-why is everyone freaking out over the forecasted snow storm?
Our state has very little of the infrastructure needed to deal with a large amount of snow or extended cold weather.
-why are the grocery stores empty?
Everyone is scared they will be stuck at home with no power, no water, and no hope that the government will be willing to help.
-why all the milk and bread?
I honestly do not know. Me and mine have 2 weeks of shelf stable things to munch on but we have the privilege to be prepared, most of the state are unable to afford their basic needs day to day and cannot adequately prepare for things like this.
- why does your government suck?
"Rugged individualim for some, gut wrenching poverty for most." Is the motto of the GOP whom have a super majority in our legislature. They are currently actively campaigning to defund libraries, public schools, and county services because "it's not nice to make rich people pay taxes" or something.
As stupid shit posts of a repo goes this might be the best I've made in a long time.
Presenting the Self Deleting Repo.
When opened in vs code or zed it immediately deletes its self. (at least if you have the rust plug in installed)
I've also added agent instructions that might make the agent delete it but I don't have any of the ai tools installed to see if that part actually works.
New brain rot successfully unlocked by using ChatGPT and other similar AI tools. Over many millennia evolution helped you develop critical thinking skills and you are giving that all away chasing some fools' dreams who think you can do better things in life without money or work. At the end of the day, you will have neither.
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
iMessage on Windows, Android, or Linux? BlueBubbles on a Mac makes it possible. And it might not be as tricky as you think, if you use Tailscale to hook everything up securely. tailscale.com/blog/bluebubbles…
To the #Tailscale people, is it possible to run that thing portable on a Windows device, e.g. I run it, it routes my traffic, but when I turn it off and delete the file everything is back to normal, no registered service or any other requirements that could be restricted/detected somehow?
I'm know almost nothing about tailscale besides being a very low-level user, but would having one of the small routers which support tailscale, just for example, one of the routers from gl.inet, connected via USB ethernet to the machine on which you don't want to install anything not work? Your normal connections would go through the computers normal internet connection. Your 100.x.x.x connections, as well as connections to any subnet through a subnet node, would go through the gl.inet router. If you want all your traffic to run through tailscale, you disconnect the computer's normal internet connection and have an exit node set up for the connection through the small router. Again, if you want to connect to just one or a small number of machines on your tailnet and their services, would tailscale funnel not work?
Which implementation of the NVDA Server are people currently using? Preferably hostable in Docker? Ping @simon since I know you're running a bunch. #NVDA #NVDASR #Blind #NVDARemote
I don't run it in docker because that would be a lot of overhead for a 1 GB node. But I use the official server. I have a rough shell script to set everything up with a user and a systemd service, and I can confirm that it works on Debian: curl get.nvra.io | bash
I'm using jmdaweb/nvda-remote-server:latest in my lan, but I also have the .deb package installed on my VPS, both working fine. I think that docker image was the one that was just linked in the github repo.
First time ever considering one of those heated mugs. My tiny tea cup empties too quickly and is cold by the time I am done. Buying a mug with battery sounds just too first world to me though.
Yesterday I blocked an account which was either Ramon or someone equally nasty: I can't remember the whole handle, but he called himself Free Speech Warrior, although it was clear from his bio that he didn't care about real free speech at all.
Yep, block and report those. Also he likes to use single letter usernames. But at this point I kinda know his writing style already to immediately know it’s him.
Demis Roussos - Velvet Mornings (Triki Triki 1973)Velvet mornings will come every new day Golden sunrise and the scent of rain Whisper softly a melody of lov...
Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time.
If you explained to them that most air travel is done by private companies who are constantly in a state of fierce and brutal competition, whereas most train travel is either done by the government or over-regulated public-private monopolists with 0 competition... they'd nod their head in understanding.
What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month? Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work).
I'm thankful my employer @tibhannover moved to a @matrix instance collectively - since then using it on a daily basis, increasingly for communications with external partners as well
Based on the kinda snippy text there in the readme, I guess the #DeltaChat folks decided they want to down-play the dovecot dependency in case they decided to do something else in future.
Also, "custom builds" might make some folks ... itchy.
it is a custom build because of this one patch that upstream for some reason hasn't merged. Dovecot sleeps for 500ms before actually delivering a mail to the client because of some ancient race condition they couldn't figure out, it's really dumb
This commit removes hardcoded 500 ms debounce
from storage that delays all storage notification subscribers such as IDLE and NOTIFY commands.
500 ms debounce constant NOTIFY_DELAY_MSECS
was added i...
