it's pretty funny when right wing trolls are like "no politics in software!!" followed by "rust is woke!!" like. my man. you just made it about politics
It occurs to me that the recent #NVDA issue with IPC between 64 and 32-bit libraries (in particular voice synths) may be a perfect place for this solution: ekxide.io/blog/iceoryx2-0.8-re…
the next version of NVDA will be a 64-bit program, so it cannot easily directly interface with 32-bit libraries, and many voice synths (especially older ones) are built as 32-bit artifacts. Eloquence being one of them. This might be a way to create a mechanism for NVDA to interface with such libraries, possibly.
Přátelé #fediverse, přejeme vám klidné a pohodové Vánoce, dostatek pohody offline i online a do nového roku hodně zdraví, energie a dobrých lidí kolem sebe. Díky, že s námi držíte otevřený a svobodný internet a pomáháte, aby byl lepším místem. 🎄 #oscloud #opensource #privacy #foss #community
Guten Morgen! Ich wünsche euch einen schönen, geruhsamen und nach euren Wünschen verlaufenden Heiligabend! Und dann zwei Weihnachtsfeiertage, die natürlich auch genau nach euren Vorstellungen verlaufen mögen. Die einen werden's feiern, die anderen werden ob der Familienverpflichtungen gequält aufstöhnen, die nächsten werden's ignorieren, und all das ist voll OK! Nichts davon ist falsch. ❤️
Brailab, the Hungarian-only speech synth people love to make beatbox with random consonant-combos and yet I grew up with, is now updated to use a faster wrapper architecture and modernized with NVDA 2025.3. This does lay the groundwork for Brailab to work across future NVDA versions, as the audio it produces is now piped directly into memory with the wrapper rather than the DLL just piping it to the Windows audio API. eurpod.com/brailab-2025.nvda-a…
Y’all realise that the entire computer industry just pivoted to ‘AI Support’. Manufacturers of components (GPUs, CPUs, storage, RAM) are either exiting the consumer market (ex: Micron, Samsung) or severely limiting their offerings (NVIDIA, AMD, Samsung). Instead they are making products specifically catered and offered to AI/datacentre use.
You thought not being able to upgrade your RAM was a problem. Wait until you can’t buy a computer, and only rent one.
What can I say. Brailab wrapper works. It has some quirks but I built one. Now onto firstbite. I heard the voice, it won't be no Doubletalk style, because it is SmoothTalker 4 whereas I believe the other was version 3. But it does sound cool. I like that voice. Sort of like a hybrid of Keynote and old eloquence. I got it working under XP. But modern Windows, it has a memory corruption errors.
Mark Carney took a cabinet committee name and speech ideas from billionnaire-funded pro-AI and oil&gas booster group 'Build Canada' last May.
DeSmog and National Observer wrote about it 2 weeks ago and The Tyee wrote about the DOGE proponents among them in February but no legacy media have followed up. #media #cdnpoli
This mudslides app for iOS. I guess it's the next mudrammer? I've heard it's a testflight beta. How does one get access to this? I haven't had a mud client on my phone for years.
Hey people that follow @RainbowRemedy@moonbow.garden can also follow me here if you'd like. :) I plan to have both accounts up because I like both spaces for different reasons xx
There's a topic on the AudioGames forum where someone was asking if the Blastbay Film Score Themes CDs are available anywhere. Philip Bennefall has kindly made most of these available. The exception is the Epic Romance CD to which he sold the rights a few years ago. His links are available for a limited time, so I've downloaded them and combined everything into one zip file, around 1.5 gigabytes. These files are in wav format. The AudioGames topic has a link where you can purchase the Epic Romance pack, again as wavs, so I am not including that since it's still for sale. Share and enjoy! Zip file: bluegrasspals.com/BlastbayFilm… AudioGames forum topic: forum.audiogames.net/topic/581…
Visualization of every goto statement in the Linux 6.17 source code.Commentary from a 2003 linux-kernel mailing list discussion about the use of goto.Created...
how can we cut our CI times by 50–90% and reduce our dependency on #github actions, securely and cheaply enough for a large public #rustlang codebase?
we did exactly that for @servo by building a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, all for barely 400 EUR/month!
