Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Milliontown, experiments and a bunch of other stuff seems to have vanished from Apple Music. Have they published anything? Unsure where to look but there absence is extremely noticeable from my rotation. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 11/10/2025You say this isn’t a DAW. After VoiceOver on Mac became so unreliable it stopped reading plain fking text, do you know how much I would give for a Linux daw? I’m genuinely considering my next studio setup to use audacity like an ADAT, and demoting my Mac from music box to dum synthesiser. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Amazon kindle app on my phone open, scrolling through multi tasking with the screen reader, someone at Amazon programmed their accessible name of the app to read “Shit”. Ironic, because it’s in the list next to iPhone email which actually is shit. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 03/10/2025OG Just Cause on XBox I must have well over a thousand hours on at this point. 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 12/09/2025What’s the biggest red flag you’ve seen chatting to an ai company founder? I’ll start, telling you about the unrealistically enormous server they’ve bought, when there’s no way they need 80TBs of storage or 16 CPU sockets. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I bet the reason they aren’t giving more details on who killed Charlie Kirk is too fold: 1. They’ve realised the shooter looks nothing like and is definitely not an immigrant. 2. Trump realises he can use this moment to seize whatever power he wants and will invoke a state of emergency.emergency.th 000
Reposted by Richard HymanGod @thegodshow.com · 28/08/2025THOU SHALT STOP WORSHIPPING GUNS!!!thegodpodcast.comThou Shalt Stop Worshipping GunsGod is sad and furious. 15169141479
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Approval doesn’t matter if he can just outlaw elections. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Everyone getting their knickers in a twist about #GPT5 legitimately sucking ass, to them I say “Welcome to the club. You’re a bit late, but the food’s still warm, the beer’s still cool and the night’s still young.” 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Dear autocorrect. I am not citrusly inspired, I am visually impaired. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I’ve made lots of dishes where the effort:taste ratio is large enough to ban ready meals on the spot. Risotto isn’t one of them. Oh it tastes amazing, but frankly if it didn’t after 1hr of stirring, adding stock, wine, parmesan and truffle oil to taste, someone’s head would end up on my wall. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Man the context makes your post way less concerning 😂 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Honestly 2025 is turning out to be a pain bath in general, physical and mental boxes have been well and truly ticked thus far. Then if you’re Jewish, add an extra serving of double sided existential crisis over morning serial to bring it home that yeah, we are well and truly fucked. 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Serious question, why don’t blue states just hold referendums on leaving the states and go independent? You can write your own laws anyway; would there be anything to lose? Some states could even have public healthcare. I’m sure there’s a reason, just thought I’d ask as a Brit. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Started coding aged 12 with AutoIt and VB.NET, their documentation was made for beginners and the road to getting better was clear. HDD died, and with it my passion for programming, all my work was gone. Rust, ngl, first modern language that treats normies well and showed me I could code again. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Marketing an OS as Linux is like marketing an engine instead of the car. BMW make the same engines for the 7 Series, 8 Series, and various rolls Royce models. Go figure. Package me a distro that helps me work better than the other guy, and a car that makes me feel a million dollars. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Games are the growing use case because steam. All it’ll take is for someone to say “We have a new way for you to do your work, without bla blah blah, ads, more ads, bla bla, and sell it on that basis without mentioning Linux and boom. You will have people using it in droves. 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 09/06/2025You’re dam fucking right it will be, through protest by hook and crook we’ll all push to get these racist orange-loving money-worshipping bastards back out of the oh. Tha’that’s -not what they -were going for? 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Exactly. They’re saying it’s ’their Linux based operating system’. It’s subtle, but different. Normal users think about installing steam os, not Linux. That’s why Ubuntu was a leader in the beginning too, and why mint is leading now among new adopters. If anything, Linux is a philosophy and kernel. 120
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Musk has the power, the data and the money to mount a coup with a huge base behind him, plus enough tech and insider hackers in doge to smooth the path. This might look fun right now, but this will not end well for anyone. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 04/06/2025All that data and they still can’t unlock the phone securely for people with nystagmus. Plus, their accessibility is in the bin at this point. I’m daily driving Linux now, a manually assembled arch setup on dev machines, and it’s more reliable than the $1Ts backed support driven garbage they ship. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Like how many users would Debian pull in if they said: “Hate constant updates that break your workflow? Security is important but do you really need every new feature going? Well here at Debian you can have the same look for two decades, stay safe online, have your cake and eat it too.” 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I hate that the world is easier to live in after two glasses of neat vodka, but it’s definitely true. Never start a software company, try to avoid fascists, and always stand up for what you believe in. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Basically they all need to realise their projects aren’t Linux as such, they’re their own thing. Steam doesn’t market SteamOS as arch, same with chromeOS or android. Then the discussion is less about ‘the pizza’ idea, and more about ‘their pizza’ idea. What do they do different that matters? 210
