Within a week or so, Artemis II will launch and send people to the moon for the first time in 54 years.
And all I can think of is how instead of being excited as hell to watch this - I think I've wanted to see since I was a kid - I'm terrified that Trump will somehow fuck this up, either by ruining the moment or... worse, if his horrid gutting of funding has had some impact in the engineering or logistics work.
For iOS users. You know when you copy something from one app and want to paste it into another, an alert pops up asking if you want to allow it? This usually happens for me when I copy the last phrase spoken by Voiceover. You can go to the apps sestion of the settings app, find the app that keeps asking (VLC in my case) and there's a section about allowing paste, which you can set to Never, Ask, or Always.
@MewProjects FastPlay: Even if speak track changes is unchecked, NVDA still speaks new track names as they appear in the title bar. Winamp doesn't. Does this mean there's some magical code in NVDA that can figure out that it's not supposed to speak title bar changes in Winamp because the user would find that annoying? Or is there an NVDA setting I'm missing? I like having the track name in the title bar, as I'm used to things working that way, but I don't want NVDA to speak it whenever it changes. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Okay. In that case, any chance of a hotkey, possibly not global, to speak what would be in the title bar if show track names was checked? I'd love to use this and get my dad using this, but we really need easy access to track names, have a ton of stuff that isn't tagged at all, and yet don't want NVDA speking every time a track changes.
Also unrelated question: If I allow volume above 100%, why does it actually clip rather than Windows's typical compression kicking in and keeping it manageable?
BTW with that last one, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. There've been times when my dad in Foobar I think it was had some eq settings that were what he wanted, but Windows compressed the hell out of the resulting audio.
I don't know. To get that "smoothness" the Bobby voice had, or "shelly", we would actually need to add Spectral Tilt as a frame parameter. This means a new frame setting that controls that. Without it, "male" and "female" will always have the same sharpness.
I wonder if there's any correlation between a blind person using gdb (the GNU debugger) and using a guide dog trained at GDB (Guide Dogs for the Blind), or using a guide dog in general. Probably not.
Here's another song in support of the people of Minneapolis and in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, this time from British singer Billy Bragg. Listen on YouTube here.
The murder of Alex Pretti was horrifically shocking, all the more so as we are still reeling from the images of the murder of Renee Good. That these crimes c...
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.8. Those on the NVDA driver from yesterday can update it from the last button in the Speech Player settings panel, too. This release adds a new Voice Profiles system to NV Speech Player packs. Voices are now defined in phonemes.yaml and can be selected at runtime, letting you ship multiple voice characters without maintaining multiple full phoneme tables. • New YAML voice profiles ◦ Voices are defined in phonemes.yaml under voiceProfiles. ◦ Profiles are overlays: one base phoneme table, plus per-voice adjustments. • New bundled voices ◦ Beth (female) ◦ bobby (child-esk) • Voice selection everywhere ◦ The NVDA driver and phoneme editor can select a YAML-defined voice. • Better debugging for pack authors How voice profiles work (short version) A voice profile can apply: • class-based scaling (e.g., vowels vs. fricatives) for formants, bandwidths, gain/noise, and voice quality • per-phoneme overrides for targeted fixes (absolute values that win for those specific fields) • Existing packs remain compatible: voiceProfiles is optional. • For low sample rates, keep an eye on harsh sibilants and overall gain — profiles include tools to roll off the top end and preserve headroom. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Great news! Speech Player for Linux works! I've set it up using install.sh, then set up speech-dispatcher as explained in the respective readme, and Orca found and loaded it. the process was even easier than setting up voxin, which isn't updated since years to reflect current path structures.
@clv1 ahaha but does it actually Speak through Orca properly? That's the big question I guess. I like this renderer though because it leaves the door open to integrate other phonemizers on Linux first the easiest, since it calls Espeak in IPA mode 1 to get the IPA. You can adjust it to IPA mode 3, that's what the editor uses, but I believe it also adds the ZWJ (zero-Width-join) markers. So experimenting with what each IPA mode does can actually change how things sound.
Yes it speaks, inside and outside Orca's preferences window, though I haven't tested it much so far. I haven't understood this IPA mode thing, but you may explain later. I'm gonna sleep soon. I believe I'm 4 hours ahead you. Here it's 10:22 pm now.
I think I'm using default settings, and is it just me, or can the synth not say the letter `R' correctly? Almost like kids who replace their `R's with `W's.
