New Archive: The John Zone - January 17, 2026 hkc.im/TQQ2pp w/ @reverendbigdawg #audio
RE: dragonscave.space/@Dulcetmoon/ā¦
Yes.
Ethan Fricke (@Dulcetmoon@dragonscave.space)
Have you ever been to a place youāve never been before that you swear youāve been to before? #randomThe Dragon's Cave
Audiobooks are reading idc what anyone says. You need to focus in a similar way to reading when listening to an audiobook
RE: mstdn.ca/@thetyee/115900230645ā¦
Courage. These are the biggest cowards.
The Tyee (@thetyee@mstdn.ca)
It was not lost on observers that Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomonās response to the sexual images controversy on X was to write a post about it... on X. Eric Van Rythoven writes. #canpoli #uspoli #x https://thetyee.The Tyee (Mastodon Canada)
Anybody use FS Reader?
I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.
He was mad I didnāt give ICE the benefit of the doubt.
He made it personal.
He told me my āstupid clown hairā is why people donāt take me seriously
Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.
There was no debate.
There was no respectful disagreement.
In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.
This is not normal behaviour.
He literally proved my point.
Had I taken the bait Iām convinced that I would have been called a āf*cking b*tchā by the end of the conversation.
This is what MAGA is doing to men.
Itās emboldening them.
Itās validating their bigotry.
I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level ā¦ but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.
He literally said as much.
He said āI never told you in the past because I wasnāt allowed. Now I am.ā
Why is he allowed to tell me now??
Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?
Itās because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.
We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and thereās been zero consequences
Weāve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.
Every woman whoās ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said āf*cking b*tchā
He didnāt fear for his life.
He was enraged she didnāt fear for hers.
My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a ālesbian leftistā.
He was enraged I didnāt remain silent, complicit and demure.
He was apparently also enraged I didnāt realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.
Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.
This regime wants to make us āless thanā.
They want us afraid.
They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.
They want us seen and not heard.
They donāt want us resisting.
Which is why we must keep speaking out.
We must refuse to go back.
My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.
Not everyone can.
Speak up if you see someone being hurt.
Protect your friends and neighbours.
Challenge misogynistic talking points.
Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.
Donāt cower. Donāt be afraid. Donāt give up.
#uspol #fascism #reneenicolegood #abolishice #immigration #minnesota
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is the largest in the country and has spread to three other states.
Itās growing at an alarming speed.
Over 500 people in quarantine and 200 are actively infected.
This was completely preventable.
These people didnāt need to get sick.
Measles can kill. It can disable. It can leave you deaf and blind.
Itās a vaccine preventable illness.
Shame on everyone creating distrust in the vaccine and refusing to do their part for public health.
nbcnews.com/health/health-newsā¦
#uspol #measles #publichealth #disability #ableism
South Carolina measles outbreak doubles within a week: āStaring over the edgeā
On Friday, South Carolina health department said 124 measles cases were diagnosed since Tuesday, bringing the state total since the outbreak began last fall to 558.Erika Edwards (NBC News)
haha. I have made blindsoft image describer-js (BSID-JS) open source. #opensource #cloudflare #workers #js #javascript github.com/averlice/bsid-js if you want to host or contribute at all, feel free. licensed under the gpl-v3 public distribution license.
GitHub - averlice/bsid-js: blindsoft image describer running on cloud flare workers
blindsoft image describer running on cloud flare workers - averlice/bsid-jsGitHub
Started watching BSG again today as I wanted to see if it looked as awesome on a 77" OLED TV as i thought it would (it does) and, oddly, it has over the years become something of a comfort show.
It continues to impress me how well Ronald Moore and Co. dealt with issues touched upon 20 full years ago that continue to be relevant today.
tvscholar.com/p/20-years-laterā¦
20 years later, Battlestar Galactica still holds up
A rewatch begins as Peacock dumps Sam Esmail's planned reboot.tvscholar (the tv scholar newsletter)
Okay, I just had a silly thought. I'm hungry for something sweet, and I was just thinking of a graham cracker circuit board with all sorts of candy components on it. M and M diodes, chocolate/toffee microchips, etc. I wonder if anyone has ever done anything like this?
Blind people now have AI image description and these days a Blind person will send another Blind person just an AI description of a selfie, with no source photo. In the complex AI discourse i would just like to say that AI image description has changed the game for Blind folks. It's a hell of a ride at age 43 to read my first picture book and first graphic novel. AI is complicated but textualizing images is brilliant
New research bolsters evidence that Tylenol doesn't raise the risk of autism despite Trump's claims
https://apnews.com/article/trump-autism-tylenol-adhd-a9854203a8474c58654313ba93e48a67?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Health @health-AssociatedPress
Girl Scout Cookies were invented to break your New Years diet plan
Hey @BorrisInABox You're still at your parents right? Can you come out and say, Hi Martin. I'm listening to your sound feed. Ooo, there's a train.
Get to your desktop quickly by typing Windows+r and then shell:desktop and press Enter.
