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Nvidia ( $NVDA ) is set to present earnings after markets close on Wednesday, with all of Wall Street eager to see if the AI bull market continues. Founder Jensen Huang is expected to set the tone for the industry, as Nvidia supplies roughly nine out of ten AI training chips to data centers.

Will Nvidia's results reaffirm investor confidence in the AI boom?

#Nvidia #NVDA #EarningsReport #AI #TechStocks #StockMarket #Investing #DataCenters #WallStreet #MarketTrends

in reply to MarketPlays

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 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!


The hell?

Got the latest #NVDA last night against my better judgement but wanted to build my addon around current software, and now when I do NVDA+Shift+s, I gt the synth selector menu but no speech output.

How the hell do I redirect audio from NVDA now?

#nvda
in reply to Kayls with Tails 🦊🐾💜

Press NVDA+control+u to open the audio settings to change your output device: nvaccess.org/files/nvda/docume…

(NVDA+shift+s is either sleep mode (desktop) or read selection (laptop) - NVDA+s opens the synthesizer dialog but ONLY for the synth now, we moved the other options to the new Audio settings category at the same time as adding more options there).

in reply to Kayls with Tails 🦊🐾💜

Also, why against your better judgement? All the feedback we've got is that overall things are getting better with each release (random unexpected regressions aside). If we're heading in the wrong direction, we would certainly be interested to know what isn't working for you, please


Just updated my NVDA and Eloquence driver. Anyone know how to stop it from reading things with periods before commas as "hello dot," rather than just "Hello.,"? Upgraded from NVDA 2023 to the latest.

#NVDA #IBMTTS #Eloquence

in reply to Mister Krabs

Press NVDA+p - this cycles between the symbol levels. Symbol level none will read "Hello.," as just "hello", Symbol level Some or Most will it as "Hello dot", and symbol level all will read it as "Hello dot comma". At least, that is how it works with Windows OneCore or eSpeak.


Thanks to our supporters, speakers, guest hosts, and team members from our last event inclusivedesign24.org/2024/ we've been able to once again make a little donation to @NVAccess on behalf of Inclusive Design 24 #id24 #a11y #accessibility
in reply to Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

Thank you so much to @inclusivedesign24 - The work you do spreading awareness of inclusive design techniques and tips AND the support you give us, is greatly appreciated and both will benefit many around the world! 💓



“Sad announcement” email leads to tech support scam malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…


AI Granny Daisy takes up scammers’ time so they can’t bother you malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…


Helen Keller Services Accessibility Symposium & Awards and United Airlines’ Recognition Featured in Forbes helenkeller.org/helen-keller-s…


The advantages of 3D tactile maps evengrounds.com/the-advantages…


Android Accessibility Progress Report: What’s Changed (and What Hasn’t) Since Spring 2024 accessibleandroid.com/android-…


For users of the Brave Web browser: Procedural filtering for better adblocking brave.com/privacy-updates/31-p…


I think media just found a new "Silicon Valley Dream" to promote. Didn't NVidia just got t lucky? What am I missing? How Jensen Huang Built Nvidia Into the $3 Trillion King of AI barrons.com/articles/ai-nvidia…


Amazon Prime Members: Get Two Anker USB-C Chargers and Cables for Just $13 Ahead of Black Friday cnet.com/deals/prime-members-g…


Hi, everyone. My name is Jean. Looking to connect with people here! I will follow you back! :D

Recently finished a PhD in cybersecurity, but quit academia right away. I just can't work there lol. I work in data by day, but Im a fulltime human rights activist and have spoken at various fora against digital dictatorship and BigTech's regulatory capture. I am a socialist and I have been for awhile now. I am working closely with various grassroot movement particularly within the digital rights/labour space.

I am into FLOSS, #privacy and #humanrights. I have foul mouth and I own it. Outside of my activism, I enjoy walking my dog, Heidi, #vegan food, gaming, programming #python, #dadjokes and makeup.

#pleaseboost #boostswelcome #followfriday #followerpower #digitalrights #introduction #introductionfr #followme #ifollowback #womeninstem #retoot #Toots

Thank uuu



Apple must really be getting desperate, as iOS is practically begging me to upgrade from 17.7.2 to 18.1.1. I've already received a notification that 18.1.1 is available, and saw a screen in Settings saying I can either upgrade now or tonight, but there's no option stating that I'll upgrade when I'm ready! Any thoughts on whether to upgrade or not?
in reply to Jamie Pauls

@JamiePauls It's a minor thing I'm sure, but I'm waiting for Apple to fix a bug related to moving apps to folders using VoiceOver. I like to have a phone where everything works properly. However, if 18.1.1 is working well for everyone, I may go for it.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

If you know Braille, I’d say upgrade to at least 18, as they totally redid BSI and it’s amazing! If you don’t have an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, then you won’t get Apple Intelligence but it still has a long way to go before it’s really ready anyway.


