Al grido sempre amato di "Me ne frego", la #Santanchè continua la pantomima triste. Il #GovernoMeloni è un agglomerato di cialtroni con pochi pari nella storia repubblicana. Siamo arrivati al punto che essere appoggiati da #LaRussa è motivo di vanto. #Buongiorno
--> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?
--> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax?
--> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately?
Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax. Python has been used by hundreds of happy users all over the world during the past three years, and is now ready for prime time.
Jakou aplikaci na Android používáte na podcasty? Migroval jsem ze #Spotify na #Tidal (protože blog.eischmann.cz/2024/05/14/s… a honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t… ) a chybí mi tam dvě věci: playlisty na generecká témata (relaxing sauna), ale to si pořeším sám. A pak to, že to neobsahuje podcasty. To mě až tak nevadí. Ale znamená to, že se musím podívat po aplikaci na podcasty. Na GPlay je toho mrtě. Máte nějaká doporučení?
Běž do něčeho, co má podporu pro Gpodder, ať se ti rozposlouchanost synchronizuje mezi zařízeními. Na telefonu mám AntennaPod, na desktopu poslouchám přes RePod v Nextcloudu, případně lze použít desktopový Kasts. Jako Gpodder server mám opět aplikaci v Nextcloudu.
Jinak Tidal má různé relaxační playlisty. I na saunu jsem něco našel, akorát toho asi nebude tolik jako na Spotify.
I didn’t think about this much back then, but ever since I switched to Linux, I’ve been thinking about this more and more. Hope this won’t become an issue for open source, given how pretty much everything depends on it.
Unrelated a little, but it reminded me how a few years ago the IRS had to call up retirement homes to get COBOL programmers to fix some issues that nobody else could.
@WinNT4 I believe this is one of those dormant lingering problems we have not really faced much yet but it risks become real going forward as the average age of contributors to these projects grow almost as fast as time...
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“The Effect of Donald Trump’s DEI Executive Order on Accessibility; Guest article by civil rights and accessibility lawyer Eve Hill” lflegal.com/2025/01/week-one-e…
Below I share a blog post written by Eve Hill, one of the best disability rights lawyers and digital accessibility legal specialists in the United States. (More about Eve at the end of this article.
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The first week of the new republican administration was frightening and disorienting for all of us who believe in civil and human rights, justice, equality, fairness and more.
Fresh off of making Nazi salutes at Trump's inaguration, Elon Musk joins far-right nazi-friendly AfD gathering virtually and says hey, actually, don't be ashamed of Germany's Nazi past npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-52760…
EDIT: Yes, oh yeah, should mention it's Holocaust Remembrance Day just to add to the insult (thx for the reminder @FediThing)
Always did, because large corporations don't get to be that way without the subtle effects of authoritarianism and money focus that fascist tendencies tend to carry.
It's a mistake to think this is anything new, and the previous government was also displaying *different* tendencies that fascists also tend to display.
Both need resistance.
If there is some exception to this, it's the proverbial one that proves the rule!
Lmao. Capitalism ist the most batshit insane psycho shit ever created. Fuck Google and every living soul who is a part of it, mfers!
Everybody working for Google is evil. Everybody working for Google is now a fascist fucking clown.
Google and every other Silicon Valley fucking compnay has to be destroyed and dismantled and we have to throw everybody involved in a dark cell for the rest of their miserable lifes.
Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it. openrss.org/blog/using-cloudfl… #RSS #CloudFlare #WebDev
In case you didn’t know: You can use ground flaxseed meal in baked goods as a substitute for eggs. A 1-pound package is the equivalent of 70 eggs and costs less than $5 US. 🐣
I'm still getting my head around this Mastodon thing, (my last post was 2 years ago)...my millennial brain seems to only compute with Instagram and Facebook marketplace at best - but I'm keen to share my work here as it seems like a welcoming space.
I make things - mostly freehand machine embroidery pieces. I'm fascinated by lichen-like forms - nature's ability to hold and transform is humbling in these current times.
