completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those. keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
No, Apple Music, I do not wish to do the humpty hump at noon on a Saturday. Playing the song twice in a row is unlikely to change my mind on this matter.
Just sent some fixes for royalroad.com to the WebAccessibilizer. mainly control+shift+d to toggle showing story descriptions, as they only show on hover by default, and making the story description the main landmark on single story pages. Waiting for that and my fanfiction.net settings to be approved by admin.
@TSchulte Want it, yes. But I'm sure if I lived somewhere in central Africa, affording it would be another matter entirely. We're just lucky that we speak English, so anything we make we can just not translate at all. I have no idea what language is spoken in Cameroon, but I doubt releasing a program exclusively in that language is viable; it wouldn't surprise me if his choices were "do his best in English" or "don't release anything ever".
@Orinks Yeah, but the AI bros won't bother making the slut machines accessible. You'll have to fill out a captcha before you can...Eh, I'm gonna stop right there.
Also looking at his other projects, he has something that he calls an "accessible slut machine". Not a typo, it's called that everywhere. Disappointingly it's an "accessible slot machine". #English is hard and I feel bad for laughing. But at the same time I was really hoping for a slut machine.
I love this so much. It's pretty much a GUI for #tampermonkey, offering an easier way for #blind folks to find elements on a webpage and do things to them. Yes, you could do the same things directly by just writing JavaScript yourself. But this is much, much faster, and requires a bit less knowledge. It took me less than 30 seconds to turn all the story titles on fanfiction.net into headings. Labeling a button, or making other small changes would be just as fast. The typos and slightly incorrect English put me off at first; especially the word "blinds" for blind people felt weird and derogatory. apparently the author is from #Cameroon, though, so maybe that's standard there. stsolution2.org/WebAccessibilizer/#a11y#accessibility#screenreader
Tried to search for "best nzb index" but made a typo and typed "brest nzb index". Then the search engine decided that I must have meant "breast nzb index" and searched for that. Anyway, these papers on NZB/NZW Mice as a Model of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus are not the droids I'm looking for.
@FreakyFwoof Probably the times when India, china, and Japan are quietest. Best way to guess at this would be to get the population of every country, sort it by time zone, then find the hour where the largest number of people are sleeping. Sounds like a job for AI.
I should use elevenlabs voices and sound effects to create some sort of ever-evolving audiogame. Maybe an alchemy game where a new asset only needs to be generated when a new combination is discovered? And openai figures out how the objects combine. Pass it json of the names and descriptions of objects 1 and 2, and have it return object 3, the result of combining those two things. Then pass "high quality stereo sound of combining object1 with object2 to make object3" to elevenlabs. Discovered combos and the sounds can be cached on the server meaning I only need to call the API for new ones. Just throw together something in NVGT to access the server, play sounds, and let users combine things. I guess track what the user currently has server-side too, to allow for trading, and achievements for discovering new things. But once there are thousands of objects that can all be combined with one another...I don't know how to design that database. A table with object ids and names, then another table with the recipes for each object id, I guess? And store a list of the objects each user knows how to make somewhere. Then if you want to know how to make an object, you just recurse through the two things that make up that object, the two things that make up each of those objects, etc, until you have the full recipe? Do you cache recipes or walk through it every time? Does the server do all that recursing or does the client just make lots of API calls? I guess I'd do the server part in PHP and PostgreSQL because I'm a horrible person and we're already using NVGT client side so everything is awful anyway. For gameplay purposes, the more complex an object is, the longer it takes to make. Then you can have lab upgrades. Pay for lab upgrades by selling stuff for gems? Or getting gems for discovering new stuff? Royalties when someone buys/sells an object you discovered? Pass "high quality stereo loopable ambient sound of an alchemy lab" plus descriptors of the upgrades to elevenlabs to get background sound. This sounds like something that, if I made it, would suddenly take up five hundred gigs of ram and 8 tb of disc space because I'm an untalented hack who screwed something up. But it's a free idea for someone who's actually both more skilled than me and has more time. No, I won't be vibe coding it; that's a guaranteed way to wind up with unexpected resource utilization and unexpected API bills.
