Let's start with what my 24/7 outside Mics, the Clippy EM 272, attached to my window have captured. I sadly didn't have the time to setup better quallity thann opus with meh settings which where already in place, but I'll post some of the stuff I captured with the Zoom H1E as well. this are 5 minutes which give an overviewe quite well, no processing or anything. This was right 5 minutes after midnight, so 12:05 to 12:10.
@McOi No. Not unless I get someone trustworthy to compile for macOS. Python does not support native cross platform compilation. And if there's a way to do it, there's likely loopholes.
I don't know what you mean by loopholes, but, I am thinking on it now. I already downloaded it, before I realised it's for windows. LOL. There would need to be additional things added to it, like apple's broken speech API, unless accessible output solves that, but I don't think so, or maybe it does, but it'd be fun on mac. Not sure how to compile it, but if you want, we can try. I am not a bad tardis, I follow instructions. Grins. Haha.
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I'm going to attach two files to this post. Both I found in a Time Machine backup from 2014. Both are speech synthesizers singing in a language that is not English. Both are ogg files, so I hope they will work. If anyone can identify these, please let me know. and feel free to boost for reach.
The language is German (with a horrible accent), and the song reminds me of Schubert by style, maybe it's one of his. I wonder how they made ESpeak to sing?
@menelion go back in time to about 2012 and ask Twitter. that's how I found both of these. I just can't remember who made them. I'm tempted to submit these to the dectalk archive, requesting they be put into the miscellanious folder temporarily until we find out who made them.
The official HD music video for “Sailing” by Rod Stewart, from his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing. One of Rod Stewart’s most enduring hits, Sailing became a wo...
Gemini came to my Google Home devices today, and now everything is better! It's all so much better! I don't know how anyone could think it is anything but better! Listen for yourself! #Tech #AI #Gemini #Google
Ok this is insane, how did they not test such a basic feature before deploying this new AI model? Not even sure this is AI related at all, just seems like the device doesn't know what to do with that specific command. Also wouldn't take too much stock in the "five inches" thing, pretty sure that's just a TTS error, although again, testing Google, testing.
@Scott Oh no, there was an attempt before this where I was not calm. So not calm that I tried it a second time and recorded it so I could complain to the whole Internet
@FreakyFwoof For now you can turn the volume up by moving your head closer, and down by burying the bastard thing in pillows. Just make sure you save one to shout into.
Listen to how little of a delay there is between the bloop and the response with that "use a remote" error message, versus in all other scenarios. This is definitely a canned string, the command was clearly understood and executed, something just went wrong somewhere.
@miki The thing that went wrong is I got Gemini. Whether the issue is to do with the LLM or not, it was not ready to ship as the assistant for controlling home devices
@miki Yep, my guess is it got stuck trying to interact with a specific device, I would get this now and again with the assistant on my Nest speakers. Including the name of the device you are trying to change, even if it's the one you're speaking with, usually fixed it
It stands to reason that it would be, considering they've had what, two years to perfect the technology? This is of course not counting the decade plus of time they spent on deep mind research before Gemini came out, making it the pinacle of AI technology. OpenAI? More like OpenBYE! Amirite?
@ondrosik Thanks for publishing it online for all of us to enjoy and reuse. It's very important to see an example of real personal creativity these times when AI is dominating the space of background music, jingles and other short tracks.
This holiday season I'd like to make someone I think is very important a bit of joy, however I need your help with it.
National bank of slovakia is issuing so called commemorative and collector euro 2 coins to celebrate historic memories, anniversaries and other special events. A friend of mine is collecting these coins with her dad whenever it's possible.
I have found out this is not specific to our country as european central bank has standardised this process and all the countries that have accepted euro can issue such commemorative coins.
Now the part I'd need some help with.
Can you please check with the national bank where you live if you can acquire some of the commemorative euro 2 coins, make me an offer and send these to me through ordinary post / mail service please?
