Minneapolis Labor Unions are calling for a full #GeneralStrike. No school, No work, No shopping. Those of us outside Minnesota, stand with the unions by not shopping.
“The Minnesota labor movement is united against the violent ICE occupation of our beloved cities .. Workers are essential for our communities to function. Since the ICE campaign of terror began, both immigrant and non-immigrant workers have feared for their safety when going to work, being at work, and coming home from work.
Working people, our schools our communities are under attack. Union members are being detained commuting to and from work, tearing apart families. Parents are being forced to stay home, students held out of school, fearing for their lives, all while the employer class remains silent. Our labor federations are encouraging everyone to participate on January 23rd.”
Walter Francis White was a Black man born to two Black parents, but he had blonde hair and blue eyes. (This is genetically possible without any extramarital affairs; it's just rare.)
He used his white passing appearance to pose as a white journalist and learn the truth about lynchings in the South. He investigated 41 lynchings and 8 race riots at enormous risk to his life. His documentation then helped the NAACP lobby for anti-lynching legislation.
In the story of America's fight for civil rights, certain names ring out: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Thurgood Marshall. Yet, many figures who laid the essential groundwork for their work remain less known.
He's yet another figure I didn't learn about in my whitewashed history classes, but I can benefit from his example now.
White people filming ICE are not the same; he was white passing but certainly not afforded the privileges of an actual white man. This was something he realized early while *watching* the Atlanta race riot of 1908 from the roof of his family home.
We can remember his courage, though. If he can do it as a man not afforded full civil rights, we can do it.
Federal anti-lynching laws were not passed in his lifetime, though his work did contribute to their passing.
Imagine if there had been millions of actual white people backing him up and documenting the violence.
That's possible now. Attempted purges of nonwhite people are nothing new in this country, but it's new to have millions of white people rising up. Obviously the regime didn't think that would happen! These people seriously thought most white people only pay lip service...
...to diversity and would actually welcome ICE ethnically cleansing "our" cities. They can't imagine anything else.
There are people who denigrate others' efforts because others are risking themselves to document abuses, but aren't shooting anybody. It's always people who do absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile one single man who didn't really have white privilege, who couldn't save lynching victims' lives, contributed to the passing of anti-lynching laws and ultimately prevented more deaths.
I've seen first hand how terrified the ICE agents are of cat ladies holding cameras. We were laughing about this last night at the resistance dance party. I was standing there in a taco costume talking to other protesters after an ICE watch shift and we were cracking up. "Imagine being afraid of me!" I exclaimed at one point. The visual really is hilarious.
Those cameras do make a difference. If you feel powerless watching videos of these horrors, know that you are not.
Our ICE watch prevents kidnappings just by making sure we get names and emergency phone numbers of people who go for appointments at the ICE field office. And by standing there with cameras. Seriously, they try to lure people in for appointments away from cameras, but they are scared of us making sure people will have lawyers and families and community advocating for them. They really want to kidnap people off the street before the rapid response can get there. They want people to be...
...completely defenseless, just like domestic abusers do, and we know these are the same kind of men.
They're scared of being watched, they're so scared of lawyers they shut up a lawyer yesterday by threatening to detain two other people as well as her client if she didn't shut up. (She was rightly saying the kidnapping they were doing was illegal.) She had to shut up at that time but her client will have his day in court. We initiated community support.
...tough away from cameras but not when the cameras are going. Not when there's a crowd. Not when there's even one VIP, such as Bishop Pham of San Diego, who showed up to immigration court and made the ICE agents scatter like cockroaches.
The movement makes real difference in the here and now and will make a real difference when we punish these people.
Walter F White realized he had power as one Black man in the US in the heyday of the Klan.
Hot take, but Logic's Vintage Upright is probably the best sampled upright I've ever heard. Considering Apple had absolutely horrible pianos up until like two years ago, it's crazy how far they've come
WE CAN EITHER HAVE A LIVEABLE PLANET OR BILLIONAIRES. WE CAN’T HAVE BOTH.
