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Hey there folks! I get to make a really, really, really big announcement today. I can finally, fianlly announce that, for the past 2 years, I have been working on total blind accessibility for Forza Motorsport. Here's the audio described version of a video we made detailing these systems and how they work together to make Forza totally blind accessible. youtu.be/SwWn1EZTSSY
Forza Motorsport is Turn 10 Studios’ most accessible game ever. Check out one of the game’s new accessibility feature sets, Blind Driving Assists, which was ...
@glaroc It's likely we'll need a new XBox. We have the old XBox One here, from 2013. Jake has been gently asking for a new console for ages anyway, so there's that...
Congrats! No joke, this is one of my biggest gaming dreams coming true. One of the earliest gaming memories I have is spending hours at a cousin's house playing need for speed, or well I guess crashing would be a more appropriate word but I just enjoyed the audio and thrill of driving so much... Fast forward to now when the previous Forza title came out and I read a lot of articles on how the game's audio was recorded and the details that went into it. But while the accessibility there for the totally blind was better but not really there I was quietly hoping the next one might be even more accessible and I'm really glad to see I was right! I am sooo hiped for this!
@pitermach Yes! That makes me happy, because now you'll get to feel that thrill without all the crashing. There's a lot to learn, a lot to get used to, but it is there for you. :)
@pitermach What I want to know is whether we're actually able to choose our own car and track. Like, I hope it's full narration and not portions of it. Will we be able to mod our own cars and adjust things to make them better with modifications? Or are we stuck with the default options?
@rooktallon @pitermach Yep, sure does. You should know that, when I'm working on a project, i do my best to ensure no aspect is left behind. You can expect narration to not only be full, but insanely customizeable.
@pitermach I just thought of this question. If we want to play with adusted dificulty settings and make it harder, will the BDA be effected? Like, will at very hard difficulty, the BDA will just not be functional or will we be able to play at the highest level of difficulty and still drive the car?
@rooktallon @pitermach Whichever BDA settings you have configured will remain active and fully functional regardless of the difficulty you choose to play on. The name of the game is full customization. It's all about player choice, playing your way with whatever amount of challenge you want.
@pitermach Sorry if I'm offending you with all of these questions. I'm just super excited about this and such as I'm sure you were to help design everything.
@rooktallon @pitermach Not at all. No worries. My job right now is to be that reassurance, and to answer questions like this to make the blind community feel the welcome I want them to feel. Like I said in a lot of those interviews, I do not deny the learning curve, so I want the blind to feel embraced and fully supported here. This is not going to be an easy game, but it will definitely be an accessible one. Keep 'em coming. :)
@rooktallon OK, here’s a point I’d love to be expanded on a bit if you’re allowed to say more, dynamic audio descriptions. Am I understanding correctly this is for situations when you go to start a race and you get a camera pan that shows off the track you’re about to be racing on or is that something you can request while racing which would tell you what scenery you’re passing?
@pitermach @rooktallon It is for cinematic scenes that take place around the race. It's not an on-request feature, but it is dynamic in the sense that it is affected by certain factors, such as the time of day and the current weather conditions on track.
@rooktallon Awesome, thanks for clarifying. Love to see the mention of settings of the screen reader’s verbosity as well, that’s something which will definitely come in handy after you get used to the game and I know some of the previous Microsoft titles tended to be more on the verbose side.
@pitermach @rooktallon Yep, verbose with no way to adjust that. This one, though, you can adjust so, so many things. I really think folks are gonna love this freedom.
Wow, this is so cool! This got me so curious that I may venture into the modern gaming world for the first time. To give you some perspective, my only gaming experience were some Commodore 64 games I could play by ear in the 1980s as a teenager. I did also venture into some simple Accessible Games for the PC in the late 1990s and early 2000s, like Accessible Battleship or Accessible Solitaire. But that’s about how far I’ve gotten into gaming. But this video really got me curious to try this Forza racing game you were working on, when it’s released. I’ll even get an Xbox just to try it. 😊 Thanks for your great work!
@Marco I am giving a serious thought to purchasing or building a gaming PC rather than buying a XBox. This way, I can also play other games like the Last of Us. I have no idea where I'll put it. But, the thought is there.
Hey, got another Forza question if this is something you can find out. I brought up your announcement on a live Podcast, and one of the listeners asked whether the menu narration and audio descriptions would be available in languages other than English? Apparently, in the case of Forza Horizon 5 if you switched to a different language that the game was localized into the text to speech wouldn’t work even if Microsoft had a voice in that language.
@pitermach As I understand it, I believe narration is being localized, though I will follow up to be sure. Audio description may be as well, but that might be less likely. I'll get back to you on this one.
