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Oh quirky and learned Mastodonians, I come before you with a dream. Funded by the Canada Counsel for the Arts, I’m researching Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis, both 18th century European musicians renowned in their time, and both Blind. I’m looking for info about a German translator and writer of the time, Pfeffel, who was also Blind. I’d love to find some of his fables in English. Dulon met and admired him, and Leopold Kozeluch created a secular cantata for Maria Theresia von Paradis, setting Pfeffel's German text ("Ich war ein kleines Würmchen") to music. If anyone who likes digging and is multi-lingual could uncover this piece of music or his fables in any form accessible to an English speaker, I’d love to be able to incorporate it into story writing, storytelling, or even singing. As a Blind person myself I'm really interested in bringing their work to life for a modern audience, but I'm mono-lingual, and a terrible researcher. Please boost for reach.
Just received the document checklist for my immigration process, along with a myriad of questions for me, my husband, and the two of us together. One of the questions is asking for photos of our wedding celebrations... a minimum of 20 photos, all put in a Word doc. In addition, we're supposed to put some information *in* the photos... I have absolutely no clue how to do this. Talk about a freaking nightmare. I knew it was going to be, but just how much of one, I had no clue. I'm just... so overwhelmed right now. I'm hoping our consultant will be able to help us with some of this. It'd be sooooooo nice to just answer all these questions over the phone and have somebody else put in all the relevant information.
On Tuesday night, I successfully defended my #PhD thesis on #dataset #documentation as a leverage point for better speech technologies at #ANU #Cybernetics! 🎉
I have some minor corrections and then I will officially be a #PhD. It's been a long six years!
Přátelé, dobré ráno. Dnes naposledy v práci, tedy v mafiánské Bille. Popravdě, když už to takhle dopadlo, uvědomuji si, že mi to tady nebude chybět. Mafiánské chování těch čtyř mi opravdu chybět nebude. Ale zase nekteří lidé ani. Tak šup, rychle do posledního dne. Jo a byli v mé skřínce, co tam hledali ví Bůh.
#TIL that you can work with multiple branches in #Git simultaneously via 'git worktree'. I think this will certainly help make #Tenacity maintenance much easier as I won't have to keep switching between different branches and perform virtually an entire rebuild between the latest stable and development branches. This way, I could more easily test two branches in parallel.
I think this will make Tenacity maintenance MUCH easier! I'm very excited to see how this will improve my workflow too! 😄
As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it
NYT - President Trump has been presented in recent days with an expanded list of potential military options against Iran aimed at doing further damage to the country’s nuclear and missile facilities or weakening Iran’s supreme leader. nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/trum…
I'm just about to finish a really comprehensive book on the origins and execution of the Iranian revolution in 1970s. The book is call "The King of Kings". The book is amazing and tells you so much about Iran, its political culture, much of which is probably gone by now, but also about the US...
Computer MIDI Keyboard (CMK) for Mac has just been updated to 0.2. Add the ability to add custom controller properties like the Windows version, via a new setting in the settings dialog. Add setting favorite properties, to match the windows version, f5/f8 to jump to favorite, shift f5/f8 to set a favorite. Increase maximum pitch bend/modulation speed. masonasons.me/softs/CMK.dmg
Trying something new for me: geeking out over a piece of music from my teenage years, with an audio commentary. Yes, a Christian pop song. This is the inspirational anthem "We Belong to Him" by Wayne Watson, from his 1988 album _The Fine Line_. This one's been taking up space in my head for a while. Here I dissect the music, comment on the lyrics from my current perspective as a non-believer, and ultimately show my appreciation for a well-executed musical formula. mwcampbell.us/audio/we-belong-…
And now I've done a transcript of the commentary and wrapped it up in a nice self-contained web page, along with the audio, a link to the original song on YouTube, and a brief explanation of what this is and why I did it. mwcampbell.us/audio/we-belong-…
And that's several more people added to restricted mode on fb today. And several channels I left. I-used to join channels as a way to receive inspirational messages. It was a great way to keep my mind from getting too restless. But now, they're just space hoggers given my constant DM traffic. Someone tried adding me to yet another random group chat today, and I got a notification today: Someone you've restricted is in this chat. There were two choices. Stay or leave. I hit the leave button. Another guy tried to hijack my time via iMessage, and I was like, as I said, I'm taking time for myself. So, I'm going to excuse myself and do that! Jesus! Boundary setting as a cute popular girl in 2026 takes a certain level of composure. *deep sigh*
And not by telling them to paste shit in a Terminal! Or telling them to switch distros. Or guessing because you’re on a different distro and don’t know the answer. Or asking fucking ChatGPT. Contributing noise is of negative value
:blobcatbusiness: What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
**Not** the installation process.
**Not** finding a distro.
**Not** getting programs to work.
**Not** troubleshooting.
**Not** hardware compatibility.
sadly enough, I personally know of 2 young people that recently switched to Linux and that prefer to ask ChatGPT or Gemini about Linux stuff because "I don't get assaulted with RTFM or judged for my distro of choice"
Just installed @delta and was under the impression that it was email based. I expected to have to put in some email credentials and use my local email server. But instead it created a disconnected profile and just uses IMAP as a transport?
