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About me: As a working mother of three children (10 and under) I am very reliant on my cargo bike often with the added trailer. I love good cycling infrastructure especially when the needs of
Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter.
I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at ~20:15 UTC on 16 July, 30 years ago last night, as seen from Calar Alto in Spain.
The brightness of the impact plume was a huge surprise & the following week saw intense astronomical, media, & public engagement.
We had an amazing time at the 2024 ACB National Convention! The debut of the JAWS AI Training Suite was a hit, the sessions were informative, and the exhibit hall was a blast. Our favorite part was connecting with everyone; what was your favorite part of #ACB2024?
Yemen says a ship has repaired the subsea AAE-1 cable, linking Asia and Europe, in the Red Sea, and remains in the water to repair the Seacom and EIG cables (Bloomberg)
The #purismgamejam results are in! 🥁 Top honors go to "Bunny Semiconductor," "Plankter," & "Hurry Curry!" Congrats to the devs! 🎉 Test out the new Open Source games here! itch.io/jam/free-software-puri…
A game jam from 2024-06-10 to 2024-07-17 hosted by Purism. All those participating, use the code purismgamedev to save 10% on the purism shop! Welcome to the first Purism Free Software Game Jam! Here, we want...
I enjoyed playing the games that the other contestants submitted. It was powerful being able to submit a pull request to fix a typo and have it fixed quickly. That's something proprietary games cannot offer.
We have released a new update for the BT Speak. It includes a new text to speech manager for installing or removing Vocalizer and RH voices, as well as new speech engines from Pico and Festival Lite. We have a new Clock Settings menu to disable the announcement of seconds and 12/24 hour time announcement options. Audio from MP4 files can now be played from the file browser. Read about these changes along with the other improvements in this latest update. blazietech.com/july-16th-2024-…
In terms of creating a less bias AI model, it is better to have a more diverse training model. Thus, if many data subjects opt-out to this training attempt, in the long run there will be a worse off propaganda machine.
This is one of those current dilemmas between quality of model and acquiring of data.
After reading an article on the average news site, there are usually links to articles of dubious quality that are often salacious clickbait. These are usually Taboola ads.
It is thus a huge surprise to hear that Apple plans to run ads from them in its News and Stocks apps.
july 6th has come and gone, and I’m sorry that I’m just now, writing about this. I do understand however that not everyone is on the BTSpeak list, and conventions bring new owners of th…
For the Nation of Gondwana festival this weekend, me and Nicl worked on a 3D printed tactile map. Made me wonder if there are any standards in this direction, like what shape would a toilet have and all that. If anyone has some pointers, please let us know!
This was first drawn in inkscape and then later extruded layer by layer in openscad2.
One of the best devices I used last week was not even electronic. It works with your smartphone, but it doesn't have a battery.
I am a huge fan of the Dot Card as it lets you share your contact information without the need to give out business cards. I think the interface could be a bit more user friendly, but it is still a fantastic device.
I hate my brain sometimes. I woke up with the phrase 'wonking with equal abandon' in my head and I now have to reread whichever novel it was that was in, regardless of the book I had originally planned to read next.
Well at least you know which book it came from. What gets to me is when I hear a snatch of dialogue or snatch of music in my head. I know I know it, I just can't place from where. It can drive me bonkers for days on end.
@lulu_bear :) I get that a lot too. I had this phrase about someone spinning like the top of a lighthouse for ages, and it took months for me to find the book. Even just tone of voice from a line in an old drama or movie will torment me sometimes.
Скачать приложение (в данном случае Firefox) из источника по умолчанию в текущую папку: `apkeep -a org.mozilla.firefox .`
Источник по умолчанию — APKPure (apkpure.com). Это зеркало Google Play, которое не требует авторизации. Для скачивания напрямую с Google Play нужен логин, но это нарушает условия пользования, за что Google вправе заблокировать ваш аккаунт.
Параметр -d указывает источник: `f-droid` [1], `huawei-app-gallery`. Список версий: --list-versions. Скачать определённую версию: идентификатор@версия.
A while ago, Simon Phipps, member of the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation, shared the idea to introduce a peer-to-peer collaboration built in to desktop LibreOffice without the requirement for a cloud provider.
This idea is brilliant! I think I see a hint to matrix as a potential chat platform and would indeed use that myself, but it would be hard to convince people to use any new chat platform just for a single use-case. If you view suggestions here, I would recommend additionally implementing something like [Syncthing](github.com/syncthing/syncthing) or even a Tor hidden service. Both of these can be automated and don't require a hosted server. [Briar](code.briarproject.org/briar) has a good example of what I mean for tor and I think syncthing is self explanatory. There is also the wonderful project [Reticulum](github.com/markqvist/Reticulum), but you(LibreOffice) would probably need to host your own tcp relay for any sort of stability.
That would be great. Would be nice if it could work peer-to-peer/serverless and could resolve locally for situations where everybody is in the same LAN. Also, here is some inspiration from the past linutop.com/news/2009/02/09/co…
It's striking that so many continue to deny the Nakba when it's all so well documented. This excerpt is about the ethnic cleansing of Lod (Lydda) in July 1948: - it's very clear that the intent is on driving out all residents of Lod, not just those who could pose military threats - Israeli heroes (David Ben Gurion, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin) were directly responsible for ordering and implementing the expulsion
PeerTube Arch Linux je váš domov ve světě Fediverse! Sdílejte videa s přáteli a objevujte nové, to vše na platformě vlastněné českou komunitou Arch Linuxu a nadšenci open source.
This is where I could really use your help, if you're interested! - Help with training costs: I've been fortunate to receive a grant from Google's TRC program, but there are some additional expenses. Any contribution would be incredibly helpful. - Donating spare GPU power or Colab credit: Even a little bit would be a huge boost!
@nick This is more efficient and lightweight. Compared to Piper, this model is more responsive and requires less system resources. Also this is a modern TTS implementation, I referred to papers published in 2023-2024.
GOtcha. I might throw you a few dollars to maek it go, especially if you can come up with training data that won't have the pronunciation problems that existed with PIper.
@nick Currently I'm exclusively working on the model architecture, which will resolve some of the issues. I'll train on freely available, high quality datasets, but creating a new dataset from scratch is beyond my current resources. I'll leave this for later, and I can help anyone who wants to take up this task.
@nick A good dataset will definitely help a lot. Not only me, but any future developer who will work in this field. Also, a high quality dataset can establish a bridge between our community and academia, where major TTS breakthroughs happen. We give you our dataset to evaluate your models, and you allow us to use your great TTS model architectures.
@Musharraf :verified: Please, when preparing the dataset what's the difference between train and val? If I have single speaker recording what do I put in those folders?
@pvagner In machine learning, A dataset is usually split into two splits. The 'train' split is the larger, and is used as input for model training. The 'val' split is relatively small, and it is used for evaluating how the model performs during training.
@pvagner Given you have a list of wav files and the corresponding transcription, first you need to decide on the size of each split. Depending on the size of your dataset, you can split it 95%-5% or 99%-1% for training and val respectively.
@tomecki Simply put: Sonata is an inference engine that can theoretically drive any TTS model. OptiSpeech is an actual model that generates speech, and the quality of the output depends on it.
I' afraid I cannot. The whole point of this and Sonata is to create high-quality, but very efficient and lightweight neural TTS. Coqui-TTS models are neither efficient nor lightweight.
@luiscarlosgonzalez Tortoise TTS is too heavy for a high-end server, let alone a standard computer or a mobile device. This system is designed specifically for running on a standard CPU.
@rperez030 Thanks for your contribution. Really appreciate it! For this month, Pneuma Solutions provided GPU resources for training. But I still accept donations to ensure we have enough resources for future training needs. I'm happy to receive your donations via my colleague's paypal address: paypal.me/geotts or Email: info@geotts.ge Please mention mush42/tts in the transaction note.
Please vote for an implementation of VJOURNAL in Thunderbird. 👇 This would REALLY improve the ecosystem and usability of open protocols! Currently there is almost no software on the desktop to sync your notes and journals with a CalDAV server and TB could fill a huge gap here.
# already has a great support for VTODO VCALENDAR and contacts. What is missing though is support for VJOURNAL entries. Journals are close to calendar entries.
You have to enter your password using this *very* Frenchy keypad. You don't have lowercase letters, the blanks are not spaces but just non-clickable gaps, but as a compensation you have some weird symbols that your keyboard does not have a key for (e.g. `µ`).
You have to enter your password using this *very* Frenchy keypad. You don't have lowercase letters, the blanks are not spaces but just non-clickable gaps, but as a compensation you have some weird symbols that your keyboard does not have a key for (e…
#DisabilityIN The Evinced CEO referred to the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Working Group as one of the three pillars of creating accessible content. Using it can guarantee “100% accessibility”.
a single technology automatically making it possible to guarantee “100% accessibility” is at least as ridiculous as a single technology guaranteeing 100% security. This doesn’t just apply to automation/overlays; it applies to every technology used on any nontrivial project.
Replacing the word “accessibility” with “security” and vice versa is a good bullshit detector for marketing material.
Ultimately, nothing short of allowing the user to remake the entirety of the program's human-interaction layer to their liking will provide 100% accessibility.
#DisabilityIN Luncheon Plenary: “Nothing About Us Without Us: Accessibility Innovation, Leadership, and Impact”
Microsoft’s CAO discussed one challenge of #accessibility is non-practitioners creating accessible content. She talked about advances in tooling to solve that, using this slide.
#DisabilityIN Very quick demonstration of Microsoft Accessibility Insights run against the Disability:IN home page only. Found no issues! Applause from audience. I *think* the “Needs review” tab listed two issues.
#DisabilityIN The Evinced CEO referred to the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Working Group as one of the three pillars of creating accessible content. Using it can guarantee “100% accessibility”.
Dear AppleVis Community, At his request, I wanted to provide you an update on AppleVis' Founder and Editor-in-Chief, David Goodwin; as well as the future of AppleVis.
@DavidGoldfield i saw him post on this topic yesterday. He was very thankful for all the support. He said he's on the road to recovery. I'll check and see if there's any further updates.
Recently, user Jordan shared a small but meaningful experience made possible with #NVDA: "When NVDA by NV Access reads alt text from your favourite #restaurant menu, now I just found a new #dessert I want to try! Thanks to NVDA, my day is getting off to a perfect start."
Hi !Friendica Support, I'm not finding much documentation about following and connecting. Is this how it works: If the only relationship between A and B is that A follows B, then: - A is a fan and follower of B. - A and B are not considered connected. - There is a unilateral friendship between A and B.
If B also follows A, then: - A and B are considered connected. - There is a mutual/bilateral friendship between A and B.
When you receive a friendship notification from another Friendica member, you will have the option of allowing them as a "Follower" or as a "Friend". If they are a follower, they can see what you have to say, including private communications that you send to them, but not vice versa. As a friend, you can both communicate with each other.
How do you cause a “friendship notification” to be sent? What form does it take when it arrives? I've been experimenting with 2 accounts, but have not seen a friendship notification.
Hi Dirk. It depends on the account type and network. For example my Fendica account is setup to accept all friends requests as "followers". So I get no notification when someone adds me as a friend. But if you follow a Mastodon account, and yo are on Friendica, perhaps they get a notification.
In Friendica you can tweak these things a lot. Let me know if you have more questions.
1. How do I set up my Friendica account to accept all friend requests as "followers"? And what are the other options?
2. I told my sister to take these steps in order to follow me: a. Go to Contacts b. Type my info in the “Add new contact” field and click Connect c. On the page that comes up, click Submit request She followed the instructions, and without any input from me, we are now mutual friends. Why didn't Friendica ask for my approval?
@Dirk Maas @Tio Go to settings>account>advanced account type. Unless you have standard, you wont need to approve everyone if they want to follow you. love-all will make them all friends, soapbox will make them all followers.
Thank you @anubis2814! I just checked and my account type is standard. But with my sister it acted like it was love-all. I'm not sure how to explain that, but I'll keep an eye on things going forward.
I see. So you didn't get a notification when she added you as a friend/follow but when I did you received. Interesting. Maybe was it that you already had her in your list of friends? Just checking...
No, she was not on any list – I knew she had an account, but that's all. I had tried to find her account, but could not.
Two unexpected things happened: (1) She became a follower of mine without any notification to me or input from me, and (2) I became a follower of her – again without any action taken on my part.
Yes @anubis2814 is right. You can change it form there.
It depends what kind of account you have. Maybe you have it setup to accept all friends requests by default. Please check that. And by the way to add someone as a contact is even easier: use the top search bar and paste someone's profile (url or name). Enter. Now you can submit a friend request. I just clicked to follow you did you get any notification?
@Dirk Maas As far as I've ever seen its just A follows you. Following and friendship are the same thing. Though you can both follow and ignore someone too.
Perry Johnson asks RNC attendees if they are better off today than they were 4 years ago and then immediately pivots to talking about 2019. I wonder why he skipped 2020 🤔
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Within minutes, at 13:30 hours, just as the shooting was dying down, Operation Dani HQ issued the following order to Yiftah Brigade HQ:
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