If you're looking for music for your podcasts, videos, presentations, projects… here you’ll find my instrumental creations. Currently, there’s over two hours of music. Just listen and download—no accounts needed. linkly.link/2TkSe
Sorry to say but this is straight up bullshit. Almost everyone uses WhatsApp beta anyway. At least I do so. And I already have the web version. It is beeing rolled out over time, so maybe this works for a few people. But it is not the solution they describe it to be. Please fact check stuff you throw at the internet.
It's definitely a bit of a clickbait, and some things are not necessarily as bad as described, but the web version is indeed a step back and if the beta works better, then that's a win, until it stops working, right? Temporary solutions are still solutions.
This is a typical example when a bit of kindness and compassion goes a long way. Do you seriously expect someone to crowd-source whether this works, instead of trying it out themselves and posting about it because they know that a lot of people have trouble with the web version?
Least you think what I said was not fact checked: Fact checked on the 11th of December, 2025, using the following sources:
The web version being mediocre, using personal findings based on social interaction: This morning someone just asked me how could they jump to the top of the message history, because there is simply no hotkey to do so in the web version by default. Unlabelled buttons, speed and other issues are also present.
Henderson, Theia, et al. “"A Blocklist is a Boundary": Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 9, no. 2, May 2025, pp. 1-30.
@erion K, if you wish ignore the fact checking part. It's just simply wrong. Not only for me. And logically WhatsApp beta would update more often and therefore get the web version earlyer, since, it's a beta? Or have I missed anything about the principe of betas. It's also not the 1st time I see people posting this somewhere so sorry if I got a bit more harsh than needed.
No worries, it was meant to be a semi-serious comment, but I am not sure why this sounds wrong for you. The fact is that the beta works better right now than the web version, right? So regardless of how and when it is updated, accessibility-wise it's a better choice.
Should they fix the issues people are having, the web version could be a reasonably good client to migrate to, but given how Meta's handling betas and choosing to drop things just because they feel like it does not fill me with confidence that the future's bright. That's a different story though.
@erion Wait a sec, I think we are talking past each other. The article and over all complaint says that WhatsApp Desktop, regardless of the normal app or beta, is getting an electron web app. The article says we should get WhatsApp beta (which, as I mentioned, is currently rolling out as the electron web app) so the solution is already invalid for the problem. The WhatsApp Plus Add On that article mentiones does also only work for the native app, which is beeing replaced. Honestly at this point the WhatsApp website, web.whatsapp.com, can at least be tweaked with scripts like here: someplace.social/@jcsteh@aus.s… So in my personal opinion, the website is currently the best bet. Though I don't use it cuz I simply want to have a dedicated app. But taht's another topic on it's own. TLDR afaik the article suggests an already broken solution and is not helpful.
@jonathan859 @erion I've received the new Whatsapp version and I totally don't see what the issue is. Works fine for me . I find it actually works better than the old version. That article was way off on so many things.
The article does not mention that the beta is using Electron, it just says: It simply provides newer features and a different structure than the standard version.
If we suppose that the beta is updated more often than the web version, then even if it's using Electron, if they change anything in regards to accessibility, beta users would see it there first.
Now the question is, given that WhatsApp is known to roll out different versions to different regions and update them at different times, could have been a change somewhere that both the author of the article and @NightDrake could not have had access to? Or could it be that the native app was the beta while the desktop one was already updated to the web version, i.e. the beta is still behind in some regions?
I believe what you said, but there has to be a reason why it works for some people still and it doesn't for others. I don't think this is intentional and honestly the more I hear about this the more messy it becomes, mainly because of Meta. One step forward and two steps back, as they say.
Here's a collection of free-to-use short music for any kind of project imaginable. I've been working on this project for over 10 years on and off, and it's a labour of love.
Whether you're doing work for TV, Radio, Film, your next podcast, show reel, powerpoint presentation, youtube video or university assignment that requires something to intro or outro it, there should be something for you, and if not you directly, maybe someone you know.