The findings of @oxfaminternational’s latest report, released just days ago, are honestly terrifying and infuriating.
This is not accidental. It is the result of an economic system that protects extreme wealth, fuels corporate pollution, and puts profits before people.
It’s time to FLIP THE SCRIPT. Tax extreme wealth. Make polluters pay. Ban private jets and superyachts. Put lives before profits.
I just used Chrome and gemini to describe a few sample pages of a graphic novel from wandering inn so I could understand and enjoy the series. All I can say is wow! I can say that though clunky, I had to go to the next page and reactivate gemini, it would work and I think I could spend money on this book and still enjoy it even though "The last tide" is a graphic novel. Amazing!
When I get married and have kids, I'll be a cool dad and let them study whatever they want, whether it be programming languages, proof theory, or category theory.
Translated: All ATMs from all big dutch banks rely on Amazon AWS. So if there's a disruption with the US and you think to yourself "hey, I'm gonna pay with cash", you won't be able to get cash.
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Alle geldautomaten van alle grote Nederlandse banken draaien exclusief op Amazon Web Services. Dus als er verstoring is met Amerika en je denkt, dan betaal ik wel cash, kom je niet aan cash.
When talking about DRAM please don't use the term "shortage", call it what it is: price manipulation.
Shortages are when things you want to buy cannot be bought anywhere, but DDR5 memory kits are widely available. There's hundreds of different types in stock at online retailers. I've yet to see a kit that is actually out of stock. This is the tech industry attempt at keeping high margins at a time when computer sales were already predicted to be declining. Don't fall for it. It's a scam.
hmm, should I really give Claud a try? not sure. Wondering if it could do better with scouting out language phoneme rules and Klatt synthesis in general. GPT's good but pro mode irritated me for taking sometimes 60 minutes to respond, no joke. So I'm a bit done with GPT pro for now. I probably wouldn't get the highest-tear Claud plan but it's tempting to give one of them a try.
@fastfinge yeah, it's being better at coding, I've even done it where I gave GPT some task and then had Gemini refine it because it can think of nuances like performance and memory safety GPT doesn't, so it's tuned better. 2.5 Pro days sucked balls but now with Gemini 3 it's really getting good at not making rooky mistakes.
It's mind-boggling that the UK would give a massive defence contract to a US company when Trump is threatening to invade Greenland. Especially a company like Palantir which is run by a guy who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote and is very close to Trump.
The only way this makes sense is if you regard it as deliberate. Filter out what Starmer has said on the issue and look at his actions and who he is linked with. It feels like the UK leadership are either OK with US military dominance or resigned to it. For them, the UK military is simply an extension of the US military. The more compliant the more favours and jobs these politicians will win from US big tech and Washington.
What the EU can do: invoke the Anti-Coercion Instrument (2023).
It was designed so the EU could respond and seek reparations for situations where a third country pressures the EU into policy choices by threatening or applying trade and investment measures.
A while back I saw someone on here mension a setting you can set in #ClaudeCode that would make it work better with a screen reader. Can anyone remember what it is? I think it might have bin @ZBennoui maybe? But if not sorry for the mension.
They are going to put ads into ChatGPT, apparently.
They should go ahead and put all the ads in there. Just load that thing up with ads. Go on. Do it.
Force ads into all the gen AI stuff too. Involuntary product placements. Unavoidable Coke cans in your expertly prompted masterpiece. At least one verse of your Suno banger singing about New Persil Automatic.
Popups for the latest mobile game in your vibe-coded app.
Hello hello. Lots of updates to the phoneme editor today. It now supports: - as you type a new value for any fields, you will hear the voice speak the phoneme. - Voice settings dialog added to settings menu. Here, you can mess with all 47 parameters or change to one of the preset voices. Enjoy. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE…
@x0 you have to first go to the settings menu > choose the dll location options, then file menu > open pack to choose the root folder for it where \packs lives.
