in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Hier könnte man sich verschiedene sog. Distributionen und Desktops anschauen:
onworks.net/onworkssession.php
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Ich habe mehrere Jahre Dualboot genutzt. Seit Windows 10 würde ich persönlich das nur noch versierten Benutzern empfehlen. Windows ist da eine ziemliche Schweinebacke und hat da keine Skrupel, dir z.B. nach einem Update mal kurz den Bootloader zu zerschiessen. Nicht lustig, für die " Nur-Anwender:in".

Daher, wenn möglich, Linux nach erfolgreichem Live-Test ab USB Stick beim Installieren die ganze Festplatte geben. Und falls doch noch zwingend ein Windows benötigt wird, dieses per Virtual Box o.ä. nutzen.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Das "sieht" man aber nicht vorher oder nur beim ausprobieren. Das läuft wunderbar nebeneinander, bis zu dem Punkt, wo Windows findet, es wäre mal an der Zeit, zu zeigen, wer der Donald auf der Kiste ist. Und dann tuts weh. Darum empfehle ich das für Umsteiger gar nicht mehr.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

NVSpeech Player 2026 v10: Removes all pops/clicks from stream, 100% for sure now.
Spanish can now say "yo" properly. First attempt at "hear" and "dear" but it's not perfect yet. Other tweaks to voice quality.
Sample rate added. You can now choose from 4 of them if you don't like the default.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
in reply to Cleverson

@clv1 You’re right, the schwa rule was present, but it didn’t trigger before "rã" in pt-br because we normalize ã into a Brazil-specific nasal vowel symbol Ã, and our PT_VOWELS class didn’t include Ã. I’ve added à to PT_VOWELS (and PT_NASAL_VOWELS) in pt.yaml, so consonant + ɾ + à now correctly becomes consonant + ᵊɾ + Ã. That should fix the missing schwa before rã / ram / ran-style sequences.

It makes sense that people who have completely abandoned their humanity want to replace humanity with software. The people pushing AI have no idea what art and music are.

They have no idea how a story can make a soul shiver and bend and laugh and weep.

They have no idea what it means to be truly human in this world, knowing that you are connected with all life.

They only want to replace humans with sickly, unthinking toys.

Oh – look how many subscribers the #LibreOffice YouTube channel has! Check out our videos about the software and events, and be subscriber number 25,000: youtube.com/@libreoffice-tdfor…

I'm looking for a secure Messaging app replacement for #GrapheneOS but my web searches haven't turned up any clear answers. I use Signal and love it - I'm just looking for something for SMS/MMS that isn't as unsightly as the default Messaging app, with better use of the available screen real estate, and perhaps has some basic theme and/or layout options. Any recommendations from personal experience?
in reply to DJ [REDACTED] 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

I think people will get confused by the way you formulated the post "secure messaging app" that is why you will get recommendations for Delta Chat and other encrypted messengers, maybe better clarify you mean "secure SMS app" to avoid confusion, and btw I recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat as replacement for Signal, no phone number or any data required, decentralized, good multi-device, etc.

for SMS I liked "QKSMS" but that was years ago, see successor:
f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.oc…

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in reply to Catelli

actually, #email (#SMTP + #IMAP) can totally be used for #InstantMessaging it is not the protocols it is the specific email providers and "big fishes" like #gmail and #Outlook the ones that put extra limitations on top like graylisting etc. with #ArcaneChat and #DeltaChat you can have sub-second (#ENCRYPTED) email delivery

Hello Mastodon!

I’m Avi Lewis and I’m running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. Very excited to be part of the Fediverse!

I’m running for NDP leader because it’s time for the NDP to return to its roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the rest of us behind.

We can build a Canada based on care instead of greed, but only if we do it together. There are only 4 days left to join the NDP so you can vote in the leadership race, so get your membership before Jan 28th and let’s fight for a government that serves the many, not the money.

avilewis.link/join

youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY?si=TdW_Ul…

#cdnpoli #NDP

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General guide on how to help from outside Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/ho…

Places to donate: standwithminnesota.com/

when you are trying to sleep at night and suddenly remember that #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat are the only piece of software out there that makes it possible easily and for free to have a #decentralized #e2ee #mailinglist #newsletter (called "channels" inside the app) that is portable, doesn't depend on a specific/central #email server and can be easily migrated to a completely different server / address without any visible change or disturbance for your subscribers

all FREE and without limits 🤯

Wellp, I've had it with the Asus routers. I'm simply done with their absolutely useless JAVA Script-infested-and-100%-dependence to make anything in their web interface do anything. Clickable buttons that at least NVDA recognizes as such, but still majority remain useless, JFW only sees text, with no label or control state information communicated. Sometimes clicking these random clickables/words of text do things, such as the main navigation, but try to set up VLANs, more detailed WAN configurations, port forwarding, pretty much 99% of the router interface, and its useless with a screen reader. For the longest time, I was figuring out equivalent CLI commands, and writing scripts to do more advanced stuff, hacking its NVRAM settings, and BASH scripts, but I'm just done with the whole damn thing. Of course, the Netgear switch web interfaces are no better, and that makes two of my switches management useless. I was able to enable an unsupported telnet feature in one of the switches, and was able to configure VLANs there through trial and error, and reading manuals for other switches using a similar Broadcom FastPath OS stack. I managed to make that work, but yet again, another ridiculous workaround that has about as much chance of breaking in a future update, as shit has a chance to come out of the end of a biological organisms digestive system on a regular basis. So its time to find a whole new stack and rip out my entire network and rebuild it.

