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Shout out to NathanTech. Just checking out the site and the tremendously feature rich applications make me somewhat embarrassed to download them for free. if you can, stop by and check out his stuff. nathantech.net/products/softwa…

Calliope, more than just a media player - Nathan Tech

Welcome to the media player built for the blind. With so many features to choose from and an interface that is 100 percent accessible, it will blow your mind!
www.nathantech.net

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Decided to switch back to using FastSM as my Mastodon client, but I'm still frustrated that I can't get YouTube content to play despite having YT-DLP installed and configured. Anyone using FastSM ever figure that out? On a somewhat related note, I've stopped using the YouTube website directly and now use an Invidious instance so hopefully I'll have a bit of privacy that way... I know it doesn't affect FastSM at all, but liking that I can still enjoy YouTube content in my web browser without handing over metadata to Google.

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I'm using Sensor Readout by @FreakyFwoof

I'll admit that I was skeptical at first, but I must say, this comes across very well.

github.com/onjLouis/accessible…

Release Sensor Readout 4.1.1 · OnjLouis/accessible-sensor-readout

Added: Performance/Overview now includes physical + virtual memory totals, plus total, used, and free space across all connected disks. These readings can also be used in spoken hotkeys and notific...
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@Andre Louis

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In this episode you’ll learn

• What vaporwave is and how the genre emerged
• Why slowed corporate music creates nostalgia
• The relationship between vaporwave and internet culture
• How digital decay became an aesthetic language

#vaporwave
#digitalnostalgia
#internetculture

youtu.be/A3KVvELoo-w

Why Vaporwave Feels Like a Lost Future: A Comprehensive History of a Digital Cultural Movement

Why does Vaporwave feel nostalgic for a future that never actually happened?Because vaporwave is not simply music.It is cultural memory distorted through dig...
Monumental Movement (YouTube)
#vaporwave #digitalnostalgia #internetculture
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What makes “Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing” so powerful is its simplicity: one familiar pop fragment stretched into something surreal, melancholic, and strangely beautiful. A digital ghost that still echoes through online culture today.

youtu.be/_4gl-FX2RvI

MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Music Video)

From "FLORAL SHOPPE"http://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppeMACINTOSH PLUS also known as Vektroid: Bandcamp: http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/Faceboo...
Sun Levi (YouTube)

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Note for other Instance Admins and Mods:

#MstdnGames has been flooded with bot registrations leaving what appear to be an effortful ‘reason’ for wanting to join our instance. They have all been variations of the this:

“I'm looking for a community that actively engages with leftist ideas and values solidarity, mutual aid, and anti-oppression principles. I want to participate in discussions and share perspectives in a space that is already oriented toward the values I support.”

This is just one example, I’ve seen a dozen variations of this in just the last week alone.

Just a friendly warning that bots seem to be submitting more sophisticated entries to try to get past manual screenings for new user accounts.

#mstdngames

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You know the agingtv GStreamer element, the one that makes the colours of a picture duller and adds noise so that it looks like it's coming from an old TV?

I wrote agingradio during the hackfest - instead of ruining your video, it ruins your audio! 🎉 Imagine listening to music on a very old radio, or calling a customer service hotline and suffering through the hold music whose quality is insufferable.

It supports five different types of distortion:

1) White noise (of configurable amplitude)
2) Clicks (of configurable probability)
3) Low-pass filter (of configurable frequency)
4) Quantisation noise (of a configurable amount of bits)
5) Cubic curve distortion / odd harmonics (of configurable amount and # of passes)

It is part of rsaudiofx and merged as of a couple of hours ago: gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstream…

I used the Chilli hold music from github.com/Hypfer/HotlineValet… as a test case (Chilli.mp3 by @janhenrik , CC-BY-NC-SA). The result, using the element's default values, is attached to this post.

#GStreamer #RustLang #Hackfest #AudioProcessing

HotlineValetudo/HotlineValetudo/Audio/holdmusic at master · Hypfer/HotlineValetudo

Your call is important to us. Contribute to Hypfer/HotlineValetudo development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#RustLang #hackfest #gstreamer #AudioProcessing @Jan-Henrik
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It's BITTER-FS not 'butterfs' and certainly not 'betterfs'.

