1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy 2. Click ⋯ 3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts 4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to Bluesky
You may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.
If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.
It was sixteen hours ago, so I can't find the posts. But I remembered the name and went looking, and found the user whose posts had me thinking about this. I was about to paste it here when I saw it was a mastodon.online account. I'm certain the boosts I saw were from a bluesky-bridged account from the same user. Could that have something to do with it? Same post origin point also has a Masto account which is not blocked?
If it's a post from a Mastodon account, it wouldn't be affected by blocking the bridge.
Perhaps you previously saw the same user's Bluesky account bridged, but they have an identical unbridged account on here?
Not everyone uses bridges to post on multiple platforms. Some people use social management services like Buffer etc to post the same content on many different platforms. These aren't bridges, they're just automating the process of posting separately on separate platforms.
@patricus Only problem with that is if there are people who aren't offiliated with US government bullshit that use Atproto platforms like Leaflet, but they wanna use BridgyFed to make their content show up for those on the fediverse, you'd be missing out because they might use brid.gy. This is the sort of problem when blocking entire instances based on things like being part of Atproto, just because the head of Bluesky is openly welcoming some fucked up shit like ICE that doesn't mean we should start cutting the entire Atproto circle off.
@patricus No, they agree with some idiots who wanna run the US into the shitter. The protocol itself isn't run by nazis, its just that Bluesky, the specific instance, bsky.social, is letting a bunch of idiots like ICE run their shit on there. People can block those specific people, but blocking an entire service that federates Atproto with the Fediverse is a bad idea, because there are good people on Atproto and you're basically saying fuck you to them because they use a different protocol.
@alexchapman@tweesecake.social yeah and most of the protocol users are on the nazi instance, so it's easier to ban brid.gy than try to find a way to ban nazis.
@patricus But they probably don't understand the whole situation, so you're basically telling the innocent to go fuck themselves for not understanding the whole situation. And the people who are promoting these controversial people are not Nazis, Nazis are the people who were part of the Nazi party during the war back when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany. That's what Nazis are, so you're throwing the word Nazi around without fully understanding it.
@patricus But its not, ICE and Nazis are two completely different things. Yeah ICE has done fucked up things, but comparing them to the Nazi party is just wrong.
@patricus That's not true. And just because the people who run Bluesky decided to make a dumb move, that doesn't mean that innocent people should get fucked over like that.
@patricus @alexchapman It's a very narrow type of thinking. And also it actually has dictatorship smell to it: "that platform is bad, move here! Now!!" — different people can have different reasons to be here or there, starting from comfortable apps and close friends on a platform and ending with simple habit. My first and foremost reason to stop using Twitter was that third-party apps stopped working, that's it. And I still miss many people from there. If musk is a dickhead, it doesn't mean millions and millions of other people using the platform are.
@menelion @patricus Exactly, like this whole sentiment from a lot of the big names in the Fediverse saying oh these people who are the CEO of this platform or this protocol promoted this person or that, its just ridiculous at this point, saying that just because certain people are doing stupid stuff we should abandon the platforms and/or protocols is only making the situation worse, we should be about people, not platforms and protocols, this needs to stop or the fediverse will continue to look like a bunch of randos who try to push specific ideologies on to its users. This is one of the reasons why the fediverse hasn't been taken seriously in the mainstream.
@alexchapman Exactly. I like the openness of the Fediverse, its huge possibilities, decentralization and so forth, but it seems to become more and more a place exclusively for leftists, anarchists, anti-capitalists, exclusive-open-sourcists and other -ists with whom I absolutely don't share my political views. And if you don't agree, you are basically a fascist/nazi/something other random insult word pronounced just to offend, without really knowing dictionary definition, all the connotations and historical presumptions of the word in question. For example, you use windows and don't want to go Linux? You're anti-European fascist, no matter what (you have no right to like Windows, you have no right to be blind and need accessibility Linux doesn't provide and will never provide in foreseeable future — rights are only for the left wing). You don't want that 100% of restaurants in your country were halal because you like your traditional pork meal with a glass of wine — shut up you islamophobic racist, you don't embrace diversity. You don't yell "free palestine" because you don't support hamas and don't want Israel to be abolished and ruined by terrorists — help, a nazi is here, ban him! And so on and so forth and so fifth.
@menelion @alexchapman Yeah I should know. I've been kicked off 3 Masto instances over the past 4 years. I thought of creating a Blusky account, but I hear that is as bad as Masto.
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I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't like the idea of appearing on an official list of "skilled" people. Until now that was a theoretical fear. One I wasn't even sure if it was warranted or just me being overly cautious.
In Belarus things escalated quickly. Radio amateurs - usually recognized as men of goodwill - have been declared enemies of the state and publicly shamed and indicted for high treason.
