Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, October 13, 2024, and this is show number 1014.
Well, it’s that time of the year again – my seemingly annual voice loss. The good news is that I recorded one of the articles a week ago so I sound normal. The other good news is that with Security Bits, I just stayed quieter than usual and interrupted Bart less than normal. But there is one article I really wanted to read to you this week.
This happened back in March of 2023, and my solution to have an AI generated version of my voice read the podcast to you. I used ElevenLabs.io to do the voice generation, and while it wasn’t perfect, for its time, it was pretty darn good. Let’s have a quick listen to how Eleven Labs Sounded back then.
Not bad, right? But I think today’s technology is a lot better. This year I chose a service called Play.ht. It’s still not perfect, but it’s come a long way. You’ll hear it for the Programming By Stealth plug and one article. When I get my voice back, I’ll tell you all about what it took to create the voice.
PBS Tidbit 9: Using Git on iOS (Git)
In ye olden days, iOS kept everything sandboxed in a way that apps weren’t allowed to reach outside of their own data to open individual files. But with the aptly named Files app, and an API to allow a human to do the picking, apps can now open files directly on iOS.
This “innovation” allows us to have a Git client on iOS and have it use a linked repo that’s stored in the Files app. This means we can use any text editor we like to open the repos files for editing.
In this tidbit episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart walks us through how to configure the iOS Git client Working Copy to clone a repo from GitHub, and then open the files in his favorite text editor on iOS, Textastic.
Hat’s off to Jill of Kent that explained to Bart and me more than a year ago that this was possible, but a fist shake to Bart for not telling me how to do it till now!
Articles
iPad, Pencil, White Balance Photography and Notability – All for Cross Stitching
Chris Cooke on Be My Eyes Coming to Meta Ray-Bans for the Blind (no blog post)
Chris Cooke joins us again to tell us about how the volunteer-based service Be My Eyes is coming to the Meta Ray-Bans. You may remember her when she was on the NosillaCast to talk about the integration of the Aira visual interpreting service into Google Glass.
During the interview I mention a terrific interview that on the Double tap podcast with the Be My Eyes folks and I promised a link to that interview. Listen/Watch on YouTube.
Chris does the monthly episodes of “At Your Fingertips – Braille Then and Now” and is on the “Digital Bytes” segment with Marty Sobo and Michael Babcock, both of which are part of the Unmute Presents podcast. As always, you can find Unmute Presents in your podcatcher of choice. She’s just started a new show called Digital Bytes with Marty Sobo that you find in your podcatcher of choice. You can find Chris Cooke on Mastodon at @[email protected].
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Security Bits — 13 October 2024
Transcript of NC_2024_10_13
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