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That time of year again when Signal and other messaging apps force you to get a new computer for no reason rosano.ca/blog/encryption-rant…
Street Complete for iOS is on Test Flight now!
Please check the list of reported bugs (pinned issue) before reporting something!
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This is the only app I’ve been missing after migrating to iOS, and now it’s here!
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What's unsetteling to me now, is moving from Panthera Speech to SSI263 on Android. We're talking voices that have a 20 year gap between them. It is very odd working on these two extremes of computing history.
Using object navigation in NVDA is routine for me, but in teaching my wife how to do it, I remember how odd it was when I learned. I just wish she didn't have to learn in a terribly designed IEP system which not only requires NVDA, but also requires that you use Firefox to be able to even see entered rich text. I think if I'd had to learn object nav on this, I'd lose my mind.
I kinda went from "Who the hell would ever need this comvoluted thing", to using it all the time.
@bscross32 For reals right? You can do something similar using jaws and the touch cursor but it's not near as useful or efficient.
To answer the article's question: It is unethical to run a program that "tortures" an LLM because in order to do this you must run the LLM and it is unethical to run an LLM 🤷♀️
would be nice. theglobeandmail.com/business/c…
Opinion: It’s time to unlock billions for Canadian charities. Here’s how
Capital gains exemption for donations of public shares has been a Canadian success story, but that story was never finishedRyan Beedie (The Globe and Mail)
Sometimes I have wild energy and don't know how to expend it, and in such times, I think about punching @ZBennoui in the face. Yes, I believe this is a good use of my extra energy.
Aaand it's out! Prism 0.18.3 is here! See my earlier post for a list of changes. Download: github.com/ethindp/prism/relea…
Release PRISM v0.18.3 · ethindp/prism
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Awwwwww man, when did that happen
Total Wealth of Bottom 50% of U.S. households
1989: $317.8 billion
2026: $313 billion
Total Wealth of Top 0.00001% (20 households)
1989: $88.6 billion
2026: $4 trillion
This is insane!
We need a wealth tax on billionaires NOW!
it was already insane in 89, but i feel you
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Prism 0.18.3 is currently being prepared for release and should be out within the hour! Maybe a bit longer, depending on how long CI/CD takes, and if it decides to fail spuriously (I hope not). This release is a pretty big one, to put it lightly. I thought about making this 0.19.0 given the shear amount of changes involved, but I did say that 0.18.x will be the last 0.x release, so I might as well stick to that.
Changes:
* The Orca, Speech Dispatcher, and Spiel backends can now all be used, transparently, under Wine/Proton. There is also documentation on how this actually needs to be set up.
* The Speech Dispatcher wine bridge now exposes as much functionality as the native one does, including voice control, rate/pitch/volume, pause/resume and more.
* Prism now has compatibility shims for UniversalSpeech, SRAL and SpeechCore, along with Tolk. Currently these are only built as shared libraries, but if people want I can allow them to be built statically as well.
* Optional speech/accessibility libraries are now loaded dynamically. Speech Dispatcher and Spiel no longer force their shared libraries to be present merely to load Prism. Prism now on Windows no longer uses delay loading.
* Availability monitoring gained a baseline-complete notification. Applications can determine exactly when the initial backend-availability scan has completed, avoiding a race between direct availability queries and the polling thread. The `PrismConfig` struct is now at version 4.
* Fixed a race in backend enumeration. `prism_registry_acquire_best()` now handles cached-but-uninitialized backends correctly and serializes initialization of the same retained backend. Competing threads no longer risk replacing a valid shared cached backend with a speculative instance.
* SAPI initialization is more robust when COM marshaling or output-format discovery is unavailable.
* UI Automation now reports runtime support based on both the Windows screen-reader flag and active UIA listeners.
* AVSpeech memory synthesis now fails cleanly on timeout instead of returning truncated partial audio.
* VoiceOver capability reporting was corrected where macOS cannot reliably implement `stop`/`is_speaking`.
* Backend object files are now explicitly retained with MSVC, GCC, and Clang so linker dead-stripping does not silently remove registered backends. Static builds also preserve the required optional-library/bridge hooks.
