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Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

Chawan is a text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.

It includes functionality like CSS, inline images inside the terminal, and JavaScript through a small, independent browser engine.

: Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways

Deaf and hard-of-hearing clients say they've been left without critical services for more than two months since CHS workers hit the picket line.

Toymaker Mattel worked with Breakthrough T1D to create a Barbie doll who visibly lives with type 1 diabetes and carries an insulin pump.

Revolution, consciousness, and artificial intelligence: Heinlein's libertarian masterpiece predicted both our political and technological future. Examine how 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' anticipated the AI revolution transforming society today.

Who, Me?: Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

SceneScout, combines Apple Maps with a multimodal LLM to provide interactive, AI-generated descriptions of street view images.

Summertime Saga - The definitive Summertime Saga experience for LLM-based roleplay, this mega-expansion includes:

145+ Character Cards: Every NPC from Debbie to Thotbot. Includes new entries like Ms. Irfan and Jade.

Interactive Questlines: 100+ condensed story arcs mirroring game mechanics (stat checks, money sinks, pregnancy risks). Faithfully adapts main story beats while expanding hidden routes.

Location Atlas: 41+ vivid descriptions of key spots—from Planet Thiccness and Hillside Mall, to the new locations like Rusty Angus’s bar and the Hunting Lodge’s witchy vibes.

Accuracy & Depth:
Painstakingly reconstructed from wiki data, playthroughs, and patreon exclusives. Features:

Branching Choices: ▲/▼ decision points that respect original story forks.

Secret Endings: Post-main game content (Nadya’s vodka empire, Melonia and Iwanka's love triangle).

Mechanical Fidelity: Pregnancy systems, stat requirements, and money transactions integrated into every quest.

NSFW Enhancements:

Uncensored kinks per character lore (Bissette’s taboo tutoring, Sister Angelica’s sacramental BDSM).

Gender/body type inclusivity for all scenes.

Ambient Sound Player in Rust. Contribute to ElevenJune/serenIT development by creating an account on GitHub.

Great Odin’s Raven!

On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not

As they approach graduation, most high schoolers are busy learning, training and planning their futures. But disabled students have fewer opportunities. Experts want more programs made available to help them transition into adulthood.

Our company recently announced a fundraise. We were grateful for all
the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its colle...

Who, Me?: Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap

On Tuesday, millions of Canadians will celebrate Canada Day — an event that has taken on greater meaning this year following the surge of national pride in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and his threat to make Canada the 51st state.

Anthropic's AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless discounts, and experiencing an identity crisis where it claimed to wear a blazer.

An “underground network” of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.

On Call: When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight

Detected for the first time, malware attempts AI evasion by injecting a prompt to tell the LLM to label the file as benign

For a project I’m working on, I wanted to generate an endless looping soundtrack that felt like a sea shanty continuing indefinitely without a fixed melody. This proved to be a fun exercise for both musical and technical reasons, so I thought I’d write up some thoughts on how that came together.

Who, Me?: And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else

Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025.

When OpenAI released the Meeting Recording feature in the ChatGPT for Mac app, I was excited.

Analysis of a bloated and impossible job advert for accessibility.

Sometimes I read a post and have a need to add some personal views of mine. This time it's a short list that came to my mind about being an accessibility specialist.

On Call: Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember'

Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.

They’re available in the latest beta.

Parliamentary committee accuses government of slow progress and lack of ambition

Even in Kentucky the assault charge isn’t going to stick.

Today, June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services, including Workers KV, WARP, Access, Gateway, Images, Stream, Workers AI, Turnstile and Challenges, AutoRAG, and parts of the Cloudflare Dashboard.

On Call: Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop

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

Understanding the parity principle in accessibility, using rick-rolling as an example.

Microsoft announced that a new Edge feature allowing employees to share passwords more securely in enterprise environments has reached general availability.

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

Published at least one shitpost!

Our anonymous submitter, whom we'll call Carmen, embarked on her IT career with an up-and-coming firm that developed and managed eCommerce websites for their clients. After her new boss Russell walked her around the small office and introduced her to a handful of coworkers, he led her back to his desk to discuss her first project. Carmen brought her laptop along and sat down across from Russell, poised to take notes.

Russell explained that their newest client, Sharon, taught CPR classes. She wanted her customers to be able to pay and sign up for classes online. She also wanted the ability to charge customers a fee in case they cancelled on her.

Dan Mancina built a fully adaptive skatepark for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, as well as those with physical disabilities.

A page to learn more about LociTerm and related topics.

Welcome to WWDC 2025 As has been the case for many years now, Apple kicked off this year's Worldwide Developers Conference by announcing all the major software changes coming to all your favorite devices later this year. We got a look at everything we can expect in iOS 19, watchOS 12, and... No, wait, that's not right--they changed the name!

The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.

Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company's own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.

This application allows users to input text and generate Text-to-Speech (TTS) audio using different models. Users can then listen to the generated audio and vote on which version they prefer. The a...

One bot even sang to me

An Ottawa-based pest control company called Sucker Free says they’ve had a dramatic rise in calls for mosquito treatment so far in 2025.

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service created to strengthen European Union's digital sovereignty, has become reality.

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Who, Me?: If you like it to keep working, don’t put a ring on it

A great start.