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Multiple times this year I've seen people trying to crowdfund their open source work but won't tell me how much they need to continue working on it

What if I could have paid you the full amount you need? I'll never know, because you won't tell me. And I'm not interested in guessing, giving you money, and then you not doing it because you didn't get "enough".

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Look y'all, since a few of you have asked about NVDA 2026.1 and my speech synths, I'm not going to start work on this until at least betas are out. @fastfinge has done a phenominal work starting around this, and his code helps me understand how such a thing would be done, but for one, I don't want an inter-process thing to be written in C++ but rather Python, sort of how he has it. Until #NVDASR develops their own adapter that developers can reuse for any DLL and just adapt function names or signatures to the workings of that speech synth, that process would become much, much easier. If that host process defined an API shape existing speech synths just hook into, I'm all for it. Then I'll begin that work, but not until then. Thanks for getting it, or not.
#nvdasr @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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Tamas G

@luiscarlosgonzalez LOL between Brailab, 3 versions of Eloquence, SoftVoice, SMPSoft, Flexvoice, I just will have my hands busy redoing all of it. Not going to look forward to that work, if there's a reason I get GPT 5 pro again, that'll be it because by hand to recode so many synths... Hopefully those other devs come out to do the work too, but it's never a 100% guarantee and NVDA can't commit devs to that work nor are they obligated to continue it after the initial release if they cannot. That's just the nature of open-source stuff, I myself won't have time to pick it up but I know @mush42 has been looking for new maintainers for his work. @fastfinge @ZBennoui
@Musharraf @Luis Carlos @Zach Bennoui @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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If you want to do that with gemini-cli, make sure to give it access to a directory with the NVDA Addon developer guide, the API documentation for the synth you’re coding, and tell it where the NVDA repository is. The prompt should include each file name, and what it is. Then Gemini can read the documentation without searching the web, and that will save you a lot of time and tokens. If you have any header files or other bindings, also give it those.

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Breaking News: A devastating setback in recent DOE notice that essentially eliminates the Randolph-Sheppard priority for Army dining facility contracts. We will fight to protect these jobs and opportunities. Read our press release at buff.ly/7CgdwnP

#BlindRights #RandolphSheppard

National Federation of the Blind logo, and text that reads, "December 23, 2025, We condemn the Department of Education’s decision to 'limit' (effectively eliminating) the Randolph-Sheppard priority in dining facility contracts on Department of the Army installations."
#blindrights #randolphsheppard

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Holy crap. So I'm sitting at a restaurant, and a cover started playing that I wanted to identify. I could hear it fairly well, like I could hear the song and tell that it was country, but there was a decent amount of background noise and people were trying to talk to me. I pulled up Shazam to identify it, and I was like, wondering if I'd have to yell at people to shut up and walk like an idiot to the speaker for it to pick it up, but I decided what the heck, I'll just try it at the table with all of the background. And it friggin got it. I'd have a tough time describing what I heard in sufficient detail to another person, but it caught it. I'm still trying to process this. Lol

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My NordVPN subscription is expiring soon. Can someone recommend a VPN service? It can also be NordVPN. My requirements:
- Evade current/future EU surveylance
- Has to have a server in Israel that allows watching Kan that Kan doesn't block
- Allows routing all traffic over VPN with no contingencies (I don't do this at the moment, but who knows what the future holds)
- A Linux client
- No logging policy

Advantages:
- A Windows client
- Tor
- Residence outside the EU, US & UK

I think Proton & is Nord answer to all musts, but none wants.

Waiting for your ideas.

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I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

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"Benzion Shemtov, #rabbi at #Chabad #Jewish Center at #Michigan State #University was out of the state when someone spray-painted #Nazi symbols on the doors and threw rocks at the windows of the center in the days following the #massacre at #BondiBeach in #Australia, where 15 people were #killed during a #Hanukkah celebration.

But when Shemtov returned to #EastLansing, he said he was greeted by numerous letters from the #MichiganState University community that the center serves.

“I got home and I got letters in the mail from people that are not even Jewish, just writing letters of support. It’s break right now. There’s no one in town…. just to see from #students that graduated and maybe came to us, students [that weren’t] necessarily so close with [us] perhaps because maybe they didn’t attend that much, but they were writing, this is their home, this was their home on campus,” Shemtov said. “This will always be their home.”

eastlansinginfo.news/east-lans…


East Lansing Jewish Center Vandalized after Bondi Massacre, Community Responds - East Lansing Info

ELPD is seeking assistance to find the person who spray painted Nazi symbols and threw rocks at a local Jewish center.
East Lansing Info
#nazi #jewish #australia #university #students #massacre #michigan #bondibeach #hanukkah #killed #rabbi #chabad #eastlansing #michiganstate

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> Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.

