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If you want a bunch of random noise and chaos in your life, there's a silly thing I put together, called FX Radio.

It's a box running Liquidsoap that mixes several audio players going through a huge library of sound effects, production libraries, and other odd things.

Don't expect anything to make sense. If it does, it's purely coincidental.

stream.borris.me:8888/fx

This is running on the same machine that hosts @NoiseBox, which throws a random sound at the fediverse once an hour, at a random minute each hour.

Fun fact:
This is running on a shelf under my mom's desk. While she knows the box is there, she doesn't know what it does. So, it's fun just for that reason.

@NoiseBox

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@Bri New silly bug! Send a new post. In the invisible interface, navigate to that new post. Before anything else comes in, delete that post. Now you're apparently still on that post in the buffer even though it doesn't exist! What's more, you can keep hitting next post, next post, next post, in the invisible interface, and it's entirely silent. Your position in the buffer keeps going up and up and up, E.G. Home. 171 of 162. To recover, hit previous post enough to get back to the real last post, then if you hit next post, it correctly recognizes that you're at the end and prevents you from going off into never-never land again.
@BriπŸ₯°

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> Elasticsearch was never a database. It was built as a search engine API over Apache Lucene (an incredibly powerful full-text search library), but not as a system of record. Even Elastic’s own guidance has long suggested that your source of truth should live somewhere else, with Elasticsearch serving as a secondary index. Yet, over the last decade, many teams have tried to stretch the search engine into being their primary database, usually with unexpected results.

We demanded to keep our normal logs but you know how corporate IT is ...

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feld

@maphouse this quote came from ElasticSearch

when I worked at bigcorp, we were in a high security team. Devs angry they didn't have all access to all logs. We had our regular logs and our system audit logs. Management basically forced us to to jam everything into ElasticSearch and abandon the normal logs. Elastic was supposed to be the source of truth.

We warned them. Of course it became a nightmare with the cluster falling out of sync and having broken replicas and stuff, data loss...

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Long post on the durability of US racism

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Tim Bray

What would happen if ICE wanted to join the Fediverse? Most instances probably wouldn’t host that account, but some would. The account would be broadly blocked at both individual and instance levels, and some instances would probably defederate the hosting instance. Some folks would migrate between instances based on these choices. All this, I think, would be a good outcome?
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Yo, Bulgarian is not an easy language, yet here we are coding it in. Whoever can help tune it, well, it may need some. Good news with it is that it's largely a "what you hear is what you get" kind of language, and with 30 letters, well, seen worse. Bad news? Cyrillic support is hard to code out for the IPA normalizer. Good news? We need Cyrillic support anyway before turning the normalizer into a frontend DLL, which is the next milestone of this project.
Why not keep the frontend normalizer in Python you ask? This good for now, but to ship recompilable and buildable DLLs, it's clear that we'll have to do this, not to mention when NVDA goes 64-bit, although for the latter the issue is more embedding Espeak than the frontend need itself
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NV Speech Player (github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…): Updated readme with section that describes how phoneme data is added or changed, as asked by some. Feel free to pull the repo, modify data.py and open a PR, or drop me an updated set of lines if you'd like, and they will get tuned accordingly.

GitHub - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer: A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++

A Klatt-based speech synthesis engine written in c++ - tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
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Brian Hartgen

Hi. I have selected to show my bookmarks timeline. It displayed it initially. However, upon a restart of the app, they are not showing. I tried to add them again and it says the bookmarks timeline is already open. But it is not in the list of timelines so I cannot close it.
I did try to edit the JSON but that is causing more problems so I reinstated it. Is the only way to delete the JSON and start over?
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Amir

@serrebi Sure.
1. BlindRSS has issues with Youtube feeds. We can add them and articles get refreshed, but upon pressing Enter on their articles we get the following error:
Error dialog Could not resolve media URL via yt-dlp: ERROR: [youtube] Fub7pSvlrlc: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication.
Check the following Youtube RSS URL as an example:
youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…
2. BlindRSS has serious issues with Bluesky RSS feeds. Articles do appear, but the article name/ title/ text all are reported as being unknown. Try the following Bluesky RSS feed for an example:
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mtxyc…
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In "I Still Hate WiFi" news:

In the house where I'm staying now, there are three wireless access points in strategic places in the house. Unfortunately, the linking isn't as optimal as I'd like it to be.

I've been primarily using a remote computer from my iPhone for nearly three weeks, so when there is any lag, it becomes pretty obvious.

Pretty much every night here, the lag increases to an annoying degree, so much so that I get better results by turning off WiFi and using mobile data (currently AT&T is working the best in the house).
Because I'm using Tailscale, I still get access to all the same resources whether I'm on WiFi or not, and it only takes a second or two to reestablish the connection when the provider is switched, even if I change between my primary and secondary eSIM for data.

