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#DSGVO versus #LLM / #KI :
Copilot macht aus einem Gerichtsreporter einen Kinderschänder
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Recht auf Auskunft? Schwierig. Löschen der Falschinformationen? Unmöglich. Und nun?

#DSGVO #llm #ki


Hate speech is bad.

Banning it is legislating feelings, instead of facts, being inherently subjective, resulting in censorship & oppression of any political dissent, a recipe for authoritarianism.

See case study:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialis…

in reply to Alex Nedelcu

people don’t realize this might be one of the hardest challenges to overcome in a liberal democracy: having freedom of speech for all and whatever in a society where there are bad and hateful individuals. Laws and courts are a part of it but is not enough.


"Vrazi, vy jste ho zastřelili!" Neznámé příběhy obětí střelby ze srpna 1969
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New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Simple Text Editor accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/simp… #Android #App


Ahoj všichni! 📣 Mám skvělou zprávu – čeština je už ve vývojové větvi Phanpy! 🇨🇿 Přesto však stále chybí asi 40 % překladu. Pokud máte čas a chuť, každá pomoc se hodí! Pojďme společně dokončit překlad, aby byla aplikace kompletně v češtině. Díky moc všem, kdo se zapojí! 🌟
#phanpy #phanpysocialdev #phanpycz #boost
in reply to Archos

Aha, po zadání názvu mně totiž vyhledávač stále nabízel nějaké Pokémony. 😁


Most people on here know this, but to those who need to hear it: People who work in assistive technology are not machines. They have working hours like everyone else, they have lives. Firing questions at them at all times of the day or night about technology, whether they may happen to work with it or not, is not OK. They are not your personal twenty-four hour a day support system.
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in reply to Lulu Hartgen

I imagine that a lot of people who work in the assistive technology field who are known to the community have to deal with situations like these. It's important that those of us who experience this know how to establish and maintain healthy boundaries.
in reply to David Goldfield

When I am the person asking for help, I try to minimize the load I create by taking the following reasonable measures.
I ask a discussion forum (mailing list, etc.) rather than an individual directly.
I provide proper details (version numbers of software, steps to reproduce the issue, other technical information likely to be valuable in identifying the cause).
I search online for potential solutions, check documentation, and experiment as appropriate.
I'm not a nontechnical user of software. However, the above steps can be taken by people who don't have a lot of technical expertise as well.
in reply to Jason J.G. White

@jason And asking questions on public forums and mailing lists is perfectly appropriate. It doesn't obligate any one individual to respond and it also allows a larger group within the community to assist the questioner, not to mention benefiting others who may have the same question or problem either now or in the future. Sending a private email only benefits the questioner and actually could limit the quality and timeliness of help they might wind up receiving, as there may well be people who are more knowledgeable in the subject than the person being privately asked.
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

@jason And on top of all of that nobody ever emails me for Doctor Who help, which I actually would be willing to provide at no cost. What's up with that? 😀
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

Well said. Thatwas one of the main reasons that made me burn out and quit as an IT tutor.



Can anyone else read text they're writing in the latest #Thunderbird with #NVDA 2024.3? I couldn't in one email and thought it was a fluke, but I'm sending another and it's happened again. I can copy to notepad and type there, but that's just silly. I thought I might have an addon loaded that was breaking stuff but apparently not. This is a bad time.

