seedy

@seedy@vee.seedy.gq

Hi, I'm SeedyThreeSixty, better known as Seedy. I'm a tech geek, fighting game lover, audiophile, text to speech enthusiast and maths nerd who loves to laugh and socialize. I'm 23 years old and have no eyesight. I am a sucker for old school hardware, software and TV; mainly late 90s/2000s era. Interested in Swedish language and culture; I hope to eventually move to Sweden.

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seedy, to random

@datajake1999 had written a brand new OS for the iPod Touch. To install it, you first had to apply a custom made jailbreak, and once the OS was installed, you had to use a very specific type of USB cable to connect the iPod to your computer, and use a very specific version of iTunes, otherwise you'd wind up completely bricking your iPod.

seedy, to ChatGPT

is 1 year old today. 1 year. 365 days. 8760 hours somewhere. 525,600 minutes somewhere. Chew on that for a few! And feel free to sing 'five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes' if you want :)

TheQuinbox, to random

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who celebrates! To get some resemblance of enjoyment out of this day before my family arrives, I made another little audio production. Take this as a lesson, future Quin. Never, ever, invite @Kaliah to your Thanksgiving dinner. And, if you do, @BTyson and @BrailleScreen will just walk out on you when it inevitably gets ugly.

Download: https://quinbox.xyz/audio/Thanksgiving2023.flac

seedy,

@TheQuinbox @Kaliah @BTyson @BrailleScreen Is that AT&T Mike in there?

seedy, to windows

You know my Cheese Cube sound scheme for and Cubes for ? Well, there's now a version for the !
Installer: https://www.seedy.gq/SP/NVDA/Cubic_Installer.exe
Portable (zip file): https://www.seedy.gq/SP/NVDA/cubic.zip
@Jonathan @soundpackcentral

TheQuinbox, to random

"WARNING: This site has been known to cause a mind blowing experience. We recommend you prepare yourself mentally and if possible be sitting down. Side effects may include saving money, letting out a chuckle, and sporadic oinking."

seedy,

@BTyson @TheQuinbox Why buy a new domain anyway when you can create a CNAME record?

seedy,

@TheQuinbox @BTyson I'm using WordPress for @spews, and I'm loving it.

TheQuinbox, to random

Oh, cool. There actually are operating systems that need JavaScript to run, already. edbrowse/3.8.5
WARNING: Windows93 is not tested on your browser.
Use latest Firefox or Chromium for a better experience !
BIOS ROM checksum error You need JavaScript to run Windows93
BOOT IS TAKING TOO LONG ?
{> CLICK TO REPAIR BOOT}

seedy,

@TheQuinbox Windows 93? Lol that thing! Is it even accessible?

seedy, to random

Here's a demo of something I've been hammering away at for the past 2 hours.

devinprater, to accessibility

You know, Alt text is really freaking important. But when all your Alt text is is something like:

Some options that Google’s Ad Manager currently offers for targeting your campaign by user interests.

Well, what options are those? This doesn't help me. Now, here's AI:

The image shows a computer screen with an open web browser displaying a user interface for selecting audience segments as part of an advertising or marketing campaign. The interface enables the user to add or observe audience segments based on their interests and habits related to television viewing. The options visible include:

  • TV Lovers
  • Documentary & Nonfiction TV Fans
  • Family Television Fans
  • Game, Reality & Talk Show Fans
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy TV Fans
  • TV Comedy Fans
  • TV Drama Fans

Now, I know, 100% of that could be made up. I'm sure the AI-hessitant people will say that it is anyway. But my goodness, having Alt text just for the sake of Alt text, just doesn't help.

seedy,

@devinprater Maybe you can get a real human with real thoughts, real feelings and real working eyes to verify it?

seedy, to random

ChatGPT turns 1 year old in 13 days. Take a few to let that sink in.

seedy, to random

Well, I've finally completed the DECTalk TTS skit. But now the inferiority complex is setting in. are people going to like it? It did take me a total of 3 days to make, after all, due to extremely limited computer time. Let's upload this thing to YouTube, I guess. @datajake1999

seedy,

@cordova5029 @datajake1999 And, the video is live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l91LdBMCHc

seedy,

@datajake1999 @cordova5029 Did you like it though?

