Sherpa links to this page, if anyone wants to preview what the voices sound like

https://huggingface.co/spaces/k2-fsa/text-to-speech

From the ones I’ve tried so far, csukuangfj/vits-piper-en_US-amy-medium|1 speaker sounded the most clear and natural for GPS / driving directions. If someone finds other good ones, I’d appreciate it :)

In Britain specifically:

The data of millions of people in Britain is at risk as a result of significant cybersecurity issues with the government’s planned Digital ID, multiple whistleblowers have warned.

Trakt was popular in the past, and has integrations with Jellyfin, although some people may have left after their pricing/feature changes earlier this year.

Here is a relevant thread you might find helpful: https://lemmy.ca/post/38746526

Your account is marked as a bot, you can change that toggle in your account settings

Does the amount of water affect the rate of growth, or is it a timing thing?

Am I absorbing water like a sponge, where I’d grow much faster in a pool vs. the rain

Or is it a reaction to any prolonged contact with water

If you add three back ticks (```) to the beginning and end of the list, it will format as a code block instead of a bunch of links

browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

I guess everyone just browses all anyway, for now. So they don’t want things removed that have comments regardless of where it’s posted.

Yea I’ve seen this as well. I think part of the problem is a lack of an automod, since rule breaking content sticks around for hours accumulating comments before a mod sees it. Users are good about reporting spam, since it’s very obvious, but not everyone is familiar enough with community rules to report based on those.

It seems to be one person that’s doing it manually across a number of communities?

I think the website is old, and the blurry bits were a prediction

The new cycle is expected to start late in 2019 or in 2020, with solar maximum to be reached between 2023 and 2026 and the maximum (smoothed) sunspot number in the 95 to 130 range.

A different color and a legend would have been nicer imo

Appreciate the write-up, thanks!

I found this diagram, and this should mean that the levels will drop by around 2030?

Source: https://www.stce.be/news/453/welcome.html

Adjective-Noun-# is the usual format for those. This looks different, like someone put in a list of wholesome / floral / nature-y terms into the name generator, in order to have wholesome looking accounts

They must have been editing the article back and forth. I also only saw “WebRender Layer Compositor”, but it’s organized nicely now

You mentioned being frustrated at Plausible. What did you not like about it?

I haven’t tried Plausible, but it seemed popular

Sounds like they joined a large group chat as a member

The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.

The articles I’ve seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.

Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.

I don’t have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it’s less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it’s more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably

Hi Sarah,

Sorry for the delay in getting to this. We really appreciate the feedback! We’re currently working on an update to our site, and will continue to incorporate feedback over time.

We’ve iterated over these pages a few times, and while there is definitely more that we can do to improve it, I feel that we need a few different guides for each target demographic or use case. Ideally, someone will find their way to the appropriate resource, depending on the level of detail or transparency that they are looking for. The goal of the two guide pages above were mainly to explain what it is that our non-profit is doing, and how it differs from traditional social media. A lot of alternative social media platforms advertise transparency and a positive user experience, and so the guide pages above were intended for people who want an explanation on how the Fediverse can actually deliver on those promises.

Right now, the page we have for users that simply want to sign up for a platform is here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms

We can certainly improve the flow for users that want to get to that page, and the page itself. We haven’t prioritized that aspect, since we figured that users who are learning about one of the platforms might be going to it directly, instead of through our non-profit’s site.

Would you have some suggestions on what a page like that should include, or what you would like to see in the guides instead?

I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you’re interested, DM me.

We’d love the help and feedback, especially if it’s something that would complement their studies! Thank you for offering :)

I appreciate that different teams are doing different things, I’ll have to remember to drop by during the next cloudflare outage 😄

We rely on Cloudflare for our instances, so unfortunately lemmy.ca, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca were all down during the outage

If anyone is curious, we’ve discussed why we use Cloudflare here: https://lemmy.ca/post/40252238/15009722

This other post has some discussion: https://lemmy.ca/post/55386786

While the downtime was most active, most of the top instances were down. Lemmy.ml, feddit.org, discuss.tchncs.de and behaw.org were all up. You can use https://lemmyverse.net/ to browse things and the ones offline all show a “content error” in lemmyverse.

Here is a screenshot that @straycatstrut@discuss.tchncs.de took during the outage

You can view the source for my comment and copy paste :)

Do this in order:

1. Install with LUKS full-disk encryption and Btrfs subvolumes for @ and @home so snaps are atomic.

2. Enable automatic snapshots with Timeshift or snapper.

3. Export your package lists:

   • Debian/Ubuntu: dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt
   • Arch: pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt
   • also flatpak list --app > flatpaks.txt

4. Put your dotfiles under version control and manage them with chezmoi or GNU Stow.

5. Use Flatpak for GUI apps, containerized toolchains (podman) for dev environments, and keep only system-critical packages in the distro manager.

6. Back up with Borg: borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo ; borg create repo::$(date +%F) /home /etc --stats ; borg prune --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6

7. Keep a small, bootable USB with the exact kernel/tools you use so you can unlock LUKS and mount Btrfs snapshots.

8. Test restores quarterly: restore a snapshot to a spare partition and boot it. Do that for a year and tell me reinstalling is fun again.