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I would not be here except for the countless hours spent at my bedside as I grew up in and out of hospitals. They noticed infection when others missed it. They would sit in my room as I laid awake in pain as they charted. There is nothing or no way I can say thank you to my unsung heroes, my nurses, who worked with my doctors to heal me and save my leg from amputation. Think about nurses that have blessed you. Thank you nurses!
So, I'm now on Delta Chat and very curious to try it out. I actually read the entire help file and it's got me thinking about how nice it is to have an E2E messaging option that's fairly straightforward unlike Matrix, Session and SimpleX. All 3 of those have some technical hurdle you have to jump over while it feels like Delta Chat (going to continue assuming it's 2 words until someone corrects me) is a breath of fresh air. That was a rather frictionless sign-up process, while Signal demands you fork over your phone number. If you would like to say hello, just send me a direct message to start the process and I'll invite you to chat with me. #Privacy #E2EMessaging #deltaChat
A protester had laid a rose on a makeshift memorial to Good. As Knutson watched, an ICE agent took the rose, put it in his lapel, and then mockingly gave it to a female ICE agent. They both laughed. archive.is/2026.01.26-040554/t…
These people are fucking sadistic disgusting pieces of shit. They seriously need to be held accountable, I really hope we can get these goons out of here ASAP.
I really think what happened this weekend will be a turning point, they went too far this time, and I really want people to just say "enough is enough" and end this shit.
Again, stupid question time, sorry. Gemini has the --screen-reader switch which seems to remove the symbols announcing themselves as "box drawings". Open-codex doesn't let me do this. I want these symbols gone. the punctuation setting doesn't seem to change the situation at all. Does anyone know the way to get rid of these? I'm using windows ten powershell 5.1. I have tried CMD without any change. I am happy to upgrade powershell if it will do anything, I am also happy to get WSL 2 running if that will help, or set something up over SSH. I just want to know if any of these will kill these symbols.
I'm not saying the Trump administration is turning the US into a dystopian hellscape, but when the local newspaper needs to help you identify what toxic gas Federal agents are unleashing on citizens, I think it speaks for itself.
"Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free "Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," Young writes to fans. "My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos""
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall, -- only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records that show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”
#Marimar #Martinez’s lawyer argued Monday that top Trump administration officials continue to smear her name, and that the White House’s false narrative about her arrest has even seeped into writings by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
All the while, a standard court order bars Martinez from sharing records in her case.
Designed to protect against the improper disclosure of evidence, attorney Chris Parente says the order has instead become “a prophylactic to countering a pernicious misinformation campaign mounted by the United States.”
“They are forcing the public, and Supreme Court justices, to have to rely solely on the government’s inaccurate version of events,” Parente wrote.
“This court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4.”
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the entire country in the dark."
@jaybird110127 "I apologise for the confusion. Here are the steps to run xCodebuild for you. Find an apple dealership near by and buy a mac. Then run xcodebuild." @Bri
The Neural voice included in recent versions of Narrator are currently only available to Narrator. We'd be happy to make them available but that is up to Microsoft to open them up at this point.
With other "neural" voices, there are a couple like Sonata and Hear 2 Read on our extra voices page, depending on what you are after: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/….
Aha found the culpret, it's in default.yaml. Hmm. This is really good to know then, it's not the changed phonemes, yay. I might set some of the default values more conservative or off to solve it. (corrected add-on re-uploaded now, yay!)
Condo boards suck! If you ever get asked, or told to join such boards, run far far away! The currently elected board just accused the previous board for not attending the meetings, when it was the president that wouldn't sign anything, or miss many meetings. I have evidence, so I will share the minutes with the Facebook group... and then walk away. Because, I never missed a meeting... ever. It's so petty, considering what is happening in the world, but it still makes me sad.
Yes, very. It's funny because everyone usually says democracy works well at small, local scales. Well... no. People can be so petty as well, about the most pointless shit.
Me, to claude just now, verbatim. Check the Windows sourcecode. Check the Windows sourcecode. Check the windows sourcecode for implementation. Check the Windows sourcecode.
