Shower thought: I wonder if any #blind kids today are growing up on espeak the way we grew up on eloquence? Is there a future where espeak is out of date and ancient, and people are clinging to it with the desperation people today cling to eloquence and dectalk? Honestly y'all, espeak read isn't that bad. I just wish espeak was usable on IOS; the available app is old and littered with bugs. #a11y#screenreader#accessibility
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Oof yeah in that case, I get you, definitely.

Well, in a way I'm still glad we have it on ios, because on android it's, excuse my french, shit. Or was, last time I had android in hand. No way to set the variant, the app wasn't even belonging to espeak on the play store, it was full of ads, and android 10 broke it so bad it became unusable.

Meanwhile ios side, espeak survived 16, 17, 18 and 26 and has no ads, you get access to all variants with a pleasant enough interface.

Kind of crazy because eloquence for me used to be my go to. But seeing as ibm tts is shit on linux, that I use espeakup anyway, well. I tolerate eloquence mostly as a fallback, these days, whereas before I absolutely wanted nothing to do with espeak, until I found out about Michel variant.

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@xogium Okay so, for gits and shiggles I looked closer into the state of espeak on Android. The app in the play store is broken. However, you can download an APK from the official github, and that works fine; it's up to date, modern, and has no ads. Why isn't the official APK from the espeak-ng github on the play store? Who knows! It's open source; you'll take your inexplicably broken things and like it that way, darn it! Oh, maybe it's not on the Play Store because it's on F-Droid? Hahaha no! Get your APK from github just like you do for Windows apps; no package management, for you, buddy.

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

By EMILY TEMPLE

lithub.com/laszlo-krasznahorka…

#nobelprize

Sending and receiving money has just become a whole lot easier!

Instant payments are now available to everyone in the eurozone.

⚡ Instant transfers 24/7, no waiting days for your money
💰 No extra fees, same price as regular payments
🔍 Free payee verification, ensuring IBAN and name match before sending
🛡️ Safer payments with daily checks to help prevent fraud and sanctions risks
🏦 More access, not just for banks but also fintechs and e-money institutions

For faster, safer payments than ever!

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Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.

Stay engaged!

Source: dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/tyskland…

in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

community.frame.work/t/framewo… for anyone wondering.

For fucks sake, what the fuck. What is this "wah, broad tent" bullshit. These mfs would have a broad tent with hitler in it istg.

Very dissappointing #Framework

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I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a “No AI” policy, and has recently been called “aggressively queer” in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that:

elementary.io

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If Framework made the business decision to fund anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist, then we shall make the business decision to not give them a red cent.

I bought a Framework less then a year ago to replace an aging and failing Dell XPS. While not perfect, I liked the repairability. Then I had to get the battery swapped a couple of weeks ago, and they made me think twice, but ok.

Right now I regret it. But I couldn't have known.

DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM Framework.

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Update time! #LibreOffice 25.8.2 is now available, with bugfixes and improvements to document compatibility: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
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@GOKUSHRM We have very limited resources, so we focus on the desktop app. If you'd like more work on the Android app, please consider joining the community that makes LibreOffice, or funding a developer: documentfoundation.org/certifi… – Thank you!
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Nuremberg Trials & regrets -- failure to establish legal precedent for crimes against humanity & corporations.

IG Farben used its tissue-thin defense of "shareholder value", while armed services & public officials failed with "just following orders".

What would the world be today if we were able to charge Koch Network with crimes against humanity for ecocide ?

What would the world be today if we'd established a body of law to protect democracy from sociopathic corporations?

Whelp we have a response from @frameworkcomputer and it’s extremely disappointing. Don’t buy Framework. They happily fund alt right bigoted groups and have no intention to change that. kolektiva.social/@Anarcat/1153…

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Well. That's not encouraging.

community.frame.work/t/framewo…

Yeah @frameworkcomputer is a no-go from now on. You're free to take sides. I'm free to tell you to fuck off because of your choice.

I bought a new frame.work 13 last month.
I now regret that.

Not only sponsoring people with utterly hateful views, and promoting others with the same, but now arguing that a 'big tent' approach is somehow suitable.
Not even a hint of an acknowledgement that it might be a bad idea to give hateful people money.

community.frame.work/t/framewo…

I'll take my money elsewhere in future, and I regret the purchases that I have made.

hey @frameworkcomputer, are you aware that Omarchy is headed by racist far-right disgruntled coder who recently upended the entire Ruby ecosystem? is that the stuff you really want to be associated with? jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-…
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Some updates on LibreOffice's 64-bit support, and packaging for new platforms such as Amazon Linux 2023: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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as foretold for many months, now that v0.20.0 of #GoToSocial is released, we have removed our mirror of the code from Github, and removed all our other archived repositories from there as well

all development has been taking place solely on @Codeberg for months now, we just didn't want to remove our repo from Github immediately when we switched, since people might have been relying on it; so if you hadn't moved whatever mirrors / build systems etc to our codeberg repo yet, you ought to do it

Poll: I have to know, is there *anyone* at all in the UK that wants this 'Digital ID?' I can't vote in my own poll so I'll state categorically that I absolutely do not. Hate the idea on a visceral level.

  • Yes, I'm fine with a Digital ID (5%, 11 votes)
  • No, I'm not fine with a Digital ID (83%, 178 votes)
  • I'm undecided about Digital ID (6%, 13 votes)
  • Something else, I'll reply with more info (5%, 11 votes)
213 voters. Poll end: 3 months ago

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La Contre-Voie lance un nouveau service de messagerie instantanée, qui incorpore également une plateforme de visioconférence ! 🎉

Basé sur le logiciel Element, développé par la fondation #Matrix, ce service constitue une alternative à Microsoft Teams ou Slack ✨
lacontrevoie.fr/blog/2025/nouv…

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in reply to La Contre-Voie

Special thanks to the Matrix.org Foundation @matrix for developing the #Matrix protocol and @element for the Element software suite!

Our blog article in English:
lacontrevoie.fr/en/blog/2025/n…

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in reply to La Contre-Voie

The Matrix.org Foundation doesn't develop the Element Software Suite, @element does :)

There is a flurry of other nice clients, such as Cinny, Nheko, FluffyChat and many others so everyone can find one to their liking!

matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

We've just fought #ChatControl - now Ireland 🇮🇪 wants its own backdoor law. 🔓

But we, together with ~40 orgs, are saying no.

#NoToBackdoors 💪

Read our open letter to Ireland: 👉 globalencryption.org/2025/10/o…

#backdoor #encryption #privacy #security

in reply to Tuta

Considering the past and present child abuse problems in Catholic Eire the
Rialtas na hÉireann or government

maybe hoping to catch some of the most prolific abusers, past and present, on the Planet. members of the Catholic Clergy, Monks Nuns included..

History I know of no other country with hundreds of unmarked graves where Convents and schools buried babies and children male and female that they misused mistreated then killed.

I do think Chat control is a vile, Orwellian idea