Not just hashtags. I feel it's fairly obvious that comments on a post also need to be sorted by 'relevance'. At least if a post gets more than a handful of comments.
Tak dneska je ten slavný den, kdy si dobrovolně hodíme do přírody pár tun těžkých kovů. Jsme na kopci, kde fouká, lidi v centrech na tom budou mnohem "lépe" (haha). Zákaz samozřejmě nebude mít žádný vliv, znáte to rčení o vlku a koze. Alespoň budou data pro článek.
byl jsem překvapený, že u nás celkem na pohodu. Po půlnoci to na chvíli vystřelilo na 30 mikrogramů na m3 a pak to spadlo do normálních hodnot. Nikdo v naší blízkosti nic neodpaloval a asi pomohly i dobré rozptylové podmínky.
@martenson u nás bylo letos citelně klidněji. Sice to je těžko vymahatelný zákaz, ale myslím, že to funguje už jenom jako jasný signál, že ohňostroje a petardy jsou společensky mírně řečeno nevítané. Je to jako s 1,5m u předjíždění cyklisty. To je taky těžko vymahatelné a policajti kvůli tomu s metrem po cestě neběhají, ale stejně pozoruji, že mě auta objíždí ve větší vzdálenosti. Hodně řidičů si kvůli tomu asi uvědomilo, že objíždění cyklisty ve vzdálenosti půl metru není OK.
Let it not be forgotten that 2026 started on a #Thursday. About 20 minutes after midnight, I tripped on a tree route and scraped my arms on nearby rocks trying to catch my fall. I was unsuccessful, by the way.
Happy new year to all the beings of the eastern time zone! Hoping it's a good one. Someone over there should tell me something about what the future is like.
Happy new year everyone! To begin the celebrations, I have just open sourced my nvgt include in my games to allow one to easily manage many effects in their audio games. Check it out here! github.com/IMS-Productions/nvg…
Hi everyone, happy newyears! I've decided to do something I said I'd do a long time ago and release some of my older games open source, such as Bloodshed, Iminent Death, Sammy Center and a couple others. I don't have binary builds of these right now so you'll need NVGT to play and mod them, but regardless I hope you all have some fun with these and that they bring back some good memories! github.com/samtupy/legacy_game…
Honestly I love these old sounds/logos and selfvoicing menus more than looking at the code. And I've not even known audio games when these have been created, so it's not nostalgic, but still super fun to just look at these old stuff people started out with.
@TomGrant91 I really do appreciate your awesome work, and I’m thankful that you are deciding to open source these masterpieces for us to take a look at. You are amazing sam. Thank you. Freedom is one great thing. I'll see about playing these on mac and linux and sharing my results and of course crediting you because that's important, and I like you, this that and the other. Thanks Tomlet for reposting this one.
We recorded Friday's episode of #StroongeCast yesterday, since Kirsten's out today, so if you want it early, please consider becoming a youtube member and you can listen there. Same time same place on friday as usual though. youtube.com/channel/UCqtMRZeGS…
Hi, how are you doing? Thanks for visiting my channel, firstly.
A bit about me then.
I'm Andre Louis (AKA Onj), a visually impaired musician from London.
What will you find here?
Videos on this channel fall into a few categories.
If you run an instance, don’t forget to register a DMCA agent with the US Copyright Office. If any of your users posts infringing materials, you can be held liable even if you had nothing to do with it; but, if you have a registered agent (and follow the other steps in §512) you are immune.
