Oh look, the big tent laptop spontaneously rebooted. Twice in less than 24hours. Even the Dell didn't do that.
I just discovered (and tried) this wonderful piece of software
It allows remapping your keyboard in many ways, and it's controlled from a simple configuration file (so, you can prepare one for your disabled friend).
You can, for example, remap the keyboard to only use its right half, if the left hand is dysfunctional (similar to the mirrored keyboard I made, github.com/clackups/qmk_firmwa… ).
Also, it should be useful for #disabledgamers , to map, for example, AWSD to different keys.
#disability #keyboard #accessibility
qmk_firmware/keyboards/nuphy/air60_v2/ansi/keymaps/clackups_mirrored/README.md at onehanded_nuphy_air60_v2 · clackups/qmk_firmware
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families - clackups/qmk_firmwareGitHub
One of our nodes (ASL 506317) has disappeared from the internet. Investigations pending. All traffic has been routed through another node for now.
WT connections can be made through any of our other ASL nodes.
I'll report when it's back online.
@BorrisInABox translation: one of our nodes has been sucked into a wormhole and will be available in approximately 9.42567 years with a latency of 7 light minutes. Your welcome.
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Do you run your own mailserver?
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@differentieel Yeah, that. I like the idea in principle, but just didn't want to deal with all the junk anymore. Things are worse to deal with now than they were back then.
@matthewcroughan Mostly, I got tired of getting blacklisted by <Insert_Big_Provider_Here> every couple of days, having to run around proving that I'm not a spambox or whatever.
@matthewcroughan Far too many. I was also running a couple of mailing lists. So, yeah, that multiplied it by a lot.
@matthewcroughan @BorrisInABox @neil@co.uk You don't need to. You can end up on IP blacklists entirely by accident, or because $bigco just applies a weight to the entire IP range of your provider. And getting off them is hell.
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@matthewcroughan @BorrisInABox It is when of them is your landlord, or your bank, or a job application, or anything else you need to interact with as an adult human.
Two of these are actual examples where I had this happen.
None of those things operate over email nowadays anyway, only via HTTP on bad websites with chatboxes.
@matthewcroughan @jonty If that were actually true in all cases, then this discussion probably wouldn't be happening now.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Hey, I love what you do and I appreciate it, but please take the flatpak package more seriously. I hope you do this year.
Using an AppImage is not really a universal solution. For example, for those of us on musl distros (Alpine, Chimera Linux, etc.) that package is useless.
I really hope you consider treating flatpak as a first-class package because in musl it is our best and probably only option
uh. why is my home and notifications buffers showing the same content, pretty sure that's not supposed to be a thing :D
@GoemonIshikawa yep, 0.3.0 now. Wow. Loving this client though so far, it's realy maturing, and the Mac OS version excites me with this.
Oh this is getting good, love the new confirmation tab and some unique things in this client like using AI for image descriptions, super neat
I'm very happy with my frontend. It talks to my backend well. Saying that outloud will make me laugh every time. Sounds really dirty, but it's the truth y'all.
Yeah lol its funny but true, I could imagine some of my friends who I hang out with on Discord would definitely love that joke.
Time to give FastSM another try again, thanks @Bri for making it you and others who work on this are my true heros.
Indeed, I personally do notice a change in performance. To really test, just hold the tab key down. Do you hear the startings of letters consistently and does speech stop after you release it on a control right away? If so, the new frontend is not introducing performance penalties, I'd say.
Aha, how fitting for NV Speech Player. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… is the first version to hit the 10th file milestone for my synthesizers. It's also the first time I'm using the new directory link. This copy fixes memory corruption problems in the frontend, Post-stop aspiration block was made non-brittle now, and the applyRules allocation performance fix. No new versions for awhile until we have tweaked more languages, so I'm done with new files at least until way later in my evening or tomorrow.
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one thing that I dislike about NVDA at the moment is that whenever addon updates are available, it pops up with a dialog in the middle of whatever I am doing to let me know, hey, you can update your addons! Can you just send me a toast notification? Please and thank you.
Sadly you can't change it to a tost notification. Like either you can disable thaht entire check I think and then you need to check yourself, or enable auto updates, which is, idk, is that really better?
Starting a btrfs convert. Wish me luck.
People asked for it, and I do think it's a great idea! All of my Speech synthesizers live at eurpod.com/synths - easy to remember URL, and if you want to check it for updates, easy to look at for a version difference. At most, we are only keeping the last 2 versions of a synthesizer, so they will not pile up here. Still uploading some of the larger files, but in the next hour this will all be updated.
