I bought a pair of Envision glasses at CSun. After playing with them for about a week, I think I’m able to return them. They can do things that the Meta glasses can’t do, like offline realtime image processing, face detection and column + row document layout detection. However the device makes so many compromises to get there that a lot of these benefits are sort of theoretical, and a Google Glass II for thrice the price is really tough to justify in 2025. Too locked down for power users, too fiddly for people who want something simple, and too expensive for either.

Here is my audio review + demo!

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly removed.” Please enjoy each autocratic shift equally. theonion.com/white-house-corre…

European countries resist US push to scrap diversity and inclusion initiatives
https://apnews.com/article/french-companies-dei-us-trump-de655f8b936d2a53619f8dfef900fa40?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Senator Cory Booker is holding the floor of the Senate and says he “will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis”. youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwt…

This truly made me laugh! In the Applevis discussion about the iOS 18.4 release, applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…, someone posted the following comment:

"I asked Siri how can I stop VO from saying button. She said "from stopping voiceover saying button, turn off voiceover". Nuts."
Even if it's no longer reproducible, it's an awesome joke!

Apple Releases iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4; Bringing Enhancements to VoiceOver and Braille applevis.com/blog/apple-releas…

Discovered that #libadwaita apps can enable the convenience "What's New" button in their About dialog to show release notes: gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/l…

Some #GNOME apps already use it: stable releases of Calendar, Shortwave, Showtime, Papers, System Monitor, Decibels, Warp, etc.

I've now filed RFEs for this in Tuba, Epiphany, Contacts, Fractal, Secrets, Warehouse, Maps, Apostrophe, Snapshot, File Roller, etc.

Ideally I'd want to suggest it in Ptyxis, Text Editor, Builder, Loupe & Pika…

in reply to Maksym Hazevych

@mks_h I think it's fine to request features, but reporting something like this and pointing at all of the other apps in the issue gives the impression that you're:

a) Implying there's some deficiency in the app when in reality it's just a minor difference.
b) You're trying to pressure them into adding it in order to be in line with other apps.

That may not be the intention, but that's how it comes across to others. Speaking as an app developer, it doesn't feel nice to be pressured into more work when you're barely keeping up with what you already want to do.

in reply to Chris 🌱

@brainblasted @mks_h Oh, I see your point now about the apps list. For the record, I didn't mean it as pressure, but as reference implementations that can be used as examples / tried out for comparison.

From my own experience with Calendar it wasn't clear why I wasn't seeing it there; therefore I took great care in testing each app on the list to be *sure* whether it did or did not have the feature in practice (with stable versions), I didn't want to mistakenly report if they already had it.

If you want to listen to some guy demo Siri and talk about TTS for four minutes and eleven seconds, here you go lmao.

I talk about Siri's new TTS improvements in iOS 18.4, and try unsuccessfully to get info about places in California. Amazingly, I have much better luck with getting answers about machine learning and what it's used for. What a time to be alive, or something.

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Zach Bennoui

@Peiress Oh yeah I know what you're talking about. Wonder if the voice actor who recorded the data for this is precluded from doing any more work because her voice would be recognizable now. I haven't heard her on anything other than Siri and Apple adjacent things. Funnily enough, I did hear the VO artist who did Siri's TTS when iOS 7 was released in a AAA commercial.
@Eigh

So, we did a thing.

github.com/systemd/systemd/pul…

#systemd #golang #go #rust

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Have any of you used Codeberg static pages for your developer blog or for your Open Source project's homepage? :codeberg:

I would love to hear about some experiences or see your Git repositories. 🙂

codeberg.page/

CC @Codeberg @forgejo

#Codeberg #Forjeo #Git #Page #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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