@x0 the good thing is that it's a one-time process :) It creates the .ini file with those stored so next time you re-open there's no setting them again.
@x0 for flexibility. If someone wanted to modify a pack located elsewhere or their Espeak is a differentbuild in another folder, could be useful. But yeah, might be able to set it to where at least it checks it first to see if they exist, small enough tweak to do it.
Also, could we have either a spinbox or sliders or something in the phoneme editor for some of the numeric values? So we could do PRAAT-style sweeping instead of typing, which doesn't overwrite.
@x0 We do have diphthongs but we build them as sequences (vowel + glide, or vowel + vowel) rather than dedicated "diphthong phoneme" entries. That’s common in formant synthesis.
In the phoneme editor at least, though, it sounds horrendous. I tweaked the U.S. R phoneme slightly and wrote the phrase "I ran over a rat in my car" to test it, and it couldn't even say the word 'I' correctly. And car sounded like it snapped. Very disjointed, no glides.
You should probably emit diphthong phonemes, unless eSpeak actually doesn't, and serialize those internally aas glide ends to the formant synth yeah? Or does IPA not have diphthongs as individual symbols. In U.S> English at least I think some of the diphthongs differ from the vowels used to compose them.
@x0 so IPA usually doesn’t have a dedicated symbol per diphthong. It’s written as a sequence of two vowel qualities (sometimes marking the second as a glide). eSpeak follows that pattern most of the time, so it won’t hand us "diphthong phonemes" directly. But there's probably a bit more engine rules that can improve there.
@x0 I think I can find a possible solution: adding an "autoTieVowelPairsEnabled" feature, but since languages like Finnish can have long vowels or diphthongs, it should be opt-in to prevent issues.
@x0 yeah, universal detection is complex, as hiatus vs diphthongs are language-specific. So we'd have to make that a setting and then phoneme overrides would be made for those in the language file.
I know not the same thing, but I would love to upgrade my mixer, but I do not want digital crap that I can't use. I just need one more, maybe two more stereo inputs, and at least one more stereo output. the control room on my current board is mono only , which makes me wonder what they were smoking to have something like that mono, but what ever. sadly I don't think i am going to find what I want. oh sure, I could go to the 16 channelk mixer that I have the 12 channel one of, but I don't think that is going to fix my stereo output things. it might get me another stereo input though
@JamminJerry My last mixer had zero stereo inputs, and I was perfectly fine with that. 16 mono that you could do whatever you want with. Pair them, or don't. Main plus four mono subgroups (paired for two stereo), 8 mono aux sends, and direct outs for all 16 channels if you needed those, plus inserts on all channels. Dynamics processing on each channel, bus, send and FX return. And I still had everything maxed out. These days, I just do everything in-the-box, which is easier on Mac OS than Windows, and only have one audio interface with four physical mono inputs and outputs, and it does all I need. Funny how things change.
yes it most certainly is. well right now, TeamTalk has its own soundcard, and so that it doesn't hear its self, it is what listens to the control room, but the control room is mono! grrrrr. no stereo for the people that hear me on TeamTalk.
I don't do such things lately, but I have a setup for that, all using virtual audio devices. I can basically send anything to anywhere, minus what I don't want to exist, with as few or as many channels as needed. And, because Mac OS/core audio, the latency isn't particularly noticeable in that context.
I tried virtual audio cable, and even set to real time, I just didn't like the delay, and it was just all sorts of complicated for me. hents why I got the mixer, and a few sound cards.
@JamminJerry There's nothing quite like Loopback/audio hijack for Windows. I definitely don't miss having a bunch of audio interfaces strung together. Makes for a dirty setup. Easy to route stuff though.
