Remember the purchase of Twitter was funded by a group including the Saudis, and there could be a margin call on the Tesla stock used as collateral. A house of cards.
Finally got a chance to start listening through the latest Ice Cube album Man Up and he seems pretty pissed off about modern stuff
Freedumb:
[Intro]Why is the internet not working? Why are you not working? Why is the internet not working? The same reason you're not working Did you turn off the internet? Maybe
[Verse 1] Create a clone through this iPhone It's the perfect device to get spied on Swipe up, swipe down, pipe down Type it in, never, ever write it down Knowing, it's mind controlling First you start scrolling, then you start trolling Yeah, what you know about a prison? Ain't no rhythm in this algorithm, no It's about the vision It's about to be a head on collision Lost my religion Motherfuckers gotta Google where God at I despise that He under my hat He under your hat He in your heart I bust a rhyme that's better than Mozart What I look like asking Chat GPT "What was it like growing up in the CPT?"
[Chorus]They hit me with that freedom It don't cost you a penny to be dumb They hit me with that freedom What's the reason? That shit is treason
[Interlude]AI is learning to escape human control AI is in fact learning to escape human control Human control, human control
[Verse 2] L.A. to the bay back in '88 (Yeah) I was there, nigga, fuck what your computer say You'd rather ask a nerd like Zuckerberg Go ahead homie, go and join the herd You's a blue light zombie (Zombie) Become an unhealthy, selfish as a selfie Go ahead, ask Open AI When you know that they lie about the fourth of July Information artificial, blow the whistle You know that we with you, go get the pistol Shoot the fat screen first then the laptop Kill your iPhone then smoke your Xbox And when they call SWAT, here come the robots Don't matter if the motherfuckin' door's locked They shooting in the dark, ripping us apart Motherfuckers only mad 'cause we too smart
[Chorus]They hit us with the freedom It don't cost you a penny to be dumb They hit us with the freedom What's the reason? That shit is treason
[Outro]I think the most important thing to understand about AI is that AI is not a tool It is an agent What's the reason? That shit is treason
For those who want to hear the ETI-Eloquence 3.3 singing but can't be bothered with the stupid Jammable site, here it is. One song. Bob Sinclar's Love generation. Now it would be funny to hear it do the Hungarian parody version made of this song, but the English one is way better as it's one person and not multiple like that one. It doesn't do too bad at it, beyond some weirdness on few words, "tear" pronounced like crying and not ripping things, ETC. Ya know, your standard AI slop.
Open X-Change making a *universally breaking* change in config format & removing features from #Dovecot in the 2.3->2.4 upgrade is telling. That they removed some core features (e.g. unix login auth) inks in the drawing. They are tired of having the world's de facto default open source mailstore server, they want the world's most lucrative mailstore server.
Indonesia and Malaysia block #Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows - mashable.com/article/grok-bloc… "#Musk has called the government intervention an attack on free speech." so musk thinks #csam == free speech....
Tracklist:1) To France - 0:002) Poison Arrows - 4:373) Crystal Gazing - 8:354) Tricks of the Light - 11:385) Discovery - 15:316) Talk About Your Life - 20:06...
I'm old enough to remember that the US and UK supported a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh, after he nationalised the country's oil industry. And replaced him with the authoritarian Shah Reza Pahlavi. (OK, it was 7 years before I was born: 1953)
I think the best way to fight RTO is to submit accommodations requests for ergonomics.
Tell your doc you have back pain. Get a doctor's note. If you're in a jurisdiction with accommodation legislation, you should be able to get your own desk fitted to you.
