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FREE ZOOM WORKSHOP ON THE NEW META SMART GLASSES
Thursday, May 22, 2025
2PM to 330PM (EST)
Join Jason Goldfield with the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind for an informative ZOOM lecture on the new META Smart glasses by Ray-Ban.
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are a fusion of fashion and functionality, combining Meta’s tech with Ray-Ban’s iconic eyewear. Of the many things these glasses can do for you hands-free, you can ask it to tell you what is in front of you, connect to your phone and text, send voice messages and make calls, play music, ask questions, take photos and video, get directions and descriptions, translate foreign languages, get recipes and have it tell you what is in your refrigerator, learn the history of a landmark, and so much more. On the audio front, the glasses feature discreet open-ear speakers and a five-microphone system, ensuring crystal-clear calls, immersive sound, and precise voice recognition.
ZOOM Meeting ID: 835 8160 5488
Passcode: 182630
BY PHONE:
1-312-626-6799
BY COMPUTER
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FOR INFO on the workshop, FOCB’s FREE CLASSES, TRAINING & MORE, contact us: 561-642-0005, email: Info_FOCB@bellsouth.net
The Florida Outreach Center for the Blind is a nonprofit organization/training facility that is nationally accredited by the Association for Education & Rehabilitation of the Blind & Visually Impaired (AER). Classes/training are available in English, Spanish, Creole and French.
Address: 2315 South Congress Avenue, Palm Springs, FL 33406.
Website: blindfocb.org
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A Full Service Training Center For People Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired FOCB depends on the generosity of volunteers to assist with its ever-growing needs.Florida Outreach Center for the Blind
Episode 25 Learning Blind Tech My Experiences With The Vocaster Two
In this episode, I discuss and demonstrate using the Vocaster Two audio interface with JAWS, including use of the Vocaster Hub software
Jak na soukromí v mobilním telefonu: zajistěte si kontrolu nad svými daty
Kolem dat o uživatelích vyrostl obrovský byznys. Někdy se říká, že je to aktivum, které pohání Internet. Existuje celá řada důvodů, proč by vám nemělo být jedno, co o vás kdo na internetu sbírá.Jiří Eischmann (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
new #rustlang crate drop: iddqd! ID-based maps where keys are borrowed from values. Four maps are included: IdOrdMap, IdHashMap, a bijective (1:1) BiHashMap and a trijective (1:1:1) TriHashMap.
At Oxide we've found this pattern to be extraordinarily useful. iddqd is no-std compatible, too!
Canada Post has declined CUPW's two-week extension offer...
Canada Post's upper echelon should f*cking resign.
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Canada Post declines union’s two-week extension offer
Canada Post has issued a new set of offers to the union representing postal workers and is pushing for a speedy resolution as the clock ticks down to a possible strike.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
VoiceOver users, take note: when opening the app, audio will route to the earpiece at reduced volume. To fix this, simply move focus away from the app and then back to it.
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#Accessibility #Google #AI
Google NotebookLM
Turn complexity into clarity with NotebookLM, your brain’s new best friend. Join the millions of students, creators, researchers, professionals, CEOs, and more who are saving time, getting stuff done, and learning in new ways.App Store
AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+ after hours (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
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AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+ after hours
By Milana Vinn / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
EasyReader version 12 is now available
Discover more about EasyReader version 12 is now available in this news articleDolphin Computer Access
Talking Typer for Windows | American Printing House
Help students improve their typing skills with this self-voicing software.American Printing House
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I encountered a really nice and relaxing to see (and hear) #windpump today...
As a result, mapcomplete.org/openwindpowerm… on #MapComplete will have "windpumps" as a category soon too!
Imnul Golanilor - (Romanian Anti-Communist Song) [1990]
●▬▬▬▬▬✦⋆Română⋆✦▬▬▬▬▬●Imnul Gloanilor a fost scris de Cristian Pațurcă şi cântat în Piața Universității din București în perioada mineriadelor care au avut l...YouTube
Hablemos de complementos. Cuando dos líneas de texto lo arruinan todo: el peligro de forzar la compatibilidad en NVDA - NVDA en español
Artículo escrito por Jesús Gudiño y Carlos Esteban Martínez. En una tranquila tarde de otoño, Manuel, un usuario del lector de pantalla NVDA, se encontraba preparando una presentación importante.Carlos Esteban Martínez Macías (Comunidad de NVDA en español)
Thanks Carlos, great work!
