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Hey folks, so I’ve put it off as long as I could, but, sadly, my main machine is dying, so I need to raise some funds to replace it and some other old ass electronics that are on their last legs.

I tend to buy all refurbished stuff and it’s been a minute since I’ve upgraded my gear (I can’t install the latest anything on my current set up. Yeah, that OLD), so I can get what I need for around 3k.

The easiest way to contribute is to use the long term GoFundMe I have or my Kofi to make one offs. Either one is cool. I know most folks don’t like Paypal for obvious reasons, but if you want to use that, just send me a DM and I’ll give you that info.

In any event, thanks in advance for the help so I can continue development on my projects and working with others to push this independent social media thing forward.

It’s an exciting time in social media right now and I’m itching to do more, so it would be nice to have a computer that works when I need it to LOL!

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…
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Bully of Bullies, Inc

After one solid day, the Help Ro Replace His Old Ass Electronics Fund is at $1005.78/$3000, which is a fantastic start.

A big shout out to everyone that has not only given, but also left some very kind words of encouragement and affirmation. Those small acts of kindness mean a lot to me.

Let’s keep it going. There’s a good chance we can knock this out this week, so I can get some new stuff and keep pushing #fipamo and #thebadspace forward, as well as some other tidbits I can't talk about publicly just yet.

LET'S GET THIS DONE!

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…
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#thebadspace #fipamo
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Bully of Bullies, Inc

The pace slowed on day two, but some contributions were received from some kind souls, so the Help Ro Get New Gear Before His Stuff Dies Fund (yes, I’m changing the name everyday lol) currently stands at $1096/$3000.

I still feel optimistic about getting this taken care of this week because of all the boosts and contribution this has gotten in the last couple of days, so thanks to everyone who shared this everywhere.

As much as I like to believe I can duct tape stuff together to keep working, it’s just come to a point where I need to get my hands on new equipment to continue doing what I do.

I’m a bit bummed this is happening when I decide to rebuild both of my projects in Rust because I’m on such a good pace, but I’m past due for an upgrade, so here we are.

In any event, the support received so far has been very encouraging, ha, which only makes me want to push harder.

And we’re just a little over a third of the way there, which I have to admit is pretty exciting after a couple of days.

So let’s keep pushing this thing forward and it’ll knocked out in no time.

Thanks, y’all.

ps. When the goal is hit, there will be a memorial service for my old stuff. Ha, it’s been good to me all these years, so I want to give them a proper send off. I’ll post a vid of the affair.

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…
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Ko-fi

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What's the topic of Office Hours conversation? Conversation view! From backend changes to in-person collaboration, find out how the Thunderbird team is making it possible:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…


VIDEO: Conversation View

We're starting work on the long-awaited Conversation View! Learn how our developers and designers are working together to make it happen!
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird

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The stage is set, the performers are ready, the amphitheatre has an audience sprinkled on benches and lawn chairs, the sun is shining, the air is soft, Lee Lifeson Art Park is full of the sounds of an Autumn weekend in an urban park, and it’s time for the Description Rich Story Hour. In this episode it’s all about the stories! Tellers Katherine Sanders, Shak Gobeart, Rbecca Singh, Olivia Short, and Christine Malec take the limelight, on the appropriately named Limelight Stage, and tell tales of the park, past, present and future. These stories will take you places you never imagined, while never leaving the land on which they are told. Settle in; it’s story time!
buzzsprout.com/2368549/episode…

Description Rich Story Hour - Part Four - Described Toronto Podcast

The stage is set, the performers are ready, the amphitheatre has an audience sprinkled on benches and lawn chairs, the sun is shining, the air is soft, Lee Lifeson Art Park is full of the sounds of an Autumn weekend in an urban park, and it’s time...
Buzzsprout

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Hey, you like samples? Here's a free (well, pay-what-you-want) small pack I made a few years ago that'll let you infuse a little Ether vibe into your work!

etherdiver.gumroad.com/l/IdpCA…

If you want to throw me a few $$$ for this, use my ko-fi to pay (ko-fi.com/etherdiver), not gumroad. Their payout system sucks. Just DL the pack for free from Gumroad and then ko-fi me a few $$$ if you want to.


