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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FluidEscence, to random

Do you guys realize, @cachondo basically invented the invisible interface standard that we still use to this day? It all started with Jawtter, a JAWS script that allowed access to the Twitter social network from within the JAWS screen reader. From there, Qwitter was born. After Qwitter, two forks, TheQube by @Quartizer and TwitMonger by I'm not actually sure who. Then, Chicken Nugget, and alongside/at the same time as that, @twblue, Spanish only, was born. From there, you get Quinter and then finally, TweeseCake (@app). But it all started with Jawtter. If Jawtter hadn't happened, I don't think the Twitter/Mastodon experience would've gone quite the way it did.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence probably not. Although I do remember, I really did not want to add an invisible interface to Quinter LOL.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Look what you guys made us do. Now we have an invisible interface. @TheQuinbox , 06/21/2021, 02:34 AM, Quinter

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence And, it was 2 in the morning, because of course it was. It always in those days.

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence You sure? I thought I converted these.

TheQuinbox, to random

"Don't worry, I bought the Trimp Kama Sutra already"

bermudianbrit, to random

hay tech humans: Gigabyte Vs ASUS motherboard, thoughts? I'm not overclocking and both seem to offer the right feature set for me just at £150 premium for the ASUS. Is it worth it?

TheQuinbox,

@bermudianbrit My current board is an Asus Tough Gaming X570 pro with on-board Wi-Fi. Amazing board, great IO, great support. Only issue is the on-board wi-fi and bluetooth suck cock, but they're Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2, so not very surprising. Asus is solid though.

TheQuinbox,

@bermudianbrit Honestly I wouldn't stress on-board wi-fi much, any desktop worth its weight in thumb screws will have enough room for you to insert at least a 6E card.

TheQuinbox, to random

A few years ago, I wrote a program in Go that would get the RSS feed out of an Apple Podcasts link. I've been using it the past couple years, but I didn't like dragging around this 4.1 MB executable that's not stored anywhere convenient and I was bored, so ended up rewriting it this morning. Usage is pretty simple. Run it, paste in URL, get shown RSS feed link. https://quinbox.xyz/files/Podfeed.exe

TheQuinbox,

@matt PureBasic, I'm a creature of habit. Would've done C++ but I'm still trying to sort out my GUI situation there.

TheQuinbox,

@matt I thought about it, but I just can't Rust. I hate programming that way, because sometimes I just want to get an idea out. I don't really care if this string will live until the end of the program as opposed to the end of the function, because it runs for like 5 seconds. Perhaps a lot of my resistance to rust's safety though is because I haven't been bitten by enough null pointer errors etc yet (although I sure have gotten a few...).

TheQuinbox,

@nick Nope, PureBasic.

TheQuinbox,

@matt I also honestly don't think Rust was meant for tiny utilities like this. For example, one of the functions I call here takes a JSON object, a pointer to a structure to extract it to, and the size of the structure. Very C-like, and potentially unsafe, sure. But in this case, the safety isn't really a concern.

TheQuinbox,

@jscholes @matt I reported this too, and the dev actually explained why this is the case. Apparently, you need to call DefDlgProc instead of DefWndProc to get this behavior (thanks, Microsoft). Hopefully they'll start doing that in the next major version, I'm certainly not being quiet about it

TheQuinbox,

@weirdwriter Yup, more specifically https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=podcast_id&entity=podcast"

TheQuinbox, to random

Some program interfaces just don't need changed.

FluidEscence, to random

Why did anyone think that touch screens were a good idea? Swipe swipe swipe, swipe swipey swipe swipity swipe! 3 hours later, oh yay, I made it 10 posts down my timeline! Swipe swipe swipity swipe swipe...

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Why do you think I read on a stream/book port for years, and even still do?

TheQuinbox, to random

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?

TheQuinbox,

@miki Yup, that's true. I do enjoy being able to literally read basically anywhere and not get judged. Books kind of always called me though, my third grade teachers were mildly horrified when I started talking about the political conflicts in the the third hunger games book LOL.

TheQuinbox,

@cordova5029 Pretty much, seemingly. Because normally if I'm listening to music, or watching TV, I can still very easily think about programming, or a project I'm working on. Reading though? It lets me relax and just think about the book.

FluidEscence, to random

OK, can someone, please, recommend a mastodon app for Android that is not pachli or tusky, before I defenistrate this bullshit?

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Fedilab, mastodon for Android, or my favorite, Megalodon.

jcsteh, to random

Half the time (probably more) when I restart NVDA, usually due to UIA shitting itself in consoles, everything goes to shit on my system. Alt+tab won't report correctly, a bunch of Windows go not responding, etc. I end up having to log out and log back in again to restore functionality. I can't figure out what the hell is causing it and it's really difficult to debug because well... the system is unusable. Damn I hate bugs like this. And anything that makes my screen reader not read things to me to that level has a tendency to frustrate me to the point of rage.

TheQuinbox,

@jcsteh Yup, this. This exact issue is why I haven't bothered debugging my firefox problems too much further, NVDA crashing this hard can render my system totally unusable and trying to debug like that has made me rage so loud family members have heard it before.

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