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I've decided... I'm really kind of upset. I bought #Downcast for #Mac thinking it'd work. It doesn't. At present, the latest version on the latest MacOS results in the app freezing any time I go to settings to sync via the cloud or change anything. Sitting with it eats through memory until the Mac says nope and literally makes me close out of it because there's no more memory. I haven't found any other cross-platform app that isn't subscription based apart from that one... And even that one just... isn't anymore. Help?
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Hello hive mind. Does anyone know when #Downcast for #Mac will be updated, or has it been abandoned? I unfortunately am not able to do anything with it regarding cloud sync because when I open preferences, app memory usage gets so high that the entire interface freezes. If I can make it to the Clud Sync setting, letting it sit just eats emory until I get an alert that app memory has run out. I am then forced to close it. PocketCasts seems intriguing, but I don't want to have to pay a subscription just to be able to sync properly between devices. I sent in a query about this a while back and have not heard a word from the developer.
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To everyone who replied to my last post. thank you More than I can say. Knowing there are people out there who understand where I am coming from has lifted me in ways I did not expect. It is something I struggle with, and your kindness made a real difference. Welcome, also, to my new followers. I am glad you are here.
Today was my usual Saturday therapy appointment. Things are moving in a good direction. I have graduated to fortnightly sessions, which feels significant. After therapy I caught up with a friend, and came home with a new Victor Reader Stream 3. I am very much still in the "what does this button do" phase. My immediate goals are connecting it to my hearing aids via Bluetooth, getting it onto the wifi, tracking down all my favourite radio stations, and working out how to import my podcast subscriptions from Downcast. The good news is that Downcast can export an OPML file, and the Stream 3 has an "import podcast feeds from file" option in the podcasts menu, so that should be doable once I have the basics sorted.
Tomorrow is church. I am the cantor for the entire service, including the mass setting. It is the first time I have done the full thing from beginning to end. Meaningful does not quite cover it, but neither does terrifying. I only received the hymns and psalm list tonight, so my evening has been spent embossing everything and making sure I have it all ready. There is something grounding and nerve-wracking about that kind of preparation under pressure.
#BlindLife #DeafBlind #AssistiveTech #VictorReaderStream3 #Cantor #ChurchMusic #TherapyJourney #OPML #Downcast
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To everyone who replied to my last post. thank you More than I can say. Knowing there are people out there who understand where I am coming from has lifted me in ways I did not expect. It is something I struggle with, and your kindness made a real difference. Welcome, also, to my new followers. I am glad you are here.
Today was my usual Saturday therapy appointment. Things are moving in a good direction. I have graduated to fortnightly sessions, which feels significant. After therapy I caught up with a friend, and came home with a new Victor Reader Stream 3. I am very much still in the "what does this button do" phase. My immediate goals are connecting it to my hearing aids via Bluetooth, getting it onto the wifi, tracking down all my favourite radio stations, and working out how to import my podcast subscriptions from Downcast. The good news is that Downcast can export an OPML file, and the Stream 3 has an "import podcast feeds from file" option in the podcasts menu, so that should be doable once I have the basics sorted.
Tomorrow is church. I am the cantor for the entire service, including the mass setting. It is the first time I have done the full thing from beginning to end. Meaningful does not quite cover it, but neither does terrifying. I only received the hymns and psalm list tonight, so my evening has been spent embossing everything and making sure I have it all ready. There is something grounding and nerve-wracking about that kind of preparation under pressure.
#BlindLife #DeafBlind #AssistiveTech #VictorReaderStream3 #Cantor #ChurchMusic #TherapyJourney #OPML #Downcast
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To everyone who replied to my last post. thank you More than I can say. Knowing there are people out there who understand where I am coming from has lifted me in ways I did not expect. It is something I struggle with, and your kindness made a real difference. Welcome, also, to my new followers. I am glad you are here.
Today was my usual Saturday therapy appointment. Things are moving in a good direction. I have graduated to fortnightly sessions, which feels significant. After therapy I caught up with a friend, and came home with a new Victor Reader Stream 3. I am very much still in the "what does this button do" phase. My immediate goals are connecting it to my hearing aids via Bluetooth, getting it onto the wifi, tracking down all my favourite radio stations, and working out how to import my podcast subscriptions from Downcast. The good news is that Downcast can export an OPML file, and the Stream 3 has an "import podcast feeds from file" option in the podcasts menu, so that should be doable once I have the basics sorted.
