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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@munchkinbear @quanin Eh, sometimes physical hardware has to be moved from a building in one city to a building in another city. With the current price of disc and ram, I don't wanna pay for two machines to fix that kind of rare downtime.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@plzupgrademe The guys at the data center were picking up the server and moving it from a building in one city to a building in another city.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@quanin No, it was hammering the number of open TCPIP connections allowed by Linux. And that, thus, hammers load when you have hundreds of thousands of open sockets.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@quanin Oh, no, the postgresql database is fine. Connections are capped at 200 and reused. But in order to clear queues faster, we accept posts from everyone and just hold on to them until a database connection frees up, so we're not the bottleneck and everyone can clear their queues quicker.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@quanin Nope. I run iceshrimp (iceshrimp.dev). It has its own, capped at 250000 connections.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@quanin Load is only 4.6. I thought it'd be way worse. It was up to 18.4 and exhausted the connections pool for the first ten minutes or so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@quanin But my poor activity pub processor that's now trying to catch up with 60 billion posts from everyone everywhere all at once does not. LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
Is our long international nightmare finally over? Is my server back up after scheduled maintenance? If your reading this, yes it is! All of our collective problems are solved!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@fastfinge @twynn @lerven Also you should have at most two, one like each of those. If you have three, that's a problem. If you only have one, it should be like the first example, not the second.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@twynn @lerven And might also be useful to open nvda.ini, and find and remove any eloquence sessions. You'll probably have two. One like this: [[eloquence]]
voice = 65536
variant = 1
pitch = 65
inflection = 30
volume = 100
rgh = 0
bth = 0
rate = 80
backquoteVoiceTags = False
capPitchChange = 30
sayCapForCapitals = False
phrasePrediction = False
pauseMode = 2
And another like this: [eloquence]
dictionary_name = IBM TTS Dictionaries
dictionary_url = github.com/eigencrow/IBMTTSDictionaries
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lerven @twynn No, that would have done it. The only issue I've encountered before is that if you have an installation of NVDA that's many years old, nvda.ini just grows and grows and grows. Because when you remove an addon from NVDA, anything it put in nvda.ini is never deleted. So I've encountered people with nvda.ini files that are several megs in size. And as you might expect that can cause issues.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@lerven @twynn I'm wondering if some addon left behind a corrupted setting in your nvda.ini or one of your profiles? If you make a portable NVDA, with just the eloquence addon and absolutely nothing else, does the rate change between profiles? Also, on your current NVDA, does the rate change correctly with other tts engines? All of the different eloquence addons are based on the same original code from years and years ago, but with random differences accumulated over the decades. So we sometimes corrupt one another's settings when you switch between them, and then the corruption just never gets fixed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@lerven @twynn Windows 11, x64, with NVDA snapshot as well as latest release.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@twynn @lerven Also seems to be working on my end. Different profiles rates are respected.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt Theoretically yes. But practically no.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt I mean “don’t visit websites you don’t trust” still has to be part of security.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt You can also host a lot of the popular js libraries locally and repoint the cdns like jsdeliver with local dns. Getting to 99 percent actual functionality is much easier that way than managing an endless stream of dns blocklists.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt As long as you allow loading from subdomains everything you actually want works fine. Ie example.com should also allow cdn.example.com etc. and it means you no longer need an adblocker.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt I certainly do.
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