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4 minutes of footage taken outdoor and the battery is discharged. It's -8C.
FSCast #265 is live. Mitchell Smedley shares his experience hosting a college radio show, Quin Gillespie introduces Paperback, an accessible ebook and document reader for Windows, and we preview upcoming Vispero training. Listen now: blog.freedomscientific.com/fsc…
FSCast #265. On hosting a radio show, reading documents and developing your professional skills
This month, Mitchell Smedley shares his experience hosting his own radio show and serving as president of a college radio station. Quin Gillespie introduces Paperback, a fully accessible ebook and …Freedom Scientific Blog
The internet was not a mistake
Social media was not a mistake
Allowing Corporations to dictate and control both of these things was the mistake.
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A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, Poland | Marcin Ryczek
Capitalism doesn't give you nice things.
Capitalism lets you rent increasingly mediocre things.
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Not to brag, but I got enough money to not work for the rest of 2025
Amazing song. For something that came out in 2007 I feel like it's still stands up today. youtu.be/B1o2UCLvD38
#music #punk #Paramore #rock
#music #punk #Paramore #rock
Paramore - For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic (Official Audio)
Paramore's official audio for "For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic" from 'RIOT!' - available now on Fueled By Ramen. Get it at - http://smarturl.it/paramo...YouTube
Well, lookie here. I went to my other haunt, producer.ai, because Suno is having issues. What do I see on the page, but yes, accessibility help text. To pick up a draggable item, press the space bar. While dragging, use the arrow keys to move the item. Press space again to drop the item in its new position, or press escape to cancel. sortable
I'm stumbling my way through GNOME and Orca. This is most definitely not the windows desktop. I'm digging the whole minimal thing though
I seem to have picked up a few follows by talking about how much the music industry sucks, and I'm guessing that means that at least some of you would be interested in alternative methods of finding & hearing cool stuff:
@TIBtv - brand-new independent live stream of indie music videos and animation
@indiebeat - kinda the same as above, but radio
@audiointerface - moar awesome radio
@etherdiver - does a weekly review thing called Other People's Music, also makes cool music
RE: ravenation.club/@etherdiver/11…
If you have Pigments, and have ever given me a dollar, or helped share my work, go grab these! If you have Pigments and HAVEN'T ever offered any support, well, drop a dollar or five in the can and get it!
Ether Diver (@etherdiver@ravenation.club)
Okay, just a day late for Christmas, here is my gift to the #Pigments community, especially the friends who hung out on stream with me while I made these 51 Pigments patches. Free/pay-what-you-want to supporters via Ko-Fi. https://ko-fi.Ether Diver (Mastodon)
The best audiobooks of 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/23/nx-s1-5645996/the-best-audiobooks-of-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sometimes, the word CUNT is insufficient.
I wanna read Muppet Christmas fanfiction. Anyone know any good stories? #Muppets #Christmas #Fanfiction
So, apparently, more azure voices are getting added to the neural voices addon, voices that are not available in narrator or the store. This makes me wonder, are people retraining azure voices to add more?
is there a newer version of it? For me the lag is still not low enough to be a daily usable synthesizer, but I see a lot of promise in this. I don't think you can train your own public voice, perhaps to enterprises that's offered but that would mean sharing a private API key which I don't see happening either. So SMH.
Soon we'll start seeing posts of all the things people are proud of accomplishing in 2025, and what they're hoping to do in 2026.
I'm here to tell you, if all you did was survive 2025, that's an accomplishment worth celebrating. Life is hard, and getting through a year is tough. I'm proud of you.
NO PARENT LEFT BEHIND
I promise you cannot read these and not laugh out loud. These are REAL
notes written by PARENTS in a school district. (Spellings have been left intact.) Most of them are funny, but some are just sad.
1-- MY SON IS UNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE AND SHOULD NOT TAKE PE TODAY. PLEASE EXECUTE HIM.
2-- PLEASE EXKUCE LISA FOR BEING ABSENT SHE WAS SICK AND I HAD HER SHOT
3-- DEAR SCHOOL: PLEASE ECSC's JOHN BEING ABSENT ON JAN. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 AND ALSO 33.
4-- PLEASE EXCUSE GLORIA FROM JIM TODAY. SHE IS ADMINISTRATING.
5-- PLEASE EXCUSE ROLAND FROM P.E. FOR A FEW DAYS. YESTERDAY HE FELL OUT OF A TREE AND MISPLACED HIS HIP.
6-- JOHN HAS BEEN ABSENT BECAUSE HE HAD TWO TEETH TAKEN OUT OF HIS FACE.
7-- CARLOS WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE WAS PLAYING FOOTBALL. HE WAS HURT IN THE GROWING PART.
8-- MEGAN COULD NOT COME TO SCHOOL TODAY BECAUSE SHE HAS BEEN BOTHERED BY VERY CLOSE VEINS.
9-- CHRIS WILL NOT BE IN SCHOOL CUS HE HAS AN ACRE IN HIS SIDE.