This is not the final form. I add to it whenever I find inspiration to do so. Check back every so often as you may find more content was added when you weren't looking 🔇
Currently: 1210 items 766 MB download in mp3 over 9 hours of music.
Absolutely no AI was used (or harmed) in the making of this collection.
If you feel so inclined, please do boost for reach. Many thanks. onj.me/shorts
Is that short 96? If so yeah, that's one of my favourites. There's a 50 or 60-something short that's also a bit DNB but I don't remember exactly which. Also 102, but not the A varient. I did another version with different drums but same underlying feel. I forget the letter, might be F or G?
jajaja, lo mío con estas músicas breves o de fondo debe tener que ver con el #autismo pero lo cierto es que no puedo con ellas. Tampoco es que sea fan de los podcast o los videos pero cuando meten más de 3 segundos de música introductoria se me empiezan a crispar todos los nervios y los abandono para siempre. Igual con las sintonías de programas de radio, si no puedo saltármelas dejo de oirlos. Mañaneros de la 1, yo lo vería pero tiene una música totalmente crispante de fondo, bajita pero audible, y ya no puedo ni oir lo que dicen, mi cerebro solo puede escuchar la musiquita. Que no es por la música en sí sino por meterla con calzador donde no viene a cuento. Ni aporta ni la puedes escuchar, todo mal.
Nice work! The variety of styles and sounds is incredible. Can’t immediately think of a use for it personally, but I will download the zip file……just in case. :)
Thanks so much for checking it out at least. Maybe one day you'll think of someone, or if not yourself, maybe someone else you know who has trouble finding something that doesn't make you jump through 300 AI pop-ups, a mailing list and wants you to enter your credit card info for a free download. Not me. Never my way.
I’ve noticed a trend of more and more podcasters and YouTubers that I follow, slowly dropping the music they once used as intros and outros for their content; and that makes me sad. I get it. Feeding “the algorithm” is a constant battle and you have only so much time.
But the world seems diminished just a little bit more, every time a bit of music and creativity gets dropped.
I was in radio in a past life, and would definitely have used this music had I had it then.
@montef I do a podcast with my wife and we have bespoke intro music, so that if you were to hear it come up in rotation, you'd immediately know it was us. As a musician, no music in things like that makes me sad also.
Yep. It’s definitely a way that my brain associates an artist/presenter with their work. When the music plays, my brain gets itself ready for their content. When I suddenly hear their voices, without “their music”; it’s jarring.
A good friend of mine used to do a podcast ( @KingShawn and “Your Mac Life”). Even today, when I see an email or social media post from Shawn, I *still* hear his theme music in my head. Brains are so weird, and how they catalogue things.
Oh wow I'm really enjoying a lot of these tracks. Love this format of just dropping everything on an easy access page. Makes me want to do something similar down the line.
@criticalmammal Thank you. I saw too many 'Click here, sign up, give me 900 things about you that I really don't need to know before you gain access to 5 cut-down versions of our product' and said absolutely not. I wanted something simple, fast, easy-to-use and a one-click download, so I made it happen.
@griseldagimpel Right, there's a reason for that. Some podcasts make 0 money, so you don't have to pay for music. If you're doing something where you'll get payment, I'd like a little cut of that. For your payment, you get access to the collection in either.wav or .flac which is of course superior to mp3 anyway, so it's not that you're just paying for the same files you already have access to. I don't believe in that.
(I'm currently working on an audio drama/fiction podcast. It would be awesome if it made money, but right now, I'm in the "will be happy if I can pay my voice actors rather than obtaining their services via bartering". So I'll have to check out the selection.)
@griseldagimpel Then please do. Until you make money, I want nothing other than attribution. Most people that find the collection are students or bedroom podcasters making 0 money anyway, for which I ask nothing other than a shout-out. That's often the best thing for me anyway, is word-of-mouth.
