I have a challenge for @Tamasg. I would like to see if he can attempt to make an NVDA addon for the Panasonic CyberTalk synthesizer. Here is a link to the files needed:
According to when I did exporting of the DLL functions of ttsapi.dll), it sounds promising, though I'm not a developer by any means, and I know that he is working extensively on the NV Speech Player addon.
actually it looks like they might allow for wave hooking without a wrapper so it may be doable more so than Rozmowy, that Polish synth, or Mindmaker Flexvoice 2. Not knowing DLL signatures directly is a huge challenge though with these things always, so can't make promises, but doesn't look bad on the surface scan.
looks like this is a SAPI4 synth. CyberTalk is not a “call these exported functions to speak” style engine. It’s a Microsoft Speech API 4 (SAPI4) Text-To-Speech engine implemented as a COM in-proc server (TTSAPI.DLL exports DllGetClassObject, DllCanUnloadNow, etc.), and the STLTTS.EXE piece looks like the engine’s helper/server side that the DLL talks to. Sigh. So this may have to stay as a SAPI4 engine, because writing that glue for inter-DLL communication and hooking wave in COM DLLS doesn't work the same. But it's possible to change the .reg file and have it speak, I think.
AI at its best: the review we requested from Google's "security" console (quotes intended as questioning the term) "failed". I'm pretty sure, with not a single human involved.
Works. </s>
So whenever Google's "safe" browsing warns you about something, make sure to check for yourself (if you can) – do not blindly trust them. Being Big does not imply being competent. Obviously.
But sure, put them into control of everything, what could go wrong…
The reason seems quite obvious here: the app in question is an APK Updater. Oh, does that match the current/upcoming changes in Goog's policy? I'm very surprised (not), this certainly is pure coincidence (not).
And no, we won't remove the app from our repo just because of Goog shenanigans and their "alternative realities". Count the number of malware found at F-Droid+IzzyOnDroid (0), compare that to findings at Play (∞), get to your conclusion (🖕).
@fbinin What is most frustrating there is how that wastes our time. I don't have to give you the term "underhanded" here, your team shares that pain…
Updated my snippet again (gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577). Recording those events for reference sounds like something more than due (hoping for "backfire" re:trust their "safe browsing"). Hopefully, someone collects such evidence (I know someone who is, he knows about my snippet) and brings it to the right places, in a big box…
They are coming to FOSDEM, maybe we can give them something to go back with? I have few things myself, but I am sure the ones coming will have very little authority or speaking power. You may have seen how they are hiding behind the banking apps now and getting them to make sure people only use foogle store, and thereby bypassing the open market ruling. I am going offtrack I guess. Frustrated tbvh.
@fbinin Hahaha… yes, I tried that back at DroidCon in 2024. Guess they'll only send the PR team, again…
Nevertheless: the two of us can have a coffee together of course! Our stands are even next to each other, so it can be a can of coffee instead of just a cup 😉
Of course and I am very much looking forward to meeting you and others. I am wishing to even meet and make friends, rather than just acquaintance with at least a few there.
Only trouble for others would probably be like: I do not drink, nor smoke, and am pure vegetarian. That may kill the mood for many. 🙃
Apple has been forced in EU (and other legislations with comparable IT laws) to allow alternative App shops. This was never needed in Android, as Android was not a walled garden and alternative App shops simply existed. But if Google is going to create a walled garden by forbid "side loading", the LEX APPLE will apply and Google must invite alternative app shops. Have F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid already made a request to Google? If Google denies such a request: The German Gessellschaft für Freiheitsrechte @ Freiheitsrechte@chaos.social might be interested to sue.
@Life_is I cannot speak for F-Droid here. But I can forward that question to our client teams (Droid-ify & Neo Store).
Though in this context, it might be much more subtle: why rejecting their inclusion at Play, when you already can shovel dirt on them before they even apply (by maliciously marking them malicious)? And it pretty much looks like the latter here: of course would they not accept any apps known for being malicious, right? So create the facts you need?
The curl project merged #19384, #20033 and #20228 which re-implements rate limiting of transfers in libcurl. This will be part of the upcoming 8.19.0 release at the beginning of March 2026.
@FastSM Sheesh this is broken. Newest update and for some reason when I reply to something my send timeline doesn't display it (yes filters are off and I refreshed the TL) and even more significant, not sure if you changed anything with the template system but some posts are just empty. It shows the posters display name but the post itself is empty.
Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan, but instead of using local trainers, and being one of the most wealthy companies in the world, Apple has dubbed existing workouts with AI-generated versions of the trainers' voices. appleinsider.com/articles/26/0…
Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan, but instead of using local trainers, and despite being one of the most wealthy companies in the world, Apple has dubbed existing workouts with AI-generated versions of the trainers' voices.
A radio telescope on the moon's far side could change our understanding of the universe. Learn how LuSEE-Night plans to listen to the cosmos like never before.
