If a kid starts kicking up a fuss on a plane, other people should be allowed to tell them to shut up and tell the parents to do better without it being frowned upon.
I'm watching people in my feed screaming at each other over Firefox's "AI kill switch" this morning with some trepidation.
As far as I'm concerned, Firefox already has an AI kill switch. It's called browser.ml.chat.enabled, I set it to false more or less the day it appeared, it hasn't mysteriously popped back on since, despite angry posts to the contrary, and that's been that for me. It's disabled every "AI" feature I find objectionable. I'd prefer if Mozilla leadership would sync up with reality on occasion and stop deciding to put this paid placement trash into Firefox in the first place, but at least there's a reliable way to get rid of it.
Everything else people have been screaming at Mozilla about? I'm not sure I see the problem. The little model you can download to summarise web pages for you? I wouldn't trust it, and so I don't think it's necessarily a productive use of Firefox devs' time, but at least it's opt-in. The other little model you can download to help organise your tab groups? I don't use it much, but this one seems more practical, and it's also opt-in, despite the occasional angry report of it slowing down people's browsers even without having been downloaded. Liek, bro, maybe try closing a Slack tab or two.
I don't want ChatGPT in my browser, or Claude, or any kind of world burning data centre LLM pretending to be our new AI god. browser.ml.chat.enabled = false does that for me. It would be even better if it wasn't there in the first place. But tiny, focused ML models doing nominally useful things? I not only do not see the problem there, I'd like some of them to be part of the Web platform rather than just the browser. I've been wishing since they launched them that Mozilla would make an API available to web sites out of those translation models of theirs, for instance.
I'm monitoring the situation, as European heads of state like to say, but so far, despite the posturings of their C-suite types, it doesn't seem like any critical Mozilla resources are being diverted away from maintaining the Web platform into AI boosterism. Every new Firefox changelog is delivering on what it should be delivering on, and it's only occasionally that I see a new "AI" feature advertised. Compare that to a product like VSCode, which has been completely consumed by the cancer of slop production with only one in a hundred changelog entries being about building an actual damned code editor, and I'm not feeling all that alarmed about Firefox just yet.
I know this is Mastodon, but sometimes I just wish people would entertain having opinions that can have some nuance in between "burn the world down so the AGI can live" and "Butlerian Jihad now," you know?
Now it really is sleep time. Yes, at 8 in the morning. I'm going to sleep with the Europeans. Having that bug in the speak program was bugging me horribly, so I couldn't get rest until it got squashed.
Stranger Things complete. Hard to believe a show that I've watched since middle or high school ends when I'm an undergraduate. That was sort of the only thing I watched on Netflix. But the service is disappointing now. There are barely any good shows or movies to watch. And if they are, they're are average at best, or they got canceled for reasons which usually involve money and whatnot.
@TomGrant91 oh, if you place the .exe where your soft voice add-on lives or the DLL files do, it'll auto-detect it. But because we can't technically bundle it all together in the repository, it's possible that someone builds the speak program on its own and would need to then manually give it where that file lives. I doubt the folks behind SoftVoice are around anymore, but I had to stay cautious. Even though the Eurpod page is public, it's not tied to the wrapper project so if anyone reaches out and says, "take this down, you're redistributing our speech engine!" I can just yank the file off Eurpod and not touch my repo.
is not a recommendation for any of those products, "Untersuchte" means "investigated". It's just a simple report. I shouldn't need to tell you this as you're a German company.
A study this week found that approximately six thousand child sex abuse and sexual harassment images are now being generated (and published online) every hour by the X Internet Unlimited Company. thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-…
With regards to Grok generating CSAM, I'd like to point out that all the image generation models are probably trained with CSAM in the first place. The kind of scraping that was done to train them is indiscriminate and the companies that make them don't care, so god knows what's inside the training data. My recommendation still stands: stay tf away from them
Remember there are massive protest against the governemnt in Iran, with hundred kill by live ammunition. They are all fighting for their lives and freedom.
