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In an ideal world, assuming I can actually get my mind to cooperate and prioritise one project for next year, what do you think it should be?

  • Experiment and have fun with DSP. I want a better TTS engine. (40%, 9 votes)
  • Get your arse back into gamedev! (27%, 6 votes)
  • You're a musician - where's all your stuff? (4%, 1 vote)
  • I want to see what cool new apps you can come up with. (4%, 1 vote)
  • You've been saying you'll work on KeyOp V2 forever... (13%, 3 votes)
  • I'll reply with something else. (9%, 2 votes)
22 voters. Poll end: 10 hours ago

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Minneapolis politics, snow

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@clv1 I haven't written any review. But to quickly answer your questions:
* no critical keys are missing, at least on the North American keyboard layout, and I also have the number pad module. The only missing keys from a full keyboard are the six pack (home/end, page up/down, etc.)
* the keys are fine, though there is no gap between the function keys, and no dot on f4, f8, etc.
* However, the laptop runs hot enough that I prefer to leave it on a table and use a wireless keyboard, instead of holding the laptop on my lap
* Audio quality is fair, once you enable the NVDA or jaws feature that stops the sound system from falling asleep. It's just the standard real tech audio chip that's on pretty much all laptops these days
* Framework updates the driver bundle regularly, and the driver and bios updaters are fully accessible
* The only problems come if you allow Windows Update to install driver updates. Sometimes it installs incorrect drivers and you have to use system restore to roll back an update
* If you live with others: the fans are extremely! loud when the laptop is busy. If someone was trying to, for example, watch TV or listen to music while you were gaming on the laptop, they would get quite annoyed
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Cleverson

thanks a lot! I use an USB keyboard with my 14" laptop as well. I would only buy a 16" if I was going to use its own keyboard, otherwise I don't find worth the bigger size. From your description, the keyboard is close to the Dell Inspirons before the Copilot key, except that the Inspiron has the six keys pad, albeit disposed in another layout.

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Koťátka! Budu končit v současné práci, čas na nová dobrodružství. Ještě nevím, do čeho se přesně chci pustit. Ale jedna věc, která mě láká, je naučit se Rust. Je to bizarní dotaz, ale nehodil by se vám někomu člověk, co se naučí #Rust a bude pak pro vás dělat nějaké systémové věci? Jsem čistotný, programuju 30+ let ve všem možném od Basicu přes Pascal, C, assembler, Objective-C a Swift až po TypeScript. (Chápu, že ta konverzace je v principu složitější, ale to můžem vždycky dohnat později.)
#rust

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Jiří Eischmann

u nás se občas někdo na Rust hledá, tak mrkni na jobs.redhat.com. Potřebovali bychom člověka na Rust i u nás v týmu, ale teď to máme s otevíráním pozic všelijaké.

Red Hat Jobs | Opportunities are open

We pride ourselves on being open, from our technology to our people. Come see what we’re all about, then discover whether Red Hat is right for you.
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FFmpeg Dev Files DMCA Takedown on Rockchip for Code Misuse

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FFmpeg Dev Files DMCA Takedown on Rockchip for Code Misuse

An FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice against Rockchip, disabling its GitHub repository for allegedly copying and mislicensing FFmpeg's libavcodec code without attribution, after a two-year dispute.
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Human memorie is *not* relyable. I know we get told it by all the security fanatics, but I'll take it serious from now on. Been walking through the world as usual, unlocking my phone with the fingerprint as always, and suddanly, when I needed to enter my PIN again, I forgot it. Gone, viped from my head. And no, I don't use my birthday as literally everyone. And it didn't return. Eventually I exceeded the atempts and my phone bricket itself for uh, about 3 hours. The thing is, I hhave written my PIN down, in my Bitwarden vault, and in an encryptet container at home. But I was in anothher city. So I had to return home with no phone, so no checking the train deparchure, no entertainment, no calls or locationsharing, nothing. It worked, thanks to my friends and some nice people on the way, but danm. Gonna take a backup phone more frequently now.
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Tech Singer

Undoubtedly, and keep in mind that the memories of blind people are often considered fairly good compared to others. Having said that, it's just not enough. If you don't use a PIN or password daily, or at least don't use it often, you will almost certainly forget it. This has been my experience, at least. It's one of the minor reasons I like using my PIN/pass, rather than any other method to access the data.

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RE: gultsch.social/@daniel/1158023…

I guess they are not answering any questions? 🤷‍♂️

#39C3 #Signal

Daniel Gultsch

2025-12-29 10:21:12

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Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) has been invited to speak at #39C3 later today. If you make it to the mic in time, here is an interesting question for her: "If I’m put on a boycott list by the Trump regime because I’m openly anti-fascist or oppose war crimes, will you adhere to US laws and block my access to #Signal?"

#DigitalSovereignty #DIDit


#signal #39c3
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"Stay home unless it's absolutely essential to go out," Urgences-santé advises.

