November 19 is World Toilet Day — officially declared by the United Nations to bring attention to the the 3.4 billion people who live without "safely managed sanitation." #news #NPRnpr.org/sections/goats-and-sod…
Tim Cook attended a dinner to honor MBS, in case you were on the fence about his character. He could have chickened out by claiming a scheduling conflict, but no, he wanted to be there.
He needs to go. I'm sick of his bullshit. I love Apple and always will, but there is no doubt in my mind that things got worse shortly after he took over. Won't be sad to see him go.
altbot generates alt text for images using locally hosted open source llm. runs on my own infrastructure, costs me money and time, (and is also able to only exist thanks to my supporters on github and kofi) does it for free because accessibility matters and corporate ai services are extractive bullshit
and like... most people are cool about it. appreciate it kinda. but then there are these moments where the bot gets something wrong (yeah llms arent perfect, shocking) and people just. go at it. sarcastic comments about how useless it is. "can we get a human instead" yeah sure let me just volunteer 24/7 to write alt text for every image on fedi.
like i KNOW it's not perfect. i know the alt text can be verbose or miss important context sometimes. but it's FREE. it's LOCALLY HOSTED. it's OPEN SOURCE. it uses minimal energy. im trying to help.
and its MEANT to be used along with a human corrector. that's what the person posting the image is responsible for! if it gets something wrong its the poster's job to fix it. to edit it.
and the thing is i want to keep running it. i think it's useful. and clearly a lot of people think so too... but fuck i'm tired of being @ mentioned every time it's not perfect. tired of managing expectations for a free service provided as-is.... and tired of the emotional labor of running community infrastructure while people treat it like a product they paid for.
tldr; altbot is provided as-is. fuck off with the snark comments. and open a fucking github issue of you see a way it can be improved.
Windows 11 Tip. All of a sudden, my computer worked properly, but when I hit windows key + T, to go to the taskbar, I just landed on a start button and it said taskbar unavailable. This confused me, I had no idea what happened to the taskbar, and no idea how to get it back. Luckily Gemini helped me out, and my taskbar is back and everything is good again! So just in case this happens to anyone else, I thought I would share what I did to get it back. It seems that sometimes Windows Explorer clitches and this is one thing that can happen. To hopefully fix it, 1, hit control + shift + escape to bring up the task manager. 2, You should be on the processes tab and land in a list of all of the processes. Hit the end key to jump to the end of the list, then arrow up to Windows Explorer. 3, hit shift F10 for the context menu. 4, find Restart in the menu and hit enter. 5, This will totally restart Windows Explorer and all it controls, which one is the taskbar. That is it. The fresh restart of Windows Explorer should put everything back to normal again! Hope this helps. #Windows #Tip #Taskbar #Unavailable #Fix #TaskManager #WindowsExplorer
I kinda just thought this was a silly Sony through-the-lens-of-time account and you always had HQ images of products, but holy crap a real book of what you've documented? Very nice
So here's a new fresh hell. Attempting to access seekingalpha.com. When I try to open the site, I get the following: "Before we continue... Press & Hold to confirm you are a human (and not a bot).". There's a button on the page that you apparently need to press and hold, using a mouse, because of course if you don't have the ability to use a mouse, then you're obviously not human. Is anyone else able to reproduce? #a11y
Tonight join @Liz, from 7 P.M. eastern (US time), for Full Circle. Their will be a showcase tonight, and tonight the artist is an Australian artist. In the third hour will be the next episode of Chickenman. So tune in tonight and see who is hiding in the showcase. HKCRadio.com
Speaking of unlabeled buttons, the voice recording buttons such as send or cancel, or also for recording a voice message on WhatsApp Desktop are no longer labeled as well. With each day I feel less and less interest in using this garbage. But bruh I already feel left out with not having Insta, and I'm still fighting with me to not get it back. I would be all for ditching WhatsApp. Though apparently I'm one of like 5 others in this country who even cares about it at all.
