Reading quotes from republican strategists and they're all like "we didn't expect it to be this bad, I guess people didn't like Trumps policies?"

Like what the fuck are you being paid for??

@ethicalrevolution that's frickin' awesome Sam. <3

Never thought I’d have this happen, but a sighted person texted me to ask,

Hey Robbie, I’d figured I’d ask you! I watch Netflix shows with audio description all the time when I'm running or driving but the video eats up my battery, so I want to have only audio. I tried to go to Audible to look for movies and TV shows with audio description but they don't have any. Can I buy some? I’d pay for this long before I pay Netflix for another year! If you know where I can buy movies and TV shows with audio description, let me know before next week because I have a long car trip.

#Accessibility #Blind #film #TV

Federated social app: Discord-style servers and chat with ActivityPub.

https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony

I don’t remember hearing of it till now, yet it claims a lot of desired features. Github page shows only one contributor, one fork, 44 stars; lot of commits in the last week, oldest 3 years ago; GNU Affero General Public Licence v3.0.

Found via https://chat.btfree.org/@ozoned/3850a821-fc6d-431f-b235-feed68605f6e

Oh that’s me! 😁 Yes. @ruud@lemmy.world made me aware of it. It’s brilliant. I’ve been loving it for the last day and I’m blown away. There’s no AI declaration, but this is a mountain of work for one person has done. So I honestly have my questions.

However, it honestly doesn’t matter to me. If it’s free code created from an open weight model that will exist without this project, then we need to be questioning how we stand on this.

Does LLM generated code matter when you get to self host it, it’s free software. And I’m honestly at the point where, I say use their weapon against Big Tech. This isn’t replacing anyone. This wouldn’t exist without it. It’s had commits over the last few years. I think it’ll depend on maintenance, but this can always be forked and should be if maintenance doesn’t work. Because I think this is incredible. The least we can do is learn from it.

BREAKING: $GIZM (Gizmos) widely expected to offload gains #BreakingNews

You know anti-trans ads failed when even FL Gov. Ron DeSantis, leader of some of the worst anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the country, says so.

“I knew Republicans were in trouble when they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on transgender ads,” he said to press.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ...

My plans for how merephone will present different file formats:

* Text will be a menu of editable paragraphs.

* Audio will use the nav-switch for seek, play/pause, & choosing which parent folder to play all audio from. While playing the buttons will toggle shuffle & auto-repeat, while paused they'd be exit & set-ringtone.

* Images will use the nav-switch to pan or play-slideshow, or when held zoom & navigate photos. Buttons would set wallpaper or exit.

So far... Sounds pretty slick!

1/2?

@404mediaco

““Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,’ [Elon Musk] said on X. Chased off the land by its people, the billionaire looks to the sky.”
😂
My favourite quote of the day. Thank you.

Oh my Gosh. Okay, this is me!

One creator I enjoy and follow on the Fediverse is Gardiner Bryant as his content is really enjoyable.

First off, thank you so much! Really appreciate you enjoying the articles we put out 😊 One think I might emphasize here though is that so far as the site goes, Gardiner and I are partners! This is one of my articles though (so I’m to blame for this appearing so often in your feed). In fact I’m 99.99% sure Gardiner doesn’t actually share his articles on Lemmy at all.

I’m sorry it appears like this. It used to annoy me back when I was regularly on Reddit, when a post was cross-posted to a different community I’d have to follow that link, read their description of the post, then follow the link then go back a few steps to start/join the discussion in that community. Since joining Lemmy and sharing here (it has been a long time!) I just went against that grain and posted in the communities it was relevant to, to give each community a space to chat about it.

I had no idea your app was showing it this way, or that how I was doing this was annoying anyone. I’ll just go back to the age old cross-post method instead, going forward. Interesting that your app shows it this way, the one I use seems to do that for me.

Sorry to annoy you! It won’t happen going forward :)

@georgetakei

😱

I love it when @davidgerard decyphers "AGI" as "a guy instead". I thought of adding it to the AGI page on #Wiktionary. Unfortunately, I am failing to find a lot of good examples that aren't transcripts of his podcast or quotes thereof, and Wiktionary quite rightly lists quotations from "durably archived media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year" as a requirement for inclusion.

Does anyone have more examples?

@mastodonmigration @jef

The battle starts with the narrative.

Expose the most lurid, horrifying details of the Epstein files, the corruption, and the concentration camps.

Make it an eternal news cycle. I'm sure there's plenty of material.

Release so much information that the public is screaming for prosecutions, before any prosecution has begun.

That's how to flip a martyr to a monster in the court of public opinion. The ground must be made fertile for justice in advance.

@cwebber I'm not sure if it's a tan or a whitebalance issue

#ChrisHedges | Thoughts on the Midterm Elections

"The public may clamor for a raise in the minimum wage, Medicare for All, regulation of the big banks and private equity firms, an end to arms shipments to Israel and campaign finance reform, but no one in the leadership of the Democratic Party listens or cares. They serve their paymasters."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-midterm-elections

#Democrats #USPol #Midterm

After some weeks of using Snac2 bsd.cafe instance I think I could write some words about experience 🙂

1) The text formatting options is much better than in Mastodon. At least, it exists, comparing with Mastodon UI 🙂. I can use this, or this, or this, or this or even:

this

In Mastodon I could use just text, sadly. And hope that the same markup will be parsed by Pachli or any other client, which could operate with text markup independently of Mastodon.

Sadly, the @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip emojis looks like accessible only on Mastodon, so here I could use just default emojis 😞.

2) The supported Mastodon API is enough to connect to the Snac2 instance via Pachli. I could reading timeline, following the users, blocking the users, use likes, boosts and write posts or comments. Sadly, looks like I can't report users, or create additional groups (with separate timelines). Possibly, this function is not supported by Snac2.

3) The timeline is not strictly chronological — if I interact with some toot (fav, boost or write a reply), then it going to the top of the timeline.

4) The default HTML1 interface of snac is incredibly fast. Comparing with default interface of Mastodon (or even Misskey/Sharkey interfaces) in terms of speed on my hardware: the Misskey/Sharkey default UI is a Trabant, the Mastodon UI is Nissan Solaris, and the Snac2 UI is F1 bolid 🙂

5) There is no interface to see the list of blocked or muted users, so if I block someone, then there is no way to cancel it 😞.

6) There is strange behavior of the timeline — it I press the "More..." URL to load the next page of toots and press "Like" or "Boost" on some toot, then the first page is loaded, not the second 😞. So, it is better to open interesting toots in the separate tabs and fav/boots it here, not from the tab with main timeline — if I don't want to lost the reading progress.

7) If I'm a paranoid and disallow viewing my posts or posts I'm interacted with in the "Public" page of Snac — then I'm unable to see contents of my profile (which posts, replies, etc I made). The only one way to see it — use third-party clients, like Pachli.

#snac #snac2 #Pachli

@dwarf thank you :)