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by lynx23 2y ago
That. My partner (blind) recently met a teacher on a train ride. After a bit of awkward conversation, she told my partner that she is currently trying to find a new word for disabled, together with her class. When my partner answered tha
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by lynx23 2y ago
I am afraid it wasn't.
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by lynx23 2y ago
Heh, nice! This article reminded me of a great talk I recently noticed: Rethinking Binary Search: Improving on a Classic with AI Assistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAGf5Xr8HZU The gist is rather simple: Assuming t
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by lynx23 2y ago
Suffering... I could tell you something about suffering, but I leave it at that. Lets suffice that I find it pretty funny that you, a non-disabled person, tries to tell me that the way I prefer being called is "old-fashioned" and
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What you describe is pretty much straight virtue-signaling. And as a disabled person, I can tell you, I need nothing of it. Especially this "your membership in a group of people concerned to change" part, which is virtue-signalli
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by lynx23 2y ago
Well, being deliberate with words is definitely a great attribute. However, I came here to say that, as a blind person, I cringe whenever someone calls me "visually challenged" or in any other way tries to crawl around the seemin
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by lynx23 2y ago
I had pretty much the same reacon while reading the article. "BlogPosting" isn't particularily informative. The rest of the metadata looked like it could/should be put in <meta> tags, done. A very bad example if
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by lynx23 2y ago
Well, that number doesnt impress me at all. Coming from Austria, my gut feeling tells me the rate here is likely around 1-in-10 to 1-in-20.
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by lynx23 2y ago
This is exactly why I, a blind pedestrian, are getting more and more weary of the future. AV freaks always tell me I am not supposed to be afraid. That doesnt help at all. We are a small minority that gets forgotten about regularily. I
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by lynx23 2y ago
Would you rather do the hardware/OS platform yourself as well? I know, the big ones are always "evil", but... How about being real?
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by lynx23 2y ago
Anyone old and naiv enough to share this observation: Almost everything I looked at after TurboVision was inspired, but actually not really finished. Once you take the toolkit for a ride, you realize its kind of cute but unfinished. May
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Big Tech Doesn't Want You Anymore [video](youtube.com)
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by lynx23 2y ago
Dont forget blind people "hating" on bionic eyes and similar nonesense. And no, you haven't understood the underlying issue at all. All you can do is claim a minority group isn't quite in their right mind, thats pretty
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by lynx23 2y ago
What you describe is called GAS, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Besides, Eurorack is even more dangerous when it comes to GAS.
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by lynx23 2y ago
I think we have a much more pressing problem in the apps industry. I, as a consumer, don't want my UX to change with every software update. I want an ption to lock the features down, and only receive security updates. Why? Because
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by lynx23 2y ago
False positives and unreliable/unpredictable behaviour is the future! We've decided that the power of unpredictable algorithms is more worth then reproducibility, and thats the path we're heading down now. Just a small examp
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Not just TLDs. I've seen whole Class A networks blocked after a DDoS, based on the affiliation to a particular (not small) country. Like with covid, you just need a small reason and suddenly, all the freedom in the west goes to hell.
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by lynx23 2y ago
Like Google, who apparently cant be assed to do the most basic automatic checks. https://youtu.be/dwar6uZUWAo But you're right, these big money-making companies are such snowflakes that you have to have some compassion
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Ha, be glad its just a car. I know a true story about the first woman in my country to go through the process of getting a bionic eye. Long story short, she got it. Forward a few years, and the company that built it goes bust, leaving he
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by lynx23 2y ago
+1
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by lynx23 2y ago
Well, now we're getting somewhere. If my company distrusts me so much that it needs to put a black box in place to prevent me from fucking it over, it shouldn't hire me as an admin for tons and tons of infrastructure. Distrust g
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by lynx23 2y ago
The same would apply to assistive technology. Right now, various countries are paying relatively big sums to Freedom Scientific for JAWS licenses. It would be way better for the users if those countries would pay open source devs to work
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by lynx23 2y ago
EDRs are the devil's spyware. Especially since corporate "security" people are now pushing for EDRs to run on Linux. Argument is that the cloud nature of the thing makes it necessary that it runs everywhere. Fact is, since
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In genera, "self reporting" needs to be viewed as the untrustworthy statistics it is. I hear it a lot recently in the social siences. And media happily parrotting the results, as proof of whatever they are currently trying to pu
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by lynx23 2y ago
Nah, that would be a crazy idea... :-( In general, this article leaves a taste of communism in my mouth. I already said elsewhere, pay me fairly or go away.
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by lynx23 2y ago
Just pay a decent salary, and the rest is moot. I dont really want stock from the company I wor for. Because if it is doing well... Yes, but that pendulum can also swing in the other direction, and experience has it that just because my c
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by lynx23 2y ago
I was humorously trying to refer to the fact that touch-screen devices seem to overtake the classical computer. But apparently, people here have no humor left.
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"Who watches the watchers" is what it comes down to. Politicians, Executives... I once heard politicians need to earn a lot because otherwise they wouldn't be politicians but executives, who earn even more.
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Well, I used to want to do photos/videos in landscape mode. Until I learnt the hard way that orientation detection is not very reliable on (at least the older) iPhones. Had my share of "come on, turn 90 degrees you useless thing
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by lynx23 2y ago
I would be surprised if Orca did use Pulse directly, it uses speech-dispatcher (IIRC) which then uses PA if configured that way. Also, Accessibility != Audio. I, for instance, use Braille only. No need for speech synthesis. So equating A

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