What would make me happy? A 32-bit DLL of TrippleTalk / Double Talk / the same voice DR Sbaitso used. that one. I suppose Monolog97 would be the right path to look at for it.
Lately I've been thinking about how many things for blind people can unintentionally be a barrier in relationships/getting to know people. I find that a lot of friendships tend to begin from a shared interest. A game, a show, a movie, what have you. And so many of those things are off limits to a lot of blind people. Someone likes a popular game? Oh sorry, I can't play that with you, there are no accessibility mods or built in screen reader accommodations. Someone likes a given show? Sorry, that show has no audio description, you'll likely have to tell me half the visual/on screen stuff that's happening if you want me to get the same context you get. I swear this is not a pity seeking post. This is literally just some thoughts I've been having, I wish their weren't so many barriers to enjoying the same activities as sighted people, I'm sure a rift has been put into many potential relationships because so many common interests were stunted or outright impossible because of inaccessibility or barriers like this. Not to say that is the case in every relationship, I’m sure some great relationships have happened, but it is something I personally do experience very regularly and it gets really, really old
This is very unfortunate. I've noticed this too and its eghen worse when there are cultural walls too like sometimes, different jokes that may not always make sense.
For sure. I assume this isn’t helped by me not being very into TV shows or movies in general, but even in terms of games. I see plenty of cited people relating over and being very interested in games that I just can’t play, even if I think they sound interesting. All because I was unfortunate enough to be born unable to see. It pisses me off and is an incredibly annoying aspect to socializing.
Well, the good news is that not all sighted people are ignerent about how we do things. it's much easier relating to other blind people though but I've been mainstreamed all my life.
That's my issue, I don't want it to be easier to relate to blind people. Don't get me wrong, I love my blind friends, but right now it feels like I only have blind friends and I'm hating that more and more each day. I wish I could diversify my circle without having to go "sorry, I can't do X" every 3 seconds
I'm honestly so happy I'm not the only one who feels this way. I also find as I get older, I get more and more tired of having to come up with workarounds just to use the same stuff everyone else can use with no problem. It's exhausting. You would think of field like music production would be extremely accessible, right? Like it's audio, surely blind people would be great at that. But no, much of the software simply is not usable or has enough accessibility issues so as to not make it worth it for me. That's definitely changing, more and more plug-ins and DAWs are becoming accessible, but even so there's always the risk of set accessibility going away or having problems that can't easily be fixed by the user.
@ZBennoui You're definitely not alone. I also get really, really tired of encountering inaccessible X, Y, or Z and having to complain about it, either to potential friends or developers. It's incredibly annoying
I'm so sad I'm making C++ wrappers for everything. Brailab, SoftVoice, all of it. Let's make C++ wrappers for every janky little speech synth that cannot output its audio to NVWave Player. Let's just use the Minhooking method @samtupy used for his amazing BestSpeech wrapper. I've been looking for projects to do while off work. Ther's the projects. Eloquence 2.0? MinHook the fuck out of it. Spend hours, days, weeks debugging each synth. Why the fuck not. Sadness fills my soul deeply, and this helps numb it. I scratched my Cadence displays today because my keys were in my pocket and it left a gouge across the plastic. So yes, sadness fills my soul, deeply, I cannot believe I scratched up my new Braille display.
@Configures sandpaper did the trick. Mostly. It's a bit close to where the cells themselves start so I dared not go in to the entire edge of the scratch, but once I sanded it down a it it's barely noticeable unless you're looking harder for it. That cheered me up more :D @samtupy
Multiple times this year I've seen people trying to crowdfund their open source work but won't tell me how much they need to continue working on it
What if I could have paid you the full amount you need? I'll never know, because you won't tell me. And I'm not interested in guessing, giving you money, and then you not doing it because you didn't get "enough".
Look y'all, since a few of you have asked about NVDA 2026.1 and my speech synths, I'm not going to start work on this until at least betas are out. @fastfinge has done a phenominal work starting around this, and his code helps me understand how such a thing would be done, but for one, I don't want an inter-process thing to be written in C++ but rather Python, sort of how he has it. Until #NVDASR develops their own adapter that developers can reuse for any DLL and just adapt function names or signatures to the workings of that speech synth, that process would become much, much easier. If that host process defined an API shape existing speech synths just hook into, I'm all for it. Then I'll begin that work, but not until then. Thanks for getting it, or not.
