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New NVSpeech Update where I tried to rework the phonemes so they sound less sharp especially at sample rates above 11025, and probably failed. Everyone will hate it. But let's see.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Letters like "F" sound less like "clentched teeth" and I do think personally that it has made a difference, but all of this has taught me that everyone's ears are different and someone who thinks a sound is clentched teeth another will think it's not. So Sigh.
New settings added. Graduated Coarticulation, boundary smoothing between sounds, and Enable formant trajectory rate limiting. All of these have edit fields to customize, and they are all off by default.
If you hate the new phoneme table, you can always get V15 (change the link) and still have it. I might get a revolt after this one.
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Mew Projects

I'm not that account, but: no, a Mastodon client cannot retrieve more than 40 posts per API call. However, some Mastodon clients like mine, have the ability to pull down more posts using multiple API calls at one time. Even so, the home timeline can only pull a maximum of 800 posts backwards, regardless of any settings or features an app has, so if you have more than 800 posts coming in per week, that would explain it.
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Nicole Parsons

I am familiar with the Melian Dialogue "Might makes Right"

uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/mi…

thecollector.com/thucydides-me…

My counterargument is that the patterns & practices of that path is a path to perdition.

Rule without the consent of the governed sows the seeds of self annihilation. It's a system inherently unsustainable & fragile. It collapses.

Athens was ended within a few years of the Melian massacre.


Might Makes Right Revisited: Is Greenland a Modern Day Melos?

Hubris and an inflated sense of entitlement, not unlike that of the Greeks after Melos, back American claims to Greenland and Canada.
USC Center on Public Diplomacy
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🔮 ARCANECHAT SPOILERS ✨

heads up ArcaneChat content creators and channel owners!

your broadcast channel is already epic, it is #decentralized, end-to-end #encrypted, and independent of a central server, this is already quite rare! but it will be getting even more awesome! 🎉🎉🎉

in the next version of #ArcaneChat you will be able to easily see the number of views your posts have in your channel!

and stay tuned for even more cool stuff in the future! 🤯

#ArcaneChatSpoilers #e2ee #foss #chat

#foss #chat #decentralized #encrypted #e2ee #arcanechat #arcanechatspoilers

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I think I'm prone to over-thinking/over-analyzing potential life choices sometimes.
Maybe I could do A, and then X can happen, or I could instead do B, and then Y can happen, but it is hard to know exactly how the future will play out, and, ultimately, either choice would be okay.
It isn't good to act without thinking, but going to the other extreme can also be detrimental.

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"A dildo rolled across the pavement like a wounded soldier while tear gas fogged the street. Someone picked one up and held it aloft like a freedom torch while coughing their lungs out." A must read.

closertotheedge.net/p/the-dild…


THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION

The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.
Closer to the Edge (CLOSER TO THE EDGE)

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@Friendica Support

hello. in my mastodon & sharkey instances, i can extend the range of hashtagged posts available from other servers by also following several @relay.fedi.buzz tags, eg

@tag-aur@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-arch@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-archlinux@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-distrobox@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-firefoxnightly@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-friendicahelp@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-gnucash@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-kmymoney@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-lesbian@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-linuxwomen@relay.fedi.buzz
@tag-montypython@relay.fedi.buzz

unfortunately, these seem non-functional in all my #friendica accounts.

am i doing something wrong? is there a way to make them work pls? 🤔🤷‍♀️

#friendica @Friendica Support
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Droppie [farcebk] 🐨♀🌈🐧​🦘

@Melissa BearTrix ah, right, well i dunno, but maybe not. if not, that would turn out to be a real bummer, especially if the other two admins are willing & able to do it. it would be an important consideration for me in my endless agonising about which instance to use as my most comfy "daily" one.

btw, assuming you don't have access, it would be a perfect, albeit unhappy, illustration of my earlier concern:

somewhat inconvenient in that any time i wish to add any new relay.fedi.buzz accounts i have to involve my instance-admin, rather than simply do it myself like in my sharkey & masto accounts


