miki

miki, 7 days ago

@scottjenson Saying "we will once be able to fly from New York to Paris" is like seeing the contraption that the Wright brothers have just designed and extrapolating a jet engine.

miki, 8 days ago

@x0 @talon Not a C# expert by any means, but I think this is just pattern matching. Pattern matching definitely is cool though.

miki, 8 days ago

@x0 @talon That's functional programming for you, read "structure and interpretation of computer programs" if you're into that sort of stuff. I never actually fully finished it myself, but the parts I managed to read were already quite fascinating.

miki, 10 days ago

@Caoimhe This heavily depends on the country. Poland is all ANSI except for Apple, which fortunately lets you choose which one you want as long as you don't buy through crappy third-party retailers. Keyboard layouts is one thing we really got right.

miki, 10 days ago

@x0 @Caoimhe We do diacritics differently. Windows essentially maps right alt to ctrl+alt, and then right alt + letter is the accented version of that letter. Anything without right alt works exactly as it does on the US qwerty layout, which is really nice for keyboard shortcuts and coding. Mac OS doesn't do the ctrl+alt trick, but it already has Option + letters mapped to things, so the Polish keyboard layout is just a copy of the American one, with mapping differences where necessary. This means you can use whichever option key you find convenient, but you can't use ctrl+option.

miki, 10 days ago

@x0 @Caoimhe This all comes from the fact that Poland was piss-poor, used a latin alphabet, and there were cocom restrictions preventing official exportation of computers to eastern-bloc countries. This meant that all of the computers we had at the time were unofficially imported from the west and couldn't be localized to Polish by their original manufacturers, we had to find a way to make do with what we had, and what we had was qwerty keyboards with American markings on them. If not for this, we would have probably gone for a variation on the German qwertz, which is what we used to have on typewriters.

miki, 10 days ago

@x0 @Caoimhe which one, ctrl+option? yes.

miki, 10 days ago

@x0 @Caoimhe Yeah, sorry if that was unclear. On Windows, ctrl+alt+anything is for diacritics, not so on Mac

miki, 10 days ago

@x0 @Caoimhe This created problems with NVDA for years, because ctrl+alt+n is an accented letter, that we use pretty often but the NVDA desktop shortcut took that over. They handle this in the installer now, if it detects that your system is set to Polish, it uses ctrl+alt+d instead.

miki, 10 days ago

@alexhall @jscholes Be My AI is far slower than it could be, TBH. It only reads the response when the whole response is complete, instead of doing something smarter like reading sentence-by-sentence. Reading token-by-token wouldn't work very well in many languages (notably English), but sentence-by-sentence should be OK.

miki, 11 days ago

@pgronkievitz W Inpoście się da, kind of https://github.com/alufers/inpost-cli

Jakby się ktoś serio uparł, to niewielkim wysiłkiem by się dało to spiąć np. z botem na Telegramie (bo tam jest fajne API i najłatwiej zrobić).

miki, 11 days ago

@chikim @vick21 The vast, vast, vast majority of blind people are just old and want nothing to do with computers.

miki, 11 days ago

@pixelate @chikim @vick21 That's not even what I mean. I'm talking about the people that we don't really consider "blind", that aren't part of any community, lost their sight due to age, don't interact with anybody except whoever cares for them etc.

miki, 9 days ago

@vick21 @chikim @pixelate Webaim not being translated to other languages makes it pretty much unrepresentative of anything in my opinion.

Not that it's the only problem with it by any chance, it's just the largest one.

miki, 11 days ago

@ZBennoui It might be third parties? Apple is big enough for that to be a serious possibility, Eloquence clearly demonstrated that they actually do care about this stuff. It could be anything, from Ivona, Acapela or Neospeech, to Dectalk or other similar voices.

miki, 11 days ago

@ZBennoui They're doing that Apple Books narration thing too, I wouldn't be surprised if they ported those voices to run on-device.

miki, 11 days ago

@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig Quoting from the document:

"Data will not leak across workspaces. For any model that will be used broadly across all of our customers, we do not build or train these models in such a way that they could learn, memorise, or be able to reproduce some part of Customer Data."

Please stop spreading misinformation

miki, 11 days ago

@mutax @GossiTheDog @Quinnypig People never opt in to anything. You could tell most people that they can get a million dollars, no strings attached, and they'd just click whatever button strikes their fancy to close that popup as quickly as possible without even reading what it says. If it's an opt-in in the settings? Forget it.

miki, 11 days ago

@tek Did you generate a TLS certificate for it by any chance? These are a matter of public record now, a fact that cybercriminals aren't hesitant to use.

miki, 11 days ago

@nikatjef @tek AFAIK, certificate transparency logs do get looked at pretty often. I'd be curious to hear more about the DNS record update notification mechanism you speak of, do you have a RFC number handy perhaps?

miki, 11 days ago

@nikatjef @tek Thanks, I wasn't aware of this.

miki, 11 days ago

@nikatjef @tek Are you sure this data is available externally, not just within GC itself? I somehow doubt it, even enumerating the active subdomains of a domain is non-trivial, see e.g. https://subdomain.center, much less getting updates about them in real time.

miki, 11 days ago

@Piciok Whate are you using for SIP on iOS? All the clients I found were either inaccessible, would stop receiving calls after a few days or disuse, were incredible power-hogs, or sometimes all of the above.

miki, 12 days ago

@KaraLG84 To add to this, the "accessible" account creation process takes a few months.