My country went from 20th-century exhaust to almost nothing without any EVs at all. And it is impossible to power all these cars and trucks with electricity. We would need 14 nuclear power stations and three-five times grid capacity. No wind. Hydro is fully developed (except if we'd go Chinese and deport half a million ppl) and fossils to power EV is the worst.
Germany needed 17GW (NOT GWh, GW!!) redispatch last year. France is toast each summer. Austria has Slowakia/Ukraine or the Balkans (lol) and the Italians are frozen or fry every half year.
Ofc we import oil but YOU urged we all do something different which at this point is physically impossible here.
everyone? You have a ton of excess production in the EU which is why the prices go negative. Now just fix the damn infra to make sure it can be delivered to those who need it most.
@Bri I like FastSM a lot, and it lives up to its name, I'm convinced it's faster than TweeseCake. I'm very pleazsed with what I know of it so far, but I have one question: would it be possible in future for us to open the client without the GUI coming up? I tend to prefer the invisible interface, so it would be nice to be able to open FastSM with the window hidden straight away.
@shefoof @Bri Should already do this automatically. When I disabled visible window and restarted it, it didn't come back up. Have you been updated when Fast FM posted updates on mastodon?
@darrenhartland @shefoof Darren is correct. If you close the application while the window is hidden, I.E. With the invisible interface shortcut win alt shift Q, or via the system tray right click menu, then the app will come back up already hidden.
you can create a keymap for leasy for FastSM as well. If you or @brian_hartgen wanted to do that and then submit it for inclusion, I'd be more than happy to include it
@Bri @brian_hartgen could we for the most part use the one from tweesecake as a starting template if that makes sense? sadly I don't use JFW or leasie anymore, but I have been using that keymap for so long, that is what is stuck in my head. lol.
POV: Macie #ADHD i naprawdę spore problemy z przetwarzaniem tego, co słyszycie, a typ z którym rozmawiacie przez telefon się bardzo spieszy. Najważniejszym elementem rozmowy ze spieszącym się typem jest zdobycie adresu. Adres jest w miejscowości Mąchocice-Scholasteria.
Koniec żartu.
***badum-tsssssss***
(tak, typ powtórzył pięć razy, ja musiałam zapisać)
If I were to write a more err, interestingly/informative newsletter about tech and open source and wanted to offer paid subscriptions, what do people suggest? something that isn't medium/substack?
Is that new show: On Brand with Jimmy Fallon worth it? Not sure. I like reality shows, sometimes, and it does sound interesting, maybe to get out of code space.
Deleted my Bluesky account today. Life is too short...
So, looking to see more joy in my Mastadon feed. If you can recommend anything in the following categories, let me know: #atari #8bit #arcade #books #scifi #gardening #f1 #mlb #guitar
oh my gosh. So even if you load the 64-bit NVDA after using the 32-bit NVDA, your system gets fucked. List view controls don't read right, alt+tab switcher stops reading your enumerations and window list, it's horrifying. So, don't flip between them often, you'll need a system restart, I can't believe we're in 2026 dealing with that.
I haven't powered up the Development VM since November. Kinda scared to since VSCode will most likely update, and every time it does, it breaks settings that I have to then track down and edit! Oy! But also really would like to get back to working on my Apps. Gotta switch Soundkeys over to...something other than WX because the Accessibility issues are driving me bonkers and UIA doesn't seem to be working much better. I do like Python a lot, though.
I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0
Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)Stream Survival in Motion: https://onerpm.link/survivalinmotionFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/a...
Well, I heard you all loud and clear. In the next pack update we're going back to some of the old values in the phoneme file but with language-specific safeguards in place to make NVSpeech sound not like it is speech impaired. Nothing against those who are, it's just that robots are too perfectly made of math to need to suffer from those problems
Today is a company holiday in the US I think, but I sat in on an AI best practices meeting anyhow, since I still know next to nothing about AI, and upper management cares about it. Someone made a comment that AI will change the nature of technical/development positions. So I wonder, will it? I presume it will, in some way, since most change has consequences, but I feel like it's too early to say how or to what extent? It's fascinating how much change there is right now, both in terms of technology created by humans and the ecology of the planet due to humans. I think about the Mesozoic Era and how long it lasted and how there must have been long states of stasis, with each generation of any given life form essentially playing the same role as the last. But maybe long periods of stasis followed by relatively rapid bursts of change constitute the norm (the meteor that ended the Mesozoic initiating the latter, for instance). So I wonder if/when we will enter another period of relative calm and what it will look like, but it feels impossible to say. I presume that life 20 years from now will be similar to life in 2025 but different in some ways, and life in 2065 will be similar to 2045 but different in some ways, and so on, but, if I were to fall asleep and wake up 1,000 years from now, then the world would be utterly unrecognizable to me.
