#gnuplot was one of the very first tools I used for looking at data
it was 1995 and I was doing my first job (year out between school and uni) and the place had sunOS 4 workstations with 1-bit high-resolution monochrome displays iirc
the unix systems were locked down so there was no python or anything ... just fortran f77 and shell and gnuplot
there was a Windows 3.11 based option with Microcal Origin but that couldn't handle much data volume
(those constraints led me to prototype a linux-based data analysis workstation)
In our work on Firefox MacOS accessibility we routinely run into highly nuanced bugs in our accessibility platform API. The tree structure, an object attribu...
Liebes Fediverse! Ich hatte im schulischen Rahmen schon mehrfach Zeitzeugen zu Gast: Holocaustüberlebende, politisch Verfolgte aus der ehem. DDR, usw.
Nun suche in Kontakt zu Menschen, deren Eltern(-teil) Täter*innen zB. in der Nazi-Tötungsmaschinierie war(en) UND die sich kritisch damit und mit der damit verbundenen Familiengeschichte auseinandergesetzt haben.
Habt Ihr mir da Namen oder Tipps, wen ich da anfragen könnte? Gerne mal boosten! Und: Danke vorab dafür!
Ok there is a new rss reader featured in a podcast spessifically double tap. A github link is given in the description which doesn't work any more. Google doesn't find anything only the podcast. So what's the point of an application disappearing soon after it is featured in a podcast? github.com/brandonbracey/blind…
I know I use AI a whole lot lately, but people are vastly over-estimating the capabilities of it and thus using it for all kinds of things they shouldn't! One giant example is that hardly anybody writes anything themselves anymore. Look, being well-written used to be something to be proud of. Now, I beg anyone and everyone to just write things yourselves! I'd almost go so far as to say, the less well-written whatever it may be is as long as it's still getting the intended message across, the better! At least it won't be full of false positivity, more emojis than the Apple Keyboard and more lists than...A person who loves lists! Very Sincerely: someone who is quite saddened by both companies and individuals making writing so much more boring!
Oh just so many articles I've ran across that were obviously at least partially written with AI. Sometimes it is hard to tell in parts, so I'm always questioning it, which is what I think the real cause of the annoyance of myself and some others I've seen on here is they're always questioning what they're reading.
I have no words for what vispero just sent all of it's customers, except to say that it is absolute and complete rubbish. It wasn't parcially written by AI it was an AI generated post. No wonder why the product or products are going downhill.
I don't make that leap. I'm sure the person who was responsible for publishing that crap post is not the same person(s) responsible for manufacturing the products.
I don't mean to be blunt, and ask your pardon, but if the most important part of the company, the marketing which generates sales and the sales department, is being tossed at AI, why wouldn't the less important parts which can be ignored in most cases be filled with AI as well? Developement isn't that important compared to sales. Jaws is more or less done at this point, new features are either too far a reach or require ideas which people don't have. The same may be said of magnification generally, right? Why not dump everyone who knows what's going on and milk it for all you can?
One of the coolest things for Rhythm Heaven fans, Heaven Studio, now has a mod to make it screen reader accessible! I've been having such a blast playing this thing! If anyone would like to snag Heaven Studio, and/or the mod, links will be below. Heaven Studio Revival Project: drive.google.com/file/d/1FKeKx… Accessibility Mod (click on download on the page): chikutaku-luyi.itch.io/rhsamod After downloading the mod, you should see a Heaven Studio folder. Go into that, then there should be things like MellonLoader, and other items. Select all, then paste them into the root of your Heaven Studio folder, then load Heaven Studio.exe, and enjoy!
One thing I forgot to mention, controls in case anyone's stuck. Use W, A, S, and D to move around in menues. Use K to go forward, and J to go back. While in the level menu, press I to cycle between a menu with settings, import ETC, and the built-in levels. Press escape to pause. Hope this helps!
Having to step back when you don't want to is one of the hardest things you can do, but if it's necessary sometimes what you want to do and what needs to happen are two different things. Doing the needed but harder thing shows strength. It sucks, I know, but also understand that it's not the end of the world. Things will improve.
