Hah! I fixed the codec problem. Now #FluffyChat on iOS can play ogg files (by converting it to caf before) and also FluffyChat now records with opus/ogg codecs if the platform supports it, which should be the case on all Android devices and newer iOS devices.
Also tested with the WhatsApp bridge. Finally I can send voice messages to my friends on WhatsApp
Because we know you can’t get enough of us, we are back again, and this time, as foretold, it’s to announce Fractal 8! There have been little changes since our release candidate, so let’s recap the main improvements since Fractal 7: Mentions are s…
I was just told I'm threatening the Ventoy "community" by [checks notes] not mentioning it enough in my video. Had someone say they're coming after my systems now. 🙃
Didn't think I was going to be putting up my harassment defenses over a boot tool, but here we are.
Donald Trump's refusal to give up his business when he entered the White House in 2016 ensured he earned more money as commander-in-chief than any other in U.S. history, a Forbes financial analysis revealed Monday.
This is a wild story that says a lot about right-wing evangelicalism:
1) Matt Bevin, the Republican former Kentucky governor, adopted a boy from Ethiopia for PR purposes 2) Bevin and his wife decided they don't like the boy so they ship him off to an abusive "troubled teen" facility in Jamaica 3) Jamaican government shuts down the horrible group 4) Bevin family abandoned the boy in Jamaica after the facility was closed
If OpenAI were a serious and responsible company they would enable their watermarking feature. But they know that it would completely undermine their product: Nobody wants to read "AI" generated shit and having that easily detectable would shed a bad light on their users. Which it should: If you don't want to write it, I don't want to read it.
(Original title: OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught)
OpenAI is reportedly internally divided over whether to watermark ChatGPT’s text output, worrying that although benefits exist, it could turn off users.
Text is just text, you can't watermark text without decreasing its quality.
Simple example, if you ask Chat GPT to count from 1 to 10000, either you get unwatermarked output or you get incorrect output, there's no way to do both.
It's important to note that this doesn't apply to any other format, images, audio and video can be watermarked easily with little to no difference to the human eye or ear.
I guess it's not surprising that Artificial "Intelligence" sold by the guy whose autopilot keeps crashing offers up far right disinformation rather than facts.
Jenna Johnson:
Top election officials are urging Elon #Musk to fix the AI chatbot on X that spread false election information, suggesting Kamala #Harris missed the ballot the deadline in nine states. (She hasn't.)
Recently finished Kamala Harris’s 2019 memoir. Must say she is a true public servant. If Americans truly care for public officials who in turn care for them, I mean like really care, then voting in the upcoming elections should not be a question for you. #USPoll But then perhaps Mastodon is not the right place to post this?
My #Epson L486 #printer stopped working because of a full waste ink pads. 🔍 Finding new pads? ✅ Easy, they are on aliexpress or allegro...
🔧 Replacing pads? ✅ Easy, one screw in the back, plenty tutorial videos on youtube...
0️⃣ Reset software counters? ❓ Tool found on epson.com didn't work. ✅ The following one did. Of course, I had to start it in Windows in virtual machine as I don't have any win machine laying around and I don't trust the app. github.com/Ircama/epson_print_…
Making cool online stuff shouldn't be reserved for a small handful of people with privilege, money, time, and/or skills. BitLadle is part of changing that.
> There's also a bit of an unfortunate cultural tendency to conflate efficiency with a kind of extreme minimalism, which often ends up having very exclusionary results in practice - not something I'm keen to recreate.
This! So many minimal, from-scratch, "handmade" UIs are completely inaccessible with screen readers and other access tech.
The Scam: Demand that Black & trans people CW/TW their sociopolitical thoughts and issues. Make them hide the bigotry & racism they experience in life or online away. Unfollow people who speak on it. Mute all things political.
Then, conveniently, when people speak about the bigotry and racism they experience here, claim “well I don’t even see that…” because you purposely avoided politics with privilege, and demanded everything be on CW/TW.
Again. You’re not smart. You’re racist and complicit.
The type of person that’s part of a marginalized group and react to any improvement of that group’s situation with “people today are spoiled and get everything for free”
The “If i had a hard time, s then so should everyone after me”, which is effectively a demand that nothing ever improves.