10-- PLEASE EXCUSE RAY FRIDAY FROM SCHOOL. HE HAS VERY LOOSE VOWELS.
11-- PLEASE EXCUSE PEDRO FROM BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD (DIAHRE, DYREA, DIREATHE), THE SH**S.
NOTE: [WORDS IN (** )'s WERE CROSSED OUT.
12-- PLEASE EXCUSE TOMMY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD DIARRHEA, AND HIS BOOTS LEAK.
13-- IRVING WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE MISSED HIS BUST.
14-- PLEASE EXCUSE JIMMY FOR BEING. IT WAS HIS FATHER'S FAULT.
15-- I KEPT BILLIE HOME BECAUSE SHE HAD TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BECAUSE DON'T KNOW WHAT SIZE SHE WEAR.
16-- PLEASE EXCUSE JENNIFER FOR MISSING SCHOOL YESTERDAY. WE FORGOT TO GET THE SUNDAY PAPER OFF THE PORCH, AND WHEN WE FOUND IT MONDAY. WE THOUGHT IT
WAS SUNDAY.
17-- MY DAUGHTER WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY BECAUSE SHE WAS TIRED. SHE SPENT A WEEKEND WITH THE MARINES.
18-- PLEASE EXCUSE JASON FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. HE HAD A COLD AND COULD NOT BREED WELL.
19-- PLEASE EXCUSE MARY FOR BEING ABSENT YESTERDAY. SHE WAS IN BED WITH GRAMPS.
20-- GLORIA WAS ABSENT YESTERDAY AS SHE WAS HAVING A GANGOVER.
21-- PLEASE EXCUSE BRENDA. SHE HAS BEEN SICK AND UNDER THE DOCTOR.
22-- MARYANN WAS ABSENT DECEMBER 11-16, BECAUSE SHE HAD A FEVER, SORETHROAT, HEADACHE AND UPSET STOMACH. HER SISTER WAS ALSO SICK, FEVER AN SORE THROAT, HER BROTHER HAD A LOW GRADE FEVER AND ACHED ALL OVER. I WASN'T THE BEST EITHER SORE THROAT AND FEVER. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GOING AROUND, HER FATHER EVEN GOT HOT LAST NIGHT.
I wish we could distribute our own iOS apps. I absolutely hate waiting on Apple to decide if my app is good enough for them or not
Test test. Is this thing on?
I can't wait to share with you my next project. Just gotta get through test flight app review first...
My next project or mission is to look into whether we can remove silences from speech ourselves somehow, if the engine doesn't provide a pauses setting itself. Since we get the direct audio stream, it may be possible but anything would need to carefully be assessed in performance penalty and whether it causes audio overlaps if the work isn't done right. For now at least V1.1 is a lot more stable and performant wrapper.
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Updated: FlexVoice 1.1. the native wrapper was doing redundant normalization work (literally normalizing twice), which can add extra stalls between chunks. Do not sync() inside _runWrapperTextSegment(). If we still want “accurate doneSpeaking” for non-indexed one-shot speech, only sync() once at the end of the utterance. Remove the second normalization in workerLoop and just move the already-normalized string into the prepared list. Also a small micro-opt: normalizeFragileTokens was scanning alpha tokens twice (once to find token end, again to detect ALL-CAPS). I changed it to detect “allCaps” during the first scan.
eurpod.com/flexvoice.nvda-addo…
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Interesting. unfortuantely, i don't know if I can use this as a daily driver at the minute, because it refuses to read most mastodon posts, which I see as a problem. however, I know this is actively being worked on, so I will get it time. It also skips a few words. Hopefully these issues will be fixed soon, however, I'm not too sure about a daily driver as of right now, as again, some things it refuses to read.
@mckensie that's so odd, since it's reading everything for me here. But I also have my system locale set to Hungary, which means some unicode characters get interpreted a bit different. So far scrolling through my timeline with posts that have emojis and such, it all reads. So I just haven't been able to repro it at all
I wonder what I should do to fix this issue. Restarting NVDA didn't fix it. I'm wondering if running NVDA as admin or perhaps even restarting might do it? I don't know
@mckensie @mcourcel well it's been some people who get it with Masto posts, whereas others don't. for sure one of those illusive bugs. but if you can do a "view post" on the ones that don't read, then perhaps it's possible to find where it falls silent, like which sentence or set of words it stops reading at. Once we have a text piece that does that it's a lot easier to make a new rule inside the normalizer against it and patch.
“what’s your favorite work of speculative fiction? the universal declaration of human rights”
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@WestphalDenn "We only ship the open source version of the display driver, we know it limits your output to 340P but shut the fuck up and deal with it" -- something no company would ever say in a million years.
So in today's edition of #screenreader problems: reading a book with a #Japanese character named Mami is deeply disconcerting, because my screen reader pronounces it "mommy". I just thought...the character was weirdly being called mom by everyone until I finally stopped to check the spelling. Screen readers of the time are also why I thought "anime" rimed with "time" until I was like 14. Uselessly, looking it up online gives me four different examples of how to pronounce Mami, all with different emphasis and "a" sounds. Including one joker who really is pronouncing it exactly like "mommy". So I dunno.
