>> yeah they copied it from something I said in bugzilla years ago
>>> oh god, I did a technically incorrect (but likely fine) posix shell comparison of [ $? == 1 ] instead of [ $? -eq 1 ] and now everyone is pasting that everywhere
For any Stardew Valley players using the Stardew Access mod, how do you drop an item you're carrying? By mistake, I managed to pick up the bed in my house, but am not sure how to drop it. I bring up the inventory with E, move to the bed, press Left Bracket until it says "Empty", then move all the way to the Drop button and press Left Bracket. At that point, I hear a descending noise, what sounds like footsteps, then I appear to be holding the item again. What am I doing wrong?
You don't use the drop item button, you move to where yo uwant the bed, face the direction, make sure ther is enough room and on the number row select the bed, then use the C or X, Ifroget which places the bed down. I would also recommend getting the Glue your Furniture Down mod to prevent this in future.
You may need to change the config to True for beds to prevent you picking them up, the config file lets you selet what items are forbidden from being picked up.
It is the config file in the Glue Furniture Down folder in the Mods folder, each mod, or at least some, have a config file, just open it in notepad and yo suhould be able to edit and save it.
A “phonemeSource” tag in the frontend handle + PassContext. hmm. Default it to "espeak" (so nothing changes today), but allow callers to set it. Yes. Add a new optional API (non-breaking) like: nvspFrontend_setPhonemeSource(handle, "espeak") Store it in the handle state. Pass it into PassContext so every pass can check it. This way we get different types of passes for different phonemizers if we wanted, rather than making this thing so central to ESpeak. Hmm. Maybe that would make me feel better.
Here’s a quick showdown if you’re thinking of leaving proprietary Android behind:
Murena / e‑OS (Fairphone 4):
Price: €449‑€499 CPU: Snapdragon 750G (≈ 1.9 k Geekbench multi) – decent but slower GPU: Adreno 619 (≈ 1.1 TFLOPS) RAM/Storage: 6 / 8 GB RAM, UFS 2.1 Security: Standard verified boot, no dedicated security chip Updates: Depends on LineageOS – often lagging behind Google’s patches Pros: Modular, repair‑friendly, microG gives partial Play‑Services compatibility
Graphene OS on Pixal 7: (You could use any Pixal phone from the 4 up to the pixal 10 fold and Tablet)
Price: $599 (~€560) CPU: Google Tensor G2 (≈ 3.4 k Geekbench multi) – ~2× faster than Murena GPU: Mali‑G710 MP7 (good for everyday gaming) RAM/Storage: 8 GB RAM, UFS 3.1 Security: Titan M2 security co‑processor + hardware‑backed keystore, verified boot, attestation Updates: Monthly security patches, 5 years guaranteed Pros: Strongest hardware‑rooted security on a consumer phone, pure Android stack (no Google services when using Graphene OS) Why switch?
Better hardware trust – Titan M2 beats standard boot‑loaders. Faster updates – stay protected without waiting for LineageOS. Higher performance – smoother multitasking & AI tasks. True de‑Googling – Graphene OS runs a clean, auditable Android fork. 💭 If you value privacy and solid performance, the Pixel 7 + Graphene OS is the more compelling upgrade, even at a modest price premium.
A Fairphone 4 with /e/ has very poor privacy and absolutely atrocious security. It's years behind on a bunch of important privacy and security patches including having an end-of-life 4.19 kernel without updates available. They lag months behind on partial backports of patches.
/e/ has invasive services of their own including sending user data to OpenAI without consent. Despite their marketing, It always uses Google services and gives Google apps/services privileged access.
/e/ lags far further behind LineageOS on providing major OS updates and partial backports of patches to older releases. Those are far behind the standard pace which is itself far behind GrapheneOS.
LineageOS rolls back privacy and security a fair bit compared to the standard Android Open Source Projects, especially on most devices where many patches are missing. /e/ drastically reduces privacy and security compared to that. /e/ is not simply LineageOS with bundled apps/services.
