I woke up at 6… on a Saturday… on my own… with no alarm… Like an old lady. I am annoyed. I take pride in my ability to sleep until at least 10 on weekends. This better not become a thing. sleeping is my favorite part of the day.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk I'ma have lunch now byeeeee
51m agoI just adjusted a pair of loose sunglasses with a tiny bit from my @iFixit toolkit. I’ll be honest, that wasn’t in my list of predicted use cases, but here we are.
You know who else does that? EVERYONE. Everyone and their mother is guilty of this. I am guilty of this. I cannot think of everyone in every situation. I'm probably offending someone right now. We can talk about that when the ideas I express in this post reach the popularity and generate the quasi-fanaticism that anti-glasses ideas have. Somehow, I think that people will be much, much more hesitant to talk shit about phones with cameras on them than about smart glasses. But hey! Sighted people are the many, blind people are the few. We will continue to graciously accept that everybody has a potential camera on them at all times, because it would be ridiculous to lobby for phones to not have cameras anymore, wouldn't it?
Disclaimer: I had Meta glasses for a week and returned them. I found no benefit in using them myself, and I do not like Meta in general. I also know people that have found very good accessibility-related use cases for them. You know what I usually utilize for those use cases? My phone. Wow! Nuance! Or is that hypocrisy? The lines are so blurred nowaadays...
This written after coming back from the gym where somebody talked to me for 2 minutes about how much merit it had that I was doing what I was doing. I'm self-conscious as fuck at the gym. Should I write one about AI next? Should I? Should I?
Go on, ask me for sources. I've got stories aplenty! Like that lady who I accidentally bumped past two days ago who turned toward me and said to their companion "oh shit, he's blind!" in a very audible voice. How about the lady that stopped me at a crossing last week to talk to me about how praiseworthy I was, how much my dog took care of me, how he's my best friend, "right?" while I was running late to an appointment? Wait until I tell you about the lady who shouted across the street when the traffic light went green "ARACELI! QUE VIENE EL CIEGO!" (Araceli! The blind one/blind man is coming!). Are you looking for examples specific to pictures/videos? On multiple occasions, my sighted friends and mobility instructors have had to tell me about people openly taking pictures of my dog and I on trains and in stations, and on a couple of those have had to tell those people off. Are you sighted, like the great overwhelming majority of people are? Check your privilege. You can tell when someone is wearing smart glasses. I can't tell when someone is holding their fucking phone. I can't even tell when people are gawking at me for being an inspiring superperson with a supercane or a superdog (okay Sid is actually a superdog). It makes me uncomfortable and guess what? The not knowing doesn't make it easier. If I were a more vindictive person, I could be saying "hah, now you know what it's like". Stop whining. Or at least, have some humility and adequate your whining to the world, not just to the able-bodied majority. It is so, so typical of the Fediversal Good to leave entire sectors out of the equation out of simply not thinking about them.
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I'm willing to accept the general de-nuanced views against smart glasses and those who profit, economically and in clout, from disparaging them and the people who make use of them.. I'm willing to accept that they're a cancer on society and I'm willing to accept violence against those who make them and use them. Under one condition. That you grant me this: I am fully blind. Anytime I go out in public, I am acutely aware that an overwhelming majority of people have at least one device on them with a camera. Their cameras and microphones could have disco lights going off every time they take a picture or start a recording and I'd be none the wiser. I do not know whether someone is taking pictures of me, videoing me, or even whether they are holding this machine in their hand or not. A train carriage full of people minding their business feels the exact same as a train carriage full of people pointing their evil anti-privacy, anti-blind machines at me. It does not make a difference whether they are big or small tech. It's absolutely trivial to turn any audible alert off. What's more, even if you do happen to have your GoodSmallTech™ made-in-the-EU ethical anti-AI anti-fascist anti-nazi phone's audible alerts at full volume, a selfie and a photo straight at my goddamn face sound the same to me. And you know what the funny part is? That I have no doubt, no damn doubt in the world, that people take pictures of me without my knowledge or consent at least somewhat regularly. I'm blind, I'm gallivanting around with a cute dog, crossing streets and going on trains... How inspiring, how interesting! And after all, I'm blind, so I'm not gonna notice! I firmly believe that at least a decently sized sector of the population does not assign the same level of personhood to a blind person, or probably any disabled person, than to "normals".
I've just tried backtalk, and it is amazing! The only annoying thing is that I can't use my banking app with the screenreader.
And everyone says Siri AI is still worse than gemini. Here is a demo of Gemini being absolutely fucked.
Delivered general freight from Denver to Pueblo in Freight Fate: 113 miles, on time. Earned 2 achievements, including Beat the Clock, Fewer Days.
According to the world, today is Metric Day. But not my kind of Metric Day. Nope, for that, we need to wait two months and thirteen days.
The ChatGPT website has undergone some changes, and since yesterday, I've no longer been able to press Enter on the edit box to get NVDA out of Browse Mode so I can start typing. Instead, I have to focus the edit box and press NVDA+Space. Interestingly, Enter works if there's already at least one character typed into the edit box. But when you want to type something for the first time, or start writing a new message later in an ongoing conversation, it doesn't work. This happens regardless of whether I'm using an NVDA alpha, beta, or stable release. JAWS, however, doesn't have this problem.
@NVAccess
God bless, goodnight & good morning.
10:10 p.m., cause I can.
Just wanted to stop by & wish you a happy birthday; hoping you get or got to do something special. 🎁🎉🎂🎀
Delivered general freight from Denver to Silverthorne in Freight Fate: 67 miles, on time. Earned 3 achievements, including Signed, Sealed, Hauled.
I'm happy to announce scriptview 0.2.0, a tool that shows you the source code of compiled AppleScript files, on macOS, Linux and Windows. This does feel slightly weird for me because it's the first time I'm truly vibe coding something; Claude did practically all of the coding, and I directed, reviewed, pushed back, and read through endless amounts of old documentation and bytecode.
What it does:
The macOS builds are signed and notarized, so no Gatekeeper dance.
Downloads: https://github.com/trypsynth/scriptview/releases/tag/v0.2.0
It's open source under MIT, and the docs folder has everything we learned about the format, much of which wasn't written down anywhere before. #AppleScript #macOS #accessibility
All of you in stormy areas, please be safe.
As if Trump's war hadn't already benefited Putin.
Trump says U.S. to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midter https://www.npr.org/2026/10/09/nx-s1-5996912/trump-says-u-s-to-get-diesel-from-russia-relaxing-pressure-on-moscow-to-ease-prices-before-midterms
Delivered refrigerated goods from LaGrange to Chattanooga in Freight Fate: 195 miles, on time. Reached driver level 4 on arrival. Earned 5 achievements, including Newer Iron from the Yard.
Hey um, Kari? meowing and throwing yourself at my bedroom door is not, in fact going to get you in here any sooner, it may even result in you being out for longer, #CatLogic #Catterday.