The #GNOMEAsia2024 Call for Locations is open! If you are interested in bringing GNOME Asia to your city make sure to submit an intent to bid by May 15, and your full proposal by June 6. More details on how to submit here: foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/3…
A demo of a #spiel sample app, the voices used in order are: eSpeakNG's "Andy" variant, MBROLA US2, and Piper's Amy. You can observe the different features like word tracking and quality. #speech #tts #gnome #linux
@Marco Yup. A lot of work went into that with a new diacritization library for proper vowels. I hope to one day make a similar library for Hebrew diacritization.
Tutorial for using high quality, free text to speech AI voices in Microsoft Windows with Piper TTS. 🚀 Performance is up to 10x faster Realtime.00:00 Intro01...
@thorstenvoice @Marco I haven't directly worked on Piper, this is other folks' hard work. I am just integrating it into a new desktop speech framework, #spiel.
Ich lese gerne Erfahrungsberichte, bevor ich neue Plattformen ausprobiere. So bin ich auf stargames-erfahrung.de/de-de/ gestoßen und habe mir einen Überblick verschafft. Die Informationen sind gut strukturiert und leicht verständlich. Ich nutze solche Seiten eher informativ, um mir ein eigenes Bild zu machen. Das hilft mir, entspannt und ohne Druck zu entscheiden.
Vysielací priestor v novej Slovenskej televízii a rozhlase (STVR) by mali dostať napríklad aj spochybňovači základných faktov. Tvrdí to šéf služobného úradu ministerstva kultúry Lukáš Machala.
Hi, @Raspberry_Pi has the default password changed? I tried for three days to setup a new raspberry with the rpi imager but it constantly stops at some points so I downloaded it manually extremely fast compared to the imager and dd it onto an sd-card but can’t login with pi, raspberry - and I did account for the keyboard layout.
@Bubu oh, thanks, I must have overlooked that option several times. But I’m still wondering why I can not login after flashing with dd. The documentation says it used to be pi and raspberry but not what it is now.
Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward reaching $450,000 for exceptional quality reports.
The U.S. Department of Transportation published a notice seeking public comment to renew the Service Animal Air Transportation Form and the Service Animal Relief Attestation Form. Comments are due by May 29.
ACB understands that our members with guide dogs have had different experiences with these forms, so we encourage you to submit comments.
Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to #Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines ==
The proposed settlement will effectively end more than 700 #lawsuits filed after the 2021 recall of millions of the company’s widely used sleep apnea devices and ventilators.
The proposed settlement will effectively end more than 700 lawsuits filed after the 2021 recall of millions of the company’s widely used sleep apnea devices and ventilators.
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Nothing warms my heart more than another website picking up the idea "Detect Missing Ad-blocker" of https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/ (after seeing it on mine in action).
Join us on May 14 for the free ATHEN State of Accessibility event where we will discuss AI, 3D Printing, Google and Microsoft colaboration between formats and much more! Find out more about this four hour event here - athenpro.org
Three large-scale campaigns have targeted Docker Hub users, planting millions of repositories designed to push malware and phishing sites since early 2021.
Testimony started w/a bang last week as David #Pecker, the fmr publisher of The #NationalEnquirer, said that he had entered into a secret plot w/ #Trump & #MichaelCohen to #CatchAndKill negative stories about Trump as he ran for president in 2016. #GaryFarro, the 3rd to testify, started off w/dry details about banking transactions. But #Farro is leading us to the #HushMoney payment
Judge #Merchan says #Trump can have May 17 to attend the high school graduation of his youngest son, Barron. Trump had complained about not immediately being given permission. “I don’t think the May 17 date is a problem,” the judge says.
Justice Juan M. #Merchan cruised over that quickly, but what just happened should not be overlooked. #Trump has been found in #contempt & fined what seems to be at least $5,000. The way it was presented was very hard to follow so we’ll confirm the number as soon as we can.
