2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.
881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and elected Trump as dictator.
“Accessibility is often treated as something that can be counted, graded, or “passed.” But accessibility is not a single outcome. It’s not a feature, and it’s not a binary state. Binary answers may feel simpler, cheaper, and easier to communicate, but they rarely deliver the outcomes teams are actually trying to achieve.”
annaecook.com/writing/2026/1/5…
This piece explores why accessibility and design so often break down when success is measured before it’s clearly defined.Anna E. Cook (she/her) (Anna E. Cook)
If you're running Windows and still using WinImage for handling basic floppy disk images, it is time to retire it. It served us well, but there is now a replacement called DiskImageTool that is superior in every conceivable way and is completely free and open source.
The latest version adds a small drag & drop feature I requested, and it's just the final touch that makes it a perfect replacement for me.
github.com/Digitoxin1/DiskImag…
A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis and optional Greaseweazle and Kryoflux integration - Digitoxin1/DiskImageToolGitHub
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Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.
So I built EasySpeak.
youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m2Zo1oI…
github.com/ctsdownloads/easysp…
- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native
- "Hey Jarvis, open downloads"
Built for RSI, accessibility, or anyone who wants to talk to their computer.
#Linux #OpenSource #Accessibility #VoiceControl #GNOME #Wayland #a11y
Voice control for Linux desktops. Fully local, no cloud, Wayland-native. - ctsdownloads/easyspeakGitHub
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question for people- for the accessible description of an emoji, would you expect it to say the skin tones?
for instance, "women holding hands" vs "women holding hands: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone"
personally the latter feels very verbose, but i'd love to get thoughts!
RE: dragonscave.space/@ZBennoui/11…
@ZBennoui @hosford42 He has an awesome resume too.
hosford42.github.io/AaronHosfo…
Can someone please higher this guy? I don't know him that well, but he seems like an awesome person and he deserves help!
Opus 4.5 is going to change everything - burkeholland.github.io/posts/o…
Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.Burke Holland
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Cancelled my #Microsoft365 subscription. Good riddance.
(Seeing the size of the apps and all the extra trackers I had to delete justified doing it even more!)
Anyway.. hello @libreoffice (Libre Office)? Hope we'll get along.
#microsoft #microsoftOffice #libreOffice
The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animals’ brains began to resemble those of the original host species. Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns. The sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…
Hello my friends 👋 are you still thinking of us?
I know that you might get tired of my words, but we are still suffering and the situation is very bad. We didn't receive any donations for three days. Please donate and share to help my family overcome this tough time
chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.Chuffed
People who grew up playing Zork and other Infocom games know that chat interfaces don't have to be perfect to be magical. Conversational interfaces are awesome, and it's amazing to see them develop.
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With the dialogic path, you've effectively captured something that I've been thinking about. I regularly find myself revisiting the capacities of these new AI systems. I find myself always landing on a mixture of disappointed and impressed. The impressed part is outweighed by my disappointment.
But, for example, the chat interface to OCR is pretty useful. I wanted a serial number off of an access point the other day. I snapped a picture and sent it to my desktop.
I looked at it, and I had the "I wonder" thought, and I asked for the serial number AND MAC address. The system faithfully ignored the other information and presented what I asked for. I double-checked, and everything was accurate. That was legitimately cool.
What I don't like is that I don't have a lot of control or insight over these things. Ideally, I would be able to evaluate and plug and play these with a combination of models and deterministic plugins. Starting with a canvas and building my ideal user agent from the ground up. I don't want this to be folded into a web browser because I think having them as discrete tools is useful and adds a layer of cognitive protection.
I have found a few desktop applications that sort of gesture towards this, but I'm not seeing anything that feels good in the way my IDE or web browser feel good.
Admittedly, the knowledge of how these systems operate currently sort of saps any good feeling one might have away.
Linux at CES 2026: Tux is alive and well in IoT, cars, and AI zdnet.com/article/linux-at-ces… via @ZDNet & @sjvn
#Linux won't make the #CES headlines, but under the hood, most of the latest and greatest consumer tech depends on it.
Linux and open source aren't making headlines at CES 2026, but they're working behind the scenes in embedded, automotive, and edge AI.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
*Reads #RSSFeed and laughs.*
Boeing does not deserve sympathy and their attempts to make it other people's fault is wrong. #AllTheCoffee
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Boeing Sued for $10 Million by Captain of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 - Business Insider
businessinsider.com/boeing-sue…
A lawsuit from the captain of the Alaska Airlines flight that lost a panel in midair in 2024 says Boeing tried to "scapegoat" the pilots.Pete Syme (Business Insider)
More Americans with disabilities are now eligible for ABLE accounts.
If your blindness or qualifying condition began before age 46, this could open new doors for saving and financial independence — without risking benefits.
Read more: 🔗 pennyforward.com/more-people-a…
ABLE account eligibility expanded in 2026, allowing millions more people with disabilities, including blindness or low vision, to build wealth safely.Andrea Locsin (Penny Forward)
Dear Americans,
We thought you all had guns to "overthrow a tyrannical government".
What is the hold-up?
