Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 11 hours ago:
I don’t know if this is still the case, but I know years back iPhones were preferred by a lot of blind people just in terms of accessibility. Digging through accessibility settings, it looks like you can use Voice Control to tell it to open Lemmy, and VoiceOver to read all the text on the screen without touching it. I don’t know about the example you added to your OP, adding phrases it would need to interpret seems more like a Siri thing (which I don’t use), do I don’t know how well that plays with Voice Control.
I wouldn’t rush out to buy anything unless some Android people confirm it’s not doable. Apple does have people that know the software working at their stores, so they could tell you specifics for sure. And check that I’m not totally wrong, lol.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 11 hours ago:
Someone who knows more about how to/if you can do this on Android will have to answer the specifics for that; I know on iOS you can use custom voice control actions (along with default voice control phone navigation mode) to do more or less what you’re describing. I’m surprised if Android has no accessibility features that work similarly.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 12 hours ago:
Sorry if I’m overlooking something obvious here, but you’re basically asking about accessibility features, right? Whatever settings and features blind users use should let you navigate without looking at it.
Although I will say you probably would need to get used to listening to text at a very high speed to use it at the speed you read.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 16 hours ago:
Great argument for and example of how the US government isn’t taxing wealth nearly enough, if we have homeless people and billionaires funding sci fi fantasies for their own amusement in the same country.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 days ago:
If anything that makes it more important. We already know how essentially all the Democrats are going to vote. A couple of Republican defections is all it takes to hold the Senate.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 days ago:
God, the doomerism in here fucking sucks. If you won’t even pick up a phone why am I expected to believe you’ll be the hardest antifa soldier there ever was when the revolution comes (which, conveniently, is never)?
This is more embarrassing than those people who spend real life money prepping for a zombie apocalypse. At least those people have things that might actually be useful in a real disaster.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 days ago:
It is literally night and day for queer people. Large accounts can’t post about queer subjects on Twitter without harassment anymore due to how the algorithm works, but if you subscribe to a couple of block lists on Bluesky that is GONE. You might run into the odd freak, but community run block lists will keep the tide at bay.
When Mastodon takes user safety practices as seriously as Bluesky does I’ll consider switching.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 days ago:
My memory of the exacts here are fuzzy, but I think this depended on whether or not your TV picked up digital signal, analog, or both. I remember around that time we had a TV that would pick up static on some channels and have a blue input screen on others.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 days ago:
Yeah, my youngest sibling has definitely seen CRTs. My niblings probably haven’t, though.
- Comment on Hey, smoothbrain! 1 week ago:
- Comment on lab toys 1 week ago:
Oh man, do you think spilling some FBS once is what cursed me? I think that might be what cursed me.
- Comment on Researchers discover localized pain relief using known chemical reaction 1 week ago:
Thanks for the info! I’ll bring it up with my doctor.
- Comment on Researchers discover localized pain relief using known chemical reaction 1 week ago:
Gabapentin is cool and everything, but if this new stuff doesn’t have any bad side effects I’d love to try it. Gabapentin gives me slow brain at effective doses, and it seems like something that only activates at the pain site could potentially avoid systemic effects like that.
- Comment on Drab Breasted Bamboo TYRANT 1 week ago:
I don’t know if this is true of all species in the family, but the North American tyrant flycatchers are absolutely named that because they’re bossy little shits and very territorial, they won’t hesitate to attack and terrorize larger birds. They’re the chihuahuas of birds.
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
In primates small testicle size is correlated with how many males a female typically mates with. More males mating with the same female means the male that produces the most sperm has an advantage. So gorillas have tiny balls because every troop only has one silverback male, and chimps have horrifically huge nuts because there’s a lot of competition for mates from other males in the troop.
Interestingly, humans fall roughly in the middle of the scale in terms of ball size!
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t this just Chrono Trigger?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So he’ll stop “trying” to get there (using the hype to scam people) if Harris wins, right?
- Comment on This Website Allows You To View And Interact With Retro PC Game Boxes in 3D 2 weeks ago:
Alas, they don’t have the nostalgia box I was looking for (any of the Petz series). Looking at the other boxes (especially the Netscape) box really took me back, though. Software boxes were so exciting and magical to see in the store back when you had a modem where download times were measured in minutes and hours for a few megabytes rather than seconds.
- Comment on Based on a comment of mine complementing another user. 3 weeks ago:
Why would they need to credit a near 40 year old reference?
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
May I introduce you to our lord and savior, Aldi?
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t stopped wearing an N95 in public since 2020. I’m not going to say nobody has ever been weird to me about it, but the vast majority of people are more interested in my colorful hat than my mask. YMMV depending on location.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Are the Pope and the Michelin man going into a voting center and filming people with their faces covered?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“The law against voter intimidation doesn’t specify specific conduct that is illegal. It specifies that intimidating voters is illegal,” Morales-Doyle [director the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice] said. “And so really, whatever form it might take, if the result is that a person feels uncomfortable exercising their right to vote, then it violates the law against voter intimidation.”
Even if this wasn’t obviously reminiscent of the KKK, just seeing someone hiding their identity while pretending to be a government official is unquestionably enough to make someone feel intimidated and that it’s an unsafe place to vote.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This seems like a violation of Georgia’s laws against wearing masks in public. If they were trying to speak with or otherwise interfere with voters I encourage you to report it: law.georgia.gov/…/election-fraud-complaint-hotlin…
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s basically what The Botany of Desire is about, right?
- Comment on At what point when learning a new language do someone become bilingual? 1 month ago:
I’ve legitimately never heard polyglot used to mean “speaks two languages”, I thought it meant “speaks three or more languages.” I can understand it being useful to have a specific term for people raised with two languages from birth/very early childhood though.
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- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
Normal person reading that: particle accelerator from TEMU
Me: oh god, there are TEMU particles??
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 1 month ago:
For me, hourly movement reminders and medication reminders without having to constantly keep my phone in my pocket has been a godsend. Keeping track of my heart rate (especially while asleep) has also been great for being more aware of when my PTSD symptoms are acting up. I’m also never going back to a sound based alarm instead of a vibrating one, no idea if regular watches have that now too or not.
- Comment on Chrono Cross, a bad sequel but good game 1 month ago:
I think I played a ROM of that when I was younger! It’s the text based game right?
