I always wanted to add push support to #Conversations_im. I think a federated instant messenger is a natural fit because you get the decentralization and the connection for free. And adding it to the messenger is also what Google did with gtalk.
So I was very happy that I found #UnifiedPush as a quasi standard when I finally got around to implement it. Thank you for your for work!
@daniel It would be great to have it working with NextPush. Arne once explained why it doesn't do it for his Monocles client. But I forgot what he said. /o\
@morph NextPush is just an alternative. Both are distributors. Both use different protocols to talk to their respective push server implementations. If you have Conversations you don't need NextPush. If you don't use Conversations you can use NextPush.
Every year around this time, @MoonCat and I bring out this ridiculous clip of when I opened a champagne bottle back in 2011. It went everywhere, spectacularly! Sharing this recording is just tradition at this point. Please don't drink and listen.
Anyway, it's time for...
'Happy New Year from Andre and Kirsten Louis (AKA The puking champagne bottle)' youtu.be/SECSu6shNRk
Got time for a little story?The date: December 31.The year: 2011.The time: About 20:14.The event: I'm opening a champagne bottle, and my lovely wife Kirsten ...
Oh this is not my first time. I've just been right sick and have been cackling for 10 minutes especially playing one single part over, and over, and over again heheheheheh.
What I don't get here is the sequence of events. Kirsten knows you're going to pop it, she's fine with it, but suddenly she starts to say no no no no no! So she can tell what's going to possibly happen, my question is, what happened to make you say that Kirsten? did the end of the bottle point somewhere other than where it 1st started? LOL
If you're looking for something new to do this year, I just posted the last edition of the audiogames.net monthly digest. I haven't posted about these here in a while though I probably really should, because there's a lot happening. This most recent one covers all blind friendly game releases I heard about both on the audiogames.net forum and off throughout December and even into the new year and boy there was a lot to cover. A lot of games got modded to be accessible, including both entries in the hand of fate series as well as the Phoenix Wright trilogy and that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's also rhythm games, some christmas vibes, a bunch of games for iOS and so much more. forum.audiogames.net/post/9424…
Is there a particular reason you didn't include my Hitster online version in there? Did you perhaps miss it? It went kinda unnoticed as it seems. Here's the announcement: forum.audiogames.net/topic/581…
@Scott @ToniBarth Yup, and I included it in the new releases section a few issues back around the time I heard about it. So probably October or November.
@ToniBarth Under updates. Hitster received a major content update with over 400 new hits, a new browse feature, as well as the ability to add your own hits to the game.
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…
Oh and last spam I promise... Was thinking about having the headings be expand/collapse items. I never, ever want to see the numpad for example so if it was a heading and a button, I could just shut it down and keep it out the way and off-screen.
I didn't realise that it wasn't using US/UK keyboard layout, so my apostrophe was sending some random crap. Made typing hard. Haven't tested yours with a keyboard yet but I know I won't have to worry about that.
Trying it now and boy am I super happy about something actually good, rather than this thing that uses the totally wrong keyboard layout and frankly was quite an abandoned project. Marvelously done for a start! Will there be any way to detect whether a list of utterances has been sent to the synth (output queueing) and therefore let each utterance run in turn (certainly important when reading with Say All)? I know VoiceOver is super horrible at this unless done right also. I've used both AVSpeech and VoiceOver and do see some utterance flow improvements here, but other than that, this is probably the best remote app I could have used other than an app delivering audio like Jump. I love that you can hear tones too! I hope in the future there can be a way to play from NVWave,, but that sounds very difficult to implement given how somewhat limited this protocol is (at least from my observations). Again, absolutely a fantastic start here and look forward to much more of this app to come!
@ChrisDuffley AVSpeech from my testing works perfectly with utterances, VoiceOver though is a sad state of affairs, and I haven't found a way to actually cue speech utterances yet so I recommend sticking with AVSpeech for best results.
I'm using the ESpeak synth on the iPhone with AVSpeech, and using Say All and also stuff such as a list name and then the contents of the list item, the first part of it gets interrupted so I have to look at the speech log for it. The same would have gone for Say All. I'll try with other voices and give you my results on it; I find it fascinating that you have no issues with utterance queues there though.
@ChrisDuffley for playing sounds I just recommend putting them into the app executable as the server does send the sound file names to play on specific events
@techsinger Say all with NVDARemote only tends to work well if you use the same synthesizer with exactly the same parameters on both sides. I wouldn't expect that to be particularly smooth here for that reason.
Seems you were right. My apostrophe is the # instead, even though UK and US have it in the same place. No apostrophe on my keyboard anywhere that I can find.
OK that's interesting. In the UK layout, not sure you know, but we have an upside down L enter key. As a result, we have one extra key to the right of apostrophe which in this latest build says '3', but when I press that with control, becomes backslash. Apostrophe is still labeled as '#' which is actually what that key should be. to make it easier to understand, our home row goes like this: jkl;'#
To the left of z where you have a long shift, that's our backslash which is actually correct. This means we have two backslashes at-present.
I just made an interesting discovery. If I press control plus my actual backslash to the left of z, it says Control plus Tick, but when I press it by itself, it says backslash.
Aah OK. Well don't stress about this, sleep soon, it's not urgent. I'm sure I can work around it by using a combination of on-screen plus BT if needed.
@tspivey Interesting. I don't have an iOS 18 device to try. Did you try changing your speech settings? Do any voices show up in the voices list? Does preview work?
@tspivey I'm on IOS 18 and haven't seen this, speaking works fine for me. Although it sometimes seems to randomly skip things here and there but from my tests it's nothing horrible.
When choosing a TTS voice, it isn't apparent which language each one belongs to. So for example, I have multiple entries for the Eloquence voices and have to manually select and sample each one.
