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#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)
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in reply to Rui Batista

@ragb Already discussed in description... Accident, no way I was going to re-record, didn't find out until editing.


If you could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, all recorded video are now available for viewing at your leisure: meetings-archive.debian.net/pu… #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian
in reply to Debian

Some kind of overview or table of contents would be nice. Have I overlooked this?




Thank you to all the people who made #DebConf24 possible! The DebConf organisation team, the Local Team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25 and contact the DebConf team. #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea #debconf25 micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


Wonderful article: "Computers can be understood": blog.nelhage.com/post/computer…

"…no single human understands all of the layers…from the transistors and silicon up through …the application code, not even to mention all the network services involved…"—why I am, shall we say, not a fan of the phrase "full stack".

"…engineers I’ve worked with (including myself) who are the most comfortable reading unfamiliar code bases are at risk of habitually undervaluing documentation…”—ouch, that one hurt.

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Grocery getters. Who the fuck need that to get groceries and why the fuck don’t they know how to park?
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Toto si tu odložím s mojou predikciou - tento výplod od Gartnera sa ukáže ako extrémny príklad genAI hujerizmu. Určite, genAI má potenciál určité odvedvia značne posunúť a prekopať, ale tento prehnaný optimizmus kruto narazí a ja len dufam, že to nebude mať následky ako prasknutie .com bubliny.

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Ľuboš Moščovič
@def
Hipe je okolo toho neskutočný, všetci to majú potrebu nacpať doslova všade, alebo aspoň to napísať. To je jak blockchain pred dekádou.
Ale je to už dobrých 18 mesiacov čo sa tento balónik vypustil a nejaký výraznejší posun, dokonca ani v aplikáciách kde sa dá na prvú očakávať, že by to mohlo mať naozaj zásadný prínos to poriadne nevidno. Naopak skôr vnímam nabaľujúci sa bludný kruh detských chýb a nových problémov.


Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while rai…

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I gave a talk about #spiel and #speech #tts in #linux at on #GUADEC #GUADEC2024 in Denver.

Check it out:
youtu.be/xseIsaxrlXo?feature=s…

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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Akože v pohode, robiť by som tam asi nechcel ale okej no, v pohode.


Google is neutering (among other things) the most effective web spyware blocker. That tells you so much about the motives of a company that once promised to not be evil. bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog…
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Imane Khelif is a cis woman, she has experienced 9 losses against other women in her career, including the 2020 Olympics where she lost against Irish participant Kellie Harrington. Yet, the usual transphobes are currently unleashing a vile attack against her, misgendering her, accusing her of being a man competing unfairly and having some sort of advantage against her fellow athletes, all because she doesn't fit their incredibly limited norm of how a woman should look.

Suddenly, people who never cared or know much about the sport are very interested in women's boxing, and found a scapegoat in her in order to spread their disinformation. Khelif is currently receiving more vitriol than convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde who was still allowed to compete.

This is basically yet another reminder that it was never about genuinely caring for the safety of women. Transphobia is dangerous for everyone, *including* us cis women, and that the links between TERF ideology and white supremacy are very real. Feminism isn't feminism if it's not intersectional.

junkee.com/articles/trans-wome…

#ImaneKhelif #Olympics #Olympics2024 #transphobia #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

in reply to Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕

Lin Yu-ting originally got into boxing wanting to protect her mother from domestic violence, which clearly shows that she has experienced domestic abuse first hand.

Imane Khelif grew up in poverty, she started boxing when she became good at dodging the physical attacks of boys in her village, traveled 10km to train, and had to work to pay for her own bus fare, as her father didn't approve of boxing for girls. An experience that a lot of girls who grew up having so-called "tomboy" interests are probably familiar with. I know I am. She has recently become a UNICEF ambassador, aiming to inspire girls everywhere to chase their dreams. (unicef.org/algeria/en/stories/…)

Not that the transphobia and clear racist undertones of attacking these two women, despite the fact that they are both cis, aren't horrible enough, but there's something particularly sinister and cruel in the fact that the people who decided to paint them as villains and keep circulating disinformation about both, claim to act in the name of ending violence against women and protecting women's rights.

#LinYuTing #ImaneKhelif #Olympics #Transphobia #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA




Did you know that advanced phishing attacks have significantly increased since the release of ChatGPT?

