#SpeechNote 4.2.0 is now available on #Flathub and #OpenRepos!

Highlights of this release:
- New translator models: hu-en, fi-en
- Transcription of video files
- Quicker STT with Whisper
- Save audio in MP3 or Ogg
- 'Pause' for speech reading
- New TTS models
- Improved UI under GNOME dark

Speech Note is a Linux desktop and Sailfish OS app for note taking, reading and translating with offline #SpeechToText, #TextToSpeech and #MachineTranslation

https://openrepos.net/content/mkiol/speech-note
https://flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote

@schizanon Ahh, gotcha. Phanpy actually does work as a PWA in Firefox on Android, and wish Elk would catch up (I prefer Elk to Phanpy). I've tried using Elk in a chromium-based PWA, but the tradeoff is all links open in chrome, which doesn't support adblock on Android. That experience (opening a link and getting blasted with ads) is so awful (for me) that I'm happier just pinning Elk in a tab on my phone, but different strokes for different folks.

Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about the launch of The Torment Nexus, the opening of the Xthonic Gateway, and release of the arch-demon Tzaunh MAY HIS REIGN BE DARK AND ETERNAL, who has begun his foretold 10,000 years of suffering and torment. I figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company.

@schizanon That's interesting. I didn't realize that PWAs were that common. I think the only PWA I consistently used was the Birdsite, before it went to shit. What PWAs do you like?

Live your life with unbridled audacity, like Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023

For everyone still thinking about making a New Years resolution, perhaps consider CGP Grey's Themes framework

https://youtu.be/NVGuFdX5guE

#newyearsresolution #cgpgrey

I fear we must face the bovine, bovine espadrille!

Wishing you all a merry #saturnalia

EVERYONE ON MASTODON: Hello! I'm Dr. Whitney Appleby, a molecular biologist working on new ways to beat the Pacific Garbage Patch! In my spare time I love reading, hanggliding and playing with my cat. I'm also starting to weave-

ME: *shoving past them* yeah sure where are the dipshits? where are the real assholes around here. perverts, you got any perverts?

All I wanna do is
[gun shot noise]
[cash register noise]
[organ noise]
[saxophone noise]
[cow noise]
[cat noise]
Fix this broken synthesizer

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

#ocean #nature #science

“You can find us anywhere you get your podcasts.”

I *adore* this phrase, because it has been like two whole-ass decades and not one single venture capital darling has managed to unseat plain RSS as the distribution method for podcasts. Not one. (And they have really tried!)

Podcasts are just out there, like air. You don’t go to one place to get them; you get them from everywhere and anywhere. You can choose how you want to engage with them and manage them and it is legitimately heartwarming that nothing has ever gotten in the way of that being a fundamental fact.

This is the best of what the web is. It will never have a stock ticker or even a marketing scheme. Most people don’t even know it is there. But it endures (past the many, many attempts by squillionaire corporates to kill it) because of its absolute unshakable utility.

My suggestion: any time you hear “anywhere you get your podcasts”, send a little thanks to RSS for keeping the real web alive.

#RSS #Podcasts #ProtocolsNotProducts

well, it happened again. the tyrannical powers-that-be who rule over CSS rejected my proposal that custom properties be prefixed with an em dash instead of two hyphens. apparently my reasoning that "it makes them much fancier" wasn’t strong enough

fake AI ethics: how can we stop the acausal robot god, who is real
real AI ethics: don't fucking make killer robots for your police department

RT @AshleyLatke@twitter.com

Another article on advertisers demands - the very top of their list? Restricting NSFW content

Over and over again advertises prove they care more about restricting sexuality than hate or harassment and the left appeals to them anyways. It’s gotta stop.

https://digiday.com/marketing/never-been-critical-twitters-ad-boycott-is-starting-to-look-like-a-long-goodbye/ https://twitter.com/AshleyLatke/status/1594749860766715904

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AshleyLatke/status/1595057068196888578

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

Today I am working here. First opened in 1752,the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, was created to house the library of Francesco Marucelli (1625-1703), as per his will. It's motto: "Maxime Pauperum Utilitati", roughly "Above all for the poor". It is still a free public library @histodons

I took this at closing