Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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January 12, 2025- “The hygiene hypothesis is being eroded
Infections at a young age correlate with severe infections later in life, few infections in youth correlate with less infections in adulthood
Where was the “strengthening of kids immune system” from infections?” - AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (01/06/25) - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/early-life-infection-burden-continues-throughout-childhood-new-data
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The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.
VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.
This is not generative AI.
While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.
What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.
AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.
I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.
So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.
#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility
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boost with cw: human rights
Again I hope cis friends realize this: trans rights are literally YOUR rights
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"...the rise of singlehood among young people is not a result of women not wanting marriage or children—but rather women finding the bargain on offer not particularly attractive."
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-of-gender-relations/
I tried visiting the URL again without Discord running, and it redirected to a page on 127.0.0.1:6463 which failed to load. It seems Discord handles this by running a (presumably temporary) webserver on localhost. So, if someone sends me to one of those links, I'll get redirected to localhost, which will fail because I'm not running a webserver.
Still creepy.
Apparently, the first time you run Discord on a new machine, it opens a URL with your default browser that, if you're already logged in, also logs you into the desktop app. Without asking on either end.
Which was convenient but also creepy and feels like a security concern. Like, someone can generate a web URL that if I visit it logs them in as me? How is that safe?
(Update: After playing around a bit, it appears that it is safe, I'll explain why in a reply.)
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my name is `adduser`
and my brother's `useradd`
one of us is good
and one of us is bad!
which of us is which?
there is no way to know
we change names sometimes
to keep you on your toes!
I really want to use the term "cis-compilation" for the opposite of "cross-compilation" but it'd probably just confuse people.
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just learned about recency bias. my favourite type of bias for sure
Haha, one of these is a rar file incorrectly renamed to .zip
Going through old files and wow I used to hang onto a lot of weird little games and demo things. ^_^
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hey there friend's brain, please be nice to our friend
Esme Povirk
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glad someone wrote an article that covers how almost half of covid transmission may be asymptomatic, why being covid cautious is a social justice issue, and the loss and loneliness that comes with being covid cautious: https://boulderweekly.com/news/covid-safe-colorado/
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people in skirts regardless of their gender
boost if agree like if yes
Unsure if new laptop fast or Windows slow.
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This is your periodic reminder that ambulatory wheelchair users exist. Many folks think wheelchairs are only for those who can't walk at all, or folks who can only take a couple steps.
Wheelchairs and electric scooters are used due to pain, weakness, balance issues, orthostatic intolerance, etc.
#Disability #Wheelchairs #DynamicDisability #ChronicIllness #MEcfs
Linux doesn't know how to disable tap-to-click on my wireless keyboard+touchpad, so I disabled clicks entirely and remapped Windows and Caps Lock to the mouse buttons.
I don't recommend Arch though. Having to install and configure every piece of basic functionality is a chore, and I'm really not seeing any benefits from it. If I had to redo it I'd probably do another Manjaro install.
I am a Windows user no more. Hello from my new StarLite tablet running Arch with XFCE.
Joined Aug 2018
