"Za uplynulý rok #Bratislava zaznamenala výrazný nárast agresivity, obťažovania, aj drobných krádeží. Podľa primátora Matúša Valla za to môže aj novela Trestného zákona, ktorá znížila závažnosť krádeží do 700 eur na priestupok."
I disagree with a lot of people here, and that's fine. We can disagree on what tax rates should be. We can disagree on the best mix of public and private ownership. We can disagree on the amount of government involvement in markets. We can disagree on what privacy rights need to be protected by governments versus which need to treat the government as the adversary. We can disagree on which OS is best. We can disagree on the best way to build a Free Software ecosystem (we can even disagree on whether that's a desirable goal).
But we can't disagree on which people are people. If your perspective is that some people are not people, there is no way that we can still have a meaningful conversation. That's not a 'there are two sides' kind of debate. That's a 'no, this isn't a debate and we can't build a functioning society if you disagree' kind of debate.
I replaced my wifi card in my laptop, but perhaps one of the antenna cables was not secured as my signal goes to shit I think and sometimes it just doesn't even see 5ghz.
But if the antenna cables are secured/connected properly, is there a chance that it's expected that I literally replace the antenna cables too? that seems a bit much... I'd have expected them to be compatible because it's the same type of radio
Unfortunately, the position you have applied for has been filled, but we will keep your resume and information on file so that if an opportunity opens up in the future, it can be released publicly in a data breach.
Das hängt ja auch davon ab, was man sucht. #digitaleKirche vernachlässigt #PeerTube m.M.n. Es hat einiges an Kraft gekostet, dass @onlinekirche@tube.onlinekirche.net (vorerst) nicht abgewickelt wird...aber ob der Kanal wirklich bleibt?
Is it time for a truly ethical computing hardware company? One whose values would be
- open hardware as much as possible. - repairable, upgradable, standardised. - open software as much as possible. - which exclude some hardware choices. - full open source operating system support, and the default (no forked distro) - code of conduct including for the choice of project sponsorships.
One of the recent AI generated bug reports for #curl quite impressively identifies mismatches between a function header's comment mentioning that an argument is optional, but the code uses it unconditionally.
This taking comments into account certainly allows for some extra magic the classic code analyzers can't do.
Hi @frameworkcomputer, if your response to serious concerns against funding fascist projects is just going to be a typical FOSSbro response while ignoring and sidestepping the inherent problems outlined by the post, and keeping in mind the responder is Indian and also the founder of Framework, then: as an Indian member and active contributor to GNOME, please don't ever fund or sponsor GNOME.
We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win.
It’s really weird watching someone who is a minority go “I know this person wants to exile everyone who looks like me to a country I wasn’t born in and blames me for every single bad thing that’s happened in their life, but I’m going to look past that and give them my public support for doing something I consider kinda neat”
I don’t understand how someone could live with that cognitive dissonance
The third morning marks the end of this first edition of Django On The Med 🏖️
It’s amazing how much we achieved in such a short time, with a small group of focused developers. 💪
The goal of the sprints has been fully reached. But the experience is not over yet, this afternoon’s rest and tonight’s dinner are part of the social side too. 🌅
Can't wait to be at Codemotion Milan next week to meet old and new friends, and to talk to you together with Natalia Orlandi about how we can develop UI interfaces with an eye on ethics, user needs, and simplicity.
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I paid a fuckton of money for my @frameworkcomputer laptop parts. I paid extra for the parts I could've saved money on elsewhere because I wanted to support the company and what they stand for. I even ported Debian to the RISC-V Motherboard for the product that made Framework Framework: The Framework 13.
Now Framework decided to sponsor Omarchy and Hyprland, the leaderships of which are not just "politically of a different opinion", they are actively toxic, hostile and highly discriminatory, to phrase it euphemistically.
Nirav Patel responded to this in the community forum, essentially doubling down on the decision to take a "big tent approach".
I want to reiterate: __This isn't about "political differences", because the political difference are actively harmful to democracy itself, and the physical safety of marginalised communities.
Someone I supported in good faith with both code and money turned around and gave this money to multiple people who'd rather see me dead for existing.
Needless to say, I feel quite betrayed and I'm really torn on wether or not I should even continue and proceed with the port for the second RISC-V mainboard, because I don't want to end up supporting the hate towards me, my wife or other people in the same situation as me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels betrayed by this decision.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
If I had to highlight a key take-away from @ciura_victor's C++/Rust interoperability talk, that'd be that it's much easier to call Rust from C++ than C++ from Rust, which is indeed the case in my experience. Because many C++ language features have no equivalent in Rust.
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I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green
customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else
this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies
No idea how blind people properly use openshell? At least I saw some recommend and use it here. I open it, and not only is it laggy and the dialog seems to appear like after a second, typing in the box is not really intuitive imo, and the first option just gets repeated over and over? What's the hidden trick?
I actually wonder why anyone would want to use something like that. I have no problem with the new Start menu, and there are plenty of alternatives to Windows Explorer. A few years ago I cleaned up a laptop that had Classic Shell installed. After uninstalling it, the performance doubled instantly.
@radiorobbe That has to be coincidence, also baring in mind that OpenShell is the one currently maintained, whereas Classic Shell isn't. The start menu in win11 is to the point where it may be totally unproblematic today, but cause no shortage of issues tomorrow since it's a semi-serverside component because ads. OpenShell/Total Commander user here who has experienced performance benefit from having both installed.
@radiorobbe Funny, you mentioned this, because I noticed that it caused freezing in Windows explorer. So it actually is worthwhile learning the ways they screwed up the OS, or making them work for you instead of using open shell
Remember people no longer buying Swasticars in numbers had an impact. While the company is still here, a more fragile business like Framework probably would see the effect harder if people stop buying.
