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I also had several Nokia Communicators. They were great unique pieces of hardware.

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I'd be very interested in the reverse: A background sound generator for still images. Would be nice to have for advanced picture frames...

The one who ends up calling the other one names always loses.

I saw Joachim talk about Tiptoi years ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzXtgR73icg

IIRC, thats the video with the talking calculator demo...

Who defines what is culturally OK? I ask because in my book, using an ad blocker regularily is worse then skipping the occasional public transport ticket. I don't even know why. But I definitely dont give ad blcoker people that much slack. If you want the ads gone, PAY or stop using the service. Hiring a virtual bodyguard to bully your way through cyberspace is somehow weird to me.

I have the theory that domesticated animals learn a lot of what we perceive as their traits from their owners.

For instance, my cat never really cared much about new years eve fireworks. I attribute that to me not being anxious around that time of the year. However, all the pet owners I ever talked to who told me their pet is particularily anxious around new years eve turned out to also not really like fireworks... And I can very well imagine how the pet picks up the vibe of their owner, why shouldn't they...

My cat also freely shared his food bowl and litterbox with visiting cats, which was really adorable behaviour. I attribute that to a rather deep mutual trust betweenhim and me, but thats fishing in the dark...

Humility doesn't hurt anyone.

From about:

> Visual storytelling makes ideas more accessible

From an a11y standpoint, that statement is very ironic. Because for visually impaired people, the effect is the opposite of what the sentence claims.

I still fondly remember how inclusive the minimalism of games like NetHack actually were. NetHack was the first game I played after moving to Linux, roughly 1995. I say inclusive, because I played it with a Braille display. Many aspects of the simplicity of the 90s led to unintentional accessibility. I also used to read guitar tabs in plain ASCII when they were still exchanged on NNTP groups. These days, every guitar tab site I find is "polished" and therefore no longer accessible.

I dont think it is as simple as that. Throwing everyone into the a-hole pool is a rather simplistic approach, and a very dismissive one at that. In particular, the first sentence is often a reply to someone lamenting their situation, while the second sentence is often a statement ment to insult upwards. Context is important.

Its the brain child of Dave Abrahams, who is rather big in C++.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lecIqUhEl4

I am wondering if this sort of thing could be used in the real world, in particular, as navigation helper for a blind pedestrian. Products like Orcam have shown a cam + headphones can more or less easily be packed onto some glasses (for OCR). Navigation helper tools exist since the 80s, but all they basically did until now is scan the environment in a primitive way and use some sort of vibration to alert the user. This is very unspecific, and mostly useless in real life. However, having a vision AI that looks down the path of a blind person could potentially revolutionize this sort of application. For obstacle detection and navigation help. From "Careful, construction site on the sidewalk, 20 meters ahead" to "tactile paving 1 meter to your left". Lets take the game to the streets! If the tech is there, that sounds like a good startup idea...