@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.

@TheQuinbox I used Claude 4.6 to grammer check and typo check, mostly because I was wviting on my phone. I did notice it stripped out my seperators, which I'm not thrilled about and clearly didn't proof read hard enough.

@fireborn @TheQuinbox huh. the whole flow feels very Claude, but that might just be convergence between your writing style and Claude's

@fireborn @freya @TheQuinbox I also find myself writing so much like an LLM that I've been asked if something I wrote 100% by hand, without so much as a grammar suggestion from Claude, was written by AI. The person who asked me was my supervisor for several years before that, and we have a good working relationship. I just ... write like an AI, apparently. I also just really enjoy the way Claude writes when you give it a bit of creative freedom, and i'm sure that if I were to put up a blog now, people would suspect me of using Claude far more than I actually would.
All this to say, write however you like; use whatever you use. i'm fairly sure the ideas are still your own. And if i'm wrong about that, I'm honestly just more impressed with Claude.
"It failed with such consistency, such total and unbroken commitment to not working, that at some point it stopped feeling like a bug and started feeling like a philosophy." ... is such a relatable and well-crafted line that I feel like I'm not going to be able to avoid writing something similar to it at some point in the future, because so much of modern tech feels exactly like that.

@simon @freya @TheQuinbox the way I write might have something to do with this too. I draft something and then I listen to it with reader mode and then I listen to it again with Eleven Labs. I don't publish until it sounds correct and engaging with both.

@fireborn @simon @TheQuinbox query: would any of you like to listen to the recording I just made demonstrating, very briefly, my blackberry?

@freya @fireborn @TheQuinbox Wait. Blackberry OS Blackberry? Or the Android thing they made more recently?

@simon @fireborn @TheQuinbox blackberry screenreader demo

@freya @simon @fireborn Wait, I've heard that voice before. That's compact vocalizer!

@TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn close, but no

@freya @simon @fireborn How the hell is it not? Compare how kate compact says dialog to how that says dialog, compare password, they must've at least used the same voice data.

@TheQuinbox @freya @simon @fireborn Yeah that sounds like Kate to me.

@KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn blackberry 10 is surprisingly actually relaly nice to use, given that it's a bespoke screen reader on a completely closed platform with zero prior work

@freya @TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn I thought they stopped making BlackBerries.

@KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox @simon @fireborn they did, bloody eons ago

@freya @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox @simon rip Blackberry

@fireborn @freya @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox I never could get along with those portrait keyboards and I wonder if that's just a blind thing or a me thing. The best keyboard phone I've ever owned was the LG VX9200, better known as the Verizon enV3 in the US. The best keyboard phone I ever saw was the Astro Slide 5G, which was a gorgeous piece of hardware with the most god awful underpowered Mediatech chip you could imagine. I would buy a refreshed, modern version of that phone without hesitation.

@[email protected] I loved my nv3, remember? we both had one at the time, and I gave you an nv2 YOu even put custom tones and junk on my phone, with this odd little app thing, why do I not remember what that program was pin something? @fireborn @freya @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox

@cordova5029 @simon @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox weird little semi-inaccessible thing for loading ringtones and other data onto the phone via a data cable?

@freya @simon @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox that's the stupid damn fucking one :)

@cordova5029 @simon @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox was only workable with a set of jaws scripts afaik

@freya @cordova5029 @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox Whatever I used, it definitely didn't need JAWS scripts because I didn't use JAWS. Prett ysure it was at least mostly accessible with the keyboard and some very basic object nav.

@simon @freya @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox yeah, even in 2010, you had switched all the way to NVDA, Simon.

@cordova5029 @freya @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox Pretty sure I switched all the way to it before it even got flat review. JAWS was in a particularly horrifying state of crashy disrepair and they really burned me with their home/pro license bullshit at the time, so I was quite determined to have nothing to do with it.

@simon @cordova5029 @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox that was, what, jaws..... oh gods, oh gods jaws 10? 11?

@freya @cordova5029 @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox JAWS 7 through 9 for me, I think.
7 was fine. Great, in fact. It was like the Windows XP of JAWS.
7.1 was so bad that I taught myself key sequences to bypass JAWS web navigation and end the jfw process from task manager because of how often it would crash and lock up my keyboard when browsing the web.
I think 8.0 was somewhere closer to not terrible, 9.0 was fine, and then I didn't get any more upgrades.
My hard drive broke and the repair person installed XP pro, which locked me out of my JAWS because I was only licensed for home.
Then the Ontario technology fund gave me JAWS 9 ... but not an SMA. So I literally just got the pro version of the JAWS I already had. I went back to the tech assessor who basically said "too bad, so sad, you should've noticed the SMA wasn't on the original quote and there's nothing we can do now." Same guy who took responsibility for helping me figure out what I needed, refused to take responsibility for getting me a JAWS version that became outdated three months after I got it.
I was just all the fucking way done after that.

@simon @cordova5029 @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox I ran 10 for ages and ages and ages, 10.0.512 on XP with a crack I got off the pirate bay. that torrent is probably loooooong gone, but there's probably cracks for old versions of jaws all over the place now

@freya @cordova5029 @fireborn @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox I remember that JAWS 10 crack was a batch file (though I don't rememmber what it did), and it somehow managed to give you a legit serial number you could use for tandem. That was the one thing I still used JAWS for. Until they instituted the "You can't connect to someone who's JAWS version is newer than yours, even if it's a minor decimal difference".
They really had a talent for being next level irritating back then.

@simon @freya @cordova5029 @KaraLG84 @TheQuinbox I'd argue they haven't got any better.