If this thing lands in Saskatchewan, I'm not sure if I will laugh, cry, or start wearing a helmet at all times. Guess I'll find out soon! sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/…
Someone needs to write a post-apocalyptic scifi novel about the Venera probe falling to Earth after catastrophic runaway greenhouse and functioning perfectly and carrying out its science mission because it was designed for Venus.
American Geophysical Union (#AGU) and the American Meteorological Society Say They’ll Keep Working on #US #NationalClimateAssessment The organizations said they would publish researchers’ work even after Trump administration decision to dismiss all authors on the project. The new effort would not replace the federal report, which is Congressionally mandated, the statement from AGU and American Meteorological Society said. nytimes.com/2025/05/02/climate… archive.ph/veXe9 #climate #climatechange
“Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud,” Popular Information reports.
Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
Boosting Web Accessibility with Drupal CMS and AI DrupalCamp Ottawa, May 2, 2025 https://drupalcampottawa.com/en/sessions/schedule Web accessibility is a journey—and with the right tools, Drupal can help you get there faster.
Every time I take self-driving car, the experience seems to get better and better. Today, for the first time, I was able to locate the car on my own. The phone would vibrate and VoiceOver would announce the distance and the derection of the car in relation to me. As you approach the car, you can press the button in the app to honk! :) Really cool! Hard to believe how far this tech has gone! :)
@FreakyFwoof That's awesome! In my experience, the phone would tel me the car is a number of feet behind when it would be in front of me. It's not perfect, but it's a huge improvement over most ridesharing services people are used to. But yeah, the experience over all is magic!
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a temporary restraining order to block the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
A passwordless future doesn’t mean a future where we eliminate passwords entirely, but one where we provide the most straightforward and secure sign-in experience for every user, in every situation.
@Marián Kyral Zkoušel jsem si vyplnit dotazník, které distro je nejvýhodnější pro běžného zdatnějšího uživatele Win s dobrým počítačem. Výsledek? Žádné. U každého je nějaké "ale". Pravda neprodává.
@jiri myslím že je to jedno. Zkusil jsem pár distribuci, připadalo mi to skoro stejné... Asi tomu nerozumím. Ale Linux mám už od minulého století 😁jde o to začít.
@Marián Kyral @Zdeněk Doležal Ale proč ti distrochooser.de ukáže spoustu distribucí a u každé nějaké mínus, takže si řekneš "aha, je to složité, zůstanu s Win".
@Marián Kyral @Martin Bodlák 💙💛 @Zdeněk Doležal Přesně tak, ale to znamená: minimální bariéra pro přechod na linux, tj. propagovat jedno zralé distro ideálně evropského původu (patriotismus; nabízí se OpenSUSE). Představte si kolik se leje peněz ročně do USA MSftu. Kdyby polovina těch prostředků šla na servis linuxů, tak jsme tady bohatí.
Thank you to everyone who helped make #LAS2025 a successful hybrid event! Do you want to host #LAS2026 in your city? The open call for locations is now live. Submit your bid at: info@linuxappsummit.org #GNOME #KDE
If there's any overlap at all between my followers and the kind of science fiction fan who will be attending Worldcon in Seattle (@seattlein2025) or just follows what's going on in that scene, then I beg you, please go easy on the Worldcon organizers. There's apparently some controversy around them deciding to use ChatGPT to vet possible panelists. Their statement on that is here: seattlein2025.org/2025/04/30/s… I'm not into SF conventions, but one of my favorite SF authors posted about this. 1/?
We have received questions regarding Seattle’s use of AI tools in our vetting process for program participants. In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we are using a Large Language Model (LLM).
It's clear from their post that the Worldcon organizers did their best to be careful in their use of an LLM, while still benefitting from large-scale automation of web searches in the only way they knew how to do it. I just hope none of their staff get thrown under the bus over this. 2/2
I wouldn't bet on it. We live in an age where it's easier than ever to pull the trigger on a judgement call based on overly emotional prior art and misinformation, with the added bonus that indiscriminately judging people for using AI provides a brief distraction from doomscrolling while making people feel righteous.
I'll be at #RustWeek (rustweek.org/) in Utrecht from May 13 through 17. Looking forward to meeting a lot of people in the Rust community, possibly including some people I've interacted with here on the fediverse.
The next round of Governing Board elections, OAuth 2.0 login with shiny new Fractal 11, and Matrix to safeguard AI-human collaboration? This and more happened This Week In Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05/02/thi…
thank you for the swift response; I did see that page already, given they only have two of those… still, no names, no socials, no handles and also no address give me somewhat of an ick 😣
GitHub Copilot Chat can help you learn about accessibility and improve the accessibility of your code. In this blog, we share a sample foundational prompt that instructs GitHub Copilot Chat to become your personal AI assistant for accessibility.
