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Join Bryan Blazie and @DavidGoldfield on ACB Media's Doing Braille Digitally this Saturday, March 22 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. We'll talk about the latest batch of updates that were just added to BT Speak. We'll also have a teeny bit to say about the upcoming Braille display product we've named BT Braille.

Here is the Zoom link for this event.
acb-org.zoom.us/j/85372703181?…
You can also listen on ACB Media 5.
Say to your Amazon device, “ask ACB Media to play 5.”
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Meeting ID: 853 7270 3181
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Kevin R Jones

a blog post I wrote you might enjoy

How I’m Using Textedit beyond VI and VIM to edit files from the Mac os terminal – Accessibility Insights
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How I’m Using Textedit beyond VI and VIM to edit files from the Mac os terminal

There’s a joke about the Unix editor vi, that goes something like: I’ve been using vi for so long, because I can’t figure out how to get out of it. Vim, in my opinion isn’t …
Accessibility Insights

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Did you know I maintain the Podcast Guest Guide, a step-by-step guide explaining what to do if you've been invited to appear on a podcast? I just gave it a light update – podcast hosts, feel free to send your upcoming guests to podcastguestguide.com at any time 🎙👍

The Podcast Guest Guide

A step-by-step guide explaining what to do if you're invited to appear on a podcast. Relax and sound great, with the Podcast Guest Guide.
podcastguestguide.com

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Internet Archive Responds to Record Labels in 78s Lawsuit: Stop Playing “Hide-The-Ball” ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/03/21/in…

Hacking at Leaves Screening – Hosted by the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is happy to announce a screening of a documentary, "Hacking at Leaves" at our headquarters in San Francisco. Tickets are available Here. \'Hacking at Leaves\' documents artist […]\n
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We're going LIVE in just 15 minutes—come hang out and catch up on the biggest AI news you need to know!
Whether you're deep into AI or just curious what's going on, this stream breaks it down in a way that makes sense. Real talk, real insights, and a chance to ask questions live.
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#AI #TechTalk #LiveStream #AICommunity #ArtificialIntelligence
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AI News For March 21

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#AI #livestream #artificialintelligence #techtalk #aicommunity

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There's a famous library on the border between Quebec and Vermont. The borderline runs right through the library. It's been this way for 100 years and it is symbolic of the closeness between Americans and Canadians. In Trump's Amerikkka wonderful is no longer allowed. So they closed access to Canadians today. Canadians aren't just angry at the insults and threats, we are also grieving the end of a great relationship. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us…
Photo of Haskell Free Library and Opera House. A library with a border on the floor. Two flags Canadian and American sit on a book case above the line marking the border between the two countries. In the background books and a desk like any other library.
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jonny (good kind)

In case it is unclear: libgen is good. Subverting copyright cartels is good. Authors getting paid for their work is also good, but copyright does not serve that role and is instead a weapon publishers use to retain control as obligate distribution passages and thus control over payment. Meta being able to vacuum up the commons (without even seeding) and launder it into a tool of mass informational disempowerment and control is bad. Meta being able to torrent while the rest of us can't is bad.

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DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option (Gael Cooper/CNET)

cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…
techmeme.com/250321/p28#a25032…


DoorDash Partners With Klarna So Diners Can Put Food Delivery On Installments

Don't expect to pay for a taco in installments -- a Klarna rep says the credit options can only be used on purchases of $35 and up.
Gael Cooper (CNET)

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This week we released GNOME 48! 🎉

A new major release with exciting changes including notification stacking, performance improvements, an improved image viewer, a new interface font, new digital wellbeing settings, a new audio player, HDR support and much more!

To find out more, and to see what else happened this week, check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!

👉 thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #ThisWeekInGNOME

GNOME 48 banner

#192 Forty-eight!

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 14 to March 21.
thisweek.gnome.org
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Like the more famous Pompei, Herculaneum was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

In 1752, workmen discovered charred papyri and excavations of them started later. Over the years, attempts have been made to open and read them, but they have disintegrated.

Now, using volumetric scanning, the scrolls are beginning to be "unrolled."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculan…

#science #archelogy

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the night of 8 August 1779 by Peter Fabris

papyri found in Herculaneum

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#science #archelogy

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A local ordinance has banned grass burning because it poisons the air and kills insects, and there are organic waste bins on every corner. Unfortunately, the effect is just the opposite. People who aren't selfish idiots didn't burn grass even before, and the rest burn even more now to show that they aren't obedient sheep and that no one is going to take away their freedom to poison the air for their neighbors.

This graph shows what it does to the #airquality. It immediately jumps from OK to unhealthy.

