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So this is really bad. I know. But y'all I feel better these days than I have in years. Why? Because LLM's not only make me feel like I'm doing things and making things, but they actually do make things. Slowly yes, with lots of answering questions and guiding it, but it really helps.
So now I have Emacs with Emacspeak on my Android phone, working on an MUD client, got accessible Lemuroid so I can get TalkBack descriptions of games, about every thing I could ever want besides some Braille stuff. And when I get tired of all the Emacs stuff, I'll try and rangle BRLTTY into accepting Contracted Braille input and try and get a Braille Access-like mode going. And then see if I can get BRLTTY to work as well in Termux as it does in Linux. Like no joke, LLM's have opened this up to being a possibility for me.
Now I get it. These are just nice-to-have things. But shoot y'all, it's freaking fun!
Hm. How did you get a mud client working on android? that one I'm super interested in. Not so much emacspeak, but a linux shell that wasn't utter garbage would be nice.
@fireborn TalkBack will speak (usually) only new incoming text, terminal window is explorable by touch, line by line, you can hit volume keys for control or FN, with state announced, and focus tracking sometimes works. Enough for reading info files and nano.
In November 2026, a historic milestone awaits humanity's Voyager 1. The legendary probe will reach the "one light-day" mark, meaning it will be so distant that communication requires a 48-hour round trip!
Audio descriptions are necessary for making videos accessible. They narrate the crucial visual elements that would be necessary for understanding the plot without the ability to see the screen. They describe non-verbal cues like gestures, facial expressions, or eye contact.
Spotify subscribers -- prepare for a price hike, as the company has announced another increase for users in the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia driving the cost notably above Apple Music. appleinsider.com/articles/26/0…
Spotify subscribers — prepare for a price hike, as the company has announced another increase for users in the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia driving the cost notably above Apple Music.
The latest episode of 99% Invisible is pretty good, but had a moment near the end that I found super valuable. (30: minute mark)
They discussed the value of being senior and reaching out to younger folk in the field to give them support. Going from "I don't know how to do this" to "My way is how to do this" to finally "There's a million ways to do this, just do it better than I did" is one of the most rewarding things. You never know the kind of impact that you will make, particularly if you were successful.
Identify the folk that will move the folk forward and do what you can to support them.
Come see Roman as he hosts a conversation with The Memory Palace‘s Nate DiMeo on Thursday, January 22, 2026 (7pm PT) at KQED in San Francisco. Get your tickets! Michael Bierut is one of the best known designers in America.
⚔️ Der Deutsche Presserat hat sein schärfstes Schwert gezogen: Für ihre falsche „Skandal“-Story über angebliche Geheimverträge zwischen EU-Kommission und NGOs erteilte er der WELT eine Rüge. Diese muss sie nun auf der Seite des Artikels veröffentlichen – was bisher nicht geschieht.
🔎 Bei dem Artikel handele es sich um eine „gravierende Irreführung der Leserschaft und einen schweren Verstoß gegen die journalistische Sorgfaltspflicht“, urteilt der Presserat. Das ist ein äußerst wichtiges Signal, auch für alle anderen Medien!
📣 DIE Welt muss die Rüge jetzt dort veröffentlichen, wo auch die gerügten Artikel stehen. Aber bisher hat sie das nicht getan, auch unsere Emails beantwortet sie nicht. Damit darf sie nicht durchkommen. Für ihre Verletzung des Pressekodex sollte sie zumindest gerade stehen.
🔁 Helft uns, den Post zu verbreiten und Druck zu machen, damit DIE WELT die Rüge auch öffentlich macht!
Der Deutsche Presserat hat die Springer-Zeitung DIE WELT für ihre Berichterstattung über Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) gerügt. Damit reagierte er auf eine Beschwerde von uns.
Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition and Third Print Edition
Good News Everyone!
I have just released the Seventh Internet Edition of my book. Along with the Internet Edition release we're just a few days from the general availability of the new print edition which is based on the aforementioned Internet Edition.
Installing Gajim on macOS is now only a single click away. This release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files 🗃️ and support for link previews 🔗.
Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!
