An unanticipated oasis of calm this morning with Father And Son, the Album by Art Garfunkel jr.
The good wife springs into music madness from November, weekends from now on are a chaotic wirlwind of cleaning, shopping, rearranging and generally making ready for the festive period with routine background music accompanyment.
So to hear a voice from my youth, aged and blended with his son, was a bit of unexpected variety.
We're now suffering through Together At Home by Boe and Ball, but you can't have it all.
remember alphachip, a 2021 google paper that claimed that their RL-based methods outperformed the state-of-the-art methods for chip macro placement?
according to this new meta-analysis, their results dont replicate and are full of errors. there's also been allegations of fraud 👀
- Me da asco. (23%, 4 votes)
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And the "purebrew" project still continues to upgrade packages on this ancient Mac MIni 2014:
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/llvm/19.1.3: 8,041 files, 1.8GB, built in 892 minutes 46 seconds
Apple, you’re doing the Dynamic Island wrong
I love the idea of Dynamic Island; making lemons into lemonade and all that. But, in my opinion, Apple have got the fundamentals mixed up.tempertemper
Seeing AI Can Now Describe Videos | Vision Ireland
By Joe Lonergan If you are a user of the Seeing AI app from Microsoft you will know how great an app it is for describing items, images, currency, colours, ...Sean Doran (Vision Ireland)
A New Chapter: Welcome to DrKirkAdams.com - Dr. Kirk Adams
Explore Dr. Kirk Adams' new website, a central hub for insights on disability inclusion, accessibility, and diversity. Discover blogs, podcasts, webinars, and resources that inspire change and promote inclusivity. Visit now and join the conversation!Dr. Kirk Adams
If you've been looking for that next semi-cheap music-making fix but haven't decided what to get, consider Ableton Move.
If you look at the official videos, literature and documentation, you'd be fooled into thinking that it's not actually accessible. This is incorrect.
It runs a web-server for helping you manage samples,recordings and sets, but it also has an undocumented screen-reader which I demonstrate in this video.
Next to Komplete Kontrol, I can say that this has been the most innovative, fun and game-changing piece of hardware I've owned and I thoroughly enjoy working with it.
#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
Excerpt from Peter Kirn's blog about Move:
‘How do I access Move with a screen reader?
Andre Louis has a walkthrough for you, as pointed out here in comments! And as always, it’s terrific. This is honestly worth a watch for sighted users, too, to understand how these interactions work – and it’s required viewing if you work in instrument design.’
cdm.link/ableton-move-guide/
#Ableton #AbletonMove #Accessibility
#ScreenReader #A11y #Blind
Ableton Move guide: tips, tricks, questions answered, hacks - CDM Create Digital Music
Move, the all-new compact all-in-one hardware platform from Ableton, got your attention - whether you loved it, hated it, or just weren't sure.Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
My experience voting as a person with a disability | Deque
Follow along as Deque's Patrick Sturdivant goes through the process of voting in person using the latest accessible voting technology.Patrick Sturdivant (Deque Systems, Inc.)
AMC Networks Takes Full Control of BBC America in $42 Million Deal | Cord Cutters News
AMC Networks has acquired the remaining 50.1% stake in BBC America, gaining full ownership and operational control of the joint venture channel.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
October 2024 Accessibility Legal Update
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DuckDuckGo Is More Than Just a Search Engine Now
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It's Not a Real Job. It's an Employment Scam
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7 Morning Home Safety Checks Everyone Forgets
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Here's Why Experts Say You Shouldn't Use an AirTag to Track Your Pet
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🟡 "Ada takes windows where she
finds them and makes windows
where she needs them." 🐿️
🔴 "Ada nimmt sich Fenster, wo sie sie
findet, und macht Fenster, wo sie
sie braucht."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #Artist #SidewalkChalk #3DArt #Squirrel #Window
SpeakUp AI - Text to Speech - Accessible Android
Transform Your Reading Experience with SpeakUp AI - The Ultimate Text to Speech App!Accessible Android
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Jieshuo (formerly known as Commentary Screen Reader or CSR), the popular Android screen reader for the visually impaired, has rolled out its latest update:Editorial Staff (Accessible Android)
Takže přátelé, #Vánoce se blíží a jak jsem varoval, tak už je to tady - #DarujHračku
Máte jedinečnou možnost rozsvítit aspoň na jeden den oči dítěti, který moc důvodů k radosti nemá. Akci organizují každoročně #Tango manažeři na vozíčcích, což je samo o sobě něco, co si zaslouží obdiv.
