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"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.

This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.

Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".

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The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well

In the OpenSource Supply Chain discourse in the past few years, we got many versions of the same article. The title is usually something like β€œunpaid maintainer of library X demand Big Company to shut up or pay them money”.
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I had a very strange and scary dream involving my Mini PC. It was apparently opted into running Windows preview builds, although nothing looked any different. Whenever I would switch to a certain synth, the fan would run really high, the audio would sometimes crackle, and it would either reboot or just freeze, but not like a blue screen. I then somehow was able to open some sort of log thing that showed way down at the bottom of this Windows Update page in settings that as part of being in the Windows preview, it was sending 29 gb to Microsoft over the wi-fi by default! I switched the synthesizer again, and immediately it crashed again and did the same thing, even after turning that setting off. I'm guessing I dreamed this because one of my machines had the audio stutter a bit yesterday after the wi-fi temporarily disconnected.

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Just finished my 1st audio drama, in 2026, and generally since a long time. Was just around 9h, as it's split in 2 parts and the 2nd part is sadly going to release on april 30th. So what do I do? Get the full audiobook, which will miss the effects and different voices, which I found quite good, though I admit the audiobook narator sounds nice as well, or do I wait, which would kinda disturb the feeling I have for the story now?
Or both lol. In case anyone wonders, it's Fourth Wing 1, but I'm listening in german.
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Jonathan

Regardless I need good audio drama/audiobook suggestions, I'm getting into it again and it's great distraction/generally worlds better than scrolling TikTok and similar stuff I used to fill the time with which I now spend listening. And audiobookshelf also makes it fun, the seemless syncing of positions across all devices and some nice additional features like rewind on pause of the clients make it even more enjoyable.

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Ledovku na silnici jsem zaΕΎil pΓ‘r let zpΓ‘tky na 12km trase pΕ™i cestΔ› do Ε‘kolky. NulovΓ‘ trakce a tΕ™i auta v pΕ™Γ­kopΔ›. MΔ›li jsme v tΓ© dobΔ› celoročnΓ­ gumy a zasekl jsem se v kΕ™iΕΎovatce, o kterΓ© jsem ani netuΕ‘il, ΕΎe je mΓ­rnΔ› do kopce a za boha se nemohl rozjet. A zΓ­tra nΓ‘s to asi čekΓ‘ znovu. TentokrΓ‘t mΓ‘me na obou autech dobrΓ© zimnΓ­ gumy. I tak ΕΎena Ε™Γ­kΓ‘, ΕΎe do Ε‘koly jedu s dΓ­tΔ›tem jΓ‘.

ZΓ­tra se ledovka zeptΓ‘, co za gumy jste na podzim zvolili πŸ™‚

idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/predpov…


Situace mΕ―ΕΎe bΓ½t velmi nebezpečnΓ‘, varuje ČHMÚ pΕ™ed nočnΓ­ a rannΓ­ ledovkou - iDNES.cz

Česko mΓ‘ za sebou dosud nejchladnΔ›jΕ‘Γ­ rΓ‘no tΓ©to zimy, kdy teploty na Ε™adΔ› mΓ­st klesly hluboko, aΕΎ k -30Β°C. Od zΓ‘padu ale nastane oteplenΓ­ a snΔ›ΕΎenΓ­ se bude mΔ›nit v mrznoucΓ­ dΓ©Ε‘Ε₯.
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JiΕ™Γ­ Eischmann

Pokud je pro tebe rozjezd ten nejvΔ›tΕ‘Γ­ problΓ©m na ledovce, tak jo. JΓ‘ jsem se v kΕ™iΕΎovatce zatΓ­m vΕΎdycky rozjel, ale uΕΎ jsem taky skončil uprostΕ™ed kΕ™iΕΎovatky a jeΕ‘tΔ› otočenΓ½ o 180 stupňů, protoΕΎe to auto mΔ›lo na hovno tΔ›ΕΎiΕ‘tΔ›, nebo mΔ› taky obrubnΓ­ky zastavily 10 cm pΕ™ed sloupem, kdyΕΎ se mi to utrhlo a auto sjelo ven ze silnice, takΕΎe pro mΔ› je nejdΕ―leΕΎitΔ›jΕ‘Γ­ brzdΔ›nΓ­ a udrΕΎenΓ­ auta na vozovce a tam si myslΓ­m, ΕΎe tΔ›ΕΎiΕ‘tΔ› a hmotnost hrajΓ­ roli.
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πŸ”© Adam Ε trauch

