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I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
Another random poll to follow up my last one, do you follow any hashtags? Feel free to boost this poll as well!
- Yes, I follow a small amount of hashtags. (52%, 22 votes)
- Yes, I follow a lot of hashtags. (11%, 5 votes)
- No, I don't follow any hashtags. (33%, 14 votes)
- Other (comment in replies) (2%, 1 vote)
hi, i'm Nicoleta - never used a microblogging platform so this is all new to me :)
i love:
* computers - but the hacker culture / free software / sustainable tech parts, not the hypergrowth dark pattern stuff that plagues our existence nowadays
* writing, which i should do more of, over at nicoleta.bearblog.dev
* art & creative expression
* music, esp. electronic
* rhythm games
* dancing, i dance lindy hop!
i'm looking for a community of like-minded people, who feel the same about tech, which is why i joined here :)
if you're local (from Bucharest/Romania), let's get connected, and form a local group for FOSS enthusiasts/hackers/tinkerers!
see you in the cyberspace :)
Paying without #Google: New consortium in #Europe wants to remove #customROM hurdles
Using #banking and payment apps on #Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that. It is an #opensource alternative to #GooglePlayIntegrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with #GooglePlay services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
heise.de/en/news/Paying-withou…
Using #banking and payment apps on #Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that. It is an #opensource alternative to #GooglePlayIntegrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with #GooglePlay services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
heise.de/en/news/Paying-withou…
Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles
Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.Andreas Floemer (heise online)
Huh! So if they drop developer verification, this may actually be useful sometime in the future.
Today I updated my backup scripts to use #BorgBackup instead of creating just tgz archives. It's so simple to use. 👍
I am looking forward to version 2.0. It will get many nice additional features.
I am looking forward to version 2.0. It will get many nice additional features.
If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances.
I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.
... this one if I need more than 500 characters.
Both are well moderated instances as far as I can tell.
@rozeboosje@fedi.at @buddhabuddy I thought I had replied to my previous comment with my fedi.at account but it ended up separated from the reply thread. Apologies.
masto.ai is not "AI", it's maintained by @stux . fedi.at is an Austrian server but I liked the way it sounded and it does welcome toots in English so all good.
FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops: (@admin@floss.social)
📣 FLOSS.social will be defederating with mastodon.cloud on 2026-05-01, joining with many other servers in taking this approach.FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops: (FLOSS.social)
My current project of ultimate silliness is using omnivoice, gemma-4, bark, and ace-step to create a radio station that's entirely AI generated but runs locally without using the cloud. It's super buggy, so not sharing yet. But it can do foreground music, background music, foreground sound effects, background sound effects, and host dialogue with multiple hosts, all positioned with HRTF inside a studio. The hosts can use a browser to look stuff up, move themselves around the studio, and talk to each other. Sound effects and music are cached and reused. No, I don't expect to replace radio. It's more of an art project/way to torture people I don't like with a stream of endless audio slop. Also proof of what can be done without a data center; a modern video card is enough to generate spoken dialogue, music, and sound effects all in close to real time. If you have 24 gb of VRAM you don't need an enormous data center to do everything you could possibly want.
The primary issue is that the longer it runs, the farther and farther the station deviates from the original prompt. It started out as a 24/7 news station. Within 20 minutes it generated and played a song with the lyrics "I go into the kitchen and what do I see? Round and happy, just like me. A potato! Yay!" Followed by one of the hosts saying "Oh my God why do I do this job. Please send help." Note that this is caused by bad sampler settings and poor prompting; a giant trillion parameter model wouldn't do any better than what I can run locally.
If I ever get this thing in releasable shape it'll serve as a kind of ultimate answer to the people who think AI needs nine million data centers. No, it really doesn't. One gaming computer is fine. The purpose of the data centers is to centralize control in the hands of the corporations, not because AI actually needs them.
Now that I have some down time, or I'm giving myself some, it's like I'm puttering around and looking for things that I need to do. So I updated my other laptops, did my obligatory Aira test (our transit agency is piloting it and asked me to help), bought a couple things while I was out, did a little bit of cleaning (I hate cleaning and don't do it very much, and I don't think I'm good at it either), etc.
Hope everyone is having a restful Sunday.
Hope everyone is having a restful Sunday.
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Gajim 2.4.6 has been released! 🎉
Gajim can now give you a clue if it's night for your contact 🌔
Gajim 2.4.6 comes with improvements for the activity feed, better display of mentions, fixed message scrolling, and many bugfixes.
Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!
Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim
gajim.org/posts/2026-04-19-gaj…
Gajim 2.4.6
What’s New Gajim now shows a hint it it’s night for your contact. Both Conversations and Dino show this hint as well. If you set your current timezone in your profile, this may help others to reach you better.gajim.org
Absolute peak Windows 11: My new HP ProBook factory install tried to get me to install the MyASUS app from the Start menu.
HP, are you...like...okay? Do you need me to tell you who manufactured this laptop? You only gave me one piece of HP crapware actually preinstalled and are advertising a compeditor!
HP, are you...like...okay? Do you need me to tell you who manufactured this laptop? You only gave me one piece of HP crapware actually preinstalled and are advertising a compeditor!
@alexchapman hahaha. I bought a really cheap machine recently from a Chinese OEM and it came packaged with no bloatware. It suggested I install a game from xbox gamepass that absolutely does not fit within the system requirements.
@alexchapman It's pretty fun. I wish I knew a way to dump the system summery from this thing. What is filled in is filled in wrong, and so much just isn't
"379 zero-days from an orchestrated pipeline that beat unconstrained Claude Code by 30x" ...
"Three projects produced zero confirmed vulnerabilities: curl ... OpenSSL ... and SQLite"
theweatherreport.ai/posts/symb…
379 zero-days from an orchestrated pipeline that beat unconstrained Claude Code by 30x
SAILOR found 379 zero-days by orchestrating CodeQL, LLMs, and KLEE. It can supercharge Mythos.Ilya Kabanov (The Weather Report)
IIUC, they're saying that these three projects do something that their pipeline can't handle yet, so it's more like "we couldn't search them properly"
good job, OpenSSL! I'm not surprised by the other two, you/they are meeting expectations.
Would anyone be interested in an LM4000 I've got lying around? I just managed to find an LM6000 with bestspeech, the same kind of one I used in school and purchased it, and the 4000 I got months ago doesn't appear to have TTS built-in. I'd ask you to pay shipping and maybe a little for the unit + its case and original instructions but it's not worth much to me as a fully blind individual, so I'm very flexible and willing to have you pay just as much as it costs to get it to your door. Feel free to boost so this might actually get in front of some sighted peoples eyes, I imagine almost no one blind will want this.
reshared this
microtonal harpsichord :o
youtube.com/watch?v=upbwQPeGm0…
I know microtonal music is trending rn (and good thing too, more microtones please) but this one is just beautiful. it's so… wooden 
You´re Everything
You're Everything (C. Corea) am Basler Clavemusicum Omnitonumwww.georgvogel.net / www.projektstudio31.comvogelgeorg (YouTube)
will my beloveds trend finally
youtube.com/watch?v=PpTp7uNpgt…
youtube.com/watch?v=PpTp7uNpgt…
La Paz Eterna
La Paz Eternacomposition & lyrics by Kari IkonenPerformed by WishamaliiNemat Battah - Kari Ikonen- Abdissa Assefahttps://kariikonen.com/wishamalii/Kari Ikonen (YouTube)
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Thinking about this #curl chart: „vulnerabilities in releases“
Every release starts at 0. When a vulnerability is found, it is added to all releases it has, undetected at the time, been present.
My contributions started 2022. Where will they end up at?
Otoh, why dwell on the past when such interesting times are ahead of us? Learning is for the machines now.😌
curl.se/dashboard1.html#vulner…
hey does anyone remember a post by a hobbyist, about 1 to 5 years ago, who did a bunch of reverse engineering work to get their GPU to render one single triangle to the screen without relying on any existing library? we're trying to find it again
@ireneista@irenes.space you might be interested in this similar blog post about the ps2 rather than a modern architecture themaister.net/blog/2025/03/20…
Dicen que es la ADtitude era en WWE ahora.
(suena correcto)
Listening to @musical0916 on dodge radio.
Le tengo mucho cariño a xmpp, pero me ha dado por probar #DeltaChat y tengo que admitir que es muchísimo más amigable para gente que, como yo, no tiene ni idea de los entresijos de la informática. Me he abierto diferentes perfiles, instalado varias miniapps internas, conectado móvil y ordenador... Todo en un ratillo porque ha sido facilísimo e intuitivo. Llevo años usando xmpp y, cuando menos me lo espero, ahí sigo encontrándome con el temido «el mensaje no fue cifrado para este dispositivo».
