#HappyNewYear American Samoa- Pago Pago, Niue (Alofi), Midway Islands, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and some other places where no one lives, so it probably doesn't matter anyway.
Děkujeme všem, kteří byli součástí OSCloud v roce 2025 — uživatelům, podporovatelům, přispěvatelům i celé komunitě kolem.
Do roku 2026 přejeme hlavně zdraví, klid, stabilní systémy, funkční zálohy a komunitu, která drží při sobě.
Honestly as much as I like what cloudflare offers, I just saw a page which had a thunnel error again and am glad that for my services, I actually choose to no longer relly on CF thunnels. Yes the reverse proxi goes through Tailscale right now, which is similar, and you do always have to depend on some sort of provider in the one or other way, but once I have headscale at some point, this setup will be quite solid as far as I can see.
So I'd like to start archieving websites with tutorials or other content I would like to keep, you never know when something might go down and not back up, or people decide to move on with things. So the question, which applications, either for running on a server in docker, or on Windows accessible for screenreaders, would be suitable for this purpose? Edit: archivebox seems quite good. The interface is a bit cluttered, but I can always access the data manually if I really need to. I guess that works for now, need to think about what exactly could be improved to maybe create an issue.
If you're looking for an interesting read, my top enjoyments of 2025 were: Dreambound, by Dan Frey. Of Monsters and Mainframes, by Barbara Truelove. When the Moon Hits Your Eye, by John Scalzi. Last Lesson, by James Goodhand. God's Junk Drawer, by Peter Clines.
I'll be emailing out monthly updates throughout 2026 with all my newly-read material if you want to be on the list or just read more about what I enjoyed this year, the post is up at buttondown.com/SeansShelf/arch…
Well hello, dear readers about reading, and welcome to the start of a new year. As you might have noticed, the last few weeks of the year truly fell by the...
Not just hashtags. I feel it's fairly obvious that comments on a post also need to be sorted by 'relevance'. At least if a post gets more than a handful of comments.
Tak dneska je ten slavný den, kdy si dobrovolně hodíme do přírody pár tun těžkých kovů. Jsme na kopci, kde fouká, lidi v centrech na tom budou mnohem "lépe" (haha). Zákaz samozřejmě nebude mít žádný vliv, znáte to rčení o vlku a koze. Alespoň budou data pro článek.
byl jsem překvapený, že u nás celkem na pohodu. Po půlnoci to na chvíli vystřelilo na 30 mikrogramů na m3 a pak to spadlo do normálních hodnot. Nikdo v naší blízkosti nic neodpaloval a asi pomohly i dobré rozptylové podmínky.
@martenson u nás bylo letos citelně klidněji. Sice to je těžko vymahatelný zákaz, ale myslím, že to funguje už jenom jako jasný signál, že ohňostroje a petardy jsou společensky mírně řečeno nevítané. Je to jako s 1,5m u předjíždění cyklisty. To je taky těžko vymahatelné a policajti kvůli tomu s metrem po cestě neběhají, ale stejně pozoruji, že mě auta objíždí ve větší vzdálenosti. Hodně řidičů si kvůli tomu asi uvědomilo, že objíždění cyklisty ve vzdálenosti půl metru není OK.
Let it not be forgotten that 2026 started on a #Thursday. About 20 minutes after midnight, I tripped on a tree route and scraped my arms on nearby rocks trying to catch my fall. I was unsuccessful, by the way.
Happy new year to all the beings of the eastern time zone! Hoping it's a good one. Someone over there should tell me something about what the future is like.
Happy new year everyone! To begin the celebrations, I have just open sourced my nvgt include in my games to allow one to easily manage many effects in their audio games. Check it out here! github.com/IMS-Productions/nvg…
Hi everyone, happy newyears! I've decided to do something I said I'd do a long time ago and release some of my older games open source, such as Bloodshed, Iminent Death, Sammy Center and a couple others. I don't have binary builds of these right now so you'll need NVGT to play and mod them, but regardless I hope you all have some fun with these and that they bring back some good memories! github.com/samtupy/legacy_game…
Honestly I love these old sounds/logos and selfvoicing menus more than looking at the code. And I've not even known audio games when these have been created, so it's not nostalgic, but still super fun to just look at these old stuff people started out with.
