Heute ist #DiDay

Der Digital Independence Day ist eine tolle Initiative, deren Werte wir zu 100% teilen. Die Empfehlung für Signal ist allerdings ein Schritt in die falsche Richtung und treibt Nutzer von einem geschlossenen System in ein anderes.

Zum Glück gibt es auch Wechselrezepte für die Independent Messaging Apps #Quicksy, #Monal und #Conversations_im, die wirkliche Souveränität bieten.

Ein Wechsel zu Quicksy ist genauso einfach wie ein Wechsel zu Signal.

imday.de/de/

#DIDIt

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Hi Daniel, danke für deine Arbeit!
Zumindest mit engen Freunde und Familie nutze ich Quicksy ziemlich erfolgreich.

Einfacher kann die Installation/Einrichtung eigentlich nicht sein, vermutlich ist es einfacher als bei WA und co., nur ist das Zeug wohl oft vorinstalliert.

Viele andere wollen keinen weiteren Messenger installieren und WA weg zu tun ist für die leider wegen dem Netzwerkeffekt keine Option.

Wenn ich von Problemen höre, dann ist das in der Regel, dass Benachrichtigungen nicht ankommen. Bin nicht sicher wie ich sowas diagnostizieren kann, erst recht aus der Ferne.

Was als Argument noch nett wäre: wie viel Batterie/Resourcen braucht Quicksy als weiterer Messenger auf einem gewöhnlichen Android/iPhone? Ich denke, das ist eines der Hauptbedenken das ich raushöre.

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Ich kann die Argumente von beiden seiten nachvollziehen. Besonders das Signal zentralisiert ist.
Jetzt kommt leider das aber. In meinem sozialen Umfeld bin ich wahrscheinlich die Person, welche sich bisher am meisten mit diesen thematiken auseinander gesetzt hat. Ich habe noch nie etwas von den anderen messengern gehört. Bei der Debatte um Meta geht es auch nur noch zweitrangig um Datenschutz, der Verein unterstützt ein faschistischen Staat. Jeder wechsel ist somit am besten, oder?

#XMPP @ #FOSDEM 2026

Come by, meet XMPP enthusiasts and grab some merch at the XMPP #Realtime Lounge!
#ULB, AW, Level 1

XMPP - choose & build your own #chat #infrastructure (and many more other solutions)!

#jabber #interoperability #opensource #decentralization #messaging #europe #Brussels

UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source (FOSDEM26)


To understand how we can replace Google push notifications (FCM) with something open source and decentralized, we need to understand how they work and why they are needed in the first place. This talk explains the mechanics of push notifications and why, despite their potentially bad reputation, they are a more elegant solution than having every app maintain its own persistent server connection.

While open-source tools like microG can remove proprietary Google software from your Android phone, the actual notifications are still sent via Google's servers (Firebase Cloud Messaging).

UnifiedPush is a framework that allows push notifications to be delivered in a decentralized manner or through self-hosted servers. Numerous open-source Android apps already support UnifiedPush, including Tusky, Ltt.rs, Fedilab, DAVx⁵, Fennec, Element, and many more.

The presentation ends with a short demo on how to use UnifiedPush on Android.

Talk given at FOSDEM 2026 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…

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🎥 FOSDEM 2026 - Den 2 live!

Sledujte finální den konference přes náš PeerTube:
📺 vhsky.cz

3 paralelní místnosti běží:
- Janson (hlavní sál) ✅
- K1105 (La Fontaine) ✅
- H2215 (/dev/random) ✅

Neděle 1.2. | 9:00-18:00
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos
#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube #LiveStream #OpenSource

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Protože někteří nemáme to "štěstí" na demonstraci #MilionChvilek být, napadl mě takovej (možná blbej) nápad.

Není tu nějakej (amatérskej) reportér, co by nám natočil reportáž na #VHSky, pokecal tam s lidma a poslal nějakej vzkaz? Takováhle #demonstrace bude plná pozitivně naladěných lidí a může to bejt i hezká zkušenost :)


#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...

Každým boostem zachráníte jednu micinku! :)

#Praha - #Staromák - #demonstrace na podporu prezidenta.

#Politika #Macinka #Turek #prezident #Babiš


it's releasable for sure. But I don't wanna draft another release right after we made the last one. So, for the rest of you, these sliders will have to wait. For those of you willing to compile from Master, they are there for you now.
Speed quotient (voice gender): slider 100
Creakiness (laryngealization): slider 0
Breathiness: slider 0
Jitter (pitch variation): slider 0
Shimmer (amplitude variation): slider 0

Have you ever tried to parse an 80 gigabyte JSON file?

That's a thing my team had to figure out when I, regrettably, worked for an American health insurance payor. This was as a direct result of malicious compliance on the part of other insurance companies, in reaction to attempts to use market-oriented regulation to improve healthcare costs in the American system.

Anyway, I can't recommend trying to handle 80 GB of JSON.

