"Esta es la última de una serie de esculturas en la que retomo las cabezas olmecas para hablar de temas específicos. Esta pieza está compuesta por dos elementos. Por un lado, tenemos una réplica de una cabeza Olmeca tallada en cantera, de aproximadamente nueve toneladas, y un Tesla model 3, el cual fue destruido por el peso colosal de la cabeza. Esta obra fue una comisión hecha con el apoyo y la ayuda de Colima 71, a quienes agradezco mucho por creer y por arriesgarse con mi trabajo"
Alright folks, this is it. Test the new add-on. Download from: eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo… - rapid typing or cycling through stuff should no longer crash the thread since we are managing a thread pool. Previously, handle closing and re-initialization might happen from multiple places—either the main thread would try to re-init before the next chunk, or _speakBg() would close the engine after finishing. This created a race condition where both the main thread and the background thread could attempt to manipulate the engine handle around the same time. only the _speakBg() thread—after finishing the TtsWav call—handles closing the engine now.
I managed to set it on fire twice in about 2 minutes. The biggest problem now though is it interrupts and refuses to read some stuff if you're too quick.
@TwoThousandStu here's what I know. In the current setup, each call to speak() tries to initialize the engine and start reading immediately. If cancel() or re-initialization logic runs too soon, the in-progress chunk might be lost. But I think I have an idea for this one.
@TwoThousandStu try the latest copy at eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo… - it should now read out as you cycle through all synth ring options and not skip one randomly while doing so.
oh interesting! Any old copies of nvda-old.log would help (and if it made the same squeaking noise, find the log in %temp%) - but if you didn't have logging level on, that ship may have sailed the port sadly. Good to point down any minor issues in case adjustments to it are needed, sometimes Unicode characters can still throw it off (even though it does try to re-code to CP1250 to help, but it doesn't convert unicode chars to ansi right now)
Personally, it's better than it was. Though if I'm being honest, I think there should be a dictionary specific to the synthesizer just like Eloquence. For example, for the game Manamon, obviously, keynote can't say that correctly, so I think that should be one thing in the dictionary. If you want, I can help figure out how to get it to say certain things right.
@mckensie yeah eventually we might need a community dictionary for it, although the rules for how to pronounce things would probably be very different than on Eloquence so I'm expecting that one to be more of a collective effort xD
I did some testing with zlib-ng, which Fedora and Arch are already using as a replacement for the original zlib and Debian plans to as well, and I'm not happy with what I found.
[...] With the original zlib, you will always get an identical output stream given the same input stream and compressor parameters [...] I expected that zlib-ng would often produce a different output steam than the original, but what I found was a lot more non-deterministic than just that.
With zlib-ng, feeding the data into the compressor in e.g. 1024-byte chunks always gave me a different output stream than using 4096-byte chunks [...] In fact, every chunk size I tried gave a different output. And that's with fixed size chunks, which is not a given if you're handling e.g. a stream of input.
Even using the same buffer size, I cannot get an identical compressed output stream with Python and Java any more [...]
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Found some more games that didn't make it during the switch, added those back.
WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says "Pineapple is delicious on pizza.
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Mistworld got lost in the move to the new install system, so re-added it.
Another week, another new & unsettling recipe for making a computational sausage. Today it was this massive text file enumerating how every button and axis from every known gamepad is reported on every known platform in order to map them to a standard taxonomy:
Recently I plugged in a new $device to my Linux box and it just autodetected it and brought up the correct options in the control center. So this is my way of saying thank you for this kind of work ❤️
@federicomena The really great thing is, both my controllers are mapped correctly in the snapshot that's bundled with the latest @godotengine 4.4 beta. So I'm off to track down the relevant change and thank the contributor!
BestSpeak V0.09 update: Added "phrase prediction" setting to the driver , when toggled off, we send a ~~1,1 to the engine to disable it at speech. eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo…
@twynn huh that's interesting, it should be passing just 0 or 1 depending on setting, unless that's also reversed to mean 1 is off and 0 is on like with phrase prediction, hmm hmm
@twynn fixed :) if you re-download the add-on (should be 0.095) it will have this logic reversed to be correct, looks like it also operates on the same assumptions as the phrase prediction one.
Thanks. What are the rate, pitch, volume, etc defaults supposed to be set to upon initial install? 100% volume does seem to be a bad choice as a default, though I don't know if there's just a de facto standard or an actual one given my lack of experience with the synth.