Like fleeing Jeffrey Dahmer's house and running past three verified safe houses to the house of Ted Bundy, above whose front door is sprayed 'I am also a serial killer, and you are my type. lol'
Haha. All 10 of these. And I think I'm going to start calling it "3D printed code" sounds way cooler than "vibe coding" LOL. 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents arstechnica.com/information-te… (although, 50 projects in a month? Holy hell, not even I could do that.)
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A random question for blind people mainly, but really for anyone comfortable. What is your mental landscape like? What I mean by that is how do you picture things? Visual imagery? More sensory based? Nothing at all? Something else? I'm curious because even though I'm blind my mental landscape is very visual, I think in pictures, maps, recreations of places/objects/ETC in my head in a very visual way, which from what I've heard doesn't seem that common in the blind community. But maybe I'm wrong, I'd be really curious on thoughts here if you all are comfortable.
I'm the same, but I wonder if it's because when I was a baby I could apparently see a bit, honestly not sure but I think that might have something to do with it.
@ZBennoui I was thinking that too a bit, I had some sight when I was a baby, most of it in the first 3 or 4 months. So I wonder if that had some influence into my current very vivid mental landscape.
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Something I'd really like to see from @fosdem - a graph of which social media addresses speakers have on their profile / presentations over the years. Last year it was still quite disappointing that the number of people with Mastodon on their slides was quite low. Maybe something for the stats session at the end? #FOSDEM #fosdem2026
I'm currently exploring options for local LLMs to be integrated into Home Assistant. Does anyone here got experiences with this already? Like, did you try running a Raspi5 with one of the AI hats? What were your results? Do you have any other affordable local AI systems running with Home Assistant, which models work best for you? #homeassistant #ai #raspberrypi #ollama #smarthome
I've just seen YouTube videos about it but I think what the guy did was a bit beyond the scope. He basically made an entire voice assistant which was somehow connected throughh/with HA. And I think it didn't run on something like the Pi. But I'm very interested in what you're trying to do so feel free to keep us updated.
@jonathan859 Nope, that is basically what happens in the end. You need a part that processes speech to text, interprets it, acts on it and generates either text output that then again is output via TTS, or voice directly. Technically all of that can happen locally, but you can off-load it into cloud services like OpenAI too. I'd like to run as much as possible locally, or on hardware controlled by me. If push comes to shove, i'll be getting a VGPU server I guess.
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@jonathan859 You can integrate a model with toolcall, but I think the risk of hallucination can be pretty costly. For example, if you asks to turn off all the lights, it might shut off all the smart plugs including router. If you ask who's at the door, it might open the door, etc. Also you can only run tiny tiny llms on Pi, and it will be pretty useless at toolcalls.
No but following. I also think I may consider running a self-hosted model on the cloud, but on my own server. What are you looking to do? For me it's doorbell footage which is going to take a reasonably accurate and fast model.
@Jage Thinking about the same, but renting a VGPU server would be way more expensive than buying even 1 graphics card now, at least in the long run. That is why i'm asking if people got experiences already. I don't need to interpret live video, I don't think images either. Mostly just text to control entities and such, at least for now. But having a bit of GPU power in reserve won't be bad either.
Ya good point I could just build a desktop, and that would give me another excuse to do it. and for you with text that's way easier. Sorry I haven't gone further down the road yet.
@Jage Nah, you don't need to be sorry for anything lol. We'll figure it out eventually. Its just an experiment after all, i'm not willing to go full in on it, don't think that is really necessary for tasks like these.
It is but also if prices aren't going to come down for 3 years I may just have to do this now before shit gets even crazier. Actually, I may have an extra 32GB stick or at least 16 from a recent laptop, probably at least DDR4 so that could be something, though I know 5 is ideal.
@Jage Laptop will be SODIMM and not DDR4, so you'll have to hope for a proper adapter solution instead of the self-build ones that are coming up on DIY shops right now.
Dear Lord, I ask you, seriously, when does this nonsense finally stop? Please! What comes next? "AI"-powered Coffeemakers, "AI"-Hairbrushes, "AI"-Toilets? Please, oh please my Lord, the pain is unbearable, please let this bubble burst, I beg You!
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The rapid response networks people organize to defend their communities have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with ever-shifting ICE tactics.
Ok nice, just found the tool that's going to replace my quickly copy/paste link from PC to phone thing. NTFY. If I needed I could even make a script or something for it, though the web interface will be completely fine. I can then just open the notification on my phone, click on it and have it in the clipboard right away. Even more straightforward than roaming around on WhatsApp first, completely own infrastructure with a tool I use anyway.
@draeand Yup, I already use it for stuff like Kopia backup notifications, unified push for Pachli and stuff but I enjoy the way it evolves and how you can always find new usecases for it. So simple yet so powerful. Also hosting your own server is quite nice once you've figured out how to add a user and what you should or should not change in the config.
@draeand Hmm, makes sense. Well I only got started with it a while ago so it wasn't that critical, but yeah if you use it much/care about privacy a lot (not sure about how and what and when it encrypts) it would be a nice thing for sure.
