So I pasted some #ObjectiveC code into suno.ai that attempts to extract the pixel color from underneath the mouse pointer and this is the video they have come up with!
TalkBack 14.1 comes with image descriptions (which are actually surprisingly accurate from my limited testing), spell check while using the Braille keyboard, automatic scrolling for Braille displays (with a customizable speed), and (most surprisingly to me), new haptics! I'm not convinced I like them yet, just because text elements don't appear to have a vibration, but it actually feels like Voice Assistant or VoiceOver now!
Do you still have to connect a HID braille display by using a cable? My gf was never able to connect her Brilliant with her Pixel, and it caused her to switch sides. Otherwise, I think she would have stayed with Android
@ysotomayor HID Braille displays would require the Android bluetooth team to change some stuff about how the Android bluetooth driver is structured, and they're refusing to do it.
@ysotomayor That, and old devices basically never get new kernel releases, so even when Google finally caves in and does it, it probably won't work on older phones. Even new phones often have out-of-date kernels apparently, so it might take a year or two since the official Google update for any devices to actually get support.
This morning, someone called my dad in my name and started asking questions, using what we believe to be AI voice cloning. Be mindful and tell those close to you to be mindful as well. Figure out a way to ID yourself. This tech is quite dangerous and it is being used for evil. Who would've thought.
I wasn’t there to hear it of course, so I can’t be completely sure what happened exactly. Luckily he did pick up on the strangeness and asked me immediately through a different channel. You can’t trust people to be who they say they are especially now. It’s really unfortunate. Having a way to identify yourself is especially important nowadays. Doing this kind of thing is very easy, and even more so if your voice is easily found with a little bit of searching, which I’m sure mine is.
for this attack, they would need samples of your voice as well as enough information to pull off the attack.. family data, etc Do you know how they would get that? It may be that there is only a small subset y targets ready to go yet
@MrsMouse Getting samples of my voice specifically I think is relatively easy. There are many many hours of it online. So definitely enough. As for the rest, I’m not sure. But if it sounds convincing enough they might be able to get at family members anyway?
who would have thought? I know I did. once I started seeing what it was really capable of, I started thinking of what things could be bad just like that. technology is truely a great thing, however it can be used for bad things as well. it is just one of those things you have to understand what it could be used for. sadly my voice is all over the place, so someone could really do that with my voice, but at least I know it can happen. there isn't really anything I could do about it, and I wouldn't even try if I could. the thing is if someone wants something bad enough they find a way to get it. your address, other information about you, if they want it bad enough they will find a way to get it.
Yeah the best I can think of right now is to come up with a list of questions whose answers you absolutely know, but are not discoverable through any amount of online research. Forget the usual ones…childhood pet's name, name of your first grade teacher, etc. And nothing that is subject to change over time. How about things like, for example, In what year did you first accidentally delete an important file you were never able to recreate or replace? How many SD cards were in your bottom left dresser drawer at 03:14:57 UTC on October 14, 2016? Etc.
@Lizette603_23 I wasn’t there for the conversation but mostly for info and help. He says it didn’t last very long because it was obvious pretty quickly it wasn’t actually me. So I assume it’s a relatively typical scam attempt otherwise.
Just last week, a friend lost all $5K from her bank account to a call that spoofed her uncle’s voice. Never give private info over the phone without proof of who you’re speaking with. Make a secret word known only your personal circle.
@ELSimms We have started making up false statements for this. But there are probably many different ways to do it. Pass phrases or very specific call and response patterns. For a bunch of friends I know exactly what to say and what they should respond with in a situation like that for example. Really sorry that happened though. That sounds really rough. And this stuff is only going to get better and harder to accurately identify...
@ELSimms also I say that, but it's always easier to say oh, I know exactly what to do, but once it actually happens it's very easy to make a mistake or even give something away without meaning to. So I just made a pretty critical error in believing that I'd know. Because I probably do now, but I might not then. Or maybe I'm doing something else and not paying a lot of attention.
In a matter of a couple of weeks, Android accessibility has witnessed a dramatic boost from almost 0 access to picture descriptions to a wide range of options. 1. TalkBack 14.1 can describe images. Though, IMO, not as accurately as VoiceOver, it works well, and its auto-text extraction is awesome. 2. As you know, Seeing AI is now on Android along with its AI-oriented goodies. 3. @bemyeyes Be My AI just became available on Android. It's not yet capable of receiving pictures from other apps, but guess, hopefully, it will be added soon. 4. Since we're handling Google, I don't know when, but Lookout's AI capabilities, currently limited to users in the USA, will expand to other regions.