We're excited to announce the release of Gitea 1.25.4! We strongly recommend all users upgrade to this version, as it includes important security fixes, numerous bug fixes, and overall stability improvements.
You can't imagine how much I'm looking forward to the weekend. Saturday I can just sit and do nothing other than my private shit, and sunday I'll have food at my grandma and gonna binge watch Stranger Things 5, yup haven't done that yet.
Mal wieder so ins Blaue gefragt; wie lange braucht ihr Morgens bis ihr die Türklinke zur Arbeit in die Hand nehmt oder euch den HO Stuhl zurechtrückt? Wie immer mind 1000 Replies! (Ich weiss ihr schafft das!)
i just love that we are all beholden to a company that when i was a kid we joked called its major product Windows because that's what you should throw it through
@FreakyFwoof I was messing around with Trinity and specifically the combi modes and I got to wondering, what other libraries have this feature or something like it? it doesn't even have to be korg but I love these combinations.
Well, Korg Triton and Triton Extreme do, in much greater detail. I suggest picking up Triton Extreme. Also Korg WaveState. If you check back on my channel under the 'Is This Thing On?' Playlist, I demo Triton Extreme and WaveState in one video. Those will impress you.
I’m listening to your demo of Trident extreme now and I’m loving it, haven’t got to wave state yet. The only sounds I hate are the ones with the drum beat backing.
I don't. They are some of the best. You play a thing, keep a tempo and play over it. What's wrong with that? Like having your own almost AI band in a box.
Listening a bit further, I’m actually starting to come around. I think because I’ve played with other libraries that don’t do it nearly as well as korg. This library is fucking tremendous!
When you get to the WaveState plugin, they focus even harder on rhythmic backings and take it to a whole other level. I mean it's a 12 or so year newer plugin. It is absolutely wild.
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Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.
I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.
I’m located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.
MAGA: Conquest: We nede Greenland to protect our national interests so we'll just take it. Progressives: Alliance-building and collaboration: We need Greenland to be on our side to help us meet our national goals, so we'll work closely with them in a mutually-beneficial relationship. The choice here is quite clear my friends.
So I've tried the brand-new blindness Windows apps #FastSM and #BlindRSS and I have to say that I'm highly impressed with both! If you haven't checked them out yet I highly recommend giving them a try. Both represent elegant yet simple solutions to Blue Sky, Mastodon and podcast and text RSS feeds. #accessibility
new, experimental build of SpeechPlayer. I would like those who are brave to test, for a new, more Eloquence-like sound. Shoutout does go out to @fastfinge for helping to get this idea going and colaborating on the repository. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… The big switch is that it is no longer a sawtooth wave. Instead, it now uses asymmetric cosine glottal-flow pulse (a pitch-synchronous "glottal pulse train"). So, glottal flow pulses, not continuous oscillator shapes like triangle/saw/square. This has allowed us to achieve a much smoother voice, with clearer consonants but the familiarity of the voice people know.
@ZBennoui@Tamasg Can you articulate what you dislike about it? I'm still not a fan the way I am of eloquence, but it's getting harder and harder for me to define why, so we can actually fix it.
@ZBennoui I wish I could say why, too. There's something ... forceful about the way it says everything, a harsher sound than eloquence. But my brain is just not coming up with the right technical terms.
@cachondo @ZBennoui yup. I think the Sawtooth version was harsher by a lot, but this is more on the actual "voice personality" that it expresses than like, the final shape of the wave. Now it really does sound a bit like Eloquence and DECTalk had a child, ha. But yeah, there's something in the voicing that's missing which could potentially raise the bass floor a bit from being as low, still keep the crisp-ends on consonants, but introduce a bit more smoothness. Funny to me that on the old version, I liked the Adam voice, on the new experimental, Benjamin to me does sound a lot closer to what I'd like it to be.
@cachondo @ZBennoui I struggled to understand it. Relatively sibilant, bassy, nasal, and forceful as you said. "Folks" sounded more like "follks", and "here" was cut off.
@jscholes@cachondo@Tamasg@ZBennoui So some of the issues you're identifying have to do with the espeak phonemizer, and the way phonemes are tuned. We have a lot of work to do there, too. But I feel like if we can get the sound of the voice correct, that will be a lot easier. For example, compare speech player and eloquence saying "eeeeeeeeee". Side by side, it's clear something is still not right with speech player. It needs to be...rounder and brighter? And...those are not useful terms because I'm still struggling to define exactly what I mean by them haha.