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in reply to Andre Louis

Next time this happens, can you tell me whether restarting NVDA fixes it? There's a bug impacting NVDA and browsers which causes this kind of behaviour that no one has been able to track down yet. It's utterly bizarre. But restarting NVDA fixes it, hence the question.
in reply to Jamie Teh

I... Thought I'd tried that because it's so damn obvious but apparently I hadn't. Restarting did fix it. Now I feel stupid. Thanks for suggesting it.
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in reply to Andre Louis

It's a very exasperating bug regardless. Believe me, I've tried to track it down, but I still don't know wtf causes it. It's some deep failure somewhere in the Windows COM framework but I don't understand how NVDA is triggering it.
in reply to Jamie Teh

For your reference, this is being tracked here: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh That one, together with the same failure with table navigation hotkeys requiring a restart to work are my only two annoyances when using Firefox with NVDA. I encounter them both daily here and really wish you the best of luck with finding the solution, I can understand the difficulty.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh I still think NVDA is my favourite screen reader, but it seems to me to be having conflict with more and more apps. I mean, why does shutting down Tweesecake take NVDAwith it most of the time, for instance? That's a really odd one.
in reply to Dave Taylor

@davetaylor2112 Probably worth filing a bug about that with log files, testing with all add-ons disabled, etc.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh 1. Remember, the average user is not a dev, and probably hates Github, like Ido. 2. I really feel that addons need regulating a lot more, and being broken a lot less. Things are getting less and less smooth and we seem to be needing ever more and more complex addons just to do basic things like navigate our email folders and messages! 3. Sadly, we are running out of keystrokes and this is making even more problems and conflicts. I increasingly feel like giving up with computers, to be honest.
in reply to Dave Taylor

@davetaylor2112 Fair enough. Entirely your choice, but if you want any chance of a diagnosis and fix, that's how you increase that chance. Devs can only do so much when the info available is near 0.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@davetaylor2112 I get the frustration, really I do. I often say that having a disability in general is like death by a million papercuts. That doesn't change the fact that devs can't help you with near 0 info, though. But everyone runs out of spoons and this may just be something you don't have the spoons for, and that's fine. You just can't expect a fix either.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh You know what? Ijust had an idea, but I'm not fighting with Github to submit it. NVDA could do with a crash reporter, and if that's included in the usage stats, I suggest the dialog entry is changed to mark that
in reply to Dave Taylor

@davetaylor2112 Perhaps, but it may not be a crash. It's more likely to be a hang, and a crash reporter can't catch those.
in reply to TJ Olsen

@tjolsen Outlook is very different code, so likely to be a different bug, though I can't be 100% certain of that.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh This happens to me and restarting it fixes it. What can I do to help troubleshoot?
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh I have this all the time in both Thunderbird and Discord, and a restart fixes it.
in reply to Quin

@TheQuinbox @jcsteh I have it in Thunderbird and Slack from time to time. Restarting NVDA has worked so far.
in reply to Alex Hall

@TheQuinbox @jcsteh Funnily enough, the problem happened in Slack just after I sent that last post. The log shows that NVDA has the right value for the text field, but arrowing only says "blank". Selecting text works, in that NVDA speaks the selection. Deleting also usually works, speaking the deleted character. It's arrow navigation that's broken. Arrowing shows no problems in the log.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @TheQuinbox @jcsteh Can confirm. Sometimes this happens in Slack when there's a modal open that covers the area visually but doesn't have keyboard focus. Dismissing it sometimes restores the field back to working. Likewise, restarting NVDA doesn't fix the issue when I haven't dismissed that modal.
in reply to Tuukka Ojala

@tuukkao @alexhall @TheQuinbox My guess is that this particular instance is likely to be a different bug. Based on what I do know about the problem, I can't fathom why a visually obscuring modal would trigger it. Still, it's a data point to consider.
in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh Slack's dialog component has some bugs related to when aria-hidden is applied to the rest of the UI. But for what it's worth, this happens for me regardless of whether a dialog is open or not, and it was one of the first things the Slack team looked at while debugging it. So I think they're different issues that just manifest in a similar way. @tuukkao @alexhall @TheQuinbox @FreakyFwoof
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @tuukkao @alexhall @TheQuinbox Oh yeah, I'm definitely aware of the aria-hidden modal bug. It drives me absolutely wild on a semi-regular basis.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @TheQuinbox NVDA unfortunately catches and swallows the relevant exception without logging it. That's something I want to fix at some point so it's at least more obvious when this bug is occurring.
in reply to Andre Louis

@DavidGoldfield It's reading normally here; no issues. Thunderbird 128.1.0, NVDA 2024.3 RC1.


