NVAccess and the slow Erosion of trust

I still believe that NVDA is the best available screen reader, and I still donate monthly. These are just a chronicle of decisions that have made me go... Huh. What?

Before we get started, some important disclaimers. First, these are (as with everything I write) my own opinions, not the opinions of the company where I work. Second, while I have developed a couple addons for NVDA, I am a hobbyist developer. While I was deeply involved in cryptocurrency and all of the operational security implications tied up in it for six years, I am not a professional security expert, and I have no security certifications. I've used NVDA for over ten years, but I also can't call myself an expert in the NVDA codebase or the political internals of NVAccess or the pressures it's under.

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YubiKey And Screen Readers

I couldn't find any real information about how Yubikeys work with screen readers. So I decided to publish some.

Before we get into it, we should start with the basics for those who are unaware. What is a Yubikey, and why do you want one?

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Openclaw Is More Fun to Fiddle With Than To Use

Of course I have to write about openclaw.

If you've never heard of Openclaw (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot), it's an open source AI tool that can actually do things in the real world. And sometimes, the things it does are actually the things you want it to do! Unfortunately, "sometimes" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Is Openclaw worth the massive hype it's received from people like Andrej Karpathy? I'll go over my experiences in this article.

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