@jscholes @cachondo @ZBennoui I think phonemizer yes, but also language-specific phonetic rules that I and others tune, like how we got the word "start" to no longer sound disjointed and like "st-ah-rt" as it was in earlier builds. does nobody seriously give me any credit for improvements and people only want to complain on how it's drifting and sounding shittier? Honestly I get more of that feedback and each time it makes me want to just give up on this entire thing fully. If you really hate it, then, fix it yourself, don't put that honus all on me. Going away for the rest of the day. I'm super sad.
@cachondo @jscholes @ZBennoui Honestly it's hard to understand. It's like someone talking with something between their teeth and in their throat. Both. at once. I don't know how else to explain it, though.
@MariahL@cachondo@Tamasg@jscholes@ZBennoui I hear where you're coming from. It needs to be...rounder or wider or more relaxed or something. But I'm at the point where every change I make causes it to sound worse or introduces strange new issues.
The thread specifically asked people to try and articulate how they felt about the voice, so I did. You are publicly burning yourself out on this and other projects in a way that constantly makes me want to tell you to get some sleep and look after yourself, so maybe temporarily stepping away would be a good thing.
@jscholes@cachondo@Tamasg@ZBennoui The other thing that makes this super, super hard is that there are like nine different systems, and all of them need tuning. And it's impossible to ask people who haven't spent pretty much four days straight thinking exclusively about this for feedback on a particular system, because they all work together to make up the voice, and you can't know where any given issue comes from. There's the rules for going from text to IPA phonemes. Then the rules for determining the way IPA phonemes are actually voiced and fit together. And then there's the intonation table. And then there's the two systems that actually make the sound. Right now I'm mostly looking at the system that actually makes the sound, IE when you do "aaaaaaaaaaaaa" or "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", because that's still not right. But because it's an entire voice, it's even hard for me to separate my own perceptions and fix anything.
The important thing to remember is that eloquence began development in 1982, by a team of about a dozen researchers. It wasn't in the state we know it until around 2002. We have existing research to build on, but no funding and fewer people, and no PHD level speech researchers. So actually doing this, even with the help of AI, is a 20-30 year project before we get close to eloquence levels. Because we have something that "works" and improves step by step, it's easy to lose sight of the size of the problem we're taking on, because it feels like we should be able to get there in a month or two. But that's not realistic.
@cachondo@Tamasg@jscholes@ZBennoui We also lack tools as blind people. For example, I wish I could visually examine the shape and spectrogram of sounds. A useful step here would be to get eloquence to generate a pure, single-note open "aaa" or "eee" tone, and understand the shape of the resulting sound wave. But there are just no accessible tools to do that. So instead we have to go by listening and guess work.
@jscholes @cachondo @ZBennoui I will say this though. If people had a chance to try that huge 700 MB version you built with Gruut as the phonemizer, I think they'd like some of the sounds a bit better. Not perfect by any means, not at all, but like, I can also see that Espeak phonemizer does not do a good job at inserting things like stress marks in the IPA before vowels, causing either disjointed or too rapid speech when moving from vowel-to-vowel transitions. So then we're adding a dozen vowel rules to "fight" ESpeak's phonemizer system. And that's not ideal either, because while we can tweak it, and as much as it's multilingual, it's too not suffisticated and even if my frontend has rules for things like those stress marks or word-joined markers, if the output itself isn't clean and detailed, we lose good continuety between glides, or when moving from vowel-to-consonant transitions a bit. They're so, so critical, and part of my frustration is this fork in the road feeling about all that, and in that sense the phoneme tuning is the easier part in some ways than the linguistics of it all. The blame isn't 100% ESpeak, but it's not 100% phoneme tuning either.
Yup. This all comes back to that problem of so many systems all needing tuning. I do think it would really help us to just focus on a single one. IE get this voice sounding correct with pure "aaaaaaaa" and "eeeeee" tones. No words, no pitch or intonation, nothing. Then hook that up to the rest of the systems. Then see where we land and tackle the next thing. Because thinking about the phonemizer and the IPA rules and the intonation system all at once is burning us out and distracting us from finishing the thing we have the most control over: IE the klatt synthesizer and the wave generator. Those are ours, entirely and completely. The other things are not, so those problems are harder.
