[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure it makes much sense that gitea is a bit too heavy, but forgejo (a fork of gitea) runs perfectly. But forgejo appears to have more developments momentum as a project and so you probably landed on the right choice anyway. ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago

Uh, Austrian, not Australian.

[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago

Would be pretty good to also take a note from the Dems and have Trudeau step down for the next election.

As a Canadian, I'm over him. I'd never vote for PP, but I'd like to see some new options please.

[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

I'm coming back to you from the future to tell you that she can. ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

However, the Federal government has limited options when it comes to influencing the provincial health care programs. They can offer money with strings attached, and that's about it. Given the hostile atmosphere from some provinces... they may not have been able to offer dental care by working through this traditional means.

[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Home Assistant invested quite a bit into the technology to create a FOSS voice assistant over the past year. It still needs quite a bit of work, but the foundation is there; it supports wake words ("Hey ..."), speech-to-text to hear your command, interpretation and command processing, and text-to-speech to return results.

The downsides are that it's still quite technical to set up primarily due to the lack of commercially available hardware, and the command library is fairly small at this point.

With some of this foundational work out of the way, I expect Home Assistant to move forward quickly to improve, and other projects can work off the same pieces if they desire to as well.

Here's their year-end post about it: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/13/year-of-the-voice-chapter-5/

[-] mfenniak@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Hm... I think if they fucked up and were negligent, this is a reasonable slap on the wrist judgement. If they fucked up, and then were knowledgeable in a malicious cover-up of their fuck up, this seems like a light punishment. The evidence seems to weigh towards the second, but the punishment gives them the benefit of the doubt on that.

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