Base Wars was so rad, we'd pack into my friends basement on the crazy hot summer days and enjoy the AC or his wood furnace on the coldest winter days and play tournaments with like 6 of us
@Tutanota Iâve noticed that in the last week or so, the Tuta iOS app has stopped displaying the subject and sender in notifications despite being turned on in the settings. Any ideas? Iâve tried turning notifications off and back on, that didnât help.
I just heard one of the strangest things in my life. I was generating one of my stories in Eleven Labs with my voice. I used the V3 speech model, which is in its alpha stage. Anyway... I was trying to generate a portion of text, and what came out must have been a thread of random sounds, emotional and inflectional changes in the voice, and a bunch of poems and stories all woven into some strange pattern. Not to mention, it sounded like it was speaking about twenty languages. To demonstrate my point, allow me to show you the first generation. It does speak a few of the tags, which isn't supposed to happen but as you know this model's a work in progress. I will paste the exact generation, which will serve as my transcript. I will post the... questionable material in a separate post. Natalie gazed around the dimly-lit hallway, her eyes landing on a stack of beat-up folding chairs against a nearby wall. Steven and Darla follow close behind, their nervous chatter a soothing, reverberant murmur. The dusty sign reading âStaff Onlyâ hadnât escaped their view as theyâd descended the stairs that led them into this utility hall, locked doors occupying the otherwise bare brick walls. The staff parking lot was barely visible through the emergency exit glass doors that marked the corridorâs end. Natalie hadnât expected their plan would be so successful. As they discussed details over lunch, she told Darla that they should just tell their parents everything and get it all over with. [firmly] âIâm not abandoning our cause. Lillie deserves justice,â Darla replied. [muffled] âMe neither,â Steven said with a mouthful of pizza. [confidently] âTrust me, it will work. [smugly] Ms. Briggs is easy.â Natalie leaned back in her chair with a resigned sigh. [sighs] [wearily] âI sure hope youâre right.â Ms. Briggs taught the fifth period English course after lunch. She usually attended weekly conferences on Thursdays for one of her students with special needs, which caused her to be a few minutes late. When the three friends arrived, there were only a few students sitting at their desks, their attention captured by books and touchscreens. Ms. Briggs always left her blue mug at her work station, which still held half a cup of coffee. Gingerly, Darla had slipped the laxative into the lukewarm liquid, watching as it dissolved. More students began filing in, Ms. Briggs on their heels. Darla shot Natalie a wink as the teacher hurredly took her place at the podium. Steven knew his stolen laptop had to be in the lost and found. Yesterday, heâd asked their math teacher Mr. Higgins if heâd seen it, and heâd casually remarked that it hadnât been located, looking down at his notepad. Mr. Higgins wasnât fond of computers, casting icy glares at students using their devices in the cafeteria. Steven wonder if that was why he was evasive. It didnât matter. Heâd overheard a janitor say to the principal that a computer was found by the bleachers. When he confided in Darla and Natalie, two of his best friends since the third grade, it was Darlaâs brilliant idea to take some of her momâs laxatives. Natalie chuckled, recalling the moment when their lecture on Hamlet was interrupted, Ms. Briggs making her hasty retreat with a sheepish grin. [eagerly] âSo where is this conference room?!â Darla said as she brandished the shiny key with the yellow sticker sheâd managed to slip from the teachers keyring as the class idly chattered. [curiously] [whispering] âDid you ever go in there when you worked here during the summer, Natalie?â [whispering] [hesitantly] âOnly once, just to sweep,â Natalie whispered. She pointed out a small alcove in the center of the hall, ending in a set of worn wooden doors.
I think.. Eleven Labs had a seizure. Refer to the previous post for more information. All I can say is, I hope you don't have nightmares after hearing this... I'm sorry if you do.
@jcsteh I heard a couple of odd little creaks too. First one kinda made me think the robot was waring leather, second one made me certain the robot farts.
