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#Mastodon really needs something similar to the $-Tags that #twitter had to indicate Stock symbols to avoid confusions like this...

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Hi! Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make & give away for free, and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

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If the trend is "you'll own nothing and you will be happy" that tech is going. Then we should ensure that all of the tech companies are happy, too.

Why should #Nvidia own the GPUs? Why should #AWS own datacenters?

You cant have your cake and eat it too.

Also anyone else having "streaming service fatigue"? At this point I'd rather NOT have a product at all than pay a subscription for it...

#NVDA #YouWillOwnNothingAndBeHappy #subscription #enshittification

#nvidia #nvda #enshittification #subscription #aws #youwillownnothingandbehappy
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Klaus Frank

I didn't know NVDA was a screen reader. All I know it from is back on Twitter days people using $NVDA as it is the stock symbol.

Mastodon however doesn't have $-Tags. It only has #-Tags.

(Also I made the same post over on Linkedin and there the main target audience most likely is following the stock symbol. So just not including it is also not really an option. But I'll try to think about removing it from the mastodon version of the post)

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NV Access

Thanks! Genuine question - Does anyone actually follow those nasdaq handles? I guess maybe for a company with a long multi-word name it might be easier - but as I do follow the #NVDA hashtag myself, 95% of the posts on Mastodon at least, are about our screen reader - with occasional ones about NVIDIA, or "Non-Violent Direct Action".

Just looking now, my instance tells me there are currently 24 posts for #NVDA, but 318 for #NVIDIA

#nvidia #nvda

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people saying "Carmack doesn't do open source, he does code drops":

Well I'm sorry to be the one to inform you but there's no rule that says open source needs to have a "community" or requires the project owner entertain your ideas or accept your code; development does not have to be in the open at all. This is just something that has been common among major projects.

A lot of open source software would be better quality if they weren't infected with random people trying to steer it in a different direction.

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A slopfondler walks into a bar.

They: Hey. I found a good use of AI!
Me: No you didn't.
They: Wait let me tell you about it.
Me: Please don't. I'm begging you. Stop talking.
They: No, you'll like this.
Me: I assure you, I will not...
jwz.org/b/yk4i

jwz: A slopfondler walks into a bar

The shit I have to put up with: They. Hey. I found a good use of AI! Me. No you didn't. They. Wait let me tell you about it. Me. Please don't. I'm begging you. Stop talking. They. No, you'll like this. Me.
jwz.org
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feld

@theorangetheme @codinghorror sorry but these tools have the ability to process thousands of research papers and connect dots faster than humans will ever be able to. And that can be the difference between life and death for many when they have issues that are going undiagnosed. It's just math.

Can you pay hundreds of doctors and researchers to spend months doing nothing but focusing on your problem? Few are rich enough to be able to do this.

@Jeff Atwood @The Orange Theme
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feld

@theorangetheme @codinghorror the economy has been *in desperate need of tanking* since we blew up the bubble with ZIRP starting after the 08 "recovery". If you haven't been paying attention to macroeconomics and understood what has been happening, I can't help you. I am waiting with open arms for this bastard to crash right into the ground.

*PLEASE*. Any time now. I'm waiting.

And first they said Bitcoin was going to destroy the environment and use all the power in the grid, now it's AI. Which boogeyman will be next?

@Jeff Atwood @The Orange Theme

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I've just made a very important update to the Auto-Dubber script for eleven labs, on the final step before processing the file, it will check your account balance and tell you how many credits you have remaining so you can make a decision particularly with longer bits of Audio of what you want to do.
It's really important for people like me who accidentally go way over there free credits for the month and end up paying huge amounts of money.
You can find the dropbox link here:
dropbox.com/scl/fi/3wfgp468dbl…
There is now also a donate.TXT file for anyone who feels so inclined that wants to throw a couple of bucks my way.
It is not mandatory, the script is free for you to use but I've put it there just in case.
#AI #vibecoding #elevenlabs #Accessibility #programing

