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jscholes

@jscholes@dragonscave.space

Digital #Accessibility Engineer/Analyst, #ScreenReader user, and occasional #software developer. #a11y

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jscholes, to windows
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I updated (the ebook software) the other day. I don't use its graphical interface, and only have it around for its command line tools. Nevertheless, every time I've opened a text-or-document-adjacent filetype since, has asked me which app I want to use. It hasn't set my file associations to calibre, just unset all of my existing ones so that I have to answer a pointless prompt multiple times per day. How does this make any sense?

chikim, to random
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VOLlama v0.1.4-beta.1: System Prompt manager; Import Awesome ChatGPT Prompts; Partial support for GPT-4O (Throws an error for token counter in some cases but just ignore for now); Able to attach entire document and feed for long context model. https://chigkim.github.io/VOLlama/

jscholes,
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@chikim The API uses pre-purchased credits, same as OpenAI, and is not subscription-based. @simon

jscholes,
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@chikim Sounds like nonsense; plenty of people use it via their own tools. More to the point, if you only give someone a field to enter their own API key, then you're not the one using the API and potentially violating the terms. While developing an integration yourself, you're not using it purely for individual purposes. @simon

jscholes,
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@chikim And even more to the point, what's the risk profile here: @simon downloads your app, puts in his API key, uses it for his own purposes, they ban him, and he loses seven dollars worth of credits? Who cares?

jscholes,
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@chikim Cautious of what, though? I don't understand what you think is going to happen. @simon

jscholes,
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@chikim According to Reddit, some people are being asked for business registration details, and tax IDs upon signing up for the API. But I also know people who use it via NVDA, the LLM CLI, and so on.

So... not sure. Maybe they ask for different things based on location? Seems like another business who literally don't want people to pay them.

I will say, offering five dollars of introductory credits somewhat contradicts claims that they only support business users. Businesses are less likely to need five dollars of handouts. @simon

jscholes, to apple
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Costco had #Apple #AirTags on sale. Having never used one, I decided to buy a couple. I now have two smooth, round things on my desk that apparently don't stick or attach to anything without additional hardware, that I guess I can... put in a box that I might lose? Not really sure I understand this product.

jscholes,
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Even if they stuck to things, they're way too big to put on an AirPods case, way too expensive to attach to groceries, and so on. I could put one in my suitcase... except I don't travel that often and only take hand luggage when I do.

Note that I'm not looking for "why did you buy it if you didn't know what it was?" responses. I'm not complaining about the money spent, which was my choice, only saying that I don't understand the utility.

jscholes, to random
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iOS just unnecessarily corrected "filename" to "file name", but not "ghat" to "that". How useful.

jscholes, to random
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Nice job, Audible:

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simon, to random

I just realized that the iPhone SE battery is smaller than the Jelly Star battery. Not by much, but it is. The Jelly Star battery is half the size of almost every Android phone battery, even the cheapest Samsung phones from several years ago. So when I say Apple could have tried a little harder, I can back that up with actual examples. Hopefully the next SE has a much larger battery, or Magsafe, or both. I hesitate to recommend them to anyone at this point because you basically can't function without a power bank. Meanwhile, the Jelly Star is turning out to be an amazing media device, especially now that I figured out how to make Foobar2000 for Android more accessible.

jscholes,
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@simon Meanwhile, I usually have to charge my 15 Pro twice a day.

bryansmart, to random

I know ChatGPT 4O is amazing, but I'm beyond revolted and offended by it's fake caring enthusiastic attitude. I expect to ask it about my friend's cancer, and it either tell me how amazing it is I'm getting this first hand experience, or to tell me how sorry it feels I'm going through this. Either is infuriating in a way hard to explain, and inspires fantasies of kicking OpenAI devs in the balls! The world is full of fake. Do we really need an LLM pretending to care? Fucking revolting!

jscholes,
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@bryansmart Try changing your system prompt to tell it to be less nice.

