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It's really heartbreaking to see a technically superior OS (MacOS/iOS) turn into complete dogshit because the people running the show are clueless.

They had the best implementations of almost everything but decided to just keep making the user experience worse every release and letting the craziest bugs manifest and go unaddressed for years

I guess with Cook being so focused on making Apple a services-focused company it was bound to happen, but damn... they really ruined a technical masterpiece.

And worse, every release they make it even harder for a competent engineer to actually debug these kind of issues. What good is having Dtrace if you can't even use it because of SIP, etc?

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@lanodan @hj they used to have Radar, a public web bug tracker but now you have to use Feedback Assistant which is less than ideal

developer.apple.com/bug-report…


Bug Reporting - Apple Developer

Now with Feedback Assistant available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web, it’s easier to submit effective bug reports and request enhancements to APIs and tools.
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@Haelwenn /элвэн/ @ fosdem @Gay, loud and annoying !

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Eloquence uses a modified Klatt synthesizer with:
• KLGLOTT88-style source (at² - bt³ polynomial)
• Spectral tilt (TL): ~8-12 dB for normal voice, ~20-24 dB for breathy
• Flutter (FL): ~25% for naturalness (sums of three sine waves at 12.7, 7.1, 4.7 Hz)
• Open quotient (OQ): ~50% default, varies for voice quality
Eloquence has very specific formant transition patterns:
• Non-steady-state targets (0ms duration) as inflection points
• F2 "locus" frequencies for consonants that drive coarticulation
• 5ms frame rate for smooth interpolation

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Just a friendly reminder that it's the #FOSDEM week :)

7 rooms will be streamed over #PeerTube from VHSky.cz and MakerTube.net instances. Playlists here.

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Přátelská připomínka, že nás tento týden čeká #FOSDEM :)

7 místností bude streamováno i na #PeerTube z instancí VHSky.cz a MakerTube.net. Playlisty zde.

#VHSky

#peertube #fosdem #vhsky
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I don’t really get the benefit of doing a national shutdown like this. Reaper took their website offline until tomorrow to protest ICE, and while the issue clearly matters to them, shutting down access to the software just ends up affecting normal people who have nothing to do with anything.
It doesn’t really persuade anyone who’s just trying to download or check out the program. Instead, it mostly creates frustration and shifts attention away from the actual issue.
I was planning to download and try Reaper today, but now I can’t. That alone makes me less likely to come back later, especially since the protest doesn’t have anything to do with the software or audio work itself.

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Remember: It's okay for your F/OSS project to be finished. You don't have shareholders who need you to grow every year. You don't have customers who need to be persuaded to buy a subscription or a new version every year by marketing-driven features. If it solves the problem that you created it to solve, you have won. You now have some software that solves the problem that you had. You are allowed to stop now.

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@marcozehe kann ich dich für eine neue Behandlungsleitlinie bei Narkolepsie interessieren? Da ist heute ein Podcast von Apotheken-Umschau erschienen nedosiswissen.podigee.io/995-a… vielleicht kann das ja jemand in deiner Umgebung brauchen 😉

’ne Dosis Wissen | Der Medizin-Podcast für Menschen im Gesundheitswesen

Was gibt es Neues im Gesundheitswesen? In diesem Podcast bieten Dr. Laura Weisenburger und Dr. Dennis Ballwieser werktägliche Updates.
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#XMPP Summit

After two great days focusing on the XMPP ecosystem and its future we are closing the 28th XMPP Summit. Many thanks to all 35+ participants!
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us tomorrow at #FOSDEM 2026! #ULB, AW Building, Level 1

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels

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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 #brussels #ulb

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Hey, you guys. I'm testing out a keyboard for iOS, PC, and Mac called Wispr Flow. You get 1,000 free words a week on mobile and 2,000 free words a week on PC and Mac.

I like it because I don't have to dictate punctuation. It auto-formats and inserts punctuation for me, which means that I'm typing faster or rather more productively on iOS with less of a need for editing. It also lets you specify punctuation style. In messaging apps, I have casual punctuation, but in email and other apps I have it set to formal punctuation.

You get a two-week free trial. After that, the app is $15 a month or $143 a year. Either way, I think I'm going to subscribe to this. ChatGPT estimates that I generate about 12,000 words of content a week right now, so I think this is a really good fit for me personally.

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RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

It's treason, plain and simple. This kinda shite needs to be nipped in the bud... #cdnpoli #polcan

somecanuckchick

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The US administration have held meetings with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that is pushing for the western province to become independent.

The group is openly seeking a $500B US line of credit from the US Treasury to help bankroll the new country, if they come out victorious in a referendum.

DO WE NOT HAVE LAWS PREVENTING THIS AND/OR PUNISH THIS?!?!? cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber… #cdnpoli #polcan #treason


#cdnpoli #polcan

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Final User Testing in France
The Ability project has recently conducted its final user testing workshops with future users with visual impairments. Following earlier trials in Lithuania and Germany, these sessions held in France made it possible to evaluate various usage scenarios, including understanding geographical maps, following routes, online shopping, and exploring images.

