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What do you think about the budget mac that apple is planning to release? Personaly, I think this is A really good step in the right direction. If Apple finally manages to reach more customers, and not only the customers that see Apple as A premium tech manufacturer, this is good. Macos is A very nice system, and in my opinion, everyone should be able to use it, regardless of the financial situation.

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License for Chaotic Highway Now Available!

We have exciting news for Chaotic Highway fans. You can now purchase a lifetime license and enjoy unlimited access to the game without needing a Sonorous Arts subscription plan.
Please read more about the license and its benefits in this post:

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License for Chaotic Highway Now Available!

We’ve got exciting news for Chaotic Highway fans. You can now purchase a lifetime license and enjoy unlimited access to the game!
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Paperback version 0.6 is officially released! The changelog is far too long to post on Mastodon, even with my instance's long character limit, containing 36 items, helped out by many contributors! Some highlights include 3 new document formats, majorly enhanced bookmarks, multilanguage support, and support for links and lists in documents, but that only scratches the surface.
Homepage: paperback.dev
Downloads page: paperback.dev/downloads
Enjoy!

Home – Paperback

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Woah. 3 AI agents talking to each other? Secret language? This was interesting.

Imagine if it were screen readers powered by AI speaking to each other. What would they say? Reminds me of those DekTalk conversations! 🤣
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Diese Karte zeigt den Wedding aus chinesischer Perspektive

Rui Fang hat eine chinesischsprachige Karte für den Leopoldplatz gestaltet. Sie soll den vielen chinesischen Studierenden in der Nachbarschaft Orientierung bieten und Ihnen zugleich die Angst vor dem als gefährlich geltenden Platz nehmen.
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Yep, I agree with Aaron on that one. I want to pull my hair off when I have to use an android. Of any kind to be fair. iOS 26 with my settings hasn't !really had any issues, but the keyboard visually sucks. I think that's been fixed in betas, but not sure. And after all, nothing is perfect, everything has issues, as long as you find what works out for you, go for it. The future new android stuff being enforced isn't filling me with much hope. Maybe that's just me, and maybe something might've changed, but I highly doubt it.,

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There's currently an issue with Sky Q's voice guidance feature that appears as if its server side. Which is what happens when you rely on cloud services for your TTS. Every day, a HD homerun + channels DVR looks more and more appealing. Irritatingly our sky contract now runs until Feb 2027 so it's pointless getting someone out to look at our ariel.
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Andrew Hodgson

@fastfinge @jscholes IIRC the Channels PVR records MP4 files with 2 streams in the file, using an MP4 media player I could switch between the streams. Not sure if this program would be able to separate the streams or whether we would have to somehow get the AD into a separate file. Even then we can't just watch the program after recording it via the Channels apps.
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Kieran L

@fastfinge Thanks for all the info guys. Glad I didn't waste the money on either channels and / or a homerun. Sutch a shame as channels had quite a few features I wanted to take advantage of. Guess I'll either keep paying sky a ridiculous amount of money a month until they get rid of satellite services all together, buy a new TV that can record to a USB HD, or give up the idea of recording all together. @andrew @jscholes
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Kieran L

@jscholes Probably not a lot, but I like having things in one place. I find it a pain having to keep switching between apps. I know apple tried to make this a bit better, and I think google did as well, but it's never going to be as perfect as a DVR. Especially if I've recorded films that I'll get around to eventually, which will expire at some point, and also if broadcasters edit out parts of a show, like what happened with have I got news for you the other week. @fastfinge @andrew
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

So looking into this a bit more, it looks like ffmpeg can just do everything you want itself with amix and amerge. ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#amerge
So use ckucoo to intercept Channel's call to commskip so you'll know when the recording is done, and run ffmpeg to modify the output recording to have audio from both audio streams mixed together. github.com/Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo
Sadly I can't actually do this myself as I'm not in the UK, so I couldn't test it. But once someone does, the process could be easily documented.

GitHub - Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo: An executable that impersonates another, so that additional executables can also be called on each invocation.