Managed to catch a gnome-shell message "cannot reopen /dev/dri/card0: device busy" when plugging a USB-C dongle for an external monitor. So I logged out, and restarted my session *after* plugging in the dongle - surely it won't need to fuck with the device then? - and it started working.
(This is a dongle for an external monitor that I had never managed to make work. Apparently all I needed was to plug it in before starting my session.)
(Why was GDM happy with plugging in the middle...?)
So all I can do is experiment. I’m refining the settings for ɜ, ɚ, and ɝ. For ɜ, I’ll set cf1 to 530, cf2 to 1350, and cf3 at 2400. For ɚ, I'll use cf1=500, cf2=1350, and cf3 at 1700, with pf settings to match. For ɝ, I'll use cf3 at 1600, with similar pf settings. I'll keep 'r' for the tap/trill, and we'll see where it comes out when I get to it. Probably nowhere. But this is how a speech engine like this comes together. :D (LOL I asked GPT to convert the sounds into their IPA notations on this post)
Fun fact! There isn't a fixed number for IPA representations because the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system with about 107 core symbols for sounds, plus numerous diacritics (around 31) and suprasegmental marks (around 17), allowing for countless combinations to represent sounds across all human languages, creating unique "strings" for each word or utterance, and what NV Speech Player needs to do is map these in languages to how they actually sound out by the voice in terms of frequencies. So yes, quite a task. That's why it may not come together for awhile and I'm focusing on responding to Jira tickets at work :D
Due to an influx of spam evading Gmail's anti-spam measures, I have had to create a filter that routes all messages containing "MILF" straight to the Trash folder. I apologize in advance to any legitimate MILFs attempting to contact me.
~2 years grinding working on an app, and now you can vibe code it in like a week
amazing what we've done with technology now. Sure we're going to have to spend time sifting the turds from the gold, but there will be more gold than ever RT: mastodon.social/users/dansup/s…
I spent 7 years working on @PixelFed@pixelfed.social almost daily, and I've wanted to build an app ever since.
I'm a PHP/JS dev though, and thought it was impossible.
So I forked a react-native pixelfed client in 2023 and slowly learned.
@RandomDamage I just had Claude find a bug in a python tool (deleting files silent failures, not using absolute paths) whose authors are AI haters. Took Claude about 10 seconds to spot it
They've already accepted and merged it, I'm still debating whether or not I tell them that they could have fed it through Claude and avoided this embarrassment
Favorite new word: affricates. Sounds like a fruit right? But it's not! Don't eat those affricates! a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g. ch as in chair and j as in jar. Yup, those.
Love to see the age range for this shite... I bet most of these people are under 40 and NOT raised properly...
Incidents include passengers accused of inappropriate touching, instigating fights, uttering threats, sneaking onto flights, refusing to sit during landing/takeoff, consuming their own alcohol, vaping cannabis, and a wide range of “intoxicated and unruly” behaviour... ctvnews.ca/canada/article/inde…
From assaulting flight attendants to smoking onboard and even indecent exposure, Canada’s transportation authorities logged more than 100 reports of disruptive air passengers in 2025.
550K likes, 4,190 comments - noeldeyzel_bodybuilder on December 27, 2025: "I had a “survival” year in 2016, sometimes we need these years to teach us the lessons we need to grow and flourish🙏🏼
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Anyone know whether the Debian standard live CD (without any desktop environment), has a way to enable Speakup? I don't really need or want a desktop environment on my live CD, though I recognize that on modern hardware there isn't really a disadvantage to having one. There's also a Mate live CD so if all else fails I can just customize that.
@clv1 Thanks; I knew about s for speech in the installer CD but wasn't sure whether the live CD had that as well. I've never used it before and I know some live environments just toss you straight into a console/desktop. I'm going to test this shortly.
One trick I discovered to find what are the boot options of a given Linux image is, after burning the live image to the USB pen, open your file explorer and give a look at the .cfg files in the root of the pen. they belong to syslinux, which is the boot loader used in most distro live images.
@clv1 This is helpful; thanks. I'm very new to installing and using Debian directly on actual hardware. It was all VPS and Raspberry Pi for me until maybe six months ago.
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macOS is now only a single click away. This release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files 🗃️ and support for link previews 🔗.
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