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
@Delta Chat @keverets Mmmh I think the question would be: will there be more chatmail relays to choose from / will it be possibile to host one's own in the future?
@tizianomattei There are already more relays, chatmail.at/relays lists some of them. This page is reachable through the "Use other server" option during profile creation. At the end of the page there is a link to chatmail.at/doc/relay/ with the documentation on setting up your own relay. You can also use any IMAP+SMTP server, especially if you already have one, but be aware of rate limits and spam filters, and you likely don't want to reuse your existing mailbox for chatting.
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
so yes, it is email underneath. A random account was created for you. If you try to login to a Chatmail relay server with a random username and password it automatically registers an account for you if nobody else owns that account name. This is safe to do because the Chatmail relays do not allow sending or receiving messages that are not PGP encrypted, so it cannot be abused for spam.
I'm listening to some music through my Sennheiser 380 headphones, rather than AirPods. There are some songs I've been really liking lately, so much so that I purchased them. These headphones really highlight how odd these songs sound--harsh highs, not a lot of balance. Is this modern mixing, or have I been tricked by more AI music? It could also be that I'm now so used to AirPods/Shokz that my old headphones just sound odd to me.
@MewProjects hey, I noticed one small bug in the Fast Play UI. When adding favorites to the radio stations, the view is not updated automatically. You have to open the radio tab again, to see the new added favorites.
Perhaps of interest to our Forkiverse vibe coding community: I wrote about falling in and out love with Clawdbot/Moltbot platformer.news/moltbot-clawdb…
Ahahaha. We'll fix "Taskbar" next. That's great. I want someone to like, fade-stretch the end of how it says "taskbar" because yeah, that one's for sure off. But it's great because it sounds fine in the UK version, just too short in the US one. So in that list will be words like far, star, scar too I'm sure.
@radio When you mentioned songs about laundry, I immediately thought of "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley but that's not about dirty laundry. But it sure mentions dirty laundry a lot.
Wow, haven't heard Red Green in decades. One of our PBS stations used to play his show right after Doctor Who ended and, being an obsessive DW fan, that's how I heard of him.
> Heather McPherson posted a letter she penned to Prime Minister Mark Carney on X Thursday, saying that the government should consider a number of actions against Canadian companies that have business with the agency.
The headline could have put 'NDP MP Heather McPherson calls on...' in the headline.
I don't know if the CBC is trying to avoid giving extra attention to an NDP leadership candidate, or if they're just writing clickbait, or if the CBC avoids naming women as policy, or if their headline writers are just plain incompetent.
U.S. President Donald Trump is once again threatening tariffs against Canada, this time turning his focus on the country’s airline manufacturing industry.
Ever have the need to assist a friend or colleague who is having problems with their PC? Ever have the need to access your own PC remotely? Tonight, at 8:00 PM EST, @bitsacb will be demonstrating #remoteIncidentManager. Tune in and find out how you can leverage this fully accessible tool for your remote support needs! us06web.zoom.us/j/85276833531?…
to answer your question, it adds screenreader access and keyboard support. It is supposed to work for VO as the game is available on mac, but I don't have a mac to test with, so no clue if it actually works. Same for Linux. It does work with NVDA/JAWS/SAPI speech, Narrator does not work at present. Also you have to press enter to skip the intro scene as it's not working yet. It's just a comic and then some cosmetic options for your character, they're purely visual so you don't miss much.
@vick21 It's fun! YOu are a grim reaper and you have to choose who lives and who dies. According to the instructions you are givven by Fate. Otherwise you don't get paid!
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon, Speech Dispatcher module version 1.9 This release focuses on improving voice quality, clarity when reading single words or letters, and making voice customization easier and more flexible. New language-level settings improve how isolated words and letters are spoken (for example during character echo or word-by-word navigation). These changes prevent abrupt cut-offs at the end of single words, avoid unintended rising “comma-like” intonation, and make items like R, **are**, and "you" sound complete and natural. Languages can opt into this behavior selectively, so normal sentence reading and UI phrases remain unchanged. The phoneme editor has been updated to support voicing tone parameters and to apply them directly to custom voice profiles. This makes voice shaping possible through the editor, without touching low-level DSP code. handling was refined for languages such as Hungarian and Finnish. Minor tuning was also applied to Spanish trills and palatal sounds. The NVDA Driver got many bugs fixed, including quicker unloading. The DSP was updated to detect burstyness more aggressively, which is an improvement noticed below 44100. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
@nick oh good. Although I didn't add checkboxes for the word-lengthening stuff. But it's still in the language editor pannel if someone did want to disable it so not the end of the world. Else it's 3 more checkboxes. Ahahaha
Hey, turn off Georgie and Mandy. The John Zone is on! Just think of it as trading one obnoxious Texan for another. To listen, simply direct your media player of choice to listen.hkcradio.com:8000/hkc.m…, ask your Google smart speaker to play HKC Radio on TuneIn, or say to Alexa "ask MyTuner Radio to play HKC Radio."
Apparently, Skia's developers strongly recommend compiling it with Clang, and WebKitGTK uses Skia by default. So I need to switch Tumbleweed/Leap/SLE. Debian and Red Hat's distributions are already compiling it with Clang. skia.org/docs/user/build/#supp…
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