Somewhere along the line developing Catima changed from "fun little hobby project where I can build an useful thing and have fun" to "oh God if I make a single mistake I risk 125 thousand people losing their data, I must not make any mistakes" and I do kinda miss the old vibe.
I mean it's amazing that my little hobby project got this many people to have just that tiny bit more privacy (yes, loyalty cards inherently are tracking but at least we reduce the trackers) but sheesh 😅
seem to remember a quote by the unknown Linus Torvalds, “just a hobby, [it] won’t be big and professional like GNU.”, how times change. Take care of yourself first!
that many? I meant the question rhetorically. And id gave bet money on the answer. I'd feel a little bit better if it meant that hundreds of smart folk had done deep code dives and run tests to find issues. Even if not a vuln, that review level would be nice.
Tak to by som aj ja chcel vedieť. No nepoznám žiadneho voliča Republiky.
Ale špekulácia z mojej strany - Dávno, pradávno, v časoch covid-19 opatrení som sa niečo podobné pýtal na Reddite ohľadom spomínaných opatrení. Totiž v tej dobe sa začala formovať skupina ľudí čo boli proti rúškam, proti karanténe, proti dezinfekcii, proti vakcínam, ... tak ma zaujímalo že dobre, už vieme proti čomu ste ale nevieme vlastne za čo ste alebo čo vôbec navrhujete že máme robiť. A čo viem tak som nedostal nejakú schopnú odpoveď.
A neviem nakoľko to je pravda ale ja si to stále tak spájam že strany ako Republika fungujú nejak podobne. Proste proti systému nech už je akýkoľvek. Až na úrovni kedy to ani nedáva zmysel - napr. svojho času boli Kotlebovci proti Ficovi a Smeru lebo sú to zlodeji ... a zároveň sa predpokladalo že s ním pôjdu do koalície.
Tak to by ma teda zaujímalo za čo oni vlastne sú ale odpoveď tam podľa mňa môže byť že na to ani nie je nejaká jasná odpoveď - to môže byť proste zmes nasratia na všetko + potreba silného vodcu ktorý tresne rukou po stole a zázrakom vyrieši veci.
Asi najbližšie, čo poznám, sa k tomu dostal Ken Wilber v knihe "Trump a post-pravdový svet". Ten popísal situácii v USA, ale základné koncepty by mali fungovať aj na Slovensko. Vychádza z vývinovej psychológie, podľa ktorej sa ľudská psychika vyvíja celý život a dajú sa identifikovať viaceré rozličné fázy vývinu. Argumentuje, že ľudia centrovaní v autoritárskej "jantárovej, modrej" fáze (bežné znaky do napr. čierno-biele chápanie sveta, kolektivizmus, rešpektovanie autority, neprijímanie rozdielov (sexizmus, rasizmus, xenofóbia atď)) boli progresívnymi a liberálnymi vladármi dlhú dobu odsúvaný na druhú koľaj, z čoho bolo nasraní. A keď prišiel Trump, ktorý hovoril presne to čo cítili a nadával na tých, na ktorých aj oni, cítili s ním hlboké spojenie a preto ho volili. To, že je to diktátorský magor im nevadilo, lebo to bol ich diktátorský magor.
Na konceptuálnej úrovni to vnímam rovnako aj na Slovensku. Akurát v úrovni konkrétností už neviem čo slovenskí republikáni chcú... Teda, okrem svojho tatka, ktorý nadáva rovnako ako oni. Ale na začiatok by však rozhodne bola vhodná úcta a neopovrhovanie.
Byt "za nieco" znamena byt konstruktivny a nieco vybudovat. Byt "proti niecomu" je jednoduche lebo ti staci nicit. Vid. aj sucasnu vladu - ziaden koncept, len nicit, hejtovat a hrat na seba.
OK, I am a lot more impressed with Supertonic than I thought. It has its own text processor that does some uncommon context text-based things like phone numbers, technical units, and financial stuff, that other commercial AI TTS engines like Eleven Labs, Gemini, Open AI, and Microsoft Azure don't do. And plus, unlike Sonata/Piper, it's not using eSpeak as a base.
Are you sure this is a text processor and not an end-to-end neural network?
If you train a neural net on human speech with plenty of examples of such patterns, it'll pick them up automatically, no special preprocessing necessary.
