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[Blog Post] Apple releases iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2; Bringing Fixes and Refinements for VoiceOver and Braille Users applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…

Apple releases iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2; Bringing Fixes and Refinements for VoiceOver and Braille Users | AppleVis

Apple has today released iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2 to the public; bringing several accessibility fixes and feature refinements for blind, DeafBlind, and low vision users. iOS 18.
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Wrote up my initial impressions of the new Google Gemini 2.0 Flash model - it's really good, and the streaming mode (where you can stream video and audio to it and get audio streamed right back) is pure science-fiction simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/…

Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode

Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and …
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Simon Willison

@matt they've demoed it but it's not released as general availability yet - they put out a video demonstrating that here youtube.com/watch?v=qE673AY-WE…

Building with Gemini 2.0: Native audio output

Gemini 2.0 introduces multilingual native audio output. Watch this demo to see how this new capability can help developers build multimodal AI agents. These ...
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Hysterical, even if you don’t know your Mozart from your Bach, but exquisitely performed if you do! In the UK for one week only this year!
“We exist despite the sober formality of great concert halls, despite the boredom of classical musicians’ life, despite fanatic lovers of classical music, despite fans of rock, rap or pop who are afraid of classical music. We treat our Muse with a humorous irony and we’re sure, she will have nothing against it!”

The MozART Group are in the UK for one week only!

Looking forward to taking the wife to enjoy this in a few months. Something to Look Forward to in the New Year!

The MozART group performing in France last year.

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Som AI skeptik. Nie žeby aktuálne jazykové modely nedokázali veľmi pekné veci, keď sa nasadzujú na správne use cases ale očakávania sú prehnané a AI na nás vyskakuje pomaly aj z chladničky. Pália sa v tom miliardy a veľkohubé sľuby striedajú ešte odvážnejšie vyhlásenia. Myslím si, že je to cesta do pekla a táto bublina môže šeredne prasknúť.
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Ľuboš Moščovič

@janbogar
Z veľkej časti súhlasím, je tam úžasná reálna technológia, ale v tejto aktuálnej podobe nemá vôbec ani len teoretický potenciál zrevolucionalizovať všetko. Áno, sú oblasti kde to revolúciu prinesie, ale je ich oveľa menej než si od toho ľudia často sľubujú. A otázka je aj čas - kedy? Pretože aj v oblastiach, kde sme tú revolúciu očakávali už pred dvoma rokmi sa stále nekoná. Takže je tiež len otázkou času, kedy si otázku "dokedy máme čakať" položia investori, a to môže byť ten špendlík.
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Ján Bogár

No podľa mňa sú to nerealistické očakávania toho, čo je technologická revolúcia. Ony sa dejú pomaly a len spätne si ich predstavujeme prudko.

Ja si naozaj myslím, že o 10-15 rokov bude s AI skoro každý pracovať alebo ich prácu ovplyvní. O 50 rokov bude všadeprítomné a zapletené do každého aspektu života. Keď sa pozriem na iné dôležité technológie (internet, atómová energia, parný stroj,...), tiež to boli revolúcie trvajúce desaťročia.

A to som vo svojich odhadoch konzervatívny.

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🚀 Novinka od týmu OSCloud! 🌟

S radostí vám představujeme naši vlastní PeerTube instanci: VHSky.cz! 🎥✨

📽️ VHSky.cz je komunitní platforma pro sdílení videí. Bez reklam, bez sledování, jen čistá radost z tvorby a sdílení. 🐾

Hostujte svá videa.
Objevujte originální obsah.
Připojte se k nám a buďte součástí komunity! 🌍

🛡️ Co je PeerTube?

PeerTube je open-source platforma pro sdílení videí, která nabízí decentralizovaný přístup k hostování.

Žádné reklamy, žádné sledování.
Umožňuje propojení s dalšími instancemi díky síti federace.

🔒 Bezpečnost a soukromí

Vaše soukromí je naší prioritou. Na VHSky.cz:

Neshromažďujeme zbytečná data.
Data jsou chráněna a bezpečně ukládána.

💡 Proč to děláme?

Chceme vytvořit prostor, kde mohou tvůrci a diváci sdílet a objevovat videa bez vlivu korporací. Naším cílem je podporovat svobodu projevu, komunitní spolupráci a bezpečnost na internetu.
📝 Registrace

Registrace na VHSky.cz jsou aktuálně schvalovány moderátory, aby byla zajištěna kvalita obsahu a bezpečné prostředí.
Máte zájem? Kontaktujte mě, nebo @cynik_obecny přímo tady, nebo navštivte vhsky.cz.
#opensource #peertube #fediverse #Video #activitypub

VHSky

VHSky – Otevřená platforma pro sdílení videí bez reklam. Podporujeme kreativitu, svobodu projevu a komunitní obsah.
vhsky.cz
#opensource #activitypub #fediverse #peertube #video @Ivan Stloukal
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If you have time to dance the Hokey Pokey, you have time to get your security clearance.

