Fun loving tech nerd who also loves books, podcasts, movies and TV, my friends, dogs, and most of all,my amazing husband TJ. I work as a program manager at a state agency for the Blind. I am a cohost on the Tech Doctor blog and podcast and that real Blind tech show.
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Last Notes npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…puva Yeah I’m not sure I agree with that decision, but it’s not my company. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Can the AI haters give it a rest already? Yes, I know there are concerns, but as a person with a disability, if I didn’t use every tool that was out there because I had concerns about it, I wouldn’t use anything. All this AI hatred is just cutting off our nose to spite our face. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I really want to try to figure out a way to get a BrailleNote Evolve. Wonder if we could get a discount if we got two of them. I think I would do so many more things on the computer if I had something with no screen that could just sit in my lap. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Slept a bunch this afternoon and evening, so have been up since midnight. Sitting up for a bit because it beats aimlessly tossing and turning. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…lter Yeah, I got it recently enough that I should hopefully be able to get it replaced if it’s busted. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Well that’s concerning. My Bose quiet comfort headset died all the way, so I plugged it in, and now I can’t get it to turn back on even though it’s been plugged in overnight. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I had forgotten how nice it is to have a bowl of cereal for dinner. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…puva That’s at the end of the month, but thanks, we are doing well. Hope you and Julie are doing well too. Hope everything is OK with her mom. I know the outage threw you guys for a loop yesterday. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…puva Yeah that’s the worst. Luckily I had some chewable and acids to tide me over. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…puva Nice! Unfortunately I remembered after I finished my chili that I am out of Prilosec, so Instacart to the rescue. Lol. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy It’s a freezing cold night. Perfect for some skyline. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…9huh @nprofile…5yyl Castro used to let you side load videos from YouTube. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…8yzn He gave the majority of federal workers the day off on those days, but it would take approval from Congress to make them federal holidays. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I wonder if the TikTok iPhone app is any more accessible on a Mac. I at least wonder if focus doesn’t jump around as much between videos. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I have my phone set up so that when I hold the action button, it is supposed to immediately start a voice conversation with ChatGPT. Recently, this is broken. It just opens the app and then I have to go to the start voice conversation button. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…8yzn Sadly I’ve seen that he and his entire family were on there. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…kx0x Yeah me too. Also they don’t support Hebrew I just noticed. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Oh how amazing is this! Now everyone can just feel free to post in whatever language is comfortable for them, and those of us who have Mona 7 can automatically get the post translated into our language of choice. This is wonderful! npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy We are supposed to have a live nativity from 3 PM to 8 PM at church tomorrow. I think it’s an insane idea considering that snow is supposed to start falling around 12 or one again. I will be inside helping to provide the music, but still, no one is going to come. The animals will be in a shelter, but I worry about them too. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Copying this directly from an email I received. tl;dr: Describe videos directly from YouTube with ViddyScribe Realtime. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…5qkj I don’t know like ounces to grams or whatever if they are actually heavier, but they feel heavier on my face if that makes sense because the lenses are so big, and the pressure is like more downward on my head and nose. Some of that might just be my smaller face. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I will say that while these are very comfortable, they are heavier on my face than the glasses I am used to. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…5qkj Thanks. I was just being too gentle. :-) npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy My Oakley Vanguard Meta glasses are here and charging. The case looks cool, but I can’t figure out how to open it. Lol. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I’ve kind of gotten to where I don’t trust any follow requests I get, even if I recognize the name because people can impersonate others,. But by all means, let’s continue to bang on about how decentralized social media is just the best. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy And now the alarm went off and TJ was able to stop it. Poor thing, I wanted to avoid waking him up, and Dusty too. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…5qkj Doing OK and you? npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Are there ways with AI now to really strip the vocals out of a track to make your own karaoke version? I don’t mean just turning down the vocals so you can still sort of hear them. Not having a band that can play anything I need at this church is so hard, and not every contemporary worship song has a karaoke track readily available. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Oh and here is some crazy shit. I had initially created a TikTok account with my Gmail address, but when I logged in recently to see if Accessibility had improved on the iPhone, I just used the sign in with Gmail feature because it was faster. When I installed TikTok on my pixel, I tried to log in with my original account that I had created because I knew that had more of an algorithm built up on me, but it kept referring to some crazy phone number that isn’t mine for sending a code, and it wouldn’t take the password I know is the right one, so I’m thinking somebody hacked that original account and now I can never get it back, so it’s a good thing I can sign in with Gmail. I’m basically starting my whole algorithm over which sucks, and I’m worried about what someone will do with an account tied to my email address like that, but I can’t do anything about it. I did wonder why I was getting emails from TikTok in Spanish. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I have to say, TikTok is much more accessible on android. I was able to like videos, search, follow creators, and successfully move around the app and to previous and next videos without having focus randomly jump on me. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…e86t What I wouldn’t give to be able to hide out in Aotearoa, for the next four years or so at least. :-) npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Listening to my worship favorites playlist, and it’s making me miss my old church. The new one is fine, it’s definitely a more quiet vibe and we are trying to get this contemporary thing going, but a lot of the people there are super old and like the old hymns. I must admit, I find the old hymns to be so boring. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy So if we just all decided to stop talking about this dude who is randomly following and spamming people with hatred, I wonder if he would go away. Notoriety is what he wants. Your time and your emotions are what he wants. Stop talking about him, stop at mentioning every single account and giving him attention, and he will go away. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Selling a Mantis Q40 in excellent condition. It has been in an Executive products case the entire time I’ve owned it. Asking for $1000. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I am sad and frustrated to report that there are some very serious #Voiceover focus issues in the #ChatGPT #iOS app when reviewing a long text conversation. I had uploaded a document and was asking questions about it, and I wanted to go back and just review a specific part of the conversation. I couldn’t do it. I had to ask the question again in order to get the information I wanted. I was out and about, so switching to a computer was not an option, and I shouldn’t have to do that. I know I could’ve switched to voice mode and probably gotten at the same information, but again, I shouldn’t have to do that. I should be able to review Text in an app which is displaying Text. Next time I guess I will just use scribe me or something similar. #a11y npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…rpdp Not so far, but it’s very early days and I haven’t done much yet, so give me time and I’m sure I’ll find something. Lol. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy The orbit player is very nice, very small and compact, and has a great sound for being so small. So far I’ve really only used it for podcast and playing a little bit of Internet radio, and that may be most of what I use it for honestly, but I’m still glad I got it and I’m eager to learn more as I dive into the manual and new software updates are released. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…rpdp I’ll definitely be sharing them. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy So what is everybody using for mastodon on the computer these days? Still the same offerings or have I missed some amazing new program? npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Hooray! My orbit player will be here on Saturday. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…rpdp Yeah that too. I don’t know that any of them knew how to use the platform they were on. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy How do people really just unmute and start talking on these webinars without waiting to be called on? I feel like that’s basic webinar etiquette at this point and everybody should know about it. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Interesting that although the new church is about half an hour or more closer, I have to get up an hour earlier be ready to be picked up because rehearsal is at eight instead of 9:30. Such is life I suppose, but I’m just so tired. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy The weird thing is that the milk smelled perfectly normal. We didn’t know anything was off until we tasted it. Oh I hope we don’t get sick. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…rpdp Yeah it does. Not really sure what to do to get on track. When I fall asleep in the early evening, nothing will keep me awake. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Lord have Mercy. I fell asleep for a few hours earlier in the evening and now I am wide freaking awake. This is getting so old. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy Really hate it when I can’t sleep. I have such a busy day tomorrow. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy I don’t know that Peacock is as committed to Accessibility as a lot of the other streaming services. There is a documentary out called the Idaho student murders, and you can follow it to an extent, but there’s a whole flurry of text messages going back-and-forth that of course we can’t read because there is no audio description. Very disappointed. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…xzjz Just remember that joy always comes in the morning, especially when the mornings include Summer and all those you love nearby. :-) npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy This is what intentional and well thought out inclusion looks like. I can’t tell you how moving it was to watch this video. I’d love to hear what you all think of it. https://youtu.be/DlsvsD5Z5kg?si=tAlVzXuRlLpH1Xgh npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…xzjz Hugs. Here’s hoping for a better day tomorrow. I find that for me limiting my News consumption is working wonders for my mental health. Whenever someone wants to engage on a topic I find distressing, no matter who it is, I’ve gotten very good at saying nope, I don’t have the bandwidth for that today. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…akcl Oh no I wrote back to her because I thought she was new and just learning English. I hope she doesn’t hack me. Obviously I have blocked her now. npub15vynzfhjqxv6m3ry8zkyrzlph3yxlv55xwvzpfpxey4ctuah74mshn28c5 Allison Meloy @nprofile…akcl Oh is she real or AI? She reached out to me as well.