I’m one of just three passengers in the “Business” silent zone carriage on this SBB train. 1st class. And one of the other two is playing music out of his phone
This is the step free access for 55cm and 76cm platforms. It’s both ingenious and peculiar, as the floor needs this sort of ramp that has metal strips across it for grip
This SBB Giruno, built by Stadler… well I have mixed views
It’s a low floor high speed train, but all except 2 doors have steps still at Swiss platforms. The ramps inside over the wheels result in many odd spots and corners. Door vestibules are very cramped
It’s like the ICNG I took in Netherlands on Sunday - turning a regional train design into an InterCity results in some strange design aspects
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, Read by Christine Malec I had occasion to record this last Holiday season. It lingers in my memory as sweet, fun, funny, intentionally nostalgic, and successfully emotive. patreon.com/posts/childs-chris…
@cachondo Oh lovely! You make me even more humble to have dared that reading in my Canadian accent, which now sounds flat to me. Oh how his words flow like better than poetry. I too always noticed well-spoken people, and I think I unconsciously vowed as a child, to grow up to be one if I could. The, "Dark is Rising," series by Susan Cooper was set partly in Wales, and the reader who's name I've forgotten did a beautiful job with the Welsh accent, in my opinion anyway
@cachondo I was enjoying your recitation of the prose, you have a nicely measured cadance, and of course your accent is an accent to me as a Canadian, so more interesting for that.
That's kind. I was enjoying reading it! But Teams popped up and I am sure my colleagues wouldn't appreciate it. It's still on my Braille display, though. Maybe I'll record the whole thing over the holidays!
Day 17 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. Check the traversal order of elements in your app. Sometimes the default top-left to bottom-right order might not be the most logical one. Sometimes you may consciously want to tweak the order. Other times, grouping is the answer.
@danielsnor No ty jo, tak to je pěkný volno. Já jsem chtěl i ve čtvrtek volno, na ten jeden den, se mi už nechtělo, ale máme po práci večírek. Už jsem nebyl na grilování v létě a nejít na večírek, to už by Němci blbě koukali.
"Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province.
There is no isotope irradiation test function module in the original design architecture of the pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), People's Daily reported. It said this meant that the Qinshan project team needed to create a special device that could seamlessly embed the isotope irradiation test function and is compatible with the existing design of the reactor, as a core irradiation test platform. It noted medical isotopes are mostly short-half-life isotopes, which require the rapid loading and unloading of irradiation test targets during the normal operation of the reactor.
"After repeated adjustments, the project team and the design institute finally designed a prototype of the device concept," People's Daily said. The isotope irradiation test platform reportedly has the ability to automatically load and unload isotope irradiation targets online.
"During the debugging and verification process of the device, it underwent thousands of action tests, which fully verified the reliability of the device," People's Daily said. "On 3 April 2023, the National Nuclear Safety Administration officially approved Qinshan Nuclear Power to use the irradiation test device to conduct yttrium-90 irradiation tests. On 23 April, the project team continued to work for nearly 120 hours during the overhaul of Qinshan No.3 Plant, successfully completing the device installation, cold commissioning and system identification operations. On 14 December, with the first yttrium-90 target successfully unloaded from the reactor, the hot test of the device was successfully completed."
The report noted that this marks the official completion of the first commercial reactor isotope research and development platform in China.
"The platform has successfully realised the research and development and production of short-half-life medical isotopes for domestic commercial reactors, opening up a new path for the localisation of medical isotopes and the development of radioactive drugs," it added. "In the future, Qinshan Nuclear Power will continue to deepen the production of reactor-irradiated isotope irradiation, and contribute to the independent and controllable supply of medical isotopes and the expansion of diversified applications of nuclear technology in China."
China National Nuclear Corporation's Qinshan comprises seven reactors, making it China's largest nuclear power plant. Construction of Phase I of the plant - a 300 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) which was the first indigenously-designed Chinese nuclear power station to be built - began in 1985, with the unit entering commercial operation in 1994. Qinshan Phase II is home to four operating CNP-600 PWRs, built with a high degree of localisation. Units 1 and 2, comprising the first stage of Phase II, began operating in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Units 3 and 4 entered commercial operation in October 2010 and April 2021. Phase III consists of two 750 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and commissioned in 2002 and 2003.
