New podcast episode! #LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages – but we want to do more! Jonathan Clark recently joined the TDF team to improve LibreOffice’s support for RTL (right-to-left) and CTL (complex text layout) scripts: peertube.opencloud.lu/w/c31Cgi… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
I was trying to listen to the episode on @podverse but there seems to be something wrong. The video plays, and it stops halfway. Any chance you could check what kind of podcast RSS goes to Podverse (looks like there's at least two: podverse.fm/podcast/l9ldjLosC_ and podverse.fm/podcast/8krTUBa_Zs), if the metadata is correct, and maybe only send audio to it?
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This will only make sense if you're a Linux geek, but I just saw a post where someone was wondering why government departments are still using X. At first, I interpreted the question as wondering why they're using X11 and haven't switched to Wayland, but, of course, in this context, X was referring to my ex-social network.
Congratulations on this milestone. I'm proud that AccessKit (accesskit.dev/) played a role in making this possible. I know that we, both AccessKit and Servo, have a long road ahead to implement full web content accessibility across platforms. But this is a good first step.
Shok'z ist DER Anbieter für Knochenleit- und Open-earHeadsets, Produkte, die für #Blinde wie mich nun durchaus interessant sein können. Als ich mir die neuen open fit 2 pro besorgt habe, hab ich mir auch die App runter geladen. Was soll ich sagen: Buttons nicht sinnvoll beschriftet, equilizer nicht nutzbar und nicht wirklich gut bedienbar, aber noch erträglich. Ausser, dass man sich ums Verrecken nicht ohne sehende Hilfe einloggen konnte. Denn der Schalter zur Akzeptanz von Datenschutzrichtlinien und AGB war nicht Umzuschalten. Hab das damals sofort gemeldet und eine Laberantwort bekommen a la das tut uns sehr leid, Barrierefreiheit liegt uns sehr am Herzen, wir sind bemüht, unsere Produkte für alle zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen ... Bla bla! Also kurz: Wir nehmen das mal mit... Das ist jetzt einige Monate her. Diese Woche wollte ich schauen, ob es ein Update für die Firmware meines Headsets gibt. dafür sollte ich mich neu einloggen... Das Problem besteht immer noch. Keine einzige Verbesserung in der App und kein barrierefreier Zugang. Ich habe gestern wieder eine Mail hingeschrieben, dieses mal mit der konkreten Frage, wie ich mich mit Voiceover ohne sehende Unterstützung in die App einloggen kann... Bisher keine Antwort. Und das von einer europäischen Firma, die Produkte herstellt und vertreibt, für welche Blinde keine ganz unrelevante Nutzergruppe sind. Ich weiss, Luxusproblem angesichts Stadtbild und Grundsicherungsdiskussion, und fraglich, warum man sich überhaupt in eine App einloggen muss, um Firmware-Updates zu kriegen, aber musste trotzdem mal irgendwie raus. #Blindleben #Disabled-Alltag #Blind #shokz "#BFSG
Inzwischen sind wieder 2 Monate vergangen. Ich hatte zwischenzeitlich wieder eine Laberantwort bekommen, ohne konkrete Beantwortung meiner Frage. Nun hat Shok'z ein neues Flackschiff auf den Markt gebracht, mit Head-Tracking und anderen Features. Aber die App... Wieder hingeschrieben, nach konkretem Zeitplan für die angekündigte Barrierefreiheit der App gefragt. Wieder Laberantwort, ist sehr komplex, ein Zeitplan kann nicht genannt werden, aber an mangelnder Priorisierung läge es auf keinen Fall. Habe erneut geantwortet vor ca 1 Woche und das in Frage gestellt, geschrieben, dass #Barrierefreiheit einfacher erreicht wird, wenn sie von Anfang an mitgedacht, statt später aufwendig nachgerüstet wird. Habe gefragt, warum das nicht geschehen ist, wenn Screenreadernutzer eine relevante Zielgruppe sind... Erneut keine Antwort. #Blindleben #DisabledAlltag #BFSG
If you insist on not having speech in your videos and only having music or complete silence, you are an asshouse who clearly doesn't care about blind people.
I don't think its that they don't care about blind people. Its more of an aspect of they never even considered the possibility that a blind person would watch their video and have this limitation. In the same way it is the same as if a person produces a podcast and doesn't supply transcripts for deaf people they are hating onthe the deaf community.
@khronos Doesn't matter. If people provide feedback on your content like suggestions to make it more accessible to those with disabilities and you flat out ignore it, it looks bad on you.
