Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I absolutely hate touch screens! I love my current phone, a Pixel 9A. It has good battery, good speakers, a flat back, etc. But I am so fucking inefficient on a touch screen, no matter if its iOS or android. Want me to google something? Okay, let me look around for the web browser, double tap on it, explore by touch until I find the address bar which might or might not have been moved or altered in a recent app update, double tap there, type way slower than on a physical keyboard, hit search, switch my rotor/reading control to headings, and very slowly start reading through results. Touch screens are remarklably efficient for people with functioning eyeballs, and I've seen people who can text on a phone almost as fast as I can type on a computer. But for me, a metal slab with a glass screen and way more computing power than I would've ever thought possible, no matter how fucking cool it is that we can drop that in our pockets like its nothing, will never ever be as efficient as win+r, browsername, enter, start typing, enter, press h, boom first result. This is not helped by the mainstream screen readers on both mobile operating systems having agrivating bugs. On Android scrolling locks up your screen reader while it refreshes the screen, because we're apparently still living in 2005, and VO has just started getting worse and worse with every iteration. I see the downsides to this approach, but I'm really starting to think the best solution for mobile devices for blind people is custom hardware/software. There are plenty of examples of getting this wrong, but I think that's mostly due to people not eating their own dog food as opposed to it being an impossible task. Paperback for Android has shown me that you can make as polished of Android software as you want, but there are still no physical buttons on the front of your phone. For a truly efficient reading and usability experience, I'd personally want both blind-centric software and hardware with physical buttons. That's not at all realistic, though. Welcome to being blind in a world made for sighted people.

i made a new game called js crossword where you have to solve it by literally writing javascript code that eval()'s into the correct values!

check it out if you're into ctfs or wanna challenge your javascript skills

https://lyra.horse/fun/jscrossword/ <3

Ants have color vision. They are much less visual creatures than their close cousins bees and wasps. The larger eyes an ant has the more she will be interested in colors, and the more likely she is to be able to notice you as a larger creature.

Some ants have greatly reduced eyes, especially army ants who only sense light and dark ... they are much more tuned into touch, sound and pheromone signals from their thousands of sisters who act like a giant sensory organ for the colony as it moves.

*yawns* Well, it’s a relaxing Sunday morning and I just woke up, guess I’ll grab my Hell Rectangle and submit myself to The Horrors.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/116609310065016685

“One approach, proposed by Google Research, is what you might call a “token auction.” In this model, advertisers don’t buy ad slots on a page. Instead, they bid, token by token, on the actual text the model generates. Each advertiser brings their own LLM, and an auction mechanism decides whose model gets to influence the next word. The output is a weighted blend of competing interests, shaped by who’s willing to pay more.”

Affirmation: I have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put me to sleep.