Hey, #fediverse experts: I have a question. On my blog, I embed comments from the #fediverse. I also link to the comment thread on my instance. However, nobody else is using my instance. Is there a service where I can pass it a URL to a note, and it will ask the user what instance they use, then direct there instance to go get that note so they can respond? It currently looks like this, comments at the bottom; I'd like to replace the "this post on the fediverse" link with some way for users to pick their instance: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/02/sleep-solutions.html
@thenexusofprivacy Yup. Right now someone who stumbled on one of my posts later would have a hard time commenting. They'd have to have a fediverse account, and know how to search for a post by URL on that service. I really really don't want to run and moderate my own comment system, though. I'm thinking maybe the solution would be to create some kind of account on my instance (webanon@fed.interfree.ca or something) and then build a form that uses that account to submit replies to the thread from web commenters. But I'd have to figure out how to keep the spammers from filling out the form, and now I'm back into captchas and everything else that makes me not want to run my own comments system.
@FediTips@homegrown Thanks! I love using the fediverse as my commenting system. It just makes it hard for people who don't follow me directly to participate, and I'd love a way to solve that problem.
@FediTips@homegrown Also, none of those systems offer perfect screen reader accessibility for writing posts and modifying design and layout. They all have one or more issues, and at least one task a blind person can't complete without help.
@FediTips More accessible to me, anyway. It requires writing markdown in a text editor and running a powershell script on the command line. I'm not sure I would distribute it to others, as it's a bit specialized to my own needs and preferences.
@FediTips If other blind folks approach you to ask about accessible blogging, micro.blog is the best generic solution I've found that doesn't require technical expertise. Unfortunately it's paid. I think @WeirdWriter is using Hugo or Eleventy or something.
Correct. I’m using Eleventy without any ActivityPub integration at the moment, but even though these aren’t direct ties to the Fediverse, TeaHouse aims to make static sites easy to use for non-technical people. I linked it at the end but BearBlog, fully managed and 95% accessible, could be adapted to work with the Fediverse, including allowing for Fediverse comments. I thought MicroBlog is very integrated with the Fedi though, even allowing comments from BlueSky and Mastodon natively? You can check out Teahouse at teahouse.cafe/product.html
@WeirdWriter@FediTips Also, feel free to grab the JavaScript I use to pull in Fediverse comments if you want. The source isn't obfuscated, so looking at the HTML of an article page on stuff.interfree.ca should show you what to do. In short, include some JavaScript in the header and a div in the body.
Thank you! I will! I plan to test it on Bearblog first. What do people get when they register for micro blogs 1 dollar a month plan? Just a blog with no indieWeb or activityPub stuff?
@WeirdWriter@FediTips Correct. No custom themes, no activity pub, and no use of mobile apps. To add in the activity pub stuff you have to go to the five bucks a month plan. If you also want to use the mobile apps and have email newsletters, now it's ten bucks a month. Considering you can get a VPS that can host a static blog for eight bucks a month, or do it free on places like freeshell or github pages, that seems a bit much.
@FediTips@homegrown If it helps, I'm using a modified version of this library to pull the comments, with enhancements for screen reader accessibility, and changes to work with IceShrimp.NET instead of Mastodon: github.com/UppaJung/fediverse-comments
I'm not a web dev so I'm really not sure I can help, but there are web devs and self-hosters who follow the @homegrown account, hopefully someone there has an answer?
@FediTips@homegrown Here's hoping! There are already "share to mastodon" links that let users pick there instance. We just need a "view on mastodon" service that does the same thing with Mastodon posts so people can easily reply when given a link to a post.
@FediTips Whenever I make a blog post, I post a link to it on the fediverse from this account. Then I pull any replies to the fediverse post I made as comments on my blog. So to make a comment, people need to make a reply to my fediverse post about it. Then it will show up in the fediverse thread and as a comment under the blog article. For example: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html is pulling comments from: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a77rsl3x59d4y00j
Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese #audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be #accessible to both #blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html
Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.
Digitale #Nachhaltigkeit fördern - Verantwortung in der digitalen Transformation wahrnehmen. Jetzt unsere Resolution des @luki auf dem #kirchentag unterschreiben: Markt der Möglichkeiten, Halle 6, Stand J44
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminating federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), accusing the broadcasters of promoting “radical, woke propaganda disguised a…
Interesting! I've been having great success lately with BrainFM, though I'm only using the "atmospheric" tracks. I'll have to check out the one you mentioned. The earbuds that worked for me are wired - the wire can be inconvenient, but with no battery, they're so much smaller than wireless, so I can wear them comfortably for 8-plus hours. Your mileage may vary of course...
@earthtoneone I always wake up with the wire around my neck. Not surprising brain.fm works for focus better than for sleep. I’ve never tried it for focusing as I have no issues in that area.
Hey I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea. I've been on CPAP therapy since March 18, and have trouble falling asleep with it. Furthermore, I'm not getting solid sleep like I thought I'd get with it.
I deliberately asked for a full face mask because during my sleep study about a year ago, the sleep technologist put me on CPAP for half the night and started me out on a nasal mask, but I kept opening my mouth, I guess to swallow and whatnot, and she noticed the air leaks and replaced it with a full face mask.
