And here is one of the many reasons why I’ve never latched onto the idea of #AutonomousVehicles as being the revolutionary game-changer so many of my #blind friends think it is. There’s just way, way too much out of your control, and even now there are times when manual override is required. Really sorry but I will die on this hill if necessary. mas.to/@JorgeStolfi/1141794508…
The biggest problem with self-driving cars is that the driving itself is completely controlled by software, that can be updated through the net without knowledge of the owner.
Fully agree. There are some things I will never be able to do. Driving a car, flying an aircraft, many things. I'm 100% ok with that. Believe it or not abled people can't do everything, either. Ugh. I also couldn't live with myself if my car killed someone's dog or their grandma. So... I won't be partaking in self driving cars.
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I was already concerned when Health Secretary, Wes #Streeting was proclaiming that mental illness was ‘over diagnosed’ this morning (based on what medical evidence?!)…but I now suspect he’s riding the current ripple in the culture wars against neurodivergents.
While reactionary dinosaurs like Hitchens seem to wonder why life didn’t just stay caught in the aspic of their blinkered 1950’s childhood…Cambridge researchers believe that #dyslexia actually played a key part in human survival, exploration, invention and creativity.
Having worked with many innovative dyslexics I know where my money is. And yes, one of those is my partner, a librarian.
Researchers say people with Developmental Dyslexia have specific strengths relating to exploring the unknown that have contributed to the successful adaptation
A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she experiences reading. She can read, but it takes a lot of concentration, and the letters seems to “jump around”.
The image is a meme divided into two panels. The top panel shows a character lying on the ground, wearing a green cloak, with a solemn expression. The text overlay reads, "I would have followed you... my captain... my king..." The background consists of fallen leaves, suggesting an outdoor setting.
The bottom panel features the same character, now with a bloodied face, looking distressed. To the right, there is a game interface displaying an item named "Boromir's Gauntlets," which provides +4 defense. The description humorously notes, "Daddy's gift to his favorite and only son. Offers no toe protection." The character's name, "Boromir," is visible at the bottom of the interface. The background is blurred, focusing attention on the character and the game interface.
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The image depicts a character standing in a dynamic pose, with a background of vibrant, swirling colors. The character is wearing a dark blue and orange outfit, including a headscarf, a long-sleeved top, a skirt, and boots. The outfit features intricate patterns and a belt with a red accent. The character holds a curved sword in their right hand and appears to be casting a spell with their left hand, as indicated by the glowing blue energy emanating from it. The background is filled with streaks of blue, pink, and white, suggesting motion or magical energy. The character's stance and the glowing effects convey a sense of action and power.
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What you're watching above isn't your ordinary film. No, this film -- A Boy and His Atom -- holds the Guinness World Record for being the World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends” who are focused on ways to strengthen the bonds between the United States and Russia.
It might be me, but does it seem like Duolingo has kind of lost its tiny fucking mind recently? Is it "AI" or do they think it's a solid decision to give their customers a dose of freakish body horror whenever they finish a lesson? I couldn't get a picture of it, but the last time I opened the app, there was a brief flash of Duo the owl screaming and looking like this emoji 😱 . I wish I were joking.
@secretsloth They updated the app literally as I was talking to you, and when I logged back in to do my daily lesson, now you can't practice to earn hearts at all anymore, you have to watch ads. I am not down with this. I've got a 3000+ day streak like an anchor but I need to give up the habit and figure out some other way to learn I guess.
I mean, all the varieties of torture and death when you're not using the app are disturbing too. (I had another where he looked like he was screaming, but I appear to have deleted it.)
About 30 years ago, health authority officials found out, that some deer meat sold in Germany was actually from kangaroo tails. It was just fraud by misdeclaration, there was no problem using it as food. You can't distinguish by taste, neither.
"Congress hasn't passed a consumer #privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."
The movie "The Lives of Others" was released in 2006. A major plot point in the movie is when the protagonist discovers that his home audio was monitored 24/7. As a viewer, you are supposed to be horrified that such a violation of privacy could occur.
It's unbelievable how routine surveillance in private spaces has become for so many people, I really don't get it.
And it doesn't take much imagination at all to consider these recordings (soon) being used by an autocratic government in bed with the surveillance companies, for exactly the same purposes as the bad old days of the DDR.
OpenMV LLC makes some incredibly powerful, small-form-factor #IoT cameras perfect for tinkering, prototyping, and making slick projects. I taught my Computer Vision with #AI course using their cameras. I'm excited about this new series: full object detection for a few mW. #EdgeAI #ComputerVision #Arduino #MicroPython #embedded #microcontroller
Arcade dude messages to say hey Dan how many minutes d'you think this Portal pinball machine will remain functional, and I gotta go find the thread where I clown on the worst pinball machine I've ever seen until the CEO emails my workplace and tries to get them to sack me mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/1099…
Me, inside a modern Stern pinball: "Man, Stern suck. I wish Williams had stuck around."
Me, inside any other new manufacturer: "Oh my god Stern are amazing"
In other pinball news there's a sub-$1000 home-use two-thirds-scale pinball up on kickstarter which, honestly, they're probably not gonna pull that off. But if they did, it'd be REVOLUTIONARY. Like, that would be SO good for pinball.
Pinball's big problem is its cost, everything flows from that.
* Toxic rich dudes with big rightwing I've-got-money opinions on everything * Machines languish pristine and untouched in basements rather than going in the pub or laundromat where they belong * I know of a dude who buys anything local under $3k sight unseen, puts it in storage for a couple years then sells it for $5k * "This game is actually fantastic, don't believe the haters - OK I've sold it on now and can reveal that it was a bag of wank"
Now this new $1k machine is made by one of the Arcade1up people (y'know, those cheap-feeling toy arcade machines at costco) so it might well suck, but the crucial question is HOW MUCH is it gonna suck? 'cause if it only sucks a little bit, if it's like 60% as much fun as a $5k machine but it costs $1k, then honestly we're cooking
And if we can harden a $1k machine to be an arcade-ready $2k coin-op, then that can go out at 50c play rather than $1 (increasingly $1.50) and that REALLY opens things up for pinball to become more accessible to more people
Buddy of mine was just saying today... "A while ago I am pretty sure this dude was starting to tear up as I was tearing some janky pinstadium lights off of 2 games I was getting from him right there in his living room and tossing them in a pile on his floor. You want these? I'm just gonna throw them in the garbage."
"I didn't want to move the game with them in because on one game they hot glued them to the blades and they were falling off. The other used magnetic tape and that was also falling off."
had a friend that sold some random 90s Bally pin he got out of an abandoned bar for like $15k to some dentist. This guy then sent it to an old guy that runs a straight up arcade machine racket, who charged him a bunch more money to make it look slightly cleaner, and then added a bunch of gaudy LEDs in it. That went into his freshly built pinball annex on his mansion. Pinball machines deserve to be free, not in some secret lair.
What's the CEO emailing bit cos that's pretty Barbara Streisand or something, but I couldn't find it in that (humongous) thread. [And now a terrible spelling of humongous is in my phone dictionary because I couldn't spell it right the first time and what the icon for what looks like "look it up" is actually "add"]
I loved Window Maker, I used it in the late nineties / early 2000's. I've discovered this project this evening, I can't wait to try it, at first in a VM: github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker
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