It seems that the vendor of NAS that tried to force people into their own rebadged Toshiba drives (they back tracked) are trying to catch up on the other vendor that has been promoting via YouTube sponsored content.... (I have heard some saying that vendor invented the NAS).
Hey @AccessOn am I missing something, or do I have to pay to get transcripts of your episodes? There's a transcript heading, but all it says is: "Are you the producer of this podcast? Add a podcast transcript → Need Audio-to-Text? Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds →". Clicking on the latter link brings me to a service where I can pay $0.06 per minute of audio to have it described. This feels exclusionary to me though, deaf-blind users should not have to pay for the right to consume your episodes. Living Blindfully had some of the best transcripts out there during its time, it would be incredible if whatever technology was used there could be incorporated here too.
World governments are trying to ban AI. Here's a comment I just saw that I agree with:
"Advanced AI is the most truly democratizing force the world has ever known, and that is why it is being attacked by so many privileged people (all of whom are quite happy with the status quo thank you very much). Suddenly, as a result of advanced AI, all their connections and their expensive degrees—advantages they and their kids leveraged of to cut ahead of the poor and marginalized and help themselves to the best educations and housing and medical care and food and and cushyest jobs—DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE. Any dirt poor kid with a third-hand laptop or even smartphone can learn anything, build any kind of software, make amazing films and screen them worldwide. The words the elite hate to hear more than any other are, "WE ARE DOING THIS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION". And they hate it most of all when it's coming from people they had convinced themselves were powerless to disturb their privilege. AI, AGI, and yes, super-intelligence, are for *us*; the people. We are not giving it up so they can leave us to die in a ditch while they sashay smugly back to their yachts and leafy retreats."
I'd like to know who wrote that comment you reposted. In other words, please cite your source.
While some critics of AI probably do fit the description in that comment, IMO the best criticisms focus on how AI actually further concentrates wealth and power, in the hands of the companies who own the AI models, as well as the companies who will use AI to replace labor (or at least try very hard to do so, whether it actually works or not).
@modulux a lo que iba es a que el gobierno de entonces lo dejó de lado, no lo defendió. No parece que se hiciera ningún contraataque desde el legislativo. Y luego lo del bochorno del poder judicial en funciones un porrón de años. Lo del reparto entre PP-PSOE...
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11…
I have mild neuropathy plus not particularly great circulation, I'm totally blind, and hard-of-hearing. Taste doesn't always work as expected. My olfactory sensors still work fine. I feel like, sometimes, it tries too hard to compensate for other stuff.
One for @clive: “Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator.” Adversarial poetry is notably effective at delivering attack prompts for LLMs. arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source…
A late in the day edition of the mid-week Other People's Music teaser! This is a look at this week's batch of music, previewed via the first line of the review, with all appropriate links (music, socials, full review) linked. Here's the full post:
A collection of long drone pieces incorporating guitar, bells, analog synths, horns, effects & more to create languid, lovely, ever-shifting compositions.
@JessicatheVIArtist Really cool you featured this here, she's on a few Discord servers I'm a part of and really knows her stuff. Mabey I should submit some tracks of my own at some point.
@JessicatheVIArtist For sure man, I've been wanting to take a look at your blog for a while, looks like you've got some cool sound design tutorials on there, so I'll check it out this weekend.
Die nächsten 2 Tage sind wir wieder bei der So Many Voices in München zu Gast! 🔊
Chris wird einen Workshop über die "Unsichtbare Kunst" der Tontechnik geben und zeigen was man bei der Aufnahme eines Podcasts alles richtig machen kann - oder wie man's mit Auphonic richten kann, falls doch mal was passiert.
FastWeather, a basic app for getting weather, is joining my list of software projects. Download the executable and run it. You'll start with a default set of cities so you can experience the program but either delete those or run with the --reset option to start fresh. Details and the app are linked off of www.theideaplace.net/projects. The user guide is at github.com/kellylford/FastWeat….
@DavidGoldfield Very good, congrats. I'd just ask for an option to change degrees from farenheit to celcius, so it makes easier to use it here in Brazil where it is the standard.
