@BorrisInABox Hope you don't mind me poking you, but I'm pretty sure you know a bit about this. Do you know how I can LPC audio files using Windows? I had a look around and am not finding an alternative I can make work. Thanks for any help.
There's an online version of that utility someone made for Mac OS. I don't unfortunately know of a good tool to use locally other than SoX, which is not quite the same as the Texas Instruments implementation.
There is a Python utility, but I've never managed to make it work.
For the last nearly two weeks, almost all of my computing tasks have been done with my iPhone using NVDA Remote RC connected to one of two laptops back home in New York 500 miles away. It's just so cool to pull out a bluetooth keyboard and connect to a familiar environment from anywhere, but it's even cooler what you can still do without a keyboard if you don't have one, thanks to the custom gestures and presets for them. If you use Voiceover Announcements instead of AVSPEECH, you can even use a braille display, though it is nowhere as extensive as using a display direct with NVDA. So, if you absolutely rely on using a braille display, this is not the best way to work, but you are not completely without the ability to get an idea of what's going on.
I just did another small editing job remotely using Reaper on my laptop at home, and TeamTalk on a server running on a Raspberry Pi at home connected to Tailscale to connect the audio. Yep, it's an old TeamTalk server. I don't think there are rPi builds of modern ones anymore. Not the best way to do it, there is some lag, but considering I'm using Airpods Pro, which adds more lag, internet latency, etc. it worked pretty well, all things considered. Sonobus for iOS is, unfortunately, very jittery most of the time, probably because it hasn't been updated since 2023, and iOS has changed around it.
I have still not quite gotten fully comfortable with editing stuff on Reaper under Mac OS, at least with the same speed and efficiency, especially when it comes to envelope automation, and I have some plugins installed on the Windows laptop that I don't have on Mac OS that I need for this small weekly project, so it's nice to just be able to remote in and manipulate that existing environment. The fact that I can do that from my phone from anywhere, provided internet connectivity is good, and latency and jitter is reasonable, is just fantastic.
Right now, I have the second eSIM on my phone using AT&T, and amusingly enough, latency is almost the same to my stuff at home whether I'm using WiFi or AT&T. Jitter is worse on the mobile connection, but it's still perfectly usable, even for audio editing. I forgot that I had WiFi turned off for three days, didn't really notice.
And if you have a decent performing Android phone, you can get the audio latency down even further through the use of Soundwire. Provided that your interface has responsive-enough loopback that can be listened to through Wasapi. Soundwire unfortunately does not exist on iOS, since iOS doesn't expose the same platform-native low-latency network audio pasthrough needed for Soundwire.
I really have to give my laptop a static IP and play with this. I also found out I can somehow use it to remote control a Mac from Windows, which I very much want to play with.
@alexhall Yep, NVDA-RC for Mac can now be a target. And amusingly enough, using NVDA on Windows to control a Mac is a little more responsive than just using Voiceover by itself, because Apple.
I've got to agree with this. If I may respectfully add to it, it's not so much that we can do these things, we've been able to for a while, it's that #NVDARC makes it easy and smooth. It just works without workarounds. You don't have to think, just hit the icon and start typing. Note also that, when I say we've been able to do it in the past, I mean with the keyboard. Touch stuff is simply a new thing, and a very impressive thing with the speed and the smoothness. It really is astonishing in how well it works and what you can accomplish.
And another thing, with an android phone, you can connect a braille display directly using VirtualHere virtualhere.com All I can say about VO is that it works to some extent.
y'all guys, provide the best email service in the world, with extreme stability and zero-trust. If someone asking for more, he's greedy. You're appreciated, thank you!
-- tuta password manager -- Additional tuta free domains ("Tuta" has a bad, dorky sound to it in Swedish, keemail gets confused with gmail when you say it over the phone)
And improved handling of contacts/address book. I want tuta to be my "master" across Linux, Mac, eOS...
Android client: Problem: When an opened email is scrolled or "zoomed", hyperlinks are "too sensitive". (The links open in the default browser when I don't want them to...)