🤔🤷‍♀️

@Tuxi ⁂ @Michael 🇺🇦 @Raroun

@Tuxi ⁂ @Michael 🇺🇦 @Raroun @Melissa BearTrix
in reply to James Dean

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Elijah Massey

@DavidGoldfield The BT Speak is the only notetaker I've used that I didn't become disappointed with because of its lack of capability or restrictions with what I could do with it or bugs, and the only one that can do a lot of tasks I would normally do on my laptop and not my phone. The BrailleNote Evolve might end up being another one but for now the BT Speak definitely seems like the best notetaker. I don't think the BT Speak could replace a laptop entirely for me, but it definitely partially replaces one.
@David Goldfield

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For FOSDEM first-timers, it's good to wear the shoes that work best for a lot of standing and walking and can handle rain and some puddles (depending on the weather). These might not be the best looking shoes you have (or they might be) it just needs to be something that once you put on you won't have to think about until you take them off, which will probably be hours and hours later. I am bringing two pairs with very different weights and support styles to switch between.

#fosdem #fosdem26

#fosdem #fosdem26
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Winter blue tardis

Darn, that's a lot of icons still. Despite me thinking I'd hate mac, I now only have the default apps on my dock, which kinda serves like the desktop, but mostly for stuff that's opened. Thought I'd go back to my windows habits of like, way too many icons, but nope, I guess I just stuck with the whole arrangement. Just removed a few unnecessary apps I didn't need and that was it, then kept a few I can actually open via the dock and stuck with it, so now it's that thing I am just used to. Also, nothing beats a windows refresh, to be fair. Except a super fresh windows install, to cleanup the registry only to fill it up back again. :D
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Ret

Also interesting to discuss the safety concerns of having exposed, fragile, solid copper data wires inside that enclosure, right next to those chonkin EV charger contacts at 230VAC... That Ethernet cable probably heads off into a comms rack where people are going to be handling the ends of cables, terminating, crimping, etc... without imagining that the other end is <2cm away from live contacts with zero isolation.
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Ok so I made this remix in Ableton over the weekend. Felt really good to just work on music for the fun of it again after taking a break for quite a while. Love this track by Charley and wanted to see what I could do with it. Link to original on Youtube: youtu.be/PSPiBLN9sv8?si=BpL_Ce…

Hope you like, I put some more info about the track in alt text, let me know how I can improve this because I'm honestly not sure how to describe audio very well.



Charley - Timebomb (Official Video)

Stream or download “Timebomb” by Charley: https://charley.lnk.to/TimebombIDFollow Charley: https://Charley.lnk.to/FollowIDDirector: Alexander LeewayStarring:...
YouTube

Jonathan reshared this.

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Canadian business idea. And it will be hard:

Email hosting in Canada.

- Obstacles: cost and know how
- People that don't want to pay for email.
- The internet monopolies that have worked hard on killing email (US based), and dump the market.
- Spammers that exist to ruin everything.
- Unfair competition from the Government: subsidizing foreign cartels instead of domestic solutions.

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Your reminder that if you didn't always know you were trans, that's okay! If you want to take HRT and get gender-affirming surgery-okay! You don't? That's perfectly okay too. Want to start HRT, then stop, then start again down the track? Also fine! Want to try out different names and pronouns? Do it! Clothes style changes with time, or doesn't fit gender norms? Experimentation is awesome! There is no one right way to be trans. This is *your* journey🏳️‍⚧️

#trans #transisbeautiful #transjoy #lgbtqia

#trans #lgbtqia #transjoy #transisbeautiful
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Hello friends. I need work. A. to survive and fight, B. to make space for more art in the face of our dystopian present. I'd be amped if that work came in the form of music, sound design, sonic art and activism.

My wheelhouse is dark and dirty electronic for my personal work but I am an ex-pro who can remix damn near anything and can bend sound design to sonically fit cool projects. I have references. Some friends here on the feed might like to chime in to help my case?

