Piotr Machacz @pitermach@mastodon.social

That, is way too cool
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RT @borrisinabox
So, here I am, innocently working on a podcast. I wasn't happy with the expander I was using, so I changed a parameter. Then, for some reason, this happened. And, by the way, this used to be @ricky_enger, but you'd never know it. http://www.borris.me/audio/WhatTheExpandedHell.mp3
https://twitter.com/BorrisInABox/status/1319511534939361280

Oh shiiiiit... I wonder if these new accessibility features would be enough to make the new Asassin's Creed playable for us. https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/5Rys9UeXZh9bAjnHBZN4pC/assassins-creed-valhalla-bringing-accessibility-to-a-viking-epic

Yeah so... If anyone was hoping for indivisible accessibility so much for that. I can't say I'm surprised that's how it ended though, it's more or less what I expected after the first messages about Mike.
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RT @kotaku
Indivisible development stops after Lab Zero fallout: https://bit.ly/34W6t6P
https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1315253567175917568

I hate when companies do stupid shit like this. Spotify updated their terms forbidding apps from using their API from transfering libraries into competing services, probably to make it less likely for people to try to switch away. Monopolistic much?. https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers

I'm legitimately curious just how good this actually is. If you play guitar you should test this.
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RT @newsycombinator
Free guitar plugin on GitHub sounds like $600 tube amp by using deep learning https://github.com/keyth72/SmartGuitarAmp
https://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/1314989906016571392

Anyone else seeing a change in the mobile version of Google where search results seem to have no separation what so ever? They used to be headings. Now there's nothing. Who thought this was a good idea?

@Mayana Yeah, Polish is like that too and very few things get this right making translations look horribly wrong. The one place I saw that accounted for this was gettext where poEdit actually gave me fields for all of them. What I ended up doing for an app that didn't have this was just use the abbreviation. It's just min. in Polish, speech synthesizers handle it and speak it grammatically correctly, and sighted people can figure it out.

Alon features I love continued: You can set it up to auto-record at startup, do voice activation recording and turn iOS processing (though this also kills stereo). Finally, to get your data off, you can either use a built-in web server, iCloud, iTunes sharing, various other clouds or my personal favorite, any ftp/WebDav server. This means I can have this thing sync with my selfhosted Cloud, and it even makes folders for the categories I mentioned earlier automatically. This thing is great!

In my quest for trying all the recording apps that support the new iPhone stereo recording capabilities I just tried and instantly fell in love with Alon MP3 dictaphone. It's one of those apps that is way too configurable for its own good, but this also makes it really powerful. Some highlights: For the stereo recording, you can force it to a specific orientation. You can record up to 32-bit. You can set up categories for your recordings and then move them between them before or after recording.

Oh, one more thing ( pun not intended ). Voiceover not reading the total track time on the lock screen is not a bug. Those controls got redesigned and its gone for sighted people too. The Internet has a love hate relationship with the visual changes.

In all seriousness though yeah, this beta is soooo much better.

iOS 14.2 Beta 2 seems to have made a rather massive improvement to performance. The default language lag is gone but it just feels more responsive in general. But also, someone misspelled the pitch slider as ptich. This can't stand. Would anyone sign a petition to fix this?