Okay apparently this isn't self-contained as Espeak fails to run. When I run Espeak-ng.exe manually from the command line I get: espeak-ng.exe - System Error dialog The code execution cannot proceed because libespeak-ng.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem. OK button
@jaybird110127 ah yeah, fixed, I re-uploaded the release with the dll in it now :D I think yeah, if you have Espeak installed, you'd never see the error but Espeak-ng.exe still calls into it. Which is fine, as long as it's not us doing that xD
Welcome to the Full Circle aviation museum. Walk this way and take a look at this interesting zeppelin. We’re not sure it ever flew, as it is constructed all of lead and, while it has a proper place for a gas bag and engines, we never found them.
Oh wait. The hamsters had a field day with this one…
LOL what if I just called the new voices, "man with balls squeezed" and "man with even tighter squeeze on the balls" would people get that it's not a true female voice? Hmm. What a strange thought. Considering it for next update. Get ready.
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Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today
The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits.
https://arstechnica.
I'd like to make a global hotkey on Windows to arm/unarm a specific track in the REAPER project I have shoved off to a second desktop. Ideally the current status would also be reported by NVDA after it was pressed.
Does anyone know if this sounds remotely feasible or have ideas on how to achieve it?
I love static assertions... Added a new error to Prism and forgot to update the error table so: source\prism.cpp:411:17: error: static assertion failed due to requirement 'std::size(strings) == PRISM_ERROR_COUNT': Error string table size mismatches error count [clang-diagnostic-error]
If I turn my website into a Jekyll theme, would anybody use it?
(Asking this because I'm debating whether I should go through the effort of splitting the theme from my website and potentially increasing maintenance burden)
Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.
The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport.
i wanna make something very clear. we absolutely do not "talk too much about Jews in the Holocaust". in fact, we don't talk about them enough, because we don't talk enough about the Holocaust. many white people, especially though not exclusively in formerly Nazi countries, *really* don't like to think about the Holocaust. they want to see it as a done thing, something of the past. "yeah, it was bad that it happened, we shouldn't do it again." but the thing about genocide is it's not a thing that happens, then ends. there's a reason we separate genocide from other crimes, and that is that genocide is not just murder. victims are not just killed, they are erased. their memories gone, their part of culture not coming back, their language fractured so thoroughly it can irrevocably change and lose its identity within far less than a decade. the Holocaust didn't "happen". it's still here. it's echoes ringing like that of a large bell, inseparable from the sound of the original strike.
and i wanna make something else very clear. the reason non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust aren't talked about is *because* we don't talk enough about the Holocaust. because people want to reduce this historical moment of people coming together in hate to erase other people in their entirety to just the phrase "six million Jews". the persecution of queer people and Roma and Jehovah's witnesses and Slavs and disabled people wasn't a separate thing, in fact many of the victims from those very groups *were also Jewish* (a fact that modern Nazis know when they deface their momorials with anti-Jewish slogans).
the Holocaust makes people uncomfortable, which is why they try to solve and reframe it. sit in that discomfort. think about what it means.
I try to be thorough and as generous as I can manage, particularly in my long-form AI-critic writing, but this video articulates something a bit less diplomatic: ultimately using it strikes me as somewhat shameful and embarrassing. But Dr. Collier puts it better than I can.
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7#Link to patreon:https://www.patreon.com/acoll...
Based on my reading of the original Nature blog post, it seems to me that the ChatGPT UI was less than clear about what turning off the data consent flag would do to *existing* data. So I blame OpenAI, not the professor. I think it's misleading to state, as Dr. Collier does here, that he clicked a "delete" button without realizing what it would do, and especially to take that as evidence of brain rot. We need to be careful not to succumb to confirmation bias.
@matt there is some evidence that the professor may be misrepresenting the “data consent” button that was clicked, at the very least. lots of people in the comments saying that it really is a big red “delete” button, others saying it’s different in europe because gdpr, but I don’t think I have seen anyone saying that they see precisely what he claims he saw. otoh maybe openai patched it since the article is bad press, so we can’t check now. the infrastructure of our lives is built on sand
For anyone using Fenrir stable version, version 2026.01.28 has just been released. In this version you will need to recreate your settings file, sorry about that, it was part of a huge refactor/cleanup. On the bright side, settings names are all uniform now without mixed case.
How does the @mixxx open-source community create software that rivals commercial alternatives? Collaboration between users and developers in the community chat on Zulip lays the foundation. New case study: zulip.com/case-studies/mixxx/ #openSource #chat
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.