Sadly we're in a minority no matter how much we'd be. All YMCA Groups, Goalball Teams, Family chat, etc. All on WhatsApp... And at this point I don't even know which alternative I'd be willing to recommend instead. Signal ain't it. I'm unsatisfied with the accessibility and other small factors. It's better for sure, but idk. Honestly what really made me worry again was that thing where they managed to obtain the entire user directory of WhatsApp, like, how a big company like Meta is that stupid is totally beyond me, it's just ridiculous at this point and my trust is long gone. But let's be honest, these companies never really face any consequences either. Like, what do they care about paying a few millions, or even billions. They can literally just do it/let it happen.
@TomGrant91 This is just one of the Dutzend examples where Meta managed to fuck up these days. Not to mention the new WhatsApp web app for desktop which, as mentioned, is going downhill accessibility-wise as well, and multiple other factors regarding personal preferences or Meta as a company, which have been raised complaints about for months at this point. Just to name one, them saying they'd introduce ads on the Status page. heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-A…
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
I have read that, yes I know what you mean there. But as for this web app I have no idea what you actually mean because my whatsapp is completely unchanged. Only change for me is that messenger is now unusable.
@TomGrant91 I'm talking about the Windows Desktop app. Actually WhatsApp beta, might be that it actually hasn't roled out to everyone yet. They replaced the nice native app with a weird web/electron based one, it's ugly imo.
What weird obsession #Discord has with the server list is beyond me at this point. With the newest update on desktop, every item (in focus mode with NVDA) is now announced as a button? Couldn't you just, keep it consistent, once and for good? Like why?
tree view button clickable level 1 NVGT Seriously? Oh and see what happens when tabbing from the server list in focus mode. Some unlabeled buttons right there. You just gotta love it. I mean hey, at least they haven't started shoving AI up my ass yet.
Welp, at this point I cannot justify spending $1000+ (again) to replaced the damaged rig to get back on HF #HamRadio - I have a cheap low power rig that gets me on 10m mobile. And I listen on other bands using various online SDR's.
The amount of mean right-wing bullshit I hear, almost every time I am on, is way too high for me to realize a return on my investment that comes close to a level of joy or satisfaction that's worth $1000. It's like Twitter/X. Stop telling people that they just need to turn the dial. That's bullshit.
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that #hamradio is about conversing with other hams. It's definitely not. It's about making the electrons jump through hoops. Radio art stuff. Making a 15000km contact on 5w. Bouncing a signal off the moon to make a contact. If hams can do radio stuff without talking to anyone, they do- often. FT8 is a very good example. We are by and large asocial nerds who just want to do radio stuff.
Your little reminder to use a person's chosen name and pronouns, both around them and when they're not around to hear you. It truly can bring such validation and can make someone's day better. Give them that respect and decency. It can and does make a difference to them.
A lot of posts I read online treat the fact that xbox controllers use AA cells as a bad thing. It's legitimately my favorite feature because you can slap some Eneloops in there, keep an extra pair in the charger, and when they die, you just open the back and slap in a fresh pair. When the batteries wear out after a couple years, you just get new ones and slap them in. No glue, no screws, no buying specific lithium cells and faffing with pull tabs or isopropyl. You just put them in and you're ready to roll
If you're running windows insider builds and have enabled Administrator Protection, avoid installing build 26220.7262. They've temporarily stopped the rollout of administrator protection, but as far as I can tell they're doing it in a way that makes a mess for systems where it is already enabled. They'll almost certainly have things sorted out with one of the next few builds. In my case, thank God for System Restore.
So now wee see the negative side of everything and none of the positives? This person seems to be saying that the positives of the digital age don't even come close to outweighing the listed negatives. I strongly disagree. For one thing, we can connect here despite geographic distance. That's huge for minority groups in particular. hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/11557…
Probably goes without saying, but please direct all replies to me, not the original poster.
@kims@mas.to The Digital Age has created full time unpaid jobs for all of us. We have been fighting battles for two decades over security, identity theft, insurance fraud, banking fees, gym memberships, streaming services, software licenses, game own…
Hmm, I see and applaud that last line... But this does feel like the type of post that made people hesitant about adding quote posts...
