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zersiax

@zersiax@cupoftea.social

I am Florian, florian is Dutch and Florian is he/him. I tend to talk about a myriad of different things, including #accessibility, #linguistics, #infoSec, #music, #programming and #gaming. Also #books, loads of books. Twitch streamer, LGBTQIA+-friendly and, oh right, fully #blind, as well. Anything more would be telling.

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adhdeanasl, to random
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If I send “I❤️U,” that’s one thing. But if I send “I☕️U,” it’s getting serious.

zersiax,
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@adhdeanasl I mug you? :P

sarajw, to random
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[insert obligatory joke about missing hotel room here]

zersiax,
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@sarajw room not found :P

zersiax,
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@sarajw room not found :P

KaraLG84, to random
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I wish Twitch streamers would read out the comment they're replying to. It's so distracting hearing them randomly talking to themselves when you're not paying attention to the trillions of messages coming into the chat every second, or even not looking at it at all.
It's one reason why I don't watch Twitch streams.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 that is one of my failings :) in my very slight defense generally I don't get a huge amount of messages coming in so it's relatively easy to figure out what a comment is in reply to, but it's still something I'm working on being better about :)

zersiax,
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@weirdwriter @KaraLG84 The flipside of that is, constantly hearing chat coming in can be really distracting for various other target audiences, screen readers could be reading out very different things than just chat when, say, a random notification fires, different people want different peech rates etc. so just having your screen reader blast during a stream is generally not a great idea. Some people have their chats go to stream but again, there's a bunch of reasons why one might not want to do that as well. Your overall point is well made though, having messages read out loud before responding to them is a good thing to do and something I myself try to improve on in my streams :)

zersiax,
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@weirdwriter @KaraLG84 exactly and particularly when you watch an archive or VOD or whatever you want to call it, it's not always easy (e.g. mobile) to see the chat scroll, so at least giving an indicator is a good idea. I am generally pretty good about at least indicating Who I'm responding to, or somehow including the question in th eanswer, (Yes, I am indeed using XY), but I am very cognisant of the fact I do forget at times and it's one of my improvements I want to make :)

talon, to random
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Voice Vista’s breadcrumb feature is honestly amazing. Went for a 3 hour ish walk through forest and fields and there was no issue at all, even when mobile data cut out. Accuracy was always good, it didn’t lead me off my path once, it was so worth it and I’m gonna be doing this again. A lot. This is incredible stuff. I feel lucky that my brother is the kind of person who’ll happily set up breadcrumb trails for me. I stopped a few times to check where I was, and even though there were no points of interest or other markers around, and very limited connectivity, the beacons never stopped working. Seriously I’m very impressed. This is just really very good. The main thing I wish for is having a more dynamic breadcrumb system where you can link beacons together so that it can use them to calculate paths from A to B that haven’t specifically been set manually, but even in it’s current state I’m really happy with it.

zersiax,
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@talon I am assuming this is entirely GPS- based so a beacon has the same " its going to be somewhere ina 10-meter radius from here" limitation? SOunds great for the use case you found for it though :)

zersiax,
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@talon yeah I have a garbage container sorta kinda across from my front door, but with a busy parking lot in between, and I stuck a TIle tracker on it that makes a bunch of noise when I tell it to. Similar, just a bit easier to walk towards in that situation :)

KaraLG84, to random
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I really do overthink emoji language. I started wondering how you'd form tenses like saying you've done the thing the emoji represents. Probably with face emojis and arrows.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 there's languages that don't really conjugate, you usually have to work with words like " yesterday I be sick" or " small time ago I punch tree"

KaraLG84, to random
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LGR, there was no need to write "the future" in your video title using fancy text like this:
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘
When will you lot get bored of pretty letters?

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 course. draws attention. attention's good. watch me watch me watch meeee!

JEkis, to random

At this point my possibilities are: 1. The instructor lets me submit my projects in sqlite format or something. 2. I try to see if I can edit the files in LibreOffice Base or some other third party app. 3. Fiddle with VBScript in Access. 4. Drop out and hope that this course will be using something else 2 or 3 semesters from now. This is required for my degree so I can't avoid it forever. For now I'll just try to keep my mind on other things until I get a reply.

zersiax,
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@JEkis I mean ...what is it you need to do exactly? Is it just manipulating data or do they want you to make a GUI as well?

zersiax,
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@JEkis Huh. DB client in vs code, adminer if you have a PHP server, heck even just the commandline sql clients should do for just that :) just something you can run SQL queries in

