Made this disco track in Ableton last night. I wanted to try making something exclusively using samples, but also edit them to make them unique to me. I think it turned out sounding great, and Ableton made chopping and resequencing parts extremely easy and fun. Sorry no alt text for this one, for some reason I'm not able to enter it on the web, so I'll put it here.
A disco track in F Major with punchy drums and heavily processed samples.
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Hi everyone! Thought I'd resend my introduction after not being active for who knows how long. And as far as I'm aware, on this server I haven't even introduced myself yet.
I'm Nikolett from Hungary. I used to have an account on Mastodon, but I wasn't that interested in the whole Fediverse thing back then.
Now I'm 22 years old. I'm Hungarian, but I'm very interested in slavic languages and culture. I speak Russian fluently, as well as Polish, but in the latter I'm a beginner. I studied Russian at university for 4 years, and now I'm an official translator.
I am very interested in music: I play piano, as well as a little guitar, and sing in my freetime. I love animals; I have a black cat who has been part of my life for 12 years.
I like technology and IT. I want to learn programming as a hobby, but no one is teaching me yet. I also really like retro, old things.
I also like to play computer games, although I have a hard time losing. 😊
I usually smile because it's important for me to connect with people and for everyone to feel comfortable talking to me.
What I don't think is worth hiding is that I am blind. But that fact doesn't stop me from doing almost everything I set my mind to.
I'm just happy to be here! 😊
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Say I consider "Audacity" to be a frustrating program to use.
Is there a Linux audio recording program which is a little more stripped down than Audacity? Like say some sort of "voice memo" program that lets me just record voice clips and recover the wavs. Export as MP3 a bonus but not required.
Super ultra bonus points if it's in either the GNOME Software repository or on Flathub.
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So I've seen this talked about here a bit, but I wanted to give more context on Kokoro TTS. This model was open sourced back on December 25, and was trained almost entirely on synthetic data taken from Eleven Labs and Open AI. Legality aside, the quality speaks for itself. This is an 82 million parameter model, which is very small by today's standards, but that means it's incredibly fast even on CPU.
The main dev responsible for training seems to know much more than the average open source enthusiast about how to make high-quality TTS, and I think the results speak for themselves. The model is under very active development and still quite young, more data is currently being collected, and a new version will be trained and released likely in the coming months. Their Discord is quite active, and I'm over there as well if you'd like to join. I think this has the potential to be a great option for blind screen reader users, who may not be able to afford something like Vocalizer on Windows, but we're not quite there just yet in terms of performance.
Here is a demo of one of the voices reading about Android.
Link to model card on Huggingface: huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…
Link to Discord: discord.gg/QuGxSWBfQy
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
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Živé.sk zistilo znepokojujúce informácie k prieniku na servery Úradu geodézie, kartografie a katastra SR.redakcia Živé.sk (Živé.sk)
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@WofWca Looking more it looks to me you are working on some amazing accessibility related improvements. While I was testing a few weeks ago I had issues navigating the lists. hmm, perhaps I need to figure out how to build with this PR and see for my-self if it might be related. github.com/deltachat/deltachat…
Edit: oh, there are more PRs resolving keyboard navigation and accessibility related issues. It's really right about perfect time I have discovered this thing.
Thanks and keep up the great work please
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What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Delta Chat feels like Whatsapp or Telegram but you can also use and...delta.chat
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There is one import difference you need to know:
* Chatmail account: you can reach all delta chat users
* Regular email account: you can reach delta chat users + classic email users
So if you use chatmail, you can not reach people who are not using delta chat.
another point:
If you do NOT use chatmail, you will not have push notifications if you are an iOS user.
It is possible for #chatmail users to communicate with classic email users who have published their public key.
You just have to do manual chatmail registration, save your login details and private key securely, and use it with something that supports #pgp like #Thunderbird or #Mailvelope.
Very nice, glad to hear a confirmation that it's working from a real user!
We might need to investigate automatic focus mode switching.
