It's Stanford. Protests are to be had against middle America, not those who actually hold power, else you might not get the network effects the school all but promises
Google has been doing on device stuff since at least the pixel 3
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It's a clusterfuck. I don't need any accessibility hardware or software. I'm "abled". But I use it anyways, because it makes the human computer interaction far easier.
Most of the hardware out there is utter shit. I have a big 3 pedal foot switch I use with my MacBook. Out of the box it's helpfully set with each pedal being a b and c, with no built in way to change any of that. I've got a karabiner configuration that makes them more useful.
I tried using eye tracking hardware to center my cursor on the display I was looking at, before I got rid of it in frustration.
The only pieces of hardware that work how I want to are the ones I built myself (keyboard and numpad). Everything else requires a bodge. And that's shit. I'm abled and technically minded. If a system doesn't work for me, I can just go back to the happy path. A person with limited mobility cannot. And the disability advisors and advocates and volunteers who set these things up for people usually don't know any better, so they just cargo cult solutions and employ them rote. They don't mean anything negative by it, they're trying to help people. But they aren't typically super knowledgeable about tech either. They get led around by the nose by clever bits of marketing and poorly understood instructions.
Software explicitly marketed as "accessibility" is generally awful. At previous jobs I helped oversee the implementation of accessible systems for a website, in cooperation with a local accessibility advocacy group. For screen readers they used either JAWS or the Apple built in one, voiceover. Both of which work, but not great, with chrome or firefox. Eventually we found ChromeVox, made by Google, and showed it to this accessibility group. Iirc they now use it when helping to set up people with software, because it's just so much better than anything they used before.
Similar stories exist with regards to the SurfingKeys browser extension. In short, it gives you a keystroke that puts vim style easyjump targets on every clickable element on the page, so you can trigger anything with a few keystrokes. Target selection can be simplified down to a very small selection of keys, say the left hand home row.
For people with highly limited mobility, most page navigation solutions out there are atrocious. At best you get an x-y scan, where you trigger the scan, get a slowly moving cursor in one axis, stop it when it intersects what you want to interact with, and then repeat with another cursor along the opposing axis. If you don't use this, you get to tab through everything, one item at a time. Some systems allow for cursor key navigation (arrow keys), but that's hit and miss.
I showed the accessibility consultant SurfingKeys, and they were floored. They had a few people they were helping out who had full operation of a hand or whatever, but not enough to really use a mouse. SurfingKeys and a simple USB numpad with some key rebinding let these people use the Internet far faster than ever before. They could click links! They could scroll. Finding and clicking something on a search engine was no longer an exercise in patience and frustration.
Interesting that they think there's a single universal voice amongst hens. I've got a small flock of a dozen birds, and they each have distinct voices and calls. You can always tell who just finished laying by which egg song you're hearing, until the others join in and it's a cacophony.
We've got one anericauna who likes to "scream" for her egg song. Awful sound, very close to a hen screaming because a bobcat got her.
For most projects or tools that I find on GitHub these days, I run them all in docker. Node, at least, is somewhat of a good guest. All it's crap lives in node_modules, and so when I'm done, rm the directory and it's all clean. Python seems to love leaving relics across my system
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Lemmy feels like how reddit felt in 2010
That's a rare thing these days
And the users left behind, particularly those that whined about the mods shutting stuff down, are never creators. They're just consumers, useless eaters. You can tell because their umbrage wasn't directed at the reddit administration, but was directed at the mods, who dared to interrupt their feeding sessions.
You're a moron if you use this.