@griseldagimpel Let's be honest though, people could use them for commercial ventures and I couldn't stop them. I run on donations and good will, that's all I can do. I'd like to think that a collection this size would keep people honest anyway, but I can't enforce it.
@griseldagimpel If you need any free sounds, I have a collection of various things again free to use on my youtube channel. Here's a link to the playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaj…
This is the place for recordings I make with gear when I’m not creating music, Inspired by Sound videos or anything else. It will contain a collection of rec...
@callisto You're more than welcome. If you do, great, but if you don't, maybe you know someone who is looking for something like this and finds it hard to locate free stuff.
@CiaraNi Thank you. I'm having fun getting over creative block and adding new content to it these last few days. Seeing how much interaction the post is getting also helps. I haven't been able to write meaningfully for two years now.
I'm curious why you appear to have rolled your own license. If so, doing this can create problems as you may not end up with the protections you wished to have. As they have been honed over many years, the Creative Commons licenses are often a good choice and provide real protection. Your license looks to be most similar to CC BY-NC-SA which allows free use, modification and sharing but not commercial use.
@Slash909uk OO fantastic, I hope you find a good handful in there. Do let me know if you do and if not, well I'm always up for trying to make more. Ideas to add to the collection are always welcome. Thanks so much.
Well, thank you, that's a great collection!! Maybe it would be worth mentioning that one cannot use these in any commercial project. (Note: this is not polemical, I'm quite happy with that, but I know from experience that if you write "for any kind of project imaginable", many won't even bother reading the full licence...)
@tizianomattei I've been having a hard time working out how best to put that, someone suggested switching to CC instead. I could do that. People can use them commercially but if they do, I'd hope they're honest enough to pay me a little something for that. I do provide.wav and.flac on request if they do so, because paying for mp3 just isn't my idea of fun.
That would be generous of you. Why don't you simply require that in your license? Or, you could state that lossless WAV/FLAC files are for sale on request (not that this would prevent some from using the mp3s anyway, but...)
Sorry, I missed the relevant sentence - I was looking mainly in the "legalese" section... you see it's hard to find someone who *actually* reads everything (my bad) 😅
I was able to co-code another audio game with ChatGPT: introducing Arcane Audio Archer! I'm still working on difficulty shifts later on in gameplay, but it was fun coming up with all the sound effects, the styling and design, and the ballistics model, all while wrangling the AI to stay on target and fixing the output for overall #A11y and usability. Another project by the #blind for the blind! Go shoot some targets! marconius.com/fun/audioArcher/
A revised copy of the reaper navigation scripts I semi-created have been revised by Scott and added to Toni Barth REAPER Things reapack repo, located at https:/github.com/Timtam/reapack/raw/master/index.xml.
@vick21 I agree, just as Delta became part of reaper for effects. That was something that I had made years ago in the form of an effects chain, but Scot brought the idea forward and it is part of reaper today.
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
Yup, it's amazing, and the developers went out of their way to audio describe every little animation. So many little touches with the sound design too, like how each difficulty level selection has its own sound. The music is also great
@pitermach I'm stuck on the stupid Haily Logan thing at the moment. Wish I could skip the dialog if I've heard it already. I press everything and can't lol
There is a setting somewhere to make the dialog just appear instead of slowly writing out onto the screen. then you could just spam space and get through really quickly.
@pitermach :) I streamed the game a while back, much fun was had and the music was quite pleasing to my ear. I think the tricky bit was that my rhythm keys were interrupting the descriptions of the animations happening during the songs which was a shame but that's fixable with some creative NVDA config :)
@zersiax Yep, sleep mode can help, or playing with a controller. One of the function keys, don’t remember which one, also lets you toggle just the audio descriptions which is nice if you are replaying a level and want to focus on the music
@pitermach @zersiax OO mine crashes when loading 2 dash X All The Times, Boss level, Incomplete. Twice I restarted the game and twice it did that. Very interesting.
