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Today I learned why Sonata #TTS created a framework to run AI voices outside of #NVDA. First, NVDA doesn't come with all of the #Python standard libraries. Second, there's no good way of updating dependencies in a bundled addon. Third, NVDA really, really hates it if you include several hundred dependencies in your addon. Anyway, here's kitten TTS, the other synthesizer I wanted to try with NVDA. Unfortunately, the model doesn't support streaming output, so even though it's actually faster than Supertonic, it feels slower when used with NVDA. Also, it takes several minutes to install, makes NVDA startup 30 seconds slower, and freezes the change synthesizer dialogue for about 45 seconds when you open it. It does miss words less frequently, though, and pronounces text better. The ultimate result of my two-day investigation is that even the highly optimized open-source AI imbedded models are not yet ready for screen reader use. Some tree-shaking could fix some of these issues, but it still won't allow for streaming, so it's not worth it. I'd really like to know what Microsoft and Narrator are doing to get the natural voices so snappy. github.com/fastfinge/kittentts-nvda/#screenreader

GitHub - fastfinge/kittentts-nvda: proof of concept kittentts synthDriver for NVDA

proof of concept kittentts synthDriver for NVDA. Contribute to fastfinge/kittentts-nvda development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#screenreader #python #nvda #tts

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A Sound Canvas takes on beatboxing. And it... actually kind of works.
This is a karaoke cover of Dopamine, a song composed by WING of BEATPELLA HOUSE, a South Korean beatboxing group.
Two versions of this cover exist. A simplified version designed for sound cards from DREAM SA, which are essentially compatible with the Roland SC-88, and a second one designed for the SC-8820. Both covers lean into the strengths of each source.
Both played on my SC-8820.
From KY Entertainment karaoke machines.
DREAM SA version sequenced by Yunseong Choi (최윤성) currently unsure who the 8820 version's sequencer is due to encoding issues with the file.
Original song: youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm9E….
MIDIs: drive.google.com/uc?id=1kILmA1….


WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)

WING - Dopamine (Official Video) (BEATBOX)Stream : https://wing.lnk.to/dopamine[Credits]Executive Producers | SINZO, Eli BackerAlbum Producers | SINZO, HissA...
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Before heading to the Hill Country to spend Christmas with my grandparents, I stayed up a little too late packing and writing. This post is a quiet reflection on the past year, family, and trying to slow down even when I am not very good at it.

taylorarndt.substack.com/p/pac…

Merry Christmas to those celebrating. Wishing you a gentle day.

#Christmas #Family #Reflection


Packing Bags and Packing Thoughts

Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#christmas #family #reflection

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I GOT A STORY TO TELL ALL OF YOU.
AND @ChrisDuffley you might like this, so i'm pinging you in.
so it's Christmas day, right? around I dont' know, 9 ni the morning, we open presents. there's a few things I got like (yes) a brand new mini PC, small yetp owerful, and gummy bears, chocolate bars. that was it.....except it wasn't!
after my sister and I (at least I thought) was done, I get told there's an extra present waiting for me. I get drove to a hill as part of our property, and what to I find?
and i'm not kidding, what you're about to hear what I found is totally real.
a 100 feet #ham radio tower. yes, I now have a ham radio tower ready to be installed and, once I get my license, used! I can't believe it! this has to be one of the best Christmases ever!!

I don't know how it was done, but now I have a 100feet ham towert!

#ham @Christopher Duffley - KC1WXP
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Sylvia

Linux Mint is a good choice :)

There may be some Linux cafés or repair cafés near you willing to help with this. endof10.org/places/ lists a few but I am sure more exist :)

Maybe people at the Linux Mint forum on forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum… know places you can go to too but I have no experience with that.


Find Linux Support

Here is a list of repair cafes, independent shops, organizations, groups, and collectives where you can get help with Linux on a regular basis.
Find Linux Support | End of 10

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Cykeltutten har fået en kanal på Delta Chat.

Der er det muligt at følge med i hvad der sker og blive inviteret til arrangementer, byggedage og andet.

Scan QR koden for at følge, eller brug linket her:

i.delta.chat/#62DA02C93563C10A…

PS. har du ikke Delta Chat, så tager det 30 sekunder at downloade og kræver hverken dit tlf. nummer eller email.