I also can't recommend market-oriented regulation of healthcare costs.

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I proposed an approach where #FOSDEM can provide better support for #accessibility

github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…

I will try to demo it in my session later today, but speech to text isn't that hard to add in these days. We should be encouraging text transcripts.

@fosdem

From the Internet (not my words):

“The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that will be produced was promised to be paid with yet to exist money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been made, to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy AI demand that does not actually exist to obtain mathematically impossible profit.”

I would like the @fosdem community to embrace #accessibility

In effort of that goal I've started by recording some problems and possible solutions for the website:
github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…

This is a lot of work that together, as a community, we need to address. #FOSDEM needs to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.

25% of the population has disabilities & the are part of our community.

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A silly finding with NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof is that the more notes you enter, the slower it gets to process each one. I have no idea if this is deliberate, and wouldn't be surprised if it is, as I'm sure on some toys from days gone by this is a real thing as it keeps having to move more and more notes around to make room in memory for new notes. When playing real music this probably hardly matters, but in this example I'm deliberately keysmashing while in QWERTY and chromatic mode so what I'm composing is pure nonsense. Anyway I ended up entering 542 notes, and as you can see, at first it's really fast but then it gets slower and slower, and if I'd kept doing it, it'd get even slower. Note that I was banging on the keyboard fast during the whole recording. Unfortunately I do not have a project file or exported MIDI as I cleared the whole thing out immediately.

Here's everything coming to Perspective Intelligence in version 1.4

- Standard On-device AI - IOS Now, everyone can experience Perspective Intelligence even if you do not have an Apple Intelligence capable device.
- Web search for All Access subscribers - Perspective Intelligence can now search the web to get more up-to-date information
- RSS Feeds - You can now add RSS feeds to Perspective Intelligence to get the latest news. (1/2)

Looking for a record of #accessibility issues left on @fosdem website issue queue I wasn't too surprised to see @Edent had beat me to it github.com/FOSDEM/website/issu…

We can do better.

Fedra is now open source, and there is no longer any time limit on it! Enjoy! github.com/trypsynth/fedra

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@skobkin Алексей, специально пишу лично и по-русски. Это слепой народ, в смысле, разработчики. Ну или ооочень слабовидящий, но скорее всего слепой. Поэтому вполне вероятно, что на вид это будет эммм… сильно такое)

Democrat Taylor Rehmet is the victor in a special election for the Texas state Senate, flipping a reliably Republican district President Trump won by 17 points in 2024. texastribune.org/2026/01/30/te…

NV Speech Player 2.01 Release Notes
This release focuses on stability, correctness, and cross-language improvements. The primary goal was to address accumulated issues in the synthesis pipeline and bring several under-maintained language packs up to a proper standard.
Synthesis Engine Fixes
Phoneme Tuning:
M (Bilabial Nasal):
Adjusted formant values based on acoustic phonetics research. The antiformant (cfN0) is now set to 950 Hz to properly cancel F2 energy, eliminating the overly "stuffy" quality in words like "same" and "memory".
P (Voiceless Bilabial Stop):
Reduced frication amplitude and adjusted formant values for a flatter, more diffuse spectrum. The F2 locus is now at 850 Hz, appropriate for bilabial consonants. This addresses the excessive "puffiness" reported in words like "quote" and "paper".
K (Voiceless Velar Stop):
Reduced frication amplitude and parallel formant values to soften the release burst.
Language Pack Improvements:
Danish:
Resolved a significant intelligibility issue. eSpeak-ng outputs glottal stops for Danish stod, which were causing vowels to be interrupted and producing speech that was difficult to understand. Danish stod is currently stripped entirely rather than rendered as creaky voice. A proper implementation would require synthesizer-level support for laryngealization. We are exploring this for the future.
Spanish is improved!
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft witnessed the most intense eruption ever recorded on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanically active moon. The eruption spanned 65,000 sq km (larger than Earth’s Lake Superior) near the south pole and released 140-260 TW of energy, > 6x the total energy of all power plants on Earth.

3 other hotspots also lit up. Scientists interpret this as a single event affecting an underground network of massive, interconnected magma chambers.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-juno-mi…
1/n

My wife and I are looking to add some exercise equipment at home and want to make sure what we get is actually accessible and easy to use.
We’re especially interested in things like a stationary bike, treadmill, or elliptical, but we’re open to other ideas too. If you have personal experience with equipment that works well for blind or sight-impaired users, or that has simple controls, good audio feedback, or an easy layout, we would really appreciate your recommendations.

Specific models are super helpful. Thanks in advance for sharing what’s worked for you!

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I'm using the Sole F 60 treadmill, as recommended by @ricky_enger Nothing too fancy, I track my stats with my Apple watch indoor walk workout. The control panel has flush buttons, but they can be found by touch and are not touch sensitive. It does come with an app, which is inaccessible. My goal was to find a treadmill to walk on, and it does the job perfectly.

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