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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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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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Except when you need features. SOrry, not sorry, but at that point it's just shit in the way a well-meaning person grabs an unsuspecting other person by the arm and drags them across the street when really they were just about to turn into their own front door. Inconsistent, generally doesn't do what you want and suddenly fucks off when you need it most. I wish it was better, I really do, but at the moment it really just isn't, and hasn't been for a very long time. Might this be the push for it to actually not suck? I can have dreams, but I sincerely doubt it after what I've seen so far. Generally tends to be a two steps forward, 3 steps back kind of situation. How's Orca with wayland these days?

zersiax,
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@talon heh, that's good at least. Great example of what I mean though. I remember posts as early as january 2023 where people were essentially saying Wayland was good-ish for general use. We get a rough demo almost 1.5 years later. I think that's a great exhibit A right there :)

zersiax,
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I do want to nuance that a little bit. Of course there's people who are working on it, and working very hard at that. And I am super grateful for that work. I am just seeing that, similar to a lot of larger companies I have worked/consulted for, nobody talks to the accessibility folks and they have to clean up the mess everybody else makes in a " oh ... accessibility ... yeah, so we have this bug in component A, and this bug in component B, and until those are fixed we can't do anything so ... sorry, we tried, but we're stuuck" kind of way. Accessibility and security often clash in Linux for example, e.g. Orca can't read x screen, because Orca doesn't have the permissions to read X screen because sensible security precautions which are technically interesting, but at the end of the day, it means a user can't use the screen and they have literally no recourse to get past the blocker.

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

weirdwriter, to random

Do we really need a YouTube downloader as an NVDA add on when YT-DLP works far better?

zersiax,
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@weirdwriter yt-dlp is a commandline tool. Scary big bad commandline. Still don't think it should be an NVDA addon but there's your answer

zersiax,
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@weirdwriter @menelion I mean ...is there really no GUI that is a bit more mainstream that also works? Accessible_anything_pro tends to become accessible_abandoned_pro with an irritating amount of regularity :)

zersiax, to accessibility
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I think the newest resistance piece I see a lot of these days is " We just made the component, we're constrained by how the component is used". That is a self-inflicted limitation at best. If you see a component is consistently being used wrong, likely your documentation needs work, and if it is happening in one particular use case, the component might just not be intended for that use case and may need to be forked. That we CAN reuse a component doesn't always need we SHOULD reuse the component. It is still possible to make bespoke experiences, and one-size-fits-all does not, in fact, always fit all. Sorry to break it to you.

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