ideas appreciated #technology
chrisyoong.com/blog/inviting-h…
#a11y
Stop inviting overlay employees and bad actors into Accessibility spaces
It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and controlchrisyoong.com
Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-hom…
It's so easy to forget how beautiful words can be. Thank you for the reminder, @WeirdWriter.
Everyone else: I would highly recommend his writing! See sightlessscribbles.com (there is an RSS feed).
Just figured out (out of necessity) that I have a better way of OCRing my vm's screen than using Seeing AI. If I specify a monitor when starting qemu, then I can telnet into the monitor, and there's a screendump command that will dump the screen to a file, and then I can use tesseract to OCR the image.
Unfortunately, none of that is helping me right now. I get "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." So I'm just as mystified as before. Reminds me of the children's song I used to listen to where a climber went over the mountain to see what he could see, but the other side of the mountain was all that he could see.
Now I have this function in my .bashrc (I have the monitor on port 4444):
ocrvm()
{
rm -f a.png a.txt
echo screendump a.png |nc -N localhost 4444 >/dev/null
tesseract a.png a >/dev/null 2>&1
more a.txt
}
It isn't very polished--it creates files called a.png and a.txt in the current directory, but, meh, it does what I need.
Edit: I found my original issue--something was wrong with the virtual drive that I have set for the UEFI image. And I love having this little OCR scriptlet now--it makes it really easy to monitor the status of a vm while it's booting up and I don't have a screen reader available yet.
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#drupal is clunky and GPL v2 only which makes me unable to extend it the way I want.
#grav has unlabeled buttons everywhere.
#classicPress is a damn old version of #wordpress
did I skip anything?
ah, yes, #joomla, the 403 monster.
starts installation, looks nice, until it eats itself mid install.
really graceful.
#cms #cmsBattle or everything sucks or I missed some random cms that I'd probably want to support but didn't found I even ask #ai
it found garbage.
I thought that accessibility will be treated well at least in one place, but sadly it's drupal which is really clunky and don't get me started on random breakages.
this is my rant
sorry for it but I had to get it out of my chest
#technology #accessibility
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Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud app that steals then deletes all your files - Boing Boing
OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based storage service, and it's aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files on their servers, and are willing to use dark patterns to get…Rob Beschizza (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
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#XSF Announcement
The XSF is considering to participate the #Google Summer of Code 2026!
If you are interested as a contributor or mentoring #XMPP project start reading here:
wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…
#GSoC #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #rtc #specifications
Hey @FreakyFwoof, I've just started this one. Interested to know if you think it's worth carrying on!
Harry Potter and the Hero's Path, By TheJackOfDiamonds
AU Ritually abused by the Dursley's, young Harry Potter learns to count on himself. After discovering magic at a young age, he practices to become stronger to protect those weaker than him.
March 2006-November 2025.
323493
words in 52 chapters.
fanfiction.net/s/2869936/1/Har…
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@Friendica Support Es gibt ein Addon für den OPML-Export. Gibt es auch eins für den OPML-Import?
Du solltest dann die RSS Feeds in deinen Kontakten.
Ich nutze Deine Instanz nach wie vor als Feedreader. Doch hin und wieder "denke" ich darüber nach, das Firefox Addon Feedbro wieder zu nutzen. Und wenn ich das tun würde, würde ich irgendwann mal wieder Deine Instanz als Feedreader nutzen.
Vanadium version 143.0.7499.192.0 released
Changes in version 143.0.7499.192.0:
- update to Chromium 143.0.7499.192
- fix obscure crashes from removing Google service related settings identified by the Chromium test suite (not happening for users in practice)
A full list of changes from the previous release (version 143.0.7499.146.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Comparing 143.0.7499.146.0...143.0.7499.192.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...GitHub
Olin 1990-luvun alkupuolella siinä määrin aktiivinen erityisesti pohjoismaista indiemusiikkia käsittelevillä internet-alustoilla että pari ruotsalaista levy-yhtiötä erehtyi luulemaan minua jonkinlaiseksi influensseriksi ja lähetti muutaman promolevyn täysin pyytämättä. Tämä artisti ei olisi kuitenkaan missään tapauksessa saanut hyväksymismerkintääni: Saran lauluääni on yhtä kimeä ja yksisävyinen kuin Kate Bushia esittävällä japanilaisella animaatiohahmolla, eikä sitä pysty kuuntelemaan 30 vuotta myöhemminkään paria minuuttia pidempään. #musadontti #musiikkimastodon #cd-maraton
discogs.com/release/22784633-S…
Sara – Liberation – CD (Promo, Sampler), 1996 [r22784633] | Discogs
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of "Liberation" on Discogs.Discogs
Next time some moron in your government want to regulate the Internet "for the children" remind them they are posting on a CSAM content farm formerly known as Twitter.
Audio Description Ruins Family Movie Night During Unexpected Sex Scene - The Squeaky Wheel
A recent family movie night at the household of 14-year-old Sarah Mason ended abruptly when the audio description began to vividly relay the details of an unexpected and lengthy sex scene.Sy Hoekstra (The Squeaky Wheel)
Ihr könnt den #DiDay ja für ne gute Idee halten — das tu ich prinzipiell auch, weil er lokale Vernetzung und Dezentralisierung stärkt.
Aber vielleicht denkt ihr nochmal darüber nach, ob man das in direkter Assoziation mit einem „D-Day“ oder einem „Unabhängigkeitstag“ haben mag, wo beide Begriffe ganz eng verwoben mit der Befreiung von Unterdrückten (oft Schwarzen, Sklaven, …) durch Europäer verwoben sind. #Dudegemacht
rodokmen.clanweb.eu/?p=2236
Teď je na řadě zpěvačka Inka Zemánková.
There is a Call for Feedback by the European Commission for a 'European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy' For strategic approach to #foss in Europe, and a framework for using open source within the European Commission. You can respond until 3 February. It is useful to respond even if your point has already been submitted by someone else. The number and repetition of arguments is used as a weight. ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r… cc #fosdem
Moin!
Neues Jahr, erster #Chaostreff, 19:00 heute in der #Machbar. Beste Medizin gegen Post-Congress-Depression nach dem #39C3.
Einige Infos:
* Es wird etwas kühler (18C) werden, weil nur 3/4 Wärmepumpen arbeiten. Zieht 1 Schicht mehr an.
* Congress-Items müssen noch final ins Lager eingeräumt werden.
* Wir wollen dieses Jahr ein Geekend im Mai machen. Hier brauchen wir Teams für Programm, PL, Party, Ihr kennt den Drill :)
* Es gibt Kartoffelsuppe! 🥔
Kevin Beaumont
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •If you're wondering what consequences X has faced: none. At all. A few months ago when Grok called itself MechaHitler, the service was shut entirely for days, the same day. When this women issue happened, Elon laughed.
Grok is still outputting non-consensual deepfake pornography and sexual abuse material at a rate of 1 post per second. Example search:
from:@grok filter:media
Direct link:
x.com/search?q=from%3A%40grok%…
I hope Cisco enjoy directly funding sexual abuse material.
Steff 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
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