NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.7.2 Very large release: • Core: Initial support for Russian and Ukrainian with new phonemes and rules. Speakers of these languages are encouraged to contribute, especially once we get a version of the phoneme editor with internationalization. • phoneme tuning: Softened sharp edges of some consonants using tools in repo. • phoneme tuning: Improved UK English slightly to sound less Scottish in some areas. • NVDA Driver: Adds "reset to default" option for restoring language pack defaults. • NVDA driver: Check for updates button in settings now included. • Phoneme Editor: Adds "refresh" option and keyboard shortcut to re-sync from the file if edited outside the editor. • Phoneme editor: Adds shortcut for "save Language YAML" as well as Save Phonemes in the menu. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
@tspivey I updated the add-on: one single change, for pause modes it's now Short mode: 25ms (was 5ms), 5× longer. Long mode: 50ms (was 10ms), 5× longer. Hopefully this won't feel as long as a sentence stop, but those are at 35 for short and 60 for long, which does feel closer to Eloquence's pause mode.
Hey man I think you broke the P phoneme, pitch now sounds like bitch. Come to think of it how exactly do eloquence and so on keep track of the phonemes and do you think we have a way to coppy that and build off of it?
@GoemonIshikawa oooh yeah, it's sort of inbetween the two? But then it's weird because words like Paper didn't turn into Baper, so it might be specifically the soft-P variant of this. Eloquence had internal segment definitions. These were not clean IPA phonemes. They were closer to articulatory events: things like "alveolar stop release," "rhotic transition," "reduced vowel nucleus," "fricative tail," and so on. Many "phonemes" were actually sequences of micro-segments with baked-in motion. Then above that, Eloquence had a very aggressive rule engine. Context mattered more than identity. That's sort of why I built up 120 rules now, because they help form the start of that "context" type system, especially with having various passes to apply to the output. Voicing, noise, and motion were explicitly authored into the segment recipes. So to have that type of rule engine, would be really hard to do in conjunction with another phonemizer like ESpeak, unless we built that from scratch ourselves and the frontend was more closely then integrated with it.
@GoemonIshikawa ah good, I think it's more about aspiration. This was unchecked, perhaps I somehow I accidentally disabled it for English: Add aspiration after unvoiced stop consonants check box checked Once I checked it words like "pool" started to sound more like the start wasn't swallowed and "pitch" became clearer with it.
can you make the opptions in the settings easier to use? when i press space to check or uncheck something in globle opptions the new state isn't read so i don't know if the settings changed till i press ok
So, random tip that some of you will probably find useful and others will be like, meh, I've known that for ages. Still I'm putting it out there because I'm literally ecstatic after learning this information, which I really should've looked up years ago.
So if I'm on a web site that has a lot of interesting links I want to check out, I will often open them in new tabs or windows, so that I can easily close them and return to the main page when done. To open a link in a new tab/window, I used to go to the context menu and hit the appropriate option. But in later versions of Brave (which is my primary browser), keyboard focus seems to have trouble staying in the context menu. Usually I have to open it, escape out of it, and open it again. Not sure why.
It turns out you don't even need to deal with that menu though, at least not for that. Shift enter opens a link in a new window, and control shift enter opens in new tab. I'll be honest, I don't enjoy learning random keystrokes because they're easy to forget, but these are two that are definitely going to save me time, and I will use them so much that I will remember them. As a third bonus keystroke, alt enter on a link will let you download the file it points to (it's the save link as option in the context menu). So yeah, hope at least one person finds this information useful.
@Bri Rofl. In all fairness I was only really annoyed about it since yesterday. Before that, I was on an older Brave which didn't seem to struggle getting keyboard focus in the menu.
@jaybird110127 Control enter for new tab in firefox, except on GitHub issues. It opens it in a new tab but also navigates to the new issue in the old tab.
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Yes, I use AI. Yes, I review it's output. Yes, I understand what it's output is doing. Hell, I helped write half of TweeseCake's code back before AI even existed. Yes, I miss things, because I am only human. Don't judge me if you don't know me.
You also likely know how to use git enough to undo any screw-up it makes. If it can only make new commits, version control gives you the tools to moderate it retroactively.
Huh? I might not want to personally use it myself, but as many have said, it's a tool. Just like a boilerplate generator. THe thing it gives you, I think, is the ability to work on the same level of productivity as what used to take at least a small team.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't care if you're using AI. I have a problem with low quality uncreative AI slop. I don't have an issue with people using AI to help them as a companion to their human effort. So long as you're, you know, using this thing you have called your brain, and this thing called critical thinking, I don't really care. I'll always stand by the fact that AI at its core is a tool. Yes it can be misused just like any other, and I have an issue with those misuses and creations of so called slop. But if people are putting in genuine effort alongside their AI, I couldn't care less.
