I got excited for about two seconds only to click on the link and realize it was Visual, nothing to do with music lol. Still cool though, but I can't take advantage of it at all. Have fun regardless.
Idea for #Apple and #Google: Include a setting for their #AI to give photos meaningful file names. Because I'm tired of trying to differentiate between 5187923061456387928_121.jpg and 5892706374823612537_353.jpg. P.S. It would have been nice if even without AI they gave names like current date, current time with seconds and a sequential number… dreaming is not forbidden? right? #Accessibility
In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads.
A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with where the crosswalk is located.
The data duplication on crossing nodes and crossing ways annoys me a lot. I also stopped tagging the button operation when I realized that all local crossing buttons are for audible signals only. There is also a problem with the audible signal tagging for crossings, where `=yes` is apparently supposed to equal `locate`+`walk` 😖
Listening to @bcmerchant.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy BLOOD IN THE MACHINE on @libro.fm@bsky.brid.gy and hit the part in the early 1800's where tradespeople worked from home, made their own hours, and the bosses said "We're putting an end to THAT shit", and reflecting on COVID "back to the office" mandates. Plus ça change ...
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
In nother news, the water in town is off because of some scheduled shutoff at the school or some such. Luckily my folks are prepared with bottled water so there was still coffee this morning.
In another random collection of A T History, I'm starting a YouTube playlist of ads for blindness agencies and companies, like this one for Recording for the Blind. I know there are ACB, NFB, AFB, CNIB, and other ads online as well. If you know of others I'd love to have them. I'll share the playlist once I have a decent amount. youtube.com/watch?v=2qEi0sLBPE…
@nolan I don't want to be the pain in the ass again, but do you have plans to update bevy_tts (and probably bevy_synthizer as well) to latest Bevy soon, or do you think it'd make more sense for me to fork them and keep them up to date myself?
Interested in having push access to the repos and publish access to the crates? TBH I'm a bit more intrigued by Godot these days, but I certainly want these crates to continue on.
OK, this week I can set you up with push access to the repos and crates.io permissions. What's your GH username? And thanks--I'm glad these aren't abandoned! I take it you want access to bevy_tts and bevy_synthizer? Any others?
I'm a blind developer from Germany with quite some experience in full stack web development as well as game and media programming, especially in Python. - Timtam
I've noticed this is a common point of confusion, so for the record, the EU's USB-C charging law does not in any way prohibit other charging methods. It only mandates that if there are any ports on the thing at all, at least one of them better be friggin' USB-C
In 1985, a blind man was arrested for drunken driving in Virginia. He apparently had another sighted person who was drunker than he was directing him by voice. upi.com/Archives/1985/04/17/Bl…
Some things I learned in a talk from a founder and CEO of dating platforms: - Dating platforms certainly use machine learning to create the profile proposals for users. That's called recommender systems. - They are not interested in giving you the perfect match, because that would mean that you don't need the platform anymore. - They use priming. This means they categorize the "attractivity" of people. And let's say you are a 6 or 7 (out of 10) in their system, they first present 8 or 9 graded profiles to you, expecting the "8 person" to reject you. But this primes your expectations of "what you can get". And hence when presented with a good matching profile, you probably will judge this as being below your expectations.
Religious cults need to get into the dating apps game. They could genuinely make a difference here (because nobody else will), making the world better for all of us while spreading their own values.
A museum dedicated to nothing but (making) maps? And you'd like us to show visitors how they can make maps themselves with OSM? Of course! The MAP–Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is back and we are there for the opening festival, until Jan 3rd. Dates at community.openstreetmap.org/t/… Museum info: mapsint-niklaas.be/mercator
OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP – Mercator Museum Opening! Call for volunteers The brand-new MAP – Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is reopening soon, and OpenStreetMap Belgium will be part of the opening festivities! The theme of the opening festiv…
FreeBSD has Wireguard support in the base OS, but it's not well documented how to use it. So here you go. Hopefully an example lands in the FreeBSD Handbook soon.
Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux.
I'm still collecting Christmas elements for my Automation for hkc @radio. Some may argue that I shouldn't bother, as there are still bitss that have yet to be played, with only 1 show repeating twice. This is crazy because it started December second
Štěpáne, moc díky za nasměrování na #immich to je něco, co jsem opravdu dlouho hledal. 👍 Tvoje přednáška na #peertube #vhsky byla podnětná, zase mě to nakoplo opustit další služby na bigtech. Díky! @stepan
This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please.
