RedWizard

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago

Clearly this is an act of a truly crooked and evil supreme court subverting the will of the people. This kind of thing would never happen in the good old USA. /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It would be the death of this side of the federated internet. The amount of content it would generate once federated would crush existing servers. You would have to defederate or face near instant storage shortages. The federated que would take years to sync.

Anyway, it wouldn't happen because they would need to transmit real vote counts instead of fuzzy vote counts. You would be able to see how every single person on reddit voted. Which would simply expose the vote manipulation going on there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

These guides are very well timed! I just bought a NAS for the home network.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

aw hell yeah! I didn't need that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Lol Aw, are the geopolitics to complicated for you? At least your comments are here to show how you really feel about democracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm a big supporter of Ukraine. But this is not that.

I see your colors. Ukraine, historically, undemocratic due to western interference. Made the Communist Party illegal and disbanded it. Very good democracy there.

They are very much the same, except Venezuela is better at defending itself from said western interference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You are the one who lacks focus. This chain stared from this comment:

blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries.

Or... you know... at least for Venezuela, the USA constantly fucking around with their elections and politics and local assets using Signal or something. Maybe, I dunno?

Do nation states have the right to defend themselves from foreign interference in their elections? What actions should a nation state take to ensure the security of its elections? What actions should a nation state take to combat misinformation spreading about their elections?

Based on your previous comments it sounds like you believe a nation should do nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

When preserving "democracy" is the excuse to not be Democratic, something is wrong.

Ah there it is. Its only Democracy if it comes from the democracy region of the west. Got it. Venezuela has one of the most robust voting systems in the world. Requires voter finger prints, signatures, national ID cards, and has paper ballot verifications. Meanwhile elections in America can be decided by some elite cobal system established in the 18th century by rich property owners for the explicit intention of disregarding the will of its people to favor the property class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Lol do you know how to migrate a community off one platform to another? Its about disrupting comms, not stopping them. Regular people will find other ways to communicate, as they always have. They have lots of options, as you've pointed out. I have no failings in understanding here. I told you already, signal is secure. Its security is backed by it's western intelligence financing. It has flaws in leaking meta data, just like matrix, proton mail, and any other means of encrypted communication tools. This move is to disrupt organized communication to make it disorganized.

No one needs to mention foreign agents. If you are able to observe and analyze the greater context for a given action you can arrive at an approximate rationale for the action. The west has a history of attempting to destabilize Venezuela, they back right wing dictators as successors, they regularly fund dissident groups who want nothing more then to violently take power in Venezuela.

Its clear that Venezuela is facing external pressure to dismantle their democracy, and are taking actions to disrupt those efforts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (10 children)

"Likely"? "For sure"? So you have no idea of the opposition is using them, got it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And... That doesn't change the fact it's not widely adopted enough for peer2peer chat services without the need of a relay.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20660586

“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup

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So I've had this idea floating around in my head for some time now, but, I finally was able to get the tools required to run on my PC.

Piper is a Text To Speech utility that uses deep learning voice models to read text aloud. This utility is primarily utilized in Home Assistant to allow for a self-hosted voice assistant experience. However, I think it has revolutionary potential.

This idea hit me a while back as a result of my use of the Read Aloud extension for Firefox. This extension supports Piper voice models, and over time I have settled on the use of a model that, I think, is very nice to listen too and gets about 90% of pronunciations correct.

I spent a portion of my day today pulling some text from various Marxist thinkers and creating a few samples. I think there would be a lot of work involved in cleaning up the output produced by these models, but only so far as to ensure the model is pausing appropriately in some situations. This usually centers around the use of punctuation such as [] () - and various date formats 1885, 1993.

For the symbols, they are basically ignored, which can create a kind of run-on sentence where it feels like the voice model should be winded due to the lack of pauses. Replacing these symbols with a comma seems to help, but it varies case by case. For dates, often the model reads the date as though it is a number, so for example, 1917 becomes one-thousand nine-hundred and seventeen, instead of a more natural nineteen seventeen.

Tools could be built to detect these patterns in the text and replace them with the appropriate written equivalents.

Another issue would be, how and when to read aloud end notes. My goal would be to utilize these audio files in something like AudioBookShelf. AudioBookShelf likes having the audio files broken down by chapter and section, so end notes likely would be read at the end of a section or chapter, making them easily skipped, as opposed to reading them inline.

Anyway, here are some samples I created today.

The bulk of the labor involved in generating these files is finding those areas where the flow of reading seems off. As noted above, they can be easy to spot. But also, every author will have their own stylistic quirks that you'll need to work around. From there, chop the text up into files for each chapter and subsection, as well as end notes. Then run Piper against each text file, and finally convert the output wav file into a more digestible MP3, and then apply some metadata to those files.

This is still just a proof of concept. I'm sure there is a way in which we can collaborate to build the text-scripts needed for a clean recording, maybe a Git repository of texts. That part of this process is still not fleshed out.

I think as a goal, I'd like to create a kind of "Intro to Marxism" audio collection. A selection of books to onboard people, perhaps based on prolewiki's Absolute Beginner's List.

Then eventually I can tackle the bigger fish.

Thoughts?

 

Hearthstone is my old standby game. This is an interesting twist on previous mechanics and I'll be glad to see buddies go.

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A follow-up to: https://hexbear.net/post/3100832

is-this speech-side-l-1 Is this white genocide? speech-side-l-2

 

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We're out here on the front line doing rudimentary spreadsheeting to fight fascism!

 
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