RE: https://mastodon.social/@gb123geo/117582233598933186

NvAccess would do well to take this advice on board.

If you value your telegram account, never sign out of it with all your clients, jfc. Not that I did, but for some reason, after a whole bunch of bs, I'm back in it, for what? I have no clue.

I've updated my Surge XT patches GitHub repository, now containing 202 patches. https://github.com/ironcross32/Surge-XT-Patches

I already hated the NFB, but tonight, someone gave me a reason to hate them even more. Holy shit, the sheer ignorance and tone deafness of this person is unbelievable.

Remember that ElevenLabs addon from earlier today that was being talked about? I kinda fixed some things and it's here: https://github.com/ironcross32/ElevenLabsTTS/releases/download/v1.4/ElevenLabsTTS-1.4.nvda-addon

I also opened a PR against the upstream repo. But like it does things and stuff and doesn't store your API key in plain text anymore and like more things and more stuff and a mode where you can set a second synth as your navigation synth so ElevenLabs only reads when you use say all, helping you save credits.

@desertstar84 @ondrosik @Orinks

Here's an example of why intuition matters when working with AI. I found a glaring inaccuracy involving the vehicle scanner in my BeamNG mod which presented itself when a vehicle is severely damaged. I was getting two separate readings, one for neutral and forward gears, and one for reverse. the first reading was 0, the second was 477ft. I was assuming the latter was correct, but in fact, neither one was.
This game is called BeamNG for a reason. Nodes and beams are how vehicles are made. Beams connect nodes together, so when you break parts off a vehicle, nodes are detached and those parts can fly however physics dictates they should. Now, the vehicle scanner is trying to find the front of the source vehicle (the one you're driving) and match it up with the nearest node of the target vehicle, this way, whether you want to hit a vehicle or simply follow along behind it, you can. It didn't used to work this way. Before, it would use the centermost node of each, which would present inaccurate information.

This all comes together given there are two damaged vehicles in my scenario. The vehicle scanner did not know where the actual main mass of the vehicle was. It was finding a cluster of nodes, but that cluster was just debris. In a forward gear or neutral, it was seeing that a piece of debris was stuck to my vehicle, but in reverse, it uses a different model so you can back up into another car or alongside it.

The AI planned to spawn a bunch of vehicles, damage them, and compare clusters of nodes. This may have worked in some situations, but depending on the level of damage, it may have lead to more false readings. However, I could tell this was a rabbit hole in the making and I didn't want to go down that path, so I instructed it to read the game's files. In doing so, not only did it find the ref node which is basically a "here I am" identifier so that when nodes are detached, the game can still identify where the actual vehicle is, but it also found a signal we can listen for when nodes are broken. This signal allows us to update our cache of the geometry of the vehicle whenever the game tells us that something broke. We can then use that data to figure out where the vehicle is, and exclude parts that broke off from the scan both because we don't want our scanner to lock onto a bumper that's since departed from the vehicle, and because we don't want vehicle debris included in the scan at all.

@FreakyFwoof Clipman has a sort of Kobayashi Maru scenario where if for some reason, it doesn't remember the history password, the app fails to start, and because it's not stored in plain text in the json, you can't put the correct password in, so you're left with no options except wipe it out or something. Here's the startup log that shows the error. Also, I don't know why it didn't remember the password. It's supposed to be connecting to my server and the certificate is all set up properly. My other machine is connected to it just fine, and the laptop was... until it restarted and didd this.

[2026-10-14 16:41:24] Startup failed.
App: C:\Clipman-3.1.9\clipman.exe
Version: 3.1.9.0
Build stamp: 1791573570663
OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
.NET: 4.0.30319.42000
Device: BRANDONLAPTOP
Clipman.DatabasePasswordRequiredException: This Clipman database is encrypted and needs its history password.
at Clipman.ClipDatabaseFile.ReadEncryptedText(String path, String password)
at Clipman.ClipDatabaseFile.Load[T](String path, String password)
at Clipman.ClipStore.LoadLocked()
at Clipman.ClipStore.SetDatabasePath(String databasePath, Func`1 passwordProvider)
at Clipman.ClipStore..ctor(String databasePath, Func`1 passwordProvider, String machineName)
at Clipman.ClipmanApplicationContext..ctor()
at Clipman.Program.RunApplication()

This goes for all content creators regardless of type of media. Before you start recording for real, do a short 10 second test to ensure that everything that's meant to be in your podcast / video / presentation is actualy in it and the levels are good. I don't care if you just used your setup yesterday, do it. 10 seconds is not a steep price to pay when it can save you from needing to redo an hour's worth of work.

