„Totalverweigerer“ ist kein Begriff aus dem Sozialrecht. Mit diesem Ausdruck kann keine sachliche Diskussion geführt werden. Er drückt Menschen einen abwertenden Stempel auf und schürt negative Emotionen.
Sanktionen betreffen Menschen, die etwa „zumutbare“ Arbeit ohne „anerkannten“ Grund ablehnen. Betroffene können nicht mehr frei über ihr Leben entscheiden weil sie arm sind.
Es droht der Ausschluss aus der Gesellschaft, der Verlust der Wohnung, Rechtlosigkeit…

Ohne Not! 🤯

AWS verspricht jetzt »Souveränität« mit einem »europäischen« Cloud-Angebot – Standort Deutschland, großes Vertrauens-Theater.

Nur: Souveränität ist keine Postleitzahl. Wenn der Anbieter Amazon heißt, bleibt es dasselbe Märchen mit neuem Umschlag: Der Cloud Act, FISA etc. gilt trotzdem. US-Recht schlägt Geografie. Das Gerede von »Souveränität« ist kein Konzept, sondern Marketing.

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@littlefox my script for counting this is not a stand-alone one, but is the combination of three (or four). So a little complicated:

1. count the number of lines of code
2. count the number of added lines
3. make a plot based on plot 2 / plot 1
4: graph the results with gnuplot

1: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
2: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
3: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
4: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…

Čekal někdo něco jiného 🤷
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Tak ono to nebylo uplne neocekavatelne. Tahle vlada ma jen tri ukoly. Rozdat kresla tem zakomplxovanym neumetelum co tam jsou, vytahat co nejvic dotaci (pokud mozno tak, aby je zaplatil stat a to ze je Evropa neproplati se bude hazet na zlou EU) a hlavne ty dva, mozna uz brzo tri NEVYDAT spravedlnosti. A v tomhle trojboji to bude celych 5 let
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[matrix] Tokyo 🇯🇵 pop-up meeting
Sat 17 Jan 2026 @19:00 JST
In Tokyo Ginza East

Follow the Room: #matrix-popup-tokyo:pwl.social for details.

Hi there, Global Digital People in 🇯🇵

It is an experiment and we will make it happen!

The "Matrix Stammtisch", now available with its pop-up version.

We're looking forward to seeing you soon. No registration needed. Just pop by.

@acccgn @stereo #agileparty @agile

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I'm looking for an application where I can quickly colaborate on short otes with someone. MS Word/Google Docs and all that stuff would be overhead. Just give me a web application people can type in and it auto updates for everyone, so everyone can look at text without people doing dumb screen shares which leaves out people with no vision.
The closest I could get is Joplin, but for a short dumping down some text it's just overhead to configure an account on my Joplin server, have the other person setup the app etc...
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Usłyszałem w radiu od jakiejś posłanki (osoby poselskiej płci żeńskiej), że jest pomysł na ograniczenie (wzorem Australii) dostępu młodzieży/dzieci do socjal mediów. Bo (między innymi) za dużo korzystają ze sztucznej inteligencji, i dochodzi już do nawiązywania relacji, co nazywa się ponoś sztuczną intymnością.
Moim zdaniem - bzdura. Sztuczna intymność zaczęła funkcjonować wtedy, kiedy ludzie zaczęli korzystać z tzw. portali randkowych. Czyli jakieś trzydzieści lat temu.:)

Food on the table while giving away code

I wrote this five years ago, but still explains decently how I (try to) also eat, while giving away everything I write.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/15…

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"...we will no longer require OpenSSL implementations for new functionality."

Let that message sink in.

I'm using OpenSsl from #Rustlang , but only by calling its main program as a process. The performance is more than good enough for now.

Also I've become quite fond of #pyca for its X.509 support.

So I'll keep a close eye on pyca's next steps.

Ein Artikel über die Debatte zum Bürgergeld. Ich mag den Beitrag. Vor allem, weil er von individuellen Schicksalen erzählt. Keine "Totalverweigerer", die vermeintlich lieber vom Staat leben. Sondern Menschen, die auf die ein oder andere Art nicht damit gerechnet haben jemals in diese Situation zu kommen.

