Andre Louis

@GamingWithEars I've responded to you, but the response I wrote is on facebook, behind a discord link that takes you to substack, which then throws you to patreon, which then leads you to a youtube members-only post. Hope you don't mind.

@randahl@mastodon.social Sounds like a South Park character but I assume this is actually real? Madness. Pure madness.

@TechTangents@dialup.space Where exactly do you draw the line in AI usage? I watched the video and it felt out of place in a way none of your other content does. Do you know the value it can bring to blind people in-cases of alt-text, image descriptions, realtime OCR and so on? Very different use, but AI has become synonymous with 'Everything sucks if it even mentions it' and that couldn't be further from the truth. Bad anything is bad, but not all things require being tarred with the same brush...

@LeonianUniverse@caneandable.social @alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc You want to ban my eyes? Let me ban your face.

@GamingWithEars He said, sarcasticly. hahaha. Nah seriously, you're right though. It's depressing. Facebook is not your web host.

@TechTangents@dialup.space Admittedly I may not enjoy it but when so much of the internet is graphical in nature and I'm thus forced to use some form of AI to navigate it, I have to see the good side in things like 'Seeing AI' 'Be My AI' etc, for image descriptions, things that enhance my screen-reader and so on. Not an apologist, just pragmatic. I, personally, *cannot* avoid it, not if I want to use the internet in a meaningful way. It isn't great, but what is? Not Amazon, not Apple, not Google, not Microsoft, nothing is great. Everything sucks, just depends on how much suck you're willing to put up with to get by.

@fireborn@dragonscave.space @JStark@caneandable.social @zersiax@cupoftea.social @MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space Aaron, let's put our collective noggins together and come out with... Side-talk. Because because you gotta sideload it, right? Yeah. It won't do anything different, in fact it will do 98% of things worse, but it's a new name, so it must be better.

@fireborn@dragonscave.space @zersiax@cupoftea.social @MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space I get this response all the time for my biggest project too and I understand it, even. I'm not making a screen-reader that someone 100% needs to rely on which is a bit different, but I am making a tool that people may find they *do* rely on at certain points. We live in fascinating times.

@Gargron@mastodon.social Apologies for being *that* person straight out the gate, don't want to be an audio-snob, but did you know the audio was completely on the left? I can fix it in-post on my end, and I have to or I get ear-strain but if you could rectify that for the next tutorial it would be wonderful. Thanks.

@Gargron@mastodon.social Of course, that makes a lot of sense. I do audio for a living (and I'm blind so particularly susceptible to things like that) and therefore I can't unhear it. 😊

@HailsandAles@metalhead.club All they need do is go around to Amazon warehouses and collect the bottles of piss left by the workers that don't have time for toilet breaks. Or something...

@ToniBarth@troet.cafe @vick21@mastodon.social That worked nicely indeed. Thanks for making that.

@techsinger@tweesecake.social Well the next build should hopefully offer you the choice of what gets spoken with a key for all, and then keys for the items individually. At least that's what I'm thinking for now.

@lydiaconwell@todon.nl Haha seems like all the things I'd say have been said, which is good. Community at work as it should be.

@mcourcel @GamingWithEars I tend to do that every few years. So good.

@lexipic@dragonscave.space Well I saw it and I'm not on your instance. Post came up as public.

@jvw@musicians.today Oh really? That is very cool. I never got to enjoy it really, my Mac was kind of at that crossover time, so though I had 9.2, I never got to play with it.

@ToniBarth@troet.cafe @vick21@mastodon.social Yep, you made CMD+C close. I tested this by pressing CMD+I to install, and it moved onto that step.

@simon It's here, I forgot to send it this morning: https://www.gforcesoftware.com/help/technical-support/

@munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me @techsinger@tweesecake.social That was one of those tests I could not run until I had an update to test with, so it was a bit scary. I do not like pushing something I've not tested, but yeah. It did what it was supposed to.

