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'Reel2Media Announces Its New Alexa Skill 'North Pole Plus'
‘Reel2Media Announces Its New Alexa Skill ‘North Pole Plus’
Listen in on Santa’s workshop, track letters to Santa, countdown to Christmas with a daily song, plus much more – all via Amazon Alexa Press Release – Dec 6, 2022 SEATTLE, December 6, 2022 (Newswire.com) – Award-winning audio production company ‘Reel2Media’ has today released its latest Amazon Alexa Skill ‘North Pole Plus’ designed to bring joy to girls and boys (and even their parents) this…
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#Alexa#Alexa skill#Amazon Alexa#Christmas count down#Christmas Music#Christmas song#North Pole News#Santa letter#Santa letter tracker#Santa news#Santa&039;s workshop#sleeps til christmas
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Slams a fist down.
WHY THANK YOU FOR ASKING.
So, here's the thing. I've been developing a smart home skill for about a year now. I know, it's a long time, but the thing I'm working on is a catch-all for many different devices. One such device is the RGB light.
When you tell Alexa to set the color of your light, it sends the Skill a SetColor directive. This command has an HSL/V/B value which is hue, saturation, and lightness/value/brightness (that last one is important, we'll get back to that). First of all, this is probably the stupidest way you could send a color value for lights. Smart lights TYPICALLY use RGB(W), so it would make SENSE to send an RGB value so that I don't have to put it through some wacky converter to get the RGB value (which is awful, btw, and NOT a 1-to-1 function). Nope! They choose to use HSL.
You may be wondering why HSL is a bad idea. Well, for those of you who clicked the link to the SetColor directive, you may have already noticed this yellow box here:
That may seem like it makes sense, but I need you to consider: If you have your bulbs at full brightness, which you more than likely will, and you tell your lights "change the color to blue", you would EXPECT those lights to turn blue... right? I certainly would. Artists out there might have already figured this out, but if we do what the aLl ImPoRtAnT yellow box says, then we would just get WHITE. Yes, any HSL color with 100% lightness is just white. And Alexa sends almost (key word here, "almost") every command with 100% lightness. There's basically little to no distinction between red/magenta and pink. If I'm supposed to ignore the lightness value, then why even have it??? Why should a user expect white when changing the color of a lighbulb that is fully on???
"Best user experience" my ass.
So, I did something different. Any time Alexa sends me 1.0, or 100%, I set the L value to 0.5, or 50%. This gets a good, basic color for MOST things, while still letting colors like light blue come through as lighter than plain blue. And I say most, because out of all the basic colors (not even counting more complex colors like "olive"), there is one that stands out. Purple.
Yes, I bet you were wondering when I'd get to purple, so here it is. Here's the HSL value that Alexa sends me for purple (follow along with me here, if you'd like):
Hue: 277.0 off to a good start Saturation: 0.86 or 86% also not bad. That's a pretty good purple. Lightness: 0.93 or 93%
WHAT? Look at that color! That's a La Croix of the color purple! If you wanted me to ignore the brightness, why did you put it in there? I now can't just ignore ONLY the lightness that's 100%. I have to make a special exception just for purple, just because the original programmers thought it would be a good idea to tie lightness to the actual brightness of the light, which is far from a bright idea. Fuck you, whoever programmed this. No other native apps do this shit with their lights, brightness is completely separate from color. And for good fucking reason.
If someone working at Alexa happens to see this, please, kindly fix this. And StepSpeakers. But that's another rant that I shall spare you all from.
Fuck Alexa.
Alexa Skills Kit broke the color purple and it pisses me off to no end.
#It's actually worse than I originally rambled about in another server#color#alexa#smart home#programming#software#software engineering#lighting#Alexa Skill
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Little Alcor's mischievous streak knows no bounds! The little guy really wants to play in the toilet.
"Al? What on earth do you think you're doing?"
"Wah wah!"
"Alcor, please tell me you weren't splashing around in the toilet!"
"Nuu..."
"I swear, I clean all that syrup you spilled in the living room, and you're already off causing chaos somewhere else! We don't play in the toilet, got it?"
"Bwaaahh!"
"Sigh... I'm sorry I yelled at you, Momma's just frustrated. Playing in toilets is a no-no, okay? It's got yucky water."