@miki The reason why I used the phrase "text processor" is because I don't know much about the inner workings of neural TTS engines, since I'm so used to talking about the more retro types for so long. I like almost all TTS engines, as long as they are intelligible and usable, from eSpeak to Supertonic, from Microsoft XP to Microsoft Azure.
@miki @Alex Krier When it comes to supertonic, I am unable to find out if it can handle other languages besides english and if it's doable to train in a homelab like environment similar to piper. Do you know some of these?
@pvagner They only release inference code which just defers to ONNX for the actual model inference stuff. This means one would have to reverse-engineer their model architecture to train their own models for other languages.
I still can't believe #Brave is a thing. There apparently are just people out there who are like "I'm frustrated by the corporate bullshit in Chrome, so I think I'll try this crypto scam made by a homophobe"
It is a good New Year resolution, however, the main problem with it is that not a lot of people use Signal. So it would be hard for someone to switch if only small amount of someone's friends is using it.
I have a 4 year old Android phone that has not had updates for a while now. I am not going to use that as a basis for a secure IM system such as Signal.
I do not wish to buy a replacement for this phone. Neither Android nor iOS.
I use Wire IM. I believe it to be secure.
It has the great advantage over many IM systems in that you can register a personal account on Wire using just an email address.
Zatímco jiné děti rozbalovaly dárky, desetiletá Beatka zažila peklo. Matka ji na Štědrý večer vyhodila z domu kvůli hračce. Předsedkyně Fondu ohrožených dětí Hanka Kupková vyprávěla Deníku její příběh.
For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg) Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx) Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls an…
I know it's probably just uploading a pre-existing APK to a different repository, but do people still use Zucc's metaverse (if anyone ever did at all)?
Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.
Yep, absolutely marginal share, at the same time it's nearly double grow every year. My guess Linux mobile and maybe "Raspberry Pi" computers are reasons of it.
I know of only a handful arm laptops so the numbers make sense? Last I looked there was a bunch of problems with them too (I.e. not all hw parts supported etc)
give me a nice ARM laptop with a superb battery live and Linux support and Ill tell you a different statistic next year. I need a new computer and I'm holding my horses waiting for it.
could it be because many ARM devices are still unlikely to use Flatpak?
I mean I think that recent RPis & friends may still be grouped under the “Linux desktop” category, and in that case I don’t think that they’d be making up <1% of the market. It’s just that they’re more likely to use Debian-based solutions and perhaps Snap rather than Flatpak.
Same for many Termux on Android solutions (are they counted?), running on ARM but very unlikely to use Flatpak.
If you exclude these big segments I think that at the current state you’re mostly left with folks who install Linux on their ARM Macbooks or Surface devices, since even popular manufacturers among Linux users (like Tuxedo or Dell) don’t even ship ARM-based solutions yet.
@fabio Yes, it's definitely biased in this regard although for example I do use Flatpak on my OnePlus 6. :) From me it was a little sigh that despite all the predictions we still don't have ARM as a widely available hardware architecture for desktop usage.
"average person counts ℵ₀ sets a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person counts 0 sets per year. Georg Cantor, who lives in cave & counts over ℵₐ each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted of embezzling $539 million in state funds.
Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly stole $4.5 billion from a state-owned development company and used the cash to, among other things, fund the Oscar-nominated movie The Wolf of Wall Street.