Tomorrow is church. I am the cantor for the entire service, including the mass setting. It is the first time I have done the full thing from beginning to end. Meaningful does not quite cover it, but neither does terrifying. I only received the hymns and psalm list tonight, so my evening has been spent embossing everything and making sure I have it all ready. There is something grounding and nerve-wracking about that kind of preparation under pressure.
#BlindLife #DeafBlind #AssistiveTech #VictorReaderStream3 #Cantor #ChurchMusic #TherapyJourney #OPML #Downcast
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To everyone who replied to my last post. thank you More than I can say. Knowing there are people out there who understand where I am coming from has lifted me in ways I did not expect. It is something I struggle with, and your kindness made a real difference. Welcome, also, to my new followers. I am glad you are here.
Today was my usual Saturday therapy appointment. Things are moving in a good direction. I have graduated to fortnightly sessions, which feels significant. After therapy I caught up with a friend, and came home with a new Victor Reader Stream 3. I am very much still in the "what does this button do" phase. My immediate goals are connecting it to my hearing aids via Bluetooth, getting it onto the wifi, tracking down all my favourite radio stations, and working out how to import my podcast subscriptions from Downcast. The good news is that Downcast can export an OPML file, and the Stream 3 has an "import podcast feeds from file" option in the podcasts menu, so that should be doable once I have the basics sorted.
Tomorrow is church. I am the cantor for the entire service, including the mass setting. It is the first time I have done the full thing from beginning to end. Meaningful does not quite cover it, but neither does terrifying. I only received the hymns and psalm list tonight, so my evening has been spent embossing everything and making sure I have it all ready. There is something grounding and nerve-wracking about that kind of preparation under pressure.
#BlindLife #DeafBlind #AssistiveTech #VictorReaderStream3 #Cantor #ChurchMusic #TherapyJourney #OPML #Downcast
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I've been holding off migrating to the new iOS Overcast podcast app because of all the problems and design issues I've read about. It's gone through multiple revisions, so maybe it's OK now. But now that Marco Arment, the developer, has bought a restaurant that's gotta be a full-time job, is the Nov 20, 2024 app update the last we can expect to see?
Should I stay on the old Overcast, switch to the new Overcast or go back to Downcast?
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cardinal rule
walk away from schism
not downcast, head high---
#DailyHaikuPrompt - cardinal
#vss365 - #schism
#VssPoem - #downcast
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku -
I just completely removed #Overcast from my iPhone due to all the #accessibility issues in the new version with no responses to feedback for several weeks now. Sadly, it seems this developer has largely decided to stop supporting his #blind and #disabled customers. I have now switched back to #Downcast where it seems that accessibility continues to be alive and well.
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I’m back using Downcast as my primary podcast app. It’s my favourite. By miles.
I’m subscribed to Better Offline in the Apple Podcast App. I’ll listen to that one show there. Or I’ll skip the adds in the ad-supported version in Downcast. Guilt free as I’m paying in Apple Podcasts.
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I am about to leave my podcast app #castro. Focus is all over the place, categorisation is unnecessary, you can't look at pods at the end of the queue, and lately I have to close and open the app to get pods to play. It used to be such a great app. Should I go back to #downcast or is there a better option.
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A sidenote: "Be liberal about what you would accept and conservative about what you produce."
That's not a design goal -- it's a description of what you're incentivized to do when you're in a contest to be compatible with as many things as possible.
If everyone defected from this at once, then other people would have to be a lot more conservative about what they produced. But if only one person defects at a time, then your code is just perceived as broken.
To relate this to the post, I need to preface this by reminding you of how Rust works and then talking about Python more --
The interface of `Box<dyn Any>` is basically #downcast() and downcasting-related products. No implicit conversion, no introspection not requested specifically by the caller.
There's a second level of gradual typing that goes past downcasting, which is basically "gradual typing with conversions to static types." The conversion to static types is done using an abstract object called a schema, which says "here's what to look for."
