Ach, ach! Was werden unsere Enkel denn wohl dazu sagen? #3K25 Es drängt sich der Gedanke auf, dass die ihn lobbyierende Klientel hofft, an der "Technologieoffenheit" bei der Beseitigung der mit seiner Hilfe viel größeren Schäden durch die Klimakatastrophen noch viel mehr Geld verdienen zu können. Persönliche Gefahren werden diese Heinis wohl nicht ausgesetzt sein, dank Privatarmeen, Bunker und startbereitem Privatjet in nettere Gefilde.
*Con il rilascio della release V2, ecco i primi 12 plugin di Castopod* @Che succede nel Fediverso? Esplora i primi 12 plugin di Castopod, le nuove funzionalità, i miglioramenti dell'architettura dei plugin e i prossimi miglioramenti in vista della versione finale v2, tra cui il Plugins (1/7)
Explore the first 12 Castopod plugins, new features, Plugins Architecture enhancements, and upcoming improvements ahead of the final v2 release, including the Plugins Repository, an index for discovering and installing plugins.
Also, if you type 2 exclamation marks, it becomes more inflected!! If you type something with a period and no space and a word, it spells out the following word, mindly.social.
If you haven't seen this, its the best and most beautiful explanation for the "why" of privacy, and what it means for the practical definition of it.
I've never been able to put it into words myself, I scarce understood the totality of my own motivations and methods beyond what "felt right" for one reason or another. More than anything, this binds every one of those motivations into one.
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#KDL support has been merged into GitHub!! It will start showing up on the site some time in game next couple of months, once GH does an actual release.
If your phone is connected to a Bluetooth audio device to stream audio, especially to a Bluetooth speaker, you might not want everyone to hear what your
Okay, and today, the Caps-lock behavior is fixed as well. Now, test the thing thoroughly and then upstream all the parts. And, of course, hope that other compositors will adopt this API, even that they might not like DBus so much.
Came across this Hacker News comment by @rain which succinctly describes one reason #Rust's approach to ownership and borrowing is valuable: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
> Which popular GC languages have mutexes owning the state they guard, such that it is structurally impossible to access that inner state without holding the lock? To do that you must have single ownership.
Posting for the benefit of anyone else who, like me, is sometimes swayed by the backlash against Rust.
Yes, 100% agreed! I was writing some C# recently and found myself missing “shared XOR mutable” so much. Even when you have a garbage collector, thread safety is so hard, and Rust’s ownership model removes a whole class of potential bugs.
I often miss my garbage collector but I’d have a hard time giving up Rust for concurrent programming at this point.
Swift does it through its actor model. Actors themselves can be freely shared (they use automatic reference counting), but any access to their state goes through the actor’s “lock.” Unique ownership systems are one path to data race safety, not the only path.
as boats has emphasized repeatedly, there is no reason a GC language couldn't also enforce "shared XOR mutable". we still need something like a better golang (maybe closer to original Rust vision?).
From NLS: Smart Speaking To The Smart Speaker, Searching for Books with the Smart Speaker: Thursday, January 16, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/83…
@texhewson Most likely, we're all unusual. We get used to absorbing information in different ways. That can be based on disability, or habit. Why shouldn't you get information in a way that is easiest for you to consume (if it isn't that hard to do).
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The graphic does not do justice to the increase in strength of passwords against brute-force attacks with every additional character. For those wondering have some fun at Steve Gibson's password haystack @SGgrc
wouldn't be very strong a lot faster using non latin words ? Like a mix of kanji ; there are thousand of them after all ? A 4 kanji password feels stronger than any a 20 words with special charas. (but I didn't do the math)
I've got a bunch of travel coming up to exotic locations. Previously, I've bought a local SIM card when I've landed - but they're often expensive, fiddly to fit, and queuing in an airport isn't much fun. I've also bought pre-paid SIMs which have a fixed amount of data or only last a specific amount of time.
Regularly restarting your iPhone clears temporary files, refreshes system processes, and enhances security — and you can automate it all with the Shortcuts app. appleinsider.com/inside/iphone…
Regularly restarting your iPhone clears temporary files, refreshes system processes, and enhances security — and you can automate it all with the Shortcuts app.
curious as to which backends you would recc building with these days ... does c-ares,libidn2, libssh,libssh2,zlib/brotli/zstd,GnuTLS,nghttp3+ngtcp2 sound reasonable ?
ok so ... c-ares, libidn2,libssh2,zlib/brotli/zstd, GnuTLS,nghttp3+ngtcp2, nghttp2 ... whats the pros/cons for using c-ares ... or any of the other resolvers for that matter ? I have my own opinions but curious of others ...
