We now have street electronics echo text to speech from 1981, as sapi5 32 and 64-bit voices. both echo versions are included, all parameters exposed and changeable with configuration utility. Get it from the releases page of my GitHub here...

https://github.com/joshknnd1982/echogppc-sapi5

@Canageek oh Dwarf Fortress, keep on changing, so we can keep getting new esoteric bug fixes

Oh my god

Another Pulte Purge
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/08/bill-pulte-fannie-mae-housing-firings/688383/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-TheAtlantic

hyrax listening to good music

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117124487442263894

You'll never catch me!

@DaleHagglund right???

@stefano

It was probably late 1996 when a guy showed me his Red Hat Linux system. I was intrigued and in a few months I saw an ad to buy it for $50 and the fun began. Many years later Ubuntu came out and I felt their concern to make it possible for folks to use it was the turning point for the Desktop. That was when my mom wanted it. She's 96 now and hasn't touched Windows in 17 years or more. She has stuck with Ubuntu.

Until June, the Japanese government didn't require doctors to notify patients that they had dense breast tissue — a potential early warning sign of cancer. Even with the policy change, advocates say more can be done. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/08/22/lifestyle/breast-cancer-screening-change-tissue-density-health/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #health #cancer #breastcancer #women039sissues #nationalhealthcare

@farah Seriously, it could be anything from hormones to fibroids to something more serious. There might not be a specific food trigger.

@Alice @pattykimura @Kierkegaanks

BabyK made me remember some long ago post of the two of you doing some rap while driving.

🤘💜 so good. Rock on 💕

“Spending donor funds to fight worker unionization does not advance our mission of bringing the world's knowledge to all people, the mission I've spent years working at the Foundation to pursue.” -- Wikimedia worker, name withheld

[1] https://http.cat/451

Ah, yes, the section for books about imaginary things

@viticci thanks for this — I really appreciate the time and care that went into it

@gloriouscow little yellow puddle when capacitors leak

(I’m showing myself out)

One of my proudest moments was driving a steam train and it started raining so we slipped and stalled going uphill on wet rails. Got it going again and everyone cheered. Now I realise it sounds like one of those "and everyone clapped" stories and feel like a twat when I tell it.

per @acarsdrama chatter, lots of planes holding inbound for manchester, which has closed for reasons unknown - to pass the time pilots have started a nascar race

Say goodbye to Linked Data Signatures

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mastodon-4.7/

We now support verifying FEP-8b32 Object Integrity Proofs using either eddsa-jcs-2022 or mldsa44-jcs-2024.

The latest version of Mastodon can verify FEP-8b32 integrity proofs, which replace outdated Linked Data Signatures.

Docs: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/#fep-8b32

#activitypub #fedidev #fep_8b32