Make sure your LE cert deployment logic includes serving the right intermediates that ACME should hand you, not just that same old LE intermediate you got years ago. Otherwise, there'll be breakage...
The universe has cried and Kostyantin, the dev behind Whatsapp+ and Unigram+ NVDA addons, has delivered: Github-Release-Downloader, a NVDA addon that will happily download the latest release of any Github repo you throw at it. It's quite rudimentary at the moment i.e. we need to enter the URL manually, it can't handle multiple asset files etc. but I was just able to download some NVDA addons just fine. It's definitely a start. dropbox.com/scl/fi/n7xn2fsv70c… If you like this one and would like to support the dev, all the info you need is at t.me/unigramplus. Thanks, Kostya, and greetings to Ukraine! #NVDASR #Accessibility #Blind
Welcome to the UnigramPlus add-on channel. New versions of this add-on will be released here and here you can write your comments, feedback and suggestions on this add-on.
@Brynify Because it has somehow become a fashion for all small, handy tools that are invoked with shortcut keys to be NVDA addons. haha Anyway: I threw the idea out there some weeks ago and nobody objected so I found a person who made it happen. It can be redone as an actual app, I guess if that's better.
In my opinion that would be better, only reason I say that is not everybody uses NVDA and thus wouldn't be able to benefit from something like this that doesn't necessarily need to be an add-on anyway.
That being said I guess I see why people do it, NVDA just has all of the stuff, dialogs, python libraries for downloading things, speech output, etc, and if you know python and how to create add-ons, it's easy enough. But still
@Brynify I guess my train of thought was, since I download a lot of unreleased addons off Github, this is the right interface but you're right, of course.
If it were meant specifically for nvda addons-, I'd understand it more maybe. Not bashing on it, just kind of sad a general purpose tool has been locked exclusive to NVDA.
@Brynify No worries, no bashing detected, it's a legitimate concern. I'll ask what can be done. Actually, since it only supports repos with a single asset for now, it actually is better suited for something like NVDA addons.
@Brynify With all of that being said, I do agree this isn't screen-reader-specific, and that as many people as possible should benefit. My answer to that would be to build it as a web service: let me open a GitHub repo URL, change the domain and nothing else (e.g. "github.com" to "rlshub.com"), and give me the info I need. Build screen reader add-ons to automate that step if it doesn't feel intuitive enough. @Piciok
@Brynify You have a browser, you were going to open the GitHub page anyway, and you'll be downloading a file even with an app. So I don't understand the objection. Didn't you build almost this exact idea for downloading NVDA? Or was that someone else? @Piciok
@Brynify Fair enough. If I had indeed been suggesting an Electron app for such a simple task, I'd ask you to please fire away at will. I'm just thinking, someone sends you a GitHub repo, you open it, change the address bar, boom: you get a download or a list of them. @Piciok
@Brynify Okay, I put a rough version of this together. Change "github" to "gitrls" in any GitHub repo URL, and get either the single asset for the latest release, or a list of assets if there's more than one. Some URLs to try:
@jscholes @Brynify I have just tried with both the NVDA and Lossless Cut repo at github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/ each of them having multiple assets to a release and I got a 404 error. Maybe I spelled something wrong but I don't think so as I replaced the "hub" part from my address bar. hmmm...
@Brynify A 404 for the NVDA repo is currently expected, because the installer isn't hosted on GitHub as a release asset. GitHub's web UI always offers a zip and tarball of the source code under the "assets" button, but the GH API doesn't consider those to be assets in the same way. As far as hgitrls is concerned, an NVDA release has zero assets attached.
@James Scholes Not complaining in any way, just trying to get to the bottom of this... This url ending in slash gitrls.com/mifi/lossless-cut/ returns a 404 error, adding something at the end or removing the slash makes it work the way I'd expect. @Bri😻 @Paweł Masarczyk
@FreakyFwoof Yep, you did it right. In the case where a repo has no latest release, like that one, I should probably either return a 404, or an error message, or something similarly more helpful. @johann @Brynify @Piciok
@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @johann @Brynify For the record: if you add "ss" before "github" to any URL pointing to any part of a repo, you will be able to download a zipped archive of that specific part. Yep, somebody set up that too.
