A new study offers hope for people who are blind or have low vision (pBLV) through an innovative navigation system that was tested using virtual reality.
Do blind people 'see' images in their dreams? For people who have been blind since birth, brain scans alone can't reveal if they dream in images. livescience.com/health/dreams/…
ha, fascinating stuff. I don't see images in my dreams, but I can do things in them I couldn't ordinarily do and often have access to information as if I could have seen it, if that makes sense.
@archos @electricCZ Na jehličnanech u řeky je vidět, že v minimálně jednom místě přecházejí větve jako úsečky mezi stromy, takže těch šest prstů tam vidět je, i když blbě. 😁
Paris and Berlin are now linked with an 8 hour daily rail service, that starts at €59. It produces 100th of the emissions of flying between the cities. euronews.com/travel/2024/12/13…
You know how many of the popular apps we use to check the weather offer the data of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute as an option? Having recently learnt that Norway has one of the most stringent laws on accessibility in Europe, I have decided to check their official app for iOS and am not disappointed. It found my current location in Poland without a problem, albeit with a typo for some reason. It also provided webcam imagery from my hometown - this of course is not accessible. It remains to be seen how accurate the data really is long-term. About the accessibility: the data presented is grouped as it should so it is read out in one cluster for each 3-hour segment. Custom hints will let you know that by tapping twice, the hourly forecast is expanded. In the 10-day view, each day is a heading. Unfortunately, the graphs are not accessible despite the API's for this being available for some years now. Other than that, the app is very simple and convenient to use so if you're looking for something uncomplicated to check your local weather, you can try YR. No idea how accessible that is under Android but I expect the experience might be similar apps.apple.com/pl/app/yr/id490… #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
Yr på iPhone og iPad er ulikt alt annet du tidligere har sett innen værvarsling.
Sveip deg gjennom en vakker og animert himmel og se hvordan været endrer seg time for time - samtidig som du får alle detaljene du trenger å vite.
“So you're my replacements... A dandy and a clown..!” On this day 1972 - Season 10 of Doctor Who began with William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton reprising their roles as The Doctor in The Three Doctors - Episode 1 #DoctorWho
@DavidGoldfield It was such an iconic moment and celebration for the show. A great story as well, so well written, and the dynamic between all the Doctors was great fun. 😀
Tom Baker has been honoured by King Charles with a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award for services to television. cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-…
Actor Tom Baker has been honoured by King Charles with a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award for services to television. The 90-year-old actor was chosen along with other recipients as part of the New Year Honours.
John @tuckner sent me on an interesting wild goose chase. He is investigating the Cyberhaven extension compromise, trying to find out more. And he found something that he considered another campaign compromising browser extensions, related to the sclpfybn[.]com domain: secureannex.com/blog/sclpfybn-…
Edit: Just to make sure this is clear: so far there is little indication that these two campaigns are somehow related. Both being present in one extension was most likely a coincidence.
One of the extensions that used to contain the code in question was Visual Effects for Google Meet – which brought him to me because I recently covered that extension in my Karma Connection article: palant.info/2024/10/30/the-kar…
I checked my data but couldn’t find sclpfybn[.]com domain mentioned in any extensions other than the ones @tuckner found already. I then looked for similar code and immediately found it in Urban VPN Proxy.
First thought: Urban VPN Proxy has the legitimate version of a library that was trojanized elsewhere. Taking a look at the communication of Urban VPN Proxy disproved that theory almost immediately – not only was it communicating in exactly the same way, but also to an unknown domain, namely ducunt[.]com. Yet the same endpoint existed on the official urban-vpn[.]com domain as well.
So not only did Urban VPN Proxy contain essentially the same code, it was likely added there by the developers themselves. Further investigation increased the suspicion that all these extensions haven’t been compromised, that this was rather some monetization SDK.
At which point @tuckner found the sales pitch for that SDK, detailing how it would add ad blocking functionality to the extension at the cost of exfiltrating very detailed browsing data (of course anonymized and aggregated before being sold to everyone asking for it, we know the drill). And explanations on how to make sure Google won’t object.
And that explains it all: before the Visual Effects for Google Meet developer sold their extension to Karma, they tried to monetize it with this “ad blocking library.” The sales pitch doesn’t mention who develops the library but everything points to Urban VPN.
According to Urban VPN privacy policy, they are selling the data they collect from their users via BIScience Ltd. Who are most likely the hidden owners of Urban Cyber Security Inc., a company registered to a virtual address in the USA.
Edit: Updated link to Tuckner’s blog post, he split it away from the original investigation.
A bunch of malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store have hidden affiliate fraud functionality, collect users’ browsing profiles, or both. These extensions appear to be connected to the Karma shopping assistant, developed by Karma Shopping Ltd.
In other words, screw pedestrians, especially blind and other disabled people!
Waymo robotaxis, which are now ubiquitous in parts of CA, will often not stop for pedestrians using crosswalks there, unless a pedestrian is far into the road.
i haven't seen 3d printed ones this year (probably getting sneakier), fun tradition, good to see that's a thing! stickers are amazing, but nothing beats the 3d printed ones.
Another great podcast episode from @RyanAndrosoff this time with Andres Raieste from Estonia.