jaybird110127, to random

Tonight I go into a sleep center to do a sleep study which will almost certainly diagnose me with sleep apnea. Forty years ago today, on Saturday, May 19, 1984, some CBS executives probably had a sleepless night after Michael Larson won an unprecedented $110,237 on Press Your Luck. That was when the show was taped. Press Your Luck was a thirty-minute show, but this particular episode went on so long that they had to split it into two episodes, which aired on Friday, June 8, and Monday, June 11, 1984. They were never seen again until a GSN documentary in 2003. You can doubtless find both the original episodes and the documentary, "Big Bucks: the Press Your Luck Scandal" on Youtube.

jscholes,
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@jaybird110127 I struggle to sleep in a new setting, and would imagine that reaction is quite common. I wonder how they factor that into sleep studies?

FluidEscence, to random

hmmm. Udio playback in tc... How?

jscholes,
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@FluidEscence Do you have an example link? Sounds like a nice task to wind down with while ignoring work on a Friday afternoon. @matt

jscholes,
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@FluidEscence Here you go, mostly untested. No page parsing required. https://gist.github.com/jscholes/0bc329ba2451897364513bc21fbe32c3 @matt

aardrian, to random
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I’m tthinking the guy next to me on the plane does not approve of my mask since as soon as the wifi became available he loaded The Drudge Report on his phone and looked for stories about masks (the NC law being the first hit).

jscholes,
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@aardrian Mile-high passive aggression.

aardrian, to accessibility
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With Chrome announcing support for UIA, it might be worth retesting some of your patterns with Narrator, Voice Access, Magnifier: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/windows-uia-support?hl=en

I didn't think UIA was quite mature, but I am also old enough to forget Windows’ prior but somehow also current APIs. So I may simply be wrong.

jscholes,
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@aardrian UIA performance still often looks like heavy traffic moving inexorably towards a pile-up. So the real test will be whether screen readers opt into it in Chrome by default. E.g. NVDA doesn't use it in Edge unless you explicitly ask for it, even though support has been present for a while.

alexhall, to random

Wow, ChatGPT 4o is fast. I'm asking it some PHP questions, and the responses are far faster to generate than I'm used to with 3.5. I'm not even talking about images yet, just text.

jscholes,
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@alexhall It's also noticeably faster than GPT4. Be My Eyes sometimes barely gets through four loops of its tune before the description comes back.

jscholes, to random
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Most mornings, I wake up ahead of my scheduled alarm. It is never not surprising to me that Apple, even with all of their focus on sleep data, haven't introduced a feature that says: "Hey James, it looks like you're awake! Would you like your alarm to be disabled so that it won't go off the moment you put down your phone to use the bathroom?"

jscholes,
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@pitermach I tried a watch, and we didn't get along. Still, good to know. @rooktallon

jscholes, to accessibility
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Yesterday was Global #Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Today, some companies will be considering switching away from #Slack to a less #accessible alternative due to #AI bullshit.

jscholes,
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@matt I think 37signals is partially owned by David Heinemeier Hansson, who is a pretty controversial figure. I also didn't think much of the accessibility of Basecamp. Still, being able to buy the code is an interesting move.

jscholes, to random
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Writing this on the Clicks keyboard case for iPhone. Not sure what I think of it yet... its certainly gonna take some getting used to.

jscholes,
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@KaraLG84 I'd like to say it was a convenient way to quickly tap something out. But its a huge case I have to stick my phone in each time, so it just... doesn't work. I'm also not convinced its very good for my wrists, and it did the weird layout thing again before I wrote this reply so needed to be reconnected.

jscholes,
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@fireborn Yeah, I thought I remember them mentioning an app. @KaraLG84

jscholes,
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@simon Yeah, basically all of that. Add on top the general approach which will make it obsolete as soon as I buy a new phone, their attitude to MagSafe which boiled down to "we might make one that's compatible in the future", the crappy shipping, and the inaccessible documentation, and I'm just not very impressed.

I also have no idea why they thought anyone would want to either keep their phone in this thing, or put a huge case in their pocket/bag separate from the phone itself.

Fair play to them, they made a product happen, and got it out the door. It's just not a very good one. The packaging was nice, though.

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