RIP, Freight Fate Python game source. It has officially been sunsetted. Build tooling, for adding or changing map data etc, still remains Python.
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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchName is Josh Tubbs. Developer, accessibility advocate and consultant where possible. Former internet broadcaster. Video content creator. @orin8722@youtube.com
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RE: https://mstdn.mad-gamer.com/@matthew/117347029600988276
Nice. Wish I could do this with iPhone video and audio without the screen mirroring issue latency.
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Introducing AudioNet! 🎧
If you've used UniMic, you know the idea: your phone as a mic for your computer. But audio only went one way, and to hear a computer the closest thing was Jump Desktop. What if you just want to hear a computer, or send it sound, without controlling it, all in one app?
AudioNet moves live audio in any direction between Windows, Mac, iPhone and any modern browser. Free and open source (MIT).
How it works: a central server helps your devices find each other, then the audio goes directly between them. No VPN like Tailscale needed. Audio is always encrypted, and it only goes through a relay when a direct connection is impossible (still encrypted). Latency is low, and streams recover on their own after a network hiccup. Use the official server or run your own.
What you can do:
- Listen to any mic, or to what any output is playing: a computer's sound from your phone, one computer from another, a Mac's sound (macOS 14.2+), or your iPhone's mic
- Send your mic or your computer's sound to any output on another device
- Play several streams at once, each with its own volume and mute
- Use several accounts in the apps, each with its own sharing switch. When sharing is off, a device still receives audio but sends none of its own
In a browser you can listen to your devices and send your mic, so a Chromebook or a borrowed computer works with nothing to install.
Every part is built to be fully usable with a screen reader: standard controls, spoken announcements, and every status as text.
The Windows and Mac apps update themselves, and the Mac app is signed and notarized. The iPhone app isn't in the App Store or TestFlight yet.
Download for Windows and Mac: https://github.com/mad-gamer26/AudioNet/releases/latest Source code: https://github.com/mad-gamer26/AudioNet Official server: https://audionet.mad-gamer.com I've spent about 3 days endlessly working with Claude on this to get this to what I'd consider to be a stable 1.0 release. All testing was done by me, but if I missed something or you think something should be improved, just submit an issue, a PR, or let me know in any way.
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@pixelate@tweesecake.social @serrebi@serrebiradio.com @mikedoise@techopolis.social I connected mine with a GH token.
Curious. Not that I'm developing NVDA addons, but why are some LLM addons getting a pass into the store and some are not?
What is the best way to scan QR codes as a blind person. Can't believe a lot of blind people actually want QR codes to be the standard.
Big thanks to @IllegallySighted@mastodon.social for showcasing Freight Fate in his accessible spotlight series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKkBtSGa5r8
Agreed re: overlapping speech. But it's either that or only have the screen reader voice, and you'll miss stuff. Because there was no screen reader running, (JAWS or NVDA) the main voice and the event voice both were set on sapi. I'm not sure what a good default for that is. Main voice sapi, event voice 1core to distinguish the two?
PC/Mac Accessible Game Spotlight - Freight Fate
My take on AI from the perspective of experimentation or making otherwise unplayable games very playable/accessible:
I just read a message on Discord implying that a dev isn't genuine because they can't tell what is them or AI in their game development. This is an established audiogames dev, pre-AI. My take: it doesn't fucking matter. If the dev in question uses these tools responsibly, they will put work into their game, or mod, and won't publically release it on GitHub or wherever until its playable or in a state where they would want people to see it. The AI is a small fraction of the experience. Look at RimWorld Access mod as the biggest example. Hell, to a player, if the mod or game is good enough, the fact that they used an AI tool to assist them with development won't effect the playable experience at all. Yes, I know AI is getting a bad name due to actors, and media overhyping the negative points where you press a button and software gets spit out, or songs, etc. I consider it a massive boon for accessibility. RimWorld dev would never consider accessibility for sure. Nor would the Factorio devs. Some user communities are trolling blind mod devs because they don't think accessibility should be a thing. Guess what? Thankfully, neither the devs nor existing players control the outcome of this. As long as we can do it, we're going to do it. It has the potential to enspire native accessibility if looked at from the right lens. Saying a genuine person isn't genuine (implied) because they used AI to experiment isn't it.
