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The demo of DECtalk 4.3 includes a file named WORLD2.WAV, which is used as an example to demonstrate DECtalk's ability to play WAV files with a command.
I recently found a higher quality 22 kHz version of this demo file, as part of The Adventures of Ninja Nanny & Sherrloch Sheltie of all things, under the name 1DONARAI.WAV.
This version has a time stamp of October 27, 1990. The version included in the DECtalk 4.3 demo has a time stamp of July 13, 1994, and is downsampled to 11025 kHz, but also upsampled to 16 bit for some reason. I still don't know the source, but I suspect it's from a stock music library.
For those who've never heard of The Adventures of Ninja Nanny & Sherrloch Sheltie, here's the LGR video covering it. It's supposed to be edutainment, but mostly ends up as a wild mishmash of public domain and stock music material stroon everywhere. youtube.com/watch?v=xSxaUHT3yo….
The original WAV file is available here: drive.google.com/uc?id=1LDNUtE….


LGR - Adventures of Ninja Nanny - PC Game Review

FRESH OATS. FRESH OATS. FRESH OATS.● Consider supporting LGR on Patreon:http://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews● Social links:https://twitter.com/lazygamerevi...
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#chatmail relays are recently getting more artful in their web presence 🤩 Nice examples:

darkrun.dev in Ontario, or
bloc7.icu/ in Warszawa.

We estimate there are ~4 times more relays than in the published list at chatmail.at/relays

Many relays are smaller ones, but that's fine. A 5 EUR per month VPS can go a long way (thousands or tens of thousands of monthly users). Thanks for the service to all the operators of which around 40 are in a loose group chat 💗

a cyberpunk warrior-type picture from the front page of https://darkrun.dev where also an anime-style video is running in the background
a wintery situation in a park, with some people you can't recognize walking through the park. It's on the front page of https://bloc7.icu

Chatmail: Relays

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!
chatmail.at
#chatmail
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Queridas, ¿conocéis alguna base de datos de árboles mediterráneos que pueda usar alumnado de 1º de bachillerato?
Os cuento: estamos diseñando un refugio climático, y tienen qué elegir qué árboles se podrían plantar, según las características. La base de datos debería incluir cómo de grande puede llegar a ser el árbol, si es de hoja caduca o perenne, si necesita riego, idealmente alguna foto, y cuál es la distancia que necesita para ser plantado.
No quiero que lo busquen directamente en google porque ya sabéis.
¡Gracias!
#Ayuda #Mastoayuda #Arboles #RefugiosClimaticos
#ayuda #mastoayuda #arboles #refugiosclimaticos
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grindhold

für den ersten login ist das leider nicht mehr möglich, da es jetzt backends gibts, die teilweise gar kein passwort brauchen.

nachdem du dich einmal erfolgreich eingeloggt hast, sollte sich das system aber merken als welcher user du zuletzt eingeloggt warst und dir wieder ein formulat mit username/password-feldern anzeigen.
hast du das schon probiert?

da sollte es eigentlich immer noch gehen :)

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FediVerseExplorer

Naja, das geht, zumindest bei mir, solange ich den Browser aktiv/ offen lasse und mich aus und erneut einlogge. Das ist ja aber schon eine seltene Ausnahme, jedenfalls bei mir.

Den Benutzernamen ordnet der PW-Manger immer zu, aber für das PW muss man dann teils zusätzlich in den Optionen des Managers herumklickern. Da geht der Vorteil des Managers bezügl. useability m.M. verloren...

Schade. Aber danke für die schnelle Antwort.

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⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at ohai.social/@redsad/1157080301…

(Thanks @markwyner for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips


captain acab :antifa: (@redsad@ohai.social)

Attached: 1 image is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this
ohai.social
#FediTips @Mark Wyner Won’t Comply
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Note: the update to Gaai which was shortly visible, has been rolled back, so don't search for it. It unfortunately introduced a load of proprietary components, tracking, ads, etc. (dev has been informed, we're hoping for a FOSS build flavor).

This action allowed the update to LaundryNotes to ship, which was just declared OK: if you have this app installed, you need to uninstall and re-install, as the signing key has changed (which caused it to be "quarantined" until clarified).

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Tusky

mastodon.social/@Tusky/1155084…

Tusky

2025-11-07 12:34:34

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Hi everyone!
We are glad you are excited for the quote posts! They will come eventually but right now we (and I mean mostly Conny) are in the process of rewriting the timeline to be able to accommodate for quotes, it might take some time. We are only a few people who do this in our free time. We can't give you a time estimate but of course we also want it out as soon as possible. Stay tuned!

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This is the first I've heard that Alto is going to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Via, which is fantastic news.

Ignore everything after that, it's mostly just some curmudgeon they found in Toronto moaning.

montrealgazette.com/news/canad…


Ottawa-Montreal first up for high-speed rail link, but money could be better spent, expert says

The corridor represents about 25 per cent of the total length of track needed to build the entire Toronto-to-Quebec City network.
Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette)
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somecanuckchick

I read the official readout.

In November 2022, the Government of Canada created a Crown corporation, VIA HFR (now Alto), to provide oversight of this project.

pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases…

It was always tied to VIA Rail. ALWAYS.

@driusan


Canada is getting high-speed rail

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that Canada is developing a high-speed rail network in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor.
Prime Minister of Canada
@D

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I tried to open an app so I could dive into some fiction podcasts and VoiceOver jumped to 30 spaces without me touching the screen. I wish I could sue society for this kind of lackluster treatment by companies. Can lawyers and I connect? Frankly, I've got the time and knowledge and I'd honestly love to take some CEOs money and just live off settlements because I'm beyond angry. I'm tired. Tired of having to beg people for mutual aid while venture capitalists debate about graph lines. Turn me into a plaintiff that takes your opponents money if they're a giant corporation. #Apple
#apple

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Ich habe gestern einen Gastbeitrag von Kristina Schröder auf WELT online gelesen. Darin geht es um den Sozialstaat – und um persönliche Assistenz für behinderte Menschen. Und ehrlich gesagt: Er hat mich tief getroffen.