LOL People give zero f*cks for advisories but are quick to call 911 for themselves, eh.

montrealgazette.com/news/weath… #montreal #morons #polMTL #MTLpoli


Montreal weather updates: Thousands without power, 911 flooded with calls

The Montreal area is under an orange freezing-rain warning and a yellow wind warning.
Leora Schertzer (Montreal Gazette)
#polmtl #montreal #mtlpoli #morons

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Montreal weather: Freezing rain, ice and wind

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re: REM interruptions. One would think they would have designed to be resilient to that kind of weather...


Freezing rain, ice and wind: ‘Hazardous’ weather causing power outages, REM interruptions

A mix of freezing rain, ice pellets, and strong winds is threatening to make travel difficult in the Greater Montreal area.
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🏖️⌨️ You know how Shadow DOM can break accessibility? There’s a new proposal with experimental implementations (some by @igalia) to help fix that! I blogged about it: meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/202…

Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM

A new way to allow elements inside a Shadow DOM to be targeted for accessibility or other reasons.
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The EU will launch the digital euro as a 100% European digital payments system to replace reliance on Visa, Mastercard, and Apple and Google Pay, with the European Central Bank issuing a digital form of cash. It will be built entirely in Europe, have zero transaction fees, instant payments, and strong privacy, giving the EU full control over its payments infrastructure.

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Guude 👋. I checked out ChatterboxTTS Multilingual from Resemble AI.

Video is online on my Thorsten-Voice youtube channel: youtu.be/GOfRG0Byaa0

Including audio samples of all 23 supported languages (MIT licensed), local installation, some shared lessons learned and test with zero shot voice cloning.

What do you think?


Chatterbox TTS Multilingual | Audio Samples (23 Languages) & Voice Cloning

In this video, I take a detailed look at Chatterbox TTS, a multilingual text-to-speech system by Resemble AI that runs privacy aware on your local system. Al...
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La encuesta maldita definitiva


Porque no hay suficientes divisiones en el Fediverso, vengo a traer una pregunta que creará cismas, caos, cruzadas y vindicaciones.

Cuando estás en tu casa, ¿vas por allí con calzado o con los pies descalzos?

  • A pies descalzos (46%, 7 votes)
  • Con calzado (46%, 7 votes)
  • Un pie calzado, el otro no (0%, 0 votes)
  • Yo me llamo Jose Luis (6%, 1 vote)
15 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

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“Being photographed when in transit is something that Canadians who visit the United States will need to get used to…”

Um, no. It should always be seen as a breach of privacy. I imagine it will contribute to further reduced travel.

And the guy at the beginning of this was photographed while leaving the country?

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Paul McO'Smith III

@hub we crossed the border at Cape Canaveral a couple of months ago. 3200 cruise passengers, it was pretty... cruisey. i suspect we were considered low risk.

however, it is a big planet. i don't need the stress of crossing that border again without the US wanting to welcome foreigners again.

there are loads of other places in the world - hello! canada!!! - that are available.

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Wir haben den Barrierefreiheits-Talk vom #39c3 auseinandergenommen, denn er war wieder gut noch lehrreich.

Er enthielt Inspiration Exploitation, extrem unsaubere und fehlerhafte Ausführungen zu den WCAG, illegale und behinderten Schadende Rätschläge, und ein gänzlich fehlender Blick für die Systematik.

Insgesamt war er leider dem CCC in keinster Weise würdig. Leider ist er innerhalb der letzten Stunden zu einem der meistgesehenen Talks zum Thema überhaupt geworden.

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RE: 39c3 - Digitale Inklusion: Wie wir Barrierefreiheit für alle erreichen können - Eine Einordnung

Casey Kreer und bommel reagieren auf den Barrierefreiheitsvortrag des diesjährigen 39c3. Der Vortrag ist nicht nur inhaltlich unzulänglich bis falsch und gib...
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holy shit they might have found cure for Alzheimer's

edit: for those who can't log in

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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

note: the first trials were on mice, but they're promising

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Just going to put this out there. If someone posts a workaround for a thing that might be giving people trouble and you don't do it, that's fine, but the lecture about oh well you're just putting off what's going to happen isn't helpful. Also, if said workaround involves tampering with software, it's of course common sense to use caution but again, lecture not needed. Nobody is forcing workaround for anything down anyone's throat, and there's no reason to get weird if someone decides to post about using said workarounds. Do or don't, but save the lecture. We're adults, we know the risks. Thanks. Have a good monday.
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Drôle et triste en même temps

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Daltonisme : Trouble visuel à cause duquel Steven Guilbeault et Elizabeth May ont déjà cru voir Mark Carney en vert.

Environnement : Ce qui nuit à l’économie.

Syndicat : Ce qui nuit à l’économie.

Rien : Concession demandée par Mark Carney à l’Alberta en échange du démantèlement de sa politique climatique.

Pistes cyclables (voir partout des) : Trouble obsessionnel particulièrement contagieux lors des élections municipales.

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Lexique pour 2026 (avec toutes mes excuses)

J’essaie de contribuer de bonne foi au débat public, au mieux de mes capacités. Mais une fois par année, je fais relâche. Voici, avec toutes mes excuses, un lexique de mauvaise foi pour régler nos comptes avec l’année 2025.
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