Here's how you can prevent email phishing attacks: tuta.com/blog/how-to-prevent-p…

#phishing #emailphishing #preventphishing #phishingtips

in reply to Tuta

“use your favorite search engine - which hopefully is not Google”

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Die Kritik an #Correctiv ignoriert, was wir über Rechtsextremismus wissen uebermedien.de/97382/die-kriti…


In the ongoing saga of trying to return a bottle I picked up at a shop in the station at Sloterdijk. Having failed at a supermarket in Leiden I tried the machine at Utrecht centraal. But apparently I'm too fucking stupid to return a bottle...

This is the machine. I can't work out how to use it. I have up after 5 mins. There seems to be no interactive mechanism. And you need a fucking app to use it ?!?! Which utter ableist fucking moron came up with this idea?

in reply to Quixoticgeek

Why can't I just hand my empty to the human I bought the full one from ?
What sort of tourist is gonna bother to download an app to get their €0.15 back ?!?!?


Dnešní mokrý #cyklovýlet
Dál už asi nejedu, jsem úplně durch, ale když #birellovka miluješ, není co řešit 😄
in reply to Archos

To potěší. Já jsem včera vzdal jízdu k našim a dobře jsem udělal, bo jinak bych šlapal taky asi 20 km v mokrém. 😇
in reply to Skaut

@neskaut
Já doufám, že mi uschnou boty do neděle, taky chci vyrazit k našim 😄😄


Hey everyone,

I'm trying to take another stab at implementing #Passbook (#pkpass) support in #Catima.

It's going okay but I'm having trouble hunting down test cases, especially test cases with localized strings.

Do you have any .pkpass file you're willing to share with me? If so, please send them to me and tell me if you're okay with me including them in Catima unit tests. Feel free to censor things before sending (but please tell me what you censored).

Thanks!

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The Marrakesh Treaty has led to countries opening up their copyright laws and allowing the reproduction of accessible books. However, there are still many limitations. For example, 18.7% of the participating countries have a commercial availability check, and 38% have a secondary law that might require a check.Hopefully, the European Accessibility Act fully taking effect in June, 2025 will lead to a proliferation of accessible books provided by publishers. #accessibility repository.ifla.org/handle/123…
in reply to accessauston

And then they'll go eBraille and nothing on the earth will be able to read them...


Exciting news on open-source neural voices!
Our first experiment is complete with fantastic results! Check out the audio sample attached to this post.
For this month, @pneumasolutions provided GPU resources for training. I really appreciate their contribution.
This is just the beginning. To keep training going, I'm still accepting donations. Any amount helps.
I'm happy to receive your donations via PayPal:
paypal.me/geotts
Please mention mush42/tts in the notes.
#SpeechSynthesis #AI #ML

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in reply to Musharraf

may i have a link to your optispeech hfc female checkpoint? I'd like to test this, i am really intreagued
in reply to spacedoggy

@spacepup
Glad to hear this!
For now, I'm not making checkpoints available due to them being unstable.
While initial results are promising, I discovered an issue with FFT parameters. Fixed it, and currently waiting for the server to become available to fine-tune with corrected data.
Upon getting consistent output quality, I'll publish an online demo, and make the pretrained checkpoints available via HuggingFace.


If Codeberg is trying to "compete" against GitHub and GitLab, why does it refuse to take a look at AI assistants? Apart from infringing on authors' rights and questionable output quality, we think that the current hype wave led by major companies will leave a climate disaster in its wake: disconnect.blog/generative-ai-…

Other _sustainable_ (and cheaper!) ways for increasing efficiency in software development exist: In-project communication, powerful automation pipelines and reducing boilerplate.

in reply to Codeberg.org

Very weak argument imo.

How are the servers for codeberg powered?

in reply to s_levi_s

@s_levi_s Codeberg is running a single server (~130W) on renewable energy. We know that we can reach more efficiency, mostly because we don't benefit from scaling effects yet.

The difference is more like this:
- we do not encourage users to use more resources, because it would cost us more. Most competitors do the opposite (e.g. recommending the use of heavy CI pipelines), simply because it makes more revenue
- we do not spend any computing power on tracking and unnecessary data collection



It's one of those days where I'm missing Window-eyes 2.1 and 3.1, and feeling kind of sad over it. Also the Windows 3.1 Program Manager. Sigh. I will wallow in this feeling for a bit. Also not having Brailab and the classic Hungarian DOS games I grew up with while my American counterparts enjoy their retro DOS games with Mame, kind of makes me more nostalgic, I guess.
Some hope! vetusware.com/download/Mikrobi…
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in reply to Tamas G

Ah.. Window eyes. I liked it. Compared to jaws, it was better when it comes to mouse navigation.


