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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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superblindman, to random
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Well, as I am making steady progress in Hades 2, I think I can safely say that it has the exact same potential as the first game did. It's playable with the same kaviats, (you don't know what door you're entering, you might be wandering for a bit and so on), and it will likely be moddable in much the same way. Like seriously, the mods could function the same as they do for the first game, modified specifically for the new types of things they would now have to look for. As I understand it, work on this has already begun.

zersiax,
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@superblindman it has, in factt, begun. Am just about to stream what's currently possible but yeah, even without mods that was my impression, as well

zersiax,
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@ysotomayor @superblindman very, very rudimentary screenreader access has been achieved, its just that mods need to make use of it now

talon, to random
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Hey if Sonos can just up and screw their UI then I can just up and decide to never use them for future speakers. Time to check the resale value of this garbage in case they can't fix the UI accessibility like yesterday.

zersiax,
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@talon actually curious, do we have a convenient alternative? Tried Google Home Maxes and the CHromecast protocol seems to be pretty prone to stutters/dropouts. Sonos does this better, but not familiar with other solutions and their accessibility, pretty much refuse to even consider HomePod or whatever the newest iteration of that is called these days

KaraLG84, to random
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giving the latest version of JAWS a spin since I plan to update the JAWS to NVDA guide for the next version.
I keep doing NVDA commands and wondering why it's not working.

zersiax,
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@menelion @KaraLG84 do you happen to know if JAWS is able to braille live regions?

KaraLG84, to random
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I tried that neural voices NVDA add-on out of curiosity. I didn't think it'd work on 'windows 10, but it does since the add-on includes the voice data.
I doubt that's legal but it is what it is.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 oh wow that is ...weird. it sounds like standard german to me but with some really weird errors

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 Katja does much better for german :)

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 lol try that with one of the chinese voices and it almost sounds racist :P

KaraLG84, to RPG
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Found this interesting series of blog posts about fallthru, a text adventure game I tried playing for the first time I think in 1999. I've never had the patience to get very far in it because it's literally huge, but I've often wondered what it would be like if I did.
Now I don't have to, since this person completed it and went into quite a lot of detail about it.
Note that most of the in game text is shown in screenshots with no alt text.
Nice to see that Michael feir and the Audyssey magazine got a mention because that was pretty much the only place I saw anything about it before this, and I forgot that he interviewed the developer.
https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/search/label/Fallthru

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 if you mean this one re: lowercase ...no, no they're not. They're camelcase

miki, to random
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Things you wouldn't predict 20 years ago.

Being very knowledgeable about transformers can easily net you a seven-figure salary.

zersiax,
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@miki so the leader of the autobots is called Optimus Prime ...

joelanman, to random
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Getting back into Postgres again after a while, I can see why things like Mongo were popular for a while. It's so hard shifting your thinking between json (nested data) and sql (flat arrays)

zersiax,
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@joelanman doesn't postgres have native json support these days? I've been away from it for a bit

zersiax, to accessibility
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The case for AI in is a hotly contested one but I do feel the baby's being tossed out with the bathwater just a tiny bit. Yes, it is bad that AI is being used to phase out hoomans in all sorts of pursuits. And yes, it is also true that at least at the moment, Ai-generated anything is generally lower quality than hooman-generated stuff. And yes, it is also true that we're seeing AI in places we really shouldn't be seeing it (MDN anyone?) and that people, just like always with a new toy, are going absolutely nuts with it and putting it front and center like it's Cthulhu's new miracle to end all toilet paper shortages. But it CAN, at times, actually be an enabler. It CAN, OCCASIONALLY, actually be used for good, and I don't think people who find this out and do this should be villified

zersiax,
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If image generation gets good enough to make me Twitch banners, or blog featured images, or make small video edits for me, or write me CSS that actually looks good, you bet your glutal hemispheres I'm going to make use of it. Purely a matter of efficiency. We haven't had a decent video editor that's as long as I've been alive, I think i've waited long enough for hoomans to step up. If AI can do it, AI can do it. Screen readers can't tell me if CSS is doing what I want, so if AI can do it that just means I can be more productive as a developer. Again, I've waited for this situation to improve in for my entire professional career, so if what is for all intents and purposes a new tool can enable me to do this, I will happily make use of it. Summarizing articles in between all the newsletter popups, ads, images without alt text and silent videos? Absolutely. Just another tool at this point. So yeah. Bad, but not all bad.

zersiax,
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@evilcookies98 shrug. People will find a way to do that regardless. Either they'll eat the cost of the ADA slap on the wrist, we see this a lot in eCommerce, or they'll just flat out not care. Look at companies like Notion, which is at this point almost ubiquitous in the notetaking space, and I just can't see this development as all that much of a game changer. Sure, its another excuse, except this one it might actually be true that AI can get us out of a human-made shit heap. Is that a great thought? Absolutely not. But take it from someone who works in the accessibility field: If it isn't AI, it'll be something else

zersiax,
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@ZBennoui I mean ... there is the fact that it takes ungodly amounts of resources to run which isn't great for the planet, so in that sense this isn't a great future-proof strategy :)

zersiax,
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@jjLitke @Binder there absolutely is something to that. Then again, to what degree is an image being " stolen" if it's used as an inspiration for a new creation? What I know of LLMs in general is that really all they do is make plausible predictions, based on what they've seen before. So if images get scraped, provided the dataset is large enough, wouldn't that mean that somebody's ill-gotten art is only used as inspiration for, maybe, a tenth or even a hundredth of the newly generated piece of content? I might be completely beside the mark here, I'll be the first to admit that. If people's images are being literally reproduced one to one that is not OK , particularly without attribution, but is that always the case?

sarajw, to random
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What's a budget decent microphone for use in streaming/recording speech that won't break the bank and is available to order swiftly into Germany?

Thanks!

zersiax,
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@ben @sarajw Most of the Samson USB mics are absolutely fine, yeah. If you want something a tad more modern the Rode USB-mini is worth looking at, as well

KaraLG84, to random
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Trying the preview of Tiflotecnia's new Vocaliser NVDA add-on. They're so responsive although I wouldn't use it all the time as I'm not a huge fan of the voices.
For some reason, they have the Fiona one under English (Seychelles), rather than English (Scotland).
There seems to be duplicate versions of voices at the same quality level for some reason.
I'd also like to see a voice preview button.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 do you know to what degree they left automatic language detection in? Do we still have unicode-based switching that you can see?

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 that's good at least :)

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 how'd you get the preview? Is it hanging out somewhere or did they email you in particular?

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 lol what is the difference between enhanced quality and highest quality? Have you found out?

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 I think machine learning, actually.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 but could also be multilingual, like ...speaks english and target language. No idea.

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 ugh I wish they'd toss Claire and Xander in the garbage finally ...they sound incredibly, incredibly posh. Nobody speaks like that :P

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 its more like a lady that would constantly be telling you how her rich, influential father keeps buying her yachts. Like ...it works, it's serviceable, but yuck...

zersiax,
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@KaraLG84 yeah that is an interesting mix of things but I'd say far more common Dutch, he's just so ...bouncy :) and then there's the Dutch siri voice who almost sounds little Amsterdam-grown-up first generation Dutch which I actually kinda like listening to, it ennunciates very clearly

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