@sesivany No rozjezd pro mΔ› byl nejvΔ›tΕ‘Γ­ problΓ©m πŸ™‚ Na silnici jsem se jinak udrΕΎel. JΓ‘ mΕ―ΕΎu komentovat jen celoročky co jsme mΔ›li (Goodyear 4SEASONS z roku 2022) a ty byly tragickΓ½ na snΔ›hu, na vodΔ›, na ledu a za vysokΓ½ch teplot. NicmΓ©nΔ› mΕ―j jΓ­zdnΓ­ styl je trochu agresivnΔ›jΕ‘Γ­ a tam na limity tΓ© gumy narazΓ­m spΓ­Ε‘ neΕΎ pΕ™i pohodovΓ© jΓ­zdΔ› po dΓ‘lnici. OčekΓ‘vΓ‘m od gum, ΕΎe nejen ΕΎe zastavΓ­ v nΔ›jakΓ© rozumnΓ© vzdΓ‘lenosti, ale ΕΎe za vΕ‘ech podmΓ­nek, na kterΓ© jsou určeny, udrΕΎΓ­ auto stabilnΓ­ a čitelnΓ½ a to tyhle GoodYeary neumΔ›ly.
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Patrik Stach

@sesivany VΕ‘echno je to i pΕ™es mΔ›Ε™itelnΓ© hodnoty subjektivnΓ­. KdyΕΎ jsem vyhrabal svojΓ­ pΕ™edokolku VW T4 z roku 2000 a s univerzΓ‘lnΓ­mi pneu pΕ™ed pΓ‘r dny v KrkonoΕ‘Γ­ch, vyjel jsem bez problΓ©mu, zatΓ­mco vedle mΔ› parkovala nΔ›jakΓ‘ čtyΕ™kolka (pΕ™es vrstvu snΔ›hu nevΓ­m jakΓ‘), kterou jsme tlačili a vyhrabΓ‘vali skoro vΕ‘ichni na parkoviΕ‘ti, a nepomohli jsme. Nakonec museli olΓ‘mat vΔ›tve a spolu s koberečky je nacpat pod kola, aby se aspoň pohnuli.
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JiΕ™Γ­ Eischmann

@unterwasser Ono totiΕΎ ty kvalitnΓ­ celoročky majΓ­ na snΔ›hu dnes uΕΎ fakt srovnatelnou vΓ½konnost, zvlΓ‘Ε‘tΔ› pak tu trakci, kterΓ‘ je dnes prakticky stejnΓ‘:
tyrereviews.com/Tyre-Tests/The…
(a to jako benchmark pouΕΎili WinterContact TS 870, coΕΎ nenΓ­ nΔ›jakΓ‘ prΕ―mΔ›rnΓ‘ zimnΓ­ pneu, ale top). To si myslΓ­m, ΕΎe vΔ›tΕ‘Γ­ rozdΓ­l udΔ›lΓ‘ stΓ‘Ε™Γ­ pneu, ΕΎe 5 let starΓ‘ WC TS 870 proti novΓ½m top celoročkΓ‘m propadne.

Ale pohon na vΕ‘echny čtyΕ™i je na snΔ›hu poΕ™Γ‘d velkΓ‘ vΓ½hoda. Včera jsme v ΓΊdolΓ­ zjistili, ΕΎe jsme nahoΕ™e nechali boby a v tΓ© vΓ‘nici jsem si tam se zadokolkou netroufl, pΕ™Γ­tel od mamky mΓ‘ Vitaru se 4x4 a tam, kde bych jΓ‘ uΕΎ jel na hranΔ›, to jelo jak nic. Ona je kapitola sama o sobΔ›, ΕΎe nΔ›kteΕ™Γ­ majitelΓ© čtyΕ™kolek ani nevΓ­, ΕΎe se ten pohon 4x4 musΓ­ zapnout.


