kevinrj

@kevinrj@mastodon.social

👨🏽‍🦯 Totally blind since birth, I was a Rotary exchange student to Brazil in high school.
After Edgewood College, I worked as a programmer as well as in IT. Now I help to advance computer accessibility for the blind community.
I've also played piano since age 4, and concentrate in the area of the late 18th century, period instruments, as well as the music.
I have also been fortunate enough to work with the BrainPort artificial vision device, which has changed how I think of objects in my mind.

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mikedoise, to random
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Happy Saturday everyone. I hope you all have a wonderful day, and do something really fun! I think I am going to go window shop at the Apple Store today.

kevinrj,

@mikedoise @BTyson The Apple Store doesn’t sell windows. :)

aardrian, (edited ) to Rochester
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If you are in , NY during the eclipse (and hopefully not getting gouged on hotel fees), there will be a viewing party for visually impaired folks:
https://EclipseFestival.org

Audio darts, beep baseball, tactile map building, eclipse audio description, LightSound for eclipse sonification, etc.

Seems nifty. I won’t be there, tho, since leaving my backyard in Buffalo seems like a bad idea.

Also, ugh Godaddy:

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kevinrj,

@aardrian @tristan I wish I could be there, even though I’m totally blind I can see eclipses with the BrainPort.

kevinrj, to random

How back in 2014 I pulled some April fools pranks on my FourSquare followers – Accessibility Insights
https://accessibility-insights.com/2023/04/01/how-back-in-2014-i-pulled-some-april-fools-pranks-on-my-foursquare-followers/

skinnylatte, to random
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‘Fahrenheit is what humans feel’

No, Fahrenheit is what Americans feel

kevinrj,

@skinnylatte @burritojustice Actually Fahrenheit is what humans feel. 0F is cold and 100F is quite hot. Anything else beyond weather temperatures is fine by me in Celsius. I’ve lived over a year in Brazil where only the metric system is used, so I’m familiar with both.

kevinrj,

@skinnylatte @burritojustice I think 0f and 100f define the range of temperatures that the human body can endure with clothing. 0c is not terribly cold, and 100c the body could never endure.

Iconfactory, to iOS
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:ipulse_app: After over 20 years of monitoring your Mac, iPulse has come to iOS! Keep an eye on your iPhone or iPad's CPU, memory usage, true storage size and more. iPulse for iOS uses Picture in Picture mode so it can stay out of your way while you pinpoint potential problems. 🎯

iPulse is a one-time purchase that runs on both your iPhone and iPad. Head over to the App Store to grab the tool no developer or power user should be without.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ipulse-monitor-your-device/id6474695786

kevinrj,

@talon @chockenberry @pitermach @simon @jscholes @NoahCarver @Iconfactory Updating selected cells on a braille display is very doable.

TheWarOnCars, to random
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Except for the fact that they require a license from the state to operate, a loan from a major financial institution to purchase, insurance to shield users from the cost of their harms, and can be used to collect and share driver data without their full consent, cars represent freedom, baby!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

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kevinrj,

@TheWarOnCars @gl33p And if you’re blind, you can’t drive one.

CARROT, to aitools
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Make my weather readings even more accurate by using code CARROTWX to get 10% off your purchase of a Tempest weather station! You get weather data from your own backyard, I get a commission on each sale to fund my AI uprising. (Purchase by 12/17 to get free holiday delivery.) https://shop.weatherflow.com/collections/frontpage/products/tempest?ref=aC-8VJbZz1Nqa

kevinrj,

@CARROT Wondering, what is the best weather source for being in Brazil?

simon, to accessibility

I don't know what's going on at Amazon's department but someone needs to drop whatever the fuck they're doing and fix this. It's been this way for months, and I know I've personally emailed them and directed others to do the same. I'm currently trying to find a more polite way to say this in a followup email. How does this even happen in 2023?

kevinrj,

@Piciok @simon Please say more. That sounds really cool. I’d never thought of trying that. Probably many would appreciate if someone could do a recorded demo. :)

BorrisInABox, to random

Just randomly remembering that time someone sent me a Windows ISO as an email attachment just because they could.

kevinrj,

@BorrisInABox Hey over there,
just realized, you have traveled a lot on airplanes, what tips would you give to someone who will be flying a lot the next 3 months.
tried to use flighty, but it seemed confusing to me.
so I’m using the flightview app.

