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🌎 AI works hard for you, but the earth is working even harder 🌎

In today's in-depth article, we take a look at how bad AI really is for the environment.

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Tuta Guides: Is AI bad for the environment?

Is AI bad for the environment? | Tuta

Most people don’t think twice when they ask ChatGPT a question or to summarize an email but they should. AI is working hard for us, but our planet is working even harder.
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As the premier free screen reader, #NVDA is very pleased to be trending in South Africa! Thank you to all our South African users, we do appreciate you! We understand the burden commercial software places on #blind users around the world and are glad to be the alternative! If you are new to screen readers, you can find out more about us at: nvaccess.org/

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#ScreenReader #NVDAsr #Accessibility


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A brief overview of some of the things NVDA can do. The video demonstrates the screen reader at work in several programs and using different synthesizers (i...
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Sozha

@GrahamDowns @NVAccess Yes, they are usually relatively fast to respond. I sometimes forget their mastohandle but I knew that if I used the hashtag of either NVDA or NVDASR, they might pick it up, as they're the devs of the screen reader. Thanks again for all the help given over time, not just this time. I reverted back to factory defaults because I needed something on that pc, and having to scroll through what the speech output took too long, but of course, then I lost my remote session to that pc. Still the Alt+NVDA+T keystroke would have fixed stuff better.
@NV Access @Graham Downs
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André Polykanine

@GalacticJew @di Я про него выше (ниже?) писал. Не боись, там всё путём: Умпутун бывший израильтянин, хоть и республиканец, Грей (Сергей Петренко) украинец, Бобук бывший россиянин, сейчас в Украине, Ксения в Штатах и вроде как тоже из наших.
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У меня тут на копирке касса печатает только слип-чек без товарного чека. И всем было пох.

Недавно заходил такой важный молодой человек, распечатал с флешки пару листов (хаб для флешек находится перед клиентом, и там же надпись "не забудьте флешку"). Оплатил картой, затем вспомнил, что ему нужен ещё и файлик, купил и его отдельным платежом. Стал возмущаться, что я не одним платежом провёл. А затем начал вонять, что ему нужен товарный чек, а мой слип-чек ему нафиг не нужен. Зачем-то победно сказал, что перевёл деньги непонятно куда, непонятно за что. И ушёл.

В общем-то, так оно и есть, но пока он тут разводил дискуссию о чеках, он забыл забрать свою связку флешек с ключами от квартиры. Да, чел носит всё в одной связке.

Думал свалить пораньше, но, пожалуй, дождусь шести часов, потому что врагу не пожелаешь оказаться без ключа от дома.

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stressmanagement

Вообще, никогда не знаешь, через что проходит человек или как ему тяжело в данное время, поэтому стараешься как-то гасить эту агрессию и не отвечать говном на говно. Но это чертовски выматывает. Было полно ситуаций, когда люди устраивали говноворот на ровном месте, словно это и было целью визита.

Всякий раз, когда вижу уставшего менеджера, продавца или консультанта, игнорирую эту пассивную агрессию и стараюсь быть предельно вежливым. Не всегда получается, но просто я бы хотел, чтобы у меня было побольше адекватных клиентов.

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Question to the people experienced with Screen readers: I'm currently writing a documentation where I insert lots of inline Screenshots, for example a little red cross. What would be the preferred way of writing Alt-Text for them? Usually I describe Images in a clear sentence, but I assume for inline screenshots it would make more sense to use a Single Word if possible.
#accessibility #question #screenreader
#Accessibility #screenreader #Question
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NV Access

How are you publishing it? Are these little crosses as in saying to press two keys together, like the = I would put between alt+f4 to close something? If it's in PDF, they have a thing called "ActualText" which is a bit like alt text, but screen readers should simply treat it LIKE the text you put in. If anything else (eg the web) then I'd just go with "plus" or "and" or something like that (then NVDA would read "alt+f4" as "alt graphic plus f4".
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Max M.

