Marvin: This is the car park, you ordered a babe wash for your ship. Due to staff shortages, I am your babe.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

I was inspired by a post from @FreakyFwoof talking about DC++, and took a brief jaunt down memory lane.
In the last 5 years, Limewire evolved into some kind of vibe coded file sharing and AI platform. (https://www.limewire.com/)
Napster is now “Visible AI agents with voice, video and memory” (https://www.napster.com)
BearShare is now an AI slop music blog.
Is some LLM out there recommending that people hoodwink old file sharing company names for completely unrelated projects as a strategy? Brand resurrection? Capitalizing on nostalgia? Just coincidence?

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@amir/117565208576048092

Update: Eloquence C V1.1.3 is out to fix the discovered crash with long text containing certain symbols, and more improvements:
https://github.com/hozosch/Reloq-C/releases/tag/v1.1.3
@HOzosch @fastfinge @nick

RE: https://tweesecake.social/@doubletap/117557887046271100

I agree with Double Tap here, and as a result, I have added disclaimers in both my README and user manual so users know exactly what they are getting into. Also, if someone gets banned while using whatSnap, kindly DM me the things you were doing at the time, as well as the log file located at %localappdata%\whatSnap\logs\backend.log. This will help me debug what the issue is. Again, if your number matters to you a lot and you can live with the official app, please do so.

For those who are into 3d printing, this guy made an accessible slicer interface that works with Creality print, Orka slicer, prusa slicer, and Bambu studeo. It's designed for blind folks to be able to slice prints independently. https://github.com/Accessible3D-Edis/AccessSlice #3dprinting

I decided to set up my GitHub account so I can receive sponsorship.
If you have played around with Chronicle and like what it does, even the smallest donation would always help especially with testing thousands of pages repeatedly, which can get quite pricey.
https://github.com/sponsors/harry6116
I'm also going on a podcast to talk about this program, which I can't wait to do actually.
#AI #BLIND #Technology #Accessibility

6. Oh yeah. Very much enjoy touch Id. Now need to train my muscle memory not to lift the phone in front of my face every time I want to use it.

First 12-ish hours with the iPhone duo:
1. It has some very strange, seemingly mandatory noise reduction on microphones when recording in stereo. Haven't found out a way to turn it off yet.
2. A current iOs bug prevents Braille Screen input to flip to landscape orientation with the port being on the left when the device is open.
3. Having come from the Pro Max line of devices, I am not at all bothered by the weight.
4. Explore by touch, which is my primary way of using the phone on the big screen is gorgeous.
5. Most apps look fine with Voiceover. Some old apps such as dystopia are squished in the middle of the screen.
will thread my random ob servations here as I go.

Sorry, but just LOL! Microsoft swears Windows 11 isn’t “less secure,” even as 1,100+ security fixes landed last month, and warns hackers can now exploit them within hours.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/microsoft-swears-windows-11-isnt-less-secure-even-as-1100-security-fixes-landed-last-month-and-warns-hackers-can-now-exploit-them-within-hours/

"A Black woman, an Indigenous woman, and a Latina walk into a bar ... The bartender says, "What can I get you, Governors"

The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control https://www.engadget.com/2308330/the-faa-is-finally-phasing-out-floppy-disks-from-air-traffic-control/

TIL that Keith Moon, the drummer of The Who, once bribed a stagehand to fill his bass drum with gunpowder before a show. He then proceeded to detonate it on stage during the show's finale, scorching Pete Townshend's hair and embedding a piece of shattered cymbal in his own arm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Moon#Destroying_instruments_and_other_stunts
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1xoz4w7/til_that_keith_moon_the_drummer_of_the_who_once/

After doing some investigation, the BrailleSense 7 definitely seems more secure than the SensePlayer, or the Orbit Speak and Player. There is no built-in root access like Magisk, SELinux is set to enforcing, and the boot loader is locked. Also, the password you set actually uses the real Android encryption and screen lock, meaning your data is actually encrypted securely when the device is powered off; its not just security by obscurity on top that Selvas wrote, like passwords on some of the old notetakers were. Also, it seems very possible to write apps that speak and Braille directly, and receive raw key combinations, and to get the Android screen reader to ignore them; its a lot easier than on the Orbit devices actually, since I don't have to write my own launcher or patch their screen reader. However, you would have to write your own UI framework, since things like widgets and dialogs are not in the AIDL interfaces but in proprietary code that cannot be distributed. It even seems pretty easy to get alternative screen readers like Backtalk or Sandfly working, with the Braille display interface I added initially for the Orbit devices.

