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Just learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS.

Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed.

Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀

github.com/bluesky-social/atpr…


Interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub ¡ bluesky-social atproto ¡ Discussion #1716

What are the current plans from BlueSky (the company) for interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub? We currently have two emerging alternatives to X that deserve to be taken seriously: the fedive...
GitHub
@msonnberger

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talking about cisgender men on fedi (and the internet as a whole)

This is gonna sound like a call out post, and... No, it really isn't. I'm not calling out anyone in particular. I've just seen it one too many times. The straw, the camel's back, yadiyada.

My cis dudes. I love you. I really do. But I'm tired of you going under women's post expressing their grievances about men, to explain how ashamed you are of other men. It's... It's tiring. Like, it's really fucking tiring. Because you don't realize that every time we make such a post there is at least one or two of you. Every time.

We don't care about you being not like the other guys. Yes, sure, are one of the good ones, whatever. Good boy and all that. But when you do this, not only do you not contribute anything to the discussion, you're actually adding to the problem. It's adding emotional labour to the women trying to explain themselves when really you should just stay quiet and listen.

Give a like. Boost the post, even. But you don't need to say anything, not to us. Call out other men in the responses that are probably trying to argue and ending up exactly proving her point. Do better, instead of saying that you already are.

#fedi #men #women

#fedi #women #men

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Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know what comes next: Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’. gizmodo.com/vimeo-lays-off-mos…

Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'

Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.
Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)

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Native Instruments statement on continued support for customers and partners - their first official statement since insolvency revelations.

cdm.link/ni-insolvency-stateme…

Native Instruments logo

Native Instruments statement on continued support for customers and partners - CDM Create Digital Music

Native Instruments has posted an official statement from CEO Nick Williams, reassuring customers and partners that support for NI products will continue through the restructuring.
Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)

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Tesla panic-files 'Cybercar' and 'Cybervehicle' trademarks moments after Musk says them

electrek.co/2026/01/29/tesla-p…

This is what a T$ compensation package brings you. The greatest business genius of all.

#sarcasm


Tesla panic-files ‘Cybercar’ and ‘Cybervehicle’ trademarks moments after Musk says them

Tesla filed two new trademark applications within 37 seconds of each other last night, moments after Elon Musk used the...
Fred Lambert (Electrek)
#sarcasm
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#XMPP Summit

After many fruitful discussions and talks on XMPP we are closing for today.
See you tomorrow at 09:00 am (UTC+1)!

The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc

Most of the XMPP enthusiasts participating the XMPP Summit 28 in person.

XMPP Summit 28 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #messaging #belgium #brussels #rtc

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It's Duck Thursday
quack :3

Music: Serani Poji - Pipo Pipo

Serani Poji / pipo pipo（ぴぽぴぽ）【Official Music Video】

Turn on subtitles, lyrics are displayed.[English,Indonesian,Tagalog,Portuguese］Album 「one-room survival」DL & STREAMING→https://lnk.to/oneroomsurvivalセラニポージのセ...
YouTube

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Apparently, we are supposed to get between five and 8 inches of snow here in Central North Carolina over the weekend. Problem is, I have places to be and things to do, and this place shuts down at the slightest provocation. It's only just now kind of sort of opening up again after the last storm. Never mind, I guess.

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Edit: Got the answer I wanted and made my decision. Thanks.

Question for #blind people who use refreshable #Braille displays routinely: Does anyone run brltty on Windows? NVDA has the option to use brltty, but NVDA's default plug-and-play drivers don't use it. JAWS doesn't use brltty. Narrator does. So does anyone actually use Narrator's Braille feature, or otherwise use brltty on Windows?

Trying to gauge the usefulness and reliability of brltty on Windows specifically.

#blind #braille
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Tamas G

@clv1 hmm. most IPA can be left unquoted in YAML, and quoting is mostly about avoiding YAML’s "special meanings." You should quote an IPA string if any of these are true:
It contains # (YAML comment marker) e.g. a# must be quoted or everything after # is treated as a comment.
It contains : (colon + space.) YAML treats that as a key/value separator.
It starts with characters YAML uses for structure, like -, ?, :, [, ], {, }, &, *, !, |, >
(This one depends on context, but quoting avoids surprises.)
@Cleverson

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CW: death of a good chap

Sensitive content

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The speechPlayer.dll now exports additional functions for real-time control of the voice source characteristics. These allow callers to adjust the "voicing tone" — the spectral shape and character of the glottal pulse — without modifying individual frames.
• speechPlayer_setVoicingTone(handle, VoicingTone*) — Apply a new voicing tone configuration.
• speechPlayer_getVoicingTone(handle, VoicingTone*) — Retrieve the current voicing tone settings.
• speechPlayer_hasVoicingToneSupport(handle) — Check if the DLL supports voicing tone control (for backward compatibility).
VoicingTone struct:
voicingPeakPos
double
0.85–0.95
Glottal pulse peak position. Lower values create a more pressed/tense voice quality; higher values
voicedPreEmphA
double
0.0–0.97
Pre-emphasis filter coefficient. Higher values boost high frequencies before formant filtering.
voicedPreEmphMix
double
0.0–1.0
Mix between original and pre-emphasized signal. 0.0 = no pre-emphasis, 1.0 = full pre-emphasis.
highShelfGainDb
-12 to +12
High-shelf EQ gain in dB. Positive values brighten the output; negative values darken it.
highShelfFcHz
double
500–8000
High-shelf corner frequency in Hz. Controls where the shelf boost/cut begins.
highShelfQ
double
0.3–2.0
High-shelf Q factor. Higher values create a more resonant shelf transition.
voicedTiltDbPerOct
double
-24 to +24
Spectral tilt in dB/octave. Negative values create a brighter sound (less natural roll-off); positive values create a darker, more muffled sound.

