RobMurray

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by RobMurray 6d ago
> If you were interested in whether cash usage declined during the Pandemic, it sure did. However, correlation !== causality, so please don’t draw any meaningful conclusions from this. I think we can be certain that reduced cash use didn
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by RobMurray 1mo ago
Can we maybe blame the people who use them irresponsibly instead of blaming the technology? These glasses have been a life changer for so many visually impaired people.
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by RobMurray 2mo ago
clearly not true. the weights are the preferred form for making modifications. Do you really think people should be downloading hundreds of TB of training data and running make to build the model on their own cluster of GPUs?
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by RobMurray 2mo ago
Why are you being so hostile?
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by RobMurray 2mo ago
It also, and I would say more commonly, means a round thing that can be turned. I've never heard of anyone avoiding the term.
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
latency would be the killer. a very tiny delay between pressing a key and hearing a response can make a screen reader feel unresponsive.
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
Yes, I have a passport which is accepted by every other company I have had to verify id with. Apple doesn't offer it as an option for UK accounts for some reason.
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
I agree, but I just created anew Apple id, and got a developer subscription straight away on the web without it asking for id. I suppose they will probably require id if I submit to the app store, but the fact that I already paid should car
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
because it is Israel doing all the fucking mass murder of innocent people?
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
I tried to get a personal developer account (I'm already a developer through an organisation). The app required a Driver's license as the only accepted ID. I don't drive because I'm blind. They did a screen share and tal
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
It can trigger it's self, when it decides it needs to try lots of different options to get clicks into an installer running as admin. There's basically nothing you can do to prevent it.
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
I didn't know this. Looks like I dodged a bullet - being totally blind meant the chance of issues was high but luckily it worked. It triggered the id check while trying to get computer use to work for an installer running as admin on w
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by RobMurray 3mo ago
Apple could simply be ordered to include a hardware backdoor, and legally be prevented from talking about it. Everything else in the architecture could work exactly the way they claim in the PCC paper.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
wow! are you really saying that Palestinian children should have no rights because of something their ancestors did? Should people get to violently remove them from their homes and land because of something written in history books? It&#x27
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
No need to issue a recall, they could just release a firmware update that disables unauthenticated firmware updates over BLE.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
wifi, bluetooth, and microphones. Yes microphones. I have a very cheap smart bulb with a mode that responds to music. That's not even unusual for smart bulbs.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Yeah, all Israel ever wanted was peace. That's why they stole land that was already populated, and continue to take more and more. Bomb women and children. confiscate baby formula. starve innocent people. destroy their homes and school
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
ARIA is a solution to a specific problem, not something that should be used on every site. HTML is accessible out of the box when semantic elements are used as intended. If you are using a div as a button, you probably aren't hand writ
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
It's not a binary. most web sites are accessible to some degree. Just the fact that semantic elements exist at all makes a big difference. Popular frameworks have accessibility built in.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
I'm glad that a large proportion of web developers are happy to boil the ocean then. I use the web every day with a screen reader. It works. 99% of what I want to access is fine. Often not perfect, but a whole lot better than what I co
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Clients can't automatically fix all existing web pages, because the semantic information just isn't there. AI doesn't excuse web developers. It wouldn't even be a fix. Who wants to wait for an AI agent for each interacti
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
I did read the article. Why do you need to label a div? It's just a container, not a semantic element. If you really want to use a div for something semantic you can set role and aria-label. That is done all the time and works with scr
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
To hell with using vision based AI for web accessibility. it really isn't that hard to get right. Semantic html is already accessible. ARIA can help when devs want to use the wrong elements for some reason or for custom controls.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Really? I haven't used Android recently, but I very much doubt 7 year old Talkback was any where near as good as Voiceover. I also haven't seen a single accessibility improvement in Windows recently. The most accessible Windows ap
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Apple was first to market with Voiceover. Google took a very long time to come close to catching up.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Ideally that is what AD should be like. too often you set the volume right for a movie so the characters can be heard, then the AD is like an insanely boomy voice that shakes the room. Plus for some reason the also turn the movie audio down
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
It's still AT-SPI for wayland, the main difference is how screen readers grab keyboard input events.[0] I don't think there is a big difference from a toolkit point of view. I don't personally have experience with Wayland bec
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
There is a factory reset procedure, I think you hold the shutter button while switching them off and on again.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Most of those videos are chatGPT voice mode, which still used gpt 4o last time I checked. it is far from SOTA.
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by RobMurray 4mo ago
Accessible PDFs are quite rare in reality. Especially if there are tables, graphics, maths, forms or anything more than plane text.

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