It is also possible that you have that key bound to something else, in which case I'd recommend trying to change it, or do you mean it doesn't even install?
Yeah the manifest says 2025.3.2 so older installs won't work unless you extract it by-hand and rectify. Not hard to do, you can either rename to .zip and open it, or use 7zip to extract.
I updated, it's a bit annoying to do on my work Laptop that's why I didn't before. But honestly weird NVDA behaviour to just, do nothing when pressing on an Add On that's apparently not for that version.
Offhand I'm not sure why either - at least, NVDA should probably give an error - would you be able to create an issue at github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… please?
@NVAccess Yes, I'll test this more in dept on my personal machine when I get home later though, right now there is not a lot specific to talk about so I wanna see if I can find out more.
We're working hard on making signage that adds to the vibes for #bytenight, cause we like it when a project is practical and pretty :) ... come for the beer stay for the blinking LEDs, on the Saturday evening during #fosdem
On this day in 1985, 41 years ago, Greensboro, NC, the city in which I grew up, experienced it's coldest temperature on record, -8 degrees F, or -22.22 degrees C.
I was alive for that, but being less than a year old at the time, don't have any memory of it.
My baby bedroom was the least insulated in that house, though, so that must have been fun keeping it at a reasonable temperature.
Mount Mitchell, NC recorded a temperature of -23 degrees F, or about -31 degrees C, on that same day.
honestly, the janky-ass superflous animations & effects even with all the “reduce motion” #accessibility options enabled seem to exist only to slow down my previously very snappy recent-gen (n-2) #iPhone – this isn’t event planned obsolescence, it feels like hastened obsolescence to make the #Apple money printer go brrr just a little sooner than usual, as a treat 😤
on a device that has the hardware to support 120Hz refresh rates, why am I ever seeing folders & icons get visibly drawn on my screen? 🤪
I must be one of the only privacy advocates who actually thinks children shouldn't be allowed to use social media 😬 My main concern is the age verification implementation, but I know there are ways to make it 100% private, only revealing if you're over a certain age as a true or false value.
Instead, It is to force adults to give up their IDs (and normalize the act) so they are easy to be identified whenever they try to spread the truth or post/comment something against the will of the elites.
There are numerous ways to protect the children. This is definitely not one of them.
Oh, cool. My NAS back at home is apparently suffering from Dying Power Supply Syndrome (DPSD) or something. It apparently improperly shut down twelve times yesterday, according to the logs.
Of course, it would do this just a few months after I spent over 2 grand replacing the storage on it with 8 new 12 TB hard drives, replacing the 6 TB drives that were all starting to die.
Looks like maybe a new NAS is in my future when I get back... whenever that is.
I don't have a lot of experience with NAS devices specificly, so sorry if this is obvious, but is that dangerous for the drives if they just get cut power like that so often?
How about just replacing the PSU? Does it really need an entirely new NAS? Same thing happened twice to my old DS415play by now, just replacing the PSU worked fine. My DS918+ still runs like on its first day, but that one runs behind a UPS and isn't as stressed out as a regular PSU would be at this point.
@ToniBarth Well... it could be the board, not sure. Either way, the board and the PSU themselves for the DS1815+ are not easy to find on their own, without finding another old NAS with issues and parting it out.
I had this problem with my first DS1815+, or something like it, and it turned out to be a common problem with the first generation motherboards. Got the NAS replaced under warranty in 2018, and that's the one I'm still running now.
Those Synology units have weird power supply plugs don't they? At least you can use the drives in the new unit. I've often wondered how portable the Synology units are if you say upgrade a unit and need to keep the drives/data how easy that would be to do. You'd probably need to reinstall the OS as the upgrade will change the architecture.
Brrr... new introduction time cause my old one is already outdated lol.
I am Sinclair-Speccy, your local resident computer nerd that can’t actually do a lot of tech stuff like people think. My primary interests are #Linux, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads.
My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s (I know, so interesting /s). Despite having used XP as my first OS other older OSes (mostly Linux ones) interest me more if you look at the media I've posted on my account besides the tech ads.
I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art as my friend was there, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space.
One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters, though I tend to call them tech gijinkas. I even have my own tech gijinkas universe that is hosted on my site.
You can check out my website here: sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-… and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform or something, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...
Unlike in the past I'm not active as I used to be, sadly.
Canceled another subscription recently, the money that's left will probably go into donating to NTFY or other projects, another awesome software I seriously enjoy using. Support your FOSS developers, even if it's just a small amount. Especially if you'd pay for the tool, like I did with pushover before.
