Unfortunately, my current role is impacted by Amazon's move to mandatory co-location for teams, and my family is far too settled in Brooklyn to move away now. So after 7 years at Amazon, I'm starting the search.
I'm looking for a new role as a Front-end engineer/Design technologist/UX Engineer. I like design systems. And CSS. And accessibility. Love those things.
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Ok, the bots are officially better at those CAPTCHA images than me, with a large margin. Clearly, they know where that motorcycle stops and consequently which squares should be checked - I don’t.
I don't know that throwing soup at a famous painting, knowing it's behind glass and will be perfectly safe, is a super effective form of climate protest.
But it is sinister how many liberals will laugh and say they had it coming when they get 2 years in prison for something they acknowledge was trivial.
America is so anti-poor that it’s the only place where a mayor will argue it’s completely justified to shoot someone in the head for evading a $2.90 fare only for us to find out two days later that the mayor was stealing literally a million times that amount.
From Wired: "If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle." 📖 ➡️ wired.com/story/internet-archi…
@federicomena I went there once, visited the place a bit, but didn't bathe in there… Don't remember if it was closed on that day, or if it was just because I hate having fun 🤔
I woke up really hungry so in my quest to make everyone as hungry as I am, we're going to talk about food.
Does reading make you hungry? Have you read a particular good description of food or cooking in a c-novel* that made you salivate? Or perhaps you've read something that sounds absolutely atrocious (which makes you want to try it for Science). Did anything you read inspire you to cook, or seek that dish out?
Share them and let's make everyone hungry!
*feel free to very loosely interpret c-novel here for Discussion Friday, e.g., Chinese web-novels, Chinese novels, Chinese novellas/short stories, other language novels translated into Chinese, novels by Chinese (nationality or diaspora) published in non-Chinese language
Darl McBride has passed away. If you are a Linux fan/advocate/user of a certain age, that name probably stirs some feelings - none of them good.
The SCO debacle was a real eye-opener about the depths that people are willing to go to for money. There's cut-throat, take-no-prisoners business... and then there's outright shameless malfeasance.
It was, at least for me, the end of starry-eyed optimism that FOSS would change the world without being changed by it in return.
@hub In at least the past 20 years, excluding Harper's #prorogation in 2008 to prevent the LPC-NDP-BQ coalition non-confidence motion to replace his government, in the year preceding the election Québec Parliament/Government has made efforts to enforce the use of French at the expense of its Anglophone population.
It seems a lamentable, but not unexpected, strategy re-used because it the parties in charge at the time keep getting away with it.
Unexpected screen reader behavior: TalkBack spells letters phonetically upon navigating on the App or Home screen even when its corresponding setting is disabled: accessibleandroid.com/bugs/tal…
@dhamlinmusic Here it doesn't remember the selected setting even when it's toggled on and off. And, of course, our bug tracker is aimed at gathering screen reader bugs like this.
Ah it already forgot it after the phone locked so yeah it's a bit werse than before, but this is a very old bug, like android 10 or 11 era talkback. Also affects #voiceview on amazon Fire devices I believe.
@dhamlinmusic Please note that we're not telling if it's new or old. We're simply specifying the TalkBack and Android version number on which this has been recorded.
CheriBSD: a Capability enabled, Unix-like Operating System that extends #FreeBSD to take advantage of Capability Hardware on Arm’s Morello and CHERI-RISC-V platforms. It implements memory protection and software compartmentalization features. cheribsd.org/
Jup! Keep in mind that this is a bit an odd instance, as they'll be mostly independent images. And people cannot register on this instance, only add pictures via mapcomplete.org
@clifton panoramax.mapcomplete.org is a closed instance and only meant for pictures from MapComplete.
However, panoramax.openstreetmap.fr is AFAIK an open instance, mostly meant for France though. And the idea is that more servers are set up, e.g. one for your country. Talk about it with your local community.
@fexplorer funnily enough the mapillary mobile app allows you to save pictures locally on your phone instead of uploading them. But most people tend to walk/cycle with camera's like gopro's.
Thanx, I mean uploading street imagery. It seems, that for now, it dosn't exist a german panoramax instance? Is it intended to have different panoramax instances or will panoramax.openstreetmap.fr be the only one?
Interne Untersuchung zu Pushbacks: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Frontex
Anfang des Jahres war Frontex offenbar erneut in Pushbacks involviert - das haben Recherchen von NDR und WDR gezeigt. Jetzt stellen auch interne Untersuchungen schwere Fehler fest. Frontex-Direktor Leijtens steht unter Zugzwang.