I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
in reply to Bri🥰

@Bri@jdking92@Rosalyn Some can also just post HTML directly. Either way, when you strip the HTML, you get the link text, without the URL. Usually, the link text is the URL without https in front. But it doesn't have to be. GoToSocial, Akoma, Iceshrimp, Pleroma, Sharky, threads, Lemmy, PiFed, and literally anything other than Mastodon allow for text in the post that is a hyperlink, but does not contain the URL as the link text. Even though Mastodon doesn't allow posting like that, though, it can display that type of post. So because of the way FastSM strips HTML, it can only find links posted by another Mastodon server. Every other server type can post links that FastSM users can neither see 'nor interact with. Even Mastodon forks can do this. As someone effected daily by this issue, because it's completely and totally impossible for me to post links that tweesecake or FastSM users can interact with, no matter what I do, this is a huge priority for me. Only supporting logging into a Mastodon server account is one thing, and I get it. But the way FastSM is currently, you only support viewing posts by, and following, users who happen to also be on Mastodon. If you follow an account using literally anything else, links won't work. And it's impossible for a FastSM user to know they've followed an account on an unsupported server type. It's to the point where I avoid posting any links at all, because every single link I post gets multiple replies (sometimes as many as thirty or more) from blind users who do not understand that the client they use is at fault and in complete violation of the standards, not me. I'm one hundred percent following the standards as defined by the W3C and all of the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals. Clients that can't handle formatted links are broken. They need to be fixed. I've had to start just blocking Tweesecake users. I don't want to have to also do that with FastSM users.
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri To make all of this so, so much worse, every single fediverse server provides a plain text, non-html version of the post. Tweesecake and FastSM and others just refuse to use it. But if you look in the JSON, you'll find that while the content key contains HTML, _misskey_content and source.content both contain perfectly formatted, plain text versions of post content. FastSM and other clients just ignore them and strip HTML themselves, breaking posts and resulting in constant bitching from blind people. browser.pub/https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/ah4xrewupfr5jqja
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@fastfinge @jdking92 @Bri Is it the clients themselves, or the Python libraries they rely on to manage Mastodon? Not that it matters for the end user, but I'm curious if this is a conscious choice the devs made, or if they just trust the libraries to work and haven't worked around the problem yet.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri It's both. The libraries assume that the strings they return will be displayed in a web browser, or other HTML capable view. In fact, the content key by default contains spans and divs. However, all of the blind clients just stripped the html using a regular expression so it can be displayed in a text file, while making no attempt to account for anything that might be lost by that approach.

Still sad, but I'm still workin on NV Speech. Did not abandon it. I've fixed all clicks in the driver, and the next version? It'll have a sample rate combo-box. I am thinking some people will like it at 11025 HZ but some might want 22050. This one will let you pick. It's important for sound quality and the default 16000 may sound too harsh on some ears who are used to Eloquence's 11025.
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Regarding my last repost: One of the counties mentioned in the list of news items after the article is like 5 minutes or less from me. Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be where I’m from. Or if not embarrassing, shameful. Book banning is just disgusting to me. I’ve learned so much from books! But that’s just it, isn’t it? They don’t want the young people to learn. God I have so many thoughts on this. Knowledge is power!
in reply to Amber

I usually don’t share stuff like this online but whatever. That’s one of the many things about Christianity, the narrative of it, that I can’t fuck with. The one and only sin was to eat from the tree of knowledge. Why is that? That seems oppressive. Reminds me of a jealous controlling parent or spouse, not a loving creator. Knowledge is power, and whoever wants to oppress you doesn’t want you to have it. Maybe that means just reading books is bucking the system.

"Listen all y'all. It's $abotage!'
Bottom line is that #ICE is a tool for immigration control and nothing more. It's the Trump Administration that is responsible for using this tool as #sabotage.
#reneegood
#election2026
#2026election
#NoKings !
youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1U…
in reply to Jan Hutař

@jhutar @mkyral @tritol128 u českých titulů se to neděje, ale u zahraničních ano, protože u nich si čeští vydavatelé kupují časově omezené licence. Často oni sami nechtějí na víc než pár let, protože drtivá většina prodejů se uskuteční po vydání knihy. Proč tedy kupovat licenci na 10 let, když 90 % prodejů se uskuteční v prvních dvou letech?
Papírové knihy mají tu výhodu, že existuje sekundární trh. U eknih pak člověk nemá legální způsob, jak se ke knize dostat.

Chocochili pyytää apuamme:

”Sivuston pyörittämiseen kuuluvat palvelinmaksut tulevat kalliiksi näillä lukijamäärillä ja tietysti reseptien kehittelyyn kuluu paljon rahaa. Tähän asti olen saanut sivuston pyörimään mainosrahoitteisesti sponsoroiduilla sisällöillä, mutta viime vuosina mainostajat eivät ole olleet kiinnostuneita nettisivujen mainossisällöistä ja talouden kiristyessä myös somessa yhteistyökumppaneiden löytäminen on ollut koko ajan vaikeampaa.”

chocochili.net/2026/01/haluais…

#Chocochili