The Iran regime was installed by the CIA decades ago.
Just to remind you what happen when the 3 letter alphabet soup agencies on the US touch things. It never turns into gold.
So. Because GPT uses Jupyter internally, when it reviews files, they get truncated for it. Poor thing. It spends half its time trying to figure out why the code is truncated when in reality it's Jupyter and the output truncating it. Ha. Can't believe that. Gemini is good, but it can only do code changes inline. GPT will actually patch your file for you if you are specific enough and upload it. But then of course it spends half its time trying to figure out whether a piece of code exists or not because it got truncated. Unreal.
I guess that's why people use Codex or Claude Code, that way its not limited to the specific amount of information the app or website can hold before it starts trunkating it.
PSA We are happy about the wealth of privacy focused classic email providers (proton, tutanota, posteo, mailbox.org etc) but they are not geared for instant secure messaging. Do yourself, family and friends a favor and use delta with any of the many chatmail.at/relays
Or setup a relay of your own if you feel like it.
Or use a a dedicated chat email address on your own or any classic email server that has reliable service and no obnoxious rate limits or annoying spam handling.
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proton via a proxy some people managed to get working. But we don't recommend it. And with tuta you are probably right. We just got a question from someone about using tuta with delta which is why this slipped in 😅 in any case we do value their privacy focus as well.
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well, chatmail has higher rate limits, but then several hard restrictions: only end-to-end encryption allowed, only strict TLS allowed, only strictly validating DKIM allowed. Not sure this counts as "less restrictions" overall :)
there is e.g. a "copy" button that will copy a link. You can also go to settings/chats and media/export backup and then on the other device import that file via "i already have a profile" from the startup screen.
I really liked the fist version, that I used quite often with friends but it was completely different. You could use regular mail. There's certainly been a lot of work on the new version, but right now I can't join anyone, it's a bit annoying for a tchat.
exporting a backup file didn't work? Or importing it? This would be a severe bug. Please elaborate. ah, and make sure you are using consistent recent versions, to be sure -- versions around 2.35+.
for setting up contact with a friend, see delta.chat/en/help#howtoe2ee -- there also is a mode that doesn't require a camera/scan-qr code but sharing an invite link.
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@Delta Chat Have you tried calling the person and attempting to onboard them using only voice?
The only thing that came to mind was something like: "Take a sheet of graph paper and start shading in squares. Shade the first square. Now the second. Now the third..." Of course, dictating a link out loud is not much easier.
I hope that onboarding two or three friends a day for about a week will make it clear that all the options you suggested are not great. :)
We could for example attach an Eloquence audio sample, then ask for a synth that sounds similar. In case the AI couldn't make it from scratch, we could ask whether another synth could be the basis, for example ESpeak's klatt variants. @fastfinge @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate @Tamasg
Sort of my thought sadly. It's gotten better, no doubt, you can now get AI to spit out 60 KB of slop in one go, wow progress. xD So context improved, maybe a slightly better skillset, but the amount of time you'd spend debugging and seeing which step it went wrong on, especially for all the low-level plumbing an engine needs is brutal. @clv1 @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate
If you knew the technical requirements well enough to do it yourself, AI could do it for you slightly faster. But if you couldn’t have done it on your own, AI won’t help.
so it's a lot. 1) Signal generation (the “voice box”) This is the DSP engine: glottal source → filter(s) → radiation → output audio. 2) Control model (turning phonemes into trajectories) You need to decide how parameters move over time: • How /a/ differs from /i/ in F1/F2 • How consonants inject noise and shape transitions • Coarticulation: the “smearing” of neighboring sounds into each other • Rules for duration and transitions (and exceptions) This is where “it works” becomes “it sounds like a person instead of a kazoo.” AI helps, but you still need a design. AI can implement whichever model you pick (Klatt-style rules, gestural targets, diphones-with-formants, etc.). 3) Text to phonemes (G2P) For English you can ship a dictionary + rules. • normalization (numbers, dates, abbreviations) • tokenization • stress rules • phoneme mapping5) Voice design + tuning Even with a perfect engine, it’s easy to end up with “robotic but intelligible” rather than “pleasant.” This is typically the biggest time because it’s: • parameter tables • hundreds of little exceptions • endless listening tests • DSP engine: days to a couple weeks • G2P + normalization: weeks • coarticulation + durations: weeks to months • prosody: weeks to months • tuning to ‘nice’: open-ended @fastfinge @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate
thanks for this overview. Indeed, we would need skilled developers, engineers and maybe linguists working full time on a project like this for a few months at least.
