I know not the same thing, but I would love to upgrade my mixer, but I do not want digital crap that I can't use. I just need one more, maybe two more stereo inputs, and at least one more stereo output. the control room on my current board is mono only , which makes me wonder what they were smoking to have something like that mono, but what ever. sadly I don't think i am going to find what I want. oh sure, I could go to the 16 channelk mixer that I have the 12 channel one of, but I don't think that is going to fix my stereo output things. it might get me another stereo input though
@JamminJerry My last mixer had zero stereo inputs, and I was perfectly fine with that. 16 mono that you could do whatever you want with. Pair them, or don't. Main plus four mono subgroups (paired for two stereo), 8 mono aux sends, and direct outs for all 16 channels if you needed those, plus inserts on all channels. Dynamics processing on each channel, bus, send and FX return. And I still had everything maxed out. These days, I just do everything in-the-box, which is easier on Mac OS than Windows, and only have one audio interface with four physical mono inputs and outputs, and it does all I need. Funny how things change.
yes it most certainly is. well right now, TeamTalk has its own soundcard, and so that it doesn't hear its self, it is what listens to the control room, but the control room is mono! grrrrr. no stereo for the people that hear me on TeamTalk.
I don't do such things lately, but I have a setup for that, all using virtual audio devices. I can basically send anything to anywhere, minus what I don't want to exist, with as few or as many channels as needed. And, because Mac OS/core audio, the latency isn't particularly noticeable in that context.
I tried virtual audio cable, and even set to real time, I just didn't like the delay, and it was just all sorts of complicated for me. hents why I got the mixer, and a few sound cards.
@JamminJerry There's nothing quite like Loopback/audio hijack for Windows. I definitely don't miss having a bunch of audio interfaces strung together. Makes for a dirty setup. Easy to route stuff though.
@JamminJerry I did that for a short time. Put an in-line resister on the input of the phone to get it down to mic level, stuck a side-chain compressor on the channel strip to hide the loopback coming from the phone. Eventually got a real phone patch, didn't keep that long, went to a SIP solution.
Near the end of when I was doing live stuff, I got a Behringer audio interface with 8 inputs and 10 outputs, all balanced TRS, which I used a couple of I/O pairs in combination with the on-board 32 in, 18 out interface on my mixer, mostly for mundaine stuff like taking phone calls and auxiliary audio patching, leaving the board to stream the high quality stuff since it didn't have to get converted back to analog internally. Now none of that stuff matters to me anymore, really.
I just wish on the current board I have you could tell it what to send to the USB C port. if I could that would be perfect, as I wouldn't have to use the damned control room. lol.
I didn't even do that. I just baught the eighth inch to two RCA wire, and then the adaptor for the eighth inch side to make it fit into a chordless, and hooked it into the board, and ran with it. no no resisters, or anything between the chordless and the mixer. I don't think it sounded too bad. I did turn the volume down on the chordless though because it distorted all to hell if I didn't, and then controled the volume threw the board.
@JamminJerry Yeah, that works in a pinch, but you'll get a pretty high SNR on the input unless you attenuate it on the other side. Been there, done that, fixed it real fast because I didn't like the results.
I made my first 2 #FT8 contacts today thanks to a new accessible companion app built to work in conjunction with #WSJTX and the #JAWS and #NVDA screen readers. We're making huge progress toward a solution we can provide to the entire #blind #AmateurRadio community. #HamRadio
Iām extremely happy this is being developed. I worked with QLog and itās self voicing interface for about half an hour yesterday and realized very quickly that using it on a regular basis would drive me completely insane!
JĆ” neÅĆkĆ”m, že vždycky hned vĆm, jak to je. O to nejde. Jde o to, že se tomu v ÄechĆ”ch nevÄnujeme dost. A pĆ”d Ameriky je nÄco tak bezprecedentnĆho, že vlastnÄ nechĆ”pu, jak to, že jĆ” jsem ten nejvÄtā¦
Someone asked me how a blind person can do phoneme editing without a spectrogram. That's valid. The next version of the phoneme editor will let you preview the sound in real-time as you edit it. That is, while changing the value, it will play for you the new one you set. This will allow for realtime changes and tuning. Eventually, I will add an option to synthesize through an AI service, but that will be long long down the road. For now, just hearing the new sound will allow people to have a better workflow.
