Tak se zdá, že se po cca. 2,5 letech běhu své solo instance Mastodonu dostávám na limit databáze. Zkusím zapnout automatické mazání příspěvků starších jak 2 roky, co to udělá. #Mastodon #mastohost
@Michal Špondr Mně se moje Friendica (MySQL) dostala na 1,5 GB za půl roku. Jsem na svém železe, takže tam mám ještě dalších 200 GB. A můžu přidat, kdybych chtěl, ale nechci. Mám rád malé věci...
Twenty-six years ago on this day when we shipped #curl 5.5.1, the changelog was easier to gather than what they usually are today: curl.se/ch/5.5.1.html
Podobno jest boom na podrabiane dyplomy ukończenia wyższych uczelni. Młode pokolenie dochodzi do wniosku, że po co męczyć się kilka lat, skoro dyplom da się kupić, wygląda jak prawdziwy.
A pracodawca nie jest w stanie zadzwonić do uczelni i sprawdzić, czy dana osoba ją ukończyła, bo RODO...
Rozwiązanie byłoby proste: powszechna baza informacji o absolwentach uczelni wyższych, najlepiej z publikowanymi w otwartym dostępie pracami licencjackimi i magisterskimi. Żeby można było sprawdzić, co pan absolwent czy pani absolwentka rzeczywiście robili i czy pracy nie napisał im Chat GPT, albo Google. Ale przypuszczam, że wyszłoby przy tej okazji tyle szkieletów w szafie, że klasa polityczna na to nigdy nie pozwoli.
Wystarczyły by podpisy cyfrowe na PDFach dyplomów (my w Polsce już mamy do tego infrastrukturę, wiele elektronicznych dokumentów urzędowych jest teraz autentykowanych w ten sposób).
Alternatywą jest jakiś QR kod i appka do weryfikacji, à la eDowód.
Scholz zu Holocaust-Gedenktag: "Müssen die Erinnerung hochhalten"
Kanzler Scholz mahnt, das Erinnern der jungen Generation an den Holocaust zu fördern. Zusammen mit anderen Spitzenpolitikern reist er wegen des 80. Jahrestags der Auschwitz-Befreiung nach Polen.
Kanzler Scholz mahnt, das Erinnern der jungen Generation an den Holocaust zu fördern. Er und andere Spitzenpolitiker reisen heute wegen des 80. Jahrestags der Befreiung des NS-Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz nach Polen.
For anyone who does have the 22 kHZ Eloquence already or the Tiflotecnia drivers, I uploaded my new files to eurpod.com/upsampled_drivers.z… This contains two files. _ibmeci.py is the IBMTTS modified to upsample 22K to 44K using Audioop. _init.py goes to TifloTecnia's Vocalizer, inside synth drivers and the folder name of the driver. For Eloquence 6.6, driver files are up at eurpod.com/eloq66.zip - people will need to manually run regsvr32.exe ibmcc.dll in their command prompts, and potentially preinstall a ViaVoice5 package first if registering the DLL still does not make it speak. (datajake.braillescreen.net/tts…) It's risky though, when it's broken, the only thing that will save you is Narrator to click through the "entry point not found" dialogs. That's how you know those DLLs are not registered right on your system. Either way, you can hate the upsampled voices, that's OK, it's purely optional and has made my own life better and that's what mattered with this project.
@JamminJerry oh, if the sample rate combobox within the voice settings is at 11K for it, it won't change anything, only at the 22K one. And sadly most people's is at 11K since the 22K one is so hard to get running, so you probably wouldn't notice a difference in that case.
well hell! ok, well I will scrap that idea then, as I bet mine is not at the 22K version as I didn't make any changes. I wonder why the 22K one is so hard to get going?.
@JamminJerry it was introduced too late in the cycle of Eloquence, I think. Also the fact that Eloquence technically had both an IBMTTS ViaVoice version and an ETI-Eloquent version made at the same time, and only the pure IBMTTS form of it had the 22K setting - the one that is a part of JAWS and thus most other versions of the NVDA Eloquence driver use the one made by Eloquent Technologies.
