Notices by Talon (talon@dragonscave.space), page 5

I wish I had a pool

Seriously the entity who designed mosquito bites to be itchy should be fired

I just misconfigured something. DNS can be a pain once they become complex, but since we can convert them to JSON, it should be classified as a strong stimulant. It totally feels that way, too.

It turned out super boring.

Ngrams do fix this problem.

Now to figure out if I can merge different length ngrams into one Markov chain and still have it output coherent text. I’m doing cursed things again.

You know, sometimes it really is fun to just throw code at the wall and see what sticks. Don’t even think too much about it. As soon as you get some kind of idea, do it. Definitely getting some unexpected and fun results out of this.

I have arrived at the point where I’m using multiple smaller Markov chains to augment bigger Markov chains recursively and this is the point where I should probably stop.

This is no longer a Markov chain. It’s Markov spaghetti. But surprisingly coherent Markov spaghetti.

I’m kinda half tempted to make a Markov chain bot with all of my posts.

I feel like I've said this before but nobody here is trying to hurt anybody's individual feelings when we point out shortcomings with Linux accessibility. But like... when we ask a question related to some OS or another, we're told to just switch to Linux. When I talk to my brother he enthusiastically tells me how seamless switching to Linux was for him, how many things just work. Even my dad uses Linux! My mom used Linux! They're not technical people!
And on the other side you have Microsoft, Apple, all falling over themselves to try to shovel shit into our face that we don't want, we don't need, we didn't ask for. Computing is one aspect of life where disability mattered less than in others. We could, we can, do things that non disabled folk can do too. Can you really blame us for being just a bit upset at the state of things sometimes? Especially if it feels like it's just one big great circle that doesn't end? And if that personally offends you, which it shouldn't by the way, then I don't know what to tell you. It's not like we're pointing our finger at you specifically and going "You! You're the problem!". Are we?
We can be grateful for the progress that's happening while still acknowledging that there's a lot of work to be done can't we? If we didn't, would things still happen? If we stopped telling you what was broken, would anyone help us fix it? Would you even know it's a problem? Or how much of a problem? Or what kind of problem?
We don't want to be left behind in a world that doesn't give a shit is all.

I have no idea why discussions about accessibility always get so heated. But then again I also don't really get the people who say that it's not their problem so it's not a problem. Or that it's a lot of work, so can't be done. I mean you're talking about Linux. That entire thing seems like a lot of work. And it did get done.

@Doomed_Daniel @aral "The other major thing I need to work on soon is documentation. My current contract with the GNOME Foundation is ending soon, and we need to make sure that my current work is documented well enough that someone else can continue it if needed. This blog post itself is a step in that direction." Well that's not worrying at all...

What happened to that Unity accessibility thing from a couple of years ago? Didn't they ask a bunch of questions related to Unity IDE accessibility?

Hey if you're somehow working on some kind of game engine, you could add blind accessibility to it, and be the first! We have a few specific ones for audio based games (although most of those are code frameworks and not fully integrated environments), but general purpose engines with editor accessibility? Yup, up for grabs. Go wild! You could make something cool!

Wonder how far this PR is along and how I could try it out? How hard is building Godot?
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/76829

Oh. So... the editor will not be accessible? Should've expected this, really. :(

How dare blind people wanna actually *make* games!
Not saying this to be ungrateful of course. It's a lot of work. But for me, personally, this kinda sucks.
But it does lay the groundwork though so maybe in a couple of years we'll be able to get something done with Godot.

Yes, I know there's more to accessibility than just me. Let me indulge a little. :(

I was going to drop everything I had in favor of Godot, but seems like I made the right choice by not hoping for it yet and doing my own thing anyway.
I'll keep checking back in every couple of months though because hope never dies. I want this. Very bad.