@luiscarlosgonzalez LOL between Brailab, 3 versions of Eloquence, SoftVoice, SMPSoft, Flexvoice, I just will have my hands busy redoing all of it. Not going to look forward to that work, if there's a reason I get GPT 5 pro again, that'll be it because by hand to recode so many synths... Hopefully those other devs come out to do the work too, but it's never a 100% guarantee and NVDA can't commit devs to that work nor are they obligated to continue it after the initial release if they cannot. That's just the nature of open-source stuff, I myself won't have time to pick it up but I know @mush42 has been looking for new maintainers for his work. @fastfinge @ZBennoui
@mush42 @ZBennoui Yeah maybe someone will take ownership of Sonata not only the NVDA addon, but also the framework. Piper is another thing because the collabs are very outdated, many dependencies changed, and even Piper's repository has changed due to license conflicts. I don't know if the Piper creator is here in Mastodon, but maybe I'll...
I've been getting ready for HKC @radio's Christmas eve programming, but I'm taking a break at 8 PM to stream Miracle on 34th street, which is one of my Favorite Christmas Movies. Tune in about 20 minutes earlier to hear the Hollywood backstory. www.hkcradio.com
Breaking News: A devastating setback in recent DOE notice that essentially eliminates the Randolph-Sheppard priority for Army dining facility contracts. We will fight to protect these jobs and opportunities. Read our press release at buff.ly/7CgdwnP
Holy crap. So I'm sitting at a restaurant, and a cover started playing that I wanted to identify. I could hear it fairly well, like I could hear the song and tell that it was country, but there was a decent amount of background noise and people were trying to talk to me. I pulled up Shazam to identify it, and I was like, wondering if I'd have to yell at people to shut up and walk like an idiot to the speaker for it to pick it up, but I decided what the heck, I'll just try it at the table with all of the background. And it friggin got it. I'd have a tough time describing what I heard in sufficient detail to another person, but it caught it. I'm still trying to process this. Lol
yo tengo así una pregunta... aquí en el fediverso e leído posts en alemán, francés, inglés, español... pero ningún rumano. ¿algún rumano por aquí? si lo hay, que se reporte, me gustaría conocer un compatriota
My NordVPN subscription is expiring soon. Can someone recommend a VPN service? It can also be NordVPN. My requirements: - Evade current/future EU surveylance - Has to have a server in Israel that allows watching Kan that Kan doesn't block - Allows routing all traffic over VPN with no contingencies (I don't do this at the moment, but who knows what the future holds) - A Linux client - No logging policy
Advantages: - A Windows client - Tor - Residence outside the EU, US & UK
I think Proton & is Nord answer to all musts, but none wants.
I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that
"Benzion Shemtov, #rabbi at #Chabad #Jewish Center at #Michigan State #University was out of the state when someone spray-painted #Nazi symbols on the doors and threw rocks at the windows of the center in the days following the #massacre at #BondiBeach in #Australia, where 15 people were #killed during a #Hanukkah celebration.
But when Shemtov returned to #EastLansing, he said he was greeted by numerous letters from the #MichiganState University community that the center serves.
“I got home and I got letters in the mail from people that are not even Jewish, just writing letters of support. It’s break right now. There’s no one in town…. just to see from #students that graduated and maybe came to us, students [that weren’t] necessarily so close with [us] perhaps because maybe they didn’t attend that much, but they were writing, this is their home, this was their home on campus,” Shemtov said. “This will always be their home.”
> Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.
Well now we know they're definitely true because lying to the FBI is a felony and they'd hang these people by their toes if they could
@sun if it wasn't an official statement it should be obvious in the documents that they're anonymous tips that were submitted and haven't been verified. This should be clear in the documents. If it's not clear, they're morons for not documenting it correctly. No need for an additional disclaimer
Struggling with Nerdbank #GitVersioning to do what I want it to do. Seems quite a simple task but for some reason I can't manage it. I want it to increase the fourth version number upon a commit into master. I don't care what happens on non-master branch, it might be like 1.0.0-dev.123 or whatever, but the Master branch must be clean and must have increasing builds, like: 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.3 etc. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. #DotNet #Version
As consumers electronic becomes more expensive thanks to fairy tales strategies to add more zeros to someone's paycheck, and the "is this real or AI?" question will be the new norm on the Internet, falling back to local, memory efficient, and offline tools will be the way to safeguard our sanity. Making these local tools convenient and easy to adopt will be key to their success, because at the end of the day privacy and ethics are widely ignored for the sake of profit, speed, and convenience
Well, this is cute… except not. My Samsung watch just decided to stop talking, and to add insult to injury, it won't connect to my phone. So basically, I have a Samsung wearable mini brick.