I'm genuinely not folowing (and curious) about the desire to upsample here. Windows already has to upsample unless you literally force all system audio to 22khz. In practical terms, that means Windows normally upsamples to 48khz. So why add the additional upsampling? Are you deliberately trying to trigger aliasing artefacts?
@jcsteh So in short, the Windows mixer is resampling everything anyway, but if you love how certain TTS engines sound when you do a specific upsampling step, you’re not “pointlessly redoing” Windows’ job—it's creating a different audio texture that Windows alone isn’t going to provide. Windows’ built-in mixing and resampling aim to be “transparent,” preserving the original audio as much as possible. It is designed to blend multiple audio sources gracefully—it’s not really trying to color or brighten the TTS. Believe it or not, some folks like the subtle hiss or crispness from naive upsampling. It can make speech feel brighter or easier to parse, even if it’s technically introducing aliasing. If you leave it to Windows alone, you might miss out on those “colorations.” You have more control over final frequencies, filtering, or smoothing, rather than letting Windows do whatever it wants at the last step. Since The TTS engine itself is generating fewer samples per second. It’s basically missing upper frequency content, and even if Windows (or myself) upsample it to 48 kHz, you can’t magically recreate all the higher frequencies that were never in the original signal, that I do recognize. But at least we have finer control over the final audio to have the illusion of treble.
@rommix0 Cool. I have ViaVoice 6.7.3.2 with the NVDA add-on by David CN. I replaced _ibmeci.py in the synthDrivers folder with yours, then restarted NVDA, but I haven't noticed any difference. Do I need to change any option in NVDA settings, or perhaps my laptop speakers are too bad? Also, I haven't found 44 khz amongst the bit rates in the options. There are only 8, 11, and 22 khz.
This project is aimed at developing and maintaining the NVDA IBMTTS driver. IBMTTS is a synthesizer similar to Eloquence. Please send your ideas and contributions here! - davidacm/NVDA-IBMTTS-Driver
@TomGrant91 @rommix0 As for ViaVoice, there used to be an FTP server at IBM where you could download it. I tried to access it, but it seems offline, or maybe I don't recall the address correctly. I believe it was ftp.ibm.com
@clv0 @TomGrant91 @rommix0 I wonder if the 6.7 sounds better than the 6.6 in terms of the 22K voice, maybe. I do know that at the 7.0 I tried, it gets very aliased and hissy sounding, so they broke that 22K behavior in some of the drivers, and that's really why I've stuck with 6.6, it has the best quality for the 22K without any extra aliased high-pitched sounds there. Even when I upsample it, the only noises that sound a bit off are the various pops eloquence naturally makes when certain words follow each other, but otherwise it can keep the 44K resample without making it too hissy.
@TomGrant91 @rommix0 I haven't tried 6.6. In any case, I can try uploading 6.7 to some place if you want. the only caveat is I don't recall whether I've downloaded all of languages at the time.
oh yeah, my eloq66 zip file on that Eurpod link (eurpod.com/eloq66.zip) has an ibmeci66.dll file in there. Looks like my ibmeci.dll and ibmcc.dll files are the 6.7.3.2 one in that package, too. So that's the bad one. That's right, I couldn't get the V7.0 dll file to load into the IBMTTS driver, it told me it's not a valid IBMECI.dll file even though it is, so I could never test how much better 22K is in 7.0 DLL. It's 6.7 I hated though for aliasing, now I remember, and that's why the zip has both: 6.6 which is not so hissy and extra-high pitched like 6.7 is. I do wish I could hear or try 7.0, but beyond just using it as the engine itself, there's no way to get it in NVDA.
