Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)

I have used the women's toilets since 2010 with no problems at all. I will obviously continue to use them and no one is going to stop me.

Neat little website here.
Put in some coordinates or use your current location, and it'll give you a list of Wikipedia articles about things near to what you entered. you can also search for Wikipedia article titles., although you have to type them in exactly - correct case and everything.
https://wikinearby.toolforge.org/

@talon @jcsteh I really wish they wouldn't suggest that. What is that style supposed to convey, apart from sounding like you don't know how to edit?

What's this thing for where YouTubers chop off the last syllable of a word? Just seen one say "goodness gracious" but was edited to cut off the ious bit. It just sounds slopp.

@jcsteh I'm beginning to think it's an aesthetic they do deliberately. Maybe the abruptness looks cool.

I've been playing about with copilot just because it's there, mainly to test it on things I know. The bloody thing's started remembering who I am and bringing up past conversations and whatnot.
I really don't like its overly chirpy demeanour bordering on toxic positivity though. Where's the cynical northerner setting?

I'm glad that (as far as I know) my parents don't use chatGPT or any of this. I'm afraid they would take everything it says literally and not question it.

Both me and my wife's PCs are incompatible with Windows 11 and we don't know what to do about it for the best*.
I splurged on a quite powerful, completely silent one from Scan in 2017, and there's nothing wrong with it apart from Microsoft says no, and the cpu might not be compatible. Scan sells an upgraded version but I can't afford it now.
*No we're not switching to Linux or macOS.

Yesterday on Wikipedia I unleashed the level 3 warning hammer on an editor who was being a bit of a vandal. I thought about using level 4 but it might've been a bit too harsh.

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.