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Five year olds know how a store works.

Five year olds won’t figure out how to pirate a game.

They make so much money on their games. I don’t understand why they have to be like this.

Happy healthy employees will just take these amazing games to the next level. WTF.

Aliens are so hot right now.

I ordered (from Amazon) a new inexpensive stand/shelf thing that came with “fabric” “drawers.” One of those black metal and faux wood deals. And I had to throw out the “drawers” because they were off gassing something nasty.

Nasty chemicals and petroleum products.

The thing is, you need to make proper PDFs with properly structured content with proper metadata for screen readers to be able to access the content in the PDF in a logical and sane way. This is what the OP is tasked to do, and why they are looking for help. So I’m not sure what you mean by “try just using screen readers.”

I’m dealing with this right now too.

My advise is to ditch the PDFs where possible, and go with HTML documents. They are far easier to make accessible. The down side is you can’t easily pass them around in a self contained way that isn’t a bit wonky compared to a PDF or DOCX. But if you just link to them in a course, or otherwise expect students to just access them in a browser, HTML pages can work well.

PDFs have always been a nightmare, and the new accessibility rules are making thousands of people in education finally realize that.

Irony is so pervasive in these times.

Some of these look not unlike anime characters posted in various lemmy subs.

1000x!

Is this like medical articles about major cancer discoveries?

From Microsoft’s POV, it probally breaks the ToS.

Precision, nuance, and up to the moment contextual understanding are all missing from the “intelligence.”

During setup, Atlas pushes very aggressively for you to turn on “memories” (where it tracks and stores everything you do and uses it to train an AI model about you)

I wonder, do memories really train a model about the user? Or are they just shoved in the context window strategically? Possibly selected by a small performant model in the background based on relevance to the current context window?

Training millions of mini models on people would be really interesting, and I don’t think I’ve noticed anything saying that is happening, yet. Even tho it seems like a logical idea.

I don’t consider the PDS stuff to be fully federated. That’s just keeping your data on a different server, as far as I understand it. To be federated it needs to be a full interoperable server like mastodon, or lemmy.

You should also be able to host a non federated instance, or one with limited federation.

If they have moved past that, and I can open a server and have people sign up for accounts, then I stand corrected.

Yeah 😔

Feels like Bluesky’s federation promise.

I always mourn the loss of native apps. There are always so many downsides. And they harm platform consistency, etc.

Don’t get me started on Discord not supporting the native spell check. The built in spell check is terrible.

It’s all gambling when playing with those numbers. And economists build stories that sometimes are just ways to justify it.

Thanks for the details!

I wonder how often they clean stuff up like this. That crossed my mind earlier, I’m sure there is a bunch of “dormant” software that could be cleaned out or made optional in some way.

But the making it optional idea is easier said than done. Especially from a standpoint of discoverability and usability.

It’s interesting that this supposedly goes back to Windows 3.1 and the original release…

Sounds like an inbuilt self inflicted back door on encryption to me!

Back doors are always bad!