BTyson

@BTyson@dragonscave.space

I love technology, music and talking with friends. I try to be laid back, I think things are easier that way. Twitter: btman16

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ZBennoui, to random

Ok, I totally understand that no one here might have the answers, but does anyone know if Cerence has released any new voices in the past year? Apple disclosed that new voices are coming to VoiceOver, and I'm trying to understand if they mean more stuff from Cerence or new voices Apple has built in house. Personally I hope it's new stuff from Apple, I'd love for them to get back into the TTS game as Alex is still one of the best voices currently available in my opinion.

BTyson,

@miki @ZBennoui I have a strong feeling one of them might be Nicky Compact (you can use it on Mac but not on iOS).

JenMsft, to random
@JenMsft@mastodon.social avatar

Did you know you can add up to two clocks to the clock & calendar flyout? It's an option in Date & Time Settings

BTyson,

@JenMsft What is the difference between using this option and the additional clocks tab in timedate.cpl?

TheQuinbox, to random

My dad's out of town at the moment on a business trip, and he sent me a checklist of things I need to do to help my mom with after her surgery. He sent it as an Apple Notes link. SO to access it from my Pixel, I had to:

  1. Click the link and try to sign into my Apple ID.
  2. Get a verification code, except I have no Apple devices around at the second and the text option had to be clicked like 5 times before it worked.
  3. Verify I have... access to be invited to the note, whatever that means. SO they had to text me a link, and I had to click it.
  4. After clicking it, I had to, you fucking guessed it, sign in again, including the same problem with sending a code, even though I hit trust this browser the first time.
  5. Dismiss the 15 modals that popped up across the two tabs, and try to access the note. It doesn't work.
  6. Close the entire browser and click the link again.
  7. Finally scroll down to the notes contents, and realize that Apple really doesn't care about you, because all you can read is the first line!
    Seriously, fuck, you! It feels like this entire world is now just broken, inaccessible garbage everywhere you look.
BTyson,

@TheQuinbox He way overcomplicated that. You can just share the note over e-mail.

simon, to random

iOS 17 added an option to import an ESim QR code from photos when adding an ESim, so that if the carrier provides the photo, we can easily add it without having to scan it from another device and line up the camera. This was a huge accessibility aid. Unfortunately, that option was removed at some point. I can no longer find it on iOS 17.4 or 17.5. I don't know why Apple would have silently taken out such a useful option, but I'm going to be e-mailing Apple accessibility because this regression hits blind people particularly hard, and it could also cause problems for someone who has only one device. By forcing us to scan using the camera, Apple is also forcing us to have a second device available to display the QR code.

BTyson,

@simon There is something in the release notes about universal eSim links. Could this be another way to work around the QR codes?

BTyson, to iOS

I just ran across a funny TTS quirk. I was reading about US billionaires and I heard "microsecond billionaires" instead.

TheQuinbox, to random

Just got home from my last ever high school class. FREE AT LAST!!!

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox Congratulations! That's awesome!

TheQuinbox, to random

In case you ever wondered what I do in my downtime, I just found the IP address for my cable modem's dashboard, and spent 30 minutes going through, reading all the addresses, and tweaking things like the front-panel lights or energy-efficient Ethernet. Now, back to drinking this coffee I completely forgot about while messing with this.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox I can totally see you doing that. I'm just imagining someone standing near it being like, "Why are the lights going on and off?"

mikedoise, to random
@mikedoise@techopolis.social avatar

I’m really thinking that today’s event is only half of the story for the iPad this year. I think WWDC will have some really cool iPadOS features. What do you think?

BTyson,

@mikedoise That was a waste of 39 minutes. They could've made that a press release with videos. I don't think they'll do very much in terms of features on the iPad.

BTyson, to Games

Let's do another typing prediction game. On your phone, start the sentence with the following and see if the predictive can get the rest. Over the course of a year, I... go!

BTyson,

@evilcookies98 That's a very interesting subject, I haven't heard of that one before.

TheQuinbox, to random

Today I learned: killing Windows Defender can seriously speed up Thunderbird. If it's ever unusable try it, magic will happen. Not my discovery, but this just made my life so much nicer.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox How did you kill it?

BTyson, to windows

Hi @JenMsft I just wanted to let you know that in Flight Hub, clicking on the entry for build 26100 is loading the page for build 26090 instead. Are you also able to reproduce this? Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks.

BTyson, to random

I believe I figured out how Narrator reads its controls, there's a template XML file that it seems to read from.

BTyson,

For example, this controls how a checkbox is read, whether Narrator pauses, etc.

BTyson, to random

If this registry value does what I think it will, this computer is set to find a good time to restart for updates, normally it tries for 7 days, and then gives up, but apparently, I've now set it to try for 16777215 days, or about 45964 years, before it will give up. Welcome to me being bored at 2:00 AM.

BTyson, to random

In today's random searching through the registry, I found some info on power settings that I had no idea what they did. There's a setting hidden under sleep settings to allow programs to prevent the system from being able to go to sleep. The default is to always allow programs to prevent the machine from sleeping. I have to test it yet, but so far, my thinking is that if programs have logic in them to keep the system awake, this is the setting that controls whether that can actually happen. Windows Update can do this, for example, if updates haven't been installed for a long time, and I don't like that. So I've tried disabling this, in the hopes that it will prevent that from happening.

BTyson,

There's also a setting, Legacy RTC mitigations, that you can modify to allow the system to hibernate, even if a wake-up alarm is pending.

BTyson,

Here is what the description of this setting reads, about 8 levels deep in the registry: Avoid waking from hiberate via the legacy RTC wake alarm. Also defer hibernate in the presence of an immanent wake alarm.

BTyson,

And I did not write that typo, that's pasted directly from the registry.

BTyson, to privacy

So I just read this article about this thing that scrapes Discord messages and can show what servers a user is part of and when they join voice chats. Do we know if it also collects direct messages? https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/ #privacy #messaging #discord

BTyson,

@datajake1999 Apparently, it says that there isn't anything that indicates this is the case, but you might have to have an account to see that part.

ppatel, to random
@ppatel@mstdn.social avatar

A spy tool is scraping the messages of thousands of Discord servers and selling the data.

This is letting people track users across servers, shows when they joined voice chats, which servers they're in, etc.

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

BTyson,

@ppatel Do we know whether this includes direct messages?

BTyson,

@ppatel That's still scary though. If it can do all this currently, I feel like it's only a matter of time before it could, unless something else happens.

TheQuinbox, to random

Okay yeah, I'm done with firefox I think. No more accessibility hangs, but it's just, so, slow! I have 16 cores, it is absolutely and completely absurd that it takes over 15 seconds to load enafore! It used to be just on new instance launch, now it's every time I use the address bar. God dammit I hate computers.

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox Do you have any extensions running in Chrome or Firefox?

BTyson,

@TheQuinbox I've seen weird cases with UBlock Origin. As a temporary check, does it do this if you disable it? Also, another random question, but what do you have Firefox set to load on startup? For example, is it the new tab page, a home page, blank page, etc.?

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