🗣️ Welcome Mia and Mil, two new voices designed to read texts in Luxembourgish using screen readers. They are making progress, but sometimes still struggle a little with Dicks' language. 🔧 Would you like to help them? Come and test them out, and let us know what you think: gd.lu/15pM9q
This is the latest development at the start of the year: Mia and Mil, two new voices to reproduce texts in Luxembourgish as faithfully as possible. Come and see how you can help us get to grips with them.
Here's one of the projects that has kept us really busy these past six months: developing a Luxembourgish text-to-speech system for screen readers used by blind people.
We hope you like the result!
Many thanks to our partners Ministry for Digitalisation, Zenter fir d'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch, Centre pour le développement des compétences relatives à la vue, LouderPages and to all the contributors of the RHvoice project.
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🗣️ Welcome Mia and Mil, two new voices designed to read texts in Luxembourgish using screen readers. They are making progress, but sometimes still struggle a little with Dicks' language.
Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods.
The letter to the .no PM is classical mafia:
"Nice country you have there, pity if something happened to it. Better think careful about who gets those peace-prices, capisce ?"
EU needs to stop pussying around, and go full in and stand up to the bully.
A twenty-minute power failure has given me the opportunity to listen to and operate VHF and UHF amateur radio bands, and come to the conclusion that electrically operated devices are around 80% of my noise floor on weak signals. So my getting out of this place will probably do me better than getting a better antenna. A better antenna would likely amplify the noise, and make weak signals even more useless.
I wish that were the case at home. My noise problems are mostly caused by a crappy solar inverter, so it just keeps on running when the power goes out.
@BorrisInABox Well, I suppose I have a half hour edge, since that's all I'd get out of the uPS running all my gear. But I'm pretty certain the majority of the noise on signals here is the elevator machine room. When I go up to the 15th floor and stand in the elevator, the AC noise is actually its own modulation.
Yep, that would do it. I have a dedicated battery I can run my radio stuff on, for what it's worth. I've never fully tested it to see how long it will last transmitting and receiving, powering three different mobile radios for different bands and the like. It's a 50 amp battery.
@BorrisInABox I'd think you'd get probably a good ten hours out of that battery with heavy high power transmitter use. A hell of a lot more if you were only receiving.
@BorrisInABox As in, there is a repeater than I can get with no rubber duck on, its so strong. And when that repeater was active, and i took off the duck, the aC noise was modulating in with the weak repeater signal.
When I lived in Greensboro in the early 90s, we had a repeater that was so strong I could go down to the basement, take the duck off of the HT, go to low power, key the repeater, and still get about an S7 on the repeaters S meter. If anything clobbered that machine, then it would have been extremely bad times.
@BorrisInABox Wow! That's better than a Shari can do in the same room! LOL. This machine isn't that powerful enough for me, I doubt I could key it with no duck, and with no duck, its about S7 at the top of my building. Its on the fire station about three minutes by fire truck from here. But I'm sure it would do a lot better if I went up there with the power off. I used to live in the east end, and there was a 400 watt repeater with a four-bay sintclair litterally a three minute walk from me, and that, I could hear S9 with no duck, and key it up too.
I don't remember how much power this repeater put out, but it was near the top of a 1100 foot commercial tower. Man, that was a really nice repeater site. There were two repeaters up there. Unfortunately, time and bureaucracy have done what they do, and everything amateur radio was basically left to rot up there when things broke, and they couldn't get the very expensive climbers to go up there and fix stuff when the elevator broke, and the people who owned the tower wouldn't fix it. That happened fairly recently. One of the two repeaters up there was essentially running on a piece of coax for an antenna for a while. Still got out a few miles anyway just because of how high up it was compared to the surrounding terrain. Lol
@BorrisInABox Bummer that it had to end that way. Definitely a shweet tower! Unfortunately, that awesome repeater I was so closed to got moved around a few times for commercial and political reasons, and just most recently in 2022 got bullied off their commercial tower, no explanation, just: "You have seven days, get your shit off." That repeater hasn't come back.
Suggesting to someone that they should simply 'disable [harmful] feature' after it has caused them harm is like suggesting that they should 'ask for mercy' after they were killed
funny how all the platforms that design this way (Apples liquid glass, Discords nitro anti-features) are all proprietary and can only offer the illusion of user choice by letting you make the experience worse
it might have look great on a wall in your office. Reminder that work is not only for yourself and you are not alone. Impressive list, thank you for taking care of curl!
The flood of #enshittification that #Broadcom unleashed upon #VMware and its customers after acquiring it, and its seismic waves in the whole IT supply chain, are a testament of how bad managers who seek for short-term revenue hikes without thinking of the long-term are a cancer, and walking ticking bombs for the tech industry.