In response to multiple threats by the United States to turn Canada into the 51st state, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised Canadians and Washingtonians by declaring Washington Canada’s 11th Province: theneedling.com/2025/03/22/can…
After weeks of trying to strike up friendly conversations with people about their neighbors, lonely and distraught local ICE Agent Martin Briggs says no one is talking to him here because of the Seattle Freeze: theneedling.com/2025/02/04/ice…
“Bigg’s orcas usually aren’t as picky about what they eat, but this little rudder-snapper won’t eat a thing his mom puts in front of him unless she cuts it into little yacht shapes." theneedling.com/2025/11/27/pic…
Local marine biologists have discovered one picky orca calf won’t eat their rich unless their mom cuts them into little yacht shapes. “Bigg’s orcas usually aren’t as picky about what they eat…
Today a local conservative and ICE agent who cried bloody murder when asked to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic clarified he’s actually totally fine with wearing masks as long as it’s to ruin lives, not save them:theneedling.com/2025/03/31/loc…
Today a local conservative and ICE agent who cried bloody murder when asked to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic clarified he’s actually totally fine with wearing masks as long…
“You know how transplants are: Even when they’re cats – didn’t skip a beat,” said Seattle Humane spokesman Landon Furcz as he finished his Taco Time:theneedling.com/2025/01/13/res…
Within 24 hours of landing in Seattle, animal shelter workers are confirming that all 19 rescue cats flown in from California are already complaining about the Mexican food here. “You know how tran…
“We tried remote, we tried hybrid, but after a lot of thought and investment in AI, we really think a full return to work somewhere else policy for everyone is the way to go,” said CEO Satya Nadella: theneedling.com/2025/07/18/mic…
Hi! This is a test post from the NVDA remote client developed by @Bri It seems to have a few quirks, but over all it seems to work decently. The only difficulty I've had so far is that it's a bit difficult/seems to have odd trouble going between the modifiers and the common keys, making things like shift tab a bit difficult. But other than that, it's working well. Oh, and it's very weird to be able to BSI to my computer. Lol
It seems to be a bit iffy if you navigate by heading to get between the sections. Sometimes if you navigate quickly the buttons don't pop up/into focus until you swipe around a bit. Can make a recording if it'd help you replicate/see the behavior
I recorded from a minute before midnight until about 12 after with my Zoom H5 Studio and it's included X/Y microphones on a tripod out in the back yard, while I was sitting on the back porch with a hand-cranked mechanical siren, which can be heard way off to the right in this recording. Given all the guns, the siren seems appropriate somehow.
This was recorded at an extremely conservative level, and still got turned down by 20dB when normalized because of the transients from particularly large rockets. I squished the dynamics to make it more listenable.
Mostly, a lot of gunfire from semi-automatics, with some fireworks is heard.
#HappyNewYear U.S. Central, Canada- Winnipeg, Regina, more of Nunavut; Mexico- Mexico City, Acapulco; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and lots other places...
Happy mew year! Ever wanted to NVDA Remote into a computer on your iOS device? But whoops, forgot your keyboard? Or have a keyboard? Either way, NVDARC has got you covered! NVDA Remote Controller is a new app for iOS and Mac (as soon as it finishes reviewing) that allows you to control computers over the NVDA Remote protocol. It also offers an onscreen keyboard, as well as page swiping gestures and magic tap, for sending keys with the touch screen. Useful for when you have things you want to do on the computer and are away from it. Try out an early version here! testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
@techsinger @BorrisInABox @mcourcel Figured. That's good. But it will completely die if I send it <anything> for some reason, assuming I can bypass NVDA's default punctuation handling. You'll never encounter this unless you set < and > to send to the synth or disable text processing with ToggleX, but the bug does exist. I saw nothing in the docs of AVSpeechSynthesizer saying that <, > and & had to be escaped even in normal string mode, and I would expect Apple to be doing the escaping there. But it doesn't seem to be. Replacing "<" with "<", ">" with ">", and "&" with "&" should fix it. If Apple fixes their implementation, you'll have to undo that.
@techsinger @BorrisInABox @mcourcel By default, <, > and & are never sent to the synth as-is, at least in English. It definitely is possible to change that, I don't know why you'd want to but you can, then you'd encounter this. Shouldn't hurt, should be one line of code. An edge case for sure though, and the Apple docs don't say anything that I can find.
I'm wondering if it would be possible to mute speech on the fly through a keyboard shortcut/on the screen? Currently, the app has a perfect keyboard input system and an almost perfect speech output system. I use the word perfect advisedly, I don't see any way to break the keyboard system and the only issue with the speech output which I can find is that the pauses sound odd. Since these pauses are most obvious during long reads, I'm wondering whether it would be possible to, through a shortcut, have speech mute itself on the fly? I could then try to bring audio to the phone over, for example, Teamtalk. Latency wouldn't be as much of an issue, again, long reads, and the excellent keyboard support would still be usable. It would also be good to use the phone as a wireless control system where the speech from the computer goes in and out of range. If I'm working in my office and then have to get up, I can take my phone, turn controller speech on, and just walk out using it. When I walk back in, I turn speech off and hear my PC's speech. Would any of this be possible?
