@theblindgamer50 I'm getting a failed to set voice error when I use my custom voice with the Macintalk speak window.
Das "Heizungsgesetz" habe eine "enorme Unsicherheit in den Markt gebracht", sagte Katherina Reiche heute beim Handelsblatt-Energiegipfel.
Zumindest für den Wärmepumpen-Markt scheint diese aber überwunden zu sein: Dort wurde mit 299.000 verkauften Geräten 2025 das bisher zweitbeste Ergebnis erzielt, wie der Branchenverband heute mitteilte. (1/4)
Ich darf korrigieren: Die orchestrierte Kampagne und Verunglimpfung der Wärmepumpentechnologie, die Verzerrung der Historie und Inhalts des Gesetzentwurfs, persönliche Angriffe auf #habeck durch die #niemehrcducsu und #springer sowie das Durchstechen einer Vorabversion des Gesetzes durch die #fdp haben enorme Unsicherheit in den Markt gebracht.
Und ich darf ergänzen: Und die Inkompetenz und Fossil-Industrienähe von #gaskathie, die offensichtlich die Erneuerbaren ausbremsen will, bringt nun auch weiterhin Unsicherheit in den Markt.
Augenscheinlich ist sie jedoch glücklicherweise auch darin wenig erfolgreich. Es lebe die Inkompetenz!
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No TVL, to je fakt bizár.
Tahle Babišova čtyřletá schovávačka před spravedlností bude stát celou zemi ostudu, která ČR posune mezi země třetího světa
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„Naprosto neakceptovatelné.“ Petr Pavel obvinil ministra Macinku z vydírání
Prezident Petr Pavel na mimořádné tiskové konferenci obvinil ministra zahraničí Petra Macinku z vydírání.Barbora Kučerová (Seznam Zprávy)
Equipment failure slows REM service between Bois-Franc and Côte-de-Liesse
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The heavy rail that was on that line, that was barely 25 year old when it was taken down, didn't have these issues
Equipment failure slows REM service between Bois-Franc and Côte-de-Liesse
REM service is running at reduced speed in both directions between the Bois-Franc and Côte-de-Liesse stations due to an equipment failure.Jessica Barile (CityNews Montreal)
it should be noted that to get notified one has to subscribe to the CSAM generator that used to be known as Twitter.
Milí spoluobčané, co ste si to tam dosadili za burany?
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We'd like to invite you to our #BoF session at #FOSDEM It's on Saturday at 13.00 in room K4.401. This is a meet-and-greet for everyone who is part of, or interested in, the #NGIZero ecosystem. We'll bring drinks and snacks :).
Preceding us at 12.00 in the same room is the BoF about the Open Internet Stack calls from @EUCommission the follow-up programme to #NGI.
For these and many more NGI Zero related talks and events at FOSDEM see: nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDE…
Preceding us at 12.00 in the same room is the BoF about the Open Internet Stack calls from @EUCommission the follow-up programme to #NGI.
For these and many more NGI Zero related talks and events at FOSDEM see: nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDE…
Why are all the talks/events I'd like to attend at the same time (just in different locations) – including the talk I give myself? 😢 4 events relevant for our project, but only 3 of us are at FOSDEM, and we need to keep our stand covered as well…
Nevertheless, looking forward to meet you again! 🤗
hmm. I wonder if releasing on GitHub might be easier for folks, rather than Eurpod. I am considering doing this and keeping one file there. This might break my old posts, but GitHub releases are more trackable, the repo is frozen at that tag, ETC. There's just clear benefits to release them always as a pair (editor + Add-on) whenever I make a change. From here on out, I think that's going to happen.
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You'll need to post direct links to the release downloads though, a lot of people have trouble navigating GitHub
@x0 yeah, I think you can still link to the stub for the release zip from the assets link and not the redirected one, I've seen people do this. So hopefully it shouldn't be a big trouble. For sure an advantage on the centralization part, now that I don't post more than 1 release a day usually. Maybe 2 at most, but not 5 or 6 like I used to either. LOL thank goodness. Frequency should decrease over time as updates become more language-specific things only.
@x0 One day maybe I'll stop finding github intimidating. I've been making addons and updating them, and I know it would be useful to github the lot of them, but... Github...
@FreakyFwoof Downloading from github, for releases anyway, is much simpler anyway. If you go up from the bottom there's a releases heading, or you can just append /releases to the repo URL. THen you get a tag and expand the assets button. To actually put code there you need git, and GitHub desktop is a lost cause accessibility wise. Git isn't quite as intimidating as FFmpeg, perhaps curl is closer, but it has some obscure commands with bizarre, arcane options for very specific cases, which you'd run into if you tried to read the manpage.
