Is there anyone among my followers using Audio Technica ATH M60X headphones? I am trying to match a 1-quarter-intch adapter to their cable but none I have fit. A customer supporter (LOL) from Audio Technica says that any should fit but this does not seem to be the case here. Should I be looking for a specific adapter on Amazon? Thanks for any advice! #audio #headphones #audiotechnica
According to the internet, all three cables terminate to a 3.5 mm male plug. You can probably connect any threaded female 3.5mm (eighth inch) threaded adapter to it which terminates to a 6.3 mm (quarter-inch) male connection, no?
@twynn Well, this particular cable needs to be screwed into the adapter, hence I am not sure it is a "normal" situation. If so, then I wonder if those kinds of adapters have a name I should be searching for?
I have honestly found it easier to replace the cable, which comes with an adapter, than finding an adapter with the right thread size and depth. I also ran into this with my AKG K371's. There are so many of them, and while they are all the same electrically, physically, that's just not the case. You can get a really generic adapter without a thread that isn't recessed, but that isn't great long term.
@BorrisInABox Thanks. Done just that and when the cable arrived earlier today, there was no adapter inside. When I called Audiotechnica, the guy told 'me that they do not sell with adapters and that any should fit. This answer I found rather strange, hence my asking here.
Oh, well that's dumb. I can tell you, because I'm sitting here looking at them, that I have at least three different adapters that aren't compatible with each other's mating threads. Either they're too deep, or the threads are the wrong size.
@BorrisInABox OK, I think I found a kindred soul here. Let me call them back tomorrow then. I certainly cannot confirm that any 1-quarter-inch adapter fits their cable.
Tune into our newest episode of the Nation’s Blind Podcast where our hosts are joined by Jonathan Mosen, former producer and host of the Bolotin award-winning Living Blindfully podcast and our incoming executive director for Accessibility Excellence. They discuss Access On, our new podcast that focuses on the role that technology plays in living the life we want. Jonathan also provided advice and tips for new podcasters: nfb.org/resources/publications…
A study asked 50 doctors to make six different diagnoses for medical conditions. "Doctors who did the project without AI got an average score of 74%, doctors who used AI got an average score of 76%, and ChatGPT itself got an average score of 90%." "AI didn’t help doctors using it as much as anticipated because physicians “didn’t listen to AI when AI told them things they didn’t agree. Most doctors couldn’t be convinced a chatbot knew more than them." #LLM #AI #ChatGPTqz.com/chatgpt-beat-doctors-at…
@vick21 They mentioned that the researchers intentionally used the cases that are never published specifically so that the ChatGPT can't cheat from training dataset.
@vick21 The research article was published on journal JAMA Network. I don't have access to that, but I think it's a pretty serious peer-reviewed medical journal.
Believe me, it does sound amazing. It’s just when you see all these articles claiming this and that with no easy way to verify what they say, the questions arise! At the end of the day though it matters little until we see an impact in real people’s lives.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the diagnostic performance of physicians with use of a large language model compared with conventional resources.
@vick21 Maybe I'm not understanding the question. Isn't it the point of AI though? AI systems recognize patterns and draw conclusion from similar patterns they've seen before. They are not just capable of simply regurgitating exact pattern.
You did understand my question. I understand the premise. I just don’t want to assume, hence always asking… I’ll look at the article. Thanks for the link!
@vick21 Of course, Ask instead asume is always a great choice! :) Having said that, Jama is one of the most respected medical journals in the world with rigorous peer-review processes, so I'm sure if reviewers noticed anything suspicious, they would have raised red flags before publishing. :)
@vick21 From New York Times: "The cases intentionally have never been published so that medical students and others could be tested on them without any foreknowledge. That also meant that ChatGPT could not have been trained on them."
That’s cute… I wonder what sort of AI Jesus he/she/it is? Does their Jesus incorporates an encoder, decoder or both? I assume their Jesus is a multi-modal bot / agent? LOL mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl…
I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....
"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Hold on... Isn't this from the film THX 1138?
Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.
Here's a link to my RNZ Nine to Noon interview about the unfinished business I leave behind as I leave New Zealand. Yes, it's been an emotional week since the PM dropped his ableist grenade into the apology. rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
An award winning disability advocate, honored for services to the blind community, is quitting New Zealand - saying it's the worst country in the western world in which to be blind.
Did you really say this: “…it is the worst country in the western world in which to be blind.” Or is it just a sensational heading? I am sure I could point to a few contrary examples in the Western world, but then again, I never lived in New Zealand, so what do I know… :)
@vick21 I mean, I went to high school in college in Mexico. Believe me when I say it wasn’t exactly shits and giggles. The first University I applied to straight up told me they wouldn’t accept me because of my blindness. That they could not accommodate my needs.