The old URLs will work for now, a little bit. As time goes on I will remove them from their old locations and update the blog page to point to this folder too.
The old URLs will work for now, a little bit. As time goes on I will remove them from their old locations and update the blog page to point to this folder too.
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Jak zní tepelné čerpadlo v -15 ℃
Hehe, ty seš nadšenec, u nás bylo -17℃ a já byl tedy taky koukat, jak to běží, že to nepotřebuje použít ani elektrickou patronu, ale telefon jsem nechal doma a honem pospíchal za ním 
A upřímně, všímám si, že nejhlučnější je TČ v teplotách okolo nuly, asi jak je "hustší" vzduk plný vody a ten to protlačuje lamelami a i ventilátor běhá na vyšší otáčky. Jakmile je mráz a klesne vlhkost, tak je to paradoxně daleko tišší, protože ventilátor sníží otáčky. Sice se více namáhá kompresor, ale ten je u dnešních TČ tak kvalitně hlukově zaizolován, že není skoro vůbec slyšet a to ani při 17 pod nulou.
A upřímně, všímám si, že nejhlučnější je TČ v teplotách okolo nuly, asi jak je "hustší" vzduk plný vody a ten to protlačuje lamelami a i ventilátor běhá na vyšší otáčky. Jakmile je mráz a klesne vlhkost, tak je to paradoxně daleko tišší, protože ventilátor sníží otáčky. Sice se více namáhá kompresor, ale ten je u dnešních TČ tak kvalitně hlukově zaizolován, že není skoro vůbec slyšet a to ani při 17 pod nulou.
@electriccz to ráno jsem na střeše 15 minut ometal sníh z panelů, takže 15 sekund u čerpadla už byla maličkost. 🙂
Jinak mně nejhlučnější přijde, když jede na zpětný chod a chladí. To ho občas slyšíme i v koupelně, nad kterou je.
Jinak mně nejhlučnější přijde, když jede na zpětný chod a chladí. To ho občas slyšíme i v koupelně, nad kterou je.
terror reporting
We will be doing some performance tweaks in the C++ wrapper next update. I can already see people complaining that there's a slight hit. You want to know why? I made a mistake. Or maybe GPT. Well one of us did anyway. I wrote the base C++ outline for it and then it helped me. But uh, at the moment we are allocating memory for out and copying the entire text string for every single rule, even if the rule doesn't match. If we have 50 replacement rules (common in phonology), we are re-allocating and copying the full text string 50 times per function call. Ouch ouch. I'm fixing this.
Testing things! Feel free to ignore.
@jonathan859 @jscholes Quite a bit opposite to most of the Windows clients though. Plans are for a 100% native desktop app, no scripting languages like Python or JavaScript, and for it to be closed-source shareware. If I'll actually get any users, I do not know.
@flyingpenguinMwauthzyx @jscholes Unpopular opinion these days, because not everything has to be open source. I don't know anyone who'd contribute to it and I don't see the requirement. Tweesecake also wasn't OSS and people loved it. I like OSS software yes, absolutely, but it's also work to respect kinda. I know that wasn't your intention just saying my thoughts. Of course Quin can and probably has a different reason.
@jonathan859 @jscholes that is true, and I can see that side of things as well. On the other hand, I can see why people want open source software as well. They get to modify it however they see phit if there is something that they dislike or if there are things that they want to change for instance.
Yeah I totaly agree on that point. Don't think any of the reasons for software to be OSS is invalid. I also prefer OSS where I can.
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@jonathan859 @jscholes like for instance, currently I am using a mastadon client. And yes, I know I probably spelled that wrong. Anyways, there are a few features that I want aded, so I might just vibe code it in. As unpopulare as that is, python is not my language of choice, so as a result, I am not good at it lol.
The great thing is, people should not notice changes to existing sounds and tonality. What did change were expansions of rules we can define per language, but to everyone else, this update should not introduce changes in UK and US English, or how the voice sounds. That was not the goal. The goal was to decouple the IPA rule tokenizer into a nice, beautiful frontend.
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OK. Huge huge refactoring of NV Speech Player is now complete. Download: eurpod.com/nvSpeechPlayer-2025…
We now have per-language files in the packs folder. Check it out. It is currently defining 22 languages. I would like help improving these languages, now that everyone is able to modify rulesets for them. This has decoupled the rules from the IPA.py engine itself, allowing anyone to freely update and modify voice prosody, tonality, and inflection per letter and phoneme creating it. That is, huge.
