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Hello people, boy do I have some news for you. So @Kaliah and I were messing around with Siri, and it had a complete A I meltdown and said the letters J, C, F, E, and X in a random order and wouldn't stop for 30 goddamn seconds. We spent like 10 minutes laughing our asses off at this. Here is the recording for proof of this completely bizarre occurance. Happy listening!
Wait a damn minute, look at that pull request discussion and the diff as committed… the CTO of #Firefox has amended #Mozilla's "Neutral" position regarding #JPEGXL to indicate that their "cost" concerns are mainly about the security risks of a decoder being 100k lines of C++, and that they would be "open to shipping" a memory-safe decoder that meets their requirements?
And some folks at Google are going to write that implementation in Rust?!
@davetaylor2112 I know and I wish I had checked that message a bit more thoroughly before I distributed it. All I can say is to email the individual mentioned in the message if you're interested in participating.
My tech skills are average. I thought about getting the BrailleSense because people have said that one of them could potentially have a dtropbox app. Can you tell me which one that is?
@kjw810 Sure, no problem. I don't use any of the blindness-specific players anymore, at least not hardware players. However, with all of the frustrations I'm having with Voice Dream Reader, I'm tempted to get an Evo12; at least its interface is likely not to unexpectedly change and make it difficult for me to load books. 😀
The EVO 12 is OK. I guess my favorite was the Bookport Plus. But I would want the Braille Sense for its Braille capabilities, if it really can access dropbox.
@kjw810 the Bookport Plus was a great player. It was a modified Plextalk Pocket. I loved what APH did to it but it's no longer available and the Evo is still more inexpensive. It doesn't play protected Daisy books but most of the books I've been reading aren't in that format, anyway.
I use Edlin when I want to write something quickly, like a test program or a brief note.
Edlin is also very useful if you want to capture some commands into a FreeDOS batch file— you can write the new batch file while any commands you ran are still visible on the screen.
Found out recently that Mapillary broke the navigation in their web explorer. Couple years ago it showed a trace as a series of points: you click on one and see the photo.
Now it displays a line. You cannot click anywhere on the line, but have to trace your mouse cursor along it, searching for a photo. And only then you can click and see it.
I think they don't use Mapillary anymore at Meta, that's why all its parts are getting worse with time.
The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:
Okay just, like right off the cuff here. But why does Vispero, a company making blindness software/hardware want videos for there Big Thing thing? Why not just text? Emails? Like, what? Why? Meh, whatever. I'll submit mine I guess. I'm sure some of you know what I'm gonna suggest. Feel free to submit your own ideas, goodness knows we need more grand ideas for screen readers.
Exactly, I asked this question last year. First, why only three countries or so are privileged, and second, why videos? It's infuriating, why should we then ask for respect from other companies if even a blind-specific company requires bloody videos? totally incomprehensible.
@DavidGoldfield What happened to the idea being the most important thing? Would they not be able to figure out what to do for the presentation if the application is accepted?
Sorry to bother you Daniel. What's the recommended way to get the absolutely latest version on Debian? My current version on Debian is 7.88.1. Obviously I could get the code and compile it but would like to use apt if possible (e.g. get the coming 8.10.0 release when it's out). Cheers!
I have ported #systemd to #musl. Properly. Passing all tests, properly. Booting my 2012 Ivy Bridge in 3.2 seconds, properly.
I'm aware of how unpopular this will be in some circles. But change does not happen without competition, and musl environments deserve more than what they have right now. systemd isn't a panacea, it isn't even that great, but it's here, it solves real issues people have, and it's now an option. Not a requirement, but an option.
I like that a lot as well, my favourites are probably Story of Isaac, Good old bad old days, March of the jobless corps, Silver window, Ballad of Edward the young... There's a very nice album as well in collaboration: Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Oy Division - The Unternationale - The First International.
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