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You can now translate print text to Braille and back-translate Braille to print text using the new API AXBrailleTranslator in your app!

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AXBrailleTranslator | Apple Developer Documentation

Translates print text to Braille and Braille to print text according to the given Braille table.
Apple Developer Documentation

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Nějaký idiot, a idiot je slabé slovo, mi dnes ráno zde, mimo obec, nedal přednost v jízdě. Vtrhnul mi do cesty jak Hitler do Polska, čůrák. Okamžitě jsem začal brzdit a strhnul jsem volat vlevo, málem jsem skončil v té přikopě. No tep jsem měl tak 180 minimálně. Bílá Fabie combi z Darkovic. No škoda slov. A podotýkám znovu, je to mimo obec, takže jsem tam jel minimálně 80. Byli jsme od sebe zhruba tak, jak ukazuje fotka, když mi do té cesty vjel.

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"Ice can end". Spotted on the corner of Mission and 18th in SF. This is one of Sapien's "Magic Acrostic Squares" that can be read left to right, or top to bottom. #SFGraffiti #AbolishIce #Graffiti #MagicAcrosticSquare #Sapien
Large graffiti on a wall in San Francisco. The text has three words, Ice, Can, and End, written in a 3 by 3 square. So the words can be read from left to right, or from top to bottom. The letters are on a wall filled with other graffiti pieces by other artists.
#sfgraffiti

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Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
istories.media/stories/2025/06…

English version by OCCRP:
occrp.org/en/investigation/tel…

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy


Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
OCCRP
#privacy #infosec #telegram
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

> In the entire history of Telegram, it has never handed over private messages to third parties

🚨 Sneaky use of "private messages"!

Remember, Telegram has end-to-end encrypted "Secret Chats", which almost nobody uses; and then it has "Cloud Chats" for everything else.

They decided to add "private" here, as if "less private" non-Secret-Chat messages had been provided to third parties? .. :blobcateyes:

Yes, there are indications of just that if you're wondering:
wired.com/story/the-kremlin-ha…

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The Kremlin Has Entered Your Telegram Chat

Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. How does Putin’s regime seem to know their every move?
Darren Loucaides (WIRED)
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

> and its encryption has never been hacked

Ignoring dumb use of the h-word (🙄), Telegram encryption – specifically, the v1 of their homegrown MTProto protocol – had been shown to contain "a most backdoor-looking bug" some people have ever seen:
words.filippo.io/dispatches/te…

This has since been fixed, and MTProto 2 has been rolled out. But it still smells funny to a lot of cryptographers.

More importantly though: the story is not about breaking Telegram's encryption

Another red herring!

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The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram's self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago.
Filippo Valsorda

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Apparently the Department of Energy is trying to eliminate accessibility/nondiscrimination regulations. If you live in the U.S., please take a few minutes to comment on DOE-HQ-2025-0015 and DOE-HQ-2025-0024:
regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…
regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…

#Disability #Accessibility #A11y #DisabilityRights

Department Of Energy Proposes Eliminating Building Access Requirements for Federally Funded Buildings. Public Comment Open. Submit by June sixteenth.
#a11y #Accessibility #Disability #disabilityrights

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Unable to work full time and need money for offline and online bills. I need all your support! sightlessscribbles.com/support… @MutualAidNet @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaid @mutual_aid #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAi…

Tip me, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.
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#MutualAid #Disability #disabilitymutualai @mutualaid group @Mutual Aid Bot @MutualAidVisibility @MutualAidNet

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Want to test the #macOSTahoe beta but can't risk your main system? Create a second APFS volume in Disk Utility on your Mac so you can use the beta when you want, while keeping your primary system intact. #TipTuesday applevis.com/podcasts/experien…

Experience New macOS Beta Software with Confidence: Dual Boot macOS and Run Beta Software Alongside the Latest Public Release of macOS | AppleVis

In this episode, Levi Gobin demonstrates how to prepare your Mac for beta testing by creating a second volume on your Mac's internal disk to install and run beta versions of the operating system.
www.applevis.com
#tiptuesday #macostahoe

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New at America's Voice: Stephen Miller’s brutal obsessions are on full display in workplaces, courthouses, and our neighborhoods.

The mass deportation architect-in-chief's lifelong, maniacal preoccupation w/vilifying immigrants (and non-white people overall) has reached new autocratic heights 👇🏽
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/…


Stephen Miller’s Brutal Obsessions Are On Full Display In Workplaces, Courthouses, and Neighborhoods

The mass deportation architect-in-chief's lifelong, maniacal preoccupation with vilifying immigrants has reached new autocratic heights.
Gabe Ortiz (Combating Nativist Narratives)

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The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems

Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.

The Alternative?

Librem 5 Phone running PureOS, a Debian-based, fully auditable Linux OS, built for security from the silicon up.

✔️ No Intel ME or AMD PSP
✔️ No telemetry, tracking, or backdoors

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating…


Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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So I should be releasing a comprehensive 2 and a half hour Zoom H2 Essential audio tutorial covering all accessibility options plus everything else with in the next week. From recording to IOS control, it should be all there. It will be on YouTube and also available as zipped mp3s. I will also be including links, resources and articles regarding H2E features. Please cut me some slack since this is my first project of this kind so the editing might be a little rough.

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GNOME: goes out of its way to pay for accessibility work that no company wants to pay for, regardless all the billions they make

The Register:

> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.

