Really happy to see Apple now using UK audio description for shows set in the UK. Up until recently, any shows set in the UK were described by the same people who did like 99% of Apple TV Plus shows, and while those guys did an awesome job, I found it really took me out of the story to have a US Voice talent randomly popping into and otherwise completely British show lol. I'm not sure why it took them so long to do this, other services like Netflix have used UK audio description narrators for UK shows in the past, but glad to see this is finally changing.
Things like that don't matter. anything is better than no description at all, even TTS. I prefer human describers, but if I can't get a human it is what it is.
Happy Birthday, Bob Sarnowski! Today, on his actual birthday, At 7 PM EST, HKC Radio is pleased to have Bob's Birthday jam, recorded on November 14 at his party.
Look, we can all complain about religion all we want, but the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in the city of Kampen who have been holding an uninterrupted mass for over a year to protect a family of two parents and five kids (21, 15, 11, and 4) from deportation are fucking heroes. This family has been in The Netherlands for 12 years, so these kids know nothing of the place they came from (hell, two of them were born here and have never seen their parents' home country), and deporting them would be insanely cruel.
Why the long mass, though? Well, according to Dutch law, law enforcement is not allowed to enter a church (or other house of worship) as long as a mass/service/etc. is underway. As such, members of this church take turns holding mass, and 2000 of them have been keeping this up for over a year. The family has its own little area in the church, but they can't leave the building. The kids are taught by local teachers inside the church, and the 21-year old does odd jobs in the building. So yeah, they've been inside for over a year.
Turns out this "church asylum" thing has actually been attempted over 50 times since 1978, and it's been successful at times.
I almost bought a house in Kampen a few years before meeting my now-wife and moving to Sweden. Had that not happened, and I managed to buy a house in Kampen, I would've joined this church in a heartbeat to help out.
Met hulp van 2000 vrijwilligers beschermt de protestantse gemeente in Kampen het Oezbeekse gezin tegen uitzetting. Voorgangers wisselen elkaar af om de twee uur.
When you're a kid, a race is when you're running with your friend, and whoever gets to the destination first wins, and it's fun. When you're an adult, a race is when program A sends a signal, and then program B invokes a method call on program A that program A might not be ready for yet, and all the end user knows is that something isn't working, and then you have to figure out why things aren't working and figure out what to do about it, and it's not fun.
Happens with hardware too. One has to simulate things like FPGAs to look for this. That being said, I ran in a 10k race once where there was a team from Hewlet Packard, they called themselves (you guessed it) The Race Condition!
in light of the current political climate the old joke "You know what the leading cause of pedophilia is? Sexy children" just doesn't hit the same way anymore
It seems that the vendor of NAS that tried to force people into their own rebadged Toshiba drives (they back tracked) are trying to catch up on the other vendor that has been promoting via YouTube sponsored content.... (I have heard some saying that vendor invented the NAS).
Hey @AccessOn am I missing something, or do I have to pay to get transcripts of your episodes? There's a transcript heading, but all it says is: "Are you the producer of this podcast? Add a podcast transcript → Need Audio-to-Text? Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds →". Clicking on the latter link brings me to a service where I can pay $0.06 per minute of audio to have it described. This feels exclusionary to me though, deaf-blind users should not have to pay for the right to consume your episodes. Living Blindfully had some of the best transcripts out there during its time, it would be incredible if whatever technology was used there could be incorporated here too.
World governments are trying to ban AI. Here's a comment I just saw that I agree with:
"Advanced AI is the most truly democratizing force the world has ever known, and that is why it is being attacked by so many privileged people (all of whom are quite happy with the status quo thank you very much). Suddenly, as a result of advanced AI, all their connections and their expensive degrees—advantages they and their kids leveraged of to cut ahead of the poor and marginalized and help themselves to the best educations and housing and medical care and food and and cushyest jobs—DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE. Any dirt poor kid with a third-hand laptop or even smartphone can learn anything, build any kind of software, make amazing films and screen them worldwide. The words the elite hate to hear more than any other are, "WE ARE DOING THIS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION". And they hate it most of all when it's coming from people they had convinced themselves were powerless to disturb their privilege. AI, AGI, and yes, super-intelligence, are for *us*; the people. We are not giving it up so they can leave us to die in a ditch while they sashay smugly back to their yachts and leafy retreats."
