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Can we please make this happen for @ky0les who has been trying for days? Please #repost if you feel so inclined.

Sleepy #bounce #bonk #boing #bleep. Anyway... Still trying to make this happen for myself. They're taking costs owed now and need to be payed by Tuesday at the latest. I'm trying to get it done so I'm not the one holding everyone else up. Happy day. I am getting really burned out on having to do this.
I am trying to raise funds to attend the Northwest Percussion Festival this year with my percussion ensemble.
With my aid being taken away I have no funding in my college account to make this possible.
This years show is especially meaningful to me. I will be performing my original marimba piece, Circles, live for the first time outside of school. The piece has already been published, and this will be its debut performance in front of an audience that isn't made of other college students, which is both exciting and a little surreal.
While I am there, I will also be playing with the steel pan group, attending concerts and clinics, and spending time learning from and connecting with other percussionists. This festival is a big opportunity for growth, inspiration, and community.
My fundraising goal is open ended. Any amount helps with travel, lodging, registration, and general expenses. If you are able to donate or share this, I would be incredibly grateful.
Thank you for supporting my music and helping me bring this performance to life.
Donations can be either sent on Cashapp or Venmo. Both usernames are ky0les. #mutualaid #mutualAid #percussion

#MutualAid #percussion #repost #bounce #bonk #boing #bleep @Kyle Smith

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I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0


Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)

Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)Stream Survival in Motion: https://onerpm.link/survivalinmotionFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/a...
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Andre Louis

@robini71 Not an option. I became the designated go-to for some of those groups, have the highest answer ratio in a few of them and not because I chose to, but because I'm near my phone more than I'm not.
My thinking is, if you need help and you come here, it's probably semi-urgent, maybe you have a customer/client and you have a quick turn-around, so I'm there on-hand to answer it nearly always.
Like I said I didn't choose this, it just happened. I don't mind that. What I do mind is all of the above.
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Andre Louis

@robini71 honestly, when it's mostly quick fixes, they're fine. Not too high traffic either. It's the long 7-minute rambles about nothing, with 25 seconds of problem I have issues with.
I don't care that you had to put your phone down to play with your guide dog for 5 minutes, answer the door for two minutes, discuss the weather outside for 3 and a half when the group is about Komplete Kontrol. That is entirely not the point. Either cancel the message and start again, hit the dedicated pause button (that's like, what it's for) or just... Please learn to be concise. lol
@Robin Frost

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@NVAccess@fosstodon.org I'm currently a JAWS user but have heard about NVDA (someone told me the keybinds are the same as Windows Narrator, not sure if that's true) what resources would you recommend to a Windows Screen reader newbie to learn the basics of NVDA? Would the Windows Narrator tutorial suffice, or should I look at something else?
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NV Access

Many of NVDA's keystrokes are similar to the Jaws keystrokes. We have a comparison guide here: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…

The NVDA user guide includes a quick start guide which has some of the important things you'd likely want on day 1 of using NVDA: download.nvaccess.org/document…

For more in-depth training, we'd recommend "Basic Training for NVDA" which we do sell, it's $32 Australian for the electronic text version: nvaccess.org/product-category/…


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NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvda
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Ok @main @mastoblind @NVAccess got a puzzler for all my #nvda users. So somehow yesterday I managed to bungle my way into where NVDA was acting like it was locked into focus mode everywhere, and could not be brought out of it, received "unsupported input" for single letter nav everywhere, and hotkeys like alt+tab would not register. I ended up having to do a full reset on it to fix the problem.I use #Braille Extender, and full#BrailleDisplay operation. Anyone got a clue what the fuck I did?
#braille #nvda @NV Access @Blind Main @Group 4 Blind & VI people

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For those who wanted a SAPI5 version of NVSpeechPlayer, it is ready. You can install the file from: eurpod.com/synths/NVSpeechSapi…
This will install it as both a 32-bit and 64-bit executable file. It will also create a settings program that lets you configure which languages to uncheck from your voices list, this should be in the start menu. The engine should work in both 32-bit and 64-bit programs.

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ANATOMIE EINER MANIPULATION: Wie Friedrich Merz das Märchen der „faulen Deutschen“ konstruiert
linkedin.com/pulse/anatomie-ei…

Ein sehr interessanter Artikel von

Kalle Pipoh

zu dem Umstand, dass #Merz uns gerade zu einer faulen Gesellschaft degradiert.

1. Er bekämpft eine 4 Tage-Woche", die es generell nicht gibt.

Er macht das Symptom Wegfall der Ausbeutung zur Ursache des Wohlstandsverlusts.

3. Wer Angehörige pflegt oder Teilzeit arbeitet, landet im Topf der Faulen

..... 1/2


"Mit Work-Life-Balance und Vier-Tage-Woche lässt sich der Wohlstand unseres Landes, den wir heute haben, in Zukunft nicht erhalten - und deswegen müssen wir mehr arbeiten", sagt Friedrich Merz. Und zeigt einmal mehr, dass er von der Lebensrealität der deu

"Mit Work-Life-Balance und Vier-Tage-Woche lässt sich der Wohlstand unseres Landes, den wir heute haben, in Zukunft nicht erhalten - und deswegen müssen wir mehr arbeiten", sagt Friedrich Merz.
Kalle Pipoh (www.linkedin.com)
#merz

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@Bri @BorrisInABox This is what stereo coiled bop it arcade sounds like. It is, as expected mostly mono content, but a couple of parts are stereo. This is slightly panned right from the daw as it was recorded slightly more left heavy when I recorded this time. I got a score of 68, which is my new personal best. That's great, but also at the same time it's annoying since they set the bonus score on that machine to 75, so if I had just been able to get that few more points, which would have included an even faster speed, I could have gottent eh victory sound. I also figured out when going to record fail states that on level one, they give you up to 2 retry attempts, so that you hopefully don't end up wasting a credit on a poorly played game.
@Borris @Bri🥰
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No, I am not going to do a search for the great Gatsby fanfiction, but, for some reason, that just came to mine. I mean, it is public domain, has been for a while, so it most likely exists in bulk. There is probably a huge, closet club of the great Gatsby fanfiction writers out there Just having a great old time fulfilling their Myrtle fantasies, but I will never know. Why am I even thinking about this?