I don't know if this is even worth mentioning, but I thought I would if only to put it on the radar and maybe to get advice on how to troubleshoot. On occasion, having launched NVDARC, the keyboard doesn't pass any keys through. I close the app from the switcher, reopen it, and the keyboard works. The reason I'm a bit hesitant to mention it is the fact I simply can't repeat it. It just sometimes happens. Usually, it doesn't. Usually, one hits the program and it just starts and works. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot would be very gratefully received.
Is magic tap supposed to work from the keyboard? I see, in the gesture settings, that magic tap is supposed to hit enter. When I use it on the screen or keyboard, nothing seems to happen. Is it supposed to work from the keyboard at all and, if not, does it work on the screen for others?
Even with the hardware keyboard? I mean if I hit vo+dash, should it work from the keyboard, or do I still have to be focussed on the keyboard area on the screen?
lovely. BTW, another question. I note that I can remap capslock. If I do that, can the controller take capslock over while I'm in it, or will VO continue to take capslock+whatever as its own commands?
When I go to the controller settings, then add remapping, one of the "from key" options is capslock. If I say "from capslock" to "capslock", will capslock now work as an NVDA key, or will VO continue to use Capslock as its command key? I want, while in NVDARC, to have capslock passed to NVDA as the NVDA key. When I leave NVDARC, I want capslock to work as the VO key, as usual. Is this possible?
Are general keyboard shortcuts or multistep shortcuts possible, if I may ask? That is, can I have a hardware keyboard see ctrl+shift+n and send nvda+k, then shift+pagedown? I ask because people are going to be using smaller hardware keyboards, assuming they have them at all. Would it be possible and worth doing to have a kind of macro setup, or would that be too complicated?
just here again to say thank you, because this is seriously amazing. I have just been able to do something on my computer without even having a Bluetooth keyboard in a reasonable time. I would have had to wait until tomorrow evening otherwise. I really love this.
@jonathan859 Let me say the same, though I have a keyboard. I just walked out without anything except my phone and board (no android, no VH server, nothing else). It took one caps+space and I was connected and could type, as well as being able to read. Respectfully, I don't think remote from the iPhone is anything new, but RC has made it practical and easy from a keyboard. Remote from the touch screen, though, is completely new, I haven't seen something like that which is even workable before. All the other options are so difficult to use from the touch screen as not to be usable (jump/splashtop). This is a huge step forward.
@Onj is it supposed to do that now, if I may ask? It didn't do it here, but that may well have been because the clipboard wasn't suitable. It should have been, though, it was just plain text.
This is another shot in the dark but I figured someone might want to consider it with me so I'll throw it out there. The long pauses don't seem to be between utterances, they seem to be between sentences. Maybe this is an eloquence issue? It's difficult to say because I don't have two of the same synth, one on the phone and one on the computer, to compare. The only one I have which is both on the PC and the phone is eloquence. I'm wondering if this is a synth problem or a speech cuing/RC problem. There is definitely a difference, using the same synth at the same speed, at least when it comes to eloquence. It would be nice to be able to make the pauses shorter when reading anything, whether a book or just a few sentences in an email.
Your work has been nothing short of stunning, as always. If I may ask, and I ask this because my judgment just isn't there for audio, is the pausing happening with all synths? Also, if you read the same text with VO and then with RC, is it my imagination, or are the pauses with RC longer than with VO? If so, how can this be? They're both using the same synth.
Just to be clear, a reduction on pauses here would be a nice to have, it's not a major problem, particularly if we can have "mute speech on the fly" and run audio when we want it through another app. I realize the amount of work which has gone into all this and don't want to increase it by complaining.
@techsinger VO has it's own magic TTS processing that's different than AVSpeech that we can't hook into. And yes, from my testing it happens across all synths
Ok, this is getting better and better. The say all when muted works well, it allows the phone to receive the audio from the PC and, of course, has no pauses. The virtual machine system works well, jump didn't allow the windows key for reasons they said had to do with my VNC server. RC does not have that problem, I can go in and use the windows key on any virtual machine and, of course, since audio is being routed, it's working. When I want NVDA audio, I mute RC. When I want to use NVDA normally through text, I kill NVDA's volume. This is very satisfactory and can be done with two keystrokes. Whenever I want audio from the computer (playing a file or something), it just plays, no modification needed. All you need to do is to launch teamtalk or Sonobus on the phone and PC and everything just works with RC providing the keyboard and the text when needed. Simple and excellent.