I only seem to be able to adjust the speech rate in 10 percent increments, but would prefer it to be more granular.
When connected, I often have to press the "type text" button twice to make the keyboard actually appear. I get the feeling this most often happens when I've been swiping around to other buttons which maybe makes the "type text" button scroll out of view.
When typing text, pressing Return makes the keyboard disappear. I was trying to control an app that requires me to frequently press enter (often twice in a row), and this made it kind of impossible to use it efficiently.
When typing text, it might be helpful to have a sort of quick access toolbar above the keyboard with common keys like Tab, arrows, etc. maybe even let users customise what appears in that area.
Even with heading navigation, the keys for certain common actions are quite far apart (such as Alt+Tab). Maybe some preset combinations would help.
And lastly for now: this might just be me, but I keep looking for the Tab key under navigation rather than common.
@jscholes Re having commonly used functions above the keyboard, I have no idea how easy this would be to do but one of the coolest implementations of this I saw was in ish, where they had a single control for the arrow keys which VO read as an adjustable. Then swiping up and down would press the right/left arrow by default, but if you double-tapped it it would switch to pressing up/down instead. Having one for arrows and perhaps a second one for tab/shift-tab would be very intuitive I think.
@pitermach @jscholes I was thinking just now about having pickers that would change what the three finger swipes and magic tap gestures did on the fly.
@jscholes Aah, and keep VO on for that to work. I had to turn VO off if I wanted to use Control Windows and Alt combinations to control TweeseCake for example, as VO ate the keys.
This is really slick and I love how you did the 3-finger swipes for arrows. By other posts I've seen in the thread I'm guessing using AVSpeech is supposed to queue up speech properly? Because for me any new speech just interrupts whatever is being spoken, so if I tab into the desktop it just says the selected item but not desktop list for example, this is both with eloquence and samantha. I'm on the 26.3 beta which may be a factor.
@pitermach Yes, seriously, I'm sorry to be blunt, but this makes the older one look like a disaster by the contrast. This is a really usable program, it's what the older app could have been with a ton of development. Slick is definitely the word. I mean it's the usual thing one expects from @Bri it just gets out of the way and lets you work, like TC and BNT, but the fact that it's expected doesn't mean it's not great to see.
@Onj Up and down yeah, not left and right though. IDK if those are even bound by default. I myself mapped those to headings to not have to use the damn roter all the time but pretty sure they were unmapped by default.
@BorrisInABox I'm sorry to contradict, but this hasn't been my experience, though to be fair, I haven't tried with anything earlier than 2021. The NVDA remote companion works with say-all with a different synth of remote and local, and so does TeleNVDA. It has never been a problem for me. The problem has been a cuing issue with the remote companion, but that problem had nothing to do with the synth, you could change to anyone you wanted and would still have that issue before it was finally fixed a few days ago.
As for those nitpicks, first, if the program is talking and the screen locks, is it supposed to stop and disconnect? Is there a way to keep the screen on while in the program, or alternatively not to disconnect and go silent as the thing talks?
@techsinger iOS and background is weird. Apple has things they really don't want your app to do, and one of them is run in the background unless you're music or video etc. However, I can make the screen stay awake while you're connected, yes.
I will, if I may, put each issue in a new message so as not to get things confused. If you prefer another way of giving feedback, let me know and I'll use it.
There is a cuing issue. When I hit windows+m, for example, I hear, on the local NVDA "Desktop list" then "List top:" then "Recycle Bin 1 of 63". On the controller, all I hear is "Recycle Bin 1 of 63". The first two bits seem not to be spoken. This is the same issue I saw with the remote companion and which @Aryan fixed on that application. I am using the program's own speech, not VO announcement. I think someone has already reported skipping and this may be the same thing.
As you know, VO wants the capslock and alt+ctrl keys. Is it, or would it, be possible to remap, for example, right alt on an external keyboard to be an NVDA key? I'm doing that with Autohotkey on the server side, but that's not exactly great.
@Onj This would be nice, I'm using a bunch of units on the same subnet. It would be nice to have everything filled in so I can just change a few characters.
Yeah. I'm using all my machines on a locally run server via tailscale and therefore I don't ever remember the address, so I have to copy it from clipboard each time I want to set it up again. Very first-world problems of course, but remembering or duplication would be great, or a history of previously entered addresses, not sure.
BTW when I did copy the host address it added in a colon and allowed me to hit connect, but didn't throw an error. Maybe you can have it only allow standard things in that edit field, excluding colons? Sorry, don't want to make thousands of hours of extra work, just throwing out ideas.
@techsinger I can speed up or slow down the local or remote synthesizer by not very much, and it instantly breaks. Keep them exactly the same, and I've been able to read very long documents with no problem at all.
@techsinger I'm using the original add-on. Or, well, the one that is now built into NVDA, which is not actually the original add-on, but it did the same thing.
Yes, I get it :) I'm using TeleNvda, my machine with the core one isn't up. I'm using the IBMTTS driver. I set the server at a speed of 50 and the client at the speed of 30. Is that enough of a difference? I started say all on the server. It just kept reading. I have a book with fairly long chapters and it got through one of them without issues except that the client's speech was, in fact, slower. I stopped say all and nothing happened, I just went on as usual. What happens on your end? That is, how do you know it's broken?
@BorrisInABox You know, your speech log is making my life allot easier, troubleshooting this, or even trying, would be far more of a pain without it. Anyhow, I increased the speed of the voice from 60 to 80. Nothing changes. That same speech, desktop, list top, recycle bin 1 of 63, is sent to the log. What I hear is just "recycle bin 1 of 63". The speed did not change things on my end.
@techsinger I'm also using IBMTTS. 45% to 50% is enough to break it for me. If the remote is slower than local, it will eventually just pause for a while as the other machine catches up. If it's faster, then it eventually will jump to who knows where. It's just been like that for as long as I can remember, at least for me, so I've always kept them exactly the same when possible.