GrapheneOS is a privacy and security hardened OS greatly improving those compared to the Android Open Source Project. /e/ is the opposite of that and is a far worse option than an iPhone for privacy and security. /e/ is not at all a safe option and it's not a legitimate a privacy project despite being marketed as one. No privacy project it telling users to use their supposedly private speech-to-text service which actually sends their sensitive speech data to OpenAI and much more.
Strongly recommend reading discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134… and the third party sources linked in there including the posts from Divested Computing, Mike Kuketz and the comparison from Eylenburg.
If you care at all about privacy and security, avoid /e/ and avoid Fairphones. Use an iPhone if you want a device with solid privacy and security without thinking about it. Don't fall for the false marketing of these phony privacy and security products. No device Murena sells is at all safe to use.
@nyovaya Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5 already have an end-of-life kernel branch. Even the Fairphone 6 is not receiving proper updates. It's still on the initial yearly release of Android 15 rather than Android 16 QPR2 and still has the November 2025 patch level. Meanwhile, the patches for February 2026 through May 2026 are already nearly fully available for OEMs to ship early and June 2026 is beginning to get filled out now that the March 2026 patches are finalized.
@nyovaya What do you mean by modular? Having official replacement parts available for many years? iPhones and Pixels provide those. That's not really a modular device. It's not as if you can replace the SoC or other components to upgrade it over time and avoid end-of-life. An iPhone or Pixel gets proper update support over the long term while Fairphone fails to provide that even for the first year after launch and it's downhill from there. Samsung flagships get better updates.
@GrapheneOS @nyovaya My whole point was about how far off the mark the fairphone is. Thanks to folks at Graphene OS for making a truly remarkable Operating System for a phone I can go buy new $$ or secondhand $ and get the best in the market. Or even get the Pixal Tablet running Graphene OS! I ran Calyx OS on a new Google Nexus 5 (I think it was) for a short time years ago and it had me running back to the iPhone. I've now been on Graphene OS since the Pixal 7 came out and haven't looked back. Yes, the idea of a phone that is easier to repair or upgrade over time would be nice too. But I wouldn't choose one if I lost or lowered my security or privacy.
#fosdem2026 was another awesome success for the open source community this year. I had a blast showing off what all we do at BlissLabs and what all is possible for the Android community. Got to finally put a face to so many of the people I have collaborated with over the years, and I can't wait to come back!! Special shout out to @IzzyOnDroid , @shiftphones and @bene64 for helping show what an Open and Sustainable Ecosystem for Android could look like - From Hardware to Apps. You all rocked!!
it was incredible having this event with all of you! Enjoyed every minute of it, and hope we'll repeat that again next year! 🤗 @shiftphones @bene64 @SylvieLorxu
Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
Far as AI coding goes, I wonder if GitHub's specify program would help with that? Instead of vibes and vague prompts, it relies on drafting software specifications and using it purely as an implementer. Likely to get more predictable outputs that way.
You may already know this trick, but in just in case, I sometimes ask the agent to help me create a project requirements document first. I toss in what I want in terms of UI, behavior, potential platform/language/dependency info, and can find out fairly quickly, based on the result, where I've thought the idea out well enough to start coding it.
@sclower I suspect it would work better if I wrote the project requirements document myself. Then fed it into the AI for implementation. Maybe it would shift me from thinking "What do I want coded" and towards "What are my requirements". I tend to start thinking too low level, about what libraries I want to use and what language, when I still haven't one hundred percent laid out what I want to do. The example that prompted me to post was reformatting a set of files. If I'd have thought just a bit harder about what I actually needed, I would have ended up with three regular expressions and a batch script, not a C# DotNet app.
GPT is right. "right now it still sounds like eSpeak because, in a very real sense, it still is eSpeak… wearing your DSP as a costume." So sad. I'll always stay sad about this no matter how many sliders we add. Sadness fills my soul. Going to bed at 4 Pm I guess.
Realistically, what's wrong with eSpeak? I, as an English speaker anyway, never had a problem with its intonation pattern, it matches most things, I had a problem with its synthesis method, which this replaces, and some of its phonemes, which this doesn't necessarily follow.
