I did a static analysis on the DeepSeek Android app
tl;dr it does aggressive device fingerprinting, root detection, has anti-tampering mechanisms, bundles native code and has dynamic code loading and execution facilities
none of which should be necessary for an app like this
#Movuary day 3 brings you a classic example of why I should not be allowed to make music like this, whatever this is supposed to be. I don't know how to classify it, and I wrote it. Creapy broken jazzy dub and bass? I dunno...
#Movuary day 4 is far less complex or refined than anything I've done so far. I had a bad night's sleep, and a roaring headache, so I woke up and made this thing. Pretty much just slapped it down and said "to hell with it."
For #Movuary day 5, I decided to do something a little different. Thus, Cheap Plastic Oxygene was born. This is a cover of Oxygene, Pt. 4 (1976), using slightly tweeked stock sounds from the Move, except for the drums, which I found from a sample pack of vintage drum machines.
I ran into a whole bunch of limitations making this one. There was more I wanted to do, but I ran out of space in the clips, and didn't have any spare pads left for resampling without further compromising stuff. There are a couple of glitches, which I left in there, because imperfections FTW, or something.
With apologies to Jean-Michel Jarre for butchering his fantastic work.
#movuary day 7 isn't a track. Not exactly. It's an attempt to simulate shortwave radio conditions using a groovebox, which is, let's just say, not ideal, and certainly outside of the intended scope for such a thing. This was done by automating the parameters of a compressor, a phaser with it's frequency turned down all the way, and a couple of different high pass filters over time. The radio noise was sampled by plugging my Tecsun PL-990X shortwave radio into Move's line input, and tuning to a frequency somewhere around the 40m band with nothing going on.
I did this soon after I got my Move, but touched it up a bit since then.
#Movuary day 9: When Flipper the Dolphin (now known as Deejay Flippa) isn't saving people in the waters of the Florida Keys in the 1960s or whatever, he's in the studio making mad beats about the injustices of the world, with his man Calquale.wav from the 1995 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.
Yes, I was, in fact, rather bored a while back. Interestingly, by original Ableton Move broke while I was making this, so I didn't get to finish it until I got the replacement unit.
I have posted this before, but this is a slightly different mix with a couple of bugs fixed and new ones added.
Several years ago, I had a dream. In that dream, someone (not me) was standing, watching as everything they knew and loved was burned in a fire. There was a sequence playing in the background. This is my attempt to somewhat re-create what I heard, at least in part, in this dream.
#movuary day 11: Ya Got Me. This is based on samples from my Franklin Language Master 6000 SE talking dictionary. I sampled the really dirty pulse wave it produces in test mode, as well as some common phrases. This was all made with just three tracks, because I couldn't think of what to do with a fourth one. It's pretty busy as-is.
@cachondo I still have the Language Master manual in text format, because of course I do, and test mode isn't mentioned there. I had no idea about it either until a previous thread on here about the Language Master
@cachondo Oh no re throwing out everything re the Language Master. My own story with them was bizarre, too: I had a government-owned one (bought by our Vision Impairment Service) from age eight to thirteen, until it broke. When I was aged 11, a local charity raised money to buy me one of my own, but the volume control on it broke within three months and it became unusable. That charity also helped me buy a Braille Scrabble set, which I got much more use out of
@graham it felt like an incredible bit of microelectronics to me at the time. All my sighted friends had these ridiculous printed dictionaries where people had torn out pages and scribbled over things and I had this fantastic gadget.
@cachondo @graham My brother got one in 1994 before he went to college. I kept trying to hide it so he would hopefully not find it before he left for school. Didn't work. I was sad.
@cachondo Yeah it was amazing ... and did so much more than a printed dictionary ever could. I went from a 6-volume Braille children's dictionary that didn't even have the word cat, to the language master ... saying it was "like night and day" doesn't even cut it
@graham also I've never found a software version that is as good. I mean in terms of having the homophones, thesaurus, parts of speech and everything. It's mad that the best dictionary i have ever used across a bunch of metrics is a similar age to me.
@graham @cachondo I only found it by accident. Don't know what lead me to it. I think @FreakyFwoof either told me about it, or we both just started typing in random double and triple hyphen things to see what they did.
@KaraLG84 @FreakyFwoof @graham I'd not heard the demo before. Pretty cool that it actually says a number of phrases in there rather than doing every single thing word-by-word as it normally does. so far I've seen that --- does the tones and --demo does the demo. ---n makes weird noises. I've not seen anything else.
@KaraLG84 @FreakyFwoof @graham sorry, I did mean to write that ---p does the octave tones. Why p? who knows. I'd love to be able to emulate this thing for ever.
#movuary day 12: This is not a keygen. It is, however, a sequence I made from memory after hearing one in the early 2000s, not having heard it for years before that. I have since heard the original. I got some notes wrong, but oh well. I'm keeping it like that. This also happens to be a variation on the Alf theme, composed by Alf Clausen. An Alf for an Alf. How convenient!
In 1998 (May 19, 1998, specifically), I downloaded some weird, not at all accessible MIDI sequencer thing. I don't remember the name of it. Seems like maybe it had the word art in it somewhere. Anyhow, I opened it, and clicked on a bunch of unlabeled graphics with my screen reader, which produced this odd thing in E flat pentatonic major. So, because I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, I hooked a MIDI interface up to move, and another one to my computer, recorded this MIDI file into Move, added a drum track, and now I'm posting it here. The Melody is unedited from it's original, except for one note that I didn't like.
This is a much extended version of one of my earliest Move projects, using a bunch of samples I recorded of my Perkins Brailler from 1962 as the drum track.
Several years ago, @FreakyFwoof showed me an advert for gillette energizing moisturiser, featuring the phrase "Winter hates your face." Makes me laugh every time I hear it, especially the way this guy said it.
So, back in December, during a particularly cold, snowy day, I demucsed stems from it, so much as I could, and imported elements into Move to have some fun with it. This is the result.
Drums, bass, the vocal, and the mod-like power chord electric guitar all come from the original advert.
