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I just tried out the new Supertonic TTS for 64-bit NVDA, and I was more impressed with it than I thought. It is a local neural TTS, with as of right now, 10 voices that are English only, , (five female, five male, four American and one British per gender), and my favorite is F3. What I find impressive is that when the speech quality control value is at its lowest, it still sounds decent, though due to the nature of neural TTS engines, just like Sonata, the longer the paragraph, the longer the delay.

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HarfBuzz 12.3.0 is out, faster than ever:

- AAT shaping: 12% faster, LucidaGrande benchmark.
- OpenType shaping: 20% faster, NotoNastaliqUrdu benchmark.
- Drawing mega variable-fonts: 30% faster, GoogleSansFlex benchmark.
- Drawing VARC fonts: 5% faster, varc-hanzi benchmark.

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Release 12.3.0 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

Invalid font tables (eg. GSUB/GPOS) are outright rejected, instead of partially validated and used. This behavior is different from DirectWrite and HarfRust, and is in line with CoreText. For conte...
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Modular étude. Four random minor pentatonic sequences from Clank Chaos, one pinging the VCFQ filter fed into the Sarajewo BBD delay (low), and three into the oscillators of Three Body, tuned an octave apart in free mode, with modest FM and PM cross-modulation dialed in. Mixed and fed through the Desmodus Versio for reverb.

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Andre Louis

@jdking92 @MariahL Steps:

Before doing all of this, make sure that you uninstall whatsapp that you installed from microsoft store.
First download this zip file:
drive.google.com/uc?id=12Z3kjH…

Enable developer mode in windows.
Extract the wa folder from inside the zip file you downloaded to c:\.
Open powershell and enter this command.
Add-AppxPackage -Register "C:\WA\AppxManifest.xml"

Google Drive - Virus scan warning

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#XMPP Community

Find XMPP assembly at #39C3 in the space is inside the Critical #Decentralization Cluster #habitat.

Yes, there are stickers 📌

#Chaos #Communication #Congress #Hamburg #ccc #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #operators

The XMPP assembly table at the 39c3 with stickers
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #chat #interoperability #decentralization #communication #standards #congress #CCC #messaging #hamburg #chaos #operators #39c3 #habitat

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Was muss sich eurer Meinung nach im nächsten Jahr unbedingt jemand von uns anschauen? Welche Themen gehen bei uns und anderswo viel zu sehr unter? Was habt ihr euch schon immer gefragt?

Wenn ihr eure Fragen und Ideen teilen wollt: In den Kommentaren, per Mail oder in den nächsten Tagen bei einer Mate auf dem #39C3 netzpolitik.org/2025/kw-52-die…


KW 52: Die Woche zwischen Weihnachten und Chaos Communication Congress

Die 52. Kalenderwoche geht zu Ende. Wir haben 11 neue Texte mit insgesamt 96.189 Zeichen veröffentlicht. Willkommen zum netzpolitischen Wochenrückblick.
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REAPER Made Easy's end of year wrap up starts at 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK
We've got a boat load of your productions cued up, an awesome spread of work done throughout 2025 to listen to! Starting at the top of the hour sharp.
TeamTalk details are at reaperteacher.com.
YouTube stream is here:
youtube.com/live/O3hz2uYfhIw?f…

See ya soon,

scott/Jen


Listening to Your Productions to Wrapp up 2025

Wanna help support us running more sessions like this?https://paypal.me/TGVTraining
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Today, I redeemed a virtual gift card from my credit card rewards from the year, and donated the sum to:

- Wikipedia @wikipedia
- The GNOME Foundation @gnome
- The Internet Archive @internetarchive
- Servo @servo
- KDE @kde

I currently support #Drupal on a monthly basis

I'm also planning on supporting @elementary on a recurring basis in the new year

If you have a little bit of money at the end of the year, please consider supporting FOSS projects you use or appreciate! This is how we empower the next generation of open computing.

#giving #donations #FOSS

#foss #drupal #donations #giving @elementary @GNOME @KDE @internetarchive @Servo @Wikipedia
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found some nokia tune remix thing (yes, it was a midi) and it was in the midi files/phone tones section under the filename 07-patrick.mid. Which may mean...

something... Anyway I rendered it in the classic nokia soundfont and remixed it with suno and... It sounded weird xd


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Windows 11 Version 25H2 has a Major accessibility issue!
We need to spread the word because This is something that will effect blind people!
Send this video to Everyone you know!
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Windows 11 25H2 Has a Major Accessibility Issue That Needs to be Fixed As Soon as Possible!