@BorrisInABox How long does it take for that to happen? Is 10K characters in multiple paragraphs enough? As I said, I went through a chapter with the speed 20% different and it didn't fail. I think the whole chapter was around 15000 characters. It was definitely significantly more than 10K. There were no skips and no jumps.
@BorrisInABox I'm totally stumped. The only thing I can suggest, if you want to bother with this, is to see whether you can manage to put in a telenvda server and client and see if you have the same issue. Oh, and one more thing while I think of it. I don't use a server. all my testing has been over direct connections between devices, whether on the LAN or over a VPN. I figured I had better mention it since I know many people use servers.
any clue if this plays nice with braille on either platform? If not, can it be made to? I've been controlling Windows devices from my mac using RIM and not having an braille output is that workflow's main weakness
I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…
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It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door.
Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance.
Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron.
The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies.
The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscated nearly 18 pounds of marijuana. They handcuffed the woman, whose name was Mary Jane Rathbun.
She didn't look scared. She didn't look guilty.
She looked at the officers, smoothed her apron, and reportedly said, "I thought you guys were coming."
She was booked into the county jail. The headlines wrote themselves. A grandmother running a pot bakery. It seemed like a joke to the legal system, a quirky local news story about an older woman behaving badly.
But Mary wasn't baking for fun. And she certainly wasn't baking for profit.
To understand why Mary risked her freedom, you have to understand the silence of the early 1980s.
San Francisco was gripping the edge of a cliff. A mysterious illness was sweeping through the city, specifically targeting young men. Later, the world would know it as AIDS. But in those early days, it was just a death sentence that no one wanted to talk about.
Families were disowning their sons. Landlords were evicting tenants. Even doctors and nurses, paralyzed by the fear of the unknown, would sometimes leave food trays outside hospital doors, afraid to breathe the same air as their patients.
Men in their twenties were wasting away in sterile rooms, dying alone.
Mary knew what it felt like to lose a child.
Years earlier, in 1974, her daughter Peggy had been killed in a car accident. Peggy was only 22. The loss had hollowed Mary out, leaving a space in her heart that nothing seemed to fill.
When the judge sentenced Mary for that first arrest, he ordered her to perform 500 hours of community service. He likely thought the manual labor would teach her a lesson.
He sent her to the Shanti Project and San Francisco General Hospital.
It was a mistake that would change American history.
Mary walked into the AIDS wards when others were walking out. She didn't wear a hazmat suit. She didn't hold her breath. She saw rows of young men who looked like ghosts—skeletal, in pain, and terrified.
She saw "her kids."
She began mopping floors and changing sheets. But soon, she noticed something the doctors were missing. The harsh medications the men were taking caused violent nausea. They couldn't eat. They were starving to death as much as they were dying of the virus.
Mary knew a secret about the brownies she had been arrested for.
She knew they settled the stomach. She knew they brought back the appetite. She knew they could help a dying man sleep for a few hours without pain.
So, she made a choice.
She went back to her kitchen. She fired up the oven. She started mixing batter, not to sell, but to save.
Every morning, Mary would bake. She lived on a fixed income, surviving on Social Security checks that barely covered her rent. Yet, she spent nearly every dime on flour, sugar, and butter.
The most expensive ingredient—the cannabis—was donated. Local growers heard what she was doing. They began dropping off pounds of product at her door, free of charge.
She packed the brownies into a basket and took the bus to the hospital.
She walked room to room. She sat by the bedsides of men who hadn't seen their own mothers in years. She held their hands. She told them jokes. And she gave them brownies.
"Here, baby," she would say. "Eat this. It'll help."
And it did.
Nurses watched in amazement as patients who hadn't eaten in days began to ask for food. The constant retching stopped. The mood on the ward shifted from despair to a quiet sort of comfort.
Mary Jane Rathbun became "Brownie Mary."
For over a decade, this was her life. She baked roughly 600 brownies a day. She went through 50 pounds of flour a week. She became the mother to a generation of lost boys.
She washed their pajamas. She attended their funerals. She held them while they took their last breaths.
She did this while the government declared a "War on Drugs."
By the early 1990s, the political climate was hostile. Politicians were competing to see who could be "tougher" on crime. Mandatory minimum sentences were locking people away for decades.
In 1992, at the age of 70, Mary was arrested again.
This time, the stakes were lethal. She was charged with felonies. The district attorney looked at her rap sheet and saw a repeat offender. He threatened to send her to prison.
One prosecutor famously whispered to a colleague that he was going to "kick this old lady's ass."
They underestimated who they were dealing with.
They thought they were prosecuting a drug dealer. In reality, they were attacking the most beloved woman in San Francisco.
When the news broke that Brownie Mary was facing prison, the city erupted.
It wasn't just the activists who were angry. It was the doctors. It was the nurses. It was the parents who had watched Mary care for their dying sons when the government did nothing.
Mary turned her trial into a pulpit.
She arrived at court not as a defendant, but as a grandmother standing her ground. The media swarmed her. Reporters asked if she was afraid of prison. They asked if she would stop baking if they let her go.
Mary looked into the cameras, her voice gravelly and firm.
"If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS," she said, "they can go fuck themselves in Macy's window."
The quote ran in newspapers across the country.
The court didn't stand a chance.
Testimony poured in. Doctors from San Francisco General Hospital wrote letters explaining that Mary’s brownies were medically necessary. Patients testified that she was an angel of mercy.
The charges were dropped.
Mary walked out of the courthouse a free woman. But she didn't go home to rest. She realized that her personal victory wasn't enough. As long as the law was broken, her "kids" were still in danger.
She needed to change the law.
August 25 was declared "Brownie Mary Day" by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. It was a nice gesture, but Mary wanted policy, not plaques.
