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Good morning Fediversistas! We walk out into winter once more, the snow thick on the ground, the dawn delayed by ominous clouds, the air sharp in our lungs, snowballs collect on leg fur and wellington boots, fingers tingle as we remove gloves to feed the swans, we are grateful for the snow, for the pictures it paints across the landscape, for the new day, and we walk on into it


Neobvyklý dotaz. Máte tipy na skutečně teplé zimní bundy? Tzn. takové, že jste v minusových teplotách při nošení na trupu nepocítili vůbec chlad?
Něco takového teď hledám.
in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞

Já mám od huskycz.cz/panske-zimni-bundy zatím velká spokojenost.
Kolikrát mám jen tričko po bundou.
in reply to Smoon

@smoon
Přímo moje už tam není, jen jsem dal odkaz na značku. Mám podobnou jako zde huskycz.cz/norel-m-w23-l-dark-…
@fabia_man


If you are a WhatsApp user, then it's worth checking the size of the following folder if you find your main OS drive feels a little slim on space.
Hopefully, copy/pasting this into the run dialog or address bar should take you straight to it:

%localappdata%\Packages\5319275A.WhatsAppDesktop_cv1g1gvanyjgm\LocalState\shared

In here is a folder called 'Transfers' which is all the downloaded audio, photo and video from your various chats. It's safe to delete this, as it can just pull from the server again if needed.
Cleared out 4GB when I did this on one of my systems, and just over 800 MB on another.

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in reply to Andre Louis

oooh, so amazing to know about this, it cleared about 8 gigs for me, shocking. Wow. I wonder why the app doesn't just auto-delete this after a time period as it's cached content anyway, probably to preserve their server bandwidth if it meant your space got a little sacrifice - lots of apps (including Spotify) do this, but at least there you can clear storage within the settings section itself.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg I think WhatsApp does have a storage thingy somewhere in-app but I like delving into things, so I went hunting.


Idem z kontroly u lekára a ešte mi predĺžila doktorka antibiotiká. Cítim sa lepšie ale ty kks to som nečakal.
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Discover the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, the World’s Oldest Surviving Complete Printed Book (868 AD)

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in reply to alebaffa

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El nuevo reglamento de Extranjería incluirá una regularización excepcional de miles de migrantes que pidieron asilo sin éxito

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in reply to Moustached Wulf

Parece un avance significativo, sobre todo cuando parece que es ir contracorriente. A ver si también se aprueba la ILP sobre regularización.


Huh.

So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence?

A mile is 1.609 kilometers.

The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618.

So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards.

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc

5 miles is 8 km.
21 miles is 34 km.
89 miles is 144 km.

etc etc.

Kinda neat IMO.



Budapestet átnevezhetnénk akár Silent Hill-re is, olyan nagy (fene) köd van. Konkrétan Pestről alig lehet átlátni Budára a Duna felett.
in reply to MaZsola

Wow, that bad? I hope it lifts up, or whatever this is called in English. :D If it's constant though, it just kills the view totally.


In other words, we don't know... toot.community/@openculture/11…


Pro-democracy activist Benny Tai has been jailed for 10 years over organizing an unofficial primary election in 2020, as Hong Kong’s High Court delivered sentences in the city’s largest national security case to date. hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/brea…


Something deeply fucking annoying about accounts with literally tens of thousands of followers complaining that they don’t get enough engagement and attention while some creators are struggling to get over 100 followers while pouring their heart and soul into their work.


I am probably going to switch full-time to using a Mac again next month, with Windows usage through a virtual machine when I need it.
Pretty much everything I regularly do on Windows can be done on Mac OS. I no longer do some of the more esoteric stuff I once did, I'm not in a professional environment where use of Microsoft Office is required, etc.

What I am not sure of, however, is the state of accessibility in regards two track audio editirs.
I do 99.999% of my work, even basic stuff, in Reaper, and I know that will work just fine on Mac OS. However, I also sometimes need to work with raw audio, and for that, I once used SoundForge, now GoldWave on Windows. That's one thing Reaper can't do.
Yes, I could use a tool like SoX or ffmpeg to convert between file formats and all that, but often, I need to deal with files exactly as they are.
I don't need a ton of functionality. Any real heavy stuff I would do in Reaper.