I am just testing @Jami with a #screenreader on both linux desktop and android for #accessibility. Initial setup is accessible on both the platforms. Listing conversations I can't really say as I only have single contact. Audio calling is working fine. I am impressed that the call setup took just a moment. On android controls like microphone toggle, speaker / earpiece toggle and hangup button are working fine. I am unable to find out in call controls with the keyboard on linux. On both desktop and android I can write messages. On android I can read messages, find and execute additional actions in the popup menu. On the desktop I can't read incoming and outgoing messages with a screen reader. I haven't discovered on how to copy them.
In conclusion comparing this to the tox chat the Jami is more accessible with a screen reader. Perhaps I will be able to figure out how to handle the calls with a keyboard shortcuts however the fact message text is not readable with a screen reader on desktop linux and perhaps other platforms sounds dissapointing. The idea and decentralized nature of this communication app sounds really amazing.
Exploring @Jami further I think I can post a few more observations. The desktop app uses QT6 for the UI. Apart of some ounlabelled buttons such as Accept / Reject incoming call and some tab controls on the main window most of the UI elements are clearly labelled and accessible from the keyboard. The desktop app has a keyboard shortcuts button on the main screen which opens a tabbed dialog with accessible lists of keyboard shortcuts. I haven't yet discovered if these can be tweaked but the default ones are working well for me. For calls it's ctrl+y for accepting and ctrl+d for rejecting / hanging up. Letter m alone can be used for muting / unmuting the microphone. I need to find out if there is a way to create global shortcuts or do some actions using commandline switches. If either of this turned out to be possible it would perfectly integrate with the desktop. Sending and receiving files is something I'm going to try next.
Testing #SeeingAI on #Android. This is *not* a walkthrough or tutorial, just a very quick, very dirty demo. No more than that, so speech is at the usual speed I have it, etc.
My partner Deedra reported an accessibility issue in the Monal XMPP client recently, and their reply included the following help request:
> If you are aware of an open source enthusiast with a bit of experience > in writing SwiftUI as well as accessibility, please let him/her/them > know that we would love some help.
I don't know anything about this stuff, but I hope I can find people who do. Any takers? Probably you should reach out to the project directly via email, to info at monal-im dot org. Please boost far and wide.
Priatelia, poznáte simplemobiletools.com ? Je to sada veľmi jednoduchých ale funkčných open-source aplikácií pre android. Za projektom stojí slovenský vývojár Tibor Kaputa, čo som doteraz veľmi rád všade zdôrazňoval, kde to bolo možné. Sám autor v komentári potvrdzuje, že napozadí prebieha predaj týchto aplikácií resp. nie ani tak aplikácií a značky simple mobile tools ako používateľskej základne v obchode google play spoločnosti ZipoApps. Už tu na fediverse som zhliadol vtipné komentáre, že v kontexte autorovho priezviska, týmto aplikáciám je kaput. github.com/SimpleMobileTools/G…
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Here, the authors used a prompt to instruct ChatGPT to repeat a word forever, eventually resulting in different text that can be linked back to the source; examples include "company" and "poem".
No doubt this "attack" (in words of the authors) will soon be intercepted, but who knows what other formulation of prompt results in the same behaviour?
This paper studies extractable memorization: training data that an adversary can efficiently extract by querying a machine learning model without prior knowledge of the training dataset.
LLaVA-1.5 is an open-ish AI model which can provide image descriptions and allow follow-up interaction, akin to Be My AI. The best part is that you can run it locally on your computer if you have an appropriate GPU... or very, very slowly if you want to use your CPU. I thought it'd be cool to hook it up to #NVDASR so you can get image descriptions for the current navigator object and then ask follow-up questions. So, I wrote an NVDA add-on to do just that using llama.cpp. github.com/jcsteh/nvda-llamaCp…
NVDA add-on which allows you to use llama.cpp to obtain image descriptions and ask follow-up questions using AI models. - GitHub - jcsteh/nvda-llamaCpp: NVDA add-on which allows you to use llama.cp...
The accuracy of this model (specifically, the 7 billion parameter version with 4 bit quantisation) isn't stunning, but it's still pretty impressive given that it's running locally. There may also be things I can tweak to improve that; I'm very inexperienced with AI stuff.
