After downloading 50 GB or so of ACB Radio Main Menu archives, I was disappointed to not find my demonstration of Klango which, as far as I can recall, aired between Auguest and the end of 2008. Does anybody have more episodes from that period?
Although pager networks fell out of general use a quarter century ago, they still are in use today by a select few groups of users. I just heard an insane amount of spuriousness while scanning this afternoon. And that brings me to my question. One would think, that the radios in use on these pager networks would be well-certified, well-tested, quality-controled, commercial-grade radios. Right? I mean, at least that's my theory, anyhow. So why in the hell are they so damn spurious, noisy, and just cause really really super wide splatteryness? I guess, is it just because of the modulation? Its loud and noisy, and cuts threw? I dunno. My actual radio knowledge is more like a person who drives a car, rather than a mechanic who fixes cars every single day. But we both qualify for a license, we just have differing knowledge strengths. So I put it to my true radio mechanics, any thoughts on this?
But I think I will ship it ultimately. It doesn't make the voice more clicky than it was already. It adds new sliders if people hate the new pitch deltas and glottal shaping modulation they want to mess with. So like, hmm. It's not a bad change. It is not one that creates regressions at all. I've been reading long passages with it to discover added clickyness but not hearing none.
There's now a Fediverse alternative to TikTok called Loops. It's currently in beta testing so it is rough round the edges, but you can sign up and try it for yourself. More info at:
Download Loops by Pixelfed by Daniel Supernault on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Loops by Pixelfed.
Hello, Tyler Zahnke here! I have officially launched BatchPedia, and I recommend that every Microsoft Windows user at least check it out. As it has just been launched, there are only fifteen or so articles so far, and this website is an open wiki, so people are free to contribute. BatchPedia aims to be the encyclopedia of all things Windows Command Prompt and Batch files, including Batch culture! You heard that right, this isn't just a Windows/MS-DOS command reference; the Internet is already full of those. Though BatchPedia does have a category for information about commands for the sake of completeness, it also has articles about forums, subreddits and Discord servers where Command Prompt and Batch files are discussed, as well as articles about software and projects found on these sites. The Software category is full of tools and even games (especially text adventures) that were built entirely with Batch and can be played in Command Prompt. The Books category has links to textbooks about working with Command Prompt and programming your own Batch files. Why did I create BatchPedia? BatchPedia was created as a central resource for the Batch community. Some Batch games have been mentioned on the R/Batch subreddit but not on the DosTips forum, or vice-versa, while proposals like the language model DOSLM were mentioned on the DosTips forum but have never been mentioned on the subreddit or either of the Discord servers (Batch Town and Server.bat). The Batch community is already small, so divisions within the community make it hard for some information to be noticed by the community. BatchPedia is all about collecting information from all these resources and compiling it into a handy encyclopedia. As a blind Windows user, Batch-based software has fascinated me since childhood. Though most members of the Batch community are not blind, it is easy to see the potential appeal that Batch has to blind users. Batch is known for having very little in the graphics department, therefore most Batch-based games are almost entirely text-based. If a Batch program is inaccessible for some reason, it tends to use ASCII art (pictures made of letters, numbers and symbols), and these are relatively rare due to the complexity of creating ASCII art, especially when stretched between lines of code. Though a Batch Graphics library has been created to make simple graphics slightly easier, most Batch programmers prefer an out-of-the-box setup, therefore most Batch programmers create a very text-heavy, therefore usually accessible if somewhat retro and MS-DOS-like user interface. Though BatchPedia currently has no information about blindness and accessibility, we are definitely planning on this, and a big reason I created this site is because most Batch-based software is text-based and therefore accessible. As a fan of retro video games and retro game YouTube content, I also acknowledge the retro, MS-DOS-like vibe of Batch files (this fact is so well-known that some people still call Batch files DOS programs, and they call Command Prompt a DOS window). So both my retro PC software side and my accessibility side are fascinated by the Command Prompt and the programs that can run within it. Despite the name, general Windows Command Prompt information is also welcome, not just for the sake of building a program. There is a shocking amount of Batch file-related material online, from text-based games to instructions on programming an efficient file backup automation tool, even a mini-program for managing your to-do lists! Though Batch files may not be a powerhouse of the computer programming world, it is a light and very accessible way to make small programs with completely keyboard-based interaction; for those of you who remember the classic retro computer phrase "Press any key to continue", Batch files are the easiest place to find this phrase in a modern setting (spoiler alert, this message is displayed when a pause command is entered). Due to Batch files being an only slightly modified version of the MS-DOS command interface, pretty much nothing is mouse-based, giving almost every Batch file that nice, clean, accessible, 100% keyboard-based and text-based experience! This website will tell you things about Windows that you never knew, but I must repeat this disclaimer again; this is a brand new website, so it is currently lacking lots of information, though anyone is willing to send me information by email or even directly in the wiki. batchpedia.miraheze.org
Welcome to BatchPedia, the encyclopedia of all things Windows and MS-DOS Batch! There are currently 6 articles in this encyclopedia. Learn about Batch tools and...
Vcera jsem tu narazil na video simulace kapusticek, kapustickozroutu a zroutu kapustickozroutu v nekonecnem cyklu. Hned jsem si s tim chtel hrat a odpovedet si na spoustu otazek ze sveta lovcu, lovenych a kapusticek.
Akce to byla uspesna. Osahal jsem si @bevy + #burn.
To ship the new Speech player branch or not. people will then yell at me. But I really am liking this sound. ugh ugh. Decisions decisions. I guess I'll wait a week on it. Ahahaha. It sounds clearer at 16000 and 22050, less whispery of a voice, I'm really digging this.
