Making myself unemployable by running my mouth one video at a time. I am also very happy with the raise of AI because my inability to speak properly now prov...
I'm guessing everyone here has played DOOM before, or at least seen someone else play the game. It would also not be of any news for most here, that DOOM has sp
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Very excited - got the second Cadence Braille display! Now I can really use it with NVDA, still surprised how little panning I need to do for reading desktop icons or other text around the OS. The gap still does not much bother me. Sure, it's noticeable if you're reading slower, but when reading through to the other line it's so little (like .5 inches) that it really does not become bothersome. Now to try and figure out panning on iOS, whether it can be remapped properly.
@startrek2025 ah yeah, the Braille display :D still hope they put up a public sales page soon, maybe as more people reach out privately like we did to them and buy it directly.
@startrek2025 oh, I totally get that. Hopefully over time that price can come down, I guess someone has to buy it first LOL. But yes, we spent probably over a year's income saved up to buy these, Jess got their first one and then as a birthday gift I got them a second. Now we both can be another voice screaming to get better support for it in other screen readers, like JAWS, Android and such.
oh, they're a small company out of Indiana. I think the display itself has been in development since 2017 or so at its early days and founding, and probably in the last year they got to the point of really selling it. They're first target is schools and governments which is why I don't think it's been featured on many podcasts, although Double-tap did a CSUN interview with them I believe. Their site is at tactile-engineering.com/
I'm guessing that a lot of Americans don't know who Thabo Mbeki was, and we ought to. He succeeded Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. He had a degree in economics, and the expectation was that he would implement Mandela's vision, but he became notorious for HIV denialism. He said that people were dying as a result of poverty and poor nutrition, not HIV. He alleged that HIV was being used as a mechanism to commit genocide against black people. He blocked the availability of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa for several years, saying that they were not safe. Public health experts sometimes get things wrong for various reasons, and they sometimes revise their conclusions as new information becomes available, but Mbeki should be a cautionary tale in terms of what can happen when policy-makers ignore advice from scientists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mb…
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person on earth who finds lyrics in songs actually distracting. Where everyone else seems to enjoy them, in 98% of cases I won't like them, and will find they detract from my experience of a given song. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of songs I like to listen to, I'd say only 30 or 40 actually have words. If someone references song lyrics around me, there's a high likelihood that the reference will go way over my head. This thought brought to you by a discussion I was having with somebody who's the absolute opposite of me. Alright mastoverse, tell me how crazy I am. Lol.
@BorrisInABox Me too. It's rare for me to remember the words to a whole song. I might remember pieces, but not nearly enough to actually sing anything, and most of them are songs most people wouldn't know anyway.
Yeah I'm like that too. Music tends to mean a lot more to me than lyrics do. Funnily enough, a lot of my knowledge of modern music comes from collecting Karaoke files now, and I find I like a lot of Pop music when the lyrics are stripped out.
Huh. Just chatted in person with someone who's been on #mastodon for a while, now, who honestly thought that all the Mastodon domains were run by Mastodon. And having a different domain was, like, just a vanity thing to look cool. It only came up because they were complaining about an issue they were having, and they were on a smaller server (not naming it for anonymity), so I suggested contacting their server admin about the problem. I was surprised when they answered "Dude nobody at big companies reads those reports. It just all goes to AI or whatever." It took some actual convincing to get them to believe that the server they're on does, in fact, have a living breathing human admin who can be talked to.
Anyway, folks, support your #fediverse server admins and moderators. With money, where you can. They're almost certainly getting messages from users who think that reporting things to an admin here is exactly like reporting stuff to Facebook or Google. IE: screaming at a giant faceless entity who's never going to care or do anything about whatever your problem is.
Kinda makes me wonder if this person actually reads anything or talks to anyone, because federation is a major thing people talk about here. Also, the owner's name should be on the page when you sign up, but I can understand how a person could forget that.
@Fragglemuppet They talk more about politics than technical stuff. And yeah, it sort of is, but it's much less visible on mobile. Also: remember Myspace Tom? Just because some username and profile photo is shown to you, that doesn't mean they're someone you can interact with. At least not on the big corporate social media.
@treehugger They were brought over by political activism and a fandom space. This is the sort of person who doesn't even own a computer and just uses their phone; they would've just glazed over one, if an explanation was even offered, so they could get on with the things they actually came for.
How did the person react when you told them, that the servers are run by several thousand people mostly with their own money? Have you also told that there is more than only Mastodon, but some dozen other systems as well?
