I've only tried this one so far. Didn't like Guide's monetization model. Doesn't have to be free here but I'd prefer to buy a pack of assists rather than a rolling sub.
@jscholes Guide hell no, they've got monthly plans for amounts of what they call assists, one task. ViewPoint doesn't work without a user supplied API key.
@Scott @jscholes And also makes the key able to be extracted and used to overbill them, unless they obtain it from a server after some kind of secure auth flow I guess.
Iāve had one of my best friendās AI songs stuck in my head all day. So weird, but itās a good one so I guess it makes sense. open.spotify.com/track/276rmWNā¦
Have you ever used this with a website and received essentially none of the emails the site sent (particularly a question with Kickstarter)?
(Sign in with Apple lets you use Hide My Email to create an address that Apple restricts to validated addresses that an app or website has registered with Apple and added DKIM and SPF records to define correct email origin servers.)
I was trying to explain The Archers in a video call I was in on Duolingo. It asked me to tell a story from it and I just sighed and said that there were many crazy stories to tell. Makes me find a telenovela in Spanish to listen to. There are more on tv but don't know if there are any radio versions.
Need to view the recovery key for a FileVault-encrypted Mac in order to, for example, reset its login password? If you opted to allow your Apple Account to be able to decrypt your Mac, the key is stored and viewable in the Passwords app on your signed in devices like any other credential; just select your Mac's name in the list of accounts, and then click or double-tap the key to show it. #TipTuesday
What is with these websites with seemingly random soft hyphens Ā placed everywhere?
Here's an example. It makes reading with a screen reader very difficult. When researchĀing a famous hisĀtorĀiĀcal figĀure, access to their work and mateĀriĀals usuĀalĀly proves to be one of the biggest obstaĀcles. But things are much more difĀfiĀcult for those writĀing about the life of Marie Curie, the sciĀenĀtist who, along her with husĀband Pierre, disĀcovĀered poloĀniĀum and radiĀum and birthed the idea of parĀtiĀcle physics. Her noteĀbooks, her clothĀing, her furĀniĀture (not to menĀtion her lab), pretĀty much everyĀthing surĀvivĀing from her Parisian subĀurĀban house, is radioacĀtive, and will be for 1,500 years or more.
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When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles.
Never heard of soft hyphens. It's commas, visually, and I type like this. It might just be a neurodivergent thing, especially with a random parenthesis/brackets in there.
Completely invisible to me, and I would never have guessed it's there!
I imagine it's to tell the page renderer where to put word breaks for hyphenation so things wrap properly, but if it breaks accessibility they ought to include an option to turn it off.
@hosford42 @KaraLG84 @Akki Wouldn't it really be a screen reader bug? Soft hyphens are to be ignored unless breaking. So why do screen readers treat it differently? Am I missing something?
@bnlandor @hosford42 @KaraLG84 @Akki iOS voiceover ignores them completely. Not everything does. NVDA, for example, which I am using now, treats them the same as a regular hyphen. This can be changed by a simple dictionary change, but, I guess, if you needed those in code for some reason, you wouldn't know they were there if that were the default. That being said, I think it should be.
Yeah, I noticed that trend a while back, and got rid of them with a dictionary entry in NVDA. I think some publishing platforms automatically do this for some reason.
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When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles.
Canceled my Spotify subscription this year and started using @AntennaPod, and my god what an update to my QoL.
No algorithms shoving perceived interests down my throat, no analytics tracking my every move, and no ads other than any the shows themselves decided to embed in an episode.
Seriously, if you can, give it a shot for at least a week, or swing a donation their way. We all need projects like these to flourish
AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...
Built a small bridge between Proton Calendar and privacy-friendly video calls. A new browser extension lets me drop Jitsi, BigBlueButton, Whereby (or any custom link) straight into events.
Code and details: https://blog.dougbelshaw.
On my way to Brussels for XMPP summit then FOSDEM. Contact me here or on XMPP if you want to discuss Libervia, see a demo, or talk about related topics (XMPP Pubsub, e2ee, activityPub or email gateways, forums, multiparty A/V calls, metadata reduction, serverless, data policy, etc).
You can also directly come to our booth (XMPP & Realtime Lounge).
Please note that this year we are in AW level 1 instead of the usual location.
So far with Moltbot, just on their web interface I have: Sent a message to A T Guys support using the contact form on the website, getting around the CAPTCHA Rickrolled myself by having it find Rick Astley on my computer and play using Winamp Created a 20 song playlist of 90s bangers from files on my hard drive Connected with Home Assistant and controled my speakers Taken a screenshot of my computer This thing can do good and very bad things. But wow the potential is there however you define it.
I do definitely have to try this, what have you connected it with, like which messenger or integration to control? And does it actually take control over your computer, e.g. do keyboard input, read your screen etc?
@jonathan859 So far just running it from the web, and ya it will control whatever you tell it to, it does have propmt guardrails but i'm sure you could get around them.
How exactly do you run it from the web? Do you just prompt it from the same machine it controls and then let it do its thing while waiting or have a VM for it or something? How exactly is the setup? Sorry I should probably just look it up but the docs were kinda overwhelming, you have multiple components don't you? Like the agent that runs on your machine but also the Gateway you have to setup somewhere.
@jonathan859 It is a bit, yes you run it on WSL WIndows or Mac, Linux, etc. it has a setup wizard, and will give you a url to use to login at the end of it. You will want an API or an auth method ready to go. Cool thing is once it's set up you can ask in chat for it to update settings, or look through the massive list.
Reading the "European agentic AI landscape" report and it doesn't start well. And note, I'm not per se opposed to AI. But this sort of unjustified affirmation of the consequent bothers me:
"The EU must address systemic barriers that limit its ability to strengthen the agentic AI ecosystem and generate value."
Oh, really, must it now? Why then I suppose no-one could have anything to argue against that.
"Citizens broadly support the benefits of AI. 62% of Europeans view robots and AI positively at work, and 70% believe they improve productivity, but remain concerned about privacy and the loss of human control (Eurobarometer 2024)."
Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression ā censorship is not protection.
Leyendo noticias de AdministraciĆ³n electrĆ³nica, acabo de ver esto, que se presenta como favorable, y a mi no me lo parece (y eso que yo sĆ pienso que la IA y los LLMs pueden tener utilidad).
"Europa destina ahora una mayor proporciĆ³n de capital riesgo a la IA agentic que Estados Unidos, con Francia y Alemania emergiendo como los principales centros. Una constelaciĆ³n mĆ”s amplia de ciudades innovadoras, como Ćmsterdam, Estocolmo, MĆŗnich y Barcelona, āāestĆ” fortaleciendo el papel de Europa en este espacio. Los financiadores pĆŗblicos, como el EIC y el EIT Health, desempeƱan un importante papel catalizador, atrayendo a los principales inversores globales al ecosistema europeo de IA agentic."
How has it been that long? How has the iPad not made PCs irrelevant yet? How long until Apple just admits that iPad OS is a failed experiment with 7 too many window management options that make using the iPad more frictionful than a real computer at almost every single use case.
I still use mine almost every day but if my current 2018 iPad Pro stopped working for some reason Iām not sure Iād replace it. It just doesnāt quite know what itās for. Still.
Ayer me tocĆ³ ir de sustituto a una comisiĆ³n de publicaciones. Menos mal que el informe era favorable porque no es un tema en el que tenga experiencia.
I tell ya, you could give Windows the newest and even better hardware in tons, and it would still be sluggish, laggy, unresponsive, straight up ignore input or take a minute to process, especially when booting up. This is a fucking top tier Lenovo laptop, I don't care how much bloatware there is on there, you have the resources, go and use them man, no reason to have my screenreader lag, only process one out of 3 keys and force me to reboot before even having done anything.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham Regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the basement cells of the Oshawa courthouse last week.
I tried using Claude Code on the desktop app today. Not to get technical, but Claude's where it's at if you're working on a large project like I am. It helps me follow a plan through beginning to end in an ordered way. Chatgpt is useful for other things, but this thing's generally accessible, is a great code pair, and it's willing to teach me as we go so I can do some of the coding. Heaven't started coding a lot yet, but I have a plan file outlined, and I'll start a refactor tomorrow.
@BorrisInABox Sweet man. The more code the better I say. Probably gonna have to upgrade to the $100 plan though the jerks. It'd be nice to have a modern IAXRPT for real. What language are you having it use, or are you allow it to pick?
@BorrisInABox Does anyone know if any attempts have been made to make FLDigi accessible? Thinking I might throw some AI at it and see what I can make happen.
OK, what are these big, awful, horrible problems which are supposed to befall me if I upgrade to the newest version of iOS as a voiceover user? Got a notification from Dice World and so of course immediately updated on my primary device because Iām that kind of stupid. So far, seems to be yet another massive wave of nothing. Thoughts welcome.
Honestly? Aside from a pretty nasty bug in the first version of iOS where voiceover would sometimes not come back after a reboot, and get the phone into a really bizarre state, its fine. The only really annoying bug is the way that percentages are reported as apps download or update. As if variable template code is being past straight through to vo.
@arfy Much ado about nothing, at least from where I'm standing. I upgraded to 26 the day it came out, had 0 problems. People made it out to be like iOS 13, the most buggy crap imaginable. It really wasn't.
@FreakyFwoof @arfy I noticed a massive impact to battery life, surely from Liquid Glass, but you can tone that down in 26.2, so right nowās not a bad time to update.
Hi, I have a problem with FastSM: I have two accounts on different Mastodon-Instances, and after the last Update I can't connect to more than one instance. I deinstalled and installed FastSM, even deleted all data, but after reinstalling it, I can only add one instance. Trying with the second one it doesn't open the browser for authentification. Is there something I can do?
In the data folder there is a folder account 0 and then account 1, but the .json file is just a very short one. I deleted account 1 folder and tried again, without deleting it FastSM won't even let me click on add account.
Thank you very much. The problem is solved, I can work with two Accounts again. Thanks for your fantastic work. Please keep it up, I still know some people who use Mastodon on a Windows PC or Notebook, are blind and want a program that makes it as easy as yours. Thanks a lot!
Tady to celou dobu vypadalo na houby, ale vÄera to po mÄsĆci vyÅ”lo aspoÅ na jedinĆ½ den. Doufej. š Zwift je super, ale venku je to jinĆ” liga. @KaterinaGloserova
Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cookās coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti
Amazon exec accidentally sends layoff email a day early. Now people know there are layoffs but now need to wait until the official date to know if they were affected.
Randos from FaceBook: Hi. Me: Hi, Iām receiving a High volume of messages right now. But if you have something specific to share, let me know. Them: Oh, Iām sorry. Howās it going? Me: Iām busy. Did you need something? Them: Oh, I just wanted to be your friend.
This has been the pattern with Messages there as of late, and itās making me angry. Itās like, why should I have to come up with things to talk about with 20+ strangers in a given day? And, howās it going is an open ended question. Not a specific share. Why is low effort engagement the new normal? Why is putting the emotional labor on someone else to make them drive an online conversation the new normal? Yes, I know I can block or restrict. And I do. That doesnāt change the pattern or the frustration. Mute one and three more like it come along.
Sigh, right? Having to play wack a moll with facebook means you can't interact with your actual friends! grr. Also, typing at you from a new mastodon client.
I never really reply to those messages. 9 times out of 10 they end up being spam. If it's a name I know I might answer. But messenger is my least favorite way of communicating with anyone. It's funny though. People have told me I seem unapproachable until they get to know me. But then others say I seem super nice. I'm just glad people don't ever hit on me. I don't have time for that crap. Ha. If I did reply to one of those I want to b friends message if I'm in the wrong mood I would straight up say. "That person is not at all me. Find someone else who reads of desperate."
@NightDrake Agreed! I'll use messenger for some family chats, where I still need to convince them to move to whatsapp, hee hee, but yeah. Messenger is clunky! And facebook, while fun to scroll, just annoys me as its so algorithmic. I know, I know. almost 42-year old grumpy fella here. :D
@arfy I can't say I at all disagree with what you say though. WhatsApp is laggy on the computer these days. But I'll deal with lag instead of the annoyance known as Messenger. There are times I'd love to uninstall messenger. But a couple of my groups are there. If only they'd switch to WhatsApp, Telegram or even Discord. Can't win them all I guess.
@NightDrake Yes. I'll happily put up with the slightly annoying whatsapp on windows now over messenger. Telegram, for its part, is now super annoying on iOS. Sigh.
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.7.2 Very large release: ā¢ Core: Initial support for Russian and Ukrainian with new phonemes and rules. Speakers of these languages are encouraged to contribute, especially once we get a version of the phoneme editor with internationalization. ā¢ phoneme tuning: Softened sharp edges of some consonants using tools in repo. ā¢ phoneme tuning: Improved UK English slightly to sound less Scottish in some areas. ā¢ NVDA Driver: Adds "reset to default" option for restoring language pack defaults. ā¢ NVDA driver: Check for updates button in settings now included. ā¢ Phoneme Editor: Adds "refresh" option and keyboard shortcut to re-sync from the file if edited outside the editor. ā¢ Phoneme editor: Adds shortcut for "save Language YAML" as well as Save Phonemes in the menu. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayā¦ github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayā¦
@tspivey I updated the add-on: one single change, for pause modes it's now Short mode: 25ms (was 5ms), 5Ć longer. Long mode: 50ms (was 10ms), 5Ć longer. Hopefully this won't feel as long as a sentence stop, but those are at 35 for short and 60 for long, which does feel closer to Eloquence's pause mode.
Hey man I think you broke the P phoneme, pitch now sounds like bitch. Come to think of it how exactly do eloquence and so on keep track of the phonemes and do you think we have a way to coppy that and build off of it?
@GoemonIshikawa oooh yeah, it's sort of inbetween the two? But then it's weird because words like Paper didn't turn into Baper, so it might be specifically the soft-P variant of this. Eloquence had internal segment definitions. These were not clean IPA phonemes. They were closer to articulatory events: things like "alveolar stop release," "rhotic transition," "reduced vowel nucleus," "fricative tail," and so on. Many "phonemes" were actually sequences of micro-segments with baked-in motion. Then above that, Eloquence had a very aggressive rule engine. Context mattered more than identity. That's sort of why I built up 120 rules now, because they help form the start of that "context" type system, especially with having various passes to apply to the output. Voicing, noise, and motion were explicitly authored into the segment recipes. So to have that type of rule engine, would be really hard to do in conjunction with another phonemizer like ESpeak, unless we built that from scratch ourselves and the frontend was more closely then integrated with it.
@GoemonIshikawa ah good, I think it's more about aspiration. This was unchecked, perhaps I somehow I accidentally disabled it for English: Add aspiration after unvoiced stop consonants check box checked Once I checked it words like "pool" started to sound more like the start wasn't swallowed and "pitch" became clearer with it.
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