Not just satisfactory, but smooth. Most of this could have been done with jump but with serious issues. Breaking up with audio, no windows key in VMs, autohotkey for right alt to NVDA, very high data usage, keys sometimes stick in jump, though that hasn't happened in quite a while... You get the idea. RC just works and you don't have to work around it at all. Not to mention the really huge thing, which is latency. The only reason I'm using say all through audio is because latency doesn't much matter in say all, it can be higher without being seriously annoying. That doesn't apply elsewhere, whe typing for example, when arrowing, etc.
One more thing, if I may ask. How do I get a keyboard shortcut for the mute speech toggle? I'd like to hit ctrl+alt+win+m or something on my hardware keyboard and have speech mute/unmute. Also, I have the escape set to send escape. Could there be a keyboard shortcut for disconnect? I've just been hitting home (vo+h). Is that the way it should be?
I see the difficulty. Would just one for the "mute speech" be possible? It's the only one that's really needed, as I said, disconnect can just be home. It could be switched on from settings.
I get it, what if win+alt+ctrl+m is my thing for mail? There's already a touch shortcut interface in settings, though. Is there a way to have some stuff in there? All the other stuff on the touch screen is on the keyboard already just because it represents keyboard keys. Could there be a setting in there which says "mute speech", and then you put in your own shortcut?
The point which I'm after is to be able to use it quickly from the keyboard without having to touch the phone, since it's usually in a bag. The touch part of RC is just stunning, but it's not as easy for long typing sessions as a hardware board. I never type on the touch screen anyway, so that's my view, not most peoples' I think.
@ZBennoui This sounds promising. I wonder what remote protocol does the app use? I can see quite a bit of use for this in corporate environments, provided the app passes all the security checks.
@vick21 @ZBennoui The NVDARemote protocol. And I don't see why it wouldn't, it supports app sandboxing (as provided by Apple for App Store release) and all of that stuff
In all seriousness though. I have not used NVDA Remote. How do you connect to the machine running NVDA, say, from the Mac? Do you use smb, VNC RDP, or some other protocol?
@vick21 @ZBennoui you either need the client built into NVDA 2025, (see chapter 13 of the guide at download.nvaccess.org/releases…) the TeleNvda add-on for earlier versions github.com/nvda-es/telenvda or the original add-on nvdaremote.com Each of these work as a server or client, depending on the settings. As long as you have a method to connect through firewalls, whether on the LAN or VPN, you can connect directly. If you can't, you can use the public remote servers, nvdaremote.com, remote.nvda.es, and some others, or set one up yourself. It has nothing to do with the other remote protocols (VNC/RDP/Fluid/whatever), you can use those if you want but need not.
@vick21 @ZBennoui Sorry, hit enter too fast. Once you have some sort of controlled machine set up for NVDA, with any of the three methods I spoke of earlier, NVDARC will connect as a client to that machine and things are up and running.
@darren_duff If you use AVSpeech as the speech output method, it works perfectly. Unfortunately, VoiceOver as an output method isn't ever going to work, but I did leave it as an option just in case someone wanted to use it and just deal with it's shortcomings.
Okay, for your next party trick, create a single-windowed Linux app that runs in Cage, so the most pathetically minimal hardware can act as a really robust dumb terminal. Seriously though, this is quite a big deal and I immediately have multiple use cases for it. Have you thought of making a group for it? It would fit well in the BVI Accessibility community, I think.
@simon A group? Mind elaborating? Also, yes, a single windowed linux app would be cool. There's this, which is a good start I think. github.com/gozaltech/NVDARemot…
This readme says: "• Keyboard input forwarding: Captures and forwards keyboard events to remote sessions (Windows only)". That's ... kind of important functionality to be excluding from a platform in a cross-platform app.