Hello folks I need your help, after a lot of efforts, I am on the final steps of making #ArcaneChat available in #GooglePlay
now they ask to create a "closed testing release" where only some invited testers via their google account email address can participate and install the app before they allow a public release
please write to me in private sending me your google account's email address (gmail I guess) to join as beta-tester, thanks a lot in advance! ♥️🙏
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TTS with kokoro and onnx runtime. Contribute to thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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@IzzyOnDroid has been doing an amazing job getting our repo to over 30% of apps being reproducible. Maintaining a rebuilder takes a lot of constant work. Thank you!
As I've written before:
[...] the ecosystem is constantly moving: old toolchain and dependency bugs get fixed, but new ones keep popping up. [...] Reproducible Builds are not just an item on a checklist [...] It's an ongoing process involving not just upstream app developers, but also maintainers of repositories, clients, and rebuilders; those involved in outreach and writing documentation; developers and maintainers of tooling, toolchains, and dependencies. And often requires a lot of collaborative debugging :)
See also our "Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more":
android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…
#IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds
2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …IzzyOnDroid
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⭐️ Principles Of Web Accessibility
A set of high-level guiding principles for approaching design and remediation for an accessible web.
By @heydon
github.com/Heydon/principles-o…
How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Get ready to have your tech world rocked every week with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece on Double Tap! These guys are the ultimate duo - mixing humor, passion, and top-notch expertise to keep you in the loop with the latest in assistive tech for blind…YouTube
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After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his 'This Week in Plasma' series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week.lxer.com
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TIL #Catima is apparently mirrored onto #RuStore through #Aptoide, or so someone reported: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
Few problems with that: I have no control over the RuStore listing, nor do I control the Aptoide listing. Both may very well be malware.
It should go without saying: don't download apps from sketchy unofficial "app stores" and other APK download sites.
catima.app/ and github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… link you to all the safe and supported download sources :)
Catima, a Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android - CatimaLoyalty/AndroidGitHub
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As part of the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary's release, I've ripped the 3 DVDs that were included in the project and have them hosted at Internet Archive. These ISO files can be played in the VLC player like DVDs, and include all bonus features, subtitles, director's commentary, etc.
archive.org/details/BBS_Docume…
The Bulletin Board System: it brought life online. Long before the Internet connected the planet and changed nearly evertying, there was a brave and...Internet Archive
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Ahoj Fediverse! 👋
Tohle oficiální účet české #PeerTube instance 📼 VHSky.cz. Budeme vás tu upozorňovat na nové autory a zajímavá videa. A rádi uslyšíme zpětnou vazbu, co se vám líbí a co byste na VHSky.cz rádi viděli.
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The #38C3 presentation about the massive #Volkswagen data leak is over and the leak was as bad as it sounded. 100,000s of cars could be located down to cm precision. Also a lot of metadata that is NOT supposed to be public. Disturbing.
The main takeaway was that the real problem here wasn't the leak itself, but that this data was collected in the first place.
I agree. It's not a good idea to create mountains of very personal data and then pray it never leaks.
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Today is the day. Welcome to THE charger!
USB-C is officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU.
This means:
🔌The same charger for all new phones, tablets and cameras
⚡ Harmonised fast-charging technology
🔄 Reduced e-waste
🛑 No more “Sorry, I don’t have the right cable”
One charger to rule them all.
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In case you missed it, the hackers who reverse-engineered DRM on Polish trains got sued by the train manufacturer…
…multiple times.
You can donate to their defense fund:
ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist…
Context:
Their original talk from last year
media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-brea…
My piece about the first lawsuit against them
rys.io/en/175.html
We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...media.ccc.de
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does anyone know of a
blog-like cms with features:
- self-hostable
- subscribe to posts with email
- rss
- activityPub
- supports images upload
- posts in markdown in webUI
- smolweb/minimalist
- no nodeJS
- no SSG
plz boost 
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Gajim’s port to GTK4 is almost finished. 🥁 Currently we’re testing thoroughly to make the switch as smooth as possible.
We went ahead and made lots of small improvements, e.g. writing messages while offline, better styling for image previews, improved chat filters and more.