yeah, I think if a team came together for it, splitting that work perhaps by person or 1 to 2 people per section, could really work. I know I could be useful here at the later shaping stages, so do count me in, it's that architecture creation and initial rules I'm a bit out on. But yeah, not against on being included. @fastfinge @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate
I can do nothing here other than testing, so feel free to bring me back in at the latter stages. Until then, have 0 things to contribute. Very much outside of my understanding.
And also UX researchers, probably. I can't articulate why eloquence is better than dectalk, for me. Neither, I bet, could Andre articulate what makes Orpheus better than Eloquence, for him. So to get something that makes the largest number of people as happy as possible is a classic UX research problem, probably involving massive surveys, rating and ranking of samples, and so on. I work with the kind of people qualified to do this, and it's a unique skill-set in and of itself.
Regarding that idea of a new formant-based synth, has anyone tried to see if any AI, maybe a Pro AI, is already capable of coding its basics, given a well elaborated prompt? @fastfinge @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate @Tamasg
gosh I really should get some sleep been coding this soft voice thing for almost 18 hours now. Well, I started at 4 PM or so in the afternoon, now it's 6 in the morning, fuck me with a cactus. No food, no bathroom breaks in that time. I can't.
Good for early stages, I do have issues switching with the varients, it makes the synth go all strange. I deleted the SV part of the ini file and saved it, reinstalled the latest addon, but still plays up. You get some sleep
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The thinkfriend is the only portable computer that can love you back. It is never too slow, too hot, low on battery nor does it fail to boot. It simply is, and is very good at it.
#AMD #Framework 13 and #ArchLinux. It's alive! And from the beginning it just works. Not like the previous Lenovo with Nvidia, that after 6 years of driver updates still can't wake from suspend properly.
The same progress is with disk encryption using #TrustedPlatformModule. Now it's just systemd-cryptenroll --tpm2-device=auto --tpm2-pcrs=0+2+7 /dev/nvme0n1p2
6 years ago I needed to deploy disk keyfile, then manually seal it to TPM, and setp up initramfs to work with the sealed key.
And last thing, the #ArchLinux installation is still the one I installed back in 2012. I always just create new partition layout and copy the root filesystem from old machine to the new one.
My first distro was Ubuntu, but it often broke a lot on major version updates. So I did several distro hops until I landed on Arch. Arch is rolling release distro. No major updates, just regular small updates. I like it.
Of course It also breaks from time to time, but it's usually just a one app that changed configuration format, or deprecated some feature. And you know what was last updated and thus can more easily find the culprit. I was always able to fix it.
It's 14 years old installation, it still perfectly works and evolves. It used to be installed with grub, in dual boot with Windows, now it sits there alone and boots by efistub. It used to run InitV, X11 and Pulse audio, now it uses SystemD, Wayland, and PipeWire.
This is it's 4th machine and still stable. I love Linux, and especially Arch.
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1/2 Dnes slaví kulaté 20. výročí můj operační systém. Nainstaloval jsem ho 6.12.2003, tenkrát ještě na nějaký Thinkpad, kterých vystřídal asi tři, potom dva Latitudy a nyní běží na #tuxedo Pulse 15 gen1.
I heard something. It seems to me like community hysteria and bad company response on the topic.🤷 Well, I know a little about this, but what I heard, they are paying to multiple open source projects, right? And one of them is Omarchy/Hyperland? Which is run by a open far right idiot? That itself is not making them facist.
