I've put together a tool that automatically downloads and transcribes #podcasts, which is meant for #LanguageLearning but could be useful for other purposes, too. Basically it's a #python script with some config, that uses #Whisper and/or #Vosk underneath. Eventually it might be incorporated into @vortmaro, but for now it's standalone. Give it a try if it sounds useful.
https://github.com/vortmaro/podkastomat
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I hadn't done any #python for a long time, and discovered that there are two types of date object: aware (knows about timezones), and naive (has a limited view of the world and has no idea about timezones). From here on in, if anyone complains that something's 'woke', I'll just point out that this discrepancy exists in other spheres; woke being a synonym for aware.
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Writing some podcast automation, and grabbing an RSS feed gives me an HTTP 403 error. Looks like time to spoof the user agent, I guess. Why are things like this? 🫤
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Just another day in Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-14/researchers-prove-three-distinct-species-iconic-funnel-web/104814368
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2025 is the year I:
(Partially in response to @ElenLeFoll's question https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll/113750126631768949, but I was going to say it anyway)
Happy new year 🥳
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Liberal voters are going to lose their minds. "Told you the ABC was communist!" #AusPol
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Kinda crazy that:
And I'm bound to forget this almost immediately. #LanguageLearning
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I'm quite enjoying learning #Rust (#RustLang) by doing #AdventOfCode. I'm wondering if there's an #OpenSource project I could contribute to when I'm finished - bearing in mind that I'm unlikely to be qualified for #servo or #bevy (or #veloren). Although maybe there are some simple tasks in any of those, it can't all be tasks that have a mountain of prerequisite knowledge 🤔
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Went to a Christmas concert and my son decided the words to Mariah Carey's famous song should actually be "all I want for Christmas is potatoes"
NGL I shed a proud tear.
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The acceptable time to start playing #Christmas #music is:
[#]BoostsWelcome #poll
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I think I'll try advent of code again this year. Again in Rust. This time with at least some prep and understanding of the language 😅
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We're at the dismantle any and all protections stage of the pandemic
https://med-mastodon.com/@CastlTrAstonDrs/113455285083497055
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The boy was using an old monitor of mine which finally died. So I replaced his with the one I was using (likely also 10+ years old) and bought myself a new one. I think it's bigger than our TV. I'm sure it'll at least double my productivity. 😉
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My kids learnt about 'GuMo' (German SMS-speak for Guten Morgen), and so of course my daughter said it to greet a school staff member the other day.
Now (at her request) we're listening to Bublé's Christmas album in October, and she's deliberately mispronouncing the line in Feliz Navidad as "prospero ano"
The cheek is strong with this one.
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A while back I jokingly wrote that #AI power consumption will grow to the point of needing a Dyson sphere, and it turns out Google's ex-CEO not only agrees, but doesn't think it's a problem, even in a #ClimateCrisis
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/06/eric-schmidt-were-not-going-to-hit-the-climate-goals-id-rather-bet-on-ai-solving-the-problem/
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Just checked the latest Australian #COVID19 vaccination schedule. Adults only get one vaccine a year, even though the immunity provided doesn't last that long and new variants keep coming.
What's worse, though, is that under 18s aren't even recommended a single primary dose, whereas influenza vax is recommended for kids 5+. The vaccine-only strategy wasn't working, so now we've given up on that, too 😞
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Absolutely nobody:
Adobe:
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[#]AskFedi #BoostsWelcome
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Which country recently became the first to ban new petrol cars? I would have guessed Norway finally decided it was time, but no.
[#]ElectricCars
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/17/climate/ethiopia-evs-gas-car-ban-climate/index.html
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(I don't actually listen to that much metal, but I thought it was funny that it picked two subgenres of death metal, which is already a subgenre itself)
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