[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 9 points 5 days ago

I was utterly amazed at so many people in that thread advocating that LLM's were supposed to, like, superglue the internet and thereby somehow make it available to people in the global south? When an LLM is just quite literally a faster autocomplete and doesn't actually connect people to anything. I wonder what these people will think when these "AI" companies decide they want money and they're done burning cash. They think internet is expensive? Just wait until these LLM makers are tired of spending money. @rook @V0ldek

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 9 points 1 week ago

@froztbyte My theory is that they feel better giving advice rather than examining their feelings.

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 9 points 1 week ago

@nigel @techtakes @fuck_ai Oh yes! Thank you! I will explain to her soon, but thank you for commenting! I can’t find it now but someone else was thinking about all the insincere gifts they received from people, but at the moment, even those insincere gifts seem to be more thoughtful, but yes I will explain when it is a propper time.

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In this post, I wrote about the sad experience of having a friend use AI to wish me a happy birthday. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6627/ #AI #Blog #Blogging #Blogs @techtakes @fuck_ai

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 14 points 1 month ago

I hope they do so they spend more money and so investors will get pissed off at how much money they are spending. Investors are already getting pissed, which is good! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/03/ai-investors-are-getting-the-jitters/ @snooggums

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 11 points 2 months ago

@db0 The sad thing is I know a lot of people that would pay that without thinking twice

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I’m trying @librewolf browser and it might seem like a small thing to you all, but they went out of their way to preserve accessibility features for disabled users like myself, whereas other privacy solutions remove accessibility features completely, and their efforts to make sure disabled users have a private focused but accessible browser is more welcome than you can imagine because disabled people need privacy as well. I would argue that disabled people need privacy more. I wish more #privacy advocates took accessibility and disability into account the way they have currently. I hope this remains a core mission of theirs

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I'm publishing the expanded Off the Grid book while it's being edited! You can learn more about it here. The eBook is under a #CreativeCommons license and DRM free! https://leanpub.com/otg @bookstodon #DRMFree #Books #Disability

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Sharing audiobooks with duet narration

The below post explains the difference between duet narration and other kinds of narration, as well as provides some good examples to try.

https://jeevesreads.com/2022/09/21/romance-audiobooks-with-duet-narration/

@audiobooks

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Found a neat little program that will compile, split, merge, and rename chapters in fiction all with the keyboard. Some commands conflict with screen readers so I suggest not using this program for reviewing your writing, but for compiling. It was designed to be keyboard exclusive and is at least 70% accessible, with some dialogs not reading unless in browse mode. warewoolf. https://github.com/brsloan/warewoolf #OpenSource #BlindCommunity @foss

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The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” – Chelsea Troy

> In fact, most of the things you love about your smartphone started as accessibility features.

https://chelseatroy.com/2021/07/30/the-oxymoron-of-data-driven-innovation/ @foss #Apple #Android #Technology

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Social Audio Description described this Google video about people with Disabilities working at Google! https://youtu.be/LojBpZ_CpRY #Google #AudioDescription #Film #Disability @main

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I updated this post where I list a bunch of books that will encompass my personality. The gyst is getting to know me through these books. They all reveal an aspect of my personality. I am going to add to this list in the future Books to understand me. https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/2022/11/26/books-to-understand-me/ @literature

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This OpenTween fork has basic #Mastodon support, and yes, with quote support on the way. This was a extremely accessible mainstream #Twitter client and now it works on Mastodon https://github.com/upsilon/OpenTween/tree/mastodon #Accessibility @main @fediversereport

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So this is nice! Today I discovered that I can download M4B files from my Libro FM library instead of zipped MP3 files and now I wish this was the default. I like having structural elements in one file rather than having a folder comprised of nearly 80 tracks. It makes it easy to trance for as well! #Audiobooks #LibroFM @audiobooks@lemmy.ml @audiobooks@a.gup.pe @bookstodon

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Hi @disability I am a Blind writer. I write mostly romance because Disabled people should have happily ever afters too! I moved to the Fedi long before the migrations started happening around big socials and I've contributed a few things, along with others in this space, to help make these spaces a bit more accessible for all, but especially screen reader users because that is my lived experience. I believe in the social model of Disability and I am tired all day long. Still, I hang out a lot in RomanceLandia because I feel it is the best way to understand people, is through their romantic fantasies and wish fulfilments and dreams and desires. I run a blog and keep up with my blog and mailing list the most.

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 9 points 1 year ago

@hendrik @Blackbeard Keep an eye on the RBlind folks because they are working on patches to solve this problem but yes, the community of developers could/should step in to make it work. There's also KBin https://rblind.com/

[-] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 18 points 1 year ago

@Skooshjones @privsecfoss @foss Also, another reason why big tech catches on, every time, is not so much that the UX is glossy but that Zoom, Apple, etc, all know that #Accessibility is needed to, 1, be dominant. As people look for stuff and tools that are accessible to Disabled users, Apple and Zoom come up a lot because they knew that capturing accessible design was a great way to capture a huge portion of users and otherwise. 2. Accessible design works for everybody. Seriously, having a far cleaner UI is better for everybody, including developers when they need to change code later.

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