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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-21 at 00:49

@NVAccess posted:

In-Process 20th January 2025

https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-20th-january-2025/

[#]NVDASR #accessibility

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-20 at 15:45

Is there something happenening today?

BTW, A Letter From the Bermingham Jail is a far better thing to focus on over the other thing associated with Jan 20. It's especially apt today.

[#]USPol #USPolitics

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-20 at 15:01

I'm being told by a text message coming from a country whose country code is +63 that I need to pay my toll for access to the fast lanes when traveling in cars I own. There's so much wrong with this that I'm not even going to address it. But, my real question is whether people actually fall for this shit.

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-19 at 14:28

Lots of VPN offers in my inbox this morning. I wonder why that could be.

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-19 at 07:38

The messy TikTok saga in the US over the past five years has shown that lawmakers are as spineless and skittish as everyone suspects them to be.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/01/tiktok-ban-congress-donald-trump-joe-biden-dumb.html

[#]tech #TikTok

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-18 at 02:06

No. Really? I wonder who would benefit.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong endorses a US bitcoin strategic reserve in a blog post on "economic freedom" that calls on world leaders to embrace crypto.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/coinbase-brian-armstrong-bitcoin-strategic-reserve

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-17 at 15:13

SCOTUS upholds TikTok divest-or-ban law, ruling that free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-17/tiktok-ban-law-is-upheld-by-the-us-supreme-court

[#]Tech

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-17 at 14:46

Despite knowing all the ins and outs of photo creation and recognition and various vision based machine learning, it continues to impress me how well photo descriptions done by multi-modal LLMs are able to capture various aspects of photos.

[#]AI

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-17 at 14:28

Here are the meds that the Biden admin just announced will be on the negotiation list:

  1. Ozempic; Rybelsus; Wegovy

  1. Trelegy Ellipta

  1. Xtandi

  1. Pomalyst

  1. Ibrance

  1. Ofev

  1. Linzess

  1. Calquence

  1. Austedo; Austedo XR

  1. Breo Ellipta

  1. Tradjenta

  1. Xifaxan

  1. Vraylar

  1. Janumet; Janumet XR

  1. Otezla

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-17 at 12:12

Fascinating video about the origin of our clothes.

It's Not Just Shein: Why Are ALL Your Clothes Worse Now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCwbU41Icfw

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 23:59

I already need a day off. I think I might switch tomorrow and Saturday with one another. Considering I'm don't have active meetings, I can do that.

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 17:16

I have a potential client who is insisting on using Telegram. As crappy as the experience is using that app/platform, I wonder if I should just say no to the engagement. I have to have some limits. Right?

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 16:31

When a certain buffer has 6969 posts.

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 16:07

Here ends the love affair.

RedNote staff is scrambling to hide US users' posts from Chinese users after China raised concerns about politically sensitive English-language posts.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-users-move-to-chinese-app-rednote-alarms-beijings-censors

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 15:00

Dhuh! IT also helps if you stop blaming things on shoplifting when the problem isn't as bad as you made it out to be.

Walgreens CEO describes drawback of anti-shoplifting strategy: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’

https://fortune.com/2025/01/14/walgreens-ceo-anti-shoplifting-backfired-locks-reduce-sales/

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 14:19

Oh look, Netanyahu being himself again. This should not surprise anyone.

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 14:13

What in the hells is this?

Meta leads workplace shift from corporate feminism to masculine energy https://t.co/n8CyrBjxIr

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 13:55

Joe Biden issues a cybersecurity executive order to improve the way the government monitors its networks, buys software, uses AI, and punishes foreign hackers.

https://www.wired.com/story/biden-executive-order-cybersecurity-ai-and-more/

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-16 at 13:31

Ah, the "he did it first" defense. How did that work out for your kids?

In a deposition for the Kadrey v. Meta copyright case, Mark Zuckerberg seemingly cited YouTube to justify Meta's use of copyrighted data for AI training.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/in-ai-copyright-case-zuckerberg-turns-to-youtube-for-his-defense/

[#]Tech #AI

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Written by Pratik Patel on 2025-01-15 at 23:41

I have a very important question:

What is it with romance audiobooks with two narrators where the female narrator often sounds like a simpering waith and the male narrator almost always sounds creepy as hell?

[#]bookstodon #audiobooks #books

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