This video explains the accessibility issue with the Windows 11 25H2 set up screen that needs to be addressed as soon as possible.To all my subscribers, plea...
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@Gianni@tweesecake.social @FrancisCole @mckensie @Winelectronic101 Dude, you just used AI to create that yourself, because no way in hell did you just come up with that yourself. And you, telling people they can't use AI models? Hypocrite! Oh, and they don't have to solve that if they don't want to. And you can't force them to. By the way, if I really, really wanted to, I could pull up ChatGPT right now and answer that problem. And since, of course, you stupidly didn't put the text version of that problem, it's gonna be hard for me to transcribe that speech. Which is exactly why I'm not gonna even try. Because you know why? It's also irrelevant and it just wastes people's time!
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I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it.

"I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times."

'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do'

I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled.

"Thanks."

#microFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#microfiction #tootfic #smallstories

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Recently, I've found that random apps on iOS will open and be unusable. VO thinks there's nothing on the screen, except the status bar, and while the home gesture works, it lags. This just happened, and I double tapped a status bar item to jump to the top of the screen. VO said this: page -9223372036854775808 of 9223372036854775807

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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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#Journalism #SCOTUS #Law #Ethics #Transparency #Research #Data


Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica

Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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The entire premise of a "top 40" radio station is so strange.

What do they primarily play? Songs people listen to a lot. What songs do people listen to a lot? Songs that get played on the radio frequently.

I suppose the feedback loop isnt as bad now that younger folks tend to use means other than radio to discover new music.

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As a fun nerdsnipe, I'm getting pretty deep into 80s style speech synthesis, and have been studying systems from that era. What I'd like to do is a low-resource synthesizer that can run on chips such as RP2350. I'm reading the MITalk book and think it might be reimplementable, but have questions. If you know someone who might also be interested in this, please put us in touch.

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Reviewing Classic Christmas Stories As A Klingon:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A Ferenghi businessman is haunted by three spirits who attempt to remind him of his honor. The Ferenghi should have simply slain the demons who attacked him. 3/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory to Tiny Tim!

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. Two pathetic humans attempt a mating ceremony in which they sell their most prized possessions in order to purchase gifts for each other. Incomprehensible. Why does the female not simply bite the male to show her affection. 1/5 Christmas Bat'leths.

The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman. A child's toy comes to life and defeats the evil Rat King in glorious hand-to-hand combat. Then the toy's honor is memorialized in dance and song. A true warrior's tale! 5/5 Christmas Bat'leths.

A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Shulz. A young warrior struggles with internal demons of self-doubt and depression. While selecting a Christmas tree, he symbolically chooses one which reflects how he views himself - a weak tree, unable to support even a single ornament. He lashes out at those he considers his closest friends, attempting to remind them of their honor, and eventually gives up, believing his efforts were ultimately meaningless. But he is mistaken. His words were spoken with the heart of a true Klingon warrior, and his friends wrap the tree in their most prized possessions, giving it the strength to stand on its own, holding the weight of ornaments many times its own weight over. They gather around and sing songs of bravery and courage, and remind the young Klingon that he too will be welcomed into Sto-vo-Kor. Because sometimes the greatest battle a warrior will ever fight is the one inside his own mind and heart. 6/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory to the House of Brown.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss. A cautionary tale. A Klingon from a lowly house is shunned by his peers and forced to live without honor on the outskirts of town. Instead of seeking honor and glory on his own like a true Klingon, he instead sneaks around under cover of darkness and steals the town's presents with the help of his faithful targ. As punishment, Kah'less removes his warrior spirit and he is doomed to stay in the small town facing his dishonor every day. If he had the heart of a warrior, he would have done battle against Whoville and claimed the glory of Christmas for his own. 4/5 Christmas Bat'leths.

The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton. The King of Halloween Town assigns three children to kidnap the demon Sandy Claws because he is a coward who refuses to fight his own battles. They too fail, because none of them possess the heart of a warrior. 0/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Tim Burton has no honor.

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May. A young warrior is shunned by his peers due to a physical deformity. He leaves his family and house to seek his own glory. He returns after defeating a dentist, a filthy gold-loving Ferenghi prospector, and an abominable snowman. Recognizing his fearless warrior spirit, he is given the place of honor at the front of Santa's sleigh. 5/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory upon the House of Rudolph!

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I might be weird (well, I'm sure that I am, in a lot of ways), but I wouldn't really mind if people just didn't buy me gifts. I feel like it contributes to me accumulating clutter. But some people really enjoy buying gifts, so I can't really say, "don't buy me anything," and I feel like I need to roll with it. But, just as one example, now I have two sets of measuring cups and spoons (one of my relatives seemed to think that, somehow, I might not already have a set). There's probably a young blind person somewhere who could use one of my sets, if I can find them. On the other hand, I never really know what to buy as far as clothes go, so I don't mind if people buy them for me, except that I end up with more jackets than I need, and so on. But, again, someone can probably use one of my extras, so it's a matter of me figuring out what to do.
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