Oh look, the big tent laptop spontaneously rebooted. Twice in less than 24hours. Even the Dell didn't do that.
I just discovered (and tried) this wonderful piece of software
It allows remapping your keyboard in many ways, and it's controlled from a simple configuration file (so, you can prepare one for your disabled friend).
You can, for example, remap the keyboard to only use its right half, if the left hand is dysfunctional (similar to the mirrored keyboard I made, github.com/clackups/qmk_firmwa… ).
Also, it should be useful for #disabledgamers , to map, for example, AWSD to different keys.
#disability #keyboard #accessibility
qmk_firmware/keyboards/nuphy/air60_v2/ansi/keymaps/clackups_mirrored/README.md at onehanded_nuphy_air60_v2 · clackups/qmk_firmware
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families - clackups/qmk_firmwareGitHub
One of our nodes (ASL 506317) has disappeared from the internet. Investigations pending. All traffic has been routed through another node for now.
WT connections can be made through any of our other ASL nodes.
I'll report when it's back online.
Do you run your own mailserver?
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@differentieel Yeah, that. I like the idea in principle, but just didn't want to deal with all the junk anymore. Things are worse to deal with now than they were back then.
@matthewcroughan Mostly, I got tired of getting blacklisted by <Insert_Big_Provider_Here> every couple of days, having to run around proving that I'm not a spambox or whatever.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Hey, I love what you do and I appreciate it, but please take the flatpak package more seriously. I hope you do this year.
Using an AppImage is not really a universal solution. For example, for those of us on musl distros (Alpine, Chimera Linux, etc.) that package is useless.
I really hope you consider treating flatpak as a first-class package because in musl it is our best and probably only option
uh. why is my home and notifications buffers showing the same content, pretty sure that's not supposed to be a thing :D
@GoemonIshikawa yep, 0.3.0 now. Wow. Loving this client though so far, it's realy maturing, and the Mac OS version excites me with this.
Oh this is getting good, love the new confirmation tab and some unique things in this client like using AI for image descriptions, super neat
I'm very happy with my frontend. It talks to my backend well. Saying that outloud will make me laugh every time. Sounds really dirty, but it's the truth y'all.
Yeah lol its funny but true, I could imagine some of my friends who I hang out with on Discord would definitely love that joke.
Time to give FastSM another try again, thanks @Bri for making it you and others who work on this are my true heros.
Indeed, I personally do notice a change in performance. To really test, just hold the tab key down. Do you hear the startings of letters consistently and does speech stop after you release it on a control right away? If so, the new frontend is not introducing performance penalties, I'd say.
Aha, how fitting for NV Speech Player. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… is the first version to hit the 10th file milestone for my synthesizers. It's also the first time I'm using the new directory link. This copy fixes memory corruption problems in the frontend, Post-stop aspiration block was made non-brittle now, and the applyRules allocation performance fix. No new versions for awhile until we have tweaked more languages, so I'm done with new files at least until way later in my evening or tomorrow.
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one thing that I dislike about NVDA at the moment is that whenever addon updates are available, it pops up with a dialog in the middle of whatever I am doing to let me know, hey, you can update your addons! Can you just send me a toast notification? Please and thank you.
Sadly you can't change it to a tost notification. Like either you can disable thaht entire check I think and then you need to check yourself, or enable auto updates, which is, idk, is that really better?
Starting a btrfs convert. Wish me luck.
People asked for it, and I do think it's a great idea! All of my Speech synthesizers live at eurpod.com/synths - easy to remember URL, and if you want to check it for updates, easy to look at for a version difference. At most, we are only keeping the last 2 versions of a synthesizer, so they will not pile up here. Still uploading some of the larger files, but in the next hour this will all be updated.
The old URLs will work for now, a little bit. As time goes on I will remove them from their old locations and update the blog page to point to this folder too.
The old URLs will work for now, a little bit. As time goes on I will remove them from their old locations and update the blog page to point to this folder too.
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Jak zní tepelné čerpadlo v -15 ℃
Já před vánoci dělal od Samsungu a to byl rachot a venku 5 nad nulou. Tohle je paráda.
