I know people are genuinely concerned about AI getting out of control, and I admit to sharing many such reservations. But if anyone has tried using Alexa Plus, you'll understand why I'm personally not as worried about our impending technological destruction.
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mastodon 4.5.19By day, I'm the Accessibility specialist at Desmos Studio. Otherwise, technology, music, fitness, amateur radio, and bad television from the 90's occupy the rest of my time. Dictators and Nazis not welcome.
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@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio @j@social.ekis.me It was over 20 years ago, but I used a Braille Lite 2000 with a bunch of small utility programs I wrote to help plot out regressions, Z and T-table lookups, and similar. Nowadays if you have access to our Desmos graphing calculator you should be in good shape.
Not directly related to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, but we released a public beta of #Desmos Notebook, a place where you can mix text, math, geometry, graphs, and 3D constructions in a single document a few hours ago. I mention #GAAD here because accessibility is a deeply held core value here, and we've spent a lot of time to ensure the product works for everybody. Still a public beta, but I welcome feedback on what works well and any rough edges. Find it at www.desmos.com/notebook.
Today has been brought to you by the numbers 25, 86, 47, and a lot of tacoes.
It's nice that federal and state entities are rushing to ensure their software and services are WCAG 2.1 compliant, and demanding suppliers fill out an #accessibility conformance report is mostly reasonable. But providing said document as a non-editable PDF feels disingenuous and hypocritical, and only increases my cynicism that anyone out there really gives a fuck about this stuff.
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@fastfinge @fesshole Once, a long time ago, before the days of code linting, I almost committed some console debug messages mentioning Blart Radio to our production server.
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@weezmgk @skippingmoonrocks That's the most insightful thing I've read all year. Mind if I use it?
Fuck ICE. @N2DYI@mastodon.radio
I had such hope for the new #SunoAI feature to clone one's voice for increased personalization. Its approximation of my own dulcet tones fails spectacularly, and thus, I present "My AI Voice" as sung by... a sort of old man with a weird British/American/South African? accent.
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@StroongeCast@hear-me.social @jaybird110127@dragonscave.space Two come to mind:
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While waiting to get my hair cut at a barbor shop at age 12, a man and his wife sat down across from me, and he says to his wife, "see him? He's a punishment for his parents' sinful nature." I wanted to stomp his testicles.
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A former coworker told me he'd rather have his terminal diabetes than be blind like me. He quit a few months later.
Thought I'd see how #Suno would cover the original Blart Radio theme over my lunch break. Given the source material, I don't think it turned out too badly.
Just saw this video featuring my friend Ken, N8KR, talking about all things #SKCC for #HamRadio operators interested in CW with mechanical keys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjEw2cDktvM
Easy solution: don't have friends. @slashdot@mastodon.cloud
Another #Suno cover, this time of the ending music for Blart Radio. I'm surprised how much of the original it recreated-- even down to the harmonies in the main melody.
"I'm Peter Thiel, and I know about the Antichrist. I'm Peter Thiel, and I know about the Antichrist. I'm Peter Thiel, and I know about the An-ti-Chriiiiist."
What a loon. @associatedpress@flipboard.com
Just learned of another victim of today's right-wing techno-fascism: Code 2040 is closing its doors at the end of May. https://www.code2040.org/blog/2026/3/9/h4uynvb9k2kxgujn56jsw4fqeqyumq
The combined and still uniquely distinguishable odors of fresh mulch and dog fart permeate my office this afternoon.
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@mcourcel @BorrisInABox It's way better than it was in its early days. Now Teams and Google Meet are where the shit UI angst should be directed.
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@Jage A team mate from my work will likely be there, but scheduling makes it a no-go for me.
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @cachondo@defcon.social Might you be referring to this?
https://github.com/masonasons/AudioCapture
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@SapphireRose91@tweesecake.social Ah. That's the opening theme. I'll take another spin with the closing music now that Suno's gotten better about instrumental covers.