At the very least it would be nice if they had a proper cloud streaming option for PC where you can access those older titles. You can do that on the PS5, but only on the PS5.
The only offering they have is less cloud and more akin to Steam Remote Play - you need to have a PS5 of your own connected to the internet and have the games installed
except with the PlayStation Portal now, which is interesting. It's basically Stadia: paid subscription for a library of games, plus you can digitally buy games and then stream them to the Portal. You can do that without ever owning a PS5. It makes me think they will open it up to other Remote Play platforms, but idk.
Things are so broken here that, when you see a headline like "New audio emerges of Trump directing Republicans on how to overturn election results", you think "Oh, that's probably going to be buried tomorrow and not even make most news outlets, because of all the even worse things that have happened, and that are about to. But those things won't either, because it's all just broken." Yeah. Welcome to the United States of Disrepute.
Anyway, how's that 25th amendment doing? Not that it would help all that much at this point.
jj, s bidou den, a to ho nijak extremne nevyuzivam π Ale koukam, ze s temi grafy to hude slozitejsi. Toto je z druheho profilu. Ten ale evidentne nezaznamenal ctvrtecni nabiti, ani pouzivani π Edit: nemas nahodou srovnani se spotrebou, kdyz tam je ten os od googlu?
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Jinak teda spΓΕ‘ neΕΎ prostory bych ΕeΕ‘il, jak odejΓt od Gmailu a podobnΓ½ch Google aplikacΓ. MΓt Google Play v owner profilu je podle mΔ privΓ‘tnΔjΕ‘Γ neΕΎ pouΕΎΓvat Gmail, Google KalendΓ‘Ε apod. MΓsto aplikace Signal staΔΓ Molly, je ve store Accrescent.@def
JΓ‘ s profily taky bojuju, vΕΎdy to vyzkouΕ‘Γm a pak je vymaΕΎu. ProstΔ to nenΓ komfort. JΓ‘ vydrΕΎΓm tΕi tΓ½dny a pak si Εeknu, ΕΎe to sranΓ mi za to nestojΓ ππ HlavnΔ Google play je v Sandboxu, to ze Google vΓ co mΓ‘m za aplikace je myslΓm ΓΊplnΔ jedno. Jinak s tΓm gmail atd chapu, jasnΓ½ chce to vΕ‘echno postupnΔ ππ Proton je super, mnΔ teda vadΓ jak je to pΕeplΓ‘canΓ½ a cena, ale jinak super
A while ago, I made a deal with myself. If my music streaming service found me a song I really enjoyed--I played it a lot, felt happy when it came on--I'd buy the song. If the album were cheap enough and I like two or three songs on it, I'd buy the whole album. In the last couple days, I've spent around $35 on music from two artists I only just discovered, and I don't regret it at all. The artists got a little bit of actual money, and I own the music as unencrypted files not tied to streaming.
I have a few projects for this holiday break, most of my time will be spent hanging out with my wife, friends, playing Pokemon, and sleeping a lot, but around that I'll also record a lot of music and try to convert Akira to Gtk4
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
The designers of the MicroSD card format should be required to reimburse me 2x for every card I have lost, plus compensation for the time I've spent looking for them and the aggravation, with treble damages for intent.
You thought you could go through all of #Thursday without a headache, didn't you? Oh hahaha, my sweet summer child. Now that it's 10:32 PM, let us show you what you've been missing all day.
It was about this time on this day in 1997 when a defective candle set our living room on fire. We had to replace all the furniture, the carpets, and repaint the walls and ceiling. Good times, good times.
Found out today that my son and pretty much all there family is sick, again, so who gets screwed, again? Yep, me. Christmas will suck, again this year. That is all.
A quick reminder of a few things Mozilla/Firefox have done in the last *checks notes* ~year that I hope highlights that this is not a case of bad messaging but a consistent pattern of hostility:
- "Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
- "privacy preserving" Advertising telemetry enabled by default
- New T&C demanding a worldwide license (rolled back) & weakened privacy policy to support the above expansion (active)
- ""[Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser"
The leaders of an organization keep making announcements like "we are building the torment nexus", "we are a torment nexus company"
How much do you really weight a follow up PR statement on a smaller dev channel along the lines of: "we promise to give you a kill switch for the torment nexus that will probably be opt-in for some definition of opt-in....we can reasonably agree that opt-in is a vague term right?"
