I just got this response from NVDA's AI content describer addon, the addon that's uh, you know, supposed to describe images for people? "I’m not able to view images, so I can’t describe it directly. If you can either paste the image text or give me a brief summary of what’s in it, I’ll gladly help craft a detailed description for you." You had one job
@MariahL Yeah, sounds about right for the reaction I had when I saw this earlier. Even better? I can reproduce this reliably. The whole thing seems broken now, every time I try to send it something I get similar answers. Like I said, you had one job, and you ruined it
Which model are you using? It's working fine for me with Gemeni 2.5. It's not the Add On it's very likely the model. Sadly LLMs are dumb and mostly not capable of what they can actually do.
What kind of errors? I just created my API key from the AI console, selected some Gemini 2.5 Model in the AI MOdel configuration dialog in the Add On, selected in that prefered model list and it should work. I don't have the Add On here but I can check specific later.
Proof of Concept mod for Cities: Skylines1. The dev would love help from other C# developpers. This is not a mod ready for release, so don't go buying the game yet. forum.audiogames.net/topic/582…
Clarification, primarily for the benefit of any other programmers who come across this: the game and the mod seem to be written in C# (C sharp), not C. Those languages are more different than you might think.
Do you know someone who quietly makes the Django community better every day? Or maybe that someone is you? 👀✨
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There is a tradition in #Jilemnice town: when there is enough snow, they plow it all on a huge pile in the middle of the main square and scuplt it into a #Krakonoš, a mythical giant of the local mountains. There is enough snow, its being sculpted right now.
This sucks! I have around 15 spam text messages in my phone only from today. This has been happening like every day for weeks I get at least 1 spam message per day no matter how much I block and report as junk. Ugh. Has anyone had this problem before and have experience fixing it?
#IzzyOnDroid is about community. That's why we don't want our #FOSDEM visit to be just about us, but also about all the amazing apps that make IzzyOnDroid so great.
Do you have an app that's available on IzzyOnDroid? Bring some stickers with you to FOSDEM and drop them off at our booth! We'll make sure to display them so your users can pick some up!
@kepi Po těch trápeních na trenažéru, byla Apple TV nejjednodušší cesta, teda aspoň pro mě. Zapnu, připojím a jedu 🤷 A levnější něž kupovat tablet, který jinak nevyužiju. @cynik_obecny
Is see Danish citizens online are now proposing to invade USA and MAAG. (Make America Actually Great) Under occupation they would ensure Americans got. Universal healthcare Fairer wages + lower income inequality Paid parental leave Bike-friendly cities Free college options Fewer work hours Reliable public transportation Stronger social safety net - #Denmark #USA #USpol #Politics
Microsoft just turned all Office users into AI users. Lmao. It’s now called the "Microsoft 365 Copilot" app. Get ready for fee increases and having your data opted into training by default with confusing settings. Enshittification has peaked.
Just realized that the reason I have a hard time sharing personal difficulties with others isn't that I want to hide struggles, or I don’t want to talk about them. It's that as a high-masking neurodivergent person, I don't really have a script for initiating those conversations, so I kinda freeze
I am somewhere on the spectrum, highly functional but definitely somewhere on there and i don't generally talk about things i'm going through unless it's in response to things people share with me.
It's how i relate to others when they share things they are going through. I'm friendly but often a private person in many ways i suppose.
I've survived a lot in life and i usually just sort of focus on that, surviving it vs making sense of it with others.
@Sylocule @transicorn yeah, which makes sense since masking at least to some degree depends on having models to adopt that feel safe, and since we know there is a general vulnerability problem, there are few such models
I wish I could just start texting people. Be it just a hey how are you, what did you do yesterday etc, but I feel like that's not common anymore because it has been taken up by Instagram, SnapChat and what not other stuff. I don't want that. I don't want all this image based crap. Just give me back good old text messages. But why would people text stuff to one random person if they can share everything they want with one inaccessible image to all their friends?
Not for some higher reason, but the client I used it with mostly before is switching to Google Meet (yeah…) and so I am looking into alternatives.