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Was that the supposed trade secrets you spilled, that actually turned out to be massively invasive practices with gobbler? 100
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Meh, I keep saying this but if you were born blind you’d do the same. Anyone would. It’s just exhausting and running a business I do not have time to be constantly filming chess, as sick as that would be. I just wish they’d care. But if not I’ll just build a competitor that does. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Note Apple’s attempt to say they haven’t a clue what social accounts you have, but how the heck is that relevant? 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 30/05/2025See this is what I mean. If we had decent marketing, we’d all know to pick the desktop environment first to narrow down the selection. The distribution rarely if ever matters. 110
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 29/05/2025So today in the fuck is wrong with AI, I had to put a bank level block on open AI because: 1. They’ve billed me twice even though all my accounts with them no longer exist. 2. I can’t contact their support because chat doesn’t work with VoiceOver on the devices I had to hand. Illegal? 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Please do, I wish Linux had better marketing and this whole distros thing is way too complicated. You get one from the menu or you build your own with arch. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I really cannot get my head around anti-systemd opinions. To me linux is like pizza, kernel=bread, systemd=sauce, packages on top is the toppings. There’s gonna be 1% of places that nail a non-tomato sauce, but you know where you’re safest. Systemd is exactly the same imo. 140
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Anyone else listened to Life In The Wires by Frost*? 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Should have filmed the game I lost tonight. Lost a pawn as black in a Sicilian because I forgot where white’s knight was. Then it just went down hill from there. Otb they wouldn’t have stood a chance. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Can you add videos to Reddit posts? If so I’ll just film myself doing some puzzles or something or playing a match, show > tell Also lichess iOS app is completely broken, so no 2am matches in bed. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Appreciate the repost very much but they won’t. They don’t care. They are responsible for so much of my chess related self-loathing, a constant reminder that I am inferior, and they haven’t listened which compounds that belief. They could refine my entire subscription and it wouldn’t be enough. 120
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I fully expect nothing to be done by the way, so I’ll just keep bringing up @chess.com as a great example of an app that’s usable, but not accessible, doesn’t care, but talks a good talk. If by some miracle they begin taking #a11y seriously before someone takes them to court, I’ll stop of course. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 23/05/2025How marvelous to see @chess.com cares so much about my blindness. I’ve been nagging them about accessibility for 18 months, and it’s only been getting worse. I could take them to court at this point but frankly I haven’t the spoons yet. #a11y #chess 160
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 23/05/2025What if Elon gets desperate enough he uses doge to stage a coup? His companies have close up footage of just about every secure facility the govt uses Tesla cars near and in, a bunch of communications satellites, and doge has control of an awful lot of govt data, and payment facilities. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Yo openAI just billed me for an account that no longer exists. Wtf? 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 23/04/2025There are two ways to fight wars. First is beating the crap out of each other, either with drones, swords, bombs, cyber attacks, or whatever you have to hand. The other is to just do a better job than the other side. Think space race, Concorde, etc. If we are due a war, let’s make it the latter. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I just said to someone it’s been a rough month and a bit since that whole liberation day thing, looked at the calendar and it’s only been three weeks. Good fucking Lord I never thought I’d be world weary at 30 but here we are. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 15/04/2025What is wrong with … that isn’t how you spell ‘Florida’ 😀😀 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Prediction: if Europe, the UK, or both play their cards right over the next 12 months, there’s a chance large tech companies relocate to the EU or the UK. 010
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 14/04/2025It could be argued social media is a factor, but education is power. If you’re well educated, you can make up your own mind. You can decide what’s important for yourself, and you can sort others’ arguments to make your own decisions. Without a good education, people follow the sweetest voice. 000
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Then why do other countries, which have both smartphones and access to social media, still have more power in their population than present day America? 200
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 14/04/2025The crazy thing is America as a collective only started losing power at the population level when the adult literacy rate dropped below the half way mark. 54% of Americans are literate *below* the level expected in the 6th grade. Source: www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literac...thenationalliteracyinstitute.comLiteracy Statistics 2024- 2025 (Where we are now)The capacity to read and write, commonly known as literacy, stands out as a pivotal determinant in shaping an individual's career trajectory. Individuals with literacy skills have access to a broad sp... 120
Richard Hyman @a11ychief.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I’ve given up. @chess.com will never be accessible. I’ve tried to point this out to them too many times. Bye bye. 000