New article about my experience as a long-term cuckcake just dropped ๐Ÿฅฐ kinkhouseofo.com/index.php/202โ€ฆ

ื”ื’ื™ืจืกื” ื”ืงืคืœื ื™ืกื˜ื™ืช ืฉืœ #ืœื_ื”ืฉืžืขืชื™_ืืช_ืงื•ืœื™ ๐Ÿ˜œ
(ืชื•ื“ื” ืœื™ื•ืกืฃื”)
in reply to ืฆื‘ื™ ื”ื ื™ื ื’'ื” ุนุฒูŠุฒ ุงู„ู†ูŠู†ุฌุง

ืชื—ื™ืœื” ื”ื ื‘ืื• ื ื’ื“ ื”ืขืจื‘ื™ื, ืื‘ืœ ืœื ืืžืจืชื™ ื›ืœื•ื ื›ื™ ืื™ื ื ื™ ืขืจื‘ื™

ื•ืื– ื”ื ื‘ืื• ื ื’ื“ื™, ื•ืื ื™ ื”ื™ื™ืชื™ ื‘ื”ืœื ื˜ื•ื˜ืืœื™, ื›ื™ ืžื” ืื ื™? ืขืจื‘ื™??

BestSpeak 0.16 (eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addoโ€ฆ): Changed self.executor to only allow a single thread worker to perhaps address TTS stability even further. If you've had issues, do test this out - again I notice a very slight performance decrease when you hold down your tab key in terms of how much of the first syllable it gets out before cutting itself off, but this may be the price we live with. I'm personally OK with that. I suppose anyone can change their line back to 4 again if they feel having it be a single worker is a big decrease. For the safety of others having the squeal / memory corruption issue, it's worth it.
Remember that BestSpeak came out at a time when having a multicore processor was not even a thing. One core, 1 thread for most processors. The DLL just can't handle concurrency well.
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@joshknnd1982 DECTalk is interesting as it was hacked to use Nvwave player. The engine produces audio data in memory. The code then manually pulls that audio from the DECtalk buffers and feeds it to a WavePlayer class, which manages audio output independently. Essentially, DECtalk is bypassing the engineโ€™s internal audio device selection and handling all audio routing at the application level, but something like that is impossible to do with BestSpeech.

๐Ÿ•›Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broadโ€ฆ #TGVRadio #audio #radio ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ป๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ๐ŸŒŒ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿซฐ๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿชฌ๐Ÿซถ

Lol. "Compilers and getting increasingly fussy about memory leaks, even in command-line programs where they do not matter. So this code is provided to hush the warnings." #SQLite github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/โ€ฆ

I think this is an official BBC account on YouTube putting up full serials of classic Doctor Who.

Some great stuff here!

youtube.com/@BBCClassicDoctorWโ€ฆ
Some of my picks:

"The Happiness Patrol" (Sylvester McCoy)
(This was a great season, but I don't have this one on DVD. This is the next season for their Blu-Ray release series, BTW, also includes "Silver Nemesis" and "Remembrance of the Daleks", both great)

"Invasion of the Dinosaurs" (Jon Pertwee)
"The Time Warrior" (Jon Pertwee)
(I think had these on VHS, recorded off-air, but it's been a long time since I watched them).
#DoctorWho#JonPertwee#SylvesterMcCoy

in reply to Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)

See this article.
thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024โ€ฆ #DoctorWho

Flirty Second Doctor might be my favourite this go around. #DoctorWhoRewatch #TheEnemyOfTheWorld

It's interesting reading my reference books from before the serial was rediscovered and how perceptions change, and how they have to theorise about different aspects we now *know* (About Time spends a lot of time considering when this was set).

#DoctorWho

in reply to Mrs McCrimmon

Interesting what you say about perceptions. One of the reasons I gave up on Doctor Who podcasts was after listening to a twenty-something year-old podcaster slating another Troughton story, The Space Pirates. The thing is, unlike him, I'm old enough (ancient) to have watched that story when it was broadcast, and I recall how much I enjoyed it. Watching The Space Pirates one episode a week in a Britain that had yet to experience Star Trek was quite something. Context counts. ๐Ÿ™‚
in reply to Doctor Roo

I think thatโ€™s one of the many reasons I love #DoctorWho - it is in many ways a chronicle of the history of (British) tv and how we experience it over the years - experiences like your childhood are not the prominent way anymore in this streaming/binging age (for good or ill).

And surely how a modern audience โ€˜consumesโ€™ old tv changes that relationship so I think we should put increasing effort into recognising the original experience/context. If only for the die-hard fans or tv historians.