restore support for bypassing carriers disallowing choosing the cellular network mode (this was lost in a recent major version migration such as the port to Android 16 QPR1 but we aren't sure exactly when it regressed)
remove poorly designed upstream end session button on the lockscreen (it remains available in the power menu)
enable feature flag for new upstream end session button in the user switcher
switch to vendor files from 2nd December 2025 release (BP4A.251205.006.E1) for devices with it available
enable lockscreen widget support
fix upstream system_server crash in NotificationHistoryProtoHelper
Wi-Fi HAL: ignore debug logging requests on all Pixels with MTE support to avoid a crash from detecting an invalid memory access in the upstream code
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add support for redirecting Google Play location service requests from within Google Play services itself which means the GrapheneOS provided network location will work for internal Play services features such as Google Maps location sharing when redirecting to the OS is enabled (which is the default) and the Location permission is granted to it
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: force redirecting Google Play location service requests from within Google Play services and Android Auto when the Location permission is disabled for better error handling (neither properly handles the Location permission not being granted since it's always granted on any Google Mobile Services OS in practice instead of being explicitly opt-in)
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: fix a compatibility issue with the Chromium test suite
Network Location: improve position estability accuracy and stability
Network Location: prevent potential division by zero exception
Network Location: improve experimental Wi-Fi RTT support which is still disabled in production
kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.119
kernel (6.6): disable CONFIG_TLS to reduce attack surface
kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.12.63
kernel (6.12): disable CONFIG_TLS to reduce attack surface
include configuration for thermometer on 10th gen Pixels
adevtool: auto-detect filesystem image type (ext4 vs. EROFS)
adevtool: add support for canary builds
adevtool: improve performance
remove obsolete workaround for using a prebuilt recovery extension
All of the Android 16 security patches from the current January 2026, February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 and June 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025121701 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:
A maple syrup co-op where you deliver the sap and they turn it into syrup for you for free (they do the labor and cover energy costs), but they also use the waste heat to heat the local community and everyone in the community gets free maple syrup too
Lol. Whenever I open ableton on windows now, any audio basically stops being audible. There's only the metronome that I got working, and even that sounded super glitchy lmao. Well I can't go into audio settings without a working monitor for visual help or audio for nvda so what is going on?
I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…
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Really cool when we can find these bits of documentation of the eureka! I still want to see one! I briefly saw one in around 1993, but couldn't understand a word of what it was saying!
@KaraLG84 I briefly encountered a disk for it once (while borrowing a machine at what was then the Association for the Blind), but I'd certainly never heard the colour identifier in action
@KaraLG84 They also made a stand-alone talking colour sensor and a talking compass, both of which I briefly played with at technology expos. robotron.net.au/archived.htm
@KaraLG84 I had their talking compass. At least I'm pretty sure it was that one. It had an English/Spanish switch on it, and took one type N battery, I think.
Well and there you have it. Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop: I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is. I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name. But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.
Seit vier Uhr wach und irgendwie an. Also irgendwie so richtig an. Kriege mich auch gerade nicht wieder ruhig, um vielleicht noch etwas zu schlafen. Und irgendwie nervt das.
I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
Was könnte denn eine passende Fedi-Instanz für einen jungen Transmann sein, der sich u.a. für alles, was fliegt, interessiert, und auf den Hund gekommen ist? 😄
Würde ihm gern eine Community hier schmackhaft machen.
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Den hast Du richtig gut getroffen! Diese überenthusiastische Art, wie die KI-Chatbots sprechen, die Illusionen, die auch bei Bildbeschreibungen gern mal, zuschlagen, und dieses erstmal nach dem Mund reden. So herrlich! Allerdings wirft die Folge auch Fragen auf, wer die stiftende Entität war z. B. Schätze das wird an anderer Stelle nochmal wichtig? Euch einen geruhsamen Jahreswechsel!
Home Alone II is the last movie that will run and will be the shutdown of Christmas automation proper. Directly thereafter, HKC Radio's annual Christmas replays will begin running - replaying all the live Christmasy content we did as a station. This will end on January 1 at 7 PM when the Digital Domain does its New Year's Day show, which we can tell you will feature Christmas leftovers. Sonic Synergy will interrupt this on Sunday, however.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I just went from 72 f, about 22 c, into snow storm weather. Tito's mom was worried I wouldn't have snow clothes flying in from Florida. But no. I packed for whatever Jersey tries to throw at me weatherwise.
> We asked them a few months ago why certain wire transfers were taking longer to be received than they advertised. They took 3 months to respond and charged us a $295 "Account Analysis Fee" to tell us that they didn't know.
are credit unions a thing in the US? They're not super popular here, (except on the left coast), but damn, they treat me so much better than the banks do.
@mWare yes! And I've been a Credit Union customer since 2008 but yeah, it's pretty much the same type of issues though. Only thing better is that they keep more money in the local community.
I meant the question rhetorically. And id gave bet money on the answer. I'd feel a little bit better if it meant that hundreds of smart folk had done deep code dives and run tests to find issues. Even if not a vuln, that review level would be nice.
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