Opt-in means that the person needs to perform an explicit action in order to do something. Ideally it means that they do that action of their own accord, without being harassed. They do that because the software/features/whatever is exciting and/or solves a real problem they have.
Something so good you don't have to trick them into turning it on.
You know, like that time 20+ years ago when people actively sought out and downloaded Firefox because it was simply the better option.
The guy managing the account that posted about the kill switch and is confused about what opt-in is used to work at Google on Chrome. That explains why he's not really up to date about the meaning of opt-in...
π€ TinyCorp, a small AI startup, succeeded in getting #Nvidia GPUs to operate for AI workloads on a #MacBook with #Apple Silicon through USB4 and Thunderbolt 4 conections. techradar.com/pro/security/appβ¦
To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
Found what looks like an #NVDA bug, or possibly #notepad++ bug. An & followed by a space will read a fake command key suggestion when changing focus to the notepad++ window.
NVDA: 2025.3.2. Notepad++: 8.8.8.
Minimum reproduction:
Open notepad++, if a file is open use ctrl-n for new. Type the following string in the file: "& ". Alt-tab in and out. On the focus, NVDA will announce "alt+space".
Are there any book clubs on Mastodon? The in-person ones around me keep petering out or are hard to get to, and the ones Iβve seen online are toooo big for my tastes. I have a slight preference for fantasy/sci-fi, but any genre is good. I just want to talk about books! #bookstodon #books #reading
Whatβs been on my mind is how we respond when someone we care deeply about chooses to sit at tables, or stay in rooms, where we are not welcome.
I donβt think thereβs one universally right answer. Context matters. Capacity matters. History matters.
That said, Tito and I were talking about this last week, and I asked him a simple question: βIf you were invited to a party but told I wasnβt welcome, what would you do?β
He didnβt hesitate. βI wouldnβt go.β
I asked why. βBecause weβre a team.β
That answer made me love him more.
Iβve come to understand loyalty less as a grand gesture and more as a pattern of choices. Loyalty is what happens when someone realizes youβre not welcome somewhereβand they feel that exclusion as misaligned with their values. Not because theyβre told to, not out of obligation, but because proximity to you matters more than access to the room. That doesnβt make anyone else wrong. But it does tell me who I can build closely with.
Earlier this year, I found myself in several situations where people didnβt mind if close friends of mine were aroundβbut there were others in the room who were uncomfortable with me, didnβt trust me, or simply didnβt like me. I watched who stayed anyway.
And I realized something uncomfortable: I couldnβt think of those friendships in the same way afterward. (1/3)
That doesnβt mean I stopped caring. It doesnβt mean they didnβt care about me. But it did clarify something important. There are people in my life who wouldnβt stay in a room where I wasnβt welcome. And that represents a level of loyalty Iβve learned I needβand deserveβin my closest relationships.
If someone doesnβt know or love me enough to feel moved to leave a space when they realize Iβm excluded, thatβs okay. Truly. But it tells me where we stand.
Because when people spend time around others who donβt like us, they beginβoften without realizing itβto see us through those lenses. Resentment, distrust, and unspoken narratives bleed into perception. Thatβs why I choose, deliberately, to stay out of rooms where people are constantly speaking negatively about others. Iβve learned that it costs too much. Thatβs a personal boundary, not a moral judgment.
Earlier this year, I fell into a bout of depression when I realized I was prioritizing certain friendships more than I was being prioritized in return. But rather than let those thoughts fester, I shifted my focus.
I thought about who spoke up for me when I wasnβt there. Who warned me when they could have stayed silent. Who opened their homes. Who gave their timeβhours, daysβwithout keeping score.
And I remembered: I am deeply cared for.
Care just doesnβt always come from the places we expect. (2/3)
Not everyone has the emotional bandwidth to show care in the same way. Some people are overwhelmed. Some are stretched thin. And stillβpeople make time for what matters most to them.
