If you are going to read one and ONLY one article about the state of the US, why trans people in particular are under threat, with historical and contemporary analysis, please PLEASE read and share this article about a historian who is trans and has neurodivergent children, and why she is painfully packing up and exiting the US: damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/wh…
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house.
Together with 39 orgs & 42 experts, our founder Matthias Pfau calls on the EU in an @edri open letter for a scientific evidence-based approach to #encryption 🔒
Encryption ensures integrity of ANY communication. Literally whole internet is based on it. If you temper with it at any point, it's not secure anymore. There is no "good guys" in encryption that should have the keys to peek inside. It's just encryption from start to end uninterrupted. Literally the fundamental part of everything online, secure shopping, secure voting, secure communication, private or of business nature.
❗Takže vážení, pondělí je po prodlouženém víkendu ještě kritičtější než obvykle. Kdo si dá po obědě malou mentální rozcvičku, rozhodně neprohloupí! Ale nesmíte na sebe moc chvátat. Stačí třeba vyjmenovat herce v Sedmi statečných nebo tak něco. 👇😊
Good Morning Good Monday I hope you all have a good start to the day and an even better middle, and end. Be well, stay safe, stay strong, and look for the good
Zum Europäischen Protesttag 📢 zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen am 5. Mai 2025 haben wir ein Schild ℹ️ gebastelt. Auf einer Station der öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel haben wir eine taktiles Schild für Menschen mit Seheinschränkung oder Blindheit 👩🦯 angebracht. oskars.org/posts/europaeischer… #make #blind #inklusion #5Mai #barrierefreiheit #protest
Ekonom Igor Lipsic není moc velký optimista, nemá rád úvahy nepodložené čísly a daty a na svět se dívá velmi pragmaticky. V brzký konec ruské války nevěří, a to přesto, že Rusy podle něj čekají fronty před obchody i potravinové lístky.
I got Suno to sing nonsense again. You can really tell how this generative AI works when it goes off the rails. P.S. If you listened to Canadian radio a lot in the early 2000's, you might recognize where this instrumental came from.
I would actually love to see Suno show us the lyrics for this stuff when it generates that, because honestly, part of the problem might be the accent on the voice it chose.
There are no lyrics, officially. I told it to make an instrumental, and it spat that out. If you listen to the full song, there are like 2 minutes of instrumental before this bit. So we'll never see full lyrics because Suno thinks they don't exist. AI is fun that way.
If I use Gemini, which is how I'm transcribing stuff these days, it's different every time.
1. Build Shit, Fix You, and Sorry is Better and Body for you, for you. 2. Deal Sheet, Visual and solid, is better and body for you, for you Let's try through Whisper: They'll cheat this you and sorry it's better and party for you, for you.
A transcription I got earlier had something about "aesthetic", which I can actually hear if I listen now.
I need to find you the Peter Kay video that tells you what famous songs *actually* say, that you never knew. When you've heard it, you will never unhear it.
One thing's for certain, you will never hear these songs in the same way again! Do you have any other misheard lyrics to add to the list? Let us know in the ...
Baustelle Inklusion am 5. Mai 2025 vor dem Parlament Am Europäischen Protesttag zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen, laden österreichische Behindertenorganisationen zu einer öffentlichen Aktion vor dem Parlament in Wien.
Please join me in giving a warm welcome to my interns Riyen (@patel.riyen) & Sam (@samaaberg). They will be working with me through the end of June on videos promoting the Fediverse. This is their #introduction.
Sam & Riyen are two talented film students who are #NewHere: a mere 7 days ago they had no idea what the Fediverse was. I have the immense honor of introducing them to it.
We are filming this week! Send us good vibes 🎥✨ #EleFediVideos
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 5. Mai, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
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Get more out of #LibreOffice by downloading the free guidebooks created by our awesome documentation community! Here's a recap of what they did in 2024, from our Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
In 2024, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.
I've clicked into your article and honestly cannot find a link to the guidebooks. Am I supposed to type in the link from the graphics in the middle of the article to actually get the books?
yeah I see now that it's well in there. I guess I'm not used to links being so hidden away. I see now that it's actually an Annual Report. It would be nice with a direct link to books.libreoffice.org for some posts, because it looks very good!
NVDA 2025.1 Beta 4 is now available! Changes from Beta 3 include: - Updates to translations - Fix security issue which allowed an arbitrary process to connect to a Remote Access session running on a secure screen - Allow Remote Access leaders to regain control after the last follower has disconnected - Improve focus handling in the Remote Access Connection dialog - Don’t toggle Remote Access mute when not connected
I tried it. It's got a long way to go before prime time. Not sure if it's due to limits set by #Gemini or what. But, Yes, you can tab through the elements, but not much else. Plus, it seems to take over windows when that screen is in view, to where I can't alt tab or anything until I close this app out. This after generating what's on the screen. Can't even use jaws navigation keys.
