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arbitrarian

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    Comment #48180931

    Keepass or one of its variants are great. Pair it with a shared folder via SyncThing/GDrive/Dropbox/whatever and you'll be set.

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    Comment #43633496

    Don't buy just yet, unless you want to buy my used one. :) Zoom is coming out with the Zoom H5Studio, which is supposed to have the same preamps as the F3. It also has a set of bui…

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    Comment #38406970

    Great advice so far in this thread. I would just add that the must have apps are Be My Eyes, as already mentioned. This allows him to snap a photo and have it described by ChatGPT4…

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    Comment #38085616

    This was discussed here not too long ago. I assume not much has changed since then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31902707

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    Comment #38083764

    According to the article, it's supported by every browser except Edge. It will be interesting to see who ultimately ends up making a better IE, Safari or Microsoft. So far, it seem…

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    Comment #37804073

    Spoiler alert: turns out this is not Walking Dead Fanfic.

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    Comment #37674926

    It will be interesting to see if they can undercut OpenAI themselves on the cost for running Whisper in the cloud.

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    Comment #37674611

    Update: Just tried this again, and it looks like they've loosened the restrictions. It will now describe people again. Yay! It just won't try to identify who someone is. Original c…

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    Comment #37674524

    As A blind person, hopefully this never happens. But if it does, hopefully the person who decided to use the AI improperly. I know this might sound crazy, but maybe, just maybe, we…

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    Comment #37674414

    Thanks for being a volunteer. For me as a blind person, there still is that sense that I'm bothering someone when I ask for human assistance. I realize that this is not really rati…

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    Comment #37374029

    All the times I've watched a short, it's been an accident.

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    Comment #36264214

    This is what I don't get. Not only have they not said otherwise, but they put it right up front in a pretty easy to understand brief message before you start using it. I guess lawy…

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    Comment #36242918

    Well, this is weird. I'm totally blind, and I use Apollo precisely because it is accessible. So now what Reddit?

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    Comment #35011459

    Not OC, but I am also totally blind, so I'll bite. IMHO, just more silliness. The biggest problems that I as a blind person face don't generally stem from my blindness. Don't get m…

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    Comment #34933083

    This guy was a legend. He wrote a program to translate print to braille and back again, as is noted in the linked article. He wasn't the first person to write such software, not ev…