Also, fun fact: that book is why I failed English in the 11th grade. I just didn't care about it, didn't do any of the assigned stuff on it, subsequently failed the class. YAY!

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Anyone happen to know how to get SoX on a Synology DS1815+? I have a bunch of things I want to automate on a schedule that needs it specifically. I could mount the filesystem and do all that on another host, but really don't want to do it that way. I might be able to do what I want with ffmpeg, which is installed, but would rather use SoX if I can.
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I was apparently arrested at age 20 for committing arson, killing 8 out of 10 people in a building. It was ruled self-defense, as I was escaping a horrible situation.

I was apparently traumatized by this whole deal, and had to live in a group home, where I met a girl who also murdered in self-defense.

Things were going well.

Just as we were really starting to get to know each other, I woke up, and the dog was frantically barking about something, so I guess I'll never know how things turned out.

#WeirdDream

#weirddream
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Tamas G

@clv1 hm, this is where the lengthenedScale setting can help you, the default is very short but you can change it for portuguese if it is helpful for that language to be something like 1.14. Try that first too. You can add this rule to the PT language file, rules don't require a restart of NVDA, just a restart of the engine (so switch synthesizers, switch back, rule applies.) So in Pt.YAML inside packs\lang for the add-on:
# --- Portuguese "-ião" glide length ---
# In words like "avião" / "religião" eSpeak emits ...iˈɐ̃ʊ̃.
# The /i/ here behaves like a glide into the nasal diphthong, but it can sound too short
# in our timing model. Add a length mark so the engine gives it a little more time.
- from: "iˈɐ̃ʊ̃"
to: "iːˈɐ̃ʊ̃"
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Cleverson

@Tamasg Thanks a lot. It appears the best compromise is around 2.44 for scale lenght. Also, I tried adding your mapping suggestion in the phoneme editor, but it wasn't accepted, perhaps because there is more than one key for the To field. And speaking of nasal diphthongs, I'm not quite pleased with ã and õ. Tomorrow I'm gonna try cloning and modifying them.
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Vanadium version 144.0.7559.76.1 released

Changes in version 144.0.7559.76.1:

  • extend support for language-specific content filters from German to cover additional languages supporting by the other EasyList variants (Bulgarian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Chinese) which can be expanded further to more EasyList-affiliated lists in the near future
  • add workaround for upstream regression for the HTTPS-only mode user interface on Android which can be replaced by a backport of their fix in the near future

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 144.0.7559.76.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.


Comparing 144.0.7559.76.0...144.0.7559.76.1 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
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Gosh, with all these tools we should already be so fsafe beyond safety's own limits. Why do we then need ICE and all these oso-called law enforcement agencies? I mean just put a guy in a cowboy hat and boots, show them how to use Tangles, and the rest of us can go party. What's wrong with this formula? @TexasObserver texasobserver.social/@TexasObs…

Texas Observer

2026-01-18 20:00:09

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Thanks to a software program called "Tangles," #police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even #ICE—can follow the location of your smartphone without a warrant.

Yet, we know little about how it has been used. Here's what our investigation revealed: texasobserver.org/texas-police…

#privacy #tech #surveillance #Texas #politics #USpol #news



Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.
Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)

@Texas Observer

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Amazing news! NVSP Phoneme Editor V4 is here, and it brings much needed improvements.
For starters, we directly consume libespeak.dll, thanks to learnings from our SAPI5 wrapper. No more running Espeak in another process this way, but still side-loading the DLL into the process. The .exe is included so as to keep the distribution of Espeak intact.
This also allows us to get correct IPA mappings just like the NVDA driver gets, so letters should not be dropped during speech. Check it out! Wow!
Also, the spin controls can now use page up and page-down for movement by increments of 50. This should allow wider mapping but finer if you arrow. Wait, spin control? That's right, hitting "edit" on a phoneme will let you increment it using the arrow keys, or type in the value. Why not be flexible!
We solved an issue with loading: no matter where you unzip this, it will load both the DLL and Espeak NG folders, locating Espeak-NG.exe in it. There's still a bit of a bug here because we don't check for libespeak.dll but the executable, but this is a minor one for the next version to fix. If you point it at a dll, it will also load the packs if it exists in the same folder, which also means less hitting "open" and "set" everywhere.
Enjoy! eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE…
And yes, I tested this with at least 4 KB of text thrown at it at once in the text-box, it didn't crash. I'm sure there's a limit, but still, impressive it only took like 7 seconds to generate the speech.
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Brandon Tyson

I just tried version 4 of the phoneme editor, and I'm trying to load the packs from the folder C:\Users\B\AppData\Roaming\nvda\addons\nvSpeechPlayer\synthDrivers\nvSpeechPlayer and when I press the select folder button, the application crashes. I was hoping to use it to modify a few phonemes in US English that sound off to me but I'm getting this crash. Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks!

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Thanks to a software program called "Tangles," #police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even #ICE—can follow the location of your smartphone without a warrant.

Yet, we know little about how it has been used. Here's what our investigation revealed: texasobserver.org/texas-police…

#privacy #tech #surveillance #Texas #politics #USpol #news


Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.
Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)
#privacy #politics #News #tech #uspol #surveillance #police #texas #ice
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