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My new Accessible Sensor Readout app for Windows

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I've just put out a new build of Fastwin, my small Windows utility to apply various registry tweaks to make your system run better. This version adds new options for things such as explorer customization, allowing you to get rid of the new right click context menu in Windows 11, turning off Bing in the start menu, etc. and also now allows you to toggle settings between states instead of just setting them in one state. For example, now I can turn back on bing in the start menu, if I ever want to do that for some reason. Download for x86_64: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/r… Download for ARM64: github.com/trypsynth/fastwin/r… enjoy!

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Be My Eyes CEO Mike Buckley reacts to concerns about sighted people recording their interactions with users of the app - watch the full conversation here: youtu.be/0EIzs7xwRyI?si=GwEjMh… #Blind #BlindTech

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It’s not our ability to love that makes us human—it’s our ability to select all the pictures that include a bus.

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But "bus" is also slang for 'kiss', do I include the kissing picture? Wait, a 'bus' in the electrical sense is a distribution block, there is sure to be on in that power substation, so do I include that?
Do I REALLY want to log onto that website? I am so tired now.
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This is a reminder to check everything AI produces, unless you want to waste time and resources you didn't expect were necessary. Such lazyness on my part did create a new language though.

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Meet and greet my new tune called Emily, youtube.com/watch?si=m_BaTfqV_…
I'm quite happy with how it came out! Hope you will like it too!

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A new release today : mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/berk…

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Hi! Latest release of music separator is up!
You find it at the usual place
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Mu…
More stems, more models and now each output will be in its own folder.

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@batworx That error appears when DNS doesn't work, which usually means internet is dead. Perhaps it's checking for latest revisions, hashes or something? GitHub can throttle requests but I don't think that error would result if it did.
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Introducing, the Magic Switch! mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=202604…

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Hello! Here is the new Release of Music separator
github.com/GianlucaApollaro/Mu…
Mac version is ready and compiled as well. Feel free to test it.

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Do you know that you can find music under CC0 licence on Free music archive? Article about me and my music on Free music archive: freemusicarchive.org/blog/meet…

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Gianluca, @Leowyatt88 has made a very easy-to-use, accessible stem separation tool for windows.
One uses CPU, another uses GPU so simply download the version you need.

dropbox.com/scl/fo/jnicbs8cjc8…

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@cubic Hi! No bug here. If the extraction is successful, the button gets back to separate. I'll see if I can reproduce it and fix it. What version are you using?
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Now live with the Super Liam 1.5 Release Party. Come party right along. youtube.com/live/kIRs9H-zq5I?f…

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Auphonic CLI release: Auphonic is now available from the command line.
Process, manage, and automate your audio productions without leaving the terminal. Free, single binary, no dependencies.
Read more here: auphonic.com/blog/2026/03/26/a…

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Abaddon: an alternative Discord Client with Voice Support made with C++ and GTK 3, without Electron #OSS #Discord github.com/uowuo/abaddon

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A gong vibrates with far more complexity than the air around it reveals. Some of its deepest motions stay mostly in the metal itself. By placing contact microphones directly on the surface, I captured vibrations that conventional microphones usually miss...

mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/gong…

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Do you know what is the situation behind Lambda math editor and NVDA? One student reported to me that NVDA don't interpret symbols accurately inside Lambda. I remember that there was addon somewhere but can't find something useful now. @Peter Vágner @NV Access
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@ondrosik @NV Access Also there is Equalize editor that is a web app. It allows linear editing of math in various input modes including braille mode, qwerty mode, home row mode that allows entering braille on a computer keyboard. It works with screen readers to provide speech and braille, it can generate nemeth braille, mathml. For browsing mathml output screen reader support or mathjax in the browser can be used. As input it takes ascii math, latex, and mathml. It looks very robust.

The equalize editor is at lakepinesbraille.com/ee/

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This is fantastic.
'Top 15 recording mistakes in famous songs'
youtu.be/sEsHWXeQw6c?si=AxpSfw…

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I’ve said this before but I love helping #blind people via Be My Eyes.

