The last #deltachat 1.44 release round did not only contain a lot of UI/UX milestones but also 20 security fixes based on a deep analysis from Yuanming Song and colleagues of the Applied Cryptography group at ETH Zuerich delta.chat/en/2024-03-25-crypt…
We released guaranteed end-to-end encryption in November 2023 and were in for a pleasant surprise three months later. The Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich handed us a cryptographic security...
Parádní. Já se budu muset obecně na LaTeX víc podívat. Dvakrát jsem v tom napsal diplomovou práci a pořád s tím skoro neumím. A to mě mrzí. Prostě jsem tenkrát vzal šablonu připravenou od školy a víc do toho nevrtal - nebyl čas zkoumat něco víc než téma práce. Píšu si to to-do listu.
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Dependency explosion is a problem and maybe the time is ripe to start thinking about how clever it is to rely on hundreds of tiny components you don't know, don't control and that keep changing.
When sudo-rs development started, we added several dependencies using Rust’s crates ecosystem to quickly ramp up development. During development we accrued approximately 135 transitive (direct and ...
surely the time to take this seriously was back when left pad happened? Nothing major changed then and I, unfortunately, don’t see anything changing soon
I very well agree. At the same time I am a little bit cautious about reinventing everything in the popular language or framework of the day. (maybe this is not fair to say for rust, but I am talking about the general theme here)
The bizarrity is that for most of the late 20th century and early 21st century, software reuse was the holy grail which would reduce development costs.
Reuse spawned a whole set of tech such as loose coupling and network APIs like SOAP.
So now the thought is to abandon reuse because of supply-chain risk and dependency explosion?
But people use curl because it's tried and true tech which has stood the test of time.
What you're suggesting is that curl developers should stop using packages and libraries which have stood the test of time.
Reductio ad absurdum, if we go down that path, what you're proposing is that we should all stop using libcurl for the same reasons and reinvent it from scratch.
Point being, you can't disparage other tried and true packages without disparaging the tried and true curl package.
We are happy to announce that DAVx5 4.3.15 is now available (also on #fdroid @fdroidorg).
* Great parts have been rewritten to Compose and (will be finalized in 4.3.16) * We've changed how we use various sync types, resulting in much less used system sync quota. This means a much more reliable scheduled background sync. Hope you enjoy the new version! 😀
What's Changed Rewrite WebdavMountsActivity to Compose by @ArnyminerZ in #607 Rewrite AccountActivity to Compose by @rfc2822 in #617 Rewrite PermissionsActivity, PermissionsFragment to Compose by @...
Actually I had (background)-synchronization issues since a long time. I think it is mainly related to the OS (ShiftOS) which is still based on Android 10 (also other accounts fail to sync in the background). I think there used to be an option in DAVx5 to force a foreground service or something like this. Enabling this option made synchronization reliable. I think this option was removed a few versions ago or I don't find it anymore. Now synchronization is bad again. @fdroidorg
@DanielPielmeier We had to remove that option since it was bound to a permission which Google decided we are not eligible to use anymore and it blocked releasing new versions. We will release a small widget that could help to keep the app in foreground in the next version. Hopefully it helps.
I see! Thanks for letting me know. 👍 BTW. Is it this commit? github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose… For this device Android 13 is about to be released. Do you think this might improve things without the need of a foreground service? @fdroidorg
I'm using it to sync my NextCloud contacts to my phone, is there a way to sync those NextCloud contacts to a Google workspace account? Not seeing anything obvious of there is..
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There we go, the final piper voice for the Votrax SSI263 chip is also ready to be used in NVDA or your Piper projects. Like in the BTSpeak - perhaps @dblazie would be interested? Download the tar from: eurpod.com/en-us-Votrax_medium… (the NVDA-addon latest bate is at github.com/mush42/piper-nvda/r…)
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Having a moment of appreciation for Activity Monitor after realizing you can double click on processes
you can view context about interactions with the OS (which I guess macOS is just tracking?), every open handle, and there's just a whole profiler (!) here that no one talks about? I think you can even load .dSYMs to get more detailed function information.
this is suddenly one of the coolest "task manager" programs I have used.
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BTSpeak Firmware release used: 3/20/2024BTSpeak basic. Things you will need BTSpeak Basic or Pro.iPhone.Wireless network, (IPhone hotspot unfortunately will not due.)File Browser iOS Application: $…
Sharing text brailled in on the bTSpeak with other devicesBTSpeak Firmware release used: 3/20/2024BTSpeak basic. At this time, you may nnot control your smart phone or other devices from the BTSpea…
What if *any* website could be turned into a canvas with a single click?
