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I'm listening to some music through my Sennheiser 380 headphones, rather than AirPods. There are some songs I've been really liking lately, so much so that I purchased them. These headphones really highlight how odd these songs sound--harsh highs, not a lot of balance. Is this modern mixing, or have I been tricked by more AI music? It could also be that I'm now so used to AirPods/Shokz that my old headphones just sound odd to me.

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Perhaps of interest to our Forkiverse vibe coding community: I wrote about falling in and out love with Clawdbot/Moltbot platformer.news/moltbot-clawdb…
It was around this time that I realized an AI employee who works for you 24/7 isn’t much use if they have no idea what they are, or what they can do, or what you are talking about. The daily briefing of my dreams had come to feel like an albatross. Asking it to do anything more complicated felt, at least in this moment, like a waste of time and tokens. I had become the character I described here earlier this month: the manager who believed he was using AI to make himself more productive, while in reality I was only creating problems for my future self to solve.

Falling in and out of love with Moltbot

Maybe someday you’ll have a genie in your laptop working for you 24/7. Today is not that day
Casey Newton (Platformer)
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Ever have the need to assist a friend or colleague who is having problems with their PC?
Ever have the need to access your own PC remotely?
Tonight, at 8:00 PM EST, @bitsacb will be demonstrating #remoteIncidentManager. Tune in and find out how you can leverage this fully accessible tool for your remote support needs!
us06web.zoom.us/j/85276833531?…

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

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#remoteincidentmanager @BITS
in reply to victor tsaran

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Drew Mochak

to answer your question, it adds screenreader access and keyboard support. It is supposed to work for VO as the game is available on mac, but I don't have a mac to test with, so no clue if it actually works. Same for Linux. It does work with NVDA/JAWS/SAPI speech, Narrator does not work at present. Also you have to press enter to skip the intro scene as it's not working yet. It's just a comic and then some cosmetic options for your character, they're purely visual so you don't miss much.
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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon, Speech Dispatcher module version 1.9
This release focuses on improving voice quality, clarity when reading single words or letters, and making voice customization easier and more flexible.
New language-level settings improve how isolated words and letters are spoken (for example during character echo or word-by-word navigation). These changes prevent abrupt cut-offs at the end of single words, avoid unintended rising “comma-like” intonation, and make items like R, **are**, and "you" sound complete and natural. Languages can opt into this behavior selectively, so normal sentence reading and UI phrases remain unchanged.
The phoneme editor has been updated to support voicing tone parameters and to apply them directly to custom voice profiles. This makes voice shaping possible through the editor, without touching low-level DSP code.
handling was refined for languages such as Hungarian and Finnish. Minor tuning was also applied to Spanish trills and palatal sounds.
The NVDA Driver got many bugs fixed, including quicker unloading.
The DSP was updated to detect burstyness more aggressively, which is an improvement noticed below 44100.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…

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DJ Roxtar - #namyhoprezidentanesahej [explicit]

S laskavým svolením přesdílený hudební protest DJ Roxtara vůči útoku MZV Macinky na prezidenta Pavla

#macinka #turek #namyhoprezidentanesahej

djroxtar.com/
booking@djroxtar.com
youtube.com/@DJROXTAR/

DJ ROXTAR

🐬Home of Adolfeen DJ Roxtar is currently one of the best performance DJ in Czech Republic and this is his channel!
YouTube
#Politika #hudba #turek #Macinka #protestsong
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FOSDEM 2026 on PeerTube


Dear #Fediverse,

we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.

fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz

If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀

Fingers crossed hoping that everything goes well

Unified playlists here:
vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…
makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…

Thank you for your attention to this matter 😁
(and boost if you feel like)
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos

#fediverse #peertube #federation #fosdem #vhsky

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There will be live video streams of FOSDEM 2026 via PeerTube, you can find out more details via @schmaker at:

➡️ schmaker.eu/display/c83e3896-2…

There are playlists for the event streams on PeerTube at these links:

➡️ makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…
➡️ vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…

You can follow these channels to see the streams pop up in your timeline on Mastodon etc:

➡️ @fosdem@makertube.net
➡️ @fosdem@vhsky.cz

(PeerTube admins wanting to federate these, you need to federate these specific channels.)