Auto-Dubber for ElevenLabs.zip

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#Accessibility #AI #elevenlabs #vibecoding #programing

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I'm curious if this phone number from American Airlines to raise accessibility issues works for others? Seems to be a number that does not work for me. From the site:
Although our evaluations and testing are ongoing, if at any time you have specific questions or concerns about the accessibility of any particular webpage,
please contact Customer Relations.
Call Customer Relations: 817-786-3778

aa.com/i18n/customer-service/a…

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In 'the Dresden Files' universe, there is a character called 'the Archive'. The archive is always female, and has the total accumulated knowledge of the sum of humanity as it was written in her head, and that knowledge is updated in real time as new things are written.
Archives are hereditary, passed from mother to child upon the death of the mother, I think. It's been a while since I've read anything in that series.

Anyway, the only reason I am posting about this is that, in one of the books, the seven-year-old Archive introduces herself to Harry Dresden by saying "I am the Archive". She didn't have an actual name. She was just known as the Archive, until Harry Dresden decided to call her Ivy. Arch Ivy...
He is really bad at naming things, by his own admission.

Having this character show up and say "I am the archive" amused me a whole lot more than it probably was ever meant to for so many reasons. Some of you will understand.

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@Friendica Support

Hi there,
some of you might have seen strange comments from this profile about circles\groups and that they do not work, or do not work as expected, up to the claim that the idea and system itself is "broken".

Right now the best guess is that this is a specific problem of this profile because it changed at some moment to become a forum page profile already existing for quite a while and having some contacts as a standard profile.
As the idea of a forum page profile was dismissed, it was changed back to become a standard profile.
It is unclear if or how many new contacts were created in the time being a forum profile.

Is there some experience or recomendation about what could be done to reset all contacts and the profile itself to behave as a common standard profile?
(as mentioned, circles do not work as they should for example, and as always other unknown problems are unknown).

@Friendica Support

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Blech.
> "Babies are routinely offered a vaccine against MenB, and have been since 2015, but the UK's current generation of older teenagers and university students have not, since the shot was not available when they were born."

Since when do we call them shots?
I first came across the word shot in 1992 on the Rugrats and have never seen it anywhere I would have previously considered British since.
[Why is MenB vaccine not given to teenagers in UK and should they be offered it? - BBC News](bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rzg0…)

Why is MenB vaccine not given to teenagers in UK and should they be offered it?

Students and older teens have not been vaccinated against the strain that has caused the outbreak of cases in Kent.
Michelle Roberts (BBC News)

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Gibt's irgendwo eine gute (schriftliche!) Einführung zum #HomeAssistant und dessen Programmierung (bzw. erstmal die zugrunde liegende Struktur)?

Die GUI macht mich fertig.
Und YAML ist ein Krampf.

Gibt es einen Weg, das Ding textbasiert zu steuern?

Ja, irgendwann will ich dann auch nette graphische Darstellungen haben. Aber erstmal möchte ich stumpf in Abhängigkeit von PV-Strom und Strompreis was ein und ausschalten.

#homeassistant

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Yo entiendo que es muy difícil meter a gente en el Nasuverso porque las premisas de sus obras siempre suenan a shonen un poco chusco, así que propongo la pipeline que seguí yo: empezar con la serie de cocina (Today's Menu for the Emiya Family), que tu señora te diga "no es esta serie, es que realmente cocinan mucho", así que te convence para meterte en Fate. Confirmas que realmente cocinan todo el rato y a partir de ahí devoras todo lo demás
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prints to north america: inprnt.com/gallery/guilhernune…

t-shirts, prints and much more to north america, europe and oceania: redbubble.com/shop/ap/17474397…

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painting of a penguin posting on the internet about how he doesn't believe in aliens, but through the window there's a UFO releasing a beam to abduct him
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