I’ll probably do @OpenTalkMeeting as it is hosted in Germany and has fun functionality like the talking stick and coffee breaks. Also half the price for a year.
I would love to do that as well, but accessibility in OpenTalk is still a bit of an issue and there don't seem to be such convenient methods to dial into meetings via phone, like there is in Zoom. Or I haven't found the info about it. With the mostly blind people I use Zoom for, this is eessential.
@marcozehe Dial-in by phone is certainly listed as a feature. I’d rather have a dedicated app instead of a browser-based solution, but apparently I’m alone in that. What will be annoying is no Calendar integration (Fantastical).
The open source video conferencing solution OpenTalk combines scalability, productivity, digital sovereignty and data protection with a modern and secure IT system architecture.
You're definitely not alone in that, I much prefer a dedicated app as well, not least because of the superior ability to build in VoiceOver support for the iPhone. In many respects, the web is still lacking terribly when it comes to making more complex apps accessible on mobile. Custom actions being one item.
Seit Kurzem ist die erste Stufe der Online-Buchbarkeit bei der Deutschen Bahn für Menschen mit Schwerbehindertenausweis und Merkzeichen B freigeschaltet. Bei der Online-Ticketbuchung (z. B. über den DB Navigator oder auf bahn.
In der Praxis ist das ein ganz schöner Blödsinn. Denn bei ¾ der von mir gesuchten Strecken kriege ich keine Preise mehr angezeigt, sondern die Ansage, dass ich das Ticket doch bitte über die MSZ buchen möge. Sobald ich die Ermäßigung wieder raus nehme, kriege ich Preise. Also echt ziemlich unnütz.
Apparently still 115 Catima users on Google Play (roughly 0.1% of the Google Play userbase). No clue about IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid users (downside of not tracking users, very little insight in these things).
Európsky parlament prijal uznesenie o dekarbonizácii a modernejšej podobe rybolovu v Európskej únii. Tento text reflektuje potrebu postupne znižovať emisie a zlepšiť environmentálne a sociálne fungovanie celého rybárskeho sektora v rámci Európy. Uznesenie nadväzuje na hodnotenie, ktoré pripravila Výbor pre rybolov, a spája ciele Európskeho zeleného dohovoru s realitou fungovania rybárskych flotíl a komunit závislých od rybolovu. 
Parlament pripomína, že dosiahnutie klimatickej neutrality do roku 2050 vyžaduje spravodlivý a udržateľný prechod celého rybolovného sektora, ktorý zohľadní environmentálne, sociálne aj hospodárske aspekty. Uznesenie vyzýva na vytvorenie realistického a postupného plánu pre dekarbonizáciu rybárskych plavidiel a zníženie ich uhlíkovej stopy, pričom sa berie do úvahy rozmanitosť typov lodí, operácií aj regionálnych podmienok v celej Únii. 
Text uznesenia zdôrazňuje, že prechod na ekologickejšie palivá, alternativne pohony a iné technológie si vyžaduje významné investície do výskumu, vývoja, infraštruktúry a školenia posádok, ako aj spoluprácu medzi členskými štátmi, úradmi a odborníkmi. Tieto opatrenia majú zároveň vytvoriť priestor pre inovácie a modernizáciu flotíl bez poškodzovania sociálno-ekonomickej stability rybárskych komunít, najmä malých a pobrežných operátorov, ktorí predstavujú výraznú časť európskeho rybárskeho sektora. 
Uznesenie tiež upozorňuje, že riešenie finančných a legislatívnych prekážok je kľúčové, pretože súčasné pravidlá a finančné nástroje nie vždy dostatočne podporujú modernizáciu a udržateľné praktiky. Parlament vyzýva Európsku komisiu a členské štáty, aby prehodnotili a upravili existujúce mechanizmy, vrátane fondov EÚ, tak, aby umožnili prístup k financovaniu, ktoré je primerané potrebám prechodu k nízkouhlíkovému rybolovu. 
