@Friendica Support when I'm posting from a Mastodon client, is there a way I can get the frienidica formatting to get recognized by the server to avoid it being posted as plain text? (i.e. LOL! I can't let you do that Dave @memes)
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Certain groups are pulling out of developing #COVID vaccines now that the "COVID opportunity" is "receding".
They are abandoning everything they promised. They aren't updating vaccines, they've stopped working on new vaccine development, they won't pay for testing & monitoring.
Businesses promised hybrid then forced everyone back full time. Businesses promised remote then forced hybrid. They're trying to force recession to take back power.
A day to appreciate all the developers and contributors who create, improve, test, translate, document, advocate,... Free Software. Thank you all! #ILoveFS
You know how a musician will take the stage and say “Hello, Hamburg” only to get silence in return because they are in Frankfurt? You are not posting this on Twitter.
@a True, but @Tutanota don't target solely people in the privacy movement, but rather the general public – which is still predominantly on Twitter, unfortunately.
Meet Zelazny. Zelazny is an HP ProLiant DL140, who proudly served the now defunct "freenode" IRC network from at least as early as 2003 to the mid 2010s. He lived at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (@osuosl) in Corvallis, Oregon and was featured for many years as an example server in the manpages for rcirc.
Trying #NextCloud again, and, while the client on Windows is less accessible than advertised, it can still be used. For example, only a handful of controls and otherwise are unlabeled in settings and otherwise, but it isn't enough to render the app unusable. It still makes me not wanna put time into trying the iOS app, though. I am glad it supports #WebDav though, which basically is a standard for accessing remote folders and stuff. While I can't quite figure out how syncing works if I only use WebDav, still, this is nice to see. Options are good! If you'd like to see their past accessibility post, check out nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-1… @nextcloud #Accessibility
Its easy and efficient user interface is one of Nextcloud’s biggest advantages over the competition. The upcoming Nextcloud 14 introduces a series of improvements to make Nextcloud even easier to use and also more accessible to people with visual dis…
If anyone can help, the maintenance burden of this project is starting to weigh on me. I don't want to give it up, but without more help I may have no other option.
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The CSS3 logo as a head atop a torso with its arms folded across its chest. I am a big proponent of the First Rule of ARIA (don’t use ARIA). But ARIA brings a lot to the table that HTML does not, such as complex widgets and state information that…
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Please always add alternative text images every time you post them. On #Mastodon it is a standard code of conduct. Otherwise you exclude people who cannot see the images.
I'd like to have a word with whoever thought it would be a good idea to make eye drops and label them like this. Like, what kind of people will typically be using antiinflammatory eye drops?
The #scrcpy utility is super useful. It is open source and available for free. Connect your phone to your PC with USB or Wi-Fi: ✅ mirror the phone's screen to your PC ✅ use Windows Magnifier to zoom in on the phone ✅ copy paste text in both directions ✅ use the PC keyboard and mouse with your phone ✅ record the phone's screen while mirroring
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.
As I suspected, high costs of hardware production to run on-device voice models, paired with difficulties to find hardware partners (which together resulted in high costs for the Mark II, as they had to rely on off-the-shelf components purchased at retail price) are among the reasons why #Mycroft is on its way to shut down.
But apparently there's a darker and more angering reason behind it.
The CEO mentions millions spent in a legal litigation with Voice Tech Corp., a "patent troll" that eventually dropped its charges, but only after costing millions to the startup.
I've done a bit of digging and I've found the text of the complaint: eff.org/document/voice-tech-co…. (Btw I've also found that this company has a single employee, acting as CEO, president and advisor, and not a single voice-based product ever released). And I'm quite horrified by what I've read.
Voice Tech Corp. accused Mycroft of allegedly breaking two of its patents - 9,794,348 and 10,491,679.
The title of these patents? "Using Voice Commands from a Mobile Device to Remotely Access and Control a Computer".
A lot of text just to say "this patent is about any solution that can parse human speech to text, find if it matches a command on a computer, and execute that command if required". The whole solution can be summarized in a ridiculously simple flowchart diagram worth of a barely sufficient assignment from a fresh college student.
But that's all you need (with a lot of technical jargon to gaslight a largely untechnical audience) to make money out of anyone who eventually develops something that looks like your naive flowchart.
These patent trolls didn't go after Google or Amazon for implementing exactly the same thing that they patented, well aware that their legal teams would have eaten them alive for breakfast. But they weren't scared to go after a startup with limited funding, hoping to squeeze some money out of them - and maybe put them out of business, for reasons that are still unclear.