GNOME 48 will include a new feature that allows users to limit battery charging. This will help preserve battery capacity on laptops and smartphones!

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOME



#WildlifeWednesday

While waiting for the ferry, I spotted this gull eating a starfish, looked like chocking at first. Dropped it, started over.. Got a long series…

#Wildlife #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Photography #Washington #PNW #Seattle

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We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
international.au.dk/about/prof… Get in touch if interested!


i feel like this "Post-growth entreunership" is solar punk af..
ted.com/talks/melanie_rieback_…

its like.. grabbing money from profit and invest into non-profit for profit of mutual aid! ❤️

#postGrowth #solarpunk #directAction #utopia #coop



@gajim

Hi Gajim,

Does Gajim support SRV entries with _xmpp-client._tcp names?

My XMPP server domain is chat.between-us.online. I have an SRV record that looks like this from dig:

_xmpp-client._tcp.between-us.online. 300 IN SRV 0 5 5222 chat.between-us.online.

If I try to register an account in Gajim (Linux) using chat.between-us.com, it finds the server. But if I just use between-us.com, it doesn't find the server.

I think I'm doing everything the way the prosody documentation explains it for setting up an SRV record.

Is it me? Or does Gajim not look for the SRV record this way?

Thanks for the help!

in reply to Jerry Lerman

Gajim supports XEP-0368 for SRV records, so there might be some other issue. You could ask in xmpp:operators@muc.xmpp.org?jo…

xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0368.h…



"We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to "read my Amazon". A great director trying to promote their film by saying "click on my Max". That's how much they've pickled your brain when you refer to your own work and your own voice within the context of their walled garden. There is no such thing as "my Substack", there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification."

(Original title: Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash)

anildash.com//2024/11/19/dont-…



iOS 18.2 public beta 3 now available, here’s what’s new 9to5mac.com/2024/11/20/ios-182…


macOS 15.2 and iPadOS 18.2 public beta 3 released, here’s what to expect 9to5mac.com/2024/11/20/macos-1…


Leo que la Universitat de Barcelona abandona Twitter y se pasa a Bluesky. Me hace recordar una idea salvaje que lleva rondando mi cabeza mucho tiempo: ¿y si cada universidad española tuviera su propia instancia? ¿Y que cualquier persona con correo de la uni pudiera tener cuenta en ella y participar en el fediverso?

Que eso tendría pros & cons, está claro, pero para quienes potenciamos nuestra rama divulgativa... buah 😍

in reply to Picanúmeros

Sería muy interesante, igual que estaría bien tener a instituciones públicas.


I'd love to know if your political stance has changed at all over the past 5 years. 🗳️

This isn't about whether you're on the left or right on the spectrum, but more about how your position has shifted.

The poll is multiple choice, so I included a checkbox for people to tick if they live in Europe 🇪🇺

#poll #politics #EUpol #Europe

  • ⬅️ I moved left. (52%, 116 votes)
  • ➡️ I moved right. (2%, 5 votes)
  • ⏸ The same as before. (31%, 70 votes)
  • 🇪🇺 I live in Europe. (51%, 114 votes)
223 voters. Poll end: in 2 days



Did you know you can use ActivityPub with static site generators? Well anyway, we made space to help ensure it's possible during the standards process! This is one reason there are two fields in ActivityStreams, both `id` and `url`, and ActivityPub supports both

So you can have a static site and have an AP account which aggregates said posts, allowing users to use simple static sites but offload the pubsub work



Esto compartió la Embajada del estado de Palestina en México. Su lucha es nuestra lucha y es la lucha del sur global.



Answer: “zero trust”

Question: “how much confidence do you have in people sticking crap straight on the internet and hoping that access controls work effectively?”



reforma.com/despenalizan-abort…



I don't like that people don't mask, but I find it so disrespectful when I see pictures with unmasked people surrounding a masked person.

Like... come on.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub This is someone who's "careful about Covid" (the unmasked) with someone who always posts pictures where they are masked.
in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

I know a lot of people "careful about covid" that never mask because "they have the vaccine". And then caught it more than once.


TFW scammers can better craft a Phishing email with plain text alternative than the real thing.... except that they miss the phishing link in plain text...

It smelled phishing. Turns out it really is.




En el tema de x, bluesky y el fedi me parece interesante el concepto antropológico de cismogénesis. Se trata del mecanismo por el que una comunidad se divide, estableciendo diferencias en la conducta o el sistema de valores para constituir su identidad como distinta de otros grupos. Es algo que se ve claramente en ciertas reacciones de polarización política. El ministro de Consumo dice que hay que reducir el consumo de carne y de repente a la derecha le encanta la carne, no como un valor espontáneo sino como una forma de marcar su diferencia.

