I actually don't mind that Robert voice as my default either. But again, that's just me. Can't really put my finger on why, but also that voice somehow makes clearer consonants at 16000 and above, so beyond some minor tweaks it'll probably be kept
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Hey, can anyone on Tahoe confirm if VSCode works properly with VO? I'm still stuck on some old version of Sequoia and want to update at some point soon.
I've said it before now, but I'll repeat it in the context of FIFA or the Olympics: Please don't come here. The rule of law is gone. I could never have really "guaranteed your safety" before, one can't. But now, I can't even guarantee that we'll get you out of this.
Do not come to the US, which is currently busily become a failed pariah state with no rule of law.
The latest generation of Ubiquiti equipment is looking fast and good enough to form the foundation of my network rebuild. Plenty of 10 gigabit ports to go around, SFP+ and twisted pair, WiFi7, yah mahn! Time to hit that checkout button and watch the wallet cry.
I've been using UniFi stuff for years. I think you will find it great and frustrating in equal measure. It'll be interesting to see what you think of it.
Yah, I don't expect it to be networking with accessibility on a silver platter, but I figure if you and many others are using it, its obviously a fair bit better than useless, which is just about where the Asus and Netgear shit I've got sits.
I do as much as I can from the mobile app, because it's just faster, but where you need to use the web interface, I.E. for detailed policy and VLAN stuff, things get a little bit weird, especially concerning the drop-downs for firewall rules, and finding things in the first place.
So, the surface-level stuff is easy. The more advanced stuff is potentially hair-pulling.
A friend has a huge file with links to stuff in the interface, because some of it is not straight forward to find. I should get that for you, and me, for that matter, as I am probably going to soon upgrade my router to a UDM Pro. I've been using an Edgerouter since 2018.
@BorrisInABox Wellp, that'sabout the crucks of the Asus and Netgear stuff too. If all you need is plug in and power on, it works. If you want to manage the management, it grades from shit to utterly useless. Any resource you might have would certainly be appreciated. I really got this stuff so I could diversify and more secure my VLAN configuration, have it synced to all networking devices, and have proper effective WAP isolation, which the Asus does not do correctly or properly. As for the firewall, block-all on inbound, and allow all outbound on the WANs is probably okay for me, but will probably need more advanced stuff to ensure VLAN security, and perhaps some selective inter-VLAN routing.
Yah, open sounds pretty dumb for VLAN, considering isolated is typically what they're used for? LOL. Well, what I'm really hoping I can do with it is have VLANs split by SSID for the WAPs, and have those tagged on the switches and Dream Machine, so traffic from designated ports can be sent on those same VLANs. Will want a management VLAN where all the UI gear will go, with selective routing to only my machine on the trusted VLAN. a trusted VLAN which will act like a dumb network and allow anything to everything on it, plus Internet. a guest VLAN with Internet-only, an IOT VLAN with the same policy, and a custom VLAN for the room mates devices, with Internet, and access to only the printer.
That part, at least, is relatively easy. For a while, at this house, I had an SSID called "YouAreNowCanadian" which routed all internet traffic through a Montreal VPS over Wireguard, and put all the LAN stuff on it's own little subnet.
@BorrisInABox LOL. Well, that's good that my config appears easily doable with this new gear. My current gear can do all that too, but making it do so across all devices is impossible with its lack of accessibility, and on the devices that are impossible, a lack of CLI as an alternative. So having all this stuff sync up and a single control center will be helpful for sure.
Yep. I don't have quite that kind of integration, because at home, I'm still using an old Edgerouter, and here, it's all UniFi stuff except for the switches, so I still have to do manual VLAN tagging on the one switch here that supports it, which fortunately is accessible. It's also cheap junk, and not what you would want.
I've got a Raspberry Pi stuck in a dusty corner behind a chair, in a place where no one ever goes, next to a fire place that no one ever uses. I think it's only ever been lit once since my parents moved into this house a little more than 8 years ago.
This Raspberry Pi is connected to a cheap Behringer audio interface, which is, in turn, connected to a pair of cheap Behringer microphones that lives outside, such that it is always capturing, streaming and recording the ambient sounds in the neighborhood in stereo. I've been doing this for almost 16 nearly uninterrupted years, other than some time around a move in 2017. It's a blind man's webcam, as it were.