@heluecht I didn't get into the other software part of things. I was more concerned with helping them understand that racist harassment from users on another instance isn't something they just have to deal with and move on, or if it turns out that it is, they should move somewhere better. Last I heard there admin had been convinced to use the FediNuke Blocklist. seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists/
One has to be patient. They've never known SocMed that isn't driven by algorithms. I'm a political person, too. My start in Social Media was Yahoo groups and Forums. I joined face to play games. I dumped it for Twitter, then dumped the dead bird when Melonhusk moved in. What rarefied air are these people breathing? You don't need to be a nerd to enjoy Fedi. 🙄 Come on in, folk...the water's fine.😊
@Tooden This has been my frustration with fedi for a while. The majority of us, and I include myself in this, are tech nerds. And tech nerds are historically not good at communicating with non-tech-nerds. But social media is all about communicating! I think this is the primary reason fedi struggles to grow. We make it seem harder than it is, and we kind of blow off people who want to have conversations about things not related to our specific interests. See the way folks interested in sports get treated around here: mostly, they get yelled at and told they shouldn't like sports at all because it's corporate or bad for the environment or politically distasteful. Anyway, let's talk some more about the 47 hard drives I just purchased for my 12th server.
The biggest deal, from my vantage point is that tech nerds (often, not always) dislike algo-fed timelines whereas the research indicates that really most (90%) people like that. I think people come to fedi and it feels like a lot of work right up front (CHOOSE an instance, PICK people to follow) and there's no short way in. I spend a lot of time making tech topics clear to tech novices and almost no one I talk to in my rural location has ever even heard of Mastodon.
That said, I definitely love it here, am on a small instance and always get a reply back from my instance moderators if I report a spammer or something similar. This is what I wanted and I'm delighted to have it, but I can see how it's not for everyone which is maybe fine?
@jessamyn@Tooden Yup. There is a place for content consumption. I’m not on peertube for that reason. I turn on YouTube before bed and I just want a machine to insert content into my sleepy ear holes.
That's crazy to me. Though maybe it was because my instance has signs ups that must be manually approved, so right away you know you're talking to an actual person.
@silver_huskey I think even that's going to become less clear as more and more big corporate websites start requiring age verification. Just because your account needs some sort of manual approval is already not really triggering people to think "There's a human in charge somewhere". They're just thinking "Probably some exploited and underpaid contractor in another country has to verify my identity somehow."
all I did was power off my server after dropping in a new FreeBSD kernel so I could clean the fans and whatnot while I was taking it offline for the upgrade and then the damn thing wouldn't POST and I took it all apart and started troubleshooting yanking everything out and reseating RAM and then I realize it's the BMC being naughty and it had two settings enabled:
one does a hardware inventory on boot which it says can take minutes
another doesn't let the server POST until BMC and hardware are fully in sync which it says can take 90 seconds
On tonight's episode of meaningless things that I find hilarious while scrolling: A parrot set 20 alarms on his owner's smart speaker and when he gets caught the sound he makes while he's flying away has me cackling.
There could be a pipeline in every pot and AB would still complain bitterly about dastardly Ottawa. All Carney has done is re-riveted some loosening, less extreme conservatives back onto the UCP mothership.
To be fair, Jason Kenney wasn't yet premier of Alberta... but he was using it in his platform to get elected... b/c from Kinder Morgan was gonna exit Alberta b/c of Rachel Notley... and the Government of Canada bought it to keep the project alive... Kinder Morgan would've just abandoned it... you know, to own Rachel Notley b/c Jason Kenney had been working the back channels...
Canadians are gouged at Weston grocery stores, whilst the Thomson family spins it in the media that this is fine and Canadians should STFU... whilst they bid on baubles.
The Thomson and Weston families have emerged victorious from a process meant to decide who will be able to purchase the royal charter that formed Hudson’s Bay.
With the Memo of Understanding... Indigenous in British Columbia have given it a BIG MIDDLE FINGER. If you cannot get your oil to tide water, then WTAF are they gonna do?
Have certain folders you always want quick access to in macOS? Add them to the Finder sidebar so they always appear under the "Favorites" section, as well as the "Where" popup menu in open and save dialogs, by selecting them in Finder and choosing File > Add to sidebar (or pressing Command-Control-T). Remove an item by focusing on it in the sidebar and choosing "Remove from sidebar" from the context menu (accessed by pressing VO-Shift-M). #TipTuesdayapplevis.com/podcasts/quick-ti…
In this episode, Jonathan Simeone shows us how to add and remove items from the Finder sidebar on macOS. The Finder sidebar is a list of folders and devices that can be quickly accessed from any Finder window or open and save dialog in macOS.