Fortinet would like you to know that they've released a patch to fix a problem that let any forticloud account access any other fortinet device that used forticloud for authentication. You may express thanks now.
The bing behaviour described by neocities i.e. exclusion of site + surfacing unofficial / malicious clone sites is the exact same issue we saw a few years back.
We eventually resolved it after signing up to bings' webmaster tools and manually requesting crawls - and I marked it up as a fluke.
Seeing that it wasn't a one off, I have to conclude that Bing is a terrible search engine that will sometimes just censor sites while sending you to possibly-malicious clones.
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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Heading home today after an epic week and a half of aerial image capture - lots, and lots, and lots of photos (maybe 80TB delivered this week alone!); managing to access some very hard to reach airspace.
We've run the aircraft down to it's 100 hour service, so I have some time over the next N=? days for projects!
- cartography design - open geospatial coaching / training with a QGIS/Python/bash focus - field research ops planning and support - drone mapping / photography
If you are an organisation looking for a way out of US / other vendor capture dependency for your mapping needs (hi local governments, land managers, indigenous corporations) - and don't have a clear path for how...
Reach out. I'm very very happy to help.
I'm focused on Australia/ Oceania, I can point you to others if you're in Europe / Scandinavia / east Asia / Americas
...although dang I'd love an excuse to come visit and go skiing :D
Bison return to Illinois prairies after nearly 200 years
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bison-return-to-illinois-prairies-after-nearly-200-years/
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Das hier ist Teil 2 meiner Erfahrungssammlung mit Sharkey. - Man kann Leute zu Listen hinzufügen, ohne ihnen zu folgen. - Statt nur schnöder Bookmarks gibt es hier: Favoriten und Clips. Clips sind sowas wie Lesezeichen-Sammlungen, man kann also seine Lesezeichen thematisch sortieren. Und falls gewünscht, diese auch öffentlich teilen. - Ich kann hier definieren, wie mein "Standard-Emoji" aussieht, mit dem ich auf eure Posts reagiere. Also statt des Sterns reagiere ich so: , ausser, ich will spezifisch anders reagieren. Dann kann ich mit jedem Emoji, dass mir hier so zur Vergügung steht, reagieren. Aber das hab ich ja schon im Teil 1 erwähnt. Ist halt einfach zu schade, dass ihr das nicht seht. Stellt euch das bitte künftig einfach irgendwas mit Kühen vor, wenn ich was von euch Fave (Weil ja, @monkee hat extra Kühe für mich hinzugefügt ) - Antennen: Das ist sowas ähnliches wie Hashtags folgen, bloss ausgeklügelter. Ich kann eine Liste von Stichworten und/oder Hashtags erstellen, und in eine Antenne packen. Also z.B. alles, was mir so an Kuh-Stichworten einfällt in eine Kuh-Antenne. Entsprechend hab ich in meinem Deck jetzt ne Spalte mit Kuh-Content. - App fürs Smartphone: Nutze ich derzeit nicht, Browser (resp. diesen auf den Startbildschirm "installieren") funktioniert für mich ganz gut, und bietet naturgemäss alle Funktionen, die Sharkey so bietet. Was bei mir nicht funktioniert, theoretisch aber wohl funktionieren könnte, sind Benachrichtgungen (Pushs). Kann an Vanadium liegen (nutze GrapheneOS). Oder an meiner Unfähigkeit. Ob es Apps gäbe? Nun, gefunden habe ich keine, die Dokumentation gab mir darauf auch keine Hinweise, oder ich hab die Hinweise überlesen. Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass jene Apps, die mit Misskey funktionieren, auch für Sharkey funktionieren. Wenn man sich die aber anschauen will, stösst man vor allem mal auf viele japanische Zeichen. Also hab ich aufgegeben, und bin mit der Variante über den Browser happy genug. Die alten Haie und Haiinnen dürfen gerne korrigieren und/oder ergänzen. Ich erhebe keinerlei Anspruch auf Allwissen und Vollständigkeit. Für alle, die Teil 1 verpasst haben, hier nochmals zum Nachlesen: other.li/notes/ahssjgz8xe
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Mir gefällt an Sharkey besonders gut, dass Antworten auf Posts oder fortgeführte Threads nicht so zusammenhanglos in die Timeline geworfen werden, sondern immer der vorige Post gleich mit angezeigt wird. So erschließt sich der Zusammenhang besser und man hat weniger Klickerei oder Sucherei.
Apropos Suche, die ist nicht so doll. Da muss ich oft auf meinen Mastodon-Account ausweichen.
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