@JamminJerry I did that for a short time. Put an in-line resister on the input of the phone to get it down to mic level, stuck a side-chain compressor on the channel strip to hide the loopback coming from the phone. Eventually got a real phone patch, didn't keep that long, went to a SIP solution.
Near the end of when I was doing live stuff, I got a Behringer audio interface with 8 inputs and 10 outputs, all balanced TRS, which I used a couple of I/O pairs in combination with the on-board 32 in, 18 out interface on my mixer, mostly for mundaine stuff like taking phone calls and auxiliary audio patching, leaving the board to stream the high quality stuff since it didn't have to get converted back to analog internally. Now none of that stuff matters to me anymore, really.
I just wish on the current board I have you could tell it what to send to the USB C port. if I could that would be perfect, as I wouldn't have to use the damned control room. lol.
I didn't even do that. I just baught the eighth inch to two RCA wire, and then the adaptor for the eighth inch side to make it fit into a chordless, and hooked it into the board, and ran with it. no no resisters, or anything between the chordless and the mixer. I don't think it sounded too bad. I did turn the volume down on the chordless though because it distorted all to hell if I didn't, and then controled the volume threw the board.
@JamminJerry Yeah, that works in a pinch, but you'll get a pretty high SNR on the input unless you attenuate it on the other side. Been there, done that, fixed it real fast because I didn't like the results.
I made my first 2 #FT8 contacts today thanks to a new accessible companion app built to work in conjunction with #WSJTX and the #JAWS and #NVDA screen readers. We're making huge progress toward a solution we can provide to the entire #blind #AmateurRadio community. #HamRadio
I’m extremely happy this is being developed. I worked with QLog and it’s self voicing interface for about half an hour yesterday and realized very quickly that using it on a regular basis would drive me completely insane!
Já neříkám, že vždycky hned vím, jak to je. O to nejde. Jde o to, že se tomu v Čechách nevěnujeme dost. A pád Ameriky je něco tak bezprecedentního, že vlastně nechápu, jak to, že já jsem ten největší alarmista. A u toho se mě lidé ptají na moje mentální zdraví. To je fakt úlet. Stojíme na prahu zničení demokratického způsobu vládnutí a já mám být alarmista?
Já neříkám, že vždycky hned vím, jak to je. O to nejde. Jde o to, že se tomu v Čechách nevěnujeme dost. A pád Ameriky je něco tak bezprecedentního, že vlastně nechápu, jak to, že já jsem ten největ…
Someone asked me how a blind person can do phoneme editing without a spectrogram. That's valid. The next version of the phoneme editor will let you preview the sound in real-time as you edit it. That is, while changing the value, it will play for you the new one you set. This will allow for realtime changes and tuning. Eventually, I will add an option to synthesize through an AI service, but that will be long long down the road. For now, just hearing the new sound will allow people to have a better workflow.
.Hřib je zase bomby u Moravce 😀 Ten, kdo se především zabýval příčinami války, byl pan Turek, protože toho hajlujícího moštáře jste vzal na výlet do Kyjeva
Well, eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… updated with Language pack data. I will be doing less frequent updates (maybe 1-2 per day at most) to allow for people to work with the language files and have time to do so. Now, languages like Bulgarian, Romanian have specific letter rules. Hungarian actually is starting to sound like a native speaker talking. This is a solid language pack change, and we fixed the British "broad" to sound correct, too.
I should grab this and give you feedback about bg. Is it a separate voice? Unrelated to sapi or win core? If so, then awesome. We can make it sound native too. ;) :)
@tardis yeah, for now NVDA only, although the Phoneme Editor is the first to let it run outside of NVDA. A SAPI driver is not out of the question, as we already have one for BestSpeech, building a SAPI wrapper isn't the worst challenge. So it'll happen just later down the road.
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Ab sofort können alle Länderspiele der A-Nationalmannschaften über den kostenlosen Webplayer verfolgt werden. Die Übertragung beginnt jeweils 10 Minuten vor dem Spiel.