@audricd convencí en un plis a una de mis sobrinas (no, esa no) de que se lo instalara para poder jugar juntas a los minijuegos.
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Librarian.net: social media is real life, make it accessible
me banging on about alt text like every librarian should.
Many societal problems cannot be solved with technology. They can, however, be made worse.
Fuck Palantir. Fuck their manifesto. Fuck that we have fallen so far they feel comfortable saying the evil part out loud.
Fuck all the people who won't immediately delete their Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter, etc accounts. As long as they continue funding fascism, we'll be hostage to their selfish laziness.
Brute selfish force can work very well to a large degree. Such as with crime.
A caring, connected, sharing, egalitarian world works best for most people but requires a comprising of egocentricity that too few seem ever, ever, ever to want to do.
Just found an app called NoCopilotKey to convert the Copilot key, when pressed, to right control key, the way it was before such hardware key was forced upon everyone on recent laptops. the only caveat is that some NVDA keys stop working, namely nvda+control+f, as well as any other nvda+control+letter. Can anyone please, e.g. @NVAccess try it and tell me whether this should be fixed by the NoCopilotKey or the NVDA side, so I can open an issue?
github.com/Dwedit/NoCopilotKey
github.com/Dwedit/NoCopilotKey
GitHub - Dwedit/NoCopilotKey: Changes Copilot keyboard key into right ctrl key
Changes Copilot keyboard key into right ctrl key. Contribute to Dwedit/NoCopilotKey development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
When writing about global politics, I write India's political party 'BJP' as 'BJ Party'. Puerile I know but it amuses me. Killjoy editor always changes it anyway.
@zverik Hi
May I ask for high level road map suggestion?
I want to see Helsinki bike stations on Osmin app.
What would be the steps to add them?
A true friend would ask you to stop playing that ukulele
Hey everyone.
Sonic Synergy goes live tonight at 6 PM Eastern on HKC radio..
Tonight, we show off some fun experiments we were doing with Suno, in our attempt to have AI make an entire album about wingman.
You can participate by helping us come up with ridiculous prompts, and we’ll make some of these on the fly.
This and so much more is in store, so tune in and pipe up with your calls and texts to (833) 452-4452.
Extremely NSFW and not for everyone.
Listen Live at
sonicsynergy.space/live
Sonic Synergy goes live tonight at 6 PM Eastern on HKC radio..
Tonight, we show off some fun experiments we were doing with Suno, in our attempt to have AI make an entire album about wingman.
You can participate by helping us come up with ridiculous prompts, and we’ll make some of these on the fly.
This and so much more is in store, so tune in and pipe up with your calls and texts to (833) 452-4452.
Extremely NSFW and not for everyone.
Listen Live at
sonicsynergy.space/live
Cuando patrocinas una ponencia en un evento ajeno a la tiflosfera te llenas de emoción, porque la han admitido y parece que va a cambiar las cosas y que es genial que la hagamos. Luego ves 3 líneas que hablan de accesibilidad en el resumen del primer día, ninguna aparición de la palabra en el resumen completo del congreso... y oye, he pensado que el dinero de la asociación tiene mejores sitios a los que ir la próxima vez.
Hombre, si esperabas que un evento de software libre se atreviese a comentar en su resumen que hay un gran problema con la accesibilidad en el software libre igual es que eras bastante optimista
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MakerTube is open for public registrations! A PeerTube home for #makers, #musicians, #artists and #DIY #creators.
If you’ve been wanting to try video beyond big tech platforms, now’s a great time.
This instance is community-funded. If you value independent media, please consider a #donation: makertube.net/about/instance/s…
Every penny helps.
Join us: makertube.net
Tagging for #SolarpunkSunday #DigitalSovereignty
Hmmm, one could sign up today, document your #EarthDay event or tell your Earth Day #story in video!!!!
GNOME Circle didn't feel like such a big deal to me when it rolled out. Seeing how the apps improve as part of the process completely changed my mind about it.
#blastfromthepast #pixaki #pixelart #gnome #circle
Circle Apps Intro
A personal project. Little intro/outro animation for a bunch of animated app icons for the GNOME Circle project.art.jimmac.eu
Part of the point of open source is reuse. And wholesale copying can be valid. But that reuse has always had boundaries and constraints applied to it.
Attribution, open sourcing of modifications, etc.
Thats what the licenses are there for.
If we're saying licenses shouldn't matter then ok that's an argument we can have.