Sincerely,
Rest of the world
wow I had no idea that smartmontools added json output years ago
this fixes some annoying issues I have parsing it because there are some fields that have names that are not consistent (Device Model or Model Number) which are normalized in the json version of the data as model_name
{
"id": 194,
"name": "Temperature_Celsius",
"value": 72,
"worst": 49,
"flags": {
"value": 34,
"string": "-O---K ",
"prefailure": false,
"updated_online": true,
"performance": false,
"error_rate": false,
"event_count": false,
"auto_keep": true
},
"raw": {
"value": 210454708252,
"string": "28 (Min/Max 20/49)"
}
},
The raw SMART attributes (temperature, power-on lifetime, and so on) are stored in vendor-specific structures. Sometime these are strange. Hitachi disks (at least some of them) store power-on lifetime in minutes, rather than hours (see next question below). IBM disks (at least some of them) have three temperatures stored in the raw structure, not just one. And so on.
GREAT
For anyone backing up a pleroma instance DB, if you're using an sql backup (all variants of pg_dump) - YA DON'T HAVE A WORKABLE RESTORE WITHOUT SOME MASSAGING! You MUST have indexes pre-created to load data. Post creation of indexes effectively won't work...unless your DB is small.
Soooo I think I know what causes the restores to basically never complete, maybe...I'm near the limits of my psql debugging capability because I've never hit this so I actually don't exactly know how to see what the CREATE INDEX is actively doing... But tl;dr; 1.8T rows. One Point Eight TRILLION rows. But...HOW?!
The dump+load upgrade method I tend to use causes this. In the default mode it creates the schema (sequences setup, all the functions, that sort of thing, BUT NO INDEXES), loads the data, then creates the indexes.
The index it's never finishing creating is calling this function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.activity_visibility(actor character varying, recipients character varying[], data jsonb)
RETURNS character varying
LANGUAGE plpgsql
IMMUTABLE PARALLEL SAFE SECURITY DEFINER
AS $function$
DECLARE
fa varchar;
public varchar := 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public';
BEGIN
SELECT COALESCE(users.follower_address, '') into fa from public.users where users.ap_id = actor;
IF data->'to' ? public THEN
RETURN 'public';
ELSIF data->'cc' ? public THEN
RETURN 'unlisted';
ELSIF ARRAY[fa] && recipients THEN
RETURN 'private';
ELSIF not(ARRAY[fa, public] && recipients) THEN
RETURN 'direct';
ELSE
RETURN 'unknown';
END IF;
END;
$function$Why did I footgun myself like this when pg_upgrade exists? Well, binary incompatibilities, index collation differences, in the past causing Major Heartburn. I'm not going to dive into how it might be possible to fix the dump+load procedure, since, well, yeah. But for anyone backing up a pleroma DB be warned. Either take a binary copy (f/ex pg_basebackup) or dump schema and data seperately so you can load the data with indexes. Or find another workaround!
cc @feld
Your reminder not to blindly boost things. Fake news isn’t just a thing for rightoids
sfba.social/@jeridansky/115845…
Over the weekend, did you see the much-shared story on Reddit by a supposed whistleblower?It started like this: "I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore."
Well, it was a fake.
platformer.news/fake-uber-eats…#journalism #AI
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5Casey Newton (Platformer)
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PowerShell is a spiced up command line shell made by Microsoft. According to some people, it is a really useful and good shell alternative.daniel.haxx.se
ln -s curl Invoke-WebRequest
I wonder what Microsoft would think of that in every Linux distribution…
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame…
If you haven't listened to Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic ) talk at CCC, this is it.
It gives a list of actions for Elbowing Up. (it's not Canada specific either)
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all...media.ccc.de
Basically he advocates that a retaliation with the US fucking trade treaties that nation void the anti-circumvention laws. That's the very short version.
Bill C-11 (from 2010s) was mentioned.
I started a new tutorial series on how to create a Ghost theme from scratch
youtu.be/r8plrhCm4So?si=SzYd4r…
Learn how to install Ghost locally and start developing a custom theme from scratch.0:00 Intro0:25 Developers documentation0:45 Requirements1:14 Install Node...YouTube
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Good advice in this post, critical in the age of AI: “you should always be at your most suspicious online when someone is baiting you into outrage.”
sfba.social/@jeridansky/115845…
Over the weekend, did you see the much-shared story on Reddit by a supposed whistleblower?It started like this: "I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore."
Well, it was a fake.
platformer.news/fake-uber-eats…#journalism #AI
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5Casey Newton (Platformer)
Edit: Erledigt, danke euch! Ein lieber Mensch gibt mir seine. 🥰
😭 Noooo. Hat jemand diese Tasse von den @MRMCD 2024 im Schrank stehen und braucht sie nicht? Ich würde mich extrem freuen. Tausche z.B. auch gern gegen die von 2019 oder 2025. Es ist eine meiner Lieblingstassen gewesen, weil ich Größe, Form und Farbe so schön finde.
Edit: es hat sich jemand gemeldet, vllt wird eine aus ihrem Keller-Dasein erlöst. 🤞
Accessible Windows GUI tools for Shazam recognition (file/stream/Shoutcast) - michaldziwisz/shaq-gui-toolsGitHub
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Seeking recommendations for a reliable, accessible platform to host a support/discussion email list/listserv/snapshot of the 90's with around 1000 members. We're with GroupsIO right now but I'm tired of their in-browser inaccessibility. Cheap would be brilliant as my group doesn't directly make money, can pay something for solid service, accessibility and responsive support though.
I probably don't fancy self-hosting this much traffic.
Boosts appreciated.
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