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hmm.. nasel jsem github.com/SimonBrazell/privac…, ale vypada, ze uz neni moc udrzovany 😕
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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.

#ai #chatgpt

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Did you know that voice chats have also been available for #Mastodon for some time now? The whole thing is called #Audon and can either be used via the servers that are already connected, or you can set up your own servers for it. I think it's a shame that it's so underused as it definitely deserves more attention. Try it out for yourself and maybe we'll hear each other there sometime: #Audon audon.space/

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Také Vám vadí reklama na YouTube?
invidious.cz nabízí alternativní cestu k YouTube obsahu bez reklam a sledování. Rychlé, soukromé a s otevřeným zdrojovým kódem, dostupné pro všechny. Připojte se k nám, objevte svobodu sledování a podpořte decentralizovaný web, který je méně závislý na velkých korporacích a který posiluje soukromí a kontrolu uživatelů nad jejich daty. :arch: #InvidiousCZ #OpenSource #Privacy #komunita_arch

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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

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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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Night trains in Europe are coming back

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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I have just discovered #narrowlink. It looks interesting especially with P2P mode introduced in the v0.2 version. For accessing services behind a nat it looks to have better bandwidth requirements as compared to traditional VPNs. narrowlink.com/blog/Hello-Worl…
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Anyone want a free piano that runs in #Juce without the need of Komplete Kontrol, and has a lovely reverse option when you use your modwheel?
Record And Play - #TheCrowHillCompany - Attic Grand: youtu.be/3Ot78DXi8_Y

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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/#

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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.

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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…

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Incoherent game accessibility ramblings, mostly about Forza
Having a lot of fun with Forza Motorsport right now and that once again made me realize that there are people out there who actually care. I'm pretty sure none of this was actually necessary to do, but whether it was PR or employees that actually care or both, the fact is that even while it's not perfect, this is a huge, huge step in blind gaming. This is incredibly fun, even if it's ridiculously difficult and has a very steep learning curve. I'm not actually sure when I felt like this for the last time. I've played the last of us but somehow I feel like this is even bigger. I imagine that implementing blind accessibility into the last of us was less work than getting a fast paced racing game playable, but I'm also sure that one might not have happened without the other. And I'm pretty sure that this wasn't some kind of business incentive either. I can't imagine that adding blind assist features to Forza would be the thing that made or broke the games sales, and I can't imagine that outside of a pretty niche player base, anyone would care if Forza did have these features or not. But it does. And I'm very grateful for it. This is actually incredible. Very, very difficult and hard, but incredible. I wouldn't fault anybody for getting frustrated and giving up - hell I got frustrated too. But then I close the game, step away for a few hours, and find myself opening it again and trying again. The amount of settings you can tweak to get the most out of the accessibility features that are there is actually quite surprising and by all the gods I want this trend to continue. I can even play fucking multiplayer with other people! Sighted friends if I wanted! How friggin' cool is that shit?
So yeah. Are there things that could be improved? Of course. When isn't there? There's always room for improvement. But considering where we came from, basically a game where you held and released one button with the previous Forza, to this? This is amazing. I can only imagine what they could do if this accessibility mindset continued. And I really hope it does. And not just for racing games. For all games. Sorry now I'm seriously just rambling.

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Ensuring negative numbers are available for everyone. "The minus character (−) yields great support in most screen readers, and suffers less situational gotchas than the hyphen-minus character"

deque.com/blog/ensuring-negati…

Great article written by 2 of my favorite comrades.

#webdev #webdesign #a11y #html #tips #screenreaders

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Hey all music lovers especially those of us who are using #screenreader apps to control music playback. #Foobar2000 for #android now features so called Non skinned playback controls view that can be activated by unchecking the Skinned playback screen checkbox in its advanced settings. This improvement is available in the beta version so far. See the mobile changelog at wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?…
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Frog is such a neat little Linux desktop app to extract text from images.

You can give it an image (file selector, drag & drop) or let it take a screenshot. And you can even paste an image from your clipboard!

This is great for adding alt text when posting an image or copying text (as text) from a screenshot for sharing (or adding to UI mockups, as I often do).

