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the day it got leaked I tried it and I can verify that it works. They probably fixed it already I’m guessing

hey that’s neat! thank you for your time!

I’ve tried audiobooks but it seems that - as silly as it sounds - I need closed captions with those

a combination of listening and reading with speeds synced up for me (like CC on video content) would work best, and most options for that are subscription based, or require expensive tech last I checked

I’ll check the BBC sounds out tomorrow though, I appreciate the help

hrm yea I don’t really like that take. I get the point but also equating their experience to everyone else is just, not it. It just doesnt work like that for many, even those with the exact same challenges

I’ve tried reading, so often. I want to be able to, even it just doesn’t work for me. And believe me I’ve tried everything

anyway thanks for quoting the relevant sections of the article for me! That was helpful

Thanks for the quote, does the author provide any solution to that or acknowledge that some people simply cannot because if not it feels like a “I can do it with my disabilities so you can too!”

not to mention crappy AI articles being an issue nowadays

the website makes my phone lag

I’m not going to wait for 10 seconds before it scrolls way past where I was reading

Also does this article account for people with (mental, physical or learning) disabilities who cannot read or have more difficulty doing so? You can tell me to read all you want but if the text isnt accessible I simply cant read long texts, I have dyslexia, ADHD (focus issues) and my eyes physically shake leading to me skipping over entire paragraphs unless there’s enough white space between the lines

That is not even to mention people with intelectual disabities or the language barriers that might cause this to not be readable

Yes I have trauma regarding reading but maybe consider there’s more to it than that OP

All that is to say, things arent as simple as “you are the audience, read it”

maybe the article is better but idk cause its inaccessible for me for various reasons including “my phone is not powerful enough to read this article”. I see some form of irony there, considering class was mentioned

eh, ddg is equally bad with it insisting it knows better than me what my query is and “fixing” it, leaving me to have to either fix it or click a link telling it “yes I really did want to search for that and not what you assumed”

DDG keeps changing my search query because its “not returning a lot of results” or because it thinks I typo’d and it is infuriating to me, sometimes it doesnt even inform me that it did, not even giving me a link to click to get to my actual search query

'also noticed that it got worse around the same time google did

that’s because that’s what happened. Simple mobile tools got bought out by a company known for exactly that: putting ads and spyware in apps

thankfully since its open source, there’s already a fork in the works called Fossify

and yet plenty of stuff still runs in the background for me, eating my battery when I don’t need it to be in the background

It has begun

(ps install the fork versions of the simple mobile tools suite, its called fossify)

I’m not so much in favor of IP law as I am in favor of informed consent in every aspect of the word.

when posting photos, art and text content years ago, I was not able to imagine it might be trained off by an AI. As such I was not able to make a decision based on informed consent if I agreed to that or not.

Even though quotes such as “once you post it, its on the internet forever” were around, I was not aware the extend to which this reached and that had my art been vacuumed by a generative AI model (it hasnt luckily) people could create art that pretends to be created by me. Thus I could not consent

I think this goes for a lot of artists actually, especially those who exist far more publicly than I do, who are in those databases and who are a keyword to be used in prompts. There is no possible way they could have given informed consent to that at the time they posted art/at the time they started that social media profile/youtube channel etc.

To me, this is the real problem. I could care less about corporations.

yeah, its to the point where when I see a rainbow flag I automatically go “This is not for me, this person is not safe” Same with the still prelavent “Love is love” slogans. That’s great, but I’m aroace and trans so uhhh? Guess I’m not included. Better be safe than deal with a transphobe (and be sorry)

As long as there are transphobes flying the rainbow flag, no it doesn’t.

can’t violate the prime direggtive

which part of “no negotiations possible” do you not get?

I would like a more granular choice, acccessibility is not something I can give up, I don’t care sites can fingerprint me with it

resist fingerprinting resets zoom levels because its used as a way to fingerprint, sites can get zoom levels and the idea is to blend into the crowd

that said, I share your frustration, I have to disable Resist Fingerprint because of that, the persistent zoom levels are an accessibility requirement for me, no negotiations possible.

Ideally Resist Fingerprinting would allow for more granular options because while I understand the “blending into the crowd” aspect of the option as it is now, it just doesn’t work like this for me and many others with accessibility needs, and that should be addressed

(also replying so I remember to check back for replies, sorry for the ramble, Resist Fingerprinting as it is now annoys me)

that is not true, at least in mastodon’s case. Mastodon has unlisted, followers only and direct messages those are visible for the instance admins if your account federates to them. That is concerning. I don’t need Zuck to suck up my private posts

I think people should know those are just mutes

its like that on mastodon too, user domain blocks won’t actually protect you from harassment or your data being vacuumed