Ether Diver Sample Lab One

A sampling of the sample library of the Ether Diver. No melodies, no drum loops and very few recognizable tones, but plenty of grit, distortion, saturation and glitch. Uncomfortable atmospheres, grinding buzzes and otherworldly weirdness to spare.
Gumroad

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"It might not be long before you look up and see a fiery, slow-moving object streaking across your night sky and, clearly, breaking into pieces. That’s if you haven’t seen such a thing already. There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day, according to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. His acclaimed website Jonathan’s Space Report is widely regarded as the definitive source on spacecraft that go up … and come down. When we asked him about the deluge of Starlink satellite breakups that have recently been flooding social media, he pointed us to his graph showing Starlink reentries over time.

There are more than 8,000 Starlink satellites overhead at this moment. They’re a product of the space transportation company SpaceX. And that number is growing. Plus there are other companies and countries also deploying more and more satellites, adding to the number of satellites in Earth orbit. Many of these are in low-Earth orbits, which extend up to an altitude of 1,200 miles (2,000 km) above our planet. And the lifespan of low-Earth orbit satellites, such as Starlink, is only about 5 to 7 years. Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day."

earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-…

#StarLink #Satellites #SpaceTrash #Musk #China

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

Kelly Kizer Whitt (EarthSky)
#musk #china #satellites #Starlink #spacetrash

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📺 Slide Over is back! See it in action with iPadOS 26.1 beta 2, new mic input gain controls, and I have one more wish for windowing apps...Watch here: youtu.be/ApewWHjcXRA

iPadOS 26.1 Beta NEW Features - Slide Over, Mic Input Gain, More!

Apple just brought Slide Over back in iPadOS 26.1 beta 2, plus mic input gain control and local recording options. But I have ONE more request...🎙️ My tech ...
YouTube

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Help us get through these difficult days

We never imagined to live tough days like these days. We never imagined to lose our home and live in a tent. We never imagined to live all the day trying only to survive. We never imagined to ask for help. Asking for help is the most difficult thing I ever lived, but I have no options.

In the previous four months, your donations made a real difference to our life.

We still need your help. Please donate and share 🙏❤️
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#gaza


Urgent help for Ahmed's family

"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.
Chuffed
#Gaza

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important tips for the newcomers to mastodon/fediverse :boost_requested:

Sensitive content

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo today brought you 19 updated apps (1 update had to be rolled back: Melotune added a load of proprietary libs) – while our gardener removed 7 no longer maintained and rarely downloaded apps:

- Expenses: the budget app was not updated since 2018, and had no installs recently
- Viscerion: the Wireguard client was declared EOL in 2020
- Translation Recorder wasn't updated since 2019, and declared deprecated in 2023

(1/2)

#IzzyOnDroid


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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In the future, everyone will be French Prime Minister for 15 minutes....

lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2…


French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet

The president's office announced that Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on Monday morning, hours after his new government had been announced.
Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)

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my mother died four years ago, and her cel phone has been sitting, locked, on my dresser ever since. i made four bad pin attempts at it years ago then decided not to push my luck any further.

this morning, while making coffee, it suddenly dawned on me what it would be and, behold, it was.

here is the lesson: write down your important passwords. put them in a sealed envelope and give them to someone you trust, or the executor of your will or your lawyer. do it today.

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If any developer of any software I use to write/review code announced they were going to put logic in that software to extract/send/train on my code - **even if it was opt-in/disabled by default** - that software would be uninstalled and that developer blacklisted from any system I had any control over for the rest of time.

Without hesitation or delay. Even with the best of intentions and security practice I could simply never trust that piece of software again.

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For all gods sake, of course, not in the #EU! I'm tired. Hopefully they will solve it sooner than later. #ChatGPT #AI Oh yeah, I'm super enthusiastic about SDK! thurrott.com/a-i/327982/openai…

OpenAI Launches New Third-Party Apps in ChatGPT

ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users outside of the EU can now chat with a selection of apps that include Booking, Expedia, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Zillow, and Spotify.
Laurent Giret (Thurrott.com)
#AI #EU #chatgpt
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Hello Masto-peeps who use screen readers!

I just learned that I need to put alt text on URLs for more accessible PDFs, but -- what should it say?

I am formatting academic citations that include a URL, so all the information about where that link will take you is in the text. I don't want it to read the URL to you and I don't want to just repeat the same information you just heard. What do you find most helpful in this situation?