In December, I had a goal to cover Harold Faltermire's Axel F for the 40th anniversary of the movie Beverly Hills Cop, which was December 5, 2024, using Ableton Move, so I did that. Being a product of 1984 myself, it just seemed like a good idea. At the time I did it, this was the most complicated sequence I had ever done on this little four track groovebox. Don't think that's the case anymore. It's also a demonstration that you can really do a lot with only four tracks and a little creativity. There are lots of "but it only has four tracks" Move haters out there.
There is absolutely no way I will ever get the sounds exactly right using a tool like this. In this case, I'm aiming for close enough to be recognizable, both in terms of the sound and the sequence.
All sounds were stock, except for the kick and snare drums, which really could have been stock, but I found slightly better versions of those sounds in a sample pack and used them instead of the stock versions.
This is an idea that I sequenced originally in May of 2006 on my Yamaha Motif, now redone in Move. It's still about as finished as it was in 2006, I.E. not at all, really, but I'm posting it anyway.
I woke up this morning with the chord progression from Black Street's 'My Paradise" stuck in my head, so I moved it... kind of. It's also a good excuse to have some solo fun with a synth lead sound.
For this one, I hooked up a MIDI keyboard, though I played most of the e-piano part on the pads. I made about 90% of this sequence without using the Move's screen reader.
Well, yeah, but that's also the name of the track.
I woke up this morning feeling crappy, stuffy and headache-y, so I sampled a bunch of angry metal noises from a library called Black Metal, as well as a couple of Korg iKaossilator loops I made in 2016, synced using Ableton Link and sampled from my iPhone using a direct USB C connection (no external DAC), told my non-existent Sharp EL-640 to keep reminding me that it's Thursday, and made a track out of all that.
Appropriately enough, I was dealing with quite an annoying little bug in the current Move beta firmware while making this, so I was rather angry and annoyed. Totally fits.
Seems appropriate to post this today, though it's a thing I made back in October, then finished in November after getting my replacement Move.
I've been away from home for a little over six months, and I'm going back in a few hours, with trepidation for various reasons. Yep, time is up, indeed.
This is based around the dingdong sound from my Radio Shack Vox Clock II talking clock, and the spoken words "time is up." Also features a cheap Russian-made watch going ticktock in the background throughout much of the piece.
So, Onj sent me an unfinished set to play with, thus, I played with it. This originally had drums, keys, and a pluck/almost e-piano sounding thing. I added a sign wave lead and an organ, hastily recorded with my Hamond-suzuki XK-2 a few minutes before leaving for the airport, so I didn't have time to do anything truly exciting with the organ. It was a one-shot recording. Did weird broken stuff with the track, because jazz is broken.
This is what happens when I don't at all take anything seriously, and do something odd with the four random sounds it throws at me when creating a new set.
While my day 4 submission was just an automation salad from the move, the day 7 #Movuary is a bit more regulated attempt at automation. iOs veterans will definitely recognise the samples used here.
Check out the official Ableton Move website: https://www.ableton.com/en/move/Ableton Move is the first piece of hardware I've personally been excited by in y...
@fireborn Also, to see just how powerful and cool this is, look up the associated Movuary hash-tag and se what others are doing with it. This thing absolutely rocks.
@fireborn Yeah, but you can add lots of your own too. It ships with 64 GB of internal storage. It's non-removable and you upload using it's web-based move manager, but at least you can.
@fireborn If you look through the uploads, you'll hear stuff that Patrick, Kara and Jakob have also done. Some of those contain external samples. Yesterday I did one using samples from a Perkins Brailler for example.
Get it connected to your phone's access point/personal hotspot. Plug your phone into the line input of the Move. Monitor both with headphones. Everything talks, woohoo.
@fireborn Yep. Whatever is on the line input is passed through to the output jack, unless you are using the resample function, which... yeah, I do that a lot. Haven't done that while on the go yet, though, so I'll figure that one out when I get to that point, I guess. Braille display?
#NextCloud #accessibility is highly impacted by this thing that seems very small. What they did is they removed (!) the Copy Public Link from the context menu in their File Explorer integration. I don't know who to call, but I'm pretty sure we need to create more noise in there. I'm thinking about starting a petition. Please join me! github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i… // CC @nextcloud
Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
Yup, I absolutely agree. Sounds stupid but that was a very big reason for me to not spin up NC on my new server again, the clients GUI is garbage anyway, and use GoogleDrive instead. I know it's not the same, and I wish NC would get more useable again, but I'm sick of that kinda half accessible weird crap they're doing with the desktop client, the rest is acceptable imo.
Seafile's web interface was more accessible last I checked. And there was a long standing horrific data deletion bug that caused me to immediately avoid Nextcloud
Expected behaviour Nextcloud Desktop should not remove files from the server that are not gone from the machine. Actual behaviour Two days ago, Nextcloud desktop removed all my files from the serve...
can you open a new issue about accessibility concerns in regards to removal of the Copy Public Link option? It's good to have a dedicated report to review and address it.
Are there any news on this so far? Like, I know the GH issue is still desatesfying, but do you plan to do more yet? Like, I'm so bored I would actually get up a nextcloud again but that link generation thing makes me not doing it.
@jonathan859 As suggested by an actual person from NextCloud, I will create a separate issue about accessibility implications of this removal. Also, I'm considering trying SeaFile as an alternative. I tried also OCIS (it's kind of a new OwnCloud thing), but there sharing seems to be over-complicated.