She teamed up with fellow activist Dennis Peron. Together, they opened the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club—the first public dispensary in the United States. It was a safe haven where patients could get their medicine without fear of arrest.
But Mary wanted more. She wanted the state of California to acknowledge the truth.
She campaigned for Proposition 215. She traveled the state, despite her failing health. She spoke in her simple, direct way. She didn't talk about liberties or economics. She talked about compassion. She talked about pain.
She forced voters to look at the issue through the eyes of a grandmother.
In 1996, Proposition 215 passed. California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
It was a domino effect. Because one woman refused to let her "kids" suffer, the public perception of cannabis shifted. The Economist later noted that Mary was single-handedly responsible for changing the national conversation.
She never got rich.
She had always joked that if legalization ever happened, she would sell her recipe to Betty Crocker and buy a Victorian house for her patients to live in.
She never sold the recipe. She never bought the house.
Mary Jane Rathbun died in 1999, at the age of 77. She passed away in a nursing home, poor in money but rich in legacy.
Today, over 30 states have legalized medical marijuana. Millions of people use it to manage pain, seizures, and nausea.
Most of them have never heard of Mary.
They don't know that their legal prescription exists because a waitress in San Francisco decided that the law was wrong and her heart was right.
They don't know about the 600 brownies a day.
They don't know about the thousands of hospital visits.
Mary didn't set out to be a hero. She told the Chicago Tribune years before she died, "I didn't go into this thinking I would be a hero."
She was just a mother who had lost her daughter, trying to help boys who had lost their way.
She proved that authority doesn't always equal morality.
She proved that sometimes, the most patriotic thing a citizen can do is break a bad law.
Every August, a few people in San Francisco still celebrate Brownie Mary Day. But her true memorial isn't a date on a calendar.
It is found in every oncology ward where a patient finds relief. It is found in every dispensary door that opens without fear.
It is found in the simple, quiet courage of anyone who sees suffering and refuses to look away.
Mary taught us that you don't need a law degree to change the world. You don't need millions of dollars. You don't need political office.
Sometimes, all you need is a mixing bowl, an oven, and enough love to tell the world to get out of your way.
Sources: New York Times Obituary (1999), "Brownie Mary" Rathbun. San Francisco Chronicle Archives (1992, 1996). History.com, "The History of Medical Marijuana."
There is a CLI tool that lets you do common video and audio operations without having to remember complex ffmpeg syntax. There is no AI and no API calls, just old school pattern matching. It’s fast, works offline, and feels like video editing in plain English right from your CLI. For example, you can simply type: ``` ff convert my-file.mp4 to gif ``` And it will generate the ffmege command for you: ``` ffmpeg -i my-file.mp4 -vf fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos -loop 0 -y video_output.gif ```
@Scott I made a bat file based on similar information a month or so ago that takes image as the first input, file as the second, and turns that video into <second file.mp4> as the output. The contents of said batch file goes like this:
@FreakyFwoof Nice and fast for combining an image with a song, thanks for sharing! This ezff repo can do plenty of other stuff too so might still be worth a look.
Our Sunday morning before church was very interesting! I am getting ready for church, when I hear this loud huge bang that sounds like a car crash. Shortly after, I hear what sounds like a man screaming. My daughter says, Daddy, there's a man trying to climb over the back fence. Quickly, I rushed everyone into the garage and lock the door. We call 911 to report what's going on. The dispatcher sends out four police officers they start combing our little community for the supposed man that is trying to climb over my back gate. Shortly afterwards, the head officer comes back and says it's not a man! There is a deer that has gotten its head hung in your fence. We are going to call animal control to see what we need to do next. At this point there are four officers standing in our back courtyard where the deer is stuck. All of a sudden, the deer breaks loose and runs a rampage around the courtyard totally scared out of its mind. The poor thing runs into the window but does no damage to itself or the window. It runs around the courtyard knocking over my fire pit, and my table and chairs. All of a sudden, it turns leaping over the back fence in which it was stuck at first. Then it leaps over the border fence around the back of my community and runs away leaving behind only a few splotches of blood. I sure hope the poor deer is OK. Needless to say, we've got a great story to tell this Christmas.
Today I learned why Sonata #TTS created a framework to run AI voices outside of #NVDA. First, NVDA doesn't come with all of the #Python standard libraries. Second, there's no good way of updating dependencies in a bundled addon. Third, NVDA really, really hates it if you include several hundred dependencies in your addon. Anyway, here's kitten TTS, the other synthesizer I wanted to try with NVDA. Unfortunately, the model doesn't support streaming output, so even though it's actually faster than Supertonic, it feels slower when used with NVDA. Also, it takes several minutes to install, makes NVDA startup 30 seconds slower, and freezes the change synthesizer dialogue for about 45 seconds when you open it. It does miss words less frequently, though, and pronounces text better. The ultimate result of my two-day investigation is that even the highly optimized open-source AI imbedded models are not yet ready for screen reader use. Some tree-shaking could fix some of these issues, but it still won't allow for streaming, so it's not worth it. I'd really like to know what Microsoft and Narrator are doing to get the natural voices so snappy. github.com/fastfinge/kittentts-nvda/#screenreader
Last week, I threw together Syntherceptor, a SAPI5 synthesiser which speaks using NVDA. This is useful for apps like Komplete Kontrol, Surge, etc. which use SAPI5 but you'd prefer the speech output to happen using your NVDA synthesiser and settings. This also prevents voices from speaking over each other, allows you to interrupt speech with a key press, etc. There is an existing project called NVDASapi which already does this, but we can't seem to identify or contact its developer, it isn't open source, it doesn't interrupt speech when the app requests it and it's a bit tricky to install. That said, Syntherceptor is very early in development, so you may wish to tread carefully. If it crashes, it'll probably crash the app you're using, so save your work regularly, though I haven't seen that happen yet. syntherceptor.jantrid.net/
Sorry to ask, but how am I supposed to uninstall this cleanly? Uninstalling says: "An error occurred while trying to uninstall Syntherceptor. It may have already been uninstalled." I'm trying to use it with a game (Code 7), and it just slows everything down. Here's a snippet of audio with keypresses registered through Filter Keys.