Another option that may or may not be the answer is that what if the person creating the content isn't a native English speaker and is ashamed of how they mightcome across in an audible way so they use writing to say what they want to say because their grasp of the second language is not all that good.
Well, here's a new accursed UI pattern. When you try to book a flight on Chase rewards and key in the exact code for the airport you want to go to, it suggests a bunch of non-matching airports, and puts the exact match like 10 options down.
Safari 17.4 shipped a new HTML switch element that upgrades a checkbox to a switch by adding a `switch` attribute: `<input type="checkbox" switch>`.
This blog post introduces a polyfill for the element, covering accessibility, internationalization and styling, and looking at the element's status in the HTML spec.
"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.
This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.
Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".
In the OpenSource Supply Chain discourse in the past few years, we got many versions of the same article. The title is usually something like “unpaid maintainer of library X demand Big Company to shut up or pay them money”.
also, since lots of developers make a lot more than 5k/month in their dayjob, even just offering 5k/month for Open Source work is a challenge since that would mean a significant step down in pay which is hard for most people to deal with
I had a very strange and scary dream involving my Mini PC. It was apparently opted into running Windows preview builds, although nothing looked any different. Whenever I would switch to a certain synth, the fan would run really high, the audio would sometimes crackle, and it would either reboot or just freeze, but not like a blue screen. I then somehow was able to open some sort of log thing that showed way down at the bottom of this Windows Update page in settings that as part of being in the Windows preview, it was sending 29 gb to Microsoft over the wi-fi by default! I switched the synthesizer again, and immediately it crashed again and did the same thing, even after turning that setting off. I'm guessing I dreamed this because one of my machines had the audio stutter a bit yesterday after the wi-fi temporarily disconnected.
Lol why does this sound like something that could happen with Microslop and Windows these days though? Like idk if I'd be surprised. Audiocrackling is something I experience each day, drivers... Nothing more needs to be said. My best friend on Windows for sure.
@jonathan859 Yeah, and it was also Windows 11 in the dream, I'm not sure what was up with my Windows 10 machines in the dream. Which is interesting because the stuttering yesterday actually happened here on my Windows 10 machine.
Just finished my 1st audio drama, in 2026, and generally since a long time. Was just around 9h, as it's split in 2 parts and the 2nd part is sadly going to release on april 30th. So what do I do? Get the full audiobook, which will miss the effects and different voices, which I found quite good, though I admit the audiobook narator sounds nice as well, or do I wait, which would kinda disturb the feeling I have for the story now? Or both lol. In case anyone wonders, it's Fourth Wing 1, but I'm listening in german.
Regardless I need good audio drama/audiobook suggestions, I'm getting into it again and it's great distraction/generally worlds better than scrolling TikTok and similar stuff I used to fill the time with which I now spend listening. And audiobookshelf also makes it fun, the seemless syncing of positions across all devices and some nice additional features like rewind on pause of the clients make it even more enjoyable.
We're Alive The Dungeon Crawler Carl audio drama version, whatever its called. The Harry Potter full cast versions are the ones that come to my head rn for audio drama type things.
If you are gonna do the audio books though, I recommend the English version. I know it probably has been translated because of how popular it got, but the narator for the original audio books is just something else altogether.
Have you found an accessible ABS client for Windows? There are some pretty accessible ones for iOS, but the official web interface... well... I couldn't get anything to play there.
@Piciok No, but I have not really looked since the web client works good enough for me. The most I had to do to resolve playback issues, which was one time is relogging in, but usually it works all right. I do not have a lot in my lib though so far. Maybe they will improve stuff with the new web client which is apparently in the works.
Ledovku na silnici jsem zažil pár let zpátky na 12km trase při cestě do školky. Nulová trakce a tři auta v příkopě. Měli jsme v té době celoroční gumy a zasekl jsem se v křižovatce, o které jsem ani netušil, že je mírně do kopce a za boha se nemohl rozjet. A zítra nás to asi čeká znovu. Tentokrát máme na obou autech dobré zimní gumy. I tak žena říká, že do školy jedu s dítětem já.
