@CuriousEntity

I'm blind, married, a mother, a geek & 1 of Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm addicted to learning and reading books! Fiction, Tech, psych, science, the Bible ETC.

 United States
Joined December 2009
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Timothy Wynn@twynn9211 Dec 2022
Interesting: When you choose the Siri voices under the Spoken Content settings, it uses the neural voice to read, but if under VoiceOver's Speech settings, then it uses the concatenated ones.
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The goal of all tinkering men is to gradually accumulate an entire hardware store & electronics store in their home workshop Eventually they die. Their survivors have no idea what to do with all of this stuff, so they have a garage sale visited by tinkerers & the cycle continues
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Missy Hoppe@mitmee_pie8 Jan 2023
This is great advice, and I appreciate the reminder.
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I just realized one way that an engineer's mind (or at least mine) differs from normal people. I often get impatient with instructions on how to use something. Just tell me how it works and I'll figure out how to use it.
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Joel Ramos@thevigeek9 Jan 2023
I think I suffer from whatever this is called!
Nag Champa Enjoyer@PowellsLeftArm6 Jan 2023
Is there a name for the feeling when you all you want out of life is to hunker down and eat pizza and watch movies but you also want to break new ground in your profession but you also want to quit society to live in the woods but you also want to go explore the world forever
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Jage@jage910 Jan 2023
Let's try this again. Was bored, so had ChatGPT write me this simple DTMF tone generator in Javascript, including speed controls and screen reader support. bestmidi.com/dtmf.htm
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Please share far and wide that there are no monoclonal antibody treatments available. SARS-2 has mutated to the point that our monoclonals no longer work. Our goal should be to not get COVID and avoid reinfections. Wear an N95 as SARS-2, FLU, and RSV are surging.
FDA Drugs and Biologics
@FDADrugs30 Nov 2022
Today, FDA is announcing that bebtelovimab is not currently authorized for emergency use in any U.S. region because it is not expected to neutralize Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1: fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-an…
Alt Text: Coronavirus molecule on a black background with the text “Coronavirus Update.”

ALT Alt Text: Coronavirus molecule on a black background with the text “Coronavirus Update.”

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Scott Sigler@scottsigler30 Nov 2022
Isn’t it great that being a weirdo in high school was bad and being normal was cool, but when you get older being weird is awesome and being normal is boring AF? Well *I* think it’s great. If you don’t, enjoy being normal. No offense.
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Thread time. Here's the thing about @tesla. It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits. Let me explain. Back in 2012, the EPA put out new, strident emissions standards for new vehicles fleetwide. 1/
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Regulatory Credits on account for a small percentage of Tesla Revenue. 2020: 6.2% 2021: 3.2% 2022: 2.7% As of FY Q3 2022 Credits were only $287m against profits of $3.3b twitter.com/FonsDK/status/… TSLA Q3 2022 IR Deck: shorturl.at/mow47
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Ellen Forget@ellen_mic13 Nov 2022
If an airline can spend this much effort ensuring they properly secure a musical instrument, why can't they figure out how to properly secure their passengers' wheelchairs?
Jackson Ford (UPDATES ONLY)@realjacksonford13 Nov 2022
My flight to DC was delayed for two hours-a delay that kept being extended, with no reason given. I asked. Turns out the crew were trying to load a priceless cello into the main cabin, and secure it as firmly as possible. It was taking a while. Good job @AirCanada. No sarcasm
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Nathan W Pyle
@nathanwpyle4 Nov 2022
Heads Up: Home Depot just sells PARTS of homes and there is a ton of assembly required
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Bored!@ashleyeleigh2 Nov 2022
I don't want to watch a five minute video when I could read the same information faster in an article.
trash jones@jzux2 Nov 2022
what is your most benign unpopular opinion? i don’t mean like “the earth is flat” type of unpopular opinion, i mean like “I think golden retrievers are annoying” unpopular opinion
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Penn State researchers develop new tool for blind or partially sighted computer programmers coolblindtech.com/penn-state…

Penn State researchers develop new tool for blind or partially sighted computer programmers

The tool, called Grid Editor, serves as a modification to traditional code editors that programmers use to add lines of code when updating features and functions in software. Prior work has focused…

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Insider Tech
@TechInsider21 Oct 2022
For the past two years, Evan Ratliff (@ev_rat) has been following a woman around the internet. But Albertina Geller — or her face, at least — wasn't actually human. She was the product of artificial intelligence. 👇 businessinsider.com/artifici…

AI is being used to generate a whole new kind of online scam

I followed an AI-generated woman around the internet. Turns out these deepfakes are everywhere. But who's behind them?

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I struggled whether to post all this because it can devolve into dunking on her blindness skills, which isn't kind or productive. But she speaks as though for all of us, and sighted ppl find her terribly credible. That's what makes her keynoting AxeCon such a blow.
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This thread is a gift. 😁
Emily Finch@DrEmilyFinch18 Oct 2022
Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels. I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow. Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’ Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path. Strap in. It’s a 🧵 1/so many
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@anon_opin16 Oct 2022
Whichever moron or group of morons in the music industry who decided around 2015 that all successful acts must have their voice auto-tuned and compressed to death should be forced to speak through a Stephen Hawking voice machine forever and banned from singing just in case.
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Dr Kate Compton@GalaxyKate16 Oct 2022
Text formats: .txt: a format for both humans and computers to read .doc: a format for humans and Bill Gates to read .md: a format for humans and computers that you want to have a nice time .pdf: a format for both humans and computers that you want to suffer
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The More Specifics People Have On Potential Dangers, the Less Fearful They Become Detailed knowledge of probabilities can make dangerous risks seem far less risky, a new study reports. #psychology #neuroscience #science neurosciencenews.com/danger-…

The More Specifics People Have On Potential Dangers, the Less Fearful They Become - Neuroscience...

Detailed knowledge of probabilities can make dangerous risks seem far less risky, a new study reports.

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When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public. – at Stavanger, Norway
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