Normally I love hearing airport announcements. But tonight, I wish the announcers at FLL would just shut up. It feels like the announcements are never-ending. This gate is loud. And there's a kid who seems to love the sound of their voice. And this chair is hurting my bum. And this is why I generally avoid flying at this time of year. But the first two flights I wanted didn't pan out. One sold out, and by the time my s.o realized his sister booked a flight for tomorrow, the one for yesterday had gotten too expensive. And, here we are.
What would make me happy? A 32-bit DLL of TrippleTalk / Double Talk / the same voice DR Sbaitso used. that one. I suppose Monolog97 would be the right path to look at for it.
Lately I've been thinking about how many things for blind people can unintentionally be a barrier in relationships/getting to know people. I find that a lot of friendships tend to begin from a shared interest. A game, a show, a movie, what have you. And so many of those things are off limits to a lot of blind people. Someone likes a popular game? Oh sorry, I can't play that with you, there are no accessibility mods or built in screen reader accommodations. Someone likes a given show? Sorry, that show has no audio description, you'll likely have to tell me half the visual/on screen stuff that's happening if you want me to get the same context you get. I swear this is not a pity seeking post. This is literally just some thoughts I've been having, I wish their weren't so many barriers to enjoying the same activities as sighted people, I'm sure a rift has been put into many potential relationships because so many common interests were stunted or outright impossible because of inaccessibility or barriers like this. Not to say that is the case in every relationship, I’m sure some great relationships have happened, but it is something I personally do experience very regularly and it gets really, really old
This is very unfortunate. I've noticed this too and its eghen worse when there are cultural walls too like sometimes, different jokes that may not always make sense.
For sure. I assume this isn’t helped by me not being very into TV shows or movies in general, but even in terms of games. I see plenty of cited people relating over and being very interested in games that I just can’t play, even if I think they sound interesting. All because I was unfortunate enough to be born unable to see. It pisses me off and is an incredibly annoying aspect to socializing.
Well, the good news is that not all sighted people are ignerent about how we do things. it's much easier relating to other blind people though but I've been mainstreamed all my life.
That's my issue, I don't want it to be easier to relate to blind people. Don't get me wrong, I love my blind friends, but right now it feels like I only have blind friends and I'm hating that more and more each day. I wish I could diversify my circle without having to go "sorry, I can't do X" every 3 seconds
I'm honestly so happy I'm not the only one who feels this way. I also find as I get older, I get more and more tired of having to come up with workarounds just to use the same stuff everyone else can use with no problem. It's exhausting. You would think of field like music production would be extremely accessible, right? Like it's audio, surely blind people would be great at that. But no, much of the software simply is not usable or has enough accessibility issues so as to not make it worth it for me. That's definitely changing, more and more plug-ins and DAWs are becoming accessible, but even so there's always the risk of set accessibility going away or having problems that can't easily be fixed by the user.
@ZBennoui You're definitely not alone. I also get really, really tired of encountering inaccessible X, Y, or Z and having to complain about it, either to potential friends or developers. It's incredibly annoying
I'm so sad I'm making C++ wrappers for everything. Brailab, SoftVoice, all of it. Let's make C++ wrappers for every janky little speech synth that cannot output its audio to NVWave Player. Let's just use the Minhooking method @samtupy used for his amazing BestSpeech wrapper. I've been looking for projects to do while off work. Ther's the projects. Eloquence 2.0? MinHook the fuck out of it. Spend hours, days, weeks debugging each synth. Why the fuck not. Sadness fills my soul deeply, and this helps numb it. I scratched my Cadence displays today because my keys were in my pocket and it left a gouge across the plastic. So yes, sadness fills my soul, deeply, I cannot believe I scratched up my new Braille display.
@Configures sandpaper did the trick. Mostly. It's a bit close to where the cells themselves start so I dared not go in to the entire edge of the scratch, but once I sanded it down a it it's barely noticeable unless you're looking harder for it. That cheered me up more :D @samtupy
Multiple times this year I've seen people trying to crowdfund their open source work but won't tell me how much they need to continue working on it
What if I could have paid you the full amount you need? I'll never know, because you won't tell me. And I'm not interested in guessing, giving you money, and then you not doing it because you didn't get "enough".
Look y'all, since a few of you have asked about NVDA 2026.1 and my speech synths, I'm not going to start work on this until at least betas are out. @fastfinge has done a phenominal work starting around this, and his code helps me understand how such a thing would be done, but for one, I don't want an inter-process thing to be written in C++ but rather Python, sort of how he has it. Until #NVDASR develops their own adapter that developers can reuse for any DLL and just adapt function names or signatures to the workings of that speech synth, that process would become much, much easier. If that host process defined an API shape existing speech synths just hook into, I'm all for it. Then I'll begin that work, but not until then. Thanks for getting it, or not.