Zítra se ledovka zeptá, co za gumy jste na podzim zvolili 🙂
Česko má za sebou dosud nejchladnější ráno této zimy, kdy teploty na řadě míst klesly hluboko, až k -30°C. Od západu ale nastane oteplení a sněžení se bude měnit v mrznoucí déšť.
zrovna na ledě je ten rozdíl mezi kvalitními zimními a kvalitními celoročními marginální. Četl jsem třeba test, kde Continental Winter Contact 860 zabrzdily na ledě z rychlosti 25 km/h na 14 metrech a AllSeason Contact na 15. A to byla první generace, druhá je zase o kus dál. Jinými slovy: na ledě klouže všechno, co nemá hřeby.
@sesivany Tohle byly gumy myslím že z roku 2020-2021 a stály za starou bačkoru. Navíc v takovéhle situaci může i těch 7% v trakci být rozdíl mezi jedu a nejedu.
IMHO větší pozitivní efekt bude mít to, že teď máte elektroauto, které je těžké a má lépe umístěné tržiště. Naše dvoutunová Q4 s celoročkami se na sněhu a ledě chová lépe než zadokolka BMW se zimními.
@sesivany To se ale bavíme o jízdě, kde se nižší těžiště projeví. Když stojím v křižovatce a potřebuju se rozjet, tak mi bude těžiště k ničemu a váha bude spíš na obtíž.
Pokud je pro tebe rozjezd ten největší problém na ledovce, tak jo. Já jsem se v křižovatce zatím vždycky rozjel, ale už jsem taky skončil uprostřed křižovatky a ještě otočený o 180 stupňů, protože to auto mělo na hovno těžiště, nebo mě taky obrubníky zastavily 10 cm před sloupem, když se mi to utrhlo a auto sjelo ven ze silnice, takže pro mě je nejdůležitější brzdění a udržení auta na vozovce a tam si myslím, že těžiště a hmotnost hrají roli.
@sesivany No rozjezd pro mě byl největší problém 🙂 Na silnici jsem se jinak udržel. Já můžu komentovat jen celoročky co jsme měli (Goodyear 4SEASONS z roku 2022) a ty byly tragický na sněhu, na vodě, na ledu a za vysokých teplot. Nicméně můj jízdní styl je trochu agresivnější a tam na limity té gumy narazím spíš než při pohodové jízdě po dálnici. Očekávám od gum, že nejen že zastaví v nějaké rozumné vzdálenosti, ale že za všech podmínek, na které jsou určeny, udrží auto stabilní a čitelný a to tyhle GoodYeary neuměly.
@sesivany Všechno je to i přes měřitelné hodnoty subjektivní. Když jsem vyhrabal svojí předokolku VW T4 z roku 2000 a s univerzálními pneu před pár dny v Krkonoších, vyjel jsem bez problému, zatímco vedle mě parkovala nějaká čtyřkolka (přes vrstvu sněhu nevím jaká), kterou jsme tlačili a vyhrabávali skoro všichni na parkovišti, a nepomohli jsme. Nakonec museli olámat větve a spolu s koberečky je nacpat pod kola, aby se aspoň pohnuli.
@unterwasser Ono totiž ty kvalitní celoročky mají na sněhu dnes už fakt srovnatelnou výkonnost, zvláště pak tu trakci, která je dnes prakticky stejná: tyrereviews.com/Tyre-Tests/The… (a to jako benchmark použili WinterContact TS 870, což není nějaká průměrná zimní pneu, ale top). To si myslím, že větší rozdíl udělá stáří pneu, že 5 let stará WC TS 870 proti novým top celoročkám propadne.
Ale pohon na všechny čtyři je na sněhu pořád velká výhoda. Včera jsme v údolí zjistili, že jsme nahoře nechali boby a v té vánici jsem si tam se zadokolkou netroufl, přítel od mamky má Vitaru se 4x4 a tam, kde bych já už jel na hraně, to jelo jak nic. Ona je kapitola sama o sobě, že někteří majitelé čtyřkolek ani neví, že se ten pohon 4x4 musí zapnout.
@sesivany @unterwasser Souhlas, že led je peklo, to raději dvacet centimetrů sněhu. Ty celoročky prozkoumám, u nás se sníh drží i na silnicích, takže jsem z toho důvodu doposud držel dvě sady.