Solution: A setting that requires a URL to be tapped and held for 1 or 2 seconds before opening, or, A setting to cause a popup to "confirm before opening link".
Why? A malicious URL is currently too easily opened. Sometimes, users may wish to copy a URL and open it with a specific browser. Sometimes, users may not wish the sender to know they've opened the email.
Android client: Problem: When an opened email is scrolled or "zoomed", hyperlinks are "too sensitive". (The links open in the default browser when I don't want them to...)
Solution: A setting that requires a URL to be tapped and held for 1 or 2 seconds before opening, or, A setting to cause a popup to "confirm before opening link".
Why? A malicious URL is currently too easily opened. Sometimes, users may wish to copy a URL and open it with a specific browser. Sometimes, users may not wish the sender to know they've opened the email.
I've been playing around with your (paid) email and calendar services for over a year, but I cannot fully embrace Tuta due to its very limited customization options, especially for Calendar. I understand the lack of CalDAV synchronization support due to Tuta's end-to-end encryption model, however, personally I'll continue using a paid, private email provider whith full CalDAV support, so I could continue using dedicated Android Calendar apps such as aCalendar+, or Business Calendar.
Flatpak instead of AppImage only. I know there is an experimental Flatpak, but I would like a fully supported version that can also be found on your download page. It would be easier for new users and easier to push new users to both the Linux desktop and Tuta.
I'd like the calendar widget to follow am/pm vs military time. Other than that I feel like you all have added pretty much everything I wanted or are about to
@YvanDaSilva For you to never again advise people to use Brave browser, so that I can consider you a serious alternative to the ending of my Proton membership next October. 9 months. Show me the magic. I need proud and consequential intersectional antifascists as providers from now on.
To focus in your core product, mail. Handle attachments can be good with drive tools, edition of the files, etc... And stop the continous bait towards Proton, I changed my mail from proton to tuta, for the ia, crypto wallet stuff, and some vague political actions they had. Stand out if they do anything wrong, but in the meantime there has been too many post that goes against them without any purpose, and it is starting to be detrimental to your image. keep the good job:)
Sneaker auf der Bühne, aber ein Weltbild aus den 50ern?
In meinem neuen Artikel analysiere ich den „Hochglanz-Fundamentalismus“ moderner Freikirchen. Ich zeige auf, warum deren dualistische Weltsicht („Licht vs. Finsternis“) strukturell der Neuen Rechten in die Karten spielt.
I have a first laptop with HiDPI screen and trying to set GUI scaling in #Gnome.
I enabled experimntal fractional scaling, and set 166% scaling factor in Gnome settings.
For GDK apps there is no problem. But many other apps are not scaled, or are scaled partly - window header bar is small. Is there universal solution to this? Or how do you set scaling on all GUI toolkits like GTK2, Electron, QT, Java?
It's strange. The fractional scaling option should scale all windows. Of course, if the app cannot do it natively (e.g. because the framework it uses doesn't support it), then you're left with upscaling the window framebuffer.
yeah. For example the bitwarden app is scaled if I run it with env var GDK_SCALE=1.6 from terminal. So it can scale, but something is not giving the app proper instructins to scale? But I would expext that gnome gives the app all meeded env vars to scale properly. 🤷♂️
It isn't scaled at all, or it has an upscaled framebuffer (blurry content)? The former has to be some problem on your machine, it works for me. The latter happens. The app itself supports scaling, but it isn't compatible with the OS scaling.
but it made the electron app fractionaly scaled. 🤷♂️ It seems there is a mess between toolkits supporting other toolkits variables, or something like that. Well the prpblem is solved for me now. I enabled two experimental features, fractional scaling and xwayland scaling. Xwayland scaling is much less ready feature a caused strange scaling issues.
ahh, actually, try removing the 'xwayland-native-scaling' flag, and then restart the session. I noticed I have it disabled, and if I enable it, XWayland clients become miniature.
Yes, that's it. Thanks. Now xwayland apps are scaled, but blury. That's expected. With the expirimental xwayland-native-scaling some xwayland apps are scaled without bluring but with unscaled window header (vlc on the image), and majority is not scaled at all (bitwarden and others). 👍️
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UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children.
