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All the energy used, all the carbon emitted, all the e-waste created and still every chatbot has the "anything this thing says might be false, you still need to check" label all over it.
I cannot believe the resources we are spending on this bullshit instead of doing literally anything else.
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Generative AI not only consumes a lot of energy, it's also likely to produce a lot of electronic trash. According to researchers, the total amount of global e-waste could grow by the alarming factor of 1.000 in only 5 years.
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Pitermach

@cachondo The first version of Windows to really lean into Theming including sound schemes was 95, specifically with the Microsoft Plus! pack which was sold separately, though the base installation did include a few sound schemes on its own like Utopia, Musika, Jungle and Robots. Windows 98 had its own version of plus, which included a unique set of themes different from the 95 ones, but the base installation also included the sound schemes I listed above.
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Anyone have suggestions on where to try to promote the Games for Blind gamers gam jam? We got 110 sign ups last year, and hoping to get more sign ups this year!

itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…

#GameJam #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility


Games for Blind Gamers 4

A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of bli...
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I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:

"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .

"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy

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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

David Graeber Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology 2004
The Anarchist Library
#politics #history #voting #democracy
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Welcome to the RB family, Beans 🥳

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Beans is a scratchmap of the world that lets you keep track of your discovery of the world on a colorful visual map.

Joint efforts with its developer succeeded in making this app reproducible :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Beans“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

A virtual scratchmap of the world
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 11. November, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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#blind #inklusion #make

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I don't see any reason that #SesameStreet can't be in the same universe as #DoctorWho.

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Doctor Who Had a Secret Spinoff All Along – It's Sesame Street!

We're celebrating the anniversary of Sesame Street, which is as much an institution to Americans as Doctor Who is to the British, and guess what? The two series are linked in ways we – or their creators – never realized.
Adi Tantimedh (Bleeding Cool News)
#doctorwho #sesamestreet

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Did you catch up on our last In-Process blog at the end of October? If you haven't yet read it (or even if you have) you'll be pleased to know I've now FIXED the table of contents links so you can easily get to:
- the 2024.4 release info
- Info about add-ons
- Emphasising stability
- Benefits for users and developers in our add-on approach
- And all about reporting font attributes

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Blog #Info

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In-Process 31st October 2024

It’s that spooky time of year for all those who celebrate Halloween. And it’s also Diwali for our Indian friends. Whether you participate in either of these or not, there is something we defi…
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#blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #info
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And as previously posted today, updated since that post, NVDA 2024.4.1 is now out, which includes everything from NVDA 2024.4, as well as one key bug fix. More on that update here: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4-…

NVDA 2024.4.1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highl…
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For those on the Beta / RC branch, we have also pushed a Release Candidate build of 2024.4.1 for you - note this is identical to the 2024.4.1 from yesterday, but will keep you on that path so you'll be the first to get NVDA 2025.1 Beta 1 when it comes out in time.

If you want to be on the beta / RC branch, download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4-…

If you want to be on the stable branch, download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4-…

Apologies for any confusion caused!


NVDA 2024.4.1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highl…
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Coming soon to #LibreOffice: instant previews of the "insert break" options. Find out more in our QA and development report for October: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
Screenshot of "Insert Break" dialog showing visual preview of column break

QA/Dev Report: October 2024 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 24.2.7 was released on October 31 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued with a massive Help bookmark cleanup effort and improved the help for BASIC’s Option Explicit statement Pierre F.
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Making blind accessible video games has been truly life changing, and it all started with making a game for a blind accessible game jam. I learned so much about accessibility, met wonderful people, was exposed to video games made in new and wonderful ways, and felt inspired in new ways to be creative. So that's why I help a yearly jam all about blind accessibility in video games, and I genuinely hope anyone reading this considers joining. itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga… #indiedev #Blind #gaming

Games for Blind Gamers 4

A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of bli...
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I followed this post to amazon.com an discovered that the website now offers new keyboard shortcuts, like option+shift+o for Orders, option+shift+c for cart, and others. Wow, that’s a welcome change. #accessibility mastodon.social/@appleinsider/…

