OpenAI has GPTGo? Uh...Wow! Throw that one in the Today I learned pile! I bet that's really limited at $8/month, though.
one of those perfect-storm winter driving days, when it's cold enough but the snow is coming down hard enough that your wipers just smear ice across the windshield.
very glad to be home. maybe not going out again until spring.
For those who really miss the original phoneme set, it's here. eurpod.com/synths/phonemes-ori… - if you rename it to phonemes.yaml, you can indeed get the original sound back for UK English, but good luck Understanding any others. :D
You should just use that set for UK English and have a different base the other langs draw from. Apparently IPA symbols do really depend on language more than I thought.
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"Stormtroopers Who Killed Tatooine Farmers Feared for Their Lives"
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I'm definitely going to improve more of the phonemes to sound like the original, we're not quite there with the British 5/9 now getting impacted by the Americanized version, but we will get there. I do think this last version made things better, not worse there. But yeah, UK and US shouldn't conflict on linguistic rules like that for sure.
By any chance do you still have the earliest version of speech player before the multilang support?
@kaveinthran hmm, earliest we have is v3: eurpod.com/nvSpeechPlayer-2025… - this still had the old phoneme table in place so I'm using it to compare.
If you still hear pops. Mess with the minFadeOutMs and minFadeInMs settings in __init.py of the NVDA driver and tell me what gives you best results. Not sure what else to tell you.
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A weather report done in Trump speak. he even uses metric for a bit: Look, we have the best weather in Palm Beach, believe me. Everyone says it. It’s a beautiful night, absolutely spectacular. We have a temperature of 15°C, which is perfect, frankly, it’s much better than what they have in those other places—those cold, shivering places.
The sky is clear with periodic clouds, very high-end clouds, the best you’ve ever seen. We have a wind coming from the north at 11 mph—it’s a gentle wind, a very smart wind. The humidity is at 72%, very nice. 500 times better than other places. and the chance of rain? 0%. No rain, zero, that's 300% better. because we like to win, and we’re winning with this weather.
For the rest of Monday, January 19, 2026, it’s a total success:
High Temperature: A very strong 19°C.
Low Temperature: 8°C, very cool, very crisp.
Condition: Partly sunny, then clear. It’s going to be a beautiful situation.
Not far from that here, though no one here loves him, they can't stop talking about him. Just… Don't.,
During Prohibition, whoever built the first underground speakeasy set a low bar.
OK. The add-on that does work! Minimal pops, if any. Yes, maybe occasionally, but I compared this driver with the previous one, and we get a slightly faster speed for speech in this one, so pops may also be because we're able to interrupt the engine a little faster by optimizing code. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Remember new settings defined in default.yaml inside the packs\lang: legacyPitchMode, legacyPitchInflectionScale. All there. Toggle it off if you hate it.
Another setting for languages: lengthenedVowelFinalCodaScale, It applies to any vowel that has a length mark ː, only when the vowel is followed by one or more consonants in the same word, and there are no later vowels in that word (so it’s the "final syllable” vowel".
Remember new settings defined in default.yaml inside the packs\lang: legacyPitchMode, legacyPitchInflectionScale. All there. Toggle it off if you hate it.
Another setting for languages: lengthenedVowelFinalCodaScale, It applies to any vowel that has a length mark ː, only when the vowel is followed by one or more consonants in the same word, and there are no later vowels in that word (so it’s the "final syllable” vowel".
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@jmd2000 yeah, was wondering how divided people would be on LegacyPitch, that's what the formula it used before moving towards ESpeak. If I get like, a majority of people saying the synth is horrible with it I'll ship it with it off. I think it for sure gives it more of an Eloquence feel, Espeak tends to do word inflection downwards more heavily and that's what they borrowed as well in later drivers.
Finally we have reached racial equality
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Trump's DOJ plans to hit ex-CNN host Don Lemon with Ku Klux Klan Act charges
A top Justice Department official floated the idea Monday of charging ex-CNN host and journalist Don Lemon – who had reported on an anti-ICE demonstration at a Minnesota church Sunday – under an 1871 law designed to combat the Ku Klux Klan.Alexander Willis (Raw Story)
I try not to read any comments about the GC cuts (except for here), because people haaaaate public servants with a passion.
But I just saw someone say that they use ZERO service from the government and looool
Here's a new thing I've been toying with. #FastGH, a desktop client for interacting with GitHub. github.com/masonasons/FastGH You can download a test alpha release already here: Windows: github.com/masonasons/FastGH/r… Mac, untested: github.com/masonasons/FastGH/r…
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A GitHub desktop client built with wxPython. Contribute to masonasons/FastGH development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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hmm. Would people rather have a small pop at the start of speech, or a broken say-all that doesn't combine lines into each other? Decisions decisions.
The popping would be objectively worse. Say all only represents a subset of screen reader speech, and there are alternative ways to read stuff. A pop at the start of every utterance would be unavoidable.
This is only a logical calculation though; actual human people would rather have neither.
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It's back! The Digital Domain Online Radio Show is live on the air, now!
Tuned in, and will most certainly call in a bit with an announcement for the listeners.
