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Do you have a RISC-V computer or SBC and want to install Linux on it? These Linux distributions and other open source operating systems offer images designed for the open source architecture you can download right now.
just got this working on my machine but am wondering if anyone else has tried this and has any opinions on it? github.com/Diolinux/Pho...
ServiceNow, Nexstar, Meta, Instagram, Novo Nordisk and the Iranian Banking sector are all part of this week's breaches...
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Speech synthesis genuinely changes lives for people with visual impairments, blindness, dyslexia, and other accessibility needs. Big thanks to @grapheneos for proving that privacy-first tech can be fully accessible too. We need more of this. #a11y #accessibility #tts
The most effective accessibility tool featured in this episode might not be AI, robotics, or machine learning. It might be a carpet leading someone safely to a reception desk.
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Doing #accessibility tests. Sharing for edu.
Described in replies.
1) Button w/ visible text should be named w/ that text.
2) Don't put instructions in element names.
3) Don't put "click" in instructions. Antithetical to #a11y.
4) Instructions overly verbose.
5) Likely shouldn't be toggle buttons.
Accessible email is no longer optional, it is core UX. 2026 Litmus guide shows practical patterns for inclusive inbox design.
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🆕 blog! “Better TTS on Linux”
The venerable eSpeak is a mainstay of Linux distributions. It is a clever Text-To-Speech (TTS) program which will read aloud the written word using a phenomenally wide variety of languages and accents.
The only problem is that it sounds robotic. It has the same […]
This weekend, I did an interview about my forthcoming book *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI* (a book about being a better AI critic), and the interviewer said she was surprised that I wasn't an AI booster, based on my demographics and work history:
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Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update.
This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.
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GrapheneOS Speech Services version 3 released:
github.com/GrapheneOS/S...
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.
Forum discussion thread:
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36408-grap...
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Notable changes in version 3:
sync ONNX session close with runs to avoid upstream memory corruption bugs in ONNX
update Kotlin to 2.4.0
update detekt library to 2.0.0-alpha.4
update AndroidX Core ...
