Just been out for lunch with Mum and Grandma. It was yummy.
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Day Garwood
@daygar@tweesecake.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-08-15+glitchChristian, musician, programmer/scripter, genealogist, gamer. Totally blind.
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Joined November 12, 2022
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Oh hello there website. Thanks for making me laugh with your "DiviMenu menu menu item collapsed subMenu link about us".
It's amazing when a company remembers my accessible preference. They've sent me a form out on an audio CD.
I'd be very interested to discover exactly how they want me to fill that in.
My instinct would be to record the answer after the question and then send them that recording in an email, but somehow I don't think they'll accept that.
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@LockOrientation@tweesecake.social Whenever I've tried Bluetooth keyboards, I've ended up with letters duplicating, keystrokes being missed, or the connection dropping altogether. I'd much rather read correctly dictated words without punctuation than garbled input from a Bluetooth keyboard, because Bluetooth is about as capable of holding a connection as a human hand is of holding water.
Different input methods work for different people. Something being available doesn't mean it is reliable, practical, or easier for everyone to use.
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@simon@procrastodon.net @Kaliah@dragonscave.space Still. That should not be the AI provider's responsibility or concern, in my opinion.
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@Kaliah@dragonscave.space Those reminders should come from apps or browser extensions that the user chooses to run, not from some weird random freaky geeky unknown timer on a webpage I've opened that runs without my knowledge.
Oh my absolute LOL! Just got this while chatting with GPT:
"You’ve been chatting a while — is this a good time for a break?"
My computer already babies me enough without the internet starting as well thank you very much. Sheeeeeesh.
Wow guys. Seriously. How do you do Python without driving yourself crazy hearing "space space space space space" from your SR all day because you're mashing your arrow keys and space key to try and satisfy its indentation rules? At least in brace-style languages I can write and test unindented and then use something like Artistic Style afterwards... What's the trick?
My phone wants me to confirm I'm 18+. Bad luck mate. No credit card + no ID = phone stuck in child mode for the next, I guess, 13 years.
I have a monster living inside me!
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@Scott@tweesecake.social I also inherited a record player from my great uncle that my mum tried to connect to the system, but it's still playing through it's own builtin speaker at the moment, so think that's the next challenge to tackle when she next visits.
Currently playing a CD full of FLAC files on my new hifi.
Yes you heard me correctly. This is the first time I've ever heard of a standalone CD player being able to play FLAC files.
Absolutely blown away right now.
RE: @QUinton1110@tweesecake.social
Just got this. Always wanted a talking clock for my phone. Let's see what this thing can do shall we?
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Well, I must say this is the first time I've ever written a song that contains over 2000 words of design notes.
Or come to think of it, maybe I should turn it the other way around. It's the first time I've ever written design notes for a song at all.
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@rooktallon@dragonscave.space @alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc Seems we'll be needing it more and more just for ID. Hahaha.
Seen quite a few posts about the Franklin Language Master recently, so thought it might be time to repost this gem.
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@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc Hahaha haven't played knight manager in a while actually. Found gameplay way too unbalanced when I used to play. You'd get lulled into a false sense of security thinking you were climbing the ranks really well almost like it was too easy and then you'd reach a cliff edge and you couldn't reach above that point and then you'd find others who were way ahead. It was very poorly documented as well. That was about three or four years ago now though so might well have changed.
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@alexchapman @johann @somegregariousdude @menelion I don't blame you, to be fair. Either that, or I have my own git server for some stuff as well.
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@menelion @johann @jonathan859 @somegregariousdude You don't have to contact them though. NVDA will read the word you have to type if you're in focus mode. Not sure how other screen readers react to it but I should imagine it will be the same if it can access the field's label text.
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@johann @somegregariousdude @menelion Yeah. But you have to be in focus mode to hear it, and you have to really pay attention. Try to find that in browse mode... it's not there. So I can understand why a lot of people won't find it. Took me a good ten minutes.
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@musicalman@dragonscave.space That's fascinating. I actually thought it was saying "stealth needing meaty attack". Hahahaha.
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@MutedTrampet@dragonscave.space I don't know whether to find that hilarious or creepy. Hahahaha.
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@StroongeCast@hear-me.social Wow. The worst I can complain about with the jobcentre/benefits stuff is inaccessible letters. I haven't had to go for an interview in over 10 years now, and the one I did go to they were perfectly reasonable with me and explained everything, including what they were writing. I've had bad experiences with carers but that's another story. What you and those other guys went through is disgusting.
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@mew@fwoof.space Nope. I've never seen GoldWave do that thank goodness. It was Stemroller.
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@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space Wouldn't it be funny if I somehow managed to send it back to them on vinyl. I'd love to see the expression on their faces.
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@mew@fwoof.space Oh wow. Crazy. Makes me wonder how NVDA's beepy tones would cope with that.
For the first time ever I'm actually ripping some of my DVDs as videos in the hope that I might be able to get them audio described by AI or whatever, since they are stingy enough not to provide their own AD.