Is there a better sound subscription library thing other than Splice? Trying to look for authentic sounds for an upcoming game, and generated synthesis sounds just won't cut it here.
More than a dozen private companies lend workers to Major Projects Office: document
cbc.ca/news/politics/private-c…
They need to supervise that the tax payer money serve the interest of the corporations.
meanwhile they want to fire many public servant.
And we are still waiting the interest of Canadians to be represented.
we need more ballads about tragic industrial accidents
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Ok, Weeping Tile did.
I've been working on my first app livtet.olamaelcu.net/ that's my attempt to make a social network for book readers. If you have a AT Proto account, you already have an account with it. I'm exploring what it'd take to support sign in with ActivityPub account holders (pretty difficult outside of running a server myself and that's expensive).
Livtet — Your library, everywhere
Livtet is a self-hosted, multi-tenant library manager. Catalog, sync, and share your books across devices — private, AT Protocol-native.Livtet — Your library, everywhere
Today’s attempt to impeach Pete Hegseth failed.
Thomas Massie was the only Republican to vote with the Democrats (204 votes combined), and the Republicans (211 votes) voted to refer the resolution to a committee, effectively killing it.
As a result, Hegseth now faces a new Congress in January, in which Democrats have the majority and may choose to both investigate and impeach him.
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They're not going down without a fight. The ones who lost their seats will be extra-special vindictive. They are some basic bitches. It will take time to unwind all the harm they've done. Pretty sure Kegbreath will resign by the end of the year.
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Wake up honey, it's time to #memetheEU again!
The #eukidsact is getting pushback, but this insane, authoritarian proposal still stands. Save the #fediverse, save #gaming, save #opensource - kill this bill!
Hello Fediverse! I am interested in learning to sew clothes--ngl, Project Runway has been a huge inspiration.
I'm currently an intermediate-ish knitter who loves to craft. I don't really have room for a full-blown sewing setup with a sewing machine in my apartment, so I'd like to start small by learning to hand-sew.
Does anyone have good (preferably free) resources for an absolute sewing beginner?
For hand stitches, you have a lot of options. If you can find a copy (you may have to search), there is a book by Alabama Chanin that covers handstitching on stretch/knit fabrics, something that is usually held to be impossible but isn't (it just takes a different approach, and knowing the stitches).
A really good first project is a needle book, for storing your pins and needles. This tutorial is actually a tad elaborate with the cover - I just did two layers of fabric, and closure with a button on one side and a hair tie on the other elefantz.com/2015/06/tutorial-…
But, I did make embroidered calico labels for each page. Traced the lettering off a printed page using a light box and a pen, then embroidered over the top.
Pinging @valhalla - I think you do quite a lot of hand sewing?
TUTORIAL - the simplest needle-book....
Recently my lovely friend Yoko from Lecien Fabrics sent me a parcel of 10" origami squares (layer cakes) to play with and I instantly...www.elefantz.com
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some non-machine approaches to making clothes:
the techniques Alabama Chanin made famous, for artistic clothes out of jersey (T-shirt, sweatshirt) material, visibly handmade. Her style is Very Itself, I've seen the technique in other styles
or
you can learn to handsew the way people did for nearly ever! I think Bernadette Banner has some YouTubes and I know there's a summary of stitches in the book "_The American Duchess Guide to 18th C Dressmaking_. See also SCA people.
You and me the same buddy..
This stupid bubble is making our servers at least 2400 euros more expensive each year.. and thats servers alone
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Never trust the Chinese, they're spying on you! We and our 742 partners would never do so however, we're just here so you have an enjoyable time la la la look at those pretty girls who have more you then get depressed so you don't think about us for even a second!
Playing tonight with the Augustana Northlanders Jazz Band! We start at 8:30 PM Eastern (7:30 Central). Come hang out on the live stream:
youtube.com/live/O3pKTJmTd60
#Jazz #BigBand #LiveMusic #Livestream #JazzBand #AugustanaUniversity
Augustana Northlanders Jazz Band - Nov. 10, 2026
11/10/26Augustana Northlanders Jazz Band presents their Fall Concert "Jazz World"Hamre Recital Hall | 7:30pmTo access the program, click this link: flow.page...Augustana University (YouTube)
Letter sent to the RNIB TechTalk podcast.