If you are actively hiring for positions in a company that is friendly to transgender people, in a country that is safe for transgender people, and you are willing to sponsor visas for people seeking to emigrate for these positions, I would like to hear from you. werd.io/2025/seeking-trans-fri…
Welcome back to another episode of What's New in Google Accessibility, a series where we share the latest product and feature updates that help make Google m...
@cublanco @DavidGoldfield I love playback!!! Thanks chad for introducing me to it. I can't believe I never heard it before until we were talking about it a couple years ago. r.I.p, edward.
@DavidGoldfield @cublanco Its so amazing to watch the birth of technology that has already come and gone. Some of the things that were introduced, I never heard of.
The Handi-cassette wasn't bad but APH's older tabletop 4-track recorders were the best. I had a 3-5194 for many years and I remember working with a previous model that had a thumb wheel for the variable speed control. I think that model even allowed you to record at any of those speeds but the newer ones stopped that and only allowed recording on 15/16 or 1 and 7/8.
@cublanco @wmj1102 I never knew about Coffee With Ed until just a week ago or so. I was somewhat involved with those phone mailbox systems but clearly not immersed enough to have learned about Ed's work on those systems.
@stirlock @cublanco @wmj1102 Yes, the mics on those machines were quite good. I had a radio that also had the VHF and UHF TV bands so my TV recording was done using a patch cord. I still have those tapes!
If the Eagles win the Super Bowl, make sure not to travel in Philly the day of the parade on public transportation unless you're going to the parade or unless you can deal with mobs of people. I speak from experience. 😀
@DavidGoldfield Hahahahahahaha surely you jest. Friend I do not go into the city if I can help it under any circumstance. I'll happily stay out here in the burbs. That's close enough.
I remember taking the train home the day of a parade; I can't remember whether it was the Eagles or the Phillies who won but, without going into detail, it was, shall we say, a memorable ride home ...
Nothing harmful happened but people were in quite a partying mood. I told myself that if a Philly team won a big game and if a parade was planned as a result that I would not go into the city that day.
"On Thursday, Republican U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma introduced a House Resolution to condemn [Bishop Mariann] Budde’s sermon. … Twenty Republicans co-sponsored the resolution."
Amid the vitriol against Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde from Trump and other Republicans this week, a few proposals stick out since they attempt to empower the federal government to decide which religious beliefs should be allowed or not.
"A Public Religion Research Institute study from the Fall revealed the strong connection between the role of patriarchy, attitudes on child-rearing, and religiosity that directly predict one’s support for both Trump and violent authoritarianism. We are all now hijacked by powerful men like Donald Trump, whose parental figures were mostly vindictive, cruel, or absent."
In recent weeks, notable conservatives have revealed their perversions and damaged personalities as they refer to Trump as America's daddy who has returned to punish and correct a disobedient nation.
New Michigan Law Requires High Schools to Offer CS Classes - The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to off... - news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/… #education
The New Year is already in full swing, and we’re kicking things off with exciting updates to #ScribeForDocuments! These enhancements are designed to make your documents even more #accessible, #inclusive, and easy to navigate—at no extra cost. Here’s what’s new in this release: Enhanced Image Descriptions Our improved model delivers more accurate and concise descriptions, making visual content clearer and more accessible. Upgraded Neural Voices for Text-to-Speech Next-generation text-to-speech voices provide a more natural, lifelike listening experience. New AI-Powered OCR Engine The new OCR engine ensures greater accuracy when recognizing text in scanned documents. Smarter Document Navigation Enhanced detection of headings, lists, and tables improves document organization and navigation, making for a more intuitive reading experience with screen-readers. Math Accessibility Revolutionized! Scribe for Documents is now the world’s first end-to-end automated remediation package to offer math remediation! Mathematical notation is now detected and converted to MathML, making it fully navigable through speech and Braille! Most screen-readers have support for MathML built-in, with NVDA offering support by way of a free add-on. This beta feature also includes Braille support for mathematical content utilizing the Nemeth Code, a Braille system used for mathematical and scientific notation. Direct support for Nemeth Code ensures visually impaired users can access and understand complex mathematical expressions in Braille with precision. And now for a Call to Action for Organizations. Does your organization need large-scale remediation of legacy documents? Look no further than Pneuma Solutions, the leader in augmented document remediation. Scribe for Documents now has the capacity to process and remediate hundreds of thousands of documents in days or hours—not months or years—and at a fraction of the cost of traditional human document remediation. Don’t let inaccessible documents hold your organization back. Reach out to us today and discover how Scribe for Documents can transform your workflow, ensuring your content is accessible to everyone. If you haven’t explored Scribe for Documents yet, now is the perfect time. Visit the Scribe for Documents information page to learn how it can make a difference for you. Thank you for relying on Scribe for Documents. Let’s make 2025 a year of progress and accessibility together! pneumasolutions.com/scribe/
Alibaba's Qwen group just shipped Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M - two Apache 2 licensed LLMs with an impressive 1 million token context limit!