@TechTangents@dialup.space To be transparent, I have spent the last 4 weeks making something for blind people that allows us to control fans, read temps etc. There are lots of apps that do this, most of which are either: paid accessible (if you're a power user) Inaccessible entirely and as a musician that can play an instrument, I am not someone who can code. you may well block me now having heard that, but I'm very transparent in the docs and the source that I did not code it. I 'idea'd' it. Always been a good ideas person but I cannot code. You don't need it and even if you did, I know 100% you would never use it and that's fine, but it's allowed me to delete a paid app I was using for 20 years that became less and less accessible over that period. That, is impowering. It is bad for the environment, yes. It is imperfect, yes, but it is hugely empowering, I cannot express how much. I've made it open-source so maybe one day someone far more clever than I could remake it with human hands, but until then, I continue to work on this daily, sometimes multiple times a day and it's serving a niche. I can only apologise for my AI usage, I know it's not great, but it helps. I suspect you won't want to even visit the github page but if you're interested in seeing exactly why I bothered doing this and what I'm aiming to achieve, it's here: https://onj.me/sr

@app@tweesecake.social The log is *full* of things like this after a search: 'str' object has no attribute 'id'

@Jage@mas.to @jaybird110127@dragonscave.space @batworx@mastodon.africa Have you tried composing with NVDA Composer yet? Maybe not quite the Apple II but in-terms of sound, maybe similar.

@fireborn@dragonscave.space @zersiax@cupoftea.social @MostlyBlindGamer@dragonscave.space No no, I absolutely agree with you, perhaps that makes me a hypocrite I don't know.

@Qybat@batchats.net @TechTangents@dialup.space Totally fair. Shouldn't claim you did an entire thing if you did not. Transparency is key here.

@RyanF @chikim If you don't have a github account you can download mirrored copies from https://3.onj.me/jam

@milagemayvary@mstdn.social @TechTangents@dialup.space I have absolutely 0 interest in having anyone's data unless it's the opt in anonymous stats people choose to share, such as here: https://onj.me/srstats

@Mudb0y@universeodon.com You happen to have any phones that support the .rng format? I'm looking for one person to test ringtones exported from my NVDA Composer. That sounds like it might be a candidate potentially.

@jscholes@dragonscave.space @NVAccess@fosstodon.org I will try this, thanks. Even when I connected locally to the pi however, it decided to immediately throw the error. I think it's just too short a timeout now, and I don't know why they changed it. There's no grace period.

@techsinger@tweesecake.social Did you get a chance to try the update feature? Shift F1 if you haven't closed it all day.

@Mudb0y@universeodon.com @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space I have a visceral hate of videos like that. Yep.

@SeveraSnape @simon Not without using a host to act as intermediary

@simon @SeveraSnape It's a groups.io address but I don't know what it is exactly. qws is in the name though.

@SeveraSnape @simon QWS is still alive, and just got a new mailing list, so... Also, if you change patches with track open and your keyboard sends out program changes, it's mirrored in tracks. Has been that way for absolutely years and years.

@app@tweesecake.social Any luck on the search issue? I can't pull searches on any of my instances. Well I can but the buffer's always empty. Not sure what happened there.

@remixman@kind.social @jaybird110127@dragonscave.space @batworx@mastodon.africa I think you're Mac ONly right? In that case, go to the NVDA Composer website, click the 'Load Demo' button and load it from there. Then press Enter to play. https://onj.me/nc

@milagemayvary@mstdn.social @TechTangents@dialup.space You expect that I wanted to grab your data without consent? I'm confused...

@RyanF @chikim We have a test server up at 1.onj.me:22543

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Zero lag here with Chrome and NVDA.

@app@tweesecake.social Yes apparently so.

@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space @batworx@mastodon.africa Just get Claude to try.

@vick21@mastodon.social @ToniBarth@troet.cafe Not in my case, though I'm on a better OS. Sequoia. I ran the script from temp, then moved app to proper place and ran it. No complaints.

@NVAccess@fosstodon.org OO, nasty. My remote server is on tailscale and with 2025.3, it would wait until Tailscale was connected, trying a lot, lot longer before complaining. In fact it never complained on connect, only if you tried to connect and it couldn't reach the server. Now, when windows boots and Tailscale hasn't yet connected, it throws 'Error Cannot connect to the remote computer.' Likely few will run into this, but that's kind of a show-stopper for me. Easily fixed by reverting, but that's not how bugs get fixed.

@ToniBarth@troet.cafe @vick21@mastodon.social I got it installed, bypassed gate keeper, but it couldn't update SWS. I tried to select all from the Details and copy to clipboard and it crashed, unless it took CMD+C as Close. I'm not sure whether it succeeded in updating anything or not. Will try again, just wanted to let you know.