Mohamed

I wrote an article on how to auto-dub a video to replace your voice with an AI voice using OBS Studio, SpeechNote and FFmpeg

Quite easy to achieve this with OSS software (and offline models).

https://www.kentoseth.com/posts/2026/jan/30/how-to-auto-dub-a-video-to-replace-your-voice-with-an-ai-voice-using-obs-studio-speechnote-and-ffmpeg/

#AI #OBS #speechnote #STT #TTS #FFmpeg

If the subject matter of Islamic Fiqh is of interest to you, I also recommend a reading of my attempt to define Islamic Fiqh in the context of how we define 'law' today:

https://www.kentoseth.com/posts/2025/may/02/defining-islamic-fiqh-between-enforceablepunishable-offences-instructions-self-accountability-and-recommendations/

#IslamicStudies #Islam #Fiqh

Alhamdulillah, I have completed my largest and most dear research task that I took on roughly 1+ years ago.

I have compiled a list of the 'ahkam' (ruling/law) verses of the Quran used by the scholars of Fiqh to derive and establish Islamic Fiqh from.

The verses are split according to chapter and subject.

This desire was spurred by a simple question: which verses do the Fiqh scholars consider Ahkam?

The answer is surprising.

https://www.kentoseth.com/posts/2025/oct/20/what-are-the-verses-of-ahkam-rulings-in-the-quran/

#IslamicStudies #islam #Quran #Fiqh

#Islam #IslamicStudies #Fiqh #Arabic

In my article related to Islamic Fiqh/Jurisprudence, I attempted to define what exactly Fiqh is.

It is a misnomer to attribute Fiqh to merely mean law, per the common linguistic definition of law in most legal systems today.

https://www.kentoseth.com/posts/2025/May/02/defining-islamic-fiqh-between-enforceablepunishable-offences-instructions-self-accountability-and-recommendations/

#IslamicStudies #Islam

I've recently released a batch of 3 articles, the first of which is my introduction to Tahqiq: the science of manuscript verification/authentication.

This should be of interest to Islamic students and academics alike:

https://www.kentoseth.com/posts/2025/may/02/the-science-of-tahqiq-verification-in-the-islamic-science

Feedback always welcome.

#IslamicStudies #Islam

A common misnomer people have is that Maktaba Shamela consists of the entire Islamic text corpus which has been digitized.

This is false.

There's a massive number of Islamic texts that are scanned PDFs only.

There's an even greater number of Islamic texts that remain in book form only.

And there's a large, dispersed corpus of manuscripts that are not published.

In #Islamicstudies there is a subject called Usul al Fiqh (Principles of Law/Jurisprudence). Combined with #islamicHistory, the 2 show us not only the sources of law, but how it was implemented (eg. cases of the ruler being tried under the law).

Contrast that with our modern reality and how laws are:

- complicated
- arbitrary
- selectively enforced

This applies at the human and state level.

If laws have no application after a certain wealth/power level, is there any real justice?

#Arabic #NLP #diacritics

https://github.com/mush42/libtashkeel

In case I haven't shared this before. The model being used with libtashkeel seems to be the most advanced I've seen yet.

#Arabic #islam #islamicstudies

Here is a nice 3-part article about Arabic/Islamic text digitization and how history and many other factors have shaped the Arabic/Islamic corpus we now have:

P1: https://kitab-project.org/fihrist/OpenITI-vs-Fihrist-part-1/

P2: https://kitab-project.org/fihrist/OpenITI-vs-Fihrist-part-2/ (can skip if you just want results)

P3: https://kitab-project.org/fihrist/OpenITI-vs-Fihrist-part-3/

It goes hand-in-hand with an article I shared previously about manuscripts/publishing:

https://attahawi.com/2009/05/12/understanding-arabic-book-publications-an-enlightening-conversation-with-shaykh-husain-kadodia/

#Arabic #diacritics #NLP

I enjoyed this article breaking down the complexity of adding vowels to Arabic using NLP (or deep learning):

https://interscript.org/blog/2021-08-03-diacritization-in-arabic-with-deep-learning/

With Open Source IDE: #Lapce - https://lapce.dev/

and the ubiquity of #SystemD #nspawn #containers , It is possible to have a bloat-free workstation on #Linux

Just use the nspawn container to store all the dev-related packages and use the remote/SSH connection feature of Lapce to connect to those containers.