We all know what Broadcom did to VMware after acquiring it. VMware was turned overnight into Broadcom’s cash cow, they hiked prices by 3x in some cases, scrapped perpetual licenses, forced all customers into more expensive subscriptions, said that they only wanted to focus on the most profitable customers and fuck everyone else, all while worsening customer support and providing literally zero added value and features to the product.
Basically a parasitic acquisition solely focused on sucking all the vital lymph out of another product - pure Oracle textbook.
When you play such stunts with individual customers, unfortunately, it works most of the times. Individuals don’t have much leverage, nor choice if there is too much concentration in a certain market. They may complain, but often they swallow the bitter bite.
Things are different when you play them in huge corporate products that are an integral part of the IT infrastructure we all use.
It turns out that among the businesses who were disgruntled when Broadcom suddenly cancelled their VMware perpetual licenses there was Tesco.
But Tesco didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly from Broadcom, of course. They acquired them through a reseller of hardware and software licenses - Computacenter. So Tesco sued them instead for failing to provide them the licenses that they were contractually bound to provide.
Computacenter, on its hand, didn’t acquire VMware licenses directly either. They were provided with the Dell servers they sold, as Dell was an authorized VMware reseller. So Computacenter sued Dell.
Dell, on its hand, says that it has no fault if Broadcom has suddenly changed VMware’s pricing model, and that they are the ones who broke contracts with the whole downstream supply chain. So Dell sued Broadcom.
And there we go. A chain of 3 lawsuits between 4 giants across the whole IT supply chain in order to call a parasitic company accountable.
What a mess. But I guess that the manager who proposed to squeeze annual recurring revenue got his/her fat quarterly bonus home after things seemed to work for the first year.
This is also your daily reminder that as a sysadmin you must use only FOSS products supported by the community and by strong foundations - and contribute back to them once their success becomes your success too.
Enough with the “but stability - but support - but licenses - but my manager” corporate bullshit.
The cost of writing your own little qemu CI/CD pipeline to spin up your virtual machines is much lower than the risk of your corporate subscription getting suddenly enshittified by chains of wrong financial incentives at any place in your upstream supply chain, and having to spend years of tears on expensive long-chain lawsuits.
And, even if things go bad, the cost of migrating out of proprietary and non-standard implementations is usually much higher than the cost of migrating to a compatible fork.
@FreakyFwoof Yep, and given the voiceover problems with it at the moment, i've switched to using UTM. which works rather well actually. not as powerful as VMWare fusion, but it does the job.
Well, I built a version of the NVSpeechPlayer NVDA driver for both 32-bit and 64-bit so it will indeed become compatible with 2026.1. I tried the alpha build here with it. It works. Not a lot of add-on level changes but we definitely have to make sure we load 64-bit DLLs and 32-bit ones from the right paths.
Good morning. In Portuguese words where you have m or n after a vowel and before a consonant, the m/n is pronounced more or less clearly depending on the dialect. In any case, I believe that pronouncing it would be more standard. Thus, in a word like "antes", instead of ˈɐ̃ŋt͡ʃys, it should be ˈɐ̃ŋnt͡ʃys. Likewise, in the word "amplo", it should be ˈɐ̃mmplʊ instead of ˈɐ̃mplʊ. Is it possible to do please?
I thought of creating a map similar to that you suggested yesterday, but then I would need to do at least five maps, one per vowel. Is it really the best approach?
@clv1 Hey! Yep, this is possible, and we can do it cleanly in the language pack — no engine change needed. What’s happening is that eSpeak often "compresses" those cases into a nasal vowel plus a single nasal marker before the consonant. So you get something like "nasal A + nasal marker + T…", which is why "antes" looks like it’s missing a clear "n", and "amplo" doesn’t have that stronger "m" feel. What I changed in the Portuguese pack is this: When eSpeak outputs that nasal marker before a consonant, we insert a clear "n” sound right after it. That makes "antes” come out closer to what you described (you can hear the consonant more explicitly). For cases like "amplo”, when a nasal vowel is followed by "m” before another consonant, we strengthen the "m” a bit (by doubling it), so it doesn’t get swallowed. The nice part: you don’t need "five maps, one per vowel”. You can write rules that target the nasal marker itself (or target "nasal vowel + m/n before consonant”), so it works across all nasal vowels. About making it a global engine rule: I wouldn’t rush that, because this is genuinely dialect/style-dependent in Portuguese. Some speakers expect a clearer "n/m” closure, others prefer the more nasalized vowel with a lighter consonant. Packs let us choose a "more standard / clearer” pronunciation for Portuguese without changing how other languages behave (or forcing one Portuguese style for everyone). eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
@clv1 If you want to experiment yourself, the easiest approach is: 1. identify the nasal marker eSpeak uses in these contexts, 2. add a single replacement that inserts “n” after it when the next sound is a consonant, 3. add another replacement that strengthens “m” only when it appears after a nasal vowel and before a consonant. If you share 5–10 words that are still off after this (pt-pt vs pt-br), we can tune the rule so it doesn’t affect cases like “ng” clusters where you don’t want an extra “n”.