Yes. The fact that the variations between clients and the browser interface are *tiny*, and are limited to platform specific areas, is one of Tuta's HUGE strengths.
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
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Sorry guys. I had to remove the timeline gaps system. It was just not working correctly at all, and was only causing issues and annoyances. Not sure if I will ever reimplement something like this in the future, however if it's of concern, you can disable caching entirely, at which point the app would load a fresh copy of the timeline upon every client start like before.
@jonathan859 couple of situations, now that we have timeline caches. If you close down the app and reopen it after a while, a timeline gap can occur. This basically means there is a gap in between the newest post in your timeline that was saved, vs the oldest new post retrieved.
Thank you for using FastSM! We update the app hourly to keep your experience running smoothely! For best results, keep your app up to date! FastSM will never ask you to review the app. Mainly because it can't, because there is no review system attached to GitHub. Anyway, This update includes but is not limited to bugfixes, performance improvements, new bugs, unintentional performance degradations, issues, disappointments, problems, issues, and many more issues. Please keep your updates turned on to experience all of this, and more! Our developers will never tell you that they are taking a nap, or mowing the lawn, unless, of course, they are indeed taking a nap, or mowing the lawn. Why our developers would be mowing the lawn in a changelog, who actually knows. Anyway, more bugfixes and performance improvements time! Please keep your updates turned on for more bugfixes and performance improvements! Thank you for using FastSM! We promise that as we continue to add more bugfixes and performance improvements, eventually we will add so many bugfixes and performance improvements that we will be forced to rename the app to SlowSM, or potentially even BuggySM. So stay tuned for this eventuality. Anyway, again we hope you enjoy using FastSM!
Hi, I'm probably also going to switch. However, I wonder if there's a way to filter boosts and replies from the home timeline as with Tweesecake? I see a filter boost option in the context menu, but I'm not sure if that is related to the timeline or to the user whose post I am focused on. Also, is there an option to hide the username so that just the nickname of the poster gets shown (vice versa is fine as well)? Great work so far, keep it up!
@garo Yes to all of this (Checkout timeline filters). You can filter many things out of whatever timeline you want, not just home. Also templates for removing things you don't want
@darren_duff Oh shoot. Hmm. When you manually updated, what did you do, replace your old files with the new ones, or completely delete the old copy and start fresh with a new one?
@darren_duff I only had that loop once, when I didn't wait long enough for the update to take place. Next time I updated, it worked normally. Maybe I'm just lucky.
@frog67 @darren_duff Oooooh, you know what, mine does the same thing. The window doesn't actually come up, it just focuses. It's hidden though. If you just alt tab away, it's hidden and doesn't show up in your alt tab list, it just focuses whenever you open it
I don't think I like this new world, you guys. Every time Youtube Music plays me a song I haven't heard before, I wonder if it's AI. Hmm, that's a lot of releases in a short time. Is the voice quality a bit odd because the track quality is low, or because I'm imagining it, or because it's AI? Wait, those rhymes are really weak. Did an LLM just spit those out?
There are two primary reasons I like watching the output from Claude or Gemini, or any model for that matter: #1. you can learn some really cool shell tricks, #2. I love watching how it transforms my thoughts, e.g. from a markdown spec file, into a plan. Even the most careful planning on my part always has some gaps, high verbosity, etc. For that reason, I always request the model to ask followup questions.
In today's world of autocorrect, why do so many places where people write from their phones always include contractions with missing apostrophes? You'd think any modern operating system would see "isnt" and immediately correct it to "isn't". Same for "ive", "dont", and so on. I can understand the apostrophe being multiple taps away, and so not getting added manually, but why wouldn't software put it back in?
I'm tempted to just remove the VLC based audio playback. We have yt-dlp support anyway, and VLC just seems to be causing issues more than it's solving them. Thoughts? Should I keep it or remove it?
Depends on how you look it it. Whenever I couldn't sleep as I child, I went and grabbed my Gameboy to play Pokémon for a few minutes/hours to make my brain tired and slept afterwards. Worked quite well actually, and still does today.
