@archos 🤷♀️ já za to vážně nemůžu .... jsem dostala kapra od kolegy ..... a i když jsem dnes chtěla tu Svatomartinskou husu koupit ... tak se to prostě nějak samo zvrtlo 😂 🤦♀️ 😋
Appears my Sonos stopped playing in the middle of the night (sleep sounds) because I had automatic updates off and it was behind on updates. As soon as I did updates this morning it worked again
rpi3. There is ESP32 (re)implementation but it's janky and more DIY than usual, especially since it'll need audio board. I also use old smartphone as a driver too but it's annoying that it lowers volume to "preserve my ear health"
i use MPD to stream to snapcast, another MPD instance JUST for homeassistant tts, also to snapcast and finally i have ROC stream from my desktop to snapcast in case i want to listen to youtube in bedroom or something.
I'm currently looking into way to play off jellyfin as if it were mpd, but so far no dice. It can stream to DLNA Renderer (gmediarenderer) but it's jank and doesn't work with scrobbling
mpd to snapcast sorta requires them being on same machine - it will be using a unix pipe (mkfifo), otherwise ROC is way more reliable and stable way of point-to-point transferring audio over LAN
@hj oooh shit man, I just got this working. Still running Bookworm on my Raspberry Pi so I didn't have a roc-toolkit package available, but I followed their docs to build and install it.
And then the problem was FreeBSD not having it packaged. So I went down that rabbithole, gave the devs some updates on their Github (packaged a missing library, fixed their build on FreeBSD) and whoaaaaaaa this works GREAT
I'm getting high quality low latency PCM stream over the network sucking the data directly from ALSA and playing out OSS directly on FreeBSD (Pulseaudio works too, but why bother)
and now I have my high quality audio again to keep me entertained while I'm working. The ffmpeg to Icecast solution I came up with worked, but it fucking sucked to be honest with like 5 seconds of latency
The build system has support for non-linux/non-macos *nix targets, but we didn't test it, besides Debian/Hurd. We're looking for someone who have FreeBSD installed and could run build and test, and...
@hj I was sharing this progress and someone said "what about that openbsd sndiod, you can stream audio with that" so I started looking into it (it's inferior to roc-toolkit) and sure enough I see a mailing list post by @lanodan :)
Enjoyed this Techcrunch piece about the new show Pluribus from the creator of Breaking Bad. Fun fact, the star of the new show Rhea Seehorn and I used to study for a statistics class together at GMU. I had such a secret crush back then (okay maybe still a little).
"If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by humans.”
"That terse message — placed right below a note that “animal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety” — could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI."
"And just in case the disclaimer wasn’t clear enough, creator Vince Gilligan (best known for “Breaking Bad”) was even more emphatic in a Variety feature story about the show, declaring flatly, “I hate AI.”
"He went on to describe the technology as “the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine” and compared AI-generated content to “a cow chewing its cud — an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense.”
Going by various posts that I've seen lately, I'm just feeling glad that I don't use JAWS. I don't use Windows at all for the day job. I do have it on my personal laptop, but I don't use it enough to justify paying for JAWS, and I'd rather give my money to the NVDA devs. And it reminds me of one of the reasons I got into FOSS in the first place. That being said, I get that a lot of people rely on JAWS scripts to get their work done or are just accustomed to it, so encouraging someone to just switch to something else isn't always a great option.
@startrek2025 That makes sense, and I think that that's typical. I use Orca on Linux when I'm not in the console, and sometimes switch to NVDA if I'm having trouble with a web site, and also have Voiceover on my phone, so I feel like I have enough screen readers without it.
A person begs on the street. I give them some money.
K1: why did you do that?
Me: because they need it
K1: [friend]'s mother says these people aren't poor, they have a lot of money
Me: if you had a lot of money, would you beg in the wet and cold?
K1: no... *thinks* ...but what if though?
Me: you're right, we can't know it. But giving the money doesn't hurt me. And if I gave nothing and that person went hungry, it would be far worse than giving too much
"Der verbreitete Gedanke, dass Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt ist, hat sich fest in den Köpfen der Menschen verankert. Aber stimmt das überhaupt?"
Up to now I haven't really understood why weddings are notoriously so stressful.
But today I spoke to a colleague who's getting married next autumn and she has been to her venue recently to measure the length of the aisle so she can work out precisely how many steps she needs to take to end up on the correct foot when she reaches the front so she can turn the right way.
That's how. That's how one gets stressed about a wedding. #MatrimonyMusings
People in the future are going to be super confused by Windows versions.
