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Jess👾

In the rare instances I do choose to share extremely disturbing things, I don't even solely rely on CWs since many people - myself included - auto expand them. I'll make the URL unclickable so someone has to copy paste it if they want to see it. Surround it with backticks if your software supports markdown. Put a space in the URL. Something so only those who actually choose to see things that may haunt dreams see it.

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New SpeechPlayer update, adds voice: Robert. Fixes Hungarian language rules by mapping new phonemes for them and not contaminating other languages with these. I can say that Hungarian is more understandable, it's not fully there, but it's getting there, so call it experimental support. Both Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese have the most phonemes in their table now. Not much else. Still sad. I know people still hate SpeechPlayer. I use it as my primary voice now. Part of me is proud of it for sounding very American, part of me is super ashamed. So ashamed and sad inside today.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
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x0

It sounds very American? I hadn't noticed, it still sounded off, but I guess as someone who lives here I'd be more able to notice that. Not ragging on you, though, eSpeak's own phonemes for that aren't very good, used to be a lot worse, and making this shit is hard. Hopefully we can get some more people to help with that. Lot more phonemes, especially the vowels, should be fully dependent on language.
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"perheorkesterimme" Kaiunsäde, vuosien varrella vaikka minkälaista ohjelmistoa soittanut bändi, on tulossa esiintymään Espoon Sellosalin lämpiöklubille lauantaina 31.1 klo 19. Luvassa on elokuvamusiikkia, tangoa meiltä ja maailmalta ja uutta originaalimusiikkia akustisina, pienen bändin eläväisinä sovituksina. Tervetuloa! Täältä lisätietoa ja liput: espoo.fi/fi/uutiset/2026/01/so… #keikat

"Sokeus on vaatinut tienraivaajan asennetta" | Espoon kaupunki

Haastattelussa säveltäjä ja harmonikkataiteilija Joose Ojala.
www.espoo.fi
#keikat

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Моя разказ за роботите и хората няма да спечeли Букър, но пък аз си го харесвам.

bogomil.info/5998

#shortstory


Капчици живот • Блога на Бого

Страх ме е. Много ме е страх, но не за себе си, а за вас. Навеждали ли си сте се някога към локвичка с вода след току що навалял дъжд за да духнете в нея?
Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
#shortstory
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Aз на FOSDEM 2026

Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса, които промените в последните секунди ми носят. Ако сте там и искате да се видим, тук ми е приблизителния план за двата дни! Ето списък с лекциите и слайдовете, ако ви е интересно.

bogomil.info/6021

#FOSDEM #Bulgarian


Aз на FOSDEM 2026 • Блога на Бого

Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса…
Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
#fosdem #bulgarian
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В Питере открылась монастырская баня для состоятельных верующих. Люксовый комплекс рассчитан на двоих и оформлен с камином, колоколами, иконами и парной. Цена православного релакса — 35 тысяч рублей с человека: в неё входят парение вениками, массажи, скрабы и «очищение ума от дурных мыслей». Обещают полный духовный перезапуск.

Чем это отличается по сути от "денежных ворот"?

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theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Rip up trade deals with the US. They're not worth the paper they're written on anymore.

Repeal anti-circumvention laws; allow companies in every nation to reverse engineer US tech, and sell better, cheaper alternatives, even to Americans - this would create leverage over the USA.

Cory Doctorow raised this idea at his 39c3 talk, recently. I agree. Those trade deals promise low/no tariffs and we let US tech walk all over us. Well now there is nothing to lose (never was).

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On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. theverge.com/news/867429/tim-c…

Tim Cook, Andy Jassy, and AMD CEO Lisa Su are at the White House for a VIP screening of the Melania doc.

If you’re wondering what kind of access a gold-and-Gorilla-Glass statue, a $1 million donation, and endless fawning buys you, well, it gets a special advanced screening of a state-sanctioned propaganda documentary film about the First Lady.
Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)

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RE: mastodon.social/@Moltz/1159538…

I have the feeling I have bought my last Apple products. They make me productive and I love how they work for me. But my conscience can’t handle giving this company more money.

John Moltz (@Moltz@mastodon.social)

On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. https://www.theverge.
John Moltz (Mastodon)

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I think #Signal seems to be a really good app. Both from UX perspective and privacy (as far I've heard from others).

But it's still US software hq:ed in Mountain View California (with Alphabet, Google, LinkedIn), so switching to it does nothing (0) towards European digital independence. It doesn't help promote the emergence of strong European alternatives to US tech. It actually does the opposite when the European alternatives miss out on an influx of new users.
#digitalsovereignty #diday

#signal #digitalsovereignty #diday
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adb

#DeltaChat, it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, onboarding is smooth much easier than in signal, similar UI (it is a signal fork) it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support, secure in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, etc

there are alternatives, but they will not gain momentum if you don't promote them and stop misinforming people selling a centralized silo running on amazon as sovereign
@leanderlindahl

#deltachat @Leander Lindahl

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Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires

thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing…

<- this is one of those things I never knew existed but now desperately need


Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires

Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
The HFT Guy

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Google is now marking EVERY SINGLE APK at our repository as "Malware site issue". Congrats, "Safe" browsing.