Experimented yesterday with Fedora’s KDE spin… I was shocked by the level of accessibility, although it wasn’t perfect. My primary issues with it were that I had to use a lot of Orca’s navigation commands to read panels in the systems settings app, and I had major issues with Konsole, the default terminal app. I wasn’t able to read any of the information in that particular apps interface using Orca. I also tried the Fedora workstation edition, which uses Gnome as it’s a desktop environment. Let’s just say that was not worth my time. Had accessibility issues there as well, and surprisingly it was worse than the experience I had with KDE. I know KDE defaults to Wayland, as does Gnome, but KDE’s accessibility implementation seems to be a lot better than what Gnome has under Wayland, with the exceptions I’ve previously mentioned. Incidentally, the X 11 experience with Gnome is actually worse now than it was previously. For example, the terminal app does not even open for me. I should also note that all this is under Fedora 41, so people aren’t confused. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #Experiments #Linux #Fedora41 #KDePlasma #Gnome #Wayland #X11
@tyrylu @JRepin the best example that I can think of off the top of my head is when using the terminal app while Orca is running, you cannot stop speech by hitting the control key. As a matter of fact, all the typical Orca keyboard commands seem to have issues. Another example that comes to mind is specific to Tuba, but also seems to affect other GTK4 apps like Dino… when attempting to read text while Orca is running, it doesn’t always read everything out fully. For example, when attempting to read posts in Tuba, I can see who sent the post, the time of the post, but not the actual text of the post. Also, I can’t always just arrow down to move onto the next post as Orca won’t read through a list like that reliably.
Arrowing should definitely work. The Tuba and other GTK 4 app issues regarding Orca not reading everything or in weird ways, yes, that is the aftermatch of Libadwaita using list items as almost a generic container, and of the fact that we did not solve the situation where you have an a11y label for the item, and its content as well, in some cases, you need both, so Orca does it, which is chatty sometimes, e. g. in Tuba. And, the keyboard handling thing will be fixed in Gnome 48.
@Lukáš Tyrychtr @Jure Repinc @Gregarious I would be interested to know how do you guys use the @Dino #XMPP messaging app with a #screenReader? When I launch it it opens one of my recent conversations. Input box has the focus. I can't figure out how to use the keyboard to navigate to the incoming chat, to the toolbar, to the menu and similar. I can use ctrl+tab to cycle through open conversations. I am using version 0.4.4.
This will be most likely an app specific issue, but I have no experience with this particular app, so I can't say more, but a bug report, at least to track the fact, would be advised.
I see blindies asking this and that and the other about VMWare workstation, so let me say that if you have any questions about doing stuff in VMWare Workstation, I'm your guy. I have near 8 years of experience, research, testing and tools on my side. Want VMWare Tools for Windows Vista and 7? Sure thing. Want a Windows XP VM with JAWS 9.0? I'll build you a Windows XP VM with JAWS 9.0. Shoot, want a Windows 98 VM? I can make you a fucking Windows 98 VM pretty easily.
Fun fact: Did you know you can open the quick settings from within Windows setup OOBE screen using Windows +A and disable Wi-fi from there? That's right. No need for messy commands. Just, go in there before it asks you to connect to a network, and toggle Wi-fi off. Can't believe they don't block the quick settings pannel.
We are excited to announce the National Federation of the Blind Radio Network (NFBRN). Broadcasting 24/7, this dynamic station brings together a diverse mix of content from the organized blind movement, including legendary speeches, Braille Monitor articles, recent podcasts, convention highlights, uplifting stories, and live events. And there is more to come. Send your feedback to communications@nfb.org.
NFBRN is available on any Amazon device by opening "Nation's Blind."
@JonathanMosen I can't access the station from my Alexa app as it doesn't appear to recognize "Nation's Blind". Hope there's a direct Url to listen on another device or something.
Be wary when adding additional context only for #screenReader users. An example:
Say you're working on an e-commerce site, and some products have two prices to show how great a sale discount is. The before and after is made visually apparent via some aspect of text formatting, and you want to make it explicit for screen reader users too.
The first step is to ask if this is necessary. If a user encounters two consecutive prices and one is lower than the other, they may intuitively understand what's going on without any explicit signposting, and can verify how much they're gonna pay during the checkout process. Only your users can provide this verdict.
If it's determined that some additional context is helpful, you could format it as something like: "Was $14.99, now $8.99" (optionally swapping the prices). It's short and punchy in braille and speech, perfectly descriptive of the situation at hand, and mirrors how it may be spoken out loud on an ad.
Resist the temptation to go further than this. You do not need to say "original price: $14.99, current sale price: $8.99". This is much longer and more verbose, while adding nothing. It also implies that you think screen reader users need to be told what a price is and explained the concept of a sale, even though you're not doing so for other audiences.
You also don't need to spell out the word "dollars", format the price in words, repeat the product name, and so on. If you find yourself with screen-reader-only text like: "The current price of 500 Grams of Premium Oolong Tea was fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, and is now on sale for eight dollars and ninety-nine cents", it has gone way too far.
In short: Set out to identify the problems that actually need solving, and only solve those problems.
Enter departure station name - Mandatory field - The autocomplete information will be displayed after entering the first character. Use the UP and DOWN arrows to move between the subsequent results. Use the ENTER button to confirm the station selection. menu pop up edit text
@miki I encountered some dropdowns on a survey recently that essentially followed this script. Only they also slipped in the unhelpful sentence, "touch devices are also supported", at the end. As it happens I was using a touch device and it took me about five minutes to work out how to select a value.
Promised I'll be dropping in with examples of good #A11y in different countries and then I broke the promise. Coincidentally, I was asked to fill in a survey where one of the questions was about this very subject so I'll share one of the examples I gave there. In Austria, the qualified electronic signature is one of the state e-government services. A tool was built to allow screen reader users to insert their e-signature into any PDF document. The signature can be both visible and / or just a digital finger print, possible to verify through a qualifying verification tool. The visible signature can be inserted in one of three ways: 1. You place it right at the end of the document. If there's place enough, it should land in the line below the last one where there is content, otherwise, a new page is created. 2. The provider of the document can first place a QR code at a place in the document they choose, then the signee can replace this QR code with their own signature. 3. The provider of the document can determine coordinates in pixels where the signature should be placed and the signee enters them on their side to place the signature. pdf.egiz.gv.at/ #Accessibility #Austria #Blind
HTe #Movuary continues. A challenge to produce something with the #AbletonMove every day in february. Todays submission is my attempt to create a typical rap beat. Deep bass, some claps and bells are a thing in this little loop. Enjoy.
