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Join us and special guest, David Hartl from SCHWEIZER, on Thursday, February 13 at Noon ET for the live webinar, "Low Vision and AMD: The Importance of Lighting."

We will provide an overview of the SCHWEIZER low vision lighting solutions, plus show how our lighting solutions significantly impacts daily living activities, like reading, writing, and crafts.

ACVREP credits available during live presentation.

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Free Training Webinars by Vispero. Pictured on right; man sitting in a chair reading a book with the SCHWEIZER table lamp beside him.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Low Vision and AMD: The Importance of Lighting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for a live webinar as we discuss the importance of good lighting for those with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision.
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Today, I celebrate my one year anniversary of working for Blazie Technologies. Truth be told, I had been providing feedback on the BT Speak Pro as a volunteer beta tester while I was still an employee at Comcast working as a product manager. Of course, I was not able to talk about the BT Speak in those days as it was still very much a secret project but I was thrilled to help test what would eventually be a brand new device, similar to the Braille ‘n Speak for the modern age.

The original Braille ‘n Speak was also a major part of my life. After buying a BNS Classic in 1989, I used it professionally in two different roles to help me manage data, along with using it as my only computer for managing contacts, creative writing and going online. I soon realized that I’d love to work for the company that developed it. I was in contact with Blazie Engineering fairly often, submitting bug reports and sometimes answering questions from other users on their bulletin board system, a type of online service that many of us engaged with before the Internet became a thing.

In 1991, my wish came true and I worked for Blazie Engineering primarily doing tech support as well as writing some of the user documentation, software beta testing and continuing to answer users’ questions on the BBS, later doing so on the first Blazie mailing list. Sounds remarkably like the job that I have now. 😀 Even in those early days, I wasn’t looking enough at the big picture. I didn’t view that role as the potential start of a career. I was a lot younger then and pretty much saw it as a cool job to have, which I admit it was. However, it did launch my career in this field, for which I will always be grateful to Deane and Bryan Blazie for making the decision to hire a very inexperienced, young and sometimes rather headstrong, starry-eyed kid.

After being one of those who was impacted by layoffs at my previous employer in October of 2023, I eventually started getting more involved with testing the BT Speak and an eventual opportunity opened to make my role with Blazie Technologies more formal, which I gladly accepted. I would like to thank Bryan and Deane Blazie, along with other members of the Blazie family, for giving me this opportunity and allowing me to be a part of an exciting and innovative project.
@BTSpeak@TweeseCake.social #BTSpeak
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Celebrating My First Anniversary Working for Blazie Technologies

Celebrating My First Anniversary Working for Blazie Technologies Today, I celebrate my one year anniversary of working for Blazie Technologies. Truth be told, I had been providing feedback on the B…
Thoughts from David Goldfield
#btspeak
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¡Amigas!

Estrenamos la llegada de ACO al fediverso con algo grande. Muy grande.

Mañana presentaremos una denuncia contra Daniel Esteve, líder de Desokupa, por delitos de odio. Hemos recopilado pruebas que demuestran que su actividad en redes sociales se basa en generar, sistemáticamente, odio contra el colectivo de personas migrantes. Y lo hace a través de mentiras y desinformación.

Más de 2.200 personas han mostrado su apoyo a la denuncia. ¡Únete!
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Apoya la denuncia ciudadana contra Daniel Esteve, líder de Desokupa

Demostremos a Daniel Esteve, líder de Desokupa, que sus actos racistas no van a quedar impunes.
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cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out...
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cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its 'Hyper' Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code
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30,000 PCs are moving from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. At the recent Univention Summit 2025, we met the people handling the migration: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Photo of LibreOffice stand at Univention, with Dirk Schrödter, Schleswig-Holstein's Minister for Digitalisation

LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

The northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Вчера впервые за долгое время оказалась в районе Третьяковки. А там - новые элитнейшие ЖК, доминируют над всем районом. Уже построен "Armani", в процессе - "Лаврушенский" и, чуть дальше, "Русские сезоны".
Район теперь выглядит незнакомым...

