Have AI automatically create described audio for old tv shows that apparently will never get a corporation to go back and add a described audio track even though there streaming.
What open source options would you recommend for running Linux and Windows VM's on Windows? I've been unhappy with Virtualbox because the audio quality is abysmal which is an issue since I use screen reading software. I'm interested to try out VMWare Workstation since it's audio support was pretty good many years ago when I used it at a prior job.
I really like Groovy as a general purpose scripting language. I"m sure most people use Python for the kind of things I use Groovy for, but I had to use Groovy with Grails 15 years ago and Groovy has stuck as my scripting language of choice even though I haven't used Grails in ten years.
I like the kids version of the Kindle Fire as a way for giving kids screen time. I don't think it's perfect but it offers a fairly large library of applications, games, and videos for a few bucks a month with out allowing internet access. Not all the content is educational but I haven't found anything inappropriate yet. It also offers pretty good options for setting limits. I'm sure you could do something similar on the iPad but I think it would require more effort to set up.
I used Taskwarrior a lot before mobile smart phones were common. I want to use it again but the lack of a good smartphone app is a blocker. I know there were some that worked ok with Taskserver but now that the sync process has been completely changed I have no idea if there will be a mobile app that works with the latest version.
I was working on profiling and crash analysis software. The software had existed since the late 70's or early 80's. It was written in assembler so that's what was used to update it. If it was written from scratch it's unlikely the majority of it would be written in assembly.
That's a good point. This may have been useful when I was working on internal webapps to determine if the UI looked like I expected it to. That was in 2010 though when it was more common to use plain HTML instead of single page frameworks. I'm glad I moved into back-end development.
I've done a lot of web API development in both legacy applications and micro services. It's pretty accessible since I don't need to rely n a UI and can use CURL.
This may have been a better option in the early 90's when GUI screen readers were not as good. I did z/OS Assembly programming for several years using ISPF as a text editor and submitting jobs to compile my code. I"ll gladly take an IDE with features from 1995 like renaming variables, moving to the next error, and jumping to a function definition.
Why do you think this? I'm totally blind and find Chat GPT to be useful for quick answers to questions instead of searching through SEO spam and low quality tutorials. I find Copilot to be sueful for better code completion and helping to write basic unit tests. I don't find that it can actually write complex code for me. I very well may be using the tools wrong though.
Microsoft has done a lot of good work with VSCode for blind developers. I'm totally blind and used Eclipse for many years. I started using VSCode when I was learning Go. I watched audio queue's be added and thought it was a thing I'd never use because I am set in my ways. Now that I'm using VSCode to do Go programming professionally I'm glad they exist. It's not a game change but it is a nice quality of life improvement.
I refer to my vision as "no useful vision" I can see enough light to sometimes tell if the lights are left on in a room or if the son is out. I can not see color, it's either bright, neutral, or dark.
I wonder if this article was written by AI? The fact that one senator is for it and one senator is against it means nothing. This is about as impactful as me "considering" a 4 day work week with out talking to my employer that currently expects me to work five days a week.
How do you think they trivialize it? I've found them to be good for writing short scripts or answering a specific question. I've never seen one that you point at your own code base and have it do things like write a new endpoint that takes into account all the existing database and authentication code. If such a thing exists I'd like to know about it.
How much COBOL runs on platforms other then the Mainframe? My limited COBOL experience was while working for a Mainframe software vender. I have not scene anything about people running COBOL in production on non Mainframe platforms, doesn't mean it isn't happening though.
My internships and first job out of college were all mainframe. Reading all this makes me very glad I had ISPF and USS. Reading all these stories make me wonder what war stories I'll be able to tell people in 40 or 50 years.
When that sandy island is near wetlands which are protected land. When the first Starship launch threw dirt and concrete into that protected land. Maybe SpaceX should have given stronger consideration to the environmental factors of this site.
Several years ago I was getting multiple password reset attempts per day from my bank because I picked an easy username to remember 20 years ago. Luckily my bank allowed me to change my user name so I used my password manager to generate a password and used that as my username.
What happens if you power off the resources when your not using them? Unless you need them running 24/7 you can probably save a lot if your willing to manually start and stop them.
Take a look at the Oracle cloud free tear. YOU can create up to four arm based vm's with 6 gigs of ram and one cpu per vm. If you go this route try and do research on what regions have the most capacity. I picked Chicago and had a really hard time getting instances to launch do to high demand. I upgraded to a pay as you go account so still get the vm's for free but get higher priority when crating new instances and have had no more issues launching instances.
Descriptions are read by a human narrator. Description only occurs when there is no dialog. According to my sited wife it's not that distracting, she got used to it after a month or two.
Voiceover on iOS is really good. I'm totally blind and have been using it since 2010. One thing to consider is that when using a screen reader bigger may not be better. When I've used an iPad, I've had issues with spacial awareness finding things on the screen because it's so large. I don't have these issues on the iPhone. I realize that if someone still has some vision then bigger may be better.
Have you looked into streaming devices so she can watch movies and tv with audio description? I'm totally blind and the availability of audio description on all major streaming services has made tv watching a lot better for me.
I agree about seeing a rehabilitation counceler. While it's good that your concerned about her vision loss as someone who isn't blind or trained in teaching blind individuals independent living skills you don't know the questions to ask for things as simple as how will she cook a meal on her own, match clothes etc. while reading is important basic skills so she can continue to have independence is also important.
If you live in the United States take a look at https://www.loc.gov/nls/ They offer a decent number of books and provide easy to use devices to play them. You should investigate the built in screen readers on iOS and Android. Using these you can use an app to listen to books from the NLS library for the blind. Audible is also accessible with screen readers. Using screen readers the Kindle app on iOS and Android is also accessible.
I use a KVM switch so I can share the same keyboard and headphones between two computers by pressing a button. I know KVM switches also allow you to share monitors but I don't have any experience with this since I'm blind and don't need external monitors.
As far as I can tell this article does not directly link to the source for this information. It's unclear if Oracle is pushing for AMD and ARM CPU's but providing Intel CPU's for specific use cases or completely avoiding any new Intel CPU's. I hope Oracle is not short sited enough to stop providing the option for any modern Intel CPU's in there cloud. While I don't run anything that would benefit from Intel CPU's over AMD I'm sure such workloads exist. It would be a shame if Oracle could not support these workloads do to the refusal to buy any new Intel parts and offer then as a niche option.