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  I think @serrebi@serrebiradio.com now that the SSI263 add-ons are live on Git your store should be able to crawl and pick them up soon.

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  You know what would suck on a birthday though? a badly written pull request from someone, full of errors and vibe coded crap that pulls in dependencies the project never needed in the first place and just muck it all up.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@cary_rowen/117343878605032126 lol. I guess my Masto followers can decide that, I'll say getting 10 stars on the repo in 24 hours felt good.

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  How the SSI-263 learned to speak again: the whole story, day by day, from the first ROM read to this release, and who found what along the way. read it at: https://github.com/tgeczy/ssi263-speech/blob/main/docs/history.md Open questions: what we still don't know, and where the answer would come from. This is where I need the community to help. If you are a chip expert or knows someone who is in the SSI263, I need to get in touch with that person or team up. https://github.com/tgeczy/ssi263...

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  Clicks Communicator brings 4.03-inch AMOLED display and physical keyboard to Android 17. For 12 gigs of RAM and a fairly mid-range but OK chipset, these specs are not half bad to see on a keyboard phone. https://linuxgizmos.com/clicks-communicator-brings-4-03-inch-amoled-display-and-physical-keyboard-to-android-17/

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  As I use all this retro tech around me, I'm reminded of something deeper. The peace wasn't discipline to only use one or two apps at a time, it was the hardware enforcing it for you. You didn't monotask because you were wiser; you monotasked because opening a second heavy thing would've brought the machine to its knees. The scarcity was the feature. And the quietly funny part is that we've now spent twenty years building software with things like focus modes, tab...

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  NVDA Store: I don't know if it's a good idea for Panthera and Outspoken. Claude's suggesting it, but for one, I have zero idea how difficult submission is, and for another, maybe they would disallow it for being an Apple engine. Who knows. I have not considered it tonight until it was direct-asked again. So yeah, it's up in the air for now. And yes I know of the repo. I've been poking at it. https://github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore

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  Ok, I get that on one hand, we need to get used to vibe coding as it's here, but also like, forcing that view on those skeptical or very rational about the limits of vibe coding vs where human logic and creativity, ingenuity come in will not get you anywhere but toward a place of more hatred and condemnation. Remember that just because "vibe coding is here to stay" doesn't mean everyone has to accept or be OK with it either in their projects or their lives, and that's OK....

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  I know this will sound crazy, but on my Pixel Watch 2, I could not use Talkback on a screen-lock after a fresh reboot of the watch, because it was trying to use TTS from userspace and unlike the Pixel phones, you just get Talkback sounds but no actual speech when trying to enter your pin. Thought this was very, very annoying with Pixel Watch.

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  Also if Google Pixel Watch 5 is seriously going to use just an updated Wear Gen 2 accelerated chip, maybe with slightly higher clocks or GPU cores but not quite as good as the Single A78-cluster plus 3X a55 cluster of the SW6100 (the Wear Elite in Galaxy Watch 9) I'm seriously going to be disappointed. Like, seriously. That will seal any tinge of sorrow I may have even felt not going with them, despite their perfect-circular shape. While The lack of a crown on the Watch 9 bothers me a littl...

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  With full/author permission and consideration towards this engine having no comercial sales, FlexVoice 2.5 is distributed directly here. This release adds a new clarity slider that was never documented but told to me by the author. And it works in the engine - so, unlocked after 20 plus years. How cool is that. :D https://github.com/tgeczy/Flexvoice-wrapper/releases/download/v2.5.2/Flexvoice-2.5.2.nvda-addon

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  loool should I feel a bit glad that Mist World hasn't made it to AgNow yet? Probably. Imagine people playing from there for like 12 hours at a time. ha.

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  TikTok is telling people to put their phones into the fridge.... Sigh, just why. Bet it was some AI that gave the idea to someone, just like when they told us eating a rock a day is a good thing. If you want a phone with internals covered in water droplets as condensation takes its toll it's absolutely the best idea though.

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  I think like, 90% of my followers (and people I speak with day to day) are kind people who wake up every day here to better the world. Even if the percentage of "kind and friendly" people may be lower in the actual world, what matters y'all is who you surround yourself with. If it's a lot of those who are passive aggressive or easily develop an attitude over your smallest of questions, or become argumentative, then surely you will think the world is made up of high strung not...

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  Got in touch with the developer of FlexVoice MindMaker. Also, today the maker of PC Robot graciously offered to mail me (yes, physical mail) the original ISA card with the PCF8200 chip inside. Also, the author of Brailab himself was happy for my Internet Archive upload. Mind=blown all day. Just, blown. The fact that I'm able to talk to these people who are well into their 80s and get a chance to tell them, "hey, your work lives on. Don't worry, time won't eat it." feels s...

