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Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet! I'm an accessibility specialist for WhatsApp, which is about the least exciting thing about me. I also play video games--while blind! I hosted a politics podcast with Matt Cooper called The Game Is Rigged from 2017-2018. I've produced and acted in the Worm full-cast Audiobook project. I host a weekly show called Thoughtfood on Venom.FM from 12 to 3 PM PST on Sundays. I also sing and play drums. I'm even a snappy dresser--though this is disputed!

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Social Security Eliminates Overpayment Burden for Social Security Beneficiaries – Automatic Overpayment Recovery Rate Reduced to 10 Percent https://blog.ssa.gov/social-security-eliminates-overpayment-burden-for-social-security-beneficiaries-automatic-overpayment-recovery-rate-reduced-to-10-percent/

objectinspace, to random
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What's the current state of the art when it comes to vocal removal? I used to use Demucs but hear that is no longer the best thing.

JSharp1436, to twitter
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ℹ , a alternative that emerged in the wake of ’s takeover, is shutting down. , the platform’s founder and former CEO of , writes that “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a closed beta in November 2022, but now it’s set to shutter “within the next few weeks.”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

objectinspace,
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@JSharp1436 LOL CNN is on post news but not Mastodon. Hmmmm...

objectinspace, to random
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You can message Meta's AI assistant on WhatsApp in 12 countries!

"Now, people will have access to Meta AI in Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe — and we’re just getting started."

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-with-llama-3/

objectinspace,
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@pixelate Which platform? I believe the current behavior is that it plays a sound when the message arrives, and doesn't focus the message until it has finished generating. We should be able to make it read automatically if the other messages do.

objectinspace,
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@noof Sorry, I'm afraid you will need to exercise your own restraint!

objectinspace,
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@pixelate get on the native app!

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The YouTube app on iOS is getting so bad that I'm seriously considering canceling YouTube premium. The number of swipes required for a single video listing is increasing, not decreasing; and there's a swipe trap in the title section of the video player now, so you have to explore by touch to get past a certain point. Anyone know the best way to give accessibility feedback on Google apps? I can't imagine they are somehow unaware of how stunningly awful this app has become, but I can at least write to them and say I did my part.

objectinspace,
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@simon Follow these easy steps to give accessibility feedback to Google!

Step 1: contact Google's Disability support center.
Step 2: explain the issue to the agent, in terms that can be understood by a sighted, non-screenreader user.
Step 3: Hope that your information gets forwarded to the right Google team.
Step 4: hope that the right Google team also understood and took action.
Step 5: wait. Forever.
Step 6: Ambush someone who works for the app in question at a tech conference.

objectinspace, to random
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I went to go look up some of the classic Boomerang episodes I was raised on as a kid! Disappointingly, I'm not able to access their website. https://boomkids.squarespace.com/classic-episodes

There is supposed to be a list of episodes here to purchase, but none of the content is reading for me, I just see the navigation section and "powered by squarespace." Is that because there's an accessibility issue with rendering it to screenreaders, or is it not loading for anyone?

objectinspace,
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@blindbat84 A sighted person told me that they do see content. I went and viewed source on the page but did not see anything that looked like relevent text. That leads me to suspect it's an image of text. I sent the guy an email, hopefully my assumption is not totally off-base or I will come off like a crazy person LOL.

objectinspace,
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@KaraLG84 Really, I did not realize squarespace was neutoriously bad for accessibility. That is unfortunate. I get the sense that he is trying to do a "set it and forget it" thing so he doesn't have to maintain. Maybe he'd be better off on wordpress or something? But I don't think a whole sitewide migration is something he'd be interested in, even if it would put him in a better place for his business.

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@blindbat84 I mean, they are probably available on torrents or something, some are already on the web archive. But I would still rather pay again for such excellent work.

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@blindbat84 I'm not sure, that's the problem! LOL. The part I need is the catalog, because I don't remember which topics were covered in which episodes. I did grab one of the random ones off the internet archive though and they are as good as I remember.

objectinspace,
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@blindbat84 The segment in particualr that sent me on this journey was the one where they outline how politics are supposed to work. Like tehy talk about how to form a campaign and why messaging is so important and then how you are pressured to compromise once you get there. Such good stuff.

objectinspace,
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@pesh Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I suspect he took pictures of some print materials because they were never stored electronically and he doesn't want to rely on technology too much. I sent him an email and suggested he get a scanner and OCR it. Hopefully he's able to do that!

objectinspace,
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@pesh I don't understand why It's not getting picked up by the Chrome autoalt thing. If I could save the image it'd be easier to work with. I tried opening the URLs to the images from source but that did not work either! Bleh.

objectinspace,
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@pesh Okay I was able to download the jpeg and then I used the snipping tool to read the text. Well, some of the text. I don't think it got all of it. But that's a start! I still feel like he should be able to make this available as a docx or a pdf or something. Not great but it would be better than this!

objectinspace,
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@pesh That would be helpful! I am hoping that the guy will respond and give me a better solution.

objectinspace,
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@pesh He'd probably do really well with a Patreon.

objectinspace,
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@pesh Hrm. Where did you send it to? I did not receive it.

jasonkoebler, to random
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A company is paying gamers in Fortnite skins to donate their idle GPUs to generate AI porn. What could go wrong

https://www.404media.co/gamers-are-renting-their-idle-gpus-to-generate-ai-porn/

objectinspace,
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@jasonkoebler What could go right? Is a better question.

objectinspace, to random
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How to set up your PC for home theater audio. https://r-htpc.github.io/wiki/audio

objectinspace, to random
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Checking out the new MK1 update! https://twitch.tv/object_inspace

objectinspace, to accessibility
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Quick question! On the web there is an ARIA-required tag which will mark a form field as required for screenreaders. Is there an equivalent for native apps?

objectinspace,
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@ppatel Booo. That's what I was afraid of. Thanks.

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