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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TheQuinbox, to random

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

talon, to random
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FM synth go womp womp

TheQuinbox,

@talon You really should. I like this one.

TheQuinbox, to random

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?

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence You killed me with this one.

TheQuinbox,

@jscholes Probably not, mainly because I don't care. I'm not bothering to walk for graduation either, I'm going to have more significant achievements in my life that I actually care about. But I'm just glad to be done with this hellscape.

TheQuinbox,

@jscholes A 2-year cybersecurity degree from a community college near here. I spent 15 minutes talking to the head of accessibility about different Linux distros and terminal screen readers during my intake, so I'm very optimistic.

matt, to random

Is there any currently maintained Android screen reader that supports app-specific scripting? And if so, do any blind Android users actually use it? Still thinking about the problem of apps like the Sonos app regressing in accessibility (see my earlier thread), and how we might take matters into our own hands as we have often done and sometimes still do on Windows. Of course, the dominant mobile platform in the blind community doesn't allow this at all.

TheQuinbox,

@matt Commentary allows you to run Lua code to add custom actions etc., but I'm not sure if it supports per-app scripting. They also have something similar to VoiceOver's screen recognition, which may be able to make heads or tails of it. I don't use CSR though, I don't trust it.

TheQuinbox,

@bryansmart @matt The issues go far beyond that, apparently explore by touch flatly just doesn't work for example.

TheQuinbox, to random

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.

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.

TheQuinbox,

@TRodick93 quin@debian:~$ nmap -sn -Pn 192.168.0.0/24. You might not need /Pn; I did because my router blocks ICMP requests.

TheQuinbox,

@TRodick93 You're right, you can't. Hence the subnet mask. /24 is the local subnet.

TheQuinbox,

@TRodick93 Hey, that's what we have too! :D

TheQuinbox,

@TRodick93 If you're on an Ero, try 192.168.100.1. That's what mine was.

fireborn, to random

Also, due to reasons, my BT Speak is currently my only computing device, excluding my phone, for the next few weeks. Real trial by fire here.

TheQuinbox,

@fireborn @FluidEscence Wait... are you writing all your code from the braille keyboard? I mean I wrote a little bit on the book port with thumb braille way back and I thought that was annoying, I can't imagine being in Python and needing to indent... oh no

alexhall, to random

I think I'm becoming a fan of putting each function or method parameter on its own line. It takes up more space, but it's easier to review them one at a time, and I can move the order of parameters around simply by using my IDE's command for moving lines up and down.

TheQuinbox,

@alexhall Goodness, I could never. That would fall down very hard with something like ent(game_world@ w, float x, float y, float z, float width, float length, float height, uint64 flags = 0) {
Something I did write yesterday. There's a shorter version that uses vectors instead of 6 floats but even still, oh my. Glad it works for you, though.

TheQuinbox,

@matt @alexhall In one of the Win32 C++ projects I'm a part of, there's a comment that says this: // Runs an application with CreateProcess. Pretty much all the parameters of CreateProcess are useless and it's simply annoying to remember them, thus this function.

TheQuinbox,

@jscholes @alexhall It was painful to write too, I assure you. Made the end-user's code quite nice though.

TheQuinbox,

@alexhall That's Angelscript. It's valid, but I just know that it would break my workflow, and I hate anything that does that. That's the same reason I haven't switched editors yet.

TheQuinbox, to random

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

TheQuinbox, to random

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

TheQuinbox,

@FluidEscence Yup.

alexhall, to random

I'm using Microsoft's neural voices for my NVDA say-all voice. I just read the abbreviation "C/SrA.", which is short for cadet senior airman. Instead of just saying the letters, the voice decided to say "C/ sister A" for some reason. Please, voice manufacturers, PLEASE stop making assumptions about abbreviations, dates, and acronyms.

TheQuinbox,

@alexhall It's not complicated, honestly. If you look, all the voice data is bundled in the add-on. Looking at the code, you'll find an API key. Running strings c:\Windows\System32\narrator.exe | grep <api_key> on Windows 11 Narrator finds it right away. What shocked me the most is that it somehow works on Windows 10, but this is literally just calling the Microsoft embedded speech SDK, which seems extremely exclusive and limited for some dumb reason, especially because as far as I know they don't reach out to the cloud.

TheQuinbox,

@alexhall There most definitely is an API. See here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/embedded-speech
Now, as for the legality, I have no clue, I'm not a lawyer. This SDK seems incredibly exclusive and cockblocked, but it exists.

TheQuinbox,

@bermudianbrit @alexhall Yeah, that's on Microsoft. Their SDK isn't very good IMO, but it more just makes me happy that this exists now, because fuck exclusivity.

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