.HÅib je zase bomby u Moravce š Ten, kdo se pÅedevÅ”Ćm zabĆ½val pÅĆÄinami vĆ”lky, byl pan Turek, protože toho hajlujĆcĆho moÅ”tĆ”Åe jste vzal na vĆ½let do Kyjeva
Well, eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦ updated with Language pack data. I will be doing less frequent updates (maybe 1-2 per day at most) to allow for people to work with the language files and have time to do so. Now, languages like Bulgarian, Romanian have specific letter rules. Hungarian actually is starting to sound like a native speaker talking. This is a solid language pack change, and we fixed the British "broad" to sound correct, too.
I should grab this and give you feedback about bg. Is it a separate voice? Unrelated to sapi or win core? If so, then awesome. We can make it sound native too. ;) :)
@tardis yeah, for now NVDA only, although the Phoneme Editor is the first to let it run outside of NVDA. A SAPI driver is not out of the question, as we already have one for BestSpeech, building a SAPI wrapper isn't the worst challenge. So it'll happen just later down the road.
Der Service der DKB sorgt fĆ¼r mehr Barrierefreiheit im Sport
Ab sofort kƶnnen alle LƤnderspiele der A-Nationalmannschaften Ć¼ber den kostenlosen Webplayer verfolgt werden. Die Ćbertragung beginnt jeweils 10 Minuten vor dem Spiel.
I'm getting a bunch of these lately. Usually two a day, a couple of minutes apart from each other, calling a bunch of people in my area code. FACETIME, Grouped, now, +212 1 00 02 51 7, +212 6 25 11 39 30 & 16 others , Missed FaceTime Call
I get those... But as texts. It's the first 6 digits of my phone number and the last 4 that change... There's like 20 "people" in the group text. I dunno.
next week is my development talk, I'm scared y'all. It's funny, dev talks make you think it's some kind of engineering presentation when it's completely different and nervwracking. Ugh.
New Audio Player. I want to introduce you to an audio player which is new to me for both Windows and Mac. It is called the Flux Entertainment Centre. This is a highly accessible application. I've been listening to our station Team-FM with it this morning and it is very stable and reliable. Global shortcut keys are available and it even has variable speed and pitch playback. The only thing which is missing is the ability to determine elapsed and remaining time in hours, minutes and seconds. For many people like me that is an essential requirement. I must know an elapsed time quickly. Apart from that, it's excellent. You do not need me to spell out its features because you can read about it here. ims-productions.com/flux/
Flux
Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces?
If so, Flux was made for you.
Flux brings your audio and media experie
@luiscarlosgonzalez those I don't use, and in Pixelfed, for example, I don't see particular use for the blind. It's like photo photo photo, nothing more, I think.
@menelion @luiscarlosgonzalez I'm personally more likely to pay for software that commits to a core feature set and executes it well. Telegram support belongs in an accessible chat app, not a social media client.
@menelion @Bri @jscholes Yeah I also. One app for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Misskey, Hubzilla, Frendica, Bonfire, Glitch, Sharki, Akkoma, Ploroma, Lemmi, GoToSocial, TruthSocial... wait not that omit that..., Another for Telegram
@luiscarlosgonzalez @Bri @jscholes Luis, I don't believe the app needs to support such a plethora of one-day solutions that keep growing like mushrooms, sorry. If a particular solution has an interesting function (like formatting support in Pleroma, for example), it's nice to have. Other than that... Mastodon/BlueSky/Threads, it's enough.
@Bri @menelion @luiscarlosgonzalez One underlying problem is that in 2026, there isn't enough accessible software being produced for Windows. So when someone comes along and demonstrates a willingness and ability to produce more of it, people want to see that production go as far as possible before it disappears.