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Is software ever done? When I started writing this I assumed the answer was yes, but by the time I finished, I'm not sure anything is ever done (not just software)

opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-…

#opensource #EOL


Is software ever done?

I posted a graph on LinkedIn. It showed that of the 10 million open source projects tracked by ecosyste.ms, more than half haven’t been updated in two years.
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
#opensource #eol

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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.8.5 Update from this link, or the updater in the add-on. I must run to work stuff. No more speechplayer until the evening.
This release adds proper tilt control to the NVDA driver.
No changes to phoneme editor, no time before work. Only changes to the speech player exports, and the driver, and packs to improve the R sound.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
in reply to Tamas G

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Amir

This is the first time I'm using this add-on with NVDA as one of its voices. I like the 44100 Hz sample rate! However, at least in this release I'm noticing that with the US English default voice, the k sound actually sounds like the t sound, either individually or as part of words. For instance, comma sounds like taama, and combo sounds like taambo. Any chance of improving this?
in reply to Amir

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Tamas G

@amir I could have done the upsample trick with Audioop in the driver, it might sound a bit cleaner but also create aliasing (unless we upsampled the 16000 hZ version to it, maybe slightly better.) So in true reality with these formant synths upsampling is always cleaner, but telling the engine to sample at a frequency results in more burstyness and voice character becomes more "whispery" as well.
@Amir
in reply to Tamas G

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Jonathan

Yo, so I've finally checked this out, and wanna say great work on this man. It really has potential, happy to see there is also german in the languages, I'm still trying to think of good words to describe whhat I'd love to be improved with the voices, but let me try around with it a bit more first. Well done, don't burn yourself out or down talk your work. If you need a break, take it, noone wwill judge you. But nice progress.

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"We actually hired a guy to do Community Outreach but he just keeps disingenuously wanging on about making the dick-hammering opt-in"

mastodon.social/@TheZeldaZone/…

Zelda 🎀 (@TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social)

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick.
Zelda 🎀 (Mastodon)
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Magneto was right

RE: drwebdomain.blog/2026/01/28/mo…

@mattw @cstross @TheZeldaZone

They have 1.4 billion dollars to drop on some AI bullshit

mastodon.me.uk/@drweb2@drwebdo…

THEY. DON'T. NEED. MY. MONEY.

Or yours


Mozilla building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic – CNBC

Mark Surman, president of Mozilla Foundation, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Tech Mozilla is building…
DrWeb's Domain
@Charlie Stross @Matt @Zelda 🎀

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#XMPP Summit

The current topics are "Account Recovery", "Passwordless Authentication" and "Mentions".

The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc

The XMPP Logo

XMPP Summit 28 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
xmpp.org
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #messaging #belgium #brussels #rtc

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Wow! This powerful new Bruce Springsteen song just released all about the horrific events in Minneapolis, definitely worth listening to. It already has over 1.7 million views and it's only been up for 12 hours! Wow! youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=o_EWrO…

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...
YouTube

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RE: mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenew…

Next up will be a VPN ban. Many tech-y people will see that and think “lol yeah well that’s not going to stop *me* from using a VPN”

A VPN ban isn’t really meant stop you from using one. It means when they catch you doing so, they’ll use the fact you’re using this harmless technology itself as a *pretense* to lock you up without needing to do any “hard work” (i.e. an investigator’s job) like actually confirming whether you committed a real crime.

Don’t think you won’t be impacted just because you know how to outsmart an ISP filter! This is not a plan to protect children or stop you from consuming adult media. It is a ploy to eventually eliminate ALL freedom of expression and free access to information in the UK.

And the same goes for Chat Control and encrypted messengers, btw

#UKpol #VPNban #PornHub #ChatControl #Privacy #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia

The New Oil (@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org)

Many #UK Users Soon Won't Be Able to Access #Pornhub https://www.404media.co/uk-pornhub-blocked-age-verification-vpn/ #nsfw #porn #privacy #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
The New Oil (Mastodon)
#privacy #socialmedia #freespeech #chatcontrol #ukpol #pornhub #vpnban
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Jonah Aragon

I think some are still missing the point. I’m not saying they’re going to lock up every single person who uses a VPN or watches porn.

Your government’s strategy is to make “crimes” like this as common and easy to commit as possible.

This way, if you ever do something completely legal which they *actually* don’t like, *which can be completely unrelated to VPNs or bypassing age verification,* they can pull up your internet history and easily prosecute you.

Organize a legitimate protest, and the government’s swift response will be to label you a child sex offender because they found you using evil VPN technology.

This is how free speech dies, not from a law that says “free speech is dead now,” but from draconian, authoritarian laws like this that give the government “plausible” reasons to go after anyone, which can’t easily be fought against.

This has always been the playbook to target innocents. In the USA, drug possession laws being created as a pretense for cops to raid and dismantle minority communities, for example. And now this is coming to the digital realm.

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Amazon have reported "hundreds of thousands" of pictures of child sexual abuse material found in shared AI training data... but is refusing to tell regulators which data sets.

If you're using generative AI tools, there's a pretty good chance you're generating imagery with child porn training data behind the scenes.
bloomberg.com/news/features/20…

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