With thanks to several people on Masto, my personal email (with custom domain), contacts, calendar, and file storage have all been moved from Google Workspace to Mailbox.org, and the monthly cost has consequently dropped by about 50% 🥳
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Although I'd used computers before, including an Apple IIe and an Atari ST, it was the arrival of "Wintel" computers that changed everything for me, so this NYTimes piece on the downfall of Intel is both interesting and a little nostalgic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/technology/intel-computer-chips-tech-ai-trump.html
Hello @mailbox_org, I'm unable to connect my Mailbox drive to Windows. I've tried everything on this help page, using a browser, Windows GUI and the command line.
https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/drive-article/webdav-for-windows/
It authenticates OK, but then returns nothing. Browser message is "There's nothing here", Windows and CL variations on "cannot find location".
Unable to open support ticket, possibly because it's a trial account. Hope you can help? Thank you.
Can anyone recommend an accessible email provider in the EU, with custom domain capability, contacts, and document storage with file access via the OS? TIA
If the methodology is robust, then kudos to #Google for developing a way to calculate #AI energy and water consumption more comprehensively than has been typical so far:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-much-energy-do-your-ai-prompts-consume-google-just-shared-its-gemini-numbers/
The worst part about a visit to the Dentist for treatment is the amount of time afterwards where it isn't possible to drink tea.
Slow hand clap for #Linkedin who've locked me out of my account until I can prove who I am, except I can't because their third party face recog provider is unusable if you can't look directly at the camera - and all because I changed my password and disabled a bunch more of the personal data leaching settings I found when I went looking.
It's been a while since I wrote any purposeful code, so I'm feeling good about having written a private Alexa skill that opens the gate onto our drive automatically, so I don't have to send an SMS from my phone.
@inclusivedesign24 is a non-profit organisation, and we’re able to keep the spirit of Inclusive Design 24 alive because of the generosity of our supporters.
If you'd like to join them, there's more info here:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/supporters/
With agentic AI contributing to the AI hype-cycle, I've been giving it some thought from the point of view of a disabled person, and also as an accessibility specialist who's already witnessing the arrival of the agentic web first-hand:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/08/accessibility-and-the-agentic-web/
Marking 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I remember visiting the Peace Museum in Hiroshima and hearing the voices of survivors and the families of those who did not.
I remember the mark burned into steps where someone was sitting when the bomb exploded, the items of clothing left behind, and the photos of such terrible destruction.
I will never forget the helpless rage I felt, caused by people two generations and a continent away from me.
It's #HTML day, so why not bookmark these screen reader HTML support tables for future reference:
https://github.com/TetraLogical/screen-reader-HTML-support
Good grief. Just went to check my DM on Bluesky and had to age verify...
On the up-side, apparently I look my age 😂
My first engagement with ChatGPt Agent...
Me: "What's the next event on my calendar?"
Agent: Thinks
Agent: Thinks more
Me: Goes to make tea.
Time passes.
Agent: "Your next event is daily stand-up today at 9:05AM."
"Also, apologies, but I seem to have deleted the previous event in your calendar. Would you like me to restore it?"
How is it that within 10 minutes of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom is investigating 34 porn sites, yet in 30 years of disability legislation in the UK there hasn't been a single instance of case law for websites or apps because the EHRC has signally failed to support people with disabilities even when there is a strong case to be made? 😩
Does anyone know of a place to find Mastodon accounts for newspapers, media outlets, and also tech related journals/publications? TIA.
The accessibility link is a lie: my adventures in weaponizing corporate virtue signalling, by WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250724/
America has withdrawn from UNESCO. Again. Apparently it's not in its "national interests".
I take this to mean that #MAGA thinks that UNESCO World Heritage sites... like the Statue of Liberty, Monticello, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks, Independence Hall, the Hawaii Volcanoes, or the Carlsbad Caverns, are not in its best interests.
Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA):
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/19/understanding-the-eaa/
Including the bit no-one talks about, EN 17161 Design for All:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/06/27/understanding-design-for-all/
And a set of FAQ just in case:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/18/eaa-faq/
In 1994 the UK voted the widget inside a can of Guinness as Invention of the Year.
The Internet came second.
Yes, yes, I know that far more people were probably drinking Guinness than using the interwebs back in 1994, but c'mon... 😂
The American System of Democracy has Crashed:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4
Now, with permission, tagging @mia from my "Tag, you're it" post:
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
And with that, it's over to Mia, @koalie and @lolaodelola to take it from here 💜
Give me four minutes and I will change how you see social media. Forever."
Italian film-maker @_elena introduces the fediverse: a new era for social media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno
The more we like and share this video, the more it'll irritate the hell out of Musk, Zuckerberg and co.
You know what to do!
Happily tagging koalie@mastodon.social from my "tag, you're it" blog post 😊
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
Did you know that abortion is a crime in the UK? Now you do - and it's time that changed. Please lend your support by signing this petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/decriminalise-abortion-and-make-it-a-protected-human-right
@aardrian tagged me in his "tag, you're it" post in March, and it's taken me until now to get to it:
https://tink.uk/tag-your-it/
And with permission, I've tagged lolaodelola@mastodon.social to take up the baton 😊
In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).
It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard...
https://tink.uk/advice-for-life/
We've been turning out and I came across an old newspaper I own, dated 23 November 1963 - the day the UK headlines reported that JFK had been assassinated.
I came across it originally about 30 years ago underneath a pub carpet where it'd been used as underlay, presumably sometime in late 1963.
Also came across a leatherbound journal dated 1895, apparently written by one James Smith and dedicated to someone called Mabel.
It's full of quotes, poems, and excerpts from hymns including one by Charles Wesley.
I have no idea where it came from or who the owner might be. The handwriting is barely legible in places, though there is what I think is a piece of pink blotting paper still tucked in the back.
Just added the recipe for the sticky pork belly slices I made the other day to my website:
https://tink.uk/sticky-pork-belly-slices/
CC Scott@tweesecake.social and mattmay@mstdn.social