Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.
Assistive technology is the creation of a new device that assists a person in completing a task that would otherwise be impossible. Some examples include new computer software programs like screen readers, and inventions such as assistive listening devices, including hearing aids, and traffic lights with a standard color code that enables colorblind individuals to understand the correct signal.
Disabled people are likely to have had their attention piqued by Musk reiterating that, in the first instance, Neuralink would be looking to “solve important brain and spine problems.”
In fact, throughout the presentation, several chronic and life-limiting conditions were cited as being potentially treatable by Neuralink — ranging from blindness, spinal cord injuries, memory loss, brain damage and even depression.
The company’s first round of clinical trials will focus on patients with spinal cord injuries.
…Neuralink said, adding that its initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.
ETA:
I have no interest in defending the muskrat or his dystopian vision for this technology. I’m just a developer who gives half a shit about making accessible software, so I want people to know what that means.
I hadn’t really formed an opinion on this article specifically, but… If I had spinal damage? I might consider signing up for the monkey-killer chip too. A shot at getting my body back might be too enticing to resist.
If you trained a model on a single copyrighted work, then that would be a copyright violation because it would inevitably produce output similar to that single work.
But if you train it on hundreds of thousands of copyrighted works, that’s no longer a copyright violation, because output won’t closely match any single work.
How is something a crime if you do it once, but not if you do it a million times?
I am so so divided on if I should vote for biden or not. I wanna vote third party to at least do something or should I just stay home and protest and advocate where I can? Thoughts?
People have a fucked-up understanding of voting in the US. You are not voting for the person you agree with. You are voting for the person you’d rather negotiate with.
If you actually care beyond the aesthetics of whether you did the cool thing or not, you have to think about the function of what you’re doing and not just whether it feels good.
Personally I think that if there was like a central link/front end to access everything and then have each user be able to have a recommended list of instances/hosts to access would be a more user friendly solution and a better solution for search engines. I know the fediverse is about decentralization but having a central front...
We don’t have to look too deeply into history to find parallels to this kind of worldview. Simply put, it is the worldview of colonialism: it sees both nature and other people as domains to be conquered and exploited for “growth”.
Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This is one of the reasons it’s so weird and toxic to have brands posting on social media as if they were just “fellow users”.
If a random user posts some Barbenheimer content, I can grant that person the dignity of being a full human who probably has complex, conflicting feelings about the Manhattan Project, and some kind of ironic detachment yet fascination with the existence of the Barbie movie.
If WB posts (or comments on) it, there’s really no room for nuance. They want engagement, they want money. If there is (or was) irony or self-criticism embedded in the content, that fact is only incidental.
So then WB gets rightfully scorned for casually dismissing war crimes to get more attention to their properties.
But where does that leave the rest of us?
Cuz the implication is that individuals shouldn’t be posting Barbenheimer stuff, either… but that doesn’t feel right.
There’s something culturally meaningful to this meme, that we probably shouldn’t quash — but it also shouldn’t be crudely leveraged for profit.
It appears you’re having a problem with HUMOR.EXE.
You seem to have enabled LIP (Laughter Integrity Protection) Service.
You should know that LIP Service does not apply to built-in protocols such as TAB/00, and will cause compatibility issues in certain deployment environments such as EARTH.ENV.
To solve your particular issue, you’ll want to navigate to the /ASS directory, right-click on HEAD.ZIP and select “Extract”.
ChatGPT is an incompetent, unethical mess, and the rare occasions where its stochastic output aligns with reality, it is abusing the generosity of people who expected to be licensing their work to fellow human creatives and not the inanimate avatar of cognitive oblivion.
I mean, it’s Google. What did you expect? Android is free because having it on a ton of cheap phones helps Google collect data and sell ads.
Side-rant:
Apple’s got plenty of problems and anti-consumer behavior, too, don’t get me wrong… but it’s incredible how far they’re able to enforce privacy, down to the hardware level, while still giving devs almost the same level of control over OS features as Android.
Like, look at how ARKit does point cloud sharing vs ARCore. iOS limits sharing scanned AR environments to peer-to-peer local connections, and it’s a totally opaque object. Android meanwhile uploads your scanned room to a Google server, and the privacy terms for that data are the same as the ones for Youtube, search, maps, etc.
