Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)

It's now spooby season because spoopy is so last year.

Edit added link.
It seems that if iOS image description refuses to describe something because it contains sensitive content, using the explore image command and asking it why will trick it into doing so .
Tried this in Wikipedia's featured article of the day: "Beauty Revealed" a self portrait by Sarah Goodridge. The image does have a human written description but I wanted to test the Apple thing because the portrait contains boobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_Revealed

I think someone should take one of the millions of songs about New York in the US and set it to a video of scenes from New York in North Tyneside or the one in Lincolnshire.

Daft thing that I think Fedi will like: an internet controlled bubble machine in a Florida backyard. It's got a webcam.
Apparently been going since 2001.

https://andieandmike.org/bubblecam/

Absolutely loving the fact that I seem to have completely fucked up OneDrive.

Edit: got rid of the closing icon.
I've reinstalled OneDrive. Now I have 2 OneDrive icons in the system tray; one doing stuff and the other which is just sayin "closing". Sexy

What's the best DECtalk NVDA add-on these days?

We're watching True Lies. Arnie is riding a horse through a Marriott hotel. That would be fun.

Lyrically Hey Joe is a horrible song but that groove and that baseline though.

UK English Siri voice 3 pronounces Norway (when read as a single word or at the beginning of a phrase)) as "Snorway.
So much for super-duper enhanced AI voices.

A post on here inspired me to feed album covers through iOS's "intelligent description" whatsit. Yes it's LLM-based and no there isn't anyone in the house I can ask to describe them for me.
Anyway, that was all going great until I tried Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours".: Intelligent Image Description can’t describe this image because it may contain sensitive content."
What's so pearl-clutchingly graphic about it that Apple thinks I'm too delicate to cope with?

@GreenSkyOverMe In this case the swear words.

From iOS 27: "Intelligent Image Description can’t describe this image because it may contain sensitive content."

wtf Apple.

Interesting stuff in iOS 27 for VoiceOver. Better image recognition is the big feature, but I'm glad they finally have an option to have only app specific hints to be read out.

I doubt this is screen reader accessible but I'm sharing because I reckon some of you would be interested.
Sounds like a FOSS alternative to the Hauptwerk pipe organ software and it has a Linux inside. I think it's a dedicated distro.
OpenPipes — Pipe Organ Sound for the Masses https://www.openpipes.org/v2/

Dreamt I found a portal which transported you to different countries and I think there was copies of it in each one you ended up in. I jumped through it with my wife because I wanted to buy some "proper" liquorice. The only place I tried before I woke up was a sweetshop in somewhere like Finland which didn't have any. Dunno why a sweetshop in that part of the world wouldn't, but that's dreams for you.

<sarcasm>what is this amazing superpower that Facebook people have where they can see phrases like May be an image of book and text, and be able to know immediately which book and text it is? Must be really cool to do that. Suppose they make 'em differently over there though.</sarcasm>

This never gets old.
Chicken farmer laughs like a chicken - RTV Noord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vOv8Fy1BKg

Found a guide on tips for using the Inform 7 IDE with the NVDA screen reader.
https://github.com/eigencrow/Inform-7-with-NVDA
#InteractiveFiction #Blind

I leaned back on the bench I'm sitting on which felt comfortable. Then the back of the Bench turned out to be the back of someone sat on the other side of it. Oops.