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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)
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)
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Lightning-Fast, On-Device TTS — running natively via ONNX. - DevGitPit/supertonic
A privacy-first AI chat app with long-term memory and custom characters. You choose the provider. Your data stays on your device.
Blind Access Journal, led by Darrell Hilliker, NU7I, is launching a community initiative to improve the accessibility of WSJT-X for blind, low-vision, and mobility-impaired Amateur Radio operators. The project aims to enhance keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and visual accommodations, with a focus on making the Band Activity and Rx Frequency tables accessible. Experienced Amateur Radio software developers are invited to volunteer and collaborate on this initiative.
Let’s Encrypt is introducing several updates to the certificates we issue, including new root certificates, the deprecation of TLS client authentication, and shortening certificate lifetimes. To help roll out changes gradually, we’re making use of ACME profiles to allow users to have control over when some of these changes take place. For most users, no action is required. Let’s Encrypt has generated two new Root Certification Authorities (CAs) and six new Intermediate CAs, which we’re collecti...
FastWeather - A fast, accessible weather application providing current conditions and detailed forecasts
Sulthiame reduced breathing interruptions in sleep apnea patients, pointing toward a viable drug treatment. A European clinical trial has found that the drug sulthiame can reduce breathing pauses and improve sleep quality in people with obstructive sleep apnea, with researchers from the Universit
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
Many accessibility hacks, like electric toothbrushes and Aga cookers, were originally designed for people with disabilities but are now widely used. These innovations, along with features like tactile packaging and smart glasses, benefit everyone by improving efficiency and convenience. The author, a blind person, highlights how these tools enhance their daily life and emphasizes the need for a more inclusive perspective on accessibility.
Bluetooth 6.0, announced in September 2024, introduces several new features, including Bluetooth Channel Sounding for improved device positioning and tracking, and Decision-Based Advertising Filtering for faster device pairing and switching. It also enhances ISOAL for better reliability and reduced latency, and introduces the LC3plus codec for improved audio quality. While still rare in 2025, Bluetooth 6.0 is expected to become more prevalent in devices by 2026.
German regulators have declared accessibility overlays a barrier to certification, stating they cannot reliably assess websites using them. Organizations should avoid overlays and instead conduct proper accessibility audits and implement genuine, code-level accessibility solutions.
File list includes name, last commit, last update, LICENSE, README.md, and nanogram.sh.
A polyglot document intelligence framework with a Rust core. Extract text, metadata, and structured information from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 50+ formats. Available for Rust, Python, Rub...
Hannah, a young employee, discovered a way to reimage thin clients in-house, saving her company £600 per device and six weeks of downtime. Her boss, recognizing the cost savings, allowed her to play her new Nintendo GameCube at work while overseeing the process.
Typst-based CV/resume generator for academics and engineers - rendercv/rendercv
북한의 전설적인 아나운서 리춘히의 목소리를 AI로 재현하는 TTS 서비스
Scripts and documentation about accessible version of Fedora - vojtapolasek/vojtux
An accessible retro audio archery game.
Starting January 20, 2026, Amazon will allow authors to offer DRM-free ebooks in EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing. Authors can opt-in to this feature for their existing titles by changing the DRM status in the KDP author portal.
A few thoughts on the idea that domains should be everyone’s “internet handles”.
A VPS was hacked, causing high CPU usage due to a crypto miner. The attacker exploited a vulnerability in Umami, a self-hosted analytics service. The user took steps to secure the server, including removing Prometheus, updating Umami, and adding a Hetzner Firewall.
A design agency client wanted to implement a “fuck off contact page,” prioritizing aesthetics over user experience. Despite the designer’s objections, the client’s vision prevailed, leading to a disappointing outcome. The designer reflects on the importance of educating clients about the design process and the potential pitfalls of discounted pricing. Note: Writing Tools aren’t designed to work with this type of content.
Contribute to svanichkin/say development by creating an account on GitHub.
Kim Kardashian failed the California bar exam after apprenticing for over six years. A lawyer cited ChatGPT’s usage policies in a wrongful-death complaint, highlighting the importance of understanding AI limitations. A Crooked Beverage Company co-founder faces felony theft charges for allegedly stealing over $75,000.
Contribute to qvink/SillyTavern-MessageSummarize development by creating an account on GitHub.
A tool-call based memory system for SillyTavern. Contribute to unkarelian/timeline-memory development by creating an account on GitHub.
Arcade Girls: An Unconventional Romance eBook : Quill, Jim: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
I recently released JustHTML, a python-based HTML5 parser. It passes 100% of the html5lib test suite, has zero dependencies, and includes a CSS selector...
Crystal-based pastebin application with live syntax highlighting preview and extensive theme support - ralsina/pasto
New global research from Disability:IN and LinkedIn reveals a powerful workforce trend: professionals with disabilities are advancing- but often by switching firms to do so. Explore the research that will shape your workforce strategy for years to come.
Wear headphones, listen for beeps, and click FIRE when the sound is centred.
Jim, a reader, recounts a time in the early 1990s when he worked for an online bookstore. While testing the new platform, Jim forgot to disable a site crawler’s ability to add items to the shopping cart, resulting in a cart worth over $50,000. This caused a major disruption for the bookstore, but Jim was able to fix the issue and keep his job.
Legend of Mana Land: Four Golden Rings: A GameLit Fantasy Adventure eBook : Scott, Landon, Sage, Adam: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
On the space of minds and the optimizations that give rise to them.
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...
A highly customizable chatbot/waifu for Discord featuring smart agentic AI features such as memory, personas, tool usage, and more! - Bredrumb/TomoriBot
Download Paylino by Subsspot GmbH on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Paylino.
AI large language models have been heralded as revolutionary in the world of accessibility. But in order to create a more accessible internet, those with disabilities need to be included in the process of training the technology, advocates say.
Welcome to watchTowr vs the Internet, part 68. That feeling you’re experiencing? Dread. You should be used to it by now. As is fast becoming an unofficial and, apparently, frowned upon tradition - we identified incredible amounts of publicly exposed passwords, secrets, keys and more for very sensitive environments
How about this for a truism: a book is a book, and something that is not a book is not a book. This post will knock your socks off if you are inclined to affirm this statement, because in medieval …
Three weeks of network monitoring revealed the truth: 73% of funded AI startups are running $33M valuations on $1,200/month in OpenAI…
Welcome to Chart It, the accessible tool allowing screen-reader users to create mind maps, ERD's, flowcharts and more.
Grab yours while supplies last. Apple has launched a limited edition iPhone grip and stand, designed by Bailey Hikawa "through an extensive interview...
After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.