Sometimes I don't know whether it's me, other people, or a combination of the two, but I kinda really don't like the way some people think communication works. Someone messages me I've never talked to before on Discord, okay fine, I do allow that and I want to continue doing so. I look, and we do share a server together. The thing they ask me is harmless on the surface, but the thing is, they would've had to go months back to see this particular thing because I hadn't interacted on that server in months. Fine, but now alarm bells are faintly wringing.

I answer them, and they basically want me to show them more pictures about a particular thing. Yeah I'm not gonna do that because pics were taken 8 years ago and the only other picss of this thing have me in it and i'm just not doing that. Thing is, if I tell them that, it's likely gonna be a thing and I just don't care to deal with that especially as it's a perfect stranger, so I say nothing. A few hours later, they're like "nice ignore", so I block them.

I tend to get this... I wouldn't say a lot, but I would say more than I'd like. People don't have a concept of getting to know someone and they jump way too fast into shit. Here's where I feel like I'm part of the problem, because I definitely have trust issues, and I definitely have walls up around people, so if I feel like someone's trying to go too far too fast, I don't like it and I tend to break off communication with that person. Probably better ways of handling that though, needs improvement on my part.

Sometimes I feel bad though, because some people are autistic and kinda get excited about whatever and get ahead of themselves and they don't actually mean anything by it. So I'm trying to figure out if that's what's going on, and if it is, I'll probably be more tolerant to it, but at the same time, it kinda puts me in this uncomfortable zone.

It's raining and the dog comes in. I've got the towel in hand to wipe her down, but she's meandering towards the dining room, so I tell her to get back here in a firm tone, which she does. I then get down and touch the towel to just below her neck to wipe her off before doing her paws and she flinches as though she expects to be hit. Even after all these years, that reflex is still there.

She was a rescue, and her profile indicated that there was abuse in her past. She's still got some of her quirks; improved over time, but still there. I'll be honest and say I've been rougher than I ought to be in the past on dogs. I never beat them or kicked them, but if I was frustrated at a dog, I'd yell or if they were doing something they shouldn't out on the leash, I'd roughly yank them back.

This little girl got me to stop doing that shit because in no way does she deserve to be made to feel nervous in her own home like something's gonna happen to her. So I make it a point that no matter what, my outward presentation doesn't match my inward one. There are times when her little mind games irritate me, but I try not to let it show.

If you care at all about your dog, especially if you have a rescue with abuse in its past, just remember, the outward marks heal, the inner ones never do.

Am I just fucking daft or does this make no sense? You buy any el cheapo keyboard nowadays and they all seem to have backlighting. You spend nearly $300 on a Magic keyboard for the mac, and it does not. But the one for the iPad does?

I can't say I'm particularly upset about this supposed livestream of a public execution. If it happens, fine, if not, whatever. Dude shot up an army base, he gets what he gets. #uspol

So I got Plague Inc Evolved because it's dirt cheap rn and because there's a mod. Unfortunately, the mod's last release seems to be August of this year, and the game has updated since then. One side effect of this is that I don't think the available and purchased lists for transmissions, symptoms, and abilities are working correctly as a result. The problem with this is there doesn't seem to be any way of devolving stuff, and you kinda need to do that with viruses. Luckily, I made it through that run because it didn't decide to go crazy until the end, but if it evolved some shit I didn't want early on, I'd likely be screwed.

How do you miss a shift on a motorcycle, the gearbox is sequential. That's what happened to someone ripping down my street? Like this ain't rocket science, throttle to 0, push clutch in, blip shifter up, clutch out, throttle up.

I wonder how many people around my age think AD means after death, referring to after the death of Christ. It's bullshit, but it's what I was taught. It stands for Anno Domini, which is a Latin phrase meaning, "The year of our Lord". It also doesn't mark his death, it marks his birth.

I got tired of fumbling my way around typing punctuation in UEB because I don't read Braille enough to learn it properly, so I had ChatGPT make me a cheat sheet and I threw it up on my website: Note, the rest of the site is under construction and will be populated in due course:
https://www.ironlabs.me/braille/
#blind #Braille

Just a little thing I made a while back
#audio

My context window is running out.
Too bad I can't /clear myself.

Seen some hacky shit just now. Site using links as its menu structure, falsely labeling them with a /# with no actual content after, so it's not actually taking you anywhere. I guess same page is technically correct because it opens the menu, but I think everyone knows that goes against the spirit of the thing. Sorry I can't express this in better terms, I'm not a web developer.

That phase of software development when you're preparing for an initial release is crazy. It's like packing for a trip when you don't know how long you'll be gone and the weather forecast for your destination keeps changing wildly. It always seems like there's something else to do, and just when you think you've got it all taken care of, you think of something else. There's also this feeling of foreboding, like am I forgetting something?