Since I don't actually live where this is anymore, I sometimes find it nice to just listen in on the place when I'm at home. Sometimes, interesting things happen. It's generally pretty peaceful, though.
Anyway, maybe two years ago (can't remember exactly when now), I was experiencing some major issues with the Raspberry Pi's built-in WiFi connecting to the network. Unfortunately, this Pi is not where I can run Ethernet, which is also the case for most devices in this house.
My solution was to get a cheap TPLink Archer something-or-other USB WiFi adapter and use that instead. It was less than $20, and only supports what is now being called WiFi5, I guess... 802.11AC. It's one of those adapters where the antenna is in the same housing as the dongle itself. I don't really like anything about that design. It's way too top-heavy.
It turns out that the Realtek chip TPLink used wasn't natively supported by the rPi kernel, requiring a third party driver that some random user compiled.
I installed this driver, got terrible performance and crappy throughput, switched back to the built-in WiFi, and managed to make it work OK by adjusting some stuff on the access point.
Apparently, I just left this USB adapter connected to it and forgot about it, because according to my UniFi controller, that host had two IP addresses assigned to it.
The UniFi wireless access points all have iperf (not iperf3) installed on them, so I installed iperf on the Pi, and did speedtests between the access point and the Pi from both IP addresses, since they were both active. Because of another unrelated stupid compromise situation that currently exists involving a much narrower than intended wireless mesh channel bandwidth that I am still trying to find a solution for that isn't just not using wireless mesh, which is what I would really like to do, I knew that measuring with another device on the network would probably be slower than theoretical achievable speeds to/from the wireless interface and the access point itself, so I opted to use iperf directly from the access point, since it was already installed, albeit an older protocol and a binary from 2016, for some reason. And, yes, this is with a firmware from December of 2025.
Anyway, turns out that the forgotten WiFi adapter provides significantly more throughput than the built-in chip, not to mention a stronger signal (-47 dBm vs -60 dBm), so I have once again disabled that Pi's onboard WiFi, and am now using the USB adapter again.
The end-result: probably no one at all will ever notice the difference but me, and even then, only under some very specific circumstances.
Oh well.
All that for that.
Completely unrelated: This Pi is still running Raspbian Buster, and probably should be upgraded. It isn't hosting anything that is directly exposed to the internet, though. Liquidsoap is streaming to a local Icecast server, which is then being relayed by a larger server over a Wireguard VPN. The ISP here only does CG-NAT, so I can't serve things from the IP address directly even if I wanted to, which I don't care about as much these days thanks to how easy things like Wireguard and Tailscale makes it to do on damn near any type of connection, combined with a properly configured exit node.
If you want to listen to the live stream that this thing provides, feel free to click here, or plug this into your media player of choice.
(everything is a LOT right now and you don't have to be perfect for me or anyone else, and we are multi-faceted beings that are capable of feeling many things simultaneously, so choose everything applicable)
Hey #blind #linux users. Quick question. What is the most accessible linux desktop these days? Is it still mate, or how are we doing. Context: I want to try to switch from Windows, and I'm fine spending some time setting things up, but I don't want to have a 30 min debug session every time I want to use my computer
A VA nurse and a UMN alum who decided to stand up for what's right. He was just an ordinary Minnesotan. He could have been your brother, your son, your neighbor, your colleague, your friend. Executed by ICE face-down, like a contract mob hit. How many more will there be?
Incidentally, yesterday's event(s) are why I ALWAYS switch off video autoplay in all browsers and social media apps and refuse to use TikTok or other video media platforms.
I do not need to see that kind of shit, and you should think twice before sharing it with strangers without a content warning.
In the rare instances I do choose to share extremely disturbing things, I don't even solely rely on CWs since many people - myself included - auto expand them. I'll make the URL unclickable so someone has to copy paste it if they want to see it. Surround it with backticks if your software supports markdown. Put a space in the URL. Something so only those who actually choose to see things that may haunt dreams see it.
I dunno who needs to hear this today, but: “don’t look away” is metaphorical. It means don’t pretend it’s not happening. You’re allowed to not watch the videos.
New SpeechPlayer update, adds voice: Robert. Fixes Hungarian language rules by mapping new phonemes for them and not contaminating other languages with these. I can say that Hungarian is more understandable, it's not fully there, but it's getting there, so call it experimental support. Both Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese have the most phonemes in their table now. Not much else. Still sad. I know people still hate SpeechPlayer. I use it as my primary voice now. Part of me is proud of it for sounding very American, part of me is super ashamed. So ashamed and sad inside today. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Keep it going. I can see the improvements. It's going to be a long process, but I think you'll get there, but you will need some serious stick-to-itness.