@Bri I understand. I tried to get Aira to help me with it, but the problem is, I can’t see to unlock it, and I had apparently done too many incorrect attempts. So, I think I am screwed.
Je cherche un/des livres jeunesse pour un 4/5ans qui a peur du noir et des ombres. Ce qui l'empêche de se lever de sa chambre (avec veilleuse) le matin.
Note: Ce n'est PAS des cauchemars, ni des terreurs nocturnes, ni un problème pour s'endormir (le trio gagnant de ce que j'ai trouvé pour l'instant 😭 )
Le repouet rallonge vos nuits et réduit la fatigue.
For goodness sake! Just went to the local hotel for supper. The place was full of a chess convention with chess players everywhere in Reception telling us all how great they are at chess. Honestly, there's nothing worse than chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.
Salut Masto #Strasbourg. Une amie de Lyon est venue nous voir et on lui a demandé d'acheter des saucisses de Strasbourg en guise de souvenir. Mais ! On n'a pas pu en trouver dans des grandes surfaces (ce qui me fait honte). si quelqu'un sait où s'en procurer, merci de me dire.
Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity/contin…
### Impact
This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to force the target server to cryptographically sign arbitrary membership events. The flaw exists because the server fails...
"At the heart of Matrix protocol, you have a kind of merging algorithm that reminds a bit of Google Wave. It means that a conversation is conceptually represented as a sort document you constantly merge on the server. This is a consuming process that is happening on the server for each message received in all conversations. That’s why Matrix has the reputation to be so difficult to scale."
I have a question. So on Windows 11, specifically this desktop, executables are taking a few seconds to launch and UI's are particularly laggy. Instance, I have an app that draws many items to a list. On my windows 10 laptop with exactly half the specs, this UI responds twice as fast as on this desktop with double the CPU power and ram. Why the hell and can I do anything about it, short of downgrading back to 10?
Also in this app, I use ffmpeg for a thing, but it takes about 5 seconds for the executable to even launch. Not so much on the laptop, it happens instantly.
No idea, but I had something very similar on a Windows 10 install a few years ago, and I never did figure it out. For some context, I wanted Windows Defender completely out of the way, so I basically turned it off by having a shit ton of exclusions set up. It was technically still running since I didn't know how to make it not, but I was basically letting everything through. I doubt that had anything to do with it, but it's the only thing I can think of.
For what it's worth, I'm currently on win11. Defender is always on. I only have minimal exclusions. And I don't really have lag issues on a day to day basis. So yeah I can't' really justify why turning it off or whatever would actually add lag. But what do I know? Windows in general can be really dumb sometimes.
This is precisely why I haven't upgraded to 11 (or rather upgraded and rolled back on two separate occasions). It slows down significantly, noticeably, and annoyingly.
It does. IT would be a significant pain in the ass to downgrade this time though, so I'm trying, to avoid doing that, but I may not have a choice if this continues.
@Jonathan I know that Smart Screen and Microsoft Defender do things in the background for file testing. You might want to trun off smart screen and file checking in Microsoft Defender to see if that makes a difference. i've been meanint to try that actually, because I've been having the same issue.
11 doesn't like being screenless more than 10. HDMI headless dongle counts as ascreen in this case, but I've heard tell of that virtual display driver thing not working as well
Der Gemeinderat der Stadt #Freiburg hat einen Antrag beim Land #BadenWurttemberg gestellt, die Einführung der #Bezahlkarte auszusetzen! Hintergrund: in BaWü gab es eine Anweisung des Landes, dass die Stadt die Bezahlkarte für Asylbewerber*innen einführen muss. Danke @freiburg, dass ihr euch weiter gegen die diskriminierende und rassistische #Schikanekarte wehrt! freiburg.de/pb/2534584.html
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