André Polykanine

@destranis Оооо даа! Это бесит ещё больше, согласен.

@serge Exactly. Ban those first, then we'll talk about Meta glasses.

@menelion

Yes and....

Yes and there are cameras everywhere. On the street, in stores, in restaurants, in Ubers but if someone wears them, they're demonized.

It's not the heat that gets you, it's the hypocrisy.

@destranis Отвечу тебе по-русски, а то налетят (пофиг, конечно, но всё равно). Меня лично триггерят попытки в принципе что-то запретить, запретить целую технологию, потому что блин преступники. Может потому, что я в Совке родился, в советском Союзе в смысле, я не знаю, но прям бесит до ужаса.

It's not "something something ableism". It's a tool that allows people to do what they weren't able to do before. distinguish items in the stores. Read menus in restaurants. Discern signs and other inscriptions. Get help from relatives or specialists with video calls instantly, positioning their head.
Okay, if you want to ban smart glasses, ban all cameras in smartphones first. I bet lots and lots and tons of videos were and are being taken with those right now. Yes, videos taken by those people you mentioned. so don't be hypocrite, everything or nothing. And to be honest, that desire to ban everything is really appalling. Ban kitchen knives, they are used by killers. Oh, and forks also, btw, they are dangerous as hell.
It's people's responsibility to observe laws, and it's the countries' responsibility to catch criminals.
You see a nasty person filming something he or she shouldn't? Get this person, fine, sue, whatever. but banning the whole technology because it can be used by criminals seems absurd to me.

I am feeling very angry right now. Since uninstalling this latest version of EdSharp, every time I try to start JAWS I receive the following error. Script Load Error Error: The file C:\ProgramData\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\2026\Scripts\enu\homer.JSB could not be opened I'm hoping that I can do a system restore to an earlier restore point. Failing that, I will likely need to repair JAWS. I've learned my lesson.

The idiots can't be allowed to win this one. The disability organizations sure do need to do some positive PR on this issue!

TIL in 1997, a potbellied pig saved her owner from a heart attack. When the attack started, Lulu the pig ran out of the house and onto the road, which she occupied until a car stopped for her. She then led the driver back to the house, thereby saving her owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_intelligence
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w03ps0/til_in_1997_a_potbellied_pig_saved_her_owner_from/

@technocounselor Only the output, of course. I'm using JAWS with key echo set to words, and when I press Enter, the last word would be spoken, it's enough for me.

@pmorinerie J'adore RSS moi aussi (surtout parce que c'est accessible aux non-voyants comme moi). Pourriez-vous recommander des flux que vous suivez ? Merci !

Here’s Peter Cullen talking about how he came up with the clicking vocalizations of the Predator.

https://youtu.be/gpjhI-eRE6c

@amir QT? I'm skeptical right away. but anyway, if they reverse-engineered the API, we can build something decent.

«Пятница» на разных языках

- У славян, балтов и венгров «пятница» происходит от порядкового числительного и означает «пятый день» недели, а в португальском sexta-feira – это «шестой день», так как отсчёт ведётся от воскресенья.

- В романской группе языков слово уходит корнями в латинское dies Veneris – «день Венеры», богини любви. Отсюда французское vendredi, испанское viernes, итальянское venerdì.

- В германских языках этот день посвящён богине Фригг (или Фрейе), которая во многом соответствует Венере. Поэтому появились формы Friday, Freitag, vrijdag, fredag.

- В греческом «Παρασκευή» (параскеви) переводится как «подготовка», подчёркивая значение дня накануне субботы; такой же смысл в грузинском პარასკევი (параскеви) и армянском ուրբաթ (урбат).

- В тюркских языках название связано с религиозной традицией: турецкое cuma, казахское жұма и азербайджанское cümə происходят от арабского слова «собрание» – дня общей молитвы.

#этимология #пятница #theworldmaps

Hey, I just had a brilliant idea, whilst trying to ban smart glasses, how about we get rid of all the cameras and microphones in smartphones as I'm pretty damn sure they're abused a lot more than smart glasses have ever been. It's a phone, so that let's just use it for making phone calls only like we did back in the bad old days. No more nasty cameras for taking photos or videos, and certainly no more nasty microphones to record people without their knowing about it. Although perhaps having no microphone may be a bit difficult to try and do phone calls. I guess there's always sms.

Funny how many "full stack" #developers treat #HTML and #CSS as an inconvenience, and reduce it to div soup with a sprinkling of #tailwind. Then moan when I suggest that their 60000 dom node sludge could be made performant and accessible by doing it better.
Imagine if I, a front-end dev said I was "full stack" but only used hosted #Wordpress for the backend...
#RageBait

And finally, the release you've all been waiting for: Paperback 0.9.0! The changelog is so large it had to be completely
restructured, and wouldn't fit in even two full-length posts at over 6300 characters, but here are some highlights: native macOS support has arrived, alongside ARM64 Windows builds! Documents are now paginated, so even multi-million-word books load in seconds flat. You can customize every single keyboard shortcut through a simple dialog; a new readability tab lets you control fonts, background color, line/paragraph/letter spacing, and text alignment. Audio books are now supported, including DAISY audio and folders of audio files, with play/pause, seeking, and syncing the caret to playback. DAISY 2.0
and 2.02 books are now supported too! There's a brand new pb command-line tool for converting any supported format to HTML,
Markdown, or plain text. It also adds temporary bookmarks, a full screen toggle, and a locate button for missing books, dozens of bug fixes across RTF, PDF, Mobi/AZW3, DAISY, and much more. This release covers Windows and macOS; Android
and iOS test builds are coming soon via TestFlight and Play testing, ahead of a unified 1.0. Grab it now at https://paperback.dev/downloads, full changelog in the readme at https://paperback.dev/readme.html.

RE: https://social.the-gdn.net/@flamulous/117164160241526424

So true!

Dr. Dre says he is "embracing" AI in music: "It's a new tool for creativity"
https://www.nme.com/news/music/dr-dre-says-he-is-embracing-ai-in-music-its-a-new-tool-for-creativity-3964241?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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