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Heard chanting and marching while doing yardwork, zipped over to check it out, andâŠ
âŠlo and behold! an emergency protest in favor of immigrants rights, organized by miracmn.com in response to the SCOTUS threatening birthright citizenship.
Despite the apparent short notice, folks brought their game. Got a couple of photos (with permission). The guillotine actually moves up and down while the rider pedals!
Now Iâm on MIRACâs mailing list, so hopefully I donât miss the next one.
Also, thoughâŠit is just deeply heartening to randomly encounter a protest: not a thing that I already knew about, but a thing that just âąshowed upâą in my neighborhood. It makes me feel like the circle of resistance is much bigger than my own little circle. And it is.
Thatâs the feeling I want us to create: âWow, these protests are everywhere.â
Things like this are not just a symbolic expression of discontent.
Fascism depends to a âąveryâą large extent on anticipatory compliance. It needs people to feel like things are going that way, itâs already a done deal, better to just go along with it.
Every time dissent is visible, every way dissent feels ubiquitous, every time somebody feels like theyâre not alone in opposition, every time somebody whoâs tempted to comply fears there might be hell to pay if they do â that directly, concretely damages the fascistsâ power.
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I had that calculator when I was in junior high, 1977-78. It was certainly better than the other talking calculator I remember being out around that time, whose synthsized voice sounded like a bad robot voice from an OTR show like X Minus 1.
Wait a minute, I might be confusing the calculators. The one I used in middle school was a bit bigger, with larger keys. The other one was smaller, and as I say, not a strong voice. What I remember is the first thing you heard when you turned it on was oh point oh oh.
@Thumper1964 The Speech Plus was about the size of a videotape. On the top left, it had a metal thing to run a lanyard through. Unloke every other calculator I've ever seen, the numeric keypas was configured like a telephone keypad. There were two lines of buttons to the left of the keyboard. The rightmost of these had plus, minus, times, and divide by, or as the calculator said, over. The topmost key on the left row was the M for memory Running down from there you had M+, M-, and clear. To the right of the xero on the keypad, where the pound key would be, was a key which said "times minus" when you pressed it. It was supposed to make it easier multiplying negative numbers, but it didn't do anything you couldn't do yourself quite a bit quicker. To the right of the numeric keypad, you had the equals key on top, then a sbutton to read the display, then a switch to turn auto-announcing of key-pressses on or off, then the swap key. You'd perform a calculation, press equals, then use the key below it to read the resulto on the display.On the right edge at the top was a fat knob that you pulled to turn the unit on, and you turned the knob for your volume control. Below that was a sub-mini jack for an earphone. Do you know how hard it is to find things with submini plugs? The left edge simplay contained a recessed hole for the battery charger. Above the keypad was the display, and some embossed print, I think Speech+. Battery was nicad, or course, built into the calculator. There was nothing very interesting inside the calculator, as I discovered one day when I was in a curious mood.
@Thumper1964 I liked being able to press 4 and root very quickly. The Speech Plus was so responsive that it would say "fruit". It would have been cool if I could have press "plus" and the number 8 quickly so that I could get it to say "fruit plate" but it didn't do well with plus and 8.
@Thumper1964 Was that the one where if you hit the overflow button a bunch of times you could get it to say over flover flover flover? Good times. Lol.
@Bruce @Thumper1964 I also remember APH's version of that calculator, which they called the Student Speech Plus calculator. It was essentially the same but the rocker switch on the right hand side had a different function. I can't remember which version did which function but one calculator used the rocker switch to control the speed that the result was spoken. The other calculator, I think, used the rocker switch to silence keyboard entry.
Wow, I never saw the desktop version but the APH version was the one that used the rocker switch to increase the rate of speed when speaking the result.