@vol4life8657 @Mendi_Tech this in response to a mastodon admin coming after me with a harshly worded github issue. Look for it if you really want to know.
Monthly Active Users (MAU) latest figures (depending on who you believe for the other platforms)
Facebook 3.07 billion Telegram 1 billion Threads 400 million twitter 353.9 million Bluesky 12.23 million Fedi 1,039,049
For every engagement (boost/fave) on Fedi, it is the equivalent to
3,000 on Facebook 1,000 on Telegram 400 on Threads 340 on twitter 12 on Bluesky
However! This also understates Fedi’s real engagement because Fedi users are far more active per capita, there is no algorithm and timelines are presented chronologically (and far less bot-driven than somewhere like twitter).
So when you think your interesting / clever / funny post *only* got 20 boosts or likes..... that would be nearly seven thousand on twitter or 60k on Facebook!
It seems pretty clear to me that if immigrants were making Minneapolis residents feel unsafe they'd have no problem assembling a giant protest and asking the government to do something about it
For those of you who are switching to #Thunderbird from #Outlook, do the following to ensure as seamless an experience as possible while using a #screenreader. Note, these do not have to be done in this order. 1. If preferred, add your account by filling in the form that is presented on the screen which appears for the first time you open Thunderbird. This will get your first Email account connected properly to TB. 2. Once you are presented with the main TB window and the various folders (inbox, sent, etc.), you know your account has successfully been added. Press F8 to disable the preview pane. This will reduce clutter and allow you to simply press Enter on a message to open it rather than having to navigate it in the main TB window. 3. Open the Tools menu with Alt+T, then press Uparrow until you get to Settings and press Enter. Note, this is not the same as Account Settings. 4. Once in Settings, find the following items and make sure they are set as shown below. A. Under General heading. When Thunderbird launches, show the Start Page in the message area Alt+Shift+W check box not checked. This will prevent Thunderbird from showing its normal startup page and reduce the resulting clutter in the main TB window. B. Under General heading, optional. When Thunderbird is minimized, move it to the tray Alt+Shift+m check box not checked. When this checkbox is checked, every time you minimize the application, Thunderbird moves to the system tray and consequently requires activation every time you want to quickly get back to it. I personally find this bothersome, so I have disabled this particular behavior. C. Under General heading, optional. Hide system window titlebar Alt+Shift+H check box not checked. I personally like all the information I can get when reading my titlebar, so I prefer to have this disabled. D. Under Incoming Mails heading, Optional. Show an alert Alt+Shift+S check box not checked. Note, do not disable this setting if you desire to change the setting below it. If desired, change the setting below first, then move back and change this one afterward if preferred. When this item is checked, the screenreader will automatically announce when each message arrives. This is a bit too chatty for my personal preference, so I have it disabled. E. Under Incoming Mails heading, optional. Use the system notification check box not checked. Note, change this setting first if desired before changing the one above it, as this checkbox becomes unavailable when the setting above is disabled. This item allows Thunderbird to send a system notification to the Windows 10/11 Action Center. You get the system notification sound, as well as any accompanying speech and can view the notifications that way. I personally find this overkill, so I have disabled it. F. Under Incoming Mails heading. Play a sound Alt+Shift+d check box checked. This will allow Thunderbird to play a sound whenever a new message arrives. You can either use the sound that has been set up for the default Windows notification sound for mail or choose your own by specifying the file you would prefer using the Browse option. G. Under Reading and Display Heading. Set Open New Messages In to A New Message Window. This will exhibit the more familiar behavior of Outlook and open the message in its own window when you press Enter on it. H. Under Reading and Display heading, optional. Close message window/tab on move or delete Alt+Shift+C check box checked. This tells Thunderbird to close the message window if you happen to move or delete it from the main TB window. I personally have this enabled for convenience. I. Under Reading and Display heading, optional. Preferred Address Display Format set to Name Only. I prefer this because it cuts down on chatter. This way, as you arrow through messages, you will see only the name of the sender along with other header information, rather than both the name and Email address. 5. Once all the settings are to your liking, press Control+W to close Settings and return to the main TB window. 6. Open the View menu with Alt+V and press Rightarrow on the Toolbars menu. Uncheck all the items there except for Status Bar. This results in less clutter in the main TB window. 7. Return to the View menu with Alt+T and press Rightarrow on Layout. Press Enter on Classic View. This optimizes the view a little bit more for screenreader use. 8. From the main TB Window, Shift+Tab until you find the Message List Display Options button. Activating this will bring up a context menu. Once in this menu, make sure that Table View is checked. This will allow you access to message headers and the ability to order them how you would like. 9. Finally, from the message list in the main TB window, Shift+Tab once. You'll find a toolbar that consists of several buttons. These are your message headers. If you wish your screenreader to announce Read Status first, find the Sort By Read Status button, then press alt+leftarrow. This will move the header over. Note, this does not mean you will be sorting message by Read Status. Sort By is announced because if you click on these headers, you can sort the messages by the header that is selected. Use Alt+Leftarrow or Alt+Rightarrow to find the preferred position of the selected header. To check or confirm the order of your headers, press Tab and arrow through your message list. I have Read Status first, followed by attachments and so on. This makes the reader announce the read status of the message, then whether or not there are attachments, followed by whatever header (e.g. correspondents) comes next. Change the order of the message headers to match how you would like your reader to announce the associated items as you arrow through your message list. Press F6 and Shift+F6 to jump quickly between Email folders and message lists.
