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Links to things I share without comment: tools, articles, whatever else I find interesting. My blog with actual writing is at [Sam's Stuff](https://stuff.interfree.ca)

2025-07-14

Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod

www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/who_me

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GitHub - ag88/embtomcatwebdav: embedded Tomcat Web file server / WebDAV server

github.com/ag88/embtomcatwebdav

586.

2025-07-13

Assorted Stupidity #169

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/07/assorted-stupidity-169.html

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2025-07-12

The Middle(ware) Child

thedailywtf.com/articles/the-middle-ware-child

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2025-07-11

Monitoring output from microphones and routing audio with no lag using OBS Studio – Jonathan Rodriguez

jonathanr.me/2025/01/05/monitoring-output-from-microphones-and-routing-audio-with-no-lag-using-obs-studio

# article,tool

580.

Security company hired used car salesman to build website

www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/on_call

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2025-07-10

Deaf clients say 'trust is gone' after 2-month Canadian Hearing Services strike | CBC News

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/chs-strike-deaf-clients-experience-1.7581653

574.

Chinese TV translations into sign language aren't going well

www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/china_ai_sign_language_translation

575.

GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities.

github.com/sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot

# tool

576.

Chawan: TUI web browser

577.

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards

shifthappens.site

578.

Accessibility Assistant for Figma is a game changer, not just a pretty rename

betruthfulness.medium.com/accessibility-assistant-for-figma-is-a-game-changer-not-just-a-pretty-rename-a99b709eda7c

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2025-07-09

Mattel's type 1 diabetes Barbie doll wears an insulin pump and glucose monitor. Here's her origin story

www.fastcompany.com/91365241/barbie-doll-type-1-diabetes-insulin-pump-blue-circle-dress-mattel-origin-story

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2025-07-07

Apple’s newest AI study unlocks street view for blind users - 9to5Mac

9to5mac.com/2025/07/07/apples-newest-ai-study-unlocks-street-navigation-for-blind-users

570.

Yes, I wrote a very bad bug. In my defense I was just seven

www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/who_me

571.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Revisiting a Sci-Fi Masterpiece in the Age of Emergent AI - GBTI Network

gbti.network/entertainment/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-revisiting-a-scifi-masterpiece-in-the-age-of-emergent-ai

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2025-07-06

Summertime Saga - Total: 1308 tokens, 63 favorites, 161 downloads, 159 chats, 722 messages

chub.ai/characters/blind_hire_35681/summertime-saga-239bea5d3be3

569.

2025-07-05

GitHub - ElevenJune/serenIT: Ambient Sound Player in Rust

github.com/ElevenJune/serenIT

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2025-07-04

How some students with disabilities avoid the 'transition cliff' after high school | CBC News

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/disability-school-transitions-1.7535016

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Tech support 'trained monkey’ fixed problem with two fingers

www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/on_call

566.

Justice Harlan on Dirty Movies: “By Jove! Extraordinary!”

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/07/justice-harlan-on-dirty-movies-by-jove-extraordinary.html

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2025-07-03

GitHub - kyutai-labs/delayed-streams-modeling: Kyutai's Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech models based on the Delayed Streams Modeling framework.

github.com/kyutai-labs/delayed-streams-modeling

# tool

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2025-07-01

Junior sysadmin set off alarms, then crashed the company

www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/who_me

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2025-06-30

WebAccessibilizer- A web javascript to help blind to make html web pages more accessible

stsolution2.org/WebAccessibilizer

# tool

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2025-06-29

We Tested 100 EU Websites. 95% Aren’t EAA-Ready.

www.webyes.com/blogs/eaa-accessibility-check-eu-websites

# accessibility,article

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2025-06-28

Authorities Question Unlicensed Beaver Releases

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/authorities-question-unlicensed-beaver-releases.html

557.

Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

venturebeat.com/ai/can-ai-run-a-physical-shop-anthropics-claude-tried-and-the-results-were-gloriously-hilariously-bad

558.

2025-06-27

How I AI | SerrebiRadio

serrebiradio.com/how-i-ai

# accessibility,ai,article

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2025-06-26

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine

# accessibility,article

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2025-06-25

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025

# accessibility,article

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2025-06-24

Techie made mistake that caused a meltdown

www.theregister.com/2025/06/23/who_me

550.

2025-06-22

A11y Talks Porto - People Make Change

blog.nebeker.tech/posts/a11y-talks-porto

# accessibility,article

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Man Forced to Concede His Lawyer Is “Not a Real Person”

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/man-forced-to-concede-his-lawyer-is-not-a-real-person.html

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Techie traveled hours to 'fix' software that wasn't broken

www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/on_call

544.