But the "clean room implementation of a thing in the training data" people still seem to think licenses matter or they wouldn't have had to relicense anything.
I always saw free software as a compromise, the best we could do in a world where we couldn't choose the laws but we could skirt around them. My model of this always was, sotware should be free, freedoms 0--3 should be universal, and ideally any attempt at curtailing them for any software would be unviable, legally, technically, or both.
Blessed are the cheese makers
I find it kind of cool that many creatures I follow have now gotten DAPs and are creating their own music archives 
I'm still getting weird looks for using another device that's not a smartphone for music ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
While using a DAP since 2015...
While using a DAP since 2015...
Am 17. April 1996, also vor genau 30 Jahren, erschien #Siedler2. Eine der IMO angenehmsten Spielmechaniken und auch heute noch spielbar. Mit dem Fan-Wapper RttR (aka Siedler 2.5) sogar nativ unter Linux und mit Multiplayer-Support mit Netzwerk (Ja, natürlich auch IPv6).
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Robert Ariail
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Late stage capitalism rules
The social hierarchy stuff genuinely doesn’t register for a lot of neurodivergent people like myself. Not because we’re above it. Because we never understood the point of it.
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or even more, I’m sure it’s a stupid way to organize things. What’s the point in nine billion brains if the whole world is run by only a few of them?
or even more, I’m sure it’s a stupid way to organize things. What’s the point in nine billion brains if the whole world is run by only a few of them?
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Report: Palestine Action's current hearing is rigged against them.
Reportedly:
* the jury is not told the defendants can be sentenced as "terrorists" (very long prison terms);
* UK media are banned from reporting the terrorism aspect (confirmed by journalists);
* the 6 must *not* refer to their motives for damaging Israeli weapons factories.
Arguably, Palestine Action is being targeted for its effectiveness.
youtube.com/watch?v=rkzxhQU6QI…
#UKPol #EUPol #USPol #Israel #news #PalestineAction .
UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout
A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun.The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal detai...The Grayzone (YouTube)
The jury is simply kept in the dark.
The jury is told there are criminal charges, but not that the judge can sentence for "terrorism."
The British press has been ordered not to report on the terrorism aspect.
voicemedia.global/article/brit… .
Britain is turning into a Zionist police state to protect Israel
The UK is pulling out all the stops to persecute a pro-Palestine activist group, including blanket gag orders and courtroom deceptionBy Tarik...Independent News Roundup (www.voicemedia.global)
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Report: "A European Citizens' Initiative calling for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement surpassed one million signatures."
"The EU must stand for international law & stop its complicity with Israel’s... violations of international law & human rights... genocide, occupation, & apartheid.”
thecradle.co/articles/one-mill…
#EUPol #EU #USPol #IsraeliCrimes #EU-IsraelAssoc #press .
'One million people have spoken': Petition triggers formal review of EU–Israel trade deal
The campaign calling on the EU to suspend its association agreement with Israel reached one million signatures in under three monthsthecradle.co
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Surprise...
Report: "Unknown traders bet $760m on oil prices dropping minutes before Hormuz reopened".
"Repeated, strategically timed trades in oil & prediction markets suggest a rising trend of insider profiteering connected to the war".
"Crude prices dropped by as much as 11 percent within minutes."
thecradle.co/articles/unknown-…
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #press #oilprices #InsiderTrading #TrumpFamilyCorruption .
Unknown traders bet $760m on oil prices dropping minutes before Hormuz reopened
Repeated, strategically timed trades in oil and prediction markets suggest a rising trend of insider profiteering connected to the warthecradle.co
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Quick PSA: early Roland SC-8850s with ZM1****, ZM2****, ZM3**** and ZM4**** serial numbers are known to have a few bugs.
The most notable one is that if a hi-hats, or any other set of drums which are part of an assign group where one sound cuts off the other, such as the short and long güiro, are played repeatedly, previously playing notes will cut off.
There are a couple of other bugs too, such as certain sounds becoming quieter if portamento is applied to them in mono mode, and strings cutting off during trills or tremolos.
Here's Roland's official statement on these bugs (Japanese): web.archive.org/web/2000012606…. They did offer a free fix for these issues at the time, but I'm not sure if they would still repair them today.
My 8850 is a ZM2 and is effected by these bugs. Here's a demonstration of me playing hi-hats repeatedly on it, followed by another demo on my 8820 to show how doing that should sound.
Mckensie parker
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