@cachondo @jscholes @ZBennoui In any case, this is one more opportunity for us to build an Eloquence alternative. This will be vital not only on Windows systems, but on Linux and others in the future. Hence, I hope you don't give up. I won't give up working with Tamas to improve pt-br, my language.
@clv1@cachondo@Tamasg@jscholes@ZBennoui While the code is all cross-platform, and there's no reason it shouldn't work on Linux and mac, we're best to stick with Windows and NVDA exclusively until we get something we all love.
@cachondo @jscholes @ZBennoui As for depreciative comments, I recall similar episodes when I was learning to use Internet, some 25 years ago, so it has always existed. It's up to us to be psycologically prepared. I would suggest we focus only at the people we are really working for. For example: if someone doesn't like our work, them it means it's not for that person that we are working for.
It really does not mean that. If someone doesn't like your work, it often just means you haven't yet landed on a form they find pleasing or useful.
And that might be fine if, say, you're building a command line app and the only thing a given user would find acceptable is a graphical one. If you have no plans to build a graphical one, they're shit out of luck and you have to move on.
Other times, though, it does point to a real problem in the thing you're building that you should legitimately keep trying to solve. Dismissing everybody who expresses negativity outright only leads to an echo chamber.
@cachondo @ZBennoui This is all fair and, to me at least, interesting insight. But part of embarking upon such a huge project is dealing with feedback from people on what is ultimately seen a user-facing, homogenous blob.
Many such people won't understand and, if we're being honest, care about how the sausage is being made. Particularly if the changes between builds are too subtle for most of them to perceive.
Regardless, I'm glad this is being worked on and deeply appreciative of the effort.
@jscholes@cachondo@Tamasg@ZBennoui Yup, agreed. And also, people have different preferences. So we can and do get contradictory feedback. Sometimes even from the same person LOL. On top of it all, most people don't have the vocabulary to talk about this stuff. Heck, I don't even have it; I'm not sure the words exist in English. Brighter? Rounder? What do I mean! Do I mean the same thing that you mean? Impossible to tell.
@jscholes @cachondo @ZBennoui oh thanks. And I truly am sorry if I was a bit too harsh reacting to your feedback, that was never my intention. I've tuned works like "folks" and "hear" to sound way better now in the latest pack (it's only in the repo for now.) But yeah, that's the kind of feedback I ultimately do need because without it I have no baseline to work on. If I let AI tune my phonemes without direction it could easily mess them up, and I need that "other human ears" type experience to tune it myself manually sometimes by hand or ask AI to create formulas that approximate the sound and waveform for me so we tune it through that based on what feedback people give. Without a spectrogram that does that visual-based tuning for us by hand and gives us baselines of other voice's waveforms, it's the most efficient way we can work.
It really feels like AI should be able to help us here. But I'm not sure how. Some kind of system that takes a waveform and finds the closest approximation it can get by modifying our parameters.
@cachondo @ZBennoui sadly today my brain and ears both just feel fried for more speech-player tuning. Ugh. Now I get that feeling, @fastfinge had it yesterday, today I'm really feeling that too. Haha. When your ear has to hear 30 differen build versions of the same DLL with sometimes the shittiest of compression and extreme clipping as you tune knobs, it really does grade on your hearing, ha. Never would have thought that kind of thing can only be done in small chunks too, at one point I had actual ringing in my ear for like 5 minutes after testing a bad combo of sound.
@cachondo Yeah that's kinda what I'm hearing as well. It reminds me a bit of Keynote, which is a synth I really dislike. There's just something about the way Eloquence reads that I really like, and I feel like it's not easily replicated, but I'm not sure why.
Then again, Alex on Mac OS has been my Constant companion for over 10 years now, and Eloquence is really the only formant synth I can listen to for long periods of time without getting a headache.