Twitter y el fedi tuvieron un proceso de cismogénesis hace mucho tiempo, mucho antes de que Musk lo comprase. La identidad del fedi se fundó sobre valores diamétricamente opuestos al Twitter de entonces: centralizado, normativo, viral y liberal. Frente a esto el fedi se constituye como una contracultura de la descentralización, las relaciones a escala humana evitando la viralidad y la influencia de los famosos, y con tintes comunistas o anarquistas.

La cismogénesis entre X y bluesky surgen de un cambio significativo en la identidad y la valencia que para muchos tenía X y la ruptura tras la compra de Musk. La huida a bluesky se plantea no como una ruptura, como el fedi, buscando una identidad distinta y, desdes sus propias coordenadas, progresista; sino como un acto de nostalgia, o recuperación de un pasado mejor. La identidad que bluesky se está creando es la de ser el Twitter de antes de Musk, como negación de X.

Por eso hay una inevitable fricción entre bluesky y el fedi: tenemos un autoconcepto distinto y un sistema de valores que surge de procesos casi opuestos. El fedi es decir, "Twitter es malo, quiero construir algo mejor, ingobernable, fuera de la lógica del mercado, y a escala humana." El bluesky es decir, "X es malo, pero el Twitter de antes era bueno. Quiero volver a lo que había, con anuncios, periodistas, famosos, políticos, y algoritmos, pero sin la deriva facha de X."

Inevitablemente estas dos posturas no concuerdan, y creo que por eso hay una fricción entre ambas comunidades, que también sufren su propia cismogénesis (por ejemplo en el modo en que en el fedi se refuerza el valor de consentimiento por opción para todo, descentralización, o ausencia de publicidad y vigilancia, como diferencia con bluesky).

Los valores que se adquieren por cismogénesis pueden no ser espontáneos, pero no son menos reales una vez que se asumen socialmente. En buena medida una comunidad tiende a converger con las historias que cuenta y se cree sobre si misma, y esto hace sugerir que, a corto plazo, el ambiente en el fedi y bluesky continuarán divergiendo.

in reply to modulux

Interesante tu interpretación. Me hizo recordar el dilema que describió @evanprodromou en "Big Fedi, Small Fedi" evanp.me/2023/12/26/big-fedi-s…. El fedi tiene diferentes historias entre quienes lo promueven. En tu interpretación, el fedi convergerá en una historia y en un conjunto de valores particulares. Me gustaría que ocurriera lo contrario, que ganara en pluralismo. Eso me pone más del lado del big fedi, y creo que el pluralismo es un punto crítico que está siendo difícil de alcanzar.
in reply to Daniel Hernández

Creo que es difícil hablar categóricamente sobre el tema, y tendemos a generalizar, que por otra parte es la única forma de intentar describir una realidad tan compleja.

En concreto, la disyuntiva entre fedi grande y pequeño me pareció un artículo interesante, pero que creo que no captura bien la postura de mucha gente. De hecho estuve a punto de escribir algo al respecto en respuesta, tipo fedi: size isn't everything.

Si tuviera que elegir, creo que me decantaría por la idea de fedi pequeño, pero mi argumento también se puede sostener en el pluralismo: ya tenemos distintos mecanismos comerciales de redes sociales. El fedi tiene una propuesta que es única en la medida en que se aparta de estos parámetros. Mi opinión es que el énfasis en la seguridad o la prevalencia de la cronolínea local son cosas contingentes, pero que el haz de valores anticomerciales, que no solo permiten sino que nutren una red en la que se limita la influencia y se apoya lo único y diferente, es necesario para que el fedi mantenga su esencia. Por supuesto respeto que esta no es la única forma de ver las cosas.




#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 2 added apps:

* SshKeyMan: Generate/Manage your ssh keys on Android devices 🛡️
* Wallet: store card information locally on the device 🛡️

RB status: 348 apps (28.7%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



Hoy hubo debate sobre educación integrada y me lo perdí casi todo. En fin, nada que no haya dicho en otras ocasiones. La educación integrada es un derecho, así se deduce claramente entre otros de la convención de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad, y aunque no digo que no haya casos en los que la educación específica no pueda tener su lugar, tiene que estar suficientemente justificada.
in reply to modulux

Concuerdo con la primera parte. Derecho en la Convención de PCD. Muy bien. Pos igual que hay un Derecho a integrarse, un Derecho a segregarse voluntariamente, de la misma forma. Quiero ejercer un derecho a poder escoger a educarme entre mis iguales. Legalmente por qué no puedo? Por qué integrarme sí, y segregarme no?
in reply to ⁨Arense Jurado González

Nadie te dice lo contrario, pero tampoco nadie tiene la obligación de fundar un colegio privado de educación específica para personas con discapacidad, y supongo que a nadie le ha parecido una iniciativa rentable, probablemente porque no lo sería.