Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen Like, to be clear: depending on circumstances, "we do not think this is worth the cost for the gain we get" *can* sometimes be a reasonable point.

But then be honest about what you're actually saying, take responsibility for your choice, and don't frame it as an impossibility that is out of your hands.

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen As I have brought up before, that system appears to be based on LLM/GenAI tech and models, which means it cannot ever be open-source.

And what the author of the article decides to do frankly has no bearing on my arguments here. You are still presenting "do not want to do" as "cannot do", which are two very different things.

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen (Which, incidentally, is *exactly* what the original complaint was about.)

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen That is just a lot of words to say "we do not want to do this, we do not think that accessibility is worth doing this".

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen I have literally suggested a solution for this several posts up, that would absolutely work.

"Do not want to do this" is a very different thing from "cannot do this".

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen "We want a decent feature" is great and all, but right now you have *no* feature.

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen There are, to my knowledge, exactly *zero* models in the LLM/GenAI space that are actually open-source by any reasonable definition, and there's good reason to believe that they can't ever be (because this amount of training data is virtually impossible to ethically source), so the idea of this kind of model as an open-source solution is essentially vaporware.

There is already a viable system which can be implemented today, as has been presented to you by someone *who actually uses these accessibility tools*, which is espeak.

@GrapheneOS If the thread were 'very clear', I wouldn't be asking for a bulletpoint list.

@GrapheneOS @J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen Better options such as? And didn't you say two posts ago in this thread that "unless there's a good one we can use, this is blocked", implying that there isn't one?

@shine Historical reasons; "veganistisch" is originally the term for "vegan" in Dutch, and it's only fairly recently that this is anything but the most niche diet, whereas "vegetarisch" has been popularly around much longer and so got colloquially abbreviated to 'vega' because it is easier to pronounce than 'vege'

@Lemonandpeach Van wat ik ervan weet is het meer de Koreaanse versie van WhatsApp.

Hoewel ik ook niet bijzonder fan ben van Signal (om redenen die hier even niet relevant zijn) doet Signal wel een hoop meer qua transparantie en beveiliging dan LINE, volgens mij, terwijl LINE meer een 'klassieke' gesloten en gecentraliseerde dienst is.

@StaceyCornelius This is a bit tangential maybe, but I wonder if marketing yourself as an "off-hours plumber" (which is to say, evening plumber) might work there to work independently (ie. less sexism) and avoid the early jobs, while also being able to charge more?

Doesn't solve the nasty work part of course.

@dysphoricunicorn Then I have no idea!

@StaceyCornelius Yeah, I can see that being a problem ☹️

The one other thing I can think of is that plumbing apparently pays well and has been paying well for a long time, so maybe something similar is possible there, but I don't know if it pays well *enough* to reduce the hours worked

@StaceyCornelius (I do follow a slightly different version of this approach, for ethical reasons; I still provide lower rates for non-commercial customers and smaller businesses, but only after talking to them for a while and being reasonably confident that they will be respectful of my time and energy)

@StaceyCornelius Since you already seem to be doing freelance(?) things, a bit of relevant but counterintuitive advice that's not given frequently enough: the more you charge, the less expectations customers have from you, and the more likely they are to hire you.

For me this has helped tremendously in reducing the stress in my life and allowing me to recover; by charging more, I've been able to both reduce my needed working hours *and* also remove much of the stress involved, because it turns out that this swiftly eliminates the "demands the world for a penny under impossible deadlines" category of customer.

@smveerman Huh. All the stores here in the center of Rosmalen (2x Jumbo, 1x Lidl) have self-checkouts and they don't seem to have these issues...

Lidl does have stock management issues nowadays but that seems to coincide with a change of manager, and predates the addition of self-checkouts