@fireborn I mean, it's meant to preserve the characteristics of the voice mostly, so that changes are incremental, but it does add a bit of smoothness - and the Benjamin voice finally sounds better. Going incrementally at these, this tuning was really just on the wave generator and not the speech itself that it interpolates. Consonants do sound a little sharper which is nice in it, but people are super sensitive to the smallest of sound changes, so I'd rather more people not notice much of a change or be happy with it still than go "oh no this is sounding like the ESpeak version!" which is what people hated about it in the firstplace.
I like the new experimental build, so I rather like this new experimental build, and if you don't want to work on it ever again, I'd understand because formant synthesis is very tricky
@spacepup@Tamasg From my perspective, I'll keep on working as long as other people will keep on working. This is an absolutely huge, enormous project. We need as many people as possible, and we need people willing to develop expertise. In a perfect world, we'd have a head of phonemizers, a head of klatt synthesis, a head of IPA conversion, a head of phoneme tuning, a head of european languages, a head of asian languages, and a head of integrations and cross-platform support. And each of those heads would have a team of like 5-10 people. But in the real world, there are like two and a half people with full time jobs doing this as a hobby.
Pondering the absurdity of living in a vast swath of frigid air. Heating a medium sized box of that air to livable temperature. Then cooling a small sized box of air inside the medium box back to cool temperatures, plus an even smaller box for frigid temperatures again.
Yeah. 1997 was a very interesting year for me. That's when I got online for the first time, at least on the modern at the time internet, had played with BBS's and stuff before that, when computing was actually exciting, radio wasn't stupid yet, the world stage wasn't quite so fucked up, amateur radio was more fun...
yeah I'd have to go back just to 2006, for the whole new internet of my own, that I could do stuff on confidently, and honestly I don't really really, wanna go back to 2006.
there certainly some desicions around then that I'd certainly do differently, an x would've never been a thing, well he'd've been a thing, but the things that made it develop wouldn't've, and yeah, I'd almost like to not have that.
I wasn't even born in 1997, but would have loved to have been because being in your early 20's nowadays kinda sucks honestly. And it would be cool to see the early days of the internet. I've always wished I could see what Myspace was like. That is, if it was even screen reader accessible.
Oh yeah, if you're annoyed that the models can't predict where the storm will go, you can thank Trump, Musk, and the Republican administration for cutting back weather monitoring for the past year.
And yeah, the models aren't going to be more accurate for a few years to come.
(Make sure to remind your red hatted neighbors that are complaining.)
Here we go. The same idiots that tell us they can't do anything about the CSAM generate formerly know as Twitter... where they still post are telling us they want to protect the children by enforcing a ban with age verification.
Federal officials draft plans to ban social media for children under 14 - The Globe and Mail
We are run by the worst people alive who keep importing the very worst of the world. Verification and these bans just put out information in the hands of sketchy companies who then get hacked. It is not a solution. mobilesyrup.com/2026/01/22/can…
Today, I installed my first WiFi 7 access point, a Ubiquiti U7 Pro. Though WiFi7 is mostly going to waste here, with the internet only being 200 Mbps symmetric, and not a lot of LAN transfers that require a ton of speed, in this house, I unfortunately can't run Ethernet to most things in the location I want them to be, without having the location of the SFP changed, which I am tempted to do. I was hoping to improve the situation a bit, but this seems to not be happening.
I've been using a U6 Mesh at the far end of the house from this access point to both act as a WiFi extender and Ethernet bridge, because I get better performance going WiFi to Ethernet than WiFi direct, especially in terms of jitter and latency, plus I am connecting a couple of devices that don't have their own WiFi to the network this way. I have a small 1Gbps PoE switch powering the access point and providing Ethernet ports for those devices.
Previously, I had been meshing the U6 Mesh with a U6 Light, which is only 2x2 on 5 gHz, and is limited to 80 mHz channel bandwidth. Ideally, I'd like to mesh over 6 gHz at 320 mHz, but without buying a second U7 Pro, I can't do that.
I was hoping to use 160 mHz for the link on 5 gHz, at the very least, which I have done successfully before on another Ubiquiti setup, but for whatever reason, the remote AP is stuck at 40 mHz, which is noticeably bottlenecking things, especially in the upstream direction. Channel bandwidth is controlled by the parent, which is set at 160 mHz, so why does it insist on hanging around at 40?