Of course there is not a single malware there, everything is scanned multiple times. And I bet they excluded *.google.com from their scan or the entire PlayStore would be red by now, too…

Calling out to all of you: Please use safebrowsing.google.com/safebr… to report the links as "safe"!

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/co… is the one console reports.

:boost_love:

#serviceToot #izzyOnDroid #fediPower

#serviceToot #izzyondroid #fedipower
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Ærion

Done! With a scathing message for ~them~ the AI bot to enjoy.

I can't WAIT to turn my back on #Android, literally my last and only tie to #Google.

We can only hope that this attack on 3rd party app stores, and #FOSS in general, leads to accelerated development of #mobilelinux and motivate devs to start porting their apps to it.

It's HIGH TIME to end this duopoly of iOS and Android as our only choices for our mobile phones and tablets.

@postmarketOS @ubports #mobian @jolla

#android #foss #google #mobian #MobileLinux @UBports @jolla @postmarketOS

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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android androidauthority.com/google-si…

The company insists it’s about user awareness, not blocking installs. Do you trust? (1/2)


Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android - Android Authority

Google says Android is getting a "high-friction" sideloading flow, but insists it's an accountability layer about risk awareness.
Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
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nixCraft 🐧

You know who needs to add high friction? Banks and financial apps. People are scammed out of their hard earned money under stress. Banks can easily say there is no IRS or digital arrest required to send money or gift cards to individuals because it is scam. There should be multiple warnings and holding large fund transfers to new accounts. This is where I want to see high friction added and I think it will protect innocent people. You know something like this shown on money transfer page/app:
An infographic that reads Stay Safe. Stay Vigil. that gives tips on how to spot and stop frauds. It features three main warnings: Digital Arrest is Fake!, noting that real law enforcement won't arrest you digitally via call or email/texts or ask for money on a video call. Unreal Returns, Verify First!, advising against trusting investment schemes from unknown sources like Telegram or WhatsApp scams and Suspicious Links, Don't click!, warning against downloading ".apk" files or clicking unverified links. The bottom of the image includes the call to action: Pause. Think. Verify. to users.
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Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.

"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.

In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#news #technology #TechNews #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI #GenAI #grok #grokipedia


Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
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#technology #News #AI #openai #chatgpt #technews #genai #grok #grokipedia
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The only relevant feature for any instant messaging app (or social app, for that matter) is: Are my friends using it? People will gladly overlook minor inconsistencies or missing features as long as they can communicate with their friends. We shouldn’t recommend #Signal as a stepping stone before Jabber/XMPP becomes "good enough," if goodness is defined by the number of people using it.

#Jabber #XMPP #Conversations_im

#xmpp #signal #Jabber #conversations_im
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antoniovr

@kris @oceane i was an xmpp user 20 years ago.But the fall wasnt only due to defederation. It was also cause it wasnt working properly when u had several devices connected simultaneously(depending on priority &connectivity messages were arriving to one device or the other).There was a fix(some server storage) but not all servers implemented it.With the encryption most are using omemo but there is still no encryption and pgp based...I think its easier to attract people to signal&matrix
@Kris @Les antibiotiques causent l’autisme, vaccinez-vous
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Daniel Gultsch

@kris @oceane @antoniovr Those fixes have been widely implemented about a decade ago gultsch.de/posts/the-state-of-…

The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016

XMPP is not suited for mobile devices. That’s a myth that has been around for ages. It is mostly spread by people who want to sell you their own proprietary instant messaging solution.
Daniel Gultsch
@Kris @antoniovr @Les antibiotiques causent l’autisme, vaccinez-vous

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Nunca me gustó llevar gafas. Y menos las gafas oscuras que me identifican como ciego ante toda la sociedad. Porque claro, si eres ciego tienes que llevar gafas oscuras, porque si no llevas gafas oscuras junto a tu bastón blanco no eres ciego, ya sabéis. Pero bueno, al final he caído, y este martes completo el atuendo de ciego. Espero sentirme cómodo y que merezca la pena. Se supone que estas gafas vienen a mejorarme la vida.
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Archos

@Zettl_josef
Aby se pickles vždy povedlo:
– Používejte vždy čerstvou a neponičenou zeleninu.
– Největší podíl dejte vždy šťavnaté zeleniny (mladé zelí, čínské zelí, mrkev, cuketa, daikon, řepa, cibule, kedlubna, přidejte jablíčko aj.), abyste měli dostatek tekutiny. V menším množství můžete přidat i sušší zeleninu (např. červené zelí, celer, pórek, jarní cibulka aj.).
– Zelí a cibuli krájejte najemno, šťavnaté tvrdší druhy (mrkev, kedlubna, daikon, cuketa aj.) strouhejte nahrubo. Tím získáte dostatek tekutiny.
– Velmi dobře zeleninu promačkejte (3–5 minut), aby pustila maximum tekutiny.
– Dodržujte množství soli: na 1 kg zeleniny = 1 velká lžička soli (cca 15–20 g).
– Dodržujte důkladnou hygienu (sklenice, těžítko i ruce si umyjte – nástroje horkou vodou; do pickles vždy sahejte čistýma rukama/příborem).
– Udržujte zeleninu vždy pod hladinou (pomocí těžítka).
– V horkých letních dnech přemístěte kvasící pickles do chladnější místnosti (sklep, spíž, komora) a častěji kontrolujte, jestli už je hotové. Aha tak cibule asi nevadí, už nevím proč jí tam nedáváme.
@GuloGulo
@Josef Zettl alias Princezna @GuloGulo
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Milu P. Pragerova