Rebuilt my website (orionreed.com) last night and added DOM<->Canvas translation allowing you to "break out" into a multiplayer @tldraw canvas at any point.
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Genuine curiosity: is this just nostalgia for you or is there something enjoyable about the voice? I've always hated that voice, even when I had to use it. It's funny because Eloquence and eSpeak are hardly pleasant - some would say eSpeak is horrible - but they never offended me anywhere near as much as the BNS voice.
@jcsteh Ha! It's funny you mention it in that context because it's the feeling I had after first hearing it again after so many years. Somehow in my own mind it had way less harshness. In reality it's about as bad as a toothbrush talking to you (and not one made of fine bristles either.) I do recognize some people still have attachment to it just as we'll forever have Eloquence die-hards who will recreate the voice under 64-bit environments using AI in similar ways though.
For sure. I can sort of objectively justify why I prefer (like might be too strong a word) eSpeak, or if I can't get that, Eloquence. It comes down to responsiveness, plus the synthetic predictability of the voice means that it can be feasibly used at much higher speeds. I guess the same probably applies to BNS, so it's probably just a preference thing, though I don't see any objective advantage of BNS over eSpeak or Eloquence.
@ppatel Ah interesting. I think it's the monotone that gets me with BNS, but to be fair, using my own argument, that isn't objectively necessary to understand speech. @Tamasg
@jcsteh @ppatel I find the bns' pronunciation quite hard to understand. I would've no doubt got used to it though if I used one when I was a kid. I didn't think I'd ever understand the Eureka A4's voice but I had the speed cranked as high as it could go by the time I left school, and that thing was probably worse.
@KaraLG84 @jcsteh @ppatel I find it interesting that sometimes it could say words that start with "H" correctly, others like the word "help", it says "shelp." I'm not sure how this didn't throw me off as it was my first note-taking device once moving from Hungary, but part of me is very glad I'm not pronouncing words like that today else I don't think I'd be doing engineering stuff professionally at the very least. The Piper voice picked up on this well.
@KaraLG84 Ah, the Eureka A4. I have child-like fond memories of that thing. But I also forgot just how awful (and strange) the voice was until I heard it relatively recently on a YouTube video. Wow.
@jcsteh Yeah its voice is something else. I don't think I've heard anything else like it. I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall during the recording session for the samples.
@jcsteh I keep on trying ESpeak from time to time to understand my aversion. The conclusion I've come to is that there isn't enough separation between words. To my ear--and I know it's different for everyone, ESpeak voices bring words together too closely so that they sound muddled. It means that I can't listen to it at speed. Some of the voices also hurt my ears. @Tamasg
@ppatel @jcsteh i literally cannot understand it. So much so that if I encounter a system with it, it’s very difficult for me to navigate the UI to change the TTS.
@JonathanMosen @ppatel Honestly, I'm not here to defend either synth except from people who aren't willing to pay for Eloquence. But as a point of interesting comparison, I have to work harder to understand Eloquence these days, where it used to be easy decades ago when I used it as my daily driver.
@JonathanMosen @ppatel @jcsteh I'm with Jonathan here. Especially with hearing aids, e speak is really harsh and difficult to understand. eloquence is clearer. However, I wish Microsoft would make those high quality voices available with narrator for other screen readers.
@JonathanMosen @ppatel @ysotomayor Interesting re hearing aids. I wonder how much of that is due to the relative sibilance of the consonants and whether that could be tamed with some eq.
@jcsteh @ppatel @ysotomayor Maybe. I wear hearing aids as well. I realise that TTS is an acquired taste and that the more you use it, the more you can speed it up and it becomes second nature, but as I say, I can’t even get to that point because I literally can’t understand what it is saying.
@JonathanMosen @ppatel @jcsteh I really like Klat 5, and the speech player voices. The rest sound too mechanical for my ear. But, Klat 4+5 has been my daily driver for like a decade. I think I'm the only one who does that though. I don't like Eloquence because it doesn't get updates, and that low sample rate that makes the s's sound like f's. Synths like Vocalizer do not differentiate between periods and exclamation points and other punctuations.
@objectinspace Yeah, SpeechPlayer was kinda NV Access's attempt at trying to come up with something with a chance of ongoing maintenance that Eloquence users might be at least partially happy with. Most users said they weren't happy with it and would stick to Eloquence regardless, so we gave up. @JonathanMosen @ppatel @Tamasg
@jcsteh @objectinspace @JonathanMosen @ppatel that's a bit unfortunate! I felt like it was really the only shot at making ESpeak paletable to more ears - and I still think the huge advantage it will always have over other speech synths is the language / phonemes and how the same voice can recursively say things in hundreds of languages through it. No other engine will get there for a few more years if they do.