Gajim also improved its spam fighting toolkit: The next release will allow you to moderate all messages of a spammer at once. 🤖
If you like to support Gajim, please consider making a donation: liberapay.com/Gajim
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When I spent a year with the DotPad and now 6 months and going with the Monarch, besides the fact that the Monarch is the only Multi Line Tactile display still available in Australia, here are some of my advantage points for the Monarch over the DotPad.
Can be used as a stand alone device,
20 hours battery life,
On/off, USBC, USBA, HDMI, 3.5MM ear phone jack, and volume up/down buttons,
Users used to the Braille Note, Brailliant, and Mantis will pick up same concepts used on the Monarch (its KeySoft),
Plug in a QWERTY keyboard and/or portable HDMI display,
Braille input keyboard,
10 line by 32 cell tactile display,
Removable metal template to replace membrane over the pins,
Speech output,
Navigation and Zoom keys, Point and click to move cursor or Zoom tactile graphics,
Button to refresh tactile array at any time,
Tactile horizontal and vertical scroll bars to let user know where they can scroll,
Easily jump around tactile graphic with keyboard short cuts,
increase line spacing when reading Braille,
Easy to identify cursor in menus, and place focussed line that contains cursor to the top of the display,
Access various file formats,
Various applications including web Browser (beta), email (beta), Tactile Library (APH), Maths graphing calculator, Word Processer, Braille Editor, Book Reader (victor Reader),
2025 WingIT app for iOS drawing, and Terminal screen reader support.
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Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
rudokemper.github.io/google-ma…
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Did you know that you can configure custom notification sounds per contact or group chat in #Conversations_im?
Apparently not many people knew that so the next version will make, what essentially is a native Android feature, easier to access via the overflow menu of contact or group chat details.
gultsch.video/w/8wZSkoad1bv4VH…
Conversations 2.17.7 makes it easier to configure custom notifications for contacts and channelsPeerTube
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I finally turned off GitHub Copilot yesterday. I’ve been using it for about a year on the ‘free for open-source maintainers’ tier. I was skeptical but didn’t want to dismiss it without a fair trial.
It has cost me more time than it has saved. It lets me type faster, which has been useful when writing tests where I’m testing a variety of permutations of an API to check error handling for all of the conditions.
I can recall three places where it has introduced bugs that took me more time to to debug than the total time saving:
The first was something that initially impressed me. I pasted the prose description of how to communicate with an Ethernet MAC into a comment and then wrote some method prototypes. It autocompleted the bodies. All very plausible looking. Only it managed to flip a bit in the MDIO read and write register commands. MDIO is basically a multiplexing system. You have two device registers exposed, one sets the command (read or write a specific internal register) and the other is the value. It got the read and write the wrong way around, so when I thought I was writing a value, I was actually reading. When I thought I was reading, I was actually seeing the value in the last register I thought I had written. It took two of us over a day to debug this. The fix was simple, but the bug was in the middle of correct-looking code. If I’d manually transcribed the command from the data sheet, I would not have got this wrong because I’d have triple checked it.
Another case it had inverted the condition in an if statement inside an error-handling path. The error handling was a rare case and was asymmetric. Hitting the if case when you wanted the else case was okay but the converse was not. Lots of debugging. I learned from this to read the generated code more carefully, but that increased cognitive load and eliminated most of the benefit. Typing code is not the bottleneck and if I have to think about what I want and then read carefully to check it really is what I want, I am slower.
Most recently, I was writing a simple binary search and insertion-deletion operations for a sorted array. I assumed that this was something that had hundreds of examples in the training data and so would be fine. It had all sorts of corner-case bugs. I eventually gave up fixing them and rewrote the code from scratch.
Last week I did some work on a remote machine where I hadn’t set up Copilot and I felt much more productive. Autocomplete was either correct or not present, so I was spending more time thinking about what to write. I don’t entirely trust this kind of subjective judgement, but it was a data point. Around the same time I wrote some code without clangd set up and that really hurt. It turns out I really rely on AST-aware completion to explore APIs. I had to look up more things in the documentation. Copilot was never good for this because it would just bullshit APIs, so something showing up in autocomplete didn’t mean it was real. This would be improved by using a feedback system to require autocomplete outputs to type check, but then they would take much longer to create (probably at least a 10x increase in LLM compute time) and wouldn’t complete fragments, so I don’t see a good path to being able to do this without tight coupling to the LSP server and possibly not even then.