Hope this helps, and enjoy your shiny new Email client! #A11y #Blind #JAWS #NVDA
TIL that there is a very nice, free PDF book called “Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction” that systematically introduces common structures and patterns and discusses how to reason about their behaviour.
It’s beautifully typeset with tons of diagrams. Well worth a look.
Blocking AI crawlers on your servers is just like adding an ad/tracker blocker to your browser. An unfortunate necessity, because we can't have nice things anymore on the internet.
I feel like Netflix can't even decide what it wants to be nowadays. It shows mobile games, shows, movies, and now podcasts? What on earth are they doing?
I need to create maps that I can apply custom filter/styling to. My assumptions for doing this are:
- Export from OSM as SVG - Import to Inkscape and apply styling - Export to PNG
I have found a bunch of wiks and help pages, mostly centered around `josm` which does not work at all. (can't download large enough grids, can't import an OSM dump of "norway" due it being too much data).
I think I am pretty "good at computer" and literally nothing I've found works. At all. I can produce nothing.
@federicomena I want to download topo maps and print them with some control over the contour lines and shadings like "forest" vs. "marsh" etc. I want to overlay GPX track and style that. I want some features (river, peak, hut, etc.) to appear and be styled in some way.
the "do it all yourself" way is definitely QGIS; it can give you beautiful output if you are patient. I highly recommend @underdarkGIS's books on QGIS if you are into this.
Mapbox Studio used to be really good at letting you do what you want, and then it turned very commercial. I haven´t used it for about 10 years, but the UI was indeed really nice.
@federicomena @underdarkGIS yeaaah, definitely a specialized GIS software like QGis does the job, although it has its learning curve but the result can be worth it
Starting with the Pixel 10, "Android Quick Share" interoperates with "iOS AirDrop" but it is because someone bullied Apple into making AirDrop conform to the standard that Quick Share already uses. Nothing like that exists with AirPlay on Android, though. If the Sonos devices don't do Chromecast, maybe try straight-up Bluetooth?
@CapitalB Android QuickShare was already using WiFi Aware (the standard that I was thinking of) and the EU forced Apple to adopt it for AirDrop. Apple was apparently using "Apple Wireless Direct Link" previously. Maybe they could get Apple to adopt more standards next? 🤷♂️
They didn't reverse engineer anything. They didn't really even need to change anything.
Instead of blocking AI crawlers out of frustration, content creators should embrace deep AI integrations to ensure accurate recommendations and better user experiences. Disappearing from AI results won't make AI go away.
sorry Michael, but saying "blocking AI crawlers might be a bad idea because it will make you disappear in the eyes of the consumer" has nothing to do with ones stance against AI, and all to do with ones business. I get that we all need to eat somehow, and "you gotta do what you gotta do" to drive your business forward, but the battle against AI crawlers and AI slop invading the internet is more about principle, ethics and trying to protect what's left of the authentic internet.
in many ways they are truly next-level and can find so many things we didn't see before. Code that previously had zero defects detected now suddenly has a lot of them...
@joshbressers @Migueldeicaza I've been most impressed by them when they also "know" lots of details about the surrounding: like the protocols involved and 3rd party library's APIs etc, so they can detect when code abuses protocols specs or bad assumptions about data that is returned from another library etc. Those in-between areas that are so hard for humans to keep track of and see the mistakes in are perfect to have AI scan and poke holes at.
@schnedan I don't claim to understand either, but I have worked with them for a while and I have received many reports generated from their toolset. They're good.
Most of "AI" is human labor misrepresented as something the machine did, to defraud customers and investors.
