JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing. A few notes about this if people are trying the public beta.
Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle.
On a personal note, I do think there are some very rough edges with this public beta. Two good examples would be: 1. There are times when, if you move to the desktop, the response time of JAWS reporting the focus is significantly slower than JAWS 2024. This has been reported by me a number of times.
2. If you open up Winamp, and press Insert+T to read the song title and artist of a radio station which is playing, the URL for the stream is announced instead.
For these reasons and a few others, I am not using version 2025 for my day-to-day usage with work or even pleasure. But that is what the beta process is about; to report such findings.
New from 404 Media: LinkedIn is training AI on users before updating its terms of service. People noticed a new setting on generative AI. I asked LinkedIn, they said they're updating their terms "shortly." They went ahead and trained AI w/o updating 404media.co/linkedin-is-traini…
It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navig…
GNOME 47 is here! After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings many exciting updates and improvements. youtube.com/watch?v=sgcVp5RHy4…
This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blo…
Slight counterpoint: this is sad; an (appropriately angry) eulogy for the closing of an era where public conversations yielded public knowledge. From: @williampietri sfba.social/@williampietri/113…
Another reason to support Servo: librsvg depends on Servo's crates for parsing CSS and doing selector matching. If you use SVG in Linux in any capacity, even if it's just looking at the icons on your desktop, you are using Servo's code. If you look at Wikipedia, you are using Servo's code (SVG diagrams in Wikipedia are rendered with librsvg).
seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad
good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞
Mit der Umstellung von #Thunderbird auf #Snap in #Ubuntu hat sich #Canonical echt ein Ei gelegt: Nach dem Update auf 24.04 sind einfach alle Mails und Einstellungen weg. Es gibt keinen automatisch Import während des Updates. Ich konnte das Problem damals glücklicherweise schnell lösen, weil das Profil natürlich nicht gelöscht war. Ich habe darüber gebloggt und bekomme inzwischen fast täglich dankbare Kommentare, weil verzweifelte Anwender*innen ihre Mails retten konnten. kaffeeringe.de/2024/05/27/thun…
@kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.deIch arbeite schon lange mit manuell angelegten Profilen. Ich nehme an, dass man nach dem update nur die Profil-Config-Datei in den TB Snap Ordner kopieren muss, oder?
Durch Rüberkopieren sind die alten Einstellungen, Mails, Termine etc. wieder da. Funktioniert übrigens analog auch bei der Migration von Windows. @fexplorer @kaffeeringe
moving code to new files due to refactoring totally hides the whole contribution history, so tip for devleopers to get to the top of the charts is obvious :)
El INE vuelve a revisar el PIB y muestra que esta subestimado. Hace una año entreviste en el programa a una de las personas que llevan años señalando y demostrando que así era: @mig_artola
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Evakuierung nach Explosion im russischen Twer ++
Im russischen Twer hat es nach Drohnenangriffen Explosionen gegeben, mutmaßlich in einem Munitionslager. Die Ukraine hat nach Angaben örtlicher Gouverneure mehrere Regionen in Russland mit Drohnen angegriffen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.
is it possible that you post the video on more reputable platforms like peertube or odysee? I can not open the YouTube one as it keeps reloading in a loop.
@mariob Thanks for your feedback. We're on YouTube because it has the widest reach - which we need to convince people to start looking for alternative. Could you watch it via invidious?
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