Hi RNIB TechTalk
I listened today to parts of your technology podcast as I often do.
Inevitably, there was news of the JAWS 2027 upgrade, particularly for those of us living in the UK. Understandably, Jackie Brown made the point that people in the UK could be wondering what upgrading would mean for them, particularly as the new Vispero Companion AI-related features cannot be used.
That is a very fair argument. Jackie noted that in terms of functionality in the programs she uses, it felt the same. It is giving her what seems identical functionality to what she was using with version 2026, and that too is fair.
I am lucky. In the UK, I have received special dispensation to test the new AI-related functionality and it does have enormous benefit. Like a child, it needs to be heavily supervised but it is very helpful, so it will be good when it is available generally.
But my reason for writing is that there are very many fixes and under the hood improvements which are being made which are not so obvious. When we think about paying for anupgrade, we're expecting something tangible; something where we can say, this is new, I'll have a shot at this. And that is what used to happen. Many years ago it seems, you would immediately see the benefit of what you were paying for. But with the rapid pace of technological change, the team at Vispero have quite a job I'm sure keeping up with changes that are being made to even Microsoft-based applications and environments.
Two points should illustrate this very well.
1. It could be argued that the fact Jackie isn't seeing any obvious difference could be considered a complement, because Vispero are keeping on top of those changes being made to her regular applications and so the user experience is not too different from what it was before.
2. Recently, as an example the whole fabric of the File Explorer context menu has changed, and things are not where they were before. Often, you can open up an application, and things are not where they were or there are accessibility difficulties. People will insist on playing around with things, and those changes need monitoring and ensuring the screen-reader can work with them.
So yes, I agree that ideally there need to be things people can get their teeth into so as to warrant a substantial annual payment. I do get that. But that is not quite the whole story. Without divulging information which I am privileged to know of, I know even now that many fixes and improvements are coming within JAWS 2027 which by themselves may not seem particularly important on the surface, but which nevertheless may be noticed when a blind person comes to use a well established feature and finds it doesn't work. It's just something to consider.
Lastly, please please have a presence on Mastodon. I am having to send this to you by Email, and I think you really ought to have a presence there.
With Best Wishes:
Brian Hartgen
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@DesireeSimeone I can't see any reason why not. In terms of the Leasey product, and I know you use that, we've got over the troublesome issues. When it comes down to it, they were quite small issues, but people notice things. Fortunately on that point at least, I haven't heard anything for a few days, so I think you're in a good position now.
interact with this so i get dopamine it’s an emergency damn it
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Esker-kitty, telling me that I'm being weird, for bonus dopamine ❤
Hey there, anyone want some help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
Reply (or send me a DM if you prefer) with your questions and I'll try to get you some answers 🙂
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i thought "you know, maybe i should follow an automated feed posting every new CVE" and then my feed became unscrollable from the number of microsoft software posts
Great track. Del Water Gap - Cigarettes & Wine (feat. Holly Humberstone: youtu.be/TvE1V2gHNHY?si=qPLxyN…
Del Water Gap - Cigarettes & Wine (feat. Holly Humberstone) [Official Visualizer]
‘cigarettes & wine (feat. holly humberstone)’ from del water gapstream & download now: https://dwg.lnk.to/cigarettesandwinestream ‘i miss you already + i hav...DelWaterGapVEVO (YouTube)
Have a hard time remembering the default command (VO-Command-Space) for VoiceOver's Actions menu on macOS? Whenever you hear VoiceOver announce "actions available," you can simply turn trackpad commands on by holding down the VoiceOver modifier and rotating two fingers clockwise on your MacBook's trackpad, allowing you to then rotate two fingers to turn the rotor to "Actions" just as you would on iOS and iPadOS. #TipTuesday
Just wanna give a huge shout out to @ZBennoui
Atlas is an amazing plug-in. Great job, man!