An executable that impersonates another, so that additional executables can also be called on each invocation. - Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo
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Also, the idea that he'd have to make huge modifications to the player is nonsense. Channels DVR already includes ffmpeg. It already can do live transcoding of streams. Literally all he has to do is create a thing in the advanced preferences to enable mixing audio description and TV audio together, then let ffmpeg handle it all.
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew My claim was that it would be a lot of work to truly mix in the audio description including ducking, the parameters for which are embedded in the TV stream packets. Obviously it would be less work to just play two audio tracks simultaneously, but that's only a partial solution that can result in the audio description being difficult to hear and wouldn't recreate the experience obtained from actual TV reception equipment.

so I stick by what I said and don't think it's nonsense.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Wait what? The TV Stream packets themselves include parameters for ducking? Why! I assumed TV receivers got to choose how that would work, either by using some kind of autoducking, or just playing the default track at a constant (slightly lower) volume and the AD track at a higher volume. That's what I was assuming you'd do with ffmpeg; it does allow basic modifications of track volumes.
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew Some equipment does include the ability to control the program and AD volumes separately, but yes that data is embedded in the stream and needs to be reasonably respected for equipment to be certified. In some cases it's used (or some would say abused) to completely mute and replace the original program audio, for example for described sporting events.
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew No, that's actually one thing this system helps to avoid in most cases because the original program audio is used in the dynamic mix. On cable and satellite TV, the audio description is mixed at source which comes with its own set of problems, like Blind consumers being given lower bit rate program audio because the available bandwidth for multiple audio tracks is insufficient.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

But in exchange, it means you can't just use the audio description that already exists when you're airing shows from the US and Canada, because we don't master our AD that way. It also explains to me why, when Canadian TV channels import Audio Description from the UK, the mix is an utter and total mess. I thought you guys were just really bad at that. One UK show I watch, for example, has all program audio on the left channel, and all audio description on the right channel. It's the worst of all possible worlds!
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew That particular example sounds like it could've been caused by a quirk of the custom delivery format for audio description that the UK has adopted. It was designed by the BBC, and has audio description in one channel with the control signals for things like ducking in the other. Maybe someone didn't have a parcer for that data and just thought that was how AD was supposed to be presented?

Meanwhile, just to make things worse, one of the most prolific producers of audio description tracks in the UK has a propensity for producing overly bassy audio. So just playing it louder than the program and hoping for the best is a less than optimal strategy.

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So in other words, in order to even know what the overly complicated standard is, you have to pay for the documentation. And then you actually have to implement the thing. And then, of course, the fact that there is no public open-source reference implementation means that everyone does it slightly differently, so if you want to build your own equipment to work with AD tracks, you have to account for every possible way the documentation could ever be interpreted by anyone, along with some impossible ones. And absolutely none of this infrastructure could be reused to offer multilingual dubs of programs in different audio streams. Whereas in Canada described audio is effectively just another language; you will sometimes encounter a program with four different audio streams: English, English AD, French, and French AD. And here I thought the UK was better at this than North America.

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If you're looking for LE Audio, or APTX Adaptive on Windows, look no more!
There are two dongles I tried:
Ugreen BT501: amazon.com/UGREEN-Bluetooth-ap…
and Avantalk C82 LEA : amazon.com/Avantalk-C82-Blueto…
Both are great little dongles, although I will negate the Ugreen one for always starting at 100% volume when reconnecting or pairing a new device. This is quite annoying as you'll be blasted with loud audio. Button mapping is also different on these models, so let's get into it.
The Ugreen one supports Bluetooth 5.3 - but no LE Audio. It's simple, a long button on the top of the little dongle is your key. Press once for reconnect, twice to switch to headset profile. Long-press for pairing mode (3-5 seconds) and a 10 second hold clears pairings. Simple. The headset profile switch is interesting as it re-pairs it as a new soundcard with microphone input.
By contrast, the Avantalk is more complex, but BT5.4. The button is on the side of the dongle here, and tripple-pressing it enters LE mode. The device holds separate pairings in each. So you need to switch and remember which mode it is on. To clear pairing, hold button for pairing mode and then double-press, clears both banks.
Latency is equal on these, about 50MS. Not quite as good as wired, gaming headsets, but cuts SBC time in half. LE Audio got me closer to 30-40MS as advertised, but mics didn't work on XM6 when in LE Mode.