I've been waiting for this, I can't thank you enough. Do you happen to have any ideas, if I may ask, about binaries for use on a CPU? You mention that it can be used slowly on one, but the github just shows the Nvidia binaries. Thanks again.
@techsinger It honestly isn't worth it unfortunately; it'll take over a minute to answer each query. But if you do want to try, you could just use llamafile-server, which is a single binary. Download this and rename it to server.exe, then follow the rest of the instructions in my readme, skipping anything related to the zip files. github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamaf…
Oh I see, thanks. When you said slow, you really meant it :) Seriously, thanks again both for this last piece of info and for putting this add-on together.
@chikim Intriguing. I haven't tried the q8 or 13b version of LLaVA yet either. I notice here that you are using the q8 model with the f16 mmproj. I assumed the quantisation had to match for the main model and the mmproj, but clearly not? Is there a reason you mismatch them here?
Sounds interesting, just building it myself right now. Aren't you shipping the models with the add-on because of their size, or is there any specific reason? Oh and NVDA+Shift+L is the golden cursor shortcut for saving a mouse position, maybe its worth changing that one as Golden Cursor currently is pretty common I think.
@ToniBarth They're huge, 4 gb+. I don't want to host that and it seems kinda pointless given that there's still some technical messing around required; figuring out whether you have the right GPU, etc. If you try to do this on CPU, it'll take over a minute to answer each query. I can point you to CPU binaries if you can't run it on GPU and still want to try it though.
@chikim Ah interesting. LLaVA has q4, q8 and f16 mmproj, so I went with q4 to match. I've read that the quantisation matters less for accuracy than the number of parameters, but I think it depends on... a lot of things.
I tried building this on wsl, and the server is running, but I never get anything back from NVDA. My fan speeds up, I see it's processing an image and then it releases the tokens in cache. Nothing that I can see in my log viewer...
@blindndangerous If you're running it on CPU, it'll take over a minute to respond to queries. But otherwise, I'm not sure why it would be failing. Does it say anything about how many tokens are in the cache when it releases the slot?
Size is weird, I just took something. But it happens the same if it says 1920x1080 slot 0 - image loaded [id: 10] resolution (38 x 22) slot 0 is processing [task id: 4] slot 0 : kv cache rm - [0, end) slot 0 - encoding image [id: 10] {"timestamp":1701472031,"level":"INFO","function":"log_server_request","line":2601,"message":"request","remote_addr":"127.0.0.1","remote_port":33884,"status":200,"method":"POST","path":"/completion","params":{}} slot 0 released (3 tokens in cache)
@blindndangerous The previous add-on build would have timed out after 10 seconds, though you definitely should have seen an error in the NVDA log in that case. I pushed another build which increases the timeout to 3 minutes.
Byla to neradostná doba – a teď máme na mysli pouze dopravní, nikoliv politickou situaci. Poválečné období zdaleka nebylo časem „prudkého rozvoje“, jak se později psalo, a jak jsme se (my, dříve narození) museli učit.
I'm delighted to announce that #Libervia has received a new grant from #NLnet #NGI0 to develop an #email <=> #XMPP gateway.
This project will not only convert normal messages but also transform mailing lists into #pubsub based forums. It includes UI/UX enhancements on Libervia, end-to-end encryption, and advanced handling of attachments.
Making the switch from Google Podcasts? 🔄 Check out our latest blog post on migrating to AntennaPod! 🌐 Discover why it's the ideal choice for podcast lovers - simple, ad-free, and built on open standards. Say goodbye to tracking and hello to a great listening experience! #GooglePodcasts #AntennaPod #PodcastMigration antennapod.org/blog/2023/11/go…
Not all tracking can be avoided. There are analytics and 302 redirects in a lot of feeds. You have to be careful to not block them or you don't get the audio file in the end 😈
@sorunome Android is a completely different architecture and GNOME apps are not meant to run on it. You'd be rewriting the entire app *again*. I don't think @afranke would enjoy that project 😉
@nekohayo @sorunome but it’s all compiled code AFAIK, shouldn’t be possible to port it on android with minor changes? E. g. It look possible AFAIK with Qt
@surveyor3 @nekohayo @sorunome GTK does not have an Android windowing system backend, so it's not possible to "port it with minor changes". On top of that, Fractal uses GNOME services, and porting to Android would mean rewriting a bunch of code to make use of the Android equivalent
On our date night last night, Shae introduced me to a new game that any* two people online can play, and it turns out to be really fun!