Given the Audacity controversy a few years ago, I haven't bothered looking to see what's up there, and for as little as I need it, I couldn't justify the price of SoundForge Pro 3 for Mac. Apparently, Magix couldn't either, because they are no longer developing the Mac version of SoundForge.

So, anyhow, for those who have to deal with headerless files (ulaw, PCM, etc.) and also need Voiceover accessibility, what are the options these days?

in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 Considering I have never actually seen audacity in the, I don’t know, maybe 18 years I’ve known about it, anything would be an improvement, I guess.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

If you tell me what to check, I can do a little investigation for you.


Incorrectly is the only word that, when spelled correctly, is still spelled incorrectly.


I know how to follow a Lemmy account from Mastodon. But how do I follow Mastodon accounts via Lemmy? Is that even possible?

#Lemmy

in reply to Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

Yes, on the other hand I can kind of see how Lemmy has a very different data model and storing mastodon user feeds could get expensive.


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Echando una mano a un compañero que está preparando promoción interna para el A2. Por suerte aún me acuerdo de las cosas, y los conceptos básicos (leyes de procedimiento) no se olvidan.



Okay. I finally had enough of git pull and the like making my entire system unusable thanks to UIA event flooding that I took the plunge and switched to Windows Terminal with UIA notification events. I was having trouble with Windows Terminal previously, but that was with diffing. Notification events seem to be working fairly well so far. Let's see how it goes.
One concern I do have is that NVDA necessarily registers for notification events globally, which means that a notification event flood from a background terminal is going to impact performance. Hopefully terminal manages notification events better than it does text events. We shall see.
in reply to Jamie Teh

This reminds me that at some point I want to experiment with a custom protocol between the AccessKit Windows backend and ATs like NVDA (I'd almost certainly start with an implementation in an NVDA add-on), then implement AccessKit support in one of the Rust terminals, like wezterm. The custom protocol would push a tree update once per frame. Not sure if I'd use a named pipe or some other transport.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Well that didn't take long. Spamming the console still makes the system pretty much unusable if the console is focused when it happens. But interestingly, if the spam starts in the background or I can manage to alt+tab out (which is very difficult because it's so slow), it seems to behave. That either means that Terminal is smart enough not to send notification events while in the background (but then I'm not sure why NVDA has explicit code to ignore those) or that the poor performance is entirely due to NVDA struggling to process the notification events (but ignoring them is okay).
in reply to Jamie Teh

Nope, Terminal notification events are causing a bunch of stuff that isn't actually changing (just scrolling) to be read, so I'm back to conhost. There are no good options. I hate this so much.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Ah. My issues with UIA notification events reading text they shouldn't are almost certainly due to me using tmux. I guess it redraws the screen when text overflows or something? Or maybe that's a bug in Windows Terminal's UIA implementation.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Try set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:indn@' in .tmux.conf and see if that improves things.
in reply to Tyler Spivey

@tspivey Heh, I was just fiddling with that, as discovered in various tmux GitHub issues. I don't really understand what it does though. I know indn is related to scrolling, but how does it prevent Terminal from misbehaving in this case?
Also, any idea why tmux seems to redraw the entire screen after an alert message (like "Can't find window: 1")disappears? I haven't found a way to disable that. Disabling indn doesn't fix it.
in reply to Jamie Teh

When I run tmux, seq 1 100, cat, then type test, tmux sends "\r\33[2S\33[Atest\33[K\r\n\33[K" to the terminal after I press enter.
indn@ disables the \33[2S part of the sequence, so now it has to send something else, in my case "\33[30;120H\n\n\33[29;1Htest\33[K\r\n\33[K".
I guess whatever's generating the notifications for Windows Terminal doesn't like scrolling with escape sequences, but the absolute positioning works fine.
I haven't found a fix for redrawing after the messages either, but it happens so infrequently I can just ignore it.
Another problem is that text gets split up sometimes, for example paste in It’s and press enter. Notice the unicode apostrophe. tmux does weird things with cursor movement there, and nothing handles that well. Most of my usage is with tdsr outputting to NVDA, and I don't need to disable indn. It just reads the bytes as they come in.
Windows Terminal fails the basics, I can't press Alt+letter without NVDA re-reading the focus.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Screen does something like this for me too when I exit a screen, and in fact due to scrollback it causes the *entire* scrollback buffer in WT to be read out when that happens. Which can hit the speech large chunk delay.
in reply to x0