@TomGrant91 I really do appreciate your awesome work, and I’m thankful that you are deciding to open source these masterpieces for us to take a look at. You are amazing sam. Thank you. Freedom is one great thing. I'll see about playing these on mac and linux and sharing my results and of course crediting you because that's important, and I like you, this that and the other. Thanks Tomlet for reposting this one.
We recorded Friday's episode of #StroongeCast yesterday, since Kirsten's out today, so if you want it early, please consider becoming a youtube member and you can listen there. Same time same place on friday as usual though. youtube.com/channel/UCqtMRZeGS…
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I'm Andre Louis (AKA Onj), a visually impaired musician from London.
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If you run an instance, don’t forget to register a DMCA agent with the US Copyright Office. If any of your users posts infringing materials, you can be held liable even if you had nothing to do with it; but, if you have a registered agent (and follow the other steps in §512) you are immune.
In response to multiple threats by the United States to turn Canada into the 51st state, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised Canadians and Washingtonians by declaring Washington Canada’s 11th Province: theneedling.com/2025/03/22/can…
After weeks of trying to strike up friendly conversations with people about their neighbors, lonely and distraught local ICE Agent Martin Briggs says no one is talking to him here because of the Seattle Freeze: theneedling.com/2025/02/04/ice…
“Bigg’s orcas usually aren’t as picky about what they eat, but this little rudder-snapper won’t eat a thing his mom puts in front of him unless she cuts it into little yacht shapes." theneedling.com/2025/11/27/pic…
Local marine biologists have discovered one picky orca calf won’t eat their rich unless their mom cuts them into little yacht shapes. “Bigg’s orcas usually aren’t as picky about what they eat…
Today a local conservative and ICE agent who cried bloody murder when asked to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic clarified he’s actually totally fine with wearing masks as long as it’s to ruin lives, not save them:theneedling.com/2025/03/31/loc…
Today a local conservative and ICE agent who cried bloody murder when asked to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic clarified he’s actually totally fine with wearing masks as long…
“You know how transplants are: Even when they’re cats – didn’t skip a beat,” said Seattle Humane spokesman Landon Furcz as he finished his Taco Time:theneedling.com/2025/01/13/res…
Within 24 hours of landing in Seattle, animal shelter workers are confirming that all 19 rescue cats flown in from California are already complaining about the Mexican food here. “You know how tran…
“We tried remote, we tried hybrid, but after a lot of thought and investment in AI, we really think a full return to work somewhere else policy for everyone is the way to go,” said CEO Satya Nadella: theneedling.com/2025/07/18/mic…
Hi! This is a test post from the NVDA remote client developed by @Bri It seems to have a few quirks, but over all it seems to work decently. The only difficulty I've had so far is that it's a bit difficult/seems to have odd trouble going between the modifiers and the common keys, making things like shift tab a bit difficult. But other than that, it's working well. Oh, and it's very weird to be able to BSI to my computer. Lol
It seems to be a bit iffy if you navigate by heading to get between the sections. Sometimes if you navigate quickly the buttons don't pop up/into focus until you swipe around a bit. Can make a recording if it'd help you replicate/see the behavior
I recorded from a minute before midnight until about 12 after with my Zoom H5 Studio and it's included X/Y microphones on a tripod out in the back yard, while I was sitting on the back porch with a hand-cranked mechanical siren, which can be heard way off to the right in this recording. Given all the guns, the siren seems appropriate somehow.
This was recorded at an extremely conservative level, and still got turned down by 20dB when normalized because of the transients from particularly large rockets. I squished the dynamics to make it more listenable.
Mostly, a lot of gunfire from semi-automatics, with some fireworks is heard.
#HappyNewYear U.S. Central, Canada- Winnipeg, Regina, more of Nunavut; Mexico- Mexico City, Acapulco; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and lots other places...
Happy mew year! Ever wanted to NVDA Remote into a computer on your iOS device? But whoops, forgot your keyboard? Or have a keyboard? Either way, NVDARC has got you covered! NVDA Remote Controller is a new app for iOS and Mac (as soon as it finishes reviewing) that allows you to control computers over the NVDA Remote protocol. It also offers an onscreen keyboard, as well as page swiping gestures and magic tap, for sending keys with the touch screen. Useful for when you have things you want to do on the computer and are away from it. Try out an early version here! testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
This readme says: "• Keyboard input forwarding: Captures and forwards keyboard events to remote sessions (Windows only)". That's ... kind of important functionality to be excluding from a platform in a cross-platform app.
