From Michael Babcock: JAWS Tips: using Built-in Style Tools, Creating Your Own Keystrokes and Speeding up Styling With Custom Shortcuts groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/89…
From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Coming up Wednesday: Voiceover for Mac, a 12-week workshop begins! Starting Wednesday, April 2, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/89…
Hi. Is this free of charge? That would be amazing for some of my friends or students who were just learning and would like some supplementary instruction.
It’s hilarious how openly hostile @element has become toward its own users. Calling them free-riders¹ for not purchasing premium support is just bizarre. Imagine a project like nginx doing that. If you don’t want to be an open-source project, just stop.
The Trump administration’s spectacular security breach, in which it seemingly shared details of a planned military strike in Yemen with a journalist, highlights just what can go wrong if you use consumer messaging apps to run your government.
I've donated to both you and Signal, so a lot of people aren't averse to spending money if they think it's a worthy product and they have some extra cash. Antagonizing users by calling them "free riders" however will cause those of us who would have donated to not only not do that, but not recommend an app or service to others who also might have eventually donated or bought something.
I think you are overly harsh. Pointing out the security advantages of their premium product and the risks of using an unsupported community version seems reasonable to me. Open source businesses need to have a sustainable business model and that usually includes support, an enterprise feature set and custom development
“I discovered that words like ‘LGBTQ’, 'people of color', 'woman' and 'diversity' had completely disappeared from their sustainability report for 2024.”
Business journalist Iben Schmidt read Lego’s latest annual report and sustainability report ‘and they’ve basically been scrubbed clean of inclusion and diversity.’
The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a three-dimensional image of people's bodies.
@andreasio @blueghost Correct, email addresses need to be available for emails to be delivered. However, we encrypt all data of your contacts, also the email addresses.
I’m so glad that #IsarAerospace decided to live stream their launch. As @acolangelo recently put it on @meco learning from #SpaceX includes celebrating your failures.
в файлах вижу регулярно используется слово «Belarussian» (с двумя 's') - большая просьба исправить на «Belarusian».
Из англ. википедии: Before Belarus gained independence in 1991, the language was known in English as Byelorussian or Belorussian, or alternatively as White Russian. Following independence, it became known as Belarusian, or alternatively as Belarusan
@viachaslavic Кстати, с этим спеллингом и так хреново. Вижу равноправно используют belarussian, belorussian, byelarussian. Кому как попало. Майкрософт в своей документации использует belarussian, что я делаю, потому что это стало международно признанным.
хотя, как по мне, Андрей тоже выглядит пригодным при некоторых корректировках. Не знаю насколько это трудозатратней, чем генерация нового голоса на базе датасетов лучшего качества.
@viachaslavic Неа.... Без труда не вытащишь ни рыбку из пруда. К сожалению, Андрэй, насколько хорош, настолько у него тоже неизбежные баги, а мы тытаемся их минимизировать.
monocles launches its crowdfunding campaign on StartNext today! 🎉
monocles offers the solution for European independence from big tech. Be it the end-to-end encrypted chat, the secure email service or the privacy-friendly smartphones with our own operating system. monocles creates a decentralized, fair and ethical digital ecosystem for everyone.
Raketa Spectrum od německé firmy Isar Aerospace včera neodstartovala, jelikož bylo proti počasí. Společnost se ale nevzdává a další pokus o start se nabízí hned o den později, tedy dnes, 30. března.
The March 22 edition of Doing Braille Digitally from ACB Media is now available on their ACB Community podcast feed. We were the guest presenters, talking about the BT Speak and a teeny bit about the upcoming BT Braille. You can access it from the following link. acb-community.pinecast.co/epis…
Delta Chat has been affected by the funding cuts by the Trump administration. We need messaging technology that is secure, usable and not tied to Big Tech infrastructure. Please donate to the project if you can afford to: chaos.social/@delta/1142113004…
Bummer. Last week our OpenTechFund contract was not signed but suspended along with OTF itself. Shit happening overseas.
However, we wouldn't deliver resilient messaging infrastructure and apps if we weren't a resilient and fun community. We never had much money to begin with, and are graced with great pro-bono contributions.
We are now looking for other public funding but it takes time. Meanwhile it'd be great to get intermittent help via a wealthy donor or small tips delta.chat/en/donate
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Love this really nice write-up on embeddings in the context of LLMs, what they are and how they work. Incidentally, while reading this article, I discovered that VoiceOver on iOS supports MathML. That's quite nice! huggingface.co/spaces/hesamati…
This is what happens when your phone downloads podcasts when in a non-English-speaking country. Now I'm very curious to know what this is all about. Perhaps a trip to #ElevenLabs is in-order, but... How will it translate the chicken? 😂
Beeping, "ding" noises, various one off sound effects, forget that. Give me ambient-grade chord progressions for work that's going well. Switch to a minor key for degraded performance. Other programs can chime in with complementary instruments if they're working at the same time. Give me broken chords or discordance on error. What Linux really needs is an audio library with some real symphonic ambition.
Had a mail server that used to crash for reasons unknown every few days. As part of diagnosis, I made a monitor that would check status every 5 minutes and either play chirping burds if everything was healthy, or breaking glass if it wasn't, so I could do other things but be aware of the status.
When I started a site that did paid access, I added a cash register sound whenever a credit card was successfully charged, and our CFO used to sit in the datacenter on a stool giggling every time it went off.
I do cloud now, but there was something to be said about sitting right next to the stack. You could hear when things changed. Maybe I need to make something subtle that tells me about wifi traffic...
UK politics / police raid at a Quaker meeting house
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This is extra deeply troubling when you consider the historical importance and effectiveness of action made by Quakers against civil injustices perpetrated by the government. If you know your history you know that Quakers had been crucial to the abolition of slavery here, for one example. Fuck the police. Fuck the government. .quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/…
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Bang! Zoom · Bobby McFerrin Don't Worry Be Happy ℗ 1995 Blue Note Records Released on: 2025-03-26 Composer,...
The initial set of speakers and talks for ER is now published. A few highlights: - @gregkh on the EU Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA) - barriers to security on embedded systems - Steam OS impact on Linux ecosystem - Functional Safety on Linux - writing real-time applications - fully open source CNC and 3D printing
« Pour un numérique inclusif, responsable et durable », tel sera le thème de la 4e édition de la Journée du Libre Éducatif qui se déroulera le vendredi 4 avril 2025 pour la première fois dans les Hauts-de-France et pour la première fois dans un établissement scolaire, le lycée Carnot de Bruay-la-Buissière.
Dernière ligne droite pour les inscriptions "visiteurs" à la #JDLE2025 (23 mars)
38 frische #eBooks machen sich gerade wieder auf den Weg zu ebooks.qumran.org/ – und ich wünsche meinen Leseratten wieder viel Spaß beim Stöbern & Schmökern in den mittlerweile 13.121 Büchern!
Amigos brasileiros, o seu país acaba de ser adicionado à lista de países cobertos pelo FediMeteo! Abaixo está o link e as cidades atualmente suportadas:
Brazilian friends, your country has just been added to the list of countries covered by FediMeteo! Below is the link and the currently supported cities:
> The technology is not going to go away. We will not turn our back on it and put it back into the bottle.
We, or at least those who aren't being ordered to use LLMs in our jobs, *can* choose to turn our back on them and just not use them, and doing so might be the best way to reduce the harms. Also, I don't believe you mentioned the harms that come from training on people's work without their consent to create plagiarism machines. I think that's the thing that most concerns me now.
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