If you know folks in the military who are not ok with what’s happening in Venezuela and need support resisting, please have them reach out to About Face Veterans Against the War via this secure form:
@NVAccess Hello. I want to inform you that the NV-Access YouTube channel seems to have been marked as Made for Kids. This means that comments are disabled on your videos, and subscribers to your channel are not able to receive notifications when you upload a new video, among other restrictions that limit the outreach of your channel. I'm not sure if the team was already aware of this, but I wanted to let you know, as I am a subscriber who would like to be notified about new content from you.
Thanks Dan! I'll have to have a look - initially the age rating was more just who they'd suggest it to, but now it is diverging further, as countries like Australia introduce stricter limits on social media for younger teenagers.
Each January 4th, the birthday of Louis Braille, the day aims "to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people."
The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people.
Man would expect, that #headphones costing 340€ sold by a well established brand like #Sony would consider some basic security. And when a vulnerability is discovered, that they would quickly announce and deploy a fix. But no. I still don't know whether my WH-1000XM headphone have this security hole fixed or if it ever will be fixed. Sony is just silent about it. 👎️ sony.cz/electronics/support/wi…
I'm not surprised the firmware update notes don't mention it. AFAIK it was embargoed until like 5 days ago. I just updated mine, the update is from Oct, they've known about it since May, so fingers crossed it's fixed and I hope Sony will be more transparent about it.
Amusing, audio game, Bloodshed, background music playing extremely fast at game over, takes over six minutes to slow down
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On January 1, @samtupy open-sourced some of his older games. Among them is "bloodshed, release the pain!" This is a side scroller where you try to kill the enemies who are coming after you and score as many points as possible. You have several weapons at your disposal, many of which require ammo to work. Along the way, from time to time, items appear which give you more ammo, health packs, extra health, and other things to help or hinder! your journey. The higher your score becomes, the faster enemies appear, the harder they are to kill, and the faster they move toward you for their attack. Also as the score increases, the playback speed of the background music increases. This is one of these games where you eventually die no matter how good you are simply because the enemies eventually appear faster than you can deal with them. During the death sequence, once all play has stopped, the playback speed of the background music slows down to baseline. Normally this works quite nicely. But a few days ago, I managed to have a run of luck, and achieved a final score of 612,301 points. Due to the way the speed formula works, that meant at the time of my death, the music was playing approximately 62.23 times faster than normal. As you can imagine, it took quite a while to slow the music back down to normal. Here I present a recording of this event. First you hear the final few seconds of gameplay, then I die. After that, you hear the music, playing at incredibly fast speed. I used a dynamic audio normalizer to make the music louder at this point so you can clearly hear what's happening. Then, over the next more than six minutes, the music slows down to normal. Because of the way this works, the slower the music gets, the faster the rate of slowing seems to be. Finally it reaches normal speed and the score is announced. Enjoy!
I decided to install the Zed editor, why not. Looks good, feels just like VS Code, but with a full Disable AI setting. Utterly and completely inaccessible with a screen reader. The #Rust GUI #accessibility landscape is… it’s sorta just not. Everybody is “looking into” and “exploring” AccessKit.
Maybe it's the constant turmoil of the world and/or me longing for simpler times in life, but today I found myself setting up the development environment for Rockbox, the alternative mp3 player firmware. I haven't even had a player for over 12 years.
Rockbox was the first real open source project I started tinkering with back in 2008. Obviously my skills back then weren't good enough to get any changes accepted, but learning to set up various toolchains, building my own custom patched binaries and just hanging around a well-maintained project (and getting rejected for not abiding by the rules) turned out to be invaluable experiences later in life.
Just for fun I did a simulator build (Rockbox has truly excellent simulators for all their supported players) and was at home straight away. Nothing much has changed in all this time. So much of the tech I use has been enshittified in the past 10 years that using a piece of software whose UI has been essentially unchanged since when I was a teenager felt just incredible.
I enjoyed hearing my machine click click away every day at 6 AM to create tons of TTS uploads for Rockbox and upload them to my server back in 2006. Those were the days.
@Andre Louis @Tuukka Ojala I have always admired #rockbox however I never bought a supported player. Do you know if some supported devices are available these days?