@x0 Is this with NVDA set to use UIA notification events? I'm not surprised by it reading a whole bunch of text, but I've discovered it shouldn't delay too badly if you're using UIA notifications, Windows Terminal and have NVDA log level set to info.
@x0
in reply to Jamie Teh

No diffing, which makes sense I suppose, it un-paints. I didn't think using UIA notification events was stable yet for small updates, especially with progress bars and the like.
in reply to x0

@x0 It definitely has some rough edges. See other posts and replies from me recently regarding tmux settings necessary to make Windows Terminal's UIA notifications behave correctly when text scrolls off the screen in tmux.
@x0
in reply to Jamie Teh

I had that issue too, does it do the same thing if you do NVDA+shift+z on the terminal before pressing return on the command? I never tested it but it could be the voice synth getting really backed up. I’d try it now but my work computer doesn’t read ANYTHING in command prompts of all sorts because of corporate malware…
in reply to Jon

@chinakow Yeah, I suspect it might actually be NVDA's speech processing code getting backed up. I'll experiment with that at some point if I can be bothered, as it's probably not too ridiculous to fix that.
@Jon
in reply to Jamie Teh

Terminal doesn't fire UIA notification events when in the background, which is great. It turns out that the thing that's really slowing down NVDA's handling of those on my system isn't speech processing or anything like that. It's... logging! I tend to have my log level set to debug, which logs a lot. I never realised just how much that logging could slow things down when there's this much data.
Interestingly, if I set my speech mode to beeps, that's also very laggy. I guess it's expensive to continually generate and play the tone, even if we stop it very quickly.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Okay, maybe this is a stupid suggestion but…why not pregenerate the required tone for the required duration when NVDA starts? Then you don't have to generate it over and over.
in reply to Jayson Smith

@jaybird110127 That is indeed one option I thought of to optimise that, yes. Whether or not that is the actual bottleneck is yet to be determined.
in reply to Jamie Teh

A year or two ago I actually came up with a weird way to not have to generate tones at all. When speech mode is set to beeps, rather than playing a specific tone, just output the actual text to be spoken, not as speech but in its raw binary form, to the audio device. This would be most useful with long text dumps. For something like single characters, a single byte probably isn't going to convert to enough sound to make a noticeable noise.
in reply to Jayson Smith

@jaybird110127 I follow. As you say, though, it's problematic for smaller chunks, which I'd say is fairly common for a screen reader.
in reply to Jamie Teh

If, by chance, you're sitting there going "Huh? What in the world is this kid talking about?" Start any audio editor that lets you open headerless files as raw PCM. Open a file that is, in fact, not an audio file at all. Specify the sample rate, bit depth, number of channels, etc. as you like. If you then play it, you'll hear some random noise. Text files, logs, etc. tend to generate the coolest noises. Anything compressed is going to sound like white noise, in other words, a loud hiss covering the entire frequency spectrum.


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das Glück in den Schoß fällt."
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Spotted on a Tuesday in small city Aotearoa #newzealand

A woman with an artfully messy topknot (60s) returning library books with a friend. She says loudly, "Did you know there's a huge seniors swinger community here?"
Her friend laughs, "Yeah. EVERYONE knows that!"
She huffs, "I didn't!"

Two men in hi vis vests striding into a supermarket. The older (60s?) says to the younger (early 20s?) "You can't go wrong with croissants, mate. Women are always impressed if they come over and see a croissant. They're like MAGIC."

A stocky man in a Grateful Dead T-shirt (70s?) enters a cafe and announces: "I know it's not my usual day, but I really need that coffee."
The barista who's just greeted him by name makes his regular.

A woman (40s) pausing at a crosswalk leading to a diverse bunch of locals meeting in support of the Hīkoi mo te Tiriti in Wellington. She grins as she comments on the size of crowd only for her teen daughter to gently but firmly hustle her forward. The vibe is community.

