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I'm sorry y'all. Our TTS engine will be frozen at 2007 pronounciation of Espeak. If we want true, true decoupled multilingual support. I wonder if it's worth maintaining two "flavors" of the driver, one which just uses existing Espeak phoneme data as built into NVDA's Espeak, and another that lets it live standalone to be useed for compiling and other projects. The fact is, this engine cannot become "free" until the phoneme data can live independently within it.
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Tamas G

@clv1 yeah, for now it's still using NVDA's built-in espeak to get the latest phoneme map, but it's clear that we need to actually create rules for how those phonemes actually get pronounced. So even if Espeak is passing a set of phonemes or a representation of a language phoneme rule, if our IPA.py and data.py don't map it up correctly the engine still won't know how to pronounce those phonemes or where to place the actual stresses on parts of it. I think in that way this has been an interesting learning experience, just how it's not about throwing a bunch of phonemes at an engine and saying "here you go now speak them" but you also have to teach it of their meaning. Once we get the Espeak mapping from the current set correct we can look at using the older 2007-era phoneme tables. Those will have issues so that's when I think I'll need more help from the community for some languages where things changed post-2007 Espeak for. Hungarian is not really one of these, it's stayed quite the same since it launched, but I do know they've improved some languages in phoneme representation too.
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RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115893…

This is should be a wider discussion in the security industry. Sustainability!

It’s important to realize that for (small) open source projects, even reports of real security issues with real impact are significant workloads.
They need to be reviewed, understood, fixes designed.

And those fixes may have further effects like compatibility breakage or redesigns.
If done correctly this is a lot of work, work that those developers usually do unpaid. If they have the time.

Bug bounties may increase the amount of code review and hopefully increase the security of a project due to the amount of eyes on it, but they need to be in sync with the needed resources for the project to review and act on those reports.

What if a bug bounty program paid both the finder and the open source project for fixing an issue?

daniel:// stenberg://

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It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.

It drains us. It drowns us.

Onward and upward!


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The Strategy: Find the source code for eSpeak 1.26 or earlier.. Hey, can anyone find the sourcecode for ESpeak 1.26 or earlier for me? Huge thanks. aha. sourceforge.net/projects/espea…

eSpeak: speech synthesis - Browse /espeak/espeak-1.26 at SourceForge.net

Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line…
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Ah yes. The good old GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 Conflict. So. If I copy these tables into my project so my engine can function, my project is almost certainly a derivative work of eSpeak. But, Under GPLv3, the "work as a whole" must be licensed under GPLv3. If your project is locked to GPLv2, you cannot fulfill this requirement. The original eSpeak (by Jonathan Duddington) was licensed under GPLv2 up until version 1.24. So it may be possible to use phonemes from it instead.

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The driver itself is working fine. So that's the good news. We get speech, we get firing indexes, we have all the weird knobs exposed in your voice dialog settings too. So like, yes. As far as a working, solid driver, I actually think that part was the easiest. The hardest is actually modernizing it a bit to support more languages and eventually, very much later on in the game, not rely on Espeak for phoneme data directly. I don't know what license though Espeak has: Are we able to pull phoneme tables from it directly with just attribution, or must the entire Espeak sourcecode be included? This will be good to verify.

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yep. Original NVSpeech Player was also british. For this to even support US English, it needs to have proper IPA mapping and data.py to include how the letters actually get sounded out from those phoonemes Espeak is injecting for us. So first task: Rewrite data.py and IPA.py for NVSpeech Player to have better multilingual support in the first place.

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A nice long list of the "trusted" partners #Dropbox shares your personal data with. 🤨

❌ Google

❌ Amazon

❌ OpenAI

.... & many more.

In today's guide we take a look at how secure and private the cloud storage platform actually is: tuta.com/blog/is-dropbox-secur…

List of all companies Dropbox shares data with - under the title: Is Dropbox safe to use?

Is Dropbox safe to use for confidential documents in 2026 | Tuta

Dropbox is a popular cloud storage provider used by millions, but this doesn’t mean it’s the safest or best cloud storage for privacy.
Tuta
#dropbox

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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future. :NoAI:

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux. :tux:

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

windowscentral.com/artificial-…

#linux #foss #opensource #privacy #selfhost #selfhosting #bigtech #righttorepair #amazon #eattherich #noAI #ram
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Hey #GitLab – it's sad you stopped sending me notification mails 2 weeks ago (but understandable, as our mail server had a hickup then).

It's sadder you didn't pick up even 2 weeks after the issue was solved, and not even when I changed my email address in your setup.

But it's plainly incomprehensible that, not having a paid subscription, I can't even find a way to reach out to you and inform you or ask your help with this.

Can you please fix that?

#gitlab
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@linarphy Thanks! Your wish was granted! 🥳

For those falling into the same trap: it's not enough to change your email in the "profile" section of settings. You also need to do that under "Notifications", in the "Global notification email" drop-down.

