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Qwen released a new Apache 2.0 licensed text-to-speech model, with full voice cloning abilities, and it's really effective - my notes from trying it out here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/…

Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation

I haven't been paying much attention to the state-of-the-art in speech generation models other than noting that they've got really good, so I can't speak for how notable this new …
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I see Node.js tries to solve the AI slop issue on hackerone like this:

require a Signal of 1.0 or higher

nodejs.org/en/blog/announcemen…


Node.js — New HackerOne Signal Requirement for Vulnerability Reports

Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.

But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.

They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!


[JM]ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…

The NGI logo

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say
#Mastodon #nextcloud #phosh #libreoffice #onlyoffice #kdenlive #pixelfed #KDE #EU #lemmy #nextgenerationinternet #cryptpad
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haui <- 39c3

interesting thought. I dont think we need much political power to abolish IP. What we need is an angle behind which people form up.

currently, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of people swarming the US streets and thousands in europe protesting against war and oppression.

It is no problem to focus agitation on the contradictions we deem the most important. The issue so far has been lack of both theory and praxis.

I think this is also described in "what is to be done?".

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Feeling empty, and it bothers me. I'll try to keep ranting low this time, sorry if it upsets anyone I know you haven't followed me for this shit. Probably I'm feeling that annoyed because of the lack of sleep I have. But I just want more time for myself. Anyway work was shit today. Tried to tell my instructor about the way I feel, e.g. no time motivation limited big change blah, and he was basically like, yeah that's just a part of it. Right right. This is very stupid, but once again I'm considering just breaking up and going to some kind of school for the blind. I dislike everything about schools for the blind in this country, but at least it would probably work, somehow.

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A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.

Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.

Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.

It shouldn't just be us doing the work

dotart.blog/cobbles/the-silenc…

#sexism

#sexism

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In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31

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Rust 1.93.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨

This release includes a new musl version for the *-linux-musl targets, adds support for #​[cfg] inside asm!(), and adds [T]::as_array, VecDeque::{pop_front_if, pop_back_if}, Vec/String::into_raw_parts, fmt::form_fn, and more! ✨

Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/…


Announcing Rust 1.93.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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U.S. firm involved in Quebec's digital health records is sued by Texas

> A U.S. software engineering firm that’s responsible for Santé Québec’s two pilot projects involving digital health records is being sued by the state of Texas [...] and is maintaining a monopoly that has proved costly to taxpayers.

> Santé Québec, however, is standing by Wisconsin-based Epic Systems despite cost overruns for its projects of nearly $135 million to date.

montrealgazette.com/news/local…

#qcpoli


U.S. firm involved in Quebec's digital health records faces major lawsuit in Texas

The lawsuit alleges Wisconsin-based Epic Systems restricts parental access to children's medical files and is maintaining a monopoly.
Aaron Derfel, Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette)
#qcpoli
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Ja, "klicken Sie nicht auf unbekannte Links" – auch nicht auf solche, die mit "Scanne jetzt" beschriftet sind.

Das Zeug kommt hier täglich vorbei. Der Link führt zu einer Domain, der man also getrost unterstellen kann, mit Malware infiziert zu sein. Möchte jemand raten, welche das ist? Eine vage Idee haben einige jetzt bestimmt schon, also kann ich auch "Butter bei die Fische" geben:

storage.googleapis.com

Jupp. Deren Betreiber ständig meint, wir wären befallen 🤦‍♂️ Keywords: Fegen, Tür, eigene

Screenshot einer Scam-Mail. Fun fact: der Text sagt, ich soll nicht auf unbekannte Links klicken – was ich aber mit dem Button täte

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Gajim 2.4.3 has been released! 🎉

This release brings some important bugfixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/posts/2026-01-21-gaj…


Gajim 2.4.3

Improvements and Fixed Issues An error which prevents adding new contacts has been fixed Issues with creating new accounts have been fixed Feedback box on error reports is shown again Have a look at the changelog for a complete list.
gajim.org
#xmpp #chat #gajim

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RE: chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/1159…

Also don't miss:

* at around 10:10 a full minute on IzzyOnDroid (though more the client written by Sunil)
* short mentions at around 08:54 (our "Get it on" badge) and 14:03 (in context of Obtainium).

