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If you havent done your #twim post yet at matrix.to/#/#thisweekinmatrix:… then please do so asap :) We want to publish it eventually :D
They stole my voice with AI
Elecrow—an electronics company that makes Pi and ESP accessories—used an AI voice for multiple tutorial series which sounds _almost exactly_ like me.
I never consented to have my voice used to promote Elecrow's products.
@matrix ARe there any recordings of day 1 of the conference? The videos at:
2024.matrix.org/watch/
Only seem to show Saturdays talks, not Fridays.
Would be even more awesome to see them on #Peertube.
All the session videos will be online in the next ~week or so, and one of our speakers will be generously mirroring them on PeerTube here: video.innovationhub-act.org/c/…
And we look forward to rolling out our own official PeerTube channel before MatrixConf 2025!
Since this conference was not recorded at the Matrix Conf 2024, Element's crypto team did another run internally and recorded itYouTube
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But have you signed up for the Thunderbird Appointment beta yet?
From a Mailing List:
As some of you may already know, System76 is working on their new Linux graphical interface, the COSMIC desktop. They have created a form with some questions related to accessibility. If anyone is interested in participating in the survey, please access the address below:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#accessibility #Linux #foss #orca #blind
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one of my regrets is when i wrote that article on stylometric fingerprinting. i should have waited to get better at stylometric mimicry and focused on how i did that to improve anonymity and make it harder to connect alts (a bunch of custom vale.sh rules to remove style and conform to a boring technical style, then reintroducing a target’s style). instead i kind of spawned this community of people interested in using it for forensics.
i know they’ll see this post but idc at this point lmao
on the other hand, LLM slop awareness has created more bad stylometric analysts than any blog post of mine ever could.
“this was clearly written by an LLM because it uses [very common vocabulary preferences]!”
There are clear tells, and LLMs like ChatGPT do have a set of (cringeworthy) emergent loose style guides, but I usually don’t rely on this sort of thing. I don’t have a linguistics background. I can claim to be good at fingerprinting avoidance but actual fingerprinting is too error prone.
I don't run a BT Speak Pro, but I do develop hardware based on the CM4. An internal temperature of 50 C is faintly warm, but not much to worry about.
By comparison, an almost completely idle Raspberry Pi 5 on my desk is sitting at 54 C.
There are ways to reduce thermal activity, but they might affect the BT Speak Pro's usability
turning off cores is the big one.
Seriously, I'd check with Blazie if they think this could cause problems. You're not hitting thermal problems at the moment, and you might find the device becomes slow or unresponsive
“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
When people call you a “snowflake” just remember they're quoting Fight Club.
Fight Club.
A satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society, and become radicalized. And that Tyler Durden isn't the hero but a personification of the main character's mental illness.
His “snowflake” speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.
#FightClub #MentalHealth #ToxicMasculinity #Psychology #MentalIllness #Snowflake
had a desire to do some cryptography today and I'm very grateful for Cryptographic Right Answers latacora.com/blog/2018/04/03/c…
looks like there's also a 2024 post-quantum version here latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/c…
Google have really stolen an accessibility march on Apple with image descriptions with rich detail, built right into Talkback.
No more sharing to other apps, just focus on an image, single tap with three fingers and select Describe Image.
Browsing images on social media has never been so interesting or easy.
Here is an example, taken at Bewdly safari park:
A rhinoceros is standing in a grassy field in front of a wooden fence. The rhinoceros is facing the left of the image, its head is down and its long horn is visible. The rhinoceros is gray in color with a large, bulbous body and short, thick legs. The grass in the field is a vibrant green. The fence is made of brown wood and has a wire mesh on top. Beyond the fence, there are trees with green foliage. The image is taken from a slightly elevated angle. The time is 11:29.
Thank you Google. As a totally blind person from birth, I never thought I would be interested in pictures, I love them now.
This thread highlights one of the things I don’t like the most about people on the fedi: the insufferable arrogance of people (usually tech folks) who think this place should stick to their narrow vision and openly disparage anything that deviates from from that.
The beauty of the fedi is we can literally do anything we want here. It doesn’t have to be one way or the other. There is enough space on the internet for us to have our own special little places.
The dogma I see from people complaining about not wanting ads, when you are literally promoting stuff in your bio or not wanting influencers when we boost the sentiments we agree with and saying everything should be free when being on the fedi costs money is so ridiculous it’s beginning to border on straight up bigotry. It’s ok if one doesn’t like these things, but fighting to keep them out of the fedi because of that is replicating the centralized environments we say we allegedly one to get away from.
Not having these things is not what differentiates the fedi from centralized platforms. Giving people the tools to build whatever experience they want safely is what is going to put this place over the top.
Anything less than that and it’s just recreating less featured versions of stuff we already have.
Mekka does a good job of laying out why basing the direction of the fedi based on what we don’t like is a losing game, especially when those dislikes are based on shallow and myopic points.
My dislikes of places like TikTok outpace my likes, but one of the things it has over the fedi is diversity of content, which is ridiculous to me considering it’s a closed platform with wonky curation.
I can fun stuff, serious stuff, comforting and informative stuff all together because it has a variety of people from all walks of life sharing what they think is interesting.
The fedi has always fought against this diversity while claiming this place is ‘better’ while refusing to acknowledge the tooling is worse, safety is an after thought in most places and most fedi projects are managed by untrustworthy people.
I believe in the fedi becoming the de facto experience on the web, but there is a lot of to do to get there. We still haven’t realized the potential of this place because, quite honestly the platforms we have at the moment are not good enough for use by people who don’t have extensive experience in tech. And that’s not even getting into the inherent bigotry of the fedi for anything not white.
This place still just lacks the basics when it comes to building dynamic communities.
Just learned about Emissary, the social web toolkit.
At first glance, it looks like an extensible server that lets you define/extend ActivityPub types with your own, or with custom workflows/access rules.
Now I have to keep myself from going down a million rabbit holes with this. Tempted to dust off my old federated Steam/Itch game/digital project distribution idea, seems a whole lot more doable with something like Emissary than entirely from scratch.
The sheer size of that crowd! The community is excited to see what authentication is going to look like in Matrix in the very near future
Think it's got a bit of a problem knowing what language I want.
[deangelisdf/write2audiobook: A powerful tool designed to convert text-based documents into engaging audiobooks. Perfect for anyone looking to make reading more accessible, whether for people with visual impairments or for those who simply prefer listening on the go.](github.com/deangelisdf/write2a…)
🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!
We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.
This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!
notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22…
#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer
Michal 🇨🇿
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in reply to Michal 🇨🇿 • • •No jo, teď na to koukám 😀😀
Já to fotil asi na režim portrét 🤷🏼♂️
Jaroslav Kraif
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in reply to Jaroslav Kraif • • •Jj s tím souhlas. No jo, ale člověk je kolikrát líný, tahat někam zrcadlovku 🤷🏼♂️
@michal
Tritol
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in reply to Tritol • • •Přesně, bokeh co vytvoří objektiv, stále mobily nenahradí
@michal
Jan Korbel 🐧
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in reply to Jan Korbel 🐧 • • •Jan Korbel 🐧
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