@clv0 @DavidGoldfield The program now has a units tab under configuration where you can change the measure used for temperature, wind and precipitation. The Configure button has also been moved to the main screen and can be accessed with Alt+c. Alt+n will put focus in the edit box for adding a new city. Grab the newest executable from the same locations. I didn't change the version number.
some people work hard to try and solve real barriers to #accessibility others like to waste everybody's energy with pointlessly long-winded theoretical purity discussions on "if text isn't marked up in a <p> element, does it fail 1.3.1?" i guess if you're being paid by numbers of issues filed, sure... #a11y
The party that screamed, "Hang Mike Pence" and joked about Paul Pelosi getting his head bashed in, would of course deem a reminder to follow the oath to the constitution as "wildly inappropriate."
We are trying something new at Igalia: a video show called "Hackers Assemble" where we chat about all the inner workings of computing, from the kernel to the browser.
For the first episode, I met with André Almeida to talk about case insensitive filesystems on Linux. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=bJI8rWproH…
André Almeida joins us to tell us about the work he has recently done to improve support of case insensitive filesystems on Linux.This is the first episode o...
Given that Godot 4.5 added the ability to make games accessible to users of screen readers and other assistive technologies, is there any chance that this game will be accessible to blind players? Assuming, of course, that there isn't something about the game that would make it impractical for a blind person to play in principle.
@matt hmm that’s an interesting question and I’m afraid not one that we’ve really considered. Currently the game isn’t really set up to be possible to play that way. It could be conceivably made to work but would probably require some significant rearchitecting. I’ll have a think, but I’m afraid it seems unlikely for the initial release, sorry!
Donald Trump publicly calls for the execution of Democratic congressmen, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you make a joke about Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
Niesamowita historia, jak możemy zostać “wyłączeni” z systemu. Amerykańskie sankcje blokują życie sieciowe i finansowe sędziego Międzynarodowego Trybunału Karnego, który wydał nakaz aresztowania Netanyahu.
Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/artic…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."
Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.
I have a package that was shipped today from Bratislava, Slovakia that is theoretically coming to me in New York City tomorrow. I remember one time when it took three weeks to get something from the next town over. Lol
Don't count on that. If it's coming from Bratislava, it's probably making at least part of the journey thanks to some random Eurofly player, which means the plane will probably take on passengers when it's not supposed to, then deliberately crash over water just to hear the loud, scared noises the passengers make when they know that's about to happen. Or it'll have gone on a perfectly-executed flight only to have the pilot accidentally turn off both engines when they're about to land.
I would like to clarify that while a ceasefire has been announced, what we have on the ground is only a temporary mitigation of hostilities; the war is still ongoing. The Israeli army hasn't withdrawn, and we're still subjected to gunfire and shelling periodically.
The situation is extremely difficult… food is scarce, there are no jobs, no source of income, and people are living on aid. I was surprised to see that donations have stopped, even though we are still in dire need.
My name is Thomas and I live in France and in the UK. I'm hosting Mohammed's campaign because Palestinians cannot host their own campaigns. If you've got any questions or if you'd like any proofs, I'm happy to provide you with these.
The gavel has fallen; the cup has been stomped; pick your metaphor. Microsoft has succeeded in its almost-two-year quest to gobble up Activision. The peculiar side effect in my corner of the world is that Microsoft now owns the dusty remains ...
@matt It is a little bit precious to say they're open-sourcing three games and then they link to github.com/historicalsource/ , which has *all* of them.
"Blood On Your Hands" by Taylor Acorn from her album Poster Child - Available now at https://ffm.to/ta_posterchildFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://ffm.link/t...
Just finished reading a book I found lying and the house. Obvs written for pre-teen girls. Thoroughly enjoyed it: very well written and an excellent insight into that world; can't wait for the sequel. It will have to be a present for my daughter, though, as I'm a 47 year old man.
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![Polymarket: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NY elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."
Laura Loomer [Trump advisor]: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God, it's real. Isn't it?"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/727839 "Polymarket: \"BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NY elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.\"
Laura Loomer [Trump advisor]: \"You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God, it's real. Isn't it?\"")
![Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
[...]"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/727744 "Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:
\"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being \"economically banned across most of the planet,\" including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
[...]\"")
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