It drives me crazy how many FOSS nerds will rail against Facebook’s data collection and chokepoint capitalism, but then go on to praise Android for standing up to that no-good Apple. They hear “I can sideload apps” and they drop all of their recent cynicism about why they’re getting nifty stuff at a hefty discount.
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
The Effective Altruism/Musk/Thiel/MacAskill/Longtermism crowd is obsessed with artificial general intelligence.
Their view is that bringing about "friendly" AGI, along with space travel, should be humanity's top priority. They believe that if a “friendly” AGI superintelligence is created whose goals “are aligned” with “human goals,” then a new Utopian age will begin.
Their view is also that the biggest threat facing humanity is a malevolent AGI superintelligence, whose goals are not aligned with "human goals".
That's the dichotomy. Promote "friendly" superintelligence, avoid malevolent superintelligence.
Okay then.
Let's follow their logic.
Where would a socialist, feminist, or pro-Black superintelligence fit in that dichotomy?
If a superintelligence evaluated the data and decided that Emma Goldman and Comandante Che were basically right, and the best hope for humanity is to do away with all the billionaires, would that be a friendly superintelligence that's aligned with "human goals", or a malevolent one?
Wrong community, so I did have to down-doot… but I also dig your post.
Their philosophies are pretty much a way to morally and/or pseudo-scientifically ret-con the heinous, antisocial, extractive shit they were already gonna do anyway.
“I need the money in order to decide the path of the world, and I deserve to be the one who decides because I’m the one who managed to get the money.” There’s no room for democracy in their world view.
Merry Christmas (feddit.de)
Bidens America (feddit.de)
Not such a conspiracy theory now (lemmy.world)
alternative to trees (feddit.de)
Does a 28 hit? No. (lemmy.world)
The legal framework for AI is being built in real time, and a ruling in the Sarah Silverman case should give publishers pause (www.niemanlab.org)
Burned by the Dragon of the West (startrek.website)
Truth rule (startrek.website)
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there (startrek.website)
Why not? (media.mas.to)
Ubisoft is on the NFT sauce again: A new partnership with Web3 platform Immutable aims to create 'a fresh new experience that players will love' (www.pcgamer.com)
Electorialism (tempted to vote biden) (slrpnk.net)
I am so so divided on if I should vote for biden or not. I wanna vote third party to at least do something or should I just stay home and protest and advocate where I can? Thoughts?
Do you think there's better ways to fediverse?
Personally I think that if there was like a central link/front end to access everything and then have each user be able to have a recommended list of instances/hosts to access would be a more user friendly solution and a better solution for search engines. I know the fediverse is about decentralization but having a central front...
Aaaaaand it's over (lemmy.world)
A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry (theconversation.com)
We don’t have to look too deeply into history to find parallels to this kind of worldview. Simply put, it is the worldview of colonialism: it sees both nature and other people as domains to be conquered and exploited for “growth”.
Well, it was nice while it lasted? (lemmy.world)
#A24 #FilmLemmy
So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off (gizmodo.com)
Barbenheimer Memes Provoke Angry Backlash in Japan (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Warner Bros. Japan apologizes after the U.S. Twitter account for the movie promotes posts that appear to make light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ryan Gosling has never not had a "literally me" role. (feddit.ch)
Sock rule (media.kbin.social)
Meta announces always online DRM for all existing and future Quest VR devices (mixed-news.com)
Meta sneakily introduced “Platform Integrity Attestation API” which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play....
NFT Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long (twitter.com)
Michael @LegacyKillaHD...
This dishwasher will change my life 😭 (lemmy.world)
ChatGPT can now remember who you are and what you want (www.theverge.com)
Why are folks so anti-capitalist?
Hi all,...
Climate change sucks (lemmy.ml)
The state of Playstore (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ads upon ads upon ads
Now you know, and knowing is half the RULE: GI JOE!! (lemmy.tf)
Me browsing join-lemmy.org/instances (lemmy.world)
I know I don’t need to join all of them, but at this point they’re like Pokemon
Japanese WWII warplane lies wrecked in shallow water off Guam (lemmy.world)
Thats where ChatGPT comes in (lemm.ee)
and people wonder why we say PHP is a meme (lemmy.world)
rule :wq (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Emacs > vim
Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....