Regarding last issue, i.e. m and n after a vowel and before a consonant: words containing am/an are quite good, e.g. amplo, antes; Words containing em/en are good too, e.g. sempre, sente; As for words containing im/in, and om/on, I still cannot hear a clear m/n, e.g. cinto, sinto, pomba, ronco. Lastly, in words containing um/un, there appears to have a disjunction between u and n, e.g. mundo.
What so is it only one person experiencing a bug with loading the new NVSapi? Or has nobody given it a try. Hmm. What if nobody gave it a try. Am I just an engineer imposter then? Oh no. My code quality sucks and my code is horrendous. Oh no. Freakin' out.
Today I joined the world of #Meshcore. @chiptronCZ, @RezzaBuh, @jan, @mirek spoke about it with such enthusiasm that I couldn't resist any longer. A good thing about getting two devices is that you can send messages to yourself, which is the best I could manage today. 😄
I'm joking a bit. I've been able to join the #brno channel and exchange a couple of messages there. It's probably further than some got with Meshtastic. :)
I've found another interface to the Wayback Machine like The Old Net called Wayback Classic. Just enter a URL and hit lookup, and the site shows you capture dates for the URL in a nice table format. Click on a month in the table to see entries for that year and month. Unlike The Old Net, WBC will take you to the actual web.archive.org entry rather than giving you a site within a site. wayback-classic.net/
Back in December I got a desperate email from this person. A woman who said her Instagram had been hacked and since she found my contact info in the app she mailed me and asked for help.
This actually reminds me of the time a friend of mine wrote a program to play Boggle. Some random woman found his blog post about it and began a six month email crusade against him for writing, "cheating software." I wonder if he still has those letters.
Back in 2020 we added MQTT support to curl. When curl 8.19.0 ships in the beginning of May 2026, we have also added MQTTS; meaning MQTT done securely over TLS.
Hey @Tutanota do you know mubi.com considers tuta.com email addresses invalid? I tried to convince their customer support its their problem but they're giving me some resonse which makes no sense. Is there something y'all can do?
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It's going to be fun when the MAGA base, already enjoying more expensive medical insurance, realises that Denmark is the US's main source of insulin, Ozempic and Wegovy, and the mad king has just increased the price by 10%.
if you have your schools in a seculer country, You can't force your students to adopt a specific religion, And you can't punish them for not doing so. Schools are for education, let them serve their only perpous.
If the school can't provide education/lessons for my relligion, well that's sad. I shouldn't have to waste my time sitting in lessons about other relligions I don't care about though, even if it's ethics. Honestly though, at least here I never had good relligion education (evangelic christian) anyway, so ngl could just remove it from schools all together, as you say it's for education not for relligion.
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With the growing movement to boycott US products and services, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.
Once again it's not about being European. It's about enabling freedoms. If one day Europe enshittifies software there as well, people are going to move.
Thanks for the extensive and in depth overview, this really helps 🤦♂️ For anyone who wants an unbiased list of alternatives, try goeuropean.org/ or european-alternatives.eu/
As long as it is open-source and the business model does not contradict, it does not really matter where the team is located that develops the code:
Therefore, GrapheneOS is a (I might say, the only) viable alternative mobile operating system. /e/OS' security standards seem to be lacking in some regards while SailfishOS, to my knowledge, is not open source.
My pain point still is the dependency on Google Pixel phones due to hardware requirements. I had hopes for @fairphone working towards this, but it seems it has currently (if at all) no priorioty.
I do like Surfshark for VPN. I didn't even know it was from Netherlands until I recently looked it up. I was about to switch, but I guess I'm good on that one.
As far as I know Qwant and Ecosia rely on US big tech companies for their results so it's useless. On the other hand, @Mojeek is European and truly independent
yeah, I get it, the main goal of these posts is marketing, but only one option for calendar and email, and from the very first party that produces them, well, thats just weird and off putting imo.
your competitor Proton is also a good alternative. Punkt is the best alternative to iOS and degoogled android. Incidentally Punkt also supports Proton by default.
What the EU needs is an equivalent to Apple Health / Google Fit, which integrates with Oura, Polar, Suunto, Withings, Yazio, Awareapp etc. etc.
Can they all cooperate to form this cloud data storage, protected by EU privacy, supported by subscription?
full boycott of capitalism is the only correct approach-- or do some people really think some capitalists are special and not prone to doing exactly what maga capitalists are doing now, because they've been allowed to get away with it? Genuinely curious if supporting capitalists seems to some minds to be a great way to deprive capitalists of power.