Article excerpt: .. X11 is considerably better from an accessibility point of view than Wayland, which has a markedly poor track record here. As we have said recently, accessibility matters. Even if you're not disabled yet, you will be one day. Today, the desktops and apps that are most controllable by stodgy old-fashioned keyboard-centric user interfaces are ones like MATE and Xfce – which also means that it is the less-cool, older-style desktops that are more accessible. The environments driving Wayland adoption, such as GNOME and KDE Plasma, are still relatively weak in this area. Wayland and the environments that natively support it boast some snazzy features such as adaptive sync and variable refresh rate support and High Dynamic Range displays, which we are sure are wonderful if you're a keen-eyed gamer in your 20s or 30s. This author is not, and despite 20:20 vision with glasses, is physically unable to perceive this sort of thing. That is one reason why we strongly prefer older desktops such as Xfce and Ubuntu's Unity, which also respects and follows the industry-standard user interface shunned by recent versions of GNOME and KDE. As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.

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A few weeks back I read on Mastodon that the US Dept of Health and Human Services was getting rid of COVID tests. This is bad for all the reasons, but some enterprising government employee did a program where you could fill out a form and get anywhere from 300-3000 COVID tests (unexpired) sent to your home. I figured why not try? Last week I got seven boxes of COVID tests delivered to my porch. I posted to a local mailing list and I am getting them pointed towards my community. Thanks Mastodon!
My front porch with five bags and two larger boxes which all have people's names written on them in big block letters. The bags contain COVID tests.
a bench inside my house with seven large boxes full of COVID tests. They say "intelliswab" on the side of them and are stacked tightly but still take up a lot of room.

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Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26.
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Apple's AI rollout leaves Siri behind & long-time fans are asking questions

Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed Monday that promised artificial intelligence upgrades to Siri have been delayed, saying the company needs more time to meet quality standards before launching the features in iOS 26.
Andrew Orr (AppleInsider)

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Here's my first bit of WWDC 2025 coverage: I wrote about the early response to Apple's new "Liquid Glass" design language and reshared my newsy tidbit from my chat with the company's accessibility boss.

curbcuts.co/blog/2025-6-10-app…

Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ won’t make the sky fall

I was on the ground yesterday at Apple Park covering this year’s WWDC keynote . The star of the show was Apple’s introduction of its all-new Liquid Glass design language. The company has a great session on Liquid Glass in the Developer app.
Steven Aquino (Curb Cuts)

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Hi everyone.

I wanted to share something I just finished making… an arrangement of *Kass’s Theme* from **The Legend of Zelda**! 🎶🪶
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!

\#LegendOfZelda #ZeldaMusic #KassTheme #VideoGameMusic #VGMArrangement #Nintendo #BlindMusician #MusicArrangement #AccessibilityInMusic #GameMusic #MusicianLife #TheLegendOfZelda #BOTW #TearsOfTheKingdom


#nintendo #gamemusic #blindmusician #MusicianLife #legendofzelda #zeldamusic #kasstheme #videogamemusic #vgmarrangement #musicarrangement #accessibilityinmusic #thelegendofzelda #botw #tearsofthekingdom

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Hey y'all! I put the iPadOS 26 beta on my iPad Pro M4 and must say while many general things feel quite allright, there are definitely some areas that are very beta with regards to VoiceOver. Control Center doesn't talk at all, the multitasking control at the top of apps isn't accessible, in Files, none of the file or folder names read, and so far, I haven't found a way to activate the much talked about menu bar in Mail, Notes or any other app. So yeah, unlike previous years, the beta feels like a beta indeed from the getgo. Has any other VoiceOver user experimented with the beta on iPad and found ways to accomplish accessing the menu bar?

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Rob Zombie interview in 2014:

Do you think you're promoting rape culture by depicting women the way you often do?

Rob Zombie: I think I'm making films with graphic content. Women play the role of killer in my movies as well.

Do you think you're glorifying murder and psychotic behavior?

No. I think I'm showing characters doing stuff that's really sick and wrong. If you want to see murder and psychotic behavior, look at Israel and Palestine. Look at what any number of governments do to innocent people every day. That's some killing.

thestranger.com/music/2014/09/…


Rob Zombie vs. Clinical Psychology

Rob Zombie: Too Wrong, or Not Wrong Enough?
Trent Moorman (The Stranger)

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While I understand and on some level commend Apple's dedication to requiring "apps" to keep current with platform technology (it's irresponsible to connect stuff to a network that doesn't have active security support), this is a good reminder that you should never buy games that you might care about from Apple because they all stop working eventually, with no compatibility layer, emulator, or shim that will help you get them running again arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2

Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won’t stay around indefinitely.
Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
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Matt Campbell

Some kinds of programs are self-contained enough that they could run fine in a VM and basically bring their own platform, if someone implemented a lightweight desktop virtualization app (VMware Workstation/Fusion, VirtualBox, etc. tend to be clunky things). I think games would fall in that category given a low-overhead way of virtualizing the GPU. The Talking Typing Teacher program I mentioned is certainly that self-contained; the user is even supposed to shut down their screen reader.

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Accessibility is an area #Mixxx has struggled with for a long time, and as an all-volunteer project we have struggled to recruit devs to address it. If you have a passion for accessibility and are interested in a chance to have a big impact, hit us up.

cdm.link/apple-at-wwdc-on-acce…


Apple at WWDC on accessibility, inclusion - music devs, tune in - CDM Create Digital Music

Inclusion and accessibility are the answer. They're why we're here—and they're a way for developers to support themselves by reaching new audiences.
Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
#Mixxx

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