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The one I hear is good is NVDA by NVAccess, but it doesn’t have AI.

Website: https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nvda/

Source code: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda

I would be fairly surprised if you found an open source screen reader that had AI built-in.

It would likely have to run locally if it was open source.

Typically companies don’t make their stuff open source, and non-profits are unlikely to host an AI for you because of the cost. It’s unlikely to run locally as the cost for that model to run and download size may make it unusable or impractical for some hardware. Typically screen readers need to be accessible to everyone, and therefore need to run on very old and / or cheap hardware.

The source for this article is another article, which tbh is a better article:

https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/

That article does not itself have a source link, but it does show some redacted sample data and a breakdown of what countries are affected.

I said something similar here about an election fraud detection system with 99.999% accuracy.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22178379

Is this actually targeted at the UK?

It’s a super American ad. Everyone sounds American, we don’t really have drive thru’s like this etc.

In terms of message it’s spot on for both the UK and US though. Especially prescient given the Flock stuff going on in the US right now.

EDIT: From the article, it sounds like this has been used in a few places, but the UK is the only one that has banned it. The reasoning behind the ban is laughable.

It looks like there’s a longer version available on the site, but it’s broken for me.

Given that only 22 noncitizens over the course of like 10 years (can’t remember the exact statistic) tried to vote, the way to get the best accuracy would be to just hard code the answer to “yes, they can vote”. Then you get over 99.99% accuracy.

Nextcloud isn’t really a direct equivalent to Google Photos. For that you want Immich.

Another interesting one. These extensions are all related:

I’ve gone through the list a bit and out of the most popular ones that spied on you, most were adblocks, coupon finders or AI Chatbots.

Some notable extensions:

• Stylish. A theming extension, I used to use this back in the day!
• Smarty. Some sort of coupon code thing like Honey
• Video Ad Blocker Plus for YouTube™
• Video Downloader PLUS
• Karma - Another coupon thing
• Audio editor online Audacity. Some sort of web-based Audacity clone?
• GIMP online - Same sort of thing as above with GIMP
• Ground News Bias Checker - To be fair it probably makes sense this one sends the URL you are visiting, as it’s purpose is to look up the bias of the publication you are looking at.

Worth a read regardless.

Great work to the investigators here. I’m going to comb through this list a little. See what things stand out.

The point is that I’ve seen several comments on other posts about this vulnerability, and in the body of this one, saying that Notepad is bloated and terrible now.

I’m offering a counterpoint that this is not necessarily bloat. It’s debatable that this is the right tool to have this feature, but it can be a useful feature.

I’m fine with Markdown support, but I wish MS got the message about Copilot being unwanted. Not sure if they’ve added it to Notepad or not at this stage, but given all the places they’ve crammed it into I wouldn’t be surprised.

To be fair, markdown is a very cool standard.

While I don’t know if it really makes sense for Notepad to be anything other than a plain-text editor, there are better tools for that, supporting markdown is kind of nice.

This means you have support for it on fresh Windows installs, which could be good for virtual machines. That said, Markdown is intrinsically pretty readable without formatting anyway.

It’s a shame they flubbed the implementation though…

Or percentages

Related video

https://youtu.be/uDkyP37JgY0

Of course. It’s not like I want this. I was out there messaging my MP when the UK law had just been pushed through and filling out the petitions. It didn’t help though.

You can send a message to Discord by leaving, but they won’t revert it for places where it’s legally required.

I will say that this has been in the works for a little bit now and it’s more related to the UK’s new laws. We’ve had this age verification stuff on Discord for some months now.

As for why it’s being rolled out globally, not sure. The UK is not the only country / state starting to ask for ages verification on “social media” so maybe they thought it would be easier to use the same approach everywhere? Seems like a bad idea though as everywhere it’s implemented it’s unpopular.

My experience with it so far has been that… well… It hasn’t affected me at all. Mostly because I only use friends servers and activism servers. Those aren’t age restricted, so you never hit this check.

As far as age verification law compliance / implementation goes, this is not the worst one. That data leak early on was a clown show though.

hunting for alternatives

I’ve heard people mention Matrix, but I’ve not tried it yet.

Hmmm…

As the article correctly states, machine learning (“AI” is a misnomer that has stuck imo) has been used successfully for decades in medicine.

Machine learning is inherently about spotting patterns and inferring from them. The problem, I think, is two-fold:

1. There are more “AI” products than ever, not all companies build it in responsibly and it’s difficult for regulators to keep up with them.

The gutting of these regulatory agencies by the current US administration does not help ofc, but many of them were already severely undermanned.

2. As AI is normalised, some doctors will put too much trust in these systems.

This isn’t helped by the fact that the makers of these products are likely to exaggerate the capabilities of their products. This may be reflected in the products themselves, where they may not properly communicate the degree of certainty of a diagnosis / conclusion (e.g. “30% certainty this lesion is cancerous”)

AI radios

Looks inside

No AI

Jokes aside, this is a common thing in tech / software at the moment.

You can make fantastic software and systems, but unless you slap an AI label on it, big companies and organisations will not want to pay for it, or will pass you over for a product that says it has it, even if it’s dogshit.

AI (or, more accurately, machine learning) can bring value, but so can a lot of other features.

+1

I discovered it when I found it was shipped with CalyxOS and honestly it’s way better than anything else I’ve found.