New NVDA synth add-on: Eloquence 2.0. Note two bugs exist: 1. No choosing of audio device in NVDA's sound dialog (it re-inits the DLL with a full crash and isn't playing through nvwave player) 2. Be warned that cold-starting NVDA with this synthesizer will result in no speech, but it does work when switching from another synth over. Haven't had time to trace down why this is happening exactly, so far the only "fix" is to send a silent audio to prime the DLL for better init. eurpod.com/eloq20-2024.nvda-ad… (and before people complain, it's 2025! I'm basing the version on the NVDA series, and making it 2025 may cause confusion to think it's fully compatible with NVDA 2025.X) Also, no shorten pauses, we might be able to add inflection and a few other things back, although doing so may reset variant parameters which is why these are not part of the driver yet. Compared to even Eloquence 3.3, it's super basic and there's not much we can do about that. I tried to disable the abreviations dictionary as well, but Eloquence still loaded it regardless, so again, no clue on it yet. Oh, and huge shoutout to @rommix0 again, without his debug info I couldn't have done it. Hats off to you, man.
this one still has the famous running out of breath thing known to those of us who regularly use the newer driver. try using this sentence over and over with now newlines in a notepad: did you know that if you did a thing and then did another thing and another and another and another and yet another and another and so on and so fourth and so fifteenth
@fireborn yeah, it might be another one of those "it works for some but not others" type deals, the DLL itself felt a lot more unstable and more quirky than the DLL found in Eloq 3.3. The voice to me though sounds almost like 3.3, maybe slightly more inflected and with longer H sounds in words like "hundred" otherwise it's impressive to me that Eloq stuck with that voice all the way to the 4.X era. For me it loads more reliably when I switch to it from BestSpeech, some Eloquence engines like IBMTTS fail to destroy the old DLL pointer and when this one loads into memory it's conflicting with that old one in strange ways.
@davetaylor2112 mostly for archival purposes and historical context. I don't expect anyone to really use such an old Eloquence as a daily driver since it lacks a lot of what even 3.3 and later 4.7 got (pauses, more dict loading customizations, pitch-change caps, ETC) and the fact that it can't use the newer NVDA's Wasapi means it's always going to have some core limitations anyway. But we just gotta live with them I think and accept that we should be joyful and happy that these synths can still run under modern Windows without the need for any emulation or other layer right now.
finding some odd peculiar stuff with it - it cannot pronounce symbols like á, é, (so accented chars), also: was reading a masto post with an —— symbol in it and the entire synth just stopped reading the sentence, it didn't crash but also just refused to read the rest of it. Very quirky.
@MutedTrampet thanks for boosting! I tried to manually write a lot of this but then also use AI to debug, removed a lot of AI slop but tried to keep comments for each driver section, so you can tell what's happening where. Any adjustments or fixes to this I truly appreciate as I probably just won't have the time to debug and diagnose much stuff with all the work and missing 3 days of it with family leave but will try to get to people's comments.
@davetaylor2112 oh did that one also support higher-sample rates above 11K? I wonder, some of those above 6.1 DLLs are rare finds and many of them are truly unstable pieces of garbage (although not saying the K1000 one is) or was that another older version from the 5.X days? Still want to eventually write a driver for Eloq 5.x itself and NVDA but sadly enough things changed between 4.7 to 5.x that I can't just repurpose most of that driver, and 6.X is too incompatible with newer functions to work with 5.X. That's also why I don't feel any shame posting these drivers through my site, ultimately you cannot just swap in another Eloquence DLL and expect them to work. Each Eloq driver has unique quirks and ways of working that just end up breaking in certain driver and DLL pairings.
You don't need to write a driver for Eloquence 5, if the sound is what you're after. You can get an Eloquence 5 version of enu.syn and replace the existing one with it. ECI doesn't care.
@MutedTrampet @davetaylor2112 oooh that's amazing, it works indeed! (using it with the eloq-threshold one) - too bad that trick can't work with enu50.syn from the newer 6.4+ DLL, but those were never compatible between 6.1 anyway as it is. Awesome tip!
Yeah, the Eloquence ECI is far less strict on what it accepts than IBM's version is. Version 6.1 of eci.dll will accept any SYN file from version 5.0 or later. You can actually convert Eloquence to IBMTTS, even version 6.7 and later of the SYN files work as long as they're named the way Eloquence expects and etidev.dll is present. You can't convert IBMTTS to Eloquence, though.
@fireborn It's working for me just fine but I have two NVDA profiles so I have to be careful that I don't switch to a window that uses the other profile and back. If I do I get a strange beep and NVDA restarts. I was having issues with being not in one of these other windows but when I selected Eloquence20 in synth settings and pressed enter, it focused one of the windows that uses the other profile for some odd reason, so it took me 4 or 5 unintended restarts of NVDA to finally get focus to stay away from that window long enough to actually run it.
Unfortunately this one seemed to not work for me either. I switched to eSpeak, restarted NVDA, then selected Eloquence 2.0 (MME) and it didn't speak and I also had to log off my user account as I also seemed to lose Windows sounds. I have WASAPI disabled as well.
Po dlouhe dobe jsem otevrel XCode, stahnul SDKcka pro iOS a bohuzel zjistil, ze se ve vyvoji pro iPhony moc nezmenilo. I ve svete Swiftu a SwiftUI resim stejne bizarni problemy jako za dob drevniho mobilniho vyvoje. Ten ekosystem se z pohledu DX vubec nikam neposunul.