Bitter, because that is the kind of taste it will leave in your mouth after it mangles your root file system beyond all hope of recovery.

For the 3rd time this week. And it's only Wednesday night at 4am. When you pronounce the fs FUBAR.

Ask me how I know.

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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that devs are hard at work polishing Plasma 6.7 due to be released on the 16th of June.

Annoying bugs, like a crash when a monitor was quickly switched off and on again, or being unable to recover a window you have dragged off the edge of a screen, are being solved to make sure your experience with your upcoming desktop environment is smooth and pleasant.

blogs.kde.org/2026/05/30/this-…

#KDEAt30 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

This Week in Plasma: 6.7 Beta 2 Released

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
KDE Blogs
#FreeSoftware #opensource #desktop #kdeat30

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DOJ subpoenas Reddit in effort to unmask Trump critics

rawstory.com/social-media-subp…

Stalin must be turning in his grave...

DOJ subpoenas Reddit in effort to unmask Trump critics

The Justice Department is intensifying efforts to identify anonymous social media users who have criticized government deportation policies, issuing grand jury subpoenas to Reddit and X demanding names, addresses, and banking information.
Travis Gettys (Raw Story)

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What is it with these massive mobile companies making a nice, declarative UI frameworks (SwiftUI, Compose), and then completely fucking neglecting the core accessibility experience! What the fuck guys! I love writing code like this. It's nice and readable and seperates concerns nicely. But then I have to drop down into low level system libraries or XML views to get proper accessibility support. So, fuck you if you're trying to make an accessible mobile app with modern tools, I guess.

Jonathan reshared this.

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4 Uhr nachts, sitze hier mit ner Tasse Tee und denke drüber nach, wie absurd es eigentlich ist, dass mein halbes digitales Leben auf Software läuft, die irgendwer in seiner Freizeit pflegt. Ohne Bezahlung. Manchmal seit Jahrzehnten.

Erinnerung an mich selbst: Den Maintainern eurer Lieblings-Tools mal Danke sagen. Oder nen Kaffee spendieren. Oder einfach nen Bug-Report schreiben, der nicht in Großbuchstaben verfasst ist.

#OpenSource #FOSS

#foss #opensource
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TIL that you can't hook the magic tap properly in SwiftUI, so have to shell out to UIKit in at least one file in your project. It'll compile and everything, but magic tap just won't work.
import UIKit

class PaperbackApplication: UIApplication {
override func accessibilityPerformMagicTap() -> Bool {
NotificationCenter.default.post(name: .pbMagicTap, object: nil)
return true
}
}
Trillion dollar company, y'all.

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Somlu

absolut, ich hatte den vagen Eindruck, dass war mal anders. Ich habe zwar immer - für alle Fälle - einen Ausdruck dabei aber wenn die echt den Komfort-Check-In bevorzugen, müssen sie sich was einfallen lassen.

Die Krönung war der Schaffner, der meinen Ticket kontrollierte, weil ich mich umsetzte (Fahrrichtungsfoo) UND wagte mich selbst einzuchecken. Hatte ich so auch noch nie vorher. Ich konnte mich auf dem neuen Platz nicht einchecken, weil irgendwas mit einem Bonusprogramm

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@jerry since it's just mentioned "the admin of the instance"

GrapheneOS

2026-05-30 14:43:03

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The only reason infosec.exchange isn't defederated is from grapheneos.social is because it's too big to fail.

infosec.exchange has very consistently failed to address rampant libel and harassment directed towards our team from their instance.

At one point, the admin of the instance publicly posted we'd reported harassment with details and asked for feedback which acted as a rallying cry for people engaged in these attacks. None was addressed. We stopped filing reports of harassment to them.


@Jerry 🦙💝🦙
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GrapheneOS

What is this going to solve? People are free to post libelous claims about our team and harassment content on infosec.exchange. The response to reporting someone who made multiple posts doing it and was getting worse was publicizing that we reported it and directing a bunch of hate towards us. We were then told it was going to be dealt with but any moderation action was undone and the person has doubled down on engaging in bullying based on libel. Tip of the iceberg anyway.
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GrapheneOS

We don't file reports for people posting harassment content and highly abusive replies for infosec.exchange. There are years of it without us filing reports.

