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🎉 Big NV Speech Player update just dropped!
Hybrid glottal source - Finally fixed the "breathy" voice quality at 16000 Hz and above! The synth now picks the right waveform per sample rate: smooth cosine at low rates (no aliasing), LF-inspired buzz at 16kHz+ (that Eloquence-like crispness).
VoicingTone v2 - 3 new DSP params:
• Noise glottal modulation (Klatt-style pulsing)
• Pitch-sync F1/B1 modulation (vocal tract coupling)
All with backward-compatible version detection so old drivers keep working.
Phoneme Editor - Full voicing params UI! 10 sliders, per-voice storage, auto-loads when you switch voices. Plus 3-tier DLL fallback for older builds.
NVDA Addon - New voicing sliders in synth settings ring. Tweak brightness, tilt, crispness per-voice.
Linux builds - Fresh x86_64 .so files included.
This was a marathon session - glottal waveforms, struct versioning, crash fixes, UI work... mass refresh across the whole stack.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…

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Protest against Hootsuite’s doing business with ICE in my neighborhood. Protesters are drawn from usual demographics: young people, a few multi-issue protesters with kaffiyeh, elder boomers, loud drum circle, etc.

Cars driving by on Quebec St., however, are just regular commuters, and about 50% are honking appreciatively

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Neil Kandalgaonkar

The other day I was at Elysian on Ontario comparing notes on company ethics with a friend. I said, probably too loudly, “At least we don’t work for Hootsuite!” forgetting I was in a business that might as well be their offsite cafe

Nobody said anything though.

A backgrounder on the Hootsuite/ICE controversy, going back to 2020

thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/29/Hoo…


Hootsuite’s ICE Contract Puts Employees in a Tough Spot | The Tyee

Employee backlash killed an ICE deal in 2020, but a law professor says times have changed.
Isaac Phan Nay (The Tyee)
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I’ve launched a Citation Needed membership drive to celebrate publishing my 100th recap issue!

Citation Needed critically covers cryptocurrency, the crypto industry, and its influence on policy. Paid subscriptions support much more than just the newsletter — here’s what goes into this work:

citationneeded.news/membership…


Citation Needed membership drive

Celebrating 100 recap issues and sustaining critical independent coverage.
Molly White (Citation Needed)

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CNN in Minneapolis: "We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

I've covered many protests, especially in New York City. And I have to tell you, I've not seen a crowd like this before. It is eight degrees out here. It feels like five. It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people." ✊

#USPolitics #FuckICE #SolidarityIsBeautiful #Minneapolis

#uspolitics #fuckice #minneapolis #solidarityisbeautiful

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Yeah it's YouTube, but it's also Green Day, and I feel like at this point the power of green day and the power of punk overwhelms the power of the fucking data masters and the billionaires and we gotta stick together, right? youtu.be/eebfMFzJHNs?si=yce-Cj…

Green Day - Warning (HD Upscale) [Official Music Video]

Warning (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) available now: https://greenday.lnk.to/warning25thanniversarydeluxeWebsite https://greenday.com/ Tour Dates https:/...
YouTube

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Starting my day by consoling my naturalized citizen family member while they sob in fear of ICE.

I don't even know what to say to them anymore. Last year it was, "I know. It will be ok. You are a fucking citizen and nothing will happen." and now it's, "I love you. I will do everything to protect you. I'm scared too."

Fuck ICE. FUCK you if you support them. Rot in hell you bastards.

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I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.

Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.

#Scotland #UK #Sustainability #Nature #Art

Close-up of a drystone bench built into a low stone wall. The stones are layered in horizontal courses with upright coping stones on top. A thick wooden slab forms the seat, supported by projecting stones beneath. Grass and moss surround the base.
Wide view of a drystone bench set into a curved stone wall on a grassy bank beside Loch Voil. The wall is built from mixed local stone with upright coping stones along the top. Leafless trees and a sloping hillside rise behind the bench.
#sustainability #art #uk #scotland #nature
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ICE continues to dehumanize the same immigrants Woody Guthrie defended
theintercept.com/2026/01/28/wo…

Woody Guthrie Sang Against Dehumanizing the Immigrants Killed in a Plane Crash. ICE Is Doing It All Over Again.