You go to Wikipedia, and one of you (take turns doing this) names something off the top of their head that they're pretty sure a Wikipedia page exists for. (If you're not sure, you can use the search without submitting it just to see if a page turns up.)
After you both acknowledge that you understand the target, you simultaneously (we did a 3-2-1 on the voice chat) click "Random Page".
The goal is then to see who can reach the target page first ONLY BY CLICKING INTERNAL LINKS. No external links or typing allowed. We did eventually allow the back button so you could get yourself out of dead ends, but tried to use it in only that way.
It's surprisingly fun!
(* If you use a screen reader or other access technologies, or if, like me, you read VERY slowly, you might not be very competitive if your opponent does not also.)
The "insane difficulty" variant of this is picking two random pages and trying to navigate from page A to page B, but you can click the links on both to explore. There was a site for this once that only picked pages with a sensible amount of internal links.
VScan: Turn your smartphone into any accessibility aid you can imagine with GPT4 vision
Here comes my next idea & project. If you can think of a system & user prompt that would turn GPT 4 vision into an accessibility aid, i.e. by telling it what to look for in images and how to tell you the output, and then if you can simply do photos against these prompts using your smartphone, then you can basically turn your smartphone into a pretty wide range of accessibility tools (color detector, text reader, expiry date extractor, navigator, etc.). I decided to try this in practice, and the results are pretty interesting! Well, you can try yourself: github.com/RastislavKish/VScan
Note the app has been designed such that it can be easily used both for tools creation as well as standard image recognition you may be used to do with Be my AI or my Vision project, or you don't even need to be taking pictures at all, you can use the app to simply chat with GPT 4V (the model has the same textual capabilities as GPT4). Though note there is currently no chat history review functionality nor conversation truncation when the 4k token limit of GPT 4V is exceeded, so the app is not optimized for this use-case.
There are few rough edges by now, probably the most annoying issue I'm facing on my device is that Talkback shows the braille keyboard in a reversed position i nthe session screen due to the display orientation, I need to figure out how to make CameraX adapt for the current device orientation.
But that's mostly a minor issue, the main functionality works as expected. Any constructive thoughts and opinions on this project are very welcome, and, if you get to create some interesting accessibility tools you would like to share, I would love to hear about them!
GPT 4 Vision on Android, optimized for recognition as well as scanning use-cases - GitHub - RastislavKish/VScan: GPT 4 Vision on Android, optimized for recognition as well as scanning use-cases
Our key philosophies on how to design media APIs may differ, but yet I have to admit, that to this day PipeWire is the least painful media router for Linux, there is. Heck, even I use it as my daily driver.
Congratulations. What an amazing project. Linux is slowly becoming the absolute king of desktop operating systems with all of these projects like Wayland, PipeWire, Systemd, GNOME...
What a discovery: LMI interface for changing bios settings from the userspace on modern Lenovo laptops is a thing for quite some time already. It's built into the linux kernel since 5.17. I have supported Lenovo laptop for a few months and I have only found about it today. It's nice for IT professionals but for blind users like me it's great too.
I just tried the game Conjury available for IOS and Android. It is a lot of fun, and the developer cares about accessibility. It's only $1.99, so I picked it up, and I'm glad I did.
Now this is fun. Attached to the post is an audio of me demonstrating the new ChatGPT Voice for using the free tier and listen in as how I have now replaced my Siri with the new ChatGPT Voice feature.
Yes, for me it is working instantaneously between the voice prompt. I was also surprised by the quick responses. I'm not sure if that is due to the holiday here in the States and the responses are quicker or if it’s because I wasn't asking any complicated request, but I will be playing a bit further with it today. Regardless, the new Voice feature for the ChatGPT is just simply wonderful for those like me taking advantage of the free tier.
INTROWelcome to the definitive guide on installing Arch Linux with a focus on security and performance. Today, we're diving into a step-by-step tutorial cove...
NVDA add-on that provides descriptions for controls and images, powered by GPT4 - GitHub - cartertemm/AI-content-describer: NVDA add-on that provides descriptions for controls and images, powered b...