For anyone interested in this, the voice that NV Access developed is the eSpeak Edward variant. There are other SpeechPlayer voices that others have developed since then, but Edward was the original NVA attempt. @objectinspace @JonathanMosen @ppatel
@jcsteh @objectinspace @JonathanMosen @ppatel I am trying Espeak again and I actually love the speed and otherwise it has to offer, but these voices! The Speech Player was the best of both worlds for me. These Espeak voices are very very rough on the ears, the thing NV Access tried to make was, in my opinion, the perfect balance without being eloquence. That's honestly the only voice I use because it is blazing fast. I even notice a small delay when I run Microsoft 1Core voices or SAPI 5.
@modulux @weirdwriter @jcsteh @JonathanMosen @ppatel I believe the voices from NVSpeechPlayer got ported into Espeak-NG as varriants like Adam, the Edwards, Michael2, Reid, Benjamin and so on. They are just a bit too nasal for my taste, but if I didn't have Klat5 I could get used to them, they are less mechanical sounding than the traditional eSpeak variants.
Wow, I must admit, I find ESpeak hard to bare usually, but Edward2 I don't actually hate. It's not especially pleasant, but I think I could actually get used to it.
@modulux @objectinspace @weirdwriter @jcsteh @JonathanMosen @ppatel I am the person who merged the SpeechPlayer code and Klatt fixes into eSpeakNG at the end of 2020. In my opinion, eSpeakNG has really gone down hill when compared with the original eSpeak. I know a lot of other people who feel the same way.
@datajake1999 @modulux @weirdwriter @jcsteh @JonathanMosen @ppatel I mean... it sounds pretty much the same to me. I appreciate that Klat5 is bassier, a few pronunciations change, that's about all. If you are unhappy with the current direction you can always fork your own!
@datajake1999 @objectinspace Genuinely curious: how do you feel the quality has degraded? I don't really keep a pulse on its development these days, but haven't personally experienced any problems. Do you feel this is due to stuff being merged without sufficient review or similar?
@matt @jcsteh @datajake1999 @objectinspace Yay another Espeak fan! I'm not using it these days, but it's incredibly responsive, faster than Eloquence I think, handles language switching a whole lot better than, say, Vocalizer or similar, and tends to work really well on systems where you don't have a ton of extra memory or processing power.
Oh, please! Someone else who dislikes Eloquence. Thought only I heard s as f. I grew up with compact Samantha so I use it. The other voices I understand aren't English. And yes I read with, this thing.
@sclower @cublanco @cordova5029 @BorrisInABox Am I misremembering or was the spell checker'd spell.dic file part of the firmware and not an optional file?
@cublanco @cordova5029 @BorrisInABox There were two main differences: first was that the Scholar only had 640K of memory like the BS 640, and the Graph-It program had been compiled directly into the unit's calculator. Unsure if the button to change language banks did anything either.
I am not ashamed to say, this brought tears to my eyes a little bit. Welcome to my elementary school years, all the way up until 2003 when I got a braille note, but then used a braille lite 2000, with an 18 cel display. i grew up with a Classic, never had a 640, but did play with an APH scholar with the ARtic/votrax chip. You know it'd be fun to have a piper voice, with the slightly more inflected votrax chip. @BorrisInABox what is the one in like the transbook/accent, which are similar but different.
@DavidGoldfield @cublanco @cordova5029 @BorrisInABox The spell checker program was built into the 640 firmware, but the spell.dic file was optional. Since it was 86 pages, I never used it much until I began using a Braille Lite 2000 in 8th grade.
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Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
As you know, development is in full swing for both #Fipamo and #TheBadSpace. Both are coming along well, and I’m glad I've put so much time into them because they are getting to a really good place.
I also started an org to house both projects because they have become more than personal endeavors, so they need to be treated as such, especially since they are about to open up to people who want to contribute.
Funding the org is a significant priority for me this year. I want to get both projects out as soon as possible, but I'm realizing I can't do it all myself. It's been a big learning curve for me, but it's coming along.
The challenge currently is having enough resources to maintain my current pace while the organization's funding process takes its course. Applying for grants is a time-consuming and long process, but it will ultimately pay off in the long run.
However, until that happens, I need some help getting through the next couple of months. Ideally, 4k would be enough to hold everything together to keep working, as I'm fortunate enough to have low overhead.
And always, don't feel bad if you can't give because every kind word and affirmation is also valuable. Just boost it and spread it around to get eyes on it.
Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Thanks in advance for your kindness and support. My work is challenging in many ways, but knowing that it helps people carve out space here makes it all worth it.
And the exciting part is that the best is still to come.
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