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  "Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three organisations during cyber tests" Watch OpenAI come out with, "wait, we actually found ours hacked four!" Only in today's world is it completely normalized to have a dick slinging contest about who hacked the most of what and how they did so.

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  Happy Friday! If it is your birthday today, or you know of someone who has theirs, maybe it's their lucky day. you want to hear an old Hungarian formant synthesizer sing like it did in 1991? Listen no further.

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  "To display this content from X (Twitter), you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement." ope, nope, never, fuck you X for limiting your content like that, but that ain't gonna make me give in.

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  so iOS 27 so far isn't horrible. The weird comma-inflection for Eloquence on home-screen icons will take some to get used to, along with how the status bar has no pauses between the item and role. Swiping feels a tad faster if anything, and all my apps like banking still work, so I haven't found a reason to go back just yet. The only new VoiceOver change (aside from the stuff in VoiceOver recognition, which now has a toggle for only using local models) is that the Braille &qu...

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  I see Anthropic removed the ARIA from the "open sidebar" button, making it no longer be a toggle-button but a standard one for which the label changes, presumably still via an Aria-label (although, who knows. Could be a visually-hidden Span but I won't raise my bar that high.) Still, one less ARIA attribute usage and a native button keeps it more consistent across platforms in how it announces, so a small win there.

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  Google Gemini is for sure back for me both at home and at work, so I'm thinking the outages are finally solved for them. Took out most of the day though, had to focus on work that was more doable with Claude Code and the web and not built on using Gemini models like image description stuff that use my work API key. Alas, so goes the fragility of the AI world and our dependence on it (and often not by choice for situations such as work, where staying ahead matters.)

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  Well well, the US government strikes again, all access to Fable 5 models is disabled for all customers, just wow. Trying to pick it as the Claude model just redirects here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

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  Been throwing up all second half of the day, not sure if it's the BBQ chicken from the freezer (was only about 2-3 weeks old, but chicken, so...) or my heart-burn getting so up to my chest that I slept only like 1-2 hours the night prior. Regardless, the nausea has finally come to pass.

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  also, y'all, Apple really, really destroyed the Weather app with VoiceOver in iOS 27. It's a huge mess of repeated controls, items not grouped together properly to their parent relational element, so, so bad. Swiping right does an infinite-scroll thing where you see the next city's weather if you're not careful. Explore by touch brings you some sanity, and the audio graphs are still there, so like, clearly it's a mix of the old and new Weather app UI but...

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  Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/12/1138833/inside-interoception-brain-body/

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  "Hell" is considered a mild swear word in English because of Protestant cultural history. While many languages view the literal concept of hell objectively, English speakers historically grouped the word into blasphemy and "liturgical swearing". Calling upon or wishing someone to a place of eternal damnation was viewed as violating the sacred. Imagine, then, me as a little 8th grader from Hungary. I had told my teacher that a test can go to hell. Sent to princ...

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  This prime day stuff kind of makes me sad, so I'm choosing to not browse it. Basically you buy a new computer now at the price that it should have been from the beginning. Then we see how the Steam Machine suffered in the pricing from the shortage, also coming with single-channel RAM, and yeah, it's enough of a clusterfuck for me to not want to look at electronic aisles. Same with the Rog Ally X. It's a great time to buy one, as Best Buy also discounted it to $899, but th...

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  I guess what gets me is: We're out here in the first world complaining about how RAM prices are destroying the tech industry, meanwhile, all it takes is one single Earthquake to take all that away. My heart really aches for Venezuela - don't care how much they are behind economically, each of those 900+ who passed were part of a network of families. A brother, a son, a daughter, a wife, a husband, a cousin, an uncle, an Aunt. Whatever the case may be. And no matter how many 128...

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  OMG. Toy Story 5. Totally 100% recommend. Even if Forky's role was a bit more minor than I would have liked, but at least you do se a lot of classics reappear like Slinky And Rex. And I love how they weave the starting point of the story throughout it, there was serious creativity placed into this film. Swift singing the credits was also amusing. All in all, high recommend.

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  OK. To those trying to join the Apple Intelligence waitlist using VoiceOver in iOS 18.1, you may notice that nothing happens when you push the button. This is because Apple wisely coded this as a screen modal, and something does happen, you're just not notified of it. You must explore on the screen, and towards the bottom you'll find a button to "join the waitlist" which you need to press again to confirm your choice. You'll know you have joined because...