@banterCZ @unterwasser Já jsem měl k celoročkám despekt, protože v životě jsem uvázl pořádně ve sněhu jen jednou před 20 lety a bylo to s celoročkami. Nicméně po diskusi tady na Mastodonu jsem se rozhodl jim dát druhou šanci a koupil AllSeason Contact 2 a musím říct, že jsme se ženou zatím mile překvapení. Na běžnou českou zimu úplně v pohodě. Jsou ale nové. Uvidím, jak se budou chovat druhou, třetí zimu. Nicméně tím, že budou mít skoro dvojnásobný roční nájezd oproti zimním, je budu i častěji točit. Odhaduji každé tři roky. Zimní pneu na zadokolce mám už šestou sezónu a co si budeme, ideální už to není. Jenže my ročně na zimních najedeme tak 5k, po třech letech mají najeto 15k km, vyhazujte je tak často, když můžou najet třikrát tolik.
@sesivany @banterCZ @unterwasser Jeden známej (poloprofesionální závodník) doporučuje pro naše české nehorské podmínky letní gumy na léto a celoroční na zimu. Říká, že full zimní u nás trpí, není u nás pod -20°C a v zimě na sluníčku je i +15°C.
@banterCZ @unterwasser lepší to samozřejmě je, otázkou je, jestli ten rozdíl stojí za ty náklady navíc. Já dám za přezouvání a uskladnění 5 tisíc ročně na auto. Cena pneu se mi vrátí za tři roky jen na tom. A pak abych se při našem nájezdu dostal na stejný náklad na km, musím se zimními jezdit dvojnásobek sezón. A že je šest let stará zimní pneu lepší než tři roky stará celoroční, tím už si taky tak nejsem jistý. Samozřejmě pro někoho, kdo si přezouvá sám, má doma místo na uskladnění a ročně na zimních najezdí 15k km, je to zase jiná matematika.
@sesivany @banterCZ @unterwasser Tak vždycky ta guma jde po dvou letech vyhodit, i když ještě má vzorek. Jednou jsem jezdil zimní tři sezóny a z docela špatných zimních to byly ještě horší zimní. Ale třeba to bylo autem.
Protože naše Mazda 3 byla v zimě docela špatná nebo jsem tam netrefil žádné dobré zimní gumy. Hyundai i20 jsem si nikdy nezkusil v zimě na zimních, protože měl ty hrozný celoročky. Tesla v zimě jezdí perfektně, ale měli jsme tam zatím jen jedny zimní gumy. Za to letní byly Bridgestone Turanza a byly hrozný.
Zoe dostala zimní do kufru při nákupu a chovala se všelijak na letních i zimních. Pak ale v servise zjistili, že tam je o 0.3° hnutá sbíhavost. Seřídili to, vyměnili přední zimáky a to auto je jak vyměněný.
Nemusí to tedy být nutně jen v pneu, ale také v nastavení podvozku, distribuci váhy a poměru šířky pneu k zatížení náprav. Ta Mazda měla docela širokou gumu na to jak byla lehká (~300 kg na 215mm). Zoe má ~375 kg a 195 mm a Tesla 475 kg na 235 mm.
AI Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system Voice generator. That's right. I'm not done. It's up on Jammable. Here's a cover of Brailab doing Dial Drunk, with Eloquence Reed. Enjoy. jammable.com/brailab-hungarian… an you tell Brailab from Eloquence in the song? I sure can. Poor Brailab. All squished because it only goes up to 10000HZ of audio quality. Aww awe, I almost feel sorry for it.
Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI voice & song generator. Create Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.
@tardis so on that page there's a "create" button, you press it and a dialog opens. There you click on the select song button, then you can upload from your computer. I think free accounts don't really exist anymore, or they might but they only let you preview. Otherwise it's $1.99 for the first month (unlimited cover credits) then $8.99 after.
My friend has an ubuntu laptop and forgot her password. It logs in to her account on boot, but obviously not having the password is not a sustainable situation.
What's the least disruptive way to sort this out? Can I just boot off a stick and clear /etc/password is there a better way forward?
Depends. If it doesn't ask for the password with the sudo command, maybe 'sudo passwd <username> and then it asks for new password? Maybe? Could be wrong.
Sadly it seems rather more involved than the earlier models that I was pretty happy with.
Apparently they switched to 'Mini HDMI' which I of course don't have lying around. Luckily the 'Raspberry Pi Imager' utility can build an sd card image with ssh enabled and the wifi password pre-supplied 😊. Icky that it needs root but otherwise works well.
it's micro hdmi right? the pi4 already has that as well and i found it very annoying. The pi zeros have mini hdmi, which you also need a special adapter for and ugh.
(Mini-DP is a much more used alternative and also royalty free. 🤷♀️)
"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."