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To byl split, že? Ten asijské značky dělají především. Je to levnější, ale menší venkovní jednotka, menší ventilátor, vyšší otáčky, větší hluk. Tohle je sice velká krabice, ale i při takových teplotách si to jen spokojeně vrní.
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We will be doing some performance tweaks in the C++ wrapper next update. I can already see people complaining that there's a slight hit. You want to know why? I made a mistake. Or maybe GPT. Well one of us did anyway. I wrote the base C++ outline for it and then it helped me. But uh, at the moment we are allocating memory for out and copying the entire text string for every single rule, even if the rule doesn't match. If we have 50 replacement rules (common in phonology), we are re-allocating and copying the full text string 50 times per function call. Ouch ouch. I'm fixing this.
Testing things! Feel free to ignore.
@jonathan859 @jscholes Quite a bit opposite to most of the Windows clients though. Plans are for a 100% native desktop app, no scripting languages like Python or JavaScript, and for it to be closed-source shareware. If I'll actually get any users, I do not know.
@flyingpenguinMwauthzyx @jscholes Unpopular opinion these days, because not everything has to be open source. I don't know anyone who'd contribute to it and I don't see the requirement. Tweesecake also wasn't OSS and people loved it. I like OSS software yes, absolutely, but it's also work to respect kinda. I know that wasn't your intention just saying my thoughts. Of course Quin can and probably has a different reason.
@jonathan859 @jscholes that is true, and I can see that side of things as well. On the other hand, I can see why people want open source software as well. They get to modify it however they see phit if there is something that they dislike or if there are things that they want to change for instance.
Yeah I totaly agree on that point. Don't think any of the reasons for software to be OSS is invalid. I also prefer OSS where I can.
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@jonathan859 @jscholes like for instance, currently I am using a mastadon client. And yes, I know I probably spelled that wrong. Anyways, there are a few features that I want aded, so I might just vibe code it in. As unpopulare as that is, python is not my language of choice, so as a result, I am not good at it lol.
The great thing is, people should not notice changes to existing sounds and tonality. What did change were expansions of rules we can define per language, but to everyone else, this update should not introduce changes in UK and US English, or how the voice sounds. That was not the goal. The goal was to decouple the IPA rule tokenizer into a nice, beautiful frontend.
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OK. Huge huge refactoring of NV Speech Player is now complete. Download: eurpod.com/nvSpeechPlayer-2025…
We now have per-language files in the packs folder. Check it out. It is currently defining 22 languages. I would like help improving these languages, now that everyone is able to modify rulesets for them. This has decoupled the rules from the IPA.py engine itself, allowing anyone to freely update and modify voice prosody, tonality, and inflection per letter and phoneme creating it. That is, huge.
Languages supported: English (US, UK), Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Swedish. Speakers of these languages are invited to modify their language files and test to make it sound more native.
We now have per-language files in the packs folder. Check it out. It is currently defining 22 languages. I would like help improving these languages, now that everyone is able to modify rulesets for them. This has decoupled the rules from the IPA.py engine itself, allowing anyone to freely update and modify voice prosody, tonality, and inflection per letter and phoneme creating it. That is, huge.
Languages supported: English (US, UK), Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Swedish. Speakers of these languages are invited to modify their language files and test to make it sound more native.
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Any chance you could put all your project assets in one browsable directory? You're producing a lot of updates and it's hard to keep up or find the latest things later without trawling through your timeline.
@jscholes latest copy always the base file - eventually I plan to do just releases in general on GitHub again, but first need to get passed this awful alpha stage into something people can consider a beta. It's 90% there I feel like so perhaps that change will happen sometime after or during today.
Sure but I mean that all your assets are uploaded to the root of your web server. If you were to put them all in a directory like "/synths" instead, people could save or remember that link and go there to grab stuff whenever.
@jscholes oh yeah you mean for the other synthesizers. That's probably not a bad idea! Check it out: eurpod.com/synths, just as you requested :D
It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).
What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
‘We could hit a wall’: why trillions of dollars of risk is no guarantee of AI reward
Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AIDan Milmo (The Guardian)
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