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I'm feeling sad, maybe I should make a version of NVSpeechPlayer that self-destructs and switches back to the person's last synthesizer after 5 minutes, then deletes its dll so it can't be run no more. Sigh. The new phoneme table sucks, the old one was better, that's the end of that, the story of Speechplayer ends here. At least, that's how I'm feeling this morning and why no updates for awhile.
Aw, don't be feeling like that. Speech synthesis is a complicated thing to work on, but also super rewarding when it works. For what it's worth I think you've done a great job in making it support many languages, even if it isn't perfect.
@fireborn part of what I'm fighting a bit I feel like is ESpeak being the phonemizer, I mean it's a great engine for supporting a lot of languages, but then you have to work around some of its rules for speech and things like hyphen marks or if ESpeak itself already had issues with a particular sound. And things like Canadian English, even though it's there in support, enever a chance of it working well because ESpeak is just horrible at the IPA. But a larger rewrite with a different phonemizer and Lexicon set could drop already supported languages and complicate things, so sticking with ESpeak made the most sense architecturally until all the sounds in the phoneme table are correct, then perhaps a rebuild with another Open-source phonemizer isn't the worst.
@alexchapman @fireborn The most promising is github.com/rhasspy/gruut - it supports many languages, although still not quite the set supported by Espeak, although I'd have to see how hard adding language support is for those not in their set that we have. It would support speech tags for words like wind outside vs wind up. Eloquence has this so NVSpeechPlayer needs to as well, but without a better phonemizer like that one it ain't happening, so I've been looking at it.
On Monday I am recording another Coffee with Developers episode with Daniel Stenberg about curl and the AI slop they have to fight at the moment. What would you want me to ask him?
Whether you hate him with a leftest passion, or you were a fan of him, Charly Kurk spoke the truth when he said this. Men always desire what they can't have. This was ment especially in the context of relations with females. And guess what? I feel it again in the hardest possible way right now. But nobody asked. Nobody cares. Nobody would understand my other struggles already starting with school. But yeah life is great, I got a fu ing roof above my head! Emotions? Nah let's hide them, we only wanna hear the positives! Wow I'm sick of it. Guess what, my father noticed it sadly. But I'm not gonna tell him anything in the slightest unless it's nesesary, school things might be something there. Dude has seriously been messing with my trust, using it as a weapon against me in the past, several times. Now he'll need to regain it. And if the rest of the world doesn't give a shit, guess let's put on the shield after hiding some more tears of exhaustion.
It's a bit wild to me how much AI and tools I use for work and home are converging. For example, I use ChatGPT and Codex in both places equally, of course at work more of the tools have AI built into them, but just to casually open the same thing on both feels jarring to me every time for some reason. Not like it should, technically Office was something you'd have on your home and work computers too, but it's the context: Even when you used an Office product at home, you used it to be productive and get something done, whereas AI can absolutely be that with the right use but also be an incredible time-waster you have endless chats with because by design it's made to hook you in. Not sure. There you go, a Tuesday morning. That feels like a Monday :D because we had it off here in the states. So now, no more NV Speech Player work for a bit. It's work work time.
Seriously you guys. I know exactly where ny cheerleader uniform is, and I've lost enough weight that it fits. DO NOT make me subject you to the sight of a 50 year old in a short pleated skirt waving pom-poms just to get you to vote for your favorite language.
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USA anektují ještě letos Grónsko. To bude mít za následek rozpad NATO a nejspíš nový obranný pakt bez USA. Současně celá Evropa vypoví smlouvy USA o umístění amerických vojenských základen, přestane se obchodovat mezi USA a Evropou. Díky některým evropským firmám, jako třeba ASML, bude mít USA velký problém. Budou si chtít technologii vymoct silou a začne válka USA proti Evropě.
Současně anexí Grónska potvrdí USA platnost ruské anexe Krymu a Rusko vtrhne po rozpadu NATO do Pobaltí a Polska, znovu zabere Kazachstán (ropa).
Současně anexí Grónska potvrdí USA čínský nárok na Tchaiwan a Čína tam vtrhne.
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How do we know if it's now or later in the day? And what if it's later in the day, you only just now saw the post, but it sent now? Or when now was at the time? Not now now, but the then now. Yeah...
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Look, you can't ask engineers not to ship new features, you have to give them something to live for. Ask mozilla to be the leader on pop-up blocking again.
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It should hide any posts from that domain, even if they're boosted.
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Could you link to an example of a post you're still seeing? It might help in tracking down the problem 🙂
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If it's a post from a Mastodon account, it wouldn't be affected by blocking the bridge.
Perhaps you previously saw the same user's Bluesky account bridged, but they have an identical unbridged account on here?
Not everyone uses bridges to post on multiple platforms. Some people use social management services like Buffer etc to post the same content on many different platforms. These aren't bridges, they're just automating the process of posting separately on separate platforms.
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