I'm blind and use a screen reader and when I first heard your name I thought, "wow, the author of the Hunger Games books is on Mastodon?" 😀 I soon realized your name is spelled differently and that you're not the Hunger Games author but I still welcome you to Mastodon. It's a great community and I hope that everyone makes you feel welcome.
> We’re not becoming 10x developers with AI. > > We’re becoming 10x dependent on AI. There’s a difference. > > Every time we let AI solve a problem we could’ve solved ourselves, we’re trading long-term understanding for short-term productivity. We’re optimizing for today’s commit at the cost of tomorrow’s ability.
A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help.
“After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft”
Bingo. And that's why the #ProCraft movement needs to fight this dangerous technology with everything we've got.
(Alas I can't agree with the author when they say this: “I’m not suggesting we abandon AI tools—that ship has sailed.” Personally, I'm waiting for the ship to sink right into the ocean.)
and this is exactly why I use #mastodon It can’t be controlled to the same extent Facebook can What needs to happen is for people here to advocate for the usage of platforms like this, so we can slowly increase the user count here past 10 million and beyond Bc Facebook has advertising and we don’t
crikey I've not used distrowatch in well over a decade... or two, but nice to see. What an amazing quote too - "Put the fun back into computing, usd Linux, BSD". Well said. The site does need a meta viewpoint tag for mobile though!
So, after JAWS, NVDA is also kissing goodbye to SAPI 4 TTS engines, in 2026. The support for Microsoft Speech API version 4 synthesizers is planned for removal in NVDA 2026.1. Any remaining users of SAPI4 speech synthesizers are encouraged to choose a more modern speech synthesizer. github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… @NVAccess
Link to issue number:
Fixes #17516
Summary of the issue:
After the move to exclusively Windows core audio APIs, the SAPI4 driver stopped working.
Description of user facing changes
The SAPI4 driver...
If anyone is using a SAPI 4 synthesizer and cannot switch (E.G. because it is the only synth they are aware of in their language), please do let us know. We don't want to leave anyone stuck using an older version purely because of this, and if we can help track down a more modern resource which will fit the bill, then we're happy to help.
Some low resource languages doesn't have even no synthesizers at all. Some of the synthesizers are out of date, and some stopped their development. For some languages there is RHVoice. And... i am promoting it as a maintainer of these languages i maintain, respectively.
@asael Very true - and it is possibly some of those low resources languages for which the ONLY synthesizer is a SAPI 4 one - and it's those I'd love to find out about - we may or may not be able to do anything about it, but we can boost the search for a more modern synth a little wider or for people who may be able to contribute to solutions (such as a new language for eSpeak-NG for instance - I know it's not everyone's taste but it's the one anyone can contribute to)
Anyone can also contribute to RHVoice. IF somebody needs a help for creating a language module and exact steps, he can reach to me, and we can work together, if he or she is willing to learn.
no problem. you have my contact, because i am also an NVDA translator for croatian and polish... Btw, recently i have received my diploma in polish language and literature and russian language and literature. That means, that my title is now: university master in polish language and literature and university master in russian language and literature. Without NVDA, i wouldn't be able to achieve this, and without the open-source tools.
Acapela and Vocalizer are not something that can be used decently. They have errors in pronunciation, plus manufacturers are not always willing to fix these. That means, there are corporate-like automatic generated answers.
@asael ah darn. This is going to make me very, very sad for WinTalker Hungarian, since it worked so much more stable under Sapi4 than Sapi5 (for some reason the Sapi5 version can crash the entire NVDA process.) At least there's hope with the RHVoice version, but I don't much enjoy Nuance there so today I mostly use the WinTalker voice at max 100 rate for a higher quality speech that's great at pronouncing certain words like a native speaker.
what about the people with processing difficulties that that’s literally the only thing they can comprehend? I don’t personally know of anyone like that, but I know it’s possible because certain people struggle if they are forced to use any speech synthesizer other than the one they know for 1,000,000% sure they can understand.