Oh no, I just had a look at the Monarch Braille display page, aph.org/product/monarch/, and the price literally had me⊠Now I do wish I was a monarch with a lot of money to play with! :)
Take flight with the Monarch, a multiline braille device that renders tactile graphics integrated with braille on the first-of-its-kind 10-line by 32-cell refreshable braille display.
I would love to find out how much these things cost to make. I mean yeah piezoelectric cells do cost a bit to manufacture and there's a ton of them in it, I'll give them that at least. But still I bet there's a hell of a lot of profit being put on there.
Holy hell, I'm somewhat glad that I never really had to deal with this. The printers I used with the Braille Lite 2000 and the Millennium series just worked.
@remixman Hard choice between connecting two Braille 'n Speaks together vs hooking it up to a modem at my elementary school and dialing the Blazie Engineering BBS back in 1996 and accidentally deleting some posts off the board.
@sclower @remixman Oh, so you're the one who deleted those posts; I have a bone to pick with you, sir. đ Just kidding; I never even knew this. How on earth did you manage to do that? Did you give yourself sysop access or something?
@remixman LOL I was just trying to back up a level with B-chord. Then I saw the number of posts go down from 500 to 499, then 498, and then I panicked and hung up.
@cublanco They have changed quite a bit but I think it's too bad that we don't have many speech-only devices without Braille output. They're more inexpensive and smaller.
@cachondo @cublanco Yes; I corrected myself in a subsequent message. Yes, the BT Speak certainly does, along with the Orbit Speak, although the latter doesn't provide email and Web access.
@cublanco we're plagued by poor screen reader performance on platforms that works well on small hardware, I suppose. It'd be interesting to try mocking up a full Windows experience with NVDA in something that sized, but I can't imagine you'll get decent battery life out of it.
I never liked the term notetaker but I think the answer is yes, as long as the device is powerful and is compatible with commonly used file formats. . Obviously, if you're required to use something like Word or PowerPoint, then you have to have a Mac or a PC, unless you can do what you need with a phone or tablet. But this debate always comes up: the specialized vs mainstream products and where and how specialized devices can be used and whether or not there's still a place for them.
@Lino_JR @cublanco Actually, the BT Braille has been announced; the pricing and availability have not yet been announced but that will change very, very soon. The product itself has been announced.
@cublanco I would literally buy an NVDA remote. A device the size of the hable one, maybe (although not in that dreadful plastic), with braille input keys and a SIM card so it'd work wherever. USB-C audio output and a built-in speaker, and a companion app (or config file on the device) to connect it to my home-running NVDA instance. Obviously I'd want to map all the keys so I could press everything I need to with the smaller form factor keyboard, but being able to fully remote control a home PC from a device the size of an Orbit Writer appeals greatly.
@cachondo @cublanco Well there is the iOS NVDA Remote App which still works and still exists, though it's keyboard input is... Questionable at times. It got me out of a bind yesterday though. I installed an updated sound driver, of course all my sound went bye-bye. Opened the remote app, it had a remembered connection to my desktop since that's primarily what I use it with, could arrow around and hear VoiceOver speaking what was on-screen. Fixed my sound that way.
@FreakyFwoof @cublanco oh the app is useful, no doubt about it. But if you're schlepping a bluetooth keyboard around anyway, you don't need a braille keyboard sized input device.
@cachondo @cublanco I would purchase that as well actually. Iâve often wanted something tiny I could use on the couch to control my laptop, which I realize is not that big, but which generally lives across the house in my home office.
@Bruce @cublanco I don't like the term "notetaker" because, even in the 1990s, the Braille 'n Speak was so much more than a notetaker. Fortunately, Blazie Technologies doesn't use that term for the BT Speak and I don't think it should be used for any of the BT Speak's competitors, because most of them are true computers. If my BT Speak is a notetaker, then I may as well call my Windows computer a calculator.
@cublanco @Bruce I understand. Sure, the BT Speak, BrailleSense, BrailleNote, even the Orbit Speak are all computers. While the Orbit Speak might not offer all of the features you'll find in those othher devices, I wouldn't even call that device a notetaker.
