In this episode of the AppleVis Extra podcast, hosts Dave Nason and Thomas Domville speak with StephenLovely, the creator of Vision AI Assistant, a rapidly emerging web-based accessibility tool designed primarily for blind and visually impaired users…www.applevis.com
Drag is protected speech. Federal courts already said this law is probably unconstitutional. Uthmeier is only enforcing it because of a legal loophole—not because it's suddenly okay. The law is intentionally vague.MoveOn
Do you know when it’s supposed to be your day off but you end up learning Hydra Synth instead?
Ridiculously fun!
Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.strudel.cc
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In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads. A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with where the crosswalk is located.OpenStreetMap
The data duplication on crossing nodes and crossing ways annoys me a lot. I also stopped tagging the button operation when I realized that all local crossing buttons are for audible signals only. There is also a problem with the audible signal tagging for crossings, where `=yes` is apparently supposed to equal `locate`+`walk` 😖
I support an effort to clarify and simplify.
Recorded during the Mike Douglas Show on KNBC from December 1974.YouTube
I'm a blind developer from Germany with quite some experience in full stack web development as well as game and media programming, especially in Python. - TimtamGitHub
How many in Montréal, specifically *MY* borough of Côte-des-Neiges? Asking for myself, really.
Québec’s family doctors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of an agreement that will incentivize them to take on an additional 500,000 patients by next June. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fa… #polQC #QCpoli #santeQC #QChealth #assnat #CAQASTROPHE
So..."TikTok has signed a deal to form a new U.S. joint venture controlled by mostly American investors..."
Does this make you feel more confident that your personal data will be used with respect?
Police called it a case of the drunk leading the blind and drunk. Both wound up getting tickets....UPI
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Hello @matrix 👋 what's the best place to get help with the federation tester?
I have my .well-known server info setup correctly for my instance at matrix.malenfant.net which should redirect everything to port 443.
The federation tester fails though and completely ignores the .well-known server info and still tests port 8448.
Where am I going wrong? 
OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP – Mercator Museum Opening! Call for volunteers The brand-new MAP – Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is reopening soon, and OpenStreetMap Belgium will be part of the opening festivities! The theme of the opening festiv…OpenStreetMap Community Forum
FreeBSD has Wireguard support in the base OS, but it's not well documented how to use it. So here you go. Hopefully an example lands in the FreeBSD Handbook soon.
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/12/wir…
Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux.Makefile.feld
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The Holiday Special Matrix Live, open sourcing the policy server, and a security release for ESS.
This concludes This Week In Matrix for this year!
matrix.org/blog/2025/12/19/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please.
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The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the publisher would now be turning to AI: ‘An external contractor, the communications agency Fluent Planet, will put the texts through “automatic translation” software and then recruit freelancers directly to post-edit the machine output in French. The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’
A number of French translators have been working for Harlequin for years, often exclusively. This decision places them in an extremely precarious position, without proper notice or compensation.
> The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’
It's never about quality. Or people.
Konečně trolejbus, kde je prioritou cestující?
Praha zažívá trolejbusový boom, o kterém se nám před pár lety ani nesnilo. Ale nejde jen o nové tratě, jde i o vozidla. Do pražských ulic vyrazila na testování doposud málo známá turecká Bozankya.
V dnešním pozitivním komentáři se podíváme na to, proč je vnitřek Bozankye SNG 12T prostě jiný a lepší. Kam zmizela ta otravná motorová věž? Jak je možné, že působí tak vzdušně, i když má standardní rozměry? A všimli jste si toho obrovského okna vzadu?
Supposedly, Sonia Bélanger is a trained professional nurse...
We'll see if she puts her professional training/nursing experience before CAQ ideology, eh. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/qu… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth
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protip: If you're going to rip off someone's Harry Potter #fanfic, and have a bad AI voice read it, maybe check to make sure it's not an explicit drary slashfic before uploading it to your Harry Potter Playtime Fun channel, and marking the video "for children".
Maybe while you're at it, consider picking a British voice? And proofreading the titles so they have the correct chapter numbers? And not skipping chapter seven completely? It must take extra work to do crime this badly!
Just a few tips for the scammers out there. I know crediting the original author and doing an actual human reading just isn't possible; you've gotta upload a couple hundred videos a week, after all!
ESS Community Helm Chart 25.12.2 (2025-12-19) Security Fix critical security issue tracked as ELEMENTSEC-2025-1670. This release is a critical security update to address an issue affecting all ve...GitHub
The idea of Matrix as a chat service is nice. But the fact that it keeps going out of sync, and I keep losing messages from other people is just plain annoying. This is worse than IRC net split (at least there was a message when it happened).
#Matrix #MatrixChat #ElementX #IRC
If you met one autistic person, then you met one autistic person.
Why is everyone mad at #mozilla I don't understand.
#firefox is about to release one of the best #ai features and I couldn't be more excited: a kill switch.
This is a big deal and marks a change of sentiment. After years of tech scrambling to reinvent itself with user hostile #ai features, Mozilla is offering something different - turn it off.
Because people sense that things could go wrong.
They fear that Mozilla will lose its way, to the detriment of the community's demands.
Because other features that are highly sought after by the community are still waiting to be integrated, if at all.
Encouraging AI is not necessarily environmentally friendly and, above all, it consumes local resources. Many have noticed a significant slowdown on FF. Even though GAFAM is lobbying that ‘no AI = mediocre product’.
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There's nothing quite like reading a newspaper article from 1986, which happens to load very slowly (kind of funny to me) and then has a damn "sign in with Google" popup.
Yep, we sure do that in 1986.
Police called it a case of the drunk leading the blind and drunk. Both wound up getting tickets....UPI
I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music.
Application deadline 15 February 2026. More info and contact details: liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/instrum…
PhD project summary: An estimated 16 million people in the UK live with a disability (DWP statistics 2023), of which 48% have mobility impairments and 25% have impaired dexterity. Traditional […]LISS DTP
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