If you haven't dipped your toes into Next Gen Access, here's a taste of what Season 1 had to offer! We talk about innovations in NVDA, VoiceOver, JAWS, ZoomText, Fusion, and More! We have an assortment of amazing Panelist including Steven Scott, Shaun Preece, Shelly Brisbin, Robin Christopherson , Carrie Morales , Sam Seavey , and many more talented people! Listen to this highlights of our first season. pinecast.com/listen/c89a824d-5… #a11y
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Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege. “[We’re writing] this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary & capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful & corrosive to our democracy.” nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opinion…

The amazing story of how a cooler and app have transformed organ transplants | digitaltrends
"...Paragonix recognized organ storage temperature couldn’t be too cold, and they were persevered more effectively between four-and-eight degrees celsius. It now produces a range of high-tech storage devices that cool, preserve, and even track the “health” of the organ it contains, along with a master app to simplify, streamline, and speed up the crucial flow of information throughout its journey...."
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ICYMI: tech blog Canadian man charged with stealing $65m using crypto exploits technology.jaredrimer.net/2025… check it out!

Some trusted organizations are doing training calls for folks wanting info on how to help counter deportations:

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I got upgraded to version 2.5. This silly ringtone of a Bach piece got upgraded as well, to version 2.2.
From the Samsung SGH-X120, and several other phones. Arranged by Kimitaka Matsumae, licensed from Yamaha. MMF: onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones…
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Google brings NotebookLM Plus, its note-taking AI assistant with higher usage limits, to individuals on Google One AI Premium, and debuts a 50% student discount (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Do you need tips and keyboard commands for using the New Outlook with JAWS? Join us Thursday, Feb 20 at Noon ET for a live webinar. #FreedomScientifictraining
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A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google
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Canada uses Super Bowl distraction to burn down White House again

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Y'a quelqu'un qui a déjà réussi à faire en sorte que ce test #xmpp passe ? compliance.conversations.im/te… J'ai ajouté le module http_altconnect à mon serveur prosody version 0.12.5 et que pouic
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#Prav project started 3 years ago with the goal of mass adoption of private messaging powered by #XMPP and democratic decision-making. The project was inspired by #Quicksy and #Snikket.

Read more at ravidwivedi.in/posts/backstory…

Today, I am glad to announce our first edition of #PravConf in #Kochi, #India. Join us on the 1st and the 2nd of March.

Don't forget to spread the word😜

More details at conf.prav.app

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We asked a PSU expert which adapters or extensions are okay for the RTX 50-series. His answer: 'DO NOT BUY adapters or extenders, they can all be dangerous' | PC Gamer
(side-Note: While a bit lengthy of a title, it's a great example of a headline that goes out of the way to show how clickbait isn't always the way.)
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My favourite part of this interview? Hmmm...maybe this?

Vikander: What did you learn about craft while writing this, your first book?

De Garis: Craft is a conversation with your materials. It can’t be hurried. It requires attention, patience, and humility. Writing also taught me that craft resists capitalism—not just in theory but in practice. Eighteen months of work for £1250 made that point clearer than any philosophical argument.

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#Writing #Scotland #Books #Author

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 13 updated (6 RB) and 1 added apps:

* Smither: a light-weight Android client for Mastodon 🛡️

RB status: 433 apps (34.7%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

Our new ISO release is here, meet Mercury

It has been a while since we released our last ISO, Endeavour Neo, and even though this new ISO comes with many improvements and technical challenges we had to tackle, like resolving issues that came with Linux kernel 6.13, the Xfce 4.20 update, sfdisk and Calamares' kpmcore, those challenges weren't the main reason for the long hiatus between Endeavour Neo and Me

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That sort of position always brings to mind Whitehead's quote on his work on mathematics:

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

(1/2) Arabic was formalized almost entirely by Persians who derived language theories to understand how Arabic works.

Two intellectual rival grammar schools developed:

* School of Basra - Accepted rational derivation of grammar + minimized exceptions
* School of Kufa - More reliant on literary evidence + allowed more exceptions

This is simplified, of course. Though they agreed on much & eventually merged, it had a profound impact on legal theory and philosophy - parallel to Aristotle vs Plato

Zotac has a plan to keep RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs away from the clutches of scalpers – and it sounds like it might be… | Tech Radar
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#TIL that #Thunderbird lets me set #filters to move an #email to a particular place *when* I archive it, rather than immediately! So I can still read the emails as they come in, and then hit "archive" to have them automagically filed away 📁️

There are other triggers too, besides "as soon as the email comes in" and "when I archive" that I haven't explored yet. Thunderbird rocks! :thunderbird: ✨️

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Introducing, my new bot @transfers ( @[url=https://social.bgp.tools/users/transfers]transfers@bgp.tools[/url] )

Using the stuff I built for the IP transfer history feature on bgp.tools, this bot will now post all of the new IP/ASN transfers (with a 24-48 hour delay) that the website observes, plus a rough estimate of what the market value for the IPv4 addresses are being moved around are worth