Yesterday I was writing bits of the CHERIoT Programmers’ Guide and it kept autocompleting text in a different writing style, some of which was obviously plagiarised (when I’m describing precisely how to implement a specific, and not very common, lock type with a futex and the autocomplete is a paragraph of text with a lot of detail, I’m confident you don’t have more than one or two examples of that in the training set). It was distracting and annoying. I wrote much faster after turning it off.
So, after giving it a fair try, I have concluded that it is both a net decrease in productivity and probably an increase in legal liability.
Discussions I am not interested in having:
The one place Copilot was vaguely useful was hinting at missing abstractions (if it can autocomplete big chunks then my APIs required too much boilerplate and needed better abstractions). The place I thought it might be useful was spotting inconsistent API names and parameter orders but it was actually very bad at this (presumably because of the way it tokenises identifiers?). With a load of examples with consistent names, it would suggest things that didn't match the convention. After using three APIs that all passed the same parameters in the same order, it would suggest flipping the order for the fourth.
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that very much matches my own experience. (I've not specifically used copilot but the jetbrains built-in local thing 🤷)
It helped with boiler plate code and then introduced subtle bugs that took multiples of the time saved to find.
I've been thinking about this for ages, but never had the time to craft the words around it.
People keep saying that "Maths should be fun" ... and I push back with "It should be engaging ... 'fun' is a different thing.
So @rakhichawla has posted pretty much exactly this, but better than I ever could.
I'm copying it here with permission.
Please read this, then as it says at the end ... let's have a deeper conversation about this ...
1/n
(PS: I'd love this to get boosted to get outside my bubble ... you're all amazing, but there will be other opinions, and other thoughts that could be helpful or valuable)
Hashtags: #MathEd #MathsEd #MathEdChat #MathsEdChat #MathChat #MathsChat #MTBoS #TMWYK
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Continuing a decade-long tradition #Conversations_im is currently available for free on Google Play.
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Merry Christmas 🎄 Happy Holidays ☃️ and have fun at #38C3
An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobileplay.google.com
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Yesterday, I made a silly production for a group of friends. We like to sometimes welcome each other to the start of whatever week number of the year it happens to be.
In 2023, week 52 started on Christmas Day, so I made a little "Merry Weeksmas!" production using Elevenlabs, featuring the Ssanta voice, and a guy called Lars, who likes gongs.
Lots of inside jokes that will be somewhat familiar to those who listened to my show, Things and stuff, quite a while back, on a now-defunct internet radio station called TBRN.
I had every intention of doing something short and sweet, but what actually came out was an 18 minute, 25 second long pretty much full-on audio drama thing.
Santa ends up in a car accident and misses Christmas. Lars has a fight with his wife. Is Christmas ruined, or are you just being welcomed to week 52 in a ridiculous way?
Again, lots of inside jokes, including amateur radio references, but hopefully you'll enjoy even if you don't get them, or know that they are there to be gotten. I'll admit, I had way too much fun putting this stupid thing together. I don't get to do creative production much anymore.
Featuring a few tracks from @Onj. my Ableton Move even gets a short cameo. So does my old Yamaha Motif Classic.
I should also mention that I don't speak German. Some things may not make sense. I'm OK with that, personally, because this is a silly production.
If you're bored, click here and hear what this is all about, I guess...
borris.me/audio/w52.mp3
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I looked up the enterprise management features of the Firefox and Chrome browsers and wrote down how to turn off the advertising features once by installing the right config files in the right places. Not hard and affects all accounts and profiles, so a big time saver
blog.zgp.org/turning-off-brows…
Linux paths so far, but I know there are some Mac OS command line users on here -- anyone have this set up on your system? If so and you have instructions posted anywhere I'll link to them
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