From Elegant Insights Braille Creations: Let's Go Shopping 9 update (Scheduled for Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9) groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…
I am once again asking you to refrain from using “Zionist” or any variation thereof when you talk about Israel, its government, people from Israel, settler-colonialism, etc.
Because the way you’re using it is similar to how it’s been used as an antisemitic slur for decades and it’s normalizing that kind of thing in a way that will harm Jews who have nothing to do with Israel and may even vocally oppose the policies and actions of Israel’s government.
Probudím se s bolestí v krku a teplota co? Nic. No ale stejně se budu tvářit a chovat jako kdyby ano. Protože pocitově mám minimálně 38,9. Tak! Tak hezké ráno a ať je vám líp než mně!
I feel like it’s the year 2001 when I resisted getting a mobile phone until I really needed it. Now I’m resisting Meta glasses. Not sure why. Maybe it’s the cost … I really need a laptop too, but it may also be because it’s “what everybody’s doing” in my little community. For now, I resisted instant next day arrival, and my wife and I’ll be old geezer standouts for awhile at least. We are ok being classed as geezerz though.
I resisted too, but my lovely wife, knowing I wouldn't buy them myself but would secretly love to play with them, bought them for me for my 40th birthday. So now i get to have fun with them - and actually benefit from them, it turns out - without feeling guilty for spending reasonable money on a toy. :)
Meh. A lot of commentary I've seen about the Meta glasses has been split between: "it's a shame they can't do X", and "here's a thing the glasses can do that I could already do before but i'm looking for a reason to justify my purchase". I have no doubt that there will be a must-have pair of glasses for blind people in the future, but I don't think the Meta product is it.
@amy0223 @jscholes They're very much not for everyone. For me though, as a musician who wants to capture gigs and post clips, they work great. Not as a blind-aid, but as they were intended. To capture video. A very normal and probably boring use-case. lol
@FreakyFwoof Fair. I do hope for more tech that can offer accessibility utility at a reasonable, mainstream pricepoint. I won't pretend that everyone can afford three hundred and something dollars, but a lot more people have a hope of doing so than two and a half thousand plus some change. @amy0223 @ner
@jscholes @amy0223 With third-party support on the way IE, Be My Eyes etc, they will trounce Envision glasses for portability in short-order. If they allow one third-party app, others will surely follow.
@FreakyFwoof @jscholes @amy0223 Yeah we're going in the right direction IMHO with mainstream equipment with third-party app support, rather than using specific hardware like Envision and Orcam have done in the past. I'm still not a huge convert at the moment, but I don't need to record video right now. I'm still wanting to do more OCR reading with these glasses, which I don't believe is an option right now.
@andrew @FreakyFwoof @jscholes I don’t have the need for any kind of smart glasses right now and we’re trying to save money and all. But if I were buying, even with any downsides I’ll take a mainstream option over a for the blind product. I just don’t trust these niche products that are so highly priced to stay around. And when envision ends up like Orcam it’ll be a mess.
@amy0223 @andrew @jscholes What you said. I've tried to go mainstream with products I've purchased as much as humanly possible. Orbit Reader is an exception for obvious reason. In 1994, my dad gave me a Franklin Language Master which just *happened* to have TTs, so even that I guess is an off-the-shelf product. Loved that thing.
@FreakyFwoof @amy0223 @andrew @jscholes That Language Master, which was called the Language Master 6000 Special Edition, was amazing. Everything on it was accessible and it even came with an excellent instruction tape. Several years ago, I bought a used one so I could continue to play with it. I always hoped that Franklin would have released an accessible encyclopedia but I don't think they ever did.
@DavidGoldfield @FreakyFwoof @amy0223 @andrew @jscholes I remember you doing a demo of that from the 1992 Blazie Engineering audio newsletter. Finally got my hands on one in middle school a few years later. "All aboard!"
@sclower @FreakyFwoof @amy0223 @andrew @jscholes I totally forgot that I had done a demo of that product and even now I barely remember it. That came about because Blazie Engineering became a distributor, though not the only distributor, of that product.
@andrew @FreakyFwoof @jscholes @amy0223 I meant to ask, can these glasses just be used for system audio and phone calls, like bluetooth earphones? or are they purely for the app ecosystem?
@cachondo @FreakyFwoof @jscholes @amy0223 The Meta glasses support Bluetooth not sure how good that works though. The Envision glasses are a closed system for the Envision ecosystem only as those Google Glass products were designed for enterprise use.
The sky was thick solid clouds stretching from the horizon in the east to just above the horizon in the west. I wondered if that little gap above the horizon in the west would be enough for an interesting sunset. We waited 35 minutes for sunset and it was worth it. #sunset #montreal
The Aira team is continuing to innovate with high quality solutions for hands-free visual interpreting, and are excited to update our community on the next phase of our Meta Ray-Bans integration.
Hey Google and Microsoft, instead of spending billions to refurb nuclear explodium stations, why don't you spend these billions in future clean energy tech to the good of humanity. And I'm not talking build tech-bro solution.
"I received four denials on the same day. Three of which occurred when requesting one ride. I was connected with another driver and was again denied another two times. The app notified me that I would have to re-request my ride as it had timed out. Later that afternoon, I attempted to request a ride home. The driver arrived, saw me and my dog, and drove away without speaking to us. This time I did not notify the driver previous to them arriving.” – Guide Dog User in Texas, January 2023
Another audiogame that would be cool to have the music for is Manaman 2, then I could build a Mist World music soundpack for it - I wouldn't even need all sounds, just all musics. The manual thankfully lists artists, but unlike STW does not list track names so I cannot purchase them like I did (bonus: I now have a bunch of purchased music and I did get to support the artists too)
The latest developer beta of iOS 18.1 resolves the direct touch issues with VoiceOver. Apple even responded to my feedback saying it had been fixed! Normally all of my feedbacks feel like yelling into the void. Momentous.
This is a positive review! Very much looking forward to when this debuts for the iPhone 16. Have been eyeing this ever since it was released at CES. Clicks Keyboard for iPhone 16 Pro – Rebuilt on customer feedback - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com/2024/10/14/hands-o…
back when I was looking for a job in 2023 they were on my list. Their applicant gate keeping was shit. I guess that's a good way to never have been involved....
Nikto tu nie je. Píše sa nikto alebo nikdo? S kým by som šiel na večeru, s niektorým z nich? Je to tak? Či s niektorými s nimi? To už je moc Slovenčiny toto.
It's time for a silly Monday afternoon beat thing. Last night, I sampled a bunch of sounds from a Perkins braillewriter and loaded them into my shiny new Ableton Move. Today, I made this silly thing with it, not actually using many of the samples, as it turns out.
Nevím, srovnání CZ a SK nemám. Každopádně realitky chtějí šílený výpalný. Když jsem ještě řešil pronájmy, vždy to bylo na přímo přes inzeráty nebo nejlépe na "bezrealitky.cz" - tady nevím, jestli máte něco podobnýho... Držím ti 🤞!
ten portál máme aj my tu na Slovensku ale moc tam toho nie je. Najlepšie je asi sledovať ponuky priebežne no a jeden celý nájom sa mi tiež nechce nechať len tak realitke to je pravda. Díky.
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