@luiscarlosgonzalez LOL between Brailab, 3 versions of Eloquence, SoftVoice, SMPSoft, Flexvoice, I just will have my hands busy redoing all of it. Not going to look forward to that work, if there's a reason I get GPT 5 pro again, that'll be it because by hand to recode so many synths... Hopefully those other devs come out to do the work too, but it's never a 100% guarantee and NVDA can't commit devs to that work nor are they obligated to continue it after the initial release if they cannot. That's just the nature of open-source stuff, I myself won't have time to pick it up but I know @mush42 has been looking for new maintainers for his work. @fastfinge @ZBennoui
@mush42 @ZBennoui Yeah maybe someone will take ownership of Sonata not only the NVDA addon, but also the framework. Piper is another thing because the collabs are very outdated, many dependencies changed, and even Piper's repository has changed due to license conflicts. I don't know if the Piper creator is here in Mastodon, but maybe I'll...
If you want to do that with gemini-cli, make sure to give it access to a directory with the NVDA Addon developer guide, the API documentation for the synth you’re coding, and tell it where the NVDA repository is. The prompt should include each file name, and what it is. Then Gemini can read the documentation without searching the web, and that will save you a lot of time and tokens. If you have any header files or other bindings, also give it those.
It’s already using rpc so a quick and dirty update would be easy. I just don’t use it myself, and as an amateur developer, I’m only comfortable maintaining code I personally use daily. Plus NVDA 2026 includes onx internally so we need to figure out how to access that.
But if we make a general framework, aren’t we just inventing sapi again? That’s why I wanted to start by trying to make individual addons. But now that I tried and learned a lot doing so, it’s clear the disadvantages make it unsustainable. Including all of torch in an NVDA addon is a bad idea, it turns out.
Right but Sherpa onnx might replace that. Or the various Microsoft AI providers. We don’t need to care about cross platform for NVDA. And so few people in this community have the expertise to write our own inference framework, I feel strongly that we really need to use something off the shelf. Otherwise, history will repeat itself, and the person working on the framework will get a job or otherwise be forced to drop the project. I can only think of four blind people who even know rust. And I’m not one of them.And the others all have full time jobs.
Exactly that has already happened, and I was forced to pay money to strip Camlorn’s custom 3d audio library out of unspoken. Because he’s not maintaining that anymore, and he’s the only one in our community with that particular set of skills. If we as blind people want to write software for ourselves that will last, we have to stop depending on custom low level frameworks and make the things that already exist work for us.
@mush42 @ZBennoui I don't know, maybe I'll ahve to wait if NVDA 2026.1 will integrate ONX directly instead of using frameworks, that way Piper and other TTS providers will work more than fast
I've been getting ready for HKC @radio's Christmas eve programming, but I'm taking a break at 8 PM to stream Miracle on 34th street, which is one of my Favorite Christmas Movies. Tune in about 20 minutes earlier to hear the Hollywood backstory. www.hkcradio.com
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Holy crap. So I'm sitting at a restaurant, and a cover started playing that I wanted to identify. I could hear it fairly well, like I could hear the song and tell that it was country, but there was a decent amount of background noise and people were trying to talk to me. I pulled up Shazam to identify it, and I was like, wondering if I'd have to yell at people to shut up and walk like an idiot to the speaker for it to pick it up, but I decided what the heck, I'll just try it at the table with all of the background. And it friggin got it. I'd have a tough time describing what I heard in sufficient detail to another person, but it caught it. I'm still trying to process this. Lol
yo tengo así una pregunta... aquí en el fediverso e leído posts en alemán, francés, inglés, español... pero ningún rumano. ¿algún rumano por aquí? si lo hay, que se reporte, me gustaría conocer un compatriota
My NordVPN subscription is expiring soon. Can someone recommend a VPN service? It can also be NordVPN. My requirements: - Evade current/future EU surveylance - Has to have a server in Israel that allows watching Kan that Kan doesn't block - Allows routing all traffic over VPN with no contingencies (I don't do this at the moment, but who knows what the future holds) - A Linux client - No logging policy
Advantages: - A Windows client - Tor - Residence outside the EU, US & UK
I think Proton & is Nord answer to all musts, but none wants.
I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that
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