After two and a half years of rewrite, #Fractal 5 is finally out! Get the #GTK 4 #Rust #Matrix client from flathub.org/fr/apps/org.gnome.… and enjoy new features such as #EndToEndEncryption, location sharing, or multi-account with Single-Sign On 🚀
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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.)
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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!
Happy Visioning!
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-casesGitHub
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PipeWire 1.0.0 is out!
gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…
PipeWire 1.0.0 (2023-11-26) The PipeWire project is immensely proud to announce the 1.0 release of PipeWire. It is API...GitLab
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Utility for easy access to BIOS WMI settings. Contribute to lenovo/thinklmi development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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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...YouTube
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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...GitHub
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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!
apps.kde.org/accessibilityinsp…
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WhatsApp, the widely popular chat app, introduced a recent feature allowing users to send short video messages, in the same way used for sending voiceEditorial Staff (Accessible Android)
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Na HitHitu rozjela kampan aplikace Librity. Neco jako cesky Audible.
Zajimave je, ze pri jejim predstavovani mel Matej na sobe mikinu @ceskodigital. Coz je cool.
Kouknete na to.
hithit.com/cs/project/12353/ct…
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.Hithit
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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.
A simple script for interaction with GPT-4 vision. Contribute to RastislavKish/vision development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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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!
Have fn!
An end-to-end encrypted global clipboard. Contribute to RastislavKish/clipshare development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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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/
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@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.
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We're thrilled to share that the GNOME Project is receiving an investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund!
Learn more about the projects this will fund and how to get involved:
foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/0…
#GNOME #opensource #FOSS #Linux
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A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives. - GitHub - SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect: A simple web extension that ...GitHub
OpenAI si vsimlo o jake niche je zajem v tisicich AI startupech a spustilo vlastni "GPT builder".
Je to celkem dobra evoluce v pouzitelnosti. Dost lidi si najde vlastni pouziti ChatGPT a to se pro ne stane synonymem pro AI. Napriklad doplnovani kodu, analyza tabulek, zkracovani textu, copy na socky... Pojmenovane chaty s jakoby ruznou funkci jim tuhle kotvu pomuzou zvednout.
Tech vsech AI startupu mi vubec neni lito.
*obrazek vygenerovan random z Cosmic Dream GPT modulu.
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It’s been 5 months since Australian Story aired an episode on NV Access founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh. The first Australian Story episode to be audio described. It was an incredible opportunity to share with a wider audience the importance of NVDA & our overarching message, that everyone deserves equal access to technology.
You can still watch the Australian Story episode, with Audio Description, on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sA…
#ScreenReader #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Access
Mick Curran and Jamie Teh are lifelong friends who share a love of music and technology. They're also blind.Both computer programmers, the pair saw an injust...YouTube
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I just spent over 30 minutes attempting (and failing) to sign up for Oracle Cloud's free tier thing because I wanted to test it out. So far, I have:
* Attempted to get around 3 HCaptcha accessibility cookies (I wrote a previous rant about that somewhere (TL;DR: Fuck HCaptcha)),
* Figured out it didn't like my generated password (seriously?),
* sat there for like 3 minutes waiting for the signup process to actually go through (once I verified my payment information and such and there were no (visible) errors, though there could have totally been some hidden error I missed because it was inaccessible),
* Among other amazing things.
I just don't get it.
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As night trains are the superior art of traveling, I never understood why in the last decade most train companies dismantled them.
I always suspected a mixture of pseudo-modernism ("high-speed trains are more modern"), lack of cooperation among rail operators of different countries (the European rail system has more of a patchwork than a network) and the conspiracy theory of car and air travel industries lobbying against the most convenient way to travel long distances.
Luckily, follks in Eastern European countries weren't as shortsighted as their counterparts in the other parts of Europe, and maintained their night trains. ÖBB is most active in bringing back night train connections in Europe. Turkyie and Ukraine are good on track, too!
If you want to find night train connections, check this web:
back-on-track.eu/night-train-l…?
"Back-on-Track is a European network to support improved European cross-border passenger train traffic and night trains." 🖤
#NightTrains #Trains #Railway #EuropeanMobility #Mobility #Travel #TravelInEurope #FutureOfMobility #EuropeTourism #Tourism #MobilityTransition #SleeperTrains #SNCF #DB #OEBB #ÖBB #NightJet #Nightline #TrenItalia #MÁV #PKP #PolRail #RENFE (just kidding, the Spanish rail company is a candidate for being the worst in Europe )
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Narrowlink enables secure remote access across restricted networks. Learn how its architecture works and the unique benefits it unlocks.narrowlink.com
Today in 1994, 29 years ago: WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
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@Matt Campbell @On This Day In History I don't know what technology this was but this looks interesting... web.archive.org/web/2020051821… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe
See both the links.
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Here, I'm testing out the new piano from The Crow Hill Company, which is the first of hopefully many offerings.It's got quite a rugged sound, but that certai...YouTube
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What if those keygen warez authors of the late 90s/early 2000s were just MIDI musicians trying to get their mixtapes out there?
Thanks @bromiley for sharing this gem with me keygenmusic.tk/#
Online chiptune music player. Charged with music from keygens. Streams directly in your browserkeygenmusic.tk
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Dear Fediverse / Mastodon
I need your help.
I stumbled upon the website of a French consultancy who worked on LibreOffice accessibility, but I cannot find it anymore.
Any idea?
Boost appreciated 
Thanks!
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Yesterday I boosted someone else's announcement of my post on the new GNOME accessibility blog, but apparently some folks couldn't find the link in that toot, so here it is again: blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/2…
Also wanted to add: I'm glad to be getting back to work on accessibility on desktop Linux, after ~20 years away. Hopefully with the experience I've gained in the meantime, my efforts now will be more effective.
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On image metadata: iptc.org/themes/accessibility-…
But it sounds like you're suggesting providing something with much more rich understanding of the document structure.
Getting that into IPTC would have a huge impact, I think.
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.IPTC
TIL sadservers.com
tl;dr they give you a broken server and have you figure out how to fix it
like a CTF, but for devops instead of security!
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I independently reproduced the #NixOS minimal installation ISO!
This is an amazing milestone for me personally: I've been involved in #ReproducibleBuilds since 2017 and #NixOS since 2019, and have been slowly chipping away at this problem. While there is much more to do to further reap the benefits of reproducibility, this is a long-awaited tangible benefit.
For more about the What, Why, How and What Next, check the post below :)
discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-re…
We have successfully created an independent, bit-by-bit-identical rebuild of the nixos-minimal ISO published by Hydra 🎉 Why is this useful? While there are a number of ‘side-benefits’, the main point of Reproducible Builds is that it gives us a rel…NixOS Discourse
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