In an ideal world, people would be implementing UI/UX accessibility in the first place, and a lot of those problems would be solved in the first place.
But one can also hope that having the motivation to get agents running on those things could actually bring a lot of accessibility features to newer apps.
Readit Newstasoeur commented on A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces a2ui.org/... · Posted by u/makeramen
Would love to see it on MacOS X -- Steam works great on my Mac Mini for the games it supports, would be great to see everything run on it.
The last time I can remember a collaboration between Valve and Apple was for the SteamVR support on macOS back in 2016. Sadly it fell apart a year(-ish) after that.
But… one can dream!
At this point, it’s clear these sort of measures will go through, if not now but in some foreseeable future. What would be our best bet moving forward? Moving to signal/telegram?
tasoeur commented on Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-de... · Posted by u/mfi
They’ve made them louder and louder over the years. That’s because cars have improved soundproofing to keep out the road noise of the tires against asphalt. But that also means it’s harder for drivers to hear sirens. Plus sound systems have gotten louder (in some cases almost drowning out sirens for people outside the vehicle as well as inside!)
TLDR: arms race against audibility for drivers, with residents’ sanity as the casualties.
Your points make sense, I didn’t think about it that way. I wish there was a standard to override nearby vehicles with radio / audio to signal the presence of the emergency ones, but probably not happening anytime soon…
Maybe another future win for self driving cars that can be more aware of those things and smooth out traffic
tasoeur commented on Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-de... · Posted by u/mfi
I don't now where you live, but there seam to be drastic differences between countries. These vehicle do have an in-city and out-city loudness. Also here they tend to have the siren off most of the time and only turn them on immediately before an intersection.
I live in Paris, France and it’s so loud (but people here don’t really respect emergency vehicle so it could be part of why it’s so loud). In contrast, I spent a month in Tokyo Japan; and even though I was near a police station, it was nowhere near the sound level of what we have here. Curious what other countries you have in mind?
tasoeur commented on Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-de... · Posted by u/mfi
Maybe it’s just me but I wonder why western countries don’t implement noise limits for vehicles with sirens in residential areas (fire trucks, police, ambulance etc.).
It always felt to me unnecessarily loud.
I'm currently working on an art installation where visitors can replay dialogs I made with AI chatbots that I created on character.ai. I'm showing how quickly these bots can go off the rails, sometimes leading you into very dark territories. The fact that these apps are used by milions of people on a regular basis, supplementing or even replacing real human interactions, is frightening.
That sounds pretty neat! Are you able to share more about it?