Hi hi people of Mastodon! I created a Jammable voice for MindMaker FlexVoice 3 Kim. Attached is a song: Radioactive Rain by Smith and Thell. Enjoy. This is my first female voice, finally, after so many speech engines do male voices or female voices that are fake male anyway. Not Kim though. jammable.com/kim-mindmaker-fle… Enjoy.
Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI voice & song generator. Create Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.
We're using it at work (don't ask, Shadow IT), and I'm strongly considering switching to a two-account setup at this point. Especially because their track record on privacy (from your contacts, not in the weird "I don't want personalized ads" sense) is spotty at best.
Discord in a browser is fine. I use it daily, at work, where I can't install the app lol. You will loose the F6 shortcut to jump around, at least in FireFox for me, and no idea about keyboard shortcuts in general, but for basic chatting it's all right.
from a screen reader / non mouse input method standpoint? i have no idea.
from a "how similar is it to the desktop app" standpoint? it's literally identical. with the exception of a few features the browser sandbox prohibits, like push to talk when the browser window isn't focused, there is literally 100% feature parity.
discord desktop is an electron app. it's a website in a box already. why maintain two frontend codebases when you don't have to?
certainly doable if a bit cumbersome at least with being able to differentiate between browse/focus mode, not sure how it'd handle in Safari. I'd say it's OK for casual use, not great for anything resembling efficiency or productivity
Are phising attempts getting more believable for everyone or just me?
Just got a "Update payment method" mail allegedly from @hetzner@hetzner.social. But it was sent to the mail address advertised on my personal website (which is hosted on Hetzner's servers).
🎉 Brailab + NVDA just got much nicer in Say All. (eurpod.com/brailab-2025.nvda-a…) We fixed long-standing line-by-line breaks so consecutive lines are now coalesced into real sentences, keeping natural inflection instead of resetting prosody at every visual line. Even better: speech indexing now flows through the wrapper itself, so Say All, caret tracking, and navigation stay perfectly in sync — no hacks, no dropped events. Same Brailab sound, smoother reading. This one feels really good. 😄 And without @erion doing that initial driver work it wouldn't have happened. Now Brailab reads as it did in my childhood, with the same low intonation during long sentences, it's such a joy to use now that the Wrapper works well.
Even though I don't use NVDA, thanks so much for all the work you put into this to make it better. Time to open some Rejtő novel now right? Ah, those good ol' days.
I am getting this, and I just saw it. I hope you guys don't mind. Now it's time to see if we can't mac... Wait I have too many big plans, don't I. :P I just need sleep, yep, that's it, I need sleep, not fun stuff to play with.
Ej. Właśnie tego nauczyły mnie te lata obserwowania polityki zagranicznej. Żadne przewidywania nie mają absolutnie ŻADNEGO SENSU, bo nigdy nie da się przewidzieć randomowych zmiennych typu rewolucja w Iranie.
Więc wszystkich tych wróżbitów z telewizji i jutuba można kopnąć w dupę. Pozdrawiam serdecznie. mstdn.social/@nexta/1158815987…
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Iran has come to the brink of a revolution that could change the world - Bloomberg
Iranian protests are fast becoming the most serious crisis for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime since the 1979 revolution.
Są 3 typy ludzi: "eksperci" w internecie, którzy na niczym się nie znają, prawdziwi eksperci, i "eksperci" w internecie, którzy przewidują lepiej od tych prawdziwych.
Okazuje się, że eksperci dziedzinowi wcale nie. są dobrzy w przewidywaniu, bo skupiają się wyłącznie na swojej dziedzinie a nie na statystyce. Np. ekspert od Kremla, na pytanie "kiedy się skończy wojna" będzie patrzył na napięcia na Kremlu, nie na historyczne dane, jaka jest szansa zakończenia wojny w danym roku, jeśli dane jest że...
Jeśli chcesz więcej, poczytaj o "superforecasters" i "prediction markets" (gdzie na przewidywaniu przyszłości robi i traci się fortuny, a co za tym idzie, gdzie zostają wyłącznie tacy, którzy mają faktycznie do tego smykałkę). To jest na chwilę obecną najlepsze źródło statystyk typu "jakie jest prawdopodobieństwo, że w najbliższym czasie..."