A beaming man (50s) walking down the street talking on his phone: "Mum, Taylor passed his maths exam. I didn't think he'd do it but he did. I'm so bloody proud of him, eh."

Any typos in this post are highly amused after overhearing in the cookbook section of a library that there's not only one but two active senior swinger communities in this rather small Kiwi city who are apparently warring with each other. If spotted please impress typos with a croissant.



I am doing a bit of a farewell tour at the moment. All the meetings I am attending are my last for various Boards I am on and groups I have been a part of. People have been very kind, and at the meeting I just finished, I got given the most massive box of chocolates I’ve ever had in my life!
Tomorrow, I am doing my exit interview on RNZ’s Nine to Noon. I’ll be talking about my new role in the USA and the technological challenges and opportunities blind people face, and reflecting on why New Zealand is such a difficult country to be a blind person or otherwise disabled. One of the benefits of being on the way out is that I can speak my truth, and believe me, I intend doing exactly that.
Times are subject to change but at this stage it is the first item, right after the 9 AM news on Wednesday.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Jonathan, that chocolate is so bad for you. All those carbs and that sugar ... look, I'm here to help, as you know, so to avoid eating those horrible chocolates you can send me that box. I'm only thinking of your health, you know ...


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in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Hahahah, Love it! Leaving tomorrow! Always dreamed of visiting NZ! For real…


Can someone remind me where to find any deep dive into the Monarch? I might be seeing one soon and want to have a good idea what I'm doing with it.


I've read that the new Mac Mini has the power button on the bottom of the device, forcing the user to slightly lift the Mac in order to turn it on. Is this true and does this design flaw bother those of you who are Mac Mini owners?
in reply to David Goldfield

i am nowt yet an owner, but i like the idea, it provents accidentle oopsys?
in reply to David Goldfield

Not purchasing new MacMini just yet, still have another year with my 2018. But if this is true, I’ll have to think long and hard about it. I do not like the thought of the power button being on the bottom.


@MarkTh213 Thank you for the follow. I've been a #DoctorWho fan for nearly 40 years, including the novels and audio dramas. I also am a supporter of Israel.


people talk about “the media” and “journalists” and they picture the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or cable news.

and sure, “the media” is the Big Five. but it’s also non-profit newsrooms, independent journalists, international and/or non-US publications, worker-owned media collectives, bloggers, local newsrooms, citizen journalists, podcasters, critics, community radio stations, documentary filmmakers, trade publications, freelancers, fact checkers...

#media #journalism




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One of the problems with social media is that we feel that if we post, tweet, boost, or retweet lots of strongly-worded messages and articles, it makes us warriors for our causes. Realistically, you're probably being read by people who agree with you, especially if your account is protected. We call that preaching to the choir. If you want to be a warrior, you have to get out there somehow, and fight. You can't be a warrior cocooned in your comfort zone. This is why I make a lousy warrior.
in reply to Bruce Toews

Ah, but if you're willing to post on topics to those who disagree with you I'd say you're venturing into warrior territory, even if all you're able to do is to post behind a keyboard. Just as an example, if you're considered politically conservative, a traditional Christian who holds opinions and has beliefs based on traditional Christian teaching, posting your opinions about such topics on a platform like Mastodon will most certainly cause division.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield And is causing division what a warrior is after? If you believe in free ketchup for all, and you proclaim your message to people, 99% of whom are in your camp already, and the other 1% are just up for an argument, what have you done, in Heinzsight, for your cause?
in reply to Bruce Toews

That's a fair question. I don't believe that division should be our goal but it will often be a consequence while we try and achieve that goal. It reminds me of the words of our Lord in Luke 12.
51Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

This type of division is going to happen when we do our Lord's will and speak out against the culture.



As a disabled person, I don’t need fixing lifeofablindgirl.com/2024/11/1…

in reply to David Goldfield

My problem is I have Apple password manager, Microsoft authenticator, and a little bit on Google authenticator! Now how do I consolidate those 200+ into one password manager that works across devices! I’m guessing it’s just time that I need to spend


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