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The May 2025 update for the BT Speak is now live!! Features include: a more versatile clipboard that extends across traditional and desktop mode and which even back and forward translates what gets pasted, depending on the Braille table being used
More standard commands in the editor, such as ctrl+c for copy, ctrl+v for paste, etc.
an NFB Newsline app
Help files and the welcome screen now allow for headings and links, making them more interactive
Hey David, I'm sorry if this is a basic question but how do I write numbers again? I am trying to type the number for NFB newsline oh, BTW, great update, I just got it.
@gocu54 Hi, Nick, and no question is too basic. 😊 How you enter numbers depends on what locale you're using and whether or not you have your BT Speak set to enter Braille using literary or computer Braille. The default is computer Braille input, which is using the lower numbers in the Braille cell, such as dot 2 for 1, dots 2-3 for 2, dots 2-5 for 3, etc. Try that but let us know if you run into issues. DG
@gocu54 First, we need to determine what your Braille input mode is set to by going to Options, Settings, Braille Settings, Change the Input Prompt mode and set it to "Expect Computer Braille" and see if that fixes the problem.
Also, we should determine what locale you are using. You can go to Options, Operating System, System Administration, Customize This BT Speak, Change the Locale. When you do this, what locale option is it pointing to?
That's it. I've had it. I'm putting my foot down on this craziness.
1. Every reporter submitting security reports on #Hackerone for #curl now needs to answer this question:
"Did you use an AI to find the problem or generate this submission?"
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I love the "Oh yeah? Well, AI will actually do this *better* than you! Someday! Honest!" comments. They provide yet another pool of people to perma-block.
The only thing the "ai" verified was that the diff in the report doesn't apply, it doesn't even manage to get/build curl with http3 support. What a waste of time, $1.50 and resources
Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.
This thing works by generating fake vulnerability reports. Here are some of the qualities of the HackerOne report 3125832 sent to #curl: - It looks convincing at a glance, especially if you're not a subject matter expert. - It's vague about actual repro steps. It makes it impossible for the victim project to reproduce the issue. For example, it makes up fake patches against non-existent, imaginary code. - It refers to functions and methods that do not exist (in case someone tries to look for them). When confronted, the attacker refer to some old or new versions of components, using non-existent commit hashes. - The report makes up some convincing functionality or names that are novel, but don't really exist.
An expert’s look at the report shows the number of discrepancies, but finding them takes time and effort. It requires attention from a subject matter expert, with limited resources.
The real exploit here is that the attacker (evilginx) exploits the fact that the victims (the orgs who paid the attacker money) don't have the capacity to perform thorough analysis and rather just pay up. TL;DR: It's cheaper to pay the bug bounty than hire an expert to perform true analysis.
Why didn't it work against the curl project? The attacker miscalculated badly. Curl project is not a company and has far greater capability in security response than your average org. Also they can smell #aislop miles away.
this whole AI thing has made me think a lot about human intelligence and how boundless and amazing it is. they're spending a trillion dollars to build a machine that can do 0.01% of what a human can do, and there are 8 billion of us, plus we can just make more by **having sex**
AI vulnerability/bug founds and reports is a huge problem. Curl has banned the use of AI-generated submissions via HackerOne because none of it made any sense, and is a waste of resources and time. "We are effectively being DDoSed. If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time" hackerone.com/reports/3125832
If you are going to read one and ONLY one article about the state of the US, why trans people in particular are under threat, with historical and contemporary analysis, please PLEASE read and share this article about a historian who is trans and has neurodivergent children, and why she is painfully packing up and exiting the US: damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/wh…
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house.
Together with 39 orgs & 42 experts, our founder Matthias Pfau calls on the EU in an @edri open letter for a scientific evidence-based approach to #encryption 🔒
Encryption ensures integrity of ANY communication. Literally whole internet is based on it. If you temper with it at any point, it's not secure anymore. There is no "good guys" in encryption that should have the keys to peek inside. It's just encryption from start to end uninterrupted. Literally the fundamental part of everything online, secure shopping, secure voting, secure communication, private or of business nature.