There was a bug (thanks to someone for discovering, I won't name names) where your own custom settings in SoftVoice applied to all variants, rather than them using their own parameters upon speaking. This is fixed partially: You can now choose a different voice but if you adjust pitch again from what you set, it'll apply. This second part is more tricky, as the engine doesn't tell us, "Hey, this is the pitch I set it to when the voice changed." Instead, you call one of the variants and the engine resets with the parameters it has internally for them. Tricky tricky. Nonetheless, it's (mostly) solved, what a relief. Re-Download 2025.3.5: eurpod.com/softvoice-2025.nvda…
I have created a Speak Window for SoftVoice that implements the wrapper. Besides allowing you to choose variants, it also lets you save a wave file of the spoken text. Now you can proudly feature SoftVoice in your audio productions. Enjoy. eurpod.com/softvoice-say.zip - this is also for @jaybird110127 who asked for this one. Note: a bug exists where variants like Martian do not apply all of their voice values, actively in progress to solve.
@x0 yeah, I might be able to add CLI flags to make the wave generation automatic, once these text chunking issues are sorted out it's not a hard add and then it can be all automated.
Also, I can give you DLLs from FL Studio, or you can find them maybe on jake's site under svfl.zip, FL Studio still ships softvoice to be used in all its productions, and that stuff probably has waveout by default.
@x0 I tried looking at PW WebSpeak but it used SSIL for the DLLs, so a no-go. ideally some other program would have at least a DLL that has matching exports (or the shapes aren't hard to re-do compared to this DLL currently.) That's the challenge. If somehow they used tibase32.dll and tieng32.dll, that would be a miracle drop-in.
@x0 wow, good news. This DLL can actually be dropped in (alongside tispan32.dll) and it works with the wrapper. All functions match and thankfully the ordinal changes didn't wig out my wrapper.
See if that does something for your say all. This is used inside a DAW so I imagine it's got much better behavior for that kind of thing, maybe even generates proper indexes.
Unfortunately, I doubt it's got any docs, so one might have to actually get FL studio and intercept and observe the calls made to it while synthesizing speech somehow, but I don't think that's accessible even if you ahve the debugger skillz
@x0 Trouble is, like I said, the FL studio varient of softvoice only has word at a time, not the other speaking modes. so, if, you, want, NVDA, to, be, doing, this, then, sure, thing. lololol. But seriously I'm sure that's a different version they're using.
@TomGrant91 @x0 not at all. I dropped into the add-on as well and it read natural. That's the cool part. It just, magically worked with the Wrapper. Something even I didn't expect.
@x0 @TomGrant91 here's what's new in the FL Studio DLL that I can work with: _SVRegister@20 • _SVCommand@12 • _SVAudioCallback@12 • plus “utility” stuff: _SVGetVolume@8, _SVSetVolume@8, _SVSetWAVFile@16, _SVSetPitchAdj@8, _SVSetRateAdj@8, _SVSetUserVoice@12
@x0 @TomGrant91 so if one of those callbacks can receive marker events, then maybe. Right now the problem is our order of things: • we call SVTTS/SVNarrate, • we intercept waveOut, • we detect end-of-utterance, • NVDA sends the next chunk, • the engine inserts its own little “tail” silence and/or waveOut open/close gaps happen. And that's the pause. Because I can't get a callback from SoftVoice saying "I'm done processing this chunk now, send me the next" it's all very sequential and the wrapper is the only thing that can tell NVDA a DoneSpeaking event properly occured
@x0 @TomGrant91 yeah, and oddly mellow male never worked even in the original add-on. I'm not sure what's up with it. The variants are internally set though so it may be an engine quirk in that one. That's why I had to be so aggressive about not overriding the variant's own pitch and inflection with the one you set in your settings.
