there is no backups for arcanechat.me no user data is kept in backups not even if it is already encrypted data, if the server is wipped all data is gone, but here is the twist, you will barely notice! your account will be magically restored as soon as you connect, and all your data is safely stored in your devices, in your pockets, not in some cloud a.k.a "someone else's computer"
as a #chatmail relay operator this gives peace of mind you don't get with other selfhosted chat solutions
If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.
I bet a lot of my programmer friends are going, "why didn't you just use JSON and serialize settings that way?" Y'all, I did consider good ol JSON, because yes, it does have a faster compute time, but before the phoneme editor and NVDA driver settings, JSON would have been a lot less human-readable. YAML does suck for indents, I agree, but so does Python, if you are thinking on those lines, and good code indenting is honestly just good code hygiene if you think about it, why not keep that alive. I read them on a Braille display a lot, I recognize not all people do, but poorly indented code in Braille VS well-indented is the difference from knowing quickly where functions begin VS trudging code as though it were a thick foggy swamp. And I don't like that feelin'.
I am currently using Airpods Pro 2 as hearing aids, with everything cranked as much as it can be cranked. It's probably not the best thing for my particular condition, but it works, mostly, until I can do something better, which is not now.
I have a clock in this room, which chimes every hour through a speaker.
Something about that sound freaks them out a little, and, when I also have screen reader speech or something else going at the same time, I get an almost ghost vocoder effect, where certain frequencies get modulated by the chiming clock.
It makes it almost sound like the clock is speaking, or ghost aspects of it are, anyway.
I bet a lot of my programmer friends are going, "why didn't you just use JSON and serialize settings that way?" Y'all, I did consider good ol JSON, because yes, it does have a faster compute time, but before the phoneme editor and NVDA driver settings, JSON would have been a lot less human-readable. YAML does suck for indents, I agree, but so does Python, if you are thinking on those lines, and good code indenting is honestly just good code hygiene if you think about it, why not keep that alive. I read them on a Braille display a lot, I recognize not all people do, but poorly indented code in Braille VS well-indented is the difference from knowing quickly where functions begin VS trudging code as though it were a thick foggy swamp. And I don't like that feelin'.
Maybe you don't care about the EU's digital sovereignty. But let's be serious for a moment - the chance of getting rid of MS Teams does sound exciting, right?
So apparently my personal combination of social security disability, retirement savings, and “desire to own a house” makes me too complex a client for your run-of-the-mill financial advisor. Striking out with all the household name firms.
Fedi friends, especially #PDX area #disabled pals: can anyone throw me a referral here?
Honestly the easiest first place to test any new language is the SAPI wrapper, you just drop the language-specific YAML in, and boom, you can have that language show up as one of the voices. That's what's nice about it, but anon-well-tuned language (with missing phonemes and such, or a tonal one not configured with tonal settings) would still probably sound like shit. But at least, people can really experiment and try any language just by copying default.yaml and renaming it to the language's YAML name, boom, poof, then adjusting from there.
#Bitwarden premium users, please be aware that they're doing an 100% price increase for no features of any proper value. I happily paid even 20€ a year for 2 vaults, but won't do 40 for features I never use. So thanks for the push to look into selfhosting again. To clarify, the initial premium price was 10€, they're doubling for 20, adding random protection features you don't need if you have a brain. bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-l… reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comment…
Bitwarden Premium and Families plans now have new capabilities to account for a modern cyber landscape needing to anticipate threats before they happen and allowing users to proactively safeguard their digital assets.
I setup vaultwarden not to long ago, it wasn't bad. I just prefer chromium local passwords, but I might consider hosting that when I create a nas at some point soon. Another decision I'm thinking about what I'm going to use etc.
I'm a bit hesitant to self-host my own because all of my actual serious passwords are in there lol but I seriously might if they keep doing price increases like that
i want to not have to gaf about being successful and shit all the time. and just think. you know what. today im gonna hop on my console and just. play quake. and just be able to play it and not have to think ohhhhh shitttt man ohhh fuck i have to do a thing
Updated eurpod.com/synths/NVSpeechSapi…, V2 kept around for legacy, but this supports the new pack-level engine settings as well as updated the packs themselves.
Enjoy a little project I've been vibe coding with Claude. I call it Escape the City. I've got a lot more things to add/update/fix/unbreak. l-works.net/escape/
The so-called “Magnificent Seven” have gone from stock-market leaders to stock-market laggards. But amid the most persistent bout of underperformance …
Wieso wird im Rahmen der #DiDay Bewegung eigentlich ständig @signalapp empfohlen? Wo laufen denn die Server von denen? Laut Internet auch in den USA auf Amazon, Google und Co…
Es braucht, will man viele Menschen erreichen, um Whatsapp zu verlassen, einen Messenger, der für Otto-Normal-User, wenig technikaffin, eine für diese Klientel einfache, kostengünstige und größtenteils sichere Alternative und die ist zur Zeit Signal!
Kein Mensch wird sich eine selbstgehostete xy-Alternative überhaupt nur ansehen oder 6 € für das aufgekaufte Threema investieren.
@HdE DeltaChat is free, offers super easy onboarding, the UI is good, it is even based on Signal client, it is decentralized, there are servers all over the world and can be selfhosted, it is super cheap to run, requires low resources
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