@NVAccess
Thanks for the reply.
It's an internal documentation in the web, using a proprietary software. I'd probably use a combination of both approaches where it fits best. With the "graphic" suffix it seems to me dependant on the use-case.
But I guess I'll first have to try using a screenreader myself in order to better understand how it actually works, especially because it might not be very optimized for screenreaders.
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"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers."

-- Cupertino

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Apple asks EU to scrap landmark digital competition law

Apple asked the European Union to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday, arguing that it poses security risks and creates a "worse experience" for consumers.
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Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Link: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...
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Archaeologists Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of This Marble Statue. Its Subject Was a Woman Who Might Have Helped an Ancient City Achieve Political Freedom

The marble sculpture, discovered at Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea in 2003, has been identified as a woman named Laodice

by Ella Feldman

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Original article:
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#archeology


Archaeologists Say They've Solved the Mystery of This Marble Statue. Its Subject Was a Woman Who Might Have Helped an Ancient City Achieve Political Freedom

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You want to try out Movim before deploying it? 👀 ..or just checking out the exciting features of the next release? ✨

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Just clone the Movim repo from Github and call `podman-compose up`, wait a little bit and Boom! you can try-out Movim in your browser 🤩

Checkout the (super-short) tutorial there github.com/movim/movim#quick-t… 🎉

Movim + Podman = ❤️

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Opět nespím, tak malá rekapitulace. Tuto linii léčby jaksi hůř snáším. Injekce 1x týdně, místo do břicha se píchá do ramene. Doprovodné léky mi museli vysadit neb mi negativně působí na játra, testy vylétly do nebe. Po lécích na podporu jater, berou se po jídle, je mi po každém jídle špatně a bolí mě žaludek. Klesají mi červené krvinky což sebou nese zvýšenou únavu a zadýchávání se. Tak ještě, že jsme hezké a sexy, s krásným tvarem hlavy, jak říká kamarádka Oli.🤣
#taknejak #kohotozajima #nespím
#taknejak #kohotozajima #nespim
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Tamas G

@esoteric_programmer @tardis still love the "I want to love Linux but it doesn't love me back" series. I really do want to love it. Jess (my partner) really wants to love it. They switched their mini computer to it now and are struggling to get BRLTTY to save their Braille table configs. Argh. Every single thing in those series I've seen as problems, particularly the audio stuffs lately. It's a mess and unless you have the patience to baby your Linux distro, make back-ups of your image so you can restore it in a flash if anything fails, ETC. Not everyone's built for that kind of test, it really tries all your energy and patience away and bleeds you to the bone until you get so determined that you're up until 3:30 AM trying to fix your half-botched kernel upgrade.
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Tech Singer

@esoteric_programmer @tardis I agree with this. When I use a Linux desktop, there comes a point, and it usually comes quite soon, when I ask "why am I doing this"? I want to read/write/talk to people/get something done for myself or someone else. The computer exists to let me do all that. When it doesn't, or when it makes all that take longer than it should, it's just too much effort for too little reward. Honestly, this is the same problem I have with Windows 11, just with a different set of annoyances. I fail to see why I should bother, even if bothering sufficiently will let me do what I want. Why not use the other thing which will let me do what I want without bothering? @pixelate
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Tamas G

@techsinger aha at least these days you can look up more info with GPT, which is how I even stumbled on the Tuba Mastodon client in the first place, realizing it would be accessible. QT apps on Linux can be such a hit or miss, for example someone made an Steel Series Arctis service that could tell me the battery of my headphones. Well, none of the checkboxes or buttons are labeled, thanks to QT in it. That's such a small part of my Windows work though, if browsing and Masto is all I did, I'd be retired. But no, I need Gold Wave, my image backup and restore suite, Zoom and meeting tools, ETC. Maybe Zoom is workable on Linux, not sure, but to get myself to where I am today on Windows is a lot of effort and time I'm doing very, very slowly. @esoteric_programmer @tardis @pixelate
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Tech Singer