#DeltaChat

QR kode til cykeltuttens 'Følg-med kanal' på Delta Chat

Message privately on Delta Chat

Tap the invite link to start
i.delta.chat
#deltachat

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A quick side-by-side look at how popular messaging apps stack up in open-source transparency, end-to-end encryption, and anonymity 😎👇

For #anonymity I consider the following: weak (phone # required), medium (email required), strong (no phone # or no email needed) #privacy #technology

Find a high-res pdf book with all my Linux and #cybersecurity related infographics from study-notes.org

Dan Nanni's Infographics and Study Notes

Explore high-quality infographics on Linux, cybersecurity, and networking. Perfect for certifications, technical knowledge, and tech career upskilling.
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#privacy #technology #cybersecurity #anonymity
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ArcaneChat

(for future readers: this table is wrong, #DeltaChat doesn't require phone numbers or #email for registration can be used anonymously without providing any data at all, for #telegram encryption is not supported in groups at all, only in 1-to-1 chats using the "secrets chat" which don't even sync across devices so is highly impractical and not much used by people in the end)
#email #telegram #deltachat

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Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, in all our EU languages 🎄

Joyeux Noël!
Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad!
Buon Natale!
Feliz Natal!
Весела Коледа!
Veselé Vánoce!
Glædelig jul!
Häid jõule!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα!
Nollaig shona!
Sretan Božić!
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Džiaugsmingų šv. Kalėdų!
Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket!
Il-Milied it-Tajjeb!
Vrolijk kerstfeest!
Wesołych Świąt!
Crăciun fericit!
Veselé Vianoce!
Vesel božič!
God Jul!
Hyvää joulua!

Gold background with white hanging Christmas ornaments, including one featuring the circle of EU stars. Several star-shaped decorations are scattered around, and the European Commission logo appears in the bottom right corner.

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From all of us at HKC Radio, we wish you a Merry Christmas.

As a result of some oddities surrounding schedules, we have chosen today to let you hear music on shuffel most of the day, and at a time TBD, run the Lessons and Carols service @coasterfreak88 submitted to us, in its entirety, as it was cut due to a technical error last night.

Replays will begin late tomorrow night after Christmas unwrapped and Home Alone II.

@John Moore
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For Christmas, I got an Omega Engineering talking multimeter... I have one, but it's in storage, possibly forever, and they're damn near impossible to find at a reasonable price, if you find them at all.

Also got an Ebow for an electric guitar that I don't have, which is interesting, and an Orba2, which seems to be an odd little round thing that makes musical noises.

I had an Ebow, but lost it when I moved to New York.

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Borris

Well, that's a bummer.

It looks like, in order to get full functionality from this Artiphon Orba 2, I need to download an iOS app that is no longer in the app store, and the company is apparently in administration.
Without the app, it can still do some interesting stuff, but not as much, I.E. you can't change keys or load new presets.

This is why having your product tied to an app creates so much ewaste.

There is a desktop app for both Mac and Windows, and an Android APK you can download from the website. Chaining this tiny little palm-sized thing to a desktop app for some basic functionality is silly, though.

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feld

@jesscanady started imposing limits on free/community/selfhosted. 10,000 message limit now

github.com/mattermost/mattermo…


Message limit 10000 team edition

We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...
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@Jessica Phoenix

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I'm never quite sure whether Advent should run 24 or 25 days, so if you're of the "24" persuasion, consider today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent a bonus 🙂

Today it's rss2email¹, which is I read my RSS feeds². I prefer to read my RSS via email for a number of reasons:

• I don't need to learn Yet Another Set of Keyboard Bindings because I already know my MUA's key-bindings

• I can use any standards-compliant MUA to read my RSS feeds, whether I have them delivered to my mbox file and read with mail(1), or delivered to my normal mail account and read them via mutt/neomutt/Claws/Thunderbird/whatever

• I have offline access via OfflineIMAP/mbsync and any changes (deleting entries, read-status, flagging, stars, tags, filing, etc) gets synced back up to my server, even across multiple machines

• I have all the filtering power of my MUA

• plenty of utilities also speak IMAP, so I can write scripts to (post-)process my RSS feed too

• sharing an interesting article with friends is as simple as forwarding an email

• my backup process for email also automatically backs up my RSS feeds too

• because it runs from cron(8) on a schedule I establish, I have more control of my distractions (I usually run it around 4am gathering feeds for me to read with breakfast). I found if it ran hourly or even multiple times per day, I'd get sucked into constantly checking to see if anything new/interesting had arrived

• control remains with me on my machine rather than handing my reading habits over to some 3rd party RSS reader-service

And I love RSS because it is a pull rather than a push. If I subscribe to your email newsletter, I have to trust that you'll respect my email address and not share it or lose control of it, and cutting off email subscriptions is sketchy. But with RSS? I just stop polling that feed if I'm done with it and it's gone.

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¹ github.com/wking/rss2email

² blog.thechases.com/posts/readi…


GitHub - wking/rss2email: open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email

open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email - wking/rss2email
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#freesoftwareadvent
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Tim Chase

If you have the ability to send mail from your machine (even if it's just configured to use your mail-provider as a smart-host), rss2email should still work.

github.com/wking/rss2email?tab…

Granted, if your email provider is MS/Outlook, they don't play well with third-party SMTP/IMAP clients, but that's on them and the folks who choose to use them 😆


GitHub - wking/rss2email: open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email

open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email - wking/rss2email
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mkj

@clv1 Huh. It's there in the man page shipped by the Debian stable package. manpages.debian.org/trixie/rss… That one refers to this repository which is *way* more recent: github.com/rss2email/rss2email

@gumnos


GitHub - rss2email/rss2email: Forward RSS feeds to your email address, community maintained

Forward RSS feeds to your email address, community maintained - rss2email/rss2email
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@Tim Chase @Cleverson

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Great! NiceGram's text box no longer works either. There goes an alternative. If multiple developers would stop using the native Telegram interface (because yes, tons of these third-party clients do), we wouldn't have to deal with things like this. Bright Guide is outdated and hasn't been touched in ages either. If anyone has any Telegram client alternatives, I'm all ears.

