"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
Wellp, I tried to integrate the logic from the old IPA file into my NVSpeech, now it sounds like someone's squeezing his balls very tightly each word, oh no. This is not how it used to sound I'm sure. Not all exclaiming and shreaking wildly.
often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our part" it's a kind of cynical justification for cutting some essential, centralized, mostly-efficient public service in favor of an ad-hoc, individualist approach that externalizes the issue and disclaims responsibility for neglect and poor outcomes. if you protest such a change, or suggest that perhaps some problems are better dealt with collectively by pooling resources, then it must be you who are lacking the collective spirit!
you will see things like "plans for recycling center abandoned" and "sanitation workers vote to strike over low pay and poor conditions" and "campaign launched to encourage recycling" and "water company admits wastage due to underinvestment" and "here's how you can save water and Save Our Planet"
this specific form of greenwashing is so successful and has basically normalized the idea that we should be satisfied with a gradually-worsening quality of life. people will genuinely get angry with you if you bring it up, and point to leaflets with stock photos of immaculate, smiling actors who are overjoyed to have remembered to switch off the water while brushing their teeth, rather than perhaps the idea that somebody needs to be paid a living wage to fix the pipes, or dig a new reservoir
every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon
Mimochodem, první nervový kolaps v práci pro rok 2026. Jsem se zase tak vytočil, že jsem musel odejít domů. Chování některých lidí, na to mi ani ty ADHD tabulky nestačí kurva.
Earlier today I learned that pip includes a bunch of telemetry data in the HTTP User-Agent header for every request it makes, and has for >10 years (with increasing amounts of info): github.com/pypa/pip/blob/545ed…Not only is this not opt-in (as any telemetry should be), but there isn't even an opt-out. I'm still shocked and not sure what conclusions to draw from this, except: This is not okay! I remember there was quite an uproar when Go tried to add opt-out telemetry a while back, and rightly so. How did I never hear about Python doing this before? Sure, less details, but still sending telemetry without ever asking for consent.
I like #Python, I want to keep using it, but can I if core tooling ignores user consent like this? And what other key development tools (Python or otherwise) have things like that and I just haven't noticed yet?
Not sure if that's the only place where anything is done with this, but at least in this instance it seems to ignore any of the more privacy invasive and non UA-fitting info anyway. 🤔
(Like a UA saying "I'm pip x.y on python 3.z" seems somewhat reasonable to me, the rest not so much.)
A place to talk about packaging Python software and the tooling to make that possible. Use this category for discussions relating to anything packaging in Python, including but not limited to: PyPI / Warehouse pip setuptools wheel virtualenv Pip…
(Maybe rather just "pip vX.Y" would be enough. The python version this is running under isn't really of anyone's concern that would encounter the UA...)
The U.K. government is warning of continued malicious activity from Russian-aligned hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure and local government organizations in the country in disruptive denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Updated Readme at github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… with more engine variables. It's getting quite large and very, very language nerdy. But ah well, I must slowly begin to accept it: I'm turning into a language nerd.
Well, a LegacyPitchMode setting will be nice. It'll replicate that sound NVSpeechPlayer had before they moved to using Espeak's calculations for pitch curves. Next update it's planned for. The constants I'd be copying are right there: 25000, 1.5, 1.2, 8, 1.75, and the stressInflection decay rules.
In a money-based economy, this means that people earn money from their work and spend that money on the products made by others. When technology makes people more productive, less work is needed for the same output, and the value of the resulting product is reduced. 2/4
Unless we have an economy that is no longer based on money, highly autonomous systems would eliminate value. This is unlikely to be a mission that would attract billions in funding from investors who hope to share in all the money OpenAI plans to earn in the future. 4/4
I didn’t read this as “economic” as in a natural limit on the price floor due to resource scarcity etc, but somthing that openAI’s investors can control as long as MSFT and Musk occasionally have a phone call
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in reply to Archos • • •Český politický humor nenávidím, protože nikdy nemá pointu ani hloubku.
Tento vtip je vzácná výjimka.
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