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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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?

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Some program interfaces just don't need changed.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.
TheQuinbox, to random

selling some stuff, DM for details if you want a particular product:
An echo dot third generation ($20.00).
Google Nest Hub First generation ($50.00).
An iPad Mini 1 ($100.00).
A Samsun Meteor USB microphone ($30).
Prices aren't set, if you're being reasonable we can talk. More to come soon.

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Just saw this YouTube video title: "Best OS for programming? Mac vs Windows vs Linux debate settled".
Oh, to be a sighted person and to be able to choose an OS from a silly programming YouTuber talking about it as opposed to having to compare and contrast screen readers, "oh orca is garbage, oh Mac VO is garbage too, okay, guess it's Windows. Oh, but Windows has ads in the start menu! But, at least my screen reader works..."

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

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It just now hit me that tomorrow is my last actual day of high school. I've got some other things I need to do, namely on Friday and Tuesday, but what... what the fuck?

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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.

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The best friendships are when you can say the phrase "Well I mean..." and the other person just completely and totally understands what you mean immediately.

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release\lib\timeplug.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 91 unresolved externals

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Wow, this sleep schedule is absolutely *amaaaaazing. Laid down at 7:30, fell asleep close to 9:00, just now woke up, at 3:00. Why do I always manage to do this to myself in finals week? Hey, at least it's my last finals week in K12 though!

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Best thing to find on your floor randomly: a SATA cable you don't even remotely recognize. I have a lot of questions.

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It just occurred to me that come June 22, I'll have had a phone for 10 years. Getting my 4S was truly my entrance into online communities, and so I'm very close to having been on the internet for 10 years. I definitely, definitely had access too young. In June of 2014, I was 8. That's just a tiny bit insane.

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Wanted a command I could type super quickly to get my OS version on Linux, and came up with this after about 5 minutes. I just have
function osver() {
cat /etc/os-release | grep PRETTY_NAME= | cut -d'=' -f2- | tr -d '"'
}
in my .bash_profile and it all works.

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Today I learned, |& pipes both stdout and stderr of a process in Linux. I always would go 2>&1|, which works, but this is so much nicer!

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Hyperfocusing is all fun and games until you end up hyperfocusing on stuff for like 3 hours and your plan to get food at like 9:00 or 10:00 AM turns into a get food at 1:00 PM plan and then you get nauseous when you try to eat. No, this definitely didn't just happen to me, why do you ask?

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@jcsteh I've made a bit of headway on some of the random crashes and freezes I've been talking about with NVDA. Most recently my alt tab was bugging out majorly, so I alt tabbed and closed my WSL window. Once I did that, I started getting absolutely bombarded with NVDA error noises, and it completely froze up and was hardly reading anything, exactly like I had seen before. However, it was playing error sounds this time (because I turned them on), and this was in the log. The only way to get out of it was to restart NVDA with the desktop icon. Exception in IUIAutomationEventHandler.HandleAutomationEvent implementation:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "comtypes_comobject.pyc", line 154, in call_without_this
File "UIAHandler_init_.pyc", line 569, in IUIAutomationEventHandler_HandleAutomationEvent
File "comtypes_init_.pyc", line 278, in getattr
File "monkeyPatches\comtypesMonkeyPatches.pyc", line 32, in call
_ctypes.COMError: (-2147220991, 'An event was unable to invoke any of the subscribers', (None, None, None, 0, None))
Not sure if there's any other useful debug info I can give here but I'm saving this log.

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Bottom front fan went out on my main desktop today. I was alerted of this fact quite abruptly when I started it up and was greeted with an incredibly loud grinding noise that literally shook my fairly large case. Unplugged the bottom fan and it all works again, but damn. Never had a fan give out on me like that before. Think it may be time to upgrade them. My case does support I believe 140 MM fans, at the very least it supports 120 MM ones, and I'm eyeing some that are supposed to be super, super quiet.

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Parallels users, any idea why I can't send, of all the absurd keyboard shortcuts to have break, control+enter to my Windows 11 VM?

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I didn't see this advertised very many places, but it's saved my ass so many times. One of my friends wrote a C program for Windows that works like a pipe, and puts any output from a command line application into a multiline text field that you can search through and read. For example, astyle -h|show. https://github.com/samtupy/pipe2textbox

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Stupid and dumb discovery of the day. Having a Foobar2000 FooYoutube window open will completely 100% make both firefox and chrome not send proper accessibility events to my NVDA. Furthermore, it doesn't happen in a devbox VM to try and repro, because of course it doesn't; it wouldn't be a day without technical bullshittery.

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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.

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