The consortium will now finalize its conclusions for deliverable.
#ABILITYProject

Final User Testing in France The Ability project has recently conducted its final user testing workshops with future users with visual impairments. Following earlier trials in Lithuania and Germany, these sessions held in France made it possible to evaluate various usage scenarios, including understanding geographical maps, following routes, online shopping, and exploring images. User feedback proved essential in identifying the most relevant interaction methods and in confirming the importance of allowing each user to customize their preferences. The tests highlighted the key role of multimodality. Combining haptic feedback, audio output, 3D tactile touch, and artificial intelligence helps address a wide range of needs. While preferences differ from one person to another, the complementarity of these interaction modes was widely appreciated, reinforcing the inclusive approach of the Ability project. The consortium will now finalize its conclusions and submit them to the European Commission next month.
Final User Testing in France The Ability project has recently conducted its final user testing workshops with future users with visual impairments. Following earlier trials in Lithuania and Germany, these sessions held in France made it possible to evaluate various usage scenarios, including understanding geographical maps, following routes, online shopping, and exploring images. User feedback proved essential in identifying the most relevant interaction methods and in confirming the importance of allowing each user to customize their preferences. The tests highlighted the key role of multimodality. Combining haptic feedback, audio output, 3D tactile touch, and artificial intelligence helps address a wide range of needs. While preferences differ from one person to another, the complementarity of these interaction modes was widely appreciated, reinforcing the inclusive approach of the Ability project. The consortium will now finalize its conclusions and submit them to the European Commission next month.
#abilityproject

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I think I have to say that the Asus Zephyrus G14 (2024) has been the absolute best notebook I've owned. The audio quality from the internal speakers continues to blow my mind, every single time I hear it. I'm like, wow! Speech is boomy, and I can even actually gleem some enjoyment of music through it. Quite impressive. It is majorly speedy with its AMD Ryzen 8945HS CPU, 32 GB of lPDDR5 6400 MHZ RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, and its 6E WiFi. Battery life is mediocre at 8hours on the balanced performance profile, two hours with everything clocked up to performance mode. But eight hours is enough time to get me through a pretty decent haul away from power, which is rare. It is also rare for me to be as highly impressed with as many features in a single product. Awesome stuff!

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Time is up for our hackathon! Our mighty teams have successfully hacked their way towards the Matrix Caps! We'll start live streaming the results in a few minutes!

youtube.com/live/U_YdrcrWw8M

Matrix Live S11E21 live from FOSDEM Hackathon 26

The Matrix.org Foundation is hosting a hackathon at HSBXL as a warm-up for FOSDEM 2026!The results of the hackathon are presented in this live stream startin...
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#XMPP groups are centralized depending on a single server, if server dies the group is gone, server stores group metadata

#Matrix servers store a lot of group metadata across servers

with #DeltaChat the server stores ZERO group metadata/state you don't depend on any server and can easily migrate your profile keeping group state and history in your devices

if Delta Chat had "super groups" with admin/moderation for public rooms, would you switch?

support.delta.chat/t/spec-prop…

#PleaseBoost #boost


Spec Proposal: Super Groups

Delta Chat Spec Proposal: Super Groups Terminology semi-public group: A group that is intended to be used for more or less public interactions, its invitation link can be shared in public spaces like social media or websites.
Delta Chat

  • yes, please! (74%, 37 votes)
  • no (26%, 13 votes)
50 voters. Poll end: in 5 days

#xmpp #matrix #boost #deltachat #pleaseboost
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mathieui

yes, I read it, but forgot to follow the link to the "group owner" proposal. I'm not sure how this meshes together since I guess for "semi-public" groups you would not want to vet everyone joining one-by-one (not that it would be a bad idea, but it does get tedious).
My question on membership is related to this, I guess it is not clear to me if the invitation link works once or if it can be re-used and as such shared publicly, in which case I would guess the owner would need to auto-approve in the client to update membership to everyone in the group on every join to keep things flowing.
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ArcaneChat

@mathieui the owner shares invite link with people, with the invite link people can join automatically without needing approval, if some troll/spammer joins, the admin can retract/invalidate the shared link, so the spammer can't keep using it to re-join with new account every time they are kicked from the group, a new link is generated and admin can share that then

more advanced stuff can be done like not allowing to send msgs, media or links when someone is just X days/hours new to the group

@mathieui

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My partner's been looking into changing home health agencies for a while now for reasons that are a whole other thread. Her caseworker sent along a PDF of agencies supported by her program, but of course it was 62 pages of graphical PDF. Also, even though she can read the PDF just fine, all the agencies were listed by city and not county, and our county has probably something like 20+ cities/townships. None of the agencies had any context, either, just one giant pile of images with names/medicaid details.

Several hours and strategic prompts later, Claude Code OCR'd the PDF, extracted details for 38 agencies in the cities in our county, linked to and summarized reviews across Google/Indeed/Glassdoor about not only how the agency served its clients but also how it was to work there, cross-referenced sanction data from a Michigan government website and provided details on one agency's ongoing active litigation, and gave me a markdown report I piped through Pandoc and emailed her.