One month ago today, I made Freight Fate public. It's come a long way in just a month, thanks to the growing number of contributors, including two first time contributors today. We accept everyone who wants to make a positive difference. Whether you use AI or not, anyone can contribute. Some use AI for everything. Some only use AI to help smooth out merge conflicts, which are painfully annoying no matter what you're using or how you resolve them. And if you just submit issues providing useful bug reports with "report a problem" in the main menu? Believe it or not, you're also contributing. Let's keep it up and keep on truckin' down the line a year+!
I really love the new Codex feature where you can have agents actually manage project threads for you, and use one thread as coordination. Feels just like OpenClaw/Hermes in that way.
accessiWeather 0.9.0 released, which includes a new, calmer default sound pack. https://www.orinks.net/accessiweather/downloads
Tonight's dev snapshot will include AirNow as a data provider to supliment what OpenMeteo gives for aqi data.
Is there a workaround for automated text messages, or text messages in general, that have a link in them clearly visible, but I can't double tap on the message to open the link?
Good news: Fable 5 is back tomorrow. Bad news: most likely API pricing only. But also good news: my Claude usage returns tomorrow; I kinda wish Codex would do this new background agents thing they've got going on. Less babysitting.
Coming in the next AccessiWeather dev build: a user opt in setting to auto-tune into weather radio when a SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) alert is issued. SAME alerts are those alerts that are issued that triggers weather radio units to wake up and sound an alarm for you to tune in with your actual radio. With AccessiWeather, it auto-tunes into the station that issued the alert, with a timer to stop after a bit (default 5 minutes, configurable).
Was listening to my Suno recommended feed and this song came up. Worth a listen. https://suno.com/song/98c56d09-0ea4-4167-b793-7a72ed6953ec
New AccessiWeather nightly build out. This build basically makes the Weather Radio feature independent from the rest of the app, E.G. doesn't depend on what saved location you have selected etc.
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• NOAA Weather Radio now opens independently of saved weather locations and keeps playing after you close the player until you press Stop or exit the app.
• The NOAA Weather Radio Station Finder now has clearer modes for searching all stations, browsing by full state or territory name, and finding nearby stations by coordinates.
@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc Is your Discord addon in the store? It should be, though with reports of people being banned from submitting PRs to NVDA I'm a bit hesitent.
New AccessiWeather nightly out. Last night and tonight are focusing integrating the Windows action center (not sure if I can do anything with the macOS menu bar notification center). Notifications are supposed to open up their relevant dialog. E.G. discussion updates will open the dialog to read more details, whereas alerts will open the alert details dialog. I can get it to work locally from source. Curious to see if it fails on everyone's system or if there's edge cases left to be solved. Get testing!
For those running the stable build of Freight Fate, 1.8.0, are you having issues with the updater? Someone opened an issue but didn't give a whole lot of details nor a game log, so need to put it out thee to see if anyone else is experiencing this. Feel free to report findings on issue #83.
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@Jage@mas.to @alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc @serrebi@serrebiradio.com got his account banned on GitHub for sending PRs to the NVDA repo to submit addons. Why? I have no idea.
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@technocounselor@caneandable.social @menelion@dragonscave.space I need to sub to the AI and dev lists.
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @blindndangerous@mstdn.social @walkside3@mastodon.social So I get a "Claude code exited with code 1 I believe once CC tries to background a command? Every prompt I try to send in this session results in a code 1 exit now. The last message it sent was talking about committing and pushing once it comes back but I have the latest build that's supposed to fix subagents.
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@Jage@mas.to Well, someone is fighting for one of my friends addons in a repo, and Joseph just blank dismissed it as LLM written it sounds like without even looking at it.
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@Jage@mas.to Have you tried rad.fm on iOS too? It's basically the feel of an AI station, but with your Apple music playlists.
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@countrymetalhead@someplace.social Was that the installer or zip? I'm guessing the installer since I didn't sign it.
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@mew@fwoof.space I'm honestly really sorry about that. I hope my replacements are better for you. No sounds is always an option too.
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A 2026 study found that people who feel the need to have every single one of their games deliver automatic social media updates every time they so much as spell a word correctly have very punchable faces.
