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RE: https://mstdn.mad-gamer.com/@matthew/117347029600988276 Nice. Wish I could do this with iPhone video and audio without the screen mirroring issue latency.

RIP, Freight Fate Python game source. It has officially been sunsetted. Build tooling, for adding or changing map data etc, still remains Python.

@pixelate@tweesecake.social @serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mikedoise@techopolis.social I connected mine with a GH token.

Curious. Not that I'm developing NVDA addons, but why are some LLM addons getting a pass into the store and some are not?

What is the best way to scan QR codes as a blind person. Can't believe a lot of blind people actually want QR codes to be the standard.

Big thanks to @IllegallySighted@mastodon.social for showcasing Freight Fate in his accessible spotlight series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkBtSGa5r8 Agreed re: overlapping speech. But it's either that or only have the screen reader voice, and you'll miss stuff. Because there was no screen reader running, (JAWS or NVDA) the main voice and the event voice both were set on sapi. I'm not sure what a good default for that is. Main voice sapi, event voice 1core to distinguish the two?

One month ago today, I made Freight Fate public. It's come a long way in just a month, thanks to the growing number of contributors, including two first time contributors today. We accept everyone who wants to make a positive difference. Whether you use AI or not, anyone can contribute. Some use AI for everything. Some only use AI to help smooth out merge conflicts, which are painfully annoying no matter what you're using or how you resolve them. And if you just submit issues providing useful bug reports with "report a problem" in the main menu? Believe it or not, you're also contributing. Let's keep it up and keep on truckin' down the line a year+!

My take on AI from the perspective of experimentation or making otherwise unplayable games very playable/accessible: I just read a message on Discord implying that a dev isn't genuine because they can't tell what is them or AI in their game development. This is an established audiogames dev, pre-AI. My take: it doesn't fucking matter. If the dev in question uses these tools responsibly, they will put work into their game, or mod, and won't publically release it on GitHub or wherever until its playable or in a state where they would want people to see it. The AI is a small fraction of the experience. Look at RimWorld Access mod as the biggest example. Hell, to a player, if the mod or game is good enough, the fact that they used an AI tool to assist them with development won't effect the playable experience at all. Yes, I know AI is getting a bad name due to actors, and media overhyping the negative points where you press a button and software gets spit out, or songs, etc. I consider it a massive boon for accessibility. RimWorld dev would never consider accessibility for sure. Nor would the Factorio devs. Some user communities are trolling blind mod devs because they don't think accessibility should be a thing. Guess what? Thankfully, neither the devs nor existing players control the outcome of this. As long as we can do it, we're going to do it. It has the potential to enspire native accessibility if looked at from the right lens. Saying a genuine person isn't genuine (implied) because they used AI to experiment isn't it.

accessiWeather 0.9.0 released, which includes a new, calmer default sound pack. https://www.orinks.net/accessiweather/downloads Tonight's dev snapshot will include AirNow as a data provider to supliment what OpenMeteo gives for aqi data.

Good news: Fable 5 is back tomorrow. Bad news: most likely API pricing only. But also good news: my Claude usage returns tomorrow; I kinda wish Codex would do this new background agents thing they've got going on. Less babysitting.

@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc Is your Discord addon in the store? It should be, though with reports of people being banned from submitting PRs to NVDA I'm a bit hesitent.

For those running the stable build of Freight Fate, 1.8.0, are you having issues with the updater? Someone opened an issue but didn't give a whole lot of details nor a game log, so need to put it out thee to see if anyone else is experiencing this. Feel free to report findings on issue #83.