@simon I tried to run this through Gemini a few days ago and it says it created a keyboard hook which would allow sending of keys from the terminal. I haven't compiled to test yet, but it claimed that it turned the terminal to "raw mode" and then allowed all keystrokes to be sent, as well as making sure the terminal went back to "cooked mode" when things ended. Again, no clue whether that's true. It first wanted to create an X11 keyboard hook, but I want something that can run on a machine which just boots to a terminal. Also, just to mention that, on another version, gemini ripped out the SRAL library and directed speech to NVDA controller client so that the program would work on Win7. That does in fact work, I tested it.
@techsinger @simon Oh gosh, that sounds cool but I typically use Linux with Wayland, not specific to the terminal, so I'd want an actual GUI keyboard hook.
@simon It kept bring up ui automation function errors. I suppose it might not have been SRAL, but my very rudimentary looking into it showed it was always in that area so I just said "remove SRAL" which it did and talking directly to the DLL it started working.
@simon Gemini said that keyboard hooking through Wayland was difficult. It claimed this was for security reasons, you would know far better than I whether that's true. Anyhow, it said it couldn't do Wayland and wanted to do X11.
@simon This has been modified significantly by @Aryan with most of the modifications at github.com/aryanchoudharypro/N… specifically, the connection system is far better, reconnecting when needed, the shortcut can be changed by the user, which means you can run several instances on one machine and control a bunch of machines, there is now sound confirmation of a good many things, and the speech cuing issue is fixed. That last has been pulled into the main project but the others aren't yet on the gozaltech repo, so far as I know.
@simon @Aryan yes, it really is good work, I'm using it to control three machines, one virtual, two physical, and doing so from my main device. The dumb terminal/thin client surface go I have is now connected to four machines, including the one through TeleNVDA, and the only reason I don't have more connected is that I don't need more. All of them run speech and allow keyboard access with a shortcut.
@techsinger @simon @Aryan That's... Actually really cool. That's honestly my dream NVDA Remote setup and what I wanted from the actual add-on from the start
@simon @Aryan You can already do that with Telenvda and core remote, though only for two machines at a time, no weird programs needed. As I said, with the companion, I really don't see why there should be any limit. I don't know if you've seen Across, but it's sort of like that with keyboard and speech, ctrl+win+left gives you 1 machine, ctrl+win+up gives you a second, and so on. Hitting the key again brings you back to the main machine and you can work on that one or work on one of the others. As I said, basically like free across.
@simon @Aryan It stinks, honestly, as does its support and licensing, but it can do it. The companion is far better. If there were a server for Linux and with yours for Mac, you could control basically any desktop OS.
It's an important piece, though. I would really like to run this on an ARM device, the keyboard functionality especially. I was thinking keyboard on an RPI and hearing through an Android device so we could have eloquence? Honestly, though, with NVDARC for iOS, I would just forget it if only the pauses could somehow be removed.
@simon @Aryan I have a feeling you'll be wasting your time, so I hate to ask. Having said that, just because you've followed their guidelines, what would you think of reporting it?
Hi @BorrisInABox I'm listening to the Outside stream and I just heard a clock on there fairly close to the microphone. Did that just happen to occur or was that editted in to the stream? It's super cool to hear the fireworks on there too! Happy new year!
Who doesn't like #reverb on their tracks? I sure do. But what has frustrated me for the past 2 years of using #BitwigStudio is that the stock reverb device has felt not as smooth and silky, or easy to manipulate as I'd like. The Lexicon 224 sound is something to strive for, and those clever engineers found a way to make an incredible sound with not amazing spec digital audio (12-bit with a max frequency of 10,400Hz).
I think the secret sauce is the selective bands and delay times where you can have the the reverb swell into brightness or dwell into darkness with some simple tone controls.
I have found that if you stack two Bitwig Reverb devices in an FX-3 Multiband Device on the Low and Mid bands that you can get a really sweet sound. Here is my example with some Airwindows to round it out.
#HappyNewYear U.S. Eastern Time... *waves* Canada- Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, part of Nunavut; Peru; Colombia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Ecuador, too many other places to list... and Cuba.
Ashlee Boyer wrote a top-notch article on why to use PX units for CSS spacing. She’s also looking for work in the new year if you need someone who specializes in accessibility and web development things. ashleemboyer.com/blog/why-you-… #css #a11y #webdev
Lilo thought it would be fun to celebrate New Year's Eve by opening the drawer, pulling out her brand new bag of treats and cutting it open. Thankfully I was in the room or she might've eaten all of them. Happy New Year's, everyone! *sigh*
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