in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Thanks for your toot!

The urge to connect every thing to the Internet astonishes me. I enjoy other people's observations and complaints about the Bidness World's belief that we are all idIoTs.

This thread reminded me of a story from a galaxy far, far away - timewise. Before the Internet. Even before FRED, the first PC. The story is "The Robot Millennia", in "Galaxies Like Grains of Sand" by Brian Aldiss, New American LIbrary (1960). It was prescient, and fun. But no IoT.

Will you be at #FOSDEM or in Brussels next week and want to meet some of the team? 👀

We have a few more spots open to register for the event at Little Delirium on Jan 31! If you haven't registered yet, do so before space runs out 👇🏼

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #OpenSource
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 21 updated and 1 added apps:

* Be nice: lets you launch apps in split-screen mode 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

Hi @Tamasg I'm trying NVSpeechPlayer 2026 v10, I'm not sure if this is the latest version, but the voice sounds a bit different, even when using Adam, than the original SpeechPlayer. Were there some changes that could change how the overall voice quality sounds? It's hard to pinpoint it, but the voice itself sounds less harsh and consonents like P sound very short now. I see several settings in the voice dialog but I have no idea what any of them do, but they did not seem to make much of a difference. Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to any input you may have. Thanks.
in reply to Brandon Tyson

yeah, there were like 3 missing phoneme fields: preFormantGain. , GlottalOpenQuotient, ETC. these got added in the later pack and are now tunable per vowel, in the past they would just be set to the engine default and everything got the same treatment. So this allows more flexibility but some things could have shifted with the change. Every letter now needs to define these new 3, they are very important for shaping and leaving them out in the past until now has been a disaster.
in reply to Tamas G

Awesome, I'll take a look. I also notice weird inconsistencies with phonemes in general with US English, not just in speech player, but in eSpeak in general. Are we stuck with eSpeak's limitations? Or can I make other changes in the phoneme editor? For instance, certain words with "ong" in them sound more like "onng" instead (with Eloquence, "onng" will produce more of an "ah" sound instead. It's like eSpeak has specific exceptions where "ong" sounds correct. Can I overwrite this for speech player? Or are we stuck with this weird inconsistency?
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Hier könnte man sich verschiedene sog. Distributionen und Desktops anschauen:
onworks.net/onworkssession.php
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Ich habe mehrere Jahre Dualboot genutzt. Seit Windows 10 würde ich persönlich das nur noch versierten Benutzern empfehlen. Windows ist da eine ziemliche Schweinebacke und hat da keine Skrupel, dir z.B. nach einem Update mal kurz den Bootloader zu zerschiessen. Nicht lustig, für die " Nur-Anwender:in".

Daher, wenn möglich, Linux nach erfolgreichem Live-Test ab USB Stick beim Installieren die ganze Festplatte geben. Und falls doch noch zwingend ein Windows benötigt wird, dieses per Virtual Box o.ä. nutzen.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Das "sieht" man aber nicht vorher oder nur beim ausprobieren. Das läuft wunderbar nebeneinander, bis zu dem Punkt, wo Windows findet, es wäre mal an der Zeit, zu zeigen, wer der Donald auf der Kiste ist. Und dann tuts weh. Darum empfehle ich das für Umsteiger gar nicht mehr.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Das ist genau das, was ich meine. Wir können mit sowas umgehen.
Aber in meinem Umfeld (Computeria), die "typische" Ü60/Ü70 Nutzer:in, welche die Schnauze voll hat, von einer Firma, die sie zwingt einen guten Rechner gegen einen neuen zu tauschen...
Der hätte ich früher ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken einen Dualboot empfohlen. Das kannst du denen heute nicht mehr zumuten.

