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A couple years ago I opened a thread to add #AltText on #Mastodon banners and profile pictures. Now detailed todos are being posted. Is there anyone who could help in this case?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#a11y #Acessibility


Add ALT-Tag to banner and profile pictures and make the value editable for acessiblility reasons · Issue #10313 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch The banner and profile picts on the profile site has no ALT or ARIA tags. Blind people can't get information about the content of this images. Motivation Additional text information for image...
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#a11y #Mastodon #AltText #acessibility

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Now this is something I want. Don't get me wrong, I love my cane but if there's anything I can use to make traveling easier, you best believe I'm using it because right now, its just so exhausting to even want to walk anywhere and I'm tired after going out. It's much less exhausting being driven anywhere so if I can make walking easier with this cane, I'd get it. #Blind
youtube.com/watch?v=J-VVh5ezqG…

Smart Cane Gives the Blind Freedom to Explore

Like this video about WeWalk's smart cane and subscribe here: https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-smartcaneUp next- Reversing Blindness: https://youtu.be/2U...
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#blind

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Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts

openculture.com/2016/02/umbert…

Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts

Just over 30 years ago, Umberto Eco wrote an essay in the New York Review of Books about what made that strip one of the most, if not the most compelling of the twentieth century.
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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Welcome to the RB family, OwnTracks 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.o…

OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends.

With this app, now 24% = 291 apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo have #reproducibleBuilds – almost every 4th app :awesome:


„OwnTracks“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Your location companion
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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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My violence towards robot vacuums (usually when they get caught in cords for the MILLIONTH TIME) is vindicated.

They're spies.

werd.io/2024/insecure-deebot-r…


Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632 [Julian Fell at Australian ABC News] "Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and v…
Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)

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If you are using a so called smart connected TV and are concerned about your privacy, you should read the following scientific article: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203v1

In short, if your TV's settings are not correctly adjusted, it can periodically (in some cases, every 10 seconds) send a fingerprint of what is being displayed to a server to find out what you are watching.

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"#PHP RFC: Add persistent #curl share handles"

wiki.php.net/rfc/curl_share_pe…

The PR => github.com/php/php-src/pull/15…


feat: enable persistent `CurlShareHandle` objects by ericnorris · Pull Request #15603 · php/php-src

This PR introduces a new function, curl_share_init_persistent, that creates a php_curlsh struct that can live beyond a single PHP request. Persisting a curl share handle would allow PHP userspace t...
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#php #curl

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"Incremental #HTTP Messages" proposal:

Upon receiving a header section that includes the Incremental header field, HTTP intermediaries SHOULD NOT buffer the entire message before forwarding it. Instead, intermediaries SHOULD transmit the header section downstream and continuously forward the bytes of the message body as they arrive.

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

Incremental HTTP Messages

This document specifies the "Incremental" HTTP header field, which instructs HTTP intermediaries to forward the HTTP message incrementally. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
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#http

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#SKpolitika, verzia "posledne slovo #BraňoBezák" + #HowItStartedVsHowItsGoing:

1/2

How it started: "Programové vyhlásenie tejto vlády sa volá: Lepšie, pokojnejšie a bezpečne žiť."

dennikn.sk/4252319/newsfilter-…


Newsfilter: Správu o atentáte objednal Fico, píše ju Gašpar. Aký asi bude výsledok?

1. Minister vnútra jedno nedorozprával, druhé odpinkal. 2. Ficova bilancia sa len zhoršuje. 3. Načo sú nám ícečká, keď budú lietadlá? 
Tomáš Gális (Denník N)
#skpolitika #branobezak #howitstartedvshowitsgoing

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It took a while but the developer has finally added the required accessibility enhancements so I can finally share a fun little game called Language Guessr. You're given a short audio recording and it is your task to guess what language it is in. Should you give the wrong answer, you have the option to hear a sample recording in the language you indicated so that you can learn the difference. A great little toy for language geeks. There's an edit combobox at the top to search for the country so that you don't have to navigate the map view which doesn't work with screen readers. Happy playing! languageguessr.io/ #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Languages

Home - LanguageGuessr

GeoGuessr but then for languages
languageguessr.io
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #languages

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There’s a lot of complexity around what open means and how that intersects with AI, but from a reputational and consistency perspective I really can’t get over this 👇🏽 for the current draft of the OSI AI definition.
mastodon.social/@odoruhako/113…

pedestrian cyclist

2024-10-15 19:08:59


Great. I'm looking forward to the next generation of open source hardware drivers and the "detailed descriptions of all contained binary blobs". 🤡

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Just read the OSI "Open Source AI Definition" (opensource.org/deepdive/drafts…)
It's basically pointless but the best part is:
Data information needs to include: "a detailed description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data"

My man. If the data to train the model is unshareable meaning I cannot get it to reproduce your binary/model, your system _is not open source_.

The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0-RC1

Endorse the Open Source AI Definition: have your organization appended to the press release announcing version 1.0 version 1.0-RC1 Preamble Why we need Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open Source…
Open Source Initiative

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Vispero and Aira are partnering to make life accessible! This partnership aims to promote equal access to information and coincides with White Cane Day and the m-Enabling conference. Check out the official press release or visit the TPGi staff at the m-Enabling conference to learn more: support.freedomscientific.com/…

Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities

support.freedomscientific.com

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Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users

AntiX is a systemd-free Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Stable for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems that runs blazing fast and offers a familiar desktop.
Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
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