If you still hear pops. Mess with the minFadeOutMs and minFadeInMs settings in __init.py of the NVDA driver and tell me what gives you best results. Not sure what else to tell you.
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A weather report done in Trump speak. he even uses metric for a bit: Look, we have the best weather in Palm Beach, believe me. Everyone says it. It’s a beautiful night, absolutely spectacular. We have a temperature of 15°C, which is perfect, frankly, it’s much better than what they have in those other places—those cold, shivering places.
The sky is clear with periodic clouds, very high-end clouds, the best you’ve ever seen. We have a wind coming from the north at 11 mph—it’s a gentle wind, a very smart wind. The humidity is at 72%, very nice. 500 times better than other places. and the chance of rain? 0%. No rain, zero, that's 300% better. because we like to win, and we’re winning with this weather.
For the rest of Monday, January 19, 2026, it’s a total success:
High Temperature: A very strong 19°C.
Low Temperature: 8°C, very cool, very crisp.
Condition: Partly sunny, then clear. It’s going to be a beautiful situation.
During Prohibition, whoever built the first underground speakeasy set a low bar.
OK. The add-on that does work! Minimal pops, if any. Yes, maybe occasionally, but I compared this driver with the previous one, and we get a slightly faster speed for speech in this one, so pops may also be because we're able to interrupt the engine a little faster by optimizing code. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Remember new settings defined in default.yaml inside the packs\lang: legacyPitchMode, legacyPitchInflectionScale. All there. Toggle it off if you hate it.
Another setting for languages: lengthenedVowelFinalCodaScale, It applies to any vowel that has a length mark ː, only when the vowel is followed by one or more consonants in the same word, and there are no later vowels in that word (so it’s the "final syllable” vowel".
Remember new settings defined in default.yaml inside the packs\lang: legacyPitchMode, legacyPitchInflectionScale. All there. Toggle it off if you hate it.
Another setting for languages: lengthenedVowelFinalCodaScale, It applies to any vowel that has a length mark ː, only when the vowel is followed by one or more consonants in the same word, and there are no later vowels in that word (so it’s the "final syllable” vowel".
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@jmd2000 yeah, was wondering how divided people would be on LegacyPitch, that's what the formula it used before moving towards ESpeak. If I get like, a majority of people saying the synth is horrible with it I'll ship it with it off. I think it for sure gives it more of an Eloquence feel, Espeak tends to do word inflection downwards more heavily and that's what they borrowed as well in later drivers.
Finally we have reached racial equality
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Trump's DOJ plans to hit ex-CNN host Don Lemon with Ku Klux Klan Act charges
A top Justice Department official floated the idea Monday of charging ex-CNN host and journalist Don Lemon – who had reported on an anti-ICE demonstration at a Minnesota church Sunday – under an 1871 law designed to combat the Ku Klux Klan.Alexander Willis (Raw Story)
I try not to read any comments about the GC cuts (except for here), because people haaaaate public servants with a passion.
But I just saw someone say that they use ZERO service from the government and looool
Here's a new thing I've been toying with. #FastGH, a desktop client for interacting with GitHub. github.com/masonasons/FastGH You can download a test alpha release already here: Windows: github.com/masonasons/FastGH/r… Mac, untested: github.com/masonasons/FastGH/r…
GitHub - masonasons/FastGH: A GitHub desktop client built with wxPython
A GitHub desktop client built with wxPython. Contribute to masonasons/FastGH development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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There's already the Github App that lets you push, pull, merge Etc. so what's different about this?
@GamingWithEars 1: This isn't a web interface. 2: This lets you browse github in a fast, accessible easy to use interface. 3: This lets you get notifications about repos and things in your activity feed/notifications. More.
Oooooo! Alright! Just what I like to hear! This will encourage me to get going on my projects again!
@GamingWithEars it also has basic git integration, you can point it at a repo that has git repos and in the view repo dialog there's a clone button or a pull button based on if that repo already exists or not
@GamingWithEars well, this is assuming you already have git installed, it doesn't have git built-in lol i should clarify
@GamingWithEars this one is a pleasure to use. I find that things are getting better, in terms of accessibility, while also getting worse at the same time and with the same products. There's this idea that if you can use the product, it's accessible. The problem is that nobody cares how hard it is to use. The only thing people are able to focus on is "can you use it"? Not "will you enjoy using it"? or even "can you use it in a reasonable amount of time?". Sighted people don't have to deal with whether it can be used. Rather, they already start where our stuff ends and get to ask "is it a pleasure to use?". Sometimes the answer is no, but at least they are able to ask the question.
