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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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🎵Peep peep
🎵That's the sound of parakeets
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People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.
*bitter snickering*
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I cannot wait until we come full-circle and someone builds a model to convert youtube videos into written articles
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Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there
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In case anyone outside the UK is wondering - yes, our media & govt really are that transphobic, and the views of extremist bigots are being gradually & carefully rubber-stamped as moderate & scientific, it's grim
(Are there complex and messy issues around the precise details of how certain aspects of gender identity should be handled? Yes, of course! But people like R*wling and Gl*nner fundamentally believe trans people don’t/shouldn't exist, a view that's being rapidly normalised)
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I suddenly feel very self conscious and slightly judged
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@RTFirefly @letoram @SwiftOnSecurity I thought that was just for fun, not function?
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I'm blind. My first linux distro was Debian 1.3.1. I used it by piping the output of the terminal to a serial port and plugging in a hardware voice synthesizer to it (you can imagine how well this did (not) work with curses output).
I've used Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva (I think it was Mandrake at the time). There was a point when it almost, almost looked like Orca was catching up and becoming decent.
Then a long period of regressions which as far as I'm concerned has not finished.
It's not an issue of choosing the right distro or tweaking the right params. Using gnu/linux as a local OS for a blind person (remote access through ssh is another story) requires a degree of stubbornness and masochism I just don't have in me anymore. Believe me, I have tried.
Orca isn't a normal program. If (I should say when) it crashes, you lose access completely. So crashes must be extremely rare. If it's not efficient (and some of that is more of a DE issue, probably) the entire access is inefficient.
Now, where I differ with some people in this thread is in the notion that MS and Apple are good at this. They did a lot of good work, especially MS, but accessibility is far from a priority and they have regressions all the time.
And that's what worries me, because we don't have anywhere to go if things keep getting worse.
Please, when people tell you the accessibility sucks, listen. It is bad. There is today no way to run a gnu/linux system that's reliably and efficiently accessible. Hopefully this changes.
@objectinspace @gnomelibre @weirdwriter @anantagd @techsinger @jorge
@35millimetre sony handsets are niiice :)
generally a good, solid android unit with a good camera
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This video from Corridor Crew is pretty amazing. They re-create the nearly perfect compositing from the penguin dance sequence in Mary Poppins, which was achieved using high intensity sodium vapor lights and a very custom beam splitter, instead of a blue or green screen. It truly feels like a lost art rediscovered. When the matted footage just perfectly drops in I gasped haha https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
@aldroid the Unihertz Jelly line may be for you.
https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star
is the current diddy one.
they also do hardware-qwerty handsets, which is nice.
not tried one yet, but by reviews they are very blackberry
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important eclipse safety tips:
- never look at an eclipse without eye protection
- ensure your eclipse glasses are ISO 12312-2 certified
- do not listen to the whispers of the faceless men who emerge during totality, they speak only lies
- always supervise children closely
@eclectech unfeasibly large cock on a hillside.
practically identical really ;)
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- Do you think you're a suggestible person?
- Me? No, not really.
- Did someone mention to you that you might have been the sort of person to make Cerne Abbas Giant style pictures?
- Well, they might have...
- And did someone else mention the possibility of large chicken hill carvings?
- Well, maybe...
- Did you just search through your photos looking for an appropriate grassy slope for a giant chicken picture?
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- Well?
- No comment.
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"AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it."
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