Z dlhodobého (aj strednodobého!) hľadiska by sme radšej mali prestať zabíjať zvieratá len pre to aby sme sa najedli. Rybie mäso je zdravé a bola by škoda ho úplne vynechať. Oveľa lepšie by bolo rybie mäso hlavne kultivovať v bioreaktoroch - to by mohli robiť veľkoproducenti. Malí rybári nech kľudne ostanú pri svojom remesle - som si istý, že mnohí ľudí bude ich mäso kupovať aj v čase ľahko a lacno dostupného kultivovaného mäsa.
"President Donald Trump may have made a major miscalculation about Venezuela’s oil.
Trump has expressed excitement over the prospect of US oil companies getting their hands on Venezuela’s vast oil resources.
But industry sources tell CNN that American oil executives are unlikely to dive headfirst into Venezuela for multiple reasons: The situation on the ground remains very uncertain, Venezuela’s oil industry is in shambles and Caracas has a history of seizing US oil assets.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that oil prices are too low today to justify spending the gobs of money – possibly tens of billions of dollars – that would be required to revive Venezuela’s decaying oil industry.
“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low. We have no idea what the government there will look like,” one well-placed industry source told CNN on Monday. “The president’s desire is different than the industry’s. And the White House would have known that if they had communicated with the industry prior to the operation on Saturday.”"
David Rosen, co-founder of SEGA, just died. He was 95 years old.
Wait. He wasn’t Japanese?
That’s right. SEGA started as an American company. The reason SEGA is capitalized is because the original name was Service Games. And the “Service” in that name refers to the American military—its first customer base.
SEGA remained largely American until the 1980s, when David Rosen—along with Japanese business partners—bought the company from its parent, Gulf+Western, which also owned Paramount Pictures.
This initiated one of the most innovative and creative periods in video game history. SEGA produced classics like Space Harrier, OutRun, Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, and Virtua Fighter.
For nearly two decades, SEGA was the primary rival to Nintendo, separating itself through speed and attitude.
Along with Atari, it was one of the companies that defined my childhood.
R.I.P., David Rosen. May you enjoy that great arcade in the sky.
Three years ago I bought @juliette an electric kettle for her birthday (because romance is not dead).
Looking for a stainless tank, hidden heating element, and temperature settings, I found the Krups KE07. Bit expensive, but it'll last decades. Right? Button 1 broke after a year. Button 2 today..
Thread in three parts
1. How it broke
2. Why I think you should not buy a Krups / Tefal appliance
I have the same looking kettle, but branded as Tefal. What made me to buy it was, that they claimed 10 years of spare parts availability. Not having that is a scam on customers. 👎
@bert_hubert I think this can use some extra attention: The .be registry wants to leave AWS and has created an RFP with lots of details of what they need. I think this could be the first sheep over the dam. I hope you can bring extra attention to this and a precedent can be created. dnsbelgium.be/en/news/dns-belg…
this varies a lot by the size and nature of the startup, and by what is being purchased. Must often it's the ceo or cto in smaller sartups, but it realy depends
@dk Lets say google was to buy subscriptions for its designers on a contrast checking plugin for figma example getstark.co/. Who would approve budget for it
something small like would just be whoever manages the designer's team, sometimes the designer could just buy it and expense it. If a lot of users wanted it, then it would be whoever manages the figma account, total amount is the main question, the bigger, the higher up it would go.
Basically I was wondering around how many people does the startup economy of SV really depend on. For that I wanted to know who in a big org is mostly responsible for approval budget for recurring saas subscriptions
If its mostly director, principal level folks in big orgs and cto in mid size startups then really how many of them are there
many startups depend on a bottom-up motion, where signup is free, then the designer, developer, etc becomes the internal champion while the startup's gtm team tries to works with the champions to pitch the decision maker, who is often also different than the final signatory, but these are the three typical personas.
I do have to say, that playing a mud remotely from my desktop, using NVDA Remote Controller, in the car, with a Bluetooth keyboard, to and from work, with an hour long commute, is a very entertaining thing. I know, I'm a nerd.