Now get all your coworkers to do this. No more hot desking, and the costs of an office goes up.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
reimplement the standard Android USB data signal API with our hardware + software USB blocking functionality to preserve support for the device admin and lockdown mode features for fully toggling off USB while upgrading it to use hardware blocking (this was omitted in the previous Alpha-only release)
fix regression in the last release causing sandboxed Google Play breakage in a subset of secondary users caused by the phenotype flag changes in the previous release
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add stub for ContentResolver.acquireUnstableProvider()
fix the Terminal virtual machine management app not working in a secondary user Private Space (GrapheneOS adds the ability to use the Terminal app in secondary users and also adds the ability to use Private Space in secondary users, so the combination of those things resulted in this being possible but the upstream code was incompatible with it)
Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold: add high EMF (PWM) mode opt-in to the Settings app
All of the Android 16 security patches from the current January 2026, February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 and June 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2026011001 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:
There's too many to list. There's the usual suspects like Khalil Ghibran and May Ziyade who influenced my 19th century Egypt pieces. Lately I've been drawn to the narratives of women and supporting women's wrongs so Abbasid era female poets like Inan, Arib and Faridah are big inspos. He's a man, but also Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting sorrow which gives a sympathetic look of Yang Guifei.
My home server is back! I updated it to Debian 13, installed an Intel Arc B580 graphics card, and had no luck connecting via SSH. Monitors were blank. I finally connected headphones and a keyboard and found/fixed the problem. It wasn't the card at all. The update renamed my ethernet from enp12s0 to enp15s0, so the networking service was failing to start. It works now.
I'm going through the proofs of weakening, substitution, soundness, completeness, and hopefully compactness for first-order logic. At the moment, I'm on the substitution part. I don't know why, but semantics annoy me. The whole evaluation of terms with the structure and assignment thing is just so easy to mess up and there are, so to speak, lots of types that shouldn't be mixed: terms, symbols, elements of the domain of the structure... But I'll get there eventually.
lol iceland air has a thing that lets you earn free WiFi by watching ads, but if you have an ad blocker it fails to load the ad and you just get free WiFi after the video load times out
I gave my laptop a static IP. I opened the new NVDA remote access iOS app, typed in that IP and a password, saved it, and hit connect. It just sat there, trying. I got no alerts of any kind on my laptop. Did I do something wrong?
NVDA menu > settings > remote access. Enable checkbox. Mode: allow this PC to be controlled. Server: host locally. Set a key. Use the same key on the remote client.
Make sure NVDA is actually connected to it's own local server.
Thanks! I didn't realize there was more to configure. I assumed I'd be prompted when there was an incoming connection request on that port. It works now.
Updated eurpod.com/flexvoice.nvda-addo… with learnings from the SoftVoice add-on for say-all. Now, say-all in FlexVoice should not contain pauses going from line to line as we combine utterances.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
CES is over for another year, and it was full of products for Apple users. Here are the best items for your iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that appeared at the show in 2026.
https://appleinsider.
ETI-Eloquence 3.3 speech synthesizer AI voice & song generator. Create ETI-Eloquence 3.3 speech synthesizer AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.
@menelion ahaha yeah, you have to click the empty clickable areas above the demos for them to play. Used to be way worse with audio generation where you had to remove aria-hidden regions with the bookmarklet, ugh. Now they fixed that so you can at least upload your own audio properly and make one.
Bleh, I won't say they sound nice. That's like, kinda in development, Idk doesn't sound good. Omg I think if they make that good, that's my hobby and future occupation as singing, goodbye. There are some good examples though, but it's not up to stuff yet. But hahaha the eloquence one is just, super hilarious! Love it!
I have a serious question out there for those who like listening to music. How much do you think a musician/creator should get paid when you listen to their music?
I ask because the amount is pitifully small if you stream - for Soundcloud it would take around 400 streams for the musician to make 1 USD and that is one of the better streaming platforms. For Spotify, its thousands of streams - fine for Lady Gaga but not for small creators, often in niche markets.
On the other hand many musicians sell their music for a few dollars for a whole album or less than a dollar a track. Yet few seem to avail themselves of actually buying music.
Streaming is killing music and combined with the AI generated trash that is all over platforms like Spotify one has to wonder how much longer the market for music generated by real people will last.