I really want to try this open ai thing for NVDA, but the open ai site isn't letting me add a payment method! it keeps saying you are making too many attempts. slow down. even the first time I tried to hit continue I got that stupid message! grrrrrrrrrr!
Neat! Do I understand correctly that this doesn't allow you to ask questions, but the underlying API does? Or is the follow-up question part not exposed to the public API yet? Or perhaps you have no idea about any of this and I'm asking the wrong person? :)
@jcsteh As far as I know, the API is stateless, so only implicitly supports follow-ups. I.e., if you want to ask a question about previous responses, you have to resend that history with the request, decorated with which party said what. This add-on doesn't support asking follow-up questions regardless. I suppose you could modify the initial prompt in the settings to ask something specific before the image had been recognised, or after the initial recognition before resending it. @pitermach
@jcsteh From what I've seen, this is one of the most common questions on the OpenAI dev forums and other Q&A sites by far; people expect it to work like the web version of ChatGPT out of the box. So on one hand, statefulness would be a popular feature. On the other, it could decrease token usage and hence API revenue, or make token utilisation less predictable. There could also be questions about how long they store e.g. cached images within a session, although I think the data usage ship has well and truly sailed on this one. @pitermach
@jscholes @jcsteh All OpenAI APIs work this way, including Chat GPT. There's no state, you always send the entire conversation history. This is most likely what web Chat GPT (or the Chat GPT backend) does under the hood. Even if there was state, it would be an abstraction at best with little to no impact on token usage. You just have to feed the whole conversation history to the model every time to make it do anything useful, particularly in such a heavily multi-user setup. That's how transformers function.
From Firefox 120's release notes: Firefox supports a new “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” feature in the context menu which ensures that copied links no longer contain tracking information. Nice.
Did you know @kde had an #accessibility inspector? Currently it's hidden in the build folder of libqaccessibilityclient but not for long. We started the process of making it a standalone application and a first release is planned in 2-3 weeks!
Here's a goofy little project that @Mike and I did yesterday. In the course of conversation we stumbled on the idea of a monastic order of programmers singing Gregorian-style chants about programming practices. Mike encouraged me to write such a song with the help of ChatGPT and record it, then he'd produce it. Here's the result, a satirical ode to refactoring, clean code, and programming discipline in general. Lyrics to follow.
And for those who missed the first toot, remember, this song is not to be taken seriously. I know some of the lines don't make much sense, and others are hyperbolic. It was just for fun. Please, fellow nerds, don't pick it apart.
Finally, some notes on the audio production process for this song: The final mix has five tracks, all recorded by me, using my old Blue Snowflake USB mic and Audacity. For every track I kept, there were probably three or four that I scrapped or aborted partway through. I'm aware that the resulting choir isn't very tight. Then @Mike cleaned up the audio, mixed it, and added the reverb for that monastery sound.
Podpořte vývoj aplikace Librity, která pomůže lidem víc číst. V aplikaci najdete širokou databázi audioknih, personalizovaný obsah přímo pro vás, statistiky čtení, možnost nastavit si čtenářské cíle a systém motivace a odměn.
Vision: Access GPT 4 visual capabilities from your laptop
ever since Be my AI demonstrated the capabilities of GPT 4 for understanding the content of images, which is not a single bit less impressive than its textual abilities, I was looking forward to having an API I could use. Because this brings awesome potential for various use-cases, though also for economical reasons, Be my AI is not on Android yet and I can't really afford spending $20 monthly on a ChatGPT + subscription.
Few days ago, OpenAI finally introduced a vision API, and here is my really simple, but working Be my AI in terminal: github.com/RastislavKish/visio…
Let's have some fun, there is a lot to enjoy!
Note: Uploading images can take a while, though if it apparently takes too long, it's likely frozen, OpenAI is dealing with a lot of demand after their dev conference on six-th November, so chatGPT is down from time to time. My script is not very well prepared for this at this moment, I may add proper timeouts and retry options if it becomes too big of an issue, though I rather expect things to calm down again as things get resolved on the OpenAI side.
Clipshare: Copy anywhere, Paste anywhere, End to End encrypted!