I have no desire to upgrade to Alexa Plus, will be oldschool until I'm forced to the plus thing
This is a podcast.
no no, just wait a minute.
This is not just *any* podcast, this is #StroongeCast.
Strange name, great cohost in the form of my lovely wife Kirsten.
Come for the name, stay for her dulcet tones, I promise you won't be disappointed.
Here's a 5-minute highlight reel from a handful of episodes over the last year.
Time for the blurb.
Why does F4 feel like a boob?
Why do Jake's friends think his dad is a lazy sod?
Why does being guided around all day make you want to go sit in a quiet hotel room and jump on dating sites?
Why did my wife faint at a bus stop at 5 in the morning, mere moments before we were supposed to catch a plane?
Why did an angry mum smack her child and say 'WE don't smack?'
Time to find out.
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No more V2 file. I removed it, between that new pops bug with speech people are hearing and the older DLL included without the classic pitch setting, nope. This one is just trash.
Sadly, During cancellation, the current approach doesn’t allow for a proper fade-out, as isSpeaking is set to False too quickly, stopping the audio loop from processing the fade-out frame. Hmm. Now that's a challenge to solve. Instead of using silence frames, I could create a separate pending queue for index markers I think.
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Having one of those "people are apparently incapable of following basic instructions" kind of days.
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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So what we're learning is that Briar is useless in Iran, and so is Signal. Always designed to work in unrealistic environments. *sigh*
Estamos a 13°, entonces yo adentro de casa con ropa térmica y gorro enfrente de la compu 🥶
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can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera
Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street
i currently really need an IP camera so i researched my options for "IP camera with a firmware that i can guarantee doesn't spy on me"
wanna know what the current meta is, apparently? (according to some of the people who've spent the most time doing this exact thing)
you... you buy a camera devkit on aliexpress and flash a linux distro on it. the second part i expected (not to say this should be the norm). but the first took me by surprise; you'd think some vendor makes devices that are good enough at least for firmware modding.
nope. we are in a hell of our own making. i guess if you aren't an embedded engineer with years of experience you don't deserve to have a trustworthy ip camera or something
this is exactly correct. i've had the misfortune to do some camera wrangling. this is very much a case of "please consider if you really need it, and if you do, here's [2-3x my normal hourly rate]".
only in this line of work have i seen a large corporate customer not be given a complete schematic for a devboard (a very basic one, p much just MIPI, I2C, and a few sidebands connected) except as a blurry image in microsoft teams screenshare with a pinky promise that you won't screenshot it (because the terms of the NDA with $sensor_vendor prohibit even acknowledging that the sensor has pins)
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dnes jsem na Meshcore první den a jsem překvapený, jak živo kolem Brna je. Když si vezmu nářky kolegů, jak těžké je zprávy procpat MT...
@sesivany Živo rozhodně je, mmj. i v Public kanálu. Téměř všichni o kterých vím, že se zajímají, migrují od Meshtastic k Meshcore. analyzer.letsmesh.net/channels (vlevo kliknout CZ)
Pořád samozřejmě platí principy šíření rádiových signálů.
Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.
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Here's mine.
#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI
RE: social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrass…
Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:
Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.
Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.
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Welcome tommy as #curl commit author 1434: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2027…
bugfix: `SA_SIGINFO` should not be set when it is using `sa_handler` by Tommy-LXDAO · Pull Request #20278 · curl/curl
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/sigaction.html SA_SIGINFO should not be set when it is using sa_handler. If we set sa_handler as SIG_IGN and sa_flags with SA_SIGINFO.The s...GitHub
Current mood: Leslie Lamport once defined a distributed system as one in which the failure of a computer you didn't know existed can prevent you from getting anything done.
Welcome Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder as #curl commit author 1433: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2030…
docs: update configure examples by Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder · Pull Request #20301 · curl/curl
Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...GitHub
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* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️
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* advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️
RB status: 806 apps (62.2%)
Enjoy your #free #apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.
am I the only person on FreeBSD 15 who is experiencing OpenVPN correctly installing routes, and then after some undetermined period of time they just disappear? The VPN is still up, all the routes are gone. Zero explanation.
"I can't believe Mozilla would ask for our input" says the people who have been begging for this
What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone.
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Spotify Auto Pause
Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?! If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...Discord
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Funny enough if you screen share your entire screen, not just Spotify, this will not occur, and I have never had this happen when not sharing your audio.
Welcome to Discord, the app that gives you all the bloat. Such nonsense features that nobody ever cares about.
Ugh. I'm so frustrated I could cry. Windows 11 you are so genuinely terrible.
@techsinger I don't count on anything with microsoft anymore. I used to think that while they had issues they were good at coming back and fixing them, now I don't believe that.
was in web based KVM
in the shell
used CTRL+W to try to delete the last word...
closed the tab instead...
#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
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via @davidgerard @ParadeGrotesque
Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals
Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…Pivot to AI
To keep it simple, I’ll introduce two new settings that apply to all long vowels: longVowelWordFinalScale and longVowelCodaScale, both defaulting to 1.0. This allows users to easily adjust scaling without breaking existing setups.
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