Práve som sa dozvedel že ma prijali do školy. Áno, yess, kurva jo! :kekw:
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Chcem mohutný triceps ale... ide to ťažko a pomaly.


...a ešte koľko ich je, dá te si colu alebo limonádu a hneď máte na stole tak zo šesť

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People ask me why we don't support Apple products. Well, it's shit like this theverge.com/2024/8/9/24216181…



Ok, I have thoughts about Chrystul Kizer being sentenced to prison.

The monster she killed was a known sex trafficker of young black girls. He’d been arrested and released without bail by the same cops that arrested this girl. He brutalized and trafficked this child, and she killed him. (I have no problem with that, personally. )

Wisconsin has a 2008 law on the books that allows trafficking as a defense, and her lawyers chose to plead out instead of taking it to trial.

I’m not a lawyer, but from the outside, that sure as fuck looks like malpractice. Let’s find a way to free this kid.

#ChrystulKizer #Milwaukee #injustice

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ugh. I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company.
ahh, another startup that burnt out trying to build some silly AI project on crap hardware. I wonder what they did? I check their URL:
ahh. healthcare. great, great.

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Perhaps you have heard (or even believe) some or all of the elements of the following story about the past:

"Life in the past was crude and hard. People could not afford mercy or charity. People in primitive societies would leave the sick and weak behind to die, and even the ancient Greeks killed disabled infants through exposure."

I have frequently encountered this set of ideas, in various permutations. It shows up all over the internet in popular historical accounts:
"Infanticide was a disturbingly common act in the ancient world, but in Sparta this practice was organized and managed by the state. All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren't up to standards were left to die...If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside. Left alone, the child would either die of exposure or be rescued and adopted by strangers."

It is also quite wrong.

history.com/news/8-reasons-it-…

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in reply to HeavenlyPossum

These were people who lived more than 2,000 years ago in the Iron Age. They did not have access to modern tools or artificial power. Everything they built, they built themselves, with their own hands, and occasionally some animal power. They were, by modern standards, unimaginably poor. And yet Sneed demonstrates that they devoted time, energy, and effort into caring for disabled infants and making buildings accessible to those who needed access.

In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act wasn't signed into law until 1990. Despite the law, Americans with disabilities still routinely face discrimination and inaccessibility around the country, often because enforcement is lax and private firms can't be bothered to spend resources on compliance. *But they have no excuse.* The US is the richest state that is or ever was; it has access to unimaginably more resources than the Classical Greeks did thousands of years ago. If they could do it, modern societies like the US can do it.

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Archeologists have found evidence from around the world, in sites spanning tens of thousands of years, of people caring for the sick, the injured, and the disabled. A young man buried in what is now Vietnam who lived, paralyzed, with Klippel-Feil syndrome for about ten years. A Neanderthal man who survived grievous injuries, including a partial blinding and the loss of an arm, in what is now 45,000 years ago. A boy who lived to about 15 with spina bifida in what is now Florida, 7,500 years ago. On and on and on.

These were people who almost certainly required enormous levels of care. Many of them would have struggled to contribute to the sustenance of their communities. Many of them were not particularly mobile. And yet they survived, many of years, which could have only happened with the cooperation of multiple other people. These are ancient societies in which, we've been taught, life was "nasty, brutish, and short." Yet they diverted precious resources to the care of other people, many of whom could never materially reward their carers.

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EL SANTO NIÑO DE LA GUARDIA

Durante la segunda mitad del sXIV, en la localidad de La Guardia (Toledo), un niño fue cruelmente torturado y asesinado siguiendo un ritual mágico en el que un grupo de judíos y criptojudíos buscaban difundir una epidemia de cólera.

