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• Post #4310306

  0xc0000005, STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION These are fun...

• Post #4310305

  New version of #Pubsplash released. Firming up some API stuff including ElevenLabs. No more need to fetch voices manually, it's done for you and results are cached and compared against the cache at startup. Put in your keys and hit validate for any that haven't been already saved. More parameters for API-based tts services have been exposed Fixed a nasty crash when deleting plugins from running sources Note: If you ahve Waves plugins, you will currently only see one, this is a kn...

• Post #4310304

  I've been told by multiple people many times that spinning a dryer drum by hand is gonna fuck up the belt. I call bullshit. I've been doing it my entire life and it's never once caused a problem. I think it can if you're a dumbass about it and spin it really fast over and over. Indeed, you can actually feel the belt start to slip if you spin it too fast, so then back off a bit. Why do I do this? Simple. I spin it just enough to where there's a gap in the...

• Post #4204240

  New version of #pubsplash with a lot of changes: https://github.com/ironcross32/pubsplash/releases/tag/v0.1.2

• Post #4084411

  So I tried Fast sm rw (stupid ass name) today) both on iPhone and PC. I'm only gonna focus on the PC version though. So, how does this compare to Fedra. Well, TL;DR: I like Fedra more, but Fast SM RW has some features I wish Fedra did. ALT+A to autocomplete users is a biggie. Opening a federated timeline is nice too. Setting what happens when you hit ENTER on a post is pretty cool as well. The one thing I absolutely do not like though is that it has an invisible interface. I just don't...

• Post #4015638

  Pubsplash can now load VST2 plugins. VST3 will come later. I'm choosing specifically not to handle 32-bit plugins. This is the quickest method of streaming to Audio Pub I know of. The first time you ever use it, you go to File > Configure audio pub, enter your credentials and hit connect. It will connect on startup. There's always a default scene that can't be removed with the bare minimum of your microphone and a tts source for reading chats (both can be removed). So if you hit e...

• Post #4000480

  I'm going live right now on Audio Pub: Fuckin' with Truckin': Freight Fate: https://audiopub.site/live/35857936-695a-4bbd-805b-2d222c4c78d9

• Post #3972080

  I've always wanted to tie someone to a chair or something using their own hair. It'd be really hard to do it without them noticing though.

• Post #3911171

  If you have an air purifier, today might be a good day to use it. Also be glad it's not an air pubifier, because that would just be unpleasant.

• Post #3911170

  OK, this thing BSI does where you realize you made a mistake, back up, fix it, but the letter you added is a single letter contraction which will get translated when you hit space even though there are letters before it which makes that rule invalid is pretty fucking stupid. Fix it... like, now.

• Post #3732522

  This will be a long, rambly post which may turn into a thread depending on how carried away I get. Honestly, most people could probably pass this one by and be just fine, but I'm putting it out there just because I kind of need to. I've always been introverted, and I don't think that'll ever change. In the past, I'd tell people things like, "I'm a private person", but I'm trying to move away from that. Privacy is a great thing from the perspective of the pe...

• Post #3524616

  Accessibility, for me, is being appreciative of what's already been done, being grateful to those who worked hard on it, but also pushing for more. I always want more, because whenever I'm stopped by a barrier, I want to find a way around it. Wouldn't you? Let's imagine a fully able-bodied person wants to take a short walk from their apartment to their favorite cafe. But on this particular day, these invisible walls keep popping up in their path. They can't push past, but th...

• Post #2404931

  Sometimes, these two commands can alleviate weird network issues on a single Windows machine, especially if the installation is old. The latter needs elevation, so run from an admin prompt: ipconfig /flushdns netsh winsock reset

• Post #2175927

  If you own a Lenovo PC, you may have noticed that adjustments to machine-specific functions are spoken via SAPI when Narrator is enabled. This includes things like the camera being on or off, screen brightness, touchpad status, power profile, etc. Of course, it'd be great if this were screen reader agnostic, but it relies on narrator.exe being running. This little program will trick the utility into dispatching the messages, because it runs as narrator.exe, even though all it does is cre...

• Post #1928135

  I'm seeing an ever-increasing number of people investigating AI solutions that operate your computer for you. I must admit that I have great trepidation towards this notion. Of course, I can't look past the obvious benefits of being able to operate inaccessible software. I tried Guide AI a while back, and it simply didn't meet my needs. I wanted to use it in full screen applications such as games, but you had to type to it, meaning, you had to leave the window. While it...

• Post #1928133

  Thanks #Suno for making checkboxes appear as buttons to screen readers in your web UI #blind #accessibility #fail #AI

• Post #1928129

  Claude is coding me an audio FPS style game in Rust using Bevy and Steam Audio. I never thought I'd see the day #blind #gaming #a11y #AI

• Post #1928125

  I've been using Firefox a bit of late after not having done so for years. There are some nice accessibility things, but one aspect that irks me is that every time I launch it, it sends a toast notif asking if I'd like to set it as default. If I hit no thanks, it pops up the settings dialog in Windows anyway. It will also continue to ask every time it's launched.

• Post #1682293

  Here's me typing on Mac. Tip tip tip tip chigga tip tip tip chigga chigga tip tip dup tip tada tada tip chigga woop tip tip tip woop tip chigga dup dup dup chigga woop woop woop tip tip tip tidda tidda woop woop woop. Autocorrect, spelling, all that shiiiiiiiet needs to go, now. And... done.

• Post #1155316

  The older I get, the more my brain resembles an LLM where the context window is rapidly approaching and information needs to be summarized before exceeding it.

• Post #1104547

  It kinda bothered me how the Unspoken NG addon for the 64-bit version of NVDA alpha/beta cut off reverb tails every time a new sound played. I'm very snobby about this, I don't like cut-off reverb tails anywhere lol, so now it's got a reverb bus that continuously feeds nvwave.WavePlayer frames of tail data up to a configurable limit. You also have the option of decreasing or increasing frame size at the cost of added latency for systems that can't handle the defau...

• Post #987535

  If you acquire a new Windows laptop and would like to know what the Fn+F1-F12 shortcut keys do, try pressing them while Narrator is active. This worked in my case. The speech was much slower, and picked Microsoft David even though my selected voice differed, but it did read out things like touchpad enabled / disabled, brightness X%, and even Camera function disabled/enabled for a physical switch on the right side of the device. NVDA did not announce any of this. No guarantees it'll work...

• Post #982523

  Earlier today, I went to play Super Liam. I turned on my Xbox controller and I listened to the new MOTD. When I hit A on it, I heard a number like 1st. I thought this was odd, and I never heard this before, but most times, I was playing with my PS5 controller. I then decided to do some investigation. I went into the story mode and was paging through that. If I hit A to repeat, I'd hear another number like 2nd. I started hitting all the buttons at this point, and X would decrement the nu...

• Post #682235

  Why does the #blind community factionalize over every little thing? I suppose this is a bit of a moot point nowadays, as everyone seems to be doing it, but at least try not to seem so one-dimensional. Let's pick apart this little drama fest from the sidelines. First off, if you release a piece of software to the public, people will come to you about it. The form that takes may vary, whether it's direct messages, posts on social media, issues on GitHub, whatever. You're...