I finally got around to upgrading the storage of my Ableton Move from 64GB to 512GB (requires a Linux machine to resize the file system and partition on the new MicroSD card once the image has been copied over). Anyway, success.
Storage: 26.4 GB / 493.1 GB
However, when I went to test it before putting the back panel back on, I panicked for a second, because it wouldn't turn on.
Well, guess what?
I forgot to put the Raspberry Pi CM4 back on the carrier board.
Did you know that a thing that requires a computer to exist won't do anything if the computer isn't there?
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The code seems to disappear the moment I switch away from Safari. I just assumed that was normal.
Uh... no. The code hangs around for a good ol' long time for me. Several minutes, anyway. I can switch to Envision, scan it, then go back to Safari.
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*Fewer
RT: mastodon.social/users/bagder/sā¦
More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less(#curl drops OpenSSL-QUIC support)
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17ā¦
More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less
In the curl project we have a long tradition of offering multiple optional backends for specific protocols. In this spirit we have added experimental support for a number of different HTTP/3 + QUIC backends over time.daniel.haxx.se
If you spell the words "absolutely nothing" backwards, you get gnihton yletulosba..
which ironically means... absolutely nothing.
which ironically means... absolutely nothing.
I just discovered that you can use NVDA's OCR in the image viewer for #FastSM if you object nav onto the image graphic. Sweetness!
Phoneme editor: We labelled the list views. That's it. No other work happenin' for the evening, tomorrow I might get to crafting more language rules and things, but for now a break is good :D
Omfg Donald Tramp is threatening to impose tariffs on European countries that oppose the US annexing Greenland.
I'm sorry, everyone. We don't have it together in this country these days.
I'm sorry, everyone. We don't have it together in this country these days.
@Bri Why is what seems to be the DM's buffer called Conversations? I mean I guess it makes sense since it's conversations that you have to open to get all of the DM's, but IIRC that's just DM's and nothing else.
Good heavens, I'm very impressed with FastSM. It's very nice to have another choice in this space. Very nice work. @Bri
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Classic Democrat solution to respond to ICEās nonsense by suggesting more equipment and more training š
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OK. Final file of the night, then I'm jumping in the hot tub, away from computer, all that fun stuff.
NV Speech Player V11:
Fixes many many bugs:
- Whispery in non-English languages because of YAML handling
- The number 9 and number 5 for US English.
- Fixes level (all English languages)
- DLL adds: stopClosureClusterGapMs, segmentBoundaryGapMs, segmentBoundaryFadeMs, which can be tweaked per language.
- Fix UK words like World to sound UK. More UK tweaks can always be made in the En-GB.yaml file. Enjoy.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦ .
remember that the base file, without the V11 suffix, always is the latest version, link: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦ so you don't need to redownload each version if your browser is a good boy at not caching downloads by filename.
NV Speech Player V11:
Fixes many many bugs:
- Whispery in non-English languages because of YAML handling
- The number 9 and number 5 for US English.
- Fixes level (all English languages)
- DLL adds: stopClosureClusterGapMs, segmentBoundaryGapMs, segmentBoundaryFadeMs, which can be tweaked per language.
- Fix UK words like World to sound UK. More UK tweaks can always be made in the En-GB.yaml file. Enjoy.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦ .
remember that the base file, without the V11 suffix, always is the latest version, link: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayā¦ so you don't need to redownload each version if your browser is a good boy at not caching downloads by filename.
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The John Zone with @reverendbigdawg is now live on www.hkcradio.com.
It was telling me to link my Pandora account. And DAMN that's a lot of apps! Also we've never really used Pandora.
I'm releasing it. NVSP Phoneme Editor. It's here. This tool lets you edit both phoneme and language data for NV Speech Player languages. It's not perfect, but it also lets you generate a wave file of spoken text. Eventually it'll evolve, give it time. I made sure to label things and focus management stuff too. Just need a break from working on this stuff, been up since 4:30 in the morning doing it. It's now 6 at night. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeEā¦
Note: Espeak is bundled as-is, not recompiled into the project, which is acceptable per GPL3.
Be sure to look at the "settings" menu when starting the program to set your variables in nvspPhonemeEditor.ini at each start.
Note: Espeak is bundled as-is, not recompiled into the project, which is acceptable per GPL3.
Be sure to look at the "settings" menu when starting the program to set your variables in nvspPhonemeEditor.ini at each start.
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Major readme rewrite at github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayā¦ - we not only detail how to create and do phonemes, but also, just look at all those language flags you can set in the "Language pack settings reference" section! It's like a playground for language nerds, enjoy.
GitHub - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer: A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++
A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++ - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayerGitHub
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curl, which is one of the most popular CLI/API tools for network requests and data transfer on Linux/Unix, is to discontinue its HackerOne bug bounty program due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse".
The authors simply cannot keep up with LLM-generated fake security reports created to collect money using bots. So, it now shuts down at the end of January 2026. This is why we can't have good things
github.com/curl/curl/pull/2031ā¦
BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 by bagder Ā· Pull Request #20312 Ā· curl/curl
Remove mentions of the bounty and hackerone.GitHub
nvspPhonemeEditor.exe haha only 233 kb nice
Firefox users, I need help. How do I get to a dialog in firefox with NVDA?