#TimeToTehOn...Good morning. I like FastSM rather more than tc, only probably because it loads faster, and takes up less RAM space. However, I won't be running it networkly like I can TC, for the simple reason that I cannot localise user data, or not that I know of. I don't use Telegram that much on the pc anyway, because most who have my details there, also follow me on mastodon, so no use boring people on telepaw if I already posted here anyway. BlueSky I don't have, and probably will never have either...Between my facebook/mastodon.africa/fluffy.family accounts I already have 3 social media related accounts, and that seems to be enough for now. However, knowing me, I may just fall for Bluesky, like I fell for the Seika Mini2 Smart Braille Notetaker...so I'll never say never, simply because I know myself well enough to know that curiosity might indeed push me to get bluesky regardless of the current reluctance. Anyway, have a nice day on this humpday.
@Bri Aha, thanks again. I thought because this is a beta, such things would not be possible, but thanks for the information that I can indeed localise data.
A veces me pregunto medio en serio si debería haber un partido que representase los intereses de los empleados públicos, y la calidad de los servicios públicos. Luego se me pasa.
The focus thing works, except when you try to arrow through the list of branches, it also moves focus to the commit field again. So probably should only default to focusing on the commit list when that dialog is first loaded.
It occurs to me that I haven't yet tested FastSM's ability to upload media to Mastodon. So I hereby present something which I call, "Girl, You Know it's False." I take the intro to the Milli Vanilli song "Girl, You Know it's True," where a man and a woman are talking to each other on opposite stereo channels, then I deliberately use and normalize the channel where each person is *not* talking. What you hear is a really echoy conversation, with almost certainly tape hiss and even some 50 Hz hum in the background. Then at the end the two orchestra hit type things also sound weird. Anyway here goes.
Well, I got GPT5 Pro mode again, asked it to help refactor my driver because I don't do a good enough job myself of that, and now it's been thinking for 88 minutes. Either it's going to give me a big disaster pile, or I somehow got it stuck. Longest time I've seen it think was like 65 minutes haha. But what the heck can you do for 88 minutes! This better be good. I feel like I'm asking a real coder to do the work, but worse, because it's not an actual real coder but a program, so it's more disappointing.
@stormproductions I agree. Gpt sucks. It's trash and it's gotten horrible particularly since uncle Sam keeps rushing to put new models out to try to keep his userbase without properly testing said models to be sure there's, y'know, actual improvements.
And to nobody's surprise, every iteration of gpt 5 has been a complete disaster.
@xogium @stormproductions I'm a noob vibe coder so nothing I say matters, but all three of my NVDA addons were done with GPT 5 and they all worked after a couple hours of back and forth, for what that's worth.
@stormproductions @xogium I honestly haven't found it difficult with this. I talked through what I wanted, it happened. Does Gemini have a decent GUI? I don't feel like doing all that from cli if I don't have to.
@FreakyFwoof @stormproductions @xogium Gemini's cli has a special --screen-reader flag that is really nice. It's why I keep them around honestly it's the nicest to use.
@serrebi @FreakyFwoof @stormproductions @xogium oh interesting! May give it a try at work, we have access to both. I have Google One plan which I share with my partner so we both get Gemini, they prefer it and honestly OpenAI has never allowed for family sharing like that, quite unfortunate. I feel like I need both in my toolbox. OpenAI (pro for now, we'll see if I make enough use of it this month to count) for those "think through and patch files direct inside container for you" moments, Gemini for the "review my code I wrote and that it's not trash and passable to an AI to work on", and they both look at different areas of the code. GPT will get it done even if you give it a bad idea to get done, Gemini's for sure a lot more cautious. So I can't decide on either these days, usually my workflow is augmenting one's response with the answer of the other, which makes me wonder what a powerful tool could be built if it just passed your prompt between the 2 AIs to solve, I'm sure someone's thought of that by now.
@FreakyFwoof @stormproductions @xogium I'm terrible for pointing this out to you, it probably doesn't apply but they give you an individual youtube premium sub with ultra. I wish it was family , then I'd think about it at least.
@serrebi @stormproductions @FreakyFwoof @xogium yeah, even in the "AI pro" plan :) + the 2 TB Gmail is nice, well, that's why I was initially subbed to it but they migrated people over with a slight price bump. economically speaking I think if I wanted to get the most use out of AI, Gemini does win by a longshot, even if GPT's now trying to compete with their $8 "go" plan LOL
@stormproductions @FreakyFwoof @xogium Gemini makes good early decisions for me when it comes to accessibility, but if I need to fix something like in the table output or something nitty griddy like that, I still find myself going to Codex.
@serrebi @FreakyFwoof @xogium I have installed Gemini's CLI, but I'm either too stupid with CLI's in general, or I don't even know how to navigate with NVDA. I tried typing /settings so I can see what settings I can tweak, and I couldn't even see the darn list of settings with NVDA. Any tips? I mean, any shortcuts for either NVDA or Gemini's CLI that I have to learn to start using it properly? Where do I actually pass the screen reader flag? My questions probably sound sily and stupid for somebody used to CLI's, but I truelly can't get the hang of it.