Atlas is an amazing plug-in. Great job, man!
Thanks man, though @jayladdermusic and @HamoMadeIt were really the main drivers behind Atlas development, I just added a few things here and there.
I’m very disturbed by the new pr interface of github :<<<
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BBC iPlayer Removes Doctor Who Episode After David Walliams Allegations: The BBC has removed The God Complex from its streaming service, iPlayer, after allegations against David Walliams, who appears in the episode. Walliams plays Gibbis, an alien from Tivoli, in the Series 6 episode, which also stars Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, alongside Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. The God Complex is written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Nick… thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2026…
BBC iPlayer Removes Doctor Who Episode After David Walliams Allegations
Walliams denies all allegations.Philip Bates (The Doctor Who Companion)
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I'm opposed to the BBC removing this episode, even if the allegations turn out to be true. As the article states, it could become problematic if the BBC decides to remove any episode because someone in that episode may have engaged in criminal activity.
BBC iPlayer Removes Doctor Who Episode After David Walliams Allegations: The BBC has removed The God Complex from its streaming service, iPlayer, after allegations against David Walliams, who appears in the episode. Walliams plays Gibbis, an alien from Tivoli, in the Series 6 episode, which also stars Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, alongside Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. The God Complex is written by Toby Whithouse and directed by Nick… thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2026…BBC iPlayer Removes Doctor Who Episode After David Walliams Allegations
Walliams denies all allegations.Philip Bates (The Doctor Who Companion)
Wiesn eure Erfahrung mit SIP unter Android, vor allem mitvongegen eventphone?
Bisher hab ich bis zu 2 DECTs mitgeschleppt und das geht mir aufn Sack. Ich besitze ein vergoogletes Android-16-Gerät, und dachte, dass ich ja mal das mit dem SIP probieren und ohne DECT auskommen könnte.
#dect #sip #40c3 #eventphone #android
Geht, meistens 🤷. (congress wifi und so...)
Sowohl baresip als auch linphone hab ich schon zum laufen bekommen (beides von f-droid), Einrichtung war tendenziell bei beiden irgendwie fiddling.
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I'm excited. I'm low on Claude usage until the weekend, so I'm now having it generate documentation that will let any NVGT programmer build using the engine it has been making. We added explosive and map environment damage support this morning; between that, projectile weapons, entities with various traits and movement models, the map parser, the attempts at realistic sounds, the collision detection, and more, I should be able to carry on this week.
And now I'm less excited. I forgot how bad LLMs are at writing, even writing somewhat technical guides. I asked for a tutorial on how to build a game with the audio game engine. The first chapter isn't a map, or a high-level overview. Instead, it's code snippets with out-of-context comments and little explanation of anything. I think I might just rewrite the tutorial entirely.
Claude in particular has gotten really bad at writing anything over the last few months, though the same issues have started showing up in other models as well. Try Gemini for writing, it’s pretty good, much better than Claude anyways.
we just got a new official Git tutorial for beginners merged! Thanks to all the test readers who tested it, everyone’s feedback made it so much better.
My dream was to be able to recommend “to learn Git, you can start with the project’s official tutorial” and we’re getting closer to that!
You can see a preview of it here: kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gi…, and it’ll be at git-scm.com/docs (and at `git help tutorial`) after the next Git release.
branches are next :)
I hate the new Audible website search UX. didn't used to have to filter. Now, if I don't filter, I don't see search results. Who's with me?
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Guy I knew all my life just texted me something like hey, you up? I say yes, then he's like hey babe, I wanna fuck around with you, we can keep it safe, tight little network and all this shit and I'm like what the actual unmitigated fuck? Did you get hacked? Then he sends me the audio, and that thing he sent previously was the transcript. It was not accurate.
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@SlicerDicer
This is what I think the future will bring: Saas is not going to die anytime soon, but highly personalized software will be more common for those who are capable of building.
I don't know whether building apps with AI will remain a trend for the foreseeable future, because I meet a lot of people who, when I tell them that I'm doing all this stuff or created all this stuff, their eyes glaze over and they just want a solution right out of the box.