Not that intuitive I'd say: if (in profile) you replaced exactly that address, you probably want the new one being used INSTEAD – and not just have it "verified"…

First notification email just arrived 🙌 Still: support? 🤔

@linarphy

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I will ask here because I feel like there might be enough literary nerds around. I need to read a good amount for an exam I need to do to get into university for the English subject.

I am looking for 1 book from before 1900 and one after (fiction, non fantasy) that will pass their "literary enough" sniff test, that preferably isn't written by a cishet white man. I was thinking Frankenstein at first—but I am guessing they categorize it as "fantasy" or a book with a movie—since she isn't on the definitely pre-approved list and I can't imagine missing her (which is strange because Douglas Adams, George Orwell, J.R.R Tolkien are, but I digress).

Virginia Woolf is so I think I'll read one of her books for post 1900, give me a suggestion for one to read (haven't read her at all).

But that leaves one pre-1900 novel, so feel free to suggest one for either.

#bookstodon #books #reading #Literature

#books #reading #bookstodon #literature

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Hear me out. Cat Café x Coworking. Like a classic coworking space but with cats laying around.

I have my own homegrown cat for day use, but I would be willing to go to your in prem meeting if I could at least pet some support cats during your whatever slides.

Give me the money, YC here I come.

#cat #catCafé #coworking #wfh #remoteWork #cats #caturday

#cat #caturday #cats #remotework #WFH #coworking #catcafe
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Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"

Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er für Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.

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#Datenschutz #DSGVO #EU #Grundrechte #Journal #Netzpolitik #Wirtschaft #news


Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"

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#datenschutz #News #EU #DSGVO #netzpolitik #grundrechte #journal #wirtschaft

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Today I heavily argued with a Hosting and VPS provider called IONOS; there's the domain ionos.com which brings to American site and there's no accessibility statement in that page. On the Italian though, ionos.it, on its footer I found an accessibility statement claiming this company took care of disability needs. It was very affordable. For 10 euro per month or so, I could obtain the Linux VPS L plan, with something like 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM and 240 GB storage. I don't remember if it's exactly the amount of the offer but now I'm not talking about service's details.
Attracted by the offer I have subscribed to it and the products presentation and e-commerce procedure was actually accessible for screen reader users; but as soon as I has the service in hand, control panel and especially firewall rules, inaccessibility came. As an example, on a single firewall rule, the edit button was labelled with "y", the add with a "@" sign, the delete with a "]" (closed squared bracket) sign.
First thing I did was going to that accessibility page. There was no specialized e-mail for that kind of support but they linked to a contact form.
Clicked on it, it redirected me to a German-speaking page. Last time I spoke German was 1999.
And what did I find there? Phone numbers and a live-chat with German automated answers but nothing on accessibility.
I called them (Italian support) and warned them about the issue, they've been polite with me. I admit I've been quite unkind though, as I was angry. But I managed to obtain contract cancellation and they'll refund me tomorrow. But this issue must not remain under silence. What I'm asking is to all Ionos customers all over the world, to make them aware of this. It hasn't to pass under silence as this habit of placing a declaration without concretely working on accessibility, is becoming more and more normalized.
They find more convenience in violating the laws and losing customers, than create a real remediation.
And there are many faults for this: companies do their own interests, with no doubt. But our fault as people with disability, not to have stood up too much for the cause, or standing up in the wrong way. Not to have pressured governments about investing on LEARNING more than "tou must create accessible sites". You must create, but how many 30-40 years old developers have the culture of accessibility in mind?
How many companies and school have a real decades-long accessibility learning program?
No one wants to mock disability I'm convinced of this. But this practice is due to lack of basic awareness. We can not pretend of nothing.
I'm not inviting anyone to boycott. But to create awareness.
#accessibility #advocacy #awareness #blind #disability #SelfHost #SelfHosting
#Accessibility #blind #selfhost #selfhosting #Disability #advocacy #awareness

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:BoostOK:
Ich brauche eure Hilfe: Für eine Recherche über Algorithmen von Dating-Apps suche ich Kontakt zu Entwickler:innen und anderen, die bei solchen Anbietern arbeiten/gearbeitet haben und bereit wären, mit mir zu sprechen. Gerne auch anonym. Fragestellung ua: Mit welchen Mechanismen werden User:innen auf der Plattform gehalten? Welche Ideen/Konstrukte von Partnerschaft/Matching stecken im Algorithmus? Bitte teilt das breit! Danke❤️
Anonyme und andere Kontaktmöglichkeiten: s. Bio.
#dating
#dating
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ArcaneChat

we need to make alternatives like #DeltaChat more popular, it is decentralized and people can migrate from server to server without losing their messages, chats or contacts, in fact your contacts don't even get disturbed by your migration, your data is really owned by you and you are not tied to a particular server, we need more software like this

what is more, it has offline-first in-chat mini-apps that can replace several online centralized services

#deltachat
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"Ich meine Söder ist ja nicht nur körperlich behindert, auch manchmal geistig [...]. Aber wir lassen ihn leben, er ist ja immer mal wieder witzig."
- Emil Sänze, Co-Landeschef der AfD BW

Mehr Menschenverachtung passt kaum in zwei Sätze. Und was, wenn Söder nicht "immer mal wieder witzig" wäre?

