xogium

@xogium@tech.lgbt

I'm a non binary gendervoid person enjoying embedded Linux, microcontrollers for the past 5 years. Also dealing with networking (iptables/netfilter, wireguard). I love making professional audio recordings (fieldrecording) and I like helping others.

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xogium, to random

So, I finally found the right word to use when trying to explain to others that I'm struggling to express feelings, or make sense of their expressed feelings, to the point I'm sometimes not even aware that I may hurt someone and if I do hurt someone, even my words to express that I'm sorry ring false, even though they aren't. They're just very, very muted. Same goes for processing feelings, actually.

Apparently this is linked to being on the autism spectrum, somehow. At least now I'll be able to tell people the right word, and they can look it up for themselves. Using words is so exhausting.

xogium, to Electronics

Huh, that looks both cool and well designed... I admit the side of me who like everything relating to embedded systems and embedded Linux, electronics and single board computers virtually drool all over this.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Odyssey-MP135D-eMMC-p-5728.html

If only they didn't use kingston for the eMMC, and if only their website was actually accessible to screen reader, maybe one could then get it. Shame on you, Seeed Studio!

xogium,

The fun begins when you actually try to add the board to your cart.

It tells you aedding, then added to cart. Great! I mean it, that's really a great feature. However... Here's where the fun begins:

  • I've found no way to access the shopping cart at all from the website interface itself.
  • When trying to add to the wishlist instead, you end up not being able to add it ther at all.
  • When using pure guessing to find the cart page, the cart looks empty no matter how many times you clicked on the add to cart button (I don't know if it is empty or not).
  • To top it all off, the proceed to checkout button does nothing.
xogium,

How's that going if you're sighted? I'm guessing no issue at all...

I tried windows with nvda, with chromium and firefox, andthere was no difference. I'd imagine anyone trying this on Linux wouldn't have much luck either, but if you could try, that'd be nice.

How about mac?

xogium, to accessibility

I hate it when softwares are using braille dots for a progress bar. Nah, really I do.

These are braille characters in a lot of cases, folks. They're not meant to be pretty to look at, or looking fancy for your progress indicator. They're meant for blind people to read and understand informations. What do you think my brain understand when it sees braille dots 1, 3 and 5 together? The "o" letter. And that's just one example.

Yes, I'm looking at you, docker-compose and pipenv.

xogium, to Dragonlance

So, I've been recording the audio of my binaural dummy head when I stream into opus format, because it's both good quality and requires much less storage space than typical mp3 (a 8 hours long stream is only 230 MB or so at 64 kbps).

Liquidsoap which is the software I use does the proper thing, and actually encodes each song, or in this case, each stream of audio in its own stream of opus data, so when I move around and decide to alternate between streaming my phone and streaming the audio from the dummy head, then end with terminating liquidsoap, it goes like this:

header, metadata, audio data, new stream metadata, audio data, metadata, audio data, end of stream

It took 6 years for ffmpeg to handle this properly. That is, before, ffmpeg would choke to death when seeing an opus file encoded this way, because it didn't expect it.

devinprater, to random

TalkBack 14: Rushed Steps in the Right Direction, but still so far behind: https://devinprater.micro.blog/2023/07/17/talkback-rushed-steps.html

xogium,

@devinprater I like your articles, they're really nice to read. And I totally agree. Android just... Doesn't cut it for me, and it probably never will.

xogium,

@fireborn @devinprater Hahaha that's fair. I've got the SE third gen and so far for my usage the battery is plenty okay. I've also not hit any super weird bugs I keep seeing being mentioned on applevis, so I guess I'm lucky on this front too, at least for now.

xogium,

@talon @devinprater yep, I feel exactly the same way. I expect accessibility to not be cared about, so when it does I get a nice feeling of being surprised. If it's not, I shurg and move on, thinking scinically perhaps, though at least it avoids being disapointed all the damn time.

xogium, to random

So today I share with y'all one of the songs that was performed at the concert I went to on the 3rd of june this year.

The title is burning love, and it was one of the best performance of that concert. I've of course got the go ahead from the band to share it. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

I was in the second row of seats, and I find the accoustic of this room to be absolutely terrific. The room was about full as well, some folks had to remain standing.

menelion, to random
@menelion@dragonscave.space avatar

My first serious feature for #TweeseCake landed in the master branch today. There are places for improvement, but still it's a step forward, I'm far more familiar with the code and with Mastodon protocol now. #Development @app

xogium,

@menelion @app Can I suggest something? Here's two bugs I'd really, really like to see fixed.

