I've just been told that there are mods that make Minecraft playable for blind folks. This person is mistaken, right? They are sighted after all. I'm really trying not to get my hopes up until I know something solid.
as someone who is a bona fide expert in the underlying technology of LLMs, the amount these genai CEOs executives managers and boosters simply fail is mindblowing. I cannot explain the details but these fucks have only have one idea: prompting chatbot. If they have a second idea it's prompting chatbot more.
these fucks are intellectually vacant. they have all the innovation of a 3 day constipated turd. but you can't really expect more from the type of guy who allegedly raped his own kid sister
the fundamental ideas behind LLMs can in fact do things, but you have to dig below all the layers of coprolite fossilized anti wisdom like "buy more nVidia processors" (which btw has been the received wisdom ever since nVidia gave out a bunch of free GPUs 15 years ago)
I have to reiterate that my dog has more interesting and novel ideas than sam, dario, or whoever is at Google.
these Thought Leaders have only one thought. its "more chatbots more prompts"
so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒
also yes all the people building the infrastructure are just cryptocurrency grifters trying for a better grift. including Musk and Altman. watch @davidgerard episode on gas town
"so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒 "
Here you all go. Very lispy, horriblye tuned Phonemes from Chat GPT itself. But notice how the voice has a different personality. That's really interesting. Anything in here sound good? Good dear Lord. eurpod.com/synths/phonemes-gpt…
oh my god. these phonemes are horrible. Wow. It lisps so bad. I need to upload this for fun I think. It only took 42 minutes, in which I commented on 2 Jira tickets and responded to a Slack, so yay.
Today we installed a #Meshcore repeater on the top of the Red Hat building in #Brno. The hardware is temporary and we have to figure out why reception is much weaker than transmission, but we're finally covered and a sizable part of Brno with us.
@Tobi I don't have much experience with it, but colleagues, who have experience with HAM radio, say it's OK. As we found out the noise floor on the top of the building is -96 dB, probably due to a nearby BTS. So it's getting a filter. The hardware is only temporary. It will be replaced in a month and with shorter cable.
@enot I cannot access the repeater's admin ATM, but when we did measurements before installation on the terrace 5 meters below the platform (only authorized persons could access the top platform) it was ok (~ -100dB). But we found out that on another building 200m away at the same height there is mostly likely a GSM BTS, so there may be noise at that height we didn't fully measure at lower heights.
when i had local noise above -100 i couldn't hear anymore. With better line of sight it probably could get closer to -90. But something to check for sure.
Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.
I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.
Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.
Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.
If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.
Hi, can you link to the specific discussion? (There are various places to get help for LibreOffice.) Please remember that helpers on forums are volunteers, doing all they can to answer a huge amount of questions. Sorry if you didn't get the answer you wanted, but also bear in mind that they are not developers, so they can't implement feature requests. You can submit a request at bugs.documentfoundation.org but the more help the community gets to implement features, the better! Thanks 😊
@libreoffice Thanks. I'll try to find the discussions. I can't find some of them (and don't have time right now; the whole issue is that I am extremely busy trying to get things done and don't have a lot of time to search forums when I run into problems, right now). Here's one.
I'm aware that the volunteers answering questions can't implement changes. My frustration is with those who keep telling users some verison of "you are wrong to want that."
I wrote my book in LibreOffice Writer for a few reasons. I really really don’t want to move to Word. But in this final editing phase where I’m trying to format over 400 pages using styles, it’s frustrating when I update a style and yet it doesn’t con…
And all this research made me realize why building a female voice for SpeechPlayer would be tricky. It's not just like, "multiply" this by that. It can work, but would sound artificial because vowels and consonants don't all need a constant multiplier of a band to "sound female", they need specific tuning dependent on the vowel itself to shift to another formant frequency. What I'm saying is, to get a female voice, we would need a separatly tuned phonemes-female.yaml. This is why ESpeak's female voices also sound very much like a man is pitchshifted and too much on some sounds. Eloquence, ETC probably built this through multipliers too but very specific rules on how various formants get scaled.
Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees to prioritize AI, which will bring innovative changes such as:
-Automatically purchase item if user looks at screen for more than 5 seconds. -Make device loudly screech if user closes the app. -Delivery drones will stalk user if they cancel Prime membership.
The senate votes on #DHS funding tomorrow and way too many of these fucks want to help fund #ICE in return for some magic beans of promises that the Gestapo will start following laws. Please call your senators and yell at them.
Sick of being told to call your senators? Get plastered drunk and swear at them. It's more fun, and they deserve it.
# error getting refs for yosida95/uritemplate: apis.get api.github.com/repos/yosida95/…: 429, body: { "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#abuse-rate-limits", "message": "You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again."
all I was trying to do was fetch the distfiles to package this Go program for FreeBSD...