Please encourage the community that there is no need to edit the manifest file - if you WANT to use an add-on not marked as compatible, you can simply override it in the add-on store. And of course, if you do that, and run into any issues, the first thing to do is disable the add-on or restart NVDA with add-ons disabled.
We have written a series of articles recently on our blog on the .1 release process and breaking changes: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…
Made in America: Purism’s Liberty Phone and the Vision of Security, Privacy, and Independence
Why "Made in America" Matters Now More Than Ever
In a world where adversarial nations increasingly shape the technology we rely on, the importance of homegrown, secure, and ethical tech cannot be overstated.
At Purism, we're unapologetically committed to designing and manufacturing devices that are Made in America.
Learn More: puri.sm/products/liberty-phone…
I'll be at the OpenInfra Forum tomorrow in Stockholm city and blab. About #curl. I'll bring stickers.
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OpenInfra Forum #19! 10 year anniversary! 139/150 currently attending.
**Update: För att kunna leverera mat och dryck så är registreringen nu tyvärr stängd. Varmt välkomna alla ni 139 som registrerat er och ser fram emot att sMeetup
Asking for a friend, of course.
If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work.
Gopher enthusiasts rejoice!
Nature Programming Language
A modern programming language designed for elegant, efficient, and reliable software developmentnature-lang.org
Funny enough, my programmer friend went like:
LOL its opening example is the fibbonaci sequence? A doubly recursive function? A function that will overflow the stack?
Yeah, hum. Confidense level, 0. This code is a fork bomb.
Silvius tuniculam manicatam caeruleam gerit, et pastinacam tenet (Silvius is wearing a blue jacket and holding a carrot). Petrus Cuniculus est, bestiola improba qui olera ex horto furatur. He's Peter Rabbit, a naughty little animal who steals vegetables from a garden)!
#fdroid just successfully built #TinyWeatherForecastGermany version 0.62.9 .
This is a #floss #weather #forecast #app for #android devices based on #opendata from the German federal weather service "Deutscher Wetterdienst", the #dwd .
This app has no trackers included, does not need any proprietary services on your devices and has been developed to work well on de-g***led devices running #lineageos.
It also supports #tindie_wearables via the #gadgetbridge app.
You can get it at #fdroid, #izzyondroid and you can visit the project homepage at #codeberg
oof, misconfiguration at our end 🙈 Sincere apologies! Corrected now, 0.62.9 will show up with the next sync (and future releases in time again).
Oh, and btw: at #IzzyOnDroid of course as #reproducibleBuilds 
Does anybody happen to know what legislation this press release refers to? I searched for "H.R. 3417" but this leads me to a different bill. I also searched for the title, mentioned in the press release, but it also takes me to some legislation from 2022 / 2023. What am I missing?
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Disability Advocates Commend the Introduction of the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act | National Federation of the Blind
May 20, 2025—Baltimore, MD: The National Federation of the Blind, the American Council of the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind, and the National Disability Rights Network applaud the introduction of the Websites and Software Applications Acce…nfb.org
Ukrainan euroviisu soi koko ajan päässää-äää-äää!
youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1x2aiL7k…
EDIT: Euroviisuissa oli kuudet (6) #sisarukset, joista nämä Ukrainan laulaja ja kitaristi ovat kaksosia. Sen lisäksi sisaruksia oli Irlannilla, Islannilla, Latvialla, Portugalilla ja Saksalla. #Aikamoista!
#korvamato #earworm #musiikki #music #Ukraina #Ukraine #ESC #Eurovision #Euroviisut #ESC
Ziferblat - Bird of Pray | Ukraine 🇺🇦 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2025
Subscribe and 🔔 to Eurovision 👉 https://www.youtube.com/user/eurovision?sub_confirmation=1 Ziferblat will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest...YouTube
For my latest at Curb Cuts, I wrote about how artificial intelligence can make writing code more accessible—plus a bit about how @gruber and Markdown makes my web writing more accessible too.