Jak dlouho nechat kvasit? 🙏

Našla jsem tento ⤵️

oriondomacipotreby.cz/nakladac…

@Zettl_josef @GuloGulo


Nakládací keramický hrnec na zeleninu PICKLES 1,3 l

Nakládací hrnec PICKLES na zeleniny, objem 1,3 l. Je z kvalitní keramiky. Součástí je poklice a vnitřní těžítko. Lze jej mýt v myčce. Více zde!
Orion - tvoříme vaši domácnost
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna

@GuloGulo
Skutečně je, pečuje o střeva a trávení obecně a tím zvyšuje imunitu.

V asii se ta zkvašená šťáva používá i v kosmetice, chrání kožní mikrobiom, takže se používá na pleť, ale i na intimní hygienu dam.

Mimochodem šťáva z kyselého zelí se používala kosmeticky i u nás, jen jsme to zapomněli a asi nikdo nechce vonět jako kyselé zelí. Takže nakupujeme séra ve kterých je výtažek z těchto produktů, jen o tom málokdo ví.

@GuloGulo

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The Jamulus devs are trying to make the server list accessible. I am not sure about the latest workflow proposed in the latest comment. If you have thoughts, please chime in.
IMHO, the best solution is to make it behave like the list view in the Finder, where you can navigate across columns and also expand and collapse folders. That said, they are having hard time make it work.
@FreakyFwoof
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Try to fix QTreeWidget accessibility bug by ann0see · Pull Request #3573 · jamulussoftware/jamulus

Co-authored-by: GitHub Copilot This might contain a lot of low quality code for now. How it looks like: There is a "Show/Hide accessible controls button" at the top which shows/hides the...
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Pitermach

@Scott QT accessibility is a mess, especially on Mac. There was a brief moment when they actually got the tree/table widgets speaking well, only to break it in a later QT release. Sadly you're probably not going to be able to make it so that the VoiceOver cursor can navigate inside it until QT fixes it. In TeamTalk the way they solved this is having a checkbox in the preferences to speak the selected item in lists using text to speech, and then you just treat it more like a windows app by tabbing and using the arrow keys instead of the VO cursor. QT now also includes an accessibility announcement API that speaks through screen readers directly if one is running, so what they could do is label each item with the text of all cells, and if the program is running on Mac, use the announcement API to speak it when the focus moves in the tree which is not needed on Windows because screen readers will pick it up fine there. And you will want to label the items with the text from all cells and not just the first one so that the screen reader will automatically read all columns and not just the first one. TeamTalk does this as well, IE for the files section which is a finder/explorer like view.
@Scott
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Chi Kim

@pitermach @Scott This is amazing! I gave gemini-cli the documentation for QAccessibleAnnouncementEvent as well as access to QTTeamTalk codebase. Then I asked it to make the server list in Jamulus accessible in a similar way to QTTeamTalk by passing all the relevant information to the screen reader to announce when a server or user is selected. It got to work and finished in a couple of minutes. It works perfectly! A few devs attempted to make this accessible for a few years. lol
@Pitermach @Scott

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"What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada and Greenland.

A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US, under President Donald Trump, threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South.

Let’s return now to Israel’s recent invasion of Unrwa’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem: a gross breach of international law and a direct attack on the United Nations.

Article 6 of the UN charter establishes that any state that persistently violates its principles can be expelled from the UN. The attack on Unrwa is part of a pattern of Israel’s criminal hostility towards the UN, including its refusal to respect orders from the International Court of Justice on Gaza, its slaughter of UN aid workers and its regular attacks on UN positions in southern Lebanon.

The case for expelling - or at the very least suspending - Israel from the UN is overwhelming. Yet neither Carney’s Canada nor Starmer’s Britain, nor any other western power, has so much as suggested the idea.

In his Davos speech, Carney set out Canada’s approach as follows: “We aim to be principled and pragmatic. Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights. Pragmatic in recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner shares our values.”

This is all well and good. But on the evidence so far, Carney is prepared to be principled when it comes to western countries like Canada and Denmark, and pragmatic when it comes to Palestine and Venezuela.

This is a fundamentally racist equation."

middleeasteye.net/opinion/carn…

#Canada #Carney #Imperialism #USA #Trump #InternationalLaw #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide


Carney wants a new world order - but only for the West

After failing to stand up for Gaza or Venezuela, the Canadian prime minister took umbrage when US imperialism hit home
Middle East Eye
#Trump #USA #canada #israel #palestine #genocide #InternationalLaw #Gaza #imperialism #carney
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