Hey @@ricky_enger Happy Birthday, or should I say happy Pi day? Also, have you ever had birthday pie instead of cake? Seems fitting. Anyway, hope all is well.
Al Puzzuoli
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An Information and assistive Technologist. interests include accessibility, good friends and cool tech. Long time Twitter native, Mastodon newbie.
Is it just me or is iOS requiring face ID more often these days? It seems like whenever I put my phone down and come back to it a few minutes later, I'm getting the "your passcode is required to enable Face ID" message. Really annoying!
Alex HallI got a spam call earlier today, just after I'd merged staging into an older feature branch. When the scammer came on the line and asked me how I was doing, I told him I was dealing with merge conflicts. He asked what I meant by merge conflicts, so I started to explain. For some reason, he hung up on me.
So here's a pet peeve: My Amazon Prime renewed today. I was planning on letting my Amazon Prime renew, so that isn't a problem; but still, it was a $150 charge. I was expecting it at some point, and I can afford it; but still, it seems it should be common courtesy for these companies to give you a warning a few days before they grab your money. I guess we live in a society where common courtesy doesn't count for much anymore. Ah well.
Is anyone else having issues with Gemini.google.com today? When I type a prompt, Gemini seems to just hang and never responds.
My new Mastodon/Bluesky client, FastSM, which is based off the old work from me and @TheQuinbox, is now available in really, really early alpha! You can download the latest build, which gets updated with each new commit, at: Windows: https://github.com/masonasons/FastSM/releases/download/latest/FastSM-0.3.0-Windows.zip
Mac: https://github.com/masonasons/FastSM/releases/download/latest/FastSM-0.3.0.dmg
Mac: https://github.com/masonasons/FastSM/releases/download/latest/FastSM-0.3.0.dmg
I just want my phone to work without any arguments. I suppose I could go back to the old assistant or switch back to the iPhone with Siri, but now Siri is going to also become Gemini. i'm sure all these issues will be worked out over time, but it just feels like we're all going to be beta testers for the next few years.
So, I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 9 in September. There a lot of things I really love about the pixel but, I'm starting to experience AI fatigue. I issue voice commands via the side button a lot. Gemini is telling me it is unable to open apps, it hallucinated a fix to the opening apps problem, it has given me inaccurate stock quote information, and it has told me it doesn't have the ability to send text messages, all within the last few days. TBC
Okay, so pardon me for reverting to my 12 year old self for a moment. There is a brand of humor that users of screen readers will appreciate. This is a legitimate website, apparently a rather accomplished web designer out of Canada. But to a screen reader user, Uh... Well, who wants to tell them? ... https://ainal.me/
I know the typical workflow in this situation. Since the phone didn't ask me to confirm if I wanted to send, just stated that it had sent, I checked my message log and in fact, the text hadn't been sent. It's one thing for an AI command to fail, but if it says it has done a thing, we need to be able to trust that it has. Otherwise, the AI becomes useless! #RantModeOff