At the end of the day, I trust my gut. If something feels right, I go with it. If it doesnβt, I donβt. (3/3)
My heart goes out to all my compadres with anxiety. I donβt regularly have it, but am *very* anxious when it comes to the dentist. I finished my cleaning and was absolutely exhausted. Got me to thinking how much yβall have to do despite that anxiety every damned day, and youβre just frickinβ superheroes.
Wow, Chatterbox-Turbo is pretty good! As a quick test, I let two local LLMs ramble about random topics of their choice and generated audio using zero-shot voice cloning with Chatterbox-Turbo. resemble.ai/chatterbox-turbo/ #TTS #LLM #AI #ML @ZBennoui
@vick21 haha The text is from Gemini-3-27b. Yes, Chatterbox is open weight. It does not work on Mac out of the box, but I asked Gemini3 to modify it to use MPS and it worked. lol In the past, LLMs would not have been able to handle this kind of task, but they now seem to have enough knowledge of ML libraries. So far, I have also managed to get a few other CUDA-only models running on MPS with just vibe coding.
@vick21 In deed! I had a another TTS model which was not only developed for Cuda, but also used a dependency for speech codec that only worked for Cuda. Gemini cli not only modified the inference code for the model itself but also looked up the dependency library inside virtual environment and provided monkey patch so it can work with MPS. These frontier models are truely getting better! :)
@vick21 Yeah, definitely try gemini-cli or codex-cli if you have sub to one of those plans. I know Northeastern students have access to Claude, but it seems like they did not enable claude code. Maybe for obvious reason? lol Agentic coding is pretty wild, especially in --yolo for Gemini-cli (or --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox for codex). lol
@vick21 Lol yeah I'm not sure if we have access to Claude code, I'll have to check. I can get Gemini CLI though, I'll take a look at that this weekend. Would be amazing if it could be used to just setup all these models without me having to jump through tons of hoops to make them work properly. Right now I'm scared to install anything so I just play with most of these through the hugging face demos lol.
There is a particular CUDA model I hear about that allows you to use your voice to sing anything. Do you know what I may be talking about? Would be awesome to have that running on Mac OS!
@vick21 I'm not sure, but are you talking about RVC? If so, you can already run that on Mac, but it's just extremely slow to train. You can just use Colab for it.
@vick21 I haven't followed with them for a while. Last time I tried like 2 years ago, they had v2. Also if you search, they have bunch of finetuned models for famous musicians. lol
@vick21 Zach, do you know any newer better singing voice models? It seems like the latest commit for RVC is from last November, and the v2 model is still the latest. Their main readme is in Chinese, but here's Readme in English. github.com/RVC-Project/Retrievβ¦
@vick21 I'm honestly not sure about open source options, I know theres like Synthesizer V which is really good, but I don't think we can use it. Damn I wish I wasn't blind sometimes lol.
@vick21 If I produce a simple melody with piano accompanyment and provide the track with lyrics to Suno, I wonder if it can generate vocal part correctly. You won't have fine control like synth-v, but it might do the job. It might even sound more natural.
Blind Mac users, I need your opinion. Is it worth getting a MacBook Air as primary laptop in addition to a Windows desktop, for consuming media, music production and, well, general laptop? I'm kind of fed up with Windows laptops to be honest, the Mac seems awesome regarding quality, but I'm completely lost when it comes to VoiceOver, and I hear very, very different opinions on Mac accessibility these days. I'd kind of love to try it, the other hand, the price speaks for itself, and I'm not an Apple fanboy anymore, nor locked in the ecosystem, and would sort of like to keep beeing flexible. Another point of interest would be, how is Windows emulation these days, do VMs work reliably and lag-free? Thanks so much for any information or opinions you can give, boosts are really appreciated. #Blind #Accessibility #VoiceOver #MacBook @mastoblind
If I were you, I wouldn't invest in a Mac. VoiceOver is still far, far inferior to Windows screen readers, and the price is enormous. don't know about Windows emulation these days, though.
