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[matrix] Tokyo 🇯🇵 pop-up meeting
Sat 17 Jan 2026 @19:00 JST
In Tokyo Ginza East

Follow the Room: #matrix-popup-tokyo:pwl.social for details.

Hi there, Global Digital People in 🇯🇵

It is an experiment and we will make it happen!

The "Matrix Stammtisch", now available with its pop-up version.

We're looking forward to seeing you soon. No registration needed. Just pop by.

@acccgn @stereo #agileparty @agile

Matrix logo, Japan flag, event details.
#matrix #agileparty @ralf tauscher @agile COACH CAMP COLOGNE @agile
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I'm looking for an application where I can quickly colaborate on short otes with someone. MS Word/Google Docs and all that stuff would be overhead. Just give me a web application people can type in and it auto updates for everyone, so everyone can look at text without people doing dumb screen shares which leaves out people with no vision.
The closest I could get is Joplin, but for a short dumping down some text it's just overhead to configure an account on my Joplin server, have the other person setup the app etc...
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Jonathan

@TheQuinbox @BrailleScreen For instance, I recently had a situation at work where someone did a Teams screenshare just to share a notepad he was typing into. This made me feel the urge need for something like that for people to write/edit their stuff in there so I can just read it as well because having to ask or the other person needing to read it out is ridiculous. I've just did a little vibe coding to the HTML file, it now respects your dark mode setting and looks a bit more like editor, e.g. the edit box fills the entire browser page and isn't just a little edit box at the upper left corner, I mean this was quite significant for sighted people to use this. No idea about Claude doing good practises on this or sth, should I just create a pr or leave it for myself?
@Patrick W @Quin

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Usłyszałem w radiu od jakiejś posłanki (osoby poselskiej płci żeńskiej), że jest pomysł na ograniczenie (wzorem Australii) dostępu młodzieży/dzieci do socjal mediów. Bo (między innymi) za dużo korzystają ze sztucznej inteligencji, i dochodzi już do nawiązywania relacji, co nazywa się ponoś sztuczną intymnością.
Moim zdaniem - bzdura. Sztuczna intymność zaczęła funkcjonować wtedy, kiedy ludzie zaczęli korzystać z tzw. portali randkowych. Czyli jakieś trzydzieści lat temu.:)

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Food on the table while giving away code

I wrote this five years ago, but still explains decently how I (try to) also eat, while giving away everything I write.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/15…


Food on the table while giving away code

I founded the curl project early 1998 but had already then been working on the code since November 1996. The source code was always open, free and available to the world.
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"...we will no longer require OpenSSL implementations for new functionality."

Let that message sink in.

I'm using OpenSsl from #Rustlang , but only by calling its main program as a process. The performance is more than good enough for now.

Also I've become quite fond of #pyca for its X.509 support.

So I'll keep a close eye on pyca's next steps.

#RustLang #pyca

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Ein Artikel über die Debatte zum Bürgergeld. Ich mag den Beitrag. Vor allem, weil er von individuellen Schicksalen erzählt. Keine "Totalverweigerer", die vermeintlich lieber vom Staat leben. Sondern Menschen, die auf die ein oder andere Art nicht damit gerechnet haben jemals in diese Situation zu kommen.

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Wer sind die Menschen im Bürgergeld?

Neue Regeln mit neuer Grundsicherung: Heute debattiert erstmals der Bundestag über die geplante Reform des Bürgergeldes. Drei Menschen, die davon leben müssen, berichten von ihren Erfahrungen und Sorgen.
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Note to authors about using "AI" art to promote your work

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#writingcommunity

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Discussion of AI, CSAM on X, hypocrisy

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Right now it relies on eSpeak only for one thing: turning text into phonemes. The actual sound generation, timing, and prosody all live elsewhere.
The big question ahead: how hard would it be to decouple from eSpeak and build our own text→phoneme layer?
The answer is: non-trivial, but very doable — especially for languages like Hungarian, where spelling is regular and stress rules are simple.
The hard part isn’t DSP. The engine already works.
The real work is linguistic: normalization, phoneme rules, edge cases, and a lot of listening and iteration.
It’s the kind of challenge that rewards patience more than clever tricks — and honestly, that’s part of the appeal.