Ale ja se nedam! Unreleased v nativni podobe uz brzy na vasich iPhonech!
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5 Books down in the first week of the year. I actually spent more time reading than working this week, given I didn't go back for the first 2 days of the working week. If I had to pick a weekly winner, it'd be the cool techno-crime story "in the blink of an eye", which is a typical British police procedural but with an AI twist. seanrandall.me/recommends/B09Y… #Bookstodon
My second week of the year in books was largely taken up with the I, Starship series. One of those Human mind put into a spaceship ideas. Been done before, but it was diverting enough. I also read the second of the Jo Callaghan detective novels this week and the newest of Peter Cawdron's First Contact novels.
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If you’re an XMPP developer or spec author and weren’t planning to attend, I’d strongly encourage you to reconsider
For those who can’t make it to Brussels but will be in Berlin on Wednesday, February 12th, we’ll be discussing the Summit at that week’s XMPP Meetup
Previously, the secretariat of IETF admitted that it is not possible to run SMTP over IPv6 anymore: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/…
Now Digicert follows up shutting down IPv6 support for CRL and OCSP because it is apparently not possible to run HTTP over IPv6 anymore. 🤬 docs.digicert.com/en/whats-new…
I know everyone is desensitized to this now, after so many years of this bullshit, but can I just say how fucking insane it is that Americans voted in an actual felon for President and before he’s even sworn in is literally threatening invasion of NA…
@FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ Chris, which client are you using? Quoting seems to work fine with Mona. By design quoting should include the original post after my text. Curious...
@VE3RWJ Again, quoting is *not* an officially supported Mastodon thing, so you shouldn't have to be using any specific client at all. If any client supports quote-posting then it is 100% unofficial and not endorsed by Mastodon as a whole. Yes, it works (for some people) but again, not official. Plus, quote-posting leads to shit-posting and the original poster may not even be able to see that their post has been mentioned, because it's not a direct @ mention in the first place. I despise it.
@VE3RWJ Quote-posting definitely does not need to exist at all, under any circumstances.
If you do so, you can equally be shit-posted about by others. That's what quote posting basically is. Even if you potentially say something nice, the original poster will never ever know you did so. No threading, so it might as well be a statement made behind your back that nobody knows about. If you wouldn't like people potentially saying bad things about you, don't potentially say bad things about them. That's all there is to it. Not even a question here. Just simple fact. Quoting is beyond bad, especially given current implementation.
@VE3RWJ It's one of those fake quote posts. Not all clients support those, so I never use them. Plus, there is no attribution, threads get broken, etc.
@BorrisInABox If I follow a link an dcan't see whatever I"m supposed to see without logging in, and probably following the link a second time, I can't be bothered. I guess I'm lazy.
@VE3RWJ It’s not just the lack of support for it, it’s also the lack of proper attribution and threading that really, really bothers me about the way quoting (doesn’t) work. I wish there was a way to block posts from being quoted at all, or I would do it for mine. So many times, I have been quoted, new threads have been started, and I had no clue whatsoever.
@BorrisInABox @VE3RWJ Yeah, I totally get it. I just think of quoting the way I use it in chat rooms. I want to clarify or augment someone else's post. Frequently, it's also about providing more context or boosting a certain comment from a longer discussion. It works quite well in a work environment where things can quickly spin out of control. I personally like the ability to quote, but perhaps the implementation should be better. (1/2)
There is an argument to be made where you may not want to be attributed if a follow-up discussion went beyond the original post, etc. Anyway... Thanks for the context. (2/2)
@drew @FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ Wow, weird! O well... Would be cool if it was properly supported. Quoting does help sometimes. Hopefully, Mona will remove it at some point so as not to temp people like myself! :)
« #Italian gov’s possible adoption of #Starlink satellite comms system would b politicl & economic error, domestic & #EU legislators have warned, as gov doubled down on decision & #Musk revelled in the debate
If deal→signed, #Italy→1st EU country 2 formally engage w/ Musk’s #SpaceX. But would raise ?? abt its alignment w/ #European strategic priorities, including setup of EU’s #IRIS2 constellation, while potentially costing Italy jobs, sovereignty, & strategic autonomy»
It is clearly a commutative agreement in which something is given in exchange to something else. The real question is what the Italian government is expecting to receive in return (lower tariffs one exports, maybe?).
If the deal were signed it would be a brave political move, anticipating any other EU country (including other non-aligned ones like Hungary and Slovakia), and a risky one too (hope they know what they are doing and trust the people they're negotiating with).
One may object about the use of public expenditure (especially because Italy is bound to participate in IRIS too so paying twice for similar services) but every government takes such decisions on how to allocate funds.
The Verge - Meta’s policy changes allow calling gay and trans people ‘mentally ill’ while removing a ban on referring to women as ‘household objects.’ theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471…
Meta’s policy changes around hate speech have sharply changed the content that’s banned or allowed when it’s based on gender, sexual orientation, and the coronavirus.
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