WhatsApp Gains Voice Message Transcripts
Popular Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp today announced a new transcription feature that's designed to provide you with a transcript of a voice...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
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More thoughts on the STUN server fallback question:
· This is something other #XMPP Clients just do quietly without having a big debate about it¹
· I don't think users should configure this. Anyone who knows what a STUN server is will likely switch to a server offering one.
· Treat it like channel search. On first use (call, file transfer), ask once: Use our fallback STUN server? Yes/No.
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I've just scanned through the Main Menu podcast of yesterday where they were talking about JAWS, and in particular, the ideas that came out of the Next Big Thing contest.
I've been around this industry for about 30 years now and so it takes a lot to cause some excitement, and I've got to say, I didn't think personally that the ideas were that exciting, but that's just me. But keep reading because I'm going to be positive at the end.
Let me sketch out the ideas that were in the top 3.
1. To have some additions to the Settings Centre so that various JAWS settings could be applied in different situations. The way this was sketched out in the podcast wasn't that clear, but presumably it would mean that specific settings could be applied for various applications and situations. That can vary enormously from one person to another.
2. To have specific codes or key words one could use between assistant and the person being helped in relation to JAWS Tandem. I think there are far more fundamental things which need to be done with Tandem before that is thought about to make it a viable proposition for regular use these days.
3. The winner. If you receive an application with what one might call an allegedly inaccessible button or control, using a combination of OCR and AI technology, JAWS could find that and click it. Now presumably, although again it wasn't clear, the user could interrogate it so as to identify what it was that he or she wanted to click.
So there you have it.
But in passing, Jeff Bishop, one of the podcast hosts, made some remarks relating to FSCompanion.
He wondered if it would be a good idea to have it so that, if desired, one instruction could be given at a time. The user could then hear the first instruction, carry it out, and then hear the next one. Now that is an idea which should have won the contest. That is well thought out.
I'd go a bit further. You should be able to work through the instructions with global keystrokes so you could carry out the activity and step through the instructions at the same time as working within the chosen environment.
That would be a tremendous training aid. I'm almost tempted to steal that idea because I think it's so good.
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I thought a lot about a context aware training tool for students when I was at the college. based on the window title and potentially even the current control, guided help or very context sensetive information about hotkeys and prior tasks learned could have been provided.
Never had the time to develop it, of course. They'd not have paid me for it in any event, and the numbers didn't really scale for mass-production.
At #MatrixConf, Jan Kohnert from gematik presented #TI-Messenger, the secure real time communications standard for the entire German healthcare system.
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I think they have some timezone issues, possibly since 27 October.
If you open treinradar and click on a train on the map, it will show you a timetable of a train that was passing that place 2 hours earlier.
Let's hope they will fix it before it gets automatically fixed at the end of March. 😉
Yeah, except I had to grab all the mods from the mods folder and copy them that way, but now it says this, even though I have the latest version from the repo.
Error loading mods
Failed to load mods:
• FactorioAccess
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• Kruise Kontrol Remote
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• PavementDriveAssistContinued
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• VehicleSnap
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
• stop-on-red
• Incompatible Factorio version (current: 2.0, required: 1.1)
Mods to be disabled:
• FactorioAccess (O. 15.2)
• (O. 1.11)
• PavementDriveAssistContinued (4.1 1)
• VehicleSnap (1.18.5)
• stop-on-red (00.5)
Disable listed mods
Disable all mods
Manage mods
Restart
Exit
You downloaded version 2, which has an entirely different gameplay.
Download version 1 and it'll work fine
I don't know why not. The only place I know of to get help is Discord.
Sorry I can't be more help
That's a lot of keyboards.
Hey y’all, how’s it going? Quick question for those on Bluesky: I just started trying it out this morning, and it’s pretty cool so far. Are there any third-party apps you’d recommend that are more accessible? The official app is good, but I’m curious about other options out there. Let me know!
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Dear @libreoffice ,
I believe it is time to change the default interface layout to a design that is much more intuitive, accessible, and easy to understand for those unfamiliar with LibreOffice.
I would like to suggest making the default interface layout “Contextual Single” when it is ready, if only for the sake of those using LibreOffice for the first time.
Thank you! 
Found hack. With cut and paste in Firefox.
Funnily the translation stuff fail at unicode.
we don't get the Christmas Train, instead we get the fucking Coke Truck? come onnnnnnnn #thesoo
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The Coke Holiday Truck is coming to the Sault!
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“If it's not ready for everyone, it's not ready for anyone.”
Just heard this sentence in a presentation and I like it!
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The thing with the court wanting Google to sell off Chrome and stop paying for search engine placement is that the latter is what fund Mozilla. Granted they have a hoard of cash, it's not a good news.
Also who would "buy" Chrome? Microsoft? That would be fucking ironic.
TBF I don't expect much to happen.
Lawyers will be paid, things will drag away, and then the orange fascist, after being properly bribed, will get the whole thing thrown out.
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You can meet cool people like... well, I don't know who confirmed they will be there yet, but last year lots of developers and users where there and it was lots of fun and there was some free food, which is the most important part for a fridge!
(Also, if you joined last year, remember: this year it is in a different location with likely more heat and better toilets!)
Matrix in full force at FOSDEM
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DOJ, States Formally Recommend a Google Breakup - Thurrott.com
The DOJ and several US states feel that the only way to fix Google's abuses is to force radical changes on the company.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Not sure why I've always done it this way, part of it I know is control over where and how formatting is applied. (Thinking about how Slack turns ``` code blocks into something that screen readers don't announce the formatting for, as an example.) The other part is typing indicators, perhaps - I get conscious if people see this typing indicator, even though I know most likely nobody cares, but if something takes me longer to write thoughts out on, I want zero judgment possibilities. In Google Docs, unless I'm making edits or proofreading, I'd rather paste in chunks of text at once because if I end up re-writing something to sound more accurate, I don't want the inaccurate version of it revisioned. And these are just my own personal reasons for always copy-pasting. I suppose if my workplace claimed I was doing all my work by AI writing, it's not like my workflow there had changed before and after its usage. With how much they promote internal AI tools though for increasing our productivity, don't see that happening.
Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere
Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refersSeirdy’s Home
“Synchronized” methods/blocks (intrinsic locks) will no longer pin virtual threads to platform threads. This has been an annoying limitation of Project Loom. Coming in Java 24:
openjdk.org/jeps/491
This feels weird to say because it should be obvious: Don’t download random #Conversations_im forks from the PlayStore!
I don’t know why people install apps with no website or source code. If you’re reading this, you’re likely not one of them—but server stats show they exist.
Yesterday, I warned one such fork about massive security issues and asked them to take it down. They refused.
absolutely .. there's no more information that what can already be found on the Play Store description .. or to put it simple: its just as good as nothing.
In all honesty, I believe that at it's core, the main problem is that there is no free "go to" full XMPP client for users to compare against, and it is almost unavoidable: new comers will not pay for an app to find out if they like/need/want to use a new service .. they'll only do it once they know what they are getting
me to the customer support chatbot: "Is it possible to hide my number in the phonebook?"
chatbot: "Sorry to hear you're cancelling your phone subscription."
me: "no, that's wrong"
chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
me: "don't cancel my subscription"
chatbot: "sorry to hear something went wrong while cancelling your subscription, we'll try again later"
me: "I want to keep my subscription"
chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
FUCK AI.
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