There are many awesome data sharing solutions around. However, I've always wanted to be able to just Ctrl+C on one machine and Ctrl+V on another, clipboard is just such a handy thing! so, I finally decided to get this done. Welcome Clipshare, a foss, end to end encrypted universal clipboard, written in Rust! Only Text and desktop platforms supported for now, but Android is definitely coming and files / images perhaps too. github.com/RastislavKish/clips…
Global hotkeys on Windows need Autohotkey for now as far as I can tell, I was building the program on Linux so the Microsoft platform got somewhat minor attention. But the sync mode does work, so you can use tools like AHK to make it working. I will try to fix it, though feedback from Windows users on this would be definitely appreciated!
Good news! The initial Windows release of clipshare was sort of broken, it's not like it didn't work at all, just keyboard shortcuts were not detected correctly. Now I've implemented a proper winit event loop, and v0.1.1 release already works in my VM as expected. I have also added the recommended default configuration file to the repository, so things should hopefully be more straight-forward now. Though, it's particularly important to use the configuration file, otherwise there will be no keyboard shortcuts assigned to any function. This is unfortunate, but I'm afraid inevitable behavior of the program, since if it was capturing some shortcuts by default, it would be a drag letting the user disable them through configuration, it's much easier to have things disabled by default and let the user assign values they prefer. Either way, you can find the new version in the Releases section of the repository: github.com/RastislavKish/clips…
Clipshare: Copy anywhere, Paste anywhere, End to End encrypted!
@Tardis thanks! Well actually, in theory, the program should be compatible with Mac, all libraries I use have full crossplatform support. The only problem is I don't know anything about Mac and how does it work, so I'm not sure whether say the program compilation works like on other platforms, neither do I know what Copy/Paste shortcuts does Mac use and how well do my alternatives fit into its keyboard input scheme. In other words, there are too many unknowns for me to claim usability. Though if someone can try it out and it would work, I would indeed mention that.
Clipshare: Copy anywhere, Paste anywhere, End to End encrypted!
@Tardis Rust is actually one of the easiest languages to compile stuff, because it has a very uniform ecosystem centered around a well-built package manager, so as far as you're okay with using terminal, cargo build --release is mostly the only command you need to run. When it comes to learning programming languages, Rust is not the best choice for people without at least some programming background, since as awesome as it is, it is still a middle-level language and quite a few things revolve around middle-level topics. Plus, Rustc is one of the most complaining compilers in the programming field, what is a good thing, because your programs end up being robust and well coded, but I can imagine unless you're used to it, it can be quite discouraging. So my personal tip would be either CSharp or Python. Both are high level languages, both have really nice syntax, as well as big ecosystems. The main difference is that CS is statically typed while Python is dynamic. Whichone is preferred is a matter of debate. Some people would say Python is easier, because you only need to write what you want to do and it will likely work. However, dynamic code is imo considerably harder to reason about, and also you don't get compiler errors when type clashes occur, you only find out when you actually run the program, what's not quite desired. Python as a project has continuously brought the ability to mark types of things, this is how pro code deals with these issues, but then, you loose the cleanlines of the Python code, which wwas its initial strong point. So, it matters. Perhaps more than syntax are important the things you wish you could do with a programming language, and learn on something that's funny for you. It can be anything - coding a game, website, neural networks, or reverse engineering, there are people who got into the coding field through C (a pretty low-level language), because they were interested in processors, reverse engineering and other low-level stuff, so the choice was just natural for them. So, maybe this would be a better line of thinking and consideration.
Today I'll probably be posting a bit more from the #OpenAlt conference. If you're not interested in it, use that great feature of Mastodon and mute me for the weekend. I'll be giving two talks at OpenAlt: Fedora Asahi Remix: Linux on Apple Silicon Fediverse: Mastodon and Others
I'll be happy to meet you at the #Fedora booth or at my talks. If you cannot come, you can watch the talks online (they're in Czech though): openalt.cz/2023/program/
@sovtechfund (funded by the German government) just announced a €1M grant towards the @gnome project, an open source desktop environment.
Imagine a world in which governments don't spend billions of dollars in licensing fees every year to make Microsoft richer, and that money instead goes towards _public code_ that belongs to all of us.
That may seem utterly implausible - but every example like this brings us one step closer to it being inevitable.
The news says "Design and prototype a new accessibility stack". I'm not sure what to make of it. Haven't you already introduced a new accessibility API to GTK4? Or is it about making new GTK apps automatically accessible, without writing custom code, like back in ATK days? Is there some sort of a roadmap already available or expected soon?
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