Notices by Talon (talon@dragonscave.space)

happy cute little music

did I mention I love ableton? Yeah? Too bad imma do it again

Eeeeeee I finally got it to sound the way I like!!! Mix needs a bit of work but omg

New favorite noise generator on MyNoise, Xenobiota. This is so cool! Completely synthesized nature sounds! Also you should absolutely check out the artist behind this (Amfivolía), they have a video that goes into detail on how to synthesize stuff like this and honestly this is one of the coolest things I've come across in a while. Also play around with the sliders, there's some interesting hidden stuff in here. And yeah definitely check out the video. And just the artist in general they make really cool stuff!

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/xenobiotaGenerativeNoise.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HU8Jm6pNS0

https://amfivolia.bandcamp.com/album/biota-alien-soundscapes

I have to share this again. The MyNoise generator has been running without stop ever since I found this. With all the ear problems lately this somehow provides so much comfort. I love this.

@fireborn But it's not a text editor. If you want merely a text editor, you wouldn't use VS Code.

@fireborn Oh gods Teams... don't even...

Seen a few posts talking about VS Code's bad sides again recently so I just wanted to share this thought and experience I had.
VS Code is accessible. And it tries hard to remain accessible. But sometimes things slip through the cracks. There was an issue with auto correct which specifically happens on Mac with VoiceOver. Working with VoiceOver on the web is anything but pleasant especially from a developer point of view. But you know what happened?
The issue was reported, and it was fixed. There was no discussion about how this is really VoiceOver's fault because it didn't happen anywhere else. Someone said yup, this is not OK, and now it works again.
And at least from my experience, this is, at least at the time, the norm with VS Code and accessibility. I have a problem, I either open an issue or find one that exists and give it a comment or thumbs up, and eventually the issue is resolved. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but in my case, there were never many big arguments, endless comment chains that could never figure out what to do and how to do it. There was an accessibility issue, someone said yup this is indeed an issue, and it was fixed. It was quite refreshing, really.
I imagine not many people use this thing on Mac with VoiceOver but even so.
I like that. I like VS Code. More software should be like VS Code when it comes to accessibility, I think.

Lying on the couch next to an open window with the sun shining in, cat on my feet, laptop on my lap. Perfect time to play with Ableton Live.

@KaraLG84 @jcsteh Everything needs to be fast. Content density.

@KaraLG84 @jcsteh Yes. This is deliberate. In a lot of video editing courses for social media they also explain that you want to very slightly overlap the end of the previous sentence with the beginning of the next one. So all of this is deliberate. Sometimes though it's also used as a creative tool. Like if you're about to make a terrible dad joke or other expression you cut the punchline before you can finish it.

People were asking how to use Ableton Live with a screen reader so last night I recorded this very impromptu little audio demo. I just make a little loop and try to explain what I'm doing as I go as best I can. I'm also still learning so I might be doing some things inefficiently. Hopefully this gives people a little inspiration. Sorry if my speech rate is too fast, this was a very spontaneous thing. I wasn't sure whether I should post it, but I figure anything is better than nothing.

https://iamtalon.me/ableton_demo.mp3

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Something I learned very intimately lately is just how variable disabilities can be. And this extends not just to mental disabilities but physical disabilities as well. The main disability I had before was static. Each day was like the last more or less. I always knew intellectually of course that this isn't the case for everything. And going through it is something else. So don't judge disabled people on their good or bad days. Sometimes it can be almost completely ok. Other days it'll be beyond a struggle to keep going. And often you don't know what it's gonna be until you're there. Don't be so quick to judge people one way or the other. If you see them then it's likely because they could manage then. It doesn't mean tomorrow will be the same.

Click a Mailto: link using Firefox on windows 11.
Outlook opens even though it is not my default mail client.
Outlook closes.
Outlook opens.
Outlook closes again.
Outlook opens.
it closes again.
it's back.
And gone again.

I eventually decided to just reboot.
#JustWindowsThings

I'm sure that my TV's screen reader reading out minified JavaScript source code whenever I open up the YouTube app is not part of bug fixing and performance improving. Is it?

@Kaliah The very unconventional way I do it is: Punctuation level all, speech rate very fast, then control right word by word. Get to about 3 to 5 words ahead, then speak while pressing ctrl right all the while. lol. It did take quite a while before I got it though. It's not easy.

Nice that Androids Talkback has AI in it now but the keyboard experience is still not so great. Google. Please...

@piggo on windows you press control windows enter, and on mac you press command f5. On most linux distros you should be able to turn it on with super s, or super alt s. Anything after that is actually using the screen reader itself, which is sadly necessary to test functionality meant for screen readers. Building one into Chrome probably won't help you here as it would need to be similarly complex. Otherwise, the functionality you're testing for would be missing in the screen reader. But in Bitwarden's case, turning on any screen reader, focusing the website and pressing tab a bunch would have caught this problem.

@piggo it actually used to have one! But really, windows has one, mac has one, linux has one that works with chromium and firefox browsers. So I doubt having a screen reader in Chrome would have made them care enough to try before production.