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I'm not sure I really get the logic behind the antizionists who also want to kick fellow Jewish citizens out of their diaspora countries.

Like... where are they supposed to go specifically?

I'm joking. I totally get the fucking logic.

"A violent #antisemitic incident unfolded Sunday evening in #Istanbul, where a group of #Jews heading to light the eighth and final #Hanukkah candle at the Neve Shalom #synagogue were attacked by #proPalestinian #protesters.

According to footage circulated on social media, the attackers charged at the group while shouting, “These #Zionists should leave this country.” Police intervened and dispersed the demonstrators, who waved #Palestinian flags and attempted to approach the #Jewish group."

ynetnews.com/jewish-world/arti…


Jews attacked heading to Hanukkah candlelighting in Istanbul

Pro-Palestinian protesters assaulted Jews on their way to a Hanukkah candle lighting near the Neve Shalom synagogue, shouting anti-Zionist slurs as police dispersed the crowd, some of whom waved Palestinian flags
Itamar Eichner (ynetglobal)
#jewish #istanbul #palestinian #protesters #antisemitic #jews #hanukkah #synagogue #propalestinian #zionists

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Ich habe den Eindruck, dass Matrix weitaus problemloser läuft als XMPP.

Bei XMPP kann sich nicht jeder Client an jedem Server anmelden (ich habe diverse Clients und Server, nicht nur meinen eigenen mit ejabberd, getestet). Und auch die Kommunikation zwischen zwei Accounts funktioniert manchmal gar nicht, manchmal nur in eine Richtung und irgendwie nur selten problemlos. Auch da wieder stark abhängig vom Client.

Ein Problem mit meinem Server mag sein, dass er unter einer Subdomain (xmpp.example.com) läuft. Ich mutmaße, dass nicht jeder Server bzw. Client damit zurechtkommt. Zwischen meinem Server und dem von Mailbox.org klappt jedenfalls gar nichts. Aber ich habe noch nicht einmal eine Möglichkeit gefunden, für Mailbox.org einen andeten Client als deren Web-Client zu verwenden. Ich glaube fast, die sind nur zu sich selbst kompatibel.

Manche sagen freilich auch, dass ejabberd recht eigenwillig sei.

Mit Matrix hingegen hatte ich bisher keine Probleme (auch da habe ich einen eigenen Server am Start).

#Matrix #XMPP #Jabber #ejabberd

#xmpp #matrix #Jabber #ejabberd
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Daniel Gultsch

Unter der Voraussetzung, dass für den Server SRV records eingerichtet sind wären mir keine Fälle bekannt in denen eine subdomain Probleme machen sollte. Im Gegenteil ist hostname ungleich domain part (der Teil hinter dem @) eigentlich fast schon Standard.

Das sich Clients gar nicht verbinden können (korrekte Certificates und korrekte SRV records vorausgesetzt) wäre auch eher neu.

Sonst hört man manchmal das nicht alle Clients alle Features können. Das ist wahr.

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Michaela Molthagen

@daniel
Die SRV Records meines Servers sind m.W. korrekt, trotzdem gelingt es mir nicht, von Mailbox.org aus eine Verbindung zu meinem Server aufzubauen. Die Fehlermeldung (ich habe sie gerade nicht parat) deutet darauf hin, dass Subdomains nicht zulässig seien.

Mailbox.org ist eh speziell, weder mit Conversations noch mit atalk kann ich mich dort anmelden. Ich kann es nur über die Weboberfläche von Mailbox.org nutzen.

Ich habe noch einen Account bei 5222.de, da kann ich mit Conversations mit meinem Server interagieren, aber nicht mit aTalk. Mit aTalk sehe ich von meinem Server aus 5222.de, aber umgekehrt kommt keine Verbindung zustande.

@Daniel Gultsch
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Debacle

@daniel

Ja, @mailbox_org nutzt meines Wissens einen sieben Jahre alten #ejabberd. Möchte nicht wissen, wie viele längst gelöste Bugs da drin sind, schlimmstenfalls auch #security bugs.

#aTalk kenne ich vom Namen her, aber ich kenne niemanden, der diesen #Jabber client nutzt. D.h. es wird vielleicht etwas schwieriger dafür Hilfe zu kriegen.

Bei Matrix ist es auch so: Manche clients funktionieren nicht mit manchen servers 🤷

#security #Jabber #ejabberd #atalk @Daniel Gultsch @mailbox
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