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I've been looking for a good way to TTS longer PDFs and EPUBs into recordings so I may listen to them on the go. I'd like to take advantage of high quality TTS models but I'd prefer it to be one I may host myself.

Haven't found the right way yet, I'm considering: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

There is also: https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/

HPN-SSH is a series of modifications to OpenSSH, the predominant implementation of the ssh protocol. It was originally developed to address performance issues when using ssh on high speed long distance networks (also known as Long Fat Networks: LFNs). By taking advantage of automatically optimized receive buffers HPN-SSH could improve performance dramatically on these paths. Later advances include; disabling encryption after authentication to transport non-sensitive bulk data, modifying the AES-CTR cipher to use multiple CPU cores, more detailed connection logging, and peak throughput values in the scp progress bar. More information can be found on HPN-SSH page on the PSC website.

It would be nice to have, I look for that when planning to acquire items I don't understand. Inference is good, certainty is better.

The majority of people seem to have immediate -scoped concerns I suppose.

Well, like you write, aggregated data is already being used to influence populations which makes it immediate. An hypothetical hacker is not.

Most of the really scary big data possibilities seems more like political issues than data issues, the data is just something they could use to do the things people are worried about.

I don't follow. Not giving away the data removes the need for politics. Crime is illegal nevertheless it exists because it is possible to commit.

It's not great, but it's competing for mind share with a lot of other possibile horrors people are afraid of and people are rather fatigued.

Not everyone shares the same concerns and nobody likes problems, that doesn't' mean they should be accepted.

The more subtle stuff they're already doing seems like it would be a problem with even the most basic data.

All the more reason not to give them more. The personalized hate content is a direct consequence of big data aggregation.

All in all, seems like more of an issue than a possible compromise of a FOSS project.

Organic Maps 3 years ago

It's possible to disable it now in the app settings as the last message in the issue states. The app does enable it and telemetry by default without any warning which I think is wrong.

These are things to remember so you can decide and live that. Putting things in perspective, highilighting what you shouldn't take for granted. If those sentences are grim then those are things you value.

Downfall Attacks 3 years ago

A lot of the limitations are probably just Mozzilla hating anything that could be used for tracking, and not trusting users to manage permissions.

Don't denigrate Mozilla for protecting users. There are a lot of privacy issues that can't be addressed by permissions models, Android serves as an example of that. Enumeration is not effective.

If Mozilla are standing in the way of invasive webpages, more power to them.