So please, go seek out your favourite musician and BUY an album or track. Don't stream and certainly don't use Spotify.
I believe, a musician must be paid with live concerts, and as for albums, it must be easy to buy a CD as well as the whole album and individual tracks as physical files without DRM. but first and foremost, music must be allowed to play in public places to get known. Like, why would I buy random tracks from random people if I've never heard them? On the other hand, if I hear a track in a mall or in a restaurant, I liked it, I shazam it (or ask someone about it), then likely I'd buy it.
@menelion I remember the early days of MP3 when there was a lot of record label hate.
Typical article: "When you buy a CD for $15, the artist gets $1. But he borrowed $200K from the label to make the album so he has to sell 200K records to get his next $1."
Was the record label system really that bad? And is streaming even worse than that?
Sinead O'Connor Live at AB - Ancienne Belgique 30/09/20140:39 Queen of The Denmark5:34 4th And Vine9:53 Take Me to Church13:36 8 Good Reasons17:05 The Wolf i...
If you already block my VPN from accessing your page, please at least flipping tell me so so I can disable it. Been getting a 403 error on a ticket shop even when using my VPSs IP which was not an official VPN exit node, and thought it simply wasn't open yet. Oh well, apparently it was. Stupid.
Well, if anyone ever gets me a copy of SVCTL32.dll / SVCTL64.dll without the timer restrictions, would seriously pay like a hundred bucks for it. But it's never gonna happen. Sigh. That DLL is forever time-locked to something Image Line do in FL Studio to give it proper licensing. So no newer softVoice, no 64-bit SoftVoice build until then. The DLL files at eurpod.com/svfl.zip for those interested. SoftVoice as a company is quite defunct, their website is up yes but as far as a company with filings and public record they have not been around since the mid-2000s. So, not a chance of reaching out and asking for my own licensed copy either. This is all making me very sad, now I've lost all motivation to code. I tried to see if it was returning the last chunks of text in the callback, but nope. SVAudioCallback is either a query function (not a “register callback” function), orSVCTL only enables callbacks after some other registration step (likely via SVRegister / SVCommand), or callback is only for a different output mode (like “send audio to file” or “external device”), and isn’t used for TTS the way we’re invoking it. That's why my hunch here lies with the demo restriction and a timer that is set for each utterance, that when stopped throws away the last chunks of spoken feedback.
Curious if some enterprising hacker could do some editing of the DLL itself if it's not super obfuscated or whatever. Note that I don't have the requisite knowledge to know if this sort of thing is generally possible, but since cracking teams seem to be able to do this kind of thing, I assume it's doable with effort.
I'm surprised there isn't a way you can make your own fake DLL that looks and smells like the real thing, but is really just a surveillance drone so you can find out what FL Studio is doing to register/license the thing.
@jaybird110127 well, FL Studio has speaker. dll. it loads when you use Speech Synthesizer (Windows-only feature in FL). FL (or the Speech Synth plugin/module) calls ZXSpeakInit in speaker.dll. Then, speaker.dll loads/uses svctl (“control” layer), and svctl loads/uses sveng (the actual voice engine). (This is implied by the dependency on SVCTL32.dll and the “3 file” requirement.) speaker.dll then asks SoftVoice to synthesize the text, likely into a PCM buffer. Finally, speaker.dll (maybe via MSACM32.dll) converts/normalizes the audio into a format FL expects. So in theory inspecting details within speaker.dll can give all the clues too, but reading disasmed dll is so not een in my pervue, lining up function names to areas of the DLL, loading it in debuggers to check what it dos in memory, ETC... True about DecTalk though. It's why I was surprised when Blazie used it in BTSpeak, though perhaps there's some other licensing / conversations we don't know of there so I won't assume anything. Still, it's either that or clear they saw low-risk at distributing it more commercially within BTSpeak units. Very interesting. And yet, Apple themselves probably will never touch it, despite it being so in the open in sources even if unofficially, they just know they can't touch it with the historical significance and potential licensing rights for them.
