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by mlang23 6y ago
People have different opinions. I am pretty sure you are not qualified to assess how smart someone is via the Internet. You just believe your opinion is more worthy or more accepted then the one you are attacking. And I couldn't agre
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by mlang23 6y ago
Fully agree.
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by mlang23 6y ago
I totally get what he is trying to say. It is becoming so obvious after 8 months of social isolation, lockdowns and a ton of toxicity in the community. The aftermath of this "lets lock down everything to protect a few" strategy
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by mlang23 6y ago
You call going to a cafeteria a hard challenge? Wow, that is really aiming low. Lets list a few hard challenges: * Read a book with your fingers. At least 300 paperback pages. That will be about 2000 braille pages. * Cross a road which
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by mlang23 6y ago
Guess what? A ton of blind people is being injured daily while trying to life alongside a bunch of mostly ignorant spoiled brats. Nobody writes a newspaper articles when I trip over a badly placed bicycle and ramm a part of it into my gut.
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by mlang23 6y ago
If the carrier hasn't fucked with the defaults, you should be able to launch VoiceOver with a tripple-press on the home button. I don't know how it works with the new home-button-less devices, I dont have any of those.
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by mlang23 6y ago
You could, for instance, try to get your daily dose of reddit with your iPhone. Switch on VoiceOver, and enjoy the wonderful world of accessible mainstream media. And definitely try crossing a few streets. Grab a cane, and off you go. But
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by mlang23 6y ago
Seriously? I am blind, and I find this article pretty pathetic. If you dont attempt to interact with your environment, this is no challenge. I know people who have done a similar thing for 24 hours, however, they went to the uni cafeteria
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by mlang23 6y ago
This would make these projects non-DFSG-compliant, and Debian (and its derivatives) could no longer distribute a package. I totally get the idea of boycott. But the definition of freeness says that if you do that, you are no longer free.
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by mlang23 6y ago
About time people start to stand up against certain measures. It has become pretty obvious that governments are using the pandemic to figure out how much they can fuck with citizens without them rioting. In the last 8 months, the so-called
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by mlang23 6y ago
This assumes that everyone caring for children is automatically "sacrificing their career". That is not true. There are still women who are not really interested in persuing a career they'd need to sacrifice to care for a c
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by mlang23 6y ago
I doubt this is limited to Italy. It has become a meme that a guy is likely to suffer more during a separation if she is motivated and gets herself a good lawyer. If she insists to get the kids, she will. If she doesnt want him to see the
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by mlang23 6y ago
Its no longer relevant to me nor him, but I can't help but think the attitude of this article kind of violates the DFSG. If the stance is to insist that free software should be allowed to be redistributed by anyone, flaming those which
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by mlang23 6y ago
Two things need to be said: This reminds me of my earliest complex dream. As a child, when I first learnt our home address I immediately dreamed a rather long story where our house was robbed and I was mailed to the other side of the plane
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by mlang23 6y ago
Everyone still in their right mind should quit Twitter. Actual, now is a very good moment to do so. Quit before the election. You're not going to miss anything healthy.
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by mlang23 6y ago
I had this happen to me on several occasions. Once because I got a contact lens to protect a wounded eye. I told the doctor I could not imagine putting anything artifical in my eye while it is trying to heal. She insisted it would work f
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by mlang23 6y ago
Identifying the incompetend IT security department responsible for this is likely pretty easy. It is much harder to make the message heard that those in charge of taking care of sensible data are those putting people at risk. How the stuff
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by mlang23 6y ago
Sort of, but it is an image to Braille map :-)
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by mlang23 6y ago
I basically converts pixels into pins. It is ment as an absolute last resort. If I (a blind braille display user) have no idea what an image might contain, I can use it to get at least a rough idea. And yes, it can scale, invert and trim
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by mlang23 6y ago
Doesn't that also imply that life is a sort of punishment? Once you get the lesson, you are no longer forced to play the game?
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Show HN: Img2brl – Tactile Image Viewer for the Web(img2brl.delysid.org)
3 points by mlang23 6y ago|4 comments
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by mlang23 6y ago
Indeed. My main use case for youtube-dl is via mpv -no-video. I am blind. I can not always use a web browser to access a lecture. Being able to play YT videos on the terminal is a godsent feature for me.
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by mlang23 6y ago
You were lucky. Dont you think your analysis is a bit egocentrical though? What if there was a major accident during that 20km drive? What if someone was killed with your unlocked car? Is the damage to your property still your only conc
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by mlang23 6y ago
Something similar applies here with weapons. If you are a legal weapon owner, it is expected of you that you take care so that nobody can just pick up your gun and start shooting. You need to store it unloaded, munitions stored separately
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by mlang23 6y ago
Clearly this information should never have been allowed to be stored digitally. Those to blame are those which neglected to put the necessary precautions in place. Where I come from, if you forget to lock your car, police can collect the
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by mlang23 6y ago
For the most part, I actually use Lynx to read HN. So it should be relatively easy for you to see how that feels. For added spice, you can install a screen reader like Orca and activate the "virtual braille viewer". That will g
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by mlang23 6y ago
I deleted my Twitter account roughly 3 years ago. That platform never really got me going.
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by mlang23 6y ago
And with hakyll, you get a static site generator powered by all the goodness that is pandoc. Blazingly fast (compared to say, pelican) and easy to extend.
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by mlang23 6y ago
I never understood that trend. Why is replacing badly structured content with low quality NLP an improvement to the user experience?
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by mlang23 6y ago
Thanks for textifying this. I am a screen reader user, so your effort is very much appreciated.

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