Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)

I have my iPhone set to turn on and off do not disturb on a schedule, which my Apple Watch follows. But sometimes my watch doesn't turn it off and I have to do it manually. Any ideas why? Or is it one of those apple bugs that might as well be features?

@skinnylatte She had a really weird meow. Sometimes it'd be more like a caw like a crow or something. And she'd go mmmmmmmma!

I really wish bandcamp would fix the play buttons on the website because I'm sick of doing the fucking around necessary to click them.

@jscholes Probably best put something up on GitHub, because if it's not on GitHub it didn't happen. lol

Sharing this without comment, apart from mentioning what it is.
J. R. R. Tolkien Interview about The Lord of the Rings (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEQ0qbUA-eo

NVDA's native selection mode is handy when you have Firefox add-ons that do things to selected text. I have one that looks up selected words in Wiktionary that wouldn't work without it.
@NVAccess

I had a rubbish night's sleep again. When I eventually went to sleep I dreamt I had got a load of blind people I met at RNC in Hereford into playing showdown, and we were walking to our local club or something.
We got lost and ended up in a sewer, and I took charge and asked someone for directions when the rest didn't want to.

And yes I did say planet as it really does seem like a completely different world. Maybe the people that say "in real life" actually have a point.

Apparently TikTok is inaccessible when using screen readers to the point where you have to use workarounds to do something as basic as upload videos to it.
I know I have no desire to be on that planet, but surely the thing to do would be to not use it in protest, and yell at ByteDance about making it accessible. To me, using it with the workarounds just gives the impression of everything's ok and that they don't need to do anything. Or maybe they are yelling at them as well.

I'm not an influencer so what do I know.

I love being that bad at spelling that I confuse spell checkers. Another one of my talents.

I can't think of anything that I'd want ChatGPT and the rest to help me with apart from describing images when that's the only option I have.
Asking it to code things for me just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen because I don't know enough to know if it would end up spewing out complete nonsense.
I don't want it to improve my writing because it'd just come out sounding soulless and corporate. I'm a crap writer but at least it's my own words.
And please do not get me started on what I think about AI music as I'd be here all day.

Every other YouTube ad I'm getting on my phone right now is for crypto bullshit.

Facebook post that to me is a video of some random pop song with the caption "Stay aware!" And the sighted people in the comments are going on about a poster.

Bandcamp's play buttons are still unusable with Firefox and NVDA. I've reported this to Bandcamp probably half a decade ago now but they clearly have done fuck all.

I have a lot of good memories of using Skype but I'm glad they're finally getting rid of it.

@amir Oh excellent. I didn't know they were still working on it. My version's way out of date. Thanks for letting me know.

@amir Agreed that it's disappointing. Another issue I've have with Bookworm if it hasn't been fixed yet is that book sections are arranged in alphabetical order rather than using the book structure. So if you have an epub where chapters have file names of chapter x, they'll appear before the preface.

Good god have attention spans gone that bad? In Tom Scott's latest newsletter he tells you to give a video 20 seconds to get to the good bit.

I'd love to listen to some modern reggae but I'm not sure where to start. The style I like is artists like Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Beres Hammond, Janet Kay, that kind of thing.
Any recommendations welcome.

A photo of a beaver lodge from Wikimedia commons. The description is LLM generated from me asking Be My AI to describe the lodge specifically, and my wife confirmed that it's pretty accurate.