O, al menos, eso es lo que a día de hoy sigue afirmando parte de la Iglesia, como vemos en este artículo publicado en 2015 y cargado, todavía hoy, de propaganda antisemita y de un absoluto desprecio por la evidencia histórica.

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Se conservan algunos de los documentos de este juicio, gracias a los cuales algunos historiadores tan poco sospechosos de rojeras como Luis Suárez Fernández (director de universidades durante la dictadura) han reconstruido coherentemente lo que realmente debió suceder.

En 1489 varios judeoconversos son detenidos por la Inquisición bajo la acusación de haber vuelto a sus viejas creencias judías. Al principio no hay nada más que esta acusación, pero bajo tortura, aparece el relato sobre un niño.

Los distintos acusados, bajo tortura, empiezan a lanzarse acusaciones unos a otros, incluyendo también a un par de judíos de la zona. Inmiscuyéndose los unos a los otros en la terrible historia de un niño raptado y torturado como blasfemo reflejo de la muerte de Jesucristo.

La única historia no obtenida bajo tortura la dio un judío que, enfermo y creyendo estar cerca de la muerte, pidió que le asistiera un rabino. Un monje se disfrazó de rabino y consiguió engañarle, consiguiendo, según él, una declaración que posteriormente el judío negaría.

Lo más curioso de esta historia es que no existe niño. De hecho, el niño no tiene ni nombre (la tradición posterior le adjudica el nombre de Cristóbal o el de Juan). No existen padres, los padres de los que se habla también son inventados. No hubo, por supuesto, cadáver.

Las distintas declaraciones están repletas de contradicciones importantes. Los acusadores tuvieron que crear un complicado relato en el que el niño fue transportado de un lado a otro (sin que nadie les viera) para explicar que cada uno hablara de sitios distintos.

Las mismas fechas son contradictorias, más allá de que todos decían que había sucedido en semana santa, según uno hacía cuatro años de aquello, según otro quince, según otro, once...

Los acusados fueron ajusticiados en 1491. La historia fue publicitada con gran eficacia por toda Castilla.

Unos meses después, la Reina Isabel firmaba la expulsión de los judíos. Sin duda, el caso del falso niño de La Guardia tendría su influencia en esta decisión.




#rant #libreoffice #Seitennummern

Also, ich komm ja echt gut mit meinem Writer in Libre Office klar. Und das viel besser als mit dem schrecklichen MS Word.
ABER: WARUM ist das Einfügen von Seitennummern so ein pain in the ass?
He, @LibreOfficeDE?
Kann man das nicht bisschen intuitiver gestalten?
Jedes verdammte mal, wenn ich ne Arbeit schreiben muss, muss ich wieder und wieder die Anleitung bemühen, weil es nicht einfach mit einem einzigen Menüpunkt funktioniert.
Dafür, und nur dafür HASSE ich dieses Programm.
Man verdammt, es ist ein Office Programm, es sollte intuitiv im Schreibprozess zu bedienen sein. Nein, statt dessen schreibe ich vorher einen Entwurf, um nebenbei in nem frischen Dokument erstmal den Pain der Seitennummerierung zu bewältigen. Damit es mir nicht meinen Text kaputt macht.
😤😤😤🤯🤯

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nope. That doesnt work. Normally, page numbers in documents with a titel page and a toc dont start at page number 1 and even not on the titel page. That means, adding the number 3 on the start on the main text, is not easy as that. When i try, my page number always show number 3 on every single page. On Yt, therefor are many tutorials, bcause many people have the same struggle like me. So, its not easy as how you said it should be.
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Peso.
Hacía tiempo que no me pesaba. Sigo en los valores de siempre, más o menos. 66,7 kg. De momento no me preocupo.



Kuffovci nie sú pomätenci ale prepnutý magory, teda je to asi to isté ale to moje pomenovanie je výstižnejšie.

