Alex Chapman

@jzb@hachyderm.io Because there's not just random people with an LLM, there's people that know what they are doing, yet find it easier to have an agent do the manual task of writing the code. As I said, there are people that have difficulty doing the coding part, but the testing and the rest they can do without a problem. Its more nuanced than just random people using LLMs to generate code and then make PRs. The people at KDE did it right, no promoting LLMs, just good quality code regardless how it was written. @dansup@mastodon.social

@jzb@hachyderm.io People had to review code that was not generated by LLMs, its no different. That statement is invalid for that reason. Also, we got by without LLMS, yeah, and a lot of people were left out because they tried to get the hang of coding by hand and struggled. LLMs have opened up the possibility that people have never had to make things they have dreamed of but could never bring to life, and all these anti-AI extremists dismiss that, and its wrong. @dansup@mastodon.social

@signalapp@mastodon.world And if they end up mandating that, orgs like you guys should start a rebellian against it, rather than pulling the service away for UK users.

OK so I have managed to make a new NVDA addon for DECTalk that works with NVDA 2026.1+ and hopefully preserves compatibility with older NVDA versions. Here's the link that will take you to the latest release, there's only one, because this is a new thing: https://github.com/alexoloopios/dectalk-nvda/releases/latest

My phone was acting up earlier on as if it was registering Ghost touches, then after trying the usual restarting and what not, I wondered if Bluetooth interference like my keyboard being on was affecting it, and somehow that was turned on without me realising lol, so it wasn’t Ghost touch issues, it was my Keyboard somehow being on and while in my bag random keys were being tapped.

@bscross32@tweesecake.social Oh God I hate those access violation errors.

I feel like the fediverse has too many anti-AI folks that those who actually use AI as a tool and not a replacement are getting shoved away.

@jonathan859@someplace.social If you're on about Quill, it is actually a useful tool, and its not a Mastodon client, it allows you to post, yes, but not read posts.

@Luanti@floss.social @homegrown@social.growyourown.services Oh right, well I rely on screen reader feedback so that's a shame its not there yet.

@Luanti@floss.social @homegrown@social.growyourown.services Oh that's awesome.

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @Luanti@floss.social I don't know if Luanti has any accessibility support, like for instance how with Minecraft you could set up an accessibility mod called Minecraft Access and it would read out everything using NVDA.

@garo@dragonscave.space Oh good to know.

@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @LeonianUniverse@caneandable.social Good one lmao.

@Landon205@vee.seedy.cc I doubt they're breaking them, its probably just some glitch.

@lexipic@dragonscave.space It was weird, for sure.

@lexipic@dragonscave.space Oh it was sounding all reverby, I managed to fix it though thank God.

@lexipic@dragonscave.space I'm doing good, been fixing some weird audio issues that I had with my computer.

@dansup The only problem with outright banning AI contributions is that there are people that may wanna fix something like a button label for example, but they aren't a full Typescript dev, but they understand what needs to be done, and as long as they test the result thurroughly to make sure things work as intended, then that should be OK. As long as you understand the concepts, you shouldn't be forced to wright every single character of code manually, use AI as a tool, not the replacement.

@mewproj@fwoof.space But that shouldn't mean that DECTalk can never be on Testflite/AppStore. If the license holder or holders actually don't give a flying fuck, then there's no reason for Apple to reject it. I actually looked at the issues and noticed that this situation hasn't even been brought up, which I'm surprised at.

@Orinks@mastodon.stickbear.me @Jage@mas.to @serrebi@serrebiradio.com Wait, his actual GitHub account got banned, that sounds like some weird shit unrelated to NVDA, probably bad timing that it happened around the time he submitted an addon.

@draeand@social.the-gdn.net Oh phew that's a relief hahaha.

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @twitnews@twit.social If you give Codex or Claude clear instructions and tell it not to break existing functionality, but to just make it able to be used with screen readers in focus mode, that should work fine.

@munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me @startrek2025@mastodon.stickbear.me @kd6cae@dragonscave.space I'm actually thinking of listening in to general session in the breakout on BITS Chat, depending on if I don't get into a long conversation lol, that's the fun with chat.

@LWorksGames@tweesecake.social Oh my god that's hilarious, at least its more accessible than a live one, oh wow lmfao! I need to get my chat reader to be that funny, just don't know what the prompt needs to be for it to do that lol.

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @twitnews@twit.social Oh right, I kinda got used to reading apps like web pages, but I guess it shouldn't be too hard to implement some sort of keyboard focus thing where it will work with focus mode with NVDA.

@daygar@tweesecake.social Oof, I guess I've avoided the issues by not spending on it lol.

@mewproj@fwoof.space Um OK? How is it a risk when the company that that license is refering to is no longer existing? That makes no logical sense.

@mewproj@fwoof.space Ah sweet!

@evan@cosocial.ca Yes but don't just rely on what the AI says, actually make sure its correct.

@dansup@mastodon.social I disagree, see my quoted post for why, this anti-AI sentiment is gonna damage society in the long term.

@draeand@social.the-gdn.net @pvagner Oo good to know, @seedy60@vee.seedy.cc made a TTCom thing that uses Prism recently, so he may need to update that. Then again Idk as I've not yet migrated to his thing, I'm still using the one he compiled before using the DWCom plugin lol.

@daygar@tweesecake.social Ouch, I guess its time to try and sort out ID/creditcard simply to appease these age checks. Thank God I had a credit card from a time I needed it for something, came in useful for this.

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @twitnews@twit.social Oh you've tried it before? Damn. Maybe its better than it once was, and now its open source we can contribute accessibility fixes.

@Landon205@vee.seedy.cc Looly!

@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @prism@infosec.exchange I'll probably try it but IDK lol.

@zersiax@cupoftea.social Its like a lot of people don't know about the accessibility agents that Taylor made, well they don't know, but they need to know if they are gonna use AI for a lot of things. I've used those agents with Codex and boy it makes things work properly, none of this BS where the AI doesn't know jack shit about accessibility.

@dragonwolfsp@dragonscave.space @TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Yeah I think it would just show it, not sure exactly.

@munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me Lmao that cracked me up rofl.

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @Luanti@floss.social Oh right. So for those of us who rely on the screen reader feedback loop then Minecraft is the one with that, shame.

@payown@dragonscave.space Oh nice, I'm so glad to have been a part of the beta process.

@mewproj@fwoof.space Well, with the original company defunked, there's no reason it couldn't work on Testflite/AppStore. from how things look in the official DECTalk repo the devs haven't bothered to take the time to choose a new license and have left the old license from 2003 in there. I've been wanting DECTalk on my iPhone for a while as Eloquence is just giving me odd issues recently, and when I tried to do it Sideloadly wouldn't detect my Apple ID and when I tried to do the normal install rather than the Apple ID it gave a try again dialog, then a fatal error, so I'm fucked 6 ways from Sunday lol.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I will admit Claude has gone downhill from what it was a month or two ago lmao Opus 4.7 is basically a downgrade from 4.6

@cub80_appleby@mastodon.stickbear.me Exactly! In fact, the old saying, you must never assume, as it makes an ass out of u and me, fits perfectly.

@mewproj@fwoof.space Actually since DECTalk got open sourced years ago it can be on Testflite and Appstore.

@payown@dragonscave.space Oh awesome.

@rooktallon@dragonscave.space @daygar@tweesecake.social The age verification stuff lol, that's why I've not got rid of mine.

@garo@dragonscave.space For real, wait there's a command to terminate processes, I've always used task manager lol what's the command, I won't have to fight with TM then lmao.