BREAKING: A Navy helicopter pilot who rose to Chief of Navy Reserve, and was fired by Pete Hegseth, just won a seat in Congress. Nancy Lacore, a 35-year Navy veteran who says she was removed “without cause,” took Nancy Mace’s South Carolina seat in a district Trump carried by 13 points. She’ll arrive in a Democratic House with subpoena power, and Hegseth picked the wrong admiral to push out.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6192130-lacore-wins-south-carolina-house/
#BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky #press #Hegseth #NancyLacore #Midterms2026 #Democrats

Monty's random thought of the day. When it comes to civilian aircraft, are there any new aircraft being built at all? Every time I watch a pilots youtube channel or hear about what aircraft pilots are flying, and this includes airliners, it seems that the newest aircraft I hear about is anywhere from 15 years old and older! So like if I were a pilot, and wanted say a new Cessna or Cerus aircraft, or even a new jet, could I get one? I mean I can't exactly go down to the local auto mall and see the latest aircraft builds, so I was just wondering if any pilots ever fly brand new aircraft that's like 2 years or less old?

Japan Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air, Asiana Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines all reported data breaches over the last week.

The incidents are tied to Spanish tech giant Amadeus, which said hackers breached one of its platforms in October

https://therecord.media/asian-airlines-announce-data-breach-it-provider-incident

I'm now having Claude build an audio game map engine thing. But I'm having it be as accurate with the acoustics as possible, including using real-world sources to estimate reflectivity, absorbtion, echoes, and more. It is calculating the speed of sound based on temperature, pressure, and humidity. Obstacles let different amounts of sound through. You get the idea. The math is beyond me, and it's doing this as I finish my paid work for the day. I'm curious to hear the output.

I have gotten BARD audiobooks to play on my Mac. There is no BARD client for macOS, and the BARD app in the App Store is not marked as macOS compatible, so normally it shouldn't work. However, I used ipatool to download the BARD Mobile IPA from the App Store, then I used the UnfairPlay IPA decryption tool on it, specifically its convert-ipa-macos command which marks iOS apps as compatible with macOS while retaining the encryption and code-signing. This let the IPA install when I opened it, and after that I could open the BARD Mobile app from Applications or from Spotlight, and I could log in and download and play books. I didn't even have to disable SIP or patch the app or anything like that, and apparently the device ID it sends to NLS (which is based on different hardware and OS information) was accepted, even though its a Mac and not an iPhone or iPad. I could have ran BARD Express in Parallels or BARD Mobile in AAE instead, but I like being able to use the play/pause button on my keyboard to control playback no matter what I am doing, and this is lighter than having to have a full VM or emulator running just to play BARD books.

I (with the help of a friend) managed to convince another friend to try switching from #Codex to #Claude. And it's not the first time when I hear it's a huge boost, quite another experience. Try Claude, if you haven't yet: pay $20 for a month or drop me a DM, I'll share my subscription (there is an official way of sharing a week of subscription, nothing fishy or illegal). Codex is a good thing for code reviews, finding hard-to-pinpoint bugs, race conditions, such things. But for solving complex tasks… you'll see the difference straight away, and when you start using skills, it's yet another mega boost. #AI #AIAssistedCoding

My streaming marathon is November 28th! I’ve got some prizes lined up for viewers, but I’d love to grow the prize pool. If you make something (a game, app, book, or anything else) and want some exposure, consider donating a few copies to give away. DM me if you’re interested!