Congratulations, you’re doing your oppressors’ work for them.
Dear white people: when Black people share our experiences with racism, don't ask us
"What can be done about it?"
We didn't invent racism.
And on some level, many of you know what needs to be done. It just sits outside of your comfort level.
Well, you need to learn to sit with that discomfort, then pose your questions about what needs to be done to other white people. You need to challenge racism within:
* YOUR family members who are racist (The major holidays are coming. Time to prepare!)
* Your friends and social groups
* Your co-workers and colleagues
* YOURself
Asking Black people to explain the dynamics of racism and to offer solutions, unless they volunteer that information, is asking for them to "educate you" by doing FREE emotional and intellectual labor - and most of us have enough on our plate trying to survive and thrive.
it's an alternative frontend to xkcd.com/ with some important differences: - title text shown in a more accessible way (instead of abusing alt text) - transcript included for every comic (with newer ones sourced from explainxkcd) - link to explainxkcd.com/ (for when you don't get the joke) - dark mode!
Learning how to date as a girl was really easy because I could finally rely on my instincts to flirt instead of basing it on the mating rituals I’ve seen in movies
I do hit bumps occasionally such as men being sensitive about their height (even though smol guys are cute)
If you use Microsoft CoPilot in a web browser, you may have realised that JAWS will use what is known as Application Mode. Put simply this mode is designed so as to treat a web-based environment as a standalone application. With CoPilot there is a lot of difficulty with this approach. Even if you disable Application Mode by pressing NumPad Plus twice quickly, there are times where if you browse CoPilot with the Virtual Cursor, JAWS automatically goes back into Application Mode even if you have not asked it to do so. A good example of this is where CoPilot displays items in a list. Ask it to create a food recipe for you and that will clearly demonstrate it.
The next update to Leasey will resolve this problem. There is some discussion about the benefits of Leasey on this platform right now. This is just one of the advantages. Issues like this can be resolved in short order. #LeaseyLove
Silly #PipeWire question for people out here… the program `pw-cat` takes raw input via `stdin`, and through experimentation on my AMD64 machine, I see it is little-endian audio.
Now, is it little-endian because AMD64 is little-endian, or is it little-endian because it's hard-coded for little-endian audio?
If I ran the same commands on a big-endian architecture (Sun SPARC, IBM PowerPC, MIPS, … etc), would PipeWire assume big-endian audio or little-endian?
So what's the verdict on that Chuwibook? It's... Well, as much as 300 bucks gets you. Build quality isn't horrible but screen has a slight wabble with minimal push, battery life is OK (about 6 hours.) There's a weird issue where you can't press Capslock, shift, and right arrow, but you can press left arrow, not sure what that's about either. Alt+Shift+ right arrow work, but not Windows +shift + right arrow, either. This computer has quirks of its own.
for a 10-inch computer, it's very tiny. I could almost squeeze it into my pants pocket, not quite. About the height of an iPad air but not as wide, which makes sense as the Air is 11-inch. This is 10.5. I did a touch-test on the screen and it got a 10-finger tap very accurately, so Chuwi does use quality displays in their computers. The fan rarely comes on, it's not an always-on fan. But if you work on anything intense the bottom gets, well, uncomfortably hot, like almost-finger-burning hot...
which is not good. The fan at high volume isn't super loud but somewhat audible from across a room. I like that it charges with Type-C, that was another thing I needed, as for international travel it's now a must that my computers use it and most devices I own. Speaker is not bad. It's on the bottom edges, hard to cover it up by surfaces but also, that doesn't change the fact that it's downward-firing. But again you're not paying for quality here just a tiny machine that is good to use in cafes
Should you buy it? Well, it's better than Netbooks of yesteryear and at the same pricing. I was shocked to see that the CPU has an 800mHZ Base frequency, but this is a $55 N100 we're talking about, it's just one step above the Atom platform an that's not a big step at that, so. Performance isn't horrible and seeing a 512 GB SSD in a computer this cheap was nice, even though it says it's a "KPART512GBC2DVT" with 1700 MB read speeds. Still beats a 5400 RPM drive anyday, remember that Netbook fun?
