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mcc, 11 days ago to random

A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

mcc, 10 days ago to random

I think my favorite program in the entire linux/unix toolchain is "file". Did you even know about this program? It's on every system including MacOS and it's magic. You run it on any file and it just tells you what it is. Any file. I don't know who keeps this updated but it supports surprising things. Like it knows Windows file formats. If it's a executable it tells you if it's 32- or 64- bit. If it's an image it tells you the size and channels. If the file extension lies it just figures it out.

mcc, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

I don't know if I can communicate to cis people the horror of going through the wrong puberty. Your body is being turned against you from the inside and it goes on for years. The transphobic wedge strategy decrees there are no legitimate trans folk under 16, so puberty blockers are a kind of compromise— freezing the poison in your blood in place until you turn 16 and are allowed medical self-determination. The Conservatives have made even this half-mercy a criminal act. https://lgbt.io/@gendercensus/112564150066141141

mcc, 20 days ago to random

Remember: They're not AI PCs, they're Surveillance PCs https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112475611939997391

mcc, 24 days ago to random

"NoAI" patches for video games that remove all assets that were partially or entirely created with mass-scraped large NN models and replacing those game elements with intentionally crude MS Paint drawings

mcc, 23 days ago to random

Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

mcc, 19 days ago to random

Holding head in hands We just tried to git clone the C# runtime and it failed because it would have created a pathname which is too long.

We used Microsoft's source distribution server (github)

To download Microsoft's programming language VM (dotnet)

Onto Microsoft's operating system (Windows)

And this was not supported.

mcc, 5 days ago to random

The government should give me a grant to spend 3 weeks installing every Linux distribution until I find the right one

mcc, 6 days ago to random

Here's what really scares me about "Recall" (the Windows 11 total surveillance feature):

Awhile back Apple introduced client-side image scanning to iCloud. There was a huge backlash and they rolled it back. But now that it's been demonstrated "possible" once, EU states are trying to legislate requiring it.

There's a huge backlash to "Recall". Maybe it will be changed or cancelled. But now that it's "possible", how long until governments start trying to legislate every OS have this feature?

mcc, 30 days ago to random

My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

mcc, 27 days ago to random

I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten massively worse about aggressively correcting acronyms to unrelated, similarly-spelled words. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"

mcc, 4 days ago to random

An intrusive thought I return to often is how "I want a pony" is the canonical example of an unreasonable request but, like, if you look into it even a little you'll find it's not hard at all to acquire a pony. On raw purchase price a pony is far cheaper than a car and probably not much more than a good ebike. You're gonna have to invest time and money into pony upkeep but, of all the aspirational goals you could set yourself in life "a pony" is one of the more attainable ones

mcc, 11 days ago to random

Is this a good time to bring up my deeply held belief that people should be allowed to vote in elections even if they are convicted felons

mcc, 8 days ago to random

Idea I am not sure whether I like: Normalize saying "200" as a response to "how are you doing?", as in "200 OK". In this proposal this would be a somewhat weaker alternative to saying "okay" because it communicates only "no active errors". "How are you doing?" "Nominal"

mcc, 6 days ago to random

Since roughly 1998 my go-to site for checking whether my Internet connection is functioning properly has been cnn.com . This worked well for a long time but somewhere around 2012 either CNN or American culture itself started getting kinda weird and now my Internet tests have become harrowing as every time I open CNN there's something on the front page that appears to be a dispatch from an alien planet

mcc, 13 days ago to random

Sorry, you want me to what

mcc, 5 days ago to random

Asking for a friend.

In Visual Studio Code for Mac, what determines the environment variables of VSCode and the processes it spawns?

More specifically ("what are you trying to do?"): When Visual Studio Code invokes msbuild (for example, launch.json contains a "type":"dotnet" "request":"launch") and the msbuild contains an <Exec> task, what $PATH does that <Exec> use? Can this $PATH be configured on a per-system basis?

mcc, 19 days ago to random

In the future, the only way to escape execution by the Microsoft killbots will be to legally change your name to be longer than 256 characters, thus rendering you invisible to their AI https://helvede.net/@jwcph/112485841825022134

mcc, 23 days ago to random

Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

mcc, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

HOW TO USE GIT

SOME SAMPLE INVOCATIONS

git submodule update
Do nothing.

git submodule update --recursive
Do nothing.

git submodule update --init --recursive
Do nothing.

git submodule sync && git submodule update --init --recursive
Do nothing.

git submodule sync --recursive && git submodule update --init --recursive
Update the submodules to be correct for the current commit.

mcc, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

If a program says it wants CUDA 10 can I get away with installing CUDA 12 or does CUDA 10 mean "CUDA 10 exactly"

It's specifically asking for "cudart64_101.dll"

mcc, 19 days ago to random

I would like to suggest you watch the first three seconds of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0S92Fs5gOg