The Best All Season Tyres for 2025/26

The Best All Season Tyres For 2025/26
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JiΕ™Γ­ Eischmann

@banterCZ @unterwasser JΓ‘ jsem mΔ›l k celoročkΓ‘m despekt, protoΕΎe v ΕΎivotΔ› jsem uvΓ‘zl poΕ™Γ‘dnΔ› ve snΔ›hu jen jednou pΕ™ed 20 lety a bylo to s celoročkami. NicmΓ©nΔ› po diskusi tady na Mastodonu jsem se rozhodl jim dΓ‘t druhou Ε‘anci a koupil AllSeason Contact 2 a musΓ­m Ε™Γ­ct, ΕΎe jsme se ΕΎenou zatΓ­m mile pΕ™ekvapenΓ­. Na bΔ›ΕΎnou českou zimu ΓΊplnΔ› v pohodΔ›.
Jsou ale novΓ©. UvidΓ­m, jak se budou chovat druhou, tΕ™etΓ­ zimu. NicmΓ©nΔ› tΓ­m, ΕΎe budou mΓ­t skoro dvojnΓ‘sobnΓ½ ročnΓ­ nΓ‘jezd oproti zimnΓ­m, je budu i častΔ›ji točit. Odhaduji kaΕΎdΓ© tΕ™i roky. ZimnΓ­ pneu na zadokolce mΓ‘m uΕΎ Ε‘estou sezΓ³nu a co si budeme, ideΓ‘lnΓ­ uΕΎ to nenΓ­. JenΕΎe my ročnΔ› na zimnΓ­ch najedeme tak 5k, po tΕ™ech letech majΓ­ najeto 15k km, vyhazujte je tak často, kdyΕΎ mΕ―ΕΎou najet tΕ™ikrΓ‘t tolik.
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Miroslav Buček 🌳

@sesivany @banterCZ @unterwasser Jeden znΓ‘mej (poloprofesionΓ‘lnΓ­ zΓ‘vodnΓ­k) doporučuje pro naΕ‘e českΓ© nehorskΓ© podmΓ­nky letnΓ­ gumy na lΓ©to a celoročnΓ­ na zimu. ŘíkΓ‘, ΕΎe full zimnΓ­ u nΓ‘s trpΓ­, nenΓ­ u nΓ‘s pod -20Β°C a v zimΔ› na sluníčku je i +15Β°C.
@LuboΕ‘ RačanskΓ½ @JiΕ™Γ­ Eischmann @Patrik Stach
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JiΕ™Γ­ Eischmann

@banterCZ @unterwasser lepΕ‘Γ­ to samozΕ™ejmΔ› je, otΓ‘zkou je, jestli ten rozdΓ­l stojΓ­ za ty nΓ‘klady navΓ­c. JΓ‘ dΓ‘m za pΕ™ezouvΓ‘nΓ­ a uskladnΔ›nΓ­ 5 tisΓ­c ročnΔ› na auto. Cena pneu se mi vrΓ‘tΓ­ za tΕ™i roky jen na tom. A pak abych se pΕ™i naΕ‘em nΓ‘jezdu dostal na stejnΓ½ nΓ‘klad na km, musΓ­m se zimnΓ­mi jezdit dvojnΓ‘sobek sezΓ³n. A ΕΎe je Ε‘est let starΓ‘ zimnΓ­ pneu lepΕ‘Γ­ neΕΎ tΕ™i roky starΓ‘ celoročnΓ­, tΓ­m uΕΎ si taky tak nejsem jistΓ½.
SamozΕ™ejmΔ› pro nΔ›koho, kdo si pΕ™ezouvΓ‘ sΓ‘m, mΓ‘ doma mΓ­sto na uskladnΔ›nΓ­ a ročnΔ› na zimnΓ­ch najezdΓ­ 15k km, je to zase jinΓ‘ matematika.
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πŸ”© Adam Ε trauch