@twynn Are you uninstalling using add/remove programs? I haven't seen that error. Odd. As for the lag, that suggests to me that the game isn't requesting speech interruption for each new string it sends. Does it behave correctly in that respect if you use it with another SAPI5 synth? That is, does it interrupt speech if you move quickly?
Yes, but through Settings says that "This app can’t run on your PC[.] To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher." I don't know what you're asking re interrupt, but here's the same thing with a different synthesizer.
@twynn Hmm. So I guess the game doesn't interrupt SAPI the way Syntherceptor expects. This is a bit tricky to get right because SAPI doesn't have a clear way to interrupt speech, surprisingly enough, and different apps do different things.
Hmm. But pressing CTRL does interrupt with both a real synthesizer as well as Syntherceptor, with NVDA's sleep mode on. Does that mean silencing speech is working?
Right, but if I have sleep mode on, use another program to send speech through the NVDA controller, i.e., TWBlue, and press Control to stop speech, NVDA continues to speak.
@twynn I'm about to push another build which just cancels before each utterance, but that will mean it can't queue multiple utterances without interruption. I'm not sure if that is a show stopper or not.
@twynn Nope, this is surprisingly hard to get right in a reliable way. New build is up - make sure to refresh the site. Should also fix the uninstaller.
Ah, that does fix the slow arrowing issue, however the first utterance of "MAIN MENU .. USE THE UP AND DOWN ARROWS TO CHOOSE OPTIONS AND THE RETURN KEY TO SELECT IT .. CURRENTLY SELECTED" is being skipped, however I can see it in the speech history.
No no, I am used to playing this game with a different synth than the one I normally use, but it was the first thing I thought of that used SAPI as output. Yes, uninstalling indeed works. Thanks for your efforts for sure!
First build: Speaks the first utterance but the second one stays completely silent (I don't even see it in the speech log). Second build: If there is more than one utterance queued, there's a second or so pause between each. For both builds, arrowing is just as fast as the other.
@twynn I didn't expect the result with the first build. Hmm. As for the second, I assume the first utterance is 2 seconds or less? And when arrowing (with sleep mode on), does it interrupt correctly? For that matter, I forgot to ask you whether interrupt worked with the very first build, even though it was very sluggish.
Huh, for the second build, I think it's possible it depends on what engine I'm using, as it seems fine with eSpeak except I am now seeing `<prosodyrate="200%">` and `</prosodyrate>` before and after each utterance. Let me restart both NVDA and game and try again before I answer your other question.
I don't think the utterance is less than two seconds, but I am bad at measurements. If the speech rate is slow enough though, it speaks without delay. Here's a recording of eSpeak NG set to 25 boost. I don't know how to interrupt with the very first build because arrowing is slow, but IIRC pressing Control in-game did work to silence.
@twynn Ah interesting, so the very first build didn't let you interrupt at all then. Sounds like the latest build is best - interrupts okay - but still not great for queued utterances due to the lag. Is that about right?
I think that's my understanding of things, yes. Let me try pr1-10 again though, as I possibly didn't restart both screen reader and game after install.
Hmm, maybe during the firs test, I interrupted before the second utterance was sent to NVDA, either by arrowing or pressing Control in-game, so it wouldn't have registered in the speech log. That's my only theory, though I don't know how factual that is.
@twynn Okay. Thanks for all your efforts. That gives me some data to work with, though I confess I'm still not sure what the solution will ultimately be.
@twynn I'm also fighting what I think is an NVDA bug here where it's supposed to have a way to indicate when an utterance has finished speaking, but sometimes, that just seems to hang forever instead. I need to look more into that as well.
If it's the NVDA SAPI I'm thinking of, the dev is a good friend. I can contact him if that helps. Thanks for developing it, it will be useful for some trickier and older games and possibly tons of legacy software too. What would happen if one tried to generate speech with it through, say, Balabolka or other software for saving speech output to audio files?
@Piciok Ah, that's good to know. I probably wouldn't have written this if I had contact with the author, but it's done now. As to your question, I'm not entirely sure, but I think it would try to send all that text to NVDA very fast, which would likely just cause a major lag or hang.
Does it use SSML and/or still convey speaking status to the SAPI app in question? I seem to recall the new controller could do both of those, though IDK about indexing. If not, is that planned?
I wish there was a way to use it with apps that don't let you change the SAPI voice without setting it as the default. Hmmm. Some kind of registry overlay thing? Can that even be done? Unsure how locale emulator does it.
@x0 You could perhaps do that by having something which injects into processes and hooks registry functions. That's nasty though and not something I'm personaly willing to sink time into.
@x0 It can't currently. I tried implementing some of that, but ran into what I think is an NVDA bug where it sometimes blocks forever and never conveys finished speaking. I'll perhaps look into that further at some point, but if it does require an NVDA fix, that makes things a lot more complicated.
I just released Christmas Dash 1.0.1 for Linux. I'll be releasing the Windows version in a minute here, but this one is a test build. It adds a speech interrupt setting, as that is a very important setting for Linux users. Please tell me if it works (works for me but that's because I'm using WSL), and if it doesn't, reach out.
it works. The only 2 problems I had were it is unable to post the score unable to get ssl sertificate and it didn't seem to play the sound when popularity reached 100%. Game play itself is fine though.