Woody Guthrie wrote the tune “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” about the same 1948 plane crash ICE is memorializing today.
Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
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Herefordrob

Deportee
by Woody Guthrie & Martin Hoffma

The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten
The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexico border
To pay all our money to wade back again

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane
All they will call you will be Deportee

Now my father's own father, he waded that river they took all the money her made in his life six hundred miles to the Mexico border
They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria you won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane
No, all they will call you will be Deportee

The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground
Who are these friends who are falling like dry leaves
The radio said they were just deportees

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane. No, all they will call you will be Deportee

But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys
We died in your orchards, we died on your plains
We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops
Both sides of the river we died just the same

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane. No, all they will call you will be Deportee
© 1948

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Vanadium version 145.0.7632.26.0 released:

github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium…

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31313…

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser


Vanadium version 145.0.7632.26.0 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
#privacy #browser #security #grapheneos

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As of around 11:21 AM Central time, we have power! I repeat, we! Have! Power! This was an approximately 124-hour power outage, which makes it the second longest I've lived through. And our whole house generator did a wonderful job of keeping everything going. Clarification: How do I know we got utility power back? Good question! We have an automatic transfer switch installed. Thirty seconds after power originally failed, it commanded our generator to start, waited until it was producing stable power, then switched our house to it. Then this morning, it saw that utility power had returned, probably waited a bit to make sure it was stable, switched our house back to it, let the generator run for a while with no load, then commanded it to shut down. Had I been fully awake I *might* have suspected utility power was back when we were switched to it, but the real giveaway was when the generator suddenly shut down but power didn't. Whew! It's over!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

It actually cost me less than putting in an automatic switchover. Because I could do it myself, without requiring a licensed electrician, inspection from the power company, or a disconnect from the grid while it was installed. I looked at a propane generator with automatic switching, and between all the licenses and completely replacing the breaker box, it was going to cost me around 20 thousand dollars. I did this system for only eight thousand.

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Wastewater concentrations are very high for COVID-19 in Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota; for influenza A in South Dakota and Vermont; and for RSV in Maryland, Massachusetts, Louisiana, and Virginia.
#COVID #Influenza
cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gener…

After 3-week decline, flu cases rise across the US; RSV, COVID activity high in certain states

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
#covid #influenza

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#PSA: If you are documenting the #ICE operations in the #USA with #video, I am BEGGING you to NOT trust ANY US-based #SocialMedia like #YouTube. There is currently a high risk your uploads will be nuked, shadowbanned or otherwise suppressed, given the recent FISHY #TikTok aquisition.

Backup everything on international servers. Or better: Move ur stuff altogether. Use decentralized tech like #PeerTube. Do it BEFORE the banhammer strikes.

#decentralization #backup #media #journalism #Internet

#peertube #youtube #socialmedia #USA #video #decentralization #journalism #media #tiktok #psa #Internet #backup #ice

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RE: syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11598405…

If you're a wayward half-baked Norwegian looking for a place to crash till you can jump the pond, #minnesota is the place. #Trump says nobody wants to live there, but, seeing all this...passion...I'm sold. All this is like a fucking #liberal "come live here" infomercial. I love it.


MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🏴 (@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)

Attached: 1 image Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers. 3 #USPolitics #FuckICE #Minnesota
Syzito.xyz
#Trump #liberal #minnesota
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Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.

Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.

ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/b…

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #jimpattison


Company owned by B.C. billionaire says ICE warehouse sale ‘will not be proceeding’

A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Todd Coyne (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #jimpattison

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44100 still sounds a bit shit, but it's also like, 44100 HZ. No Klatt engine does 44100 well, or at all. I'm not going to blame myself for that one. We made 22050 and 16000 sound more refined, fuller, richer, and those are sample rates more are likely to use than 44100. I shouldn't be mad at myself. But I really wanna pour icecubes all over my body because of it. torture myself somehow as punishment for making it shit at 44100.

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Melania comes out today.

So does my latest song.

Some say my song will get more streams than Melania sells tickets.

I think they might be:

Making It Up
~ #Dgar

ffm.to/dgarmakingitup

Thank you for your support!! Boosts welcome!

#DgarMusic #IndieMusic #Indie #Music #SingerSongwriter #NewSong #Bandcamp #Soundcloud


Dgar - Making It Up

Choose your preferred music service
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#music #indie #bandcamp #dgar #dgarmusic #indiemusic #singersongwriter #soundcloud #newsong

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Although pager networks fell out of general use a quarter century ago, they still are in use today by a select few groups of users. I just heard an insane amount of spuriousness while scanning this afternoon. And that brings me to my question. One would think, that the radios in use on these pager networks would be well-certified, well-tested, quality-controled, commercial-grade radios. Right? I mean, at least that's my theory, anyhow. So why in the hell are they so damn spurious, noisy, and just cause really really super wide splatteryness? I guess, is it just because of the modulation? Its loud and noisy, and cuts threw? I dunno. My actual radio knowledge is more like a person who drives a car, rather than a mechanic who fixes cars every single day. But we both qualify for a license, we just have differing knowledge strengths. So I put it to my true radio mechanics, any thoughts on this?

