ACB Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs Claire Stanley joined Carl Richardson and Kim Charlson at a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Disability Advisory Committee meeting. The meeting covered a range of topics, including gaming accessibility and the use of artificial intelligence to caption live video programming.
Access a recording of the meeting on the FCC YouTube page:
youtube.com/watch?v=geMYRdohxV…
Disability Advisory Committee Meeting - October 2024
The DAC provides a means for stakeholders with interests in accessibility issues to exchange ideas, facilitates the participation of consumers with disabilit...YouTube
Main – RIPE 89
A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.ripe89.ripe.net
What is the #XMPP Summit and should you go? 🧵
The XMPP Summit is a two day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs). It is not a conference. There are no presentations. It is more like a round table discussion and active participation is encouraged.
Similar to an unconference at the beginning of Day 1 participants can suggest topics and others can indicate (via a +1) whether or not they are interested in that topic. Afterwards a rough order of topics is established
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If you have ever followed a thread on the standards mailing list or participated in a discussion on the public XSF channel it is a bit like that only in person.
The different topics are broken up by short breaks that are great for networking and getting to know other XMPP developers. (Think hallway discussion at other conferences.)
Interoperability is a big part of what makes #XMPP great. However agreeing on a common strategy or even establishing a rough priority for certain features can be hard.
I believe those in-person events do a lot in getting us on the same page.
If you are an XMPP developer (client, server, gateway) I strongly encourage you to come.
I keep saying 'developer' and use that as a shorthand for: To get the most out of the summit you should have a background in reading (and maybe even writing) XEPs.
If you don’t consider yourself a developer but rather an enthusiastic user or admin we regularly have booths at various conferences (FOSDEM, CLT, FrOSCon, …) that are a great opportunity to meet us.
If however you are a developer and always wondered what standards mailing list discussions would look like IRL you can find more information on the Summit here: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/…
At the #XMPP Summit − after a topic is well-discussed and a rough consensus reached − someone needs to volunteer to write the XEP.
Last year, I volunteered to write the XEP for synchronizing read states across devices.
It's called Message Displayed Synchronization and is now in Last Call, where community feedback is gathered before a XEP becomes 'stable.'
xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0490.h…
Prototype implementations are in @Monal and #Conversations_im.
Message Displayed Synchronization
This specification allows multiple clients of the same user to synchronize the displayed state of their chats.Daniel Gultsch
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Alexa: Thanksgiving will be observed on November 7th, 2024.
Me: Wait ... right after the elections? I don't remember those being so close together, the fuck?
*googles and finds it's on the 28th*
Me: ok so where *frantically googles* Why the everloving fuck is Alexa telling me about thanksgiving in Liberia of all places?
Noel Romey and Tabatha Brown
Spouses Tabatha Brown (43) and Noel Romey (44) discuss how they first met during guide dog training, their long distance friendship, and finally deciding to get married.StoryCorps Archive
🔐 Sending a password-protected email to anyone is easy with Tuta Mail! 🔐
Check out our latest guide on how to send encrypted, password-protected emails here 👇👇👇
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#encryption #security #privacy #email
The easiest way to send password-protected emails | Tuta
Unsure of how to send a password-protected email? Find out how easy it is in this quick guide.Tuta
So when we have unlimited hide my email in the paid plan ?
because from 1 to 3 (your price increase) on plan without this is a complete no go for me (and using an external unlimited alias is also no due to lack of encryption)
and using my domain is also NO since it's linked all my email to me .... witch is wat i want to avoid with alias .........
The fact that the Whisper transcription service from OpenAI just fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo should get it recalled.
But no, as long as OpenAI say they are continually working to improve the tool, everything is apparently good to go.
One example:
What the person said: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat.”
What Whisper transcribed: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat. All he had was a smelly old ol’ head on top of a socked, blood-soaked stroller.”
Reporting in the Verge: theverge.com/2024/10/27/242811…
The research paper:
facctconference.org/static/pap… (check out the table of examples!)
My March 2023 article on AI responsibility:
axbom.com/ai-responsibility/
Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model
Hospitals routinely use a tool powered by OpenAI’s Whisper transcription model, which researchers find can hallucinate entire passages during periods of silence.Wes Davis (The Verge)
It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties — Adrian Roselli
Grat article with tons of updates on this topic. Thanks @aardrian
adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-… #a11y #accessibility
It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties
It was late 2020 when I last tested how browsers use CSS display properties to break the semantics of elements.Adrian Roselli
Remember in August when I gave a talk about HTML tables for the WebAIM online conference?
That video is online!
I have embedded it on my site:
adrianroselli.com/2024/08/talk…
Or you can go to YouTube directly (where you can find the other swell talks from that day).