Small update, I only ever had the end sound not play once, but the inability to post scores is constant. Maybe for the end of game sound I hit a button and skipped it, so may have totally been my fault. I figured I should let yuou know so you don't try to hunt down a bug that doesn't exist, or only exists with the user lol.
So just tested it out in WSL. Strangely enough, I'm not experiencing this weird so-called upload score bug, I managed to upload just fine. With a terrible score mind you, since it was for testing purposes, but definitely works. Perhaps I must have fixed something without knowing, or it's Python being Python as usual. I'll keep looking into it, but for now I'll push what I have.
@tunmi13 @Billy I don't know how the pygame packaging is working on linux the ssl folder is searched within SYSCONFDIR what is /etc by default so /etc/ssl on my system. Another bit of info I was able to find is that python's urlib.urlopen is supposed to use system included certificate store and that might differ between WSL and real linux. Python has a requests module which uses its included list of trusted certificates. So if it's you who is calling urlopen and not some other dependencies you might consider refactoring this bit to use requests and hope for the best.
does pyinstaller include certifi I think it is? @mwtab Actually found a work around, which is now in Linux Game Manager. Just export a couple of environment variables: SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt and REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. We think that having certifi included will make the work around no longer necessary though.
Note that for those environment variables, distro-dependant paths may need to be used, and for some distros that don't use a CA bundle, and instead use loose files, the variables may need to be swapped out. But yes, in general those environment variables get it to work on most common distros.
I love the game. Later I will write article for slovak blindrevue magazine with some audiotutorial. BTW would it be hard to implement some localization? I believe that it is not so much phrases. I tryed to donate but Paypal is comfusing me at this time, interesting that i cant pay with my revolut card and it forces me use paypal where i dont have money at this time.
My 92 year old aunt: You do the Leenux thing, right? You need to come over sometime and install it for me, because f#ck all I ain't gonna update to Windows 11.
Me: .... ?!#!?
I explain what the change-over entails and that I generally don't recommend it just because...
Aunt: No, f#ck that, f#ck capitalism, my laptop is still fine, so come over and set me up with that Leenux thing.
A lot of people talk shit about #Firefox's performance, but today I needed to convert a 200mb html file (don't ask). I thought no fucking way would Firefox open it, and if it would, my screen reader would die on it. So I tried pandoc. Pandoc completely choked on it and proceeded to OOM. After a measure of despair, I tried Firefox. It opened the file just fine, and converted it to text. Fucking win.
Anyone wanted to replace NVDA's synth beeps with a custom tone via a wav file? Well you're in luck, Custom Tones V1.0 just released! github.com/alex-chap/NVDA-Cust…
Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity/contin…
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Massive two-year project recovers 144 previously undumped Sega Genesis game ROMs from the mid-1990s — lost Garfield and Flintstones games among the notable finds tomshardware.com/video-games/r…
@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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Microsoft Ava (Natural HD) and Microsoft Andrew (Natural HD) can now be used offline with NVDA and JAWS, via the SAPI Adapter utility. The voices come from Windows 11 Insider builds. You need to go the Google Drive page whose link will be provided at the end, and grab both voice packages and REG packages from there. Unzip the voices into the C:\TTS folder (or edit the path in the reg files). You should have the following folders: C:\TTS\AndrewHD C:\TTS\AvaHD Add all the reg files from AvaHD_reg.zip and AndrewHD_reg.zip to the registry. They are called HD for a reason. They sound amazingly natural, though not as perfectly lively as their online counterparts, and each voice is about 230MB. Ava offline doesn't breathe unlike its online counterpart either. drive.google.com/drive/folders…
Just helped someone on Be My Eyes, he was walking from his house to a shop about 10 minutes away.
Helped him navigate the streets and cross the road and so on. Luckily he lived in the UK so I knew what I was seeing 😅
He was wearing Meta’s AI glasses, which help him a lot but don’t currently describe things like lamp posts/scaffolding etc, which was where I was needed.
He made the call from the glasses also, and it was great that I could see what he could see also.
One of my favourite things is helping people on Be My Eyes 😍
I personally find a bit less of a need for volunteer help these days because of image recognition, but there are still use cases for which it either doesn't work or is far too slow, so I do still rely on volunteer help once in a while.
I found something interesting. If you visit the Balabolka page and scroll to “Download installers for Microsoft natural voices that work without Internet access”, you can download high-quality Microsoft voices for around 30 different languages. Voices are available even for Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hebrew, Finnish, Dutch, European Portuguese, and more. Each language has its own separate installer, and since most languages include multiple voices, you can choose which ones to install during setup. These voices work very well with drivers like Natural Voice SAPI Adapter. Just a heads-up: the Balabolka page has no headings or landmarks, so you’ll need to manually search the page for “Download installers for Microsoft natural voices that work without Internet access.” cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm
PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app which lets you track, analyze, and block the connections made by other apps on your device. It also allows
When it comes to @Delta Chat (39c3) do you know it features 1 to 1 audio / video calls since v2.22? It has a very lightweight client side app built with web technologies and a minimalist server side component turn server called chatmail-turn.
I am wondering, am I alone running that turnserver behind a nat?
This turn server enumerates all the interfaces found on the system, identifies globally addressable addresses and creates an UDP listen socket on the default port. Relay connections for this scenar...
WhatsApp Web has this cool bug where if you switch tabs or windows, when you return, it forces focus into the message list, even if that's not where it was before you left. Fuck sake Meta. Don't fuck with my focus! Guess I'll be hacking around this absurdity as well.
Okay, managed to hack around this: // When the tab loses focus, WhatsApp forces focus into the message list, // regardless of where it was before. Override that absurdity. It's in the latest version of my WhatsApp Web Accessibility Fixes Greasemonkey script: github.com/jcsteh/axSGrease/ra…
@Bri Heh. At least it's Greasemonkeyable, which isn't possible for native apps. But it'd be nice if Meta did things properly and I didn't have to hack around their bugs.