I just tried this out with one of my custom soundscapes and it worked perfectly. Thank you so much for this! I like the new app, but I was missing some of the soundscapes I created on desktop. No more! Now all my sounds are with me on mobile. :)
Something is changing my default output device to 24 bit 96 khz. It is annoing, because it doesnt change the imput device, so Reaper can not open it in wasapi. Today it probably broke my vdo ninja recording, which was half a speed. It seems that this happens after lenovo or windows update. Lets see if I can create some script which will monitor it and let me know when this happens again
I've downloaded windows 11 iso image from microsoft download site to find out narrator can no longer be started using ctrl+windows+enter. Do you know which image to download so I can independently install windows for a friend with a screen reader?
It turns out there are patched windows 11 images around restoring narrator functionality. Here is such an image I have found. Does anyone know what's modified? At first it sounds shady however it really seems to work.
Uh oh, I don't think I'd want to run my personal computer with an ISO downloaded from blindhelp. Rather use an older ISO with Narrator functionality and update afterwards...
@Jonathan If you know which iso and where to download it from I would prefer that as well, however according to my internet searches narrator not being available on windows 11 setup is known for almost two years now.
@jonathan859 The issue mentioned was fixed in Build 7019 of Windows 11. Tried it myself on build 7171. Not by installing from the ISO but I reinstalled it so pretty much the same anyway.
@garo Please can you help me to download the appropriate build?
I've navigated to this url microsoft.com/en-us/software-d… Selected Windows 11 (multi-edition ISO for x64 devices) Pressed the Download now button. The iso image I've downloaded does not start narrator when pressing ctrl+windows+enter after fully booting. The file name of the image is Win11_25H2_EnglishInternational_x64.iso The direct url to the image I managed to download this way is software.download.prss.microso…
@jonathan859 The links you sent are cut off. Also, I cannot really help you unfortunately. All I know is that after build 7019 Narator should work - at least by resetting from the settings. Alternatively, just use a 24h2 iso from the Internet Archive. It's really easy to find and you safely can use it (I did so too). Also the upgrading process to 25h2 is fairly easy.
Maybe you can enable it here schneegans.de/windows/unattend… I see here checkbox automatically start narrator during windows setup and after logon. I don't have own experience
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Well, it's December 01, which means it's time to drag Sammy out of his box again.
This silly little song, which was probably someone's throw-away recording for a morning show in the 70s, has a story behind it, at least for me.
On Christmas Eve 1992, Brad Krantz played a song on Asheboro, NorthCarolina's WKRR, called Sammy the Christmas Snake, on his morning talk show. It just so happened that my brother had a few boomboxes recording local radio stations to capture the essence of a Carolina Christmas that morning, when Sammy the Christmas snake played on Brad's show. As I was 8 years old at the time, and my brother and I liked this silly little song so much, we decided to make it tradition to play it every Christmas morning before going upstairs for the "good stuff". Unfortunately, however, in 1994, my brother went off to college, and the tape was lost somewhere. Naturally, it was the only copy we had.
A few years after that, Brad was fired from WKRR, and I lost track of him. I emailed one of the guys at the station around 2001 or so, to see if they knew where Sammy the Christmas Snake might be, or at least knew who recorded it. I was told that Brad took their only copy with him when he went to Charlotte, and they had no idea who actually wrote or recorded the song, only that Brad got it from someone in Boston.
In the summer of 2004, WZTK, a new FM talk station owned and operated by Curtis Media was launched. And, guess what? Brad Krantz is back with the Brad and Brit show.
I emailed him in August of 2004 just to politely ask if he still had Sammy the Christmas Snake, and asked if he would play it on his show over the holiday season. He said he would, that it was apparently widely requested, and said "thank you for remembering Sammy".
So, I started my audio recorder on December first to try and record Sammy the Christmas Snake for my own personal amusement, seeing as how I have been looking for it for 12 years on and off at this point. Apparently, Brad had expected this, and made sure to talk or play IDs at every possible opening in the song, which, as you can imagine, infuriated me. Yep, this was war!
