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I made the scary decision: The new old legacyPitchMode is set to true in future versions of NVSpeech drivers, for now. If enough people complain about it, we will of course revert it to false, but a lot of people mentioned how this was an ask.
So, it's here. driver link:
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Since I've had 2 people mention how the older SpeechPlayer sounded better for UK English, we reverted a lot of the vowel-specific changes made that caused phonemes to drift wrong. Hopefully this didn't screw up other languages too bad. Sigh. We'll see. Can't please everyone. Best we can do is make language-specific phoneme rule transformations if it sounds wrong for that language. This driver also fixes gaps during say-all by doing a similar coalescing of indexes during say-all as Brailab does.

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RE: mastodon.social/@adastra1930/1…

can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera

Alison Pitt

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Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀

#Technology #InfoSec
techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amaz…



Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)

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jonny (good kind)

having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street
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✧✦Catherine✦✧

i currently really need an IP camera so i researched my options for "IP camera with a firmware that i can guarantee doesn't spy on me"

wanna know what the current meta is, apparently? (according to some of the people who've spent the most time doing this exact thing)

you... you buy a camera devkit on aliexpress and flash a linux distro on it. the second part i expected (not to say this should be the norm). but the first took me by surprise; you'd think some vendor makes devices that are good enough at least for firmware modding.

nope. we are in a hell of our own making. i guess if you aren't an embedded engineer with years of experience you don't deserve to have a trustworthy ip camera or something

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

this is exactly correct. i've had the misfortune to do some camera wrangling. this is very much a case of "please consider if you really need it, and if you do, here's [2-3x my normal hourly rate]".

only in this line of work have i seen a large corporate customer not be given a complete schematic for a devboard (a very basic one, p much just MIPI, I2C, and a few sidebands connected) except as a blurry image in microsoft teams screenshare with a pinky promise that you won't screenshot it (because the terms of the NDA with $sensor_vendor prohibit even acknowledging that the sensor has pins)

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RE: social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrass…

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…


VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)

Attached: 1 image Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it. https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201 Here's mine. #OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI
VM (Vicky) Brasseur (VMB Social)

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Welcome tommy as #curl commit author 1434: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2027…

bugfix: `SA_SIGINFO` should not be set when it is using `sa_handler` by Tommy-LXDAO · Pull Request #20278 · curl/curl

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/functions/sigaction.html SA_SIGINFO should not be set when it is using sa_handler. If we set sa_handler as SIG_IGN and sa_flags with SA_SIGINFO.The s...
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Welcome Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder as #curl commit author 1433: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2030…

docs: update configure examples by Arnav-Purushotam-CUBoulder · Pull Request #20301 · curl/curl

Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps, plus 1 added from the weekend:

* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️
* Oksigenia SOS: safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection 🛡️
* RepoStore: turns GitHub releases into a clean, Play Store-style experience 🛡️
* advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️

RB status: 806 apps (62.2%)

Enjoy your #free #apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.

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What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone.
Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…

Spotify Auto Pause

Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?! If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...
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#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.

Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.

Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYj…

pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bon…

via @davidgerard @ParadeGrotesque

A chart showing Oracle stock prices. 9 Sept 241.51 USD. 15 Jan: 191.24 USD.

Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…
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#oracle #openai @Parade du Grotesque 💀 @David Gerard
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