@Dialektgefahr@pleroma.envs.net

in reply to Bruno Roost

Mich haben vor ca. 12, 13 Jahren auch die Verdrehungen immer wieder frustriert. Da haben Leute drauflos auf Linux umstellen wollen, weil sie das bei mir gut laufen sahen oder ich es empfohlen hatte. Sie haben sich aber vorher nicht mit den Grundlagen vertraut gemacht und meinten dann na Dein Linux funktioniert ja nicht, es bootet nicht mehr - dabei lag es halt an Windows. Und da gibts einiges in dieser Richtung...
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NVSpeech Player 2026 v10: Removes all pops/clicks from stream, 100% for sure now.
Spanish can now say "yo" properly. First attempt at "hear" and "dear" but it's not perfect yet. Other tweaks to voice quality.
Sample rate added. You can now choose from 4 of them if you don't like the default.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
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in reply to Cleverson

@clv1 You’re right, the schwa rule was present, but it didn’t trigger before "rã" in pt-br because we normalize ã into a Brazil-specific nasal vowel symbol Ã, and our PT_VOWELS class didn’t include Ã. I’ve added à to PT_VOWELS (and PT_NASAL_VOWELS) in pt.yaml, so consonant + ɾ + à now correctly becomes consonant + ᵊɾ + Ã. That should fix the missing schwa before rã / ram / ran-style sequences.

It makes sense that people who have completely abandoned their humanity want to replace humanity with software. The people pushing AI have no idea what art and music are.

They have no idea how a story can make a soul shiver and bend and laugh and weep.

They have no idea what it means to be truly human in this world, knowing that you are connected with all life.

They only want to replace humans with sickly, unthinking toys.

in reply to Hisham

And that's a good thing. The concept of "saving" (as well as the OK button) only exist as historical artifacts. Nobody ever wanted them, but in the age of slow CPUs, slow HDDs, slow floppies, and single-threaded everything, there was no choice but to have them.

It's pretty ridiculous that all the major desktop OSes are still based on 1980's-era Apple concepts... except Apple's.

Oh – look how many subscribers the #LibreOffice YouTube channel has! Check out our videos about the software and events, and be subscriber number 25,000: youtube.com/@libreoffice-tdfor…

I'm looking for a secure Messaging app replacement for #GrapheneOS but my web searches haven't turned up any clear answers. I use Signal and love it - I'm just looking for something for SMS/MMS that isn't as unsightly as the default Messaging app, with better use of the available screen real estate, and perhaps has some basic theme and/or layout options. Any recommendations from personal experience?
in reply to DJ [REDACTED] 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

I think people will get confused by the way you formulated the post "secure messaging app" that is why you will get recommendations for Delta Chat and other encrypted messengers, maybe better clarify you mean "secure SMS app" to avoid confusion, and btw I recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat as replacement for Signal, no phone number or any data required, decentralized, good multi-device, etc.

for SMS I liked "QKSMS" but that was years ago, see successor:
f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.oc…

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in reply to Catelli

actually, #email (#SMTP + #IMAP) can totally be used for #InstantMessaging it is not the protocols it is the specific email providers and "big fishes" like #gmail and #Outlook the ones that put extra limitations on top like graylisting etc. with #ArcaneChat and #DeltaChat you can have sub-second (#ENCRYPTED) email delivery
in reply to categulario 🐍 🦀 🦎 🇵🇸

@categulario sipi, la tarima tiene tapas y el zapatero sus puertitas corredizas. Bajo la tarima tengo las mochilas de viaje, estufa de acampar, cosas de costura, bolsas pa la bici, tripié y pendejadas de la cámara, el tapete de yoga...
En el zapatero, los zapatos y las mochilas más utilizadas.

Hello Mastodon!

I’m Avi Lewis and I’m running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. Very excited to be part of the Fediverse!

I’m running for NDP leader because it’s time for the NDP to return to its roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the rest of us behind.

We can build a Canada based on care instead of greed, but only if we do it together. There are only 4 days left to join the NDP so you can vote in the leadership race, so get your membership before Jan 28th and let’s fight for a government that serves the many, not the money.

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#cdnpoli #NDP

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