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I was offered an opportunity to lead a little #livecoding workshop with the attendees and students of the local college. If that's your sort of thing, let me know.
Also, if you're proefficient with #orca, I would LOVE a second pair of hands to help folks participating, if you feel up to it, send me a DM.
I was offered an opportunity to lead a little #livecoding workshop with the attendees and students of the local college. If that's your sort of thing, let me know.
Also, if you're proefficient with #orca, I would LOVE a second pair of hands to help folks participating, if you feel up to it, send me a DM.
Incredible, first-of-their-kind images show an orca being born in Norway https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/incredible-first-of-their-kind-images-show-an-orca-being-born-in-norway-and-the-rest-of-its-pod-forming-a-protective-circle 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Whales #Science #Orca
Incredible, first-of-their-kind images show an orca being born in Norway https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/incredible-first-of-their-kind-images-show-an-orca-being-born-in-norway-and-the-rest-of-its-pod-forming-a-protective-circle 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Whales #Science #Orca
Newest J-Pod orca calf missing, presumed dead https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/newest-j-pod-orca-calf-missing-presumed-dead-11431652 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Whales #Science #Orca
Newest J-Pod orca calf missing, presumed dead https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/newest-j-pod-orca-calf-missing-presumed-dead-11431652 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Dolphins #Whales #Science #Orca
"The #Orca screen reader now announces caps lock state changes, and screen readers will now describe the Shortcuts and Autostart pages more optimally. A new grayscale color filter for people sensitive to colors, developers have done a full pass to eliminate bright flashes in the UI, and the desktop zoom feature will now follow the text insertion point. Keyboard navigation has been improved, and a few other small changes have been to improve #accessibility."
"The #Orca screen reader now announces caps lock state changes, and screen readers will now describe the Shortcuts and Autostart pages more optimally. A new grayscale color filter for people sensitive to colors, developers have done a full pass to eliminate bright flashes in the UI, and the desktop zoom feature will now follow the text insertion point. Keyboard navigation has been improved, and a few other small changes have been to improve #accessibility."
The bored orcas have done it again. This time they've sunk a "tourist yacht" off the coast of Portugal. A skipper said one whale struck the rudder repeatedly, causing cracks that flooded the hull.
Five crew were safely rescued, but the orcas also had a go at another boat nearby.
Running total (only counting boats lost)
Orcas: 3
Boats: 0
No orcas were harmed during the yacht's dispatch, which is just as well because there are fewer than 50 individuals in the Iberian orca population and they're considered critically endangered.
This image shows boat vs orca encounters off the Iberian Peninsular so far this year. They've found a new game and they're persistent.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b57c39817d457a78
Gift article via: @span GiftArticles
The bored orcas have done it again. This time they've sunk a "tourist yacht" off the coast of Portugal. A skipper said one whale struck the rudder repeatedly, causing cracks that flooded the hull.
Five crew were safely rescued, but the orcas also had a go at another boat nearby.
Running total (only counting boats lost)
Orcas: 3
Boats: 0
No orcas were harmed during the yacht's dispatch, which is just as well because there are fewer than 50 individuals in the Iberian orca population and they're considered critically endangered.
This image shows boat vs orca encounters off the Iberian Peninsular so far this year. They've found a new game and they're persistent.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b57c39817d457a78
Gift article via: @span GiftArticles
Philly Anti-Capitalist: L.A. Reportback: Resistance to I.C.E.
https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/l-a-reportback-resistance-to-i-c-e/
from O.R.C.A. Tuesday, September 16th 6pm O.R.C.A. Join comrades coming from Los Angeles for a report back and Q&A discussion about ICE resistance, from rapid response networks to tactical observations.
#Immigration#Orca#Police
I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…
Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years. 
Video below demonstrates reading this post.
#Orca#SpeechDispatcher #accessibility#Pied#Linux #texttospeech
I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…
Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years.
Video below demonstrates reading this post.
#Orca#SpeechDispatcher #accessibility#Pied#Linux #texttospeech
My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑
Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?
What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?
#orcas have killed humans:
only in captivity
which makes sense and i don't blame them
but yes, very odd we have no documentation of an #orca killing a human in the wild
we have video of them stalking kayaks, but it seems mere curiosity
i think this video tells the whole story:
seal and human deathly afraid of orcas, orcas stalking both, one silently underneath staring up at the woman in one frightening moment:
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