Not great, NIST time services at Boulder CO are compromised due to an extended power outage. They're hardcoded in so many clients around the world it's going to have an impact.
As usual I have the memory of a goldfish. With that being said, I remember @zersiax and a few others recommending a Linux-based distro that's particularly accessible. What was that distro? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
"The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children."
would you consider clarifying the last phrase? [Edited, char limit]
Me:
Several of them [the submitted vulnerabilies? were] found, reported, phrased-in-far-too-many-words, and mislead [misled? unclear] by stupid word completion machines.
Is this accurate (edited)
Several of the vulnerabilies were found, reported, phrased-in-far-too-many-words, and their reporters misled by stupid word completion machines.
What do these instances of AI-slop look like? (I tried hunting through the "Issues" and "Pull requests" in the curl/curl GitHub project, but I can't see any mention of HackerOne.)
And is this nonsense built into GitHub? I keep hearing of projects moving from GitHub to Codeberg to avoid AI harassment which is seemingly now part of the GitHub experience.
I don't know who they are and I hear the song for the first time, but it hass Mannheim in it. I used to live in Mannheim, and it's still in my heart and I still believe it to be one of the best cities in Germany, whatever anyone says. #MushroomFM
Jingle session, "A Team" session guys with Asshole Client. 30 second spot with a drum fill in the middle. They do a take and the A.C. says NO! the drum fill has to be boom wacka boom boom. So they do another take and when they get to the fill, the A.C. pushes the talkback and says NO! not boom wacka boom boom, boom boom wacka wacka wacka! This goes on for half an hour until the A.C. says " oh for f*ck sake, just play whatever Steve Gadd would play!". The drummer leans into the OH and says "I AM Steve Gadd".
michael brecker was doing an overdub session around the late 80's. he does a pass and the producer says, "Great, but could you play harder?- really wail!!!" Apparently MB just nods his head and does another pass. The Prod says, "That's getting closer, but can you give it even more? I want it to sound like the Big Man- Clarence Clemens!". MB nods and says that he needs to really get the vibe, and could they dim the lights. the AE dims the lights and MB says, "No, man i need them totally off. You, know, get the vibe." lights go off, and they roll tape. when they get to the solo section all they hear is silence. tape stops, lights up. MB has left the building. MB- one of the greatest.
I think the main thing SteamOS is missing is a proper, controller-navigable version of their store. Currently you just have the website which is very finicky to navigate with a controller.
@alice it's fine in the gamescope session for me too. Haven't really messed with it outside of that since I try to stay in Game Mode as much as possible
Imagine your two options for a display driver are as follows: * A $1000+ software package that you have to pay $200-$300 to upgrade; * Or a completely free and open source project that's ran mostly by volunteers and a small charity, but it will sometimes make your screen black out if you try to load too much text onto it at once.
Now stop imagining, and become blind. This is now your reality.
Or, you can switch to Apple. The display driver is built right into macOS at no extra cost, but it works differently from most other drivers on the market and will randomly cause your display to show you text you didn't want. Oh, and you have to click extra times before you can start clicking or typing where you wanted to.
This code is hard to read (Every line requires translating abbreviations into english) & all of these variable names will be fucking obnoxious for any programmer who needs a screen reader.
This hurts maintainability & emergency bug hunting.
src_endp → source_endpoint
dst_addr_mode → destination_address_mode probably. I'm guessing WTF they meant by "dst"
Hot take. As a screen reader user, I hate snake_case with passion, even without abbreviations. What I hate even more is those Python'esque things like __init__ and __repr__. Is it two underscores, three? Haven't I made a typo?
🤔 Hadn't considered that, but unfortunately that's not really something we have much say over, as their use is either hardcoded into the language spec OR you'd be making non-idiomatic code and everyone who saw it would hate you. 😉
We can abolish the practice of prefacing private methods with underscores in most languages, but… 🤷♀️
Kinda sucks to have the only real accommodation option be to use a different language.
Exactly! That's why I was so upset when I saw the very first version of Rust, I even asked why it was decided to do snake_case. And they said "Well, now it's so, and we can't undo it". Because you know, most if not all screen readers process camelCase correctly, reading it as separate words.
Mistletoe and Wine is such a strange one for me, as it's originally from a musical adaptation of The Little Match Girl, which is not a happy story. But Cliff made it his own thing. #MushroomFM
Ну или скрыть не смогли. Деятель, вероятно, таки существовал, и таки женился на шестилетней девочке, история разошлась, а скрыть не смогли. А потом началась вся эта лабуда с «да лааадно, ей было не 6, а 16/19/38/любое число», но мы-то знаем.
Офигеть. Потому что я где-то читал, что реально был чувак, который объединил курайшитов и прочие арабские племена в седьмом веке. Я только начал слушать, но уже дико интересно.
If someone doesn't know the reference, google for Porky Pig. and the guy was actually singing in the Porky Pig's mask and then even gave a video interview in the mask and voice. #MushroomFM
For me Christmas taste is definitely mulled wine, gingerbreads (especially alsatian and German ones), and apple with cynnamon. Oh, and candy canes of course, and chocolate. #MushroomFM
One really cool NVDA feature that I'm absolutely loving is the thing it does where if I run scoop update * or another command that gives me a fuckton of console output, it'll just lock up and freeze, often continuing to read terminal messages while I'm focused on the desktop, and sometimes even crash if I'm unlucky. I'm sure an insane amount of development time went into this, so kudos! Loving it!