@x0 it's interesting, Jess was telling me how "classic pitch" reminds them of the Braille & Speak, which is maybe why people asked for it back. But it's something about the way it stresses and intonates words, and then realizing that creating phonetic rules and normalizations that "fight Espeak's rules" will mean later troubles when switching to something new. I'm being pulled in two directions over it and it's a bit distraughtful. We can kind of "cheat" the system with multilingualness by using ESpeak, sure, but we're also locked into what it outputs and redefining it. Sure, we can write our own G2P layer, but then all hands off and new languages actually become harder to map out in some ways because lexicons and tables need to be added by ourselves. Ugh.
For what it's worth, my big dislike of eSpeak revolves around the harsh base triangle wave and the pre-recorded consonant samples. It looks like you've changed both, and that might be enough for me to try this when it's in a good place.
@sclower it it's interesting, if you turn up aspiration color to 100, glottal sharpness to 0, then suddenly consonant clicks really emerge. So if anything it's taught me just how much the DSP can help soften sharp phoneme transitions. It won't "magically" fix the sharper phonemes that click against the teeth feeling, but it can blend them better in with the source. With that high of an aspiration and not-pressed glottal feeling you're essentially asking to hear consonant clicks. And while SpeechPlayer didn't use the same triangle wave, the original one was very Sawtooth, which didn't help with consonant clicks really showing up. The cosign wave we're using now helped hide them too, so I think it was the better direction to move it in.
Don't get me wrong. I like AI music, I think it can do some really cool things, but but I don't want it on my spotify. I'd rather have it on suno or other platforms that specialize in it. Use AI music like a scratch pad. But that's just my opinion.
That was a great #FOSDEM again, met so many old friends and new people, saw interesting talks and had good technical discussions and some new ideas for things to try out now.
Some people I didn't run across, but the next event will come soon. :)
See you next year hopefully.
I'll be in Brussels for the #buildroot developer meetup still for the next three days.
@Scott I got it sorted (for now) I'll bug you later though. It is just silly stuff about setting up the git repo so I can move things from a dev branch to a main/release branch and preserve the commit history.
The neighbors are clearing our driveway of snow. There are four people in the house, and we're all in various states of not able to do it for different reasons. The little harf harf dog is not happy.
Has he been out in the snow or does he just stay in with puppy pad thingies like some small dogs do? I can't decide if I think he would harf at the snow to tell it to go away, or harf joyfully as he played in it. after careful consideration, I'll say it's both.
@ricky_enger well, the problem is we got enough snow that it pretty much completely buried him when he went outside, and he didn't really like that much.
@ricky_enger The dog my parents had before Watson (Dexter, the 25 pound Schnoodle) hated snow with a passion, until one day, he just didn't anymore. Don't know what changed for him. Too bad he died not long after.
Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. At Bellacorick Wind Farm, 21 early-generation turbines have been removed so Oweninny Wind Farm can expand. Each new turbine now generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how three decades of innovation have radically compressed land use while multiplying output. RTE rte.ie/news/regional/2026/0116… #ShareGoodNewsToo
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon, Speech Dispatcher module version 2.5 is out! The focus this time: more control over voice quality.
New in DSP Version 5: The engine now has 12 voicing tone parameters for shaping the overall voice character, plus 5 new per-frame parameters for things like creaky voice, breathiness, jitter, shimmer, and glottal sharpness. That last one is key for getting that crisp Eloquence-like attack some users prefer. For NVDA users, this means 10 real-time sliders in voice settings instead of 4. Dial in your preferred sound without editing config files. The Windows phoneme editor has a new Voice Quality section with full access to all the new parameters. Useful for anyone tuning phonemes or building voice profiles. Linux users get an updated renderer with command-line flags for every new parameter. Speech Dispatcher configs are included. Voice profiles from phonemes.yaml now work across platforms. While no change yet for Danish support, the foundation is now here for it in the future. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
This is a five-year-old Mac. There's just one thing that can consistently make it feel sluggish (beyond the obvious ones like running a big build with all cores blazing). What is it? It's obviously Win11 on Parallels.