@simon This has been modified significantly by @Aryan with most of the modifications at github.com/aryanchoudharypro/N… specifically, the connection system is far better, reconnecting when needed, the shortcut can be changed by the user, which means you can run several instances on one machine and control a bunch of machines, there is now sound confirmation of a good many things, and the speech cuing issue is fixed. That last has been pulled into the main project but the others aren't yet on the gozaltech repo, so far as I know.
@techsinger @simon Oh gosh, that sounds cool but I typically use Linux with Wayland, not specific to the terminal, so I'd want an actual GUI keyboard hook.
@simon I tried to run this through Gemini a few days ago and it says it created a keyboard hook which would allow sending of keys from the terminal. I haven't compiled to test yet, but it claimed that it turned the terminal to "raw mode" and then allowed all keystrokes to be sent, as well as making sure the terminal went back to "cooked mode" when things ended. Again, no clue whether that's true. It first wanted to create an X11 keyboard hook, but I want something that can run on a machine which just boots to a terminal. Also, just to mention that, on another version, gemini ripped out the SRAL library and directed speech to NVDA controller client so that the program would work on Win7. That does in fact work, I tested it.
@simon @Aryan yes, it really is good work, I'm using it to control three machines, one virtual, two physical, and doing so from my main device. The dumb terminal/thin client surface go I have is now connected to four machines, including the one through TeleNVDA, and the only reason I don't have more connected is that I don't need more. All of them run speech and allow keyboard access with a shortcut.
@techsinger @simon @Aryan That's... Actually really cool. That's honestly my dream NVDA Remote setup and what I wanted from the actual add-on from the start
@simon Gemini said that keyboard hooking through Wayland was difficult. It claimed this was for security reasons, you would know far better than I whether that's true. Anyhow, it said it couldn't do Wayland and wanted to do X11.
@simon It kept bring up ui automation function errors. I suppose it might not have been SRAL, but my very rudimentary looking into it showed it was always in that area so I just said "remove SRAL" which it did and talking directly to the DLL it started working.
@simon @Aryan You can already do that with Telenvda and core remote, though only for two machines at a time, no weird programs needed. As I said, with the companion, I really don't see why there should be any limit. I don't know if you've seen Across, but it's sort of like that with keyboard and speech, ctrl+win+left gives you 1 machine, ctrl+win+up gives you a second, and so on. Hitting the key again brings you back to the main machine and you can work on that one or work on one of the others. As I said, basically like free across.
@simon @Aryan It stinks, honestly, as does its support and licensing, but it can do it. The companion is far better. If there were a server for Linux and with yours for Mac, you could control basically any desktop OS.
It's an important piece, though. I would really like to run this on an ARM device, the keyboard functionality especially. I was thinking keyboard on an RPI and hearing through an Android device so we could have eloquence? Honestly, though, with NVDARC for iOS, I would just forget it if only the pauses could somehow be removed.
@simon @Aryan I have a feeling you'll be wasting your time, so I hate to ask. Having said that, just because you've followed their guidelines, what would you think of reporting it?
In all seriousness though. I have not used NVDA Remote. How do you connect to the machine running NVDA, say, from the Mac? Do you use smb, VNC RDP, or some other protocol?
@vick21 @ZBennoui you either need the client built into NVDA 2025, (see chapter 13 of the guide at download.nvaccess.org/releases…) the TeleNvda add-on for earlier versions github.com/nvda-es/telenvda or the original add-on nvdaremote.com Each of these work as a server or client, depending on the settings. As long as you have a method to connect through firewalls, whether on the LAN or VPN, you can connect directly. If you can't, you can use the public remote servers, nvdaremote.com, remote.nvda.es, and some others, or set one up yourself. It has nothing to do with the other remote protocols (VNC/RDP/Fluid/whatever), you can use those if you want but need not.
@vick21 @ZBennoui Sorry, hit enter too fast. Once you have some sort of controlled machine set up for NVDA, with any of the three methods I spoke of earlier, NVDARC will connect as a client to that machine and things are up and running.
@techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui Is this bi-directional yet? I've got the iOS and Mac apps, can control Windows from either of those, but can I make Windows the controlling computer and make Mac or iOS the target? Any help appreciated, if it's possible I'm clearly missing something.
