No idea how blind people properly use openshell? At least I saw some recommend and use it here. I open it, and not only is it laggy and the dialog seems to appear like after a second, typing in the box is not really intuitive imo, and the first option just gets repeated over and over? What's the hidden trick?
I actually wonder why anyone would want to use something like that. I have no problem with the new Start menu, and there are plenty of alternatives to Windows Explorer. A few years ago I cleaned up a laptop that had Classic Shell installed. After uninstalling it, the performance doubled instantly.
@radiorobbe That has to be coincidence, also baring in mind that OpenShell is the one currently maintained, whereas Classic Shell isn't. The start menu in win11 is to the point where it may be totally unproblematic today, but cause no shortage of issues tomorrow since it's a semi-serverside component because ads. OpenShell/Total Commander user here who has experienced performance benefit from having both installed.
@radiorobbe Funny, you mentioned this, because I noticed that it caused freezing in Windows explorer. So it actually is worthwhile learning the ways they screwed up the OS, or making them work for you instead of using open shell
Remember people no longer buying Swasticars in numbers had an impact. While the company is still here, a more fragile business like Framework probably would see the effect harder if people stop buying.
Yesterday I felled the erge to compose or play something, and I was just browsing through sounds. I found this old little Piano track which appeared to be something by samsung. I liked it and started to play an e guitar melody to it. I was at that point just composing my own little track with this, looped this at the parts it fit in, played a bassline, and thought some other Samsung sounds on top, such as a keyboard typing metronome or some old notification sounds in the same cord wouldn't do bad either. Here you go, enjoy what I got. For my first mix like that, I think I did quite well. But you're the judge. Lmk your thoughts. #Music #Samsung
I can't wait to discover that Apple stance on not giving access to data (no backdoor) is actually a big lie and that they have been doing it all along.
Note: I don't even think Google, Microsoft, Facebook aren't already doing it.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
spvm to buy a dystopian american mass surveillance product
some notes from the thread:
• American software collecting the movement history of all people in Montreal. Millions of hours of video will be sent to the US, and the movement history of all citizens will be potentially sold to the highest bidder.
• Software with very advanced capabilities accessible without a warrant by the police, such as chronological search (give me all the movements of this person over a year), facial recognition, alerts on individuals, and all the previously mentioned functionalities, etc.
• Complete loss of privacy for all people in Montreal, immediately. Privacy is dead the moment this system is connected and used by the SPVM.
• No strict judicial control, and data is not within our control. Valuable data going directly to the US and accessible without a warrant by the police.
• Police can access movement history without a warrant or validated by a judge ( think jealous police officer ex here )."
Shower thought: I wonder if any #blind kids today are growing up on espeak the way we grew up on eloquence? Is there a future where espeak is out of date and ancient, and people are clinging to it with the desperation people today cling to eloquence and dectalk? Honestly y'all, espeak read isn't that bad. I just wish espeak was usable on IOS; the available app is old and littered with bugs. #a11y#screenreader#accessibility
eSpeak will never be out-of-date and hard to run in the same way Eloquence is, because eSpeak is open-source and can continue to be ported forward, legally (unlike leaked DECtalk), by anyone who cares to.
@matt Yes, "anyone who cares to" is the key phrase here. From what I understand, espeak's code is terrible because it was written for Risc OS. And the overlap between blind people who know C++ and blind people who want a speech synthesiser kept up to date is going to be vanishingly small. The Espeak IOS app is a perfect example. It hasn't been updated in three years, even though everyone who tries it is aware of the bugs, and many people want it fixed, and it's not really useful in its current state because of the constant crackling. Just because something is open source doesn't mean it will be maintained.
@matt Heck, even the Espeak on the Google play store is only updated once every year or two. Windows and Linux are really the only platforms that are maintained. If whoever's in charge of Linux builds stepped away, I could see the updates stopping there, too. Windows is only safe because NVDA depends on it for now. But even they switched to One Core by default. So I can absolutely imagine a day where espeak is just as hard to run as eloquence or dectalk. It would be more legal, sure. But that doesn't always mean easier.
I would honestly even say Linux and maybe also Android is getting the most love and the library. From a Windows/NVDA context, yes, it's getting updated. You want a SAPI version that'll work with other screen readers or apps though? The only version that still works is an ancient version pre EspeakNG which is also 32-bit only. EspeakNG never had a working SAPI version that I'm aware of - there were some builds that would show up in SAPi settings but not actually function.
