I've found another new thing I can't get enough of. They're pizza rolls, accept they're triangular and filled with things you'd put on nachos. meat beans cheese. They're sooooooo good!
At the top of the hour, @Liz will be live with the return of FullCircle, and tonight it's the Australia day show. So tune in, and interact with the show. HKCRadio.com
"Subject: Offer to Purchase The cURL project"
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Question: anyone know how to close the favorites view? I accidentally opened it and now it keeps beeping at me like every 30 seconds or something
I am hoping, assuming I can do it properly, to tinker with the IDL/ACF so that we can still get this functionality but allow multiple instances to be present if people need this. If people tell me not to though, then I'll keep it as is.
@Bri Heh, I wasn't sure but ultimately changed it to allow it just because all the other backends do so it seemed a bit inconsistent to disallow that for one backend. Even if backends are given a loooooot of freedom in what they can and can't do
You know, I was kind of surprised but just for the hell of it, I gave Claude Prism and went OK, implement this into a cpp project I'm working on and it just figured it out. Was kinda cool. I checked it out after it was done and yep, it did it right
Well, Prism has gotten some great new functionality! I think the biggest is that Prism can now act in place for the NVDA controller client! It does not need the DLL present to communicate with NVDA since it performs the internal RPC binding automatically. The current downside to this is that there may only be one NVDA backend active at any given time, which is abnormal and inconsistent with all the other backends. If you currently try to do this, it will (safely) overwrite the existing one.
Right, but the LGPL is specifically for dynamic linking as I understand, if you static link you then become subject to the GPL.
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What coding language do blacksmiths use?
Rust. Duh.
Rust. Duh.
The only thing I wish FastSM could do, which I currently don't see is to filter boosts from home timeline. Some folks boost endless amounts of things I don't necessarily hold interest with. I don't think TWBlue can do this either, but TweeseCake can. FastSM takes less ram than both of the aforementioned two though.
timeline filters. control shift F in the window, control windows alt F in the invisible interface.
Tomorrow's my big development talk y'all, I'm gonna stay real quiet and hunker down. Nervous as hell, I hate dev talks. So. No speech player updates, let's give language packs time to change a bit.
I already see a few improvements coming, can't say what, but yeah, this will keep evolving the more folks try it and are honest.
We now restored the UK English sound in this pack very close to the sound it had in the original IPA rules, which were much smaller and sparce in comparison, but I understand how we were contaminating phonemes with each other, which was the huge huge downside before I moved things into the frontend.
Honestly, building that frontend was the best decision I made early. AI would have kept on piling in Python code, specific language variables, and stich me a 300 kilobyte Python file by the end. No no. We are not doing that.
It's funny how real work changes you. I used to be a spaghetti-code type guy, all day I'd just throw my code in a single file. Today I shutter at the idea of zero abstraction. If it's not modularized well, it's not worth reading as code, period, unless it's clean small code. Yes I'm that much of a snob. Gosh. AI will happily spaghetti all day, unless you're Google Gemini, which can (sometimes) do better at helping you abstract it, but you are still the architect, if you don't know coding fundementals, it's hard to use AI to code something not considered "AI slop."
I already see a few improvements coming, can't say what, but yeah, this will keep evolving the more folks try it and are honest.
We now restored the UK English sound in this pack very close to the sound it had in the original IPA rules, which were much smaller and sparce in comparison, but I understand how we were contaminating phonemes with each other, which was the huge huge downside before I moved things into the frontend.
Honestly, building that frontend was the best decision I made early. AI would have kept on piling in Python code, specific language variables, and stich me a 300 kilobyte Python file by the end. No no. We are not doing that.
It's funny how real work changes you. I used to be a spaghetti-code type guy, all day I'd just throw my code in a single file. Today I shutter at the idea of zero abstraction. If it's not modularized well, it's not worth reading as code, period, unless it's clean small code. Yes I'm that much of a snob. Gosh. AI will happily spaghetti all day, unless you're Google Gemini, which can (sometimes) do better at helping you abstract it, but you are still the architect, if you don't know coding fundementals, it's hard to use AI to code something not considered "AI slop."
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“Europe is a regulatory morass that is built on bureaucracy, and the layering and layering of rules that constrain economic activity.”
Scott Bessant, US Treasury Secretary
To which Europeans say:
Flint, Michigan
East Palestine, Ohio
Uniontown, Alabama
These places are global bywords for the poisoning of people and nature when you have no regulatory oversight of business and you prioritise ‘economic activity’ at all costs over health and safety.