Let me know when Global News, CTV, CBC, etc., AKA Canada's legacy, covers Pierre Poilievre's LACK of security clearance.

toronto.com/news/pierre-poilie…

#NOTALEADER #LEADERSDONOTDANCETHEYLEAD #cdnpoli #polcan


Pierre Poilievre appears to dance to the 'Hokey Pokey' at non-confidence vote. Here's what we know

Another non-confidence vote was taken in the House of Commons today.
Toronto.com
#cdnpoli #polcan #notaleader #leadersdonotdancetheylead
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"Nearly 70% of those laid off in the 2022 tech layoffs were women."

Since there's only 21% women in tech, I can't see how this is anything other than discrimination.

wired.com/story/tyranny-tech-b…

Job termination rates also show discrimination against BIPOC, queer, and disabled people.

prismreports.org/2023/04/03/te…

Via paris@hachyderm.io who saw the Wired article, and jmcrookston@mastodon.social who found a link to the Prism report.


Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros

Coalitions between feminist movements, minorities, and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.
Coleen M. Carrigan (WIRED)
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Sage Sharp

The 2022 tech layoffs were 70% women. BIPOC, queer, and disabled workers were also terminated at higher rates.

While we can't prevent corporate layoffs, we can ensure the future of the free and open source community is more diverse and inclusive. Outreachy and Conservancy are vital to that future.

@outreachy connects people who face discrimination and systemic bias to internships in free and open source software. @conservancy staff and contractors run Outreachy.

Outreachy corporate sponsorships and grants have been drastically reduced since 2022. This means Outreachy can't offer as many internships to people who face discrimination and systemic bias in tech. Outreachy's normal 60 to 70 intern cohorts have been reduced to 25 to 35 interns.

Please consider donating to the Conservancy fundraiser, in support of Outreachy and the diverse and inclusive future FOSS needs:

sfconservancy.org/donate/

#freeSoftware
#OpenSource

Donations - Software Freedom Conservancy

The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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#FreeSoftware #opensource @Software Freedom Conservancy @Outreachy Internships
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What the shitting shit are you doing Microsoft, you shits? What an epic shit show of epic shitting proportions!

Microsoft is giving Copilot a new taskbar UI and keyboard shortcut on Windows
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Microsoft is giving Copilot a new taskbar UI and keyboard shortcut on Windows

Microsoft is changing how Copilot works on Windows yet again. A new update includes a quick view UI and a new keyboard shortcut.
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x0

@fireborn @miki My actual gripe is stealing the existing shortcut when they've already got one, as alt+space needs to be used by things already. Maybe they're just trying to unify things, but in that case the keystroke for the system menu needs to be rebound and that's gonna break all the muscle memory. The system menu is necessary, apps can add their own shit there it isn't always the default actions which can be accomplished with other shortcuts.
@miki @aaron

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Skvelá miniséria Českej Televízie o romantic scamoch a falošných pracovných inzerátoch. Odporučte to svojim osamelým známim alebo ekonomicky nie úplne podkutým kamarátom.

Podvodníci v síti 1:
ceskatelevize.cz/porady/109742…

Podvodníci v síti 2:
ceskatelevize.cz/porady/109742…

#romanticscam #awareness

#awareness #romanticscam
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🪧Save Music, Save the Archive!

"Over 500 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to realign their actions with the interests of working artists"

savethearchive.com/

#internetarchive


Save Music, Save the Archive!

Save Music, Save the Archive! Over 500 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to realign their actions with the interests of working …
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#internetarchive

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Bis zum Burn-out: Open-Source-Entwickler von KI-Bug-Reports genervt

Sie kommen freundlich und wohl durchdacht daher: Doch bei genauerer Prüfungen stellen Open-Source-Maintainer fest, dass immer mehr Bugreports KI-Unsinn sind.

heise.de/news/Bis-zum-Burn-out…

#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Software #news


Bis zum Burn-out: Open-Source-Entwickler von KI-Bug-Reports genervt

Malte Kirchner (heise online)
#software #News #kunstlicheintelligenz

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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Featuring @tink, @oedipusnj, @ben, @JoeLamyman, @TetraLogical, @hhillen, @ozewai, @wilco, @MerylEvans, @felixh10r, @j9t, @TPGi, @homer, @bramus, @mia, @matuzo, @pepelsbey, @rachelandrew, @CSSence, @malarkey, and more. Subscribe info: d.fumn.edu/itss/training/onlin… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Web Design Update: December 11, 2024

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#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Rachel Andrew @Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻 @Manuel Matuzović @Mia (web luddite) @Homer, CPACC @Léonie Watson @Gregory J. Rosmaita @Wilco @Bramus @Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇳 🇵🇸 @Ben Myers 🦖 @Andy Clarke @Matthias Zöchling @Vadim Makeev @OZeWAI @JoeLamyman @TetraLogical @Hans Hillen @Felix Hessenberger @TPGi, a Vispero Company

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[Blog Post] A Warning to VoiceOver Users Regarding Volume Issues in watchOS 11.2 applevis.com/blog/warning-voic…

A Warning to VoiceOver Users Regarding Volume Issues in watchOS 11.2 | AppleVis

Apple announced that today they will be releasing watchOS 11.2 to the public. This post contains preliminary details about an issue that we believe VoiceOver users need to be aware of prior to installing this update.
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