It has been observed that app accessibility tends to be better on the iPhone. There are a number of technical reasons people like to point to for why this is.
I’d like to raise one that is not technical at all: the app quality, in general, is better on the iPhone. If you see an app that is available for IOS and Android, and you do a comparative, the IOS app will come out ahead most of the time. But why is this, then?
I posit this is because most of the people who work in “big tech” have disposable income, and the most common phone of the well-off is by far the iPhone. In other words, the apps are better on iOS because most app developers use IOS as their daily driver.
I don’t have any stats to point to to prove this, so you’ll just have to trust me. Even at Google, where you would think the Chromebook would reign supreme, the macbook was still dominant. Anecdotally and very unscientifically, I’d say about half of their SWE’s use iPhones as personal devices. Compare that to Apple, which, from what I’ve heard, has almost no one working there who uses Android for anything other than testing–I mean, why would you?
I would say it's not precise with regard to device usage... Software and hardware fragmentation are the two big reasons I would pick! There are nuances, of course!
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Currently trying to stress test fediverse DDOSing. Fediverse implementations tend to DDOS sites linked on boosting. @jens challenged me on breaking interpeer.io using that. Boost if you wanna help stress test? Thanks
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it’s unlikely to actually take down the site; it generally doesn’t cause more than a few hundred req/sec, which a caching proxy/static-server like Nginx/Apache/Caddy can easily handle even on modest hardware. The Fedi DDoS effect mostly impacts misconfigured sites. An h2load run from a couple networks should more easily reveal any issues.
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I feel like we should lobby for someone to make a #CosmicRage Sound Pack for Mudlet for the Mac. I feel like more sound packs should be ported to a mud client like Mudlet, because Mudlet is just as good as VIP or Mush, but its just not for Windows, and if someone were to port the pack, it would potentially double the amount of people playing the muds on hardware that isn’t a windows PC.
It simply won't happen. Mudlet still lacks basic accessibility when creating soundpacks and while an external packaging tool exists, it's too much effort.
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@bagder I'm impressed with the longevity of that protocol tbh, like, did they perfect it at that version? I would've thought there would be a SOCKS30 by now
I was using an Apple IIgs with an Echo3 prototype speech synthesizer. It used mostly the same command set as the other Echos, but had the voice of the RC-850 repeater controller, only it flowed naturally. You could set the speech from rate 0 to 15, unlike the older units, which just had two options, compressed and expanded. It was still just as responsive.
They probably could have done a lot, or all, of that stuff with an existing Echo II card with an upgraded version of Textalker. It would have been interesting to see what Textalker GS could have done if it had ever expanded beyond the original design with its speed and memory constraints.
@matt With NVDA and WASAPI on this computer, it takes 36 milliseconds between pressing a key and when NVDA speaks. It was more like 90 milliseconds with MME. Still, I am pretty sure the Echo was much more responsive even than that.
@matt There was a DoubleTalk card for the Apple. As far as I know, that was the most advanced synth made for it. Well, not counting serial port connections to DEC-Talk etc. The DoubleTalk was a revised SlotBuster card, which had Echo emulation, and, I think, worked with some versions of Textalker. I've never used it to find out, but would like to. It came out fairly near the end, so finding one will be a challenge.
@tspivey @matt I found it on their Legacy Products page, but think it's just for historical purposes, as there doesn't look like there's a way to order. rcsys.com/legacy.htm
@remixman @tspivey @bryansmart @matt Emulate it in Mame, then somehow get it interface to a modern screenreader? I assume the Slotbuster version uses the older Doubletalk speech, I.E. what some know as SmoothTalker, written by First Byte, licensed by Creative Labs. First Byte used the more modern voice in their 16-bit Monologue software synthesizer. I first encountered this in 1994 on Windows 3.1. The dictionary was horrible.
@remixman @tspivey @bryansmart @matt Actually the old Slotbuster used the Votrax/Artic/etc. chip. I received a Doubletalk for Apple II systems for Christmas in 2004, and it used the new Doubletalk from the late 90's or so which I never really liked.
