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For CSS Naked Day, I decided to do something a little different. I didn’t want to actually disable my stylesheet: very long lines of small text aren’t terribly accessible, and fingerprinting-averse readers of my Onion site may not wish to zoom in (I know for a fact that these people exist; I’ve spoken to them, and I don’t like reducing my readers to numbers in an analytics dashboard).

Instead, I made CSS Naked Day participation opt-in with a new a query parameter to the URLs: Just add ?sandbox=broken to the end of any URL on seirdy.one. This query parameter sets a maximally-restrictive Content-Security-Policy header, instructing your browser to block CSS, images, media, and more from loading. The only thing that the CSP will allow is submitting forms (Webmentions). See my CSP Bug Reproduction page for other values you can give the sandbox parameter on seirdy.one and its Onion location.

This does not apply to mirrors of my site, such as the envs.net mirror.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #CSSNakedDay


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Matt Campbell

I noticed the alt text on the IPC flow graph. Yeah, it sucks that a plain string isn't adequate for describing those kinds of images. FWIW, since that image is an SVG, there are ways of rendering it as a tactile graphic, if one has access to the right hardware (e.g. an embosser). There's even a tutorial on writing SVG by hand, targeted at blind people wanting to produce tactile graphics. blindsvg.com/

Anyway, thanks for thinking about describing the image.

Home - Blind SVG Study Guide

Accessible tutorial for the Blind to create tactile art, design, and graphics non-visually with SVG code.
blindsvg.com

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Firefox developers are working on a new 'translate selected text' feature for a future release, meaning you won't need to translate entire web pages omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/firefo…
firefox 126 alpha showing the 'translate selection to…' menu entry for selected text

Firefox Getting Translate Selected Text Feature, Here’s How to Try It

A handy new translations feature is in the works for Mozilla Firefox that should help speed up translating short snippets of text from one language to another. Firefox 118 introduced a privacy-resp...
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“I think Google fired me because they saw how much traction this movement within Google is gaining,” says Hatfield...“I think they wanted to cause a kind of chilling effect by firing me, to make an example out of me.”

They never learn do they.
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Exclusive: Google Workers Revolt Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel

Two Google workers have resigned and another was fired over a project providing AI and cloud services to the Israeli government and military
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Doctor Who Stars Including Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson Named in Radio Times’ TV 100 List thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024…

Doctor Who Stars Including Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson Named in Radio Times’ TV 100 List

A number of Doctor Who celebrities past and present have been named as part of the Radio Times’ TV 100, a ranking that lists the people who have changed the entertainment landscape most in th…
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An Interview with Bryan Blazie About the #BTSpeak: Blind Bargains Audio: Featuring the BB Qast, Technology news, Interviews, and more: BBQ 226: Huge Harry Says Hello From Blazie Technologies groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/67…
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An Interview with Bryan Blazie About the BT Speak: Blind Bargains Audio: Featuring the BB Qast, Technology news, Interviews, and more: BBQ 226: Huge Harry Says Hello From Blazie Technologies

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Look at the research material that came today!

This is the infamous Wonder Woman #203, December 1972, the "Women's Lib" issue. It was written by award-winning Black Queer scifi legend Samuel Delany. In the first of what was to be a six-issue arc, newly mortal Diana Prince reluctantly gets caught up in the Women's Lib movement, finally acting as its champion in a climactic battle at an abortion clinic.

The cover of the DC comic book "Diana Prince: Wonder Woman". The heroine, dressed in a white suit and surrounded by 6 wolves, is rushing toward her friend Cathy, who has been tied up in what appears to be a warehouse.
#203

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Kashmir Hill once tried 5 weeks without Big Tech, a main thread of that was how Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Amazon are pervasive and how it is nearly impossible to operate in a digital society without these companies touching your personal data.

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Purism Differentiator Series, Part 8: Big Tech Avoidance – 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.
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Holy shit, I thought I knew how evil the #SurveillanceAds industry was but here we are:

Two-thirds of European websites just ignore your #cookie choice and track you anyways, researchers from #ETHzurich found. 🤯

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#privacy #TrackingFreeAds #consent #gdpr #ePrivacy #BanSurveillanceAdvertising

#privacy #gdpr #consent #cookie #SurveillanceAds #ethzurich #TrackingFreeAds #ePrivacy #BanSurveillanceAdvertising

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today I've heard for the first time about the #RigelA open-source screen reader project for #Windows written in #RustLang. Unfortunately only Readme has an English version, all other documents and code comments are in chinese, but the project seems very promising. Use Google Translate or another translator if you, like me, don't speak Chinese. gitcode.net/mzdk100/rigela

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#Windows #RustLang #rigela

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David Goldfield

@gtbray @Bruce_Toews If I posted this more than once I apologize as that was definitely not my intent. Since my last repost from them was regarding their subscription I wanted to provide an accurate story by posting their latest announcement from the VDR list on Groups.io which confirmed that a subscription would not be required in order to use the program's existing features. Again, if this got posted more than once I do apologize.
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Employment Opportunity: Rehabilitation Program Specialist: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research: Washington, DC groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/67…

Employment Opportunity: Rehabilitation Program Specialist: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research: Washington, DC

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Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.

If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.

#linuxmint #ubuntu #opensource #foss

Dell 3190 Laptop
#linux #foss #opensource #gnome #linuxmint #KDE #ubuntu #mint #xfce #dell
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Eugenia L

@sonny It's a small laptop, so I don't expect it to have additional storage abilities. Although they were some models of the 3190 that came with 128GB, so you might wanna hunt for these instead.

Debian takes 9 GB of space on a clean install btw, fedora 12GB, ubuntu/mint take 16GB. In fact, I have some installations of Debian/XFce at 16 GB emmc (ex-chromebooks). Tight, but it works. So at least for me, 64GB is plenty. The 4 GB of RAM will (eventually) be a bigger problem than internal storage.

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To my blind followers: I wonder if anyone has done a latency comparison in the same spirit as this post: danluu.com/input-lag/ but for keystroke-to-speech latency. I wonder how an Apple IIe with an Echo (a real one, not emulated) would compare to a modern Windows PC or Mac running Eloquence. It's been too long since I used a real Echo, or a DOS PC with speech synthesis hardware, so I don't remember how they felt in comparison to modern PCs.

Computer latency: 1977-2017

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My favorite of the many, many, many interesting articles that @TheConversationUS has had on the #SolarEclipse: Educators discuss how to explain what's going on to blind students theconversation.com/an-eclipse… #SolarEclipse2024 #2024SolarEclipse

(The rest of our global coverage is here: theconversation.com/us/topics/…)


An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipses

Eclipses are rare, fantastic celestial events. Here’s how educators can help visually impaired students enjoy eclipses alongside their sighted peers.
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#solareclipse #SolarEclipse2024 #2024solareclipse @The Conversation U.S.

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An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipses theconversation.com/an-eclipse…

An eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipses

Eclipses are rare, fantastic celestial events. Here’s how educators can help visually impaired students enjoy eclipses alongside their sighted peers.
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