I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that their "AI-powered code analyzer" did little or nothing here, and that they spent a lot of money on actual labor for the sake of promoting their product.
@dalias I know that's not the case because I also have access to such tools (made by others) and as I can run them on my own code I can see what they do and what they can find.
AI powered code analyzers is a real thing, and they make better code analyzers than the ones without the AI component.
It's certainly plausible that they find common patterns of error better than a simple grep would. But my default hypothesis will always be that this is marketing.
I do wonder though if you have access to the tools and the tools themselves can find the errors themselves, why it took Aisle employees reporting them in order for them to be found.
@dalias all these tools, like code analyzers have for ages, find and easily report a lot of things. The filtering, the assessing and the confirming still need a human involved to get really good.
@dalias I can tell you're too busy denying this and haven't actually tried this yourself. That's fine, but also a little amusing that you thus insist that I'm lying.
I think you're giving undue credit to an industry that's vastly over-promising and that has extremely bad externalities. And that doing so lowers your credibility among folks who care about this.
@dalias I have not argued against them over-promising and doing all sorts of crap. They do. And will continue to most likely. That's certainly problematic.
What I *am saying* though, is that some of the AI (powered code analyzer) tools are better than most non-AI ones. And I think I've seen one or two in my days and I have written a line of code or two.
AI can be used to do good. Is it worth the cost? That's a separate question.
"AI can be used to do good." is a statement that lacks meaning without clarifying what "AI" means, and that excuses all sorts of other things under the umbrella of "AI" that fundamentally cannot be used for good. Because "AI" is and always has been a strategically vague marketing term not a technical category.
It's likely that statistical models of source code correlated with vulnerabilities can be used for good. I don't think they can be built without massive scale license infringement enclosing the commons, nor lots of other types of harm.
@dalias this exact case is one of my "this is what AI is actually good at" examples. It's a carefully tuned tool used on the correct problem domain by experts - perfect application.
do you have any interesting contextually important information about what they mean when they saying ai reasoning system? E.g. are they describing a somewhat conventional and non-new deep learning static analysis as being an AI reasoning system product?
besides the point but... grinding my teeth at calling these zero-day vulnerabilities, words have meanings, ffs, we aren't gonna call a vulnerabilities zero-day if they are following standard coordinated disclosure, are we?
This is all so great and a plausible use of the technology, only if not fueled with hype and click-bait: saying that LLM is successful here instead of "AI" would sound more plausible to me. But likely less audience (CEOs) would buy that, so it's all gotta be "AI" hand-waving 😒 Surely enough it's far more advanced than fuzzy testing, pity there are little details on the actual technology published, just hype.
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I went to pottery class today and opened by asking several of my classmates if they knew how to use the slab roller upstairs. Nobody did but everyone wanted to, so when the teacher got in I’m like “hey teach, do you know how to use the slab roller upstairs” and she’s like “no” (she’s a visiting artist who only got here a couple months ago so this is not very surprising) “but I’ve used a lot of different ones and I bet we can figure it out.” Me: “do you want to go on a Journey of Discovery?” Everyone: yes. YES. *cue sickos faces* so we all thunder up the stairs periodically shouting JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY and our teacher snags another person who uses the slab roller A Lot and this person gives us a very thorough lesson and demonstration and every so often someone else wanders through and asks what’s happening and we all go JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY at them and now everyone knows how to use the slab roller and honestly I cannot recommend this approach enough as a way to make learning new skills and life generally more exciting.
I had a dream last night that Linux was renamed “systemdOS”. My reptilian brain seems to be too in touch with reality. Bring back the man eating snakes made out of rolls of insulation. At least that was tolerable.
Tady potichu sleduju konverzace o MeshCore a protože kolem HK je to s repeatery docela slabota, tak jsem objednal jeden na náš dům. Nemáme 100% ideální polohu, na jih a západ jsou lesy a na sever dálnice. Ale určitě to v současné situaci neublíží. Pokud to bude fungovat bezúdržbově, tak se zkusím domluvit s někým, kdo má střechu položenou lépe.
já měl v tomhle ohromné štěstí. Mám repeater 300 m od baráku, ale i tak si budu na střechu dávat vlastní. Úplně nechci být závislý na jednom nodu. Repeater na střeše dosáhne na další. Asi včetně toho, který budeme zítra dávat u nás v práci na střechu. Z práce domů to tak budu mít na jeden hop.
@sesivany To jsou ta velkoměsta 🙂 Já tu mám okolo jeden repeater co mi odpověděl a není na téhle mapě. Ten jeden, co je na mapě, jsem neslyšel ani z vysoké budovy v HK. A z domu nechytnu nic. Doufám, že až dám něco na střechu, tak se to někam dobouchá.