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But I think I will ship it ultimately. It doesn't make the voice more clicky than it was already. It adds new sliders if people hate the new pitch deltas and glottal shaping modulation they want to mess with. So like, hmm. It's not a bad change. It is not one that creates regressions at all. I've been reading long passages with it to discover added clickyness but not hearing none.

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There's now a Fediverse alternative to TikTok called Loops. It's currently in beta testing so it is rough round the edges, but you can sign up and try it for yourself. More info at:

➡️ joinloops.org

You can follow its official account at:

➡️ @loops

There's an iPhone app just released at:

➡️ apps.apple.com/app/loops-by-pi…

Loops now federates with the Fediverse, there are several Loops servers and Loops accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc (e.g. @dansup).

#FediTips #Tiktok #TiktokUS


Loops by Pixelfed App - App Store

Download Loops by Pixelfed by Daniel Supernault on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Loops by Pixelfed.
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#FediTips #tiktok #tiktokus @loops @dansup
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Hello, Tyler Zahnke here! I have officially launched BatchPedia, and I recommend that every Microsoft Windows user at least check it out. As it has just
been launched, there are only fifteen or so articles so far, and this website is an open wiki, so people are free to contribute.
BatchPedia aims to be the encyclopedia of all things Windows Command Prompt and Batch files, including Batch culture! You heard that right, this isn't
just a Windows/MS-DOS command reference; the Internet is already full of those. Though BatchPedia does have a category for information about commands for
the sake of completeness, it also has articles about forums, subreddits and Discord servers where Command Prompt and Batch files are discussed, as well
as articles about software and projects found on these sites. The Software category is full of tools and even games (especially text adventures) that were
built entirely with Batch and can be played in Command Prompt. The Books category has links to textbooks about working with Command Prompt and programming
your own Batch files.
Why did I create BatchPedia?
BatchPedia was created as a central resource for the Batch community. Some Batch games have been mentioned on the R/Batch subreddit but not on the DosTips
forum, or vice-versa, while proposals like the language model DOSLM were mentioned on the DosTips forum but have never been mentioned on the subreddit
or either of the Discord servers (Batch Town and Server.bat). The Batch community is already small, so divisions within the community make it hard for
some information to be noticed by the community. BatchPedia is all about collecting information from all these resources and compiling it into a handy
encyclopedia.
As a blind Windows user, Batch-based software has fascinated me since childhood. Though most members of the Batch community are not blind, it is easy to
see the potential appeal that Batch has to blind users. Batch is known for having very little in the graphics department, therefore most Batch-based games
are almost entirely text-based. If a Batch program is inaccessible for some reason, it tends to use ASCII art (pictures made of letters, numbers and symbols),
and these are relatively rare due to the complexity of creating ASCII art, especially when stretched between lines of code. Though a Batch Graphics library
has been created to make simple graphics slightly easier, most Batch programmers prefer an out-of-the-box setup, therefore most Batch programmers create
a very text-heavy, therefore usually accessible if somewhat retro and MS-DOS-like user interface. Though BatchPedia currently has no information about
blindness and accessibility, we are definitely planning on this, and a big reason I created this site is because most Batch-based software is text-based
and therefore accessible. As a fan of retro video games and retro game YouTube content, I also acknowledge the retro, MS-DOS-like vibe of Batch files (this
fact is so well-known that some people still call Batch files DOS programs, and they call Command Prompt a DOS window). So both my retro PC software side
and my accessibility side are fascinated by the Command Prompt and the programs that can run within it. Despite the name, general Windows Command Prompt
information is also welcome, not just for the sake of building a program. There is a shocking amount of Batch file-related material online, from text-based
games to instructions on programming an efficient file backup automation tool, even a mini-program for managing your to-do lists! Though Batch files may
not be a powerhouse of the computer programming world, it is a light and very accessible way to make small programs with completely keyboard-based interaction;
for those of you who remember the classic retro computer phrase "Press any key to continue", Batch files are the easiest place to find this phrase in a
modern setting (spoiler alert, this message is displayed when a pause command is entered). Due to Batch files being an only slightly modified version of
the MS-DOS command interface, pretty much nothing is mouse-based, giving almost every Batch file that nice, clean, accessible, 100% keyboard-based and
text-based experience! This website will tell you things about Windows that you never knew, but I must repeat this disclaimer again; this is a brand new
website, so it is currently lacking lots of information, though anyone is willing to send me information by email or even directly in the wiki.
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