Yesterday I felled the erge to compose or play something, and I was just browsing through sounds. I found this old little Piano track which appeared to be something by samsung. I liked it and started to play an e guitar melody to it. I was at that point just composing my own little track with this, looped this at the parts it fit in, played a bassline, and thought some other Samsung sounds on top, such as a keyboard typing metronome or some old notification sounds in the same cord wouldn't do bad either. Here you go, enjoy what I got. For my first mix like that, I think I did quite well. But you're the judge. Lmk your thoughts. #Music #Samsung
I can't wait to discover that Apple stance on not giving access to data (no backdoor) is actually a big lie and that they have been doing it all along.
Note: I don't even think Google, Microsoft, Facebook aren't already doing it.
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
spvm to buy a dystopian american mass surveillance product
some notes from the thread:
• American software collecting the movement history of all people in Montreal. Millions of hours of video will be sent to the US, and the movement history of all citizens will be potentially sold to the highest bidder.
• Software with very advanced capabilities accessible without a warrant by the police, such as chronological search (give me all the movements of this person over a year), facial recognition, alerts on individuals, and all the previously mentioned functionalities, etc.
• Complete loss of privacy for all people in Montreal, immediately. Privacy is dead the moment this system is connected and used by the SPVM.
• No strict judicial control, and data is not within our control. Valuable data going directly to the US and accessible without a warrant by the police.
• Police can access movement history without a warrant or validated by a judge ( think jealous police officer ex here )."
Shower thought: I wonder if any #blind kids today are growing up on espeak the way we grew up on eloquence? Is there a future where espeak is out of date and ancient, and people are clinging to it with the desperation people today cling to eloquence and dectalk? Honestly y'all, espeak read isn't that bad. I just wish espeak was usable on IOS; the available app is old and littered with bugs. #a11y#screenreader#accessibility
eSpeak will never be out-of-date and hard to run in the same way Eloquence is, because eSpeak is open-source and can continue to be ported forward, legally (unlike leaked DECtalk), by anyone who cares to.
@matt Yes, "anyone who cares to" is the key phrase here. From what I understand, espeak's code is terrible because it was written for Risc OS. And the overlap between blind people who know C++ and blind people who want a speech synthesiser kept up to date is going to be vanishingly small. The Espeak IOS app is a perfect example. It hasn't been updated in three years, even though everyone who tries it is aware of the bugs, and many people want it fixed, and it's not really useful in its current state because of the constant crackling. Just because something is open source doesn't mean it will be maintained.
@matt Heck, even the Espeak on the Google play store is only updated once every year or two. Windows and Linux are really the only platforms that are maintained. If whoever's in charge of Linux builds stepped away, I could see the updates stopping there, too. Windows is only safe because NVDA depends on it for now. But even they switched to One Core by default. So I can absolutely imagine a day where espeak is just as hard to run as eloquence or dectalk. It would be more legal, sure. But that doesn't always mean easier.
I would honestly even say Linux and maybe also Android is getting the most love and the library. From a Windows/NVDA context, yes, it's getting updated. You want a SAPI version that'll work with other screen readers or apps though? The only version that still works is an ancient version pre EspeakNG which is also 32-bit only. EspeakNG never had a working SAPI version that I'm aware of - there were some builds that would show up in SAPi settings but not actually function.
Mine is currently set to Mike. I haven't found a voice I can definitively say 'Yeah that's the one for me' but I'd like to do that, so that if I ever had to use it full-time, I had the thing configured just the way I need it to be.
I can't use it, it's painful for me because of the recorded consonants. Their klatt modes still use the recorded consonants, which can be rather sharp depending on your listening device, and I'm from the US. I'd like my computer to speak in an accent of the country I'm from, but it's American English is still pretty sucky. There are at least custom voices to adjust the relative formants and all that to craft the perfect klatt voice, and you can turn down the recorded consonants, but not off. I don't like some of those new ones like edward2, they sound like they're ringing and I can hear the upper formants as distinct pitches.
@JamminJerry@FreakyFwoof@matt@x0 If they didn't have so many issues with nonstandard words, I'd like the blastbay tts voices honestly. But they're going to require either fixes on Philip's end, or absolutely massive custom dictionaries.
I am not a fan of one-core, but if I had only it, and ESpeak on my system, and I had to choce between them, I would pick one-core without hezitation. I can't remember which voice it is I kind of like. Let me see here. OK, the only voice I even kind of like is mark.
Agreed. eSpeak is not only available in many languages but it's open source, meaning that it's currently free of cost to a variety of users and this will likely ensure continued development, at least from a core group of developers. However, I think that many people in some countries will consider it to be not as useful as the commercial, more human-sounding TTS engines.
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror…
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the company has been active on fosstodon in the past.
But – and this is important – the messaging it puts on twitter and onto the fediverse is very distinct. It looks to me like it knows which audience it’s appealing to
@danso @matthartley @lrz I cleary never got any. Even a "please a open a support ticket". I guess when you point out that repairability is pointless when you can't get the part... Even Dhell replied more on Twitter (before it was the nazi bar). And that's a low bar.
Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.
Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:
"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."
Since Denmark can attempt another vote in December, it is important to stay vigilant. Both Italy and Sweden remain undecided while France remains supportive despite Chat Control being in direct violation of its Résilience bill explicitly forbidding both forced backdoors and client-side scanning.
Subtooting another thread, one time I was in a doctor's office waiting room, and the nurse came out and said "Benjamin?" So I stood up, along with a teenager. She said "Benjamin Cox?" and neither of us sat down. She had to say the birthday.
But Nirav, Why is the Social Media account gushing over omarchy? Out of all those listed projects you sponsor, the twitter account has mentioned omarchy ~22 times since just August. The other projects you mention has barely gotten any attention.
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