Virtual machines need to be configured to get the best experience. So I wrote down the steps I use when I'm building a Windows virtual machine. And after 18 months of using Linux as my daily driver, I have added KVM specific steps!
After making the leap from Windows to Linux over 18 months ago, I have been using KVM for virtualization. Like most hypervisors, virtual machines under KVM need to be configured to run at their best. KVM is not different.
Something probably stupid that I wish I could do as a blind music producer is look at the waveforms of my tracks/mixes in Reaper. like yeah your ears are the best and most reliable tool but they can be biased by headphones, how you slept, allergies like I'm experiencing today, etc. Plus there would just be something super satisfying about putting something together until it sounds good, then looking at the master's waveform and tweaking the frequencies until it fills out the entire frequency spectrum just right. I'm assuming the answer is no because I can't even begin to fathom how something like this would work, but is there an accessible tool to do this?
THere were attempts to handle this for blind sound engineers using sonification. You can find the "accessible spectrum analyzer" plugin on this page: tbproaudio.de/products/accessi… However, the problem is that you will still have to rely on your ears. If multi-line Braille displays became cheaper, we might have a hope!
Gotta say having been in many so-called professional studios is that waveform looking makes certain engineers lazy as all get-out and I hate it. 'Oh let me just drag this thing here, OK looks like it's lined up with the other tracks...' Don't even bother to play it, bounce it, test it in the car (and yes this *has* happened) only to find out it was off by a noticeable amount. I wish I was lying to you.
@FreakyFwoof Nods, I'm sadly unsurprised. You're always going to have those. I can see the benefits to looking at the waveforms though, make sure your mix fills out the entire frequency spectrum. But the number one rule is to trust your ears! just use the waveform to check your work. Or at least, that's how I'd use it.
Ask yourself *why* you want a mix to fill out the frequency spectrum though? Did it sound good *before* you did that? Did it sound any better *after* you did that? Is it possible your track *might* be used as a bed for someone to talk over, and there's just no space for voice because you phattened it up like a mix pig for slaughter with your waveform frequency-spectrum-filling? Did you watch some video on youtube that says 'OMGOMGOMG if you don't fill this mix right out nobody will ever listen, and you're a bad, bad evil bad person if you don't do these 15 steps to waveform filling right now!'
When I say 'You' by the way, I mean the general You, not You, Quinn.
My students sometimes come to me and say 'Why don't we do this particular compression trick in every mix?' I have to ask them 'Do you need to? Is it important that you do?'
@FreakyFwoof EDM is full of that kind of thing, although I think it's more commonly ensuring that you don't have a bunch of instruments all crowded in one band, E.G> when this happens in the lows it becomes muddy, and filling is a sort of side effect. Totally understand though. It makes sense for some genres more than others. And that's still a spectrogram, not the actual waveform. All the *waveform* is good for, IMO, is aligning transients and carefully avoiding pops and clicks from joins. And maybe micro edits to clean up a sound, remove little pops etc.
@x0 @FreakyFwoof I do think you can still achieve a similar mix, even at comparable loudness, without having access to tools like this. It would definitely be nice, but it is not a must. If you know the techniques and if you reference often, you can get there easily. It is a tool that won't automatically help you make your mixes sound great. You can check mono compatibility, frequency crowding, all of those things purely by sound as well using utility plugins. So I agree I'd love to have those kinds of plugins, but it's not what stops me from trying.
@x0 @FreakyFwoof For example, frequency crowding becomes very apparent if you solo an EQ band, play with the Q and then sweep. Mono compatibility becomes very obvious if you add a utility and then solo either the mids or the sides. You can also combine them.
Filling out the frequency spectrum is not quite useful, white, pink and brown noise do that already with some changes to the lower frequencies for the two latter ones.
What you are looking for is an even distribution of the existing frequencies (Teote, Ozone, Hornet Thirty-one, WavesFactory Equalizer, Grand Finale, DSEQ3, Gullfoss, etc) do this, exciters and saturation to add new harmonic content, just to mention a few things. Ultimately, these tools, despite the aggressive marketing some of them have, can't replace your ears but they provide fast results if you don't want to focus on mixing and mastering. You still need to tweak things and it's very easy to overprocess your sound of course.
Several books could be written about how many things could influence your sound, both while mixing and mastering (from the headphones or monitors you use through the room you are in, to what your genre needs), not to mention when your final master reaches your listeners. Their hardware, environment, ears, etc, will color the sound as well. You could have a perfectly neutral master and someone could quite easily make it heavy on bass just by listening to it on gaming headphones, or better yet, listen to it in a car.
This is a very complex and overwhelming topic, but if you need advice and you really want to make your sound better, listen to the same genre as much as you can. That's how you train your ears to get accustomed to things that stick out (resonate) and over time you will learn what instrument is problematic in what specific frequency areas. Most importantly, less is more.
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