#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubkrBd3-gg
Boards of Canada's Olson played thru a 1959 DEC PDP-1 via Lightbulb pulses at the Computer History Museum. Mountain View, California. Hosted on Joe Lynch's YT chan <3 603 bytes of music code on punchpaper :)
#chiptune

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

https://defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democracy-tech/

@paladini michal[at]mkiol.net

@paladini Hello Fernando. I am truly flattered :) You can always contact me here on mastodon or send me an email. If you have any specific questions/ideas/requests related to Speech Note, I encourage you to open an "issue" on Github/Github.

@bagder 🙃

#SpeechNote has just reached 1K stars on GitHub. I know that doesn't mean anything, but this is a good opportunity to sum something up.

Right now you can install it via Flathub, Arch Linux AUR, OpenSUSE Pacman repo and OpenRepos if you use Sailfish OS. According to Flathub stats only, Speech Note is downloaded 300 times per day. The last update was installed on about 20K computers! This is much more than I could have ever foreseen. This is amazing and very rewarding. Thank you, dear users!

> “Using AI is no longer optional” inside some parts of Microsoft, as Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft’s developer division

Omg I would have quit so fast, if I hadn't already left before receiving that email.

This reminds me of the Ballmer years and some of the things he mandated.

AI, at best, is an assistive tool. Certainly nowhere near necessary. God, what an embarrassment MS has become.

@sophiajt the obligation to use the AI assistant tool is not just a microsoft thing. The company where I work has the same policy. I can't understand why senior managers force me to use a tool that slows me down, makes me dumber and generally less productive. They keep saying "without it you'll fall behind", but they have no idea what a programmer's job is. They truly believe their "wet dream" that in a future they can make a profit without any labor costs is true. A surreal situation.

For the all people using #Nextcloud just for #caldav and #cardav have a look at opensource #baikal https://github.com/sabre-io/Baikal It's tiny, easy to setup and works great with #davx and #thunderbird

If you speak Swedish and are looking for fast, accurate and offline Speech-to-text, check out KBLab's fine-tuned Whisper models. These models were trained using the resources of the National Library of Sweden. Even the "Tiny" model is much more accurate than the original Whisper model.

More about this cool project: https://kb-labb.github.io/posts/2025-03-07-welcome-KB-Whisper/index.html

You can play with the KBLab models in the latest version of #SpeechNote app.

@moagee sounds cool :) Is there somewhere I can check this script or is it for private use only?

#SpeechNote 4.8.0 is now available on #Flathub!

Release highlights:
- New TTS engines: Kokoro, Parler-TTS, F5-TTS
- Support for Global Keyboard Shortcuts and "Insert into active window" on Wayland
- Many new STT and TTS models

If you are using the GPU add-on, update it to version 1.4.0 as well.

Video presenting all the changes: https://youtu.be/ww6skKOOzZ8

Full changelog: https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote/releases/tag/v4.8.0

cancel. #satyra #klasizm #dres #holahola

If you are blessed with AMD card and wanna play with machine learning tools well... then you are screwed because #ROCm is a pure crap at leas on Linux. AMD really rocks with everything else on Linux desktop but not with ml.

I was looking for #flux toolset that could run with llama.cpp and I found one: https://github.com/leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp

It can run #flux and #stablediffusion with #Vulkan as a backend. Really impressive.

I'm fascinated by how often AI autocomplete is both right and wrong.

It will often autocomplete the thing I intended, and it makes me say "oh good, I already implemented that function"

But then the IDE tells me there's no function by that name, and I realize the AI completed what I *wanted* not what I *had*.

I'm used to expecting the IDE to only autocomplete what actually exists.

I just watched and really enjoyed #38c3 talk "io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP".

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-iouring-ebpf-xdp-and-afxdp

The presenter showed some techniques to 10x speed up network processing in Linux.

Very informative :)

#SpeechNote 4.7.0 is now available on #Flathub!

Release highlights:
- Vulkan GPU acceleration (much faster STT with Intel, AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards)
- Rules for text transformations after STT or before TTS
- Echo mode (after STT text will be immediately read out)
- Many new languages ​​supported in Translator

Video presenting all the changes: https://youtu.be/cEht4Fts6Bo

Full changelog: https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote/releases/tag/v4.7.0

Remember: IDN is crazy. And just not just a little.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/14/idn-is-crazy/

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