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Režisér a občiansky aktivista Nikita Slovák navrhuje po Ficovi rebrandovať Slovensko a zmeniť aj vlajku, ktorá je podľa neho „ruská“. Viac sa mu páči Štefánikova zástava s hviezdami.
While Mastodon users being wary of federation with Threads is understandable, the phenomenon of Threads users loudly proclaiming “we don’t want to federate with those sanctimonious nerds on Mastodon” is… pretty weird. I guess “we are not Mastodon users” is part of their tribal identity.
So it sounds like neither side is especially enthusiastic for it. Even most people on masto that are in favour of not blocking threads seem to be saying, "not for my sake, but because someone else might want to".
Já už ani nekoukám v televizi na pořady s politikou, ODS je čím dal tím horší. Před volbami hlásali jak jsou na vše připravený, ale zatím domácí politika je hrůza.
@archos Nechci vnucovat svůj názor, ale právě i z těchto důvodu ⬆️ budu příště volit piráty. Minulé volby je vykrouškovali v prospěch STANU a co si budeme o STANU povídat. Je fakt, že jediní Piráti nemají pokud vím, zatím žádnou korupční aféru, a tak nějak zatím se vším s nimi souzním. Blažka jsem nemusela od začátku a Kupka na mě působil fakt dobře. Ovšem tohle .. i na politiku musí být člověk charakter. Jenže, kolik takových asi je? @electricCZ
@Milu @archos Taky to asi příště hodím pirátům. Je fakt, že z pohledu světonázoru a zahraničí politiky je to trochu pytel blech, ale momentálně asi nic lepšího nemáme.
@archos @sesivany @Milu vidím to stejně! Volil jsem je taky a jsem spokojený s tím co ve vládě dělají. Jediný co bych jim vytknul je nulová prezence tady. Nemyslím členy, ale @Pirati jako takové.
@archos nikdo v těch stranách nebyl připravený 😢 a asi ani nikdo nečekal, že skutečně sestaví vládu A navíc mám pocit, že jsou všichni personálně nepřipravení, strany nemají lidi, kteří by dokázali agendu zvládnout. Respektive nemají lidi obecně, pak se blbě vybírá 😅
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This could be an incredible development (or at least the start of something incredible :-). Right now discourse instances are maybe the highest quality online meeting and discussion places on the internet but they are all separate islands.
Climate change is about saving the humanity and the corresponding ecosystem so that we people are saved. It is not about saving the planet which will change and continue. It is all about us.
@JustinMac84 The inflation was made so by rich companies in the first place and they won't let it go no matter what the government does. I don't think there is a way back.
“She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.”
Released in 1994, Wacky Wheels is a kart racer. It is the first game in the Wacky Wheels series.
We don’t need a story for this game. All you need to know is that a bunch of cute animals are competing for the podium. There’s a tiger, an elephant, a shark, and more!
This was a title published by Apogee. I often wonder if this game would have been more well known if they put well-known Apogee characters like Duke Nukem and Commander Keen in this game. Nevertheless, the decision to use animals certainly hit their target demographic.
You see, in 1994, many kids didn’t have a Super Nintendo (SNES). Parents often told their young whippersnappers, “We have a PC that can do everything – go play your games on there.”
And believe me, lots of PC gaming kids envied Super Mario Kart. There was not much like it on PC. Then Wacky Wheels came along.
Is Wacky Wheels as good as Super Mario Kart? Not at all. But for a cheap shareware title with gamepad support – that also had split screen multiplayer – this was a godsend for all those kids who only gamed on PC.
That’s right, not only could you play Wacky Wheels with a keyboard, but you could also hook up a Gravis PC GamePad. Not all PC games did that back then. Even now, Wacky Wheels controls spectacularly with a modern gamepad, and let me tell you, it works like a dream!
The courses are not as varied as Super Mario Kart, but Wacky Wheels makes up for this with many game modes.
You can choose the speed of your karts (or “lawnmowers”, as the game calls them), which drastically changes your winning strategy. If you go for the 12HP karts, you’ll be relying more on your handbrake; with the 6HP karts, lots of power-ups are a requirement.
If you have young kids, there’s a “kid mode” that makes the competitive play more kid-friendly.
Multiplayer is really where Wacky Wheels shined. You had a two-player race as well as a two-player shoot-out. But there was also Comm-Bat play – which allowed you to compete with another player remotely through a LAN. Again, this was available in 1994 – it would be decades before Nintendo would offer such a feature with Super Mario Kart!