@technolass @cublanco Yes, you have a compact, all in one device with ann integrated Braille display with blindness-specific and Braille-friendly applications or at least apps oriented for the needs of Braille users.
@cublanco@melendez.land I use my BrailleSense6 on a daily basis. Granted, it does a lot more than the notetakers of the 90s, but I prefer it to hauling my laptop around because it's got better battery life and instant power on/off. I don't like using my phone for everything, so for me the BS6 is perfect.
@techsinger @Bruce I get where you two are coming from and I respect it. We still talk about dialing a phone. đ Notetaker is just not a term that I prefer to use, because these devices do so much more.
@Bruce I would respectfully agree. After all, many FM systems for the hearing impaired haven't used FM since the late 2000s, if then. The other problem, of course, is that everything else is worse. I think the one that amused me most is "blind computer", as in "do you have your blind computer" which I was actually asked once. I don't know what else to call it which would get the small, fairly limited, and accessible nature across. I understand @DavidGoldfield having an issue with the term perfectly, though, I just think we could go further and end up with worse.
I get that. It's not a wonderful term. Whatever it's changed to, though, if it is, can we avoid "blind computer"? Also, "keyboard thingy" is a bit much.
@techsinger @Bruce I think the term "Braille Computer" is less problematic than "blind computer." My BT Speak, for me, is a Linux device. Sure, it's got a bunch of custom apps and starts out with a custom UI but it's a computer.
@techsinger @Bruce The term Braille computer would be inaccurate with a device with only speech without a Braille display and with a QWERTY keyboard. At one point, the Braille 'n Speak was being marketed as a PDA or personal digital (or was it data) assistant and I really liked that term.
@cublanco Woiuld you believe, I actually have a PacMate still? It was given to me in 2005. The power switch doesn't work, but it's stuck in the on position. If I charge it, it actually worked last time I did. Think that was a couple years ago when my friend and I were trying to pretend the device belonged to the Illuminati
@techsinger No, but if you're talking to a sighted person who might be experiencing blindness technology for the first time, "braille computer" is a good compromise, I think, that bridges the gap and foments understanding.
@Bruce That wasn't just the BNS, as I recall. There were a ton of "PDA" devices. That term has gone dead, though, it's now called a "phone". Which, I may say, is just as bad as notetaker for not including functionality in the definition. How many people have complained about the call quality on some iOS devices (and some cheaper androids) and been told "well, it's not really intended for calls". The response "why on earth isn't it, it's called a phone", is quite reasonable.
@techsinger @Bruce That is actually a very valid point. These devices are pocket computers that can do so much and yet we call them phones. Yes, no argument from me on that.
@CallumStoneman @cublanco not sure how I'd power such a design. NVDA remote doesn't output audio, so I'd need to do tts on-device. Something like an eSP32 probably wouldn't cut the mustard for the level of text to speech we'd want. I mean I could live the dream and solder in an RC8650 from the doubletalk people, I suppose. But nobody'd buy that other than me.
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Me and @alyssa6595 will be getting married in 83 days. I only know this because of the countdown timer. Anyways. We have a lil' wedding website put together. You can RSVP for the live stream, check out our amazon registry, and my favorite part is the guestbook. You can record a video message for us. I'd love to get some messages and RSVP's from all around the world. Including from the penguins in Antarctica. Wait. Do penguins even live there? Please re-post and share. event.lovecastapp.com/Liam-andâŠ
Aaaah, you guys! Congratulations! I wish you all the happiness. I hope I will be able to record something, but I will DM it to you instead. Private wishes with best thoughts are more special, anyway. None of you is going to be free soon, so enjoy the freedom of unmarried life until you can. đ And all the good luck, and best thoughts. And well, I don't live in the super cold regions of the Earth, but I can send a message from my tiny corner of the world. :)
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