Here are the samples of TTS voices that Apple is planning to use for some #audio books in their book store:authors.apple.com/support/4519…
I must say, the first two voices are quite impressive! #a11y

Added a color theme picker to my site recently, using a progressive enhancement strategy.

If you're interested, I wrote an article on how I approached it:
darins.page/articles/progressi…

#ux #frontend #development #html #css #javascript #userexperience #webdev

Coming up live at 00:00 UTC (7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: two hours of relaxing #newage, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #audio

Made a Mastodon pull request.

In v4, there is an issue on servers that don't have elasticsearch: when a user types @ in the compose box and starts to type a name, the results they get are ordered by a popularity ranking algorithm. This is fine if you were only searching accounts you don't follow, but to me it makes more sense to FIRST return matches for accounts you DO follow as a suggestion, and then return popular accounts that you don't follow

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

I published my research on Matrix's read receipts & how they impact notifications while putting together the MSCs for threads. Not sure if it is useful to others, but was encouraged to put it somewhere!

patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/01…

Figured out what was wrong with my implementation of Emmanuel Bourg's #kotlin #bootstrap chain (github.com/ebourg/kotlin-boots…), so now I managed to mirror the same chain, but *completely bootstrapped* (all prebuilt jars are removed from sources).

So I have a kotlin from June 2015: framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-and…

still a long way to go :D

#guix #bootstrappablebuilds

One of my favorite little touches in @ivory … When you refresh, Ivory KEEPS YOUR PLACE and shows you how many posts loaded in above where you are now in the timeline. As you scroll up that badge decrements.

I can't emphasize how relaxing it is to see a bounded value to how far I'm going to scroll before I'm "caught up."

It's the single best thing to happen to my social media feed in years.

So good

Considering I made this one on my own and it has 0% interesting artwork/thumbnail, I *think* I have the most watched video on youtube about this particular topic. Not bad for a blind guy.

How-to: Format Your SSD as #APFS on #Mac youtu.be/ZiFnhVU3aos

#mac #apfs

Ricardo Flores Magón y otros creadores mexicanos ingresan al dominio público en 2023 r3d.mx/2023/01/04/ricardo-flor… #ricardofloresmagon #mexico #dominiopublico #R3D

My blogpost on how to verify your #Mastodon account and how to establish a chain of trust all the way to #CzechPoint verification, and generally why it's good to have a domain as your online identity.
blog.eischmann.cz/2023/01/05/o…

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Every man “in tech” over 35 should probably revisit this once a year or so, to remember the ugly costs of the way we collectively changed the world. For that matter, everybody else might want to read it to reflect on how to avoid those mistakes.

(It’s hard to write a content warning more precise than “every bad thing from 2000-2015” but it is A Lot so be warned.)

dancingsausage.net/2017/11/30/…

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> Nobody wrote profiles when their free market, composed mostly of engineers, made a bet on high-end graphics which wouldn’t run on the low-end laptops that everyone else could afford.

My brother was affected by this when he tried to run a WPF-based desktop app that totally didn't need high-end graphics on a 2007 budget laptop. Luckily for him, I could just buy him a new laptop, but still.

I worry that the current efforts to use GPU compute for 2D rendering will lead to more of this.

Interesting and valuable! "10 types of cognitive bias to watch out for in UX research & design" bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/10-types-… #uxDesign #uxResearch #UIDesign #usabilityTesting

I have mixed feelings about this.

Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#Bookstodon

in reply to Pratik Patel

Here's a good piece that lays out some advantages to #AI narrated #audiobooks. The trouble is that there is no analysis of what happens when an author or publisher decides to forego hiring a human and go directly to this method.

Why AI audiobook narrators could win over some authors and readers, despite the vocal bumps

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#books #bookstodon

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If you're looking for samples of #audiobooks narrated by AI, search for the term "Narrated by Apple Books" in the Apple Books app. It will pull up a list of books converted to Audio by #Apple.

Here are a few samples:

books.apple.com/us/audiobook/i…

books.apple.com/us/audiobook/i…

#bookstodon #accessibility #audio

Inclusive Web Design Checklist github.com/Heydon/inclusive-de… by @heydon #webDesign #inclusiveDesign #a11y

“Many browsers and anti-spyware applications are designed to reject and delete third-party cookies. Adobe ensures that cookies can always we [sic] set even if third-party cookies are blocked.”

That feeling when you admit you’re spyware.

#Adobe #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #adtech #spyware #SiliconValley #BigTech via @GossiTheDog

A black man wrongfully jailed for a week in Louisiana after face recognition error, report says. Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight or the mole on his face.

#blackmastodon #facialrecognition

peopleofcolorintech.com/articl…

PSA: We're aware of an issue affecting #Thunderbird users using #IMAP to connect to certain #Microsoft account servers (for example: outlook.office365.com).

These users are receiving an error message that says "User is authenticated but not connected."

We believe this is caused by Microsoft running certain services with broken #IPv6 functionality.

WORKAROUND: Disable IPv6 networking in Thunderbird's advanced config.

MORE INFO: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ou…

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I’m not going to use bloody bugzilla, so if anyone from Mozilla sees this, your enterprise flow for adding certificate authorities (CAs) to Firefox on Linux fails on Fedora Silverblue.

Since Fedora Silverblue is seen as the possible future of Fedora/Red Hat, you folks might want to talk to the Fedora folks about it and come up with a solution.

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

#mozilla #firefox #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #bug #tls #ssl #redHat #linux #enterprise #certificates

It’s not going to be the DPC’s week.

Their suggestion of appropriate fine to levy on Meta for bundling a legal basis for user tracking and profiling into their terms and conditions was rejected as being approximately 10 times too mild by their peers across the EU.

washingtonpost.com/politics/ir…

nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technol…

This actually isn’t surprising at all, but it still needs to said over & over — the biggest barrier to more urban biking in cities is the fear of cars.

“A study confirms that if we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.”

Via @lloydalter #TreeHugger #bikes #cities #urbanism #cars #BikeLanes
treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-bi…

I can finally share the results of my work last year! Earthstar is a small and resilient distributed storage protocol designed with a strong focus on simplicity and versatility, with the social realities of peer-to-peer computing kept in mind. v10 adds:

📎 Attachments. Sync pictures, music, gigabyte-sized videos, or whatever kind of data you want.
🔏 Read-only shares. Share your data publicly while restricting write-access to a limited group.
🧠 Efficient sync. Fast sync - even when your data sets are very large.

Home-cooked social spaces. A community library of ePubs. Resilient, private data archives. Or just a blog!

Explainers, tutorials, specs, and documentation at earthstar-project.org

Pokémon GO app not accessible for visually-impaired users, N.J. man says in lawsuit

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…

hey @thunderbird, this really should be addressed ASAP.

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discuss…

Was having strange connection issue on @thunderbird
for #office365 accounts via IMAP

Message indicated:
User is authenticated but not connected

Found the solution on #reddit:

switch ` network.dns.disableIPv6` to `true` in the config editor

reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comme…

Here's a quick recap of what we did in the #LibreOffice community in 2022! Well, just a few of the many things 😉 youtube.com/watch?v=iyHQ1yRLA9…

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