This is sometimes misnomered as parsing or deserialization, even though the subject isn't a stream of text or bytes. I think it should be seen as a form of coercion, but coercion is a word that everyone hates so they call it something else instead.
Python sees itself as a dynamic language, and what that means is that there are no escape hatches from dynamic Python-land to static Python-land. So in Python you also only have downcasting, which is the null operation.
No implicit conversions, no introspection not requested specifically by the caller. For instance, strings in json won't become datetimes if you pass them to a function that expects that, and there's no native representation of a schema.
(That is, passing {"name": "Pyrex", "dob": "1996-??-??"} to class Pyrex(): name: str; dob: datetime won't result in the conversions you want. Classes don't do that -- you just get a broken value.)
The validation library that "won" in Python, Pydantic, is extremely liberal about what it will accept and conservative about what it produces.
I think Pydantic is a good library, but it would not have made the decisions it made if there wasn't massive pressure to, basically, avoid all errors by doing JavaScript-levels of implicit conversions.
(There are other libraries that aren't general-purpose validation libraries but which still do schema-based validation -- SQLAlchemy is an ORM that does this, and it's far less liberal about what it accepts.)
I think it would be very good for people to defect, at a language level, from the kind of design goals that produce Pydantic. I think this is the kind of "everyone defects at once" scenario that's needed to force people to be more conservative about what they produce.
To do this, you basically need schema-based validation at the language level, or at least the stdlib-level, which requires programmers to strongly opt into parsing garbage.
(I say it should be at the language level because I think that records and classes are effectively used as schemas in every language that has enough introspection support to do this. And it doesn't take much: runtime reflection and annotations will get you there.)
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How come there’s only a couple of #podcast players that can show #episode-specific #artwork? #Castamatic is best so far. #PodcastRepublic shows it too, but being Android-first it doesn’t feel great on #iOS. These apps (and many others) don’t show episode artwork: Apple #Podcasts, #Overcast, #PocketCasts, #Downcast, #Castro, #iCatcher. Unfortunate.
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How come there’s only a couple of #podcast players that can show #episode-specific #artwork? #Castamatic is best so far. #PodcastRepublic shows it too, but being Android-first it doesn’t feel great on #iOS. These apps (and many others) don’t show episode artwork: Apple #Podcasts, #Overcast, #PocketCasts, #Downcast, #Castro, #iCatcher. Unfortunate.
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How come there’s only a couple of #podcast players that can show #episode-specific #artwork? #Castamatic is best so far. #PodcastRepublic shows it too, but being Android-first it doesn’t feel great on #iOS. These apps (and many others) don’t show episode artwork: Apple #Podcasts, #Overcast, #PocketCasts, #Downcast, #Castro, #iCatcher. Unfortunate.
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How come there’s only a couple of #podcast players that can show #episode-specific #artwork? #Castamatic is best so far. #PodcastRepublic shows it too, but being Android-first it doesn’t feel great on #iOS. These apps (and many others) don’t show episode artwork: Apple #Podcasts, #Overcast, #PocketCasts, #Downcast, #Castro, #iCatcher. Unfortunate.
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How come there’s only a couple of #podcast players that can show #episode-specific #artwork? #Castamatic is best so far. #PodcastRepublic shows it too, but being Android-first it doesn’t feel great on #iOS. These apps (and many others) don’t show episode artwork: Apple #Podcasts, #Overcast, #PocketCasts, #Downcast, #Castro, #iCatcher. Unfortunate.
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#Downcast users, is there a way to have podcast episodes sorted oldest to newest?
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Grazie a @toad che ha ripubbicato tutti i #podcast sulla piattaforna #fyyd da cui è possibile importarli facilmente sulle app come #AntennaPod #itunes #Downcast #Instacast #podgrasp e altre:
Eccovi pubblicati:
Segmentation Fault del LInux UG Salento https://fyyd.de/podcast/segmentation-fault/0
Digital Talks del Pistoia Linux UG https://fyyd.de/podcast/digital-talks/0
Bix Linux - Italian #Linux Society https://fyyd.de/podcast/bix-linux/0
Information Disorder da #BUFALE TAC https://fyyd.de/podcast/information-disorder/0
Spit the Dummy https://fyyd.de/podcast/spit-the-dummy/0
