> If “AI” is actually more expensive that paying actual people actual wages that’s still a good investment for capital because it is about breaking up the structures, networks and organizations that help workers organize and fight for labor standards and fairer wages.
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by on…
I remember explaining this exact use case to Very Serious People at multiple non-profits who had received literal millions of dollars to research privacy, and these Very Serious People assured me that could never happen.
I quit these places with joy because these folks were myopic assholes who allowed their privilege to exacerbate harms.
One of these fuckers told me "but I like the ads - they help me see what sneakers I should buy."
CUPERTINO, CA—Explaining that they took immediate action against what they perceived to be a threat, local police officers repeatedly shot Apple CEO Tim Cook after mistaking an iPhone he was holding for a gun, sources confirmed Thursday.
Man, I have so many accessible games now that I don't know what to play. Rimworld, FF 1 through 6, maybe terraria although I may not because I'm not a huge fan of Minecraft style games, hand of fate and hand of fate 2, so many games now.
@NicksWorld I don't remember reviewing GG on BCT, but it was the first game I reviewed for Main Menu. On BCT, I did a review of Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As it turned out, the version I reviewed had a bug in it where the character could get stuck at a certain location.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
@thomas Yupp, we've seen it. And yupp, that was us: IzzyOnDroid is the repo we maintain (Kris showed the app by Sunil). NeoStore & Droid-ify are our clients 😉
Today I learned about UCEPROTECTL3, and it's deeply exciting. It feels like a protection racket. If you pay this place that maintains it, they'll take your IP address off of it.
The trick is that I covers entire ISPs.
the problem is that mxtoolbox is advertising this list by acknowledging its existence. They shouldn't even check IPs against it if they don't believe it's legitimate ... ridiculous
Love surveys that are designed for people with disabilities that say there's a time limit, monitoring and if irregularities are detected they will disqualify survey results... seems very ableist
Getting very worried about my friends in #kyiv I have had no updates for over a fortnight. Power outages and severe cold as well as continuous bombing, no news is bad news.
Okay, I don't have links to hand, but I'm a licensed ham radio opperator, and this is the kind of theory we learn. The danger from a microwave comes if it is failing to keep the actual waves inside. Microwaves are designed with an enclosure that blocks most of the energy from them. However, you might notice that when you run your microwave, your wifi and cell signal degrades. This is because your wifi/cell and a microwave use similar frequencies. But your wifi just uses a millionth or billionth of the power. So when those waves start leaking out of your microwave, they can drown out the wifi completely. The danger comes from just how much energy is leaking. You can stick a wifi antenna directly in your mouth for hours while it transmits, and nothing bad will happen to you. But if it was putting out the same power of a microwave, you would be cooked. In general, the test I use is this: place your cell phone inside the microwave, and close the door. DO NOT! TURN ON THE MICROWAVE OBVIOUSLY! Now, with the door completely closed, try to call your cell phone from another phone. If it rings while inside the microwave, I'd worry a bit. If it doesn't, I wouldn't. This works because your cell tower is transmitting at low power, and is far away from you. So if your phone can talk to the tower from inside the microwave, it means it's probably leaking more energy than you would really like.
@fastfinge do they actually interfere with things outside the ~2.4ghz range? I've only heard of it affecting that before but who knows!- (well I'm sure the engineers who make these know ...)
It would only explain wifi issues that happen while someone is using the microwave. If the issues start when the microwave starts, and go away as soon as the microwave stops, then it's the cause.
Accessibility-focused Mastodon question. I’m currently using the Enafore web client and generally like it. I’ve been seeing some chatter about FastSM, and I’m curious how it compares in real use. Has anyone here used Enafore and then switched to FastSM? If so, how is it with a screen reader, and what feels different or better (or worse)? I don’t have much energy for trial-and-error right now, so firsthand experiences would be especially helpful. #Mastodon #Accessibility #ScreenReaders #BlindTech @mastoblind @main
It's an absolutely different story. Almost like comparing French fries with a cheesecake. for instance, I'd never use a web interface for Mastodon, unless I'm paid for it. FastSM is a Windows/MAC GUI application which also has invisible interface, where you have no window per se but drive the client from the keyboard. TweeseCake works alike.
@menelion The main thing that's driven me away from apps like FastSM or TweeseCake in the past is all the keyboard shortcuts. I have some memory issues from my chronic illnesses that can make remembering lots of shortcuts hard. But FastSM has a menu bar and shows shortcuts by each option, so that seems a bit more manageable.
In this case, do not use invisible interface. Never ever, I mean, because that will disappoint you from the first seconds. Use the GUI window and yes, menu bar is your friend.
By the way, thank you for this insight. As a developer, I've never thought that it can be difficult for a screen-reader user to remember all those keystrokes. Seriously, sometimes obvious things stay unnoticed. thank you again, I'll remember to duplicate every function with a menu bar command in my interfaces, or at least will do my best.