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Prodejnรญ automaty jรญzdenek PID novฤ› umoลพลˆujรญ i nรกkup dlouhodobรฝch kuponลฏ. Automat mรก na sobฤ› dalลกรญ ฤteฤku NFC, po pล™iloลพenรญ mobilu se telefon zeptรก, jestli se chci prokรกzat aplikacรญ PID Lรญtaฤka nebo Idolka, coลพ je jejรญ nedokonalรฝ klon pro Libereckรฝ kraj.

Nejsem si jist, pro koho je sluลพba urฤena, v kaลพdรฉm pล™รญpadฤ› k dokonalosti uลพ chybรญ jen moลพnost zaplatit roฤnรญ kupรณn mincemi ๐Ÿ˜

We welcome the decision by the Council to give the green light to Romania and Bulgaria to fully join the Schengen family.

Schengen means opportunities:
๐Ÿ”นeasier movement for international education, business and tourism,
๐Ÿ”นfluid transport of goods across our Single Market,
๐Ÿ”นavailability of critical products during emergencies,
๐Ÿ”นcloser cooperation for international fight against crime.

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I hate big shopping malls. That's why I always need to find the best way to the business and back. #Mapycz and #GoogleMaps are useless for that. POIs are missing, wrongly placed or grouped in the middle of the mall.

But some shopping malls in #Brno are so well mapped in #OpenStreetMap that it can navigate me right to the business. And that even includes changing floors and using escalators. ๐Ÿ‘

Do you or someone you know have experience and passion in low-level multimedia coding? Does reading kernel, Vulkan, and cameras pump you up? Weโ€™ve got just the job for you! igalia.com/jobs/low_level_multโ€ฆ
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The Free Lossless Audio Codec (#flac) is now an IETF standard!

rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.htmโ€ฆ

Thanks to everyone who worked to document and clarify this important format for sound and music archive and exchange on the internet, to Martijn van Beurden for maintenance of the reference implementation, and to Josh Coalson for originally publishing his work for everyone to use.

#flac

The European Commission is going through Appleโ€™s OSes feature by feature, with the help of interested parties and industry collaboration, and deciding where the API lines should be drawn. Itโ€™s absolutely fascinating.

And remember, Apple brought all of this on itself through its years of misconduct and inability to follow the law.

Don't miss the 30 pages of proposed specs in the PDFs here (summarized in screenshots here; no alt-text, follow through to original link): digital-markets-act.ec.europa.โ€ฆ

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in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

How granular is this stuff?

"If Apple presents end users of [3rd-party apps] with a choice regarding the level of background execution capabilities or background connection to a connected physical device, it must present the same choice in the same manner, including regarding time, place, and cadence, to end users of Appleโ€™s connected physical devices. Apple may only present end users with a specific choice [โ€ฆ] if Apple implements and offers this choice for its own connected physical device.โ€

in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

"Apple shall provide a protocol specification that gives third parties all information required to integrate, access, and control the AirDrop protocol within an application or service (including as part of the operating system) running on a third-party connected physical device in order to allow these applications and services to send files to, and receive files from, an iOS device.โ€
in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

Re AirPlay and Chromecast et al

"Centralised availability: Apple shall allow third-party casting providers to centrally provide their casting solution on iOS, e.g., through an extension, such that end users who install the casting solution can access the third-party casting provider in any third-party app that uses standard media playback APIs without the need for the third-party app developer to integrate an SDK in their applications.โ€

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"For the purpose of ensuring that effective interoperability continues in the future, third parties must also have access to any future feature functionalities and updates of the media casting feature insofar and as soon as they are available to Appleโ€™s AirPlay. For example, if Apple updates AirPlay to stream video at higher resolution, or to allow end users to initiate screen mirroring via an AI assistant, these updates should be made available to third parties as well.โ€

Again 2025 deadline

in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

"Apple shall not impose any restrictions on the type or use case of the software application and connected physical device that can access or makeuse of the features listed in this Document.