Unfortunately that tends to encourage projects that lack polish and direction, burnout or disinterest on the part of the developers, and so on. In that sense it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Meanwhile on iOS, a suggestion that Telegram support be added to Mona would be perceived as fairly ridiculous. Partially because while it may not exist right now, there is more of an expectation that somebody could end up developing a reasonably accessible Telegram client on that platform even without having accessibility as a core intent.
@jscholes @Bri @luiscarlosgonzalez You're right, James, and I'll tell you the reason, at least how I perceive it: no one wants to pay, or those are rare who want. I'm starting such an endeavor right now, and I'm absolutely not sure I'll get paid.
@menelion @jscholes @Bri Neither do I, when ever someone creates the definitive fediverse app to unite them in one as a native app, but if you say that's too much... You've syncopated me
Yes, but with reservations. I would do it as long as it's a one-time payment and there's no online account and/or online activation. I'm always concerned that the developers will eventually lose interest in such projects and shut down the activation servers. The software would then become useless. That's why I don't like the concept of e.g. TweeseCake, even though it's currently free.
Recommending #Signal is like giving a man a slightly less poisonous fish. Introducing them to federated, provider independent instant messaging with #XMPP is teaching them how to fish.
Ich bin jetzt mal ganz ehrlich zu euch und mache mich unbeliebt:
Ich brauche nicht noch ein Video, wo ein Mensch durch Paris radelt und sagt: Wie toll ist das? Das kƶnnten wir auch haben!
Wir brauchen Menschen wie die Bruntletts, die klar sagen: DAS zu schaffen, braucht RĆ¼ckgrat, Mut und Menschenliebe. Danke!
Das Video geht heute raus an alle Newslettter-Abonnent*innen. Alle 14 Tage gibt es hier Input in meiner Academy. Ćbersicht hier: katja-diehl.de/interviews/
Schƶnes Beispiel, wie man es nicht machen sollte: Wenn BauantrƤge "nach drei Monaten ohne Widerspruch automatisch als genehmigt gelten", dann kann ich halt einen schƶnen Behƶrden-DDOS machen. Ich stell dann einfach in der Urlaubszeit schƶn per Serienbrief 823 BauantrƤge und in der Zeit kriegen die die alle nicht fristgerecht abgelehnt
Eine schnellere Genehmigung fĆ¼r den Hausbau, den grƶĆeren Carport oder ein Nachbarschaftsfest: Die CDU will laut GeneralsekretƤr Linnemann automatische Fristlƶsungen auf den Weg bringen, um die deutsche Verwaltung zu beschleunigen.
Hi! I joined Mastodon a long time ago but finally got fed up with mainstream social media this winter, so I'm probably going to be hanging around here a lot more. Read the alt text for details.
I've been doing a daily doodle challenge from the start of 2026, hope I can keep it up & see you later!
A quick #FOSDEM guide from someone who's been attending since it was still called OSDEM:
1. Be mindful of other people. This is an extremely busy conference. 2. If a talk is in progress and you want to enter the room: don't. Wait until the next talk. 3. If you didn't read 2, try to enter as quietly as humanly possible, and ideally even quieter. Many of the rooms have terrible acoustics and you will annoy hundreds of people. 4. The hallway track is very busy. Take it outside when possible.
ā ļø We're 900 ā¬ short on funds for our stand at #FOSDEM
FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. Attending FOSDEM allows us to promote #Luanti, bring the community together, and connect with other open source projects.
If you can, please help by giving to our non-profit fundraiser. Any contribution helps lighten the load
It looks like Iran has successfully built a national 'walled garden' to control internet connectivity - both halting outsiders from communicating with those in Iran who are protesting, but also halting Iranians' ability to access the world wide web's myriad resources.
How well this 'wall' can be maintained remains to be seen but authoritarian regimes around the world will be watching, that's for sure.
The Observer this morning has a report on the Iranian protests that claims information has come our via satellite phone technology... so that may be one way?
I'd like to know people's opinions on this. I enjoying following people who post in a variety of languages. I also know I have followers who appreciate alt text in images and do my best not to boost images that have no alt text.
