Scott Bessent warns Carney not to 'pick a fight' with Trump
1:08:15 oh. If commenting on other people's habits is odd, then dude's just explained part of why people have reacted so weirdly to me over the years.
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I am VERY concerned for these girls... - Therapist Plays Doki Doki Literature Club - 1
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eurobradyJoin the Community! https://discord.gg/GChs8TBnZw#ddlc #dokidokiliteratureclubplus #gaming #therapist #letsplay #r...YouTube
today i'm back to reading this paper by @grimalkina about contest cultures and brilliance traps in software and I'm going to try to live tweet some notes because reading papers is hard
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With voice profiles you can change the character of the voice in two strong ways:
1.
Global / class-based shaping
• Push vowel formants up/down in a non-uniform way (biggest "gender/age" cue after pitch)
• Adjust bandwidths to go from "clean/bright" to "thicker/more muffled"
• Tame harshness in fricatives by slightly scaling aspiration/frication amplitudes
• Adjust defaults like glottalOpenQuotient, outputGain, etc. (since the hook now runs after defaults)
2. Small targeted overrides
When one vowel (usually /i/, /u/, schwa-ish things) sticks out, you can override just that phoneme without forking the whole pack.
That combination is exactly how you get:
• female: higher pitch + raised vowel space (CF1–CF3 more than CF4–CF6), maybe a touch more “open quotient” / breathiness, careful with fricatives
• child: even higher pitch + even more raised formants, but usually less “heavy” low-frequency energy
• deep male: lower pitch + slightly lower vowel space, maybe tighter bandwidths, more “chest” feel (within what your params can simulate)
And now, lunch time over. changes in repo.
1.
Global / class-based shaping
• Push vowel formants up/down in a non-uniform way (biggest "gender/age" cue after pitch)
• Adjust bandwidths to go from "clean/bright" to "thicker/more muffled"
• Tame harshness in fricatives by slightly scaling aspiration/frication amplitudes
• Adjust defaults like glottalOpenQuotient, outputGain, etc. (since the hook now runs after defaults)
2. Small targeted overrides
When one vowel (usually /i/, /u/, schwa-ish things) sticks out, you can override just that phoneme without forking the whole pack.
That combination is exactly how you get:
• female: higher pitch + raised vowel space (CF1–CF3 more than CF4–CF6), maybe a touch more “open quotient” / breathiness, careful with fricatives
• child: even higher pitch + even more raised formants, but usually less “heavy” low-frequency energy
• deep male: lower pitch + slightly lower vowel space, maybe tighter bandwidths, more “chest” feel (within what your params can simulate)
And now, lunch time over. changes in repo.
Re last boost: This is really sad. The one maintainer of the Slint accessible distribution of Linux, is dead. This is a hard loss. May more popular distributions work even half as hard as him in listening to blind people and making their Linux distro accessible. Join the Orca mailing list. Contribute to the Orca screen reader. Now, more than ever, as more and more "tech" people move to Linux, we need to be accounted for. Also BRLTTY really needs Grade 2 Braille input support.
I mean, look at it this way. If sighted developers don't make their stuff accessible, we blind people will use AI to beat it into submission, send a PR, and you'll have *even more* AI stuff to deal with. And y'all don't want that, do you? :P So just avoid that by making it accessible. And no please we don't need another standard. Please. I beg of you.
Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.
At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.
At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce… focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.
I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.
Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome.
America's unofficial poet laureate and "guy filling in until Woody Guthrie is reincarnated" does it again.
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Bruce Springsteen Responds to Minneapolis Killings With Fiery New Protest Song
Just days after the death of Alex Pretti, Bruce Springsteen wrote the protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis,' which denounces ICE and Donald Trump.Conor Lochrie (Rolling Stone Australia)
I don't know who needs to hear this but open source maintainers leaving X11 behind and focusing solely on Wayland isn't some conspiracy. It's a case of focusing limited resources on what makes sense to them. Supporting old code and maintaining backwards compatibility can be great, but often hard choices have to be made when it comes to what individuals and companies have the time and energy to work on.