Here are my notes, including my so-far unsuccessful attempts to run large context prompts on my Mac simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/…
Very significant new release from Alibaba's Qwen team. Their openly licensed (sometimes Apache 2, sometimes Qwen license, I've had trouble keeping up) Qwen 2.5 LLM previously had an input token …
This was a great find. If anyone knows when this was recorded, I'd love to know. This is "an Hour With Jon Pertwee" and it's just him, in front of a live audience, telling stories about his life. He mentions traveling to a Doctor Who convention so it's definitely sometime past 1970? #DoctorWho ia800608.us.archive.org/14/ite…
#NYTimes: "Colombia’s President Says He Will Not Accept U.S. Military Deportation Flights
Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees."
well, it didn't last long. Trump threatened them with 25% tariffs and the Colombian authorities announced they would send their own planes to the US to pick up Colombian nationals.
DJs.social is a friendly mastodon instance for DJs of any kind. Discuss your selections, techniques, equipment, and gigs. Share your mixes, videos and inspiration.
Meta's new Live AI is an early access feature that allows for continuous video chat with the AI without having to repeatedly say, "hey Meta". You can ask abo...
:Bother" as Mole used to say in Wind in the Willows, when my family asked me what I wanted for my Birthday last week, I didn't think of the Talking Air Frier sigh smile. Looks like another purchase is coming up soon grin.
⏰ What time is it? For Braille users, checking the time can be a breeze with JAWS! 🧑🦯 In this episode, we break down how to use JAWS with Braille displays to keep track of time effortlessly. 🎧 Tune in now: unmute.show #JAWS #Braille #Accessibility
Welcome to Unmute Presents Where Technology Meets Community At Unmute Presents, we connect blind and sight-impaired individuals through engaging podcasts and live discussions.
The disappearance of the White House Accessibility Statement from the White House website on President Trump’s first day in office is more than symbolic – it signals a larger problem.
I've been using Pop! OS on my laptop because of the touchscreen support so I've been with it for the last year, but I used Manjaro for at least 3 years and I can say that still my favorite. However I'm planning to try MX Linux, heard a lot of good things 'bout it.
It may be late, but combined with CRLite (and its other Web PKI progress), it may soon be the browser with the most robust Web PKI support.
While I would still say that Chromium generally wins on the security front, I’m happy to see the gap narrow with time and to see Firefox occasionally inch ahead in some areas.
Firefox 136 looks poised to enforce Certificate Transparency. It may be late, but combined with CRLite (and its other Web PKI progress), it seems to now be the
![Fire Lord Ozai lies on the ground, defeated with Aang, The Last Airbender, stands before him.
Ozai: [my knees] Wh- What did you do to me?
Aang: [30th birthday] I took away your bending.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/631807 "Fire Lord Ozai lies on the ground, defeated with Aang, The Last Airbender, stands before him.
Ozai: [my knees] Wh- What did you do to me?
Aang: [30th birthday] I took away your bending.")
Jiří Pavlík
in reply to Michal Špondr • • •