Thanks. It would be good if they both were - even if the AD was done with TTS as opposed to a human narrator, but even if it was just the screen reader it would definitely open it up to more people :)
@pitermach I definitely agree with that. I am German, and while I understand English very well, my system is in German, so the game would be in German as well. And it would be good if we had the same accessibility as the English-speaking world.
@sclower I love it. I've made nothing on actual computer lately, just been using the computer to get my keyboard hooked to phone instead. It's way too much fun.
@sclower I am so bummed that the midi controller I bought yesterday was the wrong one. I'm just no good at this touch screen entry crap. Got a wait a little longer.
I'm gonna grab this next month and see if I can work out how I can use it. This could be a valuable tool for me as a drummer if I can start making my own loops for practice.
@bryansmart @sclower You have 10 seconds to hit save, or it's gone. They did that, so you could replay something if it sucks. It's annoying and we've discussed it, so hopefully they come up with a better solution. Failing that, do what I did in my video. Turn metronome on, hit play, play what you want, and when it's done going around, swipe left one time from the play button and immediately double-tap to save clip.
2023: "Why did the entire executive team get EE/GE ratings [short-hand for top-tier performance reviews at Meta] when they are also directly responsible for the choices that led to us needing to lay off 20+% of the company? Where is the accountability?" entrepreneur.com/business-news… 17th century: "The law locks up the man or woman / Who steals the goose off the common / But leaves the greater villain loose / Who steals the common from the goose".
We've come a long way... Check out this screenshot of LibreOffice 3.4 from 2011, compared with how it looks today (with the shiny NotebookBar user interface)! #ThrowbackThursday
@Prucker Hard to say, without more details about your setup (operating system, exact LibreOffice version etc.) You probably want to disable the main menu, and also in Extras > Options, choose bigger icons...
I really love LibreOffice and hate to say it, but on my fresh install of Fedora the out of the box experience doesn't look great 😕. It's the same as 2011 but now with blurry monochrome icons.
Thanks - that looks much better! Why wouldn't svg icons be default in this day and age, though? Also if I manually select SVG icons then the icons no longer follow dark/light mode system preference.
@tomjwatson That's fair. But is there any point in even support non-SVG anymore? (that is to say, is there any case where non-SVG icons have an advantage? Performace perhaps?)
@loke @tomjwatson Check on bugs.documentfoundation.org for details, but there could be cases where non-SVG makes sense (especially on older operating systems) and we try to avoid removing things that some people are still using. Maybe one day it'll go, but only when we're sure that everyone can use SVG with no issues!
@tomjwatson Thank you for the clarification. I agree with what you say, especially since I in the same thread are asking you not to remove the traditional menus.
You've seen it on Reddit or Hacker News: People complaining their self-hosted emails always end up in the spam folder of Gmail - even if they set up everything correctly. The question being asked: Is Gmail killing independent email? 🧐
Du hast es wahrscheinlich schon auf Reddit & Hacker News gesehen: Leute, die sich beschweren, dass ihre selbst gehosteten E-Mails immer im Spam-Ordner von Gmail landen. Gerechtfertigt oder Missbrauch der Macht? 🧐
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
YES, Gmail is killing independent providers, but you're about two decades late in complaining.
They keep proprietary block lists and arrogate the right to decide who is a "spammer". Little ISPs don't have the means to sue Gmail for relief. They have forever harassed my domain, and I have to tell my users to tell their gmail contact to whitelist the domain, explicitly.
I can tell them: really? Spam? PROVE IT, show me the offending email. What spam. They can't. It doesn't exist. But they continue to pretend such -- and I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO SUE.
THIS IS AT THE SAME TIME THAT GOOGLE HAD LONG NOW BEEN THE SINGLE LARGEST SOURCE OF DOMESTIC SPAM ON THE INTERNET. Microsoft (wonder of wonders) is second, but in FAR second place.
That is WE CAN SPAM YOU but we defend OUR users against what we FALSELY claim is YOUR spam.
The successful class action suit would compel Google to use the SAME filters on their OUTBOUND mail that they use on their INBOUND mail because otherwise they're RACKETEERING, by pretending only they can stop spam, while the other ISPs have to spend time effort and money stopping GOOGLE spam. "Tired of all the spam you get at your ISP? Why not switch?" -- but all that spam CAME FROM YOU ...
Actually, I have found Outlook365 to be much, much worse than Gmail. They very often mark mails as spam, even though DMARC, SPIF, DKIM, etc. are all set up correctly. You can then, with quite some work, get them to accept the domain again - only to find it back on the spam list a few months later. With gmail, I have added the domains to the domain list in the google postmaster tool. thats it! no more gmail spam folder to my mails.