It sucks if you get left behind but open source owes you nothing unless you're paying for it
frontend.setVoiceProfile("") will be a new exposed function in the frontend. Wow, we're getting somewhere. I think this way can work without breaking old drivers or existing ways of working.
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somebody finally did it. open source native video compression on Android which uses the hardware and isn't just another ffmpeg wrapper. MIT licensed.
github.com/JoshAtticus/Compres…
"Compressor." now available on @IzzyOnDroid
dude needs beta testers to get it on Google Play ... see the latest release notes on Github if you want to help.
#Android #VideoCompression #FLOSS #MITlicense #IzzyOnDroid
GitHub - JoshAtticus/Compressor: Lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor for Android
Lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor for Android - JoshAtticus/CompressorGitHub
RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…
It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.
The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.
heise online English (@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de)
OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project. https://www.heise.heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)
HEADLINE: "Tim Cook Says He Is ‘Heartbroken by the Events in Minnesota,’ Calls for De-Escalation"
ALT HEADLINE: "Tim Cook, who donated $1 million to Trump, claims to be "heartbroken" by what was obviously going to happen if people like him didn't oppose Trump"
Bruce Springsteen hat einen Protest- und Support-Song für die Menschen in Minneapolis veröffentlicht. Darin findet er ziemlich deutliche Worte.
Bislang war von prominenten US-Musikern eher weniger Politisches zu hören zur aktuellen Situation. Deshalb ist diese Veröffentlichung durchaus bemerkenswert.
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...YouTube
"come to our centralized platform, we are good guys and we will stay good forever, we absolutely will not prioritize monetization over your privacy at any point in the future even after several changes of ownership"
#decentralization #enshittification
Lunch time! You know what I'm gonna do during lunch? Implement a new "voice profiles" parsable YAML section that transforms phonemes into different voice profiles. Yes yes, this needs to be one phoneme table, not multiple, and it needs to not break existing packs. Let's get coding. This is how the pro engines did it.
We don't need to load another phoneme table entirely, just shift core phonemes to desired voices.
We don't need to load another phoneme table entirely, just shift core phonemes to desired voices.
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The nice young man witnessing to me about the light of Jesus while I was trying to get some work done at the library (the library!) was not at all ready for my light of Jewish Anarchism + Buddhism tossed right back at him. We had a very nice chat (truly), but I ceded no ground and while I may pick up the Book of Mark (his suggestion) he will probably read about Emma Goldman and Howard Zinn.
As a former evangelical Christian, one of the last steps on my road to deconversion was finding that the Bible just didn't hold my interest. Mark is the shortest of the four gospels, but even so I'd say it's probably not worth your time.
Reaper Made Easy - First stream of the year happens on Saturday, January31st, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK.
Here we go again,; another year; more questions, more answers.
I'm perplexed, what's next?
Join Scott and Jenny K for a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com.
That's also where you can send us something that you're working on to listen to during the session. Constructive feedback from objective, experienced ears can be super useful.
If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining
See ya there,
Jen
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Breaking: Bruce Stringsteen has just released what may become an historic protest ballad.
Streets Of Minneapolis is a beautiful brave soulful anthem destined to take a place among the great songs of the struggles for freedom.
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🔥New Music: Bruce Stringsteen | Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)🔥 And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this…Mastodon Migration (Mastodon)
News: Daily Beast | Springsteen Releases Scathing New Song About Trump and ICE
Bruce Springsteen just put out a new song called “Streets of Minneapolis” that both memorializes the protesters killed by ICE in that city and lambastes the Trump administration’s “lies.”
He also calls out “King Trump” in the brutal lyrics, slamming his “private army from the DHS”
“A city aflame fought fire and ice / ‘Neath an occupier’s boots.”
thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bru…
Springsteen Releases Scathing New Song About Trump and ICE
The lyrics specifically call out “Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.”Eboni Boykin-Patterson (The Daily Beast)
News: Hollywood Reporter | Bruce Springsteen Releases ICE Protest Song About “State Terror” in Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen released a protest song Wednesday about what he called the “state terror” ICE committed in Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” Springsteen said Wednesday.