Für die Fotoaktion #ZeigMirDeinenBlick in #Plauen habe ich heute früh ein kleines Tool in #Python mit #Flask geschrieben, um den Upload in eine #Nextcloud zu ermöglichen, wobei eine Kategorie gewählt und ein Name eingegeben werden kann.
codeberg.org/solidcharity/nc_f…
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Stéphanie, why did you choose Ottawa and not Montréal when you moved from Vancouver?

Because I have an Anglo husband and I won't tolerate hateful politics against him.

Can't be welcomed with bonjour-hi, can't get healthcare in English. No no no.

"Elle rappelle que l’expression « Bonjour-Hi » est proscrite dans les succursales de la SAQ et que les employés sont tenus d’accueillir les clients en français."

lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-m…

in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

if that can make you feel better, franco also won't be able to get healthcare. Because the Franco-fascist in charge is also doing all he can to sell it to the private sector after destroying it.

Now I will say "Bonjour-Hi" everywhere. And default to English.


in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Ze by akcia na obnovu dobrej povesti ochranky?

Na Vychode nic nie je, ergo by malo byt lacne zohnat tam zufaleho komparzistu.

zn: hlavne nic nevysetrovat, staci fabulacia, ze ma predplatne casopisu Playgirl

:>

#NieJeToPravdaAleMohlaByByt

in reply to Peter Hanecak

taky možnosť.. "lacný komparzista na východe" :kekw: no ale hlavne nič navyšetrovať, to je celkom masaker, sú príklady z praxe o/nad ani nepíšem a ani sa nezamýšlam. Rozklad.
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Chrome začal upozorňovať na koniec rozšírení nepodporujúcich nové API, aj populárny uBlock Origin dsl.sk/article.php?article=289…
in reply to rss_dsl_sk

Čudujem sa, že to prichádza až teraz... Ale nikdy nie je neskoro, takže ešte raz - Chrome nie je browser, je to šmírovacia platforma Googlu, podobne ako Android.
Použite, zatiaľ stále príčetný, browser #firefox a nezabudnite na obľúbené rozšírenia vrátane #privacybadger od #eff


"Most large software engineering organizations incentivize anti-automation ... predictable work is work that could have been automated but was not automated."

haskellforall.com/2024/07/soft…



Tip for #android users:

If you search for simple utility apps on #google's play store it will almost always give you a bunch of options that contain ads or ask for unnecessary permissions.

F-Droid is an alternative app store for android devices which exclusively lists apps published under the AGPL (a #copyleft / free-software / open-source license). It's possible to install F-Droid on a normal Android OS via its APK, but that can be intimidating.

Most of the apps on F-Droid are *also* available on the play store. So, even if you aren't ready to fully switch out of Google's ecosystem, you can still use F-Droid's search as a better way to find options that are (in my experience) free of ads and surveillance.

Each app features a page which links to their source code, which usually has a README file, which usually points to their page on the play store.

f-droid.org/




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in reply to visually perfect

Я тоже считаю, что церемония была шикарная. Что реально подкачало, так это комментарии в разных странах. Начать с того, что никто не понял, почему команды представляли именно в таком порядке (германия на букву «А», например). Им должны были рассказать про французские названия стран, ну или сами должны были провести ресёрч.



Basic Webxdc support is almost there. If you're on Ubuntu Touch 20.04 (Focal), Mobian or Droidian, check out a pre-release: codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…

Feedback welcome :awesome:

More details in the wiki: codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…

This pre-release cannot be installed on UT 16.04 (Xenial), but in the final release, Xenial will be supported.

#DeltaTouch #Webxdc #DeltaChat #UbuntuTouch





After the afternoon break at 5:00 PM KST (08:00 UTC) in Bada, we share our DebConf24 Closing Ceremony. Some final statistics and we bid farewell to Busan and look forward to DebConf25! Thank you all for coming to DebConf24! debconf24.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian



Soutok dvou šumavských řek – Otavy a Vltavy. Zvíkov objektivem Michala Bártíka.