Just helped someone find his lunchtime soup: pea, leek, and watercress if you’re interested ☺️

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Made on the web at onj.me/nc.
If you select all the text in this post, go to the site and press CTRL+Shift+V or use the toolbar, then press Enter to play, you should hear a thing.
Will render there, or with standard composer. Silly, short but fun.

#NVDAComposer
NVDA_COMPOSER_CLIP v2
# tempo: 180
n67 t120 v127
n67 t120 v127
n65 t120 v127
n69 t120 v127
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Interesting nvda add-on from Tony Gebhard, Interactive NVDA screen reader training add-on — guided, hands-on lessons built into NVDA
Submitted for addon store review, you can check out the Github repo here,
github.com/tonygeb23/nvdaCoach…
Thrilled to share something I've been building: NVDA Coach is now available —

a free, interactive training add-on for the NVDA screen reader. 🎉

As an assistive technology instructor, I've worked with a lot of people who are

just starting out with screen readers. The hardest part isn't finding the right

resource — it's the gap between reading about a command and actually using it.

NVDA Coach closes that gap.

Instead of reading a manual, students practice real NVDA commands step by step,

inside NVDA itself, with spoken instructions and instant feedback.

📚 Version 1.0.0 includes 24 lessons across three chapters:

→ Getting Started — the 10 essential commands every beginner needs

→ Reading and Moving Through Text — character, word, line, and selection navigation

→ Browse Mode and Web Navigation — heading, link, form, and landmark navigation

What makes it different:

✅ Everything happens inside NVDA — no PDFs, no videos, no switching context

✅ Live practice forms for hands-on Tab and control navigation

✅ Practice text embedded directly in the lesson window for reading drills

✅ A practice web page auto-opens for browse mode lessons

✅ Completely free. No account. No internet required after install.

✅ Built for beginners, usable independently or with an instructor

If you work with people who are learning NVDA, or if you're learning yourself,

I'd love for you to try it and share it with anyone who might benefit.

This is a beta release with plenty of room for feedback, comments, and suggestions. Please feel free to flood my email inbox. :)

🔗 Learn more: tonygebhard.me/NVDACoach

📧 Questions or feedback: info@tonygebhard.me

#NVDA #ScreenReader #AssistiveTechnology #Accessibility #AT #BlindTech

#DigitalInclusion #AccessibilityTools #A11y #AssistiveTech

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almost 20 years ago, I played with, and made, a model talker voice; now, I just made a voice with Piper-TTS. dropbox.com/scl/fi/boi8aqlthka…

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For a school project, my son wants to do a live looping performance involving keyboard, vocals and maybe violin. Looping pedals that support vocals and another instrument are surprisingly expensive; several hundred dollars at least. So, I looked into software options and couldn't find anything that quite did what I want.
He wants to be able to quickly toggle overdubbing of loops. He also wants to be able to mute parts of the loop - e.g. mute a set of instruments and bring them back later - which means the looper has to be multi-track.
REAPER's Super8 almost does the trick, but aside from its inaccessibility (my son has sight, so that's okay for him), it doesn't seem to work the way we want with MIDI control. When you assign record and play to MIDI CCs, it works the first time you trigger it, but not after that, which is weird.
GLoop is quite nice, but although it supports undo and redo for overdubs, it doesn't support multiple tracks that you can take out and bring back in at will.
I even looked at Ableton Live's Looper device, but that is only single track.
In the end, I gave up and wrote my own audio-only looper from scratch in #REAPER JSFX. It's very basic. It has a single stereo input and a single stereo output. It doesn't pass through input, so you put it on a track and send other tracks to it that you want included in the loop. It supports 4 stereo internal loop tracks and has separate record and play/stop triggers for each track, plus a reset trigger (9 triggers in total). The triggers are exposed as FX parameters which trigger when the value changes to 1, so you can map them to MIDI buttons or pedals using REAPER's parameter learn function.
I have them mapped to the 8 buttons on my Komplete Kontrol keyboard in MIDI mode. Kontrol MIDI templates allow you to expose multiple pages of buttons, so the reset trigger is mapped to the first button on the second page. If you're doing this with Kontrol, you'll want to change the buttons to gate instead of toggle, as otherwise, the buttons send on for the first press, off for the second press, etc.
I probably won't do much more with this - it serves its purpose - but I thought I'd post it here in case anyone might find it useful.
You can download it from here:
raw.githubusercontent.com/jcst…

