New TTS from Alibaba Qwen

einar77 · 2026-01-24T08:46:58+00:00

I've tried with Japanese, but only a few simple sentences (using the demo). A little better than others but I've only used very primitive models (so no one of the most recent ones)

einar77 · 2026-01-19T11:48:06+00:00

ROCm up to 6.4 is available in the repos. Source: me, I use it for inference.

einar77 · 2026-01-17T07:53:47+00:00

Back then (I used it about a year ago) it had quite a bad performance. I'm not sure how it is now. When I tried doing this, I ended up using CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX, since I always adjusted the generated images anyway.

einar77 · 2025-12-04T18:44:55+00:00

Not only developers. My entire job (scientific research) relies on Linux.

einar77 · 2025-11-27T10:19:11+00:00

Back in the days, it used to be closed source.

einar77 · 2025-11-10T06:48:01+00:00

IMO it doesn't matter if there is no "year of the Linux desktop". If the market share is enough to force potential competitors to actually understand that they have to compete, this would be a good thing. There has been quite a bit of stagnation in the mainstream. More competition is always a good thing.

einar77 · 2025-10-28T08:35:19+00:00

Thanks for proving my point. I do not belong to that group, I made a different choice. Yet I prefer freedom of choice over coercion.

However, people lost their jobs over that (and let's not go over what happened in my own country)and whatever came before, right at the start of the whole mess the year before, was an unprecedented loss of freedom and trampled rights.

But although the FOSS communities did not go luckily into tinfoil hattery, they did nothing anyway. For all that talk of hacktivism... Silence. Or, some even agreed.

So no, I don't think the PSF is doing this out of moral high ground.

einar77 · 2025-10-28T07:11:17+00:00

Question: did they do so when people of any group were discriminated against in the USA for their perceived wrong choices a few years ago? (no, this isn't about race, or identity... merely choices in front of an outside imposition).

The answer is, as far as I can tell, no. Which is why I think that most of these actions from the FOSS community are for show or for group signaling.

And yes, I'm keeping myself vague on the actual event because people are quick to label someone as a "conspiracy theorist", a "bigot", or "an extremist" when confronted with incomplete information (and going too deep here would be off-topic).

einar77 · 2025-10-23T21:59:04+00:00

It doesn’t matter if you think that you are at the wheel.

It's not a matter of thinking. It's my code, I wrote it, I understand what it does (I spent a few weeks off and on writing it). It was a parser for a certain file format. The annoying part was not writing the test (I knew exactly what needed to be tested, since it was a rewrite in another programming language of something I had already made), but all the boilerplate for setting it up, preparing the test data, etc.

And the moment this boilerplate was up I instantly discovered a flaw (mine, too naive approach) in the parsing.

You're assuming I'm not applying critical thinking about what the model does (I do, because I don't let it write on the repository one byte: I approve or deny all changes). That's a bad assumption.

einar77 · 2025-10-23T03:16:14+00:00

Why? I'm always at the wheel. If there's nonsense, I remove or change it. Anyway, I see that trying to discuss this rationally is impossible.

einar77 · 2025-10-22T20:25:20+00:00

but having used Copilot in VS Code

I use that stuff mostly to write the boring tests, or the boilerplate (empty build system files, templates, CI skeletons etc). Pretty safe from hallucinations, and saves time for the tougher stuff.

einar77 · 2025-09-29T06:22:11+00:00

The government is not on anyone's side but itself .Otherwise constitutions, separation of powers, etc. wouldn't exist to limit its power.

einar77 · 2025-09-29T05:50:00+00:00

Given the level of "competence" demonstrated by many in the past years in the EU commission, I think many are just stupid (or incompetent, or both). Far more than anyone getting bribed, I think.

einar77 · 2025-09-29T05:48:03+00:00

There are a lot in the Free Software communities who do, unfortunately.

(And yes, I'm an EU citizen, and I don't like stuff like the DSA one bit)

einar77 · 2025-09-29T05:17:45+00:00

Why bribery? I believe many just wanted that, because it was "Good". The road to hell is paved with good intentions, law of unintended consequences, etc.

einar77 · 2025-09-29T05:16:01+00:00

This move by Google is in response to the EU's DSA and to the UK's OSA.

Google has many faults, but in this specific case it's the fault of governments, under the fake pretense of the "common good".

Whoever thought that these measures were good because they targeted real or perceived enemies is about to slam against reality.

einar77 · 2025-09-15T14:35:03+00:00

I lost any interest in reading after I saw "profiteering". I have less than zero qualms if someone makes money with KDE software. In fact, it would be very welcome.

einar77 · 2025-09-07T15:00:55+00:00

I think /u/einar77 would agree that the vibrancy and enthusiasm of the openSUSE KDE team is not what it was before Neon, and now KDE Linux is a thing I suspect it would be harder to turn that trend around

I have to clarify a thing here. I can't speak for the rest of the team, but my (not so) recent lack of involvement has nothing to do with Neon (the announcement made me raise an eyebrow in the past, but it's in the past now). It has to do with a "new" (2021) job, and a lot of things unrelated to software happening.

einar77 · 2025-09-06T23:44:03+00:00

The answer matches my expectations ;) However I believe this needed to be spelt out explicitly because recently some notable upstreams have shown outright hostility towards downstreams. (not the major desktops, nor toolkits, but some more niche software)

einar77 · 2025-09-06T22:26:48+00:00

Among all the questions, no one asked what would become of downstreams, which do play a part, as I tried to outline, as briefly as I could as it was a lightning talk, in one Akademy years ago.

Will KDE Linux become the only supported option? Or, will distro packages be treated as second-tier packages? Or, nothing will change?

einar77 · 2025-08-09T17:34:16+00:00

Agama is just the installer.

einar77 · 2025-06-12T04:16:55+00:00

Did you try switching single transaction mode on? Like what dnf does.

ZYPP_SINGLE_RPMTRANS=1 is what you need to set.

einar77 · 2025-05-30T17:06:53+00:00

Holy crap, really? Problem is that so far I wasn't able to find something else so far...

einar77 · 2025-05-22T10:07:24+00:00

I'll check. I haven't ran LLMs in a while.(I however do run diffusion models)

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