From what I understand, this is intended to control the machine on which NVDA runs. I mean, the protocol is not set up to control VoiceOver. That's how I read this. :)
@vick21 @Scott @techsinger @ZBennoui iOS isn’t possible because the system is too locked down, afaik there aren't any remote control apps even for sighted people other than the screen sharing feature in facetime. As for Mac, NvdaRC does in fact let you control it, assuming you have the latest version in the settings you can decide whether the Mac should connect to an existing server or host one itself. It gets speech by periodically checking what the last spoken thing was through scripting so it may not always be as seemless as rim or catch if VoiceOver repeats the same message multiple times without saying something else, and you have to use CTRL+Option as the VO keys. Other than that it works way better than it has any right to as if NVDARC wasn't already one of the killer apps of the year for me even though it just started
NVDA-RC on Mac can be controlled by any NVDARemote client as of now. The next release of NVDA-RC for Mac will also include it's own NVDARemote server, so you don't have to connect through another relay.
If you want to control a Mac from NVDA-RC on iOS, and you are using a hardware keyboard, you'll need to disable Voiceover on iOS. Otherwise, keys won't pass through.
I am currently typing this from NVDA-RC on my phone, controlling Tweesecake on a Windows PC 500 miles away, but could just as easily be controlling my Macbook Pro.
I am using a locally hosted NVDARemote server on a Raspberry Pi, to which I am connecting over Tailscale, because I don't like using NVDA's built-in server for multiple reasons, so I would probably also do the same with NVDA-RC for Mac. I'm using Tailscale as I am the only user of this server, and it has no need to be directly exposed to the internet.
@vick21 @ZBennoui That's weird. Anyhow, here it is again. You either need the client built into NVDA 2025, (see chapter 13 of the guide at download.nvaccess.org/releases…) the TeleNvda add-on for earlier versions github.com/nvda-es/telenvda or the original add-on nvdaremote.com Each of these work as a server or client, depending on the settings. As long as you have a method to connect through firewalls, whether on the LAN or VPN, you can connect directly. If you can't, you can use the public remote servers, nvdaremote.com, remote.nvda.es, and some others, or set one up yourself. It has nothing to do with the other remote protocols (VNC/RDP/Fluid/whatever), you can use those if you want but need not.
In this episode, Levi Gobin demonstrates screen sharing with VoiceOver on macOS. Levi first shows us the Screen Sharing settings in VoiceOver Utility, then demonstrates controlling another Mac using the Screen Sharing app.
@chikim @pitermach @vick21 @Scott @techsinger @ZBennoui Actually, yes, this is definitely what you're looking for, if you need this use case. This works so much better than NVDARC ever will, and in fact I only recommend NVDARC if you want to specifically control a Mac from a Windows PC or maybe an iOS device. Otherwise yes, use this screen sharing feature, you'll have lots better luck with that.
Yep just found that in the Settings. I've created a keyword and put a relay in etc. Now what? It didn't connect and I don't see a new machine or new entry after closing settings. @techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui
@Scott @techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui Either restart the app, or hit the be controlled button in the toolbar. I need to actually make this use case work better, so that it automatically connects when changes are made etc.
@chikim @vick21 @Scott @techsinger @ZBennoui Oh yeah, that too. Assuming both you and the other person/Mac are on Mac OS 26, this is the way to go. I recently did a nearly 4-hour tech support session this way. 2 things to be mindful of, on-top of the requirement to be on the latest OS, if you connect to another person, it also automatically establishes a voice call and there's no way to opt out beforehand, other than muting your microphones after the connection is made.Said voice call also ducks all other audio for both of you except VoiceOver and the other person and this was the really annoying part of us because we wanted to use a different app for communication. And speaking of sound, it's not transmited, you only get the other person's VoiceOver speech so that's something else to keep in mind. On the flip side if you're helping a sighted person, even if they're not using VoiceOver, you can turn it on remotely in a way that they won't hear the speech or see the cursor.
@pitermach @chikim @vick21 @Scott @techsinger @ZBennoui I was able to get sound by setting it to high something mode, I forget exactly what it is now but yeah. Also yeah, the voice call thing is stupid annoying.