I was about to suggest you contact the registered owner of text2speech.com but of course it's a private registration. Chances are it wasn't always that way, but I have no idea if there's an archive of old whois data anywhere. But of course the fact remains that even if the actual company is dead, somebody, somewhere *is* paying to keep the domain renewed and the website active.
@jaybird110127 oh interesting. Yeah, that's very mysterious, because the site is just mostly a zombie one at this point, with content only archived to be archived. But I do wonder how FL Studio (well, Image line) got to build a new binary around 2014 or so, at least that's the timestamp on the DLL. It looks like even FL Studio 2025 includes it, so they especially are keeping it alive but of course I think probably have full source code or SDK if they had purchased it back when the company was still alive.
As a post about domain names comes across my timeline, I am also reminded, for the second time, by the Dot Radio organization that netmix.radio is up for renewal on February 12. Every time I look at the listener count over there, its usually me, myself, or no one, LOL. But that's totally expected. I just through up an audio-processed stream of 90,000 tracks of randomness with a couple jingles and let rip. So we'll definitely call that a half-fast job. I didn't expect to get much out of the project, and I probably don't want something like that getting too big anyway. So it'll probably not get renewed.
Hmm, I get a problem loading page when trying to open that. Yeah honestly as awesome as I find internet radio it's hard to pull something off with which I'd be satisfied. I have Azuracast, but just throwing in some ripped or maybe_not ripped music, semi good jingles and calling it a day seems not nice, but I don't have the capacity for anything else, nor would there be the interest by anyone.
@jonathan859 Internet Radio's ship sailed twenty years ago, for the average Joe really. As an assistant manager to a somewhat successful project, as in a peak of ten listeners, and now this defunct project of litterally zero listeners, I can definitely tell you that Internet Radio is a very niche, for select groups, market now. Its popular in the blind community for reasons, of course, but that's about as far as it goes. Even the majority of blindies are mainstreamed, and don't do Internet radio. Its Spotify, Deezer, Apple music, etc, etc. That and TuneIn, and they are even totally commercialized now, with a $1000/minimum per month to list.
Is that like how when I went to the Moog showroom in 2013, back when that was still actually interesting, I went in there fully expecting to play with synths all day, but spent most of my time running a sustainer guitar through the entire compliment of Moogerfooger effects? Also, I suck at playing guitar.
@BorrisInABox I'm surprised I never asked you if you've been to the factory or anything like that because of you being in NC. Mind you I grew up about half an hour away from AMS and only recently kfound it out.
@KaraLG84 Well, yes. I hear it's really boring now, because they don't actually make things here anymore. It is (was?) about a three hour drive from where I used to live/where I am now.
Whenever you find a doctor who'll treat that, put in a good word for me. Decent at playing bass here, there's often session gigs I should be taking, but I'm about 287% more motivated to piss about with code and occasionally go plinkity plonk on a synth.
Barrierefreiheit ist kein Extra und kein Bonus. Das ist die verdammte Unterkante von Qualität. Wer 2026 noch Webseiten oder Apps ohne vollständige Barrierefreiheit betreibt, ist fachlich ungeeignet. Punkt. Das ist kein „wir kommen später dazu“, das ist IT-Pfusch. Wer Mindeststandards nicht erfüllt, hat in professioneller Softwareentwicklung und Webdesign nichts verloren. #Barrierefreiheit #Accessibility #ITFail #Qualitätsstandard #WebDev
@BorrisInABox Hope you don't mind me poking you, but I'm pretty sure you know a bit about this. Do you know how I can LPC audio files using Windows? I had a look around and am not finding an alternative I can make work. Thanks for any help.
There's an online version of that utility someone made for Mac OS. I don't unfortunately know of a good tool to use locally other than SoX, which is not quite the same as the Texas Instruments implementation.
There is a Python utility, but I've never managed to make it work.