This place is so congested, though. If I do an environment scan from my UniFi controller, I see about 85 wireless access points in the area.
It's not that bad in my New York City neighborhood.

I've confirmed that latency and jitter are perfectly fine on wired devices here in the house. Even with three wireless access points spread out as much as possible as far as spectrum goes, things still get stupid, especially in the upstream direction.

Anyway, I hate WiFi. The end.

In case anyone cares, here's the latency and jitter I get when pinging my iPhone on AT&T from one of my home computers in New York, about 500 miles away.

36 packets transmitted, 36 received, 0% packet loss, time 73ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.558/171.173/370.040/104.540 ms

On WiFi, it was more like min 39ms, max 550 ms, average 100 something ms. I've seen better while on AT&T.

Ehhh, whatever.

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Tamas G

@jmd2000 well, it technically last got some code changes in 2021, picked it up again a few days ago because even though ESpeak did eventually integrate Speech Player it just never quite sounded as good as the standalone version that just borrowed it for phonemes. So I'm super happy to have it back, for me it's closest so far to an Eloquence replacement.
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#FastSM 0.3.0 is now available! This is a pretty big release, and contains all of the changes between 0.2.2 and now. Full changelog below, use your open URL hotkey if you wish to skip this.

Improved image viewer
The app now includes a much better, and actually working, image viewer, which replaces the image viewer which would appear when you press view image in the view post dialog with an image in the post. The new image viewer provides the ability to see all images in a post, as well as get AI image descriptions (see below).

AI image descriptions
You can now get AI descriptions for images in posts. Workflow: first, set up your GPT/Gemini API key, whichever one/ones you want to use, in the AI tab of the settings dialog. Set the service and model you wish to use in the combo box, and tweak the prompt to your liking. Next, on a post with an image, you can view the image/images in the post in a few different ways. The easiest is through the context menu/view image. Other ways include the view post dialog, or the global shortcut, control win alt V by default. Next, you are put in a dialog containing all of the images in the post, which you can move between with the arrows. On each image, there is an edit field with the current description of the image, if one is provided. If you tab, you will eventually find a get AI description button, which when pressed, will kick off the process of getting the AI description. This process may take a bit, depending on your model and service combination. It will then replace the description with the provided AI description.

Mac
FastSM has been able to run on Mac from source for a bit, but this is the first version of FastSM to provide a working, runnable MacOS build.

Audio Player
FastSM now has an audio player, in addition to just playing audio in audio posts. The audio player can be called up by pressing control shift A in the main window, or control win shift A in the invisible interface. In the audio player, you can press up and down arrows to change media volume, as well as left/right to seek. The media volume persists between audio files.
In addition to all of this, the audio player has two settings. One to have the audio player automatically come up when audio starts playing, and another to stop audio from playing when the audio player is closed.

Other audio improvements
You can now set a per account soundpack volume. You can either do this by adjusting the volume in the normal way, and it will only now adjust for the focused account, or you can use the new soundpack volume slider in the account options dialog.

Dark Mode
Add a very hacky/experimental dark mode support in the advanced tab of the app.

Spell Check
It is now possible to check spelling on a post or reply you are writing, with the new spell check button in the new post dialog.

Confirmations
It is now possible to enable confirmations for different toggle actions. For example, you may want a confirmation when you unfollow someone, so that you don't do it accidentally. In the program options dialog, there is now a new confirmations tab where you can enable individual confirmations for things such as favorite, unfavorite, boost, unboost, follow, unfollow.

Other additions/bugfixes
Add enable/disable notifications buttons in the user viewer dialog. This will make Mastodon send a notification to your notifications buffer every time a user with notifications enabled posts.
Add a feature where you can have the app only use a single API call on initial timeline loads.
Add a global shortcut for the update profile option, control win shift U.
Fix quoting. Quoting now works correctly in all cases.
Fix a bug where media descriptions did not show for boosted posts.
Fix a bug where you couldn't unschedule a scheduled post from the scheduled posts timeline.
Fix a bug which meant you couldn't call up the scheduled posts timeline.
Fix the title of conversation buffers when you load a conversation from a boosted post.
Fix deleting bookmarks.
Fix bugs with user selection when loading timelines/profiles.
Fix search timeline errors.
Fix pinned sound in user timelines.
Fix a 404 error when loading user timelines on app startup.
Fix various visual issues with the app.

Windows: github.com/masonasons/FastSM/r…
Mac: github.com/masonasons/FastSM/r…

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"Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?"

"β€œWe are not going to shop. We are not going to work. We are not going to school on Friday, January 23. For some people they call that a strike.. For many of us, this is our right to refusal until something changes.”"

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#Minnesota #unions #strike #LaborNotes #uspol #ICE


Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?

Minnesota appears to be in gear for a mass uprising. Unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses there are calling for a statewide day of β€œno work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January 23.
Labor Notes
#uspol #strike #unions #ice #minnesota #labornotes
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