@adisonverlice Sure... so I could use Signal instead, which is utterly unusable with a screen reader on desktop, has no web app so I can't hack it to be more accessible, and kinda sucks with a screen reader on mobile. Totally agree with what you're saying, but unfortunately, I have a choice between Meta's crappy offering and... nothing else. At least nothing else that is usable or that anyone else who isn't a tech nerd uses.
@Bri @x0 What a time to be alive. An app I used to open without needing to really think about it to dash off a quick message now takes much longer to load, is at least an order of magnitude more verbose, and ideally needs to be hosted in a browser.
And you know what makes me angrier than all of that put together? The fact that one of the world's most resourceful companies has the power to interfere with the way real people communicate by refusing to do accessibility right, and nobody's even surprised because of how fucking normalised it is.
Haven't seen this but someone else mentioned it yesterday. No clue why this would be happening. I am about to take PTO for Christmas but I will look out for it when I get back. Sorry you're having to deal with this.
@prism I'm seeing this in the beta, but more problematic appears to be the fact NVDA can't get proper focus at all or focuses on "unknown unknown" or a "browser legacy window" instead of the actual UI. When this happens it slows to a crawl as well... not sure if this is just a my-machine problem yet
FYI I am back and experiencing this now, not sure if I didn't before and it regressed or if I just never noticed before, but holy f*** is it annoying. Filed a bug. Thanks much.
Thanks for the script, its a shame how terrible WhatsApp is now after the death of the UWP app. The links in your blog about pinning the app to the taskbar was also really helpful, didn't know that was a feature in Firefox so it feels more like a stand-alone app.
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...
I have a lot of respect for #DeltaChat (@delta); By all accounts they provide a good looking client and a homogenize experience across platforms. Users absolutely don’t need to care about the underlying protocol!
However there is no way, shape or form in that IMAP+Submission is a more suitable stack for instant messaging than #XMPP.
Deltachat needs some kind of dumb protocol to exchange data. Currently it is imap, it may or may not be combined with other protocols in the future. It could be anything else. It can not be directly compared to xmpp as deltachat only needs imap to exchange data.
In other words, both are hard to compare because: * in xmpp, the magic happens server-side. * in deltachat, the magic happens client-side.
• The dumb protocol to exchange data can still be standardized. The actual data (for example what does an Emoji reaction or a delivery receipt looks like) needs to be standardized as well. 'Client side feature' or not. • How much data is stored on the server is just flavor. 10 years ago XMPP servers used to store a lot less data. A roster-less XMPP client is completely viable and would still be compatible with other XMPP clients.
@arcanechat every time I read about the idea over the years I was very much "really???" .. then I actually tried it. Honestly pretty impressed! Server-side, using protocols that dinosaurs like me are comfortable admining is a win, for my generation anyway :)
@arcanechat A good engineer can make everything work and end users don’t care either way.
However if we were to start from scratch and ignore the "everyone has an email address argument" which doesn’t really hold true anymore in times when 'Chat Relays" are the recommended transport and have a level headed debate about IMAP vs XMPP for instant messaging there is no way IMAP comes out on top.
> My question is rather: How can #XMPP market itself better to people who want to build instant messaging solutions.
my humble opinion: I would still pick #deltachat / chatmail core to build my client if I had to start from scratch today, with #xmpp I just have a protocol, with delta chat I don't actually need to use the #email protocol at all, only the core library that takes care of dealing with networking and #encryption while all I have to do is to create the UI
so if we could have such an "xmpp core" that would take care of the important stuff and encryption, then get it audited etc. then it will be much easier for people to use that to build their clients while knowing there is some level of security and common ground and compatibility between clients, I know some might say "having several implementations is better" but I think facts are talking by themselves, resources are scarce, it is better to unite forces
"I think facts are talking by themselves" Fact is: Today, XMPP has more active devices using it than IMAP. XMPP has more users using it for chat than Chatmail.
The problem is that most users and by extension most developers simply don't know they are in fact happy XMPP users, whereas IMAP is often shoveled in people's face (because you have to select the protocol when setting up your e-Mail client).
@menel that sounds like what I was proposing, now you need the xmpp community to embrace such approach,
don't get me wrong I would still not pick xmpp because there groups are centralized/depending on the server, too much dependency on the servers, with delta chat I already have the easy to use core and no dependency on server and soon even multiple servers can be used at the same time, your account is portable accross servers, xmpp is far behind there
@arcanechat XMPP needs no marketing, what we need is decent XMPP clients with E2EE guarantee. I’m on iOS, I haven’t tested them all but none came close to even Signal in terms of usability.
@Daniel Gultsch I'm sorry to bring this up again as it's somewhat personal, but I feel there is a bit of downside when it comes to #XMPP adoption among #screenReader users. The issue is that #conversations is the only #accessible xmpp app I know off. Ideally we'd appreciate at least single accessible XMPP based messenger per platform what @ArcaneChat @Delta Chat (39c3) have already.
well it depends on the context, I am Cuban, that Delta Chat used email was the whole point I started using it and contributing, besides cheaper data plan for national email, you see down there in the 3rd world on an unstable 2g connection at 1kb/s #email, asynchronity and offline-first comes on top of #xmpp which together with #Telegram really struggles to even get connected, in a fast hyperconnected 1st world this might be less relevant until some emergency times or in isolated areas
@arcanechat Might be a bit offtopic, but wanna add: here in Ukraine, during full scale war, we have relatively cheap unlimitted internet for which you pay ≈7$ in outskirt of small city and around ≈5$ in city itself. First one is GPON connection with 500mb cap, which is available during regular and long power outages. Second is default twisted pair with 100mb cap, but users can swap for same GPON with same tariff if building connected to optical network of that exact provider, otherwise choose another one which is already connected. Mobile providers also works during outages in 4G, but they are a bit expensive as for me, same 7$ once per 4 weeks for good enough tariff (true unlimitted just don't exist).
