It (usually) does not, at least not for websites. Reading the screen would require a lot of computing power and be prone to mistakes, especially with unusual fonts and noisy backgrounds.

Instead, screen readers read a website‘s HTML source code which also gives the developer the chance to annotate how certain elements should be read. Accessibility on the web has been a huge topic for years and serving obfuscated HTML that only works for seeing users goes against everything we have been fighting for.

Yeah, because fuck accessibility, right?

Since 2022, it has been at least weekly on average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2020s)

Well, hopefully that gives them a reason to show it in European cinemas. I‘ve listened to the Broadway recording hundreds of times but flying to London or New York just to see a show is currently outside my budget and especially my free time.

That seems to have become the new norm in entertainment journalism. They have one to four sentences of actual information (or in the case of release dates just „we still don’t know“), then add multiple pages of filler at the top so people get served as many ad impressions as possible. For good measure, add a fake comment section or recommendations at the bottom so people can’t just scroll down to the end of the page to find what they are looking for.

I have a decades old fridge that literally freezes my veggie drawer every two weeks. I‘m so close to throwing it out.

As far as I‘ve understood, „toxic mode“ only turns off some of the filters, not all.

Also:

• The dev‘s definition of toxic is far from my own
• Filtering belongs in the backend, not the fronted and should be configured by the instance admin and the individual user. We already have that in the form of moderation tools and blocks. If we wanted arbitrary third parties to dictate what we can see, we could have stayed on reddit.

They don’t ban you. The UI automatically hides certain instances, communities, users and posts. This is not officially documented and can’t be configured or turned off.

So in other words he spends weeks to write extra tests so that the agent can save him days of coding.

Historically accurate to what? The era it might have been written in? The era it might have been set in? We don’t know if the Odyssey was really written by Homer and when he would have lived (ca. 8th century BC, possibly earlier?) nor do we know if and when the Trojan War really happened (14th to 12th century BC?).

What we do know is that the Iliad and Odyssey are not accurate historical accounts but fantasy stories that are loosely based on events that may or may not have happened centuries before they were written down.

The answer is obvious: the pyramids are the tips of half-buried D8s.

Hundreds of cookies and a dozen filler paragraphs later, this is the only sentence that actually relates to the title:

Dread Central has also personally confirmed exclusively that Megan Fox will be returning.

No source, nothing. I would assume this is a clickbait rumor at best.

Wie ich es an anderer Stelle formuliert habe: für andere ist es ein Rücktritt, für Jens Spahn ist es Elternzeit.

Wenn ich raten müsste: ein KI-generiertes Bild (🤮) eines Kleinkinds das ein Bundesverdienstkreuz trägt, stellvertretend für den Sohn von Jens Spahn, der der Anlass für dessen Rücktritt ist.

Most movies are mixed for a theater surround sound system. Remixing them for tv speakers is usually not worth the effort. Dialogue usually sits on the center channel while effects and music are spread across left, right and surround channels. A tv with stereo speakers can‘t do much except mix all of that together and that makes it hard to hear the quieter parts.

If you watch a lot of movies, I recommend a soundbar or even better a 5.1 system. It’s expensive but it mostly solves those mixing problems.

I’d argue that shortened names aren’t pronouns. Like, “Bob” isn’t a pronoun after all. But that’s a cool idea nonetheless.

Counter-argument: the only two reasons why “Bob” isn’t a pronoun are a) because English has other pronouns and b) because not every name has a form that’s short enough to use in place of pronouns.

I would say it’s fully plausible that a language develops proper pronouns (with case markings and everything else you would expect) based on a rule that works with any name. As an arbitrary example, a Robert, Robin, Ronald and Rocinante might all use roki for the nominative case, ros for the genitive case and ron for the accusative case. In the absence of other pronoun systems, that would be indistinguishable from what you imagine as pronouns. Add a few centuries of sound shifts and you get something really interesting.

I assume we are talking about third person pronouns, mostly singular, possibly plural (like in French which has gendered ils/elles). First and second person (I, you, we) aren’t gendered in (most?) western languages anyway.

It could go multiple ways:

• Just one set of third person pronouns for everyone, equivalent to English they/them. The fewer different pronouns you have, the harder it is to talk about multiple people at once but in principle, it works. After all, nobody keeps you from talking about five men who all use he/him in English, you just have to add more specifiers or names to differentiate.
• A distinction based on proximity. One set of pronouns for a person near the speaker, one for a person near the listener and one for a person somewhere else. Japanese does something similar for things (これ kore, それ sore, あれ are) but as far as I know, not for people. For an example in English, imagine equivalents to this and that which are personal pronouns instead of demonstratives.
• A distinction based on age. Different pronouns for children, adults, elderly or relative to the speaker’s age.
• A distinction based on familiarity. One set of pronouns to refer to close friends and family, one for acquaintances, one for strangers.
• A distinction based on status and respect. A bit similar to what Japanese does with honorific name suffixes but in pronoun form.
• One of the conlangs I’m occasionally working on has pronouns based on the shortened form of names: the first syllable of the person’s name plus a suffix. Plus one set of pronouns for if you don’t know (or don’t want to mention) a person’s name.

Disclaimer to others: the comment I’m replying to has been almost completely rewritten while I was typing my reply so I’m quoting things that are no longer there. I will still leave my reply as it is.

In Germany, every EU citizen pays next to nothing. Doesn’t matter which university or what grades. As long as you qualify for university (i.e. you have finished high school), you are able to get a degree if you want. No “if”, no “I wouldn’t have to worry”, no “top student”, no “cheap”. There is no tuition, period. Most universities ask for a small administrative fee of less than 200€, most of which finances additional benefits that cannot legally be paid with taxes, such as a student council.

As mentioned, for non-EU students, there is a fixed tuition of at most 1050€ per semester. Again, no “if”, no “you wouldn’t have to worry”, no “top student”.

Also note, that I never, not even once complained about American tuition fees. If you re-read my comments, you will only find the stated fact that the tuition for non-EU students is lower than “most US tuition fees”. Which, by your own admission, is true. I never claimed that it is lower than the lowest possible US tuition, I never said anything about this being good or bad.

So please stop projecting your own rage onto something I have never said and stop insulting people. You are entitled to your opinion and I will gladly fight for your right to state it. What you are not entitled to is being rude to strangers. For that, I will downvote and possibly report you.

Thanks but that’s not what I’m looking for. I have my tabs on top. What Vivaldi has is an additional sidebar that lets you display arbitrary websites inside that sidebar while the active tab from the main tab bar still takes up most of the browser window.

I find that quite useful for stuff like a feed reader, notes or a password manager. For a while I also had mastodon in the sidebar but found it too distracting. Basically every website with proper responsive design works.

the real cost of college for most students is closer to $10K a year.

So you agree that the 650 to 1050€ figure in my post is lower than your $10K? Yes? Good.

did you even go to college? or are you just ragebaiting yourself over sticker prices?

I have a BSc and MSc in computer science from one of the top universities in Germany. I paid about 4000€ in total because I was unlucky to have my first few semesters fall into the time that had the 500€ per semester tuition. Someone who started a bit after me would come out under 2000€. Again, not per year but in total for two degrees.