@andrew @bryansmart @matt Well, @jaybird110127 can probably provide a good sample of the old one. He has before. Here's a silly thing I recorded years ago for a company that no longer exists using a Doubletalk PC. It's a little loud. Sorry 'bout that.
@bryansmart @matt @jaybird110127 Yeah that one sounds like the product I had back in the early 00's which I used to read books. I also remember you did a silly demo of your Doubletalk card which you had to replace because it didn't work on Windows 2000 (probably due to it being an ISA card?)
@andrew @bryansmart @matt @jaybird110127 Yeah, that was after Windows XP was released, but before any screen reader properly worked with it. So I used Windows 2000 for a while.
@bryansmart @matt @jaybird110127 I think a lot of blind people lost their hardware synths around then as the NT transition meant a lot of the ISA hardware they used wasn't going to work anymore. Coinsidentally I got reminded the other day why hardware speech was still a big thing back then with the sound card only supporting one wave output at a time. Can't remember when that changed.
@andrew @bryansmart @matt @jaybird110127 Interestingly, I never had that problem. My first Windows 95 machine just happened to come with a card that supported that functionality. It was a weird IBM Mwave something-or-other. Combination modem/sound card. So I thought that was just normal, because I came from Macintosh, which could do that even in the 80s. So I was kind of shocked to find that most Windows PCs didn't do that until WDM.
@bryansmart @matt @jaybird110127 Yeah can't remember whether I had that issue on my soundcard or not as I was late to the PC party myself as used an Archimedes for ages, and had a DOS laptop with a hardware synth and no soundcard.
@matt I certainly did, so can't wait for us all to go back to ARM chips again. Access wise it was a disaster, you couldn't use it if you were totally blind. RiscOS relied on a mouse for use and had little keyboard shortcuts. There were attempts to make speech output but they never came to anything you could use without sight. It was the first real computer I cut my teeth on though so its always special to me.
@andrew Ah, another partial. Yeah, I know about cutting one's teeth on computers with limited accessibility at best. For me it was the Apple II family starting in the late 80s. I mean there was the Echo with Textalker, but I only had access to that at school, not on our Apple IIGS at home, and there was nothing for the GUI on the GS.
@matt I wondered what if anything was available for the IIGS. I don't know much about old Apple machines to be honest, they weren't that common in the UK. Yeah if I was totally blind I think my parents would have a real decision to make when migrating from the BBC. They were teachers so for them going to the Archimedes was a logical choice and they got heavy discounts. Most blind people went from the BBC to the PC because of lack of access on the Archimedes.
@matt I did a Youtube video of installing/uninstalling a game from disk to the hard disk a while ago to show another blind person how RiscOS works. youtube.com/watch?v=AFpDJyfOi9…
Takes you through the process of installing this game on a hard drive using RiscOS 3 on an Archimedes computer. I know there are more considderations for som...
@andrew @bryansmart @matt Here's a rather long demo of the old Doubletalk. This is from late 1990. Unfortunately parts of this old ASAP demo tape are quite degraded, but it's the only copy I know of that exists anywhere.
@mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart @matt Try a 286? That's the computer used to make that demo. Also keep in mind ASAP was designed, at least at first, to run even on old XT systems.
@jaybird110127 @mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart Yeah, the whole executable was like 55 KB. Now you can't even do a self-contained hello world program in that space in some languages. *sigh*
@matt @mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart Oh man, you're probably talking about a later version of ASAP from the mid 90's. The first versions, which only worked with Doubletalk PC, really were under 20K.
@matt @mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart Larry once told me he thought he might still have the source code and might look for it and send it to me. Never happened. I think that came up when I asked if it could be legally distributed E.G. with the Talking DosBox project.
@mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart @matt ASAP was written by Larry Skutchan. It was originally marketed and sold, bundled with a Doubletalk PC speech synthesizer, by Computersmith Enterprises, a company my parents ran out of our home. That lasted a year or so, then Larry took over marketing and sales, and sold it under his already existing MicroTalk brand.
@mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart @matt Incidentally, when Computersmith sold ASAP, it had a strong antipiracy measure. The copy of ASAP on the disk had a serial number embedded in it, and the bundled Doubletalk PC card also had a serial number. In order for ASAP to run, the two serial numbers had to match. If you downloaded an update from the MicroTalk BBS, you used a Brand program that shipped with your copy of ASAP to brand your serial number into the new ASAP program you just downloaded. Of course when MicroTalk took over, I'm sure Larry knew he would have to support other speech synthesizers, so that strong antipiracy system had to go. In fact, that's when an unregistered/unbranded ASAP started acting as a demo version.
@mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart @matt Amazingly, I actually fell victim to the antipiracy measure one morning. I woke up, went upstairs, turned on the computer, and ASAP wouldn't work. It just said, as I recall, "zero zero two seven zero zero zero six." I called my dad upstairs to show him what was going on. It turns out he was playing around and accidentally had the wrong copy of ASAP installed on our system. Remember, he was the one making ASAP disks and burning the ROM chips for the bundled Doubletalk cards for customers at the time. As you've probably figured out by now, our Doubletalk had a serial number of 6 (which I already knew) and for some reason the copy of ASAP that was running was expecting 27.
@mcourcel @fireborn @andrew @bryansmart @matt Dad had a burner, and a program on the PC to burn the chips. I never used it, so have no idea how it worked. As far as I know, no copy of that directory still exists anywhere, which is sad as it might contain useful ROM code.
@jaybird110127 @mcourcel @fireborn @bryansmart @matt I did holiday work at Dolphin Systems back in the late 90's. They had some interesting programs to burn the ROMs for their synths as well as write master disks. I had always thought that special hardware was required to write those disks but actually they did it using standard disk drives. They were strictly copy protected however.
@jaybird110127 @andrew @bryansmart Someone said the original DoubleTalk was based on the First Byte speech engine. It does kind of sound like the SBTalker program that shipped with the Sound Blaster 16. Anyone remember Dr. SBAITSO? youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jE…
Dr. Sbaitso is an old DOS program that shipped with Creative Labs Sound Blaster cards. I think he is a Russian doctor, but unfortunately it seems that he rec...
@matt @andrew @bryansmart Oh yes! I remember when I received a Soundblaster Pro for Christmas in 1993, and late that night I discovered that program. I'd had a Doubletalk in my PC until that morning when my DECtalk PC (also received that Christmas) was installed, so was really confused to hear Doubletalk out of the speakers I was using for my new Soundblaster.
@matt @jaybird110127 @bryansmart Someone did a video a while back comparing this with Microsoft Sam, fairly funny when you think about how much better this was in comparison.
@bryansmart @matt Yes I remember being so jealous of this as it was out of our budget when I was about 10. Was heavily promoted through BAUD and other means.
@Jage @matt Tyler shocked me by pointing out RC Systems still sells the card for the Apple, if you can believe it. It's $99. I'm thinking of getting one. Not sure what I'll do with it. Make demos, maybe? I have a lot of retro things I could demo, but videos aren't my thing, and podcasts aren't exactly a good publishing channel.
@bryansmart @Jage @matt Oh, wow, didn't know RC Systems was still in business. I sure loved using their DoubleTalk with ASAP back in the day. rcsys.com/index.htm
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@fireborn on wikipedia it says he ran SoftwareOnline LLC, which sold software such as "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield", and it does appear his company was indeed sued for that by the Washington State Attorney. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plu… atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/…
@fireborn although checking further, SoftwareOnline seems to have been founded in 1993, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't even at Microsoft at the time. So something's weird here. Or he founded it before being at Microsoft? Or maybe they employed him?
@talon They were sued for the way they handled billing. Physical media was more expensive than their download only option, which is against washington state laws.
