Aparna Sachdev

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Love books and sunshine and chocolate, not indiscriminately.
Fav #BookQuote: โ€œIsn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
- Cornelia Funke
Goodreadshttps://www.goodreads.com/user/show/52808871-aparna
@futzle And here I thought Asimov was laying it on too thick when in his robot stories, the earliest robots addressed human beings as "master", because that's how the roboticists configured them. Guy really was smart.

In France car parks with space for 80 cars or more are now required by law to be covered with solar panels.

- Parks between 80-400 spaces have 5 years to comply
- Parks with spaces of 400+ have 3 years to comply

This should be required everywhere!

#ClimateCrisis #Electrification

I think alt text should be embedded in the metadata of an image file, automatically carried with it whenever it's downloaded and reposted, and automatically read by software that's displaying the image, as a part of the file and not expected to be a separate thing to be manually copied or reproduced every time the image is posted
Please stop using "blindness" as a lazy synonym for "ignorance" in your writing. If thereโ€™s one thing about Blind folks: we survive and thrive by being perceptive, observing patterns and responding to cues. Not only is this use of "blindness" rude โ€” it's uninformed. Mistaken. Obtuse. Naive. Counterfactual. There you go โ€” five better ways to say "ignorant" than "Blind"
@simon @KaraLG84 @djtt88 @FluidEscence What about DuckDuckGo? I heard good things about it a couple years back, but haven't been following as such so I don't really know. Any info you might have on that would be great. I'm on Brave as I type ๐Ÿ™ˆ
#ChatGPT insists there are 2 R's in "strawberry", and one in "blueberry". Do we need more proof it's a stochastic parrot? On a slightly different note, here's Stephen Fry on AI:
https://tinyurl.com/yvkvjc8p
- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

@KaraLG84 Wait whaaaaat? Also why don't I get descriptions like that? ๐Ÿ˜‚
A sonification is the use of sound to convey data, like a cartoon character dropping something on their foot, or an astronomical event mapped to sound. In this 27 min audio described documentary, get introduced to astronomy through sound, fantastic for blind folk, totally cool for anyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWwlwvcQDg
Audio Described - Listen to the Universe

YouTube
@ChanceyFleet I feel like I personally had a resurgence of that "What is this?" and the proceeding 20 questions phenomenon that we experienced as kids, with the image description features. The kinds of random detail you wouldn't ask of a sighted person because you feel too conscious/you think it's a waste of their time types. And so much sharing back and forth, you're right. It's like the blind person's equivalent of the advent of smartphone cameras lol.
@brian_hartgen @munchkinbear @DerryLawlor Hi, Unlocking your phone while focused on an edit field on the watch brings up the keyboard on my phone, maybe you could give that a try? I have a really old 3rd gen Apple Watch and that doesn't have the on-screen keyboard either.