@sesivany @banterCZ @unterwasser Tak vΕΎdycky ta guma jde po dvou letech vyhodit, i kdyΕΎ jeΕ‘tΔ› mΓ‘ vzorek. Jednou jsem jezdil zimnΓ­ tΕ™i sezΓ³ny a z docela Ε‘patnΓ½ch zimnΓ­ch to byly jeΕ‘tΔ› horΕ‘Γ­ zimnΓ­. Ale tΕ™eba to bylo autem.

ProtoΕΎe naΕ‘e Mazda 3 byla v zimΔ› docela Ε‘patnΓ‘ nebo jsem tam netrefil ΕΎΓ‘dnΓ© dobrΓ© zimnΓ­ gumy. Hyundai i20 jsem si nikdy nezkusil v zimΔ› na zimnΓ­ch, protoΕΎe mΔ›l ty hroznΓ½ celoročky. Tesla v zimΔ› jezdΓ­ perfektnΔ›, ale mΔ›li jsme tam zatΓ­m jen jedny zimnΓ­ gumy. Za to letnΓ­ byly Bridgestone Turanza a byly hroznΓ½.

Zoe dostala zimnΓ­ do kufru pΕ™i nΓ‘kupu a chovala se vΕ‘elijak na letnΓ­ch i zimnΓ­ch. Pak ale v servise zjistili, ΕΎe tam je o 0.3Β° hnutΓ‘ sbΓ­havost. SeΕ™Γ­dili to, vymΔ›nili pΕ™ednΓ­ zimΓ‘ky a to auto je jak vymΔ›nΔ›nΓ½.

NemusΓ­ to tedy bΓ½t nutnΔ› jen v pneu, ale takΓ© v nastavenΓ­ podvozku, distribuci vΓ‘hy a pomΔ›ru Ε‘Γ­Ε™ky pneu k zatΓ­ΕΎenΓ­ nΓ‘prav. Ta Mazda mΔ›la docela Ε‘irokou gumu na to jak byla lehkΓ‘ (~300 kg na 215mm). Zoe mΓ‘ ~375 kg a 195 mm a Tesla 475 kg na 235 mm.

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AI Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system Voice generator. That's right. I'm not done.
It's up on Jammable. Here's a cover of Brailab doing Dial Drunk, with Eloquence Reed. Enjoy.
jammable.com/brailab-hungarian…
an you tell Brailab from Eloquence in the song? I sure can. Poor Brailab. All squished because it only goes up to 10000HZ of audio quality. Aww awe, I almost feel sorry for it.


Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI Voice Generator | Jammable AI Covers

Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI voice & song generator. Create Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.
Jammable AI

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Tamas G

@tardis so on that page there's a "create" button, you press it and a dialog opens. There you click on the select song button, then you can upload from your computer. I think free accounts don't really exist anymore, or they might but they only let you preview. Otherwise it's $1.99 for the first month (unlimited cover credits) then $8.99 after.
@Winter blue tardis

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Got a Raspberry Pi 5 for some homeserver tasks.

Sadly it seems rather more involved than the earlier models that I was pretty happy with.

Apparently they switched to 'Mini HDMI' which I of course don't have lying around. Luckily the 'Raspberry Pi Imager' utility can build an sd card image with ssh enabled and the wifi password pre-supplied 😊. Icky that it needs root but otherwise works well.

github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-ima…

So now I can use the pi to build the NixOS installation for the pi itself 😊

wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_A…


GitHub - raspberrypi/rpi-imager: The home of Raspberry Pi Imager, a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.

The home of Raspberry Pi Imager, a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices. - raspberrypi/rpi-imager
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Hi hi people of Mastodon!
I created a Jammable voice for MindMaker FlexVoice 3 Kim. Attached is a song: Radioactive Rain by Smith and Thell. Enjoy. This is my first female voice, finally, after so many speech engines do male voices or female voices that are fake male anyway. Not Kim though. jammable.com/kim-mindmaker-fle…
Enjoy.


Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI Voice Generator | Jammable AI Covers

Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI voice & song generator. Create Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.
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How accessible is Discord in a browser?

We're using it at work (don't ask, Shadow IT), and I'm strongly considering switching to a two-account setup at this point. Especially because their track record on privacy (from your contacts, not in the weird "I don't want personalized ads" sense) is spotty at best.

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Vincent Sparks

from a screen reader / non mouse input method standpoint? i have no idea.

from a "how similar is it to the desktop app" standpoint? it's literally identical. with the exception of a few features the browser sandbox prohibits, like push to talk when the browser window isn't focused, there is literally 100% feature parity.

discord desktop is an electron app. it's a website in a box already. why maintain two frontend codebases when you don't have to?

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πŸŽ‰ Brailab + NVDA just got much nicer in Say All. (eurpod.com/brailab-2025.nvda-a…)
We fixed long-standing line-by-line breaks so consecutive lines are now coalesced into real sentences, keeping natural inflection instead of resetting prosody at every visual line.
Even better: speech indexing now flows through the wrapper itself, so Say All, caret tracking, and navigation stay perfectly in sync β€” no hacks, no dropped events.
Same Brailab sound, smoother reading. This one feels really good. πŸ˜„ And without @erion doing that initial driver work it wouldn't have happened. Now Brailab reads as it did in my childhood, with the same low intonation during long sentences, it's such a joy to use now that the Wrapper works well.
@Erion

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Flexvoice-HU Hungarian text-to-speech software
Yes that's right. Mindmaker is Hungarian.
"The Flexvoice text reader is the successor of the PC talker, developed by Mindmaker Kft (JΓ³zsef KirΓ‘ly and his team) in Hungary. The new software was officially announced in Hungary in 2002. Flexvoice was a hibryd system based on machine learning and formant synthesis. The newly developed inverse formant synthesizer has made it possible to describe and store the speech elements recorded from human speech with compressed phonetic data. Speech was synthesized by the formant synthesizer software. Flexvoice was able to speak in a variety of voices, also whispering and hoarse voices. The Flexvoice speech synthesizer has also been used in the VILÁGHALLΓ“ book reader application for the blind in Hungary."
did you know this @erion? By any chance you or someone has a copy of VilΓ‘ghΓ‘llΓ³, perhaps we can adapt that voice to work in current FlexVoice engine?
@Erion

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πŸ“£ Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 12. JΓ€nner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… WΓΆchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! πŸ› οΈ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten auf der Vorderseite und zwei seitlich sichtbare Tasten auf der Oberseite. Das GehÀuse ist 3D-gedruckt, rot mit hellen Streifen und die Tasten sind weiß. Das GehÀuse ist ungefÀhr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form Àhnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte. Die Tastatur zeigt mit der Oberseite nach rechts unten und liegt auf einer Holzplatte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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Durch sightviews.de/316-oskar bin ich auf oskars.org aufmerksam geworden (die sind auch hier seit einigen Jahren aktiv, s. chaos.social/@oskar_mbr).

Dieses Projekt bearbeitet bereits einige derThemen, mit denen ich mich ebenfalls beschΓ€ftigen mΓΆchte (3D-Druck, taktile Beschriftungen und Karten, barrierefreie ZugΓ€nge zu OpenStreetMap...).

Großartig!