Na Meshtastic si tu i pokecám a vidím zprávy třeba až z Prahy, ale taky zprávy často nedorazí a MeshTastic appka žere hrozně moc baterku.
ani to Brno ještě není zdaleka tak dobře pokryté. Třeba v práci to je čistá nula, proto tam ten repeater dáváme. Měl jsem fakt štěstí. Pokud není nic v okolí, tak to chce ideálně kopec. V Meshcore ty repeatery na kopcích klidně dávají desítky až stovky km. Akorát tohle si fakt nelajznu dát jenom tak někde na pankáře do lesa na strom. Přece jenom to od těch baterek může zahořet a v létě z toho klidně chytnout celý les.
jo, to je dilema. Máme tu v Brně možnost to dát na pár ideálních míst jako vysoké komíny. Ale s přístupem jen jednou za půl roku. Jak by se na tom něco vy..., tak by to bylo v háji.
ale to je o tom, že si stabilní spojení dovedeš do vaší lokality, ale myslím si, že repeater u sebe na střeše pořád má smysl, takže s tím bych začal. Já mám repeater 300 metrů daleko a i tak se stává, že z T1000-e zpráva někdy neodejde. Až budu mít na střeše SenseCAP P1 s Mikrotikem 6,5 dBi, tak doufám, že se to stávat nebude.
SenseCAP P1 je taky čínský bazmek, ale aktuálně má nejlepší poměr cena/výkon, tak se z něj v české komunitě stává nejpoužívanější zařízení a budou s ním největší zkušenosti. Tady ho mají za 90 dolarů, za tu cenu si to neposkládáš ani sám, jen teď v evropském skladu nemají naskladněno, máme objednané tři kusy. seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar…
It is a solar-powered communication node that integrates the XIAO nRF52840 Plus main controller, the Wio-SX1262 LoRa module, and the XIAO L76K GPS module. It is specifically designed for areas without network coverage.
@sesivany Myslím, že s RAK deskami to postavíš levněji, třeba o 30 %, ale budeš na tom pracovat měsíc, takže se to vyplatí jen když jich potřebuješ víc.
@sesivany vim ze aktuálně řešíte repeatery, ale na cem to prijmate? mate nejakou tu lora krabicku s baterkou v kapse a k ni se pripojujete z mobilni aplikace?
@adamhavelka Já mám tyhle dvě: seeedstudio.com/Wio-Tracker-L1… seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Card-… Ten T1000-E má fakt super form factor, je to taková tlustější kreditka. Dá se to strčit do kapsy, je to nenápadné. Nevypadám s tím jako divnočlověk s vysílačkou. :) Má to mírně horší odesílání, ale to je obecná vlastnost všech těch companionů, že mají lepší příjem než vysílání a nepřijde mi, že bych zažil moc situací, kdy se T1000-E nechytá a Wio L1 ano.
Pokud chceš ale něco s co nejlepším dosahem, tak to Wio L1 nebo něco s Heltecem v3.
It features open-source software. It integrates diverse sensors and positioning tech, transmitting data to the cloud via LoRaWAN for real-time device monitoring and management.
@sesivany Znam cloveka, co to na vysokym strome nekde u Benesova zkousi. Napajeni solarnim panelem, k tomu LiFePO baterky, co nehorej. Zarizeni je zalozene na MCU nRF52840, to ma 10x mensi spotrebu nez zarizeni s MCU od ESPressif. Vylezt na vysokej strom ale vyzaduje vybaveni a sikovnost.
Well... there are definitely a bunch of fedi posts complaining about the "special attention" the Jews get on Holocaust remembrance day. Cool cool cool. 🙄
Looking on forums, I keep seeing people say things like "everyone is in the hive mind, therefore having sex with it is okay since they consent" or "the hive kind can't say no, so it can't consent". For some reason though, very few people are asking if the person whose body is being used would have consented at all? Would the women Diabate interacts with have consented to sex with him? The hive drives their bodies to engage sexually, but those women had lives, their own opinions on sex, their own sexual orientations, etc.
It feels wrong to consider that, for example, an asexual woman or someone religiously celibate is now forced to be a sexual object for his pleasure. The existence of the hive mind has made it so that the individual is used with no respect to the former individual's boundaries. And if that person gains their mind back, they would feel violated by that
Next time some politician tell they can't close tax loopholes that the rich exploit to pay less taxes than majority of Canadians, ask them why one can't save on PST anymore by ordering out of province?
For years, the payments industry was aggressive about cutting off access to websites accused of containing child sexual abuse material. Elon Musk changed that.
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