TheQuinbox

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space

Cybersecurity student by day, programmer nerd who yells at computers to do things by night. Lover of cats, books, tea, synthesizers, and programming. I'm always either hacking on something, reading, or petting a cat. Come say hi!

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TheQuinbox, to random

Some program interfaces just don't need changed.

FluidEscence, to random

Why did anyone think that touch screens were a good idea? Swipe swipe swipe, swipe swipey swipe swipity swipe! 3 hours later, oh yay, I made it 10 posts down my timeline! Swipe swipe swipity swipe swipe...

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Why do you think I read on a stream/book port for years, and even still do?

TheQuinbox, to random

Interesting observation: almost all of the blind hackers in my friend circle are bookworms, me included. I mean, some of us like audio over epub or vice versa, same with genres, but we're all bookworms. Wonder why?

TheQuinbox,

@miki Yup, that's true. I do enjoy being able to literally read basically anywhere and not get judged. Books kind of always called me though, my third grade teachers were mildly horrified when I started talking about the political conflicts in the the third hunger games book LOL.

TheQuinbox,

@cordova5029 Pretty much, seemingly. Because normally if I'm listening to music, or watching TV, I can still very easily think about programming, or a project I'm working on. Reading though? It lets me relax and just think about the book.

FluidEscence, to random

OK, can someone, please, recommend a mastodon app for Android that is not pachli or tusky, before I defenistrate this bullshit?

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Fedilab, mastodon for Android, or my favorite, Megalodon.

jcsteh, to random

Half the time (probably more) when I restart NVDA, usually due to UIA shitting itself in consoles, everything goes to shit on my system. Alt+tab won't report correctly, a bunch of Windows go not responding, etc. I end up having to log out and log back in again to restore functionality. I can't figure out what the hell is causing it and it's really difficult to debug because well... the system is unusable. Damn I hate bugs like this. And anything that makes my screen reader not read things to me to that level has a tendency to frustrate me to the point of rage.

TheQuinbox,

@jcsteh Yup, this. This exact issue is why I haven't bothered debugging my firefox problems too much further, NVDA crashing this hard can render my system totally unusable and trying to debug like that has made me rage so loud family members have heard it before.

talon, (edited ) to random
@talon@dragonscave.space avatar

In C# you can do:
someVar is > 10 and < 100 and not 60
and I think that's beautiful.

TheQuinbox,

@talon string[]@ opImplConv() const property { return this.text.split("\n");}
Allows you to cast your type to a string[]@ in Angelscript implicitly. There's also opImplCast, which does it explicitly.

FluidEscence, to random

OK. I'm tired of this desktop. I need some kind of something that I don't know, pings google or something and when it detects there's no connection, restarts my wi-fi. IDK if something like this is possible, but I need it to be able to just recover itself on it's own. I'm tired of babysitting it.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence You know PureBasic, try writing a little watchdog using this. Procedure ping(address.l, timeout=5000)
Protected HFile = IcmpCreateFile_()
Protected Res
Protected *Out.ICMP_ECHO_REPLY = AllocateMemory(SizeOf(ICMP_ECHO_REPLY) + 32)
If IcmpSendEcho_(HFile, Address, "@Echo this stuff", 32, 0, *Out, MemorySize(*Out), Timeout) And *Out\Status = 0
Res = *Out\RoundTripTime
Else
Res = -1
EndIf
IcmpCloseHandle_(HFile)
FreeMemory(*Out)
ProcedureReturn Res
EndProcedure

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence @quanin Maybe something in this API? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wlanapi/nf-wlanapi-wlanhostednetworkquerystatus

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence maybe this API? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wlanapi/nf-wlanapi-wlanhostednetworkquerystatus

TheQuinbox, to random

Today I learned: if your WSL is ever having a problem reading/writing your Windows-mounted drives, wslhost.exe probably died. Run wsl --shutdown and then bring it back, all should work after that.

TheQuinbox,

@TRodick93 They should, but they won't, so I'll probably do it if it happens enough to annoy me.

FluidEscence, to random

Feel really productive after having worked on some code for the past few hours. Got done what I was trying to get done and more.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Hell yeah, me too! :)

FluidEscence, to random

Moral of the story, don't buy anything google if you want it to actually remain alive. LOL!

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence points at Pixel 7, one of my longest-lived phones

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Oh, of course it is. I'm still pissed about Google Podcasts. But their hardware side has been spot-on for me.

TheQuinbox, to random

Computers are cool. I can download a random installer of a program I'm curious about, grep it for "SetupVersionData" to determine if it's InnoSetup, extract it with innounp, and boom, you have a portable version you can browse around. As long as you know what to look for, there's almost nothing that's impossible.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Skill issue.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence And the way you work around it is: About Windows dialog Microsoft Windows
Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3803)
© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Windows 10 Home operating system and its user interface are protected by trademark and other pending or existing intellectual property rights in the United States and other countries/regions.
Microsoft Software License Terms
Quin
org name

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Sure, unless you block feature updates, like I did.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence In like a year and a half. Don't care at the moment, when it happens I'll get around to worrying about it :D

TheQuinbox, to random

My laptop's sound driver, among many others, has this absolutely infuriating behavior where it puts the sound card to sleep after a particular amount of silence (mine's seemingly after 5 seconds), causing a screen reader user to miss the beginning of speech, an audio file, a notification, or anything else they may be trying to listen to. To solve this, I wrote this little program. Simply run it, and it'll start piping silent audio through your default sound card, which has fixed it on every machine I've tried. It should also respect device changes (e.g. unplugging headphones). To close it, simply click on the tray icon. It doesn't get much simpler than that. https://quinbox.xyz/files/SleepSoundly.zip

TheQuinbox,

@spaciath It's so funny how the world works, I literally wrote this because I woke up this morning with loads of productive energy that I didn't have to waste on school, and it annoyed me enough to finally figure it out :D glad to help!

TheQuinbox,

@Mendi_Tech I'm told that NVDA will also automatically fix it in 2024.2, but I upgrade my NVDA about once a decade, so I think I'll keep it around hahaha.

TheQuinbox,

@x0 Fun fact, this is exactly what this does actually. Just used ffmpeg to generate me 1 second of 16-bit wav with a super fucking low amplitude.

FluidEscence, to random

Another Logic update, another disappointment. Still no flac support. Cmon guys. You support flac in the OS. It's not hard, really.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Daaamn!

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