I HATE WIFI! I HATE IT SO MUCH!
I will probably upgrade the two U6 Pro's at home to U7 Pros when I get back, though, because they have 10g/2.5g/1g Ethernet, and I want to get stuff past the 1Gbps cap for local transfers at least. It's far too easy to saturate a 1Gbps connection these days, even over WiFi. WiFi7 can provide significantly more throughput than 1Gbps allows, even to a single client, so time to upgrade the infrastructure to support it.
Using iperf3 on my phone, I get 940 Mb/sec in both directions on either 5 or 6 gHz over the U7 Pro talking to an Ethernet-connected machine. The bottleneck, in this case, is actually the 1Gbps Ethernet on that machine, and the switch it's connected to. The actual wireless link rate of my phone is currently 2.4 Gbps in both directions, as I am only about 8 feet from the access point, so I should see significantly more throughput than that if not for the 1Gbps Ethernet bottleneck. And, as I understand it, the WiFi chip on iPhones is not actually capable of 320 mHz channel bandwidth, so I could be linking at 4.8 Gbps, in theory, using something else. None of this matters given the current network infrastructure here, really. I still hate WiFi, though.
Vaia carraxe me dan as publicacións tipo: + Titular: automatiza as probas de accesibilidade e blablablá + Texto: as ferramentas de AXE yatúsabes, probar nos lectores de pantalla é moito lío (se tes que facer entregas seguido), así que mira estas librerías para automatizar interaccións e aquí como configurar e probas de exemplo e buah como se integra en GitHub Action ou o que sexa + Aviso contra o final de que esas probas automáticas tampouco sustitúen as comprobacións en lectores de pantalla
This PR adds the GCC codegen backend, and the GCC (libgccjit) component upon which it depends, to build-manifest, and thus also to (nightly) Rustup. I added both components in a single PR, because ...
Hey guys,, a question. When using fast sm, if you open the conversation in a post, or open a time line you want closed, how do you close it? I'm using the visibl interface.
> You arrive at your polling place the same as every election since 2004 with the same precinct, same poll workers, and same ritual of civic participation, but this time the worker scans your driver’s license, frowns, types into the computer, then looks up with an apologetic expression that will replay in nightmares.
> “I’m sorry, but your documents don’t match. Your license says Martinez, but your birth certificate says Chen. I can’t give you a ballot.”
Which states have polling places that use computers? In Wisconsin we have a printout of the registered voters we expect will come to the polling place, that's it. There's no way to look up their birth name. I strongly doubt that the local government has it easily available
Snowmageddon 2026 is supposed to hit tomorrow evening. I've heard from co-workers that grocery stores are wiped out but I figured I’d at least try to get a grocery delivery in the morning. No go. Wal-Mart isn't even delivering right now. Oh well. I have enough food around here. I won’t starve. I was just hoping to get some fruit and veggies. Gotta love Oklahoma weather hysteria. At least I get an excuse to work from home for a few days.
Added fonts and dark/light mode settings, added difficulty levels, locked achievements are now hidden. The unlockable Oregon Trail route has some surprises. Adjustments to reaching the final checkpoint.
Seem to have found a bug, if you scare off an encounter, whatever the action was supposed to be after said encounter won't trigger. I believe this also happens with surrender, and may happen in other cases. Especially aggressive with traveling, you effectively lose your action points even if you effectively won the encounter by scaring them off. Unless this is intended
I also think this happens with negotiation, if that helps at all. Basically anything that isn't winning the fight through combat will bar you from whatever encounter you used your action points on.
Nods. Yeah I haven't tested every case, but I know for a fact that surrender, intimidate, and negotiate will all trigger. Not sure about fleeing, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did as well.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •#gnuplot was one of the very first tools I used for looking at data
it was 1995 and I was doing my first job (year out between school and uni) and the place had sunOS 4 workstations with 1-bit high-resolution monochrome displays iirc
the unix systems were locked down so there was no python or anything ... just fortran f77 and shell and gnuplot
there was a Windows 3.11 based option with Microcal Origin but that couldn't handle much data volume
(those constraints led me to prototype a linux-based data analysis workstation)