Saw a reference to Paulo Coehlo’s ‘The Alchemist’ this morning, which was funny because just yesterday I was explaining to someone it’s where one of my key prioritizing heuristics comes from.
There’s a proverb in the book that goes something like “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Of course, logically this makes no sense—everything that happened twice is a thing that also happened once.
But I take it to mean “Once something goes wrong twice, it’s time to pay attention.” Once could be a fluke. Twice means there’s something going on.
Winter storm thankfully produced sleet instead of ice. Sidewalks & steps are still a mess. Neighbors were clearing sidewalks yesterday but stopped short of our section. Sweet.
I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…
#openart #foss #creativecommons
./make art: A Creative Commons Theater Experiment FOSDEM 2026
It began as a small patch for a real-world bug: holes in the road. A few hackers chose action over complaints and the result was a Creative Commons theater play, performed in Sofia, Bulgaria.pretalx.fosdem.org
I knew there was another reason I went back to Windows 10. Seriously, how the fuck do people still trust this shit? youtube.com/watch?v=sx8fA8zAoQ…
Windows 11 January Update Can Stop Your PC From Booting
🚨 Windows 11 January Update Can Stop Your PC From Booting 🚨In this video, we break down a serious issue caused by the January Windows 11 update that can pr...YouTube
I have no idea what any of that means, but I enrolled my PC into another year of updates just via settings, and thus it still works fine.
Do you like nonsense?
Today, for the second time in my life, I have been asked to convert a "pirate" copy of an old (50y+) movie into the DCP format, for a cinephile club. Not because they do not want to pay the copyright holders, they actually did. But that did not give them access to any copy of the movie, they are on their own.
The previous time, the distributor would only send them a French-dubbed version, which was a no-no for them.
They are not even obscure unknown movies, but classics. 🤦♀️
Today, for the second time in my life, I have been asked to convert a "pirate" copy of an old (50y+) movie into the DCP format, for a cinephile club. Not because they do not want to pay the copyright holders, they actually did. But that did not give them access to any copy of the movie, they are on their own.
The previous time, the distributor would only send them a French-dubbed version, which was a no-no for them.
They are not even obscure unknown movies, but classics. 🤦♀️
Convert flv (Flash Video files) to MP4?
Is it possible? Safely? (I'm not keen on clicking on some of the links on a search. Are there downsides? Does anyone know?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
If you can provide one video I can try it with my ffmpeg script. No idea if it will even see it or not but worth a try.
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency.
Not remotely what you want to see. Will keep tabs on this one in a tough time. Details:
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings.Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
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@FreakyFwoof I'm not wiping my bottom with controllers. Maybe I'm using them wrong? @pitermach @jscholes
@Scott In related news, you see my video on MK3 accessibility? Instead of NI's poxy 14 minutes, mine was 48. Covered a lot more in a lot more detail.
@FreakyFwoof Bookbarked it and sent it to some folks but I haven't watched yet. Slightly concerned it might tip me over the edge of spending money on a thing that I shouldn't spend money on right now.
@Scott I'd be more worried if they didn't just release Absynth, if their store wasn't still online etc. I'm not head in sanding about it or anything, but what's gonna happen is gonna happen, you know? Some people would love to see them go under but that's just churlish.
That would take down iZoTope too, same parent company, and it's just shit for the industry in general to be honest.
That would take down iZoTope too, same parent company, and it's just shit for the industry in general to be honest.
High‑pass RMS (a good proxy for “sharp edge”):
d͡z alone:
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.0201 → 0.0150 (≈ 25% less)
“words” (ending only):
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.01337 → 0.01048 (≈ 22% less)
And the overall RMS stayed basically the same, so it shouldn’t sound “weak”, just less prickly.
d͡z alone:
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.0201 → 0.0150 (≈ 25% less)
“words” (ending only):
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.01337 → 0.01048 (≈ 22% less)
And the overall RMS stayed basically the same, so it shouldn’t sound “weak”, just less prickly.
Canada should deny entry to anyone associated with ICE or CPB. Wearing masks to commit murders, it could be any of them, how do we know?
The d͡z version showed sharper energy around high frequencies (3–8kHz). To fix this, I redistributed the energy by adjusting various parameters, including pa6 and pa5. Next update. Words like " words" and "sounds" have less sharpness already but it didn't lose its sound.
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