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@LeonianUniverse @rooktallon @NicksWorld Nope, none of that is required. Fully accessible in MSFS BA.
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@technocounselor @vol4life8657 No, it's just in the $100 plan and $200 plan. They took it out of the $20 plan.
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New QoL Freight Fate snapshot update released. https://orinks.net/freight-fate/downloads
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• Freight Fate checks for updates again when you leave a terminal. Returning to the main menu from a city terminal or pickup facility now starts a quiet background check, so an available update can be installed before you finish the session.
• Pausing now takes you off the live drivers board. The pause menu used to keep you listed as "Paused"; now it counts as going off duty, so the public board only shows drivers who are actively hauling. A quick pause and resume will not bounce you off the board, and Discord presence still shows "Paused" to your friends while the menu is open.
• Automatic direction changes can now be simple or deliberate. Simple is the casual default: keep holding the control after the truck stops to change between forward and reverse. Deliberate keeps the safer two-step behavior from the previous snapshot: stop, release the control, then press it again. Choose the style you prefer under Settings, Gameplay. Manual shifting is unchanged.
Fixed
• The truck now warns you while the engine is over-revving, instead of surprising you with damage at delivery. Holding the engine at redline -- easiest to do by backing up fast for a long stretch -- quietly ground the truck down, and the first you heard of it was a big damage number on the end screen. Now a warning sounds and the game tells you the engine is taking damage and the current total, repeating while it goes on, so you can ease off and slow down before the repair bill grows. Thanks to a player report.
• Online setup now tells you when orinks.net refuses your pasted credentials, instead of blaming your connection. If the server answered but did not accept the Driver ID and token, the game said "could not reach orinks.net, check your connection," sending you off to troubleshoot a network that was fine. It now says the credentials were not accepted and asks you to re-copy them from the setup page. The token paste item also checks that the pasted text looks like a real driver token -- they always start with the letters F F D and an underscore -- and says so when it does not, catching a wrong copy before anything is sent. Thanks to a player report.
• Music keeps playing while the game is paused. If a music track ended while you sat on the pause menu -- or in settings, help, or any other menu over a drive -- the music went silent until you resumed driving. The next track now starts on its own, so a long pause no longer means a quiet cab.
Looks like they extended Fable to July 12. Just can't decide whether you can handle going all in Anthropic?
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@serrebi@serrebiradio.com @jonathan859@someplace.social This is the official X post from Anthropic about it being restored today. Might be true on the credits thing: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341
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@LeonianUniverse @rooktallon @NicksWorld TFM's simbrief uplink attempts it I believe. Sometimes it doesn't work, so if you manually need to do it yeah, i'm pretty sure that's the procedure.
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@JamminJerry@mastodon.stickbear.me Well, immediate alert popups are in with an opt-in setting on notifications tab.
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@vol4life8657 Everything is fine here, but I'm about to drop some bad news on you. Anthropic literally just took Claude Code out of your subscription plan.
The new AccessiWeather dev build is out with the new radio stuff I mentioned earlier. Note that the setting is in the wrong place, the audio tab. I just switched it on source dev branch to be on alerts where it belongs, but I'm not making another nightly build just for that small change; it will build tomorrow.
https://orinks.net/accessiwether/downloads
https://github.com/Orinks/AccessiWeather/releases/tag/nightly-20260607
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@lerven@tweesecake.social @tsquires@mastodon.social Sounds like a great premise for Blind Guide 2.0 Have claude get on that... haha
New AccessiWeather build out. More weather radio fixes/enhancements. https://orinks.net/accessiweather/downloads
Interesting. Why is everyone reacting to Elvis in my Youtube feed all of a sudden? I mean, he was amazing, but still. Big increase of Elvis content in my feed.
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@blindndangerous@mstdn.social @serrebi@serrebiradio.com @walkside3@mastodon.social Is there a way to resume Claude Code sessions with this thing?
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@rooktallon @NicksWorld @LeonianUniverse You have to manually set the IRS. First officer won't do it unless you uplink via the tablet. MSFS BA added support for the triple 7 tablet, hopefully they'll add it to their 737 support which I'm sure is coming. Tablet support won't be added to TFM due to Andy's views thinking its illegal to add it. Total BS.