Languages supported: English (US, UK), Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Swedish. Speakers of these languages are invited to modify their language files and test to make it sound more native.
We now have per-language files in the packs folder. Check it out. It is currently defining 22 languages. I would like help improving these languages, now that everyone is able to modify rulesets for them. This has decoupled the rules from the IPA.py engine itself, allowing anyone to freely update and modify voice prosody, tonality, and inflection per letter and phoneme creating it. That is, huge.
Languages supported: English (US, UK), Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Swedish. Speakers of these languages are invited to modify their language files and test to make it sound more native.
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@x0 @jaybird110127 unfortunately yeah. At least the re-write effort on the community will be a large one. I think they plan to give tools for sandboxing, I heard they were going to make a compatibility layer that lets you run any add-on with it or add-on devs can utilize it, but I have no idea how that's going or if it'll be ready by 2026.1, there's talk of it pushing to 2026.2. So, who knows RN LOL
It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).
What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AIDan Milmo (The Guardian)
as you may have noticed: my temper and wiggle room for stupidity in security reports have shrunk to a minimum
“I’m sorry. You are totally right and I should have known better.
<Thinking 45s>
I went through the report again, and I think you misunderstand what I meant”
You are hereby banned from our program. We don't want your "help". Please never contact us again.
(just sent off to another "helpful" security researcher)
and then: hackerone.com/reports/3514263
curl disclosed on HackerOne: libcurl: Improper Authentication State...
Following the recent advisory for **CVE-2025-14524**, I conducted an investigation into how libcurl manages OAuth2 credentials during complex redirect chains. I have confirmed that while the...HackerOne
This could be a theatre play:
“Drop the AI”
“I sincerely apologize, you are absolutely right”
youtube.com/shorts/6eA_o9qZBuU…
“Say Potato!” Stream on Apple and Spotify!! #funnysong #tinder #dating #music
Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.YouTube
I wonder if at this point the training data of LLMs itself contains slop reports for curl
But Wait!
Anyway, BIND 9 now also has Bug Bounty program via #YesWeHack (fosstodon.org/@iscdotorg/11576…) and we got exactly one genuine issue out of 15 (and that's issue that has been previously independently reported). The rest was:
⁃ Cryptographic Weakness in BIND 9.20.15 PRNG Enabling DNS Cache Poisoning (Bullshit AI Slop; it just proved lack of randomness in provided PoC 
:)
⁃ Multiple EC/TLS Private Keys Committed to Public Bind9 Repository (yeah, in system tests) (1/2)
When the European Commission approached us about funding a bug bounty for BIND 9, we were impressed with the proposal. We have a policy against bug bounties (because we were frustrated with people wasting our time), but under this proposal, the YesWeHack team would do initial triage, and use their expertise to minimize the 'slop' reports. This is a game-changer for a small development team.The bounty program is active, and we are looking for our first valid report.
yeswehack.com/programs/bind-bu…
BIND 9 Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program - YesWeHack
BIND 9 Bug Bounty Program bug bounty program detailsYesWeHack #1 Bug Bounty Platform in Europe
we are about announce that we are ending out bug-bounty program in an attempt to slow down the tsunami of terror reporting
“ I sincerely apologize. You are absolutely right.”
lol. Don’t need any AI detection software here 🤪😂
Games I love like Warsim, The Wastes, and usurper inspired me to think about creating my own console-based game. Then I wrote 750 lines of code just to make a reusable system for console menus. And realized the save system is going to be another 500 lines, probably. And then the settings system. And after thinking about 2000 lines of code before I can get to anything even resembling the simplest game mechanic, I'm not inspired, anymore. Why is 99 percent of programming doing the least interesting part of any project?
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Early in my programming career I wrote a whole series of functions that did the mundane things in a business program. Then I wrote a program that allowed me to create input and output screens WYSIWYG. Those screens called my functions. In a few weeks of work, which was kinda fun, I eliminated many days of tedium for each application I was to write over the next decade.
Keep that in mind when you build the foundation. You do it once.
@RegGuy Hmmm. I only wish I found that kind of thing fun. But it's just a lot of thinking about menu lists and settings objects and what gets passed where and how and what's global and blah.
the thing is there are enough people who find this fun that there are multiple text-based game engines out there.
