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What can I say. Brailab wrapper works. It has some quirks but I built one. Now onto firstbite. I heard the voice, it won't be no Doubletalk style, because it is SmoothTalker 4 whereas I believe the other was version 3. But it does sound cool. I like that voice. Sort of like a hybrid of Keynote and old eloquence. I got it working under XP. But modern Windows, it has a memory corruption errors.
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Mark Carney took a cabinet committee name and speech ideas from billionnaire-funded pro-AI and oil&gas booster group 'Build Canada' last May.

DeSmog and National Observer wrote about it 2 weeks ago and The Tyee wrote about the DOGE proponents among them in February but no legacy media have followed up. #media #cdnpoli

The Tech CEOs Who Want a DOGE for Canada
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/28/Tec…
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
nationalobserver.com/2025/12/1…

Cabinet Committee Mandate and Membership Current as of May 13, 2025 Cabinet committees carry out most of the day-to-day work of the Cabinet. Committees have their own members and areas of responsibility, which are set by the Prime Minister. The Treasury Board is the exception, as its mandate and membership are established in law. The current Cabinet committees are: *Priorities, Planning and Strategy. * Operations and Parliamentary Affairs e Treasury Board « National Security Council * Build Canada * Government Transformation / Government Efficiency. * Secure and Sovereign Canada * Quality of Life and Well-Being * Incident Response Group

The Tech CEOs Who Want a DOGE for Canada | The Tyee

Many supporters of a group called Build Canada are also interested in Elon Musk’s effort to slash government spending.
Jen St. Denis (The Tyee)
#media #cdnpoli

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There's a topic on the AudioGames forum where someone was asking if the Blastbay Film Score Themes CDs are available anywhere. Philip Bennefall has kindly made most of these available. The exception is the Epic Romance CD to which he sold the rights a few years ago. His links are available for a limited time, so I've downloaded them and combined everything into one zip file, around 1.5 gigabytes. These files are in wav format. The AudioGames topic has a link where you can purchase the Epic Romance pack, again as wavs, so I am not including that since it's still for sale. Share and enjoy!
Zip file: bluegrasspals.com/BlastbayFilm…
AudioGames forum topic: forum.audiogames.net/topic/581…

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Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list

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Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list

Visualization of every goto statement in the Linux 6.17 source code.Commentary from a 2003 linux-kernel mailing list discussion about the use of goto.Created...
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how can we cut our CI times by 50–90% and reduce our dependency on #github actions, securely and cheaply enough for a large public #rustlang codebase?

we did exactly that for @servo by building a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, all for barely 400 EUR/month!

talk video:
youtube.com/watch?v=-W1mSXdlRq…

blog post:
azabani.com/2025/12/18/shoestr…

slide that reads: How much faster? - mach try full workflow: 61m30s → 25m47s (−58%) - linux-unit-tests job: 34m29s → 3m15s (−90%) - windows-unit-tests job: 59m14s → 8m4s (−86%) - lint job: 11m54s → 2m25s (−79%) - wpt jobs: 25m35s → 20m50s (−18%) - But we also went from 20 runners → 3 runners

Web engine CI on a shoestring budget

How we built a CI runner orchestration system that halved Servo’s build times for only 300 EUR a month.
www.azabani.com
#github #RustLang @Servo

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Normally I love hearing airport announcements. But tonight, I wish the announcers at FLL would just shut up. It feels like the announcements are never-ending. This gate is loud. And there's a kid who seems to love the sound of their voice. And this chair is hurting my bum. And this is why I generally avoid flying at this time of year. But the first two flights I wanted didn't pan out. One sold out, and by the time my s.o realized his sister booked a flight for tomorrow, the one for yesterday had gotten too expensive. And, here we are.
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