Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming.
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@clickhere Thank you! Editing the blog narrative / post now so I am eager to share it, but I just never thought they would invade my offline safe space so I was like, I really need to make this jackass leave
@WeirdWriter You're very welcome indeed. And you absolutely did the right thing (not that you need me or anyone to tell you).
Nobody that utterly obnoxious should be allowed get away with what he was doing.
Bravo! 👏🏼
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@growfediverse @WeirdWriter I wouldn't call myself anti-AI but I do recognize the issues with it. Still, things like being able to get pic descriptions and actually interact with people based on the pictures I get from people which, let's be honest, most sighted folks don't communicate using words because pictures often say more, is pretty neat. In that sense, I'd say AI has its uses for different people though I wholeheartedly refuse out of principle to use AI to write my stuff for me. Just figured I'd put that out there.
@WeirdWriter @Rooktallon I would love for tech to get used to increase accessibility, but sighted people tend to publish tech and hang a mission accomplished banner. So so so many of the image summary tools are wildly inaccurate. You almost need a human recorrection service. In fact, as I run across them on fedi, I'm gonna start correcting the shitty ones, tyvm for the nudge!
There will be a pic of a warrior leaping through the air, wreathed in undulating magic, the dragon poised with intimidating fangs around a gaping drooling maw, and the AI summary will be like "Woman standing on a blue platform"
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@WeirdWriter @Rooktallon I would love for tech to get used to increase accessibility, but sighted people tend to publish tech and hang a mission accomplished banner. So so so many of the image summary tools are wildly inaccurate. You almost need a human recorrection service. In fact, as I run across them on fedi, I'm gonna start correcting the shitty ones, tyvm for the nudge!
There will be a pic of a warrior leaping through the air, wreathed in undulating magic, the dragon poised with intimidating fangs around a gaping drooling maw, and the AI summary will be like "Woman standing on a blue platform"
@growfediverse @WeirdWriter Yeah well, given the fact that bionic eyes are decades away and I'm not waiting, I'll take inaccurate discriptions rather than no interaction with anyone online at all who isn't blind.
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Get ready. Angry Sightless Scribbles post incoming. Yesterday a fucking Tech Bro just came into an independent bookstore, where everybody was happily reading, drinking hot chocolate or tea, and this dick hole just decided to come in to try to promote his stupid shitty AR but he called it an AI glasses where it would attempt to use AI to generate images of things you were reading, as if the imagination is a stupid thing that needs to be disrupted. I couldn’t take the shit. I have to deal with these morons everywhere in my online life, and I sure as shit did not want them in my offline life too but the fucker would not leave. I stood up, slammed my cane on the floor so that it made a very loud, crack! I began by saying, shut the fuck up. That’s when the technological and intellectual beat down happened. I can’t express how much I hate these people. He just saw a bookstore and decided to just invade our fucking sanctuary, and he really, really, hated it that a person he saw as a Luddite, his version of a Luddite anyway, knew the tech and new the operating system he was using better than he did. I can’t stand these fucking people. On the bright side, the bookstore owner said I could write in there for free anytime, any day, and I get free hot chocolate for life because that verbal beat down was golden. If I appear on TikTok, you know why.
@WeirdWriter I congratulate you for your brilliant service 🩷
Thank you for standing up to this moronity , we have brains so we can use them. If, say, you have a fun little “device” that would make a cute “parlor trick” that is all & fine, because that’s temporary. This stuff they have they want to take over your life with and not use your brain at all! (It’s bad enough with phones and young people these days )
Being able to use my imagination has helped me through many tough times in my life.💕 -
@WeirdWriter I congratulate you for your brilliant service 🩷
Thank you for standing up to this moronity , we have brains so we can use them. If, say, you have a fun little “device” that would make a cute “parlor trick” that is all & fine, because that’s temporary. This stuff they have they want to take over your life with and not use your brain at all! (It’s bad enough with phones and young people these days )
Being able to use my imagination has helped me through many tough times in my life.💕@WeirdWriter I definitely want more libraries and bookstores that do what you describe having 💕 That sounds like a perfect day to me💕😻❣️
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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social I feel the same way with audiobooks. My library carries a disturbing amount of audiobook only titles. Since when is reading an optional feature? I can read 2-4 times as fast as the narrator speaks. And cranking up the speed of the narration is obnoxious. My aural comprehension sucks since I get so little chance to practice it.
@jaypeach53 @WeirdWriter Audiobooks are a great option to engage with stories, and still have that same imagination aspect. For me, I became blind when I was 14 and had to go learn braille (alongside relearning everything). Learning at a later age like that, I'm a comparatively slow reader. Personal preferences aside, the main point is engaging with stories; print, ebook, braille, audio, whatever works for you.
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@rysiek BASIC was my first programming language!
...wait, it's worse. I have forgotten the language, other than it having GOTO and GOSUB.
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@KatS yup! And let's not forget BASIC!
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@rysiek Not only that, but I remember MS Access being sold as making databases so easy, your CEO can use them - and having to clean up the aftermath.
It used a query language similar to, but not quite the same as, SQL :headdesk:
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@rashunda grazie Rashunda ❤️
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@Angie Io ne ho due, ma ho troppa paura a iniziarli...
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1. We need specialists to talk to computers.
2. Specialists are expensive, can we avoid them?
3. Ah, what if instead of using difficult programming languages, we used something closer to natural language!
4. Wait, natural language is imprecise, which leads to Bad Things.
5. Okay, natural language, but Precise™!
6. Wait, that's just a programming language and non-techies hate it.
7. A new type of techie emerges, specializing in the new tool.
Tee hee "prompt engineering".
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@thisismissem oh dear! Possibly you could enable push notifications instead, although then you're trading one notification type for another. Lots of notifications for replies to the same topic?
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@Gina @caffetino but both Italy and Spain are big and there aren't just the cities. An English friend of mine bought property in Umbria in the country. A Spanish friend of mine bought a house for 40k€ (!!). In general, if you stay away from big cities and from too touristic places, there are good bargains to be made: I heard of big houses with big gardens available at 150k which is basically a steal (especially considering what I had to pay for an apartment...)