Mine is currently set to Mike. I haven't found a voice I can definitively say 'Yeah that's the one for me' but I'd like to do that, so that if I ever had to use it full-time, I had the thing configured just the way I need it to be.
I can't use it, it's painful for me because of the recorded consonants. Their klatt modes still use the recorded consonants, which can be rather sharp depending on your listening device, and I'm from the US. I'd like my computer to speak in an accent of the country I'm from, but it's American English is still pretty sucky. There are at least custom voices to adjust the relative formants and all that to craft the perfect klatt voice, and you can turn down the recorded consonants, but not off. I don't like some of those new ones like edward2, they sound like they're ringing and I can hear the upper formants as distinct pitches.
@JamminJerry@FreakyFwoof@matt@x0 If they didn't have so many issues with nonstandard words, I'd like the blastbay tts voices honestly. But they're going to require either fixes on Philip's end, or absolutely massive custom dictionaries.
I am not a fan of one-core, but if I had only it, and ESpeak on my system, and I had to choce between them, I would pick one-core without hezitation. I can't remember which voice it is I kind of like. Let me see here. OK, the only voice I even kind of like is mark.
Agreed. eSpeak is not only available in many languages but it's open source, meaning that it's currently free of cost to a variety of users and this will likely ensure continued development, at least from a core group of developers. However, I think that many people in some countries will consider it to be not as useful as the commercial, more human-sounding TTS engines.
Michel voice variant for me. Or Michael, no idea why they both exist since they are identical, or appear to be.
That said, what about the bugs in the espeak app on ios? It works pretty decently for me here at least, the crackling issue only happens after past a certain speech rate and I've never had cause to go that far with it.
I know there is an issue on gh about updating it and the dev said it would be done, no idea where that went off to if anywhere.
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the company has been active on fosstodon in the past.
But – and this is important – the messaging it puts on twitter and onto the fediverse is very distinct. It looks to me like it knows which audience it’s appealing to
@danso @matthartley @lrz I cleary never got any. Even a "please a open a support ticket". I guess when you point out that repairability is pointless when you can't get the part... Even Dhell replied more on Twitter (before it was the nazi bar). And that's a low bar.
Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.
Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:
"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."
Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.
Subtooting another thread, one time I was in a doctor's office waiting room, and the nurse came out and said "Benjamin?" So I stood up, along with a teenager. She said "Benjamin Cox?" and neither of us sat down. She had to say the birthday.
But Nirav, Why is the Social Media account gushing over omarchy? Out of all those listed projects you sponsor, the twitter account has mentioned omarchy ~22 times since just August. The other projects you mention has barely gotten any attention.
We’re getting to the point where as a tech company all you have to do is not be fascist or actively sabotage your own product with AI bullshit. You don’t even have to be good, you just have to not actively be bad
If Framework made the business decision to fund anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist, then we shall make the business decision to not give them a red cent.
I bought a Framework less then a year ago to replace an aging and failing Dell XPS. While not perfect, I liked the repairability. Then I had to get the battery swapped a couple of weeks ago, and they made me think twice, but ok.
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Whelp we have a response from @frameworkcomputer and it’s extremely disappointing. Don’t buy Framework. They happily fund alt right bigoted groups and have no intention to change that. kolektiva.social/@Anarcat/1153…
@frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org i have also posted a discussion on your community forum, as it seems multiple federated posts here have not been able to bring your attention to this problem yet https://community.frame.
This is probably the fucking stupidest statement I’ve ever seen. You can’t build a brand on environmentalism and right-to-repair and then suddenly say you want to be “apolitical”. Your entire customer base was built on politics.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
I bought a new frame.work 13 last month. I now regret that.
Not only sponsoring people with utterly hateful views, and promoting others with the same, but now arguing that a 'big tent' approach is somehow suitable. Not even a hint of an acknowledgement that it might be a bad idea to give hateful people money.
We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win.
hey @frameworkcomputer, are you aware that Omarchy is headed by racist far-right disgruntled coder who recently upended the entire Ruby ecosystem? is that the stuff you really want to be associated with? jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-…
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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