I told GPT Pro mode that zombies ate the GitHub servers and it needs to rebuild me an entirely new set of phonemes in phonemes.yaml because I've lost all copies and only have the language packs. I told it that if this doesn't get done in the next hour, the zombies will come for the language pack files and eat them too. Let's see what comes of it while we reply to Slack messages.
So I left for the weekend to visit family, came back -- avoided contact with sick people the whole time -- only to find my wife was sick with a cold and she didn't tell me and now I have it
Just pisses me off because I've been able to go a couple years without getting anything and now this. It always ruins my week. I can't get shit done because it's a constant nuisance disrupting my concentration
People who are coming to the #FOSDEM this week-end : please do not forget to wear a facial mask to protect yourself and others. Flu this year is pretty agressive and the orange code for respiratory infections has been raised by the Risk Management Group.
Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use each and every day.
FYI, I reviewed my account on dragonscave again: @jonathan859@dragonscave.space, this is not an advertisement, but as I'm feeling rather emotional again I'm shifting the kind of personal ranting posts and also other stuff that's not my typical tech timeline to there. Also to filter who sees what, in terms of post privacy etc. I'll probably share more occasional stuff like music I like or other stuff I don't wanna spam to uninterested people as well. Looking forward to nice interactions. This won't change a whole lot for this account over all.
Hey @FastSM, can we get post language related information and settings, e.g. seeing which language a post is written in, as well as beeing able to specify the language when writing a post?
Habe beim "Entrümpeln" noch einige DVD´s und Blu-ray´s gefunden, die ich gegen Übernahme der Portokosten abgeben möchte. Wer mag darf gerne eine kleine Spende dazulegen, aber das bleibt euch überlassen.
Die DVD´s und Blu-ray´s werden als ein Paket abgegeben. Der Aufwand ist mir zu hoch sie pro Stück zu versenden.
In 2026, it'd be nice if we could scrap euphemistic terms like 'special needs' 'Additional needs' 'different abilities' 'very special kids' or anything 'inspo-p0rnish such as 'Autism is a superpower!'. Instead, use the words 'Disabled' 'Disability' ... it's not an offensive term. In fact, many disabled people find these sugarcoated terms actually offensive. And let Autistic and other neurodivergent people decide if they have exceptional powers, or are disabled by societal structures. Or both at once. Thanks :) 🙏💪 ❤ #disability #neurodivergence #ableism
I've been thinking about how we approach accessibility in web development. Particularly about trusting the browser to implement things in an accessible way.
On my Samsung phone, that never happens. Besides more general issues discussed elsewhere on this site, TalkBack's hardware Braille display support works fine.
Are you limited to making apps that only work with desktop mode, or can you do things that also integrate with the non-desktop experience? (Not up on my BTSpeak terminology so maybe there's a better description for "non-desktop-mode experience" but hopefully what I mean is clear)
What is development like? I know there are Python tutorials but is it limited to Python? Or can you build a TUI-style app and adapt it to work with specific keycodes/conventions?
Are there any developer docs?
I've had an idea for something that would likely be great for the BTSpeak and other notetakers for a while now, and my assumption is that the BTSpeak is probably the most open/easy to develop for. If that's correct, I'm curious what that process looks like.
As far as I know, the main barrier to shipping a third-party app for traditional mode on the BT Speak is that the menus for that mode can be clobbered with any update; there isn't an official way for third-party apps to plug into those menus as there is with desktop mode.
As for keyboard commands, in both modes, keyboard input is handled by brltty, so the mapping of Braille keystrokes to QWERTY keystrokes is determined by the brltty configuration, which, presumably can also be clobbered on any software update.
Interesting, I'm guessing there are standard conventions mapping chords to keycodes so you can at least hook into those? Also, can you run commands in traditional mode so you don't necessarily need to use the menus? Is there any sort of meaningful distinction between traditional and desktop modes other than that one uses the menu system?
You can get to a shell in traditional mode, through the system administration menu or something like that.
The traditional mode is literally the Linux text console with BRLTTY configured for speech output and Braille keyboard input. The desktop mode is MATE with Orca, again using BRLTTY for keyboard input.
Got it, so sounds like the main difference is text console vs. GUI, and that a TUI app mapping to whatever keybindings brltty exposes plus maybe being smart about what's displayed to cut down on speech chatter would probably work, adding to menus not withstanding. Interesting, thanks.
If you get a BT Speak, then all the code, including C source for the bits that are written in C, is right there in /BTSpeak on the device, unless they've closed it down recently.
The use of a conventional mutable distro, with their own stuff added on top, is a double-edged sword. Last I checked, there was no comprehensive factory reset. This was a topic of fairly frequent discussion on the user mailing list when I was there.