Merchan, issued his ruling as the #TrumpTrial began its third week, saying that #Trump’s statements, including on social media, had violated the #GagOrder. Prosecutors had asked that Trump be held in #contempt, citing 10 public statements that they said posed a “#threat” to the trial.
The judge, Juan M. #Merchan, fined him $9,000, punishing the former president for repeatedly violating a #GagOrder that bars him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors & jurors.
Merchan determined that #Trump had broken the #GagOrder by making several public statements on social media & on his campaign website in which he attacked #witnesses & the #jury.
Already, prosecutors have alerted to the judge to 4 new potential violations. Those were not covered by Justice #Merchan’s order & will be discussed at another hearing, which will be held on Thurs morning.
In addition to fining #Trump after finding him in #contempt, Justice Merchan ordered him to remove the offending Truth Social posts today.
Justice #Merchan wrote that he was “keenly aware of, and protective of, Defendant’s First Amendment rights.” But nonetheless, he wrote that he would not tolerate continued violations of his orders and that if necessary & appropriate, he would “impose an incarceratory sentence.” In plain language, he is warning #Trump that he will send him to #jail if necessary.
Justice #Merchan explicitly called #Trump’s claim that reposts don’t count as violations of the #GagOrder “counterintuitive and absurd.”
Justice Merchan rejected the defense’s claims that Trump had merely reposted the messages from others and that he had largely been acting in response to political attacks from two potential witnesses in the case: #MichaelCohen & #StormyDaniels.
#GaryFarro is testifying about LLCs & know-your-client forms. The prosecutor questioning him has asked him to spell out what LLCs are. Know-your-client forms are used by banks to verify who a client is.
“Everything was urgent w/ #MichaelCohen,” Gary Farro testifies about Cohen’s interest in opening his acct quickly. Cohen used the account to make the hush-money payment to #StormyDaniels.
He says Cohen did not make it clear that it would be used to pay a porn star.
First Republic did not do business w/the porn industry, as Farro testified last week. If the paperwork #MichaelCohen submitted had made allusions to its actual purpose, “there would be a determination made by the 2nd & 3rd line of defense” at the bank. The payment would have been flagged by bank auditors, as “it is an industry that we do not work with,” said Farro.
An email was shown from a FirstRepublic banker to #MichaelCohen, flagged as “high importance,” confirming his request to transfer $131k from his home equity line of credit acct to the Essential Consultants LLC acct.
Farro’s testimony is a reminder that moving money around always leaves an electronic footprint. There are wire transfers & paperwork inside the bank. It doesn’t always stop a fraud from happening but is helpful after the fact.
Mangold, one of the prosecutors, walked the banker Gary Farro through a wire transfer that occurred immediately after Essential Consultants LLC was created. The documents displayed show that on Oct. 27, 2016, #MichaelCohen & the LLC wired $130k to Keith Davidson, #StormyDaniels’ lawyer at the time. Cohen wrote that the purpose of the wire transfer was for a “retainer.”
It’s also the 1st time we’ve seen Blanche since the hearing last week in which he sought to argue that Trump had not violated the judge’s #GagOrder. Blanche lost that hearing.
Gary Farro was asked by Blanche about speaking with “the people,” (the prosecutors) Trump shook his head pointedly when Farro talked about meeting w/ prosecutors he had in DC ahead of his testimony.
#Blanche is trying to cast some doubt on #GaryFarro’s testimony & use him to criticize #MichaelCohen. He asks Farro to say again that Cohen was a “difficult client.” Farro agrees that he was.
Blanche is also trying to separate Cohen's actions from #Trump's, arguing that the account was never established as related to Trump. Basically it’s defense's entire argument: that Cohen was acting on his own.
#Gary Farro is reportedly a bit irritated w/ #Blanche, #Trump's lawyer. Blanche suggests that Farro opened up a shell corporation, & Farro bites back: “I don’t open up shell corporations. I open up LLC accounts.” Blanche is directing jurors' focus to what #MichaelCohen did -- that is, effectively start a shell corporation that was used to pay #StormyDaniels. It’s a way to attack Cohen through Farro, making the former fixer sound deceptive & potentially criminal.
After briefly consulting w/ his defense team & leaning down to whisper to #Trump, Todd #Blanche asked #GaryFarro directly if he ever had any communications w/ #MichaelCohen about Trump & if he ever spoke w/Trump himself. Farro said no.
Blanche has finished his cross-examination of Gary Farro, & Rebecca Mangold, a prosecutor, has returned for re-direct questioning.
During the break, the lawyers have continued to discuss the case with the judge. Now, a prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, rises & says that if #Trump testifies, the prosecution would seek to cross-examine him about the judge’s ruling on the #GagOrder. This issue will be argued at length sometime later — & possibly not even today — but Colangelo raises it now.
The #Trump campaign is already fund-raising off Justice #Merchan’s #GagOrder ruling, sending an email to supporters claiming, in all caps, that a “liberal judge just silenced me.”
The judge returned to the bench but #Trump took some extra time to return to the courtroom, which is unusual in this case. Now Trump is back & #Merchan has warned Todd #Blanche, his lawyer: “Let’s try to keep the breaks short.”
Trump is joined by his son Eric again, although Susie Wiles & Dan Scavino, two of his aides, have not re-entered the courtroom.
Dr. Robert Browning is the next witness. He is a Purdue professor focusing on #Congress & the #media, he is also the head of #CSPAN archives. He says he was compelled to testify.
Robert Browning explained that C-SPAN is a “public television network that telecasts events in their entirety.”
Browning is a custodial witness, or records custodian - witnesses certify the truth of records presented. In this trial, the defense did not agree on certain facts that the prosecution sought to stipulate were true. So, the prosecutors need these sorts of witnesses to help the jury understand the basic truth of the episodes they want to talk about at trial.
Prosecutors played #CSPAN clips, starting w/one from an Oct 2016 #Trump campaign rally in NC, where he talks about 2 women who said Trump sexually assaulted them. “I have no idea who these women are,” Trump said at the time. “These are lies being pushed by the media & the Clinton campaign to try & keep their grip on our country. They’re all false, totally invented, fiction.”
Trump seems to be watching himself as the C-SPAN clip plays on the monitor in front of him.
Next is video of a campaign event #Trump did in PA, in Oct 2016. He blasts media outlets & says, “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign.” He later vows to sue, saying "the events never happened, never."
Merchan precluded prosecution from introducing direct evidence that many women, near the end of the 2016 campaign, accused Trump of #SexualAssault. They are getting some of that evidence into the trial w/these videos of Trump attacking the women on the campaign trail.
The third video shows #Trump at a news conference in 2017 during the presidential transition, saying, “#MichaelCohen is a very talented lawyer, he’s a good lawyer.”
Defense had no questions.
We've moved on to a new witness, someone named Phillip Thompson who works at a company supplying court reporters, interpreters that transcribed Trump's deposition in #EJeanCarroll trial. He was subpoenaed.
Rebecca Mangold, one of the prosecutors, had Phillip Thompson walk through the validity of the transcript of Trump’s deposition in one of the #EJeanCarroll cases. We are now seeing video clips of #Trump in that deposition verifying that Truth Social is his social media site & what his handle is.
Asked to describe Truth Social, Trump answers, “It’s a platform that’s been opened by me as an alternative to Twitter.”
Prosecutors call #KeithDavidson, who negotiated 2 deals before the 2016 election that paid women from Trump’s past in exchange for their silence about sexual or romantic relationships w/him. He was a lawyer to #StormyDaniels during the #HushMoney transaction. He also represented #KarenMcDougal, a former Playboy model who was paid $150k by The #NationalEnquirer’s parent company for the rights to her story about a 10-month affair w/ #Trump starting in 2006.
Joshua Steinglass, the prosecutor, asks #KeithDavidson if he was given immunity from prosecution in this case. Davidson says, despite not having wanted to be here, that he did not seek immunity. This is a way for prosecutors to show that he is not simply cooperating to avoid prosecution himself.
Joshua Steinglass asks #KeithDavidson if he knows 2 key witnesses: #DavidPecker, who the jurors already have heard from, & #MichaelCohen, who they’ve heard a lot about. Steinglass is tying Davidson into the case, helping the courtroom understand where he’s situated. Davidson just said that he represented #StormyDaniels as her lawyer — Daniels, whose name has been dangled in front of jurors several times, is of course another key player & potential witness.
#Trump has been sitting w/his eyes closed for significant portions of testimony this morning. It is unclear how the jurors, who have to sit through this same testimony, will feel about a defendant closing their eyes so much.
Davidson is testifying about his agreement w/ #KarenMcDougal, a fmr Playboy model. Davidson’s contract w/McDougal consisted of an agreement to either make a claim against #Trump, negotiate a confidentiality agreement w/ Trump, sell her life rights as related to her story of an affair w/ Trump, promote herself in an “exclusive” press opportunity, or some or all of the above.
Prosecutors are walking #KeithDavidson through his text messages w/ #DylanHoward, who was editor of The #NationalEnquirer, in which Davidson tells Howard: “I have blockbuster #Trump story.” In his reply, Howard asked, "did he cheat" on Melania.
The text messages are damning. Jurors already know the basics of #KarenMcDougal’s account of an affair w/ #Trump. But now they are seeing it corroborated in texts, right after they were reminded Trump was married to Melania at the time.
Prosecutors are stitching their case together w/lots of different types of evidence.
In texts between #DylanHoward, the editor of The #NationalEnquirer, & #KeithDavidson, Davidson tells Howard, that #KarenMcDougal’s story “should be told” & Howard responds “I agree.” The NE, as the jurors know, had no intention of telling the story — instead it sought to bury it. So not only does this evidence remind us of David Pecker’s testimony last week, it also helps prosecutors double down on the idea that The NE was involved in a secret plot to help #Trump.
#KeithDavidson stressed that #KarenMcDougal did not want to go public in telling her story, & he said that the competing deal w/ABC would have forced her to tell it.
Her goals were to rejuvenate her career, make money, & avoid becoming “the scarlet letter,”.
“Was AMI attractive because she would not actually have to tell her story?” Steinglass asked.
Davidson said, “That was one of her stated goals.”
“Throw in an ambassadorship for me. I’m thinking Isle of Man.”
Davidson said the text was a joke that referenced #Trump's campaign. Pressed further by the prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, he added that he understood that getting McDougal a deal would help Trump’s candidacy.
“US Drug Enf Admin will move to reclassify #marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple-effects across the country.
DEA’s proposal, which must be reviewed by WH Office of Mgmt & Budget, would recognize the medical uses of cannabis & acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than..most dangerous drugs…would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use”
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.
WhatsApp is one of the world's most popular chat apps. Recently, WhatsApp has added the ability to filter chats to display all, unread, or group chats. Here's
GOSIM 2024 Europe Will Be Held in the Netherlands on May 6th: Embrace the Global Open Source Wave and Build a New Era of AI Here comes the GOSIM 2024 Europe! medium.com/@gosimfoundation/th…
May 6th, 2024, GOSIM 2024 Europe hosted by the organization of Global Open-Source Innovation Meetup (GOSIM) will be officially held in Delft, Netherlands, Europe. This grand event has provided a…
Seznam zavedl placené tarify na své služby a 100% slevu dává těm, kteří se nechají sledovat. V článku se rozepisuju o tom, že jejich nabídka má zásadní vadu: pokud chcete po lidech, aby vám platili, musíte z nich první udělat zákazníky.
It seems that the popular command-line system info tool Neofetch is dead, Jim. The Github repo for the project was archived by its main developer last week and is now read-only, a sure sign that [&...
My brother Larry received this firmware email update from Samuel Greene at Zoom today regarding the Essential series.
We have released the first firmware update for the Essential series with updates to the accessibility system. This update includes:
1. A shortcut function to switch on/off the guide sound has been added. (All units) 2. Track on/off sounds will be output when track buttons are pressed. (H4essential and H6essential)
There are more updates we are investigating, but we are excited to push these out now.
