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Missing iPhone Voices? Restore Ava, Samantha & Other Favorites on iOS 17-18 and iOS 26 speechcentral.net/2025/06/27/m…

Missing iPhone Voices? Restore Ava, Samantha & Other Favorites on iOS 17-18 and iOS 26

Lost iPhone voices like Ava or Samantha after an update or new device? Learn why it happens, how to reinstall voices on iOS 17–18 and iOS 26, and discover Speech Central for next-gen AI speech.
sc (Speech Central)

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Missing iPhone Voices? Restore Ava, Samantha & Other Favorites on iOS 17-18 and iOS 26 speechcentral.net/2025/06/27/m…

Missing iPhone Voices? Restore Ava, Samantha & Other Favorites on iOS 17-18 and iOS 26

Lost iPhone voices like Ava or Samantha after an update or new device? Learn why it happens, how to reinstall voices on iOS 17–18 and iOS 26, and discover Speech Central for next-gen AI speech.
sc (Speech Central)

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"ai"-generated image captions are fucking shit

masto.ai/@HourlyPornhubbedHeat…

this one hallucinates a cat, says the dog is standing, mistakes the pink blobs for balloons and hallucinates a yellow balloon, makes up trees that aren't there, and doesn't mention the main focus of the comic, which is the two animals flying through the air thanks to the bubble gum bubbles they're making!

but yeah no cool, really really great technology for disabled people: just lie to blind folks about what's in a picture! what could go wrong!

garbage garbage garbage, if you're pushing this shit technology instead of advocating for people to take a minute to write a decent alt text then fuck you

:smh:

Hourly Pornhubbed Heathcliff 🔞 (@HourlyPornhubbedHeathcliff@masto.ai)

Attached: 1 image #Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewd
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modulux

It's unreliable, but it's better than the alternative which in most cases is nothing. Descriptions of unusual images are iffy, but for example finding out what a screen says, which lights are on on a router, what sort of liquid is in a jar... Lots of blind people are benefiting from this routinely. And there are no good alternatives. There's no reasonable world where we can count on a sighted person being always there to describe anything.
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Robert Kingett is away

I hear what you're saying about VI people using it. There are other options. Like, it's not like we're left without options. For example of a description effort without AI, explain how #Alt4Me works so well on here, as an alternative. Is it just a fluke in your eyes? @modulux @dumpsterqueer
#ALT4me @tobi is writing bugs @modulux
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modulux

Oh, that's definitely viable for images posted on the fedi. But image description of things around us for example is a lot harder. If I need to know what's around me, or what things are on a shelf or such, there's not much way around it. Projects with human volunteers are fine, but, for me at least, I'm pretty inhibited about letting some stranger see my living environment and such.
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bri

as someone who ran a heathcliff edit account on twitter for years, hand-wrote alt text for four comics posts every day, and convinced several of the other folks in that community to do the same, the alternative is this. it is doing the work, writing the text.

and while i might agree with you that it’s better than nothing on a silly social media post, it’s real bad in my professional life where it just lies about financial numbers in a chart &c.

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modulux

Right, where alt text can be provided, a human should provide it. But the world doesn't come with alt text, and can't. There are lots of things that can be done in tech to mitigate it, for example a device might beep in order to give feedback instead of just having lights. But there's tons of visual information in the world that's not really subject to this sort of solution.
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bri

i get it, i just really worry about the ‘better than nothing’ argument when like… even the op we were talking about… sure it’s low-stakes, but that alt text has zero bearing on the actual image. is having a fundamentally different experience really what we want to be pushing? and again, it trickles down and is getting harder and harder to push back on stuff in my professional life where it’s like… actually important. it worries me.

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Accessible Organizing: Tips for Protest Organizers and Disabled Protesters aapd.com/protesting-while-disa…

Accessible Organizing: Tips for Protest Organizers and Disabled Protesters - AAPD

To view this resource as a PDF, click here. Note: This resource is not intended to be legal advice and should not be used as such. These are tips for organizers and attendees on making protest spaces more accessible so everyone can use their power.
Jess Davidson (American Association of People with Disabilities)

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The Supreme Court Upholds FCC Policy for Funding of Phone & Internet Subsidy Program cordcuttersnews.com/the-suprem…

The Supreme Court Upholds FCC Policy for Funding of Phone & Internet Subsidy Program | Cord Cutters News

On Friday, the Supreme Court voted to uphold the FCC’s Universal Service Fund (USF) program. The program brings phone and broadband internet access to underserved communities and is funded by telecommunications services which are required to pay into…
Jess Barnes (Cord Cutters News)

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#X ist ein rechtsfreier Raum
arminwolf.at/2025/06/28/x-ist-… (von @arminwolf.at)

Auf dem ehemaligen #Twitter kann man offenbar wirklich alles machen, ohne, dass man (in der #EU) belangt werden kann: #Hass, schwere #Beleidigungen, #Morddrohungen, ...

Alle Abkommen wie der #DigitalServiceAct, die da etwas anderes behauptet haben, sind wirkungs- und sinnlos. Wie so viele Abkommen mit den #USA.

Danke für's Durchspielen an den Anwalt Philipp Längle der Kanzlei Längle-Fussenegger-Singer in Dorbirn. 🙇

lf-law.at/index.php/team/dr-ph…


X ist ein rechtsfreier Raum

Warum es praktisch unmöglich ist, anonyme Hass-Postings auf X zu bekämpfen: Die Gesetze sind zu schwach, X ignoriert sie, zuständige Behörden verweigern die Arbeit. Ein Erfahrungsbericht in zehn Schritten.
Armin Wolf
#twitter #EU #USA #x #hass #Beleidigungen #Morddrohungen #DigitalServiceAct @Armin Wolf

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For the next release of #Conversations_im I’m switching the default for showing all messages, including sent ones, left aligned, to 'on' for all tablets.

Combine this with disabling 'Colorful chat bubbles' and this looks pretty clean and almost like a regular desktop app.

This post is also a reminder to existing tablet users that those two settings exist. Too bad there aren’t that many of you.

#XMPP #Android

A screenshot of Conversations in tablet mode. The chat list is visible to the left hand side of the currently open chat.
#xmpp #android #conversations_im

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-…

Always read the terms and conditions, folks.

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/face…


Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Facebook users opting to upload their photos for “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll, including photos that have not been uploaded to Facebook’s servers.
Tina Nguyen (The Verge)

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Here's the absolute weirdest electric vehicle you've ever seen.
It was called the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway in the UK, and it's an elevated tram which ran on submerged (at high tide) tracks.
It started running in 1896 but was knocked out of action a week later by a storm. It was rebuilt and ran for 5 years, carrying thousands alongside the beach for no immediately obvious reason. 😄
It's long since gone but the fact it actually existed is surreal.
old tram on submerged tracks

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Learn how the Souls Circuit Pilet pocket PC combines portability, customization, and energy efficiency to empower tech enthusiasts everywhere

Source: Geeky Gadgets Learn how the Souls Circuit Pilet pocket PC combines portability, customization, and energy efficiency to empower tech enthusiasts everywhere
Source: Geeky Gadgets share.google/Svhs5Ix9CsmiMXo8q


Soul Circuit Pilet Review: Raspberry Pi 5 Linux Mini Computer - Geeky Gadgets

Julian Horsey (Geeky Gadgets)

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Someone made a port of Doom that runs in a PDF

I'm just...

github.com/ading2210/doompdf

GitHub - ading2210/doompdf: A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file

A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file. Contribute to ading2210/doompdf development by creating an account on GitHub.
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cassidyclown

@sun @feld Anyone should have the book thrown at them for kicking a dog that wasn't being aggressive, especially a small dog.
> 70 year old man from Egypt
this has probably been how he's treated any street dog that approached him his whole life without even thinking about it. If he couldn't show any restraint in an airport, then he almost certainly wouldn't in a local park when someone's shih tzu runs up to him. It's for the best that he's deported.
@Blurry Moon @feld
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I am slowly oxidizing my unix CLI. A lot of people have made rust based versions of common unix utilities and some of them are REALLY good.

Like fd-find for doing essentially find . -name blah. And rg (ripgrep) which does grep -R but it's aware of git, files like pyc or .bak files, and it excludes them by default.

Now I have sd which is hopefully replacing the last thing I used perl for. I write perl -pi -e s/x/y/g a lot. Just doing a quick string replace inside a file. So sd can start doing that.

I'm also trying to get used to zellij instead of tmux and starship for modern prompt decorations like the kids do.

These kids, my friends, are welcome on my lawn.

#rust #cli #linux

Rust Utilities

rustutils.com
#linux #rust #CLI
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scy

An ner anderen Ecke in dem Thread gab's ne Empfehlung für diesen Talk hier von der #GPN22:

media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-250-warum…

Ich hab da erst dran vorbeigescrollt, aber ihn mir jetzt doch angeschaut. Und wow, der hat sehr gute Argumente dafür, warum Kink gut zum Chaos passt, und der Vortragende ist auch einfach super sympathisch. Find ich. Empfehlung!

#GPN23


Warum sind hier Menschen mit Seilen?

Die Grenzen von Diversity: Ist Kink noch Diversity oder nur eine persönliche Vorliebe? Warum sind eigentlich auf Hackerveranstaltungen s...
media.ccc.de
#GPN22 #gpn23

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Get ready for Windows 11, version 25H2 - Windows IT Pro Blog techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl…

Get ready for Windows 11, version 25H2

How easy is it to move to Windows 11, version 25H2? As easy as a quick restart if you're on version 24H2! Today, Windows 11, version 25H2 became available to the Windows Insider community, in advance of broader availability planned for the secon…
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Day 3 of running Windows XP in 2025 is up.
I opened Enafore to check my Mastodon replies. It worked—for a few seconds. Then the notifications started. And they didn’t stop. Ping. Ping. Ping. I couldn’t reply. I could barely move the cursor. I watched the system buckle in real time.
So I tore XP apart.
I disabled over thirty services, deleted Windows File Protection, nuked the prefetch cache, rewrote shutdown behavior, and killed every background process that wasn’t strictly mine. If it touched the network, tried to log something, or ran without permission, it’s dead.
And you know what? Enafore runs fine now. JAWS doesn’t read new posts live, but I don’t care. I can read. I can reply. XP obeys.
Discord, though? Wouldn’t even load in the browser. Just a blank page. So tomorrow, I’m pulling in what channels I can through IRC. It’s not over.
Read the full post:
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#WindowsXP #Retrocomputing #BlindComputing #Accessibility #IRC #Mastodon #DeadOSWalking

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 – — fireborn

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#Accessibility #Mastodon #irc #retrocomputing #windowsxp #blindcomputing #deadoswalking

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It's my pleasure to announce storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future!

Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativeCommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut , @NiwlCraft and @jacobcoffin ! No AI will replace handcrafted art!

If you liked our @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , the Story Seeds are expanding its concept - soon with more, unpublished ones!

#climateChange #illustration #writing


Welcome to Story Seed Library!

A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!
Story Seed Library
#podcast #art #illustration #library #climatechange #solarpunk #writing #creativecommons #climate @Solarpunk Prompts @JacobCoffin @Lemon @Honora NiwlCraft

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Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS? Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.

No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps

PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.

More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…

What Is PureOS? A Beginner’s Guide for iOS, Android, and Windows Users – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#linux #privacy #security #surveillance
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