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Started watching BSG again today as I wanted to see if it looked as awesome on a 77" OLED TV as i thought it would (it does) and, oddly, it has over the years become something of a comfort show.

It continues to impress me how well Ronald Moore and Co. dealt with issues touched upon 20 full years ago that continue to be relevant today.

tvscholar.com/p/20-years-later…


20 years later, Battlestar Galactica still holds up

A rewatch begins as Peacock dumps Sam Esmail's planned reboot.
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Blind people now have AI image description and these days a Blind person will send another Blind person just an AI description of a selfie, with no source photo. In the complex AI discourse i would just like to say that AI image description has changed the game for Blind folks. It's a hell of a ride at age 43 to read my first picture book and first graphic novel. AI is complicated but textualizing images is brilliant

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I finally got around to upgrading the storage of my Ableton Move from 64GB to 512GB (requires a Linux machine to resize the file system and partition on the new MicroSD card once the image has been copied over). Anyway, success.

Storage: 26.4 GB / 493.1 GB

However, when I went to test it before putting the back panel back on, I panicked for a second, because it wouldn't turn on.

Well, guess what?
I forgot to put the Raspberry Pi CM4 back on the carrier board.

Did you know that a thing that requires a computer to exist won't do anything if the computer isn't there?

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*Fewer
RT: mastodon.social/users/bagder/s…

daniel:// stenberg://

2026-01-17 22:07:45

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More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less

(#curl drops OpenSSL-QUIC support)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17…



More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less

In the curl project we have a long tradition of offering multiple optional backends for specific protocols. In this spirit we have added experimental support for a number of different HTTP/3 + QUIC backends over time.
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OK. Final file of the night, then I'm jumping in the hot tub, away from computer, all that fun stuff.
NV Speech Player V11:
Fixes many many bugs:
- Whispery in non-English languages because of YAML handling
- The number 9 and number 5 for US English.
- Fixes level (all English languages)
- DLL adds: stopClosureClusterGapMs, segmentBoundaryGapMs, segmentBoundaryFadeMs, which can be tweaked per language.
- Fix UK words like World to sound UK. More UK tweaks can always be made in the En-GB.yaml file. Enjoy.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… .
remember that the base file, without the V11 suffix, always is the latest version, link: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… so you don't need to redownload each version if your browser is a good boy at not caching downloads by filename.
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I'm releasing it. NVSP Phoneme Editor. It's here. This tool lets you edit both phoneme and language data for NV Speech Player languages. It's not perfect, but it also lets you generate a wave file of spoken text. Eventually it'll evolve, give it time. I made sure to label things and focus management stuff too. Just need a break from working on this stuff, been up since 4:30 in the morning doing it. It's now 6 at night. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE…
Note: Espeak is bundled as-is, not recompiled into the project, which is acceptable per GPL3.
Be sure to look at the "settings" menu when starting the program to set your variables in nvspPhonemeEditor.ini at each start.
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Major readme rewrite at github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… - we not only detail how to create and do phonemes, but also, just look at all those language flags you can set in the "Language pack settings reference" section! It's like a playground for language nerds, enjoy.

GitHub - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer: A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++

A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++ - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
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curl, which is one of the most popular CLI/API tools for network requests and data transfer on Linux/Unix, is to discontinue its HackerOne bug bounty program due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse".

The authors simply cannot keep up with LLM-generated fake security reports created to collect money using bots. So, it now shuts down at the end of January 2026. This is why we can't have good things

github.com/curl/curl/pull/2031…


BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 by bagder · Pull Request #20312 · curl/curl

Remove mentions of the bounty and hackerone.
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#Barrierebahn
Rollstuhlplätze müssen im voraus via MSZ per Telefon oder Formular ( mail) reserviert werden.
Und dann kommt sowas als Rückmeldung
"Wir bedauern, dass wir Ihre Anmeldung für den xxx Januar 2026 nicht vornehmen können. Wir benötigen für die Anmeldung der Hilfeleistung alle Platzreservierungen der Fernverkehrszüge. Der Zug ICE xxxx von Lüneburg nach ... und der ICE yyyy von ... nach Lüneburg ist wegen kurzfristiger Anpassungen für Platzreservierungen gesperrt. "
#bahn #ableismus #barrierefreiheit
#bahn #barrierefreiheit #BarriereBahn #ableismus

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Some good news in a time of darkness: the European wildcat, Felis sylvestris, is making a comeback! This thoughtful-looking example was photographed in a mountainous region of the Czech republic.

The European wildcat's extreme elusiveness may have helped it avoid hunters in places where a larger native cat, the lynx, has been killed off. There may be about 140,000 European wildcats spread across more than two dozen countries. But they are very hard to find!

Wildlife photographer Andrea Giovanni, who made a video of one, writes:

"I'd never even thought of taking photos of wildcats, for a simple reason: I thought it was impossible, or at least, extremely difficult. It's considered 'the ghost of the forests' because it's very, very elusive, and it's hard to predict where it can be spotted. Other animals tend to follow the same trails through the forest. The wildcat goes wherever she wants to."

One reason the European wildcat is coming back is increased legal protections. But another is that villages in Italy and other regions are becoming depopulated! Some are very worried about declining human populations. But it does make room for other species. That gives me some hope for the future.

I got this picture, taken by Vladimír Čech Jr in the Doupov mountains, from a very nice article on the European wildcat:

bbc.com/future/article/2026011…

For more on this species:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European…

Seven subspecies have been demarcated!

#cats #catsOfFedi #catsOfMastodon

A European wildcat, looking a bit like a tabby with a very large head and thick tail, turning and looking back suspiciouslyi as it walks next to a rock face amid greenery. Taken in the Doupov mountains in the Czech Republic by Vladimír Čech Jr. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260112-rare-images-of-europes-ghost-cat

'This mysterious little beast is returning to our forests': Rare images of Europe's 'ghost cat'

Wildcats are so elusive, they were thought to be extinct in parts of Europe. But they are making a comeback in some areas.
Sophie Hardach (BBC)
#cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffedi
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I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.

He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.

He made it personal.

He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously

Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.

There was no debate.

There was no respectful disagreement.

In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.

This is not normal behaviour.

He literally proved my point.

Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.

This is what MAGA is doing to men.

It’s emboldening them.

It’s validating their bigotry.

I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.

He literally said as much.

He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”

Why is he allowed to tell me now??

Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?

It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.

We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences

We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.

Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”

He didn’t fear for his life.

He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.

My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.

He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.

He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.

Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.

This regime wants to make us “less than”.

They want us afraid.

They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.

They want us seen and not heard.

They don’t want us resisting.

Which is why we must keep speaking out.

We must refuse to go back.

My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.

Not everyone can.

Speak up if you see someone being hurt.

Protect your friends and neighbours.

Challenge misogynistic talking points.

Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.

Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.

#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny

#uspol #ableism #misogyny #fascism #abolishice #reneenicolegood
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