THE WAR FOR THE OPEN WEB WILL BE WON IN THE STREETS! GET OUT THERE! RAISE HELL! ATTACK! ARISE! BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE! BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM! BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM! ON THE BUS! GET ON THE BUS! RIDE THE BUS! WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN! CAN'T STOP THAT! DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES? THEY CAN'T STOP US! I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT! ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS! ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS! NOW IS THE TIME! BECOME THE FUNGUS! THE MULCH MUST FLOW! TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!
From the 17 January edition of The Week: "The US Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a database of the various items that people in America have got stuck in their rectums. The most recent data shows that about 4,000 people (average age: 43) seek hospital treatment for such mishaps per year. Among the items recorded were beard clippers, a sandal, uncooked pasta, a dog chew toy, an egg, a turkey baster, a pair of glasses and a shampoo bottle."
I'm not generally a huge user of hashtags, but the mastodon "featured" profile tab is useful, so I'm using a hashtag to group the various threads related to my WIP "The General Theory of Slop" so they're easier to find and follow.
Also, people can now play around with a new setting: legacyPitchInflectionScale (default 0.58) - if you feel like it's overly inflected, lowering it while having the LegacyPitchMode set to true will improve things. I realized what made him sound like his balls were squeezed. The default inflection on the 2016 era driver used inflection 35, but we now us inflection 60 at default. So that scale setting will help. Or you can lower the inflection itself in your setting to the desired effect. The formula we do: effectiveInflection = inflection * legacyPitchInflectionScale
I tried to replicate the classic inflection of Older NVSpeech player, not sure how close or far it is but here we are. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… (this is just a test build to see what feedback I get)
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
Wellp, I tried to integrate the logic from the old IPA file into my NVSpeech, now it sounds like someone's squeezing his balls very tightly each word, oh no. This is not how it used to sound I'm sure. Not all exclaiming and shreaking wildly.
often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our part" it's a kind of cynical justification for cutting some essential, centralized, mostly-efficient public service in favor of an ad-hoc, individualist approach that externalizes the issue and disclaims responsibility for neglect and poor outcomes. if you protest such a change, or suggest that perhaps some problems are better dealt with collectively by pooling resources, then it must be you who are lacking the collective spirit!
you will see things like "plans for recycling center abandoned" and "sanitation workers vote to strike over low pay and poor conditions" and "campaign launched to encourage recycling" and "water company admits wastage due to underinvestment" and "here's how you can save water and Save Our Planet"
this specific form of greenwashing is so successful and has basically normalized the idea that we should be satisfied with a gradually-worsening quality of life. people will genuinely get angry with you if you bring it up, and point to leaflets with stock photos of immaculate, smiling actors who are overjoyed to have remembered to switch off the water while brushing their teeth, rather than perhaps the idea that somebody needs to be paid a living wage to fix the pipes, or dig a new reservoir
every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon
Mimochodem, první nervový kolaps v práci pro rok 2026. Jsem se zase tak vytočil, že jsem musel odejít domů. Chování některých lidí, na to mi ani ty ADHD tabulky nestačí kurva.
Earlier today I learned that pip includes a bunch of telemetry data in the HTTP User-Agent header for every request it makes, and has for >10 years (with increasing amounts of info): github.com/pypa/pip/blob/545ed…Not only is this not opt-in (as any telemetry should be), but there isn't even an opt-out. I'm still shocked and not sure what conclusions to draw from this, except: This is not okay! I remember there was quite an uproar when Go tried to add opt-out telemetry a while back, and rightly so. How did I never hear about Python doing this before? Sure, less details, but still sending telemetry without ever asking for consent.
I like #Python, I want to keep using it, but can I if core tooling ignores user consent like this? And what other key development tools (Python or otherwise) have things like that and I just haven't noticed yet?
Not sure if that's the only place where anything is done with this, but at least in this instance it seems to ignore any of the more privacy invasive and non UA-fitting info anyway. 🤔
(Like a UA saying "I'm pip x.y on python 3.z" seems somewhat reasonable to me, the rest not so much.)