We just had a GTK hackfest at FOSDEM. A good time for an update on whats new and exciting in GTK, with an eye towards 4.18.
Requirements
You can no longer call gdk_display_get_default() or gdk_display_open() before gtk_init(). This was causing problems due to incomplete initialization, so we made it fail with a (hopefully clear) error message. If you are affected by this, the usual fix is to just call gtk_init() as early as possible.
On Windows, we have a hard requirement on Windows 10 now. All older versions are long unsupported, and having to deal with a maze of ifdefs and unavailable APIs makes development harder than it should be. Dropping support for very old versions also simplifies the code down the stack, in Pango and GLib.
The same idea applies to macOS, where we now require macOS 10.15.
Spring cleaning
The old GL renderer has been removed. This may be unwelcome news for people stuck on very old drivers and hardware. But we will continue to make the new renderers work as well as possible on the hardware that they can support.
The X11 and Broadway backends have been deprecated, as a clear signal that we intend to remove them in the GTK 5. In the meantime, they continue to be available. We have also deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow, since it needs a new design. The replacement will appear in libadwaita, hopefully next cycle.
It is worth reminding everybody that there is no need to act on deprecations until you are actively porting your app to the next major version of GTK, which is not on the horizon yet.
Incremental improvements
Widget layout and size allocation has received quite a bit of attention this cycle, with the goal of improving performance (by avoiding binary search as much as possible) and correctness. Nevertheless, these changes have some potential for breakage, so if you see wrong or suboptimal layouts in applications, please let us know.
GTK has had difficulties for a while getting its pointer sizes right with fractional scaling on Wayland, but this should all be solved in GTK 4.18. No more huge pointers. Fixing this also required changes on the mutter side.
New beginnings
Accessibility in GTK 4.18 is taking a major step forward, with the new AccessKit backend, which gives us accessibility on Windows and macOS, for the very first time. The at-spi backend is still the default on Linux, and has seen a number of improvements as well.
And, maybe the biggest news: We have an Android backend now. It is still experimental, so you should expect some rough edges and loose ends. For example, there is no GL renderer support yet. But it is exciting that you can just try gtk4-demo on your phone now, and have it mostly work.
Oh hi. I wrote most of the code in the new GTK AccessKit backend. Still a work in progress, and it currently relies on an unreleased version of the accesskit-c package. I need to make some time to put in a bit more work on that before 4.18 comes out.
I don’t usually do this kind of evangelism, but if you’re looking for a reason to try #XMPP on #GlobalSwitchDay, now’s the perfect time: #Conversations_im is currently free on Google Play!
@frdl I've never used Nation-Scale Matrix Synapse myself. So probably the slow version 😉 But if you want WhatsApp functionality and more, then that's the tool of choice for me. Especially in combination with Jitsi.
I'm happy that #Matrix works for you. From a developer POV the dominance of Element (the company) is a huge liability and I prefer a standardization organization where I can actively participate without paying millions of dollars in member fees.
XMPP is a messaging protocol (among other things) that needs no introduction to any technical audience. Its various implementations have proliferated through technical communities for decades. Many…
I agree that xmpp connections work reliable. But a point is that users can not know which server is properly configured, can they? edit: I mean client to server connections. Unfortunately the protocol is not reliable regarding server to server connections.
I'm continuing my databending series with a look at MP3s. We'll talk about how to glitch and corrupt them into oblivion while still leaving them playable!
Very interesting post. I'm also really intrigued by the RSTelecom plugin, are you planning to make a compiled version of that available as well in the future?
@pitermach I was actually surprised I hadn't already done so when I linked the repository in this post the other day! The plugin doesn't have everything completed, but I can definitely make a compiled version. I unfortunately only have setups on Mac and Linux to compile it — I'll probably have to figure out a GitHub action or something to get a Windows version. What OS are you looking for?
I mentioned a lo-fi plugin I made with cell phone codecs, and I just published an initial release! There are some features that are still in the works, but there are plugin files available for macOS, and the codecs and downsampling work:
Lo-fi plugin with telecommunications codecs and glitching effects. Allows instruments to sound like a telephone line, cell phone, or video conference call! - reillypascal/RSTelecom
The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on bits.debian.org , on micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicit… #debian
could you please go to openportability.org/ to tell the platform about your account on X / Masto / Bluesky (if applicable) so that other people who migrate can follow you automagically? ❤
It really sucks that this is a step that has to be taken, given how big that platform is, but I completely understand. Much of the content on Twitter these days seems to run completely counter to point 1 of the code of conduct (Be respectful). I deleted my Twitter some time ago after the Musk takeover because I couldn't scroll for more than just a minute without seeing hateful content from people I wasn't even following being "recommended" to me.
Really? You had no problems with having debconf hosted in the Zionist state. You even refer to that illegal entity by the name "Israel". Does the Debian project have the same values as the Zionist state? I understand a free software project not wanting to be on a proprietary platform, but this is ridiculous.
It's great to see all these organizations coming around to making the right decision pretty much immediately after the consequences of their failure to do it when it was necessary manifest.
Common Debian W. Great distro (tho I'm more of a Slackware guy), great team, great social values. Everyone with a brain should leave Twitter to rot. :)
we appreciate your act of solidarity against X. We also understand how hard it is to loose that audience and hope they migrate with you. Please know that you have my support as an 18 year user.