@serrebi @stormproductions @FreakyFwoof @xogium ahaha OK, that does make more sense. Yeah, even Codex always asks you to confirm things like pull requests so a flag for that isn't bad.
@serrebi @FreakyFwoof @xogium Okay, just tried the --screen-reader flag, it opened up, and said "(Use Enter to select, Tab to change focus, Esc to close)". I tried /settings, and tab just says something like checked 1, 2, 3. I can't really understand how to navigate, LOL.
@stormproductions @FreakyFwoof @xogium Use up and down arrows to modify settings, escape to save, I think. It's been a while since I modified settings. It repeats the last settings item as you arrow if I remember correctly.
@serrebi @FreakyFwoof @xogium Up and down arrows just keep telling me to use Enter to select, Tab to change focus, Esc to close. They either changed something, or I'm too dumb to understand how this works.
@stormproductions @serrebi @FreakyFwoof @xogium hm, if you review it in object nav does it put any symbol next to the highlighted choice? You might manually need to see if the lines change that way, just review the console's text, this is really good insight for me too though when I start using it for work.
@serrebi @FreakyFwoof @xogium If I use object nav I can't understand exactly what option is selected, thus I don't know what's gonna change if I hit enter.
@stormproductions @serrebi @xogium I haven't tried this myself, but try going up a few times, hopefully it doesn't rap. If not, then you can just count down and work out where you are.
@xogium Yep, I have switched away from GPT, and won't be using it at least till they stop making new models just to up that number and not really add anything interesting.
@stormproductions If they are still up after all the crap they go through right now, that is...
Trials for the death of several people that trusted gpt with things, claims that chatgpt can even be trusted with health advices now when it clearly can't -- I'm not joking! I saw an ad about it!
Then also the Musk case. Oh dear oh dear. Now I don't like Musk at all but truth is, he's apparently got 60% chance of winning his case against OpenAI. And he asked for a jaw dropping $134b iirc.
@xogium Wow. Didn't even hear about that - I don't really follow such news that much. Well... I'm a happy Gemini Pro user and I won't be switching too soon.
@xogium @stormproductions I do use Gemini, quite often to double-check code GPT wrote, because it will scan through it a lot faster. But (at least on web) it's horrible at pasting back code you gave it exactly 1 to 1 still, like it'll omit sections that it's pasting back of the code I gave it, and I'm yelling at it "give me full pieces! No omissions!" Haha. It's gotten better but GPT having an entire container inside to access and run Linux commands, not to mention I've uploaded a 30-40 MB zip file to it with my entire Gitub repo and Gemini just yells at me, "file is too large." LOL.
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God, Mac OS is really awful these days! A notification comes in, no VO focus on it, so hit VO+F1 twice, notifications menu has "go to Notification Center" and..."No items in Notification center!" Also, "Go to Notification Center" doesn't actually do anything! If something this basic doesn't work, it's no wonder VO is so bad. Case in point, every time my Mac restarts now, it comes up saying "Installer has no Windows." I have to use VO+Shift+Space to click the mouse because it's hanging out in the Login Window, while Vo's focus refuses to move from this blank Installer Window no matter what. Pressing VO+F1 just says, "Authentication required." Shit, maybe I just need to blow the OS away and start over.
I did that last week and it actually did fix most of those weird behaviours. Not that VoiceOver itself is any better in things like Web navigation or text documents, but it clearly got rid of some odd bugs
New: NV Speech Player finally gets a "pause mode" setting, like Eloquence has. This should not chew into lines with say-all, but rather does clause-based punctuation pause detection. And, it does appear to work. You can choose between "off," "short," and "long." This should solve a lot of complaints around words "merging together" after punctuation. I also began my first pass at abstracting parts of the driver out: _frontend.py and _dll_loader.py. Logging was also improved, I cleaned up over 40 try/catch exceptions, We're not trying to play Pokemon here. download: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… Oh! and for those wondering "where's classic pitch?" It's located in the Voice settings dialog, you'll find it as a checkbox.
thanks for the last corrections concerning m/n between vowel and consonant for pt-br. Now, I've just added a phoneme which I've called "brã", for Brazilian ã, which consisted of a single change: take ã and change cf4 from 3300 to 2600. then I added to pt-br.yaml: - from: "ã" to: "brã" Now, when I command it to speak a word like "região", the new phoneme appears to be used, but it's much less stressed and somewhat shortened, or at least de-emphasised. Can you give a look please?
