Because I'm curious, have a random poll. If someone posts or sends you a link to a video or song, do you click it/look at it? Feel free to boost this if you feel like it. Apologies for the limited choices, my clients won't let me go above 5. Last edit I promise, the duration was messed up. Sorry for anyone who previously voted

@Shrigglepuss @balrogboogie I wish people realised CW's actually increase the number of people who see your posts - if someone keeps posting traumatising stuff with no warning I'll block them and won't see anything they say, if I can choose when or whether I have capacity to engage with it I may follow them

@GreenRoc I think there may be a balance to this. Yes absolutely filter, you have a responsibility to filter where you can, but also I think it's partly, I emphasize partly on people to make their posts easily filterable. E.G. not Censoring words, s*icide, tr*mp, p*rn, r4pe, s3x, ETC, and including keywords to allow well made filters to catch your post. I'm never going to be able to filter out every permutation of stuff i don't want to see if people do obscure censoring things like that. I can try my hardest to filter stuff out, but it also gets annoying, and borderline impossible, if people are bypassing my filters with increasingly more obscure references to stuff I'm trying to get rid of. There's no algorithm, we don't need to do it. People can't filter if it's constantly being bypassed by other people who aren't considering their filters, deliberately or not. It gets thoroughly exhausting having to filter a new mangling of a word I don't want to see every so often because for some reason someone censored it in some obscure way.

This is a survey all #Discord users need to fill out. Discord wants to know if we want AI to run the app. It'd be using data from pictures, conversations, voice notes, live streams, art, 'learning' from us in the app if they don't get strong enough pushback.

Let them know how you feel before they ruin that app for everyone as well.

It's an [assumed - see replies] official survey and it doesn't even take 5 mins. Please boost and share in your servers too.
https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts
#genAI #AIslop #AI #gaming #streaming #streamer #noToAI #gamer #gamers #womenWhoGame #resist

I've been using Eloquence 5 for several weeks now and find I can listen to it much easier than I can Eloquence 6.1. I like how it reads things better mainly.

@BorrisInABox @Bri I have two samples, both recorded personally by me. Second one is more close up than the first. Here's the first.

SoftVoice (mostly) modernized for NVDA 2025 versions. The only pesky problem I can't get rid of is pauses during say-all, but "pause factor" does improve pauses mid-utterance, which is nice.
Pitch, variants all work. Slight speed boost with wrapper as we now capture Wave output ourselves and pipe to NVDA.
https://eurpod.com/softvoice-2025.nvda-addon

@maysoncabo @Kaliah What do those things do? I haven't heard of them before.

@maysoncabo @Kaliah Ooh, what are those?

@maysoncabo @Kaliah Perfect! Are you wanting to use this with AI Studio only, or other things too?

@maysoncabo @Kaliah Interesting. Does it give you an option to copy the key to the clipboard?

@maysoncabo @Kaliah Oh that's right, you have to make the project first, but I don't recall having to do any imports on it. I think you can create the project, then make a key from there.

@maysoncabo @Kaliah @Jage Do you see any keys listed? I think there's a table. Even if you keep the dropdown set to "All projects?"

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@RyanFrancis @jonathan859 @dansup Accessibility is not a "want." If something is not accessible to screen readers, then blind people cannot use it. Deafblind people cannot use it either. Similar to how if something is written in such a way that it has a blank screen and operates only through high speed robotic text to speech, a lot of people with sight won't be able to use it. Accessibility is not a shiny new feature. And people should damn well not have to pay a disability tax to be able to access it. Rant over.