Amazon’s head of AI, who is leading Project Dawn (to replace staff with AI) has accidentally emailed everybody about staff leaving.. before they’ve been informed they have been fired. They’ve had to try to recall the messages and meetings. reuters.com/business/world-at-…
NVSpeechPlayer for Linux (experimental) Pre-release An early attempt to build both Speech Player for Linux and a Speech dispatcher module. Please use the install script and read the readme in the package for usage. ▾ github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
I went to delete @Tutanota email. Got this: "The email address specified as the take over target account does not belong to a paid account." Never saw nothing like this. I wish it's the last time i see such thing 😂
Sure, Tim Cook is throwing Apple under the bus and kissing Trump’s ring this week, but don’t forget that a few months ago Apple also removed the ICEblock app
If you would like to help financially support the development of a new Wayland compositor for Xfce, you can do so by contributing funds via our #OpenCollective accounts.
These contributions will help pay for the funding of longtime Xfce core developer Brian Tarricone to create xfwl4, a brand-new Wayland compositor for Xfce.
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
That was less of a disaster than I thought, and it did it in 58 minutes. Ahahahaha. It also built a speech-dispatcher module for me. Any Linux nerds ready to experience a disaster? Gosh I need to set up my Linux box again for this :D
I find these days it is better at doing modules, functions, etc. instead of one main block. It did that more when we were coding using the websites instead of the agents.
I am very sad to inform everyone that our friend Didier died last week.
Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added in the installer ; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible as possible for visually impaired people.
You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer as quickly as possible to our issues and questions.
There is a fork of Mastodon available, called "Glitch Edition", that has some special features implemented. My new instance at social.defocn42.net is running this fork.
I came upon an interesting error when trying to connect to the instance. Adding the user "m1rk0@social.defcon42.net" failed because of an unknown network. Then i tried it the other way around from the Mastodon instance and could follow myself on Friendica. The connection is now mutual and the Mastodon instance is recognized as "glitchsoc".
Are there known issues with glitchsoc and Friendica? It's weird, that the connection can be established only from one side and is working normally afterwards.
"Keir Starmer rejected his Canadian counterpart’s call for mid-sized countries to band together in the face of unpredictable global powers — and insisted his “common sense” British approach will do just fine."
U.K. leader says he’s ‘a British pragmatist applying common sense’ after Canadian counterpart called for mid-sized countries to team up in the era of Trump.
IMO liegt es in deiner Verantwortung, deine Kollegen an deinem Geschäft so viel wie möglich teilhaben zu lassen und ihnen Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten zu schaffen, ihre Meinung in deine Prozesse mit einfließen zu lassen. Aber was du nicht absprechen kannst ist, dass in jedem Fall die Meinung/Entscheidung desjenigen das letzte Wort hat, der/die auf dem Papier als Firmeneigentümer eingetragen ist. Der/die steht mit seinem Namen für Erfolge und Fehler und ist der Chef.
Alles Andere ist Verweigerung von Verantwortung und ebenso unfair den Angestellten gegenüber. Irgendjemand muss den Hut aufhaben, sofern man keine GbR o.Ä. ist und alle auch auf dem Papier gleichberechtigt sind. Sollte das bei euch so sein, nunja... dann bist du tatsächlich nicht der Chef.
Das glaube ich, dass ist immer schwierig. Ist leider ein recht bekanntes Problem von Selbstständigkeit, die Balance aus Verdienst, damit man sich Angestellte leisten kann, die einen entlasten. Meistens hat man zu viel Arbeit, sodass man Leute braucht, verdient aber nicht genug, um sie sich leisten zu können, und arbeitet dann selbst mehr. Da sieht man oft schon den Burnout winken.
Hm, woran denn dann? Normalerweise würde ich ja davon ausgehen, dass, wenn du überladen bist, du Aufgaben abgibst. Und wenn neimand sonst Kapazitäten hat, würde man sich dafür neues Personal ranholen. Gibt es keines, oder ist dafür kein Geld da, ist das ja so das übliche Szenario, in dem Überlastung entsteht.
Aber das ist doch das Personalproblem, oder nicht? Entweder zu wenig Mitarbeiter, oder für die Aufgaben nicht geeignete Mitarbeiter. In jedem Fall bräuchte es mehr Personen, um die Aufgaben zu stämmen, wenn man die bereits Vorhandenen nicht weiter auslasten kann.
Nicht geeignet heißt ja nicht unbedingt, dass die Ausbildung nicht stimmt. Wenn ich als Telefonist arbeiten wollte, könnte ich das allein schon deshalb nicht, weil ich einfach total ungern telefoniere. Manche Leute können oder wollen einfach manche Aufgaben nicht übernehmen, und das ist IMO auch in Ordnung so. Ob diese Person dann mit einer anderen Aufgabe für dich eine Unterstützung sein kann kann man ja schauen, und wenn nicht, dann eben nicht.
Das kann ich gut nachvollziehen, es wäre ja generell immer am Schönsten, wenn alle glücklich sind und einfach alles rund läuft. Und wenn man Menschen lieb gewonnen hat möchte man ja keine möglicherweise negativen Entscheidungen treffen. Ich wünsche dir auf jeden Fall viel Erfolg und Kraft dafür. Hoffentlich kannst du danach etwas der Last abgeben.
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