Mmmm... This sounds a bit rhetorical, doesn't it ? Although, in this case, the real question should be : is anybody still seriously using gmail for important matters ? 🤣
These posts confuse me. I'm not the most technical person around. I'm not the least, either, but certainly not the most. And yet, I've been hosting my own email and talking with people on Gmail fine for years. All I did was set up #Yunohost on a VPS that wasn't chock full of spammers, follow Yunohost's instructions on what to add to the DNS settings, regularly update and... well, that's pretty much it.
Somehow though, social is full of claims that selfhosting email is impossible?
Yes, Gmail absolutely makes it difficult to get reliable delivery to Gmail users if you're not on Gmail or one of the other big webmail providers.
My server has never sent spam, ever. It's had the same IP address for 15 years. It's not on the DUL or any other list. It is properly configured for and uses SMTP STARTTLS, DKIM, and SPF. It has restrictive policies for SPF and DMARC and advertises as such. It passes all validators.
And deliverability to #Gmail is a complete crapshoot.
Exercise: Go to Wikipedia and click on the "Random Article" sidebar link. (Direct link to Random Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:… ) Whatever article comes up, try to invent a reason why someone else should find this article interesting. This is a fun thing to try with other people. Person 1 gets the random article and tries to get Person 2 to be curious to learn more. Then switch roles. After each round, whoever did the best job provoking curiosity (as agreed by all) gets a point. #curiosity
I got: 'Hoonah Police Department'. Having never heard of the place, my first thought is, 'what possibly interesting arrests have they made there? What sort of crime happens in a place called Hoonah? Is it one of these unusual places that perhaps has one general store, a church and one main diner that where everyone goes and knows everyone else?'
'The department also has a distinct shoulder patch depicting an erect grizzly bear, the Pacific ocean, and snowcapped mountains, along with totem images from Tlingit culture' It's hard not to wonder why, or who thought that the word 'erect' made sense in this context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoonah_P…
Our Prossimo project has historically focused on creating safer software on network boundaries. Today however, we're announcing work on another critical boundary - permissions.
Use RHVoice with VoiceOver, your favorite book reader or any other app that can use a text-to-speech engine.
Ве молиме посетете ја врската „App Support“ до упатство за употреба на македонски јазик.
@menelion The Polish voices are pretty good actually. Of course, they don't stand up to the current state of the art neural voices but for a free and open source product it's way more than you can expect.
Czyli co, nowe języki – kolejne, w tym Polski, będą wkrótce tak? A dlaczego od tamtych języków się zaczyna. Możesz odpowiedzieć tutaj, albo w wiadomości prywatnej na whatsapp.
@michalkasperczak Domyślam się, że jako sprawdzenie popytu wypuścili najpierw te języki, których Apple domyślnie nie wspiera w VoiceOver. Liczę na to, że z czasem przyjdą inne.
- MAS-129: Fix search being hard to find on mobile - MAS-48: Quote posts - MAS-137: Sorting options for threads - MAS-136: Add server setting for default discoverability of accounts - MAS-134: Privacy settings as an onboarding step - MAS-133: Display followed hashtag above posts in home feed - MAS-132: Synchronize boost and favourite counts for remote posts - MAS-131: P…
‼️ Bývalý šéf českého fotbalu Miroslav Pelta a exnáměstkyně ministryně školství Simona Kratochvílová jsou vinni ze zmanipulování sportovních dotací. irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/miros…
Soudkyně nyní čte rozsudek, výši trestů teprve oznámí. Státní zástupce žádal pro všechny obžalované odnětí svobody a peněžité tresty. Všichni vinu odmítali.
Just thought I'd do a nice little compilation of US analog shutdowns with multiple POVs like I've been doing.Original videos:1. kg8485 - https://www.youtube....
Some exciting news! Drupal has been designated as a "Digital Public Good"! If you're interested in learning more about why this is great news for Drupal, check out my blog post: dri.es/drupal-recognized-as-a-… #drupal #publicgood #dpg
Drupal has been designated as a Digital Public Good. This not only increases Drupal's visibility and credibility, but it could also help attract more funding and support.
Very cool and useful program. I was wondering: The very same JSON output that this util give when using --json could be processed by some other program (like jq) and then this program could reconst...
I think I agree with your comment on GitHub. Adding this feature would add quite a bit of complexity, if only because of the JSON parser that now becomes necessary. Not sure how often such a feature would be needed anyway ?
I saw that issue yesterday, and while I like the idea I think the added complexity of a whole json parser might be a bit much at the moment. It's probably possible to use jq to build a url out of the json output from trurl, so it would just be duplicating functionality of an existing tool
I liked this post about “how to prove theorems" by Asaf Karagila (karagila.org/2023/theorems/), and it was not at all what I expected given the title. Thanks to @highergeometer for linking it.