I'm pretty proud of this tree view component I helped to make. I wrote about the nuance of what went into it in the hopes that it can serve as a reference for others. github.blog/engineering/user-e…
Here's another really cool recent discovery. The "phonetic punctuation" NVDA addon has been around for a while, and it used to do one thing, substitute various symbols (or more technically any regular expression you put in), with sounds. But, as I discovered accidentally while looking for something in the addon store, it was quietly updated in December, now renamed "Earcons and Speech Rules." And this new version is a huge game changer at least for me. If you ever used the JAWS speech and sounds manager to its fullest this addon is now basically an equivllent. You can give any control type or state a sound, and unlike something like unspoken, these sounds are played in sync with the speech and the addon has no problem dealing with something like multiple links on a line. It also allows you to have NVDA indicate various formatting attributes, like bold, italic and heading levels, with either pitch/speed/volume changes or sounds. The very latest version of this addon comes with built-in heading level sounds that I contributed, and in an upcoming version it will also support assigning spelling errors as a formatting attribute. github.com/mltony/nvda-phoneti…
Phonetic punctuation is an NVDA add-on that allows to convert punctuation signs into audio icons. It can also convert any regular expressions into audio icons. - mltony/nvda-phonetic-punctuation
This seems like it will be neat. I just have to figure out how to turn off the punctuation sounds. I didn't realize just how detailed things would be, so when the pitch went up for an all-caps word, then there were hand claps for quotes, it was all rather startling. I'll also have to see if I can find why I hear "H2" for headings in addition to the sounds.
@alexhall The addon adds its own category to NVDA's settings. All the punctuation rules are under the "text regular expressions", you can simply move down the list and hit Alt+T on each to turn it off. The same goes for the h2 thing, that's under the "numeric formatting" category. That's a leftover from when it didn't support sounds for that and apparently wasn't taken out of the default configuration
@masonasons @jscholes I guess it's because the actual punctuation is technically being stripped. I have all the regex rules off and the punctuation is preserved when speech history copies it.
Not sure how to fix it to be honest. Probably by waiting for the new extension points to land in a stable version of NVDA and updating SH to use those instead of monkey patching. @masonasons
@masonasons @jscholes There is also a way to temporarily turn all the rules off, which is NVDA+Alt+P by default which might be a workaround. And on the flipside I love how the speech history still includes all of the sounds and pitch changes which I didn't expect.
@x0 Yeah the author tried to get to get it fixed, sent a PR even but it wasn't aproved. Perhaps now that the old audio support is on its way out and more people heard of this addon we can get it fixed.
We still need to maintain compatibbility with 2024 though, 2025 is going to be a hard sell even more than usual for breaking every synth add-on ever in what seems like a backward incompatible manner. All the conditionals. It's going to be strange.
@KaraLG84 Ditto, I have 2 drivers and they both behave differently. IBM TTS works, while the latest version of Eloquence threshhold doesn't crash but also doesn't change the rate either.
bringing this thread up again because I just tried the earcons add-on again: Which version of the Eloquence DLLs are you using? I'd really like to get to the bottom of why this crashes NVDA, and it's only IBMTTS that it does it with.
@KaraLG84 I had to remove it. It absolutely broke in chrome, couldn't move in any direction on most pages at all. Very few of the shortcut keys did anything.
@KaraLG84 I've no idea. I don't have any other addons that mess with browsers other than Tyler's thing that speeds up aria events, but that shouldn't cause as many issues as this did.
@KaraLG84 Wait you actually got it to work with IBMTTS? But I thought the indexing in there made it unreliable? At least timing wise. I suppose changing rate and whatnot is just a speech sequence alteration which hasn't anything to do with indexing, but sound playback definitely is. Is it capable of playing sounds without interrupting speech? Cause if it tries to interrupt by inserting the sound in a pause I doubt that works even still. Tony even tried a PR but it behaved weirdly with spelling and introduced more latency to the driver as a whole. I need to see if WASAPI fixed the crackles and whatnot, because if it did I'm just going to strip the damn index buffering and bring back the x0_personal versions if I have to.
@x0 @KaraLG84 Timing is slightly off, yeah, but it does work. Though this addon was the reason I also installed Eloq threshhold even though there's things I don't like about it like how it's randomly saving my voice settings as British English for no reason.
@x0 @KaraLG84 Somewhat unrelated, how spossible would it be to put in a switch that is simliar to unspoken in that , yes I want you to play sounds and such, but I also want you to not alter what you normally would speak? I.E. play the heading sound, while at the same time not midifying how headings are normally spoken, I.E. keep the role announcements? There are practical situations in which having your cake and eating it too proves useful.
@x0 @KaraLG84 Not exactly, because it would still leave the role announcements out of the loop. Unspoken allowed you to have sounds while preserving traditional role announcements.
@pvagner There is a verbose mode you can turn on which I think does what you want. I don’t remember what the default key stroke is, but yeah, I think it’s possible.
@pvagner It doesn't fully disable role suppression, wonder how possible it would be to backport the method Unspoken used to do role sounds while keeping the speech queues. Maybe provide multiprong rule support?
Sounds very cool. For me one of the major advantages of Unspoken is suppressing the role names though, do you know if that's possible as well? It just makes moving around quicker.
It's really a cool addin, but I can't figure out how and what to turn off to make it behave the way I want it too. Right now it's just too verbose for me.
@TSchulte Go into NVDA's settings and look for the earcons and speech rules category, you can turn the sounds you want off from here or add new ones. I agree the default configuration is very noisy, I turned basically all of the punctuation sounds off
I'd like to create #wireguard tunnel between two natted machines. I'm fine with using an intermediate third machine for IP addresses and ports discovery. The idea outlined in this article sounds verry appealing to me. However I'm wondering is there something that is developed further beyond a proof of concept I might look at instead? I know there is #tailscale. That sounds too much for me unfortunatelly as I do need to register with them and similar. Thus I'm exploring if there is something I can self host.
My grandmother's 90th birthday present ready: a chronicle of her family all the way to the late 16th century. If you ever want something like that (in the Czech Republic), I can only recommend @rodokmeny/ @margo.