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube

Schmaker

2026-01-18 21:42:31

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FOSDEM 2026 on PeerTube


Dear #Fediverse,

we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.

fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz

If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀

Fingers crossed hoping that everything goes well

Unified playlists here:
vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…
makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…

Thank you for your attention to this matter 😁
(and boost if you feel like)
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos


#peertube #fosdem #fosdem2026 @Schmaker @fosdem@makertube.net @fosdem@vhsky.cz
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It feels like the alt text advice “describe what you see” being replaced with the alt text advice “don’t describe why you see” coincides a little too neatly with the rise of machine-generated alt text.

I’m always interested to hear from people who rely on this, though, and the common point being raised—AI just describing an image doesn’t tell the non-sighted reader what’s important or how it’s relevant to the post—is well-taken.

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Cuando era profe intentaba contar un chiste malo nuevo cada semana, voy a hacer un hilo recopilatorio de los que consiga recordar. Se aceptan sugerencias.

"Entra Jesucristo en un bar y todo el mundo empieza a reírse, ¿por qué?
— Es la gracia del señor."

#chistes #chistesmalos

#chistesmalos #chistes
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All bags are packed, ready for take-off: Meet us this weekend at #FOSDEM – our stand is UD2-02 (where you can grab stickers, flyers, & more)! And make sure you don't miss the lightning talk (10 min) on our download statistics, by the fantastic Cat Ima @SylvieLorxu (14:00 at UB4.132). And if you're bored, be also welcome to my half-hour-long about Reproducible Builds for Android Apps (12:30 at UB4.132; that's the FOSS on Mobile devroom).

Looking forward to meet you! 🤗

#IzzyOnDroid #FOSDEM2026

#fosdem #izzyondroid #fosdem2026 @Sylvia

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Statement from the Acting Commissioner of Competition on appeal court's ruling in Cineplex deceptive marketing case

canada.ca/en/competition-burea…

Sometime the Government catches on the oligarchs and their scams. Here, the "online booking fee" from Cineplex.


Statement from the Acting Commissioner of Competition on appeal court's ruling in Cineplex deceptive market...

Jeanne Pratt, Acting Commissioner of Competition, issued a statement following the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold a September 2024 ruling by the Competition Tribunal in a deceptive marketing case involving Cineplex.
Competition Bureau Canada (Government of Canada)

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GrapheneOS Near Future Major Text To Speech Improvements

We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.

We're going to build our own speech-to-text implementation to go along with this too. We're starting with an English model for both but we can add other languages which have high quality training data available. English and Mandarin have by far the most training data available.

Existing implementations of text-to-speech and speech-to-text didn't meet our functionality or usability requirements. We want at least very high quality, low latency and robust implementations of both for English included in the OS. It will help make GrapheneOS more accessible.

Our full time developer working on this already built their own Transcribro app for on-device speech-to-text available in the Accrescent app store. For GrapheneOS itself, we want actual open source implementations of these features rather than OpenAI's phony open source though.

Whisper is actually closed source. Open weights is another way of saying permissively licensed closed source. Our implementation of both text-to-speech and speech-to-text will be actual open source which means people can actually fork it and add/change/remove training data, etc.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

GrapheneOS (GrapheneOS Mastodon)
#grapheneos
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Today was definitely a #Thursday.

I went to a dentist, and, as a result, I'll be getting a root canal on Monday... maybe... because we're supposed to be getting snow over the weekend, so what are the odds the office will be open?

I slipped and fell on the ice getting out of the car, got two items that were damaged in shipping, and you can't make this stuff up.

Also completely scrapped a project I was working on, because everything was just going completely wrong.