I kept the recorder going every weekday morning through December 21, 2004, to see if he would slip and forget to play an ID in the same places.
Finally, on December 21, 2004, I had enough pieces to reconstruct it!
I ended up running seven different copies of the song as played on the Brad and Brit Show through my favorite audio editor, taking the best parts from each, to get the relatively unmutilated version of Sammy the Christmas Snake, albeit with a few compromises. The song came from a slightly scratchy record, dubbed to who knows what media, played over an FM radio station. After editing, there were differences in equalization in some parts of the song, most likely due to Brad playing the track back through a different player or channel on the station's console, but considering it was the only version of the song I could find anywhere, and, as of December 2025, I still have no idea who recorded it, my edit was good enough.
I wanted to share the song as widely as possible, thanks to my beef with Brad, and this was before the existence of Youtube, so I put it on a webpage with links to contact Brad and Brit, and thank them for allowing us to have access to such a wonderful song. This, of course, was in response to Brad's claim that he had exclusive rites to it, which I thought was completely unfair. There's no need to keep Sammy in a box like that!
Several years went by, and someone uploaded my edit of Sammy to Youtube. It has now been featured in several different videos, but it's obvious that it's my edit, and I've yet to find another version of it anywhere, online or offline.
There were some things that bugged me about my original 2004 edit, which I could now fix with tools and skills I didn't have at the time, so, on December 1, 2018, I fixed some small timing issues that existed between splices, reduced crackles, pops and rumble, made the equalization a little more consistent, got rid of some noise, and performed a few other touch-ups. This is the result. It's still not perfect, but it's better than it was, and certainly cleaner than any other version on Youtube as of December 1, 2018.
I'm still looking for a real copy of this song, or, at the very least, an idea of who recorded it. There is some speculation on the comments of this Youtube video.
I was told that this song also featured on a morning show on WNAP in Indianapolis, Indiana, around 1978-1982.
A few years ago, my edit was played on WKRR again, where it all started for me. Go figure.
As of May 2025, Brad Krantz has passed away, so if he actually knew anything about the origins of this song, we can't ask him now.
Lyrics, sung by a guy with a New England accent sped up and singing with himself to the backing of a Fender Rhodes, some flutes, drums, bass and a glockenspiel are as follows:
There are such cute little Christmas galoots... Little angels, and reindeer, and snowflakes that fly. But from all those yule underdogs fondling my memory logs, one multiple vertebrae kind of a guy.
Sammy the Christmas Snake hid in the corner of Santa's workshop. Sammy the Christmas Snake bit all the elves and made all the work stop. Hid in the stockings, he hid up the flue, bit on Rudolph 'til his nose turned blue, ain't no tellin' what a Christmas snake'll do... *hiss, hiss, hiss* Merry Christmas
Sammy the Christmas Snake had peppermint stripes and pointy ol' fangs. Sammy the Christmas snake he hides in the holly where the mistletoe hangs. Hid in the stockings, he hid up the flue, he bit on old Santa and Misses Santa Too! OH! Sammy the Christmas Snake *hiss, hiss, hiss* Merry Christmas.
Come on kids, sing with me!
Now, Santa lived with Herb the Christmas Dwarf at Santa's house, and no one liked him much since he bit Sid, the Christmas Mouse. 'Til Rick the Christmas Mongoose went berserk and tried to wreck, the sleigh and Sammy saved the day when he broke Rick's Christmas neck. HEY!
Sammy the Christmas Snake Now there ain't a ban on anacondas in the arctic. Sammy that ol' Christmas Snake Now those elves don't chase him with that forked stick.
What a merry mood he has all the girls and boys in, givin' out the cheer and holdin' back the poison...
On Christmas Eve 1992, Brad Krantz played a song on Asheboro, NorthCarolina's WKRR called Sammy the Christmas Snake, on his morning talk show.It just so happ...
Awesome! Bookmarking this. If you are around, would you mind telling your story on my net tonight? I'm going to do the bloody Christmas music topic just to get it out of the way early. LOL
this is happily been a part of my holiday traditions since 2006. I didn't hear it until then, but when I did, I knew it would be a favourite. This does everything correctly. You know what I mean as well.
A new version of #SARA is available on GitHub. A lot has changed, mainly under the hood, but also in the interface. Among other things, a break (Ctrl+B) has been added to a track, which causes playback to stop after the track marked this way in automix. Speaking of automix, its behavior is now much more predictable. The mix window now allows monitoring of both the loop and the mix with the next track, both triggered by the Alt+V shortcut. A “Do Not Disturb” mode has been added to the NVDA add-on, enabled by default, which makes SARA speak very little, but as a side effect it also stops reading some interface elements, so for example it is best to switch between playlists using the F6 key. The Do Not Disturb mode can be turned off at any time with the Alt+NVDA+D shortcut. Attached to this post you will find a sample of how SARA mixes in practice, and you can test it here: gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/
2025 Thanksgiving! I am absolutely not thankful for hCaptcha and their shockingly careless approach to accessibility. When trying to sign up for their so-called accessibility cookie, this is the audio they expect us to understand. My hearing is excellent, yet the recording is chaotic, garbled, and completely impossible to interpret. It is presented as an accessibility feature, but it is anything but accessible. This is my fifth attempt to sign up for Bluesky and hCaptcha keeps ruining the process every single time, even when trying to sign up through Google.
Ok, so it sounds like the dude is just reading various numbers that you type into the box, but this is probably one of the worst audio captchas I've ever heard.
Yesterday I mentioned the tremendous amount of beepage going on outside my house just before 7 AM. They came back at approximately twenty passed 4 and were quite a bit more vocal about it this time. Here's a two-minute clip from that time, and an article explaining why THE protest happened. 'Arrests at farmers' central London tractor protest' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze8nn…
For some reason I misread the alt text here as "summer musical in nature," and got very confused. Is it summer where he lives? What's a summer musical? Why is it in nature? Is this a phrase I haven't heard before? Lmao
I really want to know what song one of the vehicles was trying to emulate there. Edit: It has been suggested to me that it was 'Coffin Dance' youtube.com/watch?v=j9V78UbdzW…
Watch This : https://youtu.be/nVdLW8kls50I do not own the music and videos, neither ads or monetization.all the things up there goes respectively to the owne...
Watch This : https://youtu.be/nVdLW8kls50I do not own the music and videos, neither ads or monetization.all the things up there goes respectively to the owne...
Watch This : https://youtu.be/nVdLW8kls50I do not own the music and videos, neither ads or monetization.all the things up there goes respectively to the owne...
Having felt unmusical for months, being able to put down even the beginnings of an idea makes me feel far less depressed about life. This is one of the first things I've recorded in far too long.
Dirty wi-fi trick to prank/annoy/confuse your neighbors
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So my mischievous mind came up with this trick/prank, and I'd advise only trying it on neighbors you *really* don't like. It involves setting up a guest network or an extra router with their exact wi-fi name if you have it. Password doesn't matter, you're just mimicking their network name to trick their devices, which should give password errors when they get close to your place and further from their real routers. This also works if you have a portable hotspot and know the wifi name of a network they usually connect to when they aren't near the network, you just have to keep a straight face when they get suspicious.
Even better if you hide the name, so they don't know it's you when they unplug their routers to troubleshoot. Again, you could be in potential trouble for doing this and it's not nice to do so, so do it as a last resort. Har har har.
Yesterday an open-source developer Christian has released life changing update to the privacy respecting #android app called #MakeACopy. The app now features so called #accessibility mode that is enabling #screenReader users to take pictures of the paper documents independently. Accessibility guide is available on github. The latest prerelease version provides clear Accessibility guidance phrases with screen readers such as Talkback, Corvus, Jieshuo and others that can handle announcement accessibility event.