Flexvoice-HU Hungarian text-to-speech software Yes that's right. Mindmaker is Hungarian. "The Flexvoice text reader is the successor of the PC talker, developed by Mindmaker Kft (József Király and his team) in Hungary. The new software was officially announced in Hungary in 2002. Flexvoice was a hibryd system based on machine learning and formant synthesis. The newly developed inverse formant synthesizer has made it possible to describe and store the speech elements recorded from human speech with compressed phonetic data. Speech was synthesized by the formant synthesizer software. Flexvoice was able to speak in a variety of voices, also whispering and hoarse voices. The Flexvoice speech synthesizer has also been used in the VILÁGHALLÓ book reader application for the blind in Hungary." did you know this @erion? By any chance you or someone has a copy of Világhálló, perhaps we can adapt that voice to work in current FlexVoice engine?
well, now we know why FlexVoice just sucks, i mean sucks, at english. really why else wouldn't it, Hungarians made it, it's best with spoken Hungarian text.
I've heard of Világhalló, never used it, nor know anyone who could have it unfortunately. I might have heard some sample sentences spoken by FlexVoice ages ago, but never had the Hungarian version. The machine learning aspect is completely new to me, however, I wonder why they stopped developing their engine.
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 12. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
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Dieses Projekt bearbeitet bereits einige derThemen, mit denen ich mich ebenfalls beschäftigen möchte (3D-Druck, taktile Beschriftungen und Karten, barrierefreie Zugänge zu OpenStreetMap...).
OSKAR ist ein Open-Source-Projekt, das Hilfsmittel für blinde Menschen gemeinsam entwickelt und frei zugänglich macht. Baupläne, Software und Anleitungen stehen offen zur Verfügung und können angepasst und weiterentwickelt werden.
Your display name is not the place for random statements like f* this party pro this ASSOCIATION etc. I don't give a shit about that when I want to read your post. It's more common with german people to have that as it seems. Same for emojis or different formating etc, just use normal letters. My screenreader sometimes reads all letters like they where in seperated capitals because you have some weird formating you think looks cool, or says question mark question mark between each letter. Just type, on your normal keyboard, type your name, your pseudonyme, but nothing else. Just gonna ignore that crap from now on, probably mute. Wastes time.
Another form of Facebook post in particular is really giving me the shits lately and it relates to a previous post I made regarding the use of AI. The kind of post I'm talking about here is the really inspiring post about someone that is shared by everybody. You can tell it's an AI post because it often starts with something like, it was 3.37 in the morning and 35 seconds when the old man took his last breath inside the ice cream parlour. The posts then go on to talk about what an amazing person they were, the things they do just get better and better and better and at the end you often get these annoying fucking moral messages. Mr Blake did not succeed because he had an IQ of 512, mr Blake succeeded because he found the inspirational courage to fight through the horrible brain freeze and tooth pain. So fucking irritating.
If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" 404media.co/x-premium-grok-pay…
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: privacyguides.org/articles/202…
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
Thanks to @Tamasg and his SoftVoice TTS Speak window, I just created something really silly and stupid. The SoftVoice variant The Fly reading some gibberish/keysmash text. It sounds really weird! Actual text is in the alt text.
@tpheine in my case it was easy because it is powder snow. The temperature hasn't risen above zero for like two weeks here, so it hasn't had a chance to melt and then freeze again. When it happens, it is hard work indeed.
Same here. But due to the higher surface temperatures on the black panels (black bulb temperature is always higher) it is often above Zero on them and the snow melts and freezes.
@slp No, it's 21, they're just split into half by a silver line and look like 42. It's 21x410W=8610W. The inverter is 10kW, pretty standard. I wish I had 42 panels. It would come handy on days like this. :)
@bagder Is it double messaging when this is explicitly in every single release announcement?
> Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.
I mean you're of course entitled to do so, I just think you ask for feedback on the one hand when releasing the packages, then you need to fight the feedback with info no one seems to read. When you could just not do the releases at all ...
@bagder To have goals which can drive development, for me to get a dopamine hit after being in 10 straight years of development hell, because it gives me a chance to look back and reflect on what we've been doing and determine if that's the correct path.
@bagder Guess I should turn this into an FAQ somewhere which will be yet another thing on my todo list which will of course cut into development time...
Anyways here's the original announcement that described the whole thing.
But tl;dr we're open to feedback if it is actually usable/reasonable right now.
But between live and work finding time for Pidgin is hard and people are making it harder by forcing me through conversations like this.
Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin 3 on December 31st, 2024.
@bagder Yeah but I'm not questioning your actions to satisfy my curiosity, telling you how to do things, and blaming you for people not reading the things you've put out to the world.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s he suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
How many oil companies will invest in a Venezuelan oil project initiated by a man who loses track of the situation he is in?
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