Je možno nějak (naprosto zhruba) odhadnout, kolik stojí zakázka takového nějakého rozsahu? Tohle vypadá mnohem hodnotněji (ale také náročněji/dráž) než všechny ukázky typických služeb "vyrobíme vám rodokmen", které jsem kde viděl. @sesivany @rodokmeny
@mormegil Tato konkrétní zakázka stála asi 36.000,- ale záleží na počtu dochovaných archiválií a matričních zápisů. Raději každému říkám ať počítá s cenou kolem 45.000,- Kč. Více najdete na rodokmen.info
@mormegil Ještě bych doplnil, že v té zakázce nebylo jen zpracování rodokmenu a kroniky tohoto rodu, ale doplňování rodokmenu z dalších dvou linií, které už jsem měl sám rozpracované a měl jsem individuální požadavky (pomoct tam, kde jsem se sám zasekl), takže moje zakázka nebyla úplně typická. Původně jsem si říkal, jestli to tak neudělat se vším, ale ta zpracovaná kronika má opravdu přidanou hodnotu. Nejsou to jen suchá fakta, ale paní @margo to dokáže velmi pěkně zasadit do historických reálií a dějinných událostí a napsat k tomu opravdu pěkné povídání. Babička dárek ještě nedostala, ale mamka je z něj nadšená.
I am running a Bookwyrm instance, which receives a post request to /inbox about twice a minute, from mastodon.sdf.org. The user it is posted as no longer exists, and every time this happens, SDF returns a 404, which is then logged here. Any idea what is going on? The two IP addresses the requests come from belong to mastodon.sdf.org, so I am assuming they are not forged.
This one is special to me, partly because it took some time to cook 😅 , partly because I talk a bit about #ux (which is not my main field), and partly because it features an experiment: after talking about #webpush and #pwa with #django, I'm asking my dear readers (you 😉) to visit a small demo website and tell me how it went!
You can give feedback here, or on Lemmy, Lobsters, etc. I'll update the post with the links!
Today I want to talk to you about a combination of technologies that I don’t see often implemented, yet I wonder why: Web Push Notifications and Progressive Web Apps.
Jenny had married Roger, a man much older than her. Concerned about his health, she decided they should have separate bedrooms after the wedding to ensure he didn’t over-exert himself.
That night, after the celebrations, Jenny got ready for bed. Soon, there was a knock at her door. It was Roger, her 85-year-old groom, ready for some romantic time together.
They enjoyed their time, and Roger left. Jenny was about to fall asleep when she heard another knock. To her surprise, it was Roger again, full of energy. They spent more time together, and he left once more.
Just as she settled in, there was yet another knock. Roger, as lively as ever, was back for a third round. Jenny laughed and went along with it again.
Afterward, she looked at Roger in amazement. "I’m so impressed!" she said. "At your age, you’ve got more stamina than men a third your age. You’re incredible!"
Roger paused, looking puzzled. "Wait," he said. "You mean I’ve been here before?"
Android 16 deprecates accessibility announcements, characterized by the use of announceForAccessibility or the dispatch of TYPE_ANNOUNCEMENT accessibility events. These can create inconsistent user experiences for users of TalkBack and Android's screen reader, and alternatives better serve a broader range of user needs across a variety of Android's assistive technologies. developer.android.com/about/ve…
Myself and my good friend @bumble (who runs a variety of server types on the fediverse), are joining forces to offer #hosting for #GoToSocial servers.
It's early days but we'd be keen to hear from anyone who wants to try running their own GoToSocial but doesn't have the skill, want, or equipment to run their own server.
The aim is to simply charge for running costs for the server. We will not take any costs from this (unless we end up with hundreds of them!). We anticipate a basic instance for one user (or a small handful) will be 5 euros per month and the charge is month to month. You pay each month in advance, and can cancel any time.
All you need is a domain name (or a sub-domain of your existing domain). We can help with this, or help you buy one for a few dollars/euros. We will handle all admin of the server.
Initially we are only looking for a few people to participate. If you are interested send me a direct message.
Found this Windows virtual display driver which basically acts like the software equivalent of a dummy plug. This solves a very specific problem for me: If I close my laptop lid and try to take screenshots or share my screen, they show up in 480p because Windows apparently defaults to that when no display is connected. This also makes websites render in their mobile layout unless I zoom the page in. The driver goes all the way up to 4k resolution and can actually emulate multiple monitors if you need that for some reason, but I found 4k lagged my poor five-year-old laptop noticeably, so I'm using 1080p now. This also would have been really useful in the days when screen readers didn't have screen curtain, but now they do. When looking through the assets, make sure you download the setup instead of the driver, unless you want to manually configure it. github.com/VirtualDisplay/Virt…
Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software. - VirtualDisplay/Virtual-Display-Driver
🌟 OSCLOUD: Od malého projektu k velké Open-source komunitě! 🌟
Začali jsme jako malý projekt na podporu Open-source aplikací, dnes máme: ✅ Dva Mastodon servery ✅ PixelFed s 1000+ uživateli ✅ PeerTube VHSKY pro videa ...a další! 💻 A teď s radostí představujeme nový web 👉 web.oscloud.cz/ Za jeho podobou stojí @cynik_obecny – díky za skvělou práci! 🙌 Připojte se a objevte svět Open-source – svoboda, soukromí a bezpečnost u nás vždy na prvním místě!
And another recommendation while I'm here, this one for basically every platform, I kept hearing @joplinapp brought up in discussionss of best note taking apps, and I finally sat down to try it out after they advertised accessibility improvements in the latest update and yeah I'm loving it so far. Everything has hotkeys, the controls read very well including the quick search/command palette, you have a markdown preview right next to the note you're working on, it has a spell checker, you can attach files to your notes, and everything syncs encrypted to any device using pretty much whatever you want, it supports everything from syncing through a local directory on your filesystem which is only on the desktop version, to dropbox/onedrive/webdav or their own cloud solution. It's an app with a simple and very accessible interface with a lot of features
That's right! Finally a good working notes app for Windows and iOS at the same time. From myself, I'll add that the browser plug-in that allows you to save the content of articles for later also works great, from my tests it does very well with pulling up entire articles, and if that wasn't enough for someone, they can always save the entire page as markdown or HTML.
I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.
Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers. Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables. But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir. Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all. So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no. Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
I gave it a quick look and it seems it has no accessibility support. This means it doesn't exist. I can't exactly use a GUI toolkit if I can't navigate the programs I produce. Thanks for the suggestion.
