jaybird110127

@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space

Blind computer geek from Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

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jaybird110127, to random

Tonight I go into a sleep center to do a sleep study which will almost certainly diagnose me with sleep apnea. Forty years ago today, on Saturday, May 19, 1984, some CBS executives probably had a sleepless night after Michael Larson won an unprecedented $110,237 on Press Your Luck. That was when the show was taped. Press Your Luck was a thirty-minute show, but this particular episode went on so long that they had to split it into two episodes, which aired on Friday, June 8, and Monday, June 11, 1984. They were never seen again until a GSN documentary in 2003. You can doubtless find both the original episodes and the documentary, "Big Bucks: the Press Your Luck Scandal" on Youtube.

Kaliah, to random

It looks like my little friend is back. My window bird came back for another year. Quite a persistent little thing, apparently.

jaybird110127,

@Kaliah Yeah that sounds like the House Wren sound on my bird clock I got for Christmas in 1998. Here's what that sound on my clock sounds like.

pixelate, to accessibility
@pixelate@tweesecake.social avatar

It's June 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM Central US time. Almost every blind person that owns an iPhone has installed the iOS 18 beta. Some are playing retro games with the new, AI driven screen recognition. Others are gladly using DecTalk as their main voice, the Enhanced Siri voices that use ML to speak using emotion and context, as their reading voice, Eloquence as their notification voice (sent to one ear to minimize distractions), and finding it amazing that VoiceOver emphasizes italic text, and emboldens bold text. Others are finding it amazing that they can navigate their whole phone using Braille screen input, searching to find things by typing a few letters, or just swiping down through everything. A few are connecting their multi-line Braille displays, and feeling app icons and images, made much more understandable through touch, using an AI filter.

The next day, when news of all these features filters down to Android users, they quickly begin hammering Google, wanting DecTalk and Eloquence on their Pixel phones, like iOS users have. But Google is silent as always, only just now having given Chromebook users high quality Google TTS voices.

Note: great liberty has been taken to imagine the coolest outcome for the vague feature announcements Apple gave for VoiceOver users. We'll see just how cool, or not, they actually are on June 10.

#accessibility #apple #google #VoiceOver #blind #iOS #android

jaybird110127,

@pixelate New VoiceOver voices? DECtalk? Nah, I'm betting they've added the Apple II's Echo II speech synthesizer, and some form of Votrax.

jaybird110127, to random

Well thank goodness for Backblaze computer backup. Just now I executed a command, the reasons for which are too involved to get into here. But I missed one crucial letter, and the result was that, if left to its own devices, it would have happily wiped out everything on my C: drive. Luckily I realized what I'd done immediately, and stopped it while it was munching through a directory I have in Dropbox. I stood to lose everything in my root directory, along with all my batch files, most but not all of which I had on another system. Backblaze to the rescue, and I got everything back. Whew! Moral of the story? Back up your stuff, kids! You never know when you might need it.

jaybird110127,

@remixman Nah, they'd have just taken the drive apart and thrown it on a concrete floor…which probably wouldn't have made much of a sound, given that's an internal SSD in an Intel Nuc.

x0, to random
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Found this hiding in the Android Open Source Project section of Phone Tones, called Themos (2).wav. What is this melody actually called? It reminds me of an icecream truck.

jaybird110127,

@x0 I know it as Turkey in the Straw. Also, Do your Ears Hang Low.

jpellis2008, to random

So I keep hearing this hold music for local NLS library, various doctors offices etc recently. Its from the 80's or 90's, in the key of C minor and has a clap percussion sound on a delay with what sounds like a synth lead melody. I absolutely love it, just can't find it anywhere.

jaybird110127,

@jpellis2008 Opus number 1? It's on Youtube.

evilcookies98, to random
@evilcookies98@dragonscave.space avatar

Have any of you ever heard of clocky the alarm clock?

jaybird110127,

@evilcookies98 I heard about that many years ago on a tech news blurb on the now defunct Tellme phone service.

mattcurtis, to random

so, here is something interesting, the yamaha PCS 500, old keyboard from back when, has some really good sounds, that give me an 80s/90s vibe to it, take a listen if you want

jaybird110127,

@mattcurtis I have one of these keyboards. Also have a PC-100, PCS-30, and Pc-1000.

jaybird110127,

@mattcurtis In case you haven't heard this, here's an example of my PCS-500 playing a playcard, in this case, Edelweiss. This is the version of Edelweiss that comes with the PC-100, my 500 didn't come with any cards so I'm not sure what cards it would have come with.

tinygirl, to random

Sorry, Suzuki, not Auzuki. Sheesh!

jaybird110127,

@tinygirl https://www.popsmusic.com/qchord-instruction-visually-impaired.html

jaybird110127, to random

Silly Eloquence finding. Spell, Boy. B, o, y. That's all well and good. But if you put a second o before the y, you get the following: Booy.

daygar, to random

I wonder if Audio Game Maker is still floating around anywhere?

jaybird110127,

@daygar Audio Game Maker: https://bluegrasspals.com/agm/agm.zip and the sound library: https://bluegrasspals.com/agm/soundlib.zip

jaybird110127, to random

Attention, attention. This audio post, demonstrates, the way in which, a certain Alexa skill developer, apparently likes to put pauses, every few words, in the middle, of sentences. So now, don't forget to listen, to this audio file, so you can know, exactly, what I'm talking about.