@techsinger @GamingWithEars Well, I'll do what I can where I can. If something doesn't have an API, I can't hook into it. :D
If that came off as criticism, it wasn't intended to, It was just answering @GamingWithEars as to the question.
speaking of api, what about spotify? It's been done, more or less vibe-coded as I understand it, as accessify for NVDA, but you could undoubtedly do better and it could work for any reader. Not sure whether you'd be interested, though. Maybe a spotify/deezer thing?
Time once again to offer this community a chance to step up. Introducing Mastodon for Minneapolis, a fundraiser to benefit the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund organized by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. Let’s see what we can do to support the people of metro Minneapolis as they grapple with a federal invasion. grapevine.org/giving-circle/do… 1/
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Many are probably familiar with how unfriendly the #Fediverse / #Mastodon is to non-white cultures.
In my opinion, if you really care about wiping out Fediverse white supremacy with actions and not just empty words... you should be following ALL TurtleIsland.social moderators and admins.
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hmm. Would people rather have a small pop at the start of speech, or a broken say-all that doesn't combine lines into each other? Decisions decisions.
The popping would be objectively worse. Say all only represents a subset of screen reader speech, and there are alternative ways to read stuff. A pop at the start of every utterance would be unavoidable.
This is only a logical calculation though; actual human people would rather have neither.
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It's back! The Digital Domain Online Radio Show is live on the air, now!
Tuned in, and will most certainly call in a bit with an announcement for the listeners.
I have no desire to upgrade to Alexa Plus, will be oldschool until I'm forced to the plus thing
This is a podcast.
no no, just wait a minute.
This is not just *any* podcast, this is #StroongeCast.
Strange name, great cohost in the form of my lovely wife Kirsten.
Come for the name, stay for her dulcet tones, I promise you won't be disappointed.
Here's a 5-minute highlight reel from a handful of episodes over the last year.
Time for the blurb.
Why does F4 feel like a boob?
Why do Jake's friends think his dad is a lazy sod?
Why does being guided around all day make you want to go sit in a quiet hotel room and jump on dating sites?
Why did my wife faint at a bus stop at 5 in the morning, mere moments before we were supposed to catch a plane?
Why did an angry mum smack her child and say 'WE don't smack?'
Time to find out.
youtu.be/_0elPYMFTn4
Connect with us: onj.me/stroongecast
Follow us on Fedi: @StroongeCast
StroongeCast Clips
Welcome to StroongeCast Clips.this is a collection of segments from various episodes throughout the last year.Check out the StroongeCast Playlist for all epi...YouTube
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No more V2 file. I removed it, between that new pops bug with speech people are hearing and the older DLL included without the classic pitch setting, nope. This one is just trash.
Sadly, During cancellation, the current approach doesn’t allow for a proper fade-out, as isSpeaking is set to False too quickly, stopping the audio loop from processing the fade-out frame. Hmm. Now that's a challenge to solve. Instead of using silence frames, I could create a separate pending queue for index markers I think.
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Having one of those "people are apparently incapable of following basic instructions" kind of days.
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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So what we're learning is that Briar is useless in Iran, and so is Signal. Always designed to work in unrealistic environments. *sigh*
none of software messengers are gonna work, sorry. An android app isn't gonna help against a government-level adversary waging war against you.
Estamos a 13°, entonces yo adentro de casa con ropa térmica y gorro enfrente de la compu 🥶
RE: mastodon.social/@adastra1930/1…
can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera
Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
@whitequark i work with electrical engineers who write kernel drivers for camera sensors and even at the height of expertise the answer to "how to use camera" is "dear god"
this is exactly correct. i've had the misfortune to do some camera wrangling. this is very much a case of "please consider if you really need it, and if you do, here's [2-3x my normal hourly rate]".
only in this line of work have i seen a large corporate customer not be given a complete schematic for a devboard (a very basic one, p much just MIPI, I2C, and a few sidebands connected) except as a blurry image in microsoft teams screenshare with a pinky promise that you won't screenshot it (because the terms of the NDA with $sensor_vendor prohibit even acknowledging that the sensor has pins)
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dnes jsem na Meshcore první den a jsem překvapený, jak živo kolem Brna je. Když si vezmu nářky kolegů, jak těžké je zprávy procpat MT...