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Right now it relies on eSpeak only for one thing: turning text into phonemes. The actual sound generation, timing, and prosody all live elsewhere.
The big question ahead: how hard would it be to decouple from eSpeak and build our own text→phoneme layer?
The answer is: non-trivial, but very doable — especially for languages like Hungarian, where spelling is regular and stress rules are simple.
The hard part isn’t DSP. The engine already works.
The real work is linguistic: normalization, phoneme rules, edge cases, and a lot of listening and iteration.
It’s the kind of challenge that rewards patience more than clever tricks — and honestly, that’s part of the appeal.

Victory adds Braille to its amps at no extra charge for blind players like @bermudianbrit thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/…

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tagesschau.de: Künstliche Intelligenz wird 2026 zum großen Risiko für Unternehmen tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter…

I recently had a need for a recursive C++ lambda that captures variables. This isn't possible in the intuitive way; you get:
error: variable 'someVar' declared with deduced type 'auto' cannot appear in its own initializer.
It turns out you can achieve this (albeit a bit horribly) by passing the lambda to itself! See this article for details: artificial-mind.net/blog/2020/…

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Oi. I feel so bad for creating more projects for myself. But eh not really. It gives me a lot of learning, and actually if anything I can look into how NV SpeechPlayer does synthesis forming itself, something I can't do so well with other synths. Even if it wasn't completed and early stages, and later they got into Espeak, doesn't mean it's a throwaway project.
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@kaveinthran Yeah, part of me is curious what improvements I could make to the synthesis itself, but getting ahead of myself a bit. Just getting it working / built for more modern NVDA is a good first goal LOL. The key thing you have there is the SpeechWaveGenerator which to make from scratch would take me something like weeks or months. So already I think just having it for re-use is huge. @NVAccess @jcsteh

Was bei der Debatte über Besteuerung von Unternehmenserben oft zu kurz kommt: Öffentliche Infrastruktur ist das Fundament, auf dem erfolgreiche Unternehmen überhaupt erst entstehen konnten. Straßen, Sicherheit, Bildung, Rechtsstaat - ohne das alles gäbe es diesen Reichtum nicht. Oft wird das in politischen Debatten nicht explizit benannt. Vielleicht, weil es zu offensichtlich ist für einige.
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Trotzdem sollten wir es immer wieder klar sagen. Gerade marktradikale Akteure setzen gerne auf die Erzählung vom „sinnlosen Staat“ vs. „effiziente Unternehmen“, um gegen Steuern zu wettern. Ein Extrembeispiel für solche Narrative sind libertäre TechBros aus dem Silicon Valley. Dabei wäre die ganze IT-Branche undenkbar ohne Vorarbeit aus der öffentlich finanzierten Forschung & massive staatliche Förderung. Dieses wichtige „Detail“ wird gerne weggelassen, weil es nicht zur Ideologie passt.

Forked and maintaining it here: github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Thanks @NVAccess for splitting this repo off before the merge into Espeak, at the very least this will be kept up to date to work in NVDA 2025.X and later 2026. Along with other wrappers I maintain I'm adding this one to my projects. Let's see what comes of it tonight, at the very least reviving it to some extent will be a success I think. Since I now have the source it may eventually be possible to modernize this DLL as a 64-bit module as well, as a later goal.
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I did try an early build of SpeechPlayer in Espeak, and in 2021 it already sounded the same as it does today. So what we know as "edward" and the various "klatt" voices are using the ideas from NV Speech Player, but what happened was, rather than maintaining it as another project, NVAccess decided to merge the ideas for how SpeechPlayer worked back into Espeak. This avoided them from needing to maintain another project as well, and merge back research or ideas into Espeak itself. A noble goal, but in the process they destroyed a bit of the experimentation that made NV Speech Player so unique.

I can't sleep. I'm really missing NV Speech player and it's keeping me awake, that aching feeling in my heart. When you could change all those parameters in the voice dialog related to NV Speech player. Before its ideas were merged into Espeak code you know. I just can't live without that beautiful slider interface, making the voice sound all weird.
(And thanks to Jake's site for still keeping this one archived, truly)
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