Wow. Just had a thought. What would stop another nation from doing to us what we did to their leader. I'm no fan of Maduro, but capturing leaders even if they are indicted is probably not a cool persective.
#TIL - A Congressman was once sworn in on a #Superman comic book.
Some on the right are outraged that #Mamdani took his oath of office on a #Quran . But at least three #NYC Mayors have been sworn in on a #Torah , several elected officials have used only a copy of the Constitution, and Donald never touched a Bible at all when swearing in for this last term.
In 2023, California Congressman Robert Garcia (D) outdid them all. He took his #OathOfOffice on a #Superman comic book. It was placed in a stack of items that meant a lot to him, including a photo of his late parents and his citizenship certificate. It was a rare copy of Action Comics # 1 (first appearance of Superman) from the Library of Congress, so it did have historical significance.
As a Superman fan myself, I know he was taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a copy of that treasure in his hands for just a minute, and I completely endorse the idea. Buying his own copy would have set him back millions of dollars, but that brief moment of "geeking out" was free, thanks to our National Archives.
In addition to chapters support, the app also remembers where podcast playback was stopped and can return to that exact point. In the meantime, I’m addressing a few more of Gemini’s suggestions, so another pull request is on the way. 🙂
I did test that feature on a podcast, but it didn't work for me. I started playing worstofallpossibleworlds.podbe… then I switched to shows.acast.com/itsathing/epis… but it did not remember my spot from the first file. This feature is low priority for me personally, but I thought I'd let you know.
Thank you for the information. I tested it and it worked for me. I’ll check the podcasts you sent, but that will probably be tomorrow — it’s 3 a.m. here in Poland! 😊
I kid you not: This is the actual Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs scolding the USA for “a grave violation of sovereignty and international law” — while Russia itself is actively engaged in a a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and about every international law you can find.
we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.
now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.
free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.
super curious situation where I have ICMP reply packets disappearing into the ether
I can see them coming from the server with tcpdump on one end of the wireguard tunnel but not the other, no firewall in this path (it *is* the point to point tunnel after all)
there are things about the pf firewall that drive me absolutely nuts.
I can have a floating rule that only applies to a single interface and it works, but if I apply that rule directly on the interface instead it doesn't work.
For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader:
Remember we're talking about a highly corrupt leader, a known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself, and has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected his corrupt friends and punished his political enemies.
And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too.
Looking for a specific kind of audio adapter, please help
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I'm looking for an audio adapter where I can plug the USB end into my PC and an aux cable into the other end. This aux should be a stereo (Not Mono) mic input so I can get sound from another device to my computer in stereo.
All the adapters I found on Amazon have been mono. Any recommendations?
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If you find something, please let me know. I'm using an old Andrea Superbeam USB headset dongle for this purpose right now, and I have a feeling it's days are numbered. It's ready to fall apart.
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It's very hard to find something that is actually stereo, line level and 3.5 MM on a simple dongle like that. The potential for noise is pretty high, too, when you start introducing common earth ground. There are some 3.5 MM mic level stereo things out there that you can sort of fake to be line level, like the aforementioned old adapter here, but the couple I've tried had so much DC offset it isn't worth using for anything much. M-Audio used to have a reasonably clean one that did Mike/line, but that was only packaged with some junkie inaccessible software, far as I know.
pretty much everything I use is balanced in and out, so I can't really help too much.
if you are looking for something very tiny, I don't know, but there are lots of options with 3.5 MM stereo line level I/o, or RCA, which is easy enough to adapt, but you will sacrifice size.
mmh, das hätte ich heute nach Berlin mitbringen können, aber jetzt bin ich grade wieder durch das Zugchaos durch den Stromausfall nach Hause gekommen und fahre morgen eher nicht nochmal nach Berlin rein.
(Brandenburg an der Havel. Ist jetzt nicht super weit weg, also wenn irgendjemand anders fahren will, kann die Person sich gerne melden )
I'm glad that NVAccess management realizes that even though I can get shit like image descriptions with AI 8 different ways from Sunday, that's a higher priority than the fact that I only have *1* way to use my terminal. And that's with NVDA. And it barely fucking works because it crashes so much. Good going folks.