Сейчас прочла у Галины Юзефович о том же: "Не укореняйтесь, ничего не любите, ни к чему не привязывайтесь, оно не важно. Оно не ваше. Это не ваш город. Ваши теплые эмоции, ваши привязанности, ваши представления о норме, ваша школа и ваш троллейбус - все это не стоит гроша ломаного. За вас решат - в большом и в малом."
t.me/ryba_lotsman/2409

Мне интересно, что случилось с ограничениями по высотности жилой застройки в центре. Хотя вопрос, конечно, риторический.

#Москва


Рыба Лоцман

Полюбовалась на проекты "реконструкции" цирка на проспекте Вернадского и нового (огромного) небоскреба на месте здания СЭВ в начале Нового Арбата. Испытала бессильную ярость.
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#москва
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Limping

@menelion лет 20 назад ещё более-менее соблюдали высотный регламент в центре. Самым ярким нарушителем был ЖК Патриарх.
А в последние годы практически официально отказались от ограничений высоты.
@André Polykanine

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BREAKING 🚨 Total made USD18.3BILLION in profit last year!

It was also the hottest year on record for the planet.

Fossil fuels are the biggest contributor to the climate crisis that causes communities to push through devastating extreme weather everywhere.

Their profit is our loss.

‼️ Tag your decision-makers in the comments below with a message to phase out fossil fuels to make way for a green, safe and more just society.

#StopDrillingStartPaying #TheirProfitOurLoss

📷 Patrick Pouyanné, Total, in a retouched image (Top). Local resident during floodings in Philippines (bottom) Disclaimer: Images of CEOs used in this campaign are staged and doctored for illustrative purposes. Illustrations are created without the use of regenerative AI.
#stopdrillingstartpaying #theirprofitourloss

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Así soa a voz orixinal de Castelao: publicado o único rexistro sonoro do escritor galego
Autor: Gloria Montenegro

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#Retro #Castelao #ConsellodaCulturaGalega #Galicia #rexistrosonoro


Así soa a voz orixinal de Castelao

O Consello da Cultura Galega vén de compartir unha nova dixitalización do discurso que ofreceu o autor nunha estrea da súa obra de teatro
Gloria Montenegro (Gciencia)
#retro #galicia #castelao #consellodaculturagalega #rexistrosonoro

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💧 No water. No life.

Pollution, flooding, and water scarcity threaten our waters—we must do better.

🔵 Our latest water reports highlight the progress made over the past six years, while also identifying areas for further action.

🔵 These reports map the way for EU countries to protect our freshwater and marine environments —and safeguard communities from floods.

🔵 The findings will help shape the upcoming EU Water Resilience Strategy.

Details: europa.eu/!mV6qcM

#WaterWiseEU

A visual with a light brown background, with a big illustrative drop of water in the middle. Half of the water droplet shows the blue sea and other half shows arid land. The text, "Water scarcity affected 40% of the EU land in 2022.” The European Commission logo is placed on the bottom-right and #EUDataCrunch is mentioned on the bottom-left corner.

Commission reports show faster progress is needed across Europe to protect waters and better manage flood risks

Today, the European Commission is publishing its latest reports on the state of water in the European Union.
European Commission - European Commission
#waterwiseeu
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OnePlus 6 camera support MR opened

edit: forgot to enable the drivers so this doesn't actually work yet

mrtest it yourself once CI finishes and reply with your own totally epic and cool OnePlus 6 selfies :3

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linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845: upgrade to 6.13.0 and add cameras for op6 (!6148) · Merge requests · postmarketOS / pmaports · GitLab

Enable all the missing kconfig check options and ship initial camera support so folks can play around with it and start working on the userspace bits.
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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Vamos tirando, para mejor. La vida sigue.

Hoy me llega la noticia de que el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional ha aprobado el procedimiento de elaboración de la estrategia contra la desinformación. Es un problema real, pero no me convence nada la forma en que pueda abordarlo un estado burgués. Habrá que estar atento.