I'm getting a bunch of these lately. Usually two a day, a couple of minutes apart from each other, calling a bunch of people in my area code. FACETIME, Grouped, now, +212 1 00 02 51 7, +212 6 25 11 39 30 & 16 others , Missed FaceTime Call
I get those... But as texts. It's the first 6 digits of my phone number and the last 4 that change... There's like 20 "people" in the group text. I dunno.
next week is my development talk, I'm scared y'all. It's funny, dev talks make you think it's some kind of engineering presentation when it's completely different and nervwracking. Ugh.
Európsky parlament prijal dňa 18. decembra 2025 uznesenie o masových únosoch detí v Nigérii, a to aj z katolíckej školy sv. Márie v Papiri.
Pripomeňme si, že 21. novembra 2025 ozbrojenci zaútočili na katolícku školu sv. Márie v Papiri v štáte Niger a uniesli 303 študentov, 12 učiteľov a zamestnancov, čo bol jeden z najväčších únosov v dejinách Nigérie. Bezpečnostná situácia v Nigérii sa naďalej zhoršuje v dôsledku ozbrojených gangov a džihádistických skupín, ako sú Boko Haram a Islamský štát, čo viedlo vládu k vyhláseniu núdzového stavu v oblasti národnej bezpečnosti 26. novembra 2025.
Parlament dôrazne odsúdil masový únos v katolíckej škole sv. Márie a všetky útoky na deti, učiteľov a vzdelávacie či náboženské inštitúcie. Vyjadril solidaritu s obeťami, ich rodinami a postihnutými komunitami. Požadoval okamžité a bezpodmienečné prepustenie všetkých zostávajúcich unesených a vyzval nigérijskú vládu, aby zabezpečila ich bezpečný návrat a vykonala dôkladné a transparentné vyšetrovanie.
Nigérijské orgány sa vyzývajú, aby prijali konkrétne kroky na posilnenie ochrany škôl a poskytnúť alternatívne vzdelávacie podmienky s cieľom zabezpečiť kontinuitu vzdelávania pre dotknutých študentov. Zintenzívniť úsilie o zabezpečení prepustenia všetkých civilistov zadržiavaných ozbrojenými skupinami a o lepšiu ochranu škôl a zraniteľných komunít. Zabezpečiť nezávislé a účinné vyšetrovanie únosov a stíhať zodpovedné osoby a zabezpečiť ich súdne konanie v súlade s medzinárodnými záväzkami v oblasti ľudských práv a zásadami právneho štátu. Prijať opatrenia proti neistote a náboženskému, etnickému a medzikomunitnému násiliu v regióne.
New Audio Player. I want to introduce you to an audio player which is new to me for both Windows and Mac. It is called the Flux Entertainment Centre. This is a highly accessible application. I've been listening to our station Team-FM with it this morning and it is very stable and reliable. Global shortcut keys are available and it even has variable speed and pitch playback. The only thing which is missing is the ability to determine elapsed and remaining time in hours, minutes and seconds. For many people like me that is an essential requirement. I must know an elapsed time quickly. Apart from that, it's excellent. You do not need me to spell out its features because you can read about it here. ims-productions.com/flux/
Flux
Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces?
If so, Flux was made for you.
Flux brings your audio and media experie
@luiscarlosgonzalez those I don't use, and in Pixelfed, for example, I don't see particular use for the blind. It's like photo photo photo, nothing more, I think.
@menelion @luiscarlosgonzalez I'm personally more likely to pay for software that commits to a core feature set and executes it well. Telegram support belongs in an accessible chat app, not a social media client.
@menelion @Bri @jscholes Yeah I also. One app for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Misskey, Hubzilla, Frendica, Bonfire, Glitch, Sharki, Akkoma, Ploroma, Lemmi, GoToSocial, TruthSocial... wait not that omit that..., Another for Telegram
@luiscarlosgonzalez @Bri @jscholes Luis, I don't believe the app needs to support such a plethora of one-day solutions that keep growing like mushrooms, sorry. If a particular solution has an interesting function (like formatting support in Pleroma, for example), it's nice to have. Other than that... Mastodon/BlueSky/Threads, it's enough.