I know that Windows emulation works quite well with Parelels (forgive the spelling). Also obviously just making assumtions here, but imho the price and the ecosystem make this seem like a bad choize for me too. Like you'd get 24 gb of RAM and 512 gb of SSD for about $1.600. These are many resources yeah, but already plugins and samples take up space, plus the OS plus Ableton, and if you'd want to put a virtual machine there too? Well you definitely won't be getting the usage under 200-300 gb. Actually, I'm gonna be honest, I'd love to try it out and might even use it, but again I'm not in the Apple ecosystem and I'm not sure how much of a kill this is. Also, I'm not paying as much as I spent for my GAMING PC just to be able to produce music on the go. Again, I can relate and I'd love to have a Mac too because I feel like they feel really cool to use and it'd be really cool making music on the go and setting it up and that stuff, but even $1.099 are kinda much. And 256 gb are kinda less for that price, I have like 50 gb of samples, plus Ableton packs and installation.
OSX itself is excellent, and I would argue that Windows VMs aren't bad, though I do still dislike the lack of responsiveness of sound, even through USB. Having said that, VO is an unmitigated disaster. If you can use it with magnification, it may be worth considering it. I can't comment since I'm totally blind. As a blind person, though, it just stinks. I'm sorry.
@techsinger Thanks for sharing your opinion. I have tried Zoom on the MacBook Pro M1 of my mother and honestly it sucks as well. I'd prefer to use voiceover which is kind of sad but yeah it's Apple Zoom overall it's not better on the iPhone.
@techsinger I dare to say that VO on iOS is miles better than VO on the Mac. VO on the mac: * Doesn't support complex JavaScript on webpages; * Doesn't support the terminal well at all; * Randomly will tell you apps are not responding when you can tell they aren't by performing actions in the apps that make sounds; * etc.
So I wouldn't necessarily say VO is a disaster, however, it is in serious need of a major overhall. Unfortunately the macOS accessibility APIs are very old at this point, and while I think Apple is doing work to try and modernize them, it's taking a lot of time. For music production and audio stuff it's fine, but for daily use especially anything to do with word processing, spreadsheets, etc, I would keep using Windows.
@menelion If you are asking blind Mac users, you know what the answer will be. Windows users will tell you otherwise. I am a Mac user BTW! :) If you possibly can, get a mac, play with it for 13 days and then return on the 14th. You get the point. There is really no right or wrong. I like Mac mostly because of audio stack -- an important one for me. Rest is less important or workable. HTH!
Well, i have an m2 Macbook pro, and if your using the mac for browsing the web and the like, I'd say its perfect for that for sure. I've personally haven't seen much in the way of issues with VO and have found the Mac experience to be pretty great actually for that sort of thing, is it different than windows? Yes, its definitely different, but different isn't bad though. As for Windows emulation, I'm not exactly sure on that front.
Well, it depends: My Windows Laptop with NVDA is quicker in everydayscenaios. But I bought a Macbook Air to learn how to work with Logic and I have to say that the audio stack is so much better than on Windows. Maybe you could rent a Macbook for a couple of months to form your own opinion. That way you do not need to pay up front to experiment with it.
Today was a much better day, all the pull requests I opened yesterday are passing tests, so the sadness in my soul was finally avenged. Good way to end the work week before I take off for the holidays.
Thanks for the feedback, and we definitely want to make encryption easier to set up in all of our apps, and eventually between apps. Here is a SUMO article on exporting PGP keys, which we hope helps - and SUMO is definitely the best place to ask for help! support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/oβ¦
This article answers common questions about OpenPGP support in Thunderbird, as implemented in End-To-End Encryption (e2ee), and how it differs from Enigmail.
I know how to do that. But currently it is a handjob and needs to be done on every mobile device.
I have my Desktop proflie since centuries, copying and duplicating from Windows to Linux and vice versa with just copy & paste the profile folder was easy going. (And it was very handy to have these as a backup).
If you've been wanting to speak securely to your garage door or whatever MQTTS capable devices you want to control with your #curl command lines, look no further:
(this is planned to merge in time for the March 2026 release)
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in reply to Chris π± • • •At the very least it would be nice if they had a proper cloud streaming option for PC where you can access those older titles. You can do that on the PS5, but only on the PS5.
The only offering they have is less cloud and more akin to Steam Remote Play - you need to have a PS5 of your own connected to the internet and have the games installed
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in reply to Chris π± • • •Cloud Streaming officially arrives on PlayStation Portal today, with new support for digital PS5 Games in your library
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