For smartphones and smartphone OS, I suggest to add Iodé operating system from France to your list, where you also can buy smartphones with Iodé OS. @iodeiode.tech/
Protonmail is probably my favourite so far, they're doing a great job at replacing googlemail, with others services included like password manager, calendar and now docs/sheets in their protondrive!
I just wish they'd be faster at pushing out linux apps and integration, especially for protondrive. I want to sync files on my desktop!
You're recommending people use phones and operating systems without basic privacy and security patches/protections while claiming those are good for privacy. Fairphone, Murena and Jolla are not safe options. To promote their products, both Murena and Jolla heavily mislead people with inaccurate claims about what they provide and about multiple more private/secure options. People buying their products don't get crucial patches but are led to believe they do...
I think you mix things up like I also see with the digital Independence Day #diday
Do we want more privacy/security or do we want to get non US products. This may often go hand in hand but not always. If we focus on European products, gmx is a viable option. From a privacy point of view, not so much. Your article is mainly focused around European products, hence no signal, I suppose, but you also state:
“sich für europäische Produkte zu entscheiden - wenn es um Big Tech-Alternativen geht ist der wichtigste der bessere Schutz der Privatsphäre!” You mix privacy with European or assume every European is more private which is not true. Most privacy focused people e.g. recommend signal, which you dont, because US, I guess. This is confusing
I use Proton for private Mail/Calendar, Infomaniak is in evaluation to replace Office365 at the office and Vivaldi is my default browser. I use Threema for messaging - left WhatsApp long ago, even if some friends still just have the Meta-messenger 🤷♂️
@esoteric_programmer Yes, and because it just works. I know it's accessibility quirks and how to get around them. I have a workflow built entirely off GitHub tooling, and migrating that would be painful. So I don't.
O yeah, I made an issue about accessibility on forgejo. This apparently happens partly because the framework they use for the web ui doesn't implement aria stuff because the devs say it's not their problem, and partly it's also probably something they're doing wrong, but yeah, it's reported now at least
@esoteric_programmer You just justified my staying on GitHub even more. As soon as developers say "Not our problem" I'm not using that product. I don't have the energy for yet more Digital inclusion arguments, especially in FOSS spaces.
People, with #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Can I suggest that people also make a list like this one for their own countries? It is getting quite some traction here: berthub.eu/articles/posts/dash…
Hier een lijst organisaties die voor hun primaire missie totaal afhankelijk zijn van Amerikaanse clouds, en waarbij de maatschappij ontwricht zou worden als ze hun werk niet meer konden doen, bijvoorbeeld door sancties over Groenland.
Imagine finally coming to the realization that the "progressive left" was right in saying "we want every state to have what Scandinavia has" and the practical result being, becoming a global pariah, and every state gets what Alabama has.
Last February, I did a thing, which I called #Movuary, in which I sequenced a new track (almost) every day of the month of February with my then relatively new Ableton Move groove box.
Most days, I actually tracked a new thing, but a few were previous sequences that got slight touch-ups.
That was a lot of fun, and got me to think about things in ways I otherwise wouldn't, so I think I'll do it again this year.
If you're curious, here's a very boring index page with everything I did last year, including Ableton bundles for you to play with in your own Move, Ableton Note, or Ableton Live.
BTW, I have still never actually used Ableton Live. Maybe I'll get around to that one of these days.
If anyone else here wants to do the same, posting a new track produced with Ableton Move every day in February using the #Movuary hashtag, let's make this a movement, or something.
Hoy estoy con el teorema de descomposición espectral en dimensiones finitas.
De momento probando lemas auxiliares, sobre operadores autoadjuntos, autovalores reales, y que el complemento ortogonal de un subespacio invariante es invariante.
"In a long screed [yesterday] morning, Trump’s social media account said the president is placing tariffs of 10% on all goods from the countries currently protecting Greenland after February 1, and that the tariffs will increase to 25% on June 1."
"Donald Trump is not blowing up NATO by accident. He is not threatening tariffs on European allies because he is impulsive. And he is not floating bizarre new global bodies where nations pay billions for access because he suddenly cares about peace.
This is a strategy. A crude one, but coherent. And it is designed to replace alliances with tribute."
"The monumental idiocy of Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on eight European nations that do not support his bid to conquer Greenland cannot go unremarked.
Foreign nations do not pay tariffs on goods imported into the US. Tariffs are paid by US companies that import goods into the US. Those companies pass their costs onto US consumers."
"French intelligence, working with Ukraine, deliberately fed false high-level intelligence to Trump’s regime to test whether it would leak. That information quickly surfaced in Russian channels, confirming their worst fears. As a result, France and other European services have effectively cut the United States out of critical intelligence flows related to Ukraine and broader security matters."
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