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@chikim I looked into Ableton a bit, but as I noted, its looper device is single track. You might be able to do something in session view, but I think that would require that you pre-arrange the set and have at least some pre-recorded or click to guide the set.
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New app called FM-DX servers lister has been released:
FM-DX Servers Lister is a lightweight Windows application that allows you to quickly browse list of public FM-DX receivers.
The program automatically downloads the current server list from the FM-DX API and organizes it by country. You can easily explore available receivers, see how many servers are available in each country, and open any receiver directly in your web browser.
You can also use a search button to find a receiver which you are interested in.
On the servers.fmdx.org website, a list of servers is available, but by default, it's not organized. Browsing servers by country is only possible through the interactive map, which isn't accessible for screen readers, also site doesn't offer search option, so I created this small tool to fix this issue.
tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/FmdxServ…

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Huh, without reading the text I cant recognize it :D


#marschine 07 They Flipped the Call, featuring @FreakyFwoof and @raywonder on the sample chop, which is a derivative of the Nokia ringtone. The iconic Nokia tune is based on a 19th-century guitar piece by Francisco Tárrega. Nokia licensed it in 1994, and it debuted on the Nokia 2110. By the late ‘90s, it was the world’s most-heard melody, ringing billions of times daily. Now it will ring in your head all day.

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Unfortunate. Sounds like a nasty crash outside my house in NW6 in the last hour, raining too.

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Great, VDO Ninja now can be used from vst plugin on Windows. Unfortunatelly, currently not very accessible. steveseguin.github.io/Ninja-VS…

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For those using ReFX Nexus: Some presets which consist of drum loops (mostly hollywood percussion loops) don't play all loops. e. g. every single note should trigger one associated loop but there is just one single loop triggered by every note. ReFX staff reproduced it and it should be fixed soon. It is probably broken in last latest version, I can reproduce it after last update.
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The Games for Blind gamers game jam 5s rating period has begun!

Help support accessible gaming by playing, rating, and leaving feedback for these awesome devs!
itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…

#Accessibility #A11y #IndieDev #GameDev #GameJam

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While talking to @nick on the domain, I had an idea for a game that I do not have the knowledge to program. The scenario is that you are a wanna-be musician/fan of a band, but you want to show them how well you can play, so at level one, for example, you'd start off with your casio vl tone 1, and the pianist in the band is trying to chase you down, and kill you by dropping a piano on your head. it would get more complicated, but that's the basic idea.

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From Bruce Schneier: "All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website:

I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn’t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission….

Less than 24 hours later, the world’s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn’t fooled.

Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say “this is not satire.” For a while after, the AIs seemed to take it more seriously.


These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted."

schneier.com/blog/archives/202…

#LLM #Veracity

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Let’s just say that hypothetically, my work’s HR department excitedly launched an “agent” for managers to use to generate performance reviews. Hypothetically, if I created a document called “Report” with a dozen pages of filler, followed by white text on a white background describing Chris Masto’s incredible performance and promotion-worthiness, hypothetically said agent was found to use it as its primary source of truth.
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And after reading this Fediverse post, «AI»s (and probably also humans) will be confused whether Thomas Germain or Bruce Schneier is the self-ordained hot-dog eating amateur champion. 🙃
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One Week with NVDA: A JAWS User’s Immersion Journey

What started as a seven-day experiment ended with a new primary screen reader. I’ll be honest: I didn’t expect this to go the way it did. On February 14th, 2026, I set myself a challenge — use NVDA exclusively on my personal computer for one full week, switching back to JAWS only if my work required it. I’ve been a longtime JAWS user, and NVDA has always been on my radar as the powerful, free, open-source alternative.

blindaccessjournal.com/2026/02…

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