If the report had simply been rejected because they didn't have the context and didn't see it as severe enough without understanding the context and what the person was referencing then that would be a different story. It isn't that one report was rejected. It was turned into a public event with a bunch of harassment.

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The only reason infosec.exchange isn't defederated is from grapheneos.social is because it's too big to fail.

infosec.exchange has very consistently failed to address rampant libel and harassment directed towards our team from their instance.

At one point, the admin of the instance publicly posted we'd reported harassment with details and asked for feedback which acted as a rallying cry for people engaged in these attacks. None was addressed. We stopped filing reports of harassment to them.

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GrapheneOS

Due to the public post requesting feedback which was being heavily brigaded, we had to intervene and provide context. We sent most of this in private messages linking to the harassment content being referenced.

We just wanted the nasty posts removed and the person we reported asked to stop doing it. Instead it was turned into a public furor towards us for people involved in this to brigade and our private messages to infosec.exchange explaining the situation and providing context were leaked.

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Was für ein ekelhaftes empathieloses Arschloch ist der derzeitige Kanzler dieses Landes eigentlich? und ein verdammter Lügner ist er auch noch.
Merz leck Eier ist zu gut dafür. Ihm wünsch ich inzwischen wirklich die Pest an den Arsch.

#merzleckeier #niewiedercdu
youtube.com/shorts/2aZ93tO970w

Merz schweigt das Thema einfach tot… folg mir gerne für mehr 🙏 #merz #salzwedel #bürgerdialog

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
Frederik Sieburg (YouTube)
#niewiedercdu #merzleckeier

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Oh heck yeah. With the help of Claude Code, I’ve now flashed my first custom firmware on my Keychron Q6 Max.
I have to admit, we got it wrong at first and flashed the wrong firmware. I was afraid my keyboard was dead, had to completely reset it, and had to get a sighted person to find the reset button underneath the spacebar keycap, but okay. I got there eventually. Really nice.
Lmao, let’s not talk about the fact that, for some reason, it swapped the # key with the Return key.

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The Pentagon just handed Dell $10B contract after Trump purchased $5M in Dell shares.

"Trump has repeatedly urged people at public events to buy Dell computers."

democracynow.org/2026/5/29/hea…

#USPol #EUPol #dell #news #trump #Hegseth .

Pentagon Awards Dell a Contract Worth Nearly $10 Billion After Trump Purchases Shares

Government ethics watchdogs are sounding the alarm after the Pentagon granted a contract to the U.S. technology company Dell worth $9.7 billion.
Democracy Now!
#Trump #News #uspol #dell #eupol #hegseth

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has anyone considered how fucking stupid it is

to invent a machine that only accidentally generates correct answers

and thus requires humans to manually sort out the mostly bullshit garbage

AI? 🤣 dont kid yourselves. it has no 'thought' or even 'hallucination' -because it does not think-. It is not intelligent. It's a ouija board.

mstdn.jp/@landley/116662129232…

Rob Landley

2026-05-30 06:33:41

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Culture is full of persephone eating pomegranate seeds, beware of greeks bearing gifts, don't eat fairy food, don't accept favors from demons because you'll owe them, monkey's paw wishes...

And then all these "ain't no such thing as a free lunch" fuckers tell you to check in LLM pull requests, and mock the reluctant as fools. STRINGS ARE VERY MUCH ATTACHED. This crap is fucking sticky at nuclear contamination levels. You pivoted from NFTs to this, we watched you do it.


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Culture is full of persephone eating pomegranate seeds, beware of greeks bearing gifts, don't eat fairy food, don't accept favors from demons because you'll owe them, monkey's paw wishes...

And then all these "ain't no such thing as a free lunch" fuckers tell you to check in LLM pull requests, and mock the reluctant as fools. STRINGS ARE VERY MUCH ATTACHED. This crap is fucking sticky at nuclear contamination levels. You pivoted from NFTs to this, we watched you do it.

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