I will be in Brazil for almost 3 months I fly out next Monday. Yes I’m taking the Ambeo headset. :)

yes I’ve been on airplanes, but not for a while.

schwa, to random
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    kevinrj,

    @schwa Do you think Daisy senses that you haven’t been feeling well?

    kevinrj, to random

    MarsEdit is very much alive and still works well with Voiceover

    @danielpunkass https://dragonscave.space/@scottrut/111427947648272531

    kjaymiller, to random
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    If I were to do a regular livestream where Python devs taught me things I should know (whether I know it or not without promoting their own stuff) who would sign up and what would we talk about?

    Also this would be some of the first list of people I would invite so if you raise your hand you may get a private message.

    kevinrj,

    @kjaymiller Maybe why developers should never use python 2 for anything today. Like how python 2 only has integer division. :(

    kevinrj, to random

    Imagine if you were blind https://mastodon.social/@jhpot/111375766603160059

    TheQuinbox, to random

    Signs you've been working on the same piece of code for 3 days and now have absolutely -1 ideas on how to solve the problem: Your commit message says "tried in vain to fix this stupid fucking bullshit."

    kevinrj,

    @TheQuinbox When I was first beginning to learn programming in high school I was trying to write a little program that converted from Fahrenheit to celsius. It kept failing, then the teacher walked by and said “you need parenthesis around the f-32.

    TheQuinbox, to random

    I wonder if anyone's ever explored the idea of using 3d audio for representing graphs? Instead of just relying on pitch like the TI84 made us do, you would actually be able to hear the line moving in space, given that your head is the origin. This would even allow us to represent the Z axis.

    kevinrj,

    @TheQuinbox It’s much harder to hear if audio is in front, behind, above, or below, for many people, than if the pitch changed.

    simon, to random

    While all the restarting was happening, my phone resurfaced the terrible, awful keyboard bug that causes iOS to think it's connected to a Bluetooth keyboard all the time and never show the on-screen keyboard. This is a bad tech day. Time for bed.

    kevinrj,

    @simon My phone actually is always connected to a bluetooth keyboard, I probably never would have noticed :)

    payown, to random
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    i have baby ears, but my first thoughts are i like the Shokz fit, but i'm also scared i might loose them... anyone have a good suggestion for like a sunglasses string i can put on them to loop behind my neck?

    kevinrj,

    @fireborn @payown I’ve been wearing Open Fits almost every day since mid July. I don’t actually notice the latency, and I think the audio quality is better than the open run or open com.

    craiggrannell, to random
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    Current status: just spent two minutes looking for important paperwork I thought I’d misplaced. Natch, I was looking on shelves said paperwork was on the shelf above, practically screaming “I’M HERE, YOU IDIOT”.

    Saturday.

    kevinrj,

    @craiggrannell Welcome to common blind world problems. :(

    talon, to random
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    Seeing AI’s new descriptions really seem to have a thing with butts. The amount of time it spends on telling me about all kinds of butts in my photos is quite amazing. No other AI felt it necessary to tell me just how many butts reside in my photo library.

    kevinrj,

    @talon How did you get to pet a chetah? Wow what was that like?

    talon, to random
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    Here’s a quick tip for anyone traveling with British airways and using their inflight WiFi with iOS. The access point keeps disappearing and reappearing, causing reconnects. And because their whole WiFi setup is super crap, make sure that before you purchase any plan at all, you go into settings, WiFi, BAWiFi, more options, and make sure the address randomization features are disabled. Otherwise it will not remember that you have already paid and lots and lots of pain will follow. British airways, pls fix.

    kevinrj,

    @talon I would use wifi on flights if only to know where the plane was by using BlindSquare, there is no other way I know of to know that.

    kevinrj,

    @talon BlindSquare has a specific airplane mode if you go fast enough, will then say names of cities as you fly over them if it has wifi to download maps. Can Voice Vista do that?

    kevinrj,

    @talon Where is “up here”? Ilka the author of BlindSquare demoed it on a podcast years ago on a flight from Spain to Finland.

    ppatel, (edited ) to accessibility
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    Okay community. I need help with something. Recommendations for a kitchen thermometer that can be connected to an accessible app. I seem to recall iGrill brand used to have an accessible app. Any others?

    kevinrj,

    @ppatel @ke7zum The grill app now owned by Weber is still good with VO.

    devinprater, to random

    Okay I'm really starting to love ! I finally got Facebook hooked up to it, so I can get Messenger messages in it, and already have iMessage hooked into it. Also it does have sound effects, they're just not enabled. And the settings option is hidden in a menu button near your chats. Yeah it needs some accessibility work, but I think I'm really gonna get some use out of this.

    kevinrj,

    @weirdwriter @devinprater Does Beeper support voice messages too, or only text. I guess they could add that later. I signed up, have to wait for now.

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