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Kissaki

@ Kissaki @beehaw.org

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  • Flexible Display

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  • Only 250 €? That's not expensive/overpriced for the product. And far from the 700$ mentioned by a comment.

    When I looked on DE Amazon I didn't find any.

  • Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

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  • If you read more of the ruling, the ruling allows EU nations to impose requirements on ISPs. So the storage duration would be up to national law. (Which of course one may call into question bring before court on whether they are too long.)

    The question of whether you are liable as a provider of open access is an independent question. Yes, it becomes more relevant if you as a provider can't bet on anonymity anymore. But it's independent.

    Looking at DE Wikipedia, looks like previous EU court rulings were dismissing being held accountable, but there's still one open. German law freed it in 2018. No mention of EU specifically in this article, so maybe it's national concern - at least until the EU court makes a ruling.

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  • Their description reads

    I made a moving digital card of Blue Archive Mika using two flexible OLED displays.

    As a bonus, I made it possible to switch between the ones I made in the past. Prototype

    One commenter says you can buy these kinds of displays on Amazon. Another responds AliExpress. Another reply says

    650 USD for just one display. Did I read that right?

    So they're not exactly inexpensive. Which is, of course, not unexpected, given it's a new kind of product, relatively recent tech.

  • Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

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  • From the article-linked ruling press release - what it means in practice, what this was about:

    In order to protect works covered by copyright or related rights against offences committed on the internet, a French decree introduced two personal data processing operations. The first operation consists of the collection, by rightholder organisations, of IP addresses which appear to have been used on peer-to-peer websites to commit such offences and the referral of those IP addresses to the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the Internet) (Hadopi) 1. The second operation, carried out by the internet access providers at Hadopi’s request, consists, inter alia, of matching the IP address with the civil identity data of its holder. Those data processing operations enable Hadopi to initiate a procedure against the persons identified, combining educational and punitive measures, which may lead to a referral to the public prosecution service in the most serious cases.

    I find the ruling press release is much more understandable (and much more informative) than the OP-linked article.

  • Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

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  • How did you come to the interpretation that protection of anonymity were violating copyright?

    How do you mean anonymity could give better control over copyrightable information?

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • oh god, would suck if it's another broken Lemmy release

    I had other formatting problems with HTML inside code blocks being removed and bleeding out of them generating other closing tags. Maybe that was also related.

  • Ukraine war: Russian blogger Anna Bazhutova jailed for over 5 years for livestreaming alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha

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  • “Anna never leaves the house, she suffers from agoraphobia. But she is strong, I hope she will overcome this,” he added.

    Agoraphobia is a phobic disorder involving the specific anxiety about being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or embarrassing or where help may be unavailable

    damn, it's gonna be extra hard for her

  • Ukraine war: Russian blogger Anna Bazhutova jailed for over 5 years for livestreaming alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha

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  • well, yes

    That's standard procedure in Russia.

    They claim and label it fake, or insulting or damaging to Russia, prosecute, and sentence.

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    Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought

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  • Will they recall Recall?

  • Hong Kong arrests three for 'insulting' Chinese anthem: They were turning their backs, remained seated when China's national anthem was played prior to a football match

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  • who publicly and intentionally insults the national anthem

    the anthem felt very insulted

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • Interesting. It also made me look at the MDN docs again. img alt is consistent to that. I wasn't aware of the empty for omittable images.

    I also looked at figure again, and in my interpretation it does declare that figcaption is to be used.

    figure represents self-contained content. figcaption provides the accessible name for the parent. The accessible name is is the text associated with an HTML element that provides users of assistive technology with a label for the element.

    The resolution order being aria-labelledby, aria-label, input[type=button][value], input[type=image]|img|area[alt], …

    So figcaption takes priority over img alt.

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • Given that it's not in the comment source I doubt it's a browser issue. But if you can see it… wtf

    When I open the comment in your original instance context it's there. Your comment was edited. Did you edit it in? I guess it got lost between instance communication lol.

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • Where is that quote from?

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • Looking at Wikipedia on arrays, I think I'm just not used to array as terminology for multi-dimensional data structures. TIL

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  • MDN figure and figcaption has no mention of changed img alt intentions. Which makes sense to me.

    figure does not invalidate or change how img is to be used. The caption may often not but can differ from the image description. If alt describes the image, figcaption captions it.

    What the fuck is Lemmy doing, breaking with HTML in code formatting?? Man it's completely broken. I committed sth so it doesn't remove the img lol.

     html
        
<figure>
  img src="party.jpg" alt="people partying" />
  <figcaption>Me and my mates</figcaption>
</figure>

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • So, planned experimentation and availabiltiy

    1. PDF editor when adding an image in Firefox 130
    2. PDF reading
    3. [hopefully] general web browsing

    Sounds like a good plan.

    Once quantized, these models can be under 200MB on disk, and run in a couple of seconds on a laptop – a big reduction compared to the gigabytes and resources an LLM requires.

    While a reasonable size for Laptop and desktop, the couple of seconds time could still be a bit of a hindrance. Nevertheless, a significant unblock for blind/text users.

    I wonder what it would mean for mobile. If it's an optional accessibility feature, and with today's smartphones storage space I think it can work well though.

    Running inference locally with small models offers many advantages:

    They list 5 positives about using local models. On a blog targeting developers, I would wish if not expect them to list the downsides and weighing of the two sides too. As it is, it's promotional material, not honest, open, fully informing descriptions.

    While they go into technical details about the architecture and technical implementation, I think the negatives are noteworthy, and the weighing could be insightful for readers.

    So every time an image is added, we get an array of pixels we pass to the ML engine

    An array of pixels doesn't make sense to me. Images can have different widths, so linear data with varying sectioning content would be awful for training.

    I have to assume this was a technical simplification or unintended wording mistake for the article.

  • Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"

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  • From your OP description:

    EDIT: the AI creates an initial description, which then receives crowdsourced additional context per-image to improve generated output. look for the “Example Output” heading in the article.

    That's wrong. There is nothing crowd sourced. What you read in the article is that when you add an image in the PDF editor it can generate an alt text for the image, and you as a user validate and confirm it. That's still local PDF editing though.

    The caching part is about the model dataset, which is static.

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  • Where did you read this? The article says the opposite.

    will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor

    Firefox is able to add an image in a PDF using our popular open source pdf.js library[…] Starting in Firefox 130, we will automatically generate an alt text and let the user validate it.

    See also my other quotes in this comment.

    will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor

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  • They're starting this as an experiment in their PDF editor, yes. They then want to extend to PDF reading, and then hope to extend to the general web browsing.

    will be available as part of Firefox’s built-in PDF editor

    Firefox is able to add an image in a PDF using our popular open source pdf.js library[…] Starting in Firefox 130, we will automatically generate an alt text and let the user validate it. So every time an image is added, […]

    In the future, we want to be able to provide an alt text for any existing image in PDFs, except images which just contain text (it’s usually the case for PDFs containing scanned books).

    Once the alt text feature in PDF.js has matured and proven to work well, we hope to make the feature available in general browsing for users with screen readers.