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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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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
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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
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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
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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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Dull property development down the road is selling a one-bedroom flat for half a million quid (plus hefty service charge, I assume), mind-bogglingly ridiculous
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There's a thing called pareidolia, where someone sees a pattern or image of something that doesn't really exist, frequently faces.
At first I thought my perception of this building was an example of it, then I realised the face definitely DOES exist.
I mean, the architect even included eyebrows. Come on.
#sillyScribbles #photography #silly #nonsense #drawing #architecture #pareidolia
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good morning, at least 4 of our country's members of parliament have been fooled by the most basic of sock puppet bot DMs of pretend hot people suggesting they know the MP and asking for a dick pic - and immediately sent them.
you know when they said 2024 was going to be this major AI influence attack on our democracy.. yeah.. we didnt need to go that advanced.
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Good thing: There was a gap in the rain so I could get outside for half an hour.
Bad thing: The gap in the rain was only 20 minutes.
Good thing: Found this!
(good things win - hurrah)
🇺🇳🖖
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Good afternoon Mastodon. I hope your weekend is treating you well.
#sillyScribbles #lichenSubscribe #photography #silly #cute #nonsense #drawing
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there's something real fucking dark about how AI is too inaccurate for tracking people around a grocery store so they have humans to make sure every last item is paid for, whereas if your AI is generating targets for a genocide then a serious error rate is perfectly within acceptable parameters.
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I'm ready for the coming eclipse and for the second threat that could cast America into darkness.
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I saw a guy at the airport with a shirt that said “SAVE THE MANUALS” and I thought “Hell yeah, brother! You may need to reference them in the future. Glad to see another fan of documentation.” Then I saw a weird symbol like an H with a | down the center, and I realized it was a dude who just really liked stick shift cars.
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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