Onj, to random
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Playing some Jazz Piano with my Meta Ray-Ban Glasses https://youtu.be/L5Ro4UkdP8s

zersiax,
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@Onj how are those treating you, do they do anything else apart from recording 1-minute clips currently? :)

zersiax, to random
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hey @ben someone pointed me at your showmy.chat project which looks amazing :) I just had a comment, maybe this is in the more extensive instructions already, but the quickstart currently doesn't indicate how wide/high the chat overlay should be :) THis might be somewhat subjective but a bit of guidance would be really helpful for screen reader users who have a hard time figuring out if text is going to overflow/get cropped :)

zersiax,
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@ben it was, in fact, that mutual friend, yes :) And that's great guidance, thanks :) I'm currently playing with setting that up for my gaming channel (the second one is using Restream so unfortunately is more dependent on their in-house stuff) :)

zersiax,
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@ben will do :) Thanks!

miki, to random
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Am I the only person who gets surprised when a C/C++ project actually builds successfully on first try?

zersiax,
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@miki i get very suspicious when thath appens :)

simon, to random

I'm glad all this AI stuff exists now, but it seems fragmented. I'm paying for ChatGPT Plus because it's a great iPhone app, but using the API on Windows. We have an NVDA addon that sends images to all the major models, but no way to chat with them normally. I wish we had just one nice cross-platform app that exposed all the different APIs and models across all the major companies, and allowed us to put in our own API keys. $20 for ChatGPT Plus is a truly ridiculous cost if you consider how far $20 of API credit will go, especially on the newest models. And I do have privacy concerns with the idea of sending images to two different companies to have them described. Maybe I need to look at one of the existing self-hosted web interfaces for this purpose and start making accessibility fixes where necessary.

zersiax,
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@simon something something streaming services :)

chikim, to random
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Finally release VOCR 2.0.0. So many new features since 1.0! You can download and checkout the demo here. https://chigkim.github.io/VOCR/

zersiax,
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@chikim is there a change log?

zersiax,
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@chikim meh, nevermind, I am dumb. grabbed it from releases page

miki, to random
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This whole Microsoft Recall thing makes me want to return to my "permanent storage of speech history" idea. Annotate it with some metadata like timestamps, app name and window title, stick it in a vector database for RAG, and some really interesting possibilities start to emerge.

zersiax,
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@miki lol unpopular opinion perhaps but Idon't think I would, necessarily, hate that, provided obviously it's stored safely/responsibly/far away from any corporate machines

ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

zersiax,
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@talon Right. At this point, I do think it'd be good for me to get more comfy with mac OS again (case and point, I almost typed OS X :P), and i do know a little bit about the Linux desktop due to my forrays into Kali, but even with really simple things like trying to click a "clickable" that isn't a link, and having to use the review cursor for that in Orca last time I tried ...just ... too many productivity hits at the moment

zersiax,
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@razze oh absolutely. I'm not saying there's not good reasons for some of it, but it is unfortunately a bit of a known thing that GUI accessibility on Linux can just be a god-awful mess where fixing accessibility is concerned. A great example is the calamares installer framework that, to my knowledge, still doesn't let Orca read the installer screens because they run in a privileged process and if you go hunting for issues on why this hasn't been fixed yet, you see issues that are literally open for years because a is waiting for B, only to hear from C that A's solution was terrible to begin with. ALl the while, users are unable to use ANY OS that uses this as its installer, devs can't fix it because they're using it as a dependency and the whole thing comes to a screeching halt until something, or someone, breaks the cycle. I hear one distro, I forget which one, was able to solve this recently, but this was broken since AT LEAST 2018

zersiax,
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@razze Amusingly you actually kinda do :) Android, iOS, mac OS and Windows all have built-in screen readers that (generally) are kept up to date with changes to the OS and its underlying infrastructure. WIndows has a third-party open-source screen reader called NVDA as well so you sorta kinda do :) That flutter web's accessibility is opt-in is, frankly, a terrible move, we've seen this often enough in previous projects that had a similar mechanic :) Not sure what Newton is, and the EAA will probably help up to a point but then, the US has the ADA , section 508 and all that fun stuff and we still get stuff like Notion.so which is a great example of a project that just flat out did not take accessibility into account when starting out and now has a huge amount of work ahead of them to sort it out after the fact, if they even want to, which they say they do but I doubt

zersiax,
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@razze very true. But screen readers are generally at the forefront of using APIs and systems that other assistive tech needs as well, e.g., if a screen reader doesn't work with something, speech recognition will likely have a hard time as well. If you can't tab through a UI, switch control won't do much either etc

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