blindgeek

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by blindgeek 1y ago
Well, sharing someone's deeply personal post on here could be seen as unkind or inappropriate. I get the sentiment; I can agree with it to a point. If someone else wrote a similar thing on their blog, I wouldn't submit it here wi
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by blindgeek 1y ago
Inappropriate / unkind, perhaps. I did make at least one solid friend over it. She saw the post on here, emailed me, and I ended up talking for over an hour with an understanding person who has lots in common with me and gave me some
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by blindgeek 1y ago
Well, as much as I'd love to tie one on today, my drinking days are over. I'll probably smoke a bit of weed though. That, and chill with my loved ones.
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by blindgeek 1y ago
As someone who has been shocked by the ICD, lying on the floor seems like a bad place for it, since the floor is a hard surface. You're gonna jolt and spaz and scream. According to my GF, the screams are quite terrifying. One of the or
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by blindgeek 1y ago
I am the OP. Surprised to see this at the top of HN.
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by blindgeek 2y ago
> and getting all your semi-public records and social media activity immediately > scraped by shady companies and sold to anybody who expresses any interest. Public content on the Internet should be scrapable. That's what public
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by blindgeek 2y ago
And their thoroughly unhelpful reply: "Hi there, sorry to hear you're having difficulties! We have an alternative authentication scheme that you may prefer: https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility You can sign up
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by blindgeek 2y ago
And the very angry email that I (probably unwisely) just dashed off to support@hcaptcha.com: "So I've been trying to sign in repeatedly to set the accessibility cookie since last night. Every time I click the submit button, I get
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by blindgeek 2y ago
Here's the thing. We're talking about people who are the accessibility team for hCaptcha. They should at least have a figleaf of an understanding of life for blind people. The other problem we have is that online companies tend
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by blindgeek 2y ago
Yes, hashcash.
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by blindgeek 2y ago
But the WEI proposals were never about protecting from bad actors with device farms. They were always about guaranteeing that a certain ad company who also makes browsers can always push ads to users, thus maximizing value for shareholders
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by blindgeek 2y ago
It's notable that the majority of the people who would be "included" by the change to "more inclusive" language aren't offended in the first place. The sentence "I am watching TV" literally offended
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by blindgeek 2y ago
You know, that's a good point, and it hadn't occurred to me. For the overwhelming majority of blind people, language like "looked at" is just metaphorical. I mean, all language is symbolic anyway. The map is not the te
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by blindgeek 2y ago
The author was essentially too smart to be blind.
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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)(michaels.world)
410 points by blindgeek 2y ago|269 comments
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by blindgeek 2y ago
It took me a while to realize that the SC people were talking about in this thread was the Python Steering Committee. I thought it stood for Star Chamber.
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by blindgeek 2y ago
Someone brought up the topic of JS and screenreaders upthread. Screenreaders can work fine with JS. The pain points are: 1. Use of JS to reimplement standard HTML widgets. This has broken my screenreader more times than I care to rememb
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by blindgeek 2y ago
The TL;DR is more like: cell carriers and phone manufacturers have more incestuous entanglement than the Habsburg dynasty.
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Smartphones Are a Toxic Dumpster Fire(blog.the-brannons.com)
1 points by blindgeek 2y ago|2 comments
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by blindgeek 3y ago
My friend group and I have been playing with LLMs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39208451 . We tend to hang out in multi-user voice chat sometimes, and I've speculated that it would be interesting to hook an LLM
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by blindgeek 3y ago
As a rule, I tend to nope out on signing up for anything at all. I do have a Lyft account and of course the bank account both of those entities have a legitimate reason for contacting me so I don’t mind them having my phone number, but it’
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by blindgeek 3y ago
I've been online in some form or other since 1993. Back in 1993, everything was basically accessible by default, because it was plain text. No, there has not been an improvement, and in fact, things have gotten worse in a lot of ways.
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by blindgeek 3y ago
To be completely honest, I don't really know what I'm doing. The IRC bot I wrote isn't complicated at all; it basically just acts as a bridge between IRC and a program that has an HTTP API. FWIW I've never written an IR
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by blindgeek 3y ago
I'm blind, but I wouldn't know. I haven't used bard or gpt or any of that, and I don't plan on doing so. I thought about playing with GPT back in early 2023, when the hype really started picking up. But when I realize
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by blindgeek 3y ago
Yes, the image interrogation is exactly the point. This all started out when my friend said that it would be cool to be able to chat on IRC with an LLM running on his own hardware. And then we were like, oh hey, we can get this thing to de
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Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally(2mb.codes)
201 points by blindgeek 3y ago|40 comments
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by blindgeek 3y ago
Another metaphor would be a screenshot of bash, or a screenshot of cat, or a screenshot of the original /bin/ed. Next they'll be wanting someone to stream a session of /bin/cat on youtube. Yes, this program was dev
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by blindgeek 3y ago
When I was in school, I used to get textbooks on cassette tape from Recording for the Blind and Dislexic, RFBD. They came in these big boxes full of tapes. I occasionally used those boxes to hide random stuff. Long story short: I might
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by blindgeek 5y ago
It is really telling that the people who complain most bitterly about fiat currency fall into a few different camps, most of which want to destroy any kind of government social safety net. On the one hand we have the right-libertarians &#x
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by blindgeek 6y ago
I hated CDs. Too big to be carried in a pocket. Read-only, until CD-R came out. Single use, until CD-RW came out. Required careful handling, to avoid getting fingerprints on the read-side etc. In some ways not unlike vinyl, in its prone

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