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #Piano

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Eric Moe & Rob Frankenberry's Albany Records album "Monsters and Songs: Music of David Del Tredici", featuring a graphic with seven two-legged animals in a colorful playground, backed by a blue sky.
Cover of Neil Thornock's New Focus Recordings album "Another and Still Stranger World", featuring a drawing in whites of a massive whale breaking the surface of the ocean - centered on a dark background.
Cover of Tricia Down Williams's Ravello Records album "Tiny Keys Big Sounds", featuring a photo of the pianist sitting behind two toy pianos.
Cover of the Navona Records album "Allen Sapp: Live Piano Works", featuring a black and white photo of Sapp, smiling.

WMBR 88.1 FM at MIT

WMBR is the awesome little radio station broadcasting from deep within the basements of MIT in Cambridge, Mass.
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#radio #piano #boston #cambridge #modernclassical @contemporaryMusic group @WMBR Cambridge @New Focus Recordings
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@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺 @Jayson Smith @Nick Giannak III The 25 port requirement is for self hosting #chatmail relay not for using the app. There are apps for other platforms such as deltachat for IOS, deltachat or arcanechat for android.
As for the deltachat-desktop app interface, unfortunatelly it's an electron app. However it's best used with the screen reader switched into focus mode.
I'll try to give you a bit of overview explaining how I am using it.
When I launch deltachat-desktop the focus is placed into a search field. If you alt+tab from its window and return back the focus will move to the chat input area if you have active conversation.
Regardless of which of these is in focus use tab and shift+tab to navigate at this point.
So I'll use the search field as a starting point as if you have no conversations this is the element you will land on after creating or importing your account from the backup.
Tabbing away from the search field you will land on the Scan QR code button. You can activate it to share your code for others to scan or to scan a code from someone else. Also we are all blind here in this conversation so I guess we won't be scanning QR codes, we'll copy and paste invite links that is also supported here. So the QR code dialog has two tabs QR invite code and Scan QR code. These are exposed as buttons to screen readers. If you activate one of these buttons the content in this dialog window changes. If you would like to join the chat you will press Scan QR code here and you will find the Paste button.
I assume QR code or invite links handling is now a bit clearer so I'll continue describing the main window.
When using tab to navigate pressing the tab key while the Scan QR button on the main window is in focus, you will land in the list of conversations. You can use up and down arrow key to navigate, enter key to activate here. Unfortunatelly the items are again exposed as buttons so it might be a bit embarrasing at first.
If you continue navigating with the tab key from the list of conversations you will land on the new conversation button.
If you continue with the tab key you will move from the new conversation button into the active conversation window. The conversation name is presented. Activating the button named after the active conversation will open a dialog window with user profile of your chat partner or profile of a group chat if the active conversation is a group chat indeed. In the profile window you can see last seen info of the chat partner, their signature, their chat handle, a button for sending them a message that is mainly usefull when you are looking at a profile of a group member, and an ability to share the contact with other contacts. There is a profile menu button that displays a context sensitive menu with more actions such as setting your own local display name for the contact.
I'm now done explaining the profile window and imagine we are back in the active conversation view focused on the chat name button.
Using tab key to navigate from here lands on the tabs changing the main conversation content. You can use these to change from conversation to the media.
Then there is a main menu button. In fact it includes conversation specific menu entries such as search in chat, dissapearing messages and others.
Moving forward with the tab key from the main menu button you will land on the message list of the active conversation. Use up and down arrow to navigate here to read the messages. And use applications key or shift+F10 to open a context menu for the selected message. Text messages have no other content but audio messages, messages with reactions or other attachments might have other focusable elements in the tab order. I think this part is pretty self explanatory once you manage to start chatting. One thing other messengers don't have is shared apps. Apps can be posted to the chat and message with the app will have a button to start the app that will then open in a new window. There are various apps made for deltachat and other webxdc capable messengers, such as the shopping list, simple group collaborative editor and similar. I am looking to the future when more screen reader users will adopt this and we can bring some of the fun things we liked to enjoy back in the days on IRC such as playing quiz or card games in the chat. This might be a nice platform for allowing this.
Then there is an attachment button, visually it's to the left of the chat input area, then chat input area it-self, smileys and record voice messages button.
After the record voice message button you will wrap to the top, of the application window landing on the profile chooser. This part needs a bit of a11y love as the profile names are not exposed to screen readers. These have role tab and you can use up and down arrow keys to navigate here. The last item in this list is a create profile button.
Yes, you can have multiple chat profiles if you like. And it's really damn easy to create a new deltachat profile. The most valuable thing on your profile is the list of contacts as you are verified criptographically. Loosing the empty profile is not a problem as you can create a new one whenever you like.
The final destination of this walkthrough through the deltachat-desktop main window is the settings button.