@sesivany Živo rozhodně je, mmj. i v Public kanálu. Téměř všichni o kterých vím, že se zajímají, migrují od Meshtastic k Meshcore. analyzer.letsmesh.net/channels (vlevo kliknout CZ)
Pořád samozřejmě platí principy šíření rádiových signálů.
Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.
mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…
Here's mine.
#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI
RE: social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrass…
Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:
Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.
Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.
mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…
VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)
Attached: 1 image Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it. https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201 Here's mine. #OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AIVM (Vicky) Brasseur (VMB Social)
Welcome tommy as #curl commit author 1434: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2027…
bugfix: `SA_SIGINFO` should not be set when it is using `sa_handler` by Tommy-LXDAO · Pull Request #20278 · curl/curl
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/sigaction.html SA_SIGINFO should not be set when it is using sa_handler. If we set sa_handler as SIG_IGN and sa_flags with SA_SIGINFO.The s...GitHub
Current mood: Leslie Lamport once defined a distributed system as one in which the failure of a computer you didn't know existed can prevent you from getting anything done.
Welcome Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder as #curl commit author 1433: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2030…
docs: update configure examples by Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder · Pull Request #20301 · curl/curl
Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...GitHub
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps, plus 1 added from the weekend:
* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️
* Oksigenia SOS: safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection 🛡️
* RepoStore: turns GitHub releases into a clean, Play Store-style experience 🛡️
* advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️
RB status: 806 apps (62.2%)
Enjoy your #free #apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
@devSJR Thanks! F-Droid will need the fastlane tree as well, so it cannot hurt bringing that up there 😉
I did not raise the issue. Hope they have a look at this. Maybe we should add the requirements mentioned by you.
I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.
am I the only person on FreeBSD 15 who is experiencing OpenVPN correctly installing routes, and then after some undetermined period of time they just disappear? The VPN is still up, all the routes are gone. Zero explanation.
I've seen that too.
On Debian. No explanation.
I'm thinking Host dropping long encrypted connections
On Debian. No explanation.
I'm thinking Host dropping long encrypted connections
"I can't believe Mozilla would ask for our input" says the people who have been begging for this
What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone.
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Spotify Auto Pause
Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?! If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...Discord
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Funny enough if you screen share your entire screen, not just Spotify, this will not occur, and I have never had this happen when not sharing your audio.
Welcome to Discord, the app that gives you all the bloat. Such nonsense features that nobody ever cares about.
Ugh. I'm so frustrated I could cry. Windows 11 you are so genuinely terrible.
was in web based KVM
in the shell
used CTRL+W to try to delete the last word...
closed the tab instead...
#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYj…
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bon…
via @davidgerard @ParadeGrotesque
Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals
Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…Pivot to AI
To keep it simple, I’ll introduce two new settings that apply to all long vowels: longVowelWordFinalScale and longVowelCodaScale, both defaulting to 1.0. This allows users to easily adjust scaling without breaking existing setups.
What are people using for telegram these days, thinking about switching mastodon clients but would need something for telegram because I do still use it. Rarely but I do.
"The idea of using a YAML map for flexible vowel scaling seems good. It allows any vowel to be specified, not just English ones. I think applying the scale only to lengthened vowels fits with the user’s request while keeping short vowels unchanged. I'll check the existing setup to make sure everything aligns."
You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.
You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.
"I'd rather you pollute my community so my children can choke on your exhaust fumes than see you driving a Tesla"
- totally normal opinions by people who are not deranged at all and 100% care about the planet and definitely wanted a Green New Deal 
ok who should give us the electricity?
Germany needed 17GW (NOT GWh, GW!!) redispatch last year. France is toast each summer. Austria has Slowakia/Ukraine or the Balkans (lol) and the Italians are frozen or fry every half year.
Ofc we import oil but YOU urged we all do something different which at this point is physically impossible here.
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Currently testing FastSM.
@Bri I like FastSM a lot, and it lives up to its name, I'm convinced it's faster than TweeseCake. I'm very pleazsed with what I know of it so far, but I have one question: would it be possible in future for us to open the client without the GUI coming up? I tend to prefer the invisible interface, so it would be nice to be able to open FastSM with the window hidden straight away.
that moment when you type mud commands in to the fast sm window, and nothing happendes! stop it Darren!
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