@MostlyBlindGamer@RegGuy Right, but it would take me just as long to understand someone else's engine as it would to right my own. And none of them do quite what I want, anyway. IE a terminal window with options you select by entering a single number or character and pressing enter. They're all command-based. But if I want sighted players I have to think about output colors. And so that means a settings object. And some people want ASCII boarders ("---------" etc) and some don't. So now we have a bunch of case statements and need to check colour and ascii art settings. And if we're doing that we might as well do sound, too, to have an earcon when prompting for an option and a click when an option is selected. But now that means an audio library. And utilities to think about file paths and including assets. And now we're at 2000 lines just for menus.
remember KISS for keep it simple (and) stupid? The new thing is YAGNI for you’re not gonna need it.
@MostlyBlindGamer@RegGuy And we haven't even talked about localization. Because if I want that it has to be done at the start, or else it becomes a huge impossible thing later.
so you don’t want to make a game engine, but the only thing that matters is making a engine?
What about making a proof of concept for the game?
What about making a proof of concept for the game?
@MostlyBlindGamer But I can't really make a proof of concept that works the way I want it to until all the plumbing exists.
Lots of people struggle to prioritise fun over flexibility. My suggestion is to organically build those boring boilerplate systems bit by bit as they're needed. No menu system might mean manually editing stuff in a file between runs during initial development, but is probably better than no game.
@jscholes If I do it that way, it just means refactoring later, though. And that's even harder and less fun because now you're rebuilding things that already exist.
Refactoring is inevitable.
If you haven't built a menu system to begin with, there'll be nothing to rebuild. The refactoring will mostly be limited to slotting it in once you start.
If you've built one early that doesn't actually solve the problems you end up needing it to, or solves them in a way that ultimately makes it hard to integrate, that's when you'll end up rewriting stuff.
@jscholes Maybe. I've played enough of this style of game that I have pretty strong opinions about how it should all work, though.
That said, thinking about object graphs, what gets passed where, and other architectural stuff is legitimately my favourite part of software dev. But I can't really do it without at least a semi-useful or interesting project to apply it to.
@jscholes Hah. So this all started when I decided I wanted a class where I could create a new menu, add the selection key, a name, and a callback function for each item, then call the menu to print itself and do all the input and error checking, and call the callback for whatever item was chosen. And then it just kept growing. I'm not even at the object graph stage. I just hate most of the text games I mentioned, where every menu looks and acts different, because print statements and case statements are just sprinkled all over the code.
@jscholes If I ever finish the basics, the thing I'm aiming for, probably in 70 years or so, is a singleplayer trade wars/elite style space game. Planetary exploration, trading, combat, procedurally generated galaxy, etc. All the stuff we have in that style is either multiplayer PVP, or only semi-accessible like smugglers5. Interface via console menus, because that feels both simple and retro. But with stuff happening in realtime like textspaced used to be (it's now discontinued), and high quality sound. The idea is you just let it run on your taskbar and check in every 20-30 minutes when you hear something that needs doing. So kind of casual all-day play while multitasking. I've dreamed of something like that for like 20 years, but nobody has done anything even close. Textspaced was the nearest, but it never quite got there, and it's gone, now.
From the standpoint of accessibility-first, need recommendations for office suite software that is not Microsoft Office? It doesn't have to do everything that MS Office does. Documents and spreadsheets are all I really need. I'm also rather hesitant to go the Google route for this stuff. Libre Office? OpenOffice? Any ideas?
Ontario opposition NDP Leader Marit Stiles said it best. “It’s the same Doug Ford playbook; do nothing, then complain to grab headlines," Stiles said. "Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe flew to China with the Prime Minister to advocate for his province’s canola farmers.
"Meanwhile, Ford was sitting at home, leaving Ontario workers with no one to fight for them. If you’re not at the table, you’re not fit for Premier." cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dou…
"Meanwhile, Ford was sitting at home, leaving Ontario workers with no one to fight for them. If you’re not at the table, you’re not fit for Premier." cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dou…
London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
Hello #Fediverse,
as #FOSDEM 2026 is approaching I was thinking about bridging the livestreams to #PeerTube as well.
Streams are under #CreativeCommons license that allows sharing videos, so there is no big deal in it.
As there are plenty of rooms (and we dibs Social Web for #VHSky :) ), it would be fun to coordinate streaming accross multiple instances to stream as much rooms as possible without overloading single instance.
What do you think, anybody interested?