"So there was Windows, right?"
"Well, mostly Windows 3.1."
"Which was the third version?"
"No."
"So then Windows 4 must have come after that."
"No, they jumped to version 95."
"So then Windows 96..."
"No, then they skipped to 98."
"Oh, but it was for the year it came out, right?"
"Kinda."
"But surely after that..."
"Well, after that they actually moved away from version numbers and gave them names."
"Oh, like MacOS!"
"Sort of..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the first version was XP."
"What does that stand for?"
"No idea."
"Did they just use letters after that?"
"No, then they named the next version Vista."
"Like... the stuff you see out of a window! Ok, so the version after that was Windows Outlook, right?"
"No, the version after that was Windows 7."
"7?!"
"Yeah."
"But... It wasn't the seventh version of Windows even."
"Yeah, but the version after 7 was 8."
"Okay, back on track!"
"Not really. The next version was 10."
"Because it came out in 2010?"
"No."
"Fuck."
"Then came Windows 11, and they stopped releasing new versions for a while and just added LLM panopticon nonsense until everyone switched to Linux in the 2030s and then when the second coming of Jesus fried everyone's hard drives..."
"Yeah, yeah, I know, Windows II: The Empire Strikes Back..."
Ich möchte nicht still bleiben, wenn beim #Bürgergeld Stimmung gemacht wird. Es geht um die #Demokratie. Linnemann war es, der behauptet hat, „Hunderttausende“ wollten gar nicht arbeiten. Niemand kennt diese Zahl. Wer solche Zahlen erfindet, betreibt verantwortungslosen Populismus. Die Folgen sind fatal: Aus Empathie wird Verachtung Aus Miteinander wird Gegeneinander Und Solidarität wird brüchig. Langzeitarbeitslose Menschen brauchen Chancen, Respekt und Perspektiven statt Misstrauen und Druck.
Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:
Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps:
* [x] [`com.projects.musicplayer`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.projects.
would, theoretically, in a way – if it existed. That thread was opened 5 years ago, has been last updated 1 year ago – and the functionality never became reality. It's quite hard to do that properly without requiring accounts – which neither F-Droid nor we want (accounts). I doubt it will become reality any time soon, so it doesn't really help us _now_ – while reports here and in the issue can 😉
@daniel Thanks a lot! At least we know now the app is still working as described, and even on Android 16. I personally also use ScrCpy, as you mention 😉
Updated the initial post, linking to your review. We'll probably keep this app then.
Beat Addiction: Didn't work without unrestricted background access. The stats were impossibly wrong. When given full background & notifications access didn't work either. Totally abandoned. I'd remove it.
VideoCrop: Doesn't offer the crop controls with small video. Fails completely with bigger video. I don't see a use for it, maybe let anyone else try it.
PhotoPlay: Works. It's a frontend for Imdb or similar (actually for themoviedb.org) where you can make local lists.
The app description can be misleading though: "All of your data stays on your phone forever; nothing is sent to a server" my ass. Lots of calls to api.themoviedb.org and image.tmdb.org
The app can stay but its description should be more accurate.
@jandi Thanks once more, Jandi! As the repo seems to be unmaintained (hence the issue on our end), and there's no Fastlane set up upstream that could override it, we can of course update the description at our end. Of course it needs to contact the server it gets the data from, but "nothing is sent to a server" indeed isn't accurate (the queries are, but that's to be expected).
Adjusted it to "apart from the queries for movie data, nothing is sent to a server". That OK, or miss something else?
I'd specify the server. More info is better. Someone that wants to use this app may have opinions about the service (TMDB in this case) and decide accordingly. I have not seen spurious connections in my (light) usage so that's fine.
@jandi Hm, seeing the ToS at themoviedb.org/api-terms-of-us… – wouldn't that qualify as NonFreeNet? If so, we could raise that anti-feature and put that explanation there. Yupp, confirmed: other apps using TMDb are flagged such. Done then, thanks for digging in!
(note the anti-feature may show up with delay, as the indexer was already running here when I added it; but it should show up latest next day.)
#Linux und #Barrierefreiheit, insbesondere für Menschen mit Einschränkungen beim Sehen: habt ihr da Tipps?
Ich weiß, dass es bei @kde die Bildschirmlupe gibt und ich in den Bildschirm zoomen kann. Aber bei anderen Umgebungen? Und für den Zeitraum, bis KDE hochgefahren ist?
Eine Boot-Textkonsole mit 80×25 Zeichen halte ich für gut lesbar. Allerdings zeigt zumindest meine Kiste beim Bootvorgang eine recht kleine Schrift, bei der ich meine Brille brauche.