What this post addresses is not “how to *prove* theorems”, but “how to prove *theorems*” — in an environment where what counts as an actual theorem is socially determined, and depends on what facts the experts of a field are and are not aware of. The fact that you have to think about this at all is sometimes decried as 'folklore', but I think the point of a publication is not to add to your CV but rather to add to the community's knowledge and understanding. Folklore is generally bad not because it makes it hard to publish stuff, but rather because it is unstable: enough people die or retire, and that knowledge disappears. That is why healthy fields are filled with great monographs, dissertations, and even textbooks, which collect this knowledge that can't be published as novel "theorems".
Asaf's stories about how he had plenty of small results that he did not bother publishing because they were only small deltas on things that people already know is relatable, and I think it is admirable that he took the dignified path rather than try to publish them and spend years whining about the lackluster referee reports…
The Brazilian Community Gave a Presentation at the FLISOL-DF event (Festival Latino Americano de Instalação de Software Livre) about the LibreOffice Project. Translation by Timothy Brennan Jr.
- Tu objetivo en la entrevista de trabajo es conseguir el trabajo, no decir la verdad - Nunca te creas imprescindible - Organízate con tus compañeras, sola nunca conseguirás nada, con amigas igual sí - Si te presionan para que dejes el trabajo voluntariamente, no lo hagas. Que te despidan y te paguen indemnización - No hagas horas extras, que contraten más gente - Los médicos de las mutuas trabajan para la empresa, tu salud no les importa una mierda
JTG necesita a alguien que haga corpus analisis de estos dialectos (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, y Caribe) para hacer glosarios y otros materiales. Yo he trabajado con ellos y pagan bien. jobs.jtg-inc.com/x/detail/a29e… #Linguistics #Jobs @linguistics #Corpus
#LivingBlindfully Coming up on Living Blindfully episode 226, Voice Dream Reader has a nightmare week and ignites a subscription debate, those pesky e-scooters, and do police sometimes fail to take crimes against blind people seriously? - livingblindfully.com/lbpreview…
B/c it was not enough to silence her voice on the House floor, #Montana Republicans have banished Rep. #ZooeyZephyr from the state legislature for the rest of the session. She will not be permitted to represent her 11,000 constituents who elected her to speak for them. GOP lawmakers misgendered Zephyr & accused her of violating decorum by opposing their anti-trans bills & saying they would have “blood on their hands”. Protesters who supported her were arrested. This is what #fascism looks like.
Having another one of those “am I having a stroke” moments in America, where our popular Canadian Le Sieur (Sir, or Sire) brand peas are Le Sueur (sweat) brand 😓 😅 😥 🥵 #LostInThePond
GCC 13 is dropping some really nice C23 features in it (scroll down to the C section in the changelist): gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/changes.htm…
It also has a nice new warning for enumerations.
I'm sure my Rustacean and C++ian brethren will feel like it's a betrayal to do things like improve C, but I have to say it's still a decent day to be working directly with C and being a C developer so far.
Tucker Carlson getting fired kinda hid the news that the Supreme Court just cleared the way for cities & states to sue the hell out of oil companies over climate change they way they did cigarette companies over cancer
It makes support for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses.
IPV6_V6ONLY refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipsock_posix.go
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Aplikace iVysílání @CzechTV pro Android TV zdá se přehrává všechna videa roztažená na celou obrazovku bez ohledu na poměr stran originálu. Něco takového si Halina Pawlowská nezaslouží 😳
We've just released Ardour 7.4 with bugfixes and several new features: MIDI subgroup busses, volume control for the clip picker, optional neutral color for new tracks & busses, a Lua script to downmix 5.1 to stereo, and more.
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
MySpace was the first major social media company. And it was the first major social media company to collapse. But what happened on MySpace would have broad implications for all the platforms to follow.
Lindows had the original App Store, "Click-n-Run" in 2002.
At the start it was a subscription for a managed gallery of open source and commercial software. Open source programs were later offered through the managed storefront for free with only the commercial ones costing money
Next in the line of 🐐 of Millennial Linux distros - Mandrake Linux. Name was later changed to Mandriva because there was already a mandrake penguin in a comic. Also widely regarded as very easy to set up comparatively. Look! Tux Racer!
My family bought a computer with Mandrake preinstalled once. I don’t think anybody knew what that was, except that it apparently was a free OS and you just had to replace it with a (probably pirated) copy of Windows because such was life. I feel like I remember them struggling with that install. I was very little at the time, so I really didn’t understand much.
In case you thought Wizards of the Coast learned *anything* from the Open Gaming License debacle, I have bad news for you.
Their next move was to send *The Pinkertons* after a fan/YouTuber who was given an (officially) unreleased set of Magic the Gathering Cards.
He was told, "if I didn’t hand over the product, they would call the county sheriff and detain us until they arrived to arrest us and search my house for the product."
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