Talkin’ Tables — WebAIM Conference 2024
I spoke at the 2024 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (in partnership with PopeTech). As soon as the video is available I will embed it.Adrian Roselli
Viele Leser wünschen sich eine Betrachtung/Analyse von Lern- und Schul-Apps. Da ich bisher nur die App Anton von meiner Tochter kenne, benötige ich weitere Informationen, um mir ein umfassenderes Bild davon zu machen, welche Apps genutzt werden. Vielleicht sind ja auch einige Lehrer unter den Lesern, die ihre Erfahrungen teilen können?
#fedilz #schule #app #anton #lernen #eltern #kind #kinder #datenschutz
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Garmin Fénix 8 Solar Sapphire. Umějí telefonovat a už týden se je marně snažím vybít
** Ukážeme si, co všechno umí vestavěný mikrofon a reproduktor ** Uvidíte, jak vypadá a jak se chová displej MIP ** A ano, zkusime si i telefonováníJakub Čížek (Živě.cz)
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places.Terence Eden’s Blog
Some of you may have noticed a new logo appearing in various places around the web.
🎉
We now have a new logo for Librecast thanks to @mray
You may already be aware of his work as he designed the #ActivityPub logo.
It's been a work in progress and if you're curious about the progress @mray has been livestreaming his progress as the design came to shape.
peertube.stream/search?tagsAll…
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It's been a fascinating process. Mray also created the librecast matrix room, so he's a great community player. Having such a contribution is amazing, our ecosystem needs more than code. It needs people being inspired and contributing by documentation, packaging, talking to others about the projects you love.
Helping us to improve.
Thank you so much Robert, for contributing so much of your time to create this logo for Librecast!
We're happy to have you as part of our community.
They go against hospitality! [¡Van a por la hostelería!]
Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends | Hospitality industry | The Guardian
Os traigo esto para que sepáis que la hostelería no es solo un refugio de llorones explotadores e incapaz de vivir sin subvenciones sólo en España. Aquí además la calidad es pésima.
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Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends
Joint statement by lobby groups calls on chancellor to make Covid-era rates relief for hospitality permanentJasper Jolly (The Guardian)
eM Client acquires Postbox and ends its development - gHacks Tech News
The development of the Postbox email app has ceased, after the company was acquired by eM Client. Here's what happened.Ashwin (Ghacks Technology News)
Billionaires do not buy major information outlets to make money.
They buy them to use them.
Are You 50 or Older? These Are the Vaccines You Need This Season
The CDC lowered the age for the pneumonia vaccination from 65 to 50 and recommended an extra COVID shot to some people. Here's everything to know.Jessica Rendall (CNET)
From Friendly to Professional: The Power of iOS Writing Tools | AppleVis
In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to use Writing Tools in iOS 18.1. Writing Tools, released as part of the first set of Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.applevis.com
Of course masks do not provide perfect protection. However, they reduce the number of onward transmissions.
Just like seat belts do not prevent all deaths due to car accidents, but increase your chances of survival.
However, fewer infections (plus network effects, imo) = an effect reducing deaths more than one might think.
Porter breaks its own rules by kicking deaf woman and her service dog off a flight
Deaf passenger Georgina Villeneuve says she's tired of having to explain to airlines what the rules are around service animals on flights. The Edmonton woman was kicked off a Porter flight last month after the flight attendant didn't know the airline's own rules. #press
There is a notion that "spanking is bad parenting" comes from a desire to be soft & permissive. Having interacted with many young people and their parents? It just doesn't work. And when it fails it can do so catastrophically.
Children need consistent boundaries. They need to know the adults in charge of those rules love them and care about them.
The most confused, unable to self-regulate children I've ever worked with had parents very proud of spanking them.
Well… this is new.
Last Friday I left my job of 21 years by way of redundancy. That’s a pretty significant chunk of my adult life invested into a single place. So it’s going to be a big change.
As I step into the first Monday morning in years where I haven’t had anything scheduled in an Outlook calendar… I say ‘fuck it’ and opt for McDonald’s Breakfast.
Onwards and upwards, folks.
#LifeGoals #StartAsImeanToGoOn
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Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r…
#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI
To query the inode number from a pidfd, you use a simple fstat() call, and look at the .st_ino field.
There's currently no way to get from a pidfd inode number directly to a process however. Hence, for now you always have to pass around a combination of classic PID and the new pidfd inode number. This can be safely and correctly be turned into a pidfd: 1. first acquire a pidfd from the PID via pidfd_open(). 2. Then fstat() the fd, and check if .st_ino matches the expected value.
If you want a world-wide unique identifier for a process it makes sense to combine the pair of pid_t and pidfd inode number with the system's boot ID (i.e. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id). This triplet is awesome, because for the first time we can uniquely identify a Linux process, globally in this universe.
In systemd we are making use of this heavily now: internally we always store a triplet of pid, pidfd, pidfd inode for referencing processes we manage and…
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