There is nothing shocking in the rationale, the quality is just not high enough and the content just sounds right enough that the effort to review swamps out good content.
This is super hilarious because the reason I quit StackOverflow is because they sold my posts to an LLM company in countervention of the license, and then when I tried to remove my posts they banned me because they say deleting my own posts violates the license
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Ah, you were on that BITS call. Yep, that's when I wanted to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Braille 'n Speak and BITS was kind enough to let me use their platform for the event. It may be ancient tech but there are still a lot of people out there still using it, which is mindblowing to me.
Sorry, I don't have Olga's Braille Lite recordings. Someone who I'm in contact with does have them but she said the quality of the audio wasn't good. If you have software that can clean it up, I could get you in touch with her.
Whoa, that Doctor Who theme on Worlds Awakening really got my attention. Tell that DJ (couldn't make out his name) that he has my greatest respect. Is it Bake 'n Shake??
As part of @sarah Belle Reid 's Learning Sound and Synthesis class, we have group discussions around “what is music” or “what is an instrument?” We were int...
For an upcoming episode of our podcast #StroongeCast, @MoonCat and I want to know about things you say you'd *never* do, until circumstances dictate you just might have to, in order to survive.
I said I'd never eat dog food. The thought makes me feel sick honestly, but would I stick to that if that was literally all we had left?
Go wild with your suggestions, we'll try to readout as many as we can in the episode.
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In this episode, Dave Nason demonstrates how to create and use text replacements, short snippets of text which are substituted with frequently used words, sentences, or emojis when typed, on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
@Iamgroot11 When Apple says accessibility features are coming, most of the time they ship in the first releases of each OS in the fall. I'm not really that shocked the AI stuff wasn't ready when they thought it was going to be, although I don't think they should've announced them at WWDC in the first place.
@ZBennoui @Iamgroot11 Yes they come, then they break, and they don't get fixed. Rather than adding all these new things it would be nice if for once they just concentrate on fixing all the crap that's broken
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Ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Apple is offering a preview of accessibility features coming to its platforms later this year; including Accessibility Nutrition labels for App Store apps, Magnifier for Mac, Braille Access, and more…
Great news! While Trump is busy dismantling the Library of Congress, the German National Library of Science and Technology (@tibhannover) is preparing for more to come: they've downloaded the entire 10 TB of the arXiv preprint server and safeguarded more than 2.6 million scientific articles. Thank you so much! This was especially needed since, last year, the arXiv decided to shut down its mirror network.
Thank you, Liberal Party of Canada, for announcing your new cabinet on a platform that I can't read posts from without an account on X, which I removed thanks to Elon Musk, the same person who made posts on X no longer public. Why are you still using X, especially for important public announcements?
"You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet.
However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it.
I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform.
Regards, Ned Yeung, A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada"
I see. Not everything is listed on the issues then. Are the documents public? Not that I would know what to do with their content but it's always interesting
yeah #curl has just 16 open issues. I'm a firm believer in not having a lot of open issues so we in fact never do. We work really hard on that. A project philosophy.
@ainali it's just something I live by. Issues that go stale and nobody works on them just end up hiding the real and important problems so we either fix them or we document them separately as "known bugs" because nobody works on them anyway.
This way we all know that the existing issues are *real* issues.
@wolf480pl @ainali the issue tracker is the active current bugs that someone cares about. There are also stale old bugs no one bothers about and they are in the known bugs document.
@ainali hmm so if I find out that a bug noone looked at for 2 years affects me, I'll search for its symptoms, find it in the old bugs document, and be able to read known workarounds discovered be other people before... but if I wanted to add information or describe a usecase in which the bug is a big deal, I'd have to open a new issue?
@wolf480pl @ainali pretty much, yes. Chances are also that your current take and experience of the problem is now slightly different than it was two years ago so a new issue with updated details and conditions is useful.
@ainali @wolf480pl we add features using pull-requests. People asking for features should be closed, converted to a PR or end up an entry in the TODO list.
@ainali @wolf480pl no. We don't have "few things to do", we just move away issues that don't move and nobody cares about into a separate list. The issues is then the true and living issues and people don't get lost among all the idle ones.
Every project has such idle issues, some just chose to let them linger in the primary issue tracker. I find that messy.
@ainali @wolf480pl having and adding ideas is just so easy and we drown in "good ideas". Making ideas turn reality is what's hard and takes work. I often resist adding ideas for that reason.
Texas is trying to make solar power plants buy energy equal to their daytime output from coal power plants.
It's almost like politicians are owned by #FossilFuel companies, or something.
https://thehill.
this is a tricky one, I don't know what to think. I wonder if it would be cheaper long term for them to finance a battery farm so they can store and provide power instead of paying for fossil fuel energy generation?
O líder do Chega foi retirado do local para o exterior do Parque das Feiras e Exposições de Tavira e está a ser assistido por elementos dos bombeiros de Tavira e por técnicos do INEM.
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Be careful of anything those snakes say! No offense to actual snakes.
The FBI is scared they can no longer spy on and control people: They've been propagating horror stories about crimes (especially against children) being caused by the internet, to scare everyone into giving up even the right to have private and secure communications. As they don't get their way they're going to ramp up the fear campaign, knowing there's always a supply of people who will fall for it.
Just so these dipshits know, I’m already feeling the cuts to Medicare/Medicaid staffing and services.
I live in the US and rely on Medicare because I’m fully disabled, to the point of being homebound.
Apparently the division that deals with remote visiting technology has been cut, so they can’t legally fill my prescriptions anymore unless I physically travel nearly an hour to their office every 3 months to remain eligible, and my doctor can’t legally renew medications that I’ve been on for 20 years. Within a couple of months I’ll have to stop taking all of my long term maintenance meds because I cannot travel to their office.
This will remove all my quality of life and will kill me slowly. I don’t want to die slowly of neglect, so I’ve got a decision to make, and I’m putting it off because I really don’t want to die yet.
I don’t know what to say except I have a name. I’m Lilly Piper. I’m a very good user experience designer, a pretty good writer, and decent friend.
We’re not faceless or nameless. I just want someone to remember that there are names behind these policies.
I’m good at sewing; I make period correct corsets from the 1800s and before (proof and more proof).
I’m actually great at sewing. I do embroidery and am a great listener. I’m also a good writer and editor. I didn’t need to die like this, but I won’t be homeless again, and I won’t beg in the streets for medicine. I just won’t.
Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.
I live in America, a country of opportunity, where just about anybody can become the librarian of congress, even if they've never actually been in a library in their entire life. npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-53958…
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Here's the only sample we have of the CyberTalk synth, reading a part of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You will hear the male voice first, than the female voice.
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