Last night, I had a #weirdDream about a new product announced at NAMM, called the Absorbian. It was basically this dense, compact cube that had two handles you pulled apart, and it expanded into about a 8x8x8 block that completely absorbed any sound around it. Perfect for recording clean vocals in a busy industrial wearhouse, but small enough when folded that you could easily carry it in a purse. It was hollow in the middle, so you put whatever you wanted isolated inside the cube once expanded.
Being human is just constant admin. Register this, fill out that, contact the business or person. I long to just exist outside of all of the noise. Put my shoes on and just walk the fields and Downs. Survey the ocean and stand in the salty breeze. Lay in a meadow and splash in a stream. Howl in the moonlight and weep against a tree. Make friends with a badger. Form an alliance with the birds. Go to war against the snakes. Create a new religion with the dirt folk. Lose my mind and smile at the sun as I fly away to a lost continent. Transubstantiate into a being of pure energy and beam myself throughout the cosmos. Drift past the observable universe and discover a new place where matter and physics no longer exist. Join with the universe and become god. Instead I have to do my stupid little emails.
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There is a surprising inconsistency with how columns are represented in spreadsheets I have never thought about. There is A, B, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., BA, ...; if we assume that column indexes start from 0 (like rows), then A = AA = AAA etc.
That's clearly incorrect, so the table rows must be indexed from 0 while table columns are indexed from 1, right? No! If A=1, then Z=27, so AA=28, but we've already determined, that A stands for 1, so AA is basically 28 + 1. Ergo, column labels in spreadsheets are not indexes and they are pure nonsense. QED. :)
Kyjevská radnice hlásí kritickou situaci s vytápěním a elektřinou. Milion lidí je bez energie, 5600 bytových domů nemá dodávky tepla, 600 tisíc obyvatel z celkem třímilionové metropole už město opustilo. (NV)
The more I use my phone rather than a computer, the more I’m really starting to understand that VoiceOver, as a screen reader, is fundamentally broken on the iPhone and I don’t think it can be repaired. I just had three cases where I opened an app, or navigated to a new screen, and voiceover jumped focus three times without me ever touching the screen. I also constantly have to navigate a typing delay. There is a significant delay now where VoiceOver will, on occasion, more than not, just randomly decide not to say the key my finger is navigating over when typing. It feels like everything about VoiceOver is very sluggish in this latest operating system version. I genuinely think that VoiceOver is broken in so many ways that it’s more advantageous to use a desktop and a desktop screen reader. Even with NVDA’s flaws, it’s 1 million times more useful than what I’ve just encountered. I don’t understand the blind folks that exclusively use an iPhone without a computer by choice. Those blind people have a fuck ton more patience than I do. #Apple
(1/2) We are happy to announce a new milestone for transparency in #IzzyOnDroid: public metadata
Starting today, all info on all IzzyOnDroid apps is now publicly available on Codeberg in our new metadata repository: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repod…
You can now submit your updates to listed apps (e.g. AuthorName, links) directly via PRs – and we're looking forward to your contributions! We're now working on updating our documentation, to help you with this. Stay tuned!
(2/2) The work required to clean up and publicize the repo data has taken over 150 hours (i.e. almost a full "work month"), including opening and processing hundreds of PRs, upstreaming them as Fastlane trees to the corresponding app repositories – and wouldn't have been possible without the funding from NLNet and community donations. If you want to support us to keep improving IzzyOnDroid, please consider donating!
And wow, what an incredible community do we have: the repo was just made public for a few minutes, initial toot was not yet sent, and we already got our first PR (merged meanwhile) We're EXCITED!!! 🤗
(Edit: this toot is proof of our excitement. Corrected "Were excited" to "We're excited", fingers where wobbling on the keyboard 🙈 )
so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands.
maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back
This is just a post to say that my powder dip nails have lasted a month. Not only do they look amazing. They have grown into smooth cat claws. And all that to say, I think I've found my new Florida nail tech. Because not everyone can get powder dip to last this long but also still look this nice. *sounds of real nails tapping phone glass in a happy dance motion*
I can understand, if the results are #AI slop then it should be filtered out. Genuinely good input that happened to be created using #AI should still be valued. That said, if you have a gazillion input reports you might get a call from your bank
So sorry you (and many other code maintainers) have to deal with this slop.
With AI, it's now far too easy for unqualified people to automate their bug bounty submissions. It's a numbers game: submit 1K (or maybe even 10K) alleged bugs and if you land just one bounty, it's worth it.
I was wondering if making people pay for each bounty submission would help deter this behavior? One reason they bulk submit slop is that it's basically free. I'm not sure of the mechanics here though.
🔴 Wat gebeurt er als Trump met één druk op de knop alle Amerikaanse systemen van Nederlandse organisaties uitschakelt?
We deden onderzoek. Wat blijkt?