How much memory do you have on that Mac? I have an m2 with 8gb ram, I feel very hesitant to even try virtualizing windows on it. Considering upgrading just for that very reason.
Sunday. made the daughter happy by buying another accessible card game for the collection. It's a Mille Bornes knockoff but was very reasonably priced. 64ouncebraille.com/products/10…
[This game contains braille already on the cards and no additional setup is needed] In 1000 Yards the kids compete to be the first one to go 1000 yards. Kids use skates, skateboards, bikes, scooters and more to make it.
"vamos retirar os nossos outdoors vão ser usados para cobrir as casas sem telhado" não acredito que ouvi isto de um candidato à presidência 😂😂😂🤣 não é assim que o vosso material de campanha funciona...
• You wake up late, but still feel tired • Every day feels the same • You apply for jobs daily, no replies • Money feels tight all the time • You feel guilty even while resting • Confidence slowly goes down • You start doubting yourself • Skills are there, opportunity is not • Nights are full of overthinking • You feel stuck and helpless • You are trying, but no one sees it
Being unemployed is not laziness. It’s mental pressure no one understands 😔.
Just bought a Lenovo IdeaPad off FB Marketplace. It seemed like a good idea, since, at some point, I need to work on infrastructure to allow Orca to use touch gestures, unless someone else gets to it before me. Therefore, I need a laptop with a touch display. So now I have another laptop to set up.
@tyrylu I feel somewhat busy right now, but I'm wondering what you have in mind. I'd definitely want to be aware of the relevant use cases. I just sent you an email.
A wave of manic energy in December had me put together a long deck called "HarfBuzz at 20! " , celebrating 20 years of HarfBuzz. 🎂
I designed the deck to be presented at the #WebEnginesHackfest later this year. Then reality hit that I cannot present this deck in any sane amount of time.
Inspired by all the great presentations coming out of #FOSDEM today, I decided that instead of tossing the deck out, I just put it out here to be read by the curious. I will present a highly condensed version at the hackfest in June.
@Friendica Support Wenn ich einen öffentlichen Beitrag zusätzlich zu meinen TL-Kontakten auch einem Email-Kontakt schicke, erhält dieser Email-Kontakt auch Email-Benachrichtungen über alle Kommentare?
Zu diesem Thema: Kann ich einen Email-Kontakt dauerhaft im Editor eingeben? Falls ja: wie?
"But Wikipedia cannot survive by refusing to change. Ostrom’s Nobel prize-winning research reminds us that the communities that govern shared resources often grow conservative over time.
"For anyone who cares about the future of reliable information online, Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary is not just a celebration. It is an urgent warning about what happens when the institutions we depend on cannot adapt to the people they are meant to serve."
This week I learned, from a blind acquaintance here, that when we write in ALL CAPS in alt text, their screenreader reads it all out, *one letter at a time*.
Totally defeating the point of alt text making things accessible, right? Needless to say, I've stopped.
@menelion huh. What screen reader does that? Is this an iOS/Android thing? I'm a screen reader user myself and I don't think I've seen this happen all that often
@zersiax I'm quiet here, because I use JAWS and I've seen it before maybe, but my hunch is that it depends on the TTS. I boosted though because I feel all caps is like yelling, also it adds burden for Braille display users.
@menelion I do use all caps to emphasize words in a sentence, as in "Why DO chickens cross the road?" but that's about it. All-capsing a whole entire post ... ehh ... I feel it looks like someone feels the need to scream but then, I don't mean to tone police either, just not my thing
It depends on used Text to speech engine, for example Google TTS in Slovak language reads words with capitals letter by letter. Probably thei interpret it by this way because mostly contractions are writed with capital letters (ETC...)
Some really great reads for January. I had no idea Dennis E. Taylor's standalones were so good! Not to mention a new Peter Cawdron and a couple of interesting fanfics.
@BorrisInABox Yeah I really enjoyed these too. His stuff is just good fun. Bobiverse starting to go a little stale maybe, so glad he’s exploring other ideas. Pity that, unless I’m mistaken, he seems to be exclusive to Audible though.
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