And Ukrainians not only have good and cheap internet access, we have really high quality services in mostly whole private sector. And all of that with the worst quality of life in Europe. We really good people, I promise. Please, #StandWithUkraine. It worth every your as little you could imagine your effort is. Stay safe and do cool things!
@arcanechat Most XMPP clients (basically all but web clients) are offline-first. When not-using some of the XMPP features that e-Mail simply doesn't have (roster and presence), XMPP will use significantly less bandwidth than e-Mail. I switched from e-Mail to XMPP for chat on my phone a decade ago, precisely because it worked much better on poor 2G links (even when using roster and presence). Google at the time did the same (Google Mail app on Android delivered messages via XMPP).
fair points, dear Daniel! Thanks for the praise as well, as well as the warranted skepticism regarding IMAP. It's a strange protocol to use for instant messaging, and it's not the strong point of what delta apps are today, arguably. Then again, internet and tech evolve via "shoehorning" something into another thing because "we can", for good or bad reasons 😂 are you making it to 39c3 btw?
I stopped using it. The people at Deltachat don't know why push implementation is necessary. They stubbornly refuse to support things like #UnifiedPush. Instead, they say each app should have its own background connection.
@Radasbona I am not sure it's dismissed all together. @Delta Chat (39c3) #chatmail relays already support google / apple push messaging and adding @UnifiedPush support might be just matter of finding a motivated developer. Still with imap idle in place the battery and network impact is minimal so it's not seen as very high priority thing. For example there is an email client called #fairEmail which does the same thing, keeping the imap idle connections open whenever it's able to and it's working fine. Within email app it's difficult if not impossible to add push messaging support unless you have control of the server side provider or you wish to trade your privacy.
Dear #QT toolkit, recently I'm again looking into your #screenreader #a11y into #QML in particular. I'm trying to make one of my favorite apps @Mixxx DJ Software a bit more accessible. Last night I have managed to turn the menu with items such as 4 decks, Library, Effects and more into aria toolbar pattern in terms of keyboard navigation. It only consumes single tab stop when navigating through it and other buttons can be reached using the arrow keys. Of course there is much more to do and I've started a forum topic documenting my attempts.
Good luck. Initially I thought to post it with sarcasm, but now I'm absolutely serious. Good luck, if you manage to do something to QT accessibility which is dreadful, to be honest.
@André Polykanine On linux it's pretty decent after tweaking keyboard navigation as without accessibility specific tweaks even some of the #QML examples are not keyboard navigatable.
I am not yet sure I'm capable enough to make it into at least beta quality, however I'm trying to learn it.
I've just got a fix committed for the WebKitGTK reporting the wrong AT-SPI roles thing. github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commi… Much thanks to Lukáš Tyrychtr for reporting the bug and identifying the commit that caused the regression. The fix is backported to the stable branch, but 2.50.4 was just released three days ago, so I'm guessing that a release with the fix will not be imminent. 2.51.4 does not have the fix, either. I've already patched Tumbleweed with the fix along with the update to 2.50.4. Maybe other distros want to add a patch until there's a new release.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300090
Reviewed by Adrian Perez de Castro.
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@pvagner @nolan Thanks, Peter. That's good to know. I knew that Delta Chat wasn't working correctly with Orca anymore, but I've never used it and hadn't taken the time to investigate.
@Mike Gorse @Nolan Darilek There are two flavors of @Delta Chat (39c3) . The default one is electron based and it's working fine. The experimental one built with tauri is somewhat lighter when it comes to resource usage but has #a11y issues as it uses webkit-gtk under the hood rather than chromium. So my guess is this will improve the general accessibility of tauri based apps on linux.
@mcourcel If you view the post on the web, you'll see the HTTPS is there. It's just tweesecake that removes it. It's also there in Mona, Enafore, TWBlue, and literally every other client I've tried.
the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
Interestingly enough, in Russian computer slang "meter" is a megabyte. And software "weighs" (also in slang). So, there used to be a joke: "How to make a physics teacher crazy? Ask them to solve this problem: A piece of software weighs 2 meters. What time is needed to pass it through a 56 kbps channel?"
@menelion In Polish we also use the term of weight towards bytes. When I was a teen in modem era, the term ciężko przepchnąć ( hard to push ) was also commonly used to describe the relation between the weight of the upload and the channel speed when sending big files.
@frankboon Exactly! Also in Russian "speed" was often referred to as "width" (probably because of English "bandwidth"). so the joke sometimes was expanded to: "the software weighs two meters. How much time does it take to (down)load it if the channel is 56 kbps wide?"
I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.
They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.
They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”
“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”
FreeBSD has Wireguard support in the base OS, but it's not well documented how to use it. So here you go. Hopefully an example lands in the FreeBSD Handbook soon.
Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux.
In 1985, a blind man was arrested for drunken driving in Virginia. He apparently had another sighted person who was drunker than he was directing him by voice. upi.com/Archives/1985/04/17/Bl…
GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users, we aim to ship it to the remaining platforms next year.
Daniel Gultsch
in reply to S1m • • •I always wanted to add push support to #Conversations_im. I think a federated instant messenger is a natural fit because you get the decentralization and the connection for free. And adding it to the messenger is also what Google did with gtalk.
So I was very happy that I found #UnifiedPush as a quasi standard when I finally got around to implement it.
Thank you for your for work!
morph
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •@daniel It would be great to have it working with NextPush. Arne once explained why it doesn't do it for his Monocles client. But I forgot what he said. /o\
@S1m
Daniel Gultsch
in reply to morph • • •morph
in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •