I've never done any LLM work except running a few local models through Ollama. I don't really understand how to use this Orpheus TTS thing (see link). I know it's not for real-time speech, but rather for generating audio when given a bunch of text, like a file's contents. Still, it might be neat to play with. I don't get how to deploy it or train voices, if I even could train voices. github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TT…

Tell your MP to attend the debate on repealing or reforming the Online Safety Act, which is not fit for purpose, infringes on privacy, disproportionately burdens small businesses and projects worldwide, causing them to shut down or geoblock the UK; causes lawful, age appropriate content to be censored; and subjects us to unnecessary, intrusive and poorly regulated age verification. There's a template to get started action.openrightsgroup.org/tel…
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I received an invite to the early access to the Android developer console in my inbox yesterday, the one related to Google's new push to make developers verify Android apps that are distributed outside Play.

Google had talked previously about providing a specific verification tier for students and hobbyists, but with limitation on how many app installs it could have. Well that sounds nice of them, right?

But the question I had on my mind back when I read that was: How many devices would that mean? Ten thousand, a thousand, a hundred?

Turns out it means just twenty. fucking. devices.

#android #google

#Cherokee #Indigenous #linguistics #apps

' With help from another prominent indigenous entity, the Cherokee Nation debuted its own language learning app on Dec. 9.'

kjrh.com/news/local-news/an-ap…

Station security chief T'xtrt looked at the Humans going into the meeting hall next to the bar.

"One day you'll have to explain Human religion to me."

Thelma, the barkeep, shrugged. "Not sure it was wise to bring it with us."

"Anyway, I came to ask what you are. The records show you've run this bar for centuries. Humans don't live that long."

"I came with the humans."

"Yes. The records show that, too."

Thelma smiled. "Where humans can go, so can their gods."

#MicroFiction #TootFic

Hey fedi,

Recently finished #Spiritfarer, amazing game, but now I'm kinda sad I don't have a #CouchCoop #game that cozy anymore.

Does anyone have any suggestions for couch coop games with a similar cozy vibe as #Haven and #Spiritfarer? #Chicory was also amazing and very close to the perfect vibe, though Haven and Spiritfarer were ever so slightly more cozy.

Any suggestions? :)

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@joepie91 @tzeentcha Ooh, didn't realize that couch is meant in a rather literal sense here, sorry.

This one's pretty obscure and very early access and not quite *casual* as far as difficulty goes, but also can be taken at any pace, Himno - The Silent Melody. s.team/a/1079230

Also, Untitled goose.game is pretty fun together.

gnop is another one of those tools on FreeBSD that I don't know a replacement for on Linux.

You can:

- fake the sector size, stripe size, etc
- customize read/write delay probability
- customize read/write failure probability

so if you wanted to test how your system behaves with misbehaving or failing disks, how would you do that on Linux? On FreeBSD it's quite easy

- Poe's The Raven is canonically set in December.
- The narrator is reading at night by the light of his fire.
- The narrator hears a rapping on his chamber door.
- The caller turns out to be a raven.
- The Norse god Odin is identified with ravens.
- Odin is also identified with Santa Claus.
- Ergo: the poem is about a December night visitor associated with ravens who, upon finding the chimney impassable due to fire, comes to the door and leaves a black gift as repayment for the occupant's ill deeds.

The Raven is a Christmas carol. QED.

OK, so that new "branch into new thread" feature in GPT? useless. It branched the message into a new thread, then GPT spent 20 minutes thinking in Pro mode about the issue and responding completely out-of-context to anything in the prior history. Argh. Why create a feature like that then, if it won't even branch any of the messages from before it into the conversation but just make a new one with your message as the initial question? idiotic, I tell you, idiotic. It spent 20 minutes on this slop. So mad at this bullshit.
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@modulux it's funny because I've been wanting a feature like this, actually all AI should have one where you can split the conversation from a specific point into a new one. So often my GPT threads become 200-300 KB of text, and the model really degrades as you go on, but then I don't want to start a new chat and lose entire files or contexts I may have given it. So far they haven't had a solution until I saw this coming along.

My thoughts on social media bans everywhere is that if you're taking digital connections away from teens, you better make sure they have third spaces for physical connection, and give them options for transport that is not "parents drive us around" otherwise all you're creating is isolation.
And you may not need a social media ban if you start by preserving and creating those third spaces. #SocialMedia

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:boost_requested: Does anyone know a poem or phrase in Spanish that would be familiar for a non-religious wedding speech in Chile?

I'm not fluent and I have a friend who is going to help me translate, but it would be so helpful to have some kind of idiom to work with as a familiar anchor.

I am the brother of the groom, and what I would emphasize about both of them is an intense compassion for other people and each other.

I wish I knew enough Spanish to ask this question in Spanish 😭.

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I feel like people are surprised when they learn that I, as someone who writes quite a bit about transfem disposability, have the attitudes that I do toward distancing myself from toxic people - transfems included. I feel like they see it as an inherent contradiction, or perhaps not practicing what I preach.

in reality, it's pretty simple. anything that I wouldn't accept from any other person, I won't accept from a transfem person.

when I write about transfem disposability, I'm diagnosing a phenomenon wherein transfems are granted far less latitude than your average person, or queer person, or trans person, as far as the missteps we're allowed to make and the space we're allowed to take up. we're valued less, and more readily discarded on a whim, than most other trans people, due to our intersection of perceived privilege and lesser social status.

what I'm not doing, is giving other transfems a license to treat me and others like shit and then claim "non-disposability" when they refuse to hold themselves accountable.

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no person - not a single human being on earth - has a carte-blanche license to hurt you, harm you, or abuse you accountability-free.

not marginalized people.

not friends or family or romantic partners.

not people who have done good deeds for you in the past.

nobody.

and the sooner we internalize that, the sooner we can do better for ourselves and for those around us.

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Rachel and Feminism: A FAQ

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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
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#pollution #amazon #oregon #health #environment #tech
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haven't used this in a while, but it worked really well when I did. Lets you have messages read with a SAPI voice of your choosing as well as review them with an invisible interface. github.com/metalalchemist/VeTu…

Gestern verließ ich den ADFC.

Ich fragte, ob im Text absichtlich nur Männer gesucht werden und kam die Antwort "Nein, gerne auch Frauen und ein paar junge ADFCler". Soweit für mich fein (ich weiß, es ist nicht inklusiv, aber es ist schon mal einen Schritt weiter, den ich wertschätze).

Einen Tag später eskalierte diese für mich abgeschlossene Situation, ein Mann beschwerte sich, dass er es anstrengend fände, wenn der ADFC Ortsgruppe unterstellt würde (durch meine Frage vom Vortag) sie sei nicht

Still love the Cadence for day to day. I could be in a meeting reviewing code on it, since Google Meet does cancel out the sound it makes, and so much more fits. About one sentence or full line of code. Reviewing indentations can work just as well, although one line of code may be several unindented lines of Braille if the line splits at a word. Still, not hard to scan lines for indents. Works well. I know it can't do unbroken graphics to the same extent as DotPad or Monarch or Graphiti, but gosh darn it, 96 characters of text in a multiline pocketable style was too attractive to not pass up, and will be very worth it when I travel next year. I can fit one in a pocket, since it is about the size of an iPhone Pro.

#ArcaneChat 2.33.1 is on its way to #GooglePlay and #FDroid and should be available in the upcoming days, can't wait? for other download options check arcanechat.me/

Among the enhancements are:

More metadata protection: protect message recipients

More resilience: new experimental feature to use several addresses per profile (multi-relay)

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what do you mean by "I tried but failed"?

it is super easy to do, you only need to go to chatmail.at/relays select one relay you want to add, click the QR code that will appear in the relay page, that will prompt you to add a new address to your existing selected profile

in Advanced settings > Relays you can see your list of relays/addresses and add/remove or change or select which one should be your main address (used for sending)

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Protests outside of an Apple Store in Portland, Oregon continue in retaliation to ICEBlock being removed, as protestors show up in Santa suits to demand the app's return and Apple stand up to authoritarianism.
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Advice for frequent travelers: Get a travel router. It makes everything easier and more secure. At a bare minimum, use a custom DNS like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.

Where I am, I have a really stable 100+Mb connection, but deathly slow DNS. Switching to my own travel router on the same connection makes things DRAMATICALLY faster, even routing back through my home network.

I just published a Substack on the coding resources I recommend for beginners. I cover FreeCodeCamp, W3Schools, Codecademy, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, and the Apple App Development class from @techopolis.social. I also mention Sean Allen, Paul Hudson, Traversy Media, and Fireship.
taylorarndt.substack.com/p/cod…
#Coding #LearnToCode #iOSDev #Tech

Unless they speak a language other than French, wear fabric, or baubles, or are transitioning...

Even w/ it being a Federal program, the CAQists/PQists, etc. will sabotage it w/ their xenophobic, bigoted, pure laine policies.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/12/0… #cdnpoli #polcan #LGBTQ+ #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli