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#XSF Announcement

The 28th #XMPP #Summit starts today at 09:00 am (UTC+1)!

If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2โ€ฆ

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource

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XMPP Summit 28 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all โ€ฆ
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #messaging #belgium #xsf #brussels #summit

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I kinda wish every racist had to take a DNA test.

Mine is 98% predictable. Evenly split between Southwestern Norway and Northeastern Scotland. Iโ€™m a Viking.

BUT. A Viking who is also 2% South Asian. And Iโ€™ll bet a lot of these racists would find out theyโ€™re not as white as they thought.

Which might not change their politics but would probably annoy the fuck out of them. And result haha.

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uspol, spaceflight

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For iOS users. You know when you copy something from one app and want to paste it into another, an alert pops up asking if you want to allow it? This usually happens for me when I copy the last phrase spoken by Voiceover. You can go to the apps sestion of the settings app, find the app that keeps asking (VLC in my case) and there's a section about allowing paste, which you can set to Never, Ask, or Always.

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@MewProjects FastPlay: Even if speak track changes is unchecked, NVDA still speaks new track names as they appear in the title bar. Winamp doesn't. Does this mean there's some magical code in NVDA that can figure out that it's not supposed to speak title bar changes in Winamp because the user would find that annoying? Or is there an NVDA setting I'm missing? I like having the track name in the title bar, as I'm used to things working that way, but I don't want NVDA to speak it whenever it changes. Any thoughts? Thanks.
@Mew Projects

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Here's another song in support of the people of Minneapolis and in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, this time from British singer Billy Bragg. Listen on YouTube here.

youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGWโ€ฆ

#Miinneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #BillyBragg #Music


BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

The murder of Alex Pretti was horrifically shocking, all the more so as we are still reeling from the images of the murder of Renee Good. That these crimes c...
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#music #reneegood #alexpretti #miinneapolis #billybragg

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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.8. Those on the NVDA driver from yesterday can update it from the last button in the Speech Player settings panel, too.
This release adds a new Voice Profiles system to NV Speech Player packs. Voices are now defined in phonemes.yaml and can be selected at runtime, letting you ship multiple voice characters without maintaining multiple full phoneme tables.
โ€ข New YAML voice profiles
โ—ฆ Voices are defined in phonemes.yaml under voiceProfiles.
โ—ฆ Profiles are overlays: one base phoneme table, plus per-voice adjustments.
โ€ข New bundled voices
โ—ฆ Beth (female)
โ—ฆ bobby (child-esk)
โ€ข Voice selection everywhere
โ—ฆ The NVDA driver and phoneme editor can select a YAML-defined voice.
โ€ข Better debugging for pack authors
How voice profiles work (short version)
A voice profile can apply:
โ€ข class-based scaling (e.g., vowels vs. fricatives) for formants, bandwidths, gain/noise, and voice quality
โ€ข per-phoneme overrides for targeted fixes (absolute values that win for those specific fields)
โ€ข Existing packs remain compatible: voiceProfiles is optional.
โ€ข For low sample rates, keep an eye on harsh sibilants and overall gain โ€” profiles include tools to roll off the top end and preserve headroom.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayโ€ฆ
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayโ€ฆ

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Welcome to the Full Circle aviation museum. Walk this way and take a look at this interesting zeppelin. Weโ€™re not sure it ever flew, as it is constructed all of lead and, while it has a proper place for a gas bag and engines, we never found them.

Oh wait. The hamsters had a field day with this oneโ€ฆ

Inside the showcase is the band Led Zeppelin!

Full Circle is on HKC Radio.

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Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.

The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport.

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the memory of the Holocaust, antisemitism

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I try to be thorough and as generous as I can manage, particularly in my long-form AI-critic writing, but this video articulates something a bit less diplomatic: ultimately using it strikes me as somewhat shameful and embarrassing. But Dr. Collier puts it better than I can.

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this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7#Link to patreon:https://www.patreon.com/acoll...
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Matt Campbell

Based on my reading of the original Nature blog post, it seems to me that the ChatGPT UI was less than clear about what turning off the data consent flag would do to *existing* data. So I blame OpenAI, not the professor. I think it's misleading to state, as Dr. Collier does here, that he clicked a "delete" button without realizing what it would do, and especially to take that as evidence of brain rot. We need to be careful not to succumb to confirmation bias.
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Glyph

@matt there is some evidence that the professor may be misrepresenting the โ€œdata consentโ€ button that was clicked, at the very least. lots of people in the comments saying that it really is a big red โ€œdeleteโ€ button, others saying itโ€™s different in europe because gdpr, but I donโ€™t think I have seen anyone saying that they see precisely what he claims he saw. otoh maybe openai patched it since the article is bad press, so we canโ€™t check now. the infrastructure of our lives is built on sand
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How does the @mixxx open-source community create software that rivals commercial alternatives? Collaboration between users and developers in the community chat on Zulip lays the foundation. New case study: zulip.com/case-studies/mixxx/ #openSource #chat

Case study: Mixxx open-source community | Zulip

Learn how collaboration in Zulip drives innovation for a community of passionate DJs and programmers from all over the world.
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#opensource #chat @Mixxx DJ Software

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What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0โ€ฆ

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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#duckduckgo #neocities

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I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
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In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.

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Fortinet would like you to know that they've released a patch to fix a problem that let any forticloud account access any other fortinet device that used forticloud for authentication. You may express thanks now.

fortiguard.fortinet.com/psirt/โ€ฆ

edit: forgot some important words.

PSIRT | FortiGuard Labs

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