gklein88

@gklein88@dragonscave.space

Mid-30s blind computer programmer. Music, anime, and vape enthusiast. Always willing to help with random tech issues.

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simon, to random

“Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month.”

Why does it feel like every streaming provider is doing everything they can to encourage people to pirate their content?

gklein88,

@simon Gross!

talon, to random
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If you haven’t authored a commit where the commit message is just you swearing, have you ever even really programmed?

gklein88,

@talon Real and accurate!

miki, to random
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Because AI is really weird sometimes. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c6uTNm5erRrmyJvvD/mapping-the-semantic-void-strange-goings-on-in-gpt-embedding

gklein88,

@miki Currently tenderizing my brain to a fine puree trying to read this thing.

TheQuinbox, to random

I ran Kyoto by Skrillex through Adobe's voice enhancer. The results are about as amusing as you'd expect, although it did do some sort of clever things.

Here's the original too, just for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86khmc6y1yE&pp=ygUOc2tyaWxsZXgga3lvdG8%3D

gklein88,

@TheQuinbox That sounds like such a weird face shape!

TheQuinbox, to random

Does anyone happen to have a copy of an update file for the original Victor Reader Stream? I think it's well beyond time I crack mine open and have some fun. Maybe by abusing autorun tricks with the SD card if it's CE like I suspect.

gklein88,

@TheQuinbox I don't have the firmware files anymore, but they ran Linux and the root filesystem was cramfs.

TheQuinbox, to random

Actual sentences that I wish I had never even needed to say: "It would really be nice if they weren't using sixteen different javascript libraries for this one page so it wouldn't fucking lag my screen reader and make the page partially not accessible every frame."

gklein88,

@TheQuinbox Designers, amiright?

FreakyFwoof, (edited ) to random

I had a portable app for windows a long time ago that showed you things connected to your system via USB, and told you if the devices were connected via USB 1, 2 or 3. Anyone know what it might have been?
Update: Two links to two different pieces of software have been provided and are listed in-thread, if anyone's interested. thanks to all who boosted and/or responded.

gklein88,

@FreakyFwoof usbview.exe, found in the debugging tools for Windows.

TheQuinbox, to random

Was looking at Process Explorer (Procexp) in the Sysinternals suite, because it looks like it'll help me do something I've actually wanted to do for a few months, view the command line params passed to an executable that launches and exits quickly. Aaaaand... it's not accessible. I absolutely love being blind. It never, ever cockblocks me, ever.

gklein88,

@TheQuinbox Only that first list view is inaccessible. If you blindly start typing a process name you can TAB. and here's the kicker. That list view reads just fine with JAWS!

TheQuinbox, to random

I got myself two new toys. A RISC_V board, and, most excitingly, a basic FPGA board! Time to have fun.

gklein88,

@TheQuinbox I want a RISC V board! 😡

gklein88, to accessibility

Hi, @semaphore Your #autocomplete is extremely overzealous. My focus shouldn't move to the autocomplete listbox just by left-arrowing over someone's username or navigating by word just to proofread a toot. #blind #ScreenReader #a11y

TheQuinbox, to windows

Has anyone else seen the baffling problem in WPF where you can't tab to a list box until it has at least one item in it? Furthermore, if you clear the list again it becomes untabbable? If so, have you found a way around it? #WPF #Windows #Dev #Accessibility #A11y

gklein88,

@TheQuinbox WPF has always been a little odd, focus-wise.

Meepercat, to random

Here I go, meowing into the void again. If I want to work on some of the Cisco Academy Skills for All courses, and the labs, and Linux gets involved, what do I want to do about a vm?

gklein88,

@Meepercat Oh, well that's fun. First, you need to figure out if they're giving instructiosn for something command line or GUI. If it's something like Ubuntu, you can press CTRL+ALT+t to open a terminal, then sudo apt install gnome-orca speech-dispatcher-espeak -y

gklein88,

@Meepercat In that case, you want sudo apt install espeakup alsa-utils -y&&amixer set Master 100% unmute&&amixer set PCM 100% unmute screen reader and turn up the volume

gklein88,

@Meepercat Which two thingies?

gklein88,

@Meepercat Linux isn't that bad. You just need a machine to break things I mean practice on.

gklein88,

@devinprater @Meepercat VMware Workstation/player is 100% compatible with any Linux I've ever seen, including sound and graphics.

gklein88,

@sektor @Meepercat @devinprater Unlike me, who installed a secondary hard drive in the family computer and set up a dual-boot. #old

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat The early 2000s were a fun time. Almost all the school machines were set to boot automatically from CD.

gklein88,

@sektor @Meepercat @devinprater Anyone else remember ZipSpeak?

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat ZipSpeak was a version of Slackware that mounted a loopback file as a hard drive, and you'd boot it from a directory in real-mode MS-DOS. Not a DOS prompt. There was a bootloader that would transition from Real Mode into Protected Mode and mount the filesystem.

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat Only if you had a hardware synth. Speech-dispatcher/espeakup wren't a thing at the time, let alone Orca.

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat That must be new, I bought it as of a few years ago.

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat #RIPVoxin

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat Also, when installing DECtalk and using it with speech-dispatcher, don't forget
sed -i -e 's/225/110/' /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dtk-generic.conf #Corrects the pitch conversion factor so Paul doesn't sound like he's on helium.

gklein88,

@devinprater @sektor @Meepercat The fix is to submit a pull request to speech-dispatcher to get them to correct the conversion factor. It's either that or submit a pull request to DECtalk. Then I'd have to figure out how to add custom rules to Makefile.am, yay for automake and m4!

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