I'm gonna go with "may-me". Just so I don't have to hear about someone flirting with "mommy". I have no evidence that it's the most correct of my four options, but it's the one I like best. So meh.
I'm gonna go with "may-me". Just so I don't have to hear about someone flirting with "mommy". I have no evidence that it's the most correct of my four options, but it's the one I like best. So meh.
What's the current state of XMPP and OpenID Connect? My web search returned that ejabberd is still considering if and how to implement and Prosody has experimental alpha-stage support via a module. I couldn't find anything conclusive in regards to XMPP clients. What's with Gajim(?) and Conversations? Or other clients? Are there any web clients supporting OIDC?
#jabber #xmpp #oidc #openidconnect
@daniel I have Keycloak running and ponder if I want to go for Prosody again but authenticating against Keycloak this time. This means, users are created and managed in Keycloak. My previous projects with Keycloak used OIDC for authentication. But the clients should be able to authenticate via OIDC otherwise this would be futile 🙂.
Authenticating with oauth with a third party is not currently available. @mattj probably has the most insights into what steps we made into that direction yet.
Part of the problem is that we loose nice security features like channel binding by using web stuff.
@mattj Channel Binding ensures that client and server are in the same TLS session by mixing in unique stuff from the session into the password handshake. This is basically MITM protection for the TLS layer.
For more information the search keywords would be: SASL, SCRAM and Channel binding. The XEP is just negotiation and boring wrt the security aspects.
@mattj there is also this talk in German that explains my motivation behind my push towards channel binding:
gultsch.video/w/qzRh2nLk7EXdmq…
Der Angriff auf jabber.ru (und was wir dagegen tun können)
Vortrag über den MITM Angriff auf jabber.ru den @daniel@gultsch.social im Rahmen des Berlin XMPP Meetups am 13. Dezember 2023 gehalten hat.Slides: codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/talks/s…
Video Production: @xHain_hackspace@chaos.social
@daniel @mattj Ach, das war das Meetup, wo ich kommen wollte, aber leider krank war. 😄
Back to English: For a few years now I want to get some contact again to XMPP because the IM landscape is too dependent on Big Tech, and Matrix … well, it has its use-case, I guess. I'd rather onboard non-tech people to XMPP than to Matrix.
I understand your intention re channel binding. I heard of the jabber.ru case. I'm still not entirely sure, though, OIDC would block channel binding. AFAIU it's the SCRAM part that might get disrupted because there's no password involved in authentication anymore, just a token (or two?). The connection between client and server would be untouched, though.
@daniel @mattj Sure but if someone already uses external auth, being able to add xmpp to the stack would bring extra security features like global 2FA.
Here is my use case. I use LDAP for authentication and currently in the process of adding keycloak for oidc. XMPP at this point needs to stay with LDAP only, while it would be an added feature for me if it would support openid
@muppeth @mattj Sticking with LDAP would at least on paper leave the door open for channel binding.
2FA could be added to XMPP w/o involving web stack stuff.
I'm not fundamentally opposed to oauth. I'm just pointing out that the use case of oauth is convenience rather than added security. If we implement it wrong me might even loose security (channel binding).
I had people asking, so here's the first level of Armadillo Army. Think pacman just. not pacman. The main objective is to clear the maze of goodies without getting wrecked by the armadillos. Yes you can shoot them which I do, but every shot costs ten points whether you hit or not. If you do hit an armadillo you get 30 points. Armadillos are represented by a really fast spoken directional cue. You'll know, I'm sure. As the levels progress things get harder, there are more goodies, and a tornado that can eat the things you're after. The second thing in this level that I encounter is the pepper. Once eaten your character tex goes "loco." This means arrows are reversed and your laser for armadillo shooting doesn't work right. this last for fifteen seconds, I think.
New weather statement... right after those 12 hours of ice storm, we'll get wind gusts to up to 70 km/h. RIP trees
I have that scale. It has multiple units, including `ml`. WHAT?
And why is the Node.JS Setup status Trumping me? Please wait while the Setup Wizard installs Node.js.
Installing Node.js
Status: Progress bar
-2147483648% complete.
Installing Node.js
Status: Progress bar
-2147483648% complete.
"Software engineers should be a little bit cynical" by Sean Goedecke seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-…
I agree with just about everything Sean Goedecke writes, but I'm also glad I don't work in big tech anymore. I was okay at playing politics but I just didn't like it.
The "big tech companies are evil/stupid" framing is not only wrong but unhelpful. It's like calling a bear evil/stupid and then getting mad at him when he devours you for following his nature. The bear has internal logic that makes sense in his bear-brain, just like big companies do. Although it's more around promotion-seeking, risk-minimizing, legibility, etc. than around honey.
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Nur einmal dazugehören und mitmachen können… is‘ das so schwierig? #39c3
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Spiegelt leider die OpenSourceCommunity im allgemeinen. Ich mach schon so viel ich kann, aber vieles geht eben nicht, weil nicht barrierefrei.
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