Notices by Quin (thequinbox@dragonscave.space), page 3

I probably have covid, so that's cool. Getting a test as soon as I'm able, but the rest of my family has it so it's extremely likely.

@talon We an our... bwuh? Holy shit, at least it's honest though.

Being blind is weird. Either that, or being me is weird.

I can navigate around complex buildings, like large schools or office buildings, with nothing more than memorization and my cane, but I still don't get how Emojis work. Or how you represent something 3-dementional on a flat piece of paper.

You know, now that I think about it, these haptics feel weirdly close to the Prudence ones. Is Google finally wising up, and taking inspiration from Prudence?

TalkBack 14.1 comes with image descriptions (which are actually surprisingly accurate from my limited testing), spell check while using the Braille keyboard, automatic scrolling for Braille displays (with a customizable speed), and (most surprisingly to me), new haptics! I'm not convinced I like them yet, just because text elements don't appear to have a vibration, but it actually feels like Voice Assistant or VoiceOver now!

Went to report a small security vulnerability to a developer. They have a specialized form for this, so I filled it out with my email, subject, and message, and hit send. After doing so, the form was completely cleared and I was told that the spam filter rejected my email because the subject looked like spam. For reference, the subject was something like "dynamically linking <DLL name> can open up a small security hole". Lolcakes.

Am currently reading Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction by Daniel Zingaro, one of the former BSC Games developers. As a complete newbie to algorithms, I'm finding it quite enlightening. https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Thinking-Problem-Based-Daniel-Zingaro/dp/1718500807

Me and my sister are most definitely not blasting lesbian music in my school’s parking lot.

Friend: "Whoa that was weird."
Me: "What was?"
Friend: "I just saw you be normal. That was very confusing."
Am really not sure how to feel about this

My Mac has an uptime of 89 days, 17 hours, 33 minutes, and I currently have around 15 GB of swap. Should I reboot? I can’t decide.

Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who celebrates! To get some resemblance of enjoyment out of this day before my family arrives, I made another little audio production. Take this as a lesson, future Quin. Never, ever, invite @Kaliah to your Thanksgiving dinner. And, if you do, @BTyson and @BrailleScreen will just walk out on you when it inevitably gets ugly.

Download: https://quinbox.xyz/audio/Thanksgiving2023.flac

To anyone who's recently downloaded my JBI-GUI package, I sure hope you enjoy my super exciting gitignore that got included somehow. #Oops

Now that I finally got WhatsApp on Windows to work, I think I'm done with Telegram. Good bye, old friend. You simultaneously helped me meet so many people and also made me want to throw myself out a window so many times due to accessibility over the past 4 years. Pretty interesting ride, I must say.

I don't have a screen and can't set up WhatsApp for Windows. So...I'm replying to WhatsApp notifications using Phone Link, like all the bad bitches do.

Related: Who in their right mind decided that pressing the arrow keys at the edges of the send message to a notification field in Phone Link should throw you to adjacent UI controls?

Does anyone have recommendations for ways to combat non-24, probably some sort of medication? My sleep is once again screwed up enough to be effecting my day-to-day life. Suffice it to say it's pretty hard to help your family with Thanksgiving preparations or go to school regularly when one day, you're going to bed at 7:00 PM, waking up at 11:00, staying up until 8:00 AM, then crashing for another few hours, then the next day, falling asleep at 2:30 AM and sleeping until 10:30.

Welcome to being a software developer, where you'll write 3 KB of code and then 12 KB of tests for that code. Hope you enjoy your stay.

Just because I'm blind, that doesn't mean I don't see things. I see the way kids try to avoid bumping into me in the hallway, and how they cringe if they end up doing so, or laugh about it with their friends, as if they've just performed the greatest comity act in the past 10 years. I see the way people sigh when they're sat next to the blind girl. I see the way my parents sigh whenever I'm dealing with an accessibility issue, not out of feeling sorry for me, but because they don't want me to ask them for help. I see the way they view me, as a tiny child who can't make her own choices. I see the way many teachers get annoyed when having to adapt for accessibility. I see the way some people who I thought were my friends whisper behind my back, and never tell me about it. In a way, I'm a girl that sees everything.

The existence of headphones implies the existence of leg phones, arm phones, feet phones, hand phones, nose phones, neck phones, and basically <any body part> phones. #StonerPost

Me: "Yeah, I did okay on the quiz actually."
My math teacher: "Yeah, and the mistakes you made for the most part weren't understanding mistakes, they were 'I'm using a screen reader at 800 WPM and have my brain working in hyperspeed so missed a tiny step' mistakes."
I have never felt more called out and seen at the same time in my entire life.

Me (turning to my left, where one of my friends normally sits): "Have you done any kind of research into what kind of black magic we'll need to do in order to make this rotary encoder work with the code?"
My other friend (sitting two seats down from me): "Are you trying to talk to <friend's name>? He's gone."
Me: "Oh shit. Welp, if you ever needed confirmation that I'm blind, there you have it."
The entire class, including me, and the teacher: *dies*
#BlindProblems.