Also, anybody has idea how to actually bridge m3u to PeerTube? @j4n3z maybe?
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I work from home a lot. Some days, there's not much work to do so I wait for my wife and son to go out and shout "BIG DAY IN THE BIG BOYS BED' and both dogs run upstairs to burrow under the bed covers and we all have a mid-morning nap together. It's the highlight of my week.
I’ve found an issue with syllable start detection compared to Python. In Python, the detection starts at a consonant if it's followed by a vowel, which influences pitch path calculation. This could explain some differences. But there’s also an exception for stressed vowels. Interesting!
Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀
#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
Tampereella hurja trilleri! Olli Rehn älähtää
The amount of times Google Gemini gave me a solid code correction and answer while Chat GPT sits there thinking and thinking is staggering, honestly it's making me disavow it because it's not like this is better in "pro" mode. I noticed Gemini "thinks" in smaller chunks but it could be just that they update the process more often. Regardless, GPT, you're beginning to really really suck. Gemini can give me the same quality of C++ and Python code recommendations, it's still shit when pasting back full code for you so better when patching, which is about the only thing holding me back from it as opposed to GPT. Gemini can read attachments but it doesn't quite get the same containerization treatment - GPT mounts your files from /mnt/data, Gemini clearly stores it somewhere and can read but when writing it is restricted from spitting back a file for you and envoking commands in a container. Huge downside to Google, ugh.
Something that using a local Gemini Cli instance could solve though, honestly.
Something that using a local Gemini Cli instance could solve though, honestly.
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You wanna talk about Gemini? They fixed the uploading multiple files thing in AI Studio, now the response formatting is all fucked up so each file isn't a single code block anymore and the download/copy buttons are gone. Fix one thing, enshitify another.
My mum and her friend took me and her friend's daughter to Cadbury's World back in the 80s. We were allowed to eat all the chocolate we wanted, which we translated as everything we could. I couldn't bear to eat chocolate for seven years after that visit.
I bloggered a post.
It's about shortcomings of FLOSS and a possible next thing.
My Next Project Won't be FLOSS:
pointless.one/my-next-project-…
#FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GNU #GPL #OSI #MIT #BSD #BTPL #PolyForm
My Next Project Won't be FLOSS @ PointlessOne
Where FLOSS fails and what to do about it. With a little bit of history.PointlessOne
Some of the variables you can define in the yaml now:
# Base defaults for NV Speech Player frontend.
#
# If a setting is not listed here, the C++ defaults are used.
# Packs are merged in this order:
# default.yaml -> <lang>.yaml -> <lang-region>.yaml -> <lang-region-variant>.yaml
#
# Keep this file small. Put language-specific tweaks into their own files.
settings:
# Timing / stress shaping
primaryStressDiv: 1.4
secondaryStressDiv: 1.1
# Stop closure insertion ("click" before stops/affricates)
stopClosureMode: vowel-and-cluster
stopClosureClusterGapsEnabled: true
# Length mark (ː) handling
lengthenedScale: 1.05
lengthenedScaleHu: 1.3
applyLengthenedScaleToVowelsOnly: true
# Output gain defaults (same as ipa.py)
defaultPreFormantGain: 1.0
defaultOutputGain: 1.5
# Normalization cleanup
stripAllophoneDigits: true
stripHyphen: true
# Tonal languages
tonal: false
toneDigitsEnabled: true
toneContoursMode: absolute
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»Ein #Barrierefreiheit-Feature, dass nur Menschen mit einer #Behinderung hilft, ist wahrscheinlich schlecht.«
Das sind so die Dinge die ich eigentlich nur im Fediverse lese.
Pro-Tipp: Ihr müsst gar nicht alle Gedanken die ihr habt mit der Welt teilen.
Prüfbericht zur #Barrierefreiheit mit Testimonials von KI-generierten behinderten Menschen.
How about nein einfach nur nein.
Why are Google's higher quality tts voices gated behind Google talkback? What kind of fucking insanity is this. The testing versions didn't work this way, so what gives? Get all the way to fuck.
André Polykanine
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in reply to André Polykanine • • •@menelion what's the challenge you need to solve?
The particular project I'm working on, is for a guy with cerebral palsy. I'm trying to improve his typing speed by reinventing the keyboard.
André Polykanine
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in reply to André Polykanine • • •@menelion he's nonverbal, so typing is the only way to interact, and it's damn slow because of the disease.
Yes, I'm a proud Ukrainian.