JamminJerry, to random
@JamminJerry@mastodon.stickbear.me avatar

jesus christ! when in the sam hell does #Meijer stock there stuff? we submitted an order this morning, and it seems like they don't have shit! no macaroni we wanted, no spaghetti we wanted, no ABC chicken nuggets. what in the sam hell!

jaybird110127,

@JamminJerry Back when we used to order from Meijer via Shipt, we always had good luck ordering on Tuesday mornings, for whatever that might be worhth.

jaybird110127, to random

So in NVDA 2024.1, for some reason Addon Updater now opens a dialog when updates are available, rather than just a notification. I do not like this, as it could well interrupt something important I'm trying to do. I hate when something throws me out of focus when I'm trying to do something else, especially if I was just about to press Enter at the time, so I end up hitting Ok to something I didn't want to do for one reason or another. Any way to revert to the old behavior? Thanks.

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Yes, as a matter of fact I am. So can portable copies not generate notifications? Good to know if so.

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Also do you know why both Addon Updater and the Spanish store addon are getting errors when I try to update addons? I used the log viewer to trace it in the case of Addon Updater to an expired SSL certificate, but can't tell what server has the expired cert.

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Someone told me to go into the Python console and execute the following. For me, it produced no output, and seemed to have no effect.
import updateCheck
updateCheck._updateWindowsRootCertificates()

jaybird110127,

@tspivey I'll have to get the error again, but it's one of these tracebacks that triggers another traceback that triggers another traceback, etc. Addon Updater just tells me there was an error downloading the addon updates, which seems like just another variation of the now all too common "Hmmm…Something went wrong" errors that tell you absolutely nothing.

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Okay, let me go and get that error. Interestingly, another computer which is running an older copy of NVDA is able to download addon updates just fine. Not sure if it's because of the older NVDA, if it's using an older Python, or what. Two computers using newer NVDA cannot download addon updates using Addon Updater.

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Okay, I have the error but it's too long to post here. Will send it in two parts.

jaybird110127,

@tspivey DEBUG - external:globalPlugins.addonUpdater.addonGuiEx.downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates (03:13:21.754) - Thread-12 (downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates) (15048):
nvda3208: downloading Resource Monitor, URL is https://github.com/kefaslungu/resourceMonitor/releases/download/24.05/resourceMonitor-24.05.nvda-addon, destpath is C:\Users\ADMINI1\AppData\Local\Temp\nvda_addonUpdate-u_ul067x.nvda-addon
DEBUG - external:globalPlugins.addonUpdater.addonUpdateProc.downloadAddonUpdate (03:13:21.754) - ThreadPoolExecutor-2_0 (16068):
nvda3208: dest path is C:\Users\ADMINI1\AppData\Local\Temp\nvda_addonUpdate-u_ul067x.nvda-addon
DEBUGWARNING - NVDAObjects.IAccessible.IAccessible._get_IAccessibleRole (03:13:21.819) - MainThread (3964):
accRole failed: (-2147024809, 'The parameter is incorrect.', (None, None, None, 0, None))
DEBUG - external:globalPlugins.addonUpdater.addonUpdateProc.downloadAddonUpdate (03:13:21.922) - ThreadPoolExecutor-2_0 (16068):
Could not access download URL
DEBUG - external:globalPlugins.addonUpdater.addonGuiEx.downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates (03:13:21.922) - Thread-12 (downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates) (15048):
nvda3208: downloading Resource Monitor
DEBUG - external:globalPlugins.addonUpdater.addonGuiEx.downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates (03:13:21.922) - Thread-12 (downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates) (15048):
nvda3208: download percent: 0
DEBUG - external:globalPlugins.addonUpdater.addonGuiEx.downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates (03:13:21.922) - Thread-12 (downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates) (15048):
nvda3208: failed to download Resource Monitor
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 1348, in do_open
File "http\client.pyc", line 1286, in request
File "http\client.pyc", line 1332, in _send_request
File "http\client.pyc", line 1281, in endheaders
File "http\client.pyc", line 1041, in _send_output
File "http\client.pyc", line 979, in send
File "http\client.pyc", line 1458, in connect
File "ssl.pyc", line 517, in wrap_socket
File "ssl.pyc", line 1108, in _create
File "ssl.pyc", line 1379, in do_handshake
ssl.SSLCertVerificationError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)

jaybird110127,

@tspivey During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\nvda\userConfig\addons\addonUpdater\globalPlugins\addonUpdater\addonUpdateProc.py", line 167, in downloadAddonUpdate
remote = urlopen(url, timeout=120)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 216, in urlopen
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 519, in open
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 536, in _open
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 496, in _call_chain
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 1391, in https_open
File "urllib\request.pyc", line 1351, in do_open
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1006)>

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\nvda\userConfig\addons\addonUpdater\globalPlugins\addonUpdater\addonGuiEx.py", line 236, in downloadAndInstallAddonUpdates
download.result()
File "concurrent\futures_base.pyc", line 449, in result
File "concurrent\futures_base.pyc", line 401, in __get_result
File "concurrent\futures\thread.pyc", line 58, in run
File "C:\nvda\userConfig\addons\addonUpdater\globalPlugins\addonUpdater\addonUpdateProc.py", line 170, in downloadAddonUpdate
raise RuntimeError("Could not access download URL")
RuntimeError: Could not access download URL

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Date and time are accurate, synced via NTP. Also should I run that in the NVDA Python console or in another copy of Python? Should there be any output?

jaybird110127,

@tspivey Well I just ran that in the NVDA Python console, and I'm please to say that seems to have fixed it.

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