A place to talk about packaging Python software and the tooling to make that possible. Use this category for discussions relating to anything packaging in Python, including but not limited to: PyPI / Warehouse pip setuptools wheel virtualenv Pip…
(Maybe rather just "pip vX.Y" would be enough. The python version this is running under isn't really of anyone's concern that would encounter the UA...)
Yeah, tool and version should be fine, that's to common expectation of what's in a User-Agent. Certainly debatable if it was ever a good idea, but it's from times when the internet seemed less dangerous (whether it was… not sure).
I've seen some documentation on how to access the data (requires a Google account, though), but the thing that's bothering me is that they collect it without consent in the first place. And there isn't even an opt-out (which I'd still consider problematic, but at least it'd show they considered user privacy).
The U.K. government is warning of continued malicious activity from Russian-aligned hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure and local government organizations in the country in disruptive denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Updated Readme at github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… with more engine variables. It's getting quite large and very, very language nerdy. But ah well, I must slowly begin to accept it: I'm turning into a language nerd.
Well, a LegacyPitchMode setting will be nice. It'll replicate that sound NVSpeechPlayer had before they moved to using Espeak's calculations for pitch curves. Next update it's planned for. The constants I'd be copying are right there: 25000, 1.5, 1.2, 8, 1.75, and the stressInflection decay rules.
In a money-based economy, this means that people earn money from their work and spend that money on the products made by others. When technology makes people more productive, less work is needed for the same output, and the value of the resulting product is reduced. 2/4
Unless we have an economy that is no longer based on money, highly autonomous systems would eliminate value. This is unlikely to be a mission that would attract billions in funding from investors who hope to share in all the money OpenAI plans to earn in the future. 4/4
Bread is valuable because it is food. This is independent of the amount of labor invested in it. Even if I make 100% AI bread for free, I can force you to empty your pockets for it if I control the supply. The only catch is, where do you get your money from? But I don't think that question is keeping billionaires awake at night!
I didn’t read this as “economic” as in a natural limit on the price floor due to resource scarcity etc, but somthing that openAI’s investors can control as long as MSFT and Musk occasionally have a phone call
AI captions do not conform to #WCAG they usually require a lot of work to make them usable
The highest-risk areas for real harm are: (1) named entities/numbers, (2) multi-speaker attribution, (3) timing/readability, and (4) hallucinated “corrections.”
It is depressing to see how many interesting articles I come across when researching for our newsletter that are published on X. That's like writing on the toilet wall of the local racist dive bar…
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid.
How did you spend the first few weeks of the year? Bob has stoned AI fun, but are there places where it's not as smart as he thinks it should be? Bob finally got his speaker!
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CapitalB
in reply to feld • • •is that normative?
My country went from 20th-century exhaust to almost nothing without any EVs at all. And it is impossible to power all these cars and trucks with electricity. We would need 14 nuclear power stations and three-five times grid capacity.
No wind. Hydro is fully developed (except if we'd go Chinese and deport half a million ppl) and fossils to power EV is the worst.
feld
in reply to CapitalB • • •@CapitalB
> We would need 14 nuclear power stations and three-five times grid capacity.
14 nuclear power stations? Go to China, that's 14 weeks of solar deployment. They're deploying 1 nuclear plant worth of capacity in solar *per week*.
grid capacity? likely solvable with the newer conductors as the losses are massive
remember you can't just look at the fuel and say "we need this much equivalent in electricity" because petrol/diesel engines are terribly inefficient
CapitalB
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to CapitalB • • •CapitalB
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to CapitalB • • •@CapitalB you seem to be coming at this problem from the "we need to be able to produce it all ourselves" angle which is insane
do you not import oil?
CapitalB
in reply to feld • • •ok who should give us the electricity?
Germany needed 17GW (NOT GWh, GW!!) redispatch last year. France is toast each summer. Austria has Slowakia/Ukraine or the Balkans (lol) and the Italians are frozen or fry every half year.
Ofc we import oil but YOU urged we all do something different which at this point is physically impossible here.
feld
in reply to CapitalB • • •@CapitalB
> ok who should give us the electricity?
everyone? You have a ton of excess production in the EU which is why the prices go negative. Now just fix the damn infra to make sure it can be delivered to those who need it most.