If you need a small machine for the basics, it'll work. The keyboard is not crammed, keys are where you'd expect them, function keys enabled by default, no fuss there. It won't compile your big web project and it definitely won't let you run local LLM, so look elsewhere for that. It's good to see Alder Lake bring back some of these to the mainstream again at this pricepoint though, competes well with Chromebooks on price, battery not so much. Once sub-$400 arm laptops come around... Poor Intel.
The whole internet loves Turkish Sharpshooter, a lovely Turkish man that shoots in a tshirt *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the Turkish Sharpshooter is possibly guilty of war crimes in Kurdistan
Zeptal jsem se lokální instance Llama3.1, proč pořád padají akcie Intelu. Asi bych ji najal jako lamu analytičku.
Je obtížné identifikovat jediný důvod pro dlouhodobou klesající tendenci cen akcií společnosti Intel. Společnost Intel je technologický lídr, který nabízí široký rozsah hardwaru a softwaru pro PC, serverové systémy, IoT (Internet věcí) a další oblasti.
Nicméně, existují několik možných faktorů, které přispívají ke klesající cenové tendenci akcií Intel:
Změna trhu: Za posledních pár let došlo v oboru PC k významnému poklesu prodejů. To bylo způsobeno změnami ve spotřebitelských preferencích a vyšší dostupností chytrých telefonů. Pokud je trh, který produkujete, klesající, bude se pravděpodobně cena vašich akcií snižovat.
Pokročilá konkurence: Existují společnosti jako AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), které se snaží Intel konkurovat v oblasti procesorů a dalších produktů. Přestože je Intel stále předním výrobcem procesorů, jeho tržní podíl může klesat, pokud AMD nebo jiní konkurenti získávali na popularitě.
Změna modelu příjmu: Historicky byla společnost Intel silná v oblasti hardwaru (procesory), ale také měla významný podíl na trhu softwaru (operating systemy a další). Nicméně, s úbytkem prodejů PC se společnosti stává stále těžší udržet svou tržní přítomnost. Pokud nebude schopna adaptovat svůj model příjmu nebo rychle zavádět novinky, může být cena akcií ovlivněna.
Investiční trendy: Obecně vzato, existují investiční trendy, které se objevují v různých obdobích. V posledním desetiletí existovaly trendované oblasti jako například kryptoměny, umělá inteligence nebo IoT, ale nyní je vidět návrat k tradicionalizmu a silnější důraz na dlouhodobou udržitelnost. Pokud se společnost Intel nenachází ve spojení s těmito trendy, může být její cena ovlivněna.
Finanční výsledky společnosti: Pokud bude mít společnost Intel slabá finanční výsledky, například snížení příjmů nebo zvýšení ztráty, jeho akcie by pravděpodobně klesly.
Je důležité poznamenat, že žádný z výše uvedených důvodů není absolutní a existují i pozitivní faktory, které mohou ovlivnit cenu akcií společnosti Intel. Je také důležité brát v úvahu širokou škálu dalších faktorů, jako například politickou situaci nebo ekonomický vývoj.
Je také nutné poznamenat, že cena akcií je dynamickým ukazatelem a může být ovlivněna mnoha různými faktory. Pokud chcete získat hlubší pochopení této situace, doporučuji vám, abyste se obraceli na odborníky v oblasti financí nebo analytiky z oboru technologií.
You know what type of #accessibility feature doesn’t get talked about enough?
Having multiple access points to achieve a goal, and the ability to choose how you want be contacted.
As someone who struggles with executive dysfunction, auditory information processing disorder, who sometimes can’t deal with hearing sound or speech, and has a lifetime of sleeping issues, enforcing phone calls in early morning to make appointments is cruel.
As someone who lived for 4 years in Germany and is not perfectly fluent in German (somewhere around B1/B2), I can tell you that foreigners is another group of people affected by this. If I could mail or WhatsApp everywhere I needed to call by phone, my life were far easier. P.S. I speak a tiny little bit of Dutch, so I feel your pain to transcribe your first name each and every time. I mean, it's an easy beautiful first name for me, but for other people… I feel you.