I know that looking for a job is itself a full-time job. Hang in there and try to persevere and focus on your abilities, your strengths and what you have to offer to a potential employer.
What sites do you use for job listings? Are you on LinkedIn? Not that LinkedIn is the be all and end all for job searching and I admit you have to be cautious of scams but it can be a good place to network.
@DavidGoldfield linked in has been absolutely useless. sure I've networked, but it job leads mostly focus on my current job title which I told it I'm not interested in. I use indeed, and monitor the state job site. Sometimes I look directly at specific agency sites as well. I'm being extremely picky, and most things that interest me pay very shit. I can't afford a paycut, and nor do I want to go back in office full time again unless they offer me a lot more money. I'm immune compromised.
@DavidGoldfield My expertise is in reintegration after incarceration, so ideally helping run or build programs that focus on reentry, but I'm also open to other social justice, and human rights stuff. I just want to get out of clinical work honestly, so am trying to keep my options open. I hate clinical work.
Around 10 months ago I commented on the Flathub metadata guidelines being quite critical of some key parts and now it turns out Flatpak app developers also a...
Hi, magic fedi: does anyone know anyone with experience of locally opposing the construction of new arms facilities in the UK? Looking for any tips on strategy as I'm not sure where to start.
For fans of #DoctorWho with a qualifying print disability, the following title was recently added to the BARD service by NLS. The phrase "Doctor Who" is not found in the title or description, so people who search BARD for "Doctor Who" may not find it. I haven't checked to see if BARD has grouped it into a Doctor Who series. I've already read this book from Bookshare, as it's been available from that service for quite some time.
Harvest of time DB124336 Reynolds, Alastair. Reading time: 11 hours, 49 minutes. Read by Geoffrey Beevers.
Science Fiction
"When Unit is called in to investigate a mysterious incident on a North Sea drilling platform, the Doctor discovers that the Brigadier and others are starting to forget about the Master, Unit's highest-profile prisoner."-- From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Una última cosa antes de irme a dormir: Nos han pedido que firmemos digitalmente el documento X, que previamente hemos tenido que firmar a mano. Insisten en que pongamos firma visible y temo que la quieran para que la versión en papel también esté "firmada".
Y me han entrado grandes tentaciones de poner FELIPE VI R como nombre en la firma visible (puedes poner lo que te dé la gana, la identidad real está en metadatos). Pero mi autofirma firmaba con protocolo obsoleto y Acrobat no lo reconocía.
Ese es un gran problema de accesibilidad, porque Autofirma te pide que señales donde quieres aplicar la región de firma en el PDF y por razones obvias no lo puede hacer alguien que no vea.
Wow, I just spent the last few hours workshopping this unfinished PR with Claude. I get why AI is bad for unverified research and the like, but that I as a CMake know-nothing and after not getting help on the CMake forums was able to get a thing mostly building on Android when the build originally crashed a minute or 2 in, working through multiple problems and obscure CMake issues, kind of blows my mind. github.com/duckdb/duckdb_spati…
Thanks to #345 for getting this started. I took a slightly different approach:
The NDK prebuilds seem to ship with static zlib, so I hack CMake to find those. I also tweak the dependencies on Andr...
THERE IS ALMOST NOTHING MORE FRUSTRATING IN COMPUTERS THAN A LONG FORM REQUIRING INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES WHICH RESETS AND CLEARS IF YOU TAKE TOO LONG TO FILL IT OUT
One third of children in the UK are living in poverty and we have had a day with the media obsessing about rich farmers who want to keep their millions tax free. Who is orchestrating this utterly bizarre news agenda, and why?
very interesting, just got a message on Facebook on the basic site saying "Facebook will not be available on this browser after a certain date." I use Safari on the Mac. Anyone else received this strange message?
I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....
"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Hold on... Isn't this from the film THX 1138?
Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.
I don't like to say this, but I'm at the point at which I think deployment of websites and applications (including updates) should come with a compulsory accessibility impact assessment that can halt if the application or website is inaccessible withouth an extremely good reason (disproportionate burden or such).
That awkward tech moment when you're so used to Leasy that you attempt to use the key commands to select your text to copy and paste, only to realize, um, that does not work in NvDA! Um, oops?
