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Jingle session, "A Team" session guys with Asshole Client. 30 second spot with a drum fill in the middle. They do a take and the A.C. says NO! the drum fill has to be boom wacka boom boom. So they do another take and when they get to the fill, the A.C. pushes the talkback and says NO! not boom wacka boom boom, boom boom wacka wacka wacka! This goes on for half an hour until the A.C. says " oh for f*ck sake, just play whatever Steve Gadd would play!". The drummer leans into the OH and says "I AM Steve Gadd".


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Drew Mochak

michael brecker was doing an overdub session around the late 80's. he does a pass and the producer says, "Great, but could you play harder?- really wail!!!" Apparently MB just nods his head and does another pass. The Prod says, "That's getting closer, but can you give it even more? I want it to sound like the Big Man- Clarence Clemens!". MB nods and says that he needs to really get the vibe, and could they dim the lights. the AE dims the lights and MB says, "No, man i need them totally off. You, know, get the vibe." lights go off, and they roll tape. when they get to the solo section all they hear is silence. tape stops, lights up. MB has left the building.
MB- one of the greatest.

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Imagine your two options for a display driver are as follows:
* A $1000+ software package that you have to pay $200-$300 to upgrade;
* Or a completely free and open source project that's ran mostly by volunteers and a small charity, but it will sometimes make your screen black out if you try to load too much text onto it at once.

Now stop imagining, and become blind. This is now your reality.

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Dear Geeks:

This code is hard to read (Every line requires translating abbreviations into english) & all of these variable names will be fucking obnoxious for any programmer who needs a screen reader.

This hurts maintainability & emergency bug hunting.

src_endp → source_endpoint

dst_addr_mode → destination_address_mode probably. I'm guessing WTF they meant by "dst"

dst_endp → destination_endpoint

req_dst_addr → request_destination_address

#accessibility #programming

a screenshot of the variables in question with some things pixelated out.
#Accessibility #programming
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masukomi

@menelion

🤔 Hadn't considered that, but unfortunately that's not really something we have much say over, as their use is either hardcoded into the language spec OR you'd be making non-idiomatic code and everyone who saw it would hate you. 😉

We can abolish the practice of prefacing private methods with underscores in most languages, but… 🤷‍♀️

Kinda sucks to have the only real accommodation option be to use a different language.

@André Polykanine

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MA - i'm extremely broke again :( (18/100)

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#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest @Mutual Aid Requests
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One really cool NVDA feature that I'm absolutely loving is the thing it does where if I run scoop update * or another command that gives me a fuckton of console output, it'll just lock up and freeze, often continuing to read terminal messages while I'm focused on the desktop, and sometimes even crash if I'm unlucky. I'm sure an insane amount of development time went into this, so kudos! Loving it!

To be clear, I don't begrudge NV Access this too hard. I still donate to them and realize how hard making a free and open source Windows screen reader is. But this has happened to me at least 10 times this week, so I'm annoyed.

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Für blinde Folgende: Ich nutze jetzt ungefähr 1 Stunde lang Waterfox und kann bisher mit NVDA unter Win 11 keine Probleme feststellen. Webseiten kann ich lesen, Menü und zwischen Tabs navigieren, in den Settings war ich auch schon. Sieht bisher gut aus. Aber natürlich kann es sein, dass ich trotzdem noch Probleme entdecke. Aber angesichts aktueller Firefoxentwicklungen mag ich das.
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Marco Zehe

Ja, das kann ich auch machen, dann schaltet sich die Oberfläche auch auf deutsch um. Aber VoiceOver bekommt das nicht mit und nutzt weiter eine englische Stimme, auch für Dinge wie "Taste" oder "Kontrollkästchen". Das liegt an MacOS, Waterfox teilt dem Betriebssystem nicht mit, dass es all diese Sprachen wirklich an Bord hat. Das sind ja alles interne Webseiten, die da angezeigt werden, und das ist abgekoppelt von der Basisgeschichte im Betriebssystem.

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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent appreciation is for some of the Free Software languages that bring me both joy and income: Python & Golang

I've used Python at $DAYJOB since version 2.3 (it got woefully stuck at 2.4 for WAAAAY too long, and finally switched to 3.x some time in the last 2–3 years) and it simplified so many automation tasks there. I've used dozens of programming languages in my life for various tasks, and the hard part is rarely *writing* the code, but rather *reading* the code. And I find it a LOT easier to come back and read old Python code than just about any other language.