Everyone is going to Threads. My professional community - iOS developers, AI researchers, accessibility advocates - they're all there. I'm completely locked out, missing networking opportunities and professional conversations.
This is disability discrimination. I cannot access Threads without assistive technology, and their systems automatically suspend me for using it.
ADA compliance issue.
This is disability discrimination. I cannot access Threads without assistive technology, and their systems automatically suspend me for using it.
ADA compliance issue.
I've noticed that some client, maybe FastSM? Is doing this thing where it will add you to a thread even if you just boosted a post in it, not actually replied, and I'm not sure yet if I like it or find it annoying, maybe a bit of both?
Phewphsh! We had a frying on this instance that lasted about 20 minutes. With the help of Gemini, we're back and successfully updated to 4.6.0-alpha.3+glitch.
Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?
edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!
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Holy crap! It's windy as balls today!
This is a test of using Fast-SM with our J-Say technology. This application is quite timely, because I would like to demonstrate to somebody how we can use the programme with bluesky. He has always wanted to use Bluesky and now he has an ideal opportunity of doing so. Dragon is working exceptionally well in this application, and I can easily correct errors such as the name of the social media network that I have just described. It treated the name of the social network as two separate words with no capital letter, so I had to put that right. There was absolutely no problem in doing so and there is no deterioration in terms of responsiveness on the computer while we are using Fast-SM with Dragon and JAWS. I am even able to proof read the post that I have just dictated with no difficulty. All good stuff!
Yesterday, I interviewed a tech guy who told me something too important for me to wait until the podcast comes out for you to hear it:
Many free AI detectors have especially high false positive rates because they make money selling software that "humanizes" writing. 1/2
I'm writing a technical blog post and want to use a UML sequence diagram to explain something.
Only trouble is, I have no idea how to make such a diagram accessible to a screen reader.
I know I could just write up alt-text to describe it, but at that point I feel like I should just use the text _instead_ of the diagram.
Maybe that's the answer, but I'm hoping there's a way to get a screen reader to communicate the diagram in some way?
Any ideas appreciated!
@menelion PlantUML looks neat!
I'm currently using js-sequence-diagrams[1], which looks like it has similar syntax as PlantUML.
Putting the code/text representation of the diagram feels like it'd be helpful for a small diagram, but maybe too much to keep in ones head for a larger one?
Better than nothing I reckon though!
First of all, let me tell you something: we appreciate every move like this. You know, every blind person struggles. They may tell you it's fine, we're good, someone will even say "I'm proud to be blind" (sic!), but… we struggle. And if a person comes and tells like: "I'm posting a diagram, I want it to be seen by my blind readers" — woosh, like a wave of warm air in a cold winter street.
Why am I saying this? Because it's not even better than nothing, it's quite enough for a technically or scientifically inclined person to decipher what you're saying. I'm not proficient in this at all (JS-Sequence-Diagrams looks also good, also there's Mermaid supported by GitHub, I think) but if I need or want it, I'll read the docs and cope with it. Or… drop you a message and ask for help 😊
Anyway, thank you so much. It's really heartwarming.
Why am I saying this? Because it's not even better than nothing, it's quite enough for a technically or scientifically inclined person to decipher what you're saying. I'm not proficient in this at all (JS-Sequence-Diagrams looks also good, also there's Mermaid supported by GitHub, I think) but if I need or want it, I'll read the docs and cope with it. Or… drop you a message and ask for help 😊
Anyway, thank you so much. It's really heartwarming.
@menelion Aww thank you André. ❤️ I'm touched, and not really sure how to respond!
I guess I'll just say that I want to live in the world where we all look out for each other's needs, and where we can ask each other for accommodations or help when we need to. Where we all get those warm breezes when we're cold :)
Anyway, thank you again for the kind words!
@menelion On the PlantUML front, I found this paper describing how it was used in a computer science class to help a blind student learn the content:
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/354…
Some points I found interesting:
* the textual representation of the diagram was enough for, at least this one person, to be able to follow along in the course
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I have a blind friend studying data science, he says he found it very useful. I know plenty of blind folks, one internationally known mathematician among them, who use LaTex, for example, to read and write maths. Not the simplest thing in the world, but it works. I believe, it's the same with PlantUml/Mermaid/solutions alike.
I updated my "How to survive FOSDEM" article.
@fosdem organizers updated map so I updated it as well. The change was simple: there is no ATM at ULB (for quite a while).
So I added an info about it. And some minor edit.
marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2019…
How to survive FOSDEM – Marcin Juszkiewicz
FOSDEM is 2 weeks conference in 2 days. Can be tough to survive.marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl
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