This is the second podcast from this year's #FWD50 conference in Ottawa. I would definitely recommend that folks in government listen to Trust is Everything | Ep 27
I liked the line about the importance of demonstrating incremental improvements. Starting with the tax department is also interesting.
Trust is everything. It’s clear we’re in a moment in time where people do not trust their governments. There is skepticism about the impact of big technology...
A reminder, a week on after this news broke, if you have the HONEY browser extension from PAYPAL installed, you should uninstall it immediately and delete all its cookies.
The extension + app owners
- does NOT find you the best coupons - does backroom deals with big retailers to drive conversions, with less discounts - steal(s) from creators - harvests your data for resale and manipulation - is classified as malware
Full details here (nb, the youtube display may not work because Youtube is actively blocking their cards / videos from displaying on Mastodon because of the MastoDDos effect)
Was Honey a legitimate money saving tool? Or just an affiliate marketing scam promoted by some of YouTube's biggest influencers?If you have any inside inform...
And if anybody ever tells you #security or #reproducibleBuilds are "set-and-forget", laugh straight into their faces. Software evolves, and so do their threats and risks…
German readers: Die Deutsche Version folgt in Kürze…
2024 waves goodbye, 2025 knocks at the door: what did we achieve in 2024, and what are our plans and hopes for 2025? Join us to take a look back at security measures established, at progress with Reproducible Builds – and for a look ahead of what mig…
Und wenn Euch jemand sagt, #security oder #reproducibleBuilds wären (einmal aufgesetzt) reine Selbstläufer: Lacht sie laut aus. Software entwickelt sich weiter – und so auch ihre Risiken und Threats…
2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …
Envision Glasses are AI-powered smartglasses that articulate everyday visual information into speech. And, with this information, comes the feeling of independence and the perception of possibilities.
Changelog: - fix for a bug after adding/removing a post to favorites which led to lose custom emojis; - fix spacing between post and reply placeholders when using the new Card layout; - fix a minor accessibility issue with the new audio player; - fix crash when rendering some HTML posts; - fix "floating" (overlapping) images for embedded contents; - localization updates (included support for upcoming Romanian translation); - library updates.
I think we are almost ready for the 0.4 version. In the meantime I've submitted both Raccoon apps to Google Play so I may be needed some volunteers to participate in the closed testing program before the apps can be made available to the general public.
La palabra “zíngaro” es una especie de red flag 🚩 para muchos gitanos. Cada vez que alguien, en nuestro territorio y en nuestras lenguas, escoge esta denominación en realidad a nosotros nos llega lo siguiente:
a) Evitas la palabra “gitano”. ¿Y por qué la evitas? Porque para ti “gitano” es una palabra connotada negativamente. Es decir, relacionada con elementos negativos. Quizá eres de los que dicen “gitanillos” o “de etnia” 🤮.
b) La palabra zíngaro te permite asociar elementos mágicos, místicos o espirituales especiales a las personas de las que hablas. Quieres hablar de una conexión especial con la naturaleza, una forma especial, casi mística de relacionarse entre ellos, los animales y el resto del mundo. Una visión muy similar a la que se fabrica de los pueblos indígenas de todas partes.
Todo ello contribuye a vernos como parte de un decorado de parque temático. Romantiza (sorry) la marginalización y exterminio, la prohibición de avanzar.
Para la supervivencia, algunos de nosotros hemos tenido que aprovechar estos estereotipos que podríamos considerar inofensivos (ciertamente son menos nocivos que otros). Pero también contribuyen a hacernos misteriosos, sospechosos y desagradables.
Somos gitanos. Si estás leyendo, puedes decir la palabra, dila sólo si es necesario pero siempre con normalidad, aunque la otra te parezca más poética.
Y si sigues sintiéndote incómodo, “romaní” no falla.
No seas como esos compañeros docentes con el síndrome del salvador blanco que bajan la voz para decir “gitano”. El término os lo inventasteis vosotros, pues ahora apechugad. 😅
Adjunto descripción gráfica de todo lo anterior. 🙈
"Advent of Code" is an online event where you're given 25 two-part code puzzles, which you're supposed to solve in 25 days in December. I was busy so instead I'm doing a slow-motion, one-puzzle-per-week version over the course of 2025, but with an added restriction: I have to do it in a different language each week.
Leah
in reply to Leah • • •Und damit sind auch alle 145 Bilder, die ich bisher gemacht habe, auf Flickr. #38C3
Wie immer CC-BY-SA und in voller Auflösung hier: flickr.com/photos/leahoswald/a…
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Leah Oswald (Flickr)Leah
in reply to Leah • • •Und nochmal ein paar neue Bilder im Flickr Album :) Und gleich geht es nochmal auf die vermutlich letzte Runde durchs Gebäude. #38c3
flickr.com/photos/leahoswald/w…
Leah
in reply to Leah • • •Hiermit sind jetzt auch die letzten Bilder vom Congress online. Insgesamt 214 Bilder :) Viel Spaß damit! #38C3
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Leah Oswald (Flickr)Leah
in reply to Leah • • •Und weil ich es nicht lassen kann, sind jetzt nochmal ein paar Bilder vom Abbau der #Fairydust dazu gekommen :)
Tschüss Fairydust!
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