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Imagine if people you met in life embodied the audio characteristics found in popular music recordings of the time they were born.

My mom, born in the mid 50s, would have a constant slap-back delay on her voice that couldn't be turned off.
Someone born a few years later would probably only be heard on either your left or right side, never both ears at once.
I would probably be in a wash of reverb and chorus.
Someone born in 1996 would have way too many highs and sound kind of brittle.

Someone born before 1925 would have a relatively limited frequency response, with the characteristics of acoustic recording.

It would be almost the inverse of going back in time and recording old voices with accents that don't exist anymore with modern, high-end equipment.

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Habt ihr eine Idee, welche deutschsprachigen allg. übergeordeten Begriffe man für #Messenger/ Chatsysteme benutzen könnte?

Es geht um die Gestaltung eines Formulars, auf dem Personen ihr Handle/ Account/ ID o.ä. für digitale Kommunikation angeben sollen, unter dem/ der sie erreichbar sind.

Die Abfrage nach der ID/Account für Messenger (dienste), unter der die Nutzer erreichbar sind, führte zu totaler Überforderung. Sie konnten gar nichts mit den Begriffen Chat, Messenger, ID, Account oder Benutzername anfangen, hatten aber alle WA auf dem Phone und wussten nicht, dass ihre TelNr. die ID ihres genutzten Messengerdienstes ist ...

Im Prinzip wäre das praktisch wohl so, als würde man z.B. einen Opel fahren und wüsste nicht, dass das ein Auto ist. 😶

#messenger

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As much as I loathe LLM "AI" built from hoards of stolen data, machine learning "AI" has become terrifically useful.

This past week I had 10 audio recorders set out in the forest and nearby grassland, all recording non-stop from Monday afternoon to Friday morning. That was on our recent university field ecology field trip.

Today I downloaded all the files to a hard drive (156 GB of data) and then I set my little M1 Macbook Air to work, using the offline desktop BirdNet app to identify all of the birds in the recordings.

It took most of the day, and now I have a 42,284 row spreadsheet of birds detected.

It really feels like magic.

Here's a quick sorted lists of all the bird detections with species IDs with a confidence score >0.9.

Together with the students in the course, we'll laterl compare how birds have changed since we started doing this in 2020, and how the birds in the grassland differ from the forest.)

#birds #BirdNet #ecology #nz #MachineLearning

A screenshot of an R output listing bird scientific names and the number of detections made by BirdNet with a certainty >0.9. They're listed in order from most common, with the top eight birds being silvereyes, bellbirds, yellowhammers, greenfinches, fantails, riflemen, grey warblers, and dunnocks.
#birds #Ecology #machinelearning #nz #birdNET

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LLMs (combined with ASR models) are basically this but for text.

LLMs let you turn large and messy corpora of text, audio and images into a neat csv, which you can then analyze in any data science tool of choice. You can't just Excel your way through "how likely are right-wing newspapers to mention the race of a rapist, depending on what that race is." Not without a team of grad students doing the gruntwork at least. LLMs automate away all of that gruntwork, letting you answer research questions much faster.

You can't use pure Chat GPT for this, you need specialized tools.

Sure, LLMs hallucinate, just like human annotators do. This is why you (as a human) need to go through a sample of your corpus and figure out what your hallucination rate is. This is still much faster than annotating the entire corpus.

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At some point last evening, most of the lights off, I was coming up the stairs, and was meowing at the cat. The cat meowed back, and we were having "a conversation", as you do.

I became aware that the cat was in front of me, but the meowing was coming from further up the stairs.

That's when I realized the cat wasn't saying anything, but my wife and I were meowing at each other, each of us thinking the other was the cat.

Meanwhile, the cat was sitting between us, wondering what these two idiots were talking about.

#cat #cats

#cat #cats
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🎥 Streamujeme FOSDEM 2026 live!

Sledujte konferenci přes náš PeerTube:
📺 vhsky.cz

3 paralelní místnosti:
- Janson (hlavní sál) - JIŽ BĚŽĺ ✅
- K1105 (La Fontaine) - od 10:00
- H2215 (Social Web) - od 10:30

Sobota 31.1. + Neděle 1.2.
Program: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/
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#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube #LiveStream #OpenSource #FOSS


FOSDEM 2026 - Schedule

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News: Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Minneapolis' Hits #1 On iTunes Chart

Bruce Springsteen touched down in Minnesota on Friday and performed his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, hours after it soared to the top of iTunes.

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Bruce Springsteen touched down in Minnesota on Friday and performed his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, hours after it soared to the top of iTunes.

Bruce Springsteen sings 'Streets of Minneapolis' in Minneapolis as protest song hits No. 1

David K. Li (NBC News)
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#XMPP @ #FOSDEM 2026

Come by, meet XMPP enthusiasts and grab some merch at the XMPP & #Realtime Lounge!
--> ULB, AW Building, Level 1

XMPP - choose & build your own #chat #infrastructure (and much more)!

#jabber #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging

The XMPP Logo with a crown, surrounded by party and burning heart emojis.
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #interoperability #decentralization #infrastructure #messaging #realtime #rtc

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Vanadium version 145.0.7632.26.0 released

Changes in version 145.0.7632.26.0:

  • update to Chromium 145.0.7632.26

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 144.0.7559.109.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.


Comparing 144.0.7559.109.0...145.0.7632.26.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
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#grapheneos

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dear #lazyweb: I have a metric butt-load of #photos that are entirely unorganized. total is about 166gb and probably close to 60k files? I lack the energy to sort them manually.

most have exif data. what are my options on Linux for sorting them? #shotwell seems to do dates. I considered #ente but I dunno if I want another subscription service. I don't care to share them with anybody.

boosts appreciated 💜

#photos #ente #lazyweb #shotwell

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Here is a video demo of the 7-string acoustic guitar I just received all the way from Ireland! Hope you enjoy the description and a bit of my playing! youtube.com/watch?v=481fgfR5jG…

Unboxing the beautiful X20 7-string acoustic guitar by Emerald Guitars, made in Ireland

I just received this wonderful X20 7-string acoustic guitar made by @emeraldguitars from Ireland.Since I was not able to find too many demos of this instrum...
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"She glides from the fashion fitting to the table setting, and from the “candlelit dinner” to the “starlight ball”, with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal."

A face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal. Brilliant.

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Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest

Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
Xan Brooks (The Guardian)

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I just imported a MIDI of Rush E into NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof and it…didn't go very well, or maybe it did considering. Anyway you be the judge, here's the audio of what playing it actually did. If anyone wants the resulting project file or the original MIDI, just let me know. I think there's a bit of this that @arfy would enjoy.

@Andre Louis @Arfy

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