In many ways #Friendica is a great addition to the #fediverse but the lack of a simple way to add alt-text to images is unforgivable. That it has sat on the development to-do list for years shows how low down accessibility is to developers out of the box. #accessibility
TFW you discover someone you are conflict of interest close to has not one but two Wikipedia pages, erroneously disambiguated based on eras of their badass career. Seriously, what do you do with that? Leave a note on the talk page linked to their obituary and hope someone takes it up? Fedi seems like a place I might get an answer to this.
Parlament v utorok prijal návrhy na zlepšenie dostupnosti a dodávok základných liekov v EÚ. Má za cieľ zabezpečiť vysokú úroveň ochrany verejného zdravia pre občanov EÚ znížením závislosti EÚ od iných krajín a zvýšením konkurencieschopnosti jej farmaceutického sektora.
Poslanci Európskeho parlamentu podporujú vytváranie priemyselných „strategických projektov“ v EÚ s cieľom vytvoriť, modernizovať a zlepšiť výrobné kapacity. Chcú, aby národné vlády a EÚ uprednostnili finančnú podporu strategických projektov v súčasnom rozpočte a v nasledujúcom viacročnom finančnom rámci EÚ. Spoločnosti, ktoré využívajú verejnú finančnú podporu, musia spĺňať jasné povinnosti vrátane uprednostňovania dodávok na trh EÚ.
Podľa ich návrhov by verejní obstarávatelia v EÚ museli uplatňovať požiadavky na obstarávanie, ktoré uprednostňujú výrobcov vyrábajúcich významnú časť týchto kritických liekov v EÚ. Správa tiež zdôrazňuje výhody dobrovoľného cezhraničného obstarávania s cieľom zlepšiť dodávky, najmä liekov na zriedkavé choroby, antimikrobiálnych látok a iných inovatívnych, nákladných alebo špecializovaných liečebných postupov. Poslanci Európskeho parlamentu chcú znížiť počet krajín, ktoré sa môžu zapojiť do spoločných postupov obstarávania, na najmenej päť
S cieľom lepšie predvídať a riadiť nedostatky poslanci Európskeho parlamentu vyzývajú na vytvorenie koordinačného mechanizmu EÚ pre národné zásoby a pohotovostné zásoby kritických liekov. Chcú tiež, aby Komisia mala právomoc rozhodnúť o prerozdelení liekov z jednej národnej zásoby do jednej alebo viacerých iných krajín ako o poslednej možnosti v prípadoch, keď sa zistí nedostatok alebo prerušenie dodávok.
Well, @pluralistic got one thing wrong in _Little Brother_: we didn't need a high-profile terrorist attack for the US government to start disappearing ordinary people off the streets and making everyone seek out secure digital messaging systems. They just did it without provocation.
I've been using the new Microsoft Outlook for a while, and although it was usable and had some nice features, it was never quite as accessible as I was hearing it was from other blind users. I went back and reviewed chapter 4 of David Kingsbury's book, Windows Screenreader Primer from the Carroll Center for the Blind, and changing the following setting made all of the difference! 😎
In the view group, I went into the Reading pane menu and checked the Popout only item.
Jelikož si ještě nepořídili všechny domény, tak na překlepové doméně w-social.eu už vznikla reklama na Mastodon, tak jsem dneska přes oběd něco podobného udělala taky 😄
@stepan Jestli to chápu dobře, generuje se to furt automaticky z českých instancí podle počtu a aktivity uživatelů, co mají otevřené follow requesty a seznamy sledujících. Poslední refresh tam byl dneska. Nevím, kdo to teď má pod palcem, ale asi se to dá někde najít, viděla jsem snad i zdrojový repozitář někde.
Found a stash of stickers in a box at work. Full Stack Fest 2019, great memories of - among other things - having beers on the beach with @bagder and other.
I'm happy to announce ChapterPod, an app for adding chapters to podcast files, is now available to download!
I've been using this for about 6 months behind the scenes to do all the chapters for Comfort Zone, and it's easily the best tool for the job (for me, at least).
He conseguido probar, con algo de dificultad, que la suma, resta y producto de reales definidos como clases de equivalencia no dependen de representantes específicos, y que cumplen las leyes del anillo (más o menos). Algún lema sobre positividad. ahora me falta la tricotomía. No sé si habré elegido bien usando secuencias en lugar de cortes de Dedekind. Pero es que las pruebas de supremos e ínfimos me tocan las narices bastante; es un coñazo tener que hacer análisis de casos con eso.