OK, I'll make this promise: If I can't fix that darn "when" issue by the end of the evening, I'll re-upload the V16 add-on with the older pack's phonemes and upload the new ones as an packs-tuned.zip file people can try. I mostly got positive feedback, but I must handle this carefully without changing the sound of sounds too much. It's mostly good but we have some outlyers.
Well, as I tune phonemes I am watching Season 4 of Traitors UK. Guess it's a good thing it came out. Ugh I'm not a reality TV person but the challenges do fascinate me that people get through. And just how two-faced they can be, although the moment it turns into alliances and who created what drama, I tune it all out. LOL.
I haven't seen this copypasta on fedi yet. tbh it sounds like if he was in school this century he'd have been a school shooter, yikes
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I live in Minneapolis but grew up in the quiet mountain town of Boone, NC, with a pathetic squat toad named Gregory Bovino. He’s grown up to be the pathetic Nazi toad in charge of ICE, and has come to my beautiful city to terrorize, torture, and murder my friends and neighbors. He is personally going door to door, so here’s some background on him and some things you can say if you see him to get under his skin.
His father used to run a bar called The Library Club in neighboring Blowing Rock. While driving drunk one night, his dad hit and killed a woman with his car. The ensuing financial problems forced him to sell his bar and ultimately caused his parents’ divorce. Greg will be sensitive about that so be sure to name drop “The Library Club.”
“You're the reason your dad got loaded and killed JANIE MAE MITCHELL with his car, resulting in your parent’s divorce. You're the reason they split up!”
"Your history teacher, GI Jones, thinks you're a pathetic Nazi punk. No wonder you failed all his classes!”
“Remember when Mast General Store banned you for sniffing shoes after people tried them on?”
"Remember when Mr. Combs found you jerking off in the Watauga High bathroom?”
"Remember eating the Pioneer wrestling team's soggy biscuit? Is it gay to eat semen off a Bojangles biscuit or was that just an 80s thing?"
"Remember when your swimsuit fell off at Trash Can falls and everyone laughed at your micro penis?”
“Does your democrat Mom say she’s ashamed of or just disappointed in you at Thanksgiving?”
Ahaha OK. Diffing the phonemes now to figure out why the word "when" is now being said more like "one." This will probably get fixed this evening before I tune anything else, that's why I can diff the phoneme files and find exactly what got over-changed to create that. Good catch, people.
@MewProjects In FastPlay I have a YouTube Data key When I do searches, the searches return results. When I press enter to play a search result, I get an error retreaving URL. I've tried with a few different keys.
@FastSM, I cannot use this on Linux. I installed everything, and when I run it wants python-espeak. The problem with python-espeak is that it requires espeak to be installed, not espeak-ng. Most distros now use espeak-ng. Am I doing something wrong on my end?
Heya Grace, you're failing to mention me on any account. But I've not tested the app on Linux. I think the issue is with the accessible_output2 package. You could try to run the app without that package for now. It might still work without it
Someone told me that Speechplayer reminds them of Mac OS Fred on Windows which I thought was amusing. I can kind of see it. But Mac OS Fred to my knowledge was diphone-based rules, not quite the same as it is here either, although perhaps the default neutral "Adam" voice could really remind people of Fred at the higher sample rate.
@jscholes haha, guess the only good thing about Speechplayer too is that it doesn't slur at high speech rates quite like Fred. Maybe that's why I like it though, not everyone does especially Fred, but it sort of reminds me of the time before they really broke Fred, in the Mac OS Tiger days. I've wanted to run an emulator of Tiger with sound just to have it, maybe now I won't really have to once I tune this further xD
So it's clear to me that a lot of sharpness on consonants came from the original phoneme tuning table, once I made the tools that identify spikes and corners inside phonemes it was a lot easier to target one and reduce it or spread the bandwidths out without really altering the sound's identity, just softening it. It's just countless moments of "oh no, words like fishing now sound like shishing gosh what happened."
New NVSpeech Update where I tried to rework the phonemes so they sound less sharp especially at sample rates above 11025, and probably failed. Everyone will hate it. But let's see. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… Letters like "F" sound less like "clentched teeth" and I do think personally that it has made a difference, but all of this has taught me that everyone's ears are different and someone who thinks a sound is clentched teeth another will think it's not. So Sigh. New settings added. Graduated Coarticulation, boundary smoothing between sounds, and Enable formant trajectory rate limiting. All of these have edit fields to customize, and they are all off by default. If you hate the new phoneme table, you can always get V15 (change the link) and still have it. I might get a revolt after this one.
I'm starting to actually get to a point where this sounds OK to me. There are still some weird phaser sounding things it does noticed most on vowels, but it's getting there!
@Bri I think that's related to the formant bandwidths, from what I remember with my experimentation of old speech player. CB1 especially. Makes it sound like it's talking into a can.
@mckensie yeah, I think so too. I still use it day to day, but mostly to be able to make targeted changes, like with this consonant softening project. But I had to target consonants group by group which is why we still have some sharp corners on words like it's, let's and rates. Sigh. It's a tricky balance between making the sounds overly-lispy, which is bad bad, but not making them so sharp that they stick out from within vowels especially above 11025 hZ. I actually think 16000 sounds perfect now beyond that one consonant, 22050 will probably always be more of a no for me, but I do know some people who have dampened hearing where that high of a sample rate helps them. So there's a lot of human variation to account for and balancing in.
@FediTips Hi, a basic Mastodon question please: Can a Mastodon client retrieve more than 40 posts per API call? Also, is there a limit of previous posts I can get? I'm trying to find why I cannot get posts older than approximately one week.
I'm not that account, but: no, a Mastodon client cannot retrieve more than 40 posts per API call. However, some Mastodon clients like mine, have the ability to pull down more posts using multiple API calls at one time. Even so, the home timeline can only pull a maximum of 800 posts backwards, regardless of any settings or features an app has, so if you have more than 800 posts coming in per week, that would explain it.
Some power providers say it may be weeks before electricity is restored to parts of Mississippi. Meanwhile, Gov. Tate Reeves is deploying the Mississippi National Guard to help with logistics and getting emergency supplies to parts of the state hardest hit. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/2…
I think ICE has got lots of hang-arounds and do-nothings. Perhaps they could do something useful for at least some Americans? They also have a lot of money, with 50k bonuses and such.
@Npars01 To be fair, it's about any kind of supremacy, not just white. Since the beginning of the Earth those in power, no matter the color, always exploited the less fortunate ones or the ones that ended up in circumstances of not being in power. Etc.
heads up ArcaneChat content creators and channel owners!
your broadcast channel is already epic, it is #decentralized, end-to-end #encrypted, and independent of a central server, this is already quite rare! but it will be getting even more awesome! 🎉🎉🎉
in the next version of #ArcaneChat you will be able to easily see the number of views your posts have in your channel!
and stay tuned for even more cool stuff in the future! 🤯
I think I'm prone to over-thinking/over-analyzing potential life choices sometimes. Maybe I could do A, and then X can happen, or I could instead do B, and then Y can happen, but it is hard to know exactly how the future will play out, and, ultimately, either choice would be okay. It isn't good to act without thinking, but going to the other extreme can also be detrimental.
"A dildo rolled across the pavement like a wounded soldier while tear gas fogged the street. Someone picked one up and held it aloft like a freedom torch while coughing their lungs out." A must read.
hello. in my mastodon & sharkey instances, i can extend the range of hashtagged posts available from other servers by also following several @relay.fedi.buzz tags, eg
relay.fedi.buzz works with Friendica as well. Since this is a relay server, the admin has to follow these accounts from the command line: bin/console relay add .....
@Michael 🇺🇦 oh wow, that's great news, thx. 🤗 [albeit also somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts]
@Melissa BearTrix ah, right, well i dunno, but maybe not. if not, that would turn out to be a real bummer, especially if the other two admins are willing & able to do it. it would be an important consideration for me in my endless agonising about which instance to use as my most comfy "daily" one.
btw, assuming you don't have access, it would be a perfect, albeit unhappy, illustration of my earlier concern:
somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts
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