Eventually it's smaller businesses and open-source projects that get harmed by this patent weaponization strategies - exactly the kind of actors that you need to keep a level playing field. Big Tech has large shoulders to defend themselves from these attacks, and they proactively purchase smaller companies just to be able to weaponize their patents. But smaller enterprises are much more vulnerable. Even if the lawsuit is eventually dropped, or if the court doesn't find sufficient ground to sue the defendant, the money, time and resources the small enterprise invests in the trial is often sufficient to put them out of business. And that's not to mention the case where the defendant is not even a small business, but an individual contributor of an open-source project.
Have I already said that #patents in technology are a tragic mistake that needs to burn in a ball of fire? We're way past the point where they could encourage innovation. They are a legal weapon used to achieve exactly the opposite nowadays. Up to grotesque and sad situations like Voice Tech vs. Mycroft.
It's almost like Voice Tech patented the sketch of a car drawn by a 2-year-old, and then sued somebody for actually building a real car. How is this shit supposed to actually foster innovation?
Tak vyzkoušej náš mxchat, mám to přemostěný na Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Discord... Mám tam už přes rok skoro celou rodinu, ale ty mosty jsem udělal, že musím používat v práci WhatsApp. wiki.arch-linux.cz/books/eleme…
@archos Ahoj skusil jsem to pro discord a vypsalo když jsem ho pozval: You are not whitelisted to use this bridge. If you're the owner of this bridge, see the bridge.permissions section in your config file. Co s tým?
The pattern of getting a kick out of tripping up AI bots to make mistakes shouldn't make it a surprise if wrong data comes back. If you tell a child nonsense, it will repeat it later, too. Also see: Chappy :)
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots seem remarkably good at conversations. But you can’t believe anything they say. Sometimes, though, reality isn’t the point.
If anybody still thought that Mastodon was somehow safer from arbitrary takedowns and suspensions than Twitter, this right here should give you some food for thought pussthecat.org/nitter/
Mastodon users are actually far, far more vulnerable than most other social media platforms. You can lose your account by getting suspended by your admin, which can happen on any other platform, but also by your admin being incompetent and/or dying in a car accident, their domain registrar taking away their domain, their ISP taking away their servers, hackers destroying the data with no backup plans, or possibly even Let’s Encrypt revoking their certificates.
In theory, all of that could happen to Twitter/Meta, but if it did, *everybody* would be talking about it, CNN included, and there would be hell to pay. Being “too big to fuck around with” has its advantages.
I am part of a large Instance called Mastodon.au focussed on Australia. For a reason I have not identified, they gave notice today they are totally shutting down in 3 months. Not as cool as the Dragons cave but very feisty and sometimes informative. I enjoy the Australian focus but it is really tedious that it is shutting down.
Možná jste to nepoužili, ale možná to tak máte. Některé aplikace či služby používáte tak, že jste se tam přihlásili (a prvotně založili účet) přes Facebook, Google, Twitter, dříve i Google+, nověji Apple a ještě nověji také Seznam. 365tipu.cz/2023/02/15/tip2356-…
Probíhající Konec API u Twitteru je dobrý důvod se vrátit k jednomu staršímu tématu. Probíranému v Sociální přihlašování? K čemu je to dobré. A na co si dát pozor. Tentokrát i pro tvůrce webů. Možná jste to nepoužili, ale možná to tak máte.
Přihlašování přes socky či google jsem propagoval/používal dokud nevzniklo moje id, pak jsem propagoval to. Potom se rozšířily univerzální správce hesel synchronizované napříč mobily a počitači, takže teď propaguju tuto variantu. A brzy se snad rozšíří i WebAuthn
I have made myself promise to stay out of US politics on Twitter, but as someone close to this topic, I am going to hop in once to say it is unbelievably fucked up that someone would have to go through a mass shooting twice in a decade just because she wants an education. --- RT @shannonrwatts A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second… twitter.com/shannonrwatts/stat…
Mona supports Divide View, a feature that gives you a customizable split-screen experience on iPhone, so you could listen to a music video on YouTube while browsing Mastodon, or watch a Twitch livestream while keeping an eye on Reddit… The possibilities are endless!