Huh, this turned to be a looong post. I believe it clears a few things up for you.

Thinking more about it perhaps I should report some of the little things such as avoid using button roles for the list items, consider using roving tab index for the tabs so only one of them is focusable at a time to get rid of a bit of confusion to the @Delta Chat github issues.

#chatmail @Delta Chat (39c3) @Jayson Smith @Nick Giannak III @Winter blue tardis

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 10 updated and 3 added apps:

* Centsation: an offline savings-tracker 🛡️
* DisableAudioFocus: Xposed module that allows you to disable audio focus, enabling you to play multiple videos and audios simultaneously 🛡️
* HideMockLocation: Xposed Module that prevents detection of mock location 🛡️

RB status: 616 apps (46.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

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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 #izzyondroid
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(2/2) at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk there were 2 #Magisk modules added and 3 updated today:

* Net Switch: lets you isolate apps from Internet access
* Infamick Script: a system utility script providing easy access to various system information and settings

Enjoy those, too, should you use Magisk or KernelSU :awesome:

Status there: 134 FOSS modules available


IzzyOnDroid Magisk Repository

This is a repository of open-source Magisk modules run by IzzyOnDroid.
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A part of me is amazed at this, another part doesn't like reading this. I mean, what are we doing to ourselves? :)
GitHub - cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider: OAuth provider library for Cloudflare Workers github.com/cloudflare/workers-…

GitHub - cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider: OAuth provider library for Cloudflare Workers

OAuth provider library for Cloudflare Workers. Contribute to cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider development by creating an account on GitHub.
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"La laïcité a été détournée de ses principes fondateurs, sous la pression de la classe politique."

C'est ce que soutient Philippe Portier, politologue et sociologue.

Spécialiste de la laïcité, il est l'invité d'«INAttendu» sur Franceinfo

⏲️ Samedi à 13 heures et dimanche à 11 heures.

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En fait cet extrait est trop court pour en déduire votre attitude à ça, mais pour moi la laïcité est l'une des plus précieuses valeurs de la République. En tant qu'étranger venu en France, j'ai toujours considéré la laïcité comme une valeur qui me donne plus de liberté, plus de sécurité et qui m'épargne au prosilitisme éventuel de certains groupes religieux agressifs.
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Sleeping Giants FR

La République est laïque, le citoyen est libre.

"Groupes religieux agressif" nous ne savons pas de qui vous parlez. Les témoins de Jéhovah qui viennent toquer à votre porte ?
Moi, en tant que femme, je m'oppose aux religions qui veulent dicter comment une femme doit se comporter. Mais je ne rejette pas mes soeurs/frères chrétiens, juifs, musulmans, hindi ou autre, qui sont croyants.
Je m'oppose également au patriarcat. Pourtant je ne rejette pas tout homme parce qu'il est un homme.

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@menelion

Jeux politiciens (manipulations racistes jusqu'à en inverser le principe) Mais vous oubliez qu'il y a aussi les chiens de garde qui, pour que les politiciens jouent, déforment, eux aussi la loi de 1905

Vous parlez à raison de jeux pour "séparer"

Mot qui a été dystopiquement employé dans une loi de prétendue "lutte contre le séparatisme" alors même que La Loi de 1905 est une SÉPARATION

- Un nouveau délit de séparatisme ????

