jaybird110127

@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space

Blind computer geek from Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

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seedy, to random

I'm testing something in Theseus2000. I need IPv6 to test it properly, IPv6 isn't enabled on my network, I can't access my router to enable it, I don't know where the router is to get sighted help getting the admin panel details, and the VPN I was using that allows IPv6 is currently expired and I can't renew it.

jaybird110127,

@seedy @fastfinge I'm running Headscale on my VPS, alongside Tailscale to put the same VPS on my VPN, plus Tailscale on a few other computers at home. Headscale is basically an open-source implementation of the server component of Tailscale.

FluidEscence, to random

are you guys getting these

jaybird110127,

@FluidEscence I am.

jaybird110127,

@JamminJerry @FluidEscence I don't mind shaving, but there are a few reasons for this. First, I don't have much to shave. No idea why but I don't. Also, I had a fascination for electric shavers as a kid, so there is that.

jaybird110127, to random

Jayson Smith version 4.6 installed successfully. Upon reboot, discovered the following celebratory gifts: Some food, a 4 terabyte USB solid state drive, and an electric towel warmer.

KaraLG84, to random
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I love this video of someone accompanying a Samsung washer on piano while it plays its tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAoVDOkNq3k

jaybird110127,

@KaraLG84 Have you heard this one? Here, the person is not just playing chords, but actually playing proper accompaniment for the song this really is. https://youtu.be/tu1g3h4lAvQ

jaybird110127,

@liseo @KaraLG84 Nope, can't say I have.

blindbargains, to random
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Well shoot we don't have next week's episode planned yet. What should it b?

jaybird110127,

@blindbargains Um, uh, I dunnow, possibly an extensive discussion of electric shavers and toothbrushes? JK

JamminJerry, to random
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I don't think the amazon customer service rep I just spoke with liked me very well. I told her a few times during the call, and at the end of the call when she asked if there was anything else that she could help me with, I told her to find out who the incompetent idiot that boxed this box was, and get them repremanded for not putting our sons shoes in the box like they were supose to do. the web site said they were in the same box with our cellphone cases, but they wern't. we had told Jaydon that his new shoes would be here today. now he has to wait until tomorrow, as she put in a replacement order for them. when I told her about the incompetent idiot at the end of the call she didn't say ok I will look into it, or ok I will pass this on to my superviser, she just said, have a nice day. how much you wanna bet she won't say shit about it! so now we might have two incompetent idiots not doing there job. the one that didn't pack our sons shoes in this box, and this rep that probibly won't take this to her superviser.

jaybird110127,

@TomGrant91 @JamminJerry A few months ago someone posted a link to an article about someone else who had the same thing happen. They ordered an expensive item requiring a code for delivery. When they opened the package, they found a bunch of miscellaneous grocery items instead. Understandably, some people are criticizing the whole one-time code system because if the delivery drivers know which packages require a one-time code, that also advertises that those packages probably contain items worth stealing.

datajake1999, to random

The first time I was exposed to DECtalk was in a Sendero GPS audio tutorial demonstrating how to download maps from the Sendero website. If you want to listen to this, it can be found at https://senderogroup.com/mp3/tutorial/3downloading.mp3.
After I listened to this for the first time, I was curious about that mysterious speech synthesizer, and I wanted to use it with JAWS if I ever got it on my computer. Little did I know that I would obtain the synthesizer's source code over 10 years later.

jaybird110127,

@datajake1999 The first time I was exposed to DECtalk was in 1989, when I heard an article about DECtalk and how it was used, read by DECtalk itself, in an issue of Dialog Magazine. The copy we had, now long lost unfortunately, was on flexible disk. For some reason they only showed seven voices, IIRC Dennis and Wendy were not used. Further exposure came late that same year in the form of our very own Kurzweil Personal Reader. Let me tell you, after having used Echo on Apple computers for a few years, DECtalk was a major step up!

datajake1999, to random

20 years ago, the final version of Sonic Zoom was released.

jaybird110127,

@datajake1999 What's Sonic Zoom?

jaybird110127, to random

For those who are following the Nuked Roland SC-55 emulator project, I just recorded running a MIDI of Rush E through it. It gets through most of it okay, but then chokes when too many notes start playing. Eventually not much actually gets played, and it gets so bad that LoopMIDI throws an error that it's detected feedback on the virtual MIDI port. So for what it's worth, here's what it managed to do. @x0 @Bri @BorrisInABox @datajake1999 @arfy

TheQuinbox, to random

Quite the function signature. Even worse, I don't remember what it does. aabb@[][]@ check_exhaustive(aabb@[] boxes, int x, int y, map_area@ area, aabb@ player = null) {

jaybird110127,

@x0 @TheQuinbox NGT? What's that?