This is hard to read, because this is 1933 all over again. It is no longer a question if the US are sliding into fascism or have already arrived. They went full Nazi.
Bundesminister für Digitales in seiner Rede: »Zum ersten Mal übertreffen Maschinen den Menschen in dem, was uns bisher einzigartig machte: unsere Intelligenz.«
Auweia. Taschenrechner »übertreffen« mich auch – trotzdem sind sie keine Mathematiker. KI ist Statistik: Vorhersagen, imitieren, plausibel klingen. Verstehen? Null. Bewusstsein? Null. Verantwortung? Null. Wer hier von »Intelligenz« spricht, zeigt vor allem, wie wenig er davon versteht.
Rede von Dr. Karsten Wildberger Bundesminister für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung bei der Pressekonferenz Industrial AI Cloud - strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignty
Part 2 of 2. The release note state the following: VT Recorder now supports manual fade control of a playing music bed. This may be useful for fading up a music bed temporarily while not speaking during a recording. A button for Fade Up or Fade Down appears beside the music bed Play/Stop button. A music bed may now be started at full volume rather than faded by unchecking the new checkbox entitled "Start Faded in", found in the Options. You can always get to the Options of course by typing letter C from within the VT Recorder. The shortcut key for the fade button is letter D.
There is a further note to this. Assuming a music bed is selected, it should be possible to: Press Enter to start the outgoing track. Press Enter again to begin recording. Press Enter again to start the music bed. Press Enter again to start the incoming track and cut the music bed. Press Enter again to terminate recording. That is the procedure. However, if the outgoing track has not finished, pressing Enter does not start the music bed. It does only start the bed if the outgoing track has completely concluded. I do not use this feature because I have other ways of playing music beds into VT's, but it struck me in my testing that this was plain wrong. You may wish to start your VT 30 or 45 seconds before the outgoing song ends, then start the music bed which should cut off the existing song. I can think of many situations where that could arise. This is still the case up to and including the final release of 6.2.
Part 1 of 2. StationPlaylist 6.2 Suite is available!
Notable Changes in SPL 6.2.
The below notes were prepared during many hours of testing the entire SPL 6.2 product range. They represent my thoughts only.
The most important question: If you are not managing a station, and you are just hosting a straightforward live show, should you upgrade to 6.2? If you do want to update, think carefully. Christmas is coming up and you want everything to be perfect for that. If you are going to update, due to the many script changes, you will want to set aside some considerable time to ensure that everything is as you want it to be. In addition, due to the health issues I have had this year I am taking an extended Christmas holiday so assistance from me will be slower during parts of December and January.
With that said, let's get to the notes.
Crossfading.
You will note that the crossfade transitions between songs and spots is significantly improved as a result of internal changes in 6.2. If you regularly scan files via the Track Tool as I do, such as pre-recorded show segments or news and weather bulletins, it is still advisable to do this. But generally speaking you will find improvement overall.
Voice-tracking locally or remotely.
Voice-Tracking can now record using .Flac format. This is very helpful for those of us who had previously recorded all VT's using Wav format. .Flac provides high quality audio without taking up as much space.
Accessibility.
I recently reviewed a competitive product for accessibility. While doing so, I realised how thankful I am that not only are all the options in SPL accessible, but StationPlaylist offers a far greater range of keyboard shortcuts. The developer is also willing to work with me to a large extent to improve issues, and there have been a number of those this time.
The most noticeable change relates to Studio and the fact that the column layout has been completely changed from all other versions I can remember. This has meant that many scripts have needed to be altered in some way and has taken a great deal of time and testing. I cannot even quantify how many hours the changes have taken to refine what we had before. I have tried to ensure that all functionality is the same as it used to be, but I could well have missed something. Improvements will be made over time. This is further complicated by the fact that the new SPL Remote application, referred to below, displays the column layout as it would have been in V6.11 so I have needed to make accommodations for that.
The Release Notes also state that there is a change to the newly renamed Time column. If a playlist is loaded, and you have not played any tracks, this column shows the scheduled times tracks will play out according to the time of the playlist. However, when you begin playing any track, the column changes to display tracks relative to the current system clock. This can be a serious disadvantage if you are voice-tracking a show since you do not get a true picture of how the hour is meant to look when it is broadcast. For example, if you have a track scheduled for 10:03 AM, and you play the track at 18:37, the entire view of the playlist changes to reflect the system clock. The scripts emulate the old behaviour so you are not disturbed by this misrepresentation. So as usual, SPL key then S will report the true scheduled time as if the tracks had never been played out, and SPL key then W will report the real time.