The most popular one these days seems to be the Aigo Eros Q (also sold as HifiWalker H2, Surfans F20 etc.). Some prefer older iPods modded with SD card adapters.
I still use rockbox every day. Annoyingly, there are more sandisk clip pluses available than zips, when the zips use the Micro USB connector and the plus uses the mini.
That's a good thing in my book. Never saw the point in micro over mini. I used a Clip plus for about 4 years every single day until I gave it up for listening to streamed content on my phone. Before that I had a Sansa E250. Loved both players in equal measure but for different reasons.
Yes and at least with the plus the build quality was excellent too for an all-plastic thing. The belt clip on mine did snap off though but that didn't really bother me all that much.
It's not just that. I want access to navigation, notifications, BeMyEyes, bus / tram schedules and all that. Until we get consistent BLE everywhere and true multipoint, and that won't be anytime soon, no device except my phone is really going to work for me.
My thinking as of late has been that if I'm listening to music or a book I don't want to be distracted by anything other than really important notifications. That also includes ways to distract myself, i.e. scrolling through social media or what have you. The idea of being constrained by a device whose sole function is audio playback feels appealing to me.
That makes sense. In my case, I want BeMyEyes when at home and navigation / tickets / schedules when not, and I want those more than I want no distractions.
I quite like voicedream and eloquence together, but given that I find what to read on a computer much of the time anyway, a card in my clip which syncs whenever I charge it works fine for me too. Voicedream can't pause between tracks, which I find invaluable, and I also struggle to get it to reliably resume whilst wearing air pods.
I also prefer the distraction-free, single-use device, and especially when doing things around the home don't even have my phone about my person some of the time. Something weighing about 15g is a most convenient carry and I've just grown used to using these things over the last decade or so.
This makes me want to go back to using a dedicated player for maybe a week just to see how many little iOs paper cuts I've got used to. Unreliable resuming is certainly one of them.
I still remember feeling so disappointed when I got my first iPhone after 5 years of Rockbox. It felt so lacking and poorly optimised for media playback. It didn't take long for the convenience factor to win me over but my first impressions certainly weren't positive.
On my mac, VO will say Authentication, application, application or something similar every minute or two. It's really annoying and shows just how bad this platform is. I'm guessing the screen saver kicked in or something and it just can't deal with it, or my ssh session is causing it. But I still hear that even after I closed it.
It would do this on my end if the Mac goes into Screen Saver on its own, super annoying. What I do is just hit the power button to lock it, then it won't do that.
@johann Ah yes, thanks for that reminder... I now remember... I simply disabled the screen saver to get rid of this behaviour. I have not seen it on my system for a while...
I got stranded at the Utrecht Centraal because they cancelled all the busses. It's insane that they did this when all the snow has already been cleared. If private cars are running, then busses should run too. I've experienced delays and cancellations, but I've never experienced the transit company just straight up giving up. This is the most disillusioned I've been with Dutch transit. The company should have their contract revoked.
it took some annoying network refactoring but I've moved my Wireguard tunnels from individual hosts behind my firewall to the firewall itself so the firewall can do the needful incl using blocklists instead of having to do per-host firewalls which is really stupid, especially when a bunch of my stuff is in VNET jails. I have zero desire to force a firewall configuration onto my VNET jails.
Wenn Stromausfall ist, kommt nach Charlottenburg direkt Werder. 🤔
(Der RE1 fährt einmal weiträumig um das durch Stromausfall kaputte Stellwerk in Zehlendorf/Wannsee herum. Nicht halten aber vorbeifahren werden wir in Berlin Staaken, Dallgow-Döberitz, Elstal, Priort, Marquardt und sehr zum Unmut aller eigentlich nach Potsdam reisenden Leute: Golm. Ich bin froh, dass es diese alternative Route gibt)
No one's good at keeping a New Year's resolution. So if yours was to not listen to an episode of the John Zone this year, why not go ahead and break it by tuning in tonight beginning at 8PM Eastern Time on www.hkcradio.com.
We were able to reduce our direct gasoline/diesel consumption from 1,061 liters in 2024 to 366 liters in 2025 by purchasing an electric car. I can't wait to reduce it to zero. I know it's a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things, but it gives me peace of mind knowing that I'm not personally contributing to the oil industry—especially after today's news.