You’re not an accessibility specialist until you’ve… | Bogdan on Digital Accessibility (A11y)

cerovac.com/a11y/2025/06/youre-not-an-accessibility-specialist-until-youve

545.

Mission Impossible - Accessibility Job Roles

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/mission-impossible-accessibility-job-roles

546.

ChatGPT for Mac’s New Meeting Recording Feature Is Powerful — But Almost Unusable for Blind Users

taylorarndt.substack.com/p/chatgpt-for-macs-new-meeting-recording

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2025-06-19

Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools

www.theverge.com/games/689922/steam-is-adding-screen-reader-support-and-other-accessibility-tools

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2025-06-18

Drunken Mule-Rider Accused of Assault With Deadly Raccoon

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/drunken-mule-rider-accused-of-assault-with-deadly-raccoon.html

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2025-06-12

Masquerade as the BCE Inc. Giga Hub with the WAS-110 or X-ONU-SFPP - PON dot WIKI

pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-bce-inc-giga-hub-with-the-was-110

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2025-06-11

Credit Card Sins

thedailywtf.com/articles/credit-card-sins

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You're not a front-end developer until you've... - Nic Chan

www.nicchan.me/blog/youre-not-a-front-end-developer-until-youve

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GitHub - Hutch79/DNS-BLM: DNS-BLM checks if your domains are flagged as malicious on blocklists.

github.com/Hutch79/DNS-BLM

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2025-06-10

EU launches EU-based, privacy-focused DNS resolution service - Help Net Security

www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/09/eu-launches-eu-based-privacy-focused-dns-resolution-service

520.

‘Mosquitoes are just out of control’: Ottawa pest control company doubles treatment for some areas

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/mosquitoes-are-just-out-of-control-ottawa-pest-control-company-doubles-treatment-for-some-areas

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I challenged Gemini Live vs ChatGPT in 5 voice challenges — there was one clear winner

www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-challenged-gemini-live-vs-chatgpt-in-5-voice-challenges-there-was-one-clear-winner

522.

TTS Arena V2 - a Hugging Face Space by TTS-AGI

huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena-V2

523.

Apple's upgraded AI models underwhelm on performance | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/apples-upgraded-ai-models-underwhelm-on-performance

524.

Future Leaders 2025-26 | Drake Music

www.drakemusic.org/about-us/recruitment/future-leaders-2025-26-applications-now-open

# accessibility

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LociTerm Home

lociterm.com/home

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2025-06-09

Sparking a romance broke a mainframe

www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/who_me

518.

Please Do Your Best Not to Appear in the “AI Hallucination Database”

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/please-do-your-best-not-to-appear-in-the-ai-hallucination-database.html

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2025-06-07

The Access-Ability Summer Showcase returns with the latest in accessible games

www.theverge.com/games/679542/access-ability-summer-showcase-2025-best-games-trailers

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2025-06-05

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/introducing-bounce-a-tool-to-move-your-follwing-between-bluesky-and-mastodon

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These 7 accessibility features in Windows 11 actually make life easier for everyone, and I'll show you how

www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/7-accessibility-features-that-make-life-easier-for-everyone-on-windows-11

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Work underway to measure the quality of life of Nova Scotians with disabilities | CBC News

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/quality-of-life-index-for-persons-with-disabilities-1.7551190

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Speechify and Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles Win 2025 Apple Design Awards for Inclusive Design | AppleVis

www.applevis.com/blog/speechify-art-fauna-cozy-puzzles-win-2025-apple-design-awards-inclusive-design

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Cooklang: recipe markup language

# tool

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2025-06-04

What Is Kagi Small Web? - Genx Blog

genxnotes.com/post/id/what-is-kagi-small-web

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Shopper denied $51 refund for 20TB HDD that’s mostly a weighted plastic box

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/man-buys-20tb-portable-hdd-for-51-son-breaks-the-news-that-its-a-fake

510.

Thirst, Coffee, and Contracts: The Real Test of Business Accessibility

accessiblelink.substack.com/p/thirst-coffee-and-contracts-the-real

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2025-06-03

Google pushes emergency fix for high-severity Chrome 0-day

www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/google_chrome_zero_day_emergency_fix

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Idaho Passes Emergency Truck-Nuts Legislation

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/idaho-passes-emergency-truck-nuts-legislation.html

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Making a Pass of Yourself

thedailywtf.com/articles/making-a-pass-of-yourself

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