@menelion You raise an excellent point! Phone calls to make appointments is hard enough as-is, let alone in another language with someone who is pressed for time and sometimes (if calling a GP) will try to underplay your issues.
PS. Almost no one except Dutch speakers understand my name, hence my company name is the English pronunciation: “Mah-Rye-Kuh.”
Yes. And also, Germany is a country very… rich in dialects, I'd say. And usual landline connections are sometimes also not good, and people are angry at you if you don't understand a quick rant in German with some pronunciation particularities due to a dialect background in a not-too-good connection and if a person covers the microphone partly with their cheek 😍
@menelion Germans and Dutch people are definitely not alike when it comes down to dealing with situations like this. Dutch people would probably switch to English instantly (which some migrants complain about since it makes it hard to practice the language with a native speaker)
"Social media wasn’t web 2.0, it’s what *killed* Web 2.0!
You might think I’m arguing over mere nomenclature but the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didn’t. We already had decentralized internet with social features. This fact contradicts the story the Web3/blockchain advocates want to tell you, so their story skips this entire era."
If you're like me and you're trying to keep an open mind that there may someday be a non-scam application of blockchains, you've probably read some articles about "Web3", which promises to...
Chipmakers puting AI cores in your CPU and not letting you use them for absolutely anything is the biggest waste of silicon in the history of modern computing.
Those tensor cores are godsend for things like large-scale CAD simulations but the only SDKs/samples provided are hardwired to run pretrained models.
There's no way to access the matrix/tensor capabilities directly. And that goes for both AMD and Intel.
It seems that even those who are not interested in sports and do not follow the Olympic Games have already read about the "50-year-old Turkish man who showed up at the competition in a wrinkled T-shirt, without special equipment, and took the Olympic silver without even taking his hand out of his pocket."
"Surely, Turkey sent some kind of hitman to Paris!" social media marvels.
In the blink of an eye, Yusuf Dikec, a previously unknown figure outside professional circles, a retired gendarmerie officer and professional shooter, became a global internet meme and sensation.
Everything is great! The moral of this story could be: no matter how old you are, keep doing what you love, and your best achievements may still lie ahead, even if you are an athlete over 50!
But another nuance caught my attention.
The fact is, Yusuf Dikec did not win the Olympic silver alone. It was a team event. Shooting alongside him was his colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose, and also with minimal equipment.
The only difference is that he is 51, and she is 24. He began professional shooting around the time she was born.
Dikec is an excellent shooter with a plethora of medals from prestigious competitions, but he had never made it to the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and competed with him on the same team.
If we look at the individual performances of these shooters in the same discipline where they took silver as a team, we will see that Tarhan finished 7th, while Dikec only came in 13th.
Now let's trace how mass consciousness works: we simply do not notice the woman standing next to him. It does not matter who she is, how she is dressed, how she shoots, or how unique her achievement is. We only see the man in the "wrinkled T-shirt," deliberately nonchalant, and create a romantic image of a "hitman." We spread a photograph in which he is shooting alone, and the result of this shooting is 13th place! Yet, we declare that he won "silver."
Why does the logic of mass culture work this way? After all, patriarchy has long ceased to exist, feminism is unnecessary, equality has been achieved, at least in Paris 2024 for sure!
This is how patriarchal myths about great male victories are born before our eyes. These images are entrenched in culture and shape our thinking. Meanwhile, women's contributions and achievements are simply erased from history. It was like this before. Unfortunately, it still happens today.
i'm switching from proton mail to tutamail...no problem right gradually? damn proton mail uses google push, i love fdroid so much, and tutamail is on fdroid
Alexandre Franke
in reply to jbz • • •If you want the original announcement, it’s at discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…
If you want to boost something more official, there’s mamot.fr/@afranke/112886583113…
Fractal 8 released
GNOME DiscourseThe Matrix.org Foundation
in reply to Alexandre Franke • • •Yikes! Thanks for pointing that out. We've retracted the boost and boosted the original post you linked to.
We monitor the #Matrix hashtag to try to find news to reshare with the ecosystem, and will be wary of that particular outlet going forward.
Alexandre Franke
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