Update beta 1 release already to fix the checkbox bug: It should now properly show on screen to blink hole line, we wire it up correctly now, I was missing a single line, of course, argh, C++ is amazing though really small binary woah Just re-download from the Github page the binary is latest.
Check it out. Braille Display Calibration tool is now on GitHub for you all to admire in its full 96.4% C++ glory. It will get updates here from now on, but the private binary will also stay current. github.com/tgeczy/BrailleDispl…
This is an initial release. It supports all major features I would want in a calibration tool. Best works with NVDA; JAWS still may have issues on multiline displays.
Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Stop it GitHub! stop! it, you're killing my soul in the new repo dialog.
@midzi It was even harder to get to the commandline so I can accept from my local directory. I got it done though. Should investigate if I can look it up and accept from the commandline, once I know what it is, first. I'm glad that real people are using my apps now.
@serrebi You can always use GitHub with the support of tools like Codex or similar ones. Honestly, the only Git command I remember is `pull` — Codex handles the rest for me. Even that nice back-and-forth dialogue between the two LLMs was running automatically. I told it to keep refining things until Gemini had no objections. 🙂
Hello! Sadly Termux doesn't work in other profiles, which include "Secure Folder" and "Private Space" and "Alternative/Secondary apps" or any form of app duplication on phones. As Termux uses the `/data/data/com.termux` directory which is only writable by the main user.
The #Trump admin “captured” #Venezuela President Nicolás #Maduro & his wife & flew him out of the country in an insane nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating pressure on the #oil-rich #SouthAmerica nation.
The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”
The legal authority for the attack was not clear. [there is none]
US AG #PamBondi said #Maduro & his wife would face charges after an indictment in New York. Bondi vowed in a social media post that the couple would “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
#Trump announced the developments on Truth Social shortly after 4:30AM ET & said he would host a news conference at 11AM ET.
#Trump brushed off criticism from US Democratic lawmakers that he did not seek permission from #Congress ahead of time & that the strike was #illegal. He called his Democratic critics “weak, stupid people” & blamed his political opponents for inflation in the US.
He said the operation in #Venezuela was “really genius.”
“All they do is complain,” he said of the #Democrats.
“They should say, ‘Great job.’ They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh Gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’ You know, the same old stuff that we’ve been hearing for years & years & years,” #Trump said who very likely has never read the #US #Constitution.
Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Nicolás #Maduro & his wife were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
“That’s where they bombed,” he said. “And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president & the first lady of the country.”
#EU foreign policy chief #KajaKallas wrote on X that she had spoken with #US Secy of State #MarcoRubio & the EU ambassador in Caracas. “The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr #Maduro lacks legitimacy & has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of #InternationalLaw & the #UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint.”
#Russia Foreign Ministry said it is “extremely alarmed” & called for “immediate clarification,” acc/to a statement posted Saturday on the ministry’s Telegram channel. The ministry said such actions, if confirmed, would constitute “an unacceptable infringement on the #sovereignty of an #independent #state.”
#Britain PM #KeirStarmer said the #UK was not involved in the #US operation in #Venezuela and that he would seek more information from #Trump. Without condemning the US action, #Starmer said he always believes that #InternationalLaw should be upheld. “But I think at this stage, fast moving situation, let’s establish the facts & take it from there,” he said.
#China strongly condemned the #US strike in #Venezuela & the action against its president, the Foreign Ministry said, adding the Beijing govt was “deeply shocked” & firmly opposed to the operation.
The #UnitedNations said it was “deeply alarmed” by the #US strikes in #Venezuela & the reported detention of President Nicolás #Maduro. It expressed concern the escalation was a violation of #InternationalLaw.
“These developments constitute a dangerous precedent,” Stéphane Dujarric, spox for the #UN sec-gen, said. Dujarric said the UN worried about the implications for #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean & called on “all actors in Venezuela” to respect #HumanRights & the rule of #law.
Maduro & other #Venezuela ofcls were indicted in 2020 on “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges. The DOJ released a new indictment Saturday of Maduro & his wife for alleged role in #narcoterrorism #conspiracy.
#PamBondi said Maduro & his wife, Cilia Flores, would “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
The #indictment accuses #Maduro of leading a “a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect & promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking.” #DOJ alleges that the drug trafficking efforts “enriched & entrenched Venezuela’s political & military elite.”