A chart that shows PM2.5 levels. Most of the graph is in yellow (10-35) and then it immediately jumps to red (60-70).
#airquality

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You might think, “why do you care about sports? Why does this matter? This doesn’t affect you”. Sports bans are about creating precedent to justify further discrimination. They start with sports and denying care to minors and then expand to bathroom bans, forced detransition for inmates, denying care to adults and ID laws and the whole time their goal is to sound measured and reasonable and play to respectability while they legislate trans people to death. Literal death
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Danielle Foré

Sports bans are about getting you to agree that trans women are not equal to cis women and that they are something dangerous, to be feared, something invasive, something other that needs to be stopped. It’s about villainization. The science doesn’t support it. It’s 100% feels based scaremongering. If you think, “I’m a progressive person but it’s about fairness” or whatever the fuck, you’re being duped. You’re a mark and you’re enabling genocide

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Today, in dystopia. This looks like it's directly lifted from a Cory Doctorow novel.

CBS News: DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer an eat now, pay later plan

"...DoorDash customers will have the option either to pay in full, to pay in four equal installments or to postpone payment to "a more convenient time, such as a date that aligns with their paycheck," DoorDash said Thursday in a news release...."

cbsnews.com/news/klarna-doorda…

#dystopia

MoneyWatch DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer an eat now, pay later plan

DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer an eat now, pay later plan

Sweden's Klarna already offers deferred payment options to Walmart shoppers and J.P. Morgan customers.
Kate Gibson (CBS News)
#dystopia

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Coca-Cola is installing what the company claims to be the world’s first hydrogen-powered vending machines at the World Expo 2025, which will open to the public in Osaka, Japan, on April 13th, 2025. Co-developed by Fuji Electric, the machines don’t need access to a power outlet and instead rely on replaceable hydrogen cartridges to fuel a chemical reaction that generates electricity, @theverge reports:
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#CocaCola #Hydrogen #Energy #WorldExpo2025 #Japan


Coca-Cola’s new hydrogen-powered vending machine doesn’t need a power outlet

Coca-Cola’s new vending machine uses replaceable hydrogen cartridges and chemical reactions to generate its own power.
Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
#japan #energy #hydrogen #cocacola #worldexpo2025 @The Verge

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Zoom is about to release the H5studio Recorder. It talks like the essential stuff does, but it has the superior F-series microphone preamps and 192 kHz recording, as well as the H6 Essential's mic capsule system.

This basically looks like a Zoom F3 that talks, plus the replaceable X/Y microphones of the H6 Essential.

Hmm... I might have a hardly used H6 Essential for sale soon.

sweetwater.com/store/detail/H5…

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Wanted to run your own builder for #reproducibleBuilds and were disappointed our RBuilder Setup was only available for Debian-based systems? Then we have good news for you: a few min ago, 2 PRs have been merged. The setup scripts now also support RPM & Arch based systems 🥳

RPM/Arch lack packages for apksigner & dexdiff (which are needed for debugging). We're on it, those will follow hopefully soon™.

Thanks to @Iamlooker and Patrick (from FlorisBoard) for your help!

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rbuilder_setup

Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependencies
Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
#reproduciblebuilds @LooKeR
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Oh, and the Readme of the rbuilder_setup repo needed a few updates as well 🙈 Done now: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil…

If you've set up a builder, we'd love to hear from your experiences – concerning the setup (was it easy enough and straight-forward?) as well as from operation :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #Android


rbuilder_setup

Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependencies
Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
#android #reproduciblebuilds

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Нейронные центры, обрабатывающие русский и английский языки, схожим образом реагируют и на клингонский с валирийским – но при этом игнорируют языки программирования.

Мозг работает с искусственными языками, как с естественными

Нейронные центры, обрабатывающие русский и английский языки, схожим образом реагируют и на клингонский с валирийским – но при этом игнорируют языки программирования.
nkj.ru

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This is the stuff of a totalitarian nightmare. It's not something you would imagine in a democratic nation. But this is the reality of life in Trump's America.

And this is why I went to Canada's Parliament to issue a travel warning to Canadian citizens: avoid all unnecessary travel to the USA. #cdnpoli


MY WARNING TO CANADIANS: DO NOT TRAVEL TO TRUMP LAND

A Chilling New Reality at the Border
Charlie Angus / The Resistance
#cdnpoli

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I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯

Nobody saw that coming! :blobcat0_0:

:blobcatcoffee:

#Discord #WalledGardens


Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

Discord looks for more ways to make money ahead of expected IPO.
Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#discord #walledgardens
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.

Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."

But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.

So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷‍♀️

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Vincarsi

@lritter Effective Altruism is basically rebranded eugenics when you get down to brass tacks. They use a lot of flowery language about "preventing future suffering", but when you scratch the surface of how they plan to accomplish that it's just an excuse to remove the agency of people who are suffering now so they don't breed more suffering into the world.
I'd agree the premise has been twisted, if it didn't come from a source that obviously created it as a cover for their fascist BS
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