Okay, I'm having too much fun with this. Here's a stupid voice of my own creation (no idea why the pitch isn't right) reading a stupid story I wrote about a hyper-intelligent hedge trimmer. I'm sure @BorrisInABox and @cordova5029 will get a chuckle out of this.

Because much commentary is now being posted about the killing of a man in Minneapolis today by armed and masked federal agents, and because my previous thread about this today has grown long, I'm starting a separate thread about this now.

"There is some dispute now whether that was ICE or Customs and Border Patrol, wrestling an individual to the ground. He appeared to be motionless."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
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contrarian.substack.com/p/execโ€ฆ

in reply to William Lindsey

"Another day, another dead Minnesotan. Shot in the street while getting pinned down by masked federal thugs. And Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino wasted no time putting out narratives that donโ€™t at all square with the videos weโ€™re seeing. But who you gonna believe? Them, or your lyinโ€™ eyes?"

Matt Labash

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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mattlabash.substack.com/p/a-prโ€ฆ

in reply to William Lindsey

"RIP, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse by trade. Intensive-care nurses, not typically being he most war-like people. And who the goon squad is already slandering as a 'domestic terrorist.' Yeah, Iโ€™m for stopping domestic terrorism, too. Which is why someone should arrest Stephen Miller, who takes demented pleasure in waging war on his own people. While prompting his corrupt boss to do the same."

#Minneapolis #Trump #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #AlexPretti #murder
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This is the second time that I have had OmniDescriber just totally lose my configuration. This time, I did literally nothing as far as I can tell. Windows Defender says my computer isn't infected with anything, but I'm still managing to encounter this issue. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I'm not sure I can rely on this program anymore. If anyone has any thoughts on this feel free to let me know. Thanks.
in reply to Brandon Tyson

The fact it's no longer a local tool I can put my API keys in, it's a cloud solution where I have no idea what models they use internally and don't pay for my API usage, rather I pay for the pricing they decide to put up. I'm happy for the developer he got this, chance, and yes accessibility wise the web version is ok and does what it's supposed to, but well. I preferred the local native app, I had control, it couldn't go down, etc etc.

I was using Debian earlier today--the GUI, not over SSH. I think I see why Linux isn't more popular. I had a .txt file, and I pressed enter on it. Any computer user would expect the file to open. At worst, they would expect to be prompted to choose an application. Nope. Debian popped up a dialog saying the file was executable, and asking if I wanted to run it. Come on, Linux. It's a text file! What are you doing? This is (part of) why nobody likes you.

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Friendly reminder that Signalโ€”while maybe not perfectโ€”is a much better choice for communication than RCS, especially if you are communicating anything sensitive. Doubly true if you are on iOS or communicating with anyone who is, as Apple still does not even use end-to-end encryption for RCS like Google does on Android.

signal.org/download/

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momostr - Link to source

Vyram Kraven

I'm very relaxed. Giving feedback isn't crying mr.mellowdramatic it's feedback & you don't like it okay cool. I'm not gunna stop saying it though because thats my review on the app. You don't want to change it back okay don't that's just more review sauce for me.
The way back is by not updating & if you kill older versions well then i'm just -1 to using the app & i'll try something like Cherogram which offers webxdc as well & then advertise it till there's a change that makes it worse then better.
Unknown parent

Yep & when something is put into this world the experience made is the one kept. If by drowning in a glass of water you mean being public with review & experience then I will happily do so. If you didn't care you wouldn't be taking the time to anticdoting feedback as crying or drowning in a glass of water. If things get worse maybe I will look for an alternative one minus isn't going to make me go jump off. Theres so many factors to what makes a person stay or not.
in reply to erAck

Da fehlt noch der Punkt: "Was fรผr eine Bank-App โ€“ und gibt es die auch 'libre'?" Solange es die nur im Spielzeugladen und beim Obsthรคndler gibt, werden wohl einige von uns damit nichts anfangen kรถnnen ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Schon traurig, dass man sich von US-Diensten "unabhรคngig" macht, indem man sich an selbige bindet. Seltsame Logikโ€ฆ

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Thanks for your toot!

The urge to connect every thing to the Internet astonishes me. I enjoy other people's observations and complaints about the Bidness World's belief that we are all idIoTs.

This thread reminded me of a story from a galaxy far, far away - timewise. Before the Internet. Even before FRED, the first PC. The story is "The Robot Millennia", in "Galaxies Like Grains of Sand" by Brian Aldiss, New American LIbrary (1960). It was prescient, and fun. But no IoT.

