Darn thing, the heck man.
Well, I hope my description was at least good enough so that you could properly replicate it.
If you happen to have an Android device lying around, you can go to Settings, Accessibility, and then TalkBack Screen Reader, and turn it on, and give it a try. And you will see what I mean that way.
I don’t know if this will help or not, but here is a video of me using my Android device in the way I mentioned, and I have it set so that you should be able to see where I touched on the display.
https://files.catbox.moe/qo7unk.mp4
Edit: A flick from left to right is the equivalent of using the tab key on your PC, and a flick from right to left is the equivalent of using shift+tab.
The flick can be from anywhere on the screen to anywhere else on the screen as long as it is from right to left or from left to right.
As an example, when you tapped the Wi-Fi icon, you would be able to swipe from left to right, anywhere on the screen, and the next thing announced would be whatever element came next, which I think was mobile data, but I’m not certain of that.
The flick has to be able to be done from anywhere on screen as a blind user is not going to know where the element is visually on the display. Most of the time.
Holy shit, this is amazing. As a blind screen reader user myself, thank you.
I do have one question, though. I noticed that you were doing taps on the screen in order to see what element was underneath it. What happens if you do a flick from, say, left to right or right to left, as that is how a lot of screen reader users navigate?
The way it works on other operating systems is that a quick flick to the right or left will read the next element or the previous element on the screen.
Edit: This just took Linux Mobile from a “maybe one day I can use this” to a “i could use this now” thing.
I’ve been thinking about making my next phone a post-market OS device, and now that desire just increased exponentially, thanks to this post.
I’ve had this app for quite a long time, but I’ve never seen anybody in the mesh, just because of how short-range Bluetooth is.
However, I have successfully used both meshtastic and meshcore, and I prefer meshcore.
Oh yeah, sure, and you can absolutely run open-weight models on your own hardware, which is definitely an improvement from having to use an API from a company. But for me personally, I won’t touch even open-weight models because they’re not fully open source, and fuck that.
For me, it’s open source or GTFO.
For me, I’m going to be one of those hardliners who refuses to use closed source AI no matter how much better than open source it is.
Back when I was first learning about computers and operating systems and software, I did not care so much about open source or understand it and why it was important, so therefore I’ve made decisions that now I have trouble getting away from some closed source programs, and I refused to do the same thing with AI that I did back then.
Look at OLMO from AI2
Open wait AI? No. Open source AI? Yes.
Open weight AI only allows you to tune the parameters and run it locally, where open source AI also gives you the training data and stuff that was used to make the model itself.
I thought Orca would only work for applications written in GTK. I didn’t realize it would work for apps built
I have two third reality thermometers that take two double A batteries and I just used the ones you pick up from the store and I’ve noticed that same thing where even after three months it’s still showing me 100%
I am playing with olmo-3:7b and I found that my PC gives me 9 tokens per second.
When I looked up a graphics card that could handle it, I found out that it one would only cost me like 0.4 Monero, which I thought was going to be a lot worse.
I don’t as I’ve never used them.
Considering that you don’t have to actually give them a name or anything, I’m betting that’s probably the case.
True. The Monero community was basically like, fuck you, we aren’t changing anything. And if you don’t like it, then tough noodles.
The user can do things transparently if they want to in Monero, but it’s not by default, obviously.
We already have public view keys.
Hell yeah
Oopse, will fix
The photo did not come through for me on my end, but the alt text did. And my question to you is, is this a tiny violin?
I agree. I’m an open source maxi and go out of my way to only use open source models.
And I don’t mean open weight models, I mean fully open source models where you also have access to the training data and checkpoints and stuff like that. In my opinion, go open source or GTFO.