❗Takže vážení, pondělí je po prodlouženém víkendu ještě kritičtější než obvykle. Kdo si dá po obědě malou mentální rozcvičku, rozhodně neprohloupí! Ale nesmíte na sebe moc chvátat. Stačí třeba vyjmenovat herce v Sedmi statečných nebo tak něco. 👇😊
Good Morning Good Monday I hope you all have a good start to the day and an even better middle, and end. Be well, stay safe, stay strong, and look for the good
Zum Europäischen Protesttag 📢 zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen am 5. Mai 2025 haben wir ein Schild ℹ️ gebastelt. Auf einer Station der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel haben wir eine taktiles Schild für Menschen mit Seheinschränkung oder Blindheit 👩🦯 angebracht. oskars.org/posts/europaeischer… #make #blind #inklusion #5Mai #barrierefreiheit #protest
Ekonom Igor Lipsic není moc velký optimista, nemá rád úvahy nepodložené čísly a daty a na svět se dívá velmi pragmaticky. V brzký konec ruské války nevěří, a to přesto, že Rusy podle něj čekají fronty před obchody i potravinové lístky.
I got Suno to sing nonsense again. You can really tell how this generative AI works when it goes off the rails. P.S. If you listened to Canadian radio a lot in the early 2000's, you might recognize where this instrumental came from.
I would actually love to see Suno show us the lyrics for this stuff when it generates that, because honestly, part of the problem might be the accent on the voice it chose.
There are no lyrics, officially. I told it to make an instrumental, and it spat that out. If you listen to the full song, there are like 2 minutes of instrumental before this bit. So we'll never see full lyrics because Suno thinks they don't exist. AI is fun that way.
If I use Gemini, which is how I'm transcribing stuff these days, it's different every time.
1. Build Shit, Fix You, and Sorry is Better and Body for you, for you. 2. Deal Sheet, Visual and solid, is better and body for you, for you Let's try through Whisper: They'll cheat this you and sorry it's better and party for you, for you.
A transcription I got earlier had something about "aesthetic", which I can actually hear if I listen now.
I need to find you the Peter Kay video that tells you what famous songs *actually* say, that you never knew. When you've heard it, you will never unhear it.
One thing's for certain, you will never hear these songs in the same way again! Do you have any other misheard lyrics to add to the list? Let us know in the ...
Baustelle Inklusion am 5. Mai 2025 vor dem Parlament Am Europäischen Protesttag zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen, laden österreichische Behindertenorganisationen zu einer öffentlichen Aktion vor dem Parlament in Wien.
Please join me in giving a warm welcome to my interns Riyen (@patel.riyen) & Sam (@samaaberg). They will be working with me through the end of June on videos promoting the Fediverse. This is their #introduction.
Sam & Riyen are two talented film students who are #NewHere: a mere 7 days ago they had no idea what the Fediverse was. I have the immense honor of introducing them to it.
We are filming this week! Send us good vibes 🎥✨ #EleFediVideos
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 5. Mai, 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
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Get more out of #LibreOffice by downloading the free guidebooks created by our awesome documentation community! Here's a recap of what they did in 2024, from our Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
In 2024, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.
I've clicked into your article and honestly cannot find a link to the guidebooks. Am I supposed to type in the link from the graphics in the middle of the article to actually get the books?
yeah I see now that it's well in there. I guess I'm not used to links being so hidden away. I see now that it's actually an Annual Report. It would be nice with a direct link to books.libreoffice.org for some posts, because it looks very good!
NVDA 2025.1 Beta 4 is now available! Changes from Beta 3 include: - Updates to translations - Fix security issue which allowed an arbitrary process to connect to a Remote Access session running on a secure screen - Allow Remote Access leaders to regain control after the last follower has disconnected - Improve focus handling in the Remote Access Connection dialog - Don’t toggle Remote Access mute when not connected
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in reply to Nick's world 🌎 👨🦯 🗽 • • •How you enter numbers depends on what locale you're using and whether or not you have your BT Speak set to enter Braille using literary or computer Braille. The default is computer Braille input, which is using the lower numbers in the Braille cell, such as dot 2 for 1, dots 2-3 for 2, dots 2-5 for 3, etc.
Try that but let us know if you run into issues.
DG
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in reply to Nick's world 🌎 👨🦯 🗽 • • •@gocu54 First, we need to determine what your Braille input mode is set to by going to Options, Settings, Braille Settings, Change the Input Prompt mode and set it to "Expect Computer Braille" and see if that fixes the problem.
Also, we should determine what locale you are using.
You can go to Options, Operating System, System Administration, Customize This BT Speak, Change the Locale. When you do this, what locale option is it pointing to?
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