@fireborn nah that article states: the company will refund affected consumers and pay $190,000 to resolve allegations that it misrepresented the extent to which its software is necessary for security, bombarded potential customers with pop-up ads and used deceptive billing practices. So it's not just payment.
@talon hmm. Interesting, I'll have to do more digging into the court documents. It could be they were sued twice (I know about the billing one off-hand)
@fireborn also the way he avoids those topics when questioned about them seems a little bit strange. I'm not here to dunk on the guy but no matter which way you twist and turn it, something's a little off here. But I also didn't much enjoy the parts of the video above. Seems quite sensationalist. Probably could've been handled in a less aggressive way, but then you'd probably not get the clicks.
@fireborn but that's about as far as I'll dig here. I gotta be honest I never really much enjoyed his YouTube channel myself, although I couldn't find anything too wrong with it. Except that whole NCommander thing. That was not so great. That was really not necessary. And again that whole thing has info where things don't add up. Just so many little things.
@talon Honestly if I was pulled up by some guy I didn't know about business ventures that I was supposedly involved in 20 years ago I'd probably just go straight for a lawyer because who knows what they want.
@talon @fireborn What is very interesting about that DoJ article is what it wants you to think but does not explicitly say (probably because it didn't happen).
It says that the free version would constantly pop up ads until uninstalled, it also says that uninstalling wouldn't remove all the files, it mentions those facts multiple times, in close proximity to eachother, but nowhere does it say that the still-installed components would continue popping up the ads, even after the software was uninstalled.
I feel like the DoJ was trying to create that exact impression to make the charges look more dire (this is actually more common than you think), but obviously couldn't say anything untrue, so they had to carefully construct their sentences so that inattentive readers would draw a conclusion that wasn't actually there'
Vladimir Horowitz didn’t invent the piano and was lucky to be born into a world that contained it. The individual takes the credit, but none of our accomplishments occur in a vacuum. All the world is a collaboration, on the backs of the living and the vast armies of the dead.
Ich habe seit ein paar Tagen bei der App Aktualisierung über F-Droid eine komische Warnmeldung. Kann mir Jemand sagen, was das sein kann? 🤔 @IzzyOnDroid
Ich hätte da eine Vermutung, ja. Kommt das Popup von der F-Droid App? Und Du verwendest nur Basic, oder beide? Und Dein Androide läuft mit Android 12 oder neuer? Und das Ganze fing an, als Du den verwendeten F-Droid Client (Basic?) aktualisiert hattest?
Der Text ist wirklich irritierend. Ich hätte vermutet, du hattest diese App ursprünglich mit einem anderen Client installiert – aber der Text sagt für beide "Basic". Da stimmt was am Text nicht. Brauche Antworten für obiges 😉
Die Meldung besagt ja, dass die App von Basic installiert wurde. Da sollte also keine Warnung kommen, wenn Basic sie aktualisiert. _Es sei denn,_ die Aktualisierung erfolgt aus einem anderen Repo (z.B. aus F-Droid installiert, und jetzt versuchst Du sie aus IzzyOnDroid zu aktualisieren, weil da die Updates ja schneller kommen). Dann ist aber der Text falsch. So oder so. Ich würde empfehlen, ein Ticket bei fdroidclient aufzumachen.
besten Dank für deine Hilfe 👍 . Andere Repos habe ich nicht eingebunden. Ich werde mal ein Ticket aufmachen. Aber das Update kann ich schon durchführen - oder?
@schnedan Ein F-Droid client (siehe android.izzysoft.de/applists/c…). Die "Basic" Variante kommt ohne Integration der "Nearby Share" Funktionalität (die ohnehin nur wenige verwenden), und ist daher ein wenig schlanker. Auch bekommt Basic neue Funktionalitäten eher als der "Fat Client" 😜
@schnedan Schau mal in die verlinkte Liste, da gibt es so einige interessante Clients. Und gerade bei Neo Store und Droid-ify wird es bald einiges sehr interessantes geben 😉 @tucholsky
Now I wonder, did they disconnect the clock precisely at 07/19:55:00 or is there some sort of mechanical feature to bring the second hand to 00 position? 🤔
Or they might have disconnected the clock line first while leaving the clock powered. This would bring the second hand to 00 waiting for the next minute pulse.
