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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)

2025-09-15

Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/screen-readers-do-not-need-saved-by-ai

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2025-09-13

Save 10% on Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story on Steam

store.steampowered.com/app/3840090/Survive_Resist_Collaborate__a_World_War_2_ChoiceBased_Story

# game

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2025-09-12

'IT manager' had never heard of a command line

www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/on_call

648.

2025-09-11

How Canadians with vision loss are turning to AI glasses to regain their independence | CBC Radio

www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/ai-glasses-assistance-1.7628803

646.

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/09/dui-in-a-barbie-jeep-again.html

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2025-09-10

Myopic Focus

thedailywtf.com/articles/myopic-focus

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2025-09-09

Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/09/study-finds-neurodiverse-workers-more-satisfied-with-ai-assistants

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2025-09-08

GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up.

github.com/tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli

642.

Playing sport in a datacenter was dumb, but we were winning

www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/who_me

643.

2025-09-07

Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found

www.neowin.net/news/root-cause-for-why-windows-11-is-breaking-or-corrupting-ssds-may-have-been-found

638.

Yet More Aquatic Escape Attempts

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/09/yet-more-aquatic-escape-attempts.html

639.

Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows

www.engadget.com/gaming/unity-developers-can-now-tap-into-system-screen-reader-tools-on-macos-and-windows-200348860.html

640.

Subverting code integrity checks to locally backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and more -The Trail of Bits Blog

blog.trailofbits.com/2025/09/03/subverting-code-integrity-checks-to-locally-backdoor-signal-1password-slack-and-more

# article

641.

2025-09-03

Git exclude, a handy feature you might not know about / Marijke Luttekes

marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/09/03/git-exclude-a-handy-feature-you-might-not-know-about

637.

2025-09-02

10 Life Lessons on Accessibility

accessiblelink.substack.com/p/10-life-lessons-on-accessibility

636.

2025-09-01

I was a part-time DBA – until a fabulous failover foul-up

www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/who_me

634.

WP Accessibility 2.2.0 Released - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility

www.joedolson.com/2025/08/wp-accessibility-2-2-0-released

635.

2025-08-30

Breakout Boards For The Blind | Hackaday

hackaday.com/2025/08/29/breakout-boards-for-the-blind

# accessibility

633.

2025-08-29

Techie manipulated time itself to get servers in sync

www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/on_call

632.

2025-08-26

eBraille 1.0

daisy.github.io/ebraille/published/1.0/FINAL-ebraille-20250814

626.

Timing Conclusions

scottstuff.net/posts/2025/06/10/timing-conclusions

627.

CIO made dangerous mistake, demanded it go into production

www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/who_me

628.

Introducing the new Framework Laptop 16 with NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070

frame.work/ca/en/blog/introducing-the-new-framework-laptop-16-with-nvidia

629.

GitHub - microsoft/VibeVoice: Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech

github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice

630.

GitHub - robert-mcdermott/doc2md: 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 processed sequentially; outputs are concatenated into a single Markdown document.

github.com/robert-mcdermott/doc2md

631.

2025-08-25

Elysium RPG

inviocean.com/play/elysium-rpg-from-player-to-ruler-your-story-in-the-mud-universe

# accessibility,game

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2025-08-24

VeTube/doc/en/readme.md at master · metalalchemist/VeTube · GitHub

github.com/metalalchemist/VeTube/blob/master/doc/en/readme.md

# accessibility,tool

624.

2025-08-22

GitHub - samtupy/obs-accessibility: audio/text feedback and other accessibility features for OBS as a plugin

github.com/samtupy/obs-accessibility

# accessibility,tool

623.

2025-08-20

Radioactive Shrimp - Funranium Labs

www.funraniumlabs.com/2025/08/radioactive-shrimp

622.

2025-08-19

Data from Slovenia: 2 months after the EAA deadline, our audit of ~150 e-commerce sites shows an average accessibility score of just 24.33/100. : r/accessibility

www.reddit.com/r/accessibility/comments/1mudptw/data_from_slovenia_2_months_after_the_eaa

# accessibility

621.

2025-08-18

GitHub - context-labs/uwu

github.com/context-labs/uwu

618.

Unskilled teen interns brute-forced and broke a disk

www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/who_me

619.

GitHub - the-byte-bender/Playmaker.Audio: A modern, end-to-end 3d game audio engine on top of OpenAL Soft.

github.com/the-byte-bender/Playmaker.Audio

620.