#Barrierebahn
RollstuhlplƤtze mĆ¼ssen im voraus via MSZ per Telefon oder Formular ( mail) reserviert werden.
Und dann kommt sowas als RĆ¼ckmeldung
"Wir bedauern, dass wir Ihre Anmeldung fĆ¼r den xxx Januar 2026 nicht vornehmen kƶnnen. Wir benƶtigen fĆ¼r die Anmeldung der Hilfeleistung alle Platzreservierungen der FernverkehrszĆ¼ge. Der Zug ICE xxxx von LĆ¼neburg nach ... und der ICE yyyy von ... nach LĆ¼neburg ist wegen kurzfristiger Anpassungen fĆ¼r Platzreservierungen gesperrt. "
#bahn #ableismus #barrierefreiheit
RollstuhlplƤtze mĆ¼ssen im voraus via MSZ per Telefon oder Formular ( mail) reserviert werden.
Und dann kommt sowas als RĆ¼ckmeldung
"Wir bedauern, dass wir Ihre Anmeldung fĆ¼r den xxx Januar 2026 nicht vornehmen kƶnnen. Wir benƶtigen fĆ¼r die Anmeldung der Hilfeleistung alle Platzreservierungen der FernverkehrszĆ¼ge. Der Zug ICE xxxx von LĆ¼neburg nach ... und der ICE yyyy von ... nach LĆ¼neburg ist wegen kurzfristiger Anpassungen fĆ¼r Platzreservierungen gesperrt. "
#bahn #ableismus #barrierefreiheit
I think I will be going back to Brave soon. As much as I like Ablaze Floorp, it's becoming a bit too clunky, laggy, and persistent than I would like.
My first 20,000 #curl commits
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17ā¦
My first 20,000 curl commits
Some of you may of course think what, only 20,000 commits after almost thirty years in the project, what kind of slacker is that guy? But yes, today I merged my 20,000th commit into the curl repository - out of a total of 37,604 commits (53%).daniel.haxx.se
Some good news in a time of darkness: the European wildcat, Felis sylvestris, is making a comeback! This thoughtful-looking example was photographed in a mountainous region of the Czech republic.
The European wildcat's extreme elusiveness may have helped it avoid hunters in places where a larger native cat, the lynx, has been killed off. There may be about 140,000 European wildcats spread across more than two dozen countries. But they are very hard to find!
Wildlife photographer Andrea Giovanni, who made a video of one, writes:
"I'd never even thought of taking photos of wildcats, for a simple reason: I thought it was impossible, or at least, extremely difficult. It's considered 'the ghost of the forests' because it's very, very elusive, and it's hard to predict where it can be spotted. Other animals tend to follow the same trails through the forest. The wildcat goes wherever she wants to."
One reason the European wildcat is coming back is increased legal protections. But another is that villages in Italy and other regions are becoming depopulated! Some are very worried about declining human populations. But it does make room for other species. That gives me some hope for the future.
I got this picture, taken by VladimĆr Äech Jr in the Doupov mountains, from a very nice article on the European wildcat:
bbc.com/future/article/2026011ā¦
For more on this species:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europeanā¦
Seven subspecies have been demarcated!
#cats #catsOfFedi #catsOfMastodon
'This mysterious little beast is returning to our forests': Rare images of Europe's 'ghost cat'
Wildcats are so elusive, they were thought to be extinct in parts of Europe. But they are making a comeback in some areas.Sophie Hardach (BBC)
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I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.
He was mad I didnāt give ICE the benefit of the doubt.
He made it personal.
He told me my āstupid clown hairā is why people donāt take me seriously
Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.
There was no debate.
There was no respectful disagreement.
In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.
This is not normal behaviour.
He literally proved my point.
Had I taken the bait Iām convinced that I would have been called a āf*cking b*tchā by the end of the conversation.
This is what MAGA is doing to men.
Itās emboldening them.
Itās validating their bigotry.
I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level ā¦ but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.
He literally said as much.
He said āI never told you in the past because I wasnāt allowed. Now I am.ā
Why is he allowed to tell me now??
Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?
Itās because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.
We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and thereās been zero consequences
Weāve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.
Every woman whoās ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said āf*cking b*tchā
He didnāt fear for his life.
He was enraged she didnāt fear for hers.
My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a ālesbian leftistā.
He was enraged I didnāt remain silent, complicit and demure.
He was apparently also enraged I didnāt realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.
Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.
This regime wants to make us āless thanā.
They want us afraid.
They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.
They want us seen and not heard.
They donāt want us resisting.
Which is why we must keep speaking out.
We must refuse to go back.
My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.
Not everyone can.
Speak up if you see someone being hurt.
Protect your friends and neighbours.
Challenge misogynistic talking points.
Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.
Donāt cower. Donāt be afraid. Donāt give up.
#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny
Ethan Fricke
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