Elon Musk is overreacting to the brain chip for the blind
Elon Musk claims that a new brain chip from his company Neuralink will surpass human vision. US scientists review this and conclude that the claim is "at best unrealistic".
“Viral videos showed customers ending up with absurd orders as a result of the McDonald’s AI drive-thru technology, like the woman who didn’t really want nine sweet teas or the girl shouting “stop” at the screen as it tallies up more than two dozen orders of chicken nuggets.” #Enshittification
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I see Vance has chosen party (racism) over family.
(He has bi-racial kids and is clearly signaling they are allowed to identify with only one ethnicity and how they speak will be a measure of how well they match that ethnicity, which you can be sure he will assert is ‘white’).
@vick21 Yup. Three. He and his wife have been harassed by the white supremacists who support his ticket, but he seems unwilling to tell them they are terrible people with terrible beliefs.
A new #law goes into effect today in #Louisiana that will make it a misdemeanor for anyone, including #journalists, to be within 25 feet of a police officer if the officer orders them back.
Louisiana is the 4th state to enact one of these so-called #police "buffer laws," which allow officers to order people to keep their distance.
Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance. Journalists say the law will make it harder to document when police use excessive force.
Díky usilovné detektivní práci kluků kolem webu herniarchiv.cz se podařilo získat originální hru Videostop přímo od autora. Tím je Zdeněk Vodák a hru naprogramoval v MegaBasicu pro Československou televizi. Tam běžela na ZX Spectru gumáku a přes kempston interface byl připojený ovladač s tlačítkem #ZXspectrum #games #8bit zx-spectrum.cz/index.php?cat1=…
A study led by Georgetown University neuroscientists reveals that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind.
Next is @baabbaash speaking about "Zigzag Mosaics and Single-Line Drawings." He shows us how to create #MathArt from single-line drawings (paper here: archive.bridgesmathart.org/202…). The trick is to modulate the zig-zag of the line to make it lighter/darker at a pixel.
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I've written, and Fediverse discussions I've participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these products is simply that, from a cryptography and security perspective, they're not a real competitor to Signal. For all its other faults, Signal sets the bar for secure private messaging. It's a solid security tool, even if its user experience…
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…
Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti… As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here
nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec… The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.
@miki For ASAP it does, unless you want to go into review mode, which suspends the currently running program and gives the full keyboard to ASAP until you hit Escape.
@miki No. With ASAP if you press CTRL+Backslash you enter its control panel which allows you to both adjust its settings as well as review the screen with the arrow keys. JAWS for DOS also has a laptop layout but I don’t know its shortcuts.
@techsinger If you can find an emulator with a new enough version of mame, sure. Though the hard part with iOS would be accessibly configuring the correct hardware IE inserting the virtual ductal card. On a computer that’s something you can do through command line switches, on iOS you’d probably need to do it through Mame’s graphical and inaccessible UI.
@techsinger I have the previous version of the DOS archive. Is it just a simple as updating the executable with this new version or do I need new ROM files?
@jfayre @techsinger I’m not sure which dos archive you’re referring to but both of these packages are completely self contained so you should be able to just paste them somewhere.
@techsinger ok cool. Thanks for that. Just for my reference, where does one get these rom files? I see that the archives have dectalk, sb16, etc. These aren't included in the MAME release download.
@TheCube No, because this is emulating a 486 and I don’t think Mame can do anything faster. Windows 3.1 should work, fine and maybe also 95 though it would probably be extremely slow. I suppose the next step would be convincing the developers of 86Box or PCEM to emulate the Dectalk PC because that emulator is specifically designed to emulate mid to late 90’s hardware like Pentium 1 and 2’s for Windows 9X software and gaming.
@munchkinbear Interesting, makes me wonder if Daniel updated the archive since I last downloaded. I’d check but it’s downloading at 20 kbps, says it’ll take about 3 hours. Does the batch file in your case call curl download anything? The one I downloaded just runs mame.
@munchkinbear Oh, it looks like at least part of that batch file is running a big long command in a bash shell. And maybe, for whatever reason, the bash installation (presumably Cygwin, MSYS, or WSL) on your PATH doesn't have curl.
@matt it's running sh.exe from within the folder i extracted it to, so it's searching for curl from within that folder and not on the actual path's, as I ran sh.exe from the run dialog and ran curl from their and it's their, also curl runs from cmd as well. So I suspect it's trying to find curl.exe in c:\portable\pc (that's the folder this thing's existing in)
@munchkinbear @matt OK, I looked at it as well, it’s a really weird way of doing things. Before the archive already included Mame, and Jake’s package still does. But what he’s doing here is grabbing the windows mame from GitHub, then just extracting it (mame’s windows download is just a 7-zip extractor, using a windows port of SH for some reason). If you download Mame manually, extract it to the same folder then take the last part of the batch file it should run.
@matt how do I cleanly shut down the thing when I'm done? @JamminJerry and I cna't figure it out, if I close the batch file with ctrl+c it breaks the ram thing and I have to extract it again to fix it.
@munchkinbear @matt @JamminJerry The typical way to shut down MAME is to hit scroll lock to enable the MAME UI (mostly unusable with a screen reader) then hit Escape to exit.
@jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @JamminJerry I know this is a tangent, but on the part about the MAME UI being mostly unusable with a screen reader, if a developer with C++ chops wants to make the MAME UI accessible using AccessKit, I'd be happy to provide some guidance, but I don't have time to take on that project myself.
In reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/ceitb9/blind_user_with_a_couple_questions/ The easiest route would probably be to add hooks so OSD can speak the name of the currently selecte...
@jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @matt may I ask what might sound like a really stupid question? how do you use the screen reader commands inside the emmulation, and not your windows screen reader keys? I need to look at spellings of folder names and such, but the JFW curser just says blank blank blank.
@jaybird110127 @mcourcel @munchkinbear @matt ah, ok, will most certainly do that the next time I run it. I think this is just awesome as hell! being able to play with old dos stuff like this. you know how most people back then were using word perfect? my adoptive parents baught a program called first choice. now how many people remember that one?
@matt yep. it had a word processer, and let me think, I think a spreadsheet too. it has been so many years sense I have seen it, I can't remember what all it had, but I know it had a few things in it.
It looks like the version of Mame in the Raspbian repository is out of date, as starting this freedos.img produces an error stating that files are missing. Hopefully this version of Mame has an equivalent Arch64 release. I think we all know where this is going. BTFreedos on a BTSpeak would be something.
I express my sincere gratitude for this: • VoiceOver support is available in the Tags filter and the details of Column view. I basiclaly live in DT and that helps me a lot. mastodon.devontechnologies.com…
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The latest update to DEVONthink, version 3.9.7, brings a variety of improvements across the app, including new application scripts for web browsers, enhancements to Markdown transclusions, WYSIWYG editing, search, and more.
As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲
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Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform. This tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application.
As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain.
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Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.
The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.
There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."
LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?
Cloudflare making headlines again, probably not the way it would prefer. From @dangoodin at Ars:
A familiar debate is once again surrounding Cloudflare, the content delivery network that provides a free service that protects websites from being taken down in denial-of-service attacks by masking their hosts: Is Cloudflare a bastion of free speech or an enabler of spam, malware delivery, harassment and the very DDoS attacks it claims to block?
Proofpoint is tracking a cluster of cybercriminal threat activity leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels to deliver malware. Specifically, the activity abuses the TryCloudflare feature that allows an attacker to create a one-time tunnel without creating an account. Tunnels are a way to remotely access data and resources that are not on the local network, like using a virtual private network (VPN) or secure shell (SSH) protocol.
First observed in February 2024, the cluster increased activity in May through July, with most campaigns leading to Xworm, a remote access trojan (RAT), in recent months.
Campaign message volumes range from hundreds to tens of thousands of messages impacting dozens to thousands of organizations globally. In addition to English, researchers observed French, Spanish, and German language lures. Xworm, AsyncRAT, and VenomRAT campaigns are often higher volume than campaigns delivering Remcos or GuLoader. Lure themes vary, but typically include business-relevant topics like invoices, document requests, package deliveries, and taxes.
For what it's worth, I've always been confused by Cloudflare's official position on abuse, which is that they are not a hosting provider, but rather a pass-through, so it's not up to them to be arbiters of what's fine and not so fine.
But if you think about it, by that definition Cloudflare is the world's largest proxy network. Probably they don't use this term to describe their business because proxy providers are -- at least historically -- somewhat strongly associated with abuse.
Either way, if Cloudflare decides to stop proxying traffic for a particular customer, they are not being arbiters of free speech, as the CEO constantly claims. Because that customer's site will still be reachable. It simply won't enjoy the protection from DDoS attacks that Cloudflare offers for free.
Underneath all of these concerns, a lot of people in the security industry seem to believe that if Cloudflare were to somehow start clamping down on the rampant abuse of their services for cybercrime, then those bad actors will just move to someplace else where Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies have less visibility, like Russia's DDoS-Guard. That may be. But I say let's burn that bridge when we come to it.
I love this! Ask people to boost a post if they want to be "notified" of some special news, edit the post to send a notification. In this case @eniko even changed their profile display name so you don't even need to tap on the notification to know what's going on. 💜
Many of the features we take for granted today emerged first through creative use of the existing (limited) features of the platform (e.g. boosts were just "RT @originalaccount tweet" back in the days) and were picked up by platform developers when they become popular. This is how the userbase evolves a platform.
'Friend' launches as creepy AI gadget that could be straight out of Black Mirror: An AI collar that listens in around the clock and expresses its thoughts freely - Friend is designed to combat loneliness and accompany users in everyday life. Instead of answering questions or controlling smart home devices, Friend is intended to primarily offer emotional support. notebookcheck.net/Friend-launc…
@jpellis2008 This is my favorite quote from it: " Friend also expresses its opinions via text message without prompt." Uh, yeah, so you're having a romantic moment with your partner, and then this thing texts you judging it. What a world we'll be in. :D
An 11.5 inch display, a lot of memory, the latest Android with 4 years of updates and speakers from JBL; the new Lenovo Tab Plus promises a lot of features
I have a Tab M9, and we have a 4th gen Tab M8, and 3rd gen Tab M7 around, I would almost always recommend Lenovo tablets if people need an accessible android tablet.
Okay @BorrisInABox here it is, the thing you've been just waiting to hear. I dug up a demonstration (unregistered/unbranded) copy of ASAP and used it for a few minutes on an emulated PC. First you hear its sign-on message, then I delete several boring minutes and you hear the first demo nag, then after several more deleted minutes you hear another demo nag, just for good measure.
Did real DECtalk hardware have that high-frequency noise? To me that suggests a subpar sample rate conversion algorithm somewhere. Reminds me of the bad old days of early sound mixing under Linux.
@khronos A post about them from @pitermach: Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti… As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here
nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec… The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.
I got this laptop in the end: Chuwi MiniBook X review: Small, inexpensive laptop with one niche use case xda-developers.com/chuwi-minib… Intel N100, here we come with your crap performance. But for audiogaming and travel tasks to connect back to my home desktop, I suspect this will work
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