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Bruce Springsteen Shares Protest Song About Minneapolis ICE Killings
Springsteen said "Streets of Minneapolis" is "dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good."Ethan Millman (The Hollywood Reporter)
Mourning Didier Spaier
lwn.net/Articles/1056384/ #LWN
Mourning Didier Spaier
We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-ba [...]LWN.net
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I've just been told that there are mods that make Minecraft playable for blind folks. This person is mistaken, right? They are sighted after all. I'm really trying not to get my hopes up until I know something solid.
HEADLINE: "Tim Cook had ‘a good conversation’ with Trump about deescalation"
ALT HEADLINE: "Tim Cool falls for one of Trump's oldest tricks, which is to pretend to be sane in private so influential people go out and say nice things about him."
theverge.com/news/869155/apple…
Tim Cook had ‘a good conversation’ with Trump about deescalation
Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken out about “the events in Minneapolis,” telling employees that he has shared his feelings with President TrumpJess Weatherbed (The Verge)
For anyone using Termux, here's a script for getting Emacs, Emacspeak, and Elmud up and going. Hopefully.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/nn0bwdfegnj…
#Termux #linux #foss #emacs #emacspeak #accessibility #blind
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as someone who is a bona fide expert in the underlying technology of LLMs, the amount these genai CEOs executives managers and boosters simply fail is mindblowing. I cannot explain the details but these fucks have only have one idea: prompting chatbot. If they have a second idea it's prompting chatbot more.
these fucks are intellectually vacant. they have all the innovation of a 3 day constipated turd. but you can't really expect more from the type of guy who allegedly raped his own kid sister
the fundamental ideas behind LLMs can in fact do things, but you have to dig below all the layers of coprolite fossilized anti wisdom like "buy more nVidia processors" (which btw has been the received wisdom ever since nVidia gave out a bunch of free GPUs 15 years ago)
I have to reiterate that my dog has more interesting and novel ideas than sam, dario, or whoever is at Google.
these Thought Leaders have only one thought. its "more chatbots more prompts"
so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒
also yes all the people building the infrastructure are just cryptocurrency grifters trying for a better grift. including Musk and Altman. watch @davidgerard episode on gas town
"so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒 "
You could make a T-shirt with this sentence.
Here you all go. Very lispy, horriblye tuned Phonemes from Chat GPT itself. But notice how the voice has a different personality. That's really interesting. Anything in here sound good? Good dear Lord. eurpod.com/synths/phonemes-gpt…
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oh my god. these phonemes are horrible. Wow. It lisps so bad. I need to upload this for fun I think. It only took 42 minutes, in which I commented on 2 Jira tickets and responded to a Slack, so yay.
@enot I cannot access the repeater's admin ATM, but when we did measurements before installation on the terrace 5 meters below the platform (only authorized persons could access the top platform) it was ok (~ -100dB). But we found out that on another building 200m away at the same height there is mostly likely a GSM BTS, so there may be noise at that height we didn't fully measure at lower heights.
Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.
I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.
Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.
Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.
If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.
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Hi, can you link to the specific discussion? (There are various places to get help for LibreOffice.) Please remember that helpers on forums are volunteers, doing all they can to answer a huge amount of questions. Sorry if you didn't get the answer you wanted, but also bear in mind that they are not developers, so they can't implement feature requests. You can submit a request at bugs.documentfoundation.org but the more help the community gets to implement features, the better! Thanks 😊
And all this research made me realize why building a female voice for SpeechPlayer would be tricky. It's not just like, "multiply" this by that. It can work, but would sound artificial because vowels and consonants don't all need a constant multiplier of a band to "sound female", they need specific tuning dependent on the vowel itself to shift to another formant frequency. What I'm saying is, to get a female voice, we would need a separatly tuned phonemes-female.yaml. This is why ESpeak's female voices also sound very much like a man is pitchshifted and too much on some sounds. Eloquence, ETC probably built this through multipliers too but very specific rules on how various formants get scaled.
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I've never stood Eloquence's female voices. When I had better speakers, I used bob, the child voice, but even that wasn't a thing.