Alright, I've checked out egui, through eframe, and slint. Both work for some values of work. Unfortunately eframe is quite limited in terms of the widegts it offers, and the direct mode seems a little unsuited to my application idea. Slint fits better, but it's still missing a lot of widegts I need, such as menu bars.
Yes, I was looking at that as well through eframe, but it doesn't seem to support some of the widget types I need. Slint gets closer but is still missing menus.
I thought @matt's work to renovate the Linux accessibility stack was going to result in some level of GTK accessibility on Windows (because of AccessKit), but I haven't heard any updates about the project in a while. And I could also be completely wrong.
No es mala idea, el problema es que no encuentro librerías para usar WX en Rust que funcionen en Windows, por lo menos en principio. A lo mejor hay algo que no he localizado.
I mean, PyQT kind of sucks on the accessibility side in some places, or at least did the last time I tried. WX makes your app look extremely Windows-like if you run them on the Mac, not to mention its abhorrent and unpythonic style.
I wasn't aware of a11y issues with py-qt. Not so fussed about how things look, much less on the mac, for obvious reasons. But, sure, if someone wants to make multiplatform stuff that looks similar it does get more involved.
Oh, Qt has improved, as far as I know. At least I've used some Qt programs that seemed to be alright. Really disappointed that gtk's accessibility is limited to linux though.
it's not just about how things look visually, even if you're using VO, you get yes/no buttons instead of something like "keep"/"delete", very Windows-like shortcuts etc.
You can probably fix this if you go the extra mile, though.
One program I've seen, although I'm not totally sure what Toolkit it was using, used option+f4 to quit instead of command+q. That's what I mean by "apps looking Windows-like."
Ah yeah, functional issues. I never got along with macs is the thing, so I wouldn't really think of producing software for them. Of course if you can let the library deal with it that's great.
Iced has no accessibility. Thanks for the suggestion of Slint, that might work. Unfortunately up to now windows has the best accessibility around, so that makes it imperative for me to keep using it. Hopefully this changes one day.
Mm, from a quick look at eframe it seems it's quite limited about the sort of widgets it supports, but maybe I need to read more docs. Looking for things like listviews, menu bars, etc.
Gtk .18 will have a11y support on Windows thanks to the Accesskit backend, so, just wait a few weeks or compile it from source? Did not try that on Windows yet, though.
@Lukáš Tyrychtr @modulux GTK 4.18 that is. Still it's a shame #a11y work by @Matt Campbell is not continuing the way it has been envisioned from the start.
@graydon May I recommend FLTK? I can’t say I’ve completely mastered it, but it seemed easier to get a basic GUI working than what you have suffered with.
I'm a bit nervous about the fact it uses an external crate for a11y, so it's not on by default, and it says some widgets have a11y support, so it's not clear if all of them do. Also can one do list views? I haven't seen them on the list of widgets.
PS Still trying to build Qt, got failures due to: lack of ATL, mismatch in architecture, and now some weird openssl link failure.
I've been trying FLTK after running out of other options. I can see why you recommended it, the building situation is so much easier, just cargo add with the bundle feature and it's done.
Unfortunately the accessibility implementation isn't good. I've only given a quick look, but the example provided already doesn't work well. Specifically, the screen reader re-reads every time an input field is changed, so it reads the entire input whenever a new character is entered.
However if one day the accessibility situation improves I will definitely look into it again. It seems much easier to deploy.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 4 is far less complex or refined than anything I've done so far.
I had a bad night's sleep, and a roaring headache, so I woke up and made this thing. Pretty much just slapped it down and said "to hell with it."
HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/04…
Posting for the forth time, because I keep breaking stuff.
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in reply to Borris • • •For #Movuary day 5, I decided to do something a little different. Thus, Cheap Plastic Oxygene was born.
This is a cover of Oxygene, Pt. 4 (1976), using slightly tweeked stock sounds from the Move, except for the drums, which I found from a sample pack of vintage drum machines.
I ran into a whole bunch of limitations making this one. There was more I wanted to do, but I ran out of space in the clips, and didn't have any spare pads left for resampling without further compromising stuff. There are a couple of glitches, which I left in there, because imperfections FTW, or something.
With apologies to Jean-Michel Jarre for butchering his fantastic work.
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in reply to Borris • • •#movuary day 6. It's the log song from Ren & Stimpy Show. Some may recognize the first part from something else.
Short, boring, to the point.
I am just so pissed off today. I will make no further comments.
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in reply to Borris • • •#movuary day 7 isn't a track. Not exactly. It's an attempt to simulate shortwave radio conditions using a groovebox, which is, let's just say, not ideal, and certainly outside of the intended scope for such a thing. This was done by automating the parameters of a compressor, a phaser with it's frequency turned down all the way, and a couple of different high pass filters over time. The radio noise was sampled by plugging my Tecsun PL-990X shortwave radio into Move's line input, and tuning to a frequency somewhere around the 40m band with nothing going on.
I did this soon after I got my Move, but touched it up a bit since then.
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in reply to Borris • • •#movuary day 8 is a thing that I put together in about five minutes. I call it the Dance of Doom.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 9:
When Flipper the Dolphin (now known as Deejay Flippa) isn't saving people in the waters of the Florida Keys in the 1960s or whatever, he's in the studio making mad beats about the injustices of the world, with his man Calquale.wav from the 1995 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.
Yes, I was, in fact, rather bored a while back. Interestingly, by original Ableton Move broke while I was making this, so I didn't get to finish it until I got the replacement unit.
I have posted this before, but this is a slightly different mix with a couple of bugs fixed and new ones added.
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in reply to Borris • • •#movuary day 10:
a Total Loss.
Several years ago, I had a dream. In that dream, someone (not me) was standing, watching as everything they knew and loved was burned in a fire. There was a sequence playing in the background. This is my attempt to somewhat re-create what I heard, at least in part, in this dream.