⬇️

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@menelion
Comprenez bien l'intentionnalité d'inversion raciste des lois faussant celle de 1905

- On passe de l’État est Séparé et Ne reconnaît AUCUN culte (donc faite pour les citoyens athées ou non)
à
- L’État va fliquer les croyants et les cultes
(croyants que le texte de 1905 lui interdit de distinguer et Cultes qu'il n'a pas le droit de reconnaître)

Si réellement #SleepingGiant était contre la ségrégation, et qui plus est d'état, il se serait un peu plus bougé le cul⬇️

#sleepinggiant @André Polykanine
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@InternetDev Excusez-moi, mais je ne vois pas pourquoi la loi soit si distopique. Ce que je vois maintenant, c'est que beaucoup de gens, surtout à la gauche, de facto prônent la laïcité pour tous sauf pour les musulmans, ce qui m'inquiète. L'islam est une religion dont certaines dénominations perçoivent la haine contre les « mécréants » comme gravée dans le Coran : « Tuez les polythéistes où que vous les trouviez… » — je suis polythéiste, moi.
Je ne dis pas que l'islam est le seul « coupable », en fait l'indoctrination des enfants dans toutes les religions abrahamiques peut être nocive et strictement opposée aux valeurs de la République, dépendant de la dénomination particulière, qu'elle soit plus paisible ou plus belliqueuse.
C'est pourquoi je tiens tant à la laïcité sans exception.
@InternetDev-Anti-Communicant🍉
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InternetDev-Anti-Communicant🍉

deux choses dans votre interrogation.

1 - Pourquoi la gauche défend les musulmans avec LA Laïcité
Facile: Parce qu'ils sont harcelés
par Retailleau entre autres

2 - "CONTRE le Séparatisme"
C'est dystopique et Orwellien

Parce que c'est dystopique de faire une loi "contre le séparatisme" prétendant "conforter la laïcité" (loi de 1905) quand la loi de 1905 est LA loi dont le principe c'est la séparation "de l’Église et de l’État

C'est totalement vicelard⬇️

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@menelion
Quand vous alléguez que
- la gauche, de facto prônent la laïcité pour tous sauf pour les musulmans

C'est une erreur totale. Défendre les musulmans contre les harcèlement d’État et politique, par la laïcité c'est défendre, en même temps les autres.

Mais comme l’État s'en prend à eux, du coup la gauche choisirait bien de défendre les bouddhistes aussi mais eux ne sont pas harcelés.

Ensuite : Vous me demandez "pourquoi Dystopique" ⬇️

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@menelion
Bien c'est parce que vous ne connaissez pas la laïcité

Et le "prosélytisme", en tant qu'athée, je ne subit en France presque partout.

Les Églises au milieu des villages / le jours du Seigneurs / les délires des politicards Catho (comme Macron, Sarkozy entre autres)

Le prosélytisme, on le voit moins quand on est moins athée que moi, mais je ne le vois pas plus dans une religion que dans une autre

Le seul prosélytisme que je ne vois pas, c'est celui ds athées.

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If you ever want to go cycling in #Prague, I highly recommend the "Na kole Prahou" (Prague on Bike) app. It's very similar to my favorite #Cyclers, because they're both made by the same vendor. However, it has notes from the local cycling community and extra features that are useful in Prague. And just like Cyclers it's #OSM based.

While #cycling around Prague, I discovered that it's often the fastest means of transportation. For example, I was able to get from Anděl to Florenc (4 km) in 12 minutes with little effort. For me, it's also the cheapest since both #Rekola and #Nextbike give you 2 one-hour-long rides every day if you have the #Multisport card.

#openstreetmap #biking #commuting

A screenshot of Na kole Prahou app with a suggested route and points in the map with community comments.
#Prague #cycling #openstreetmap #OSM #biking #multisport #rekola #cyclers #nextbike #commuting

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Hey! Check out this post on marginal manicules.
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A closeup of text in an early printed book with a pointing hand drawn in the margin to draw attention to a particular passage.

The magic of manicules: more pointing fingers from the margins of Cardiff’s rare books

As we continue to explore and catalogue Cardiff University’s extensive collections of rare books, we are encountering more and more manicules in the margins. These wonderful little symbols in…
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Hier soir j’ai trouvé un hérisson dans le jardin (je l’ai déjà vu plusieurs fois). Il semblait très fatigué. Et j’ai vu des tiques. Alors j’ai sorti mon tire tique et avec le soutien moral du chat Pompon. Je lui ai retiré 3 (immédiatement plongées dans la javel). Il est reparti. J’essaierai de lui enlever d’autres mais je ne veux pas le traumatiser. Je mets des gamelles d’eau pour tous les animaux.
Des conseils ?

#herisson

Alt : le hérisson roulé en boule.

#herisson
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