today's leftovers
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'Home Assistant' to get its own voice separate from Siri or Alexa
Schoutsen's blog post highlighted the platform's priority to make 'Home Assistant' accessible in multiple languages.
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5 open source ideas for being more inclusive through accessibility
As the internet opens the planet into a world stage, inclusion should be at the forefront of how we design, build, and implement our ideas. With 15% of people self-identifying as disabled worldwide, that is far too many people to leave behind due to lack of accessibility. This includes permanent, temporary, episodic, and situational disabilities.
In 2022, we published some great articles about making digital assets more accessible. Here are a few of the top picks.
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Hybrid cloud infrastructure modernisation [Ed: A pool of buzzwords and mindless clown computing marketing]
Public clouds enabled digital transformation at unprecedented speed. But their operational costs over time can be exacting as compute needs increase. Hybrid clouds emerged as an alternative to gain the benefits of both worlds: private infrastructure that allows for lower operational expenditures and tighter control, and public clouds that can scale with ease.
Organisations looking to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture should carefully consider their options for private cloud vendors, as well as their implications for application design and development, workload orchestration and long-term maintenance.