Could it have missed an agency or some details? Possibly, but it did at least catch the agencies I knew about and was specifically looking for in the output. Could it have gotten a link wrong? Yes, it was not absolutely right (in at least one case anyway,) I caught it and it fixed the error, though the link still showed what it claimed when I verified it. Could it have gotten a phone or CHAMPS number incorrect? Certainly, but it distinctly flagged the possibility that it might make OCR errors with numbers and that I should verify these details myself. Could I have made any of these errors myself, especially after a few hours of repetitive cut-and-paste? Yup, I have an do. And even if I'd managed to solve the original problem of making the PDF accessible, I'm still new enough to the area that I don't know all the little cities and towns in my county well. Feels like every other block in this county is another tiny township or other.

AI is heavy machinery. Use it incorrectly and it'll slice through your proverbial waterline like any other backhoe. It's unfortunate that it gives the impression of doing good and valid work even while slicing and dicing indiscriminately, but until we live in a world where our abilities to make choices about our care don't hinge on us having the ability and time to parse through a 62-page inaccessible PDF and review our options, I still maintain that one of its best uses is as access technology. Imperfect tool it may be, but without it, I'd have been dead in the water with no one else to help.

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В Москве 16-летний подросток убил в здании РКН сотрудника Роскомнадзора, отвечавшего за блокировки и замедление трафика
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«ВЧК-ОГПУ» сообщил об убийстве подростком сотрудника Роскомнадзора. Его ИНН стал недействительным в день вероятного убийства • «Агентство»

Канал «ВЧК-ОГПУ», публикующий утечки силовиков, сообщил, что 19 января на проходной главного здания Роскомнадзора в Китайгородском проезде в Москве 16-летний подросток убил сотрудника регулятора Алексея Беляева.
Slava Oglobin («Агентство»)
@Rоссийская🐻Fедерация

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I'm not sure why Alberta Wexiteers wanting to join the US is suddenly a big story about treason 11 months after Jeffrey Rath went on Fox&Friends to announce it and DeSmog wrote about it.
Except that Premier Eby only just read about the separatists ask for $500bn US credit in the Financial Times yesterday. #abpoli #media

CBC radio was all omigod about it this morning, although they don't like the word treason any more than they like the word genocide.
They also gave AB Premier Smith a big pass, saying its not her fault, even though it was Smith who actually altered Alberta election law to help the future separatist referendum succeed.

desmog.com/2025/05/20/meet-the…

DeSmog, May 20, 2035 : Meet the Calgary Lawyer Pitching Alberta to the U.S. as the 51st State Jeffrey Rath recently went on Fox & Friends to discuss the oil-rich province “becoming a U.S. territory.” By Danielle Paradis on May 20, 2025 @ 03:00 PDT JEFFREY RATH | LAWYER FROM ALBERTA, CANADA CANADIAN LAWYER LEADS MOVEMENT TO HAVE ALBERTA JOIN THE U.S. Jeffrey Rath told "Fox and Friends" that he is a part of "hundreds of interested Albertans” who want to head down to Washington to explore becoming a U.S. territory or state. Credit: Fox News/YouTube Screenshot of Rath on Fox.

Meet the Calgary Lawyer Pitching Alberta to the U.S. as the 51st State - DeSmog

Jeffrey Rath recently went on Fox & Friends to discuss the oil-rich province "becoming a U.S. territory."
Danielle Paradis (DeSmog)
#media #abpoli
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Ahahahaha. You all are going to laugh when I tell you why UK English sounds messed up in SpeechPlayer. I fixed it. It was a bug in the driver, well two: (A) always pass En-GB (not EN) to Espeak, and (B) make sure the YAML rules apply in the NVDA driver. As a result, UK rules were simplified, and it's back to sounding like UK sounded in the initial SpeechPlayer. I should probably release this for UK folks.
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I haven't seen an llm that does things flawlessly, in that when you tell it to do a task that it theoretically has done before, it's always going to do it the exact same way every time. That's why I don't use Alexa Plus for example. Many times it will, sure, but sometimes it's gonna hickup and not do the thing you asked, saying it can't help with that, or try to do something else entirely. That's why I went back to the normal one. I like using them in environments where I can say no, that's not right, fix that, or I can fix it myself. That's why I use them for coding, and only in languages where I can read and correct the generated code.
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Tamas G

@TheQuinbox yep. Think I feel the same way about this. As much as I'd love to pick up Rust learning, not knowing at least how classes, functions, objects, mutexes (for C stuff) work, threadding, locking, ETC... Shifting your mental model to Rust's... The LLM could probably write me something but then I lose all ability to debug it myself and point to lines and exactly say where to refactor and what. So probably to pick up a new language I'd use a combo of LLM and classical learning (IE read a damn tutorial) LOL.
@Quin

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#XMPP Summit

The next topic is #Onion #Routing 🧅

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 #e2ee

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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 #onion #messaging #belgium #brussels #rtc #e2ee #routing
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