I'd like to know who wrote that comment you reposted. In other words, please cite your source.
While some critics of AI probably do fit the description in that comment, IMO the best criticisms focus on how AI actually further concentrates wealth and power, in the hands of the companies who own the AI models, as well as the companies who will use AI to replace labor (or at least try very hard to do so, whether it actually works or not).
@modulux a lo que iba es a que el gobierno de entonces lo dejó de lado, no lo defendió. No parece que se hiciera ningún contraataque desde el legislativo. Y luego lo del bochorno del poder judicial en funciones un porrón de años. Lo del reparto entre PP-PSOE...
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11…
I have mild neuropathy plus not particularly great circulation, I'm totally blind, and hard-of-hearing. Taste doesn't always work as expected. My olfactory sensors still work fine. I feel like, sometimes, it tries too hard to compensate for other stuff.
One for @clive: “Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator.” Adversarial poetry is notably effective at delivering attack prompts for LLMs. arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source…
A late in the day edition of the mid-week Other People's Music teaser! This is a look at this week's batch of music, previewed via the first line of the review, with all appropriate links (music, socials, full review) linked. Here's the full post:
A collection of long drone pieces incorporating guitar, bells, analog synths, horns, effects & more to create languid, lovely, ever-shifting compositions.
@JessicatheVIArtist Really cool you featured this here, she's on a few Discord servers I'm a part of and really knows her stuff. Mabey I should submit some tracks of my own at some point.
@JessicatheVIArtist For sure man, I've been wanting to take a look at your blog for a while, looks like you've got some cool sound design tutorials on there, so I'll check it out this weekend.
Die nächsten 2 Tage sind wir wieder bei der So Many Voices in München zu Gast! 🔊
Chris wird einen Workshop über die "Unsichtbare Kunst" der Tontechnik geben und zeigen was man bei der Aufnahme eines Podcasts alles richtig machen kann - oder wie man's mit Auphonic richten kann, falls doch mal was passiert.
FastWeather, a basic app for getting weather, is joining my list of software projects. Download the executable and run it. You'll start with a default set of cities so you can experience the program but either delete those or run with the --reset option to start fresh. Details and the app are linked off of www.theideaplace.net/projects. The user guide is at github.com/kellylford/FastWeat….
@DavidGoldfield Very good, congrats. I'd just ask for an option to change degrees from farenheit to celcius, so it makes easier to use it here in Brazil where it is the standard.
@clv0 @DavidGoldfield The program now has a units tab under configuration where you can change the measure used for temperature, wind and precipitation. The Configure button has also been moved to the main screen and can be accessed with Alt+c. Alt+n will put focus in the edit box for adding a new city. Grab the newest executable from the same locations. I didn't change the version number.
some people work hard to try and solve real barriers to #accessibility others like to waste everybody's energy with pointlessly long-winded theoretical purity discussions on "if text isn't marked up in a <p> element, does it fail 1.3.1?" i guess if you're being paid by numbers of issues filed, sure... #a11y
The party that screamed, "Hang Mike Pence" and joked about Paul Pelosi getting his head bashed in, would of course deem a reminder to follow the oath to the constitution as "wildly inappropriate."
We are trying something new at Igalia: a video show called "Hackers Assemble" where we chat about all the inner workings of computing, from the kernel to the browser.
For the first episode, I met with André Almeida to talk about case insensitive filesystems on Linux. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=bJI8rWproH…
André Almeida joins us to tell us about the work he has recently done to improve support of case insensitive filesystems on Linux.This is the first episode o...
Given that Godot 4.5 added the ability to make games accessible to users of screen readers and other assistive technologies, is there any chance that this game will be accessible to blind players? Assuming, of course, that there isn't something about the game that would make it impractical for a blind person to play in principle.
@matt hmm that’s an interesting question and I’m afraid not one that we’ve really considered. Currently the game isn’t really set up to be possible to play that way. It could be conceivably made to work but would probably require some significant rearchitecting. I’ll have a think, but I’m afraid it seems unlikely for the initial release, sorry!
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