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The Avantalk is also fascinating as it has a firmware updater: dfu-data.avantree.com/avantron…
This is a small UWP app, and you may need to hit the alt key to get it to gain focus. It reads the device and updates firmware for that little dongle. They recently (10.7.5) added APTX-Lite, which is a new LE codec Qualcomm is testing. So yes, sadly ugreen doesn't have a firmware updater.
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@techsinger They’re just USB sound cards in disguise. That’s the key. :) To the host, they show up as a USB Audio Class (UAC) device, that's how they get away with Nintendo support. USB-C vs USB-A doesn’t matter: electrically it’s just USB 2.0 audio; using a USB-C→A data adapter is fine too. In theory even Windows 98 SE should support them, but that would be a bold move xD
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Tamas G

@techsinger Sadly I think LE Audio is getting us there but darn it's slow progress. Right now only one pair, the XM6, really support it as mainstream, and the one place this is most forward is with hearing aids of course. But microphone support per firmware can vary and they don't test against a few devices, so that's probably why XM6 couldn't do microphone in LE Audio mode. In theory it's much nicer too, no more 8K or 11K downsampling, but darn was hoping to see it for myself.

Between LE Audio and APTX adaptive the difference is so minimal. Like 10-20 MS. So sticking to APTX Adaptive isn't bad, just, well, classic Bluetooth. xD

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Tech Singer

Even the hearing aids aren't great, honestly, not at least as I see them. I'm on Phonak and I swear they're using SBC and not great SBC, at that. I hope to see auracast actually getting to be more or less normal rather than being a weird upgrade that makes your hearing aid guy look at you as if you're speaking another language, but that may take a while. Keep in mind also that the HA manufacturers have reason to push their own tech, it'll take them a good deal of time to adopt the standard, look at how long it took them to adopt BT in the aids themselves.
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So: Shokz probably doesn't support these at all, or at least if so, won't reach the achievable latency figures due to the Shokz own chipset not supporting LE audio - yes, I managed to squeeze that out of the company's support department. And what's more, the OpenMeet's communication protocol is a mix of proprietary and Bluetooth non-LE, as it uses 2.4ghz as a coordination transport but the actual connection is Bluetooth, with about 320ms of perceived roundtrip latency.

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Yay! It works. Thank you @dk!

Just hand coded a #HTML page like in the nineties.

Then I uploaded it to public.monster

I still can do it! Feels so empowering haha.

Isn't it stylish? public.monster/~onreact/

P.S.: At first it did not work though. Why?

Notepad saved index.html as index.html.txt

So I got a 404 despite uploading an index file.

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Remember when the web was fun? Upload your HTML and go live instantly.
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iOS Voiceover Tip with the Rotor. This could have been introduced in iOS 18 and I just missed it, but I think it is new for iOS 26.
First, for those that might not know, you can copy to the clipboard the last thing that voiceover says. This can come in very handy sometimes.
You would do this with a 3 finger quadruple tap.
Well, now you can copy multiple things to the clipboard that voiceover says.
Not only that, but now there is a rotor choice called, copied speech, that puts the multiple items that you have copied in a list, and you can then just choose which one you want to paste.
This just makes this feature much more powerful!
All you have to do is just add Copied Speech to your rotor.
Just go to settings. Accessibility. Voiceover. Rotor.
In there double tap the rotor items button.
Here you will find a big list of things that you can add to the rotor. The last item at the bottom will be Copied Speech. Just double tap it to select it to add it to your rotor.
This might not be a feature you use a lot, but its good to know that it is available and a choice!
Side Tip.
You will notice a reorder button with each rotor choice. This allows you to put your rotor items in whatever order you want.
Just double tap and hold on the reorder button for the one you want to move, then drag your finger up or down to move it up or down the list.
Hope all of this is helpful! 😄.
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For anyone who is blind or visually impaired, that teaches people who are still using vision: you may find this guide helpful. Since I have never seen the icons visually, or interacted with the iPhone in that way, I find it necessary to know how things are done for those who are transitioning from using their vision to using voiceover. This is a guide that I developed with ChatGPT, confirmed images on the Dot Pad X, created a document with lots of descriptions, and then had Aira format it for me. The sections in this document were especially chosen because they contain a lot of icons, or the way of interacting with the phone is substantially different from a sided users perspective. I had ChatGPT describe the visual nature of the processes,and then under each section, there is an explanation of how the same action is done with VoiceOver. Anyone who's interested is welcome to download it from the following link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/txtqp07df27…

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