* Fixed an x86 clang-cl build failure (thanks, Microsoft, for makign x86 calling conventions so weird).
* Added/fixed ARM64 PC-Talker loading support.
* Windows import libraries are now generated using the linker’s own library tooling rather than maintained .def files in several places.
* Prism now has Rust and TypeScript bindings (maintained by @trypsynth and @cartertemm, respectively).
There are many more that I haven't listed because there are so many. For example, Android now uses Android's built-in ICU instead of Icu4J.
Thanks go to the following people for assisting in this release: TomJoey (@TomJoey) (#98); Quin Gillespie (@trypsynth) (#125, #126, #127, #131, #132, #133, #134, #135, #136, #137, #138, #139, #140, and #142); and Carter Temm (@cartertemm) (#141).
I will post an update once CI/CD completes. You can monitor it here if you'd like: github.com/ethindp/prism/actio…
Release · ethindp/prism@94329eb
The Platform-agnostic Reader Interface for Speech and Messages: a new universal text-to-speech and screen reader abstraction library - Release · ethindp/prism@94329ebGitHub
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Yamaha Mu2000 with VL and SG support? Why not? dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ebzjvrjjvy…
Se puede desarrollar/programar desde un dispositivo Android?
They'll keep on pushing #chatcontrol until they win. This makes me extremely sad about (European) democracy. Repeatedly voting on the same thing until you win is recognized as anti-democratic. And yet.
Not an expert on the details of the EU legislative process but isn’t this a next step of decision making? The parliament rejected chat control so must now negotiate with the council? As opposed to repeating the same vote over and over, I mean.
@mkoek this is the encore of the third attempt already. And they keep trying to force it through using clever procedures. This is not in any way a regular lawmaking process.
@echo_pbreyer this is why those #cyberfascists should be barred frm public office and publc servancy at the minimum.
- This #CorrosionStrategy against #HumanRights must stop and be reverted - WITH INTEREST!
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stop SHAMING people for using the unfit for purpose, ecocide-accelerating, labor-stealing, software-degrading, research-corrupting, privacy-invading, disinformation-producing, CSAM-generating, suicide-encouraging, mass violence-enabling, global economy-precaritizing, democracy-eroding, deskilling, brainrotting, futures-foreclosing tech product that was made by the eugenic death cult fascists who bankroll race science promoters and nazi politicians! it's just a value-neutral tool!
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Does anyone know if Usenet is still around and can be joined?
I found eternal-september.org/ from a friend, but I want to find more.
I'm looking for text-only newsgroups that don't include binaries or large uuencoded files.
Any tips?
yes, it's there. I don't use it for communication but some people do. Though if you look and see who is still posting in the groups they're often pretty deranged/unhinged sorts of people.
But if you want access to quality media piracy? hell yeah it's the best there is, I do terabytes per month
This is a major blow to the open web! For as long as I can remember, Reddit has embraced RSS feeds and public API access to users, apps, and developers, allowing the site to thrive. To start choking access after decades of open doors is really sad and feels like the start of Reddit's demise. techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/redd…
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
I'm currently getting the RSS feeds through a self-hosted redlib instance (proxies to Reddit) -- mostly because the official Reddit RSS was already insane. Sometimes it would just start shoving posts from other subreddits into the RSS feed when no new content was available. I assume they were currently trending/popular posts? Hated it so much
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Not me discovering minor bugs in code "that wasn't changed recently" in a page I wanted to show in a live demo, in the final window before a presentation where there's little to no time left to fix them.
At least I'm discovering them *before* the demo this time.
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@Scott I like to say: "We'll laugh about this later" … that must apply to standup in a very weird way. 😆
Are you absolutely sure that writing code is your true calling? It's just... imagine what you could do with this philosophy as a wedding planner.
Ugh! The FCC really does not make it easy to use their website! You'd think they'd at least try.
Tonight join @Liz, for Full Circle from 7 P.M. eastern (US time). This week, their will be a showcase, and the next episode of chickenman. So tune in tonight, and see who, or what is in the showcase. HKCRadio.com
I just got my accessible NYC ballot for voting in the November general election. I won't be home to vote in person, so let's see how the good ol' USPS handles things. I have confidence, so very much confidence. I have sarcasm, so very much sarcasm.
