André Polykanine
menelion@dragonscave.space
<p>A married and happy geek living in Strasbourg, France. <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Backend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Backend</span></a> software engineer, <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>accessibility</span></a> specialist.<br />My main programming languages are <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PHP</span></a> and <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/CSharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CSharp</span></a>.<br />Pro-European right-centrist. Technical progress must not be stoppable.<br /><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> is our assistant, not our replacement nor our ene
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@drwhax/116997238394916522 Be ready to receive lots of crappy comments from AI haters.
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A post I&#39;ve recently boosted starts with: &quot;I know #Mastodon hates LLMs and AI.&quot; and unfortunately, it&#39;s very true. Although #Fediverse apologists keep saying it&#39;s &quot;for everyone&quot;, it&#39;s actually not. To be welcome on most Mastodon servers, you *ought* to love or hate someone and something you were told to love and hate by leftists de facto governing Mastodon. I won&#39;t go into details, but for example, if you don&#39;t h...
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Just read #Microsoft will tie #Windows activation to the mother board somehow. Don't know how it will work, but what if someone upgrades the RAM, or changes the CPU, or whatever else? Usually hardware-bound activations are a pain in the back, but let's see.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@tefida/116985682799477660 Nothing unusual, just a man performing "The lion sleeps tonight" in front of… a literal living lion!
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It seems, it's the first time when I see this on #YouTube: The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Weird.
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On a essayé de trouver des itinéraires pour aller depuis une grande ville en France (pas Strasbourg), passer une petite journée en touristes. Et la plupart sont accessibles qu'en voiture ou à vélo. Et écoutez ce que je vais vous dire : Si un itinéraire touristique (soi-disant touristique) est accessible qu'en voiture ou à vélo, il n'existe pas pour un grand nombre de gens. Moi, je suis aveugle, ma femme ne conduit pas (partiellement aussi à cause de ses problèmes de vision), on n'...
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There is a petition to #UK parliament to "Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses". Rename it "anti-blind people petition". Or "anti-accessibility petition". You're "welcome". Instead of urging governments to make manufacturers to increase glasses security, modern leftist answer is only one: ban. Ban everything, no matter what. there are success stories, like when EU de facto made Apple to ship their phones with a standard...
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@JeffBishop/116705190222455495 Oh right, command palette! Thanks for the reminder!
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Aujourd&#39;hui Nathalie et moi avons visité #Nancy et on a beaucoup aimé la ville. On se promenait plutôt au centre-ville, donc je voudrais y aller pour découvrir encore plus. Malheureusement, on a pas vu le grand orgue de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de l&#39;Annonciation si bien échantillonné par Piotr Grabowski et je ne sais même pas si le grand instrument chante encore ou il est en panne / en réparation. #Voyage #France #EnDécouvrantLaFrance
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116685879969751753 And no mention of #Accessibility. EAA? didn&#39;t hear, no. buy open source, European, whatever, and you blind people, you can F yourselves with great pleasure.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@ffnwz/116687109259969102 Да благословит его Император!
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RE: https://kinkycats.org/@harmonycorrupted/116672929862366954 Absolutely! An even worse thing is to say: &quot;It&#39;s too late for you to start!&quot;. Yesterday heard about a Ukrainian lady who just started painting. She is 84 years old.
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Listening to Claudio #Merulo. Ideal both for working and for meditation. It&#39;s 16th century organ music. Yes, probably it&#39;s not for everyone, but if it&#39;s for you, it&#39;s an absolute delight. #Music #ClassicalMusic #PipeOrgan #RenaissanceMusic
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RE: https://dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/116631951142675724 Absolute crystal truth!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@AmIsraLHai/116635411536492775 Absolument lunaire, évidemment. Et puis on se demande pourquoi on est derrière lest États-Unis en économie, en technologie et surtout en inventions. Parce que personne ne veut de ça.
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Really thinking about joining @bitsacb.
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RE: https://tweesecake.social/@wiljames/116609302784612696 Absolutely!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@AmIsraLHai/116612018572621784 Mais qu&#39;est-ce qu&#39;elle est dégoÛtante ! À vomir.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mattburgess/116612880446487583 And # Accessibility and # EAA are lost and forgotten. Happy # GAAD everyone., quoting mattburgess (mattburgess): New from me: France is done with US big tech companies—arguably its moving away from American tech faster than other countries in Europe The French government has built its own replacement for Google Docs/Microsoft Office. Cities, including Lyon, are moving to Linux and other tech. Open source is at the center of the...
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116613487882150886 And yet you preach &quot;go Linux now!!!&quot; which excludes most of blind people.
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Well, #Eurovision is over this year. congratulations #Bulgaria! Honestly… it&#39;s by far not my favorite song this year, and many of those songs will land in my playlist of the best. Bulgaria, land of Verka siderova, Boris Mashalov, Vlkana Stoyanova and many other greatest voices of this planet, could have sent something more… songy. but anyway, congratulations! #Israel is the second, and it&#39;s quite deserved. The song is catchy, Noam has a great voice. It&#39;s sad #Croatia, #Al...
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On a dit qu&#39;#Eurovision était en audio description pour la première fois cette année. Merci #FranceTV !
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RE: https://cupoftea.social/@zersiax/116592419654731758 Definitely not just you, same feelings here.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/116583947571833929 We are kinda outraged, yes, because if Rust follows Zig&#39;s strict anti-AI policy, it would mean that we need to search for another language again. #AI
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today is the grand final. I wish France, Ukraine and Albania good luck. Listen to them, if not yet. For example, this masterpiece is from #Albania. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9AdRrA554o #Eurovision #ESC2026
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That&#39;s it, people. With lots of emotion I announce the first release of my first ever open-source desktop app. Who happen to know I&#39;m blind will laugh (and I share that laugh, so feel free and don&#39;t hold yourselves): it&#39;s an image converter. I was in need of an accessible solution for well… converting images from one format to another and didn&#39;t find anything, especially that supported ICO needed, for example, for making favicons for websites. Anyway, it&a...
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A new type of #CAPTCHA: &quot;click somewhere inside the flickering circle&quot;. Of course, keyboard accessibility is zero, so wherever you press Enter (the circle has even an alt, woohoo!), it&#39;s a no. Thanks and F you, itiods! #Accessibility
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#Claude Security enters public beta with #Opus 4.7 vulnerability scanning and patching https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-claude-security-public-beta/ TL;DR: Claude Code will be able to patch security vulnerabilities in repos, directories, and branches. Available for enterprise users, access for Max and Team coming soon. #AI #AINews
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#OpenAI made a special #ChatGPT for your doctor https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openai-chatgpt-for-clinicians-doctors-health-care-ai-news/ TL;DR: It&#39;s a special harness for clinicians, privacy-compatible, not available for personal use. doctors and nurses can use it free of charge, if verified by OpenAI. #AI #AINews
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🔖 agent memory, evaluation, observability, and multi-agent architecture. Current trend focus: OpenAI Codex, emerging agent runtimes, and production AI workflow patterns. https://github.com/Prompthon-IO/agent-systems-handbook TL;DR: Free open-source handbook for learning agentic development, MCP and all the stuff around. #AI