Are you familiar with the software called Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter (OSCAR?) It lets you pull data from an SD card used in your CPAP machine if you're using one. It's somewhat accessible, and I've found it to be useful in some situations. You have to be using an SD card in your CPAP machine for it to be very useful. If you're not, if you put an SD card in, it'll apparently write extremely limited data for the past several days (not sure how long) to the card at first, then if you actually have the card installed during a therapy session, it logs all sorts of events such as different types of apneas, air leaks, etc. Then if you move the card from your CPAP machine to your PC and run OSCAR, you can import that data into the system and get all sorts of graphs and statistics. sleepfiles.com/OSCAR/
I have no idea. Mine also connects via cellular networks, but can use an SD card. On the left side of my machine, there are two rubber flaps, one of which hides an SD slot, the other of which hides a connector for other equipment such as a pulse oximetry unit.
@jaybird110127 The air mini doesn’t connect to cell directly. It connects to your phone via Bluetooth and sends data to the cloud that way. I have a basement bedroom with no cell signal. So I couldn’t use a cell connection anyway.
Okay that's weird, the product page I read clearly says it uses cellular connectivity. Here's the page I found, note this may be US only. cpap.com/products/airmini-airf…
Get everything you need with ResMed's AirMini Travel CPAP & AirFit F20 mask bundle. Complete CPAP therapy solution that's travel-ready right out of the box - powerful 0.66lb performance anywhere.
Do you want to start thinking digital sustainability but aren't sure where to start? Being literate in the fundamentals is a great place to start, and it's what our Green Web Foundation Estimating Digital Carbon Emissions workshop aims to facilitate. The next workshop is on May 7th, we'll cover the digital sustainability legislative picture, to estimating digital carbon emissions, and what models and tools are available.
NGC 346, a massive young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, is 210,000 light-years away. Its stars shape their surrounding nebula and trigger new star formation. This James #Webb Space #Telescope #infrared image shows the region's vibrant colors across 240 light-years.
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@Bruce I didn't initially realize it was only one cell but the accompanying video does make it sound like it is. If it is only one cell, it could be because of cost or, to be frank, maybe he never showed this device to many blind people.
@Bruce They're definitely not popular or in demand. The fact that the BrailleMate was likely the only commercially available single cell display is probably proof of that.
@Bruce I had the BrailleMate when I was in school. At the time, it met my needs as a notetaker, but yeah, that single-cell display was awkward. One time, a teacher asked me to try reading a paragraph I had written using the display, but soon stopped me after a few words. I saw the Braille Lite 18 a few years later, and really wished the school had waited to get it instead. I could've read that paragraph on it with no problems.
On the internet, they know you're a dog. They know what breed of dog you are, who your vet is, what kind of kibble you eat, and how often you go out for walkies.
Well, I turned off my Google Activity a long time ago, but being the foresightedly paranoid man that I am, I went above and beyond and developed a wide variety of tools and scripts designed to make all the data they gather about me as useless as possible.
Official Music Video for Somebody's Watching Me performed by Rockwell, from his 1984 debut album of the same name. Somebody's Watching Me became a major comm...
Made some raspberry coulis and burnt Basque cheesecake yesterday evening. The hardest part of the recipe is having to put the cake in the fridge overnight.
Minulej tejden vysla recenze Metroplexu v Pevnosti. Jo, ten brak od Neon Suns, kterej ma spousta lidi v literature za shitty samonaklad. Porad nemuzu uverit tomu, ze je mezi ostatnima knihama z velkejch nakladatelstvi, ktery zamestnavaji randal lidi. Je to neuveritelny...
🇨🇿 Český paradox - průměrný Čech se má objektivně skvěle, ale subjektivně se cítí mizerně. 🇨🇿
Zde jsou 4 klíčové indexy o České republice: 🥇 Nejmenší procento lidí ohrožené chudobou v EU. 🌍 12. nejbezpečnější země světa. 🌍 25. nejvíce prosperující země světa. ☹️ 2. nejpesimističtější země světa.
Takže objektivně jsme na tom opravdu dobře, zásadně lépe než většina světa. Subjektivně ale lidé v ČR mají pocit, že "všechno stojí za prd" a "bude hůř".
Dává to smysl, protože naši spokojenost jen cca z 10 % ovlivňují vnější podmínky, ale zbylých 90 % dělají vnitřní faktory jako genetika a vzorce našeho myšlení.
Jak píše v jedné ze svých knih Pavel Vosoba: "Socialismus zanechal hluboké stopy. Některé věci nás naučil tak dokonale, že se jich zbavíme až za několik generací. Věty typu nejde to, to se nedá, to se nepodaří, protože... jsou ve slovníku nejen nás, dospělých."
Svět se koupe v omamné vůni šeříku a já dnes objevila další poklad jara - kvetoucí rybíz! 🌸🤍 Tyhle momenty, kdy se člověk zastaví a vnímá tu krásu jara, jsou k nezaplacení. 🤍🌸 Krásný jarní den všem! #jaro #šeřík #rybíz #květy #jarnímoment
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