Meanwhile, Golang saved my bacon on a short-term contracting project where TB of (simple) CSV files needed to be processed, cross-referenced. Being able to spin up a pool of multithreading Go processes, have built in locking and hash-map structures, and operate on raw input buffers of bytes shaved a 3-day manual process down to about an hour involving running a single command. I find it pretty readable too, feeling a bit like C while ditching some of the most cumbersome aspects.

#freesoftwareadvent
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Adam MacLeod

Totally agreed. And everytime #MushroomFM blows up, which is every year at this time, I keep wondering where the new Tweesecake is at, hopefully with functioning filters and mutes. Good on them for doing their thing, but I want nothing to do with it, so therefore, it truly is spam to me. And we need a way to block it on a popular client, if only for ourselves.
#mushroomfm

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В России заблокировали приложение для слепых Be My Eyes

Все, что оно делало — помогало незрячим ориентироваться в пространстве.

В нем можно было связываться с волонтерами через видеосвязь или просить ИИ описывать происходящее вокруг — видеозвонки внутри сервиса как раз и могли стать причиной блокировки.

Официально в реестр оно пока не внесено, но в Be My Eyes подтвердили, что доступ из России ограничен
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В России заблокировали приложение для помощи незрячим людям Be My Eyes

Пользователи Be My Eyes столкнулись с блокировкой в России. Узнайте, как сервис помогал незрячим людям, и какие альтернативы доступны.
Никита Лактюшин (Hi-Tech Mail)
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André Polykanine

Подтверждаю, сейчас стон и вой стоит в слепецком сообществе по этому поводу. Собственно, предположение одно: если ты оператор связи (а BeMyEyes позволяет контактировать с волонтёрами), то нужно регистрироваться в каком-то российском реестре (сорри, я не в РФ, не знаю точно, как это называется). Потому и заблочили.

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Just helped someone on Be My Eyes, he was walking from his house to a shop about 10 minutes away.

Helped him navigate the streets and cross the road and so on. Luckily he lived in the UK so I knew what I was seeing 😅

He was wearing Meta’s AI glasses, which help him a lot but don’t currently describe things like lamp posts/scaffolding etc, which was where I was needed.

He made the call from the glasses also, and it was great that I could see what he could see also.

One of my favourite things is helping people on Be My Eyes 😍

Such a great app.

#blind #blindness

#blind #blindness
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Tamas G

@bill oh that's interesting! I'll have to look into that new one then. Could be worth it. I think the $200 is web only, unlimited to chat in pro mode (or at least, I haven't seen usage restrictions at all on web search / conversations.) So it could be worthwhile if your token use ondemand for the pro models exceed that amount, perhaps, but the API per-cost option is more flexible with letting you use it in projects and such.
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On Dec 27th at 3PM Eastern, one week from today, REAPER Made Easy's end of year wrap up/live listening party will be happening. This is where we hang out on a live stream and listen to a bunch of the productions people have done with REAPER and OSARA throughout the year.
If you've got something you'd like to share, we're all ears! Send it in here:
dropbox.com/request/mB2KhxVunz…

Anything you've made this year, anywhere in the world, in any language, with any amount of experience is welcome. The only limitations are one production per person so we can play as many of them as possible, and the majority of what we're listening to needs to have been made using REAPER/OSARA.

Feel free to post questions in this thread or via DM if there's anything you're not sure of. Boosts for reach appreciated.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone's been cookin'!

Scott and Jen

Dropbox

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As an Open Source developer in Germany, I'd greatly benefit if our work was officially recognized as voluntary service (Ehrenamt).

If you are located in Germany, please help by signing this petition: openpetition.de/petition/blog/…

Thank you for your support! (Please do not sign if you are not living in Germany.)

#opensource #germany

#opensource #Germany

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Zwischen den Jahren ist es oft etwas ruhiger – genau dann lässt sich gut anfangen. IT-Sicherheit ist für mich kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess über Jahre. Kein großer Umbruch, sondern viele kleine Schritte: Passwörter, E-Mail, Smartphone, Heimnetz, Backups. Wichtig ist nicht Perfektion, sondern überhaupt zu beginnen. 👇

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IT-Sicherheit ist nie fertig – Ein persönlicher Weg über viele Jahre

Von »wird schon nichts passieren« zu echter Kontrolle: Mein persönlicher Weg zu mehr IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und digitaler Selbstbestimmung.
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🌞✨ Happy Sol Invictus! Today, we celebrate the "Unconquered Sun" and the return of light! While we enjoy this festive occasion, let’s also take a moment to appreciate the winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a time for reflection and renewal as we look forward to brighter days ahead! 🌌 #Solstice #solinvictus
#solstice #solinvictus
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