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23-year-old weirdo. #Blind, profane, geeky and musical. #cat lover. Hobbyist #musician and #programmer. Happily taken by https://moonbow.garden/@LaurenCeleste. Open for follows of all types of people, including but not limited to LGBTQIA+, plural and nonhuman.

Interests:
#tech #a11y #accessibility #programming #EDM

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Meepercat, to random
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I wonder if I should show my brother my little tiny computer that is NOT a kitten toy. Giggles.

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@simon @FluidEscence @Meepercat @sclower The most foolproof way of a clean install ir of course to format the disk, there's no telling what it might read from windows.old in terms of OEM shit

talon, (edited ) to random
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In C# you can do:
someVar is > 10 and < 100 and not 60
and I think that's beautiful.

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@talon Wait, it supports that kind of constraint? That's like prolog shit! If you carefully express your constraints with variables that aren't fully initialized in some languages that can do this you can use those variables as a solver with stupid powerful lazy evaluation.

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@miki @talon Oh yeah that, Python can apparently do that too now except I don't think it's that good yet? When I took a class called design of programming languages we worked with something called Oz which could. It was like pascal and lisp and prolog had a baby. Everything was recursive, recursion was how you implemented fucking loops.

FluidEscence, to random

wait. TWBlue added support for what? Loading remote local and federated timelines from other instances? Oh shit.

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@simon @FluidEscence Does it support editing yet? If it doesn't still not going to use it

Caoimhe, to random
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I didn't know it was so difficult to find a keyboard with the ANSI layout in Europe. I thought those were more common. Or is it just me who doesn't find the ISO layout very convenient?

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@miki @Caoimhe Do they use a modified version to fit in alt gr? Like replacing right alt with it? Or does Polish not use it?

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@miki @Caoimhe Wait, isn't that the VO key?

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@miki @Caoimhe Oh, so that's why you can't use it for your diacritics, I thought you said their diacritic framework made it so you couldn't use ctrl+option and I'm like wait, but you need the VO combination to work!

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@miki @Caoimhe I thought ctrl+alt got remapped to alt gr, but yep I saw that behavior, because the U.S. international keyboard used it. Except I couldn't type ñ because that'd restart NVDA, and apparently shortcuts take precedence even if they're held by explorer.

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@miki @Caoimhe They'd have to do that for Spanish too I'd imagine

simon, to random

VMware Fusion and Workstation are now free.
I bought them legally for the first time ... on April 6th.
That's what I get for doing the right thing. I won't make that mistake again.

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@simon Wait, what? The full workstation is free? Not just player? That sounds like an abandonware track...

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@miki @simon The fact that there was no such thing as Fusion player, so on Mac it was basically workstation or nothing, is kind of shitty, so that's nice, but also it has competition now.

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@miki @simon Ah, there's my lack of information as a non-Mac user, then.

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@miki @simon Ah, it's one of those free for personal use and continuously licensed for commercial use deals. You'd still use this to connect to something like SXi, after all. I imagine most people that would have been using it for personal use were pirating it where they could, and the ones that weren't didn't provide a real difference compared to the enterprise, so they just said fuck it.

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Found this hiding in the Android Open Source Project section of Phone Tones, called Themos (2).wav. What is this melody actually called? It reminds me of an icecream truck.

TheQuinbox, to random

My laptop's sound driver, among many others, has this absolutely infuriating behavior where it puts the sound card to sleep after a particular amount of silence (mine's seemingly after 5 seconds), causing a screen reader user to miss the beginning of speech, an audio file, a notification, or anything else they may be trying to listen to. To solve this, I wrote this little program. Simply run it, and it'll start piping silent audio through your default sound card, which has fixed it on every machine I've tried. It should also respect device changes (e.g. unplugging headphones). To close it, simply click on the tray icon. It doesn't get much simpler than that. https://quinbox.xyz/files/SleepSoundly.zip

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@TheQuinbox Oh like Silenzio? Apparently NVDA 2024.2 will also do that now, which is basically jsut what bluetooth audio did. Being able to pick an arbitrary wave file and loop that is useful, because some sound cards are smart about it and detect digital silence and still sleep anyway, so you feed it noise right at the bottom of 16-bit resolution instead.

simon, to random

iOS 17 added an option to import an ESim QR code from photos when adding an ESim, so that if the carrier provides the photo, we can easily add it without having to scan it from another device and line up the camera. This was a huge accessibility aid. Unfortunately, that option was removed at some point. I can no longer find it on iOS 17.4 or 17.5. I don't know why Apple would have silently taken out such a useful option, but I'm going to be e-mailing Apple accessibility because this regression hits blind people particularly hard, and it could also cause problems for someone who has only one device. By forcing us to scan using the camera, Apple is also forcing us to have a second device available to display the QR code.

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@simon @jscholes Almost certainly, if you understand the scheme they're using inside the QR code, I.E. what fields are in what order. If you have the picture there are libraries to decode it.

Caoimhe, to random
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I'm going to spend the next 2 days in a car, so I need any recommendations from you for books, music, movies, or anything you like that I can watch/read/listen to so I don't go crazy out of boredom. Feel free to share your favorite pieces of media that you feel like sharing to save me.

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@Caoimhe Anything by Vimesenthusiast on fanfiction.net, but especially A Third Path to the Future

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@Caoimhe Also Discworld

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@Caoimhe If you haven't read it yet, Lord of the Rings was the cultural icon before Harry Potter.

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@Caoimhe I recommend the browser extension FicLab (chrome/firefox) to save stuff from even ff.net as epub for offline reading in your reader of choice.

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@Caoimhe I also use it on AO3, AO3 has their own epub generator but the books they generate aren't properly compatible with the Victor Reader series, they have no headings. So navigation on EReaders is suspect.

simon, to random

I made this a long time ago, recently dug it out of message history, and now I occasionally send it to people as an audio message when I haven't heard from them in a long time.

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@simon An actual mash-up should be made, one probably already has though.

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@simon Or, apparently not? At least looking on YT for one doesn't yield it

KathyReid, to stackoverflow
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Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

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@KathyReid My personal takeaway from this, in addition to other examples not only related to AI, is that they don't actually care about these licenses at all. CC licenses, FOSS licenses, they just give them an excuse to use the things covered, regardless of the terms, because who's going to challenge them? Has there actually been any legal repercussion in any form for a company breaching the terms of an open license? If there has, please correct me, because I am just making sinical conclusions and haven't done actual research on this. Would also be worth looking into whether many things that are free for noncommercial use but require a token license for commercial use, by design not piracy, are actually respected that way by commercial users. I would at least hope that is the case. My own personal belief on how all private industry operates is "that unless you have teeth, you are for chewing." This also crops up with moral vs. law in, say, accesibility.

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FM synth go womp womp

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@TheQuinbox @talon Or edit it, I guess. It might already be finished.

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