Well now we know they're definitely true because lying to the FBI is a felony and they'd hang these people by their toes if they could

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Struggling with Nerdbank #GitVersioning to do what I want it to do. Seems quite a simple task but for some reason I can't manage it.
I want it to increase the fourth version number upon a commit into master. I don't care what happens on non-master branch, it might be like 1.0.0-dev.123 or whatever, but the Master branch must be clean and must have increasing builds, like: 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.3 etc.
If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. #DotNet #Version
#dotnet #version #gitversioning

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As consumers electronic becomes more expensive thanks to fairy tales strategies to add more zeros to someone's paycheck, and the "is this real or AI?" question will be the new norm on the Internet, falling back to local, memory efficient, and offline tools will be the way to safeguard our sanity.
Making these local tools convenient and easy to adopt will be key to their success, because at the end of the day privacy and ethics are widely ignored for the sake of profit, speed, and convenience

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Oyé oyé très chère fediverserie,

Je cherche un/des livres jeunesse pour un 4/5ans qui a peur du noir et des ombres. Ce qui l'empêche de se lever de sa chambre (avec veilleuse) le matin.

Note: Ce n'est PAS des cauchemars, ni des terreurs nocturnes, ni un problème pour s'endormir (le trio gagnant de ce que j'ai trouvé pour l'instant 😭 )

Le repouet rallonge vos nuits et réduit la fatigue.

#enfants #daronnie #livre

#enfants #daronnie #livre

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Retooting this for visibility: Conduit-family admins, please upgrade: mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11…

The Matrix.org Foundation

2025-12-23 02:18:39

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Important: admins of Conduit-derived homeservers (Conduit, Continuwuity, Grapevine and Tuwunel) should update immediately to address a critical bug in the federation implementation that is being actively exploited: github.com/continuwuity/contin…


Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') and Improper Input Validation in Conduit-derived homeservers

### Impact This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to force the target server to cryptographically sign arbitrary membership events. The flaw exists because the server fails...
GitHub

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"At the heart of Matrix protocol, you have a kind of merging algorithm that reminds a bit of Google Wave. It means that a conversation is conceptually represented as a sort document you constantly merge on the server. This is a consuming process that is happening on the server for each message received in all conversations. That’s why Matrix has the reputation to be so difficult to scale."

#MickaëlRémond, @ejabberd, 2022

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Fair comment @matrix?

#Matrix #Wave #ApacheWave


Matrix protocol added to ejabberd

ejabberd is already the most versatile and scalable messaging server. In this post, we are giving a sneak peak at what is coming next.
Mickaël Rémond (ProcessOne)
#matrix #wave #mickaelremond #apachewave @The Matrix.org Foundation @ejabberd

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I have a question. So on Windows 11, specifically this desktop, executables are taking a few seconds to launch and UI's are particularly laggy. Instance, I have an app that draws many items to a list. On my windows 10 laptop with exactly half the specs, this UI responds twice as fast as on this desktop with double the CPU power and ram. Why the hell and can I do anything about it, short of downgrading back to 10?

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Der Gemeinderat der Stadt #Freiburg hat einen Antrag beim Land #BadenWurttemberg gestellt, die Einführung der #Bezahlkarte auszusetzen! :solidarity:
Hintergrund: in BaWü gab es eine Anweisung des Landes, dass die Stadt die Bezahlkarte für Asylbewerber*innen einführen muss. Danke @freiburg, dass ihr euch weiter gegen die diskriminierende und rassistische #Schikanekarte wehrt! freiburg.de/pb/2534584.html

#NeinZurBezahlkarte #BezahlkartenStoppen #Migration #Asylrecht #Rassismus

Gemeinderat stellt Antrag beim Land

Die Bezahlkarte wird 2026 eingeführt, der Gemeinderat hat einen Antrag auf Aussetzung beim Land gestellt.
Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau
#migration #freiburg #Bezahlkarte #rassismus #BadenWurttemberg #schikanekarte #neinzurbezahlkarte #bezahlkartenstoppen #asylrecht @Stadt Freiburg
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I think it's been almost five years since I first pointed out that if GNU wanted to revitalize itself, one way would be an large effort to port old C stuff (like coreutils) to Rust, to improve quality--and attract new energy and people.

In the meantime: thurrott.com/dev/330980/micros…


Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030 - Thurrott.com

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade.
Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)

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Microsoft plans to use LLMs and custom tools to rewrite the code of its operating systems and applications in Rust.
thurrott.com/dev/330980/micros…

Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030 - Thurrott.com

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade.
Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
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7heo

We actually already have the solution to the problem.

What we need is currency, to get the good and services we need and want, right?

Except they're too busy concentrating that currency by using exploitation and finance capitalism. And we can't fight it because our governments are complicit.

This, I believe, is the actual (and intended) proper use for cryptocurency.

We need to issue locally valid, locally owned cryptocurrencies, to allow local commerce outside of the reach of parasites.

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7heo

I was actually expecting such an answer.

The issue with cryptocurrencies is that bitcoin was never meant to be used as is, it was a PoC, and not ready for production. People have not thought it out, and used it immediately, first for fun, and then as a finance vehicle.

Now, we have an entire "industry" betting on cryptocurrencies as if it was wall street on crack and meth, and it is literally burning our planet for internet points... 😭

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