Hey man, don't feel sad or ashamed at all, you're doing amazing work, and the fact that this synth is open source means that others can and probably will end up contributing.
but I'm sad, it sounds too much like Keynote Gold, LOL. Eventually I do plan to tune more voices, I think it's just that the defaults don't really set a lot of the characteristics either. So that's why I created that Robert voice as an experiment but it's very easy to give it the wrong multipliers and end up with something that doesn't sound like a voice at all. Probably like 3 hours of manual tuning work just to get Robert to sound distinct, but it taught me a lot on what and how you control it. There's 5 axis you control voices on: Prosody feel , Noise integration , Glottal tension Resonance sharpness, Vocal tract size. And you tune parameters within those 5 core areas. What a learning.
No need to be ashamed. Speech synthesis is probably one of the hardest audio processing tasks to do, because there are so many moving parts. It's taken me two years just to get a working "ah". I really admire your efforts.
"perheorkesterimme" Kaiunsäde, vuosien varrella vaikka minkälaista ohjelmistoa soittanut bändi, on tulossa esiintymään Espoon Sellosalin lämpiöklubille lauantaina 31.1 klo 19. Luvassa on elokuvamusiikkia, tangoa meiltä ja maailmalta ja uutta originaalimusiikkia akustisina, pienen bändin eläväisinä sovituksina. Tervetuloa! Täältä lisätietoa ja liput: espoo.fi/fi/uutiset/2026/01/so… #keikat
Страх ме е. Много ме е страх, но не за себе си, а за вас. Навеждали ли си сте се някога към локвичка с вода след току що навалял дъжд за да духнете в нея?
Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса, които промените в последните секунди ми носят. Ако сте там и искате да се видим, тук ми е приблизителния план за двата дни! Ето списък с лекциите и слайдовете, ако ви е интересно.
Quebec’s Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology (MCN) is adopting measures to regulate the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) by public bodies.
В Питере открылась монастырская баня для состоятельных верующих. Люксовый комплекс рассчитан на двоих и оформлен с камином, колоколами, иконами и парной. Цена православного релакса — 35 тысяч рублей с человека: в неё входят парение вениками, массажи, скрабы и «очищение ума от дурных мыслей». Обещают полный духовный перезапуск.
I could suspend disbelief to the point of agreeing that yeah, ok, maybe Tim Cook needed to be at the inauguration.
But at the Melania documentary VIP screening while groups of government thugs roam the country, executing people? Yeah no, he’s just part of the gang now.
Rip up trade deals with the US. They're not worth the paper they're written on anymore.
Repeal anti-circumvention laws; allow companies in every nation to reverse engineer US tech, and sell better, cheaper alternatives, even to Americans - this would create leverage over the USA.
Cory Doctorow raised this idea at his 39c3 talk, recently. I agree. Those trade deals promise low/no tariffs and we let US tech walk all over us. Well now there is nothing to lose (never was).
On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. theverge.com/news/867429/tim-c…
If you’re wondering what kind of access a gold-and-Gorilla-Glass statue, a $1 million donation, and endless fawning buys you, well, it gets a special advanced screening of a state-sanctioned propaganda documentary film about the First Lady.
I'd like to some good non google photo *editors* for storage on my own device. Ente etc is just storage. The ones I found are deep in an ai swamp, thats not what I'm looking for. Any android suggestions for that?
I liked u added fennec and session in ur list. Still need some more like keepassdx for android, offline translator, another notes/NotallyX. Also add options for files & keyboard because ppls still using Google files & gboard. Alternatives are fossify files or right files and SwiftKey (not foss but 💯 %manageable without internet) or unexpected keyboard. With ente photo u can add aveslibre photo app
so I tried to access the Aurora "app". The home page is full of Temu ads and there is absolutely no set of complete instructions on how to even open any list of apps, never mind using it. If you want to convince people to adopt these alternatives, above all else, they must be instantly easy to access, install, and use. Otherwise it's Dungeons and Dragons level interest.
I think we made a mistake trying to get rid of Karens, we just need to reroute their powers. We definitely need someone to speak to the manager right now, and demand some rights.
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