2025-08-16

BudgetBraillerBlog Intro

budgetbrailler.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/budgetbraillerblog-intro

617.

2025-08-15

Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable

www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/on_call

616.

2025-08-13

GitHub - KittenML/KittenTTS: State-of-the-art TTS model under 25MB 😻

github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS

# ai,tool

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TTS Studio

clowerweb.github.io/tts-studio

# ai,tool

614.

Congratulations, You've Unlocked 'Expert Mode'! (Whether You Wanted It or Not)

nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/congratulations-youve-unlocked-expert.html

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2025-08-11

ChatGPT will apologize for anything

www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will-apologize-for-anything

611.

Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong thing

www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/who_me

612.

2025-08-05

Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady

go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/who_me

610.

2025-08-03

Persuasion RPG by Dementia5

dementia5.itch.io/persuasion-rpg

# game

608.

Sea-Cucumber Abuser to Be “Moved Far From the Sea for a Long Period of Time”

www.loweringthebar.net/2025/08/sea-cucumber-abuser-to-be-moved-far-from-the-sea.html

# animal_law,canada,contempt_of_court,crime_and_punishment,water_escapes

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2025-08-01

Squigly - Smart Music Links

# tool

607.

2025-07-30

Why product owners can't afford to ignore accessibility | AbilityNet

abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/why-product-owners-cant-afford-ignore-accessibility

606.

2025-07-29

Apple Releases iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, watchOS 11.6, tvOS 18.6, and HomePod Software 18.6 | AppleVis

www.applevis.com/blog/apple-releases-ios-186-ipados-186-macos-sequoia-156-watchos-116-tvos-186-homepod-software-186

605.

2025-07-28

Intern did exactly what he was told, turned off wrong server

www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/who_me

604.

2025-07-25

Tech trainee diagnosed PC problem by looking in the trash

www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/on_call

603.

2025-07-24

Ookla crowns Bell as Canada’s fastest mobile and internet provider

mobilesyrup.com/2025/07/23/ookla-bell-fasts-mobile-internet-canada

# carriers,news,ookla,smart_home,wi-fi

601.

Tornado risk for the Ottawa-Gatineau area Thursday

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tornado-storm-ottawa-gatineau-weather-forecast-july24-1.7592778?cmp=rss

# newscanadaottawa

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2025-07-23

NashCentral/Onward Mobility Accessibility Projects

nashcentral.duckdns.org/projects.html

# tool

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[July 22, 1970] Solace for Your Trillion-Year-Old Spirit (George Malko's Scientology: The Now Religion)

galacticjourney.org/july-22-1970-solace-for-your-trillion-year-old-spirit-george-malkos-scientology-the-now-religion

# 1970,arturo_serrano,book,dianetics,fashion,george_malko,l._ron_hubbard,music,politics,religion,scientology,space_opera,sports

599.

LlazyLlama – The grand weave

progressionfantasy.co.uk/llazyllama-the-grand-weave

# litrpg__gamelit

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2025-07-22

WikiCraft

# ai,tool

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The Service Library Service

thedailywtf.com/articles/the-service-library-service

# feature_articles

597.

2025-07-21

Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours

www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/who_me

594.

How accessible are the NCC's trails, really? Now there's an app for that | CBC News

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/how-accessible-are-the-ncc-s-trails-really-now-there-s-an-app-for-that-1.7586497

595.

2025-07-18

Adobe’s new AI tool turns silly noises into realistic audio effects

www.theverge.com/news/708798/adobe-firefly-ai-generate-sound-effects-video-composition

# adobe,ai,creators,news,tech

592.

‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’

go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/on_call

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2025-07-17

jsbeeb - Javascript BBC Micro emulator

oneswitch.org.uk/jsbeeb?autotype=CHAIN"PONTOON" &disc=/Blind_Access/Pontoon_1983_2025.dsd

# accessibility,game

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2025-07-16

Red Flags for Accessibility

accessiblelink.substack.com/p/red-flags-for-accessibility

590.

2025-07-15

Apple taught an AI model to reason about app interfaces - 9to5Mac

9to5mac.com/2025/07/15/apple-researchers-taught-an-ai-model-to-reason-about-app-interfaces

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How the low-vision community embraced AI smart glasses

www.theverge.com/the-vergecast/701018/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-be-my-eyes-ceo-accessibility-tech

588.

Helping service animals catch a ride | BetaKit

betakit.com/helping-service-animals-catch-a-ride

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