A stream of links that I share without comment. They may be things I intend to read later, things I've read, things I find interesting, etc. My blog with actual writing is at: https://stuff.interfree.ca and you can find me on the fediverse @fastfinge@interfree.ca.
UK study findings may challenge assumptions about who benefits most from AI tools.
Who, Me?: You're out, forever!
A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up. - GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public ...
Unity is updating its game engine so developers can leverage the built-in screen reading software in desktop operating systems.
People show no signs of stopping, even though these show no signs of working.
The root cause behind why Windows 11 24H2 appeared to be breaking NVMe SSDs may have finally been found.
Explaining git exclude and how it differs from git ignore.
About accessibility, flawed arguments and assumptions
WP Accessibility 2.2.0 includes one major new feature and one substantial change. New Feature: Video Pausing The major new feature is an option that will
Who, Me?: At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM
On Call: Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops
A utility that extracts text from images or PDFs using a local or remote OpenAI-compatible LLM API endpoint with vision-capable multimodal models. For PDFs, each page is rendered to an image and pr...
Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech. Contribute to microsoft/VibeVoice development by creating an account on GitHub.
We’re excited to announce the new Framework Laptop 16, now with AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors and a graphics upgrade to NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU!
Who, Me?: Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout
This is the 13th article that I’ve written lately on NTP and PTP timing with Linux. I set out to answer a couple questions for myself and ended up spending two months swimming in an ocean of nanosecond-scale measurements.
When I started, I saw a lot of misinformation about NTP and PTP online. Things like:
Conventional wisdom said that NTP was good for millisecond-scale timing accuracy. I expected that to be rather pessimistic, and expected to see low microsecond to high nanosecond-range syncing with Chrony, at least under controlled circumstances.In a lab environment, it’s possible to get single-digit nanosecond time skew out of Chrony. With a less-contrived setup, 500 ns is probably a better goal. In any case “milliseconds” is grossly underselling what’s possible.
Conventional wisdom also said that PTP was better than NTP when you really cared about time, but that it was more difficult to use and made more requirements on hardware.You know, conventional wisdom is actually right sometimes. PTP is somewhat more difficult to set up and really wants to have hardware support from every switch and every NIC, but once you have that it’s pretty solid.
Along the way I tested NTP and PTP “in the wild” on my network, built a few new GPS-backed NTP (and PTP) servers, collected a list of all known NICs with timing features,Specifically GNSS modules or PPS inputs.
built a testing environment for measuring time-syncing accuracy to within a few nanoseconds, tested the impact of various Chrony polling settings, tested 14 different NICs for time accuracy, and tested how much added latency PTP-aware switches add.
I ran into problems with PTP on Mellanox/nVidia ConnectX-4 and Intel X710 NICs.Weird stuff. The X710 doesn’t seem to like PTP v2.1, and it doesn’t like it when you ask it to timestamp packets too frequently.
I fought with Raspberry Pis. I tested NICs until my head hurt. I fought with statistics.
This little project that I’d expected to last most of a week has now dragged on for two months. It’s finally time to summarize what I’ve learned and celebrate The End Of Time.
This specification defines eBraille, a digital reading format for braille publications.
Yes, I saw the story about the FDA recall of shrimp from Walmart because of Cs-137 contamination. Do I know exactly how this happened? No and it is likely to be a while until we get any definitive answers, if ever. But I do have a pretty good idea what happened by which I understand … Continue reading "Radioactive Shrimp"
A modern, end-to-end 3d game audio engine on top of OpenAL Soft. - the-byte-bender/Playmaker.Audio
Who, Me?: The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training
Contribute to context-labs/uwu development by creating an account on GitHub.
At Midwest RepRap Festival (MRRF) 2024 I met the non-profit group See3D, a group which sources 3D prints from volunteers for distribution to blind/visually impaired people. At their booth they had …
On Call: Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital
Nimer's blog
Who, Me?: Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes
ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.
Product Owners and Product Managers who focus on digital accessibility can really make an impact to ensure compliance with regulations like the European Accessibility Act. Read on for 5 actions you should take now.
Apple has today released iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, watchOS 11.6, tvOS 18.6, and HomePod Software 18.6. In our usage and testing of iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, and watchOS 11.6, we did not identify any changes in these releases that specifically affect the experience for blind, deaf blind, or low vision users. We were unable to test tvOS 18.6. If you notice any changes in your own use of any of these releases, please do let us know by posting a comment.
Who, Me?: And was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels
On Call: Evidence of copious sugar hits hinted at unauthorized usage
For people with disabilities, finding a trail that's sufficiently accessible can be a challenge. The new Inclusive Trails application from the National Capital Commission aims to change that.
Who, Me?: 'This, many considered, was bad'
Uber is tackling trip refusals through policy, information, and inclusive product design.
Live AI, Be My Eyes, and some situations when people might want to skip smart glasses.
A new Apple study introduces ILuvUI: a model that understands mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations.
embedded Tomcat Web file server / WebDAV server. Contribute to ag88/embtomcatwebdav development by creating an account on GitHub.
Who, Me?: For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage
Timothy Lamont Cranston, a Bank of America employee, is at Universal Studios Resorts and Parks in Florida. A Potterhead, he buys & drinks one of the Felix Felicis good-luck vials. Passing through Knockturn Alley in Harry Potter World, he trips and falls — and finds himself somewhere that looks much more real than the Harry Potter Resort Park — then he sees Hagrid with Harry Potter!
In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
Once upon a time, there was a bank whose business relied on a mainframe. As the decades passed and the 21st century dawned, the bank's bigwigs realized they had to upgrade their frontline systems to applications built in Java and .NET, but—for myriad reasons that boiled down to cost, fear, and stubbornness—they didn't want to migrate away from the mainframe entirely. They also didn't want the new frontline systems to talk directly to the mainframe or vice-versa. So they tasked old-timer Edgar with writing some middleware. Edgar's brainchild was a Windows service that took care of receiving frontline requests, passing them to the mainframe, and sending the responses back.
Edgar's middleware worked well, so well that it was largely forgotten about. It outlasted Edgar himself, who, after another solid decade of service, moved on to another company.
On Call: First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career