h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

#Accessibility is cool.
I had wondered about the change, but never checked.
Excellent work by @FinancialTimes

#DigitalComms #Communications #Screenreader #Screenreaders #TextToVoice

Sunak apologised for taking off a seatbelt for 30 seconds. Zahawi won’t apologise for failing to pay £3.7m of tax, lying about it, threatening to sue people who write about it, and then secretly admitting it all to HMRC and paying up behind our backs https://taxpolicy.org.uk/zahawi_story

This is pretty near:

Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!

TL;DR;

Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!

1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html

Something new I learned today: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font is a font designed with low vision readers in mind.

Can be downloaded off of Google Fonts or directly from the Braille Institute: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

[ #FediArt #MastoArt #typography ]

I made this photo frame to show EPIC satellite photos of Earth from space!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4M3cm4ml_c

Thames Water finally opened up their sewage discharge monitoring data, which is good. Unfortunately what the data shows is not so good, but I'm glad it's finally public.

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map

Axing the ONS infection survey would be a MASSIVE mistake.

Instead of cutting it we should be EXPANDING it - we have an opportunity for an incredible public health tool. Let's add Flu, RSV & other resp viruses and really understand their seasonality 1/2

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-infection-survey-tracks-cases-uk-shut-down-spring-2081271

If you missed it yesterday...I wrote a book.
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/hacker-space-rogue-to-release-book-on-hacking-group-l0pht-heavy-industries-in-february

Following the launch of our first RDNA 3-based #Radeon GPUs, we've published the ISA reference guide.

If you're interested in how the #RDNA3 shader μarch works, be it for optimization or education, dig in!

https://gpuopen.com/rdna3-isa-guide-now-available/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rdna3

This year, you won't be able to vote without certain photo ID in the UK. Most of the accepted forms are non-free, and are skewed towards the kinds of ID older people have. Keep your right to vote by getting a Voter Authority Certificate if you don't have other valid ID. Learn about it here: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/voter-id