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miki, 31 minutes ago

@pgronkievitz W Inpoście się da, kind of https://github.com/alufers/inpost-cli

Jakby się ktoś serio uparł, to niewielkim wysiłkiem by się dało to spiąć np. z botem na Telegramie (bo tam jest fajne API i najłatwiej zrobić).

miki, 1 hour ago

@chikim @vick21 The vast, vast, vast majority of blind people are just old and want nothing to do with computers.

miki, 1 hour ago

@pixelate @chikim @vick21 That's not even what I mean. I'm talking about the people that we don't really consider "blind", that aren't part of any community, lost their sight due to age, don't interact with anybody except whoever cares for them etc.

miki, 10 hours ago

@ZBennoui It might be third parties? Apple is big enough for that to be a serious possibility, Eloquence clearly demonstrated that they actually do care about this stuff. It could be anything, from Ivona, Acapela or Neospeech, to Dectalk or other similar voices.

miki, 10 hours ago

@ZBennoui They're doing that Apple Books narration thing too, I wouldn't be surprised if they ported those voices to run on-device.

miki, 10 hours ago

@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig Quoting from the document:

"Data will not leak across workspaces. For any model that will be used broadly across all of our customers, we do not build or train these models in such a way that they could learn, memorise, or be able to reproduce some part of Customer Data."

Please stop spreading misinformation

miki, 1 hour ago

@mutax @GossiTheDog @Quinnypig People never opt in to anything. You could tell most people that they can get a million dollars, no strings attached, and they'd just click whatever button strikes their fancy to close that popup as quickly as possible without even reading what it says. If it's an opt-in in the settings? Forget it.

miki, 10 hours ago

@tek Did you generate a TLS certificate for it by any chance? These are a matter of public record now, a fact that cybercriminals aren't hesitant to use.

miki, 10 hours ago

@nikatjef @tek AFAIK, certificate transparency logs do get looked at pretty often. I'd be curious to hear more about the DNS record update notification mechanism you speak of, do you have a RFC number handy perhaps?

miki, 10 hours ago

@nikatjef @tek Thanks, I wasn't aware of this.

miki, 1 hour ago

@nikatjef @tek Are you sure this data is available externally, not just within GC itself? I somehow doubt it, even enumerating the active subdomains of a domain is non-trivial, see e.g. https://subdomain.center, much less getting updates about them in real time.

miki, 11 hours ago

@Piciok Whate are you using for SIP on iOS? All the clients I found were either inaccessible, would stop receiving calls after a few days or disuse, were incredible power-hogs, or sometimes all of the above.

miki, 20 hours ago

@KaraLG84 To add to this, the "accessible" account creation process takes a few months.

miki, 1 day ago

@alexhall Unless you're on the Mac, this is trivial to patch. Get the espeak sources (doing this under WSL is easiest), find this rule either in en_list or en_rules, compile and replace your NVDA's en_dict. You can even send a pull request to boot. I've done this for Polish many times, the built-in Polish rules are quite terrible. The filenames may be slightly different than what I've listed here because en_us, en__uk and so on are separate variants, grep should be your friend.

miki, 1 day ago

@x0 @simon Yup, I would be extremely surprised if Broadcom was interested in anything that can't be sold to big enterprise.

miki, 1 day ago

@x0 @simon Didn't it always? I don't think blind people used Parallels before the ARM transition, just because Fusion was more accessible, but it was always there and preferred by many. It goes back to classic Mac OS I think.

miki, 1 day ago

@x0 @simon I seem to recall that Apple had some offers where they bundled "Parallels Virtual PC" or something similarly named with the Mac, so that you could run Windows (or was that DOS) under emulation. This was in the 90's I think. They used to do the game console thing where you could often buy a Mac with some third-party software already in the box as a promotion.

miki, 2 days ago

@TheQuinbox It's even better when an Innosetup / NSIS / whatever script is the only copy protection on the software. I've seen this once, there was a binary that a verified whether the provided key was valid and the installation wouldn't proceed otherwise, but you could just extract the program and run it.

I wish we could find a way to do this for English "haunted Factory", which nobody seems to have a key for.

miki, 2 days ago

@Caoimhe Wait, they have voice chat now? Huh I must try this.

miki, 2 days ago

@simon Recaptcha uses a lot more than just audio under the hood. It only gives you audio if you're somewhere between completely trusted and very suspicious, if you're the latter, they don't give you an accessible way at all, and you have to find somebody who's willing to help you "select all images with buses."

There's no way to do an accessible captcha any more, perhaps beyond texting you a code.

miki, 2 days ago

@sapphireangel https://annas-archive.org does, it's always a great site to check for such things. https://annas-archive.org/md5/6d0a15a69b6a52e61362c31591c1b1e0

miki, 2 days ago

@eniko Having access to the LaTeX source code for the work and a state-of-the-art LLM helps with this greatly.

I've had to deal with quite a bit of math notation recently, and that's the only way I've found.

You need to do due dilligence and verify if what the LLMs tells you makes sense of course, Googling the keywords it gives you is usually good enough.

miki, 2 days ago

@eniko but yeah I think you're right and the point still stands. I think math notation makes more sense from a historical perspective. When computers didn't exist and most math was done to find a solution, not to describe something to a non-mathematician, terseness was far more important. Paper was more like swap space for the brain.