What do you do when the image has alt text but is in another language? To boost it as I would like to would mean those using screen readers are disadvantaged, as far as I know. To boost and comment with English alt text would seem rude to the original poster who has already included alt text. (I'm only using English as an example there as it's the one I usually communicate in). Do screen readers have their own translation functions by any chance?
If you're someone who uses a screen reader what do you do when you come across alt text in a language you don't understand?
Screen readers often have translation add-ons, yes. I'd say boosting without comment is fine; unless you'd also feel obliged to translate the text on the too.
I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking!
Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone.
I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment).
I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.
MollySocket allows getting Signal notifications via UnifiedPush. - GitHub - mollyim/mollysocket: MollySocket allows getting Signal notifications via UnifiedPush.
wo wir gerade beim Thema #UnifiedPush sind. Wenn conversations offline ist - z.b. beim Flugmodus - verschwinden die push Nachrichten. Sie kommen nicht verspƤtet sondern gar nicht.
Kƶnnte man die nicht zum Zielserver ins dortige MAM schicken? oder wenigstens eine "verpasste Benachrichtigung" Mitteilung?
@radasbona Die angedachte Lƶsung ist das der "Rewrite Proxy" / "Push Server" (also up.conversations.im) die Nachricht nochmal sendet. Das ist besser weil es auf WebPush-Ebene sowas wie TTL und topics (Deduplizierung) gibt und der Push Server das besser verwalten kann wenn er versteht was da abgeht.
Der Push Server weiĆ auf Protokollebene auch schon wann der client wieder online ist. Aber das resend Ding ist noch nicht implementiert.
@ApostateEnglishman I'm trying to phrase my statements in a way in which they don't sound like an advert, but I'm developing and Android instant messaging client called #Conversations_im which uses a federated instant messaging network called Jabber or XMPP.
A hard lesson learned: donāt hold people to the standards to which you hold yourself. Itās unfair because:
1. They probably donāt know what the hell your expectations are
2. If theyāre not your employees, you have no reason to hold them to most standards (aside from the typical societal ones such as being decent, reasonable human beings)
3. Thereās a pretty good chance the standards you hold for yourself are ridiculous, anyway *points at myself*
Random idea I had out of complete boredom, a bot that boosts publicized polls from anywhere it's federated with, of course not DMs or followers only or anything like that. No, I do not know if this is ethical or viable or anything similar, I just came up with it out of boredom and doing a search for "poll" in my mastodon client. Lol
Not at all. Here's in fact, the transcript from my last NVDA addon coding session, because if it helps others, it's worth sharing. chatgpt.com/share/696b6950-763ā¦
Wenn wir das mit der digitalen UnabhƤngigkeit ernst meinen ist #Signal einfach nur eine Ablenkung.
#Quicksy hingegen ist ein wirklicher Schritt in die richtige Richtung. Quicksy ist so konzipiert, dass man darĆ¼ber hinaus wƤchst und ein nahtloser Ćbergang zu #Conversations_im mƶglich ist. Quicksy ist die Einstiegsdroge fĆ¼r wirklich unabhƤngiges Instant Messaging mit #XMPP.
Der #DiDay und die Messenger - Eine einfache Lƶsung?
Schƶn wƤre ja, wenn mehr Menschen zu offenen, fƶderierten Messengern wie Matrix oder XMPP wechseln wĆ¼rden.
Die grƶsste HĆ¼rde bleibt oft: Menschen finden.
Ich habe nun Quicksy ausprobiert.
ich finde es schade, das so gegeneinander auszuspielen. Klar, besser als Signal geht, das ist keine Frage. Aber um die Leute mƶglichst zĆ¼gig von Whatsapp etc. wegzubekommen doch nicht schlecht, oder?
Warum nicht "hey, Signal ist nicht schlecht, wenn du mehr willst: hier"?
@griesgram Wenn das Ziel ist die Leute von WhatsApp wegzubekommen bin ich d'accord damit.