@x0 @TomGrant91 actually no working Spanish. Tiaspan32.dll won't speak with this svctl32.dll. Sad! I wonder if there was ever a Spanish fruity loops with the Spanish DLL, but probably lost to time.
sigh. After fiddling with this DLL for the latter part of the day, it's just buggy. Even if you use it in the old driver that directly called it and used MME with no hooking. It will stop before finishing longer chunks, so it'll sound as though it's stopped before speaking has finished. Very unfortunate. No amount of hooking can fix it as the same symptom appears in the wrapper. Tried to remove the trim silences logic to fix it, thinking it was the cause. But nope. So it just never sends the last few samples either. What a shame.
darn. I think I know why: It's a trial DLL. It looks in the registry under: SOFTWARE\SoftVoice\ and checks. If it's not there, it bails out on a timer. There's strings for "Evaluation period has expired (demo versions only) " too. So it would need that timer cracked by someone who's good at, well, cracking. :D (which will definitely not be me xD )
PW Web Speak was one of the first ways I accessed the internet back in the day, my school got a 'Super-fast' bonded ISDN line at 128 Kbps. You could only access it in the library and on one machine but wow, the internet felt so magical back then, even if it was via a weird browser. Still, that was my introduction to Softvoice. @Tamasg @x0 @jaybird110127
Bug report: No idea why, but speaking the following text with the Tipsy variant causes a hard crash where the program goes not responding: Drinking all day. Drinking all night. Now, I'm, drunk! Darn! Freakin, darn!
Another bug report, just found this one. Apparently if you Alt+F4 while SoftVoice is speaking, the program goes not responding, taking NVDA along for the ride.
Wow this thing is buggy! The following text crashes the thing! I'm just guessing about the inflection command but here goes: {{rate 90; pitch 100}}Never gonna give you up, {{pitch 50}}Never gonna let you down, {{rate 50; pitch 200}}Never gonna run around and dessert you. {{rate 75; pitch 100}}Never gonna make you cry, {{pitch 100; rate 150}} Never gonna say goodbye, {{pitch 50; rate 50; inflection 0}}Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
well, now it doesn't crash it :D but it stops dead silent in the middle of it. I re-uploaded eurpod.com/softvoice-say.zip - this one fixes the focus stealing bug and lets you alt+f4 during speaking without a race condition happening. Eventually I'll add a "stop" button and things but gotta polish the basic program first.
@cubic @TomGrant91 yeh it's not reinitializing it from the default male variant params. I have updated ApplyWrapperSettings to be more aggressive. 1. Force-set the personality twice on the very first run. 2. Add a small Sleep after setting the personality to let the engine's internal table update. 3. Explicitly Reset the engine state when the app starts. eurpod.com/softvoice-say.zip
@cubic I'm downloading the one that was it's not reinitializing it from the default male variant. That one doesn't have the additional sliders. Whoops!
@TomGrant91 Download it from another browser. I had the same problem as you at first, and it turns out that Chrome was somehow caching an old version of the file. So I downloaded it with Firefox and lo and behold it worked. My variants are back to normal now too.
@TomGrant91 You could work around it by appending the version number to the filename, E.G. 25.4, 25.5, but of course then you have the issue of zip files accumulating.
@cubic @TomGrant91 I fixed the intonation combobox to reflect the actual styles the engine gives us. I think the other values in the combo-boxes should map correctly but if one is off let me know. eurpod.com/softvoice-say-v2.zi… (no caching funk!)
@cubic @TomGrant91 perterbation, vowel factor, glotal source, gender, ETC added to softvoice-say, so now you can change those settings in the say program too.
@TomGrant91 Another thing I've noticed, when I hit the Speak or I think Save Wav buttons, once it's done, I have to Alt+Tab twice to get back to the window in such a way that I can actually do anything.
To je tak, když 4 dny v týdnu strávíte zavření minimálně 8 hodin v plechové bedně s 80 lidmi, kdy půlka z nich chrchlá jak před smrtí a kapesník, roušku nebo aspoň si zakrýt hubu zvládne tak 10%. Ta interní cirkulace vzduchu tomu taky moc nepomáhá. A pak se mě okolí diví, že jsem nesociální. Než jsem začal řídit autobusy, byl jsem nemocný naposledy v 19 letech. Teď každý rok minimálně dvakrát.
