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I’m surrounded by boxes. We’ve finally finished all the modifications, and we can move into our dream home tomorrow.
I’m sitting here looking at the house’s own website where we can control everything from, and the iOS app, and I’m awe struck by what we’ve built. I just hope it’ll be a very long time before we move again because I’m not sure we’ll ever do this so well again.
We got so lucky with the company I picked for this project. He wasn’t super knowledgable about #accessibility when we started working together, but he took me seriously and got into the challenge of finding the best options. I’m sure there will be shortcomings we identify once we actually live there, but we have the fundamentals right and the infrastructure, so it’ll be fun to tweak it and watch it grow.
I told Bonnie to say goodbye to the house when she left it this afternoon. It responded by turning off the Sonos, turning off the TV, and after sixty seconds it locked the door and set the alarm.
The visual descriptions it gives over all the Sonos’s of who is at the door, when it doesn’t recognize the person by name, are so detailed and vidid. And on and on and on. I’m really thrilled by what we’ve ended up with.
But there is one final thing I would say about this. It’s been a fun project, but even if we were moving into a tin shack, it would be a palace as long as Bonnie is there too.
#Accessibility

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Krásné dobré ráno lide mastodonský! 🙋‍♀️🐶🐈
Hola hej! Vstáváme radostně! Chystáme si snídaně. Tváříme se radostně! A já se ptám proč? Protože nás čeká prodloužený víkend! Takže se všechno TO, i když se neto. 😁
Jo, a ve sklepě máme nevítanou návštěvu. Ochutnala téměř z každé bedny brambor. Nevím, kterou vyhodnotila jako nejlepší. Mám takové tušení, že TAHLE návštěva od nás živá neodejde....😈 (ďábelský smích!) 😁
Vy si návštěvy užívejte a uctěte je co nejlépe. 😇
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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I predict if they rule GPT is infringing we will see lawsuits against software for similar reasons. Someone will go after open source projects too. Oracle?

Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
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Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)

This is a guest post by Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School.
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.

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Want to share something cool about Debian? Maybe it's something that is brand new and will help inspire other distros, or maybe something that is in Debian for a long time but people don't know or tend to forget, or maybe something in between?! The FOSDEM's Call For Proposals for the distros devroom is now open: lists.debian.org/debian-projec… #debian #distros #FOSDEM #11

Call for participation in the Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM

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#debian #fosdem #distros

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A little PSA: if your library of choice is facing funding cuts, don't hold off on using their services because you're worried it'll put pressure on their existing funds.

Take advantage of everything and help them get some lovely stats to help them demonstrate impact as they fight back! If it looks like they're not being useful to folks, they'll get cut!

Don't do the cost cutters' jobs for them!

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I'm really hoping for Fediverse help here.

I have a 14 year old niece. She's incredibly smart and extremely motivated when it comes to engineering things.

I want to get her some electronics stuff, like an Arduino kit, but maybe something with wearables, etc. to make it more relevant to her than just a breadboard.

She'll also need some books on electronics, since she doesn't have the background in that.

Sadly, some limitations:

- I can't help her. Her mother won't let my wife or I talk to her. This gift itself will have to be given through a third party.

- She has a learning disability around reading- likely dyslexia, and so we need material that's easy to read

- Her English is not amazing, especially because of the learning disability.

So I'm looking for a kit with a ton of instructional material. Programming, electronics, breadboard, the whole kit and kaboodle.

If you have ideas, please share, and boost!

#Maker #Arduino #Wearables #FediHelp #Electronics

#electronics #fedihelp #arduino #maker #wearables
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So, my workplace recently updated JAWS to the 2026 Pro version. I can use it both on my laptop (which I mostly use at home) and on my work PC. Interestingly, even though I’ve told them I mainly use NVDA, they’re fine with it as long as I use JAWS for certain tasks. And honestly, I do prefer JAWS for some things in MS Word, Outlook, and Google Docs. Sadly, this will have to continue until NVDA performs equally (or better) in those areas, and until NVAccess addresses that well-known super-verbosity issue on the web... Don’t even get me started on that - LOL!
@NVAccess
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@NikJov @Stealthy Thanks for your support! I do try to be patient in answering Amirs concerns - and I appreciate there are things which frustrate users - about any software - and the problem is that different things frustrate one user but another user sees it as the perfect way something should be done. As with anything, if someone can give me an issue, or a specific description, I can look something up and prompt our devs or push for change.
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I am happy to announce this book that i wrote a chapter in. My chapter looks at the ethics of #accessibility #sustainability and #OpenSource so touches on many threads. It is amazing to have contributed a small part of this first work of accessibility ethics. routledge.com/Digital-Accessib…

Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
Routledge & CRC Press
#Accessibility #opensource #sustainability

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This is pretty wild. Checkout.com got hacked by a group that claims to be Shiny Hunters again. Checkout said in blog post that it would not be extorted by criminals.

"We will not pay this ransom.

Instead, we are turning this attack into an investment in security for our entire industry. We will be donating the ransom amount to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford Cyber Security Center to support their research in the fight against cybercrime."

Far too many victim firms just pay up, to get back to business as usual asap. Imagine if a fraction of those victims instead paid into a fund for research that actively disrupts these groups.

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Protecting our Merchants: Standing up to Extortion

Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
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Mozilla is adding a new feature called the 'AI Window' to its Firefox browser, which will include an integrated AI assistant and chatbot. This new "AI Window" will provide users with a dedicated space to chat directly with the browser's AI assistant, offering real-time help and interaction while they browse. So yet another AI browser that will have full access to what you do on the internet 😏

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Building AI the Firefox way: Shaping what’s next together

Hi everyone, We recently shared how we’re approaching AI in Firefox with user choice and openness at the center of everything we build.
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