Zájem amerického prezidenta Donalda Trumpa o převzetí Grónska je myšlen vážně. V pondělí večer na to podle agentury Reuters upozornila dánská premiérka Mette Frederiksenová. Připomněla, že Dánsko a…
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You know I wonder if they even think about what they say. If anyone who talks about me, or the stuff I do knows that it hurts? Since apparently it's not interesting, or useless, or no one understands, or I should just do something else. Yeah title him as nerd and let him do whatever, people don't like nerds blahh blah. You fucking, yes fucking know that it hurts, you don't have to understand it, but you can accept it, you don't have to understand the concept, or even the principle, but the fact that it's a hobby like every other, that you get joy from it, that you don't have to downtalk it and label it as something bad. Cuz it makes me feel bad fucker.
On that note, my granddad wants a smartphone now. I would love to help him set that up and make it actually useful and polished, but I know big sighted bro will be preferred for that despite having less in dept knowledge, or even my dad. I wonder whether I'll meet someone appreciating me for who I am one freaking day.
And great to have another proof that these people don't take me serious anymore. Not only because I apparently am mentally ill, according to them, maybe because they have no better explanations for the things I do, no also because they can't even understand my intentions, hobbies or anything of me anymore. Get me out pls.
hey man. This post really resonated with me and I'm sorry. I know what it's like to be or to feel passed over for stuff because people don't think you're capable. May I offer some advice?
Obviously I don't know the particulars of your circumstances and your family history, so this advice could be entirely inappropriate, but don't wait for permission. If you wanna help your Grandad, hit him up, like today. Send him an email or phone him or go visit. Hey Grandad heard you want a Smart Phone. What would you most like it for. there are these options. Not an overwhelm of information, just enough to show your knowledge and will to help.
The key part of my post, which got buried in the implementation, is don't wait for permission or approval. Don't wait to be allocated the task. Allocate it to yourself. Volunteer! Why am I saying this? Because I've discovered over the past couple of years that I have spent too much of my life waiting for my ideas to be signed off on rather than just going ahead and making them happen.
I've lived too much of my life, not for other people as such, not in their service, but to their schedules, fitting in with their expectations, what they approve of, what they permit me to do. By doing that, I automatically make myself subordinate to them rather than on an equal footing. Be on an equal footing. You have skills. You don't need other people's permission to use them.
It's your life. they're your skills. It's your desire to help. Stepping forward means that yes you are putting yourself out there for rejection, for people to prefer someone else's advice and yes that will be mega mega hard if you're anything like me, but don't wait for life to happen to you...happen to it! You don't need to be told it's okay to do something, that you are considered worthy. Go for it.
I love my family. My father is dissatisfied cuz I finally do something for the security of my mom and manage her Bitwarden. He says the normal apple passwords app is enough. I quote his conversation to my mom: "Why do you even let him do that nerd shit, there is the apple passwords application which stores all your pass keys." With my mom going on about how she didn't even know what passkeys are, and that she's glad someone is at least doing something and explaining stuff. And may I mention that she forgot her Apple ID password, and Apple does not offer the same recovery methods as Bitwarden, such as backups through the API I can easily manage, etc. But yeah right, the apple passwords app without backups will just be fine for someone who recently locked themselves out of their half life. Holy shit I can't stand naive idiots, but yeahr right I'm the shitty nerd bitch, for using a proper password manager, fuck off man.
I made cron jobs for submitting HackerOne reports on CRLF injections, HTTP headers added by the user and the use of file:// urls to access local data accessible to the user already but with curl instead of notepad.
We could bundle these with the curl release tar ball for further reach. People seem to want those.💁🏻♂️
Would it be an option to add a small submission fee? That is of course unfair to researchers from developing countries. But $5 should dissuade the AI slop at least a little, I'd imagine.
Not sure if there was already a discussion in another thread about what could be done. Apologies if I have missed that.
Either way this current asymmetry of effort to report vs. effort to check is not sustainable. Thanks for putting up with it so far.
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