Your workstation will stay 'clean' relative to a situation if you had Java, Ruby, NodeJS, Python, Go and Rust all installed directly on the workstation.

#IslamicStudies #usul #fiqh

@islamicstudies

In a lesson on mabaadi al Usul, we are told:

Verbs and particles (fi'l and harf) are always khass (specific)

Nouns can be khass or aam (general).

#keyboard #kmonad

I have a keyboard like the picture below.

I am looking for a KMonad config for this type of keyboard.

Does anybody have one or know of where I can get one?

Something like a Colemak or Dvorak mod using a wide base (like making the left side on the left-edge and re-purposing the numpad for alphabet keys on the right-edge)

#islamicfinance

https://help.zoya.finance/en/articles/4189798-how-do-you-determine-shariah-compliance

I don't quite understand how some of these scholars justify their qiyas and ijtihad when giving rulings like:

> Most scholars tend to agree that no more than 5% of revenue can come from impermissible means.

Or spinning the Hadith about inheritance to justify a "30% threshold" as AAOIFI (Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions) has.

The Islamic Finance world is really murky sadly.

#containers #nspawn

I only discovered nspawn today as an alternative to LXC. Been having some hiccups installing it, but it seems like a very niche Linux topic for creating local test/debug containers.

Trying to make debootstrap work with `nspctl` ( management tool for systemd-nspawn containers).

#kaldi #vosk #ASR

So I want to train some audio data for VOSK and it says I need to use Kaldi with some filters on the model.

Q1: Has anybody ever trained a Kaldi model to use with the VOSK-API?

Q2: Did you struggle to set it up?

Q3: Did you need an expensive cloud GPU?

I've configured my #dynamicDNS to use Cloudflare and now I want to setup a Cloudflare Tunnel to work with #yunohost.

This bit confuses me.

1. These docs: https://yunohost.org/en/dns_config say that I need to add these details to my DNS

But if I am using Tunnel, do I still need to configure these DNS records?

2. If #yunohost is being installed on sub.mydomain.org, do I create a CF Tunnel "network" or "application"?

#selfhosting #selfhosted #cloudflare

So #DynamicDNS question:

I want to connect my RaspberryPi to the internet via a domain name I own. What is the simplest method of achieving this?

And which dynamic #DNS provider is privacy-friendly?

The first option I found on Fosstodon is:

https://desec.io/

#AskFedi #AskFediverse

I am installing #Linux on a new #laptop system. I have 24GB of RAM available. Do I:

- use a #swap partition with #hibernate?
- use a #swap partition without hibernate
- use a #swapfile
- none

Uses: gaming, coding, etc. (basically a power-user)

I'm a safety-first kind of user, so if "none" is the answer, it has to be the least-risk option too.

I wrote an article on how to view the bit-rate and compress MP3 files using Linux and the command-line (ty @kytta for the spelling):

https://kentoseth.tk/posts/2022/apr/08/linux-how-to-view-bit-rate-and-compress-mp3-files/

#linux #mp3 #compress

I predict that in a few years time, many people not totally swayed to the extremes in politics/identity/religion/other and the constant gloom of news/war/lockdowns will ask in retrospect whether it was worth it for their minds and bodies.

#MentalHealth is probably a bigger unspoken issue right now than any war/pandemic.

Look after yourselves and disengage from divisiveness.

#anxiety #depression #mentalfatigue

Does anybody have #anbox working? Which kernel?

I've given up with these DKMS modules that just won't work.

Check out my latest article on how to transfer files between a Linux host OS and Anbox

https://kentoseth.tk/posts/2021/oct/24/transfer-files-to-and-from-anbox/

#linux #anbox