I am verry happy about this. We are now getting privacy respecting open-source based screen reader accessible solution that performs very well and is easy to use.
MakeACopy is an open-source document scanner app for Android that allows you to digitize paper documents with OCR functionality. The app is designed to be privacy-friendly, working completely offli...
"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."
This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.
ORIGINAL:
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
Once upon a time I called a restaurant and asked if they were wheelchair accessible. I specifically asked about stairs. They said yes they were wheelchair accessible, there were no stairs at all. We arrived, excited to try their food, to find there were steps to get into the restaurant. I asked why they said it was accessible when I couldn't even get in the door. They said the restaurant is accessible once you get inside.
I think about this a lot. It's accessible once you get inside, but they don't offer you any way to get in there.
This is common. That restaurant wasn't the first place to be inaccessible while saying it is accessible, it's just the one that stuck with me most because the host was so sure they were accessible and could accommodate me. They were even happy about being able to have me there.
So how does this go so wrong? Can you tell me, because I don't know. How did they get so close and still fail?
Here's a funny one for you: There is a restaurant on Staten Island that has a really great ramp. It's obviously up to spec. The only problem is to use the door at the top of the ramp you have to go up the stairs, inside the restaurant, and ask someone to open the door at the top of the ramp. So close, right? Disabled people would never be out without a nondisabled person, so this is a smart decision. (This is not a smart decision. Disabled people do in fact go out alone or with other disabled people.)
Nondisabled people do not understand disability or disabled people. Not at all. They think they do, but they view everything through their own biases and fail to truly know us as separate human beings. That's a problem, not that they realize it.
>boot windows partition >Lenovo Vantage autostarts >discord autostarts >microsoft teams autostarts >defender scans entire fucking disk >several command windows pop up and disappear >"compatibility telemetry" starts blaring my cpu and disk >windows auto-downloads driver updates >screen flickers and scaling changes several times >onedrive starts blaring cpu and disk
Lenovo Vantage is nasty. The whole "let's install drivers and software while you're actively using the computer" thing is completely unacceptable, especially because the setup windows it pops up actually grab keyboard focus away from whatever you were doing. At least properly hide the damned setup windows if they must have them at all.
yeah, today I again got the winrar popup with some chinese letters in the title. Then something called installation wizzard without buttons and finally the restart prompt. Fortunatelly I am not live in radio today :D
But I have one more frustrating annoyance. Yesterday I did some audio editing in Reaper, everithing worked fine. Today after this update, reaper didn't work e. g. I had no output. After investigation, I noticed that something sets my output device to operate at 96 khz 24 bit. Maybe it is the best possible quality for the integrated realtek hardware but I prefer 48 khz 16 bit. and I have no idea why some system update needs to change that.
After a few intense days with GPT Codex, it’s finally time to officially introduce Sara. #SARA or Simple Accessible Radio Automation, is a program primarily designed for radio presenters who host live shows.
Some notable features that are currently missing from other broadcast solutions accessible to blind users include:
a loop function – especially useful for intros, a flexible number of playlists and players, and a news editor module with the ability to embed audio clips that can be played while reading the news.
The application is 100% vibe-coded, and it’s definitely not recommended to test it during a live broadcast. It requires several sound cards to operate, and for now, I’m not planning to add any virtual audio routing like the one found in Radioboss or SPL. The program is and will remain open source, and perhaps someone interested in contributing will join the project.
In terms of screen reader compatibility, the main focus is on NVDA.
I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on.
I knew the conversation had happened. I remembered participating in it.
I am wondering what accessible SIP clients do you use on Windows and android? I would like to experiment with odorik.cz as there are plenty options, like IVR setup, call forwarding, voicemail, call recording and similar stuff which we will probably need for our community project.
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