SanctimoniousApe

joined 1 year ago
[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 28 minutes ago

Mea culpa on the domain, but I knew about the meaning of uncut & was just joking.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 2 points 38 minutes ago

No fucking political opportunists! We need decency, honesty, and straightforwardness in government now more than ever!

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 42 minutes ago

I'm not quite to that point yet - can I get one with an old British police box so I can use it to play Doctor?

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 51 minutes ago

Do we really need any more proof that cruelty is all this asshole is about?

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, this is a Republicans have been resisting funding the EPA properly for decades which lead to this headline.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 6 points 1 hour ago

Except in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Only within so short a period that some don't know they're pregnant yet in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, North & South Carolina, and Utah.

Fucking control freak Republicans seriously need to DIAF.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 11 points 3 hours ago

"Are you a werewolf?"

"No? He is, which is why I shot him."

"Prove it, then - gimme the gun & another silver bullet."

[–] SanctimoniousApe 5 points 10 hours ago

Dr Crusher, to the bridge! Now!!!

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

"The Italian Uncut" sounds like a porno, and why does an Italian have their domain use China's TLD?

Anyway, the big problem is most media is owned by oligarchs who also likely profiteer from selling the weapons used. Israel is rich, so they get all the support.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 2 points 11 hours ago

But who needs all these capitalism-impairing rules and regulations, amirite?!?

[–] SanctimoniousApe 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Something is seriously wrong... and it's Elon. The site he links to focuses strictly on any bad news it can find that it can somehow tie to trans people. It's a hate site. I guarantee the spread of good and bad people in the trans community is not worse than any other groups of people who have been historically mistreated, and therefore have a certain portion of them with mental issues due to said mistreatment - absolutely nothing caused by the fact of being trans on its own.

[–] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I'm going to hunt one down, and isolate it from all the others just so I can count its chirps so the count won't be screwed up by being confused by other chirpers - all to avoid simply looking at all the other sources of said information that are much more readily available and convenient

Unless you're doing some sort of environmental science experiment while living in a post-apocalyptic world where every pre-existing analog thermometer device for accomplishing this has somehow been destroyed, this is utterly useless.

 

Sorry these guys have to put off their retirement, but thank goodness they're willing to.

 

IMHO, the only "hypocrisy" is with the conservative-owned press holding Biden to standards LONG since tossed aside for Trump. The people have made it clear they only respect a government who fights dirty, and WAY effing past time they get what they asked for. In the scheme of things, this is positively mundane - but they'll try to attack anything that Dems do that they'd gleefully make excuses for Trump doing since that pisses off Dems. I congratulate Biden for finally saying "fuck it," and doing the same thing they would do.

 

It blows my mind that there are no legal blocks in place to prevent this (yeah, I know it's because this shit was so unthinkable that nobody prepared for it). This yahoo is on a mission to destroy EVERYTHING America was supposed to stand for. SOMETHING has to be done to stop this shit!

 

Republicans: the party of freedom, my farking ass.

 

Frankly, I hope Elon wins this one. His handling of Twitter demonstrates his incompetence, and his inability to keep his mouth shut will be helpful in preparing to fight whatever BS they're up to next. The other guy might be too smart and sneaky considering his involvement in the fake elector scheme.

 

Google's "Voice Access" is decent for controlling the device through verbal commands, but you have to be looking at the screen to get results - it won't read anything back to you.

Google's "TalkBack" will read things on screen to you, but you have to interact with the screen physically (never mind the significant change in how interactions work - which I understand the need for - but it's still a serious mental PITA to switch between the two interaction methodologies frequently).

Is there no way to just interact with it entirely verbally? A (very) simple example of what I'm looking for:

  1. "What are the current Google News headlines?"
  2. Starts reading each one aloud, along with the names of the sources.
  3. "Read the article about Trump caught making out with Elon from AP News."
  4. Proceeds to load the article & read it aloud.

(Yeah, I know there are podcasts for this - it's meant to illustrate the basic idea of completely verbal interaction with the device, not be an actual problem I'm looking for someone to provide a solution to.)

It just seems to me that we should be able to do this by now - especially with all the AI blow-up over the past couple of years. Can anybody point me to a usable solution to accomplish this?

TIA.

EDIT: I thought of a better example (I think), because it occurred to me that the above one could (sort of) be done with a Google Home speaker. I'm looking to be able to interact with Android apps verbally wherever possible, so my better example is "What are the latest posts made to the 'No Stupid Questions' community on Lemmy?" So far as I know, Google Home is not able to do such a thing. I'd like to tell Android to open my Lemmy client and start reading post headlines until it hit one I wanted to have it open & read to me.

I'm basically looking to use apps verbally to fill in gaps that Google Home/Assistant don't cover.

EDIT 2: Here's an even better, more universally applicable description of what I'm after - copied from a response I gave to another comment:

Imagine someone doing some relatively mindless menial job such as working an assembly line, janitorial work, chauffer - something where your mind is relatively unoccupied, but you're not free to look at and/or touch your device (whether it be due to practicality, or job rules). While doing that job, I want to be able to have the device read and interact with something of interest to me at that moment (ADHD is a fickle mistress), rather than just relying on podcasts with predefined content. Kind of like having someone next to me doing all the interfacing between me and the device.

EDIT 3: I added a comment with some news on options that may come close enough to doing the job which I've come across since posting.

 

I've often assumed Harris didn't want to insult her boss by going against him, because I got the impression she was planning to give Netanyahu what for once she took over - especially with him escalating things further and further. Did anyone else get that vibe, or was it just wishful thinking on my part?

 

People are calling for violence against FEMA on TikTok and X, new reports say.

I seriously don't understand why these people aren't immediately tracked down and arrested for terroristic threats. This BS is way beyond any reasonable "free speech" limit.

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