Looking at YouTube videos of aircraft carrier ops (operations) wherein various aircraft are taking off (launching) or landing (trapping) aboard a carrier. Because...yeah, I'm a nerd like that. I don't understand all the terminology, but I still find it to be a really neat thing.
I encourage those wanting to tweak a language to carefully read through the giant Readme on GitHub, which explains all of these settings in careful methodical detail. At some point I'm going to have to reorganize it a bit, but lots of headings. And reading for linguistic nerds, wooh-hooh? github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
I have a volunteer job if someone wants it. Ideally a Minnesotan, in my dreams, a Minnesotan that can speak Spanish. Here is what I need: a Google doc with every single possible rent relief resource you can find in Minnesota. Where people can apply, both from the government and every org possible.
I am getting dozens and dozens of emails pleading with me to give them money from folks who found StandWithMinnesota and think we are raising money to the website and can help them. I need an explanation, in english & spanish, that this is just a directory and a direction to the Google doc.
Well well, another NVSpeech Player update, finally I can say, out of the V13 days. Again, more settings to customize for language owners! 1) liquidDynamics Adds real movement inside liquids/glides instead of treating them as static blobs. You can dial in: • /l/ lateral onglide (a small “tongue tip” gesture) • American /r/ with an F3 dip (less “flat r”) • /w/ transitions with a proper start locus (more natural “w”) 2) lengthContrast For languages where length matters (HU/FI/JP/IT, etc.): • short vowel ceiling + long vowel floor (so long/short stays distinct at speed) • geminates get closure lengthening (tt/kk actually feel doubled) • optional compensatory vowel shortening before geminates 3) positionalAllophones Systematic “position rules” without hand-writing a million exceptions: • stop aspiration scaling by context (word-initial stressed vs intervocalic vs final) • /l/ darkness by position (clear [l] vs dark [ɫ]) • optional glottal reinforcement for final stops All are pack-configurable in settings: and default off unless enabled. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Like most of my mastodonian friends, or acquaintences, call yourselves what you will, i have recently tryed Fast SM. For a mastodon - Bluesky cliant that has just come out on the market it's pretty good. i've yet to discover a jaws with Leasy Key map in the list of Key Maps, but maybe that will be added down the road perhaps. having difficulties signing in to BlueSky with it, but i think it's more BlueSky than Fast SM. will deffenately follow developments with interest. excellent work. :)
So far today, I'm watching my football team struggle in the playoffs, learning a new synth, and doing laundry. All feel a lot better than endlessly looking for/at bad news!
I say this as a reminder to myself as much as anyone, but you probably did enough doomscrolling yesterday. Try to spend less of your day inflicting massive psychic damage on yourself.
This is really cool, had no idea you guys got Macintalk to run on Windows. Was just looking at the voice files and as an experiment tried opening them in Text Edit, you can modify all parameters and create your own custom voices. Wish I could get these to run on my actual Mac to test out.
Just installed FastSM. So far it's working great, but think the update check feature is buggy or something as it says version 0.4.1 is available with a random commit string that changes each time. I just installed 0.4.1 a few minutes ago. Other than that, I like it so far.
When I learned Trump had won the election I feared violence. My biggest fear was that right-wing death squads would target liberals, and that law enforcement would turn a blind eye, or be forced to do so. It just hadn't occurred to me that it would be so-called "law-enforcement" that would be doing the killing directly, under the protection of the government. But of course that's what Trump would want. He feels powerful when he can be cruel without consequence. #8647
This is going to sound a bit weird, but it might be a good idea to purchase a shortwave radio if you haven't got one already. They're quite cheap and small, you can buy one and store it long term just in case.
Shortwave is the only way to receive news and information internationally without relying on the internet or satellite. It might be a useful fallback to receive news from the outside world if your country's media and internet are ever restricted or closed down.
If you've never used one, it's like a normal radio but the frequencies reach around the world. Every country used to have its own station.
I made a joke yesterday about the fact that we'd be fine with China as long as they don't keep us from making the second season of Heated Rivalry, and Trump actually posted today that he hoped China would leave hockey alone when taking over us.
Can't even make jokes anymore, everything becomes true 😅
Shutdown leaves no alternative database to look up sites in Nova Scotia, expert says
The announcement has caused alarm in heritage circles across the country and in Nova Scotia in particular.
Launched in 2004, the register is a national searchable database of historic places recognized by federal, provincial, territorial and local governments. It contains about 13,500 listings.
When launched, the site described listings as "places that shape our lives, describe our history, and represent the diverse character of our country."
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
I wish every Blind person could own these. They are two globes. The one on the right is a relief globe, with the land masses outlined with fabric paint to make them textured. The globe on the right is an Intelo-globe. The stylus allows you to choose a mode, geography, geology etc. then run the stylus over the globe and hear information spoken. They were game-changers for me, and I still like to explore them. Not entirely tangentially, I was startled to discover how close Greenland is to Canadian territory like Elsmere Island.
A solo parent asked what they can do to resist ICE without putting themselves in the line of fire, knowing that their death would orphan their kid. Here are a few ideas.
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