Logged into twitter for the first time in at least a year and it was neat to see who was still posting regularly. Out of the hundreds of accounts I still followed only 4/5 posted this month, two were "popular" accounts that were now getting way less engagement, and others were folks that seem locked to specific communities (VR/Crypto)
@joojmachine
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears! ![]()
I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…
Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years. ![]()
Video below demonstrates reading this post.
#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech
@ohmrun whoa. Didn't know he was still posting 🤯
This is fun. A #JavaScript / react / typescript thing for making circuit boards
@philip @thomasfuchs I agree wholeheartedly! I'm a major proponent of backwards compatibility and I wish businesses used more pressure to force all these big tech companies to have indefinite backwards compat instead of breaking things to reinvent the wheel yet again.
@rayckeith @thomasfuchs Big mood. Had a similar experience on Android recently. Like there's no good reason it should be so unstable.
Also why I like Linux. Don't gotta update nothing so long as it's running. >:P
@thomasfuchs Except when the OS updates and breaks everything every few years. 😭
Google and Apple are singlehandedly keeping developers employed by forcing companies to change everything to keep up with breaking changes / app store requirements.
Kinda why I like shitty web apps with little JS in them.
IMO react makes stuff more annoying for everything except dynamically updated lists. Low key I miss Angular style data binding libraries.
Also apparently backbone is still a thing? https://backbonejs.org/
Groups: "Let's go around and have everyone share a fun fact."
Neurotypical: [A fact about themselves that's quirky in the most beige, unoffensive way possible]
Autistic: [A decontextualized deep slice about one of their special interests... maybe followed by a series of similar facts as they get increasingly excited]
ADHD'ers: [A decontextualized obscure connection that they made between two seemingly unconnected things... followed by a 30 minute attempt to provide the missing context]
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