@RyanFrancis OK. Lets try this. Imagine you hear about this amazing new app. Everyone’s raving about it—your neighbors, your family, even your cat is meowing the name in its sleep. It’s open-source, the developers are "nice people", contributing to stopping climate warming, saving the planet with their money,keeping pigeons alive, and you’re actually excited to download it.
Then you open it, and the screen is just black.
The developers didn’t bother to consider your device, so it doesn't render. Now, what are you supposed to do? Throw money at them and hope they fix it? They won’t. Because they are ignorant. You're just yet another obscure idiot to them. OK. Option 2. Spend months of your own time coding a fix because it’s "open-source," only for a new update to wipe out your work and send you back to square zero. So its an up hill pointless battle. Or maybe you ask them nicely, and if you’re lucky, they give you a half-baked, black-and-white version where the buttons barely work, because they still don't care. Of course, we occasionally have the devs who do, and the story should end here.
Right. Maybe contributing code, money and time makes sense. But for a lot of people behind accessibility barriers, this shit happens literally 5x a day, in the most unexpected places. And not just with low value entertainment apps. This happens with apps required for work, managing your finances, ordering products, staying connected.
So, Eventually, you just go back to the old corporate app that steals your data—not because you want to, but because it actually works.
"Gratitude" towards developers? Gratitude my ass. It’s hard to feel thankful for a "great" application when it literally won't work. When this happens five times a day, you don't feel grateful; you just delete the app and find a version which actually works.
This is the reality of accessibility. It’s not that our devices aren’t compatible; it’s that the apps fail to talk to perfectly functional tools like screen readers, screen magnification, voice control, eye-gaze trackers, heck, they can't make their apps work with your typical keyboard most of the times. So please, stop being ignorant and try to understand the daily blockages we face before you start demanding "gratitude" from people who are just trying to stay sane and productive. @PepperTheVixen @jonathan859 @dansup

I'm saying this because I feel it needs to be said, especially after seeing a thread yesterday that really irritated me. You can be the richest person alive or living in a box. You could have a clean bill of health. Guess what? You can become disabled at any moment. Could be 50 years from now, could be as you're reading my post and getting geared up to reply and start the ablism agenda. Disability. Does. Not. Care. It doesn't give a damn who you are or what your circumstances are. The only "good" thing about disability and I say good with sarcasm, is that disability doesn't exclude, like this world does. So the next time you're thinking about posting something like "be grateful" or some other garbage when someone with a disability says something about access or some other basic thing that you as an able-bodied person don't have to think about or fight for? Pump your brakes and remember that that disabled person could be you someday. Edited to add: This isn't just about that thread yesterday, was this prompted by it? Absolutely. People with disabilities are told to be grateful a lot and it's not right. What people spouting this nonsense forget is that there's a good chance they can and most likely will be disabled at some point in their lives and then oh noooo. you're being rude to me because I have a disability when someone gives them a taste of their own medicine. Access isn't something to be grateful for, people fought to pass section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act if you live in the states so we wouldn't have these problems, it shouldn't be a fight every day. There shouldn't be this excuse of oh well I'm able-bodied, I didn't know. That excuse should have died when the internet became a tool to use to gather information and yet here we are still fighting because of dumb ass comments like I saw on that thread. No we shouldn't show grattitude for something we can't use, whether it be an app or not. I show grattitude when I'm even remotely considered. The world isn't meant for folks like me and I can work around that, mostly. I have accepted that, but I'll be damned if I'm going to watch someone rub my face in that pile of shit and make me feel bad or like a burden because I spoke up.

@TheQuinbox Hi, I just experienced with Codex. It's genuinely prohibiting my work with NVDA and Windows because by the time Codex reaches 30% context window left at the status line, NVDA freezes for 2 or 3 minutes at a time with how it redraws the terminal screen. I need to control+C my work and restart the session with the unique Codex ID again to get it to behave. Then It'll work for say, 5 or 6 more commands, but then the Codex output, which includes thinking and commands run, really janks NVDA performance. Quite frankly this is unacceptable and a huge daily irritation that needs a prioritized fix. @NVAccess

Alright, so. I am done having my ability to do my job inhibited by my screen reader not being able to handle the fact that I have a lot of text coming into my terminal at once very frequently. So, @NVAccess what's it going to take to get this prioritized on the roadmap? Personally speaking I would up my donation to $50 a month at least to fix this, it genuinely takes so much away from my daily productivity as a professional software engineer. Others feel free to join in, maybe money talks where lots of your users don't.