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The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the publisher would now be turning to AI: ‘An external contractor, the communications agency Fluent Planet, will put the texts through “automatic translation” software and then recruit freelancers directly to post-edit the machine output in French. The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’
A number of French translators have been working for Harlequin for years, often exclusively. This decision places them in an extremely precarious position, without proper notice or compensation.
Praha zažívá trolejbusový boom, o kterém se nám před pár lety ani nesnilo. Ale nejde jen o nové tratě, jde i o vozidla. Do pražských ulic vyrazila na testování doposud málo známá turecká Bozankya.
V dnešním pozitivním komentáři se podíváme na to, proč je vnitřek Bozankye SNG 12T prostě jiný a lepší. Kam zmizela ta otravná motorová věž? Jak je možné, že působí tak vzdušně, i když má standardní rozměry? A všimli jste si toho obrovského okna vzadu?
protip: If you're going to rip off someone's Harry Potter #fanfic, and have a bad AI voice read it, maybe check to make sure it's not an explicit drary slashfic before uploading it to your Harry Potter Playtime Fun channel, and marking the video "for children".
Maybe while you're at it, consider picking a British voice? And proofreading the titles so they have the correct chapter numbers? And not skipping chapter seven completely? It must take extra work to do crime this badly!
Just a few tips for the scammers out there. I know crediting the original author and doing an actual human reading just isn't possible; you've gotta upload a couple hundred videos a week, after all!
@SeveraSnape@pixelate Searching youtube for Harry Potter Fanfic or Harry Potter Chapter and sorting by recent really is a delight. Weird AI read fanfics. Weird machine translated Chinese webnovels with Harry Potter inserted into them for some reason, also read by AI. Weird badly pirated versions of the original audiobooks. Weird people making there own audiobooks. Gameplay footage. Real people reading real fanfics. Incomprehensible videos about Bella from Twilight dating Harry Potter. All just mashed together in a delightful pile of complete nonsense.
@SeveraSnape@pixelate You know you need to listen to "Harry Potter: What! infamous Voldemort was merely a minor boss Chapter 61-80". Or maybe "The System Made Me a Tyrant, Setting Up Shop at Hogwarts Chapter 81 - 100".
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The idea of Matrix as a chat service is nice. But the fact that it keeps going out of sync, and I keep losing messages from other people is just plain annoying. This is worse than IRC net split (at least there was a message when it happened).
@matrix My account is on matrix.org, and I'm using ElementX 25.12.0 on Android. The channel is on a different server, and there's a bunch of people bridging to different services (like Telegram). I bet I'm either losing the messages from the bridged people, or the ones from 3rd party servers.
this would be very unusual, but if it's super high volume or if the room has weird corruption it might explain it. any idea what room version it is? (on Element Web you can check in settings)
Why is everyone mad at #mozilla I don't understand.
#firefox is about to release one of the best #ai features and I couldn't be more excited: a kill switch.
This is a big deal and marks a change of sentiment. After years of tech scrambling to reinvent itself with user hostile #ai features, Mozilla is offering something different - turn it off.
They fear that Mozilla will lose its way, to the detriment of the community's demands.
Because other features that are highly sought after by the community are still waiting to be integrated, if at all.
Encouraging AI is not necessarily environmentally friendly and, above all, it consumes local resources. Many have noticed a significant slowdown on FF. Even though GAFAM is lobbying that ‘no AI = mediocre product’.
I love it! I recently replaced the 4 TB drives in my father's NAS with my old 8 TB ones. Old means used already, but not too old and not with much load, plus Ironwolf Pro, so actually supposed to run multiple years, but most of them weren't quite a year old. Well, now, after a few weeks, I randomly get random power outages in HDD 1. OK, well, damn. But it looks like the RAID is still consistent. About an hour later, now HDD 4 starts to fail as well. Man, what is this shit?
There's nothing quite like reading a newspaper article from 1986, which happens to load very slowly (kind of funny to me) and then has a damn "sign in with Google" popup.
I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music.
PhD project summary: An estimated 16 million people in the UK live with a disability (DWP statistics 2023), of which 48% have mobility impairments and 25% have impaired dexterity. Traditional […]
The most valuable piece of career advice I give young people is that being good at your job is not as important as the right people liking you. Just look at Bari Weiss.
[11469:1214/134139.208764:FATAL:sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc:169] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/deltachat-desktop-2.33.0/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755. Trace/Breakpoint ausgelöst (Speicherabzug geschrieben)
Ich lasse KEINE Executables mit SUID root auf meinem System zu
Once again, the goverment is pulling another psyop on us. "Oh the Brown University shooter committed suicide in a storage unit". Good one guys. They keep trying to cover up these deaths, but they'll never bury the real truth about the secret Storage Wars
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