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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 …

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 p…

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.

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…

I am the OP. Surprised to see this at the top of HN.

> 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 …

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.co…

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 n…

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 othe…

Yes, hashcash.

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 alway…

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" …

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 …

The author was essentially too smart to be blind.

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.

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…

The TL;DR is more like: cell carriers and phone manufacturers have more incestuous entanglement than the Habsburg dynasty.

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 …

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 contact…

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, a…

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 …

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 s…

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.…