@clv1 When I used JAWS, I used Eloquence's Shelly voice as a differentiator for my sound and speech schemes.
Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees to prioritize AI, which will bring innovative changes such as:
-Automatically purchase item if user looks at screen for more than 5 seconds.
-Make device loudly screech if user closes the app.
-Delivery drones will stalk user if they cancel Prime membership.
The senate votes on #DHS funding tomorrow and way too many of these fucks want to help fund #ICE in return for some magic beans of promises that the Gestapo will start following laws. Please call your senators and yell at them.
Sick of being told to call your senators? Get plastered drunk and swear at them. It's more fun, and they deserve it.
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# error getting refs for yosida95/uritemplate: apis.get api.github.com/repos/yosida95/…: 429, body: {
"documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#abuse-rate-limits",
"message": "You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again."
all I was trying to do was fetch the distfiles to package this Go program for FreeBSD...
I told GPT Pro mode that zombies ate the GitHub servers and it needs to rebuild me an entirely new set of phonemes in phonemes.yaml because I've lost all copies and only have the language packs. I told it that if this doesn't get done in the next hour, the zombies will come for the language pack files and eat them too. Let's see what comes of it while we reply to Slack messages.
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So I left for the weekend to visit family, came back -- avoided contact with sick people the whole time -- only to find my wife was sick with a cold and she didn't tell me and now I have it
Just pisses me off because I've been able to go a couple years without getting anything and now this. It always ruins my week. I can't get shit done because it's a constant nuisance disrupting my concentration
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RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
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RIP Gladys Mae West, the Pioneering Black Mathematician Who Helped Lay the Foundation for GPS
Gladys Mae West was born in rural Virginia in 1930, grew up working on a tobacco farm, and died earlier this month a celebrated mathematician whose work made possible the GPS technology most of us use each and every day.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Hello Brussels!
FYI, I reviewed my account on dragonscave again: @jonathan859@dragonscave.space, this is not an advertisement, but as I'm feeling rather emotional again I'm shifting the kind of personal ranting posts and also other stuff that's not my typical tech timeline to there. Also to filter who sees what, in terms of post privacy etc. I'll probably share more occasional stuff like music I like or other stuff I don't wanna spam to uninterested people as well. Looking forward to nice interactions.
This won't change a whole lot for this account over all.
This won't change a whole lot for this account over all.
Hey @FastSM, can we get post language related information and settings, e.g. seeing which language a post is written in, as well as beeing able to specify the language when writing a post?
Habe beim "Entrümpeln" noch einige DVD´s und Blu-ray´s gefunden, die ich gegen Übernahme der Portokosten abgeben möchte. Wer mag darf gerne eine kleine Spende dazulegen, aber das bleibt euch überlassen.
Die DVD´s und Blu-ray´s werden als ein Paket abgegeben. Der Aufwand ist mir zu hoch sie pro Stück zu versenden.
Ein Boost wäre nett, Danke !
#verschenken #dvd #bluray #boost
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Mx Verda
in reply to Mx Verda • • •Ok, cat owner having a breakdown has their key in transit to them by post. They could have had it today at their leisure but they "don't want me near them", which is great because I am not up to driving anyway.
Phew! May this live rent-free in their head for a few months and only ever again in therapy sessions.
Moral of the story: Make the best choice you can in a given situation, plan to be able to make better choices in future, and do not take responsibility for other people's interpretation of your choices.
Gambatte, basically
Mx Verda
in reply to Mx Verda • • •I'm grateful for this experience giving me insight into how I can affect others and how I did affect other people when I acted like that.
I'm grateful I can avoid acting like that now.
I'm grateful I wrote down exactly what happened as it happened in the Cat in a Flat booking chat.
I'm grateful I didn't compromise my needs more than I felt was fair.
Mx Verda
in reply to Mx Verda • • •When someone treats you badly and refuses to change their behaviour, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to block them.
If you feel reasonably sure they may continue to act carelessly toward other people, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to report their messages.
You exist too. You're allowed to curate your environment to be more tolerable to you.
You are not their parent (probably) nor carer (probably), and NO ONE is getting paid enough to be mistreated.