@archos lidi jsou sobecký nevychovaný prasata. Těch 10% mi, věřím, promine, protože to cítí úplně stejně jako já. Já to schytám jen přes klimu, ale představ si, že takové hovado sedí za tebou a 3 a půl hodiny ti chrchlá na krk 🤦
@archos Nápodobně. Permanentně pokašlává, zvlášť po návratu z víkendu nebo delšího volna, navíc je taková zimomřivka, že kdybych vyvětral nebo aspoň otevřel na mikroventilaci, asi by mu nastydly vaječníky. Kvůli němu jsem si vyprosil aspoň pračku vzduchu. @cynik_obecny
Jezdím do/z práce autobusem a tohle můžu podepsat. Nedávno jedna paní kýchla tak hezky, že ozdobila okno nudlí, měl jsem štěstí, seděl jsem naproti ní na 4, kdyby nekoukala z okna, měl jsem nudli na sobě. Halt výchova doma a ve školce asi ty lidi nenaučila základní hygienické a společenské návyky.
@Zettl_josef A to kolik lidí má problém si po použití záchodu umýt ruce. Ani se nedivím, že je v ČR rozšířená žloutenka. A pak se tihle prasata hrabou v pečivu v obchodech.@cynik_obecny
yeps I totally agree. It makes me upset and sad at the same time. Also I understand that it is of course partly on me because it is open and I should contribute and help and not complain.
from my point of view of both user and maintainer, complaining is a good way to contribute to free software UX (as far as the criticism is constructive, of course).
My Server is working well, currently. Only Element as Android-Client is acting kind of randomly with notifications on different devices in the family. I finally managed to set up bots for my house-automation using cURL😁
same feeling, i still dont get completely used to it. FluffyChat client made it easy to understand but only my wife is using it from my environment, so :')
Matrix isn't a static thing and we keep working away trying to improve it. If you can let us know what's gone wrong (and critically on what client, platform and what server instance) and give us actionable feedback it would be much appreciated.
@matrix Half of the problems are caused by matrix.org instance not following the actual matrix protocol specs, or matrix.org instance introducing changes that break compatibility with other (non-synapse) servers or othe (non-element) clients.
@chebra while matrix.org does sometimes enable experimental MSCs, they should always be backwards compatible (especially on federation). it doesn’t seem likely that bagder is hitting an edge case where that failed.
@matrix should, but often aren't. I'm saying as a long time daily user of matrix. The number of problems caused by this is so high that I totally understand how a non-technical person will end up with a broken account sooner or later, and never come back. Dismissing feedback won't help. Prioritize compatibility. Prioritize stability. Prioritize "users will never see Unable to decrypt". New features don't matter if it keeps breaking.
@chebra not trying to dismiss feedback, but we’re not aware of any problems caused by matrix.org running something incompatible with other clients or servers. what are you actually thinking of? unable to decrypt errors are not to do with matrix.org instance compat (and should be largely gone since sept 2024 as per youtube.com/watch?v=FHzh2Y7BAB…)
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Took me under 10 seconds to give the synth an auditory seizure and have the voice parameters all screwed up. Now Colossus sounds like he has laryngitis lol.
@cubic nah, they're definitely the same variant/ voices. It's a bit more static when I go back to the original crappier softvoice driver, but setting pitch to 4 on the new one makes the voice have the same tone and tambor. So not sure. Those variants are internally stored. Of course it's easy to make any voice clip if you manually mess with the NVDA exposed controls, they are mostly there for fun or customizing a variant - but some settings don't match with the variant you chose so then it can't apply properly. So, not much else to do, this is probably as good as it'll get, which is to say, better than the prior NVDA driver.
@cubic oh yeah. you have to go into NVDA.ini and delete the [sv] section. old driver can somehow conflict with the settings, so they need to be cleared.