Potsdam: AfD-Politiker Dennis Hohloch sprach vor Grundschülern über Gruppenvergewaltigungen - eine Mutter beschwerte sich. Er veröffentlichte ihren Namen nebst Foto, nun wird sie bedroht. DER SPIEGEL archive.li/2024.07.26-170151/s…
Seems that Apple Music now shows where stuff has been played on the radio. It appears that some station in Lower Stoffed called 'Eastpoint' has played me a few times, and a station called 1296 AM 4RPH Brisbane played me twice. News to me that *anything* I'd written had actual airplay.
I wonder how they even know that, particularly for more obscure stations like 4RPH? I wonder if they tie into the music licensing/royalty orgs that radio use somehow? Intriguing. It's a moot point for me personally because my music is so never going to be played on radio, haha, but intriguing nevertheless.
@jcsteh It’s probably related to the new Shazam radio charts they introduced to Apple Music recently, as in a month or two ago. So they probably have Shazam periodically listen to various stations in their catalog to figure out what’s playing.
Before and after closing the #Matrix #Element chat client tab in Firefox: 2.8 gigabytes of RAM freed. For *one tab*. And this is not a memory-inefficient browser we're talking about.
I guess feature-rich public chatrooms have a cost.
Lo que no me pase a mí no le pasa a nadie. Cojo el Xiaomi para seguir migrando datos de otro viejo móvil con Android. Los gestos de Talkback empiezan a ir horriblemente mal. "Será la pantalla", pienso mientras enchufo un teclado por USB. De repente, se me enciende la bombilla, y araño la esquina de la pantalla. No pasa nada. Araño violentamente. No pasa nada. Al tercer intento se ha despegado la pegatina... y oye, los gestos van bien y todo, qué cosas!
Me recuerda a la primera vez que intenté hacer una videoconferencia. Estaba viviendo fuera y así nos ahorrábamos teléfono, y además mis viejos me podían ver. Pongo el Net Meeting con la webcam, y el audio va, pero me dicen que se ve todo negro, que la webcam no rula. Yo a mirar los drivers, la configuración de Net Meeting, hasta que de repente... Coño, que tengo la luz apagada.
Is there an Android app for simple #smb / #samba browsing and uploading?
The Synology app #DSfiles is so slow and unintuitive, I would like to have something different. #FDroid didn't yield anything useful on searches for smb/samba.
my corresponding app list at android.izzysoft.de/applists/c… names an app called "CIFS Document Provider" (f-droid.org/packages/com.wa2c.…) to mount Samba drives so all apps can access them transparently. If I'm not mistaken, CIFS can be said to be a synonym to Sambe, in a way, right?
From the app's description: "Supports SMB, FTP, FTPS and SFTP." – so it should fit your needs. As the second link shows, the app is available at @fdroidorg
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Ja mám celkovo rád tie ich vstavané filtre, nielen WB. Totiž na fotení mňa nikdy nebavil ten postprocess. Nikdy som v tom nebol dobrý, ale automatické vyvažovanie farieb dáva sterilne uniformné výblitky, tak chtiac nechtiac musel som ísť do rawu.
@archos @PtrSrejber Jo no, lepší je právě nejdřív to studené mléko. Poněvadž horká káva ty kostky mnohem rychleji rozpouští a pak to není ledové, ale vlažné a bez ledu.
@sazy @archos Tak jsem to právě dělal , když jsem pracoval v kavárně. Led studené mléko, espresso, protřepat v šejkru a nakonec vanilkovou zmrzlinu. Ve skle do vypadalo moc dobře...
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