N2DYI, to random

Experience the immersive sound of DMR... in STEREO!
Yeah, I was bored, OK?

jaybird110127,

@N2DYI I love this!

matt, to random

Today's open-sourcing of MS-DOS 4.0, and a Hacker News comment wondering if that could be useful to modern DOS preservation projects like DOSBox, has got me wondering about a different approach to running non-game DOS applications on modern x86-64 PCs. I'm particularly thinking about something for the handful of aging writers (including one of my favorite science fiction writers) who still use a DOS word processor. Not that there's any money in that, but could be an interesting side project. 1/?

jaybird110127,

@matt I would love a DosBox-type program that used the existing console for text output, especially if it could do things DosBox can such as emulating Soundblaster cards, etc.

glyph, to random
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The more I think about the mess that is passkey deployment, the more I want to help solve phishing, the more I think the real solution has got to be a site where users can practice setting up accounts, forgetting passwords, losing their second factors, and so on. And then I think that as an isolated exercise, this would be a fun thing to build! But the version of this that provides value would be an absolute slog, with spearphishing-level pixel-perfect simulacra of every big site's login page

jaybird110127,

@jscholes @matt @glyph Yeah I think my dad once received an Email asking him to log into his PayPaI account to complete a transaction or something. I'm sorry, but when did we ever start using any service called PayPaI?

jaybird110127, to random

"Experts?" a father shouted from the crowd. "What experts have experience with school assemblies turning into monsters?"

gallagher123123, to random

I somehow manage to get interested in the most random things. My current craze? Player pianos and other mechanical instruments. Band organs, orchestrians, music boxes. Found this rendition of It's a Small World for player piano yesterday, and it has been stuck in my head ever since. It sounds so lively and happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQsdqzfivQw

jaybird110127,

@cordova5029 @gallagher123123 I think I have a copy of that. IIRC my copy came from the Internet Archive. It was a tour of a museum exhibit.

jaybird110127, to random

@radio I have no fucking clue qwhat chocolate rain is.

technocounselor, to random
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Is there a better reader for both inaccessible and accessible PDFs than Adobe? It will not for the life of me let me out of this one screen, and I’m getting annoyed with it.

jaybird110127,

@Bruce_Toews @technocounselor QRead can't handle PDF's with no text, just scanned images though.

jaybird110127,

@Bruce_Toews @technocounselor As far as OCR, for NVDA, NAO seems to work well, at least for me.

tinygirl, to random

I was reminded recently, that we have two palindrome days with just four days inbetween. yesterday was 4/20/2024 Wednesday is 4/24/24.

jaybird110127,

@tinygirl Actually if you don't include the two digits for the century, yesterday through next Monday are all palindrome days, 4/2X/24, where X is any digit from 0 through 9.

datajake1999, to random

I was able to convert the Window Eyes 3.1 demo I got from @jaybird110127 into a full version by copying wetool.dll from a newer full version.

jaybird110127,

@datajake1999 Wow, never knew it was that easy.

Brandon_h, to random

I want a BP Steak. Not a BT Speak. Except I do want to play with a BT Speak for an hour. But Linux. And I definitely have enough computers. But still. Steak speak of BT and BPTBP.

jaybird110127,

@Brandon_h My dad was seriously considering the purchase of a BT Speak until they discontinued the basic model.

seedy, to random

The Internet Archive is one of the best things ever invented, but holy lord on high, are the download speeds slow! I'm on a 37MBps connection; downloading 12MB should not take more than 3 minutes.

jaybird110127,

@seedy Just curious, what are you grabbing?

simon, to random

I have a report that Eloquence no longer works on the S24 running Android 14. I don't know whether Android 14 or the S24 is to blame. Whenever other phones get the update, it would be good to know whether it still runs on them. That's either really sad or just another strike against Samsung.

jaybird110127,

@simon @evilcookies98 CC @FluidEscence, see previous post in conversation.

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