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How AI Makes Coding More Accessible
Popular tech YouTuber Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs fame posted this on X recently:Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)
Long read, short summary: AI is really bad for the planet.
The primary investors behind AI all seem to be linked to the fossil fuel industry.
What an odd coincidence (not), that an energy wasting technology is being funded by people who are willing to go to war over oil pipelines & oil tankers.
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Two oligarchs walk into a presidency - Greenpeace
The co-founder and chairman of Energy Transfer Kelcy Warren and former president Donald Trump have a history of enabling each other’s agenda.Nick Smith (Greenpeace USA)
#OpenTalk habe ich bereits erfolgreich für Aufnahmen und Konferenzen mit blinden Menschen eingesetzt.
Jetzt wurde nach eigener Aussage die Nutzung mit #ScreenReader weiter verbessert.
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@OpenTalkMeeting@social.opentalk.eu #a11y #Inklusion #digitaleTeilhabe #blind #Video #VideoKonferenz
OpenTalk Update: Verbesserte Sicherheit & Benutzerfreundlichkeit
Die digitale Kommunikation entwickelt sich stetig weiter – und mit ihr auch OpenTalk. Das Update unserer Videokonferenzlösung auf die Version 25.1.3 bringt wesentliche Verbesserungen.OpenTalk
Québec has had a carbon tax since 2007... almost a full decade before the federal government implemented its carbon tax.
Suddenly, Quebecers want it to end?
FYI It amounts to 10 cents/litre.
Gas companies will simply increase the price by 10 cents/litre that the government of Québec doesn't want and pocket it.
Québec's environment programs are funded by that 10 cents/litre.
Gas companies would line their own pockets.
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#cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat
Majority of Quebecers want the province to end carbon pricing, survey says
Quebec has had some of the highest gas prices in the country since Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the federal consumer price on carbon in April.globalnewsdigital (Global News)
How to Password-Protect and Encrypt a Folder on Your Mac | AppleVis
In this practical tutorial episode, Siddharth Mahajan walks listeners through the step-by-step process of encrypting a folder on a Mac using built-in macOS tools.www.applevis.com
The best MacBook for 2025: Which Apple laptop should you buy?
Apple currently produces just two lines of MacBooks, the Air and the Pro -- but there's plenty of variation within just those two options. Here are our top...Amy Skorheim (Engadget)
Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.
This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.
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FFS: What an absolute bellend: "Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’"
Were I still using that POS Duolingo, this would have made me stop.
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#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Duolingo
Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’
Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI, and it has its eye set on schools.Irina Ivanova (Fortune)
So y’all, let’s talk about how a 166 year old remnant of human suffering was finally razed to the ground by an electrical fire. I speak of course, of the largest antebellum plantation in the country. A plantation that never mentioned slavery in its marketing to bridezillas with the lack of soul it would take to dance on the graves of the slaves that built the building. Seriously, having your event at #Nottoway White Castle is literally holding a ceremony under trees where men, women and children were lynched.
So, I leave you with my favorite picture of Nottoway, and pray that the fire and destruction released any spirit who was trapped by the weight of history. Be at peace and finally at rest.
Do you have access to a Microsoft-hosted Exchange account? Exchange support is now available in Thunderbird Daily for testing, and we could use your help making sure it's ready for all our users in a few months. See our post on the Developers' mailing list to learn how to help:
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That is really great news!
...now I "only" need to convince my employer to stop actively blocking all clients except Outlook and Evolution.
...chances are slim. Really slim :(
What my IT department claims: Blocking everything is the default, they have no approval process to change it, and they require a data processing agreement with every "platform" that accesses the account.
The notion of local e-mail clients seems to have quietly dropped off the table.
...people, use alternative clients whenever you can, as long as you can, before the Powers That Be decide to forget that they exist!
Have access to a Microsoft-hosted Exchange account? Exchange support is available in Thunderbird Daily for testing, and we could use your help making sure it's ready for users in a few months. See the Developers' mailing list to learn how to help:
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LibreOffice Marketing Activities – TDF's Annual Report 2024 - The Document Foundation Blog
In 2024, The Document Foundation and its global LibreOffice community undertook a variety of marketing initiatives aimed at increasing visibility, fostering community engagement, and driving adoption of LibreOffice (This is part of The Document Found…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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