@esoteric_programmer @tardis @pixelate Thanks, that puts it well. The problem is the effort and the result. Too much of the former, too little of the latter. Even when you can manage something new, how much work did it take to manage it? Also, what is there that is an actual improvement over, say, Windows having blown away as much of the updating and spying/advertising/unhelpfulness as possible?
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the esoteric programmer

if windows would revert back to, say, windows 7 levels of aggression, contempt and disrupting my workflow, aka almost nothing, also if the US and most of the world wasn't confrunted with a huge fascism problem, with the world's tech billionaires backing the fascists as they usually do, I would say the point is more technical. But alas, we don't live in that world, and what microsoft does got to a point where it's annoying the crap out of me, and I consider myself somewhat technically competent. It all feels like so much of an energy drain, and I end up wishing there was an adblocker and bloatware remover for the pc itself, because I long since had to install an adblocker on my browser for similar reasons.
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@esoteric_programmer @tardis @pixelate I agree, to the point where I am using Windows 7 quite happily on most of my machines. For some stuff, I'm using Windows 10 VMs, having used applications to blow away updates and everything else I can which makes Windows annoying. The amount of energy drain is still very significantly lower than Linux accessibility, unfortunately. As for the political issues, I don't think switching to a less accessible system is going to help very much, if I may respectfully say so. It's just annoyance for no reason. That sort of thing is best handled with an outbound firewall, it's rather obvious that nobody else is willing to put in the effort, so my putting in the effort won't help, particularly when my effort is far greater than that required for most. To put it differently, I'm convinced that nobody cares and we who do are just along for the ride at this point.
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yeah, if you take great care to remove the telemetry, patch the vulnerabilities, perhaps encrypt your sensitive data as well and such, you're safer than most. But I mean, what did you use before to conclude linux is so much less accessible? depending on the desktop environment, which I know it's annoying that not all of them are as accessible, I think we're at the level of windows xp, maybe windows 7. Is it the lack of familiar apps, unfamiliar keystrokes and ways of navigating it, or straight out this app doesn't work whatsoever with orca?
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Tech Singer

@esoteric_programmer @tardis @pixelate All three, honestly. It also doesn't help that things change so often and I still see so much outdated material online. It also doesn't help that the whole thing is walking on stilts, as it were. Put it this way. With a significant number of Windows applications, accessibility just doesn't have to be thought of. Where does one find that significant number on the Linux desktop? This is not any criticism of you. You are doing astonishing work and really trying to understand, so if I go back to earlier parts of this thread, that is not criticism in any sense. Having said that, zoom is an important application. To email them in the hope that they will enable accessibility is not really a workable strategy. They might not but, even if they do, emailing them in the hope that they will so that people can use something which is usable on Windows is a problem. The other problem is that Zoom is not even close to the only app which may have issues. Think of the issue raised at the beginning of this thread with sound/speech/something disappearing during Debian installation on a VM. That has not been a problem in Windows, whether on hardware or on a VM, since late 2019, in my experience. I'm being conservative, it may have been resolved earlier. Put it that I haven't had to ask anyone for installation help on a VM since 2019, and I install VMs every little while. As for what I've used, I've used Debian through SSH, which doesn't really count, but as to the desktop, I've tried Mint with Mate, which actually came up talking, Ubuntu, which had issues in the installation and never really spoke, Debian, though I don't recall what the desktop was, Slint, which did talk but which I didn't like Orca with at the time, Yunohost, which had no accessible installer but which, once you install, can be used over the web, and a few others. The only one which I tried with braille was Mint but the braille barely worked. I'm just thinking about that last sentence. If I said I had used windows 10 and it came up talking with narrator, anyone would say "so?". I mean that's great, but why are you telling me this? Of course it did. When I mention the Linux desktop stuff, I have to mention that it came up talking or that the installation succeeded or whatever. With Windows, I don't even have to think about that now, it just comes up talking and I install NVDA or Jaws and it works.
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Tech Singer

