I assembled a small breakout game as a Christmas present as part of a Secret Santa exchange, and they've given me the go-ahead to post it publicly. Enjoy: hugues-ross.itch.io/ruff-landi…
One thing I want to note--given my wrist situation, almost all of the game's art was drawn by voice.
The software itself gave me a lot of trouble though, so I've decided to make a fork and do further dev & maintenance on it.
While I don't know how many people would use it, I think idea of a #PixelArt editor designed for hands-free #accessibility might have legs and I want to explore that further.
With a delay, we arrive at the last window of the accessibility for the blind advent calendar. This one might be known to some of you as the news has reached quite some peak in media outlets worldwide. Accessible Christmas was an app developed to let blind people enjoy the Christmas lights of Madrit through a geolocation-based audiodescription experience. The great thing about it was, you could also access these descriptions wherever you were. Many blind people do not have the privilege of worldwide mobility so bringing bits of the world closer to them is what I call an extension of accessible tourism. Describing the world you experience through textual blogs, social media postings, audio recordings and sharing interesting highlights of life in different countries is what you can do next year to make others travel even if they physically can't. If you're the one unable to travel, here are a couple of things that help me personally when I wish I could be elsewhere but can't: 1. Play a random radio station in a language you understand nothing of or find the music that you like coming from somewhere obscure or far away. I enjoy checking out local charts in other countries just to see how different languages fit into the music trends of today. 2. Try to find recordings of places on sites like Freesound or Soundcloud; close your eyes and imagine. 3. Read travel blogs, watch or listen to content on the Internet of others travelling where descriptions are abundant; research how topics that interest you are managed elsewhere. 4. Try to find penpals, somebody to exchange occasional packages with and simply make friends; if that's possible, try to find a local language conversation group, groups for people who have moved to your city etc. meet, ask questions but most of all, listen! 5. Maybe one day make your own advent calendar. coolblindtech.com/this-app-all… #Accessibility #Blind AdventCalendar #Spain #Travel #Tourism
The Human Language and Accessibility Technologies (HULAT) research group at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed and validated a mobile application that allows people with visual impairments to enjoy Christmas lights in the city …
@Nuno My thought exactly! You must be a real Master Strategist™ to effectively militarize a country while “demilitarizing” it. So much so that those extra tanks Ukraine now has — many if not most of them were russian tanks on February 24.
@Nuno Putin could have completely neutralised NATO's apparent threat to Russia by joining it. More broadly speaking, he would have had far more influence over NATO's missions by being part of it. Albeit without a veto.
@ashwin_baindur @blogscot Yeah. The NATO leadership together with a terrorist state of America planned this long long ago. I say terrorist state because the USA was sponsoring regimes over the decades. What they did in Vietnam / Panama is also terror.
@ashwin_baindur @Nuno I think that will go down in the history books as a gross mistake: to dismiss outright even exploring the possibility of Russian membership of NATO.
There will be inevitably be some within the American Industrial War machine that are not fans of making peace with their enemies and thereby put themselves out of a job.
@blogscot @ashwin_baindur I think that its reversed. That only some units in the USA terrorist war machine want to make peace with their enemies, and most of them doesn't. 99% of their economy is based on murder, blood and suffering. If not for the Nazi scientists after WW II they would be subdued by now
15 Famous Black Architects - First African-American Architects
Most people can’t name one black architect, here’s a list of 15 great black pioneering architects, including Beverly Loraine Greene, first black female architect.
Hello #Fediverse! #Pinetta is a decentralized FOSS social pinboard in the style of Pinterest. After a month of planning, we've settled on a basic game plan and are opening up our @Codeberg repo for contributions from devs and designers!
We'll be working on a prototype that uses #Python and #Django to get the basic functionality working. We'll also be hosting weekly sharing sessions on #CommunityBuilding principles to develop our Code of Conduct and a larger framework for community wellness. 🥳
A few years ago I published a piece about the history of the split-flap display (wordsinspace.net/fluttering-co…) - and now that I’m in Philly, Oat Foundry invited me for a tour!
Just discovered that there is a new version of Demucs, 4.0, with a new extraction model, github.com/facebookresearch/de…. Looks like quite a bit to play with.
a friend told me they added views to tweets and had to see for myself how the great minds putting robots on our streets would handle text overflow and it’s just what i expected
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 4.2.0!
The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-4.2.0.
Therapist: The sexy lady Krampus from mid century German greetings cards isn't real, she can't hurt you. The sexy lady Krampus from mid century German greetings cards:
Aujourd'hui j'ai recompilé Quaternion comme un grand. Il semble que mon principal problème était le timeout de 30 secondes sur la synchro : c'est trop court pour mon compte avec plusieurs centaines de rooms et ma petite machine. En passant le timeout à 10 minutes, plus 2/3 autres tweaks, j'ai un client Matrix avec du chiffrement de bout en bout et qui soit pas trop lourd. A moi Matrix !
@morph @Matrix.org #libQuotient a library #quaternion is using for its #matrix support has recently been updated with e2e support in beta. I think quaternion will get it too
It's Christmas Eve, so let me share my one-and-only Christmas Eve short story with you (shortlisted for a Hugo, too): Here's OVERTIME: tor.com/2009/12/22/overtime/
@thomy2000 They are the world guides: they contain art from the game (including some stuff from Nier Replicant and Drakengard); full world map; all the character, item, and weapon stories; transcript of all the dialogues; all the endings; and a lot of other stuff. They are a 100% completion play-through in book form.
Honestly, I do not miss quote retweets and I am glad they are not here. If y’all want to build frontend clients that expand the link, feel free - but to me, it is part of the benefits of Mastodon that either convos are connected via replies *edit: and tags*, or they’re disconnected. I’ve really enjoyed that over the last 7 months. For further context on my opinion re the problematic mechanics of twitter: ornella.xyz/blog/2022/05/digit…
Právě o Vánocích naplno vnímám, že žádná chvíle se nebude opakovat. Často jsme hlavou v budoucnosti. To přebíjí, co se odehrává právě teď. Zkouším to změnit. Prožít sváteční chvíle co nejplněji, i když trocha toho plánování na nás dospělých už vždycky ležet bude. Krásné Vánoce!🌟
I know this is a die hard reference, but I can't really find it amusing knowing that a real shooting happened yesterday while people were Christmas shopping.
@brainblasted You make it sound like a rare occurrence. Honestly, with a big enough audience, it’s hard to say anything that SOMEONE won’t take offense to.
Boring Nondescript Little Worm
in reply to Boring Nondescript Little Worm • • •One thing I want to note--given my wrist situation, almost all of the game's art was drawn by voice.
The software itself gave me a lot of trouble though, so I've decided to make a fork and do further dev & maintenance on it.
While I don't know how many people would use it, I think idea of a #PixelArt editor designed for hands-free #accessibility might have legs and I want to explore that further.