Graphically, Wacky Wheels wasn’t as good as its SNES counterpart. The pixels were more chunky, and the frame-rate wasn’t as smooth. But there’s a reason for that. Wacky Wheels was a $5 shareware title that was intended to be played even on a 386 CPU.
It’s the sound department where Wacky Wheels really shines. It’s full of SoundBlaster goodness. And wow! Does the music get my heart pumping when I’m in the midst of a race!
To run Wacky Wheels on modern hardware, you need a 1.8Ghz single core CPU and 512MB of RAM. However, if you want to run this on DOS, you need a 386 CPU, 4MB of RAM, and 6.9MB of space. Wacky Wheels has native compatibility for Windows, Mac, and Linux – although the Steam version doesn’t run on Linux natively. Nevertheless, the Steam version runs well on Linux via Proton. On a Steam Deck, it is fantastic.
Wacky Wheels is a PC exclusive. It has never been released on mobile or console platforms.
There’s no microtransactions, neither is there DLC.
Beavis-Soft developed Wacky Wheels. They made a previous game called Phylox, but this was their last game.
There was some hijinx involved with the development of Wacky Wheels. The eagle-eyed among you might notice this has a resemblance to Skunny Kart. That’s because they share some of the same code. Regardless, Skunny Kart is based on an earlier version of Wacky Wheels – which is why most people prefer Wacky Wheels.
There’s also a modern remake called Wacky Wheels HD. I have not played it, and it’s no longer on Steam – though it is available free on itch.io.
On Steam, Wacky Wheels has an 89% positive rating based on 77 reviews. Meanwhile, GOG.com gives this a 4.2/5 user rating. Most people love this for nostalgic reasons, as it gives them fond memories of gaming as a child. Detractors feel that it has not held up to the modern era.
Personally, I feel like Wacky Wheels has indeed held up. Sure, it’s not the best kart racer ever – not by a long shot. Yet, the controls are tight, and the competition is still fierce. And just look at it. Wacky Wheels is full of DOS goodness!
Wacky Wheels sells for C$5.49 on Steam. Meanwhile, GOG.com sells it for C$8.19, though it has a -79% discount at C$1.69.
I recommend it – perhaps not for everyone, but definitely for anyone who has a fondness for DOS gaming. There are more beautiful, more technically impressive kart racers out there. But how many of them feature VGA graphics with sweet SoundBlaster tunes? And how many of them allow you to control a cute panda who throws hedgehogs at the competition? If this appeals to you, Wacky Wheels is your ticket!
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Okay, I've just tested @bitwarden for the first time. The solution seems quite good, but the desktop app really disappointed me. Yes, it is fully accessible, but it's again this web-based experience where navigation is a bit more cumbersome than with native apps. And to develop a third-party app, I believe you have to upgrade to a paid plan to get access to those APIs.
@Caoimhe I've been using KeePass for many years. It has a super simple slick native interface: a category tree view, a list view of passwords and that's basically it. the only plus/minus it has it's keeping your data in a local file, so on the one hand you have total control, but on the other hand synchronization and password sharing becomes quite painful. So I was trying to find something else. But this webbish interface is just… you have to make lots of movements here and there.
Huh. With NVDa at least I usually find web-based to be more flexible than native, but then I practically live on the web these days and only grab native apps if I have no other option, like ...no youtube downloaders or other such silliness for me :)
@zersiax I actually hate that you have to turn virtual cursor off, then back on, then use quick nav keys, then read some text in between, then tab, then arrow, and everything is mixed like hell. I have no that slick and robust feel as I do with native. Don't take it wrong, I love web, but for websites, not for desktop apps. There are some exceptions like Slack, but I personally use scripts that make it look as native as possible.
@Andre Polykanine @Florian I like @Bitwarden verry much. I am using browser addons as most often I need to fill passwords on the websites. When I need to check something or change the password I am just using webinterface. The #Android app is also verry accessible with a #screenreader.
I generally don't use the bitwarden interface much anyway. It stays out of your way and you really just need it when you wnt to manually add stuff or look something up, everything else works either through the context menu actions or through the autofill system which I recommend setting a hotkey for. Oh, also, the prompt about saving passwords appears at the bottom of the page so be mindful of that
@zersiax I don't much care if an app is native or web-based. The issue is that a proper native UI implies certain things, e.g. the ability to use type-ahead in lists, menus and tree views, whereas web more often than not implies that those features won't be implemented even if the widgets themselves are technically accessible. A tree view with 400 items that doesn't have type-ahead isn't very usable, even if it is technically marked up in all of the right ways with other standard keyboard behaviour. Granted, sometimes it's just a case of adapting to something different, e.g. using a search feature more than type-ahead. @menelion
A funny detail about Open Source projects is that they are called "projects", as if they were somehow limited in time or ever can get done.