En algún lugar de España, una o varias personas han decidido que un chaval tiene que ir a terminar la ESO a un CRE de la ONCE. Ha acudido a pedir información, escribiendo por un foro. Y alguien que tiene ese estilo de escritura, corriendo los tiempos que corren, no está para ser internado en un CRE ni de coña. Corre el riesgo de quedar marcado para siempre, y si se puede evitar, hay que intentar evitarlo. A ver si nos enteramos de quién es.
me deja loca como se generaliza. ME quedé ciega de repente, en verano y me vi en mi instituto de siempre, con cero problemas de integración y con profesores con ganas, pero yo era, de golpe y porrazo, una analfabeta con cero autonomía. Hice dos años en un CRE y menos mal, se que si no hubiese sido así no hubiese ido a la universidad. Hay mil casuísticas
@Lauristica con un buen equipo de profesores de apoyo habrías podido hacerlo. Ahora, ahí tenemos otro melón que abrir, qué son los EAB de la casita encantada y qué deberían ser. Los EAB deberían estar duplicados, triplicados o cuadruplicados. La enseñanza integrada es carísima y alguien no la quiere pagar aunque tiene herramientas para hacerlo. (1/2)
* requiring .NET 8, so no possibility to run it with Mono * adapted to run in IIS, something that should be deprecated * promoting and supported by JetBrains, this feels fluffing corporate like with lot of development projects recommending to use Discord * running YouTrack (JetBrains tool) to organize issues, again this feels like developers running Jira in corporations
This is misinfo so blatant that I have to respond publicly:
requiring .NET 8, so no possibility to run it with Mono
The mono developers got hired by Microsoft. The mono project and the dotnet project are under the same MIT license. The mono README clearly states that the mono project is a part of the .NET foundation, and explicitly recommends people to move to the microsoft fork of it.
adapted to run in IIS, something that should be deprecated
This was done as a joke. It's run on IIS by one person (me, the lead maintainer), and I've not even updated it to the latest version. The only thing that instance does is respond to pings with a funny reply. Our documentation clearly states that it's not recommended or supported.
promoting and supported by JetBrains, this feels fluffing corporate like with lot of development projects recommending to use Discord
Our "promotion" of JetBrains is limited to a one line comment at the bottom of the README. Promoting them is not a requirement of the open source license they gave us. I placed the shoutout there because I've been using (paying for!) their tools for a decade and believe that their .NET IDE (Rider) is genuinely superior to any other IDE or editor + language server on the market.
running YouTrack (JetBrains tool) to organize issues, again this feels like developers running Jira in corporations
We specifically do not use discord because we believe in using open-source alternatives where they exist. This is why we run a Zulip. We switched to YouTrack not because we prefer closed-source software (on the contrary!), but because we tried & failed to find an open source alternative that fits our needs.
Please think before you post misinfo in the future. Thank you, on behalf of the Iceshrimp team. We get nothing out of this. We don't even accept donations other than for healthcare expenses of a core team member who doesn't have health insurance. We don't advertise our project, either.
Čau lidi na modrém nebi i modrém slonovi :) Mám v plánu obnovit psaní newsletterů - o tom, co dělám a co vařím, co roste a zraje v přírodě i na zahradě, jaké budou v nejbližší době akce a svátky, o přírodním stavitelství, o vztazích...
Update: We have gotten the rent paid today. I went to the bank with someone to do it, and we left a message on the landlord's machine. I hope he gets it. If not, then it's on him, because we *did* pay it. We have the deposit reciept and everything if he wants proof. Good news today. Hopefully the week can only get better. Mom is still sick, but she has to change the numbers on the bills to this new card. I'm so glad that this card works. I was hoping it would. I told the assistant manager that the bank marked this card as a fraud and she was shocked. Apparently, the Direct Express card is a cash advance card, or what she calls it. Yeah, it has the government payment on it, but it probably shouldn't have been marked as a fraud. The direct express company didn't even know how to fix it except to say to get a new card. Anyway, that is my good news. Now I'm going to relax.
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This release contains some minor tweaks and some user-contributed features and fixes, most notably the ability to choose the amount of columns to display in the home screen and a fix to retain the search state when rotating the screen or opening a card.
nobody noticed the cheating, not even I 🙈 that screenshot was from the previous release, 2.32.1 – the index at the repo browser was not yet updated. So here's the one for 2.33.0, with results arrived from 2 builders so far.
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).
Anyone know of a good gitops-configurable web server mostly for static files?
Looking for something a bit like Netlify but self-hosted. I want to basically point it at a git repo containing a Hugo site and server config and either have it pull regularly or respond to a web hook. On change, it rebuilds the site or updates its config.
Examples of things I want to configure today would be redirecting /.well-known/webfinger and similar to another host, or telling the server to send /.well-known/matrix/server as application/json even though it's just plain text.
And before anyone tells me to just use nginx with cron and maintain the config separately/manage restarts myself, or just shove the whole thing in a container, I know I can do those things and how. I'm just looking for a simple self-hosted HTTP endpoint for mostly static hosting and it blows my mind that doesn't exist. Caddy is mostly there but its git support is all in-memory, and its exec commands only run on start/shutdown.
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