@cubic also try the newer 2025.3.5 driver. it force-sets the pitch and other params for the voice even if yours mismatch so they should sound more normal on that one.
@cubic yeah, I found the bug for this in the say program, will be fixed soon :D it just reapplies some of the male parameters to those voices is all, just will take some time to debug it.
problem in the speak app: It's either that we set those defaults on the engin to get the male voice to work, but then we break the custom variants. Or, we don't apply a thing, male voice stays silent, for some odd reason it needs default params applied, but variants are screwed up. Argh. no winning
I downloaded the new SVS, uninstalled the NVDA add-on, cleared the [sv] section of nvda.ini, but the settings are still reapplying. Maybe NVDA somehow re-adding the [sv] section after a restart isn't helping.
@cubic oof. well I made a 2025.3.6 version of the driver at htttps://eurpod.com/softvoice-2025.nvda-addon. It's weird because for me, robot and martian sound actually robot and monotone. Quick “is it fixed?” test you can run in NVDA 1. Set pitch to something obvious (ex: 9) while on Male. 2. Switch to a custom personality (Martian/robotic/etc). 3. Speak a sentence. It should not keep the high pitch because we reapply that variant's own pitch there.
En Leonieke, wat doe je dan eigenlijk met al die borduren die je de afgelopen jaren hebt gemaakt?
Eh, ja, die zitten (al dan niet netjes) opgerold in diverse theedoeken. Bij sommige borduren heb ik een ontvanger in mijn hoofd, maar bij anderen? Ik vond ze leuk om te maken, maar na een paar jaar is het wel duidelijk dat ik er verder niets mee doe.
Dus ... in de aanbieding, gratis te ontvangen, incl. verzending binnen Nederland, de volgende borduren (niet allemaal gesigneerd/gedateerd, want ja, beetje lui).
@marta Android's lifecycle management basically recreates the entire activity ("app screen") when a device gets rotated because the "screen size changes".
It's 100% on me. It's much easier to prevent now, but it's very old legacy code so needs a rewrite. However as solo dev of a hobby project I have to pick priorities and make sure it stays fun so I can keep going so I just haven't gotten to it.
Part of me just hopes someone else comes along and fixes this code for me so I don't have to 🙈
In the USA, in most states, you can get a restricted driver's license at age 16. Anyone who is born today, and is qualified to get such a license, is three years younger than the original iPhone.
Quite frankly, it scares me that there will be people driving who were not even a thought of a thought when the first iPhone was announced, possibly with older siblings who also were not around at the time the iPhone was released, who might be in their first or second year of college by now, but here we are.
@Tamasg unfortunately no statistically significant change in the IT space related to accessibility was every done without some form of negative incentive like courts, laws or standards...
@jstark Sometimes though change happens because people did work on the inside. When Microsoft decided to add MSAA (Microsoft Active accessibility) to Windows, it wasn't because there was a lawsuit, but we had people like Kelly Ford and others working inside to make change happen. Wouldn't call that one fear-based, although perhaps pressures by orgs did help that come along, since people were so concerned about transitioning from DOS to Windows. But I definitely know that that one wasn't lawsuit, but in 1997, primarily due to pressure from disability advocates and government agencies. @yatil
@Tutanota there is a discussion going on over at lemmy about you, that is interesting, but also seems misinformative. Would love to hear your thoughts on it
Hi there, new accounts can get disabled if they are marked as possible mass signups and need manual approval. As a private email service, we do not ask for phone numbers or any other personal information so we must be very strict with this which can lead to the fact that real users get locked out. If this is the case, please contact our support at hello@tutao.de, and we'll be happy to look into this and approve the account.
oh, my bad. I thought that fediverse accounts, and content was accessible across multiple instances 🤷
Your reply is fair and has been mentioned by the OP too. It also is the point of the discussion
I have a paid account with you so I feel like it won't be an issue for me. It's just sad if new users are discouraged from using Tutanota based off one users experience who got flagged as spam
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