AppleInsider (@appleinsider@mastodon.social)

Amazon drops early Black Friday deals on Apple's new M4 MacBook Pro, Mac mini, iMac -- and even the M2 MacBook Air 16GB https://appleinsider.
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victor tsaran

@Thumper1964 @technocounselor I don’t go to Amazon’s website unless I really have to, but this time I did, I was rather surprised. It’s a sacred cow for Amazon, so no wonder the accessibility improvements have been so slow and rather sporadic.
Anyway, happy to see any improvement bit coming along our way!
@Kevin LaRose, Ho Ho Hum @Allison Meloy

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Falls du dich schon einmal gefragt hast, welches bestimmte Aufnahmegerät, Audio Interface, Mikrofon, paar Kopfhörer oder Keyboard du benutzen sollst, und du zudem Sorgen hattest, das du ein teures Produkt eventuell nicht vollumfänglich nutzen können wirst, weil dir deine Sehbehinderung im Weg steht, dann ist eventuell meine Webseite etwas für dich. Dort gibt es eine Liste aller von mir handgeprüften Produkte, mit Begründung für die Empfehlung. toni-barth.online/de/gear/

Zugängliche Audio-Hardware

Zugängliche Audiohardware Du kennst sicher die Sorgen, sich ein neues technisches Gerät anschaffen zu wollen, aber im Voraus nicht zu wissen, ob du es überhaupt benutzen können wirst. Im Zeitalter der
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NVDA 2024.4.1 has been released! This is a patch release to fix a bug when saving speech symbol dictionaries. Pressing the Close button in the Symbol Pronunciation dialog will now save the symbols dictionary and close the dialog.

Full info and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4-…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #NewVersion #News #Update

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NVDA 2024.4.1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highl…
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#screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion

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@nikosdemetriou Our apologies, we realised that after pushing out the release. We are looking at whether we can make 2024.4.1 cound for both channels (which might mean having to download 2025.1 Beta 1 manually like it used to be). In any case, you CAN download the release from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4-…

NVDA 2024.4.1 Released

NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highl…
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Jedno malý-velký wtf po ránu 😂🙈.
Aaaanyways: jak správně čistit dětem zuby víme? Do kolika? A čím? A proč jsou mléčné zuby důležité? A proč NENÍ Okay nechávat v puse zub s kazem? Plak detektory znáte?
Nebo stále převládá mantra "staré školy", že jsou to zuby na zkoušku a vrtat netřeba?
Popravdě v případě dětí mě ta pro zubaře (i rodiče) pohodlná dogmata, která pak rozdělují "starou" a "novou" školu, deptaji ještě víc.

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New TTS model found by @mush42 Only about 165M params. Samples sounded really good but have not tried myself yet. Github Repo: github.com/theodorblackbird/li… Samples: theodorblackbird.github.io/blo… @chikim

GitHub - theodorblackbird/lina-speech: Official implementation of the TTS model Lina-Speech

Official implementation of the TTS model Lina-Speech - theodorblackbird/lina-speech
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The gall on these people.
Leveraging the power of the state to benefit crony capitalists and protect their private interests, in detriment of their competitors and the public at large, is one of the main features of Fascism, by the way.
Also, if they decide to act on this, the joke is on them, it's so incredibly stupid. Reconstruction contracts are usually absurdly lucrative [Halliburton in Iraq, Marshall Plan in Europe]. I suspect Vance will get quite a few phone calls from American corporations begging him not to say stupid shit like this. German companies will not only ramp up their production to meet demand (especially military industries) and extend their area of influence, a few German capitalists will become very wealthy because Vance decided to be a Putin puppet and wank on Peter Thiel's agenda (yes, this is Peter Thiel's game pulling the strings, Elon is a low-IQ, socially challenged buffoon who got lucky and hired good engineers who save his business every day, despite him).

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JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

Republican vice presidential nominee says ‘Germans and other nations’ – not Russia – would ‘have to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction’
Gustaf Kilander (The Independent)
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