@clv1 hmm. try and replace your packs folder at eurpod.com/synths/packs-ptUpda… - I'm experimenting on this one. What you’re hearing isn’t really “less stress,” it’s that the new vowel is darker, so it feels less punchy even if the timing didn’t change. In our latest pack we kept your approach, but made the change in a more balanced way so the synth doesn’t “half use” the old sound: we added a dedicated Brazilian ã variant and mapped pt-br to use it, making sure the vowel stays consistent across the voice filters. If you still want it to pop more, the best next tweak is a tiny loudness bump on that new ã variant rather than changing stress/timing.
@asael @clv1 haha not sure. Depends on how well base pairs are defined right now. You could always add it inside the driver, here we have the list of languages, if you formatted it the same way as that string and used HR for Croatian it would speak today but with perhaps missing sounds. Then we map those missing sounds to specific phoneme pairs in hr.yaml. Generally many sounds can be reused across languages but there's definitely edge cases especially with glides, fronted sounds, ETC.
@asael @clv1 it should be. I got one report of it not working on the latest alpha, but I pulled it to try and it still loaded, so I'm really not sure what could be going on. If you do get errors the debug logs help a lot because they have it set to max level in the alphas too.
oh, eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… - the base one is always latest, I branch versioned files because people's Browser cache gives them the older version if I keep the file name the same.
@asael @clv1 oh that's weird! Wonder if it was when I moved the DLL functions into their own helpers. You could try: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… - if that one works, we know it's changes I made to cleaning up the driver that introduced them.
@asael OK, regarding separation between consonants, it appears to be the option cluster gap stop clusure, which is set to 26. I changed it to 126 to experiment. It has an effect in words like "multi", where l and t get separated, but no effect in syllables like fra, cra, tra.
also mess with stopClosureVowelFadeMs: 8 stopClosureClusterGapMs: 28 stopClosureClusterFadeMs: 5 If we need we can introduce a new engine rule to detect these cases, but worth seeing if anything existing helps improve it.
Thanks, but I've found a more inteligible solution, same as used by ESpeak AFAIC: clone schwa and disable the _isVowel parameter. then, there must be a rule where the synth inserts this schwa variant before the r when It's between consonant and vowel, Thus, the syllable "tra" for example shouldn't be trˈa, but tərˈa
Thanks, Tamas, but after experimenting more here, I've decided to change this vowel in another way, i.e. revert cf4 to 3300, and change cf1 from 650 to 550. Likewise, I did a similar thing to õ: change cf1 from 540 to 440, so it becomes equally nasal but a closer vowel. Please do these changes in the standard pack.
@clv1 ooh, this is exactly the type of feedback I like to see :) thank you! For sure will give these a go. I really do like this pack system because people don't need to update their entire driver and it makes communicating value changes easier, so this is awesome, made my day better :D
Now to another issue: I need the distinction to be more noticeable when there is an r between consonant and vowel, i.e. in syllables like bra, cra, fra, tra, the consonants probably need to be more separate from each other. I have added some settings to pt-br.yaml, namely those concerning stop gaps, but I don't know yet how to deal with them... What is the correct setting for this case?
Our parliament holds 101 members + bunch of officers in the parliament + a ministry which deals with finances. They recently passed a law, which, apparently by error, made all gambling websites except from paying taxes in Estonia. Loss in tens of millions of euros, which in Estonias view is a considerable sum. Now, to avoid this situation in the future, they are talking about implementing AI in law making and in the process. What could possibly go wrong.
Whatever the AI says is right. Yours is probably better than mine since your AI is the best AI the world has ever seen. Therefore you are the best person, with the best skills. Just an FYI, I'd like to purchase Estonia because why not? I could make Estonia a big data center. I need it because @BorrisInABox and @FreakyFwoof are all running AIS on their Macs which might be bigger than mine and yours combined. So gimme. Gimme gimme gimme ... urp.
My partner and I visited Norway and hiked (a surprisingly short hike) to a place called Litlefjellet -This was the view! Litlefjellet, Norwegian for ‘Little Mountain’, is the name of the center mountain. Plus, we found the iconic pond that perfectly reflects the whole scene. I loved it so much that I decided to make it into wood art! I hope you love it, too #woodart #artandairplanes #art #woodworking #wood #norway #mountains #hiking #sun
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