Apple shall not undermine effective interoperability with the 11 features set out in this Document by behaviour of a technical nature. In particular, Apple shall actively take all the necessary actions to allow effective interoperability with these features.โ€

in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

"Apple shall not impose any contractual or commercial restrictions that would be opaque, unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory towards third parties or otherwise defeat the purpose of enabling effective interoperability. In particular, Apple shall not restrict business users, directly or indirectly, to make use of any interoperability solution in their existing apps via an automatic update.โ€

EC having to legislate around Apple's poison pills, which is wild. Apple is that untrustworthy

in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

My takeaways from the proposal: the EC is prepared to go into detail on specific features, mandate various avenues of interoperability and APIs required, ensure that Apple can't make them burdensome in implementation or by policy, set a concrete timeframe for the changes to be made (i.e. by next release of iOS), and ensure that Apple can't pull the rug out from under these APIs in the future or self-preference for new or unannounced devices. All the proposals are great, necessary changes
in reply to Steve Troughton-Smith

It's always amusing when detractors cry that the ECโ€™s policy-makers know nothing about technology, but even a casual reading through their proposals and specs would tell you they have extensive amounts of input from subject matter experts

(From the case PDFs at digital-markets-act.ec.europa.โ€ฆ, a separate set of studies/proposals on Apple's interoperability mechanisms)

He visto a alguien del lado oscuro compartiendo la captura de un artรญculo, publicado en un blog de The Times of Israel, en el que se empleaba el concepto nazi "Lebensraum" (espacio vital, en alemรกn). No me lo podรญa creer, asรญ que he decidido comprobarlo yo misma. Y sรญ, es cierto: algunos israelรญes abrazan la retรณrica de quienes fueron sus verdugos hace menos de cien aรฑos.

Es posible que lo borraran, pero aรบn puede consultarse en este enlace: archive.ph/NGnNv#selection-115โ€ฆ

Alle Jahre wieder, leider heute zum letzten Mal mit Hubert Zitt: Die Star-Trek-Weihnachtsvorlesung am Campus Zweibrรผcken der Uni Kaiserslautern. Live-Stream lรคuft schon mal โžก๏ธ twitch.tv/lastgeektonight

ejabberd 24.12 is here and we've nicknamed it the "evacuate_kindly" release, inspired by one of its new commands, with a playful twist. As the year winds down, we hope this update helps you smoothly manage your messaging infrastructureโ€”and also reminds you to kindly "evacuate" the stress of 2024.

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!

More details in our blog post: process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-โ€ฆ

It's the last spec release of 2024! ๐ŸŽ‰ Matrix 1.13 has even more Trust & Safety features for you. Account Suspension, new reporting endpoints, fixes to the existing endpoints, and not-T&S features like EDUs to appservices!

Details on the blog: matrix.org/blog/2024/12/19/matโ€ฆ

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The PSF has continued working to improve and steward our Grants Program to grow with the #Python community and our foundation. This blog series shares updates and announces upcoming changes to the Grants Program. Check out the TLDR; to start:
pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/12/pโ€ฆ
in reply to Python Software Foundation

With record-high demand in 2024 for our Grants Program (supporting ~30,000 Pythonistas worldwide ๐ŸŒ), weโ€™re introducing updates to ensure sustainability and focus on impactful support. Part 1 in the series details the thoughtful process behind the changes: pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/12/pโ€ฆ

If Youโ€™re #Pregnant, Hereโ€™s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
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#Women experiencing #pregnancy loss in states with #abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

#News #Health #Healthcare #Doctors #Miscarriage

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The โ€œARIA in HTMLโ€ specification, newly released by the @w3c provides clear guidelines for using ARIA attributes with HTML elements.

It ensures developers enhance accessibility while preserving native HTML semantics, avoiding misuse that could hinder people using assistive technologies.

w3.org/TR/html-aria/

What is it like to use a screen reader on an inaccessible website?
Navigating is like using a narrow-beamed flashlight in a dark, constantly changing roomโ€”you must carefully piece together a mental map while unseen changes make it harder to orient yourself. Dynamic content without clear cues, like vague "aria-live" alerts, can add confusion, but precise and context-aware descriptions can greatly improve navigation and understanding. A great analogy by Craig Abbott.
craigabbott.co.uk/blog/what-isโ€ฆ

Today's bit of Christmas audio comes from Playback Magazine produced by Ed Potter, edition 69, for January 1991. This bit was recorded early on the morning of Thursday, January 3, 1991, and is how that particular edition of Playback ended. Here's a little story about a large trash can and musical Christmas cards.

Teamsters say Amazon workers will strike at multiple facilities as union seeks labor contract
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-strike-teamsters-delivery-gifts-1ea28e27bc3ddd88d9f0c7c53f798d1d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress

"All I want for Christmas is you", but in the style of 6 classical composers ๐ŸŽน๐ŸŽ„ youtu.be/yZi4Z1e5KO8?si=7g1awjโ€ฆ

How do you a visualize a contributor community like Thunderbird's? With help from @bitergia, of course! Read our blog on how we partnered up to understand and better support our community - and open up our data.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/vโ€ฆ

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