#US #DOJ alleges that #Maduro partnered with “some of the most violent & prolific drug traffickers & narco-terrorists in the world” to bring “tons” of cocaine into the US, acc/to the #indictment.
The DOJ estimates that as much as 250 tons of cocaine were trafficked through #Venezuela by 2020 [start date?], acc/to the indictment.
President Trump holds a news conference on U.S. airstrikes against Venezuela and the capture of president, Nicolas Maduro. He announces that the U.S. will run Venezuela until a transition can take place and U.S. companies will handle oil production.
The #Venezuela mission to the #UN has requested an emergency #Security Council [#UNSC] meeting & has asked the Council to condemn the #US military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the UNSC president: “The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars. It is an international #tyranny imposed with the #propaganda of death: the recent past confirms this.”
#MaríaCorinaMachado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, posted a statement calling for national unity following the capture of Nicolás #Maduro.
“Given his refusal to accept a negotiated exit, the government of the United States has fulfilled its promise to enforce the law,” she wrote. “We have struggled for years, we have given it our all, & it has been worth it. What had to happen is happening.”
#Machado added that #EdmundoGonzález, who the #US has recognized as Venezuela’s President-elect, must “immediately” take office & be recognized as the country’s commander of the armed forces.
“Today we are prepared to enforce our mandate & take power,” Machado said. “We are going to restore order, release the political prisoners, build an exceptional country, & bring our children back home.”
#Trump put no time limit on the #US #occupation. It would be up to the #UnitedStates to decide when to return the country to Venezulan control. And then he turned to #oil, saying that US companies would fix the infrastructure, “& start making money for the country.” [doubt any will go to Venezuelans]
#Trump referred to a “partnership” between #Venezuela & the #UnitedStates, which he said would make Venezuelans “rich, independent & safe.” Of course, this was a partnership accomplished by a #GovernmentOverthrow.
BTWs Trump’s asides about #DC, #NOLA, & #LA are total bullshit. No murder in NOLA & DC since his illegal intervention? Flat out lies.
#Trump has offered NO details about what the #US running #Venezuela looks like. Will there be an US official there in a leadership position?
As he justifies the #military operation, Trump argued that #Maduro sent members of Tren de Aragua to the US to terrorize the US. Trump’s own #intelligence community earlier this year debunked that claim, finding that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan govt.
In declaring that the #US will be “running” #Venezuela, #Trump has raised a host of questions: Will the US have an occupying #military force? Will it install a pliant government for some number of years? Will it run the #courts, & determine who pumps the #oil? All of this, of course, could enmesh the US in the kind of “forever wars” Trump’s #MAGA base has rejected.
Trump spoke about bringing in US oil companies to remake the #energy infrastucture &, presumably, to exploit oil reserves.
#Trump looks like he’s falling #asleep on his feet as Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff describes the mission. I’m waiting for him to fall over.
When asked how much running #Venezuela, potentially for years, will cost, #Trump said: “It won’t cost us anything.”
His claim that the #US won’t have to spend any money because it will be “reimbursed” by the #oil the US will take “out of the ground” is a total fantasy.
#NVDARC small update: The Mac build has finally gone through review, and I've just sent the latest build (Build 5) through to testers. Have fun, Mac people! Again, that test flight link is testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
Probably in the next couple days or so, I'll start fixing some of the most common bugs here as well as checking into some of the most commonly requested features. Thank you for trying #NVDARC!
A pretty small, insignificant #NVDARC update just went out. Check the release notes and check it out. If you haven't got it yet: testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
If that's small and insignificant, the Pacific is a small, insignificant, body of water. Just a puddle on the earth's surface, if anything. Seriously, though, the keyboard remapping works here, and my autohotkey script is no longer needed. Thanks very much!
I haven't played with this yet, but you might have solved one of the hardest problems that has been plaguing the Mac community for years, that of high audio latency on Windows VMs.
It won't fix gaming (and some people apparently do care about that), but it'll fix other things that are important productivity-wise.
@miki there is no way to do win+tab. Capslock works, so long as you don't have VO's modifier keys set to capslock. In addition, you can remap the capslock key within the app itself to another modifier, tested working
Okay, better than 99%+ of the apps out there. I think cmd+tab would be doable, UTM has an exclusive keyboard mode that does it I think. Are you on Catalyst or native OSX, if the former, that might be more difficult.