OH SERIOUSLY! C’mon US federal government! The solution to a caregiver crisis in the US is Ai????? Good gosh this is utterly ridiculous. Hey federal government, I have an idea how to spend that money to help with the crisis of not having enough caregivers. I betcha that 2 million $ prize could be spent, I don’t know here, just spitballing it—on giving the caregivers a living wage and maybe benefits!!!
Federal health officials are launching a multimillion-dollar competition to attract new ideas for how technology can transform caregiving for people with disabilities and others.
Today I fixed a couple edge cases in Godot's text edit widgets, set an initial focus for screen reader users in the editor (because otherwise focus is completely unset and you have to route to a control first) and labelled a few unlabelled buttons. Going to have to slow down on this project for a bit, but if I can maintain this pace and the quality is good, we could have a very accessible Godot 4.7.
Really felt great to see the text edit bugs fixed. Having written a screen reader myself, I know those are a particularly salty PITA. So easy to off-by-one in at least half a dozen different locations with those.
So apparently iOS added support, either intentionally or accidentally, for multiple braille displays connected at once? I'm not finding any docs on Apple adding a multiple braille display feature - it's very interesting that people have it working.
While visiting New Jersey in October, I learned about poppers. My gay buddy from high school told me about that. It's basically a gay party drug that shows up at clubs. I asked how one acquires the drug and was told, it's sold as certain types of nail polish remover. It can also be sold as VCR cleaner, but les often now that VCR's have been phased out. Apparently sniffing poppers to get high results in amazing sex. I would not know. i tried to find out more about the culture behind poppers online. But all I can find is articles explaining the risks associated with the usage of this so-called drug. Does anyone know anything about this phenomenon?
At least in my high school friend group, poppers was just another word for whippets. But it's possible this is a Canadian thing, or that my friends were morons.
Sheesh, Martin, and I thought you were one of the cool kids LOL. Whippets are the little cans of Nitrous Oxide (IE laughing gas, like you get at the dentist). They're sold for making whipped cream. But I don't think anyone has ever used them for that, even once.
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Oh, true! Well, children: back in the day, whenever we wanted to watch a movie, we had to walk up hill, both ways, in six feet of snow, to go to a place called Blockbuster, so we could pay for a large rectangular object that sometimes contained a movie that we could only keep for two nights. Usually, though, it was broken. Anyway, when we finally arrived, a minimum wage employee would be rude to us while charging us $500 in late fees for the last movie we forgot to return, and then telling us they didn't have a copy of the movie we actually wanted to watch, so we'd have to watch American Chainsaw Ninja Robots XXVI instead. When we finally got the movie home, we'd have to engage in a ritual called "rewinding" in order to appease the Gods, so that they might allow us to actually watch it.
@fastfinge You forgot the important part. Complaining for half an hour about the bastard who was obviously not taught kindness as a child, hence your need to rewind.
We were always the other way. If we got a tape that was already rewound it was a half-hour celebration, because it meant that tape was completely new and had never been played by anybody before, so it would actually look and sound decent.
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Is your transit agency "succeeding"? It depends on the definition of success, and not everyone agrees on that. Here's my timeless article on this, just now updated a bit.
Head’s up, #Minneapolis folks: 🧊 is out and about kidnapping people in the Central and Phillips neighborhoods (from multiple reliable sources). Sounds like they may be using cars with out of state plates. Keep your whistles handy and stay alert. Call the MONARCA hotline at 612-441-2881 if you see them and try and record if you see them grab someone.
Svelte was one of the easiest frameworks to learn from my perspective, FWTW. Half the time I was like "WTF, I'm not learning something, I'm just doing a thing and you're telling me that because you have a compiler now it's reactive?" Can't say whether that'll be true for you too, but I think it being compiled/transpiled makes making things reactive more bearable than just trying to make it work directly in the browser. Really felt like I was writing HTML++ vs. learning some totally new way of doing things.
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Shivers down the spine, especially this first a cappella recording excerpt. Hebrew with authenteic Indian accent. It's something else. I mean, I knew about Jews in India, of course, but this song… so beautiful, thanks for sharing!
Q: Oh no! Is AI gonna replace accessibility professionals any time soon?
A: No. It'll enable people to code apps that still break accessibility. Then when people try to chat with someone for help, it'll gatekeep with help articles and hallucinate a scenario in which it gave the email address the customer didn't provide to a live agent.
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