For the last nearly two weeks, almost all of my computing tasks have been done with my iPhone using NVDA Remote RC connected to one of two laptops back home in New York 500 miles away. It's just so cool to pull out a bluetooth keyboard and connect to a familiar environment from anywhere, but it's even cooler what you can still do without a keyboard if you don't have one, thanks to the custom gestures and presets for them. If you use Voiceover Announcements instead of AVSPEECH, you can even use a braille display, though it is nowhere as extensive as using a display direct with NVDA. So, if you absolutely rely on using a braille display, this is not the best way to work, but you are not completely without the ability to get an idea of what's going on.
I just did another small editing job remotely using Reaper on my laptop at home, and TeamTalk on a server running on a Raspberry Pi at home connected to Tailscale to connect the audio. Yep, it's an old TeamTalk server. I don't think there are rPi builds of modern ones anymore. Not the best way to do it, there is some lag, but considering I'm using Airpods Pro, which adds more lag, internet latency, etc. it worked pretty well, all things considered. Sonobus for iOS is, unfortunately, very jittery most of the time, probably because it hasn't been updated since 2023, and iOS has changed around it.
I have still not quite gotten fully comfortable with editing stuff on Reaper under Mac OS, at least with the same speed and efficiency, especially when it comes to envelope automation, and I have some plugins installed on the Windows laptop that I don't have on Mac OS that I need for this small weekly project, so it's nice to just be able to remote in and manipulate that existing environment. The fact that I can do that from my phone from anywhere, provided internet connectivity is good, and latency and jitter is reasonable, is just fantastic.
Right now, I have the second eSIM on my phone using AT&T, and amusingly enough, latency is almost the same to my stuff at home whether I'm using WiFi or AT&T. Jitter is worse on the mobile connection, but it's still perfectly usable, even for audio editing. I forgot that I had WiFi turned off for three days, didn't really notice.
And if you have a decent performing Android phone, you can get the audio latency down even further through the use of Soundwire. Provided that your interface has responsive-enough loopback that can be listened to through Wasapi. Soundwire unfortunately does not exist on iOS, since iOS doesn't expose the same platform-native low-latency network audio pasthrough needed for Soundwire.
I really have to give my laptop a static IP and play with this. I also found out I can somehow use it to remote control a Mac from Windows, which I very much want to play with.
@alexhall Yep, NVDA-RC for Mac can now be a target. And amusingly enough, using NVDA on Windows to control a Mac is a little more responsive than just using Voiceover by itself, because Apple.
I've got to agree with this. If I may respectfully add to it, it's not so much that we can do these things, we've been able to for a while, it's that #NVDARC makes it easy and smooth. It just works without workarounds. You don't have to think, just hit the icon and start typing. Note also that, when I say we've been able to do it in the past, I mean with the keyboard. Touch stuff is simply a new thing, and a very impressive thing with the speed and the smoothness. It really is astonishing in how well it works and what you can accomplish.
And another thing, with an android phone, you can connect a braille display directly using VirtualHere virtualhere.com All I can say about VO is that it works to some extent.
y'all guys, provide the best email service in the world, with extreme stability and zero-trust. If someone asking for more, he's greedy. You're appreciated, thank you!
-- tuta password manager -- Additional tuta free domains ("Tuta" has a bad, dorky sound to it in Swedish, keemail gets confused with gmail when you say it over the phone)
And improved handling of contacts/address book. I want tuta to be my "master" across Linux, Mac, eOS...
Android client: Problem: When an opened email is scrolled or "zoomed", hyperlinks are "too sensitive". (The links open in the default browser when I don't want them to...)
Solution: A setting that requires a URL to be tapped and held for 1 or 2 seconds before opening, or, A setting to cause a popup to "confirm before opening link".
Why? A malicious URL is currently too easily opened. Sometimes, users may wish to copy a URL and open it with a specific browser. Sometimes, users may not wish the sender to know they've opened the email.
Android client: Problem: When an opened email is scrolled or "zoomed", hyperlinks are "too sensitive". (The links open in the default browser when I don't want them to...)