That is awesome, other than the printing part. XD I haven't a printer, but that's cool that youhave that option. Might need to research my own state, we get mail in ballots and just get help, going and waiting for them to set up the stupid machine is just a pain int he ass and they never have it ready to go.
@blindbat84 I have a printer, but there are libraries and such if you need to use a printer.
In all the times I've voted in person, I have only had problems with the machine once. I'm sure that's a-typical.
I did it only once and it was great, but I had to wait for them to pull ito ut, set it up and all that crap, it was annoying.
Well,hell, seems my state does this too, but of course Ihad no idea because it isn't like any kind of information like this gets passed out around here.
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Why Gen Z Refuses To Be Loyal To Companies
Gen Z has been called the laziest generation in history, and nearly half of hiring managers now agree. But almost nobody asks the real question: loyal to wha...Hawk Live Economics (YouTube)
lol why should they be loyal if the company won't be loyal to them? it's a parasitic relationship, they're just the first generation that is willing to call bullshit on it and not feel alone because social media helps them connect with others who see the same thing
If you haven't listened to Herbie Mann's Flute Fraternity album, you're missing out. It's some excellent flute playing and all around great #Jazz.
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I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a backdrop of global warming, and even, if you can remember it, the ever present threat of nuclear weapon armageddon.
You are right. But AI is uniquely able to worsen all these things by precisely what we see users using it for: off-loading responsibility.
It is, but mainly because we as a species appear to have looked at global climate change and said "Yeah, but if only it could be made *quicker*, you know?"
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Long, loud, pointless rage scream
Van a matar el RSS en Reddit AHHHH
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Ahh, my eyes. #Firefox has a new Nova theme and it seems that nobody tried using it with containers and vertical tabs. Ugly and confusing. 😵💫
In the old theme the indication line was on the right side of the tab. That makes more sense.
Hope to be fixed soon. For now I upvoted already existing ticket:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
2076716 - After Firefox update container color markers for vertical tabs became horizontal.
UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Firefox - Untriaged. Last updated 2026-09-30.bugzilla.mozilla.org
Das #Grundgesetz ist #antifaschistisch
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Zitat von Hape Kerkeling heute im @thueringerlandtag@social.bund.de
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Zitat von Hape Kerkeling heute im @thueringerlandtag@social.bund.de
Found out the only thing I'm missing on when it comes to the 17 and 18 Pro models is the camera quality and slightly better processor. Well in that case I'll save my money and grab a 17. Whether it'll be a Pro or Pro Max we'll see.
I am coming for Orlando in 2027, super excited to give a keynote for the incredible BEP venders of the state of Florida! How to utilize AI to drive our businesses. #Networking #Community #Orlando
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It's that time of year again!
Is this a fresh sign, like they're renewing the gag?
Because it's still good either way, but even better if it is a continuing tradition.
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RT: @jeremyscahill For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
“It’s really important for the public to get more information about how these private companies are operating AI systems that influence Medicare beneficiaries’ access to care,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told KTVK3/KPHO CBS5 Arizona's Family. azfamily.com/2026/09/30/newly-…
Newly released records detail rocky rollout of Medicare pilot program in Arizona
Arizona is one of six states nationwide in a pilot program for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.Zach Prelutsky (https://www.azfamily.com)
Think I'll be getting an iPhone 17 Pro or Pro Max to upgrade from my regular iPhone 15. Anyone with either of these devices have opinions?
It really depends on what you want. Both are pretty good but the Pro Max has a little bit better battery life and is the better option in my opinion.
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We won't get out of this mess—not really— until we address the greatest wealth disparity since before the Great Depression.
Support unions! Support labor! Tax the rich! Tax corporations!
America belongs to its people--all of them.
Well, one of the first orders of business would be to rescind all the laws that limit unions from going on strike.
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in reply to Rosano • • •it's probably electron, which eventually means chromium. every so often they remove support for older operating systems.
Most other electron projects will have the same issue. (even Delta Chat will eventually increase the requirement when electron forces it)
But you should be able to fork signal and self build it by downgrading electron dependency or whatever else made them upgrade the minimum OS version. Besides that maybe installing linux on your Mac could be an option.