To aid in updating the firmware, which is not an accessible process, we have created some instructional youtube videos to guide you through the process.
You can find full details of the firmware release using the links below.
Get the most out of your Zoom H1essential with the latest firmware update with the following change. (Firmware Update: V1.20)-A shortcut function to switch o...
Thanks to everyone in the community who has engaged in discussions and shared their concerns around the financial status of the @gnome Foundation! Based on feedback I've added some more detail to the Discourse thread. discourse.gnome.org/t/update-f…
Hi everyone, Thank you to everyone who has read and provided feedback on my message - we appreciate the community’s support and engagement in the Foundation’s financial well-being.
Overnight systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering wrote on Mastodon around systemd's newest effort: run0 as a sudo-like command... phoronix.com/news/systemd-run0
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started April with very good news: the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move …
when I do a fresh install of Linux or Windows for my customers I always install Libreoffice on their devices ! A very powerful and reliable software 😁!
Haven’t posted a photo of my little coffee/snack bar in a while, but especially if you work from home and/or have ADHD I highly recommend making one of these. Bonus points for a little chalkboard with affirmations/encouragement/mantras
Quad Lock Case držák mobilního telefonu na kolo. Zkušenosti a tipy
Koupeno před pár lety a od té doby skvělé slouží. Mezitím koupen ještě jeden držák na druhé kolo a s novým telefonem i nový obal na telefon. Tohle je jedno z těch nejlepších co můžete mít.
Když už jsem provedl zásadní upgrade na celopéro od Haibike, tak to taky chtělo zásadní upgrade toho, kam dávat telefon. Původně jsem ho dával do brašny vepředu na řídítkách (na předchozím Agogs Gust), pak do cyklo batohu na zádech.
A Mastodon hard fork that focuses on safety, community, accessibility, and working well with others has a great opportunity to improve safety in the fediverse, the dynamics of the Mastodon ecosystem, and fediverse software development in general. #ForkIt!
Potentially interested in getting involved? See the polls in the replies!
Contents
Part 1
A missing fork in the landscape
Okay, but why a hard fork?
There's a big elephant in the federated room (and I don't mean Mastodon)
An opportunity for broad participation and a cultural reset
Part 2
Safety is an especially good area to focus on
There are also a lot of other areas for improvement
Part 3
It's not as easy as it sounds ...
But it's not like it defies the laws of physics!
What about funding?
Make sure most of the funding goes to Black, Indigenous, Muslim, trans, queer, and disabled people
Part 4
It's not an either-or situation
A lot of open questions - and a lot of potential upside
Stay tuned!
There's a lot to discuss here, so this is a looong post. If there are some sections that interest you more than others feel free to skip around.
Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork proposes a new fork of Mastodon that focuses on safety, community, accessibility, working well with others -- and takes a community-driven and inclusive approach
If a project like that goes forward, would you consider helping?
Please pick all that apply! And, if you've got suggestions for other areas, please leave them in the replies
Tucker Carlson normalizes Putin by interviewing him in Moscow. Marjorie Taylor Greene says Putin "protects Christians". And Trump says, he has a "great relationship" with Putin.
When Denmark was occupied by the Nazis, opportunists tried to normalize them too. After the war, 13,000 collaborators were sentenced, and ironically, many were placed in the Frøslev prison, built by the Nazis.
46 were executed.
I wonder what will happen, when everything falls apart for the collaborators of our time.
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in reply to Eitan • • •Great job @eeejay 👏. Even if i don't speak a word Arabic the Piper TTS improvement can absolutely be heard.
Btw. @Marco if you are interested in Piper usage or clone your voice for #tts maybe one or two of my video tutorials are helpful:
youtu.be/b_we_jma220
or youtu.be/GGvdq3giiTQ
TEXT TO SPEECH | Piper TTS on Windows 🚀 AI voice 10x faster Realtime!
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