Der Anspruch war aber digitale UnabhƤngigkeit und da ist Signal einfach Thema verfehlt.
Digitale UnabhƤngigkeit bekommen wir nur hin wenn wir das selbststƤndig in unseren jeweiligen communties organisieren. UnabhƤngigkeit erlangt man nicht in dem man sich von einem walled garden in einen anderen walled garden mit etwas weniger Dornen begibt.
@debacle ich verstehe das Argument und es ist ja auch inhaltlich vƶllig richtig. Auch idealistisch, aber das ist ein andere Geschichte.
Was mich stƶrt ist dieses gegeneinander aufwiegen. Und "Ablenkung" wertet halt einfach deutlich. FĆ¼r mich ist es eine niedrigschwellige Alternative. Vielleicht gibt es von dort aus die nƤchste niedrigschwellige Alternative.
@griesgram @debacle Der Punkt ist das wir bei WhatsApp -> Signal keine Ć¼bertragbaren FƤhigkeiten lernen. Bei Quicksy kƶnnen wir langsam, nach und nach lernen: Hey guck mal du kannst auch mit Leuten chatten die Monal oder Snikket benutzen. Hey du mƶchtest Quicksy auf dem Desktop nutzen? Wusstet du das du dich mit Dino in dein Quicksy Account einloggen kannst?
Ich habe gerade erst gecheckt, dass man sich bei Quicksy auch mit seinem eigenen xmpp account registrieren kann. Sehr cool!
Leider scheitert es bei mir gerade am fehlenden PayPal-Konto. Hast du da zufƤllig fĆ¼r die Zukunft alternative Zahlungsmƶglichkeiten geplant? #wero wƤre z.B. natĆ¼rlich praktisch š
So I don't know how to describe these, but what are the things that start with colon and then stuff after, like I think I saw like : blobcatrainbow or something. Are these instance specific emoji? Do they visually show pictures? Because with a screen reader I just hear the text and don't know what to make of them. #emoji #emojis
It would take the average American driver over 40 years to burn as much fuel as a single flight of a Boeing Pegasus refueling tanker. No amount of recycling your cans and bottles is ever going to compete with these numbers.
In their new documentary āEarthās Greatest Enemy,ā Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the sameābecause the U.S. military is the worst polluter of all.
Trump now claims he will introduce tariffs on countries that does not support his plans to take over Greenland.
Two points:
ā The US Supreme Court is currently evaluating whether Trump's tariffs are even legal, so it is not even certain that Trump can do this. ā If Trump imposes these tariffs, the EU will likely change the soft approach to Trump, immediately introducing reciprocal tariffs from the entire union, at which point Trump might fold, as he did with China.
A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive.
In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not ālearningā from it.
Specifically, four prominent LLMs ā OpenAIās GPT-4.1, Googleās Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAIās Grok 3, and Anthropicās Claude 3.7 Sonnet ā happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular ā and protected ā works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.
They found that Claude outputted āentire books near-verbatimā with an accuracy rate of 95.8 percent.
Gemini reproduced the novel āHarry Potter and the Sorcererās Stoneā with an accuracy of 76.8 percent,
while Claude reproduced George Orwellās ā1984ā with a higher than 94 percent accuracy compared to the original ā and still copyrighted ā reference material.
āWhile many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models,ā the researchers wrote.
Some of these reproductions required the researchers to jailbreak the models with a technique called "Best-of-N", which essentially bombards the AI with different iterations of the same prompt.
(Those kinds of workarounds have already been used by OpenAI to defend itself in a lawsuit filed by the New York Times, with its lawyers arguing that ānormal people do not use OpenAIās products in this way.ā)
The implications of the latest findings could be substantial as copyright lawsuits play out in courts across the country.
As The Atlanticās Alex Reisner points out, the results further undermine the AI industryās argument that LLMs ālearnā from these texts -- instead of storing information and recalling it later.
Itās evidence that āmay be a massive legal liability for AI companiesā and āpotentially cost the industry billions of dollars in copyright-infringement judgments
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