I was just a bit confused of what the narrator meant when saying "app store" (hint: not the store, but always the client app) 🙈

And as Sylvia writes: our download stats are now included with both, #NeoStore and #Droidify – and of course with stats.izzyondroid.org/ :awesome:

Page Redirection

stats.izzyondroid.org

Sylvia

2026-01-22 17:40:00

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Oh hey, didn't expect our new #IzzyOnDroid download stats to be covered by people this quickly. Guess people really love it!

youtube.com/watch?v=VR-MEwPDw4…

4:48 - 5:40

Seems this video was made just before #Droidify launched 0.6.8 with download counts, so it calls download stats as #NeoStore-exclusive, but oh well, still cool :)



Top 12 App Stores that are Better than Google Play Store

12 of the Best Alternative App Stores to the Play Store! Enjoy!______________________________________­ PATREON▣ HowToPersonalize - https://www.patreon.com/ho...
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#neostore #Droidify

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FOSDEM 2026 (Brussels): Sun Feb 1, 09:35 CET, UB5.230 (my last talk)

Accessible Sovereignty: Why the Four Freedoms Depend on Inclusion (Community devroom)

Thesis: the Four Freedoms are not real if people with disabilities cannot use the tools, study them, share them, and improve them in practice. Accessibility is the operational layer that makes software freedom exercisable.

Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

#FOSDEM #Accessibility #FOSS #Community


FOSDEM 2026 - Accessible Sovereignty: Why the Four Freedoms Depend on Inclusion

fosdem.org
#Accessibility #foss #fosdem #community

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FOSDEM 2026 (Brussels): I am speaking (again) Sat Jan 31, 16:05 CET in K.3.401.

“We Need to Support Authors Better to Deliver Accessible Content”
Track: Collaboration & Content Management 

Thesis: Many accessibility errors are introduced when documents are authored.

Audits just record the damage.

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

#FOSDEM #Accessibility #ATAG #WCAGEM #FOSS


FOSDEM 2026 - We Need to Support Authors Better to Deliver Accessible Content

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#Accessibility #foss #fosdem #atag #wcagem

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This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.

Meanwhile... umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/f…

The wsocial map shows the world with social media platforms from USA, Russia, and China, and a circle highlighting the lack of platforms in Europe
The StartHereSocial map shows Europe festooned with Fediverse services

Fediverse Near Me

A curated selection of well-moderated Open Social providers that are are open for registration and serving specific countries, regions or cities. [[https://jaz.co.uk/projects/mastodon-near-me/|Project Home/Message me]] [[https://jaz.co.
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I am speaking with Maurice Hendriks at #FOSDEM:

“Procurement Is the Biggest Form of Fundraising for FLOSS”
Track: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 

Thesis: donations are optional and fragile. Procurement is structural. If public buyers require open deliverables and upstream work, they create durable funding for maintenance and security.

Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event… 
“Public Money, Public Code” context: publiccode.eu/en/ 

#FOSDEM #FOSS #OpenSource #Procurement #PublicMoneyPublicCode


Public Money, Public Code

Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software
publiccode.eu
#foss #opensource #fosdem #publicmoneypubliccode #procurement

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I spent several minutes trying to figure out why the second port of my Roland SC-88ST Pro wasn't responding.
I checked Device Manager, turned it off and on several times, checked every setting in my MIDI player....... only to realize the problem was that I'd connected the MIDI cables backwards, plugging the output cable into the input port.
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Next week in Brussels, I'm speaking at Drupal4Gov EU as part of #EUOpenSourceWeek

The #WAD, the #EAA & #Drupal. Now what?

The June 2025 deadline has passed. The risk now is false confidence & operational debt.

10:35am, Jan 29, 2026

drupal4gov.eu/

#Drupal4Gov #OpenSource #FOSS #Accessibility #EAA


Digital Europe - Powered by Drupal

Join us for a day of knowledge sharing and networking in Brussels
drupal4gov.eu
#Accessibility #foss #opensource #drupal #eaa #euopensourceweek #wad #drupal4gov

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What do multiplayer text games actually look like in 2026? 🤔

This updated guide highlights 10 long-running Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) you can still play today, along with 3 additional games that opened more recently.