Super excited to have all the seasons of Stargate SG-1 described now. I suppose that's what I'll be doing for my birthday, that show needed description pretty badly and the TTS one is better than I expected it to be. (for those curious, it's on both Audiovault and Amazon Prime, I first started with vault but had better audio through my own prime so I switched to it.) Amazon page: amazon.com/Stargate-SG-1-Seaso…
Perfect, thanks. I'll see if I can find the show on sale somewhere. My personal rule is to buy a digital copy or DVD of any show or movie, so I can at least give the creators something. I know this doesn't pay the describer, but there's only so much I can do. No judgement to those who simply grab the content from the vault. It's just my way of feeling better about things.
@alexhall oooh yeah, I had gotten them off Amazon years back to watch, but quickly discovered after the first 2 easons that I just wasn't into it as much as I had to read the plots off Wikipedia for episodes often. I actually do wonder what service offered it described, my guess is one of the big ones (Spectrum, ET AL) uploaded it and now we have it. Also a bit of the sad part as often it's on these propriotary streaming services (bundled with internet or cable TV)
Amazon is the only place I've run into TTS description. I think it was Midsommar, and it was pretty bad. But that was years ago. I'm sure things have improved, and it's more common now. I'll always love human describers, especially the great ones, but I'll take TTS if it means more described content than we'd otherwise have.
this one is really good, it actually describes scene content and not things you could know by sound alone. It's one of my gripes with English description companies, they are very amature in most (earlier) described content I've listened to. Maybe that's improved by now, and still credit to them for describing earlier shows like Malcolm in the Middle, but with the pitch shift and describing of sounds and not where it's needed really grinds my gears, so I'd rather take TTS than them.
I've listened to a few movies described by British people, then the same ones described by Americans. I definitely agree that the British descriptions often lack a lot of detail. I sometimes wonder what I missed in Doctor Who because of this.
@alexhall It has nothing to do with whether a describer is British or not. Rather, there are two main factors contributing to some British AD feeling less wordy: 1. Domination of Red Bee Media, a company providing description for a number of primary TV channels, including all of the BBC's output. Their style tends to be on the more... minimal side. 2. British television has a lot of unnecessary padding around each AD utterance, sometimes up to one and a half seconds of wasted time. As such, the available time for the actual description is reduced, and it means that a describer cannot just throw in a short word or phrase in tight spots.
Even if you don't download TV recordings, the practices are ingrained within the styles of the main players who provide description for television. But there's plenty of British-accented AD from companies who've never described for TV, and hence haven't had to adapt to such limitations. For example, Descriptive Video Works and International Digital Center have world-class British describers.
@jscholes @alexhall oh interesting! I do wonder which company described shows like Frazier / Malcolm in the Middle / other American sitcoms. It's been one of the main places I've seen British description myself so that might very well have been done by one of those services which do minimal descriptions. Good to know though that it's not a national practice there
@alexhall Am I the only one who feels really weird about using the vault? I normally rent or buy all of my movies off iTunes or watch them on streaming, but the vault has a lot of stuff that we just don't get access to otherwise. I've never downloaded anything from there, though I thought about making an account multiple times.
@ZBennoui You are not. I feel weird about it whenever I use it. That's why I only grab audio for titles I already own. It's very hard to deny the incredible convenience of being able to toss a bunch of shows and movies into my favorite iOS book reader app.
@alexhall @ZBennoui yeah, for me I do too a bit. If a show is on Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, ETC I'll watch it there first and then maybe grab a copy off the vault, as I think the issue of under-representation for AD content watched on streaming could be made worse by the vault. At the same time, blind folks need a reliable place to find AD content, so I get why there's a need for it to exist (and stuff like the Blind mice before it)
@JohannTan yeah some of them in the middle are. The later seasons (like 8 and 9) have human descriptions fully, but there are some patchy seasons for sure. Haven't seen it described though anywhere before this so I'll take what I can get xD
@JohannTan Holy crap that just made my day. Used to watch both SG-1 and Atlantis religiously with family, this will be a perfect excuse to rewatch the show.
@vol4life8657 oh they have 8 and 9 if you do a full search. I think the only one missing from the list is season 10, I'm hoping by the time I get to watching 9 someone will get it up there though.
@vol4life8657 oh I think it means some are not described. Like s03E11 is the only one in the Season 3 set that's not. Might be that the others only have 1 or 2 the same way.
This trilogy is a must read if you're into science fiction or even just a wild way of thinking about our role in the uinverse as humans on planet earth.
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With a little luck somebody will read it.