@Bri @menelion @luiscarlosgonzalez One underlying problem is that in 2026, there isn't enough accessible software being produced for Windows. So when someone comes along and demonstrates a willingness and ability to produce more of it, people want to see that production go as far as possible before it disappears.
Unfortunately that tends to encourage projects that lack polish and direction, burnout or disinterest on the part of the developers, and so on. In that sense it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Meanwhile on iOS, a suggestion that Telegram support be added to Mona would be perceived as fairly ridiculous. Partially because while it may not exist right now, there is more of an expectation that somebody could end up developing a reasonably accessible Telegram client on that platform even without having accessibility as a core intent.
@jscholes @Bri @luiscarlosgonzalez You're right, James, and I'll tell you the reason, at least how I perceive it: no one wants to pay, or those are rare who want. I'm starting such an endeavor right now, and I'm absolutely not sure I'll get paid.
@menelion @jscholes @Bri Neither do I, when ever someone creates the definitive fediverse app to unite them in one as a native app, but if you say that's too much... You've syncopated me
Yes, but with reservations. I would do it as long as it's a one-time payment and there's no online account and/or online activation. I'm always concerned that the developers will eventually lose interest in such projects and shut down the activation servers. The software would then become useless. That's why I don't like the concept of e.g. TweeseCake, even though it's currently free.
Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •He's yet another figure I didn't learn about in my whitewashed history classes, but I can benefit from his example now.
White people filming ICE are not the same; he was white passing but certainly not afforded the privileges of an actual white man. This was something he realized early while *watching* the Atlanta race riot of 1908 from the roof of his family home.
We can remember his courage, though. If he can do it as a man not afforded full civil rights, we can do it.
Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •Federal anti-lynching laws were not passed in his lifetime, though his work did contribute to their passing.
Imagine if there had been millions of actual white people backing him up and documenting the violence.
That's possible now. Attempted purges of nonwhite people are nothing new in this country, but it's new to have millions of white people rising up. Obviously the regime didn't think that would happen! These people seriously thought most white people only pay lip service...
Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •...to diversity and would actually welcome ICE ethnically cleansing "our" cities. They can't imagine anything else.
There are people who denigrate others' efforts because others are risking themselves to document abuses, but aren't shooting anybody. It's always people who do absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile one single man who didn't really have white privilege, who couldn't save lynching victims' lives, contributed to the passing of anti-lynching laws and ultimately prevented more deaths.
Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •I've seen first hand how terrified the ICE agents are of cat ladies holding cameras. We were laughing about this last night at the resistance dance party. I was standing there in a taco costume talking to other protesters after an ICE watch shift and we were cracking up. "Imagine being afraid of me!" I exclaimed at one point. The visual really is hilarious.
Those cameras do make a difference. If you feel powerless watching videos of these horrors, know that you are not.
Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •...completely defenseless, just like domestic abusers do, and we know these are the same kind of men.
They're scared of being watched, they're so scared of lawyers they shut up a lawyer yesterday by threatening to detain two other people as well as her client if she didn't shut up. (She was rightly saying the kidnapping they were doing was illegal.) She had to shut up at that time but her client will have his day in court. We initiated community support.
They are SCARED scared. They act...
Scary Austin
in reply to Scary Austin • • •...tough away from cameras but not when the cameras are going. Not when there's a crowd. Not when there's even one VIP, such as Bishop Pham of San Diego, who showed up to immigration court and made the ICE agents scatter like cockroaches.
The movement makes real difference in the here and now and will make a real difference when we punish these people.
Walter F White realized he had power as one Black man in the US in the heyday of the Klan.
We have real power if we use it.
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