🎓 81.4% van de onderwijsinstellingen raakt toegang tot documenten en e-mail kwijt
🏛️ net als en 72.6% van de gemeentes
🏢 en 70.4% van de grootste Nederlandse bedrijven
Dit en meer kun je vinden op zijnwealautonoom.nl. Daar verzamelen we van ruim 13.000 Nederlandse organisaties bij wie ze hun websites en e-mail hebben ondergebracht.
It is also possible that you have that key bound to something else, in which case I'd recommend trying to change it, or do you mean it doesn't even install?
Yeah the manifest says 2025.3.2 so older installs won't work unless you extract it by-hand and rectify. Not hard to do, you can either rename to .zip and open it, or use 7zip to extract.
I updated, it's a bit annoying to do on my work Laptop that's why I didn't before. But honestly weird NVDA behaviour to just, do nothing when pressing on an Add On that's apparently not for that version.
Offhand I'm not sure why either - at least, NVDA should probably give an error - would you be able to create an issue at github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… please?
@NVAccess Yes, I'll test this more in dept on my personal machine when I get home later though, right now there is not a lot specific to talk about so I wanna see if I can find out more.
We're working hard on making signage that adds to the vibes for #bytenight, cause we like it when a project is practical and pretty :) ... come for the beer stay for the blinking LEDs, on the Saturday evening during #fosdem
On this day in 1985, 41 years ago, Greensboro, NC, the city in which I grew up, experienced it's coldest temperature on record, -8 degrees F, or -22.22 degrees C.
I was alive for that, but being less than a year old at the time, don't have any memory of it.
My baby bedroom was the least insulated in that house, though, so that must have been fun keeping it at a reasonable temperature.
Mount Mitchell, NC recorded a temperature of -23 degrees F, or about -31 degrees C, on that same day.
honestly, the janky-ass superflous animations & effects even with all the “reduce motion” #accessibility options enabled seem to exist only to slow down my previously very snappy recent-gen (n-2) #iPhone – this isn’t event planned obsolescence, it feels like hastened obsolescence to make the #Apple money printer go brrr just a little sooner than usual, as a treat 😤
on a device that has the hardware to support 120Hz refresh rates, why am I ever seeing folders & icons get visibly drawn on my screen? 🤪
I must be one of the only privacy advocates who actually thinks children shouldn't be allowed to use social media 😬 My main concern is the age verification implementation, but I know there are ways to make it 100% private, only revealing if you're over a certain age as a true or false value.
Instead, It is to force adults to give up their IDs (and normalize the act) so they are easy to be identified whenever they try to spread the truth or post/comment something against the will of the elites.
There are numerous ways to protect the children. This is definitely not one of them.
Oh, cool. My NAS back at home is apparently suffering from Dying Power Supply Syndrome (DPSD) or something. It apparently improperly shut down twelve times yesterday, according to the logs.
Of course, it would do this just a few months after I spent over 2 grand replacing the storage on it with 8 new 12 TB hard drives, replacing the 6 TB drives that were all starting to die.
Looks like maybe a new NAS is in my future when I get back... whenever that is.
I don't have a lot of experience with NAS devices specificly, so sorry if this is obvious, but is that dangerous for the drives if they just get cut power like that so often?
How about just replacing the PSU? Does it really need an entirely new NAS? Same thing happened twice to my old DS415play by now, just replacing the PSU worked fine. My DS918+ still runs like on its first day, but that one runs behind a UPS and isn't as stressed out as a regular PSU would be at this point.
@ToniBarth Well... it could be the board, not sure. Either way, the board and the PSU themselves for the DS1815+ are not easy to find on their own, without finding another old NAS with issues and parting it out.
I had this problem with my first DS1815+, or something like it, and it turned out to be a common problem with the first generation motherboards. Got the NAS replaced under warranty in 2018, and that's the one I'm still running now.
Those Synology units have weird power supply plugs don't they? At least you can use the drives in the new unit. I've often wondered how portable the Synology units are if you say upgrade a unit and need to keep the drives/data how easy that would be to do. You'd probably need to reinstall the OS as the upgrade will change the architecture.
Brrr... new introduction time cause my old one is already outdated lol.
I am Sinclair-Speccy, your local resident computer nerd that can’t actually do a lot of tech stuff like people think. My primary interests are #Linux, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads.
My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s (I know, so interesting /s). Despite having used XP as my first OS other older OSes (mostly Linux ones) interest me more if you look at the media I've posted on my account besides the tech ads.
I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art as my friend was there, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space.
One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters, though I tend to call them tech gijinkas. I even have my own tech gijinkas universe that is hosted on my site.
You can check out my website here: sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-… and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform or something, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...
Unlike in the past I'm not active as I used to be, sadly.
Canceled another subscription recently, the money that's left will probably go into donating to NTFY or other projects, another awesome software I seriously enjoy using. Support your FOSS developers, even if it's just a small amount. Especially if you'd pay for the tool, like I did with pushover before.
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