@evilcookies98 That's why I asked anyone with a specific example to reach out, so we can look at options with them.
In order to continue using SAPI 4, it would need to be updated to WASAPI. As noted by Matt Campbell elsewhere in this thread, that may be possible, and we could consider a PR for that. Or someone could likely relatively easily create an add-on even with the current implementation. At the end of the day, if someone really needed, they could stay with an older version of NVDA
I myself probably won’t be updating past that point just because that’s yet another choice technology is taking away. Not pointing fingers at you. Not something I use frequently, but I like having the option to use it. Used to be my daily driver back when I started working with windows. If I’m pointing fingers, did anybody with this one? It’s Microsoft for being so darn uncooperative
Holy shit, the _sapi4.py file still credits Serotek. I wonder how much of my old code, from 2007 at the latest, is still left.
I did some more work on Serotek's SAPI 4 driver after we transitioned from Python to Lua, in like 2009. If you locate the TTS engines in the registry and instantiate them directly and implement the COM interface that the engines use to play audio, it might be possible for SAPI 4 support to survive the transition from waveOut to WASAPI.
@matt Matt, Glad you're still interested and looking at it :) Would updating SAPI 4 support to WASAPI be something you are interested in doing? I don't think we're able to invest the time in it ourselves, but we would be willing to look at a PR if someone (such as yourself) was interested in working on it.
@matt (it would need to be secure and easily maintainable for us to incorporate it - or the other option which would continue support, is an add-on which provided the functionality - either using WASAPI or waveOut or some other method)
@matt I imagine it would be fairly straightforward for someone to just shove the current sapi4 driver in an add-on and be done with it. It would suffer from all the current bugs it has, still use WinMM and not benefit from any of the new stuff in NVDA's audio output code, but if someone wants it badly enough, it would work.
Good news for SAPI 4 users! Now SAPI 4 support is no longer planned for removal in NVDA 2026.1, and all warning messages has been removed. Also, now SAPI 4 voices use WASAPI as well, meaning that features such as audio ducking and leading silence trimming can now work with SAPI 4 voices. Check the newest alpha version alpha-35416, and please report issues you find on GitHub!
@Friendica Support Why is it (bug or feature ) that I frequently have a difference in the number of comments indicated by the symbol and the text version:
The bubble symbol tells me 46 comments, but the expand text "116 comments". I would expect the same numbers here just like it is the case for reshared count?
I first thought my instance would not know the other comments, but since the higher number is the total amount of actual comments which are SHOWN, this theory seems wrong
A quick experiment suggests that the 46 is the number of direct replies to the original post, while the 116 is the total number of comments in the thread, including replies to other replies.
@Der Marek Not necessarily people. 46 is the number of comments replying directly to the top-level post. Then there are 70 additional comments at the second hierarchical level and up.
Here It Is, the Worst Slack Bug "...Without thinking too much of it, you accept an odd prompt that asks, “Do you want to include the entire chat history?” Because yes, you think, of course it should include the chat history of the group DM you’ve been chatting in for ages. Who has time for this? There is business to conduct! Essential facts to convey! But the answer here is no, you do not want to do that. Because if you do, you will have ported your entire DM history with the first person you selected for the chat into the group DM...." wired.com/story/slack-bug-shar…
migrating from #WhatsApp to another centralized platform is not a real solution, that's why we are here in the #Fediverse and not in #BlueSky
Migrate from #WhatsApp to #DeltaChat and other decentralized alternatives, break free out of the silos once and for all and stop feeding billionaires/CEO incubators
Hace 10 días se volvió viral en Tiktok una idea loca que se gestó en los comentarios en la cuenta de Camila Aurora. Hacer una respuesta a Emilia Perez parodiando los estereotipos de los franceses tal como lo hace la infame película con los mexicanos.
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I am glad the voiceover volume issue has been fixed.
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