@twynn ah yeah. I had made it 90 for volume at default in this version, 90 to 95 feel like solid (100 is where it starts to clip.) I think pitch is 15, inflection 60 and rate 50 though now.
Tiktok will be just fine now that the incoming president said he has a "warm spot" in his heart for this social med. We all know what that means... :) mastodon.social/@macrumors/113…
TikTok Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Temporarily Block Upcoming January Ban https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/16/tiktok-asks-us-supreme-court-ban-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I made a version of BestSpeak that doesn't destroy or close the handle after each chunk, but keeps it open and sends multiple speech chunks to it at once, creating the memory corruption static noise right away for you. Who wants it! Since a few of you do: eurpod.com/BestSpeak-bad.nvda-… (just reinstall the good version once you get tired of the funk.)
ha. I uploaded it to eurpod.com/BestSpeak-bad.nvda-… - this will install over your existing one so to revert just re-install the version without the -bad suffix.
Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…
Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.
Well, I enjoy online shopping mostly. Because it's harder for me to get to the store. Amazon shopping though? Nah!!! Because their shipping is for the birds!
I have written literally millions of words on @tedium , and yet this one boilerplate line on every page of the site is the best thing I’ve ever written.
Support Buckley: http://patreon.com/DoseofBuckleyBuckley presents his list of the Ten Worst Songs of 2024.Want to binge every Worst Songs video? Well here's ...
Ed Zitron's latest is intense. wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-… The passages about the total shit show of setting up and using one of the best-selling Windows laptops on Amazon are, for me, a reality check about what computers are like for people outside of my bubble.
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
I 100 percent agree with this. So many things clicked as I read this. Even my banking app, telling me to try this other thing, shown every time I login. And there's no button a lot of the time to just flatly refuse it, it's always "maybe later," "another time," "not now," etc. Or the messages that creep into a commercial screen reader, trying to get you to listen to a podcast. Some AT isn't imune from this either I don't think, just like the example above. Thank you for sharing this.
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Our team member Peter Schofield just updated the Impress, Draw and Math guides to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 release. The Impress, Draw and Math guides are the authoritative guides for the end user.
@RaccoonForFriendica Finally we have a Weblate project for the translations of the app UI, changelogs and metadata. Hope this will help us all create a better user experience and correct some localization mistakes!
@lucasmz ∞ I only wanted to make the short and long descriptions translated (not even the changelogs) but I didn't find any way to do it except creating different components for each file which seems a bit of an overkill... Do you have any suggestion? I'll delete the "metadata" component in case and recreate it as needed.
@lucasmz ∞ Thanks for the suggestion... I managed to exclude changelogs and the title using key masks, moreover I set all source messages as read-only for both components (if there are errors in English, people will either submit pull requests or open an issue in the tracker).
@lucasmz ∞ Just out of curiosity: did you experience translations being "vandalised" by strangers who intentionally deleted or messed them up to harm the project?
@RaccoonForFriendica @Thomas Thanks for the reviews to the German translation! As soon as I don't see any more edits (maybe tomorrow) I'll integrate the changes and release a new beta. Awesome job!
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 I've now finished the translation. I was unsure about a few terms. It would be good if a few more German speakers could look over them.
Ich bin nun fertig mit der Übersetzung. Bei ein paar Begriffen war ich mir unsicher. Es wäre gut, wenn da noch ein paar deutschsprachige drüber schauen könnten.
@Thomas I'll release a beta soon so that you will be able to see your changes "in place". Don't worry, everything can be changed in the future if more reviews are needed. I am planning to add an "acknowledgements" section in the app to give credit to you and the other ones who helped out.
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 Quite a great app. I'll help with the Romanian translation in my spare time. I already contributed with the translation of the main Friendica project :D
Știu și eu (un pic) 🇷🇴 dar, fiind că nu e limba mea nativă, am preferat să nu scriu tâmpenii 🤣 A trecut prea mult timp de când am fost acolo și am uitat o grămadă de lucruri.
@𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻💻🍕 aha, deci tu ești ăla de pe Feddit 😂😂 nu e bai, nici pe proiect nu era cea mai academică traducere până să mă bag eu :))) ex: foloseau nici-un în loc de niciun cum e corect 💀
Îmi cer scuze! Să spunem că am folosit Google Translate, după care am corectat erorile cele mai mari pe care le am văzut și am încercat să fiu puțin mai coerent (e.g. verbele toate la imperativ singular, ș.a.m.d.), dar îmi imaginez că rezultat era destul de scârbos.
Oricum da, ne am scris și pe Lemmy (nu mai țin minte unde dar am o amintire vagă).