@IzzyOnDroid Hallo, kann ich herausfinden, welche Größe des Laufwerks Sie verwenden, das Gewicht der Dateien? Ich möchte versuchen, das Archiv-Repository für ältere Android-Versionen auszuführen, die die Synchronisierung mit dem modernen Fdroid-Server nicht unterstützen.
das habe ich verstanden, ich bin zu dem Punkt gekommen, dass ich nur, wenn ich es bin, noch nicht weiß, wie. ich kann zwei Repositories auf dem Server platzieren.... Was ist das ungefähre Datengewicht Ihres Fdroid-Repositorys?
es besteht der Wunsch, es zu versuchen. es ist einfach, dass in einem modernen Server etwas nicht erlaubt, Daten zu erhalten. ich weiß es nicht genau, vielleicht geht es um Verschlüsselung... die Version des Kunden ist 0.100~, also, als Referenz. ich werde versuchen, es irgendwie zu lernen, es zu entfalten. es wird irgendwann nützlich sein. und die modernen wollen überhaupt nicht arbeiten. sie schreiben, dass ein Fehler beim Parsen des Dateiindex oder so etwas aufgetreten ist. ich werde das Gerät später booten, wenn ich es falsch geschrieben habe. für 0.46 schwört er auf den Index 301, denkt, dass er verschoben wurde. Hinzugefügt ohne ssl
Версии Android до 4.3 еще не поддерживают текущие версии SSL и поэтому не могут обмениваться данными с сервером (который был бы небезопасен, если бы предлагал старые версии SSL). Кроме того, такие старые версии не должны больше использоваться в Интернете.
nun, dann ist es sehr seltsam, dass ich noch etwas habe, das auf 4.2.2 funktioniert Wenn eines der Repositories auf github ist. nun, es funktioniert immer noch vom Guardian Project. obwohl ich Root x1-Zertifikate installiert habe, wahrscheinlich umsonst.
I keep fighting with myself whether I should just go back to Instagram. On the one side, fuck Meta and everything they do. On the other, why bother. Like, I wanna be social, a lot of irl people are there and apparently it's still number 1 when it comes to sharing what's going on in your life with sighted people who can't be bothered to you know, chat the oldschool way. But meh, I need to stay consistent for once, and I wouldn't have a lot of benefit as well. Problem is they just wouldn't care enough to come to Mastodon or Pixelfeed or st.
Removed some followers, bots and inactive alts in particular. Not that I'd want to broadcast my entire life story but I only have this account and plan to keep it like that cuz several are just overkill, and I'ed rather have a ltitle overview who I throw some of my stuff at. So congrats, if you read this you're not a bot and still active, and I appreciate your follow.
Thanks David! And thank you for all you do - we do keep up to date with industry news via your emails and it is very helpful. I hope you have had (or are still having?) a blessed, safe and joyous Christmas season as well!
Beta 2 of Braille display Calibration tool: Added a pause function, where you can hit P or enter to pause. I'm still labeling it beta until I know quirks are ironed out for people. Whether you're using a single-line or a multi-line Braille device, calibrating the dots and a way to clean them by raising, then gently wiping, can really work. Here at home, I'm testing this tool using the Brailliant BI 40X as well as the Cadence. I have some others here, but these give me a good idea on how well it works for different display types. github.com/tgeczy/BrailleDispl…
Misinformation thrives in stressful times. I know we all want to share news right now but when you feel the urge to share something on your feed consider asking:
* Who posted this? Are they a reporter, or do they have what looks like a reliable source? * Have you heard of this news site before? * Where is this photo from? Did they take it? Could it be something other than what the poster claims? Is there a way you can tell if it is what it says it is?
VoiceUover users who type in languages with accented letters. When I write in Spanish with the Spanish keyboard, I have to hold my finger down on say the an and then drag right to get the acute acute. the not tilde is right there on the spanish keyboard, but you have to drag quite a lot. Is there a VO shortcut to get altogether characters, for example drag down to select?
If you know folks in the military who are not ok with what’s happening in Venezuela and need support resisting, please have them reach out to About Face Veterans Against the War via this secure form:
@NVAccess Hello. I want to inform you that the NV-Access YouTube channel seems to have been marked as Made for Kids. This means that comments are disabled on your videos, and subscribers to your channel are not able to receive notifications when you upload a new video, among other restrictions that limit the outreach of your channel. I'm not sure if the team was already aware of this, but I wanted to let you know, as I am a subscriber who would like to be notified about new content from you.