Solution: A setting that requires a URL to be tapped and held for 1 or 2 seconds before opening, or, A setting to cause a popup to "confirm before opening link".
Why? A malicious URL is currently too easily opened. Sometimes, users may wish to copy a URL and open it with a specific browser. Sometimes, users may not wish the sender to know they've opened the email.
you do a really good job both with your products and with your work on socials
As they pointed out, I think your strength lies in not being an ecosystem and embracing diversity with other providers. Still, eager to see that Drive!
I've been playing around with your (paid) email and calendar services for over a year, but I cannot fully embrace Tuta due to its very limited customization options, especially for Calendar. I understand the lack of CalDAV synchronization support due to Tuta's end-to-end encryption model, however, personally I'll continue using a paid, private email provider whith full CalDAV support, so I could continue using dedicated Android Calendar apps such as aCalendar+, or Business Calendar.
Flatpak instead of AppImage only. I know there is an experimental Flatpak, but I would like a fully supported version that can also be found on your download page. It would be easier for new users and easier to push new users to both the Linux desktop and Tuta.
I'd like the calendar widget to follow am/pm vs military time. Other than that I feel like you all have added pretty much everything I wanted or are about to
@YvanDaSilva For you to never again advise people to use Brave browser, so that I can consider you a serious alternative to the ending of my Proton membership next October. 9 months. Show me the magic. I need proud and consequential intersectional antifascists as providers from now on.
To focus in your core product, mail. Handle attachments can be good with drive tools, edition of the files, etc... And stop the continous bait towards Proton, I changed my mail from proton to tuta, for the ia, crypto wallet stuff, and some vague political actions they had. Stand out if they do anything wrong, but in the meantime there has been too many post that goes against them without any purpose, and it is starting to be detrimental to your image. keep the good job:)
Sneaker auf der Bühne, aber ein Weltbild aus den 50ern?
In meinem neuen Artikel analysiere ich den „Hochglanz-Fundamentalismus“ moderner Freikirchen. Ich zeige auf, warum deren dualistische Weltsicht („Licht vs. Finsternis“) strukturell der Neuen Rechten in die Karten spielt.
I have a first laptop with HiDPI screen and trying to set GUI scaling in #Gnome.
I enabled experimntal fractional scaling, and set 166% scaling factor in Gnome settings.
For GDK apps there is no problem. But many other apps are not scaled, or are scaled partly - window header bar is small. Is there universal solution to this? Or how do you set scaling on all GUI toolkits like GTK2, Electron, QT, Java?
It's strange. The fractional scaling option should scale all windows. Of course, if the app cannot do it natively (e.g. because the framework it uses doesn't support it), then you're left with upscaling the window framebuffer.
yeah. For example the bitwarden app is scaled if I run it with env var GDK_SCALE=1.6 from terminal. So it can scale, but something is not giving the app proper instructins to scale? But I would expext that gnome gives the app all meeded env vars to scale properly. 🤷♂️
It isn't scaled at all, or it has an upscaled framebuffer (blurry content)? The former has to be some problem on your machine, it works for me. The latter happens. The app itself supports scaling, but it isn't compatible with the OS scaling.
but it made the electron app fractionaly scaled. 🤷♂️ It seems there is a mess between toolkits supporting other toolkits variables, or something like that. Well the prpblem is solved for me now. I enabled two experimental features, fractional scaling and xwayland scaling. Xwayland scaling is much less ready feature a caused strange scaling issues.
ahh, actually, try removing the 'xwayland-native-scaling' flag, and then restart the session. I noticed I have it disabled, and if I enable it, XWayland clients become miniature.
Yes, that's it. Thanks. Now xwayland apps are scaled, but blury. That's expected. With the expirimental xwayland-native-scaling some xwayland apps are scaled without bluring but with unscaled window header (vlc on the image), and majority is not scaled at all (bitwarden and others). 👍️
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