Addendum: I've added a new language to the app component on Weblate and setup the app to support the new language in this pull request, so as soon as anything arrives we should be ready to go.
Just because i think you might need it, one of the most funniest videos i've ever seen on the internet. Never fry gnocchi: youtube.com/watch?v=UkXy12xVnR…
Steve from http://www.webstaurantstore.com shows us all how not to prepare gnocchi.The Wadsworth Constant applies...This video really heats up about one minu...
Stoked for today's Oxide and Friends: @ahl and I will be joined by @pfrazee.com to talk about the wild ride that @bsky.app has been on -- and get into the technical underpinnings in the AT Protocol. Join us, 5p Pacific!
Při poslední jízdě v solu 1349 / 5.12.2024, která byla dlouhá 213 m, zdolala Perseverance převýšení 41,3 m. Je to dosavadní rekord ve stoupání během jedné jízdy. Ten předchozí byl 32,4 m při jízdě v solu 1293 / 9.10.2024.
So it's unclear if #PeakDesign provided any info to the police that may have led to #LuigiMangione's arrest, but we do know this:
>> [Peak Design CEO Peter Dering] told the Times that he called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.
Rumors claim Peak Design “traced” the UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect via a backpack serial number, but the company says it didn’t, and that it can’t.
If the #PeakDesign CEO called up the cops to tell them that if he could find a way to snitch on the owner of the backpack, he would, then that's enough. He's a snitch, don't buy his products.
funny (not) thing. The other day I almost pulled the trigger on buying one of their product. But to know how much I would have had to pay for shipping (I'm in Canada so it gets pricey crossing the border) they wanted my full name and delivery address (while all they need is a postal code).
So I skipped. Looks like my fear of giving that info unnecessarily are justified.
If anyone wants to send #PeakDesign a message (no threats or other misbehavior obviously) letting them know that WE know and won't forget about that the company is run by a snitch, here's their contact page:
I just like to directly inform companies when I'm putting effort into negative word-of-mouth about their brand—it's important to me that they know I am personally doing my part to damage their sales if at all possible.
It appears that he was ineffectual at helping the cops which almost makes it worse, in a way. Only a bootlicker falls all over themselves trying to find some way to help the cops. 🤡
#PeakDesign's statement about it really boils down to "Dering didn't *actually* give away customer information—he just proactively called the cops to ask if they wanted him to try to find customer data." The data either didn't exist or he was told it violated their privacy policies, but he really wanted to be a collaborator. Very reassuring: in this case there wasn't even any useful info—he just wanted to reaffirm his loyalty to the pigs and then brag to the press about it for some reason.
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this morning I've made the choice to close 300 forum sites that have about 275k monthly active users, nearly all from the UK.
I've run forums for over 28 years, and did so to build families for those without families, to try and create a cure for social isolation and loneliness, to combat suicide, to create joy and love out of nothing but connections between people.
and it worked. it still works.
but on the 16th March 2025 I will delete the virtual servers running it all... that date is important, it's the last day before the UK Online Safety Act goes into enforcement.
I run these communities philanthropically, giving my time and money to do so, I ask nothing back, I just help build a nicer World.
but the scope of the Act is too broad, and my forums come under it... it does not matter that it's run by an individual and not a company, that it loses money every month... merely by being linked to the UK and allowing users to speak to users... it's within scope.
the penalties of non-compliance would be so devastatingly ruinous to me, that I don't see I have a choice... I must now perform a social harm to protect myself.
I cannot even express what these forums have achieved... the marriages, births, support for those with cancer, the love, the communities they have created.
Why
Reading https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/ and we're done... we fall firmly into scope, and I have no way to dodge it.
let's be honest here, anyone who claims to be "passionate" about Jira, Confluence, and the entire Atlassian suite... well, they're clearly unhinged. they probably enjoy filling out TPS reports too
I just wish I could use the damned CLI for a few things. My team are gaga over coloured bars and whatnot while I'm faffing with stupid HTML wen I could theoretically be typing.
LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
Slováci jsou rozděleni ohledně cesty premiéra Fica do Moskvy. Průzkum ukázal, že polovina ji podporuje, zatímco druhá také, ale už nechce, aby se vrátil zpátky. az247.cz/slovaci-jsou...
Podle průzkumu slovenské agentury TISO jsou Slováci ohledně oznámené cesty premiéra Fica do Moskvy na vojenskou přehlídku ke konci druhé světové války 9. května rozděleni na dva tábory. Polovina lidí...
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