Will you be at #FOSDEM or in Brussels next week and want to meet some of the team? ๐Ÿ‘€

We have a few more spots open to register for the event at Little Delirium on Jan 31! If you haven't registered yet, do so before space runs out ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #OpenSource
luma.com/ptshwcqn

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1โ€ฆ today brings you 21 updated and 1 added apps:

* Be nice: lets you launch apps in split-screen mode ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

Hi @Tamasg I'm trying NVSpeechPlayer 2026 v10, I'm not sure if this is the latest version, but the voice sounds a bit different, even when using Adam, than the original SpeechPlayer. Were there some changes that could change how the overall voice quality sounds? It's hard to pinpoint it, but the voice itself sounds less harsh and consonents like P sound very short now. I see several settings in the voice dialog but I have no idea what any of them do, but they did not seem to make much of a difference. Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks.
in reply to Brandon Tyson

yeah, there were like 3 missing phoneme fields: preFormantGain. , GlottalOpenQuotient, ETC. these got added in the later pack and are now tunable per vowel, in the past they would just be set to the engine default and everything got the same treatment. So this allows more flexibility but some things could have shifted with the change. Every letter now needs to define these new 3, they are very important for shaping and leaving them out in the past until now has been a disaster.
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Nun wรผrde ich รผberlegen, mit welcher Oberflรคche ich arbeiten mรถchte. Soll sie so รคhnlich sein wie Win. Oder kรถnnte ich mir vorstellen, andere innovative Bedienkonzepte auszuprobieren. Denn Umgewรถhnung nd Einarbeitung wird nรถtig. Da kรถnnte man auch gleich alte Zรถpfe abschneiden.
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in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Hier kรถnnte man sich verschiedene sog. Distributionen und Desktops anschauen:
onworks.net/onworkssession.php
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Ich habe mehrere Jahre Dualboot genutzt. Seit Windows 10 wรผrde ich persรถnlich das nur noch versierten Benutzern empfehlen. Windows ist da eine ziemliche Schweinebacke und hat da keine Skrupel, dir z.B. nach einem Update mal kurz den Bootloader zu zerschiessen. Nicht lustig, fรผr die " Nur-Anwender:in".

Daher, wenn mรถglich, Linux nach erfolgreichem Live-Test ab USB Stick beim Installieren die ganze Festplatte geben. Und falls doch noch zwingend ein Windows benรถtigt wird, dieses per Virtual Box o.รค. nutzen.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Das "sieht" man aber nicht vorher oder nur beim ausprobieren. Das lรคuft wunderbar nebeneinander, bis zu dem Punkt, wo Windows findet, es wรคre mal an der Zeit, zu zeigen, wer der Donald auf der Kiste ist. Und dann tuts weh. Darum empfehle ich das fรผr Umsteiger gar nicht mehr.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

NVSpeech Player 2026 v10: Removes all pops/clicks from stream, 100% for sure now.
Spanish can now say "yo" properly. First attempt at "hear" and "dear" but it's not perfect yet. Other tweaks to voice quality.
Sample rate added. You can now choose from 4 of them if you don't like the default.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlayโ€ฆ
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in reply to Cleverson

@clv1 Youโ€™re right, the schwa rule was present, but it didnโ€™t trigger before "rรฃ" in pt-br because we normalize รฃ into a Brazil-specific nasal vowel symbol รƒ, and our PT_VOWELS class didnโ€™t include รƒ. Iโ€™ve added รƒ to PT_VOWELS (and PT_NASAL_VOWELS) in pt.yaml, so consonant + ษพ + รƒ now correctly becomes consonant + แตŠษพ + รƒ. That should fix the missing schwa before rรฃ / ram / ran-style sequences.

It makes sense that people who have completely abandoned their humanity want to replace humanity with software. The people pushing AI have no idea what art and music are.

They have no idea how a story can make a soul shiver and bend and laugh and weep.

They have no idea what it means to be truly human in this world, knowing that you are connected with all life.

They only want to replace humans with sickly, unthinking toys.

Oh โ€“ look how many subscribers the #LibreOffice YouTube channel has! Check out our videos about the software and events, and be subscriber number 25,000: youtube.com/@libreoffice-tdforโ€ฆ

I'm looking for a secure Messaging app replacement for #GrapheneOS but my web searches haven't turned up any clear answers. I use Signal and love it - I'm just looking for something for SMS/MMS that isn't as unsightly as the default Messaging app, with better use of the available screen real estate, and perhaps has some basic theme and/or layout options. Any recommendations from personal experience?
in reply to DJ [REDACTED] ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

I think people will get confused by the way you formulated the post "secure messaging app" that is why you will get recommendations for Delta Chat and other encrypted messengers, maybe better clarify you mean "secure SMS app" to avoid confusion, and btw I recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat as replacement for Signal, no phone number or any data required, decentralized, good multi-device, etc.

for SMS I liked "QKSMS" but that was years ago, see successor:
f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.ocโ€ฆ

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in reply to Catelli

actually, #email (#SMTP + #IMAP) can totally be used for #InstantMessaging it is not the protocols it is the specific email providers and "big fishes" like #gmail and #Outlook the ones that put extra limitations on top like graylisting etc. with #ArcaneChat and #DeltaChat you can have sub-second (#ENCRYPTED) email delivery
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