@pixelate @esoteric_programmer Seriously, though, I realize that my not being able to type was a problem with me the device or both. The difficulty is that these issues don't happen when using Windows, and most of them don't happen when using the Mac. The Mac has its own issues. My point is that individually, these issues can almost certainly be fixed. The problem is that you spend time fixing them, and the ones which follow them. There are only 24 hours in the day. Devoting X number of hours to issues means that you only have Y hours to do what you really want to do with your time.
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so the braille thing can be fixed by installing xbrlapi and starting it, but yeah, that's indeed not the point, distros are ment to do that. Speaking of distros, although I don't typically recommend distros specifically for us, there's this person who made such a distro with all the accessibility stuff turned on, but all packages are still up to date and everything. If you're curious, it's called genux. Not only the obvious stuff most distros do either, but also the weird and esoteric, going so far as to allow us to have either linux or android on there, have boot messages spoken and brailled as early on as possible, stuff like that
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Tech Singer

@esoteric_programmer @pixelate I tried that one, but quite a while ago. I don't recall what issues I found in it, but it was a headache. Again, this is too long ago to say very much. The problem with such distros, of course, is that they're great if they work and so long as the packager maintains interest and ability. I don't want my computer experience relying on one packager unless that experience is good enough for that not to matter. Just for example, if MS declared tomorrow that they were going entirely out of business, I wouldn't have a problem for a good five or ten years, if then. Windows 7 and 10 are good enough for my particular use cases. Updates would be nice, but MS has proved that they're no longer interested in updating for the benefit of the user, if they ever were. Even the best Linux desktops have yet to hit that state when it comes to accessibility.
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Tamas G

ha, why else do y'all think I went back to Windows 10 from 11. :D Although, comparing Ram, a cold-booted Linux will still only use around 1.4 GB (that's with X11 and Mate though, Wayland and Gnome might eat a few hundred MB more.) Windows 10, the long-term servicing channel branch that doesn't come with store or any bloat, still boots with at least 2.3 to 2.8 GB, again, all virtualization-based security fluff disabled. Almost twice the RAM for what? To idle your CPU at 1% and randomly spike it to 20% when one of Microsoft's blessed scheduled tasks decides to run as you're grabbing your coffee? The fuck. This is where Linux just straight up wins (or even Mac, although I'd argue with the Apple Intelligence and other screen mirroring, ETC services, Mac isn't as lean as it used to be either.) @esoteric_programmer @pixelate
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Tech Singer

With MS, the "going out of business" announcement would be a pleasure. They are actually making the product worse through the updates, and howling about improving security. Security has become the all-purpose excuse. I'm to the point where there is a real risk-benefit balancing to be done between the damage done by updates and the damage done by leaving security holes unplugged. The damage isn't just to resources, as you say. It's to my workflow due to changes. It's to waiting for updates or having to think about delaying them. It's to certain things hesitating or not working when an update happens. It's changes which NVDA/Jaws can't deal with... You get the idea. As I said, this is the same question I start asking about Linux desktops. Is it worth the aggravation? It's also the same answer. No.
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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A family is cycling near the beach. Mum and Dad leisurely pedalling up front, admiring the view.
Big Sister (11?) seems lost in thought.
Little Sister (8?) bringing up the rear, roaring. "I'm SO HUNGRY! I hope we're having FISH AND CHIPS soon!"

Two young humans (6 & 8?) are playing Frisbee on the beach.
Oldest has devised many Important Frisbee Playing Rules.
Youngest is having none of it.
Snatching the Frisbee up, he's off and running into the surf! (Gasp!)
Oldest is SCANDALIZED!

A man (30s?) is talking to a friend while standing in his garden.
He says: "I've got my little cuz helping me out for a week. But he's a bit cheeky, eh."
Little Cuz (14?) looks up from weeding to find Big Cuz and Friend grinning at him.
Faux scowling, he throws a weed at them.
They duck.

At the beach: A man (40s?) has made some driftwood rugby goals. Clapping his hands to remove the sand from them, he turns to look at his large family with a big appraising grin.
Now... who's he gonna pick for his winning team?

A tiny human (1?) has discovered that rolling along the beach is MUCH more fun than walking.
Except she can't quite work out what to do with her arms...
Maybe just laying on the sand and kicking her legs is far more fun.
Delighted giggles ring through the air.

(Continued Below)

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