Wait, really? I always assumed that the divided view is only active within the app itself. Or do you mean that I could watch a YouTube video from one post while browsing other posts in another view? < a bit confused>
Mona supports alternative app icons. On iPhone and iPad, you can select and apply an alternative icon in Mona Settings > App Icon. On Mac, by default, your alternative icon is only applied when Mona is running. If you want to use an alternative icon even when the app is not running, you can right-click on an icon, select “Save to Downloads,” and then swap app icon in the Finder app. Here’s a detailed guide on swapping app icon in Finder: 9to5mac.com/2021/11/08/change-…
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has completed almost 50 flights on Mars, proving that flying is a great way to explore the Red Planet. But the extreme Martian environment is wearing down the helicopter, taking it offline regularly, and slowly building dust on its solar panel. Engineers at NASA were worried they might not see many more flights. Recently, they were pleasantly surprised to see battery levels climbing again, allowing it to fly more frequently and keep itself warm during the frigid Martian nights.
On May 3rd 2022 Ingenuity’s team of engineers and scientists got their first hint of the hardship to come when they opened their comm logs to find radio silence.
i am actually still half unsure if everyone posting these is just bullshitting and none of this is actually real. are they really running an AI that proactively insults people??? at the very least this goes to show that training language models on internet discussions is not the best idea lmao
@brainblasted @skye same, I can vouch for that too. Felix also entered game-related queues I gave him and the results are fairly similar to what chatgpt was answering, like the Cirno one I posted.
He's very definitely a clinical narcissist, brushing up against any reality that challenges his grandiosity is going to both enrage and crush him. He's an intensely needy narcissist too, probably because he's been so surrounded by people covering and kissing his ass for him constantly. He's likely incredibly easy to manipulate for anyone smarter than himself (which seems to be many people). He's basically Trump, these guys can be very interchangeable because they're ultimately all image and entirely hollow inside. (I suspect Musk finds it incredibly difficult, and probably quite terrifying and depressing, to spend any time alone.)
Dear @Thunderbird , I know you are changing for the better. However while testing Thunderbird 111 daily I would like to see some gradual improvements so it becomes ready for most userf of Thunderbird 115 in terms of #screenreader #accessibility once it's declared stable.
Positive things I have noticed:
We have brand new message list that no longer renders all the messages in selected folder at once but only those that are visible on the screen and ready for the user interaction. From my point of view it looks similar to infinite lists on mobile platforms. Most importantly it almost fully elliminates enormous lag when browsing huge message lists on linux with #orca #screenreader running. I was curious enough and I have tested imap folder with up to 75000 messages inside.
It is still possible to use F6 and shift+F6 to move the keyboard focus from the folder tree to the message list and back.
Message list has headers that are used for sorting and a popup menu for setting up visible columns almost from the begining of Thunderbird existence. From now on these controls are finally accessible to screenreader users. And we are now able to configure sorting and show / hide individual columns.
We can still use ctrl+shift+k to show / hide the filter entry. Also there are accessible buttons alongside the filter entry that allow quick filtering the list such as labelled messages, messages with attachments, starred messages, messages from addressbook contacts, unread messages, even ability to keep the filter active when changing folders. Some of these features were already there earlier but now these are accessible to keyboard users including screenreader users.
Now features that need some polishing:
It appears we can now open individual message folders on a new tab / in a new window however this feature needs some fixes. For example when navigating using up and down arrow keys in the folder tree, pressing shift+F10 first moves focus to the parent folder and displays popup menu for that parent item instead of currently selected one.
When navigating in huge list new selection is not properly reported to assistive technologies while scrolling. For example press end to move to the last message. Now press up arrow key several times to navigate back a message and notice how screenreader is reporting new selection as it happens. Now press the page up key to move the selection by the larger increment. New message is highlighted but the selection changed event is not fired properly or it's getting mixed with some spurious focus event on an unlabelled pannel. Some screen readers are able to filter out these but I think it would be nice to address it at the source rather than working it around.
Now the main window has a lot of focusable controls and it is no longer comfortable to use tab and shift+tab to navigate. It would be nice if buttons were grouped in a toolbar like controls implementing toolbar pattern the way it's explained at w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/t…
It's nice that ability to reconfigure message list columns is now fully accessible to keyboard and screen reader users however accessible name of each item in the message list does not yet respect these settings. Subject is the only content that is communicated to assistive tools when navigating in the list using arrow keys. This is major issue and will likely be considered as a regression if it won't be addressed before releasing the stable version.
When navigating in the list of messages it is possible to select multiple messages for executing actions on them. I am afraid the fact multiple messages are selected or not selected is not properly communicated to assistive tools. This is major issue for screenreader users.
It is no longer possible to use applications key / shift+f10 to inwoke a popup menu in the message list.
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