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in reply to Borris • • •#movuary day 11: Ya Got Me.
This is based on samples from my Franklin Language Master 6000 SE talking dictionary. I sampled the really dirty pulse wave it produces in test mode, as well as some common phrases. This was all made with just three tracks, because I couldn't think of what to do with a fourth one. It's pretty busy as-is.
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in reply to Borris • • •@graham yeah, that figures.
I have "def" and "syn" as aliases in my .bashrc so don't rely on it like I did back at school, but it's still here.
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This is not a keygen. It is, however, a sequence I made from memory after hearing one in the early 2000s, not having heard it for years before that. I have since heard the original. I got some notes wrong, but oh well. I'm keeping it like that.
This also happens to be a variation on the Alf theme, composed by Alf Clausen. An Alf for an Alf. How convenient!
HQ download, for what it's worth: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/12…
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 13:
Point and Click.
This requires a bit of an explanation.
In 1998 (May 19, 1998, specifically), I downloaded some weird, not at all accessible MIDI sequencer thing. I don't remember the name of it. Seems like maybe it had the word art in it somewhere.
Anyhow, I opened it, and clicked on a bunch of unlabeled graphics with my screen reader, which produced this odd thing in E flat pentatonic major.
So, because I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, I hooked a MIDI interface up to move, and another one to my computer, recorded this MIDI file into Move, added a drum track, and now I'm posting it here. The Melody is unedited from it's original, except for one note that I didn't like.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary 14: Bad Brailler.
This is a much extended version of one of my earliest Move projects, using a bunch of samples I recorded of my Perkins Brailler from 1962 as the drum track.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 15:
Winter Hates Your Move.
Several years ago, @FreakyFwoof showed me an advert for gillette energizing moisturiser, featuring the phrase "Winter hates your face."
Makes me laugh every time I hear it, especially the way this guy said it.
So, back in December, during a particularly cold, snowy day, I demucsed stems from it, so much as I could, and imported elements into Move to have some fun with it. This is the result.
Drums, bass, the vocal, and the mod-like power chord electric guitar all come from the original advert.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 16: Axel F.
In December, I had a goal to cover Harold Faltermire's Axel F for the 40th anniversary of the movie Beverly Hills Cop, which was December 5, 2024, using Ableton Move, so I did that.
Being a product of 1984 myself, it just seemed like a good idea.
At the time I did it, this was the most complicated sequence I had ever done on this little four track groovebox. Don't think that's the case anymore.
It's also a demonstration that you can really do a lot with only four tracks and a little creativity. There are lots of "but it only has four tracks" Move haters out there.
There is absolutely no way I will ever get the sounds exactly right using a tool like this. In this case, I'm aiming for close enough to be recognizable, both in terms of the sound and the sequence.
All sounds were stock, except for the kick and snare drums, which really could have been stock, but I found slightly better versions of those sounds in a sample pack and used them instead of the stock versions.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 17: No News Is Good News.
This is an attempt at making some kind of news bed type thing.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 18: Xander Square
This is an idea that I sequenced originally in May of 2006 on my Yamaha Motif, now redone in Move. It's still about as finished as it was in 2006, I.E. not at all, really, but I'm posting it anyway.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day19: My Paradox.
I woke up this morning with the chord progression from Black Street's 'My Paradise" stuck in my head, so I moved it... kind of. It's also a good excuse to have some solo fun with a synth lead sound.
For this one, I hooked up a MIDI keyboard, though I played most of the e-piano part on the pads. I made about 90% of this sequence without using the Move's screen reader.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 20: It's Thursday!
Well, yeah, but that's also the name of the track.
I woke up this morning feeling crappy, stuffy and headache-y, so I sampled a bunch of angry metal noises from a library called Black Metal, as well as a couple of Korg iKaossilator loops I made in 2016, synced using Ableton Link and sampled from my iPhone using a direct USB C connection (no external DAC), told my non-existent Sharp EL-640 to keep reminding me that it's Thursday, and made a track out of all that.
Appropriately enough, I was dealing with quite an annoying little bug in the current Move beta firmware while making this, so I was rather angry and annoyed. Totally fits.
HQ download: borris.me/audio/movuary2025/20…
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day21: Happy Modulation.
This is a track made with FM sounds. The drums are from a Yamaha PSS-170. It's way, way too happy for these times.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 22: Heidenröslein.
This is an extended and remixed version of a one-shot loop I made on October 11, 2024, the first day I had my Ableton Move,
This is an arrangement of Franz Schubert's Heidenröslein. Those who know me well will know why I did this.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 23: Time Is Up.
Seems appropriate to post this today, though it's a thing I made back in October, then finished in November after getting my replacement Move.
I've been away from home for a little over six months, and I'm going back in a few hours, with trepidation for various reasons. Yep, time is up, indeed.
This is based around the dingdong sound from my Radio Shack Vox Clock II talking clock, and the spoken words "time is up." Also features a cheap Russian-made watch going ticktock in the background throughout much of the piece.
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Edited to fix a bad note in the bass line and change some levels in the mix. Thanks for pointing that out, @FreakyFwoof
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in reply to Borris • • •#movuary day 24: Jazz Is Broken.
So, Onj sent me an unfinished set to play with, thus, I played with it. This originally had drums, keys, and a pluck/almost e-piano sounding thing. I added a sign wave lead and an organ, hastily recorded with my Hamond-suzuki XK-2 a few minutes before leaving for the airport, so I didn't have time to do anything truly exciting with the organ. It was a one-shot recording. Did weird broken stuff with the track, because jazz is broken.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 26: Sliding Sideways.
This is what happens when I don't at all take anything seriously, and do something odd with the four random sounds it throws at me when creating a new set.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 27: This Is A Doob.
Here is a silly minimal thing with Softvoice TTS saying "this is a doob" a lot throughout.
If you know, you know.
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in reply to Borris • • •#Movuary day 28: a Sad End.
Well, here we are at the end of this Movuary journey, with a sad, slow thing in F miner that makes me wish for better times.
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