“The University of California just announced a list of military weaponry it wants in order to escalate its warfare on its students: 3000 rounds of pepper munitions 500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions 12 drones 9 grenade launchers
I upgraded #GNOME #Calls to #gtk4 + #libadwaita for fun. It's now released in v47.0! Should be available soon in your #LinuxMobile distribution of choice 🚀
Massive thanks to @devrtz, @agx, @brainblasted, and Maximiliano for putting up with my beginner-level GTK skills!
Who Could Ever Love You by Mary Trump review – family burn book dishes on Donald | Autobiography and memoir | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…
An article just went up on Eurogamer talking about the Periphery Synthetic game and the state of game accessibility for both blind gamers and blind developers. It features comments from many respected blind consultants and developers including @talon, @shaysters and yours truely. I think it's totally worth a read because it covers the topic from multiple angles very well eurogamer.net/periphery-synthe… #GameAccessibility #GameDev #IndieDev
And if you haven't checked out the game the previously posted article is talking about you absolutely should. It's a very chill experience where you're exploring a planet with an advanced suit that can be upgraded to drive, fly and even travel underwater. What's really unique is all sound in the game is synthesized in realtime, giving it a very unique, kind of synth wavy vibe. That also means that when you do things like skip on the surface of the water or drift around in the sand in the vehicle mode it has a very organic sound, and this is coupled with very good use of vibrations if you have a gamepad connected. There's also a musical instrument included that you can play as you game. It really shows off what's possible with the WebAudio API. You can get it either on Steam or DRM free on itch: store.steampowered.com/app/212… shiftbacktick.itch.io/peripher…
I'm actually kind of sad that when talking about indie games they completely failed to mention Sequence Storm. The sheer gamut of accessibility options in that, above and beyond those for BVI players, is a big deal I think. The size of the accessibility menu alone indicates that much.
I've been trying to play Periphery Synthetic for awhile now, and have no idea of what I'm doing or supposed to do. I'm obviously moving, but the environment hasn't changed. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but playing the musical instrument is pretty neat, especially with my Xbox controller.
@fireborn It might, though you'd need a controller or keyboard. If you get the itch version there's a raw html zip as part of the download as well as a demo you can play right in the browser. . I remember trying either a much earlier version of this game or one of his previous in Safari and it seem to mostly work though iirc some ambient sounds were missing. I should try again.
@fireborn Well, from your other recent post I see you're now on Android so I'd totally give it a try. It'll either work really well because it's developped with electron so just Chrome, or fail spectacularly because it really pushes web audio to the limit so between a mobile CPU and Android chrome not being as well optimised it just won't be able to keep up. But there are also some settings to turn off things like reverb and lower the audio quality a bit for slower systems so you might very well get it going.
@Orinks I just wish I could figure it out. I really wish there was a sound guide to understand the different sounds. I want so much to get into this because it is such a chill thing.
@blindbat84 @Orinks What I would suggest you do to start with is go into the settings and turn down the music a bit at least to start. It’s really pretty and dynamic changing based on where you are but it can make things more confusing. Then, just keep doing the area scan which will reveal any materials you can collect with pings followed by a continuous sound that you can just center and move toward. After you collect a material, rinse and repeat. Eventually this will let you upgrade parts of the suit to let you drive around and eventually also fly. The other sounds you hear when you scan is a continuous rhythmic beeping for your next destination of interest which might be more prceptions you can read or a portal to the next world, and the other sounds you hear that quickly change in pitch is the terrain shape around you. So if you hear the scanner make very high pitched humming that tells you there are hills you might need to jump up to climb, while if you hear lower descending sounds that tells you there are valleys. @bscross32 did a short gameplay recording that demonstrates a lot of this in practice though his suit is already upgraded a bit which yours won’t be at first. audiopub.site/listen/f4205bca-…
ATTENTION ALL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS: workshop series to integrate disability theory into your research agendas and protocols. If you study technology and disability, this workshop series is for you.
@Ralfeek Každá generace má své. Když jsem se já mohl považovat za tu mladší, také jsme, v mnoha věcech, té generaci před námi byli k smíchu či pláči, takže za mě OK. 🙂
September 15: 40 minutes delay so far. Time to bet on whether the train even shows up or whether they just say "screw it" and cancel it altogether. Not that it helps me be any less stuck here for the next half hour, mind you.
Können wir bitte bei der nächsten Bundestagswahl diesen Mann ins Kanzleramt wählen? Robert Habeck bringt mal wieder das Statement, das ich mir sehnlichst vom Kanzler gewünscht hätte.
Leider hab ich das komplett nur auf Instagram gefunden.
I have played a little bit with OpenAI's new iteration of #GPT, GPT-o1, which performs an initial reasoning step before running the LLM. It is certainly a more capable tool than previous iterations, though still struggling with the most advanced research mathematical tasks.
Here are some concrete experiments (with a prototype version of the model that I was granted access to). In chatgpt.com/share/2ecd7b73-360… I repeated an experiment from mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1099482491… in which I asked GPT to answer a vaguely worded mathematical query which could be solved by identifying a suitable theorem (Cramer's theorem) from the literature. Previously, GPT was able to mention some relevant concepts but the details were hallucinated nonsense. This time around, Cramer's theorem was identified and a perfectly satisfactory answer was given. (1/3)
europesays.com/1474866/ Pro místní experty co říkají že je to jen voda. Na Jesenicku padají domy, spousta měst se evakuuje, ale ono se vlastně nic nestalo :D #CzechRepublic
Leider fehlt mir die Freiheit, es uneingeschränkt zu empfehlen, solange keine trackingfreien Dienste, wenigstens alternativ wie z.B. #OpenStreetMap oder #PeerTube, verwendet werden.
@babaq těžko říct, ale vůbec by mě nepřekvapilo, kdyby za vytvoření každé eSIM platili licenční poplatky - ostatně ta infrastruktura pro eSIM je společná pro všechny operátory.
Jako mnohem horší problém se ale jeví, že Vodafoní samoobsluha vyžaduje dvoufaktorové ověření pomocí SMS zaslané právě na SIM kartu, která neexistuje.
They didn't know each other for as long as my Gen 2 sims did, and they didn't always have a perfect marriage (the Prom incident was them), but they made it through. They were the first set of parents to have multiple children in my main legacy family, and they did an amazing job raising their kids while being very accomplished in their careers. They were also wonderful grandparents.
Es war eine gute Zeit, und nun geht sie zu Ende. Morgen ist mein letzter Tag im Kontaktsemester. Ich will ihn nutzen, um schon mal einen Überblick zu bekommen, was danach dienstlich alles auf mich zukommt. Also ist es inoffiziell irgendwie auch schon der erste Tag wieder im Dienst.
Ein Bericht ist geschrieben, ein paar Vorhaben habe ich formuliert, vom frischen Wind in meinem Kopf werde ich hoffentlich eine Weile profitieren. Ich freue mich auf den Wiedereinstieg in die Gemeinde, auf die Menschen, auf die neue Gruppe der Konfirmand*innen, mit denen wir bald starten werden, auf die schönen Gottesdienste in der Predigerkirche und darauf, selbst wieder welche zu halten... Noch immer beschäftigt mich vieles, was ich in den letzten drei Monaten (vor allem in Bradford) erlebt, gefühlt oder gedacht habe. Vielleicht wird manches davon weitergehen.
Diesen Blog schließe ich nun erst einmal wieder. Es ist der zweite auf dieser Plattform nach den Advent-Gedanken vom letzten Jahr. Der nächste kommt sicher irgendwann, wenn es sich anbietet. Macht's gut und bleibt behütet.
Mañana lunes de 10:30 a 13:30, pruebas rápidas de vih y sífilis en Madrid. Confidencial, anónima y gratuita. Tenéis los datos en la imagen y el alt menos el número de teléfono/WhatsApp que es: 660967330. Sed majes e impulsad, anda
I think what a lot of people miss is that if you have a commit-sized piece of work in mind, there's a very good chance that you can get an LLM to do it in under a minute
you don't have to be an AI True Believer to see how this changes what an experienced programmer can do!
Die 80er haben angerufen und wollen alle deutschen Klassenclowns und ihre ewiggestrige Denke über Menschen mit Behinderungen wiederhaben. Und ich habe die Schnauze gestrichen voll …
Florian Schroeders Anklage dass nun aus seiner Sicht überwiegend nichtbehinderte Menschen sich empören ist in zweierlei Hinsicht bedauerlich: Erstens offenbart er damit dass er nichtsichtbare Behinderungen nicht einkalkuliert, und zweitens ist gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt zur Verbesserung der Lebensumstände und der Akzeptanz von Minderheiten erst möglich wenn auch genug Stimmen aus der Mehrheitsgesellschaft laut werden.
At the Kernel Maintainers Summit, the question wasn't, "Would Rust make it into Linux?" Instead, it was, "What to do about its compilers?"
The Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux's creator @torvalds told, "Unless something odd happens, it [Rust] will make it into 6.1."
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