@Scott @techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui I just pushed a new build hopefully making the initial setup process of be controlled mode on Mac a little less painful. Oh shoot, there's another bug that I actually forgot to fix too. Dang it
Thanks, got it working both ways now, it's wild! One unexpected thing was that when I'm on Windows controlling Mac, hitting CTRL doesn't silence my local voice. It does pass through to the Mac and silence VoiceOver. I guess that surprised me because speech interrupt seems to work when I send VO navigation commands, when I move with arrows or type or whatever else, so it felt weird that CTRL alone didn't interrupt the current utterance locally. @techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui
@Scott @techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui All that crap I have to handle manually, because VoiceOVer literally only sends the string. In the build I just now pushed, control will interrupt the speech, but it won't pause it because there's no way to actually detect if VO is paused or whatever, so it just cancels. Hacky, hacky junk, but better that than not being able to interrupt I think.
@chikim I'm not running 26 on desktop or phone here yet, and probably won't be for quite a while on account of it being... ya know... shit. lol. @pitermach @vick21 @techsinger @Bri @ZBennoui
I prefer that to pausing anyway. Am a compulsive Control twitcher, can't seem to shake off the habit so I end up unpausing VoiceOver without meaning to. @techsinger @vick21 @ZBennoui
@chikim @pitermach @Scott @techsinger @ZBennoui Yep, I am using screen sharing quite a bit between my two computers at home. It works ok once you get it going! :)
I have a Bluetooth keyboard with a full number pad on it. However, my zero key on the number pad is not interpreted as an nvda key. even when NUM lock is off. How can I fix this?
@simon Not really sure what happened there, it worked with 2024 and above and handled pitch changing for caps, as I understand it. @Aryan told me the source of that wasn't available
I never ended up needing to run it, I may say, I was running 2023, but I did keep a copy in case other people wanted the pitch changes. Again, this is all @Aryan project and it just works. The original didn't have cuing. This stuff has that, notifications of send/unsend keys, and NVDA sounds if you put them in a sounds folder in the program folder itself.
oh, and I should mention that @Aryan granted permission for me to send the binaries out if I wanted, just to be clear, and you already have the source.
that's also @Aryan the original had the ctrl+win+f11 shortcut hard-coded. The shortcut setting, whether from command line or from the program's own screen, wasn't in the original project.
@techsinger @Aryan Okay, here's a noobie question for NVDA remote. If you don't want to go through the remote server, do you just point NVDA remote to a local IP, or do you have to run a local server?
Sorry to trouble you, but is the mac server supposed to work with the companion? When I try to connect, I get "SSL handshake failed: SSL - A fatal alert message was received from our peer". Any idea why this might be and are there any logs I can see on the mac side?
@techsinger I'm not sure. It works with stock NVDA Remote, not sure why it doesn't work with the companion. I also ran into this. I'm assuming it's a bug with the companion.
Thanks as always for the quick answer. If I may ask, is it expected that it would work when connecting through a server? It did connect through a server, just not when I tell NVDARC to self-host. I don't have your source, of course, but I asked Gemini with the companion's source and it gave the obvious answer (the protocols/fallbacks are different). I had it do some stuff but was only able to change the error, so it may not be that.
oh, and another suggestion, if I may. If I turn off "to be controled" when I am connected, it may be an idea to warn "you're connected, do you really want to turn connection off? You'll have to turn it back on from the mac if you want it back on.". It would help non-mac users like me who hit vo+space on the wrong thing if we're away from the machine. TeleNVDA does it, but I'm not sure about the core functionality.
Hi @BorrisInABox I'm listening to the Outside stream and I just heard a clock on there fairly close to the microphone. Did that just happen to occur or was that editted in to the stream? It's super cool to hear the fireworks on there too! Happy new year!
Who doesn't like #reverb on their tracks? I sure do. But what has frustrated me for the past 2 years of using #BitwigStudio is that the stock reverb device has felt not as smooth and silky, or easy to manipulate as I'd like. The Lexicon 224 sound is something to strive for, and those clever engineers found a way to make an incredible sound with not amazing spec digital audio (12-bit with a max frequency of 10,400Hz).
I think the secret sauce is the selective bands and delay times where you can have the the reverb swell into brightness or dwell into darkness with some simple tone controls.
I have found that if you stack two Bitwig Reverb devices in an FX-3 Multiband Device on the Low and Mid bands that you can get a really sweet sound. Here is my example with some Airwindows to round it out.
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