Bypassing AT&T eMAIL Blocking.

Presenter: Lee_Lammert Some ISPs like to play with your email (for some justication) by blocking outbound traffic on normal ports like 25, 587, et al. For many of those customers, it does not make a difference; For others, however, we NEED to get email out to report system status (e.g. status of
daily backup cron jobs)!

Tune in Wednesday to see how to bypass those restrictions and get reliable
email from those servers!

NOTE: This is **NOT** a solution for SPAMmers trying to broadcast junk,
rather it is for targeted emails providing status information to a central
location.

The above is...

# 6:30pm

BASE: Tutorial: Bypassing ATT&T eMAIL Blocking
Presenter: Lee_Lammert

~7:00pm

Announcements & general Q&A
~7:15pm
MAIN: Voice Technology Talking to Yourself and Your Computer
Presenter: Craig Buchek
Ever since Craig was 16 (1987), Craig dreamed of controlling his computer with his voice. It is nearly 40 years later, and he's not much further along in making that dream a reality. Lately he's been giving it some more effort. Still, the journey may provide us with some valuable insights, along with some curmudgeonly rants.

This will be a two part series, wherein we will explore where we are with speaking to computers.

In this first part (Wed May 14), we will cover dictation, voice control, and text-to-speech. This first presentation will survey the current state of our technical abilities. We will experiment with a few dictation apps, both proprietary and Open Source. We will look into voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, and accessibility features that make tech more usable for everyone.

Our main focus will be hands-on exploration of two main alternatives for controlling the computer with our voice: Apple Voice Control, and the cross-platform favorite, Talon. For fun, we will even fire up a vintage text-to-speech app to see how far we have come.

The second part of the series will explore using voice with Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) and coding. It will be presented at our Saint Louis Linux Users Group (stlLINUX) session NEXT WEEK on Thurs 22 May.
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The URL link to instructions at the www.sluug.org home page, are posted the day prior to this remote ZOOM meeting. The "next" link is called "linked here". You may have to refresh your browser after each time you check.

ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY until further notice.
ONLINE session will use remote video software.
CONNECTION instructions will be on the www.sluug.org web page and our mailing lists. Note that your browser cache may need to be refreshed each time you check the above web page for the instructions. We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing.

Details will be published on https://www.sluug.org/ when available.