@miki so I was actually smart here, and I have two separate apps for iOS and MacOS that share an NVDARemoteKit base between the two. MacOS has it's own native interface, and so does iOS have it's own native interface.
@miki Basically, I made it a goal after October when I graduated from this independence training center for the blind that I was in, that I was going to actually make an effort to learn iOS/MacOS app development, so that I could make cool things for myself and others for iOS especially but also MacOS, and well, here's the start of the result of that work.
@miki I don't just want to make apps, but I want to make apps that feel like they were meant for VoiceOver users. I'm going to figure out all the fun things VoiceOver lets you hook into, and hook into them where applicable.
Now I just wish a framework that let us do this without losing Windows support. There are basically no good options here. Either you go full Mac, or Mac is a second-class citizen at best.
@miki I'm willing to put in the work of maintaining separate code bases, where applicable. If that's what it takes to make fun things, then that I shall do.
Hi, speech queuing massively broke things. If you spam down arrow, it will continue speaking, and each key press won't interrupt it. I had to go back to 1.010 where this works fine.
Speculation: I think your speech queuing works fine, that's not where the problem is, I think you have a problem somewhere in the protocol handling itself, because now that you've made it queue everything, it does what it should. The problem with the previous builds was when NVDA itself received one string while reading another one, those two weren't queued. All of the above was using VoiceOver announcements for me, though I could try with TTS as well.
Alright, yep, this is definitely much better with TTS. I was hoping to avoid configuring my speech rate and voice, but oh well, I'm happy with it as long as it works.
@NikJov Unless you use multiple languages, as I do. Would be great for it to support language switching if it doesn't already; maybe some sort of TTS profiles too.
@jscholes @NikJov Yeah, I was afraid someone was going to ask for this. Understandable as it is, I've never really been sure how to implement something like this. I believe NVDA sends language codes and whatever, but the issue is ... Selecting a voice to use for that language without creating some kind of interface for mapping languages to their voices. First one it finds? I dunno.
@NikJov This is one of the few areas where VoiceOver outstrips the competition. As a language learner, I can set up that mapping, prioritise my list of profiles, set parameters like rate on a per language basis, have it switch speech engines on the fly, and quickly opt into and out of automatic switching via the rotor. It's not perfect, but it does mostly just work.
Contrast that with NVDA's frankly abysmal support for multilingual users. It can only switch between voices of the same synthesiser, uses the same rate regardless of language, doesn't support the concept of multiple voice profiles at all without an add-on, doesn't offer a way to quickly switch languages manually, and gives the user virtually no control over how the voice for each language is selected.
Finally, even though I've said it in an email, not sure if you got it, but thank you for your work, the app is truly awesome regardless of the typical rough beta quirks. Controlling a PC via a touch screen is something that I had as an idea for a long time, and I'm glad somebody took it up.
I tried this as a "to be controlled" machine on an intel mac and had two issues to begin with. First, is it possible to have the unit host its own server rather than using a relay? Secondly, when adding the software to accessibility settings, I found that it wanted me to get the software from finder. Is there a method of having it just as a switch in the dialog? Vmware, as well as RIM, did this, as I recall, but it's been quite a while since I installed them so my memory may be at fault.
@techsinger I'll have to roll my own NVDARemote Server in Swift, but I think it should be possible. As for the second, there's a bug which means that it doesn't show up automatically in settings until you actually try to control a device. Once you send the first key, it'll pop up.
@techsinger OK, coming back to self hosting. I've done this, but since I had to add a new network connection entitlement, Apple has to review the damn thing all over again. Sigh.