In April this year, CNNC announced that the Qinshan plant has started mass production at one of its PHWRs of carbon-14, which is used in medical and scientific research and in fields including agriculture and chemistry as well as in medicine and biology. Apart from very limited production in experimental reactors, it was previously imported."
Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang provin…
Jieshuo screen reader comes in two versions: Jieshuo+ and Jieshuo Lite. The Lite version is sometimes referred to as the "International" version on the GitHub
Super exhausted. Some of you are wanting that old version back because you felt it was faster, it seams there's no pleasing everybody. Compare the two if you want, but this new thread-pool and executor dispatching speech queuing events is what we're going to stick with for the future unless you dingbats have better ideas. But try both, if you want, it'll install over your other copy. So. No thread-pool version: eurpod.com/BestSpeak-older.nvd… Thread-pool version (newer, better, but may have more delay when speaking): eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo… This way people won't complain to me that the last version got lost, no it didn't, happy now? Hope so. Sheesh.
some people just can’t be happy with anything. Those kind of people tend to drive me the slightest bit crazy. Like seriously people, if you don’t like something, don’t use it. It’s seriously not that hard.
@simon it didn't add a lot, but super noticeable on Realtek with enhancements on. I never quite liked how hollow they made my speakers though so having them off is just not a big deal, and if I'm watching cinema content I'll briefly enable it.
It's true you can't please everyone man, but I'm glad you're trying to take the middle ground when doing this stuff. Besides it's not like the opperation is as slow as vocalizer or some synths out there, so I don't know what's the big issue, If they can make it better I think it's cool if they try, but honestly I think you're doing a good job on this! It's clear that even people that had never owned this synth love it, but as for me I'd take something that doesn't static and hurt my ear. You're doing good, don't you forget that. I see you on the AG.net forums, you do some good work if I do say so myself.
@rommix0 Changed manifest to also have a link to your repo in the description so others might be discovering it from there :D Amazing work on this. Even though you aren't from "The blind community" as it's called, the fact that you worked with us after so many discovered the engine is nothing short of remarkable, and building that Speak tool even if the initial goal was to help with musician work. That was really half my motivation for the project because I saw how often you kept updating it and filling in more requests people had asked for. If you do end up working on any other older software synth like that we can open source a minimal UX +dll with, I look forward to also potentially adapting it if I can to work with NVDA.
I wonder what the speak-window does different since it doesn't seem to have audio issues? would disguarding the NVDA-addon and only having sapi5 bestSpeak be easier? With the addon, people will complain about it breaking every year or so whereas sapi5 should just work. "ini" file could be used to adjust advanced settings like inflection and headsize?
"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!
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •Can you cross 6 rail borders in a day? Each of them different lines? Let’s try it 🙂 #CrossBorderRail
The highlight of the day is going to be number 5: FART💨
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domodoss…
railway line in Switzerland and Italy
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •#CrossBorderRail Timetable change days Train 17 of 32
EC 31
06:33 Zürich HB - Chiasso 08:55
SBB CFF FFS
Train type: Stadler RABe 501 Giruno EMU, 11 short carriages
⚡️ (15kV ac)
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (step free for 55 or 76cm platforms - best anywhere)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂 (hard to say - vestibules are tiny. Problem if it’s full? Today empty)
🧽: 🙂
But it gets a top score!
Jon Worth
in reply to Jon Worth • • •EC 31
06:33 Zürich HB - Chiasso 08:55
Distance: 205km
Average speed: 87km/h
5 stops:
Zug
Arth-Goldau
Bellinzona
Lugano
Chiasso
This train, mapped: umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/c…
#CrossBorderRail Extra Days 2024
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •Aggghh
I’m one of just three passengers in the “Business” silent zone carriage on this SBB train. 1st class. And one of the other two is playing music out of his phone
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in reply to Jon Worth • • •This SBB Giruno, built by Stadler… well I have mixed views
It’s a low floor high speed train, but all except 2 doors have steps still at Swiss platforms. The ramps inside over the wheels result in many odd spots and corners. Door vestibules are very cramped
It’s like the ICNG I took in Netherlands on Sunday - turning a regional train design into an InterCity results in some strange design aspects
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