seedy, to random

Cubes! Cubes everywhere! Cubes cubes cubes! The Cubes sound pack for TweeseCake's Mastodon session is now available for Telegram. https://www.seedy.gq/soundhouse/tc/Telegram-Cubes.zip @Jonathan

devinprater, to accessibility

You know, it's kinda crazy that Mac now has a Hammerspoon to allow VoiceOver users to get an image described by GPT4-vision, but there's no NVDA addon for this. Kinda makes me wonder if the blind developer community for Macs is going to have more tools than Windows folks one of these days. They already have VOCR, sounds for UI actions, offline, I think, translation of the VO cursor's contents, and probably more Hammerspoon stuff.

seedy,

@devinprater But you need a ShutAI (sorry, I mean OpenAI) API key with active credits on it.

seedy,

@devinprater You do, but not everyone does/can.

weirdwriter, to apple

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    seedy,

    @weirdwriter @podcast @doubletap My question is, how? I thought Apple's stuff was too locked down for that?

    TheQuinbox, to random

    18:52:02 up 64 days, 20:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

    seedy,

    @TheQuinbox What's that from?

    datajake1999, to random

    The Windows version restriction on NWSClock has been lifted, as I figured out why the clock thread wasn't being created under Windows 9x, and the program properly starts on Windows NT 4.

    seedy,

    @datajake1999 Are there even any good screen readers for NT 4? MDR is a pile of crap stew.

    simon, to random

    Why does it seem like almost every app that provides a second phone number for calling and texting is either expensive or inaccessible? I've tried Burner, Hushed, MySudo, Talkatone, and TextNow, all of which have problems. I've written to the first three support teams and basically gotten empty promises and complaints that their development teams are small and labelling bottom tabs is hard. Just now I tried signing into Talktaone, and they sent me a verification code contained in an image. Half their settings are unlabelled. This doesn't seem like a coincidence anymore.

    seedy,

    @simon There's Text Me, but their accessibility seems to be going down the tube too.

    datajake1999, to random

    NWSClock is going on a feature freeze, and I will only be fixing bugs if any arise. I already fixed a couple, and the rundown is below.
    I just fixed a bug where the Select INI file dialog didn't ask the user if they wanted to overwrite an existing file. I also fixed the Select User Dictionary and Select Audio File Dialogs to properly initialize the file name field with any file that has been previously selected.

    seedy,

    @datajake1999 A feature freeze! Not a permanent one I hope.

    Thomas_domville, to random
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    seedy,

    @simon @Brynify @Estrella @Thomas_domville I love the way I do it. Try to simply connect to the update server, and if you can't, don't even bother checking for updates. Simples!

    seedy, to random

    Nothing like executing a certain very powerful and dangerous command on an Ubuntu system and intentionally frying it, all in the name of research.

    seedy,

    @jaybird110127 rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

    simon, to random

    I bought the Goyo replacement (Supertone Clear). Two things I hate already:

    1. It only works on two devices at a time. I don't know what the implications of this are if you lose one of the devices and can't unregister the plugin, or you want to run it in two diferent DAWs.
    2. In order to download it, I had to download the trial. To download the trial, you need to enter your e-mail address, accept the data usage policy, and accept marketting emails. So I had to sign up to their newsletter in order to download the thing I bought. I'm already signed up, but that's not the point.
      Just ... sigh.
      By the way, the super secret promo code given to beta users so they can buy the plugin for $29 is BETA29. But shhh, it's a secret.
    seedy,

    @simon The fact that they were kill switching Goyo was a big fat red flag for me right away. I'll stay a thousand feet away from it, thanks. I don't have the money for it, but still.

    miki, to random
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    I think there is a new kid on the block when cross-platform accessible GUI toolkits are concerned. There is a project called Toga, which seems to be a Python toolkit that uses native controls and works on Windows, Linux (GTK), Mac OS, iOS, Android and via Web Assembly. I only tried the Mac OS version so far, and I could not find a single accessibility issue. The API seems pretty nice and Pythonic, not like the abomination that is WX. They use some CSS-like layout engine, laying everything out via boxes, which seems very doable from a blindness perspective. So far, consider me impressed.

    seedy,

    @miki This whole idea of boxes, padding, sizing etc breaks my brain. GUI development just isn't for me I guess.

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