@techsinger Luckily, it only takes them at most 2 days to review a build, so it could be worse, but unfortunately I just don't know how to slow down rofl
SelfHosting week 0, phase 2A, documentation. There is one thing I find quite uncomfortable on @yunohost documentation: the emojis at the beginning of every chapter. They are very annoying to read for a blind user when going back and forth heading by heading with a screen reader. And, worse, when you attempt to isolate links through the "link list" or "heading list", "element list" whatever name used by screen readers for that feature, you cannot choose an item by initial letter and get into it quickly, from the list that pops up. The "element list" feature allows a user to press a shortcut and find items of the same type, organized in a list. Links, headings, form controls, etc. So, if it is the table of contents in a documentation website, you have all chapters ordered. You press down arrow in the list, till you find the desired element then press Enter. Or, better, in a normal situation, if you have to choose "domains" for example, you pop up the link list and type "d", then if Domains is the first, you press Enter on it. Or at least, links with that initial are isolated by pressing the letter over and over again till you find the desired one. But this YunoHost docs are full of those emoticons which maybe are pleasant for sighted folks, but not for blind. Not at all. #accessibility #a11y #blind #docs #SelfHost #SelfHosting #YunoHost
I'd say, it depends. I personally love emojis and find them not only making documentation lighter to read, but also use them as orientation markers (I'm totally blind). However, your point about first-letter navigation is absolutely correct. #Accessibility
I listened to the whole press conference given by Trump on his invasion of Venezuela and unprovoked abduction of a sitting president to fetch the nation's oil. Not a single question by journalists was posed to challenge the legality of the action. If power isn't challenged, there isn't freedom of the press. Trump isn't more democratic than Maduro, he's less so.
"Canada has a long history of defending the international rule of law. We are now dealing with a regime that will kill people in the water, seize ships on the high seas, invade other countries, and kidnap their leaders. All bets are off.
This is the age of gangsters. And Canada must be ready to rise to the threat."
So far Foreign Minister Anand has released a statement that Canada has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the gov of Venezuela since 2019, Plus something something rule of law something...
@driusan In 2004, Canadian special forces Joint Task Force 2 secured the international airport in Port-au-Prince so the US could kidnap Haiti's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, overthrow their gov, and permanently cripple Haitian sovereignty for the next 2 decades. Ditto Libya. Ditto ... There's not much Canada can say in rebuke.
the "distraction from the Epstein files" shit is driving me up the wall. A sovereign was invaded, violated, possibly will be destabilised and looted (certainly that's the plann), but fuck forbid that a US domestic issue does not take centre stage for an instant.
New release, coming soon to my Github: Braille Display calibration tool. Download an early build here: eurpod.com/BrailleDisplayCalib… Requires JAWS, NVDA, a screen reader to output Braille through. That is, this will not run as a standalone tool without a screen reader present.
updated, new checkbox: Blink hole line. eurpod.com/BrailleDisplayCalib… for anyone interested in a tool that can calibrate your Braille display. Multiline or single-line, it's useful. I still got to figure out how best to design it to work with JAWS, because it requires panning right now rather than it displaying it. I may do some refactoring on this for single-line displays so it clears it when reaching the end, it's a small enough tweak.
OTTAWA - This morning, in an unscheduled press statement, the Prime Minister's Office has said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned off geolocation services for all his electronic devices "for no particular reason whatsoever".
En su día hice mi practicum en derecho internacional público. Y uno quiere creer. Pero cuesta un montón. Cuando la matalobos de la Comisión Europea se congratula, cuando el Bundeskansler lo llama legalmente complejo, cuando cualquier persona con un mínimo de integridad sabe que lo que se ha hecho es profunda, manifiesta, e indiscutiblemente ilegal... Da la sensación de que soy la última persona que queda que no se pasa la Carta de Naciones Unidas y los principios westfalianos por el forro.
Hmmm, I don't think my "Real ATC" plugin for Miriani-next is quite ready yet. For the uninitiated, #Miriani is a space related #mud (Well, actually, #moo). It generates flight control messages as ships take off and land. And I thought: what if I could have them voiced by AI, generating a random voice each time? There's a model called voxcpm that, if you don't feed it with any voice data, will just generate a voice of its own for your text. But...it's maybe not quite there. The original text I gave it was "This is Outreach to sector 30 flight control, a Hale starship is about to land." This is what it returned.
Because yay boredom and yay I now have usable Kontakt stuff, this is the first thing I've ever done with any of it. It's a sort of remix of House Of The Rising Sun.
well damnet! I can't do it! the timing is off. I think yours is a bit faster than the original. lol. or maybe the karaoki version I used many years ago was a different BPM, but I can't do it. I am not talented like you audio people out there. I was trying to put my voice over top of your song. lol.
The barcode encoding feature added in Catima 2.41.0 caused a very minor change in how barcodes where generated, which for some users led to failures to use their cards (github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…). This is now fixed by slightly changing how automatic mode works.
