Milí spoluobčané, co ste si to tam dosadili za burany?
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We'd like to invite you to our #BoF session at #FOSDEM It's on Saturday at 13.00 in room K4.401. This is a meet-and-greet for everyone who is part of, or interested in, the #NGIZero ecosystem. We'll bring drinks and snacks :).
Preceding us at 12.00 in the same room is the BoF about the Open Internet Stack calls from @EUCommission the follow-up programme to #NGI.
For these and many more NGI Zero related talks and events at FOSDEM see: nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDE…
Preceding us at 12.00 in the same room is the BoF about the Open Internet Stack calls from @EUCommission the follow-up programme to #NGI.
For these and many more NGI Zero related talks and events at FOSDEM see: nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDE…
hmm. I wonder if releasing on GitHub might be easier for folks, rather than Eurpod. I am considering doing this and keeping one file there. This might break my old posts, but GitHub releases are more trackable, the repo is frozen at that tag, ETC. There's just clear benefits to release them always as a pair (editor + Add-on) whenever I make a change. From here on out, I think that's going to happen.
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Saw a reference to Paulo Coehlo’s ‘The Alchemist’ this morning, which was funny because just yesterday I was explaining to someone it’s where one of my key prioritizing heuristics comes from.
There’s a proverb in the book that goes something like “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
Of course, logically this makes no sense—everything that happened twice is a thing that also happened once.
But I take it to mean “Once something goes wrong twice, it’s time to pay attention.” Once could be a fluke. Twice means there’s something going on.
Winter storm thankfully produced sleet instead of ice. Sidewalks & steps are still a mess. Neighbors were clearing sidewalks yesterday but stopped short of our section. Sweet.
I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…
#openart #foss #creativecommons
./make art: A Creative Commons Theater Experiment FOSDEM 2026
It began as a small patch for a real-world bug: holes in the road. A few hackers chose action over complaints and the result was a Creative Commons theater play, performed in Sofia, Bulgaria.pretalx.fosdem.org
I knew there was another reason I went back to Windows 10. Seriously, how the fuck do people still trust this shit? youtube.com/watch?v=sx8fA8zAoQ…
Windows 11 January Update Can Stop Your PC From Booting
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I have no idea what any of that means, but I enrolled my PC into another year of updates just via settings, and thus it still works fine.
Do you like nonsense?
Today, for the second time in my life, I have been asked to convert a "pirate" copy of an old (50y+) movie into the DCP format, for a cinephile club. Not because they do not want to pay the copyright holders, they actually did. But that did not give them access to any copy of the movie, they are on their own.
The previous time, the distributor would only send them a French-dubbed version, which was a no-no for them.
They are not even obscure unknown movies, but classics. 🤦♀️
Today, for the second time in my life, I have been asked to convert a "pirate" copy of an old (50y+) movie into the DCP format, for a cinephile club. Not because they do not want to pay the copyright holders, they actually did. But that did not give them access to any copy of the movie, they are on their own.
The previous time, the distributor would only send them a French-dubbed version, which was a no-no for them.
They are not even obscure unknown movies, but classics. 🤦♀️
Convert flv (Flash Video files) to MP4?
Is it possible? Safely? (I'm not keen on clicking on some of the links on a search. Are there downsides? Does anyone know?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
If you can provide one video I can try it with my ffmpeg script. No idea if it will even see it or not but worth a try.
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency.
Not remotely what you want to see. Will keep tabs on this one in a tough time. Details:
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings.Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
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High‑pass RMS (a good proxy for “sharp edge”):
d͡z alone:
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.0201 → 0.0150 (≈ 25% less)
“words” (ending only):
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.01337 → 0.01048 (≈ 22% less)
And the overall RMS stayed basically the same, so it shouldn’t sound “weak”, just less prickly.
d͡z alone:
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.0201 → 0.0150 (≈ 25% less)
“words” (ending only):
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.01337 → 0.01048 (≈ 22% less)
And the overall RMS stayed basically the same, so it shouldn’t sound “weak”, just less prickly.
Canada should deny entry to anyone associated with ICE or CPB. Wearing masks to commit murders, it could be any of them, how do we know?
Uznesenie o brutálnych represiách proti demonštrantom v Iráne
V uznesení prijatom vo štvrtok poslanci Európskeho parlamentu vyjadrujú svoje rozhorčenie nad represiami a masovými vraždami, ktoré pácha iránsky režim na protestujúcich v Iráne.