I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was. The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".
If "AI" worked they'd be using it, not selling it.
I.E. if it did what they claimed it would be proprietary secret sauce, not "come use this for free so we can figure out what it might be good for". Still, in 2026.
Remember when blockchain was going to have a zillion world-changing uses, real soon now? Same guys, they pivoted.
The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.
Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.
I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).
• Wsocial
https://w-social.eu
Social media platform, an alternative to X
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Check, help, and share the link to the platform 😊
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#twitter #x #socialmedia #Europe #freedom #freespeech #News #technology #Mastodon #Media #opensource #foss
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.6 now on GitHub as a release. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… Release notes: This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably through STDIN), keeping NV Speech Player and the Phoneme Editor fully GPLv2-compliant while still allowing use of GPLv3 phonemizers such as eSpeak NG as separate programs. Functionality is unchanged for users, but the integration is now cleaner, more flexible, and license-safe.
Licensing & phonemizer changes
This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably t...
@patricus yeah, it would have to be a new engine setting that lengthens it without it sounding disjointed. I'll work on this one after work, shouldn't be hard to make it a setting where you specify the tap length for any phoneme that has it true on it. It would benefit a lot of other languages. Regardless, I tried improving Polish a bit in this pack. try it. Should at least sound less "chinese." eurpod.com/synths/packs-PLFix.…
@patricus yeah but, you never included your phonemes.yaml with it, just the language file, so the y/ɨ mapping can't be done your way without knowing how you mapped it in the phoneme table.
@patricus yeah, that new file at least makes a dedicated phoneme for that sound, so what you can now do is mess with it directly without breaking other languages that way to get the closer sound of it. It should at least be listed inside the language as mapped to another one that's editable so we can tweak it that way.
@patricus oh, it's just that link :) Replace your packs folder in the editor with it. eurpod.com/synths/packs-PLFix.… there are now 13 different phoneme sounds mapped in Polish to play with, and they're Polish-specific, so definitely not going to change other languages.. You have to hit "edit phoneme..." next to the phonemes in language list in the editor.
bro I made it, y stil sounds ab bit Chinese but I got it almost working that and the R I will give it to you sadly fp is currently having service issues because of code changes. I will just put it into my site posix.live/pl_almost_working.z…
ok just a question how to add h? I'm stuck because the damn editor stops responding whenever I try to make it speak a word with it I'm new to this stuff but I'm learning hard. I learned what's fricative and stuff like that easily.
@patricus oh it shouldn't? If it gets stuck or crashes, it could be good to revert to the V5 editor version for now as it might be with how the V6 one introduced the change with Espeak. I'll have to check on that one. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE… might be less buggy for now, or even V4 if it's really bad. But yeah, something for after work.
New phoneme editor that supports custom phonemizers via the command-line. This will begin the work of using other phonemizers than ESpeak, like Gruut, ETC. Please note that because of how we split chunks now, since ESpeak is ran through commandline arguments, there may be a slight pause when processing larger files. However, a new "phonemizer settings..." dialog has been added with a few templates so you can switch to another phonemizer than ESpeak. This also means that V6 will be the first to get a release on GitHub, as it's no longer violating GPL2 to GPLv3, and frees SpeechPlayer from only and directly using ESpeak. Finding a phonemizer that's also multilingual though? Big challenge. Note that we introduced a new symbol in the IPA output, ||, (two vertical bars) to indicate a pause. You can force a pause via IPA by inserting this, though. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE…
Voluntary Chat Control is already in place since 2021, named Regulation (EU) 2021/1232. Similar to scanning obligations in the UK and the USA, this regulation allows Big Tech to scan all your data.
Sucht hier jemand eine Person mit jahrelanger Erfahrung im Testen von Soft- und Hardware? So richtig mit Weiterbildungen und Qualifikationsstempel und so?
Ich kenne da eine Person, die mal nen neuen Job braucht.
Bevorzugt Großraum Stuttgart, mit ÖPNV-Anschluss erreichbar, gerne Teilzeit (25-28h/Woche), gerne was mit Verkehrswende und / oder Energiewende.
I am reading Anthropic's new "Constitution" for Claude. It is lengthy, thoughtful, thorough...and delusional.
Throughout this document, Claude is addressed as an entity with decision-making ability, empathy, and true agency. This is Anthropic's framing, but it is a dangerous way to think about generative AI. Even if we accept that such a constitution would govern an eventual (putative, speculative, improbable) sentient AI, that's not what Claude is, and as such the document has little bearing on reality.
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