First is when you get a new follower but this person hasn't shared content with you yet, pressing ctrl+d on their follow request because that's all you got access to is only giving you a message saying, no toot. You can't write a private message this way.

Only way I found is to use ctrl+shift+u, copy their username, then get out of there, make a new post, set visibility to direct and manually add the first @ then paste the username.

xogium,

@menelion @app The second bug is when you edit a post which has a content warning set, instead of having the content warning and the post text defined each in their respective field, the post text field gets something like this:

Content warning: some content warning post text: your post text

Which means you've got to edit that out and manually add the cw again.

xogium,

@menelion @app And a few features I'd really, really like to see added are: lists support, adding descriptions to attached media (it's very ironic that a client made for the blind doesn't let you use alt text), interaction and creation of polls.

xogium,

@menelion @app Sure! Just ideas for improvements. :)

devinprater, to accessibility

Reading Braille is a bit different than reading with speech, simply because with Braille, we can skim and pattern-match a bit easier. Speech is incredibly linear. Braille, well if there's a load of question marks, or dashes, or whatever, I can just feel across the display or page until I come to something different. With speech, though, if it's reading punctuation or can't read some punctuation and just says "symbol symbol symbol symbol," or "question mark question mark question mark," then there's no way, on that line, to skip to the next different text. In a document or site, you can skip to the next line, but you then don't know if the previous line had something else on it. Maybe you can skip to the next word, if symbols are all together with no spaces. Especially in apps like Tweesecake, though, where text is sent directly to the screen reader, you can't skip forward throughout a post or message passed repeating symbols or emoji. That's why I always try to follow a format for my posts. My thoughts or info at the top, links next, and any hash tags at the bottom. Having hash tags in the middle is okay if they're spaced out throughout the text, and I do that sometimes too.

xogium,

@devinprater I totally agree with your way of doing things.

xogium,

@devinprater Huh huh yep. Fanfiction.net also does that. I like that kind of bar, you just press s and tada, next bar. Whoohoo!

xogium, to nonbinary

So, I've found a new job. It's great, right? Yes and no.

I got hired to do various sysadmin tasks by a non profit organisation for the blind. The good news is that the one who hired me is also blind, and seems really cool and nice. She's also aware of the accessibility challenges, so that's one major plus for getting this job.

I'm glad I've got the job, despite the tons of issues that piled up so far, like the fact the server I'm trying to get is still not done and the provider seems to have super strange problems with their cloud-init handling.

But there's someone on this job, someone who I knew years ago and which I actively disliked and found mildly creepy. And I find him even more so now.

xogium,

Sorry for the break there, I had to go out for a minute because I was literally feeling sick.

I'm asexual and that kind of attitude is really disturbing me.

Anyway yeah. I don't know what to do. I don't mind that he knows who I am. What I mind is the fact he might spread it around, that he might also try and get friendly with me again and ask all sort of questions that I don't want to reply to.

xogium,

@cachondo I mean, standing firm is one thing. But when you feel threatened like this... My only reaction so far is the need to bolt.

Fuck the new job, fuck the money, I just want to be away from that guy. Of course it's a gut reaction and I haven't acted on it, but I'm very tempted to.

xogium,

I know I've got my friends, and they are really really nice people. Not like most groups of blind people I've met before.

They actually told him to fuck off and refused to share who I am and that pissed him off even more. But I'm glad they did that for me.

xogium,

I've reached out to my boss and asked her for advices, for her to do something about this. It's been almost a week she promised to call me. I'm still waiting.

I don't want to seem like I think the worst about her, but I'm not exactly impressed. It feels like I don't actually exist. It's probably not what is happening, but I still feel like that anyway.

I'm really considering to leave.

xogium,

What would you folks do? Because right now, I feel pretty much backed into a corner. And I absolutely hate it.

xogium,

@cachondo Thank you! :) I might take you up on that offer. You seem like a really nice person to me.

xogium,

@cachondo That's good advice, I think. Thanks for sharing. I think you're right, I need to know before I can say. It's only my autism and such making me not realize that kind of things. I'll try and keep it in mind for other people too.

xogium,

I will reach out to my boss again today and see what happens. I'll keep y'all updated on this thread.

I'm hoping things will go smoothly. I've heard that she apparently told this person to back off already, even without directly contacting me, so I guess that's promising.

xogium,

So, I reached my boss today and aksed her for help about this.

The best she did was to make sure I'll never have to interact with him at all. She also wasn't aware of how much he sexualizes people he fancies, even people he'll never ever meet, nor of how persistent he can be if he wants something. She will keep an eye on him.

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