If "AI" worked they'd be using it, not selling it.

I.E. if it did what they claimed it would be proprietary secret sauce, not "come use this for free so we can figure out what it might be good for". Still, in 2026.

Remember when blockchain was going to have a zillion world-changing uses, real soon now? Same guys, they pivoted.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

RE: hear-me.social/@Lacze/11593625…

The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.

Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.

I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).

Journos, you should cover the fediverse!

#resist

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

I was this close to registering a domain name & creating a splash page to expose why wsocial.eu is such a terrible idea.

Why did I stop?

I have a big hunch that their initiative is going to FLOP. Big time.

A fork of Bluesky that requires government ID to post? Bahahahahaha.

Sure you can have rich and powerful friends helping you launch at Davos but getting people excited about a new social network isn't easy.

I will use my limited time in propping up the fediverse instead ✊

NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.6 now on GitHub as a release. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Release notes:
This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably through STDIN), keeping NV Speech Player and the Phoneme Editor fully GPLv2-compliant while still allowing use of GPLv3 phonemizers such as eSpeak NG as separate programs. Functionality is unchanged for users, but the integration is now cleaner, more flexible, and license-safe.
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New phoneme editor that supports custom phonemizers via the command-line. This will begin the work of using other phonemizers than ESpeak, like Gruut, ETC. Please note that because of how we split chunks now, since ESpeak is ran through commandline arguments, there may be a slight pause when processing larger files. However, a new "phonemizer settings..." dialog has been added with a few templates so you can switch to another phonemizer than ESpeak.
This also means that V6 will be the first to get a release on GitHub, as it's no longer violating GPL2 to GPLv3, and frees SpeechPlayer from only and directly using ESpeak. Finding a phonemizer that's also multilingual though? Big challenge.
Note that we introduced a new symbol in the IPA output, ||, (two vertical bars) to indicate a pause. You can force a pause via IPA by inserting this, though.
eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE…

Gmail, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn - Big Tech is already scanning your messages. 👀

If you - like us - fight #ChatControl, you must quit these data hungry companies. 💪

➡️ tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanni…

Sucht hier jemand eine Person mit jahrelanger Erfahrung im Testen von Soft- und Hardware? So richtig mit Weiterbildungen und Qualifikationsstempel und so?

Ich kenne da eine Person, die mal nen neuen Job braucht.

Bevorzugt Großraum Stuttgart, mit ÖPNV-Anschluss erreichbar, gerne Teilzeit (25-28h/Woche), gerne was mit Verkehrswende und / oder Energiewende.

(Nein, nicht ich. Keine Angst.)

#getfedihired