I'm fully prepared for more disappointment from democrats in congress re the funding of DHS and ice, which is about to run out. They're so good at being disappointing, after all. Maybe not quite as disappointing as top senate democrats, but not far from it.
OK. Final file of the night, then I'm jumping in the hot tub, away from computer, all that fun stuff. NV Speech Player V11: Fixes many many bugs: - Whispery in non-English languages because of YAML handling - The number 9 and number 5 for US English. - Fixes level (all English languages) - DLL adds: stopClosureClusterGapMs, segmentBoundaryGapMs, segmentBoundaryFadeMs, which can be tweaked per language. - Fix UK words like World to sound UK. More UK tweaks can always be made in the En-GB.yaml file. Enjoy. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… . remember that the base file, without the V11 suffix, always is the latest version, link: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… so you don't need to redownload each version if your browser is a good boy at not caching downloads by filename.
I'm releasing it. NVSP Phoneme Editor. It's here. This tool lets you edit both phoneme and language data for NV Speech Player languages. It's not perfect, but it also lets you generate a wave file of spoken text. Eventually it'll evolve, give it time. I made sure to label things and focus management stuff too. Just need a break from working on this stuff, been up since 4:30 in the morning doing it. It's now 6 at night. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE… Note: Espeak is bundled as-is, not recompiled into the project, which is acceptable per GPL3. Be sure to look at the "settings" menu when starting the program to set your variables in nvspPhonemeEditor.ini at each start.
Major readme rewrite at github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… - we not only detail how to create and do phonemes, but also, just look at all those language flags you can set in the "Language pack settings reference" section! It's like a playground for language nerds, enjoy.
curl, which is one of the most popular CLI/API tools for network requests and data transfer on Linux/Unix, is to discontinue its HackerOne bug bounty program due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse".
The authors simply cannot keep up with LLM-generated fake security reports created to collect money using bots. So, it now shuts down at the end of January 2026. This is why we can't have good things
#Barrierebahn Rollstuhlplätze müssen im voraus via MSZ per Telefon oder Formular ( mail) reserviert werden. Und dann kommt sowas als Rückmeldung "Wir bedauern, dass wir Ihre Anmeldung für den xxx Januar 2026 nicht vornehmen können. Wir benötigen für die Anmeldung der Hilfeleistung alle Platzreservierungen der Fernverkehrszüge. Der Zug ICE xxxx von Lüneburg nach ... und der ICE yyyy von ... nach Lüneburg ist wegen kurzfristiger Anpassungen für Platzreservierungen gesperrt. " #bahn #ableismus #barrierefreiheit
Some of you may of course think what, only 20,000 commits after almost thirty years in the project, what kind of slacker is that guy? But yes, today I merged my 20,000th commit into the curl repository - out of a total of 37,604 commits (53%).
Some good news in a time of darkness: the European wildcat, Felis sylvestris, is making a comeback! This thoughtful-looking example was photographed in a mountainous region of the Czech republic.
The European wildcat's extreme elusiveness may have helped it avoid hunters in places where a larger native cat, the lynx, has been killed off. There may be about 140,000 European wildcats spread across more than two dozen countries. But they are very hard to find!
Wildlife photographer Andrea Giovanni, who made a video of one, writes:
"I'd never even thought of taking photos of wildcats, for a simple reason: I thought it was impossible, or at least, extremely difficult. It's considered 'the ghost of the forests' because it's very, very elusive, and it's hard to predict where it can be spotted. Other animals tend to follow the same trails through the forest. The wildcat goes wherever she wants to."
One reason the European wildcat is coming back is increased legal protections. But another is that villages in Italy and other regions are becoming depopulated! Some are very worried about declining human populations. But it does make room for other species. That gives me some hope for the future.
I got this picture, taken by Vladimír Čech Jr in the Doupov mountains, from a very nice article on the European wildcat:
How could Bluesky, a social network that was founded by one of Twitter's founders and run by a CEO who was hired by Twitter's CEO, turn out to be like Twitter?
@kaveinthran not anymore. I had GPT PRO up until last week but then my 30 days is up. I haven't sprung for it again, using thinking mode and my own code knowledge, to be fair pro mode may have saved me some diagnosing time but until I haven't blown through my standard GPT plus limits I'm sticking with it. xD
@kaveinthran Gemini yeah, but Claud I haven't given much of a try yet. Not sure why, Gemini was easier to get into because they bundle that with the Google one subscribtion so you kind of get Gemini Pro from that one. Maybe Claud just made me think, "ugh, not another AI sub" lol. But would be interesting to give it at least a month try and see how it does on coding tasks.
In the curl project we have a long tradition of offering multiple optional backends for specific protocols. In this spirit we have added experimental support for a number of different HTTP/3 + QUIC backends over time.
oh, at first I was surprised, that it would be a mistake. But OpenSSL would be supported indirectly by new support in libnghttp3, right? At least libngtcp2 has direct support for OpenSSL 3, I assume OpenSSL will be still supported for QUIC connections, but by different code, right?
yes, but it doesn't state clearly since OpenSSL 3.5 ngtcp2 does not need extra OpenSSL-QUIC implementation, because normal OpenSSL backend is supported in ngtcp2 itself. At least I didn't understand it from the article. If I didn't know it from experiment with unbound, I would read it like OpenSSL linked curl cannot support QUIC. That is wrong, but not simple to understand IMO.