To be clear, I don't begrudge NV Access this too hard. I still donate to them and realize how hard making a free and open source Windows screen reader is. But this has happened to me at least 10 times this week, so I'm annoyed.
@talon Jamy did try I think. That's part of the reason we have enhanced UIA event processing. I'm unsure if they could realistically fix it without completely changing its architecture at this point, because it probably is related to queues being flooded. That said, does it still haappen if you go to advanced settings and set speak new text in terminals via UIA, with console suport set to UIA and enhanced event processing enabled
@talon We do. I genuinely make sure to switch away from the terminal whenever building NVDA because if I don't it's pretty much guaranteed to make the running instance lock up. Unfortunately we aren't given the time to devote to these issues
Für blinde Folgende: Ich nutze jetzt ungefähr 1 Stunde lang Waterfox und kann bisher mit NVDA unter Win 11 keine Probleme feststellen. Webseiten kann ich lesen, Menü und zwischen Tabs navigieren, in den Settings war ich auch schon. Sieht bisher gut aus. Aber natürlich kann es sein, dass ich trotzdem noch Probleme entdecke. Aber angesichts aktueller Firefoxentwicklungen mag ich das.
Ich habe gerade mal die Mac-Version installiert und bin sehr angetan. Es gibt lediglich ein Sprachproblem, für das ich gleich mal ein Issue erstellt habe: github.com/BrowserWorks/waterf…
What happened? When running Waterfox on the Mac with VoiceOver, and selecting an UI language other than English in Settings, prompts still remain in English. To reproduce: Install WaterFox on the M...
@marcozehe Hab's nicht gelesen. Aber meiner war erst Englisch. Dann hab ich die Sprache in den Einstellungen auf Deutsch erstellt, dann war er sofort auch auf Deutsch.
Ja, das kann ich auch machen, dann schaltet sich die Oberfläche auch auf deutsch um. Aber VoiceOver bekommt das nicht mit und nutzt weiter eine englische Stimme, auch für Dinge wie "Taste" oder "Kontrollkästchen". Das liegt an MacOS, Waterfox teilt dem Betriebssystem nicht mit, dass es all diese Sprachen wirklich an Bord hat. Das sind ja alles interne Webseiten, die da angezeigt werden, und das ist abgekoppelt von der Basisgeschichte im Betriebssystem.
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent appreciation is for some of the Free Software languages that bring me both joy and income: Python & Golang
I've used Python at $DAYJOB since version 2.3 (it got woefully stuck at 2.4 for WAAAAY too long, and finally switched to 3.x some time in the last 2–3 years) and it simplified so many automation tasks there. I've used dozens of programming languages in my life for various tasks, and the hard part is rarely *writing* the code, but rather *reading* the code. And I find it a LOT easier to come back and read old Python code than just about any other language.
Meanwhile, Golang saved my bacon on a short-term contracting project where TB of (simple) CSV files needed to be processed, cross-referenced. Being able to spin up a pool of multithreading Go processes, have built in locking and hash-map structures, and operate on raw input buffers of bytes shaved a 3-day manual process down to about an hour involving running a single command. I find it pretty readable too, feeling a bit like C while ditching some of the most cumbersome aspects.
I've been here since the beginning, but have been enjoying birthday breakfast with my family! You guys sound great! Not to rush you off the air, but I am looking forward to hosting my first countdown hours EVER by myself! #MushroomFM
Totally agreed. And everytime #MushroomFM blows up, which is every year at this time, I keep wondering where the new Tweesecake is at, hopefully with functioning filters and mutes. Good on them for doing their thing, but I want nothing to do with it, so therefore, it truly is spam to me. And we need a way to block it on a popular client, if only for ourselves.
В России заблокировали приложение для слепых Be My Eyes
Все, что оно делало — помогало незрячим ориентироваться в пространстве.
В нем можно было связываться с волонтерами через видеосвязь или просить ИИ описывать происходящее вокруг — видеозвонки внутри сервиса как раз и могли стать причиной блокировки.
Официально в реестр оно пока не внесено, но в Be My Eyes подтвердили, что доступ из России ограничен hi-tech.mail.ru/news/139605-v-…
Подтверждаю, сейчас стон и вой стоит в слепецком сообществе по этому поводу. Собственно, предположение одно: если ты оператор связи (а BeMyEyes позволяет контактировать с волонтёрами), то нужно регистрироваться в каком-то российском реестре (сорри, я не в РФ, не знаю точно, как это называется). Потому и заблочили.
So viel zu temporärer Beschilderung: Anscheinend haben wir nach dem #38c3 nicht alle Schilder wieder entfernt. Die Wand ist sogar präzise rund herum neu gestrichen worden. 😅
Just helped someone on Be My Eyes, he was walking from his house to a shop about 10 minutes away.
Helped him navigate the streets and cross the road and so on. Luckily he lived in the UK so I knew what I was seeing 😅
He was wearing Meta’s AI glasses, which help him a lot but don’t currently describe things like lamp posts/scaffolding etc, which was where I was needed.
He made the call from the glasses also, and it was great that I could see what he could see also.
One of my favourite things is helping people on Be My Eyes 😍
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