Canada already ruled out a potential ban but Australia's prime minister was sterner in his rebuke of Grok, calling the AI-generated sexualised images "completely abhorrent"
Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something.
So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet.
A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't start the nuker or magic smoke will come out 😆
New scrape: Instagram allegedly had 17M rows of largely public data scraped from an API and posted to a hacking forum this week. 6.2M rows also included an email address, and some rows a phone number. 100% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Inst…
In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, account IDs, and in some cases, geolocation data.
Indonesia and Malaysia at the forefront of blocking Grok. I don't always agree with their policies on these things, but this one's worthy of respect. #TootSEA
"…muss ich bekennen, dass wir alle […] nicht ein Hundertstel, nicht ein Tausendstel dessen für möglich gehalten haben, was dann immer wenige Wochen später hereinbrechen sollte."
- Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern
Ein autobiografisches Werk Stefan Zweigs.
Das Buch entstand kurz vor Zweigs Tod in den letzten Jahren (von 1939 bis 1941) seines Exils und erschien postum 1942 in Stockholm.
German language. Stefan Zweig. DIE WELT VON GESTERN. THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The most famous book on the...
hi i make goofy ahh tts vids for literally no reason lmfaoxd
Soar with your visions!! (EST. 2013, Early 2022)
Elecarlton is the home of unhinged, action-packed text-to-speech chaos and out-of-context madness, all starring the Epic Goddamn Microsoft …
@FreakyFwoof Nice. If I suddenly end up replying to this thread from my V Continuum account that means TC Social has an outage, only saying this because I'm noticing a few seconds lag when favoriting or replying to a post.
@FreakyFwoof In my MacOS days, I had your short number 91 as my startup sound. MacOS doesn't officially let you have a startup sound for the OS, so I pseudo hacked around it using only 3 lines of Python.
I'm not exactly sure why I'm doing this on a Sunday, and the hard work was done by others, but there you go; proposed fix for CVE-2026-0716. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup…
If the maximum incoming payload size is unset, then a malicious frame could cause an overflow when calculating the needed amount of data, leading to an out-of-bounds read...
Mal by som otázku/prosbu na mieste osadenstvo. Vždy som chcel vedieť programovať, ale nikdy mi to veľmi nešlo. Naposledy som to skúšal pred 13 rokmi, kedy som sa skúšal naučiť PHP (konkrétne Laravel).
Chcel by som to znova vyskúšať, a tak otázka znie, či by mi niekto vedel poradiť, ako na to, resp. nejaké tipy na návody a pod. Potreboval by som to vysvetľovať asi čo najprimitívnejšie ako to len pôjde, a ideálne aby to bolo v slovenčine/češtine. Taktiež aby to bolo zadarmo, keďže nemám peniaze na nejaké platené kurzy. Mohla by mi v učení pomôcť aj AI? Aj keď viem, že tu nie sú jej priaznivci, no ja osobne nie som jej zarytý kritik.
A aby som nezabudol, prioritne by som sa chcel asi naučiť to PHP (aby som vedel naprogramovať webstránky, nejaké redakčné systémy a pod.), prípadne ešte C++ (keďže by som chcel vedieť programovať Arduino).
Python je dobrá voľba z viacerých (netechnických) ohľadov, najmä dostupnosť učebného materiálu (dokumentácia, knihy, tutoriály, blogy) a veľkosť komunity (množstvo ľudí, ktorí vedia pomôcť).
Ako už bolo písané, je dobré mať nejaký cieľ (projekt), ktorý bude motiváciou učiť sa (áno, sú aj ľudia, ktorí sa učia teoretickú fyziku "len tak"...). Netreba sa báť skúšať, zlyhávať, pýtať sa a opravovať, dokým to nepôjde.