#blind #Inklusion #OpenSource #OpenHardware #OSM #Barrierefreiheit


Hilfsmittel gemeinsam entwickeln - das Open-Source-Projekt OSKAR

OSKAR ist ein Open-Source-Projekt, das Hilfsmittel fΓΌr blinde Menschen gemeinsam entwickelt und frei zugΓ€nglich macht. BauplΓ€ne, Software und Anleitungen stehen offen zur VerfΓΌgung und kΓΆnnen angepasst und weiterentwickelt werden.
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#opensource #blind #OSM #openhardware #inklusion #barrierefreiheit
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Your display name is not the place for random statements like f* this party pro this ASSOCIATION etc. I don't give a shit about that when I want to read your post. It's more common with german people to have that as it seems. Same for emojis or different formating etc, just use normal letters. My screenreader sometimes reads all letters like they where in seperated capitals because you have some weird formating you think looks cool, or says question mark question mark between each letter. Just type, on your normal keyboard, type your name, your pseudonyme, but nothing else. Just gonna ignore that crap from now on, probably mute. Wastes time.
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Another form of Facebook post in particular is really giving me the shits lately and it relates to a previous post I made regarding the use of AI.
The kind of post I'm talking about here is the really inspiring post about someone that is shared by everybody.
You can tell it's an AI post because it often starts with something like, it was 3.37 in the morning and 35 seconds when the old man took his last breath inside the ice cream parlour.
The posts then go on to talk about what an amazing person they were, the things they do just get better and better and better and at the end you often get these annoying fucking moral messages.
Mr Blake did not succeed because he had an IQ of 512, mr Blake succeeded because he found the inspirational courage to fight through the horrible brain freeze and tooth pain.
So fucking irritating.

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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.

#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" 404media.co/x-premium-grok-pay…

How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: privacyguides.org/articles/202…

In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.

Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.

#StopChatControl #LeaveX #QuitX #SaveSocial


Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.
Samantha Cole (404 Media)
#AI #chatcontrol #grok #savesocial #StopChatcontrol #leavex #quitx @Em @404 Media

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Thanks to @Tamasg and his SoftVoice TTS Speak window, I just created something really silly and stupid. The SoftVoice variant The Fly reading some gibberish/keysmash text. It sounds really weird! Actual text is in the alt text.

@Tamas G
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Gary "grim" Kramlich

@bagder Is it double messaging when this is explicitly in every single release announcement?

> Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.

discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidg…

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Gary "grim" Kramlich

@bagder Guess I should turn this into an FAQ somewhere which will be yet another thing on my todo list which will of course cut into development time...

Anyways here's the original announcement that described the whole thing.

But tl;dr we're open to feedback if it is actually usable/reasonable right now.

But between live and work finding time for Pidgin is hard and people are making it harder by forcing me through conversations like this.

discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidg…


Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin 3 on December 31st, 2024.
Instant Messaging Freedom's Discourse
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There is something wrong with Trump.

At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s he suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says β€œunusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

How many oil companies will invest in a Venezuelan oil project initiated by a man who loses track of the situation he is in?

reshared this

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Exact breath times are now available via the Auphonic API.
This makes it easy to build integrations with detailed, frame-accurate insights into detected breaths.

πŸ‘‰ API details:
auphonic.com/help/api/query.ht…

πŸ‘‰ Learn more about independent breath reduction control:
auphonic.com/blog/2024/05/16/i…

Auphonic Blog: Independently control Noise, Reverb and Breath Reduction Amounts

The automatic audio post production webservice.
auphonic.com

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Are you guys seeing this annoying GitHub bug on iOS where scrolling on some pages keeps forcing your browser to keep bouncing / scrolling back to top before you can get very far?

This is an example, one other person has reproduced it

github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/…


WebKit/Source/WebKit at main Β· WebKit/WebKit

Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux. - WebKit/WebKit
GitHub

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Good morning from Gaza,

Despite the pain and the siege, we still believe that truth never dies and that the dawn of freedom will come, no matter how long the night lasts.
Our voices, our prayers, and our resilience are stronger than all injustice.
A morning of hope for Palestine and for everyone who stands for justice.

#GoodMorning #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #Humanity #Hope #Justice #StandWithPalestine

#palestine #humanity #Justice #goodmorning #Gaza #freepalestine #hope #standwithpalestine

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#mlmmj release 1.7.0

Changes:
- New 'autosubscribe' feature: on moderated mailing list autosubscribe as "nomail" when a moderator approves a mail
- New 'selfmoderate' feature: send the moderation email to the "From" address for validation
- Fix 'nonomailsub' support
- Plenty of memory leaks
- Fix lock issue

#mlmmj
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