Parlament bezpodmienečne požaduje, aby iránske orgány pod vedením Alího Chameneího okamžite ukončili násilie voči pokojným demonštrantom, zastavili všetky popravy a zastavili vraždenie a represie voči civilistom. V plnej solidarite s iránskym ľudom a jeho odvážnym a legitímnym protestným hnutím dôrazne odsudzuje rozsiahle, úmyselné a neprimerané použitie sily bezpečnostnými silami.
V uznesení poslanci vyjadrujú znepokojenie nad tým, že vražda tisícov protestujúcich signalizuje znepokojujúci posun v potláčaní disentu iránskym režimom od odstrašovania k strategickej eliminácii. Poslanci požadujú okamžité a bezpodmienečné prepustenie všetkých protestujúcich, obhajcov ľudských práv a novinárov, ktorí sú v súčasnosti zadržiavaní.
Parlament vyzýva Radu, aby bezodkladne pristúpila k úplnému označeniu Zboru islamských revolučných gárd vrátane milícií Basídž a síl Kuds za teroristické organizácie. Požaduje rozšírenie a prísne presadzovanie reštriktívnych opatrení EÚ vrátane zmrazenia aktív a zákazu vydávania víz, víta nedávne sankcie USA a vyzýva na rýchle kroky EÚ proti všetkým úradníkom a subjektom zodpovedným za represie.
Parlament nakoniec zdôrazňuje, že akákoľvek normalizácia vzťahov s Iránom môže nasledovať len po bezpodmienečnom prepustení politických väzňov a skutočnom pokroku smerom k demokracii a právnemu štátu, pričom víta rozhodnutie svojej predsedníčky Roberty Metsolovej zakázať zástupcom iránskeho režimu vstup do priestorov Európskeho parlamentu a vyzýva členské štáty, aby nasledovali tento príklad.
The d͡z version showed sharper energy around high frequencies (3–8kHz). To fix this, I redistributed the energy by adjusting various parameters, including pa6 and pa5. Next update. Words like " words" and "sounds" have less sharpness already but it didn't lose its sound.
I once again have built up a number of posts I thought were too mad to post but made me laugh so I didn't delete them. They lay festering in my drafts. It feels wrong to delete them for some reason. So I'm going to amnesty post those babies here now so I can be free of the responsibility of them.
Sorry I didn't boost that banger you tooted but I was taking stock of my life. I'm back now and promise never to leave again. X
For anyone new who's wondering - if you boost and fave at the same time it means you love me and you can't take it back
My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
Read the book online for free.accessibilityforeveryone.site
Alright, work meetings. No SpeechPlayer updates for a bit. Someone's asking for Russian, really can't promise that'd be ready by next driver with how complex it is of a language. If I add Russian I'd also be tempted with Ukranian, Belarusian, and Serbian. so it would come in with similar languages, just as we have all the Germanic ones, and then each would get their own tuning treatments. But large work. The initial scaffolding I can make, native speakers I can't just birth out of my stomach.
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Working on another vibe-coded text game. I need to find a place to put these. Should they go up on LWorks or somewhere else?
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I don't know. My partner (Jess) asked if I'm building this for other people or myself. I feel like I'm building it for other people but I really should be happy with it for myself at least. My only goal was to get this thing working in modern NVDA. Then US English lead us to other languages, people asked if they can have theirs, and then it turned into this big sad project. But maybe I shouldn't feel so sad over it. For myself, it sounds nearly there. Yes some words are off, and some things still stick out a bit sharp, like the word words, ironically. But I can understand and use it, probably 80% of the time I am instead of Eloquence. In that way, mission accomplished, and we have a big robust frontend to tune, so I probably should feel less sad about it.
No matter what, it sounds like you learned a huge amount about how language and speech synthesis work. I'd consider that a success all on its own. You should be proud of the work you put in and the knowledge you got, no matter the eventual outcome of the project.
@alexhall oh my goodness yes. To be able to speak the lingo of the language nerds now is a bit astonishing to me. Fricatives and affricates? Monophthongs and Diphthongs? Haha. All of it. Absorbing it in such a short time has been insane to me, but also things I've always wanted to understand about language and accents. For example, now I get that when someone has an accent, it's not just about how they're saying that language's letters but also their prosody and how they're stressing words too. It's all very complex, more than just "you're saying that letter or word wrong." It's an entire shift of, "this language has completely different patterns for how it stresses and forms words or combined ones." Pretty nuts.
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in reply to NGI Zero open source funding • • •Why are all the talks/events I'd like to attend at the same time (just in different locations) – including the talk I give myself? 😢 4 events relevant for our project, but only 3 of us are at FOSDEM, and we need to keep our stand covered as well…
Nevertheless, looking forward to meet you again! 🤗