Thanks Dan! I'll have to have a look - initially the age rating was more just who they'd suggest it to, but now it is diverging further, as countries like Australia introduce stricter limits on social media for younger teenagers.
Each January 4th, the birthday of Louis Braille, the day aims "to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people."
The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people.
If Internet existed during WW2, a lot of people would have asked you to censor yourselves while talking about concentration camps and the horrors of war.
If Canada ever gets invaded, I better not be told to CW my experience and feelings.
Man would expect, that #headphones costing 340€ sold by a well established brand like #Sony would consider some basic security. And when a vulnerability is discovered, that they would quickly announce and deploy a fix. But no. I still don't know whether my WH-1000XM headphone have this security hole fixed or if it ever will be fixed. Sony is just silent about it. 👎️ sony.cz/electronics/support/wi…
I'm not surprised the firmware update notes don't mention it. AFAIK it was embargoed until like 5 days ago. I just updated mine, the update is from Oct, they've known about it since May, so fingers crossed it's fixed and I hope Sony will be more transparent about it.
Amusing, audio game, Bloodshed, background music playing extremely fast at game over, takes over six minutes to slow down
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On January 1, @samtupy open-sourced some of his older games. Among them is "bloodshed, release the pain!" This is a side scroller where you try to kill the enemies who are coming after you and score as many points as possible. You have several weapons at your disposal, many of which require ammo to work. Along the way, from time to time, items appear which give you more ammo, health packs, extra health, and other things to help or hinder! your journey. The higher your score becomes, the faster enemies appear, the harder they are to kill, and the faster they move toward you for their attack. Also as the score increases, the playback speed of the background music increases. This is one of these games where you eventually die no matter how good you are simply because the enemies eventually appear faster than you can deal with them. During the death sequence, once all play has stopped, the playback speed of the background music slows down to baseline. Normally this works quite nicely. But a few days ago, I managed to have a run of luck, and achieved a final score of 612,301 points. Due to the way the speed formula works, that meant at the time of my death, the music was playing approximately 62.23 times faster than normal. As you can imagine, it took quite a while to slow the music back down to normal. Here I present a recording of this event. First you hear the final few seconds of gameplay, then I die. After that, you hear the music, playing at incredibly fast speed. I used a dynamic audio normalizer to make the music louder at this point so you can clearly hear what's happening. Then, over the next more than six minutes, the music slows down to normal. Because of the way this works, the slower the music gets, the faster the rate of slowing seems to be. Finally it reaches normal speed and the score is announced. Enjoy!
I decided to install the Zed editor, why not. Looks good, feels just like VS Code, but with a full Disable AI setting. Utterly and completely inaccessible with a screen reader. The #Rust GUI #accessibility landscape is… it’s sorta just not. Everybody is “looking into” and “exploring” AccessKit.
Maybe it's the constant turmoil of the world and/or me longing for simpler times in life, but today I found myself setting up the development environment for Rockbox, the alternative mp3 player firmware. I haven't even had a player for over 12 years.
Rockbox was the first real open source project I started tinkering with back in 2008. Obviously my skills back then weren't good enough to get any changes accepted, but learning to set up various toolchains, building my own custom patched binaries and just hanging around a well-maintained project (and getting rejected for not abiding by the rules) turned out to be invaluable experiences later in life.
Just for fun I did a simulator build (Rockbox has truly excellent simulators for all their supported players) and was at home straight away. Nothing much has changed in all this time. So much of the tech I use has been enshittified in the past 10 years that using a piece of software whose UI has been essentially unchanged since when I was a teenager felt just incredible.
I enjoyed hearing my machine click click away every day at 6 AM to create tons of TTS uploads for Rockbox and upload them to my server back in 2006. Those were the days.
On my mac, VO will say Authentication, application, application or something similar every minute or two. It's really annoying and shows just how bad this platform is. I'm guessing the screen saver kicked in or something and it just can't deal with it, or my ssh session is causing it. But I still hear that even after I closed it.
It would do this on my end if the Mac goes into Screen Saver on its own, super annoying. What I do is just hit the power button to lock it, then it won't do that.
I got stranded at the Utrecht Centraal because they cancelled all the busses. It's insane that they did this when all the snow has already been cleared. If private cars are running, then busses should run too. I've experienced delays and cancellations, but I've never experienced the transit company just straight up giving up. This is the most disillusioned I've been with Dutch transit. The company should have their contract revoked.
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