#thursday
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singleWordFinalHoldMs: 45
Adds a bit of sustain to the last voiced segment (helps “R/are/you” feel complete).
singleWordFinalFadeMs: 18
Adds a proper fade-to-silence frame (prevents the hard cut).
singleWordClauseTypeOverride: "." and singleWordClauseTypeOverrideCommaOnly: true
If NVDA passes comma clauseType for isolated words, it won’t rise anymore.

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GrapheneOS version 2026012800 released

Tags:

  • 2026012800 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2026012100 release:

  • FusedLocationProvider: restore pre-16-QPR1 GNSS usage policy of using GNSS for both balanced and high power requests instead of only high power requests since many GrapheneOS users don't enable network location and network location may not always be accessible such as temporarily not having internet access
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add special case for sandboxed Play services making it so users granting the SMS permission enables reading SMS addressed to apps using the Google Play services client library (Android 16 QPR2 prevented using the SMS permission to read SMS addressed to other apps so a special case is needed for apps which use Google Play services to handle SMS-based authentication)
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: prevent sandboxed Play Store attempting to install the "Device configuration" package which is not used on GrapheneOS and serves no purpose
  • avoid compatibility issues with apps doing misguided anti-tampering checks by changing the initial call stack for secure app spawning (exec spawning) to match the standard zygote-based spawning
  • Settings: require device restart after changing the secure app spawning setting
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: update Android Auto configuration UI to Material 3 Expressive
  • add workaround for upstream system_server startUserInBackgroundTemporarily crash
  • fix GrapheneOS support for recording permission usage history for a broader set of permissions
  • Dialer: set CallStyle for call notifications to improve the user interface and replace our temporary workaround of disabling notification grouping for it
  • Network Location: rename "GrapheneOS proxy" option to "GrapheneOS Apple proxy" for clarity
  • Network Location: add "Apple China" server choice required for China data due to China's laws about mapping the country (currently no proxy due to poor connectivity to and from China causing reliability issues with connecting to Apple's servers in China from ours but we plan to offer it as an option in the future)
  • Pixel 8a, 9th gen Pixels and 10th gen Pixels: disable NTP usage in Samsung gnssd which isn't as useful on GrapheneOS due to reducing the system time update threshold from 2000ms to 50ms along with avoiding us needing to redirect this to our own NTP service as we did for Qualcomm xtra-daemon
  • update code for disabling reporting of harmless fingerprint-service.goodix crash
  • improve user interface for Network/Sensors permissions in the permission manager
  • fix minor Material 3 Expressive styling issues for the Contact Scopes and Storage Scopes configuration UI
  • adevtool: raise minimal supported Node.js version to 24
  • adevtool: disallow running adevtool as root
  • adevtool: check for presence of prebuilts dirs at startup
  • kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.12.67
  • Vanadium: update to version 144.0.7559.109.0

All of the Android 16 security patches from the current February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 and June 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2026012801 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:

  • Critical: CVE-2026-0039, CVE-2026-0040, CVE-2026-0041, CVE-2026-0042, CVE-2026-0043, CVE-2026-0044, CVE-2026-0047, CVE-2026-0049
  • High: CVE-2025-22424, CVE-2025-22426, CVE-2025-32348, CVE-2025-48600, CVE-2025-48615, CVE-2025-48617, CVE-2025-48630, CVE-2025-48641, CVE-2025-48642, CVE-2025-48644, CVE-2025-48645, CVE-2025-48646, CVE-2025-48649, CVE-2025-48652, CVE-2025-48653, CVE-2025-48654, CVE-2026-0011, CVE-2026-0014, CVE-2026-0015, CVE-2026-0016, CVE-2026-0017, CVE-2026-0018, CVE-2026-0020, CVE-2026-0021, CVE-2026-0022, CVE-2026-0023, CVE-2026-0024, CVE-2026-0025, CVE-2026-0033, CVE-2026-0034, CVE-2026-0035, CVE-2026-0036, CVE-2026-0048, CVE-2026-0050

For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.


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