The #cURL "project" is a number of loosely coupled individual volunteers working on writing software together with a common mission: to do reliable data transfers with Internet protocols, as Open Source.
I'm happy to say that https://everything.curl.dev/ can now also be enjoyed in dark mode. There's toggle at the top-right for those who prefer light text on dark background. Enjoy!
Velmi zajímavá přednáška z FEL: Co se musí řešit v Temelíně aby udrželi v chodu 25 let starý řídící počítač s procesory i486. A mimochodem tam zmiňuje jak vypadá redundance, jak je vyřešena odolnost proti seizmickým událostem a podobně... youtu.be/e90Q328jVmA?si=bEv4Qm…
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toot.cafe/@matt/11158501207023… @matt - I'm getting tired of...characterizations of generative AI like this one: social.ericwbailey.website/@er… "a spicy autocomplete powered by theft that melts the environment to amplify racism and periodically, arbitrarily lie"...
Thank you for your response to my rant yesterday. I've listened to the presentation by Timnit Gebru that you linked. I'm convinced by all of her points about the problems with LLMs, and the idea of AGI.
Still, I hope it's possible to have LLMs and similar models (such as GPT-4V) without the serious problems that critics such as her have pointed out, because such tools have already been shown to be useful to at least one marginalized group: disabled people.
I know that one of your interests is accessibility. Same here; I'm legally blind. But I'm not optimistic that we can convince the whole world to go out of their way to accommodate us. Automation is the only thing that can solve the problem comprehensively. And while current tools like GPT-4V aren't perfect, and there's a lot of snake oil (the accessibility overlays), I disagree with dismissing the idea entirely, because some tools that are called AI are already useful.
I don't have a problem with AI that would help. E.g. autocorrect is AI, red eye reduction is AI.
These narrow intelligences (ANI) are not what is currently meant by AI (properly AGI) which as you agree can't be scoped and therefore does not exist
I am glad that it is helping accessibility for blind people but the quality of information is very very dubious unless you're already a subject matter expert. Eg tabletopden.com/dnd/best-armor… should in theory be great but it's actually mostly tosh.
And I'm 100% sure that any help you're getting is accidental rather than a priority of the designers. They are the same grifters that pivoted from crypto and NFTs and are supported by the eugenics movement!
AI in that sense scrapes creative work without permission or recompense.
I'm a big believer in the cut kerb effect where alt text has actually helped me personally out several times on the fedi. By explaining the point of a diagram or when I had bad phone signal.
It doesn't matter to me if the developers of tools like GPT-4V actually intend to help us, or even if they think we really shouldn't exist (eugenics). In my opinion, we disabled people have to take advantage of whatever useful tools are available to us. Better still if we can develop our own tools to solve our accessibility problems, possibly building on top of things like GPT-4V.
@matt Shrug. Setting out to intentionally cause offence by calling you a "tech bro", assuming your gender, and making unfounded accusations of unenlightenment are some of the exact behaviours causing this conversation to be so combative. You give airtime to, and take your opinions from, whomever you please, but that's not the way I'd personally go about recommending a YouTube video to someone.
New app added to the Accessible Apps directory by Amir: CCleaner – Phone Cleaner. Accessible. Brought to you from the makers of the world’s most popular PC and Mac cleaning software, CCleaner for Android is the ultimate Android cleaner. Quickly and easily remove junk, reclaim space, monitor your system and more, and truly master your device. accessibleandroid.com/app/ccle… #Android #App
The old 1920's style of Jaz needs to be brought back. This is an excellent example of why this instrument is such a legendary one. You can do so much with Claranettes that you can't necessarily do with say, Trumpets.
Robert Kingett explains what Artificial Divide is all about.
About the book: Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.
This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.
When we think about it, we're not really divided.
With stories by: Eunice Cooper-Matchett - Anita Haas - Rebecca Blaevoet - Tessa Soderberg - Laurie Alice Eakes - Melissa Yuan-Innes - Jamieson Wolf - Ben Fulton - Felix Imonti - Niki White - M. Leona Godin - Ann Chiappetta - Lawrence Gunther - Heather Meares - Fabiyas M V - Jameyanne Fuller
No alkohol yet, but the first spontanuous singing is already done. Oh it smellsgood, oh it smells fine. I guess #ChatGPT is able to give full description. 😃 #MushroomFM
Web accessibility overlays are tools or technologies that aim to improve the accessibility of a website. However, claims that a website can be made fully compliant in an automated fashion are not realistic.
![It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/495604 "It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]")
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