SPL Remote.
This is the new product which can be purchased from SPL. It allows you to remote onto an automation machine, or a computer back at the station, and carry out a live broadcast. You should have full access to SPL Remote. As far as possible, when you log onto a machine using SPL Remote, the experience should be very similar to that which you would receive if you were using Studio standalone. Many of the functions should work, such as to hear the remaining time of a track, elapsed time, and so on.
There is an advantage in using SPL Remote that people may not have latched onto. 1. Remote onto the station machine. 2. If JAWS is not installed on the station machine, it does not matter. You will still have access to all the functionality offered by SPL Remote, using your existing JAWS settings, even though JAWS is not installed. So you will be able to examine the playlist structure, check the remaining time, and so on, even though JAWS is not running on the automation machine.
Remote VT Changes.
Within the playlist viewer, the default presentation of information is to hear the scheduled time first, then the track details. However, some people prefer to hear the track or spot information first. To easily accomplish this, press the SPL key then X. Pressing this keystroke repeatedly will change the arrangement.
@jpmens I'm not really in a position to help out with the code, but I do have ~1500 hand crafted test cases that exercise the corners of the client side of the v3.1* and v5.0 spec. I'd be happy to guide anyone wanting to port them over / do a one off test for curl
I was able to move almost all my email to Tutanota and couldn't be happier. No more training models and profiling. Some websites unfortunately do not allow it, but I'll probably force them to remove my old profile somehow.
to me their branding was always about trickery, using the brightest colors, they even went for a white color.. all that establishes trust, the apps clearly don't look evil, look how colorful they are, and it's Google, surely they wouldn't betray our trust, it's an established brand after all.. people really be thinking like this at the back of their minds, sometimes they voice it (that's how I know)
Hi there. Please note that we make it clear in our terms of service upon signup for Tuta Mail that free accounts will be deleted, in the case of 6 months inactivity. This deletion due to inactivity is only for free accounts. We have this policy in place to help clear up space and it enables us to continue to offer a private email service for free to others globally. If you'd like to get the address back you can find out here: tuta.com/support#ddi
This is about opening a payed account. Will it provide POP3, redirection to other emails, filtering? That was my problem with tuta: I am not able to test that features because they are hidden behind a paywall and there is not something like a 14-day free-trail.
Ok. Part of "Reich Remixed" just came up on shuffle. Time to locate some marimba samples for my Spark drum machine and make overlapping, evolving, polyrhythmic lines.
Gathered as many marimba wav samples as I could find and imported them by note and octave or chord (C2, C3, C4 Cmaj, Dmin, Fmaj, Gmaj, Amin) for 8 of the 16 pads into up to 6 slots that are ordinarily ordered by velocity, but I chose "random." The interface ("Spark 2") has basic editing abilities, so I trimmed the leading silence on a few of the samples. This is pretty sophisticated for a "drum machine." But in reality, it is with the software that drives it.
I am the best drum programmer ever! Here is a demonstration of my drum pattern programming prowess. I'm sure you'll agree that you'll want me to program your next ... ah, screw it. This is a recording I found from 2018, when I was purposefully doing stupid stuff with an old Alesis SR16 drum machine. In this instance, I purposefully assigned most of the samples of a kit to the same choke group so they would cut each other off, then sequenced two really terrible bars.
auto nemám lebo chodím pešo, deti tiež a plus som stále mimo čiže vodičský mám ale aj tak by mi ho hneď zobrali... nezodpovednosť par excellence jo a udržujem si štíhlu líniu a prechádzam sa po parku lebo ma to baví, vtáčiky fotím a objavil som toť dráhu
1,113 accidental presses of a button, because stupid Bluetooth did what stupid Bluetooth always stupid does, at least on this stupid machine with it's stupid Intel card from 2013 or something stupid like that. Anyway, it's stupid. Everything is stupid.
I just hope you weren't in a list of folders, and that button wasn't the "Immediately and permanently delete all irreplaceable files in this folder and all subfolders, as well as all backups of same, then go to the next folder" command.
@FreakyFwoof listening to your stream of the Korg Trinity Plug-In. I'm assuming this is all through NKS? Fuck me there are some good sounds in this thing.
Depends if you had Korg products previously or not. Upgrade VS brand new is different. Click the link in the video description as I always make sure to link to the product.
Always check my video descriptions, no matter the video, I *always* link to whatever I'm talking about. Unless I forget which I don't think I have so far, it's just a staple.
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