I am available for donate what you can commissions for game assets, remixes, loops and beats, soundtracks, media tech support?. Keen to hear your ideas.

control.org/

OR

Would you care to check out some dark dance, industrial, synthpop, powernoise, horror and dystopian soundtracks? This is a great time to donate anything at all, if you can, for my always free to download open catalogue [did you see my recent covers album release?] which thanks to your help is growing and hopefully much more this year.

music.control.org

OR

If you are in a decent place and might like to just send a few bones my way. This helps plan my year to not just be more productive and active with my own music outputs but also able to do collaborations, remixes for others, and my general backstage artist support and activism for the bard class.

more about my 2026 campaign is at
ko-fi.com/post/New-album-relea…
control.org/#solidarity

Whatever platform you can tolerate using, I'll add to the kofi progress bar. I know there are many pressing and apex issues pushing us all for time and resource, so I really appreciate anyone that wants to help us go down with a good angry cathartic stomp. I am lucky to have a secure home but as I've shared in the past, I cannot work in public spaces so I subsistence farm and universe willing, make noise with my friends.

I hope to see you at this years web concerts and in the feed.

Stomp in solidarity.

#getFediHired #commissionsOpen #commissions #solidarity #boostsWelcome #fediMusic #fediArt #gameDesign #faircamp #music #samples #ccmusic


control freak studio, control.org, C2, dj mindstalker, djco2

industrial powernoise synth ebm techno dance horror dystopia media and art
control.org
#boostswelcome #music #fediart #getfedihired #solidarity #fedimusic #commissions #CommissionsOpen #Faircamp #gamedesign #samples #ccmusic
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Since my last project came to an untimely end, I find myself with more capacity and less work than expected.

So if you need a seasoned Ruby freelancer for *your* project [^1], or know someone who does, we should talk: alexandergraefe.de

Boosts welcome!

[^1]: ideally remote

Alexander Gräfe: Freelance Developer

Freelance Ruby developer with 25 years of experience
alexandergraefe.de

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Dear friends in the UK, pay close attention to the horrors happening here in the US, and especially how quickly it went from 'controlling immigration' and verbal posturing to a fascist regime executing their citizens in the street.
Don't let the Reform nuts and bullshit nationalists get a foot hold, shut them down now and shut down those external christo-fascist billionaire fucks that are trying to make it happen. Sounds impossible, not in the UK, well lets just make sure it doesn't happen

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Hey, Fedi. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)

I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.

If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n

#Bugs #CoolBugFacts #Insects

#insects #bugs #coolbugfacts
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#DAVx5 @davx5app
The app consumes 26% of my battery usage, although I set all syncs to 1440 minutes.
I allowed it background activities in my phones settings.
I do not make/change contact information or calendar entries a lot - and if I do, I do on my phone (triggering ad-hoc syncs); a sync check should offer "nothing to sync".
Does anyone know why that is and what I could do to minimize battery usage?
#davx5 @DAVx⁵ 🔄

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The Beaverton does good work, sometimes.

thebeaverton.com/2026/01/fbi-d…

FBI director tells Americans not to bring guns to protests, schools still okay f v eo \ | Ll A = / = ere

FBI director tells Americans not to bring guns to protests, schools still okay - The Beaverton

WASHINGTON – Following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI director Kash Patel has advised American citizens participating in anti-ICE demonstrations to leave their firearms at home, while reiterating how guns are still welcome and…
Evan Klim (The Beaverton)

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As a company that has long boasted about its commitment to principles, Apple has had a bad several months. It removed ICE Block from the App Store. It let X remain, empowering its users to create child porn, which is apparently “free speech” now. After two American citizens were killed by ICE, Tim Cook responded by attending a special screening of the Melania documentary. It’ll be hard to believe that Apple believes anything it says after all this. When principles mattered, Apple collapsed.
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