New QoL Freight Fate snapshot update released. https://orinks.net/freight-fate/downloads Changed • Freight Fate checks for updates again when you leave a terminal. Returning to the main menu from a city terminal or pickup facility now starts a quiet background check, so an available update can be installed before you finish the session. • Pausing now takes you off the live drivers board. The pause menu used to keep you listed as "Paused"; now it counts as going off duty, so the public board only shows drivers who are actively hauling. A quick pause and resume will not bounce you off the board, and Discord presence still shows "Paused" to your friends while the menu is open. • Automatic direction changes can now be simple or deliberate. Simple is the casual default: keep holding the control after the truck stops to change between forward and reverse. Deliberate keeps the safer two-step behavior from the previous snapshot: stop, release the control, then press it again. Choose the style you prefer under Settings, Gameplay. Manual shifting is unchanged. Fixed • The truck now warns you while the engine is over-revving, instead of surprising you with damage at delivery. Holding the engine at redline -- easiest to do by backing up fast for a long stretch -- quietly ground the truck down, and the first you heard of it was a big damage number on the end screen. Now a warning sounds and the game tells you the engine is taking damage and the current total, repeating while it goes on, so you can ease off and slow down before the repair bill grows. Thanks to a player report. • Online setup now tells you when orinks.net refuses your pasted credentials, instead of blaming your connection. If the server answered but did not accept the Driver ID and token, the game said "could not reach orinks.net, check your connection," sending you off to troubleshoot a network that was fine. It now says the credentials were not accepted and asks you to re-copy them from the setup page. The token paste item also checks that the pasted text looks like a real driver token -- they always start with the letters F F D and an underscore -- and says so when it does not, catching a wrong copy before anything is sent. Thanks to a player report. • Music keeps playing while the game is paused. If a music track ended while you sat on the pause menu -- or in settings, help, or any other menu over a drive -- the music went silent until you resumed driving. The next track now starts on its own, so a long pause no longer means a quiet cab.

RE: https://dragonscave.space/@Saeed/117343758718733898 Haha

@mew@fwoof.space I'm honestly really sorry about that. I hope my replacements are better for you. No sounds is always an option too.

@vol4life8657 Everything is fine here, but I'm about to drop some bad news on you. Anthropic literally just took Claude Code out of your subscription plan.

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @blindndangerous@mstdn.social @walkside3@mastodon.social So I get a "Claude code exited with code 1 I believe once CC tries to background a command? Every prompt I try to send in this session results in a code 1 exit now. The last message it sent was talking about committing and pushing once it comes back but I have the latest build that's supposed to fix subagents.

@Jage@mas.to Have you tried rad.fm on iOS too? It's basically the feel of an AI station, but with your Apple music playlists.

@vol4life8657@tweesecake.social Who'd you help? Always cool to see new people.

Looks like they extended Fable to July 12. Just can't decide whether you can handle going all in Anthropic?

@mew@fwoof.space Me and Ner are replacing most of them.

@technocounselor @vol4life8657 No, it's just in the $100 plan and $200 plan. They took it out of the $20 plan.

@lerven@tweesecake.social @tsquires@mastodon.social Sounds like a great premise for Blind Guide 2.0 Have claude get on that... haha

@blindndangerous@mstdn.social @serrebi@serrebiradio.com @walkside3@mastodon.social Is there a way to resume Claude Code sessions with this thing?

@Jage@mas.to Well, someone is fighting for one of my friends addons in a repo, and Joseph just blank dismissed it as LLM written it sounds like without even looking at it.

@JamminJerry@mastodon.stickbear.me DOing a first draft implementation of that.

@tsquires@mastodon.social Whose gonna drive it?

@austinnix Ah I see.

@JamminJerry@mastodon.stickbear.me Well, immediate alert popups are in with an opt-in setting on notifications tab.

@technocounselor @vol4life8657 Oh. well in that case, me too. Shrug.

@LeonianUniverse @rooktallon @NicksWorld Nope, none of that is required. Fully accessible in MSFS BA.

@Jage@mas.to @alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc @serrebi@serrebiradio.com got his account banned on GitHub for sending PRs to the NVDA repo to submit addons. Why? I have no idea.

@austinnix Looks like it came out a month or so ago?

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @jonathan859@someplace.social This is the official X post from Anthropic about it being restored today. Might be true on the credits thing: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341

@LeonianUniverse @rooktallon @NicksWorld We don't even have access to PMDG code to mess with.

@pitermach@dragonscave.space What is VAL?

@rooktallon @NicksWorld @LeonianUniverse You have to manually set the IRS. First officer won't do it unless you uplink via the tablet. MSFS BA added support for the triple 7 tablet, hopefully they'll add it to their 737 support which I'm sure is coming. Tablet support won't be added to TFM due to Andy's views thinking its illegal to add it. Total BS.

@LeonianUniverse @rooktallon @NicksWorld TFM's simbrief uplink attempts it I believe. Sometimes it doesn't work, so if you manually need to do it yeah, i'm pretty sure that's the procedure.

@technocounselor@caneandable.social @menelion@dragonscave.space I need to sub to the AI and dev lists.

@countrymetalhead@someplace.social Was that the installer or zip? I'm guessing the installer since I didn't sign it.