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How to get speech output as text from screen readers

Sometimes you need text, rather than voice, output from screen readers. Why? It's really useful for bug reports ("this disclosure icon is announced as 'black dash triangle dash filled dash x2 underscore final dot png' and needs alt text"). Luckily, getting this text is easy to do.

VoiceOver on MacOS

In VoiceOver you press Option + Control + Shift + C to have the last item that was announced copied to the clipboard. Bonus feature: pressing Option + Control + Shift + Z to save the last phrase to the desktop as an audio file.

VoiceOver on iOS

A three-finger quadruple tap copies the last announcement to the clipboard.

For a while, you've been able to script Mac OS using JavaScript using JavaScript for Open Scripting Architecture (JSOSA). This is a huge improvement on AppleScript. Why? JavaScript isn't a great language, but it broadly follows the conventions that programming languages of the C/ALGOL family have followed for decades. AppleScript is a horrendous mess that should never have come into being.

Let's compare.

set x to 0
set taskName to the name of task

Discord app protocol routes

Home:

/: discord://-/
friends: discord://-/channels/@me/
nitro: discord://-/store
shop: discord://-/shop
message requests: discord://-/message-requests
family centre: discord://-/family-center

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

Which GGUF is right for me? (Opinionated)

Good question! I am collecting human data on how quantization affects outputs. See here for more information: ggerganov/llama.cpp#5962

In the meantime, use the largest that fully fits in your GPU. If you can comfortably fit Q4_K_S, try using a model with more parameters.

llama.cpp feature matrix

See the wiki upstream: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/wiki/Feature-matrix

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Abort sign off on any error
	set -e

	# Start the benchmark timer
	SECONDS=0

	# Repository introspection
	OWNER=$(gh repo view --json owner --jq .owner.login)

	{0: 'tench, Tinca tinca',
	1: 'goldfish, Carassius auratus',
	2: 'great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias',
	3: 'tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri',
	4: 'hammerhead, hammerhead shark',
	5: 'electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo',
	6: 'stingray',
	7: 'cock',
	8: 'hen',
	9: 'ostrich, Struthio camelus',

	"Typescript React native Function Component": {
	"prefix": "nfc",
	"body": [
	"import { FC } from 'react';",
	"import { Text, View } from 'react-native';",
	"",
	"interface ${TM_FILENAME_BASE}Props {",
	" $1",
	"}",
	"",