@Bri FYI: BNT has a few times identified FastSM as using the most CPU, at one point using 10% for a few seconds. No idea what's happening, but just thought you should know.
Pues esto es de una noche que estaba situado en portable con mi antena miniwhip de fabricación rusa artesanal, y así se recibía La Voz de Corea. En lugares donde no se puede colocar una antena grande y hay poco ruido, el rendimiento es espectacular. 📻 #SWL #shortwave #ondacorta
My complex has Google Fiber now. I just had someone over to set it up, so this is my first post from there. I thought I knew how to configure a router (you know, figure out its IP address and point a browser to it), but, no, not this one. It wants me to use Google Home from my phone. If I point a browser to its IP address, then it will serve me a page telling me to use Google Home from my phone.
Hi all! Ifinally got through a bit over 2 days of posts here because I wasn't able to be online much due to lots of things, mainly that I was in stress paralysis. Why you ask? Well, I had to take stock of my work situation: Would it get better if I had yet another talk with my supervisor, subjecting myself to her tirades then her agreeing to listen to me only to go back to the same old pattern a few days later? Should I talk to my boss's supervisor again, not feeling any sense of trust that she'd help me and ensure my boss stop the negative behavior? Should I go above my boss's supervisor to the vice provost, who is aware of my boss's eratic moods and negative behavior? Should I just suck it up and just keep my head down and do my job and enjoy the students, the main part of my job? After doing a lot of soul searching, hang wringing and feeling totally ill I ended up going to our human resources director, expressing my concerns and outlining everything that has been going on almost since I started this job just short of 3 years ago. I finally realized that no matter what was done things would not get better given the way the department works and the personality of my boss and the admin in the office. So I made the difficult decision to resign. I gave 2 weeks notice which is the minimum I could give, sticking to the policy. It was a very hard decision because I really love my actual job. But I can't handle my boss any more. So I'll have to adjust to this new reality and figure things out. I'll continue looking for a new job but who knows about that. In the meantime I'll have to restructure life so I don't become a total slug. That won't be good for me. So there you have it!
I'm sorry that it came to that, since I don't think that it was exactly what you wanted right now. It sounds like you made the decision that you needed to make, though. And sometimes life nudges us in various ways. Hopefully you'll end up in a better place, however that looks for you.
missing stop closure after consonant clusters causing abrupt transitions. Yes yes. I know of that bug too. It showed up in Hungarian and other languages. Getting fixed. Bugs bugs bugs. All the bugs. That one is on indexing and pause frames in the new driver. Back to Python we go.
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being able to vibe code DTrace scripts is a game changer. I'm sure the equivalent in Linux-land is going to be the same. Suddenly things you know that can be debugged but you didn't know the syntax can be solved
i've been doing so much stuff of the "i know it's possible but i'd have to read docs for 2 days" category that i just wouldn't even have started otherwise, it's such a huge productivity boost
@lain yes, this is where it unlocks so much potential. Like, I don't want to become an expert in Dtrace. I don't want to become an expert in Postgres stored procedures, or PL/pgSQL. It will take too long and I don't have a job that demands that I do it all day every day.
Life is too short to become such an expert in something that you can do by memory that you will rarely need to use anyway
@NonPlayableClown @lain it's more about knowing best practices so you don't kill your database with terrible inefficient procedures. SPs, triggers, etc. They can be immensely powerful tools that turns your database into an absolute powerhouse but also you can cause really stupid side effects
(see also: pleroma restoring from backup right now causes expensive triggers to execute on inserts)
@lain @NonPlayableClown or pleroma returning different timeline results for the exact same query/data because those functions allow nasal demons to be invoked
@i @lain @NonPlayableClown this is very likely caused by non-deterministic collation on your Pleroma database
from the mouth God (Claude):
2. ORDER BY (The Key Issue): This is where you'll see different results on repeated executions: - When values are considered equal by the collation, PostgreSQL has no stable way to order them - The sort order between "equal" values is undefined and unstable - Multiple executions may return rows in different orders - If you use LIMIT, you might get completely different result sets each time
@i @NonPlayableClown @lain we should fix this. it's a solvable problem and just requires indexes rebuilt after we switch the collation to be deterministic
Have the world's biggest headache, but must power through. Nearly all bugs are solved that crept upon me after I changed that frontend DLL. C++ still sucks, and I'm only using it because I still haven't been bothered to check out other byte-compiled (machine code, not at runtime) languages. I learned it in high school like many coders, barely used it in college only on summer breaks, never used it during employment, and yet I use it for the small link-space. So yeah. That's our relationship. It's complicated. Is all this coding making me like C++ any better? No, not really. Sure, no strict indent-checking and function definitions are easier to write than Java. It's all I'm giving C++.
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