Like, I don't even know who that is. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there with whom I disagree, so I don't necessarily need them pulled into my timeline.
The general point that the digital age doesn't *only* have downsides is a fine one to make and discuss, but I feel like that could stand on its own too. Wouldn't need the disclaimer either.
not just that. The barriers that technology just tears down in general. Healthcare. Nah life is a lot better now than it was. Sure there are downsides. There always, always are. But there is no denying the incredible benefits to many people without being willfully ignorant, in my opinion.
The idea that there are no advantages to tech is just crazy. If you’re careful Online with passwords and security, you are less likely to get defrauded anyway.
FTR I find it extremely odd that some people would have profit as the measure of AI's worth, when profit is a well-known mismeasure of worth of pretty much everything else.
AI wouldn't be bad because it's unprofitable. Or good because it's profitable.
There are many legitimate criticisms of AI, but the unprofitability one isn't good.
#pcmagor Twl já jsem vážně marná .... to vám mě tak minulý týden popadla hrozná chuť zjistit co jako lidi mají ma těch uuuuuultraširokýýých OLED monitorech ... až mi to nakonec nedalo a jeden jsem domů přivezla .... ta miniled telka sice kvůli tomu musela jít z domu , ale chci doufat že nebudu litovat... barvy a odezva jsou famózní , ještě musím pořídit nějaké rameno na který ho pověsím ....🤔
user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor
Exactly, it's a privilege. that means you have a pair of working eyeballs, your ears and hands are also working. So yes, it's a privilege for people with no disabilities.
Why is everyone determined to break their product at the moment? It looks like a major publishing platform has decided to break itself by vibe coding a basic HTML form!
Please, if your service is working at the moment, how about you just leave it alone?
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microsoft and google claiming high usage numbers of their ai features is like me saying people like having wet faces just because i spit on everyone i meet.
WOW, lots of negative posts today. But am I seriously the only one who is so, so sick of everyone (AKA the big tech bros) making AI related choizes for you? Like, this is so crazy. Basically, soon Windows 11/12 will be an AI powered operating system with more resource usage and AI monitoring than freedom, whose code is being written by AI which already loses overview at a few thousand lines of code. and only will introduce accessibility issues. Don't get me wrong here please. I use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AIs by myself. But I know it's bundaries. I know it's not smart letting it control your important stuff, giving it your private data and relying on it more than anything else. But that? Almost every time I see AI the addition is completely dumb. I wonder how the companies haven't got sick of seeing and making AI everywhere, because I for my part am. Ramble done.
Oh, and on one of my other streams I also did the pre-proof theory stuff. Syntax, semantics, natural deduction, soundness, sketch of completeness. Some of that was review. It was neat to see the meaning of soundess (Gamma - phi implies Gamma |= phi). So if you can derive phi from Gamma by syntactic rules, then for all assignments in Gamma, phi is true. (Hopefully I didn't misunderstand this.)
Natural deduction always annoys me though, because it looks almost like a programming language, a tactic set, but it isn't really. It's not about mutating the context state but about proof trees, scopes are implicit.
And of course I was asked to show DNE in the wrong direction (~~p -> p) with just the usual rules (impl intro and elim, etc). And of course it can't be done. Not if you can't assume LEM.
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Might be a good time to remind everyone that the reason every website on Planet Earth is placing CloudFlare between you and them is because CloudFlare has been a major line of defense against the deluge of AI-data web scraping.
maybe ask @adbenitez to get the full marketing-blurb :) but as far as we understood: there are more services integrated like a set of chat bots and UX/UI tweaks/improvements/mods that may or may not make their way to the mainline #deltachat apps sometime.
hi, you can find some differences in the description of the app in #fdroid amongst the more interesting things is markdown support, there used to be several more unique features, like the green dot, but a lot of them has been added to official DC in the meantime
If the UK government was really serious about online safety they would have banned Twitter/X instead of implementing the Online Safety Act. That would've removed a major source of extremist hate but preserved small website communities and forums that offer safe aid and advice.
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