It also reads QR codes and supports several languages.

flathub.org/apps/com.github.te…

#Linux #desktop #app #Gnome #OCR #Flatpak #Flathub

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Good news for #DoctorWho fans, the launch of the Doctor Who archive on IPlayer is finally happening, according to doctorwho.tv/news-and-features…

This is also a historic event for the blind and visually impaired, as well as deaf and hard of hearing fans, because the article states: "Every episode on iPlayer from the back catalogue will be available with multiple accessibility options, including subtitles, audio description, and sign language."

Classic Who audio described to me is a dream come true, and I am sure it will be appreciated by many. Allons-y, Jelly Babies await!

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I've written a #tutorial on how to program #accessible #native #gui #windows applications in #rust using the native-windows-gui library: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg/

Also available in Spanish: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/nwg-…

#a11y #programming

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“I am so thankful for the creation of NVDA. It has really changed my life. With NVDA, I do not have to worry about spending tons of extra money on third party software to use a computer. I can purchase any new computer that I want, and I can use it for the same cost as a sighted person” – Reina, United States.

We believe every blind & vision impaired person deserves the right to freely & easily access a computer. With our free screen reader, there is no extra financial burden on users.

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I switched to conhost instead of Windows Terminal yesterday. Today, I closed a command prompt window and immediately received ... wait for it ... 6463 identical NVDA errors. The error tone played continuously for about two minutes while NVDA struggled to play 6000 instance of the wave file, each interrupting the last, and write all the errors to the log file.
Additionally, if I try to invoke a tmux or screen session, NVDA stops automatically reading output and I can't find a way to fix it.
On the other hand, if I switch to Windows Terminal again, my entire machine becomes unusable after about 15 minutes of having any terminal window open, and the memory usage slowly climbs to ridiculous heights until I close all terminal windows and start over. I've seen it hit 1.2 GB.
So I can switch to macOS where I'm pretty sure terminal output still interrupts itself, or use TDSR on either platform, which is looking like a really nice idea, or switch to Linux, where terminal works great but lots of other things don't. Or I can smash all my computers with a hammer.

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A reverse TCP shell using cURL only ❤️ (and optionally via SOCKS/WEB proxy). Not our idea but we made it cooler and and pragmatic.
👉github.com/SkyperTHC/curlshell

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For UK disabled followers and friends:

Google is recruiting people to become members of the #accessibility Trusted Tester Program. So far, members have been from U.S. and Canada. Testing of Talkback and other studies take place through this program. You can be a tester for on-going products like Talkback or take part in research studies that will be posted. You'll be paid for your time for most of the studies.

Signup here to express your interest (UK only). g.co/a11ytt

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What makes an accessible date picker? Is it even possible? #ID24 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=D2Gy2WN4Iy… with Russ Weakley #a11y #webdev #webdesign #accessibility

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Related: 4 examples of web-accessible date pickers...

WAI: w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/d…

Deque: dequeuniversity.com/library/ar…

U.S. Web Design System
designsystem.digital.gov/compo…

Tommy Feldt: fymmot.github.io/inclusive-dat…

#date #calendar #UIDesign #webdesign #webdev #a11y

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with all the unpleasant news around bandcamp, I found a nice script to download and sync the collection of your purchases to your HDD. I hope that everything will be ok with bc, but it's good to have a backup of my collection in flac anyway

github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

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Mohl by někdo doporučit lightweight alternativu k #Redmine? Která by uměla jednoduchý task tracker (v podstatě pouze jednoduchý todolist se statusem jednotlivých tasků a přiřazením k určitým lidem), ovšem důležitá je taky možnost propojení s emailem, aby šlo odpovídat na maily ze systému a ty by se pak objevily buď jako komentáře tasku či nové tasky.

Jde mi o to, aby systém dovedl používat BFU. Ten email proto, aby se do systému ani nemusel přihlásit a přesto ho mohl používat.

Redmine je fajn, ale na jednoduché projekty je krkolomný, většina featur je zbytečná a z hlediska BFU není zrovna přívětivý.

(vím že existuje Trello a spol, ale rád bych to instaloval na vlastní server, čili nejlépe nějaký opensource projekt)

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