My profession photo taken several years ago. I'm wearing a light sweater there, I'm slightly smiling.

André Polykanine

@menelion@caneandable.social · Joined ⁨Aug⁩ ⁨2026⁩

A married and happy geek from Strasbourg, France.
Backend software engineer and accessibility specialist with 20 years of experience.
I live with my wife and our two cats, and I believe cats are the cutest, yet the most independent companions.
Pagan, worshiper of Scandinavian gods.
This account is multilingual, posts may contain strong language.
No alt text, no boost.
AI is our assistant, not our replacement, not our enemy.
Pro-European, pro-American, leaning to the right.
Opinions are my own.

Spoken languages
English, Français, Українська, Русский, Deutsch

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I discovered a research paper, I'll try to implement what they demonstrated, and then experiment to make it use as less resource as possible

> DuplexCascade: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Dialogue with VAD-Free Cascaded ASR–LLM–TTS Pipeline and Micro-Turn Optimization
> arxiv.org/html/2603.09180

Would be fun to have a full duplex with a local LLM :D

#ai #learning #LLM #SLM #LocalLLM

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This is an amazing program. It should appeal to anyone who produces their own radio show or podcast.

Tony Gebhard@tonygeb23@techhub.social

New and free: TG Drop Deck.
A soundboard where every sound is one keypress away. 1 to 0 fires effects, Ctrl fires your own drops, Alt+Ctrl runs looping music beds — and the beds duck themselves out of the way whenever a sound plays.
Keyboard-first and screen-reader-first, because I use it on my own show.
40 sounds and beds included, all AI generated, so they're mine to give away. Make your own decks and have fun.
tgstudios.app/drop-deck/
#Blind #Accessibility #ScreenReader #NVDA #Podcasting #A11y

tgstudios.app/drop-deck/

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Holy crap, turns out there is actually a very big difference between Claude Opus on Pro and Claude Opus on Max. Hot damn, I am actually impressed with Opus on Max, but on Pro it just wasted time. I guess that makes sense from a business perspective, but I wrote off Opus way too quick. I doubt I'll end up keeping Claude Max, I really do not need the 5x usage limits, but figured I'd try it for a month, see how well it works and what Fable's all about etc.

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And Paperback for iOS is now in public Test Flight! My original plan was to publish both Android and iOS at the same time, but Google is unexpectedly dragging their feet, and when I heard this email come in I literally stopped my work for a minute to come post this. It's still not perfect, there's one bug I've found so far if your book contains < or >, but that's easily fixable and now this way many more actual iOS users can throw rocks at it. testflight.apple.com/join/e562

Open source, politics

Recently I've read that the open source movement is political by definition. So to put it boldly, if you develop something open source, you are a communist, marxist, anarchist and whoever else.
Hell no.
I personally know at least one maintainer of a significant number of popular open source projects who is, to say the least, very far from those ideas politically (it's not me, I'm not so much in the open source recently, because lack of time).
So again: hell no.
#OpenSource #Politics

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Replying to @⁨Flaming_Water24@mastodon.stickbear.me⁩

@Flaming_Water24

No one is disputing the issue of concern legitimacy, we're arguing two issues:

1. If the concern ls legitimate, then the response should be universal, not only to smart glasses but to cameras overall. Right now we see people upset about Flock and Smart Glasses. Okay, what about all the other cameras?

2. We're discussing whether the concerns over privacy outweigh the benefits that the technology brings. You might say no, and that's fine, but there is a legitimate argument for "The benefits outweigh the concerns"

OR

"There are benefits but we need to establish social or legal frameworks around acceptable use"

@menelion

Replying to @⁨Flaming_Water24@mastodon.stickbear.me⁩

@Flaming_Water24 @serge I'm absolutely with Serge here. I still didn't hear any arguments why smart glasses are bad and smartphone cameras are good. they are so good that in Japan there used to be a law that prevented from turning off camera shutter sound, and Nokia used to release Japanese firmware separately in the days of yore. but it was in the days when video was a rare beast, nowadays anyone can use their smartphone, or a tripod, or whatever.

Replying to @⁨Flaming_Water24@mastodon.stickbear.me⁩

@Flaming_Water24 @serge No, it can't. It's even more surprising to me since you're blind yourself. Take the cane in one hand, the shopping cart in the other, and try to do something with a smartphone (whose touch screen requires two hands and a significant amount of dexterity, and you need also to hear everything TTS speaks). I mean, I lack for words, if I explained that to a sighted person, I would have no questions.

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Replying to @⁨menelion@caneandable.social⁩

controversial, NVDA addons

@menelion Certainly interesting times! From our point of view, what we will consider for NVDA core vs what would be appropriate in an add-on is unchanged, we just have a new world with lots more people using AI assisted development tools to create things faster than ever (but as we keep stressing, it is still critical for those developers to understand what their code does & be responsive to updating it as needed)