Představte si, že můžete náhodnýmu prckovi dopřát zázrak pod stromek a splnit mu přání. Buďte #Ježíšek.
Často to nedělám, ale tentokrát prosím - boostujte. On totiž i ten pitomej boost může znamenat radost v očích jednoho prcka.
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Jo, to byl průser, dost lidem to vyžralo mobilní data, mně naštěstí jen baterku. Kvůli tomu musel NC dočasně pryč z mobilu, aktuální verze z F-Droida už tím netrpí.
I have cancelled all but one of my streaming video subscriptions in an effort to save money. I wanted to watch a certain movie but didn’t have a physical or digital copy, and didn’t want to purchase it. Suddenly, I remembered that libraries exist. Today I walked to the library and checked out a few movies on Blu-ray and DVD. For free. I feel strangely powerful. Support - and use - your local library.
I posted this elsewhere, but I thought it was worth bringing here.
there's a common sentiment in some communities i'm in that people who understand computers at more than the most surface level can't really be trusted. and, yk, i get it; it's an inscrutable, esoteric, yet deeply powerful art, and the people who practice it are often quite disconnected from society by financial privilege or simple introversion. it's one of many reasons i call what i do wizardry, which is meant in the AD&D, swords and sorcery, Forbidden Tower sense - but, at the same time, it isn't actually magic; it's a complicated tower of social conventions baked, in part, into sophisticated patterns of metal on glass.
lots of folks in my little pocket of the 'net, myself included, use the term "computer toucher" broadly and with only a little irony to mean programmers, hackers, system administrators, computer engineers, and the like - but that's silly, right? if we're talking via the Fediverse, we're touching computers; if we're talking via Discord, we're touching computers; by definition, anyone reading this post in its original medium is a "computer toucher" in its literal sense.
i certainly don't believe it's incumbent upon everyone to understand "how computer work" in any detailed sense. i have four years of formal education and a decade of autodidactism behind my knowledge of things like the syntax and semantics of programming languages, the operation of network protocols, and the conventions behind USB device communication. i have an entire bookshelf full of titles like Linux Kernel Development and Rust Atomics and Locks. you do not and should not need to understand all this nonsense to live in the world. that said, i do think there is a basic level of competency that it's reasonable to expect from people who use computers on a daily basis, and the more i see companies like Apple and Google try to erode computer education, the more important i think it is to make sure people get some.
to analogize: i drive a car (i know, i hate it too lol.) i am not a "car person"; i know some people who are, which is great, because i can ask them for help with things like changing my oil. i don't really understand why i have to change the oil; does it like, get hot and chemically change? does it get contaminated with dust? i haven't found the time to look into it. i don't know how my car works; i understand that it's got an engine and a transmission (though i'm not totally sure what that is). and that's okay.
but can you imagine if i tried to drive a car without ever learning that cars use gasoline? if i tried to get a license without learning the difference between the accelerator and the brake? if i got angry and shut down the conversation when i said i didn't want to set my e-brake on a steep hill and someone tried to tell me that it's unsafe? that's absurd.
that's how i feel about computers. no, people shouldn't have to know what a kernel is to use Discord, and indeed they do not. but you do have to know that the car burns gas. you are on the hook for understanding the basic operating principle of the thing you're operating - the thing that runs every nook and cranny of the society you live in.
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Tampoco tengo claro que eso fuera bueno para las víctimas. Organizar la reconstrucción, en sus diversas fases, desde Madrid, implicaría poner a trabajar unos técnicos que no están familiarizados con L'Horta Sud ni con la realidad social, geográfica, climática. Y, luego, las decisiones serían tomadas por políticos con la misma lejanía cultural y social.
No, no lo veo claro. No sé cuál es el mal menor.
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