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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.

GitHub - lenovo/thinklmi: Utility for easy access to BIOS WMI settings

Utility for easy access to BIOS WMI settings. Contribute to lenovo/thinklmi development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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.
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Ultimate Arch Linux Install [CZ/EN]: LUKS, BTRFS, Dual Boot & More - Step-by-Step Tutorial
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Ultimate Arch Linux Install [CZ/EN]: LUKS, BTRFS, Dual Boot & More - Step-by-Step Tutorial

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...
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First we had Mac get a GPT 4 image describing utility, now it’s NVDA’s turn. github.com/cartertemm/AI-conte…

GitHub - cartertemm/AI-content-describer: NVDA add-on that provides descriptions for controls and images, powered by GPT4

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...
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@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
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@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.
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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…

#a11y #linuxDeskop

Accessibility Inspector

Inspect your application accessibility tree
Accessibility Inspector
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Quick Tip: Disabling Video Message Recording on WhatsApp - Accessible Android

WhatsApp, the widely popular chat app, introduced a recent feature allowing users to send short video messages, in the same way used for sending voice
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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.
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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.

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#knihy #hithit

Hithit - Čtěte více s aplikací Librity

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.
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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.

GitHub - RastislavKish/vision: A simple script for interaction with GPT-4 vision

A simple script for interaction with GPT-4 vision. Contribute to RastislavKish/vision development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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!

Have fn!

GitHub - RastislavKish/clipshare: An end-to-end encrypted global clipboard

An end-to-end encrypted global clipboard. Contribute to RastislavKish/clipshare development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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.
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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.
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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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Otevřeným přístupem k otevřené společnosti
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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.

foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/0…

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure – The GNOME Foundation

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@GNOME @Sovereign Tech Agency
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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

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure – The GNOME Foundation

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Menší #tip_mastodon pro ty, co používají aplikaci #Fedilab.
V nastavení na kartě soukromí, lze přidat naší instanci invidious.cz a veškeré videa z YouTube, otevřete bezpečně v #InvidiousCZ

Invidious

An alternative front-end to YouTube
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#fedilab #tip_mastodon #invidiouscz

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

GitHub - SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect: A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.

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 ...
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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

#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/

Audon

Audio spaces for Mastodon
Audon hosted on audon.space
#Mastodon #audon

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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

AD-ENABLED | Best friends don’t want a cent from their big tech idea. This is why | Australian Story

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...
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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
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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 )

#travel #trains #mobility #railway #tourism #renfe #db #NightTrains #europeanmobility #travelineurope #futureofmobility #europetourism #MobilityTransition #sleepertrains #sncf #oebb #obb #nightjet #nightline #trenitalia #mav #pkp #polrail

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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…

Meet Narrowlink - Your New Remote Access Best Friend | Narrowlink

Narrowlink enables secure remote access across restricted networks. Learn how its architecture works and the unique benefits it unlocks.
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#narrowlink
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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

Record And Play - #TheCrowHillCompany - Attic Grand

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...
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#juce #thecrowhillcompany

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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/#

keygenmusic.tk - tracker music player

Online chiptune music player. Charged with music from keygens. Streams directly in your browser
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.

A new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops – GNOME Accessibility

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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.

Metadata for Accessibility and Diversity - IPTC

IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.
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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…

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal installation ISO successfully independently rebuilt

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…
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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

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

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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?…

Foobar2000:Mobile Version 1.4 Preview Change Log - Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase

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#android #screenreader #Foobar2000
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