Notices by Simon Jaeger (simon@procrastodon.net)

@Estrella HCaptcha is a shit company that basically gaslights blind people into thinking their shit solution is totally fine. Contact them and say you're a web accessibility professional and make a completely valid and privacy-respecting suggestion for how they can make this better with almost 0 effort and get a response from them telling you to fuck off, I dare you.

When a website is technically accessible, but in reality, the login menu item reads as follows:

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I called the taxi company this week and asked if the Jelly Star had been turned into their lost and found. Unfortunately, the answer is no. On a more interesting note depending on who you are, I heard what I thought were Zello sounds in the background, so I asked. Apparently all the drivers are using tablets with Zello for Work now. It took 10 years, but I finally found Zello users in the wild.

@jscholes Of course it will.

We have AI text-to-speech, AI sound effects, AI music, and of course large language models.
How long until we see a full-cast story generator?
Nothing about it would be especially good, but you could hypothetically combine all of these things and maybe end up with something that made the average person go "Wow, a computer seriously came up with that whole thing?"

My favourite thing about AirPods is the way they automatically pair to all your Apple devices when you pair them to one of them. This way, instead of being tied to only one device, I can start listening to my book, get in the shower, and have my watch randomly pair to them from the other room for literally no reason, causing me to get out of the shower and fumble my way to reconnecting the phone.