Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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RT @froomkin
I wrote about how the Washington Post could save itself by taking advantage of the New York Times's pathetic custom of getting played by the right: https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/
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Live Captions is an application for the Linux desktop that provides instant, local, and open source captioning for video
Jitsi video conferencing screen showing a man and a woman and a screenshot, with live text caption at bottom In a perfect world, all videos would have transcripts, and live videos would have captioning. It’s not just a requirement for people without hearing to be able to participate in pop culture and video chats, […]
https://gadgeteer.co.za/live-captions-is-an-application-for-the-linux-desktop-that-provides-instant-local-and-open-source-captioning-for-video/ https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e10-868bdd5a-c7cae73ec4677a32
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If you’re on #Ubuntu with some apps installed from Snap Store, be sure to run this to ensure old package releases don’t take up gigabytes of your disk space:
sudo snap set system refresh.retain=2
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"I don't want everybody to vote… Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down"
— Paul Weyrich, 1980
(a father of the modern right, founder of ALEC, Heritage Foundation & Moral Majority; and partner in politics with nazi collaborator Laszlo Pasztor)
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I spent a month talking to people who lived and worked at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park in AL. They claim DAL turned a blind eye to drugs, violence, embezzling, and repeat visits by a sex offender who's accused of abusing a boy there:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/preacher-kent-hovind-accused-of-enabling-a-pedophile-at-his-christian-dinosaur-adventure-land-theme-park
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Well in one respect, this kind of proves that no good deed goes unpunished - stunt or not, he's genuinely helping people, and I would say his critics should STFU except that he also seems to have some rather unsavory personality traits (mentioned briefly in the article) that are fair game for criticism. But that said, I'm a little astounded that this philanthropy is something that people would waste time criticizing, since it is helping restore sight to people who otherwise would remain blind.
Also anyone who thinks that people should just live with their dissabilities and join some kind of community of others with the same condition, when that condition is easily addressed by available and affordable medical intervention can go straight to hell. It's one thing if nothing can be done about a condition, but if for example I were going deaf and a Cochlear implant would help and you tried to talk me out of it, I would probably want to punch you square in the face. Most people don't want to just live with a disability if something can be done to mitigate it, but there are a few who would rather join a community of others like themselves and the complain about people who are "ableists" because they don't want to be part of their little pity party. I am NOT talking about people who have conditions that can't be helped by medical intervention, or who can't afford the cost of or don't have access to such intervention, or who have other valid reasons for not getting that help and who don't try to force their choices on other similarly situated people. I'm only talking about the people who don't want such help but don't want anyone else to get it either, and hurl slurs and hate at the people who do accept such intervention and those who provide it.
The real bastards are the people who try to deny such interventions to children, in cases where the rewards can be great and the risks are small. I have nothing but contempt for those people. I had better stop here (but take a guess how I feel about anti-vaxxers).
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about "stunt philanthropy" and "char...
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Live Captions is an application for the Linux desktop that provides instant, local, and open source captioning for video https://gadgeteer.co.za/live-captions-is-an-application-for-the-linux-desktop-that-provides-instant-local-and-open-source-captioning-for-video/
@devinprater@tweesecake.social Vienna - have used it for many years now.
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And now NBC News has an excellent article out on the homophobic smear campaign targeting #gigisohn
Still crickets from the White House and Senate Democrats...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fcc-gigi-sohn-nomination-turns-ugly-rcna68224
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How to manage multiple #TimeMachine #backups on and off your #Mac https://tchlp.com/3wSNW9G
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Utah lawmakers are fast tracking two bills that would require social media companies to age verify users, grant parents access to their kids' accounts, and more (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/utah-lawmakers-rushing-through-bills-to-destroy-the-internet-for-kids/
http://www.techmeme.com/230204/p4#a230204p4
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"OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete"
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete #openai #chatgpt #ai
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Stop using the term, "Culture Wars". This nomenclature is overt propaganda. We're in the midst of a Democracy vs. Fascism war — nothing less.
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I talked with Mashable about how accessibility bots will be affected by Twitter charging for API access. The decision sidelines and shuts down most bots, though I hope to keep one of my bots running. #a11y
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Anyone ever heard of the Abaton Transform?
"Abaton Transform automatically regenerates Apple II applications for instant use on the Macintosh. Abaton translates II programs, including screen graphics, at the object-code level for the Macintosh, regardless of the original program’s source language. The process often takes less than 15 minutes, and even the most sophisticated programs are translated in no more than six hours."
https://bytecellar.com/2008/08/23/abaton_transfor/
#AppleII #Mac #Macintosh #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagetech #interview #blog #tech #Apple
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It's great that nothing he does works, and his veneer of sci-fi nerd messiah is flaking apart so obviously, and all this, but when things go so far as being taken to court for finance manipulation reasons and then they find that he's not trying to defraud or manipulate but is actually just an utter moron, that feels like we missed out on what should have been an easy win.
We do live in a supremely stupid world so we shouldn't be that surprised.
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Of course people want Musk to eat at least some amount of shit, so it's disappointing when he repeatedly manages to not deal with any repercussions from any of the idiotic scam-and-scam-adjacent services and promises he's come up with, regardless of how transparent they otherwise seem.
It's the primal need for something, anything to matter to this clown as an actual consequence, instead of what seems to keep happening