It also covers #accessibility features, web clients, and a beginner-friendly walkthrough for anyone curious about getting started.

medium.com/@the_andruid/multi-…

#TextGames #RetroGames #VirtualWorlds #MUDs

text-based MMOs??
#Accessibility #virtualworlds #retrogames #muds #textgames
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Jiří Eischmann

@miroslavbucek because everyone around me is switching from MT to MC. I have no experience with MT, but from what I read and heard from others MT doesn't scale. I'm not really interested in keeping contact with friends in the same area, I could get a simple walkie talkie for that. What interests me is building a larger, country-wide mesh network. Hardly possible with MT, quite doable with MC. I can already chat with someone in Pilsen over MC. Good luck achieving that with MT. In practice MT can do 7 hops max, I've already received messages with 14 hops on MC, theoretically it can do 64.
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Jiří Eischmann

@miroslavbucek Yes, it's exactly the use case where MT is better than MC: ad hoc communication in one location. MC can do direct communication between clients, too, so in most cases it would work just fine, but e.g. in the scenario where you have three clients: A, B, C. A can reach B and B can reach C, but A cannot reach C. MT would work for communication between A and C and MC wouldn't.
@Miroslav Buček 🌳

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Oh hey, didn't expect our new #IzzyOnDroid download stats to be covered by people this quickly. Guess people really love it!

youtube.com/watch?v=VR-MEwPDw4…

4:48 - 5:40

Seems this video was made just before #Droidify launched 0.6.8 with download counts, so it calls download stats as #NeoStore-exclusive, but oh well, still cool :)


Top 12 App Stores that are Better than Google Play Store

12 of the Best Alternative App Stores to the Play Store! Enjoy!______________________________________­ PATREON▣ HowToPersonalize - https://www.patreon.com/ho...
YouTube
#neostore #Droidify #izzyondroid

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Hi all, this is my first post on #fosstodon !

Let me present:
- i am an IT expert
- i was an European Digital Expert
- i co funded PC Soft in 1984
- i am retired now

What make my day:
- taking portraits
- hearing music
- install a new app on my mini server
- learning innovative technologies
- giving advices to startups

2026 on #fosstodon !

Screenshot of my dashboard for my mini server

dashboard
#fosstodon

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Even I ran in to some trouble installing #FastSM. Following Windows conventions, I first tried copying the files to Program Files and running from there, but got a script exception error. Moving the FastSM folder to the root of my c: drive solved everything. For now it may be a good idea to document the manual installation process somewhere, ideally before downloading.
#fastsm
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André Polykanine

I'm pretty sure it's Windows fault, not FastSM. Nowadays Windows highly discourages from installing programs from Zip archives into Program Files, as far as I know. You need elevation, admin rights and so on. Probably if you tried "Run as Administrator", it would have worked. but many programs nowadays install themselves to other locations such as %LocalAppData%/Programs.

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AI Term of the Day: HALLUCINATION

When AI confidently makes up facts that aren't true.

Ask ChatGPT about a fake book title. It might describe the plot, author, and reviews for a book that doesn't exist.

Always fact-check important info. AI can be wrong with a straight face.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AIForBeginners #AILiteracy

#artificialintelligence #aiforbeginners #ailiteracy

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Hab heute meinen persönlichen DIDAY gestartet und mich von allen Apple Diensten verabschiedet (hatte das fette One Abo). Nur die 2 TB iCloud behalte ich. Bin jetzt tatsächlich nach ganz langer Zeit wieder bei Spotify gelandet. Mein Sohn hat das Familienabo spendiert, weil ohne Premium geht das gar nicht.
Als Nächstes geht’s noch Google an den Kragen, allerdings werden YouTube und Gemini erstmal bleiben. Meine Mailkonten sind mittlerweile zu @mailbox_org umgezogen, bin da erstmal glücklich.
Der zukünftig größte Brocken wird aber der Umzug der 1.3 TB Daten die in der iCloud liegen und zusätzlich noch 600 Gb die im Google Drive geparkt sind. Dafür muss ich bestimmt Urlaub nehmen und ordentliches Gras besorgen um ruhig zu bleiben. 😂🤣🙃

#diday #google #apple

#apple #google #diday @mailbox
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Toni Barth

Generell bin ich ein Freund davon, den Big Tech Diensten den Kampf anzusagen - nur ist Spotify einer davon. Ja, nicht amerikanisch, aber für Künstler teilweise noch schädlicher als Apple. Die Preispolitik der letzten Jahre führt nur zu noch dickeren Geldbeuteln bei Spotify selbst, und einem größeren Loch in deinem Konto. Ob das im Sinne des DIDAY ist wage ich etwas zu bezweifeln. Der Rest, Daumen hoch.
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