QR code card added to Catima prior to v2.41, referring to https://xtra.colruytgroup.be/xtra/qr/961198520459603760316514. Was working fine until v2.40.x (scanned OK at the cash desk) Using v2.41.1, ...
Мордор может потерять миллиарды долларов инвестиций в Венесуэлу из-за свержения Мадуро.
Падение режима Николаса Мадуро, который был захвачен американским спецназом и предстанет перед судом Нью-Йорка по обвинению в наркотерроризме, подвесило в воздухе судьбу миллиардов долларов инвестиций и кредитов, которые Венесуэла получила от России.
По подсчетам Reuters, с 2006 по 2017 год Кремль выделил в общей сложности $17 млрд венесуэльскому правительству, а также государственной нефтяной компании страны PDVSA.
Первые деньги — $2,2 млрд — получил предшественник Мадуро Уго Чавес, который в 2009 заключил контракт на закупки российского оружия — танков Т-72 и зенитных комплексов С-300. Спустя 8 лет Венесуэла была должна Москве уже $3,5 млрд, вернуть которые не могла из-за экономического кризиса и санкций. В 2017 году Владимир Путин и Мадуро договорились отсрочить платежи по этому займу на 10 лет, с выплатой основной суммы в 2024-27 гг.
В конце 2010-х крупным кредитором Мадуро стала «Роснефть», в обмен получившая доли в крупных нефтедобывающих проектах Венесуэлы. Российские деньги правительство Мадуро использовало, чтобы избежать дефолта по долгу, расплачиваясь к Кремлем нефтью, которую на мировом рынке перепродавала «Роснефть», рассказывали источники Reuters. В 2020 году, после введения санкций в отношении PDVSA, «Роснефть» продала все активы в Венесуэле специально созданной госструктуре «Росзарубежнефть», полностью принадлежащей государству.
Теперь же судьба венесуэльских нефтяных месторождений оказалась в руках администрации Дональда Трампа, который обвинил Венесуэлу в «краже» нефти у США. «Мы построили венесуэльскую нефтяную промышленность с помощью американского таланта, напора и умений, а социалистический режим украл ее у нас», — заявил Трамп. Он добавил, что США намерены отроить заново венесуэльскую инфраструктуру и «продавать очень много нефти» в том числе другим странам.
По словам Трампа, проблем с Россией из-за операции в Венесуэле не будет, а с Путиным судьбу Мадуро он «никогда» не обсуждал.
Стремительная операция США, которая, по данным Associated Press, продолжалась лишь около получаса, вызывала скупую реакцию в Москве. МИД выразил «глубокую озабоченность» американскими ударами по венесуэльской территории и «серьезную обеспокоенность» сообщениями об аресте Мадуро. Он также потребовал освободить Мадуро и его жену Сесилию Флорес, которым в США грозит несколько пожизненных сроков.
Путин с одной стороны, как коллега по авторитарному цеху, идентифицирует себя с Мадуро — и в этом смысле возмущён и напуган, а с другой стороны, как лидер страны, претендующей на статус сверхдержавы, Путин ассоциирует себя с Трампом — и в этой части страшно тому сейчас завидует, рассуждает политолог Аббас Галлямов.
«Это будет очень тяжёлый день для руководителей российского силового блока. Крика из серии „почему они могут, а вы нет?!“ будет много», — пишет Галлямов.
So, I had a cartoon character moment this morning.
I was shaking an old container of cayenne powder to make sure it hadn't clumped up, and a fine mist escaped and sent me into a sneezing fit the likes of which I have never had before. Just one right after the other in rapid succession.
At some point I just started laughing at the absurdity of it. Even after it reached my eyes (although it wasn't as bad as cutting onions).
Basically, today I learned that the absolute sneezing fits people in old cartoons have when someone sticks black pepper under their noses is real.
I did get a response back regarding narration on Rhythm Doctor: Access to the narration is temporarily restricted on the Microsoft Store build. The code is in there, but some text and tweaks need some adjustments for the Xbox console. Since updating the game on the Xbox Store would take time and effort, we think it would be more efficient to focus on properly replenishing the narration. This will be done after our holiday break ends, so please bear with me for around a week or two.
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