Ja "programujem" 2/3 svojho života a stále sa učím :)
Das letzte mal als ich versucht habe #NINA auf #GrapheneOS ohne Google Play Services zum Laufen zu bringen, habe ich es leider nicht hinbekommen (ist aber schon ein paar Jahre her). Wenn jemand passend zum #did #dut nach Alternativen sucht: #fosswarn
Mit FOSSwarn bekommt ihr offizielle Warnmeldungen für eure Orte direkt aufs Handy. Push-Benachrichtigungen funktionieren ebenfalls zuverlässig über UnifiedPush, ich nutze dazu die App #Sunup
(if you don't see it: there's a tiiiiiiiiny difference… 60nm tiny to be exact… and these 2 interfaces are in a LAG and actually work, the other side is even more insidious since it just says 1310nm but the SFPs *are* different)
Dutch AON FttH specs are saying just TX 1310nm, RX 1490/1550 nm. I bought a 1550nm one as they are much more common and got no link. So I bought a 1490nm one and the link came up immediately.
Then I bought fibre cleaning pens, got extra 10 dB by cleaning the connectors and now even the 1550nm one gets the link. So probably if you have enough optical power, all SFPs are wideband 😁
dělal na tom před pár lety kolega. Ve skutečnosti první najede obrazovka UEFI a pak se zobrazí bootovací obrazovka systému, díky kolegovi si to dokáže vzít to logo z UEFI a zdánlivě to vypadá, že to je ta samá obrazovka, jen tam přibude logo systému.
“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”
The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.
Speaking of the fragility of enterprise software… Here's the robust architecture of an online banking system I used to lead. 3.5 million people trusted this with their life savings.*
That TUI app written in MUMPS(!) once powered the terminal a bank teller would use to process an in-person transaction. It embodies and unambiguously encodes every business rule for transactions that have been developed over decades.
@katzenmann@c3d2.social That's exactly my point - the "whole Linux community doing Wayland" was never true to begin with. It was Red Hat pushing it like crazy and KDE unfortunately following suit.
small reminder that this user is the one who wrote "Wayland breaks everything" and never seriously updated it to deceive people into thinking Wayland is broken etc.
This repository contains resources concerning unofficial Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users. This distribution is called Vojtux. The name is based on first name of the main contributor; Vojtech. github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux
"Desde los años 90, existen tecnologías que permiten que una persona con discapacidad visual pueda acceder a un ordenador y usarlo con total normalidad.
I mean—I mean—I MEAN—that just— I'm sittin' here on GitHub—I mean I'm sittin' here, looking at the CLAUDE.md in your GitHub repo, because you'll write decent docs for the computer to read that I couldn't get you to write for me or junior devs for the last quarter century
Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.
A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.
Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.
TIL: The browser-based Mastodon client I've been using for a while, Semaphore (semaphore.social/), seems to be gone. It seems I've been using a locally cached version.
It says it'll remain available as semaphore-social.vercel.app/ for as long as that doesn't cost money, but it sounds like it won't get any new features.
I suppose that leaves us with the terribly named Enafore, which sounds like it should be the original Pinafore name with the P removed but starts with an E so I forget how to spell it every single time.
Después de volver del último concierto no volví a sacar el saxofón del estuche, hasta hoy. A veces es necesario desconectarse hasta de la música por un tiempito. Mientras jugaba un rato con algunos pasajes para reencontrarme, salió la caricia de esta hermosa melodía del gran cuchi y su zamba me voy quedando. No sé ni donde puse el micrófono, pero no importa. Era solo para ir quitando telarañas de los dedos mientras jugamos a hacer música.
Ah nice. Was just searching for reasons to get rid of this old Echo Dot 4 which sadly has such a good sound but is otherwise useless and kinda spyware to me, as I just got an E-Mail saying that there were smart home devices on my network which are Alexa compatible... Did I ever ask you to scan my network like that? Yeah na good bye bro.
Borris
in reply to Justin Macleod • • •There's an online version of that utility someone made for Mac OS. I don't unfortunately know of a good tool to use locally other than SoX, which is not quite the same as the Texas Instruments implementation.
There is a Python utility, but I've never managed to make it work.
Justin Macleod
in reply to Borris • • •