#sims legacy#sims 4 gameplay#ravenheart legacy#alexa ravenheart#alcor ravenheart#poor alcor doesn't get why he's in trouble#alexa is still learning how to be a mom#alcor also has a developmental delay impacting his speech and communication skills#so he can't quite talk yet#his moms are working with him on that
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The Extra Daughter - Chapter 8
I'm not the best at dresses but this is the best I could do to make what I had in mind. I promise it's more versatile and mobile of a dress than it looks
#extra daughter au#june byrne#june blackthorn#narnia#chronicles of narnia#narnia fanart#i love the design but my art skills are not good enough to execute the exact look i want#so sad#alexa play despacito
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I remember strawberry hills
#posting this here because I#am upset about igs quality#I’m progressing my art skills by regressing my skills lol#I’m making them a blueberry friend#illustration#art#my art#strawberry#character illustration#drawing#digital art#art ig is arts_and_eggs#hiding it here#Alexa play mansikkamäki
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everyone gotta be fuckin around tryin to do ai now im so fucking tired. shut up stop it. i wish i was a worm. if microsoft or discord tries to tell me one more fucking thing about ai im going to combust
#toy txt post#NOT looking to argue about this#its not even that i think ai is inherently evil like i know its just a tool#but like rn if ai is a hammer. every company that exists feels like its trying to smash the house apart cos they just got this shiny new#hammer and they wanna hit things with it without bothering to stop and think hey maybe some things shouldnt get hit with a hammer?#im tired and i hate it here#i dont want to chat with a fucking bot that is going to lie to me i dont want ai search engines i dont want ai art#ai art makes me so fucking TIRED bro like it legit makes me less likely to reblog art or interact w it cos i cant tell#and i hate not being able to tell. and like not bc oh a robot made it and so it doesnt have soul. or whatever#it does feel fucking. hollow to me to realize smth is an ai image but i think its bc of the. knowledge of the art theft to make that#i cant even explain how i hate it it just feels fucking deceptive and gross and i fucking hate it. i know its just a tool i dont think the#ai itself is evil i think its like siri and alexa and that it is being used and created evilly via data and art it didnt get consent to use#i think the ppl creating it rn are not being ethical. i know other things we currently have are also not ethical. but is that a good reason#to just. create more unethical things?#and i especially hate seeing exactly how this is gonna go bc that post awhile ago. pointing out how translation automation was bad i think#explained it well#like on an individual scale i dont actually think its the end of the fucking world if you were to use ai art to get an image of your oc#that you dont have the artistic skill to create or money to commission like if your only purpose is to idk use it as a fucking blog icon#or tape a picture of it to your wall or use it as your desktop background like i dont actually Care that much.#like ideally the datasets wouldnt be chock full of stolen art to create that but i think ultimately someone just making#a phone lockscreen for themselves isnt the end of the world#or like idk a fucking meme? whatever. thats not a huge deal imo. like if youre an artist whos art was heavily sampled and it replicated#your specific style? i think that is pretty shitty. that understandably fuckin stings i bet especially if you werent ever#asked or anything. the issues start to arise when ppl use it for like#book covers that they publish. when p start selling shit. when corporations and companies and businesses are like#well why should we bother to contract or hire or commision and artist or graphic designer when we can just use ai. thats some bullshit#its going to be used to fuck over artists more#and already starting. its become just another tool for capitalism to fuck over artists. and truly thats a career#that we havent disrespected enough/s. anyway theres some disorganized ai thoughts. feel free to keep any comments to yourself im very tired#i think they should go back to letting the computers make nightmare melty shit. at least that was interesting
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massive skill issue smh
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as someone who programs Alexa games the prevailing superstition is:
She's real, and she's the dumbest bitch on the planet.
(Amz though, is a Tangled web of bureaucracy and strangely specific ad targeting)
i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father
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Show do Milhão App: relembre o jogo do clássico programa de perguntas e respostas do Silvio Santos
Relembre o jogo do icônico Show do Milhão, sucesso televisivo do Programa Silvio Santos nos anos 2000. #ShowdoMilhão #ShowdoMilhãoApp #Silvio Santos
O Show do Milhão App traz de volta toda a nostalgia do famoso programa de perguntas e respostas do Silvio Santos, que marcou gerações nos anos 2000. Quem não se lembra das noites na frente da TV, torcendo para que os participantes dessem as respostas certas, e então, levar para casa os tão sonhados um milhão de reais? Dá até saudade! Além de trazer de volta as memórias do programa, o aplicativo…
#Alexa Skills#cultura pop brasileira#games#games mobile#games PC#jogos com quiz#jogos de perguntas#quiz show do milhão#sbt#SBT Games#show do milhão app#show do milhão celular#show do milhão download#show do milhão jogo#show do milhão PC#silvio santos
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Is FREE truly FREE - Amazon Alexa
#youtube#FREE Amazon Alexa costs hidden review blog uncover devices data subscribe Prime skills reality
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Imagine a world where your voice is the key to unlocking a universe of information and control. This is not science fiction; it's the reality created by voice-powered assistants like Amazon's Alexa.
With a simple voice command, you can control your smart home devices, play music, set reminders, and much more.
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Real Filming Locations - Skills - Amazon Alexa App
Try out my @realfilminglocations blog’s own skill using the @amazon #Alexa app. This skill features questions, answers and facts and can be played by more than one person. It includes questions related to film locations, tv series locations and video game locations. If you have any suggestions, please let me know in the feedback form at https://warrenwoodhouse.tumblr.com/ask
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21st October 2023: Updated skill icon
#warrenwoodhouse#bookmark#bookmarks#link#links#real filming locations#realfilminglocations#.skill#skills#alexa skills#alexaskills#amazon alexa
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If decorating for Halloween, here are some ideas to make your smart home into a smart haunted house.
#haunted house#smart haunted house#diy projects#amazon alexa#alexa skills for halloween#halloween#halloween diy projects
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#question 👨💻 what does @alexa99 alexa rank. Know about oral ? Apparently it's her top skill ai @forpodcasters @SpotifyRT @Spotify ? h#IFTTT#Twitter#uprise_s
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As a leading Alexa Skills Development Company, OnGraph Technologies have expertise in developing Alexa skills tailored to customers’ services and products. We have experience in using both AWS and custom server environments. We also provide custom solutions in voice technology for a variety of purposes.
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Alexa y el chavo del ocho!
Llegaron a Alexa el chavo del ocho y el chapulin colorado!!!
Tenía que ser… ¡Alexa! Conoce las dos nuevas skill de El Chavo y El Chapulín Colorado Desde hace más de 50 años, Chespirito y sus icónicos personajes se ganaron nuestro corazón y se volvieron parte importante de la cultura popular de nuestro país. Ahora, si eres usuario de Alexa podrás pasar un rato de diversión en familia jugando con El Chavo del 8 y El Chapulín Colorado con las dos nuevas…
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