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neviem, ťažko sa mi odhaduje ako na tom sú ale evidentne si to užívajú. Lepší výkon OČTK, to má byť vtip? Ja viem že nie ale je žalostný a po posledných úpravách trestného zákona...
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Ak je mojim zaujmom mat tu kludny a dobry zivot, tak sa musim primarne snazit a slusne a funkcne riesenia. A teda preto ten "lepsi vykon OCTK".

Lebo sa samozrejme da napr. aj "brat spravodlivost do vlastnych ruk", ale to by v pripade ludi typu Kuffa rychlo vyeskalovalo:

- on mi zrusi divadlo
- ja mu zrusim omsu
- on prise zrusit mna
- ak sa mu podari zrusit mna, niekto dalsi skusi zrusit jeho
- …

vysledok: obcianska vojna

A prave any sme sa vyhli vojnam, mame zakony a OCTK.




linux-game-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Massive rewrite of how speaking with TTS is handled. This should open up compatibility with pretty much every wad out there as far as TTS is concerned. There may be unwanted speech until everything is ironed out.



GNOME is grrrrreat! If someone picks on you for enjoying GNOME, they can buzz off.
in reply to Veronica Explains

And @vkc is great! Keep up the good work Veronica, you’re a joy to follow 🙌


🛠️ Maintenance Planned August 21, 2024 9:00-11:00 PM EDT/1:00-3:00 AM UTC

In preparation for the new release, Bitwarden will be undergoing server and web maintenance from 9-11 PM EDT/1-3 AM UTC.

More Information on the Bitwarden Status Page →
status.bitwarden.com/issues/66…

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alt-right self-owns (funny but sad)

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friends, help me with a reality check here:

how many of you have 5+ years of experience in QA or dev
AND
3+ years using a GDS (eg Sabre, Amadeus)? 😅

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I worked 1+ at Sabre and never learned how to use the GDS. (didn't need, maybe I should have)
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@hub ...I say "nice" in relative terms. tech at airlines is an incredible mess, I can only imagine Sabre must have been....interesting as well 😅
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I was hired as a Solaris sysadmin because they were selling a solution to an IBM shop (the IT dude hated Sun) and it would have cost way more on IBM.

It's at the time Sabre sold wholesale all that division to EDS.

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whenever I see "AD&D insurance" I always think it's insurance in case I get petrified by a beholder or sth


I know nobody cares about this, but the real "scandal" is that Patreon DISBANDED THEIR INFOSEC DEPARTMENT.

There is nobody — NOBODY — running cybersecurity there.

Yet, all y'all care about is “Apple wants rent”.

Yep. 100%. Ask any of us who want to buy comics or audiobooks from someone besides Apple and we’ll gladly commiserate.

But, why on $DEITY’S own earth are you willing to put your $$$$ into an org who doesn’t care at all about the safety of your FINANCIAL SERVICES' data?



Who knew that the global human extinction ushered in by Skynet was caused by merely turning it on for the first time and watching it consume all the water and natural resources?

It didn't even need to get to that self-aware stage, or have enough reason to determine that "humans are a virus", or even ramp up the production of autonomous H/K drones and Terminators.

It just had to be powered on.

See: techradar.com/pro/water-consum…



A Remote Control for Your Phone: The Hable One Keyboard eastersealstech.com/2024/08/13…


speaking of old reading machines, does anyone remember the Rainbowe made by Robotron, maker of the Eureka A4? I remember wanting one of those after seeing it, when two Robotron employees came to our house when I lived in Oakland, and demonstrated it.


Global Policies and Subsidies for Electronic Assistive Devices: A Comprehensive Guide Across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. zoomax.com/low-vision-informat…


The Acolyte S01E03

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Review: ‘Star Trek: Lost to Eternity’ Pulls At Leftover TOS Movies Threads To Spin A Fun Adventure trekmovie.com/2024/08/14/revie…