I wish Apple's operating systems had a better setting for whether VoiceOver should speak hints. Right now, it's either all hints, or none. What I want is the option to only speak a hint when that hint is not the default one. Double tap to activate? Yep, I've heard that for 17 years. Swipe up or down with one finger to select a value? Yeah, I know--don't say that one. But if an app adds custom hints, I very much want to hear those.
Double tap with your nose, flick right 17 times, swipe up and to the right, rotate your finger in a counterclockwise circle 3 times to select? Yup, do inform me of that.
If you rely on assistive technologies (TTS, Braille display, enlarged fonts), what would be your preferred terminal output from a compiler or other CLI tool telling you where an error occurred? If you'd prefer a different option, please elaborate. #Accessibility #Programming #A11y #Rust #RustLang
at path/to/file.rs, line 10, column 29 (56%, 14 votes)
In the Telegram group of a podcast I really love a listener brought this: github.com/github/spec-kit. And it seems, it's a thing I've been searching for since I started using #AI assistants in my development. Even before AI I always wrote a spec first, even if it was quite rough on edges, — I've always thought in lists and headings (yeah, screen reader user habits!). It's even more trustworthy because comes from #GitHub itself. Although it's still in version zero, I'm trying it now and it seems a very interesting concept.#SpecKit #SDD #SpecificationDrivenDevelopment
For 11025 Hz, we kept the original symmetric cosine glottal waveform because the new LF-inspired one sounded "constrained" / "like a small cell phone speaker" at low sample rates. At higher sample rates (16000+), use asymmetric LF-inspired glottal waveform with sharp closure (sharpness=3.0) for richer harmonics and "grainier" Eloquence-like character. This is based on the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) glottal model from 1985 - the same research that informed Klatt88 and likely Eloquence's DSP!
real vocal folds close faster than they open, and this asymmetry is what gives natural voice its "body". Now, SpeechPlayer 11025 and 16000, 22050, sound the same voice, just less sharp and compressed at higher sample rates. Feels like magic.
In most email clients (outlook, Thunderbird ETC), you can copy files from your file explorer directly into the message body of your email. Saves trying to go through the browse dialogue and add attachments that way.
@Bri I tried that just yesterday. I copied the file in Explorer, went to the email I was writing, and pasted. Nothing happened. I figured it just wasn't a thing. You mean it should have worked?
@alexhall @Bri That works perfectly in Outlook and GMail Web. Thunderbird you still have to envoke the attach dialog with Ctrl+Shift+A, but can then paste as you otherwise would.
@alexhall Yes. Copy the file to the clipboard, paste it into the filename box of any Open dialog and it will be converted to a textual path with proper quoting. @jackf723 @tired_and_wired @Bri
@alexhall @jscholes @jackf723 @Bri Once you copy a file from File Explorer, in Outlook you don't even have to create the message before initiating the paste. From the inbox, instead of pressing ctrl+N, press ctrl+V. This invokes the New Message dialog and takes the file that you had copied and automatically attaches it to the message. Just fill out the relevant fields, to, cc, etc., type the message and send and the file is already attached.
@GrapheneOS You can add another app to your list of apps banning GrapheneOS: The AGOV access app from the swiss federal authorities (play.google.com/store/apps/det…)
"No one running a so-called Home edition of Windows should be forced to manually edit the registry or run PowerShell scripts to manage updates or turn off features they don't want to use. Those users shouldn't have their files moved to OneDrive without their informed consent. If they choose an alternative browser or search engine, that choice should be respected."
Hitting 1 billion monthly active users should be cause for celebration in Redmond. These days, though, it feels like every one of those users is complaining. Does Microsoft have what it takes to address the many pain points in Windows 11?
Mikhail Okunuga was born in Soviet Azerbaijan to Armenian parents. When the USSR collapsed, he became stateless. He spent 18 months stranded in American Samoa, trapped in a place that "looked like paradise but felt like prison." He's now a US citizen. His memoir tells the story.
Systemic white supremacy is when an utterly incompetent 23-year-old white boy can fabricate an entire story about Somalis and get personal praise from the President—but two seasoned award winning Black journalists who have decades of unassailable reporting behind them get arrested for reporting on an actual protest with facts and receipts.
Alex Pretti's shooting death by federal agents in Minneapolis has prompted a DOJ civil rights probe. Renee Macklin Good's death by federal agents has not. #news #NPRnpr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-56943…
I've made getting to both the web and iOS versions of my Fast Weather app easier. Just visit FastWeather.online to use the web version or use the Try iOS link at the bottom of the page to join the iOS Test Flight and get the program. Table view on the web is a favorite of mine for quickly browsing temperatures in either my set of cities or the prepopulated lists of cities for a state or country. Change the view to table, pick a state and use screen reader table commands to quickly read.
A person just walked by in sturdy shoes, a face mask, and a backpack with a protest sign sticking up out of the back. They walked with purpose and resolve (heading toward the nearby transit station to get downtown, I assume), and it was all I could do not to run out and thank them for protesting.
Thanks again, a million times over, to everyone out there showing up, on behalf of those of us who can't do that right now. 💜
#Meshcore seems to really work as a countrywide network. Today, I chatted with people from Liberec and Krkonoše, which are hundreds of kilometers away, and their messages went through just fine. All of this was possible with cheap, community-built devices.
@stepan Definitely it has integration with MQTT or there is an integration into Home Assistant. The question is if there is coverage. If there is, all you need is a small companion, if there isn't you'll have to install a repeater in some good location to cover the area for yourself and others. Urban areas such as Prague, Brno and Ostrava are well covered. Countryside, you still have to be lucky. You can check the current map of the network here: mapa.meshcore.cz/ You can use the Propagation function to see what coverage you would get from a spot you pick on the map.
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