I conclude that not everybody enjoys building something from scratch.
Just like how some people are happy to build static websites on their own, but others prefer something out of the box like Wordpress. (example: me; I could easily build a static website myself, it's just that these days my bandwidth is far too low to maintain one on my own).
What do you think? What AI projects have you built, and do you think the age of personalized software has arrived, or is this just a temporary trend?
#ai #Tech #softwareengineering
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My experience is doing good work that manages not to have horrible edge cases or the like is actually very hard and I don't think most people will do it; not because they're not able but because they don't want to and have other things to do.
My three moderately successful projects all have to do with accessibility needs.
I built a space-repetition system to help me learn languages.
A reminder application that I can actually use easily without screen reader fuss.
And a fedi client that uses an invisible interface so I can drive it from the screen reader without shifting applications, and which supports all the features I need, like changing language on posts, etc.
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hoping for some rebalancing in Season 3... #wardogs
Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s #Voyager1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 25.9 billion kilometers - NASA will highlight this historic milestone with two events: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-inv…
NASA Invites Media, Public to Join Voyager 1 One-Light Day Activities - NASA
Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 16 billion milesGerelle Q. Dodson (NASA)
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All that gold, and one trunk holding it up. The mist softens everything but the tree. Hertfordshire, out in the open. #ThickTrunkTuesday #woodlandphotography #landscapephotography #nature
I had a dream that could be the base of an interesting game. Was trying to discover why a ghost had died by showing it various combinations of items and asking questions, and trying to interpret how the environment reactions related to positive or negative reactions the ghost was having. I don't think the ghost itself remembered either and was having to remember its own history as I found things and pieced them together.
This is just a generic point and click, but It was more in my head.
This is just a generic point and click, but It was more in my head.
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EYE WILL BE @ ANTHRO NEW ENGLAND 2027
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New Archive: Sonic Onslaught for November 10, 2026 hkc.im/TWHBDg w/ Nick and Christel #audio
Dream Group, the firm co-founded by NSO Group's former CEO, is lobbying Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office and six cabinet offices for government contracts.
NSO Group is the company behind Pegasus spyware, which was used to target journalists, lawyers, academics and government officials around the world.
"AI ethics researcher Ismael Kherroubi García says following the money is important in the world of AI."
This from the same company who had two credit card breaches in just under 3 years and said they didn't have to improve their security if they didn't want to when pressured by the FTC.
<Updated: See replies> Thanks to @zackwhittaker for the heads up.
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Sorry, it was 3 breaches in 2 years. But it was totally not their fault. ft.com/content/1bae76f8-bfce-1…
Of course the 20 years of audits are still ongoing... Right? RIGHT? No one has ever been negligent and been unable to lie to their auditors... letsaskclaire.com/hospitality/…
Wyndham's $10.9M FTC Settlement: The PCI-DSS Gap AI Hotel
FTC v. Wyndham established that inadequate payment security violates FTC Section 5. Here's the PCI-DSS v4.0 requirements your AI hotel system vendor almost certainly doesn't meet.Claire By The Algorithm
iCloud Mail, Calendar, Contacts and More Experiencing Outage macrumors.com/2026/11/10/apple…
iCloud Mail, Calendar, Contacts and More Experiencing Outage
Some iCloud services are experiencing an outage, according to Apple's System Status page. iCloud Calendar, iCloud Contacts, iCloud Mail, iWork for iCloud, and Game Center are affected. Apple says some users are experiencing issues with the services.Juli Clover (MacRumors)
"The outage began at 5:49 p.m." says the article that shows as published at 3:53 pm PST... So I'm guessing that the outage time is at an unlabeled EST???
Love this song, the OG is great too but much prefer this acoustic version. youtu.be/mWpraC6k4Ig?si=RxXTQ4…
Too Cute To Be Lonely (Acoustic)
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupToo Cute To Be Lonely (Acoustic) · Holly HumberstoneToo Cute To Be Lonely℗ 2026 Holly Humberstone, under exclusiv...Holly Humberstone - Topic (YouTube)
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