Here's a very interesting article on AI text-to-speech and screenreaders. Screnreaders use good old-fashioned text-to-speech technology, and it turns out that all this fancy new AI technology isn't helpful at all.

> "So what's the way forward for blind screen reader users? Sadly, I don't know […]

Listen to the new Poppy album, or else...

observation: telling an american who posts somewhere expressing their guilt to go violently overthrow their government is, in essence, telling them to go kill themselves¹; an expression of desire for revenge dressed up in language of justice

i understand the impulse at least (and the expression […]

i don't think it has much to do with how the project is ran (I can think of sample pairs of projects that are ran in a similar manner where one succumbs to this problem and another doesn't). I do think it has a lot to do with culture and how accepted it is that "I have suffered through this, so […]

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people in the us have been screaming about how the ussr was bad because of secret police and the planned economy, but it is 2025 and the us has a secret police and planned economy (by VCs, who are gullible idiots that brought us such gems as "the metaverse" and "feed the world into […]

I don't think Rust is perfect. It and its community have significant problems. But it's the first language I've seen that's a strong counter to the use of C and C++ as extreme gatekeeping.

And no, I don't apologize for the informed and reasoned opinion that C and C++ are bad languages that are […]

hey what the _actual fuck_ is mozilla doing? why is it building a first-party ad fraud engine by cashing in their remaining reputation? https://tabstack.ai/

i have understood for over a decade now that community led open source isn't a _development_ strategy or _maintenance_ strategy. it is a survival strategy in an adversarial environment dominated by capital. this is why, in long term, it is superior to any other type of software/hardware development

happy trans day of visibility to all my trans friends 🏳️‍⚧️

“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. … I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true