Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.
A thoughtful piece about Ursula K. Le Guin's activism and complicated feelings, written by Julie Phillips and published on Literary Hub. I do enjoy the little glimpses into the history of my area, too.
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.
I think it's wonderful; how the story morphs and grows as the serial progresses, how it ends its era dropping so many threads that would be picked up in #DoctorWho future by keeping things vague enough to be developed, rather than be dead ends.
Remarkably for a 10-parter it in no way drags, even the run about eps have a [sort of] point and develops that widening story.
The ending ep kills me and I love and despair at Jamie and Zoe's ending. Especially Zoe's; she grew a lot in her time and it's all gone and she knows, some part of her at the end KNOWS she's forgotten something and I hate it and love it. #DoctorWhoRewatch
@DavidGoldfield I've heard the first one and got the next couple but admit I haven't listened yet (I'm quite behind on Big Finish). Does Zoe come back too then? That is exciting to me! :) Two, Jamie and Zoe are my absolute [classic] dream team.
Zoe does return in the post War Games stories but I don't have that particular set. Jamie and Zoe also return with the sixth Doctor in (I think) Last of the Cybermen and there's a limited series where Jamie teams up with the Sixth Doctor.
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…
The msh3 backed for QUIC and HTTP/3 was introduced in April 2022 but has never been made to work properly. It has seen no visible traction or developer activity from the msh3 main author (or anyone...
@kurtseifried hah, nice! That's indeed a curios and positive side-effect of the ephemeral version.
In the free slacks I hang out, there are rarely any files shared so its mostly just old chat history that goes away. And it's typically not something I miss.
unfortunately they added some trackers with their latest release (see today's AndroidAppRain toot). I've already reported it to them, so hopefully they roll that back: github.com/suvam0451/dhaaga/is…
Description v0.12.0 adds the Play Install Referrer Library, and the Android Market library. As the former is considered not only proprietary (non-foss, non-libre) and tracking, and in addition reac...
@IzzyOnDroid has been doing an amazing job getting our repo to over 30% of apps being reproducible. Maintaining a rebuilder takes a lot of constant work. Thank you!
As I've written before:
[...] the ecosystem is constantly moving: old toolchain and dependency bugs get fixed, but new ones keep popping up. [...] Reproducible Builds are not just an item on a checklist [...] It's an ongoing process involving not just upstream app developers, but also maintainers of repositories, clients, and rebuilders; those involved in outreach and writing documentation; developers and maintainers of tooling, toolchains, and dependencies. And often requires a lot of collaborative debugging :)
See also our "Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more":
2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology.
Meta sta terminando il suo programma di fact checking di terze parti, passando al modello Community Notes, utilizzato da siti come X.com
Ha anche aggiunto che avrebbe rimosso le restrizioni su "argomenti che fanno parte del discorso comune". Invece, avrebbe concentrato l'applicazione delle leggi su "violazioni illegali e di elevata gravità".
Infine, gli utenti saranno incoraggiati ad adottare un approccio "personalizzato" ai contenuti politici, lasciando spazio a molte più opinioni e tendenze nei feed delle persone, che si adattano a ciò che desiderano vedere.
Mi sembra una autentica figata: su FB si potrà scrivere qualunque cosa che sia in linea con il governo americano, vera o falsa che sia, e null'altro. E così oggi mi sono iscritto a Mastodon.
A #EUTravelApp proposal by the European Commission would let you upload your biometric data to a database for pre-travel controls. Many of you have told us you share the concerns we raised about the proposed regulation such as data protection risks. 📣 You can participate in a public consultation to voice your opinion until tomorrow (January 8) and share this blog to inform more people about the proposal. edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-c…
We are responding to a public consultation on the European Commissions’ digitalising travel documents proposal. This proposal promises convenience in travel but could pave the way for biometric mass surveillance and automated discrimination.
"Once the digital travel credential is created/derived from an existing travel document, it would be stored on the holder’s mobile device. Data subjects therefore remain in control of their own data and choose if and when to use it. If the person chooses to use it for an advance check and facilitated travel, they can submit it, via the application developed and operated by eu-LISA, to the responsible authorities."
No mobile Google/Apple device w/ Play/Apple account? Sorry, you're out… 1/2
2/2 so not only does this discriminate against those not having a mobile device, or used their choice of running it "tracking free" with a custom ROM and no "store account" – it REQUIRES those using the app to have an account with a US company tracking them via their services.
Objections? Oh, you have something to hide? => stigmatized. Suspect because of valuing your privacy.
And enforcing us to give our data to an US company, outside GDPR directive. Again, violating their own laws.¹
¹ because we can bet it won't be a FOSS app available freely, not being bound to either the Apple Store or the Google Play Store (not that that would solve the problem entirely).
it is important to move to a mastodon instance that does not federate with Facebook's threads.net service. it's about to get real, real ugly over there
Was ist denn aktuell die go-to #Fediverse-Software für Facebook-Flüchtige, die mit dem Mastodon Interface nicht warmwerden? Firefish wurde iirc eingestellt. Was gibt's da noch? Wieder Misskey? (Frage für ein paar liebe Autoren-Kolleg:innen, die mit Mastodon nicht gut klarkommen.)
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Man muss keine Bestseller-Autorin sein oder super bekannter Influencer. Es gibt Menschen, denen gefallen unsere #Bücher, völlig egal, ob uns 50, 500, 5.000, 50.000 oder noch mehr Menschen folgen.
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The Project Arielle mesh gaming chair features a bladeless fan system designed to keep you at a comfortable temperature regardless of what environment you’re in.
LibreOffice Impress can do more than just presentations! Check out this "Hazard" template, made by a community member, for creating Jeopardy-like games: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Meta unveiling big changes to Threads, Instagram, and Facebook today. Zuckerberg is abandoning fact checkers in favor of an X inspired Community Notes system in a move to restore “free expression” and reduce moderation mistakes
Quote from there: "Time will tell if I have to make the decision to get off the platform."
Well, if you always hop on the wrong ones, you'll have to hop and hop and hop. Might sound boring and an eternal repetition – but I cannot resist another:
"Told you so!" 🤷♂️
Techbros gonna techbro, and capitalists gonna capitalist (or fall one level deeper and become the f-word that also ends with "ist").
Alright, a stupid bug squashed, and, at least locally, Orca can receive all key events from Mutter running on Wayland. Now, I only must fix caps-lock handling to work, e. g. now, Orca gets the events as I would want them, but Mutter does not see the caps-lock state changes, so I can not turn it on even if I want.
So this looks like a high quality, fast, natural, and open source TTS system in Python. A key candidate for an #NVDA#addon. Unfortunately, I find #nvdasr addon development super confusing. Is there a good template to start from or something? github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx
Here's a much longer example of the quality of speech Kokoro TTS generates. I really do think it might be a decent #NVDA addon. The weird pauses are because I'm just giving it a big long string, rather than chunking it like I should. It generates this in real time on CPU, and faster on GPU. The code to generate it is as follows: import soundfile as sf from kokoro_onnx import Kokoro from onnxruntime import InferenceSession
session = InferenceSession("kokoro-v0_19.onnx", providers=["ROCMExecutionProvider", "CPUExecutionProvider"]) kokoro = Kokoro.from_session(session, "voices.json") samples, sample_rate = kokoro.create( "He wasn't sleeping very well, and he knew the people around him noticed, but he didn't know what to do about it. He had quietly gone to Madame Pomfrey, who had regretfully told him that Dreamless Sleep was highly addicting and that while she could give him the occasional dose, it would have to be spread out enough to prevent it from becoming addicting – meaning he could only take it one night out of every two weeks or so. It was one night more of productive sleep than he'd be getting otherwise, so he still did it, but it didn't help the larger issue. He wasn't under the effects of any nightmare-inducing Curses, potions, or other magical ailments, so there was nothing for Madame Pomfrey to do. The nightmares were coming from his own mind, and she was not a Mind-Healer. She'd offered to try and connect Harry with one, but when Harry discovered that it involved having someone else quite literally entering his mind with magic and helping him sort out things like trauma he couldn't. If Harry couldn't even tell Hermione the extent of what he'd suffered at the Dursley's, he wasn't about to let a stranger into his mind to see it. Let alone the 'adventures' of his Hogwarts years. So the nightmares persisted, and with the poor quality of sleep serving as the first domino, everything else slowly began to fall. His grades weren't slipping yet, but he was struggling with the study schedule Hermione had set out for them and doing his homework took more effort, more energy that he didn't have.", voice="af_sarah", speed=1.0, lang="en-us" ) sf.write("audio.wav", samples, sample_rate) print("Created audio.wav")
ha. I know very little about how we could get it compiled right in the add-on. (I know there was a discussion of this earlier so if that build process for onnxruntime into the add-on succeeded, would love some basic copy then.) For anyone wanting to try, I think looking at something like the Brailab driver (which is super minimal and in the end all you're really going to use are the getters and setters for the synth driver, the way you do speech is obviously not at all like Brailab), and then crafting in to open the stream might work. But between the latest family emergency, work at Spotify with the new year / new projects, I'm afraid I'll be swamped for awhile to give it that truly comparitive look. I'd also love to see a test run at how quick it can synthesize speech on slower CPUs especially when that speech is interrupted mid-utterance - how does it handle stopping a stream and loading a new one, is there lots of latancy? A simple py test that just throws lots of speech chunks like that, stops, starts, would give us an idea maybe to then know if it's worth turning into a driver just yet.
Sorry to hear about family emergencies, never nice to deal with. I hope things can be sorted out for the better.
Re slow CPU though, that's where I come in. I am right now even, using an Intel Core I5-3570K from 2012. It runs every synth very well, apart from Piper which it struggles with due to the neural aspect of it. If my machine can run... Whatever you guys end up coming up with (hopefully) then anything else should be a breeze.
I have an even slower one. Yay for countries in the middle of... Well somewhere, and computers from 2009 haha if something can even run on that, I'd be surprised. How's that for a slow processor? It's pretty ancient. The synth sounds nice, yeah, don't like how it reads hashtag, but I guess that's me. There's also something about question marks it clearly missed, but I think it needs to be fed a bigger chunk of text to see if it'll sound better. Otherwise, for the quality, Bleh, either my ears, or something, do not consider it a great quality in the sound terms, but for a TTS, I guess it's good. says the person who daily drives a TTS that came out in 2001. LOL.
I also cannot tell you the full specs. Computer not here, sadly. It has a removable battery though, that gave up a long time ago, then I fell down some stairs while carrying set computer, and the pixels in the screen went poof, and no screen.
@Samuel Proulx I understand @Musharraf has made verry significant progress for example as compared to piper TTS. To me it looks it's much lighter for both training and using trained model even enhancing audio quality and elligibility in the process. This is just my guess but with such an achievement it's fine not to limit it to blind audience exclusivelly. This is how I am seeing #optispeech. However I haven't played with kokoro TTS thus I have asked how much do you like it for example while comparing to something else, perhaps piper TTS if you do know that one.
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