Re: [orca-list] How many people us voxin?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yours must be a charmed existence; very peaceful and lacking in stuff to 
worry about.  I've used the Windows port of Voxin for far too long to 
sit there and actually get scared (really? ... Seriously?  You're 
scared?) of using it in Linux because of some perceived possibility of 
attack or some theoretical security hole.  I figure you have a better 
chance of winning the lottery than of having your system messed up just 
because you use Voxin with its old libraries.  So, don't be scared.  All 
will be well.  Easy does it.  shshshshshshsh.

Nighty night!

Alex M
ps  for the record, I don't currently use Voxin in Linux but that's 
because I'm used to Espeak and don't see the point of messing with it.  
I may change my mind one day.
PPS  I'm using Eloquence right now as I write this on my Windows 8 
machine.  Gosh!  I feel so brave!  Or .. not.  AAAAAAAAAHH, it's coming, 
ma.  It's gruesome!  HOLD ME!

On 3/10/2013 2:17 PM, Kyle wrote:
> On the other hand, I'm not about to install just anything on my system 
> just because I can, or because it's available to me. And it scares me 
> even more that all the incompatibilities and 10-year-old low-level 
> libraries, with all their potential vulnerabilities, are hidden behind 
> all kinds of complex scripting, so that all I have to do is download 
> the archive and run the script in order to install something that 
> honestly shouldn't work on an OS that is less than 2 years old. The 
> pragmatist in me screams "STOP!" at the thought, and screams even 
> louder at the thought that I would actually have to pay money for 
> something like this. I have nothing at all against paying money for 
> something, but if I'm paying for it, it needs to be compatible with 
> the newest libraries and OS-level dependencies,, or it must at least 
> be compatible with the latest Ubuntu LTS without introducing outdated 
> and obsolete libraries that could hose my system, or could allow 
> someone else to gain root privileges on my machine. Paying for 
> something doesn't somehow make it magically better. This is a quite 
> unfortunate misconception.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
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