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„Totalverweigerer“ ist kein Begriff aus dem Sozialrecht. Mit diesem Ausdruck kann keine sachliche Diskussion geführt werden. Er drückt Menschen einen abwertenden Stempel auf und schürt negative Emotionen.
Sanktionen betreffen Menschen, die etwa „zumutbare“ Arbeit ohne „anerkannten“ Grund ablehnen. Betroffene können nicht mehr frei über ihr Leben entscheiden weil sie arm sind.
Es droht der Ausschluss aus der Gesellschaft, der Verlust der Wohnung, Rechtlosigkeit…

Ohne Not! 🤯

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AWS verspricht jetzt »Souveränität« mit einem »europäischen« Cloud-Angebot – Standort Deutschland, großes Vertrauens-Theater.

Nur: Souveränität ist keine Postleitzahl. Wenn der Anbieter Amazon heißt, bleibt es dasselbe Märchen mit neuem Umschlag: Der Cloud Act, FISA etc. gilt trotzdem. US-Recht schlägt Geografie. Das Gerede von »Souveränität« ist kein Konzept, sondern Marketing.

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AWS verspricht Souveränität mit europäischem Cloudangebot

Amazons neues Europa-AWS geht an den Start und wirbt um Vertrauen mit Standort in Deutschland. Wie souverän kann das sein?
Falk Steiner (heise online)
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daniel:// stenberg://

@littlefox my script for counting this is not a stand-alone one, but is the combination of three (or four). So a little complicated:

1. count the number of lines of code
2. count the number of added lines
3. make a plot based on plot 2 / plot 1
4: graph the results with gnuplot

1: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
2: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
3: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
4: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…


stats/added-per-line.plot at master · curl/stats

Scripts for generating project statistics and for plotting them as graphs. - curl/stats
GitHub
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Čekal někdo něco jiného 🤷
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Zvrat ve vymáhání miliard po Agrofertu: ministerstvo otočilo, nechce zatím ani korunu

Ministerstvo zemědělství po volbách začalo překvapivě tvrdit, že nemá klíčový dokument zavazující ho vymáhat po Agrofertu sedm miliard už vyplacených dotací. Listinou přitom vymáhání podkládal předchozí ministr Marek Výborný.
Lukáš Valášek (Seznam Zprávy)
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Ivan Stloukal 🍎

Tak ono to nebylo uplne neocekavatelne. Tahle vlada ma jen tri ukoly. Rozdat kresla tem zakomplxovanym neumetelum co tam jsou, vytahat co nejvic dotaci (pokud mozno tak, aby je zaplatil stat a to ze je Evropa neproplati se bude hazet na zlou EU) a hlavne ty dva, mozna uz brzo tri NEVYDAT spravedlnosti. A v tomhle trojboji to bude celych 5 let
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[matrix] Tokyo 🇯🇵 pop-up meeting
Sat 17 Jan 2026 @19:00 JST
In Tokyo Ginza East

Follow the Room: #matrix-popup-tokyo:pwl.social for details.

Hi there, Global Digital People in 🇯🇵

It is an experiment and we will make it happen!

The "Matrix Stammtisch", now available with its pop-up version.

We're looking forward to seeing you soon. No registration needed. Just pop by.

@acccgn @stereo #agileparty @agile

Matrix logo, Japan flag, event details.
#matrix #agileparty @ralf tauscher @agile COACH CAMP COLOGNE @agile
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I'm looking for an application where I can quickly colaborate on short otes with someone. MS Word/Google Docs and all that stuff would be overhead. Just give me a web application people can type in and it auto updates for everyone, so everyone can look at text without people doing dumb screen shares which leaves out people with no vision.
The closest I could get is Joplin, but for a short dumping down some text it's just overhead to configure an account on my Joplin server, have the other person setup the app etc...
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Usłyszałem w radiu od jakiejś posłanki (osoby poselskiej płci żeńskiej), że jest pomysł na ograniczenie (wzorem Australii) dostępu młodzieży/dzieci do socjal mediów. Bo (między innymi) za dużo korzystają ze sztucznej inteligencji, i dochodzi już do nawiązywania relacji, co nazywa się ponoś sztuczną intymnością.
Moim zdaniem - bzdura. Sztuczna intymność zaczęła funkcjonować wtedy, kiedy ludzie zaczęli korzystać z tzw. portali randkowych. Czyli jakieś trzydzieści lat temu.:)

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Food on the table while giving away code

I wrote this five years ago, but still explains decently how I (try to) also eat, while giving away everything I write.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/15…


Food on the table while giving away code

I founded the curl project early 1998 but had already then been working on the code since November 1996. The source code was always open, free and available to the world.
daniel.haxx.se
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