Denn wenn über Assistenz als „nicht mehr tragbare Kosten“ gesprochen wird, dann geht es nicht abstrakt um Haushaltszahlen. Dann geht es um mein Leben.

Assistenz ist für mich kein Luxus. Kein Extra. Kein Wunschkonzert.
Assistenz ist das, was mich morgens aufstehen lässt. Was mir erlaubt zu arbeiten, Verantwortung zu übernehmen, mich einzubringen, selbstbestimmt zu leben.
Ohne Assistenz wäre mein Leben kleiner. Abhängiger. Fremdbestimmt. Vielleicht sogar institutionell verwahrt statt frei.

Ich brauche Assistenz 24 Stunden am Tag, weil Behinderung keinen Feierabend kennt. Weil Notfälle keine Bürozeiten haben. Weil Würde nicht um 22 Uhr endet.

Wenn Politik und Medien darüber diskutieren, ob Menschen wie ich „zu teuer“ sind, dann erzeugt das Angst. Die Angst, dass meine Freiheit an einem Verwaltungsakt hängt. Dass mein Leben jedes Jahr neu infrage gestellt wird. Dass ich mich rechtfertigen muss, warum ich so leben darf wie andere ganz selbstverständlich.

Dabei zeigt die Geschichte etwas anderes:
Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, viele andere – ihre Leistungen waren nur möglich, weil Assistenz und Unterstützung ihnen Zugang zur Welt gegeben haben. Nicht trotz Assistenz. Sondern wegen ihr.

Ja, Assistenz kostet Geld.
Aber die eigentliche Frage ist: **Was kostet es uns als Gesellschaft, wenn wir anfangen, Menschenwürde zu kürzen?**

Ich bin keine Kostenstelle.
Ich bin ein Mensch.
Und mein Leben ist kein Sparposten.

Quelle: Kristina Schröder, „Sozialstaat: Was wir uns künftig nicht mehr leisten können“, WELT, 11.12.2025.

#Inklusion #Assistenz #Selbstbestimmung #Behindertenrechte #Teilhabe #Menschenwürde

#inklusion #teilhabe #selbstbestimmung #assistenz #behindertenrechte #menschenwurde

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Questions aux médecins (ou d’autres qui savent éventuellement): est-ce que la rage existe encore en France ? Ma belle sœur et sa mère se sont fait attaquer par des chiens violents qui se sont introduits dans leur jardin. Les médecins ne leur font pas le vaccin contre la rage parce qu’ils disent que la rage n’existe plus. Mais ça les inquiète. Les médecins ont raison ?

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Your chat profile/identity: a tar file.

Your social web app: a zip file.

chatmail.at and webxdc.org are spearheading ever new and more fun ways to deny power to servers and platform billionaires.

Unlike classic email servers, #chatmail relays do not store user identities which solely live on end-user devices.There also is no encrypted value on the server like with Proton Mail or Signal. There are only relays, endless federating networks of relays to onboard safely :)

Neo-spoon meme (scene from matrix movie where neo looks at a child bending a spoon which eventually tells him "there is no spoon") with the following words top: "On which server is your account?" and below the bending spoon "there is no account."

Chatmail

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!
chatmail.at
#chatmail

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So, given WP is willing to sell all its users down the river for some quick "AI" buzz, what fedi-enabled alternatives exist for human-centric websites? therepository.email/wordpress-…

I know of write.as, plume. They're to ascetic to match the brief. ClassicPress could be an option, provided the WP-ActivityPub add-on works with that.

#wordpress #ActivityPub #CMS #noAI #fediverse
cc @davidgerard


WordPress AI Team Outlines Vision for AI as a “Fundamental” Part of WordPress

The AI Team has published a series of posts laying out a vision to make AI as fundamental to WordPress as the database, calling on developers and hosts to adopt…
Rae Morey (The Repository)
#activitypub #fediverse #wordpress #noAI #cms @David Gerard

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If Trump threatens to stop all federal funds, including road paving, to reliably conservative Indiana, because it didn't do his political bidding, what makes any other conservative state feel safe the whimsical and demented Don won't do as much or more to it?

The folks along its northern insterstate, its principal cross-state thoroughfare, along the banks of the Ohio River, and those calling Tornado Alley home, should be the first to call out Trump's extortion and harm to their daily lives.

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Some worry this might set a precedent.

I hope it does.

Every regime that invades another country, committing countless mass atrocities, should have their foreign assets taken & handed to their victims.

This might get all would-be invaders to think twice.
euractiv.com/news/eu-greenligh…


EU greenlights indefinite immobilisation of Russian assets

The move comes a day after Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever openly questioned the legality of the European Commission’s proposal to permanently freeze Moscow's funds
Martina Monti (Euractiv)

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It's finished!

@Derek, @nick, and Gianluca just put the finishing touches on this year's OSARA Christmas album, Christmas Through the Years. Here from old favorites like Kevin Reeves, @JessicatheVIArtist, and Abby Hips, as well as new friends like Árpád Király, and Jessica Thierjung of Lyriel fame. The Gala presentation is tomorrow at 2 PM EST, right here on HKC Radio!

HKCRadio.com

The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

www.hkcradio.com
@Nick Giannak III @Derek Lane @Jessica the VI Artist🎚️🎹🌈
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