Sean Randall

cachondo@defcon.social

I work for a national telecommunications company to help ensure accessibility across web and mobile. I code for leisure, fun and accessibility. I geek out on sci-fi movies and am constantly reading. I enjoy the odd game here and there. I watch comedy with my wife, horror with my daughter, and more serious scary stuff with the dog. I listen to classical when working, and scare off cats to pop, showtunes and country when tidying.

Posts

Post #4166299
For those who prefer Doubletalk to Monologue 16, I've gotten far enough that you can all play and break things with a port. Nowhere near everything I need to get from Doubletalk's ROM is in there yet, but I've stuck together an addon combining Doubletalk's voices with Monologue's dictionaries. This is an interim build until I have enough hours in the day to sit and work through the ROM and trace everything properly. In some ways, monologue's speech is clearer, being a 22...
Post #3361948
@DerryLawlor Ooh, a new mastodon instance Derry? Hope the changeover was smooth! I&#39;ve never moved.
Post #3361947
Thursday. Yet again, I&#39;m off on a jolly to participate in some research. These university-types do like their blind people to do tests on! A solid entry in the &quot;can you hear me?&quot; bingo on this train, I&#39;d heard it before we even hit our first stop from a passenger across the isle. The weather couldn&#39;t be more different from May&#39;s outing - it&#39;s very much on the cats and dogs level today.
Post #3361946
Poor Capptain Kirk. Reduced to driving around in a pickup. The joys of being a screen reader user, eh? Some days I&#39;m not sure I&#39;ve quite got the constitution for it.
Post #3361945
Saturday. Baby Bertie&#39;s teething again, so things are getting a bit loud here. he wouldn&#39;t settle very early last night, but I did get to watch Boulter&#39;s electrifying performance at the Queen&#39;s Club yesterday on the TV. She was in fine form! I&#39;m looking forward to see how she deals with Vekic this afternoon. It&#39;s a lovely, sunny day here.
Post #3361944
I know that the wife hasn&#39;t deliberately chosen the night I have a headache to play pop music while we do the grocery shop. But it certainly feels like it a little bit. Even the baby didn&#39;t settle to his usual piano album tonight, we had to do a few shanties.
Post #3361943
Easily misinterpreted alt text from the bbc here. Did she really &#39;blow out&#39; the carer, I wonder?
Post #3361942
Here we go again then, second time in 3 weeks. Let&#39;s turn up the fans again!
Post #1418735
So I tend to read more serious #Fanfiction as a rule, but this amused me enough to keep going. The video game chapter was funny, Dudley was great, and the detention scene was laugh-out-loud. I Am Not a Robot By Hollow Body The daily life of Harry Potter and his girlfriend Daphne Greengrass, who is definitely (not) a robot. Chapters: 30 - Words: 139,231 - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14336173/1/I-Am-Not-a-Robot
Post #1161003
Saddened to hear yesterday of the death of Rob Grant. Red Dwarf was a brilliant show and formed a large part of my childhood comedy backbone.
Post #1153345
am I going mad, or did someone code a cool windows tool that could capture audio from a specific process? Anyone have a clue what I&#39;m talking about?
Post #987537
So the LLM says &gt; &quot;The image features a spacecraft in orbit above the surface of the Moon. The spacecraft is cylindrical with solar panels extending outward on either side. It appears metallic and reflects light from the surface below. The Moon&#39;s surface is gray and cratered, stretching across the bottom half of the image. In the background, Earth is visible, showing the blue and white colors of the oceans and clouds against the blackness of space. The Earth appears partl...
Post #969832
I spent 24 days of this month reading #HaryPotter #Fanfiction. I&#39;d already read part 1 a couple of years back, but wanted to re-read before diving into the second one. I almost feel like I&#39;ve lived the first 6 books over again. Compelling, funny, dark, gritty writing. Utterly captivated all the way through. &gt; &quot;The Evans Boy by lonibal “Mr. Evans,” Ollivander said, smiling wider. “Any relation to Lily Evans?” “Who?” Harry Evans was almost like any other boy growi...
Post #669166
Monday. Baby actually slept for just under 4 straight hours. I&#39;ve not got a headache for the first day in weeks, Amazing! I&#39;ve also found myself enjoying the prospect of revisiting the 1990&#39;s door game Usurper, which has been modernised by a developer considerate of accessibility, which is pretty cool. Parent Pay, whom our older kid&#39;s school use for money, have decided to redesign their website. The old direct login URL broke, and the &quot;parent login&...
Post #331863
One of my most serious concerns with #ThriveMessenger is that usernames are case sensitive. A goodly number of speech synthesizers would render my username the same with or without an initial cap, for example. This could easily lead to all sorts of scary trouble.