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Aprobado el procedimiento de elaboración de la Estrategia Nacional contra las Campañas de Desinformación | Sitio oficial del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional

En reunión del 28 de enero de 2025, el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional aprobó el Acuerdo de elaboración de la Estrategia nacional contra las campañas de desinformación.  
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Hundreds of ducks found sick or dead along Lake Michigan as outbreak of H5N1 bird flu hits Chicago area

WGNTV "....CHICAGO — Hundreds of ducks infected with avian influenza — H5N1 bird flu — have been found along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area, prompting warnings from area health officials....."

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#h5n1 #birdflu #hpai

#birdflu #h5n1 #hpai
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I see blindies asking this and that and the other about VMWare workstation, so let me say that if you have any questions about doing stuff in VMWare Workstation, I'm your guy. I have near 8 years of experience, research, testing and tools on my side. Want VMWare Tools for Windows Vista and 7? Sure thing. Want a Windows XP VM with JAWS 9.0? I'll build you a Windows XP VM with JAWS 9.0. Shoot, want a Windows 98 VM? I can make you a fucking Windows 98 VM pretty easily.
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Since nobody’s covering this stuff, I’ll do it.

This is from Hakeem Jeffries, Leader of the House Democratic Caucus.

My own U.S. House representative has been all over the district, and has called an emergency town hall for Thursday evening.

If you’re not seeing this in the same media that normalized and generally wanted Trump by all appearances, don’t be shocked.

Democrats are doing things, limited by the power voters didn’t bother to give them. That’s just the reality of the situation.

Screenshot of a letter to Democrats from Hakeem Jeffries: “Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Leader, February 3, 2025: Dear Colleague: As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, House Democrats will continue to push back against the far-right extremism that is being relentlessly unleashed on the American people. I write with an update on several urgent matters that we are working on for the country. First, I have made clear to House Republican leadership that any effort to steal taxpayer money from the American people, end Medicaid as we know it or defund programs important to everyday Americans, as contemplated by the illegal White House Office of Management and Budget order, must be choked off in the upcoming government funding bill, if not sooner. Second, at my direction, legislation will be introduced shortly to prevent unlawful access to the Department of Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service payment system that contains highly confidential and personal information related to Social Security and Medicare recipients, taxpayers, households, nonprofits, businesses and federal contractors. Third, in partnership with the Democratic Policy & Communications Committee, we will continue to highlight Republican policies that raise the already high cost of living for everyday Americans, including the wide-ranging tariffs directed at allies that risk dramatically increasing the price of groceries, fuel and automobiles in the United States of America.”

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#Breaking

Greenland’s parliament the Inatsisartut today passed a new law making it illegal for foreign entities to donate to political parties or politicians in Greenland. The law was passed with 22 to 0 votes.

That’s how much the people of Greenland want a hostile takeover from Trump and his cronies.

And in case you are wondering: X is NOT a popular medium in Greenland, so Musk will not be able to tamper with the public narrative

Source (in Danish): dr.dk/nyheder/politik/groenlan…


Grønland forbyder penge fra udlandet i politik, og regeringsformand foreslår valg 11. marts

Anonyme og udenlandske donationer til partier og politikere er med ny lov gjort forbudt i Grønland.
DR
#breaking

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Have been listening to Anne Murray's biography "All Of Me" on audible, it is really good and she reads it and plays clips of her music. She would be one of the top celebrities I would love to meet in some other life maybe. I have recorded 7 of her songs so far in the past few years. desireerenae.com/tag/anne-murr… I enjoy singing her music, though my versions might make her cringe a little, lol.

Anne Murray – Desiree Renae's Website

Desiree Renae's Website
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Infomaniak, Switzerland's leading developer of Web technologies, Platinum Sponsor of #DebConf25 bits.debian.org/2025/01/infoma…

Infomaniak Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25

We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is Switzerland’s leading developer of Web technologies. With operations all over Europe and based exclusively in Switzerland, the company.
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Microsoft tests new PowerToys app that can pull audio from video files pcworld.com/article/2596679/mi…

Microsoft tests new PowerToys app that can pull audio from video files

Microsoft is currently developing an update to its killer PowerToys collection of Windows apps that can extract audio from a video file, allowing you to sample music or lines of dialogue from videos.
Mark Hachman (PCWorld)
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