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Victory adds Braille to its amps at no extra charge for blind players like @bermudianbrit thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/…

Victory adds Braille to its amps at no extra charge for blind players like myself - Amps Discussions on theFretBoard

For those that haven't seen this initiative: https://mixdownmag.com.au/news/victory-amplification-reveals-world-first-braille-guitar-amp/
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I recently had a need for a recursive C++ lambda that captures variables. This isn't possible in the intuitive way; you get:
error: variable 'someVar' declared with deduced type 'auto' cannot appear in its own initializer.
It turns out you can achieve this (albeit a bit horribly) by passing the lambda to itself! See this article for details: artificial-mind.net/blog/2020/…

Recursive Lambdas in C++

auto fib = [](int n) { if (n
artificial::mind blog

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Oi. I feel so bad for creating more projects for myself. But eh not really. It gives me a lot of learning, and actually if anything I can look into how NV SpeechPlayer does synthesis forming itself, something I can't do so well with other synths. Even if it wasn't completed and early stages, and later they got into Espeak, doesn't mean it's a throwaway project.
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@kaveinthran Yeah, part of me is curious what improvements I could make to the synthesis itself, but getting ahead of myself a bit. Just getting it working / built for more modern NVDA is a good first goal LOL. The key thing you have there is the SpeechWaveGenerator which to make from scratch would take me something like weeks or months. So already I think just having it for re-use is huge. @NVAccess @jcsteh
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Was bei der Debatte über Besteuerung von Unternehmenserben oft zu kurz kommt: Öffentliche Infrastruktur ist das Fundament, auf dem erfolgreiche Unternehmen überhaupt erst entstehen konnten. Straßen, Sicherheit, Bildung, Rechtsstaat - ohne das alles gäbe es diesen Reichtum nicht. Oft wird das in politischen Debatten nicht explizit benannt. Vielleicht, weil es zu offensichtlich ist für einige.
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Katharina Nocun

Trotzdem sollten wir es immer wieder klar sagen. Gerade marktradikale Akteure setzen gerne auf die Erzählung vom „sinnlosen Staat“ vs. „effiziente Unternehmen“, um gegen Steuern zu wettern. Ein Extrembeispiel für solche Narrative sind libertäre TechBros aus dem Silicon Valley. Dabei wäre die ganze IT-Branche undenkbar ohne Vorarbeit aus der öffentlich finanzierten Forschung & massive staatliche Förderung. Dieses wichtige „Detail“ wird gerne weggelassen, weil es nicht zur Ideologie passt.

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Forked and maintaining it here: github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Thanks @NVAccess for splitting this repo off before the merge into Espeak, at the very least this will be kept up to date to work in NVDA 2025.X and later 2026. Along with other wrappers I maintain I'm adding this one to my projects. Let's see what comes of it tonight, at the very least reviving it to some extent will be a success I think. Since I now have the source it may eventually be possible to modernize this DLL as a 64-bit module as well, as a later goal.

GitHub - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer: A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++

A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++ - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
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I did try an early build of SpeechPlayer in Espeak, and in 2021 it already sounded the same as it does today. So what we know as "edward" and the various "klatt" voices are using the ideas from NV Speech Player, but what happened was, rather than maintaining it as another project, NVAccess decided to merge the ideas for how SpeechPlayer worked back into Espeak. This avoided them from needing to maintain another project as well, and merge back research or ideas into Espeak itself. A noble goal, but in the process they destroyed a bit of the experimentation that made NV Speech Player so unique.

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I can't sleep. I'm really missing NV Speech player and it's keeping me awake, that aching feeling in my heart. When you could change all those parameters in the voice dialog related to NV Speech player. Before its ideas were merged into Espeak code you know. I just can't live without that beautiful slider interface, making the voice sound all weird.
(And thanks to Jake's site for still keeping this one archived, truly)
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Accounts from Montreal protesters detail police violence

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Accounts from Montreal protesters detail police violence | News

Demonstrators in Montreal discuss their recent experiences with police aggression. As systemic barriers prevent victims from seeking justice, some victims of police violence have taken matters into their own hands.
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Well, that's interesting.

Fender apparently bought Presonus in 2021, which I didn't hear about until just now, and it looks like they are perhaps killing the Presonus brand, starting with their DAW, recently rebranded as Fender Studio Pro.

I am way out of the loop when it comes to this gear stuff, I guess. That's what happens when you get locked into an environment where you can't explore such things for several years. So it goes.

I don't really know what to think about that. Fender hasn't been the most kind caretaker of brands over the years, that's for sure.

My Fender... uh... Presonus Studio Live 16.4.2 digital console is stuck in storage possibly forever, and I'm honestly not sure if I would want to use it these days anyway on account of it's audio interface being firewire 400 instead of something more modern. That made a lot of sense back then, but not anymore.

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There was a bug recently introduced in the latest Accessiweather nightly build which improved app startup performance. The explain weather button wasn't visible even though everything was configured. Bug now fixed on the dev branch in tonight's nightly build in around 30 minutes or so when it runs.
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