Pls boost for reach!

#accessibility #AltText #ScreenReader

#Accessibility #screenreader #AltText

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Dolphin has launched a very clever and captivating campaign to sell licenses at a 50% discount to JAWS users who are willing to switch from JAWS to Dolphin's Supernova. I have never used their screen reader and I have never met or worked with anyone in the U.S. who said they used that product. I admit to being a bit curious but certainly not enough to give up my JAWS license.

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Pitermach

@menelion @luiscarlosgonzalez As far as I know it has a scripting facility built-in based on the mainstream Lua programming language, so in theory it would be capable of hosting some advanced scripts. I last tried it many years ago, maybe around 2018 or so and the main thing I remember was finding its web support lacking. Not so much in the hotkeys, because all the virtual buffer type concepts you have in JAWS and NVDA were there, but it just didn't read well on the sites I tried it with. Things could certainly have improved since, they are making regular updates, but at the same time I know some long-time users who have switched away to NVDA recently like @FreakyFwoof who might have more insight.
@André Polykanine @Luis Carlos @Andre Louis

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Anyone using the Blade Player for Spotify, Deezer, SoundCloud?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/v.bla…

It wasn't updated since 12/2023, but still sees more than 100 installs per month here. In its issue tracker, there are reports of crashes, and Spotify being broken. Does it still work for you? Or should we rather remove it?

EDIT: as it seems entirely broken, it has now been removed. Thanks to all who checked!

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid


„Blade Player“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

music player that plays from local library, Spotify, Deezer or SoundCloud
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#followerpower #serviceToot #izzyondroid
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I personally believe that the age limit on being able to run for office should end at age 65, maybe 70 if pushing it, but nobody should be closer to 80, or 77 or whatever, closer to death at any point in those years and have political power. This isn't about #Republican or #Democrat, this is about people being able to live long enough to see how there laws affect other people who are younger, and people who are in there 80's who could die if the wind blows the wrong way shouldn't be allowed to hold power. If you can't stay for dinner, you shouldn't be invited to the table. #USPol
#uspol #republican #democrat
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André Polykanine

@adamvs1 No, I feel it's democracy. Otherwise, if you can elect a 80-year-old president, than you can hire and cannot fire another 80-year-old specialist, there must be equality. But to be honest, I don't know how it really works in the States, it's like this in Europe where it's basically mandatory to go on retirement if you are in public service.
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LeonianUniverse😁

@menelion @adamvs1 Not to mention that a person who is younger could still serve the needs of senior citizens, but the realistic truth is that a person who is 80 or older is at more risk of death than a person who is younger, they will not live to see what it is there laws that they support would do to the American people, so that by vertue of knowing they will die, they will be able to implement laws that they personally support that can and would cause harm to the American people, because they know that they won't be there to suffer the consequences. This is why I think its important for younger people to take political roles and let older people enjoy there retirement, because a younger person will see the consequences of there actions, good or bad, and will more than likely want to help people that they know will live after them having known what it is to live under there own policies, and so I stand for the limiting of age when it comes to running for any office of government power.
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Adam van Sertima

@menelion I think we have to draw a distinction between public service jobs, private sector jobs, and elected roles. We pay elected officials so that, hopefully, people with lower incomes, or lacking other privileges, can take part in a role fundamental to a representative democracy. Retirement age is mostly optional (or impossible, for many) in North America, and is a separate problem from choosing competent representatives…
@André Polykanine

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Need some #Ceph advisory for my private cluster on #proxmox:

3 nodes with 2x 18 TB HDD each.

According to some docs I found, WAL/DB size should be 1-4% of the disk size, so a SSD should be between 180 to 720 GB for each disk or 360 to 1.44 TB for the two disks in each node.

Is this still be true or is it nowadays more relaxed and - let's say - 200 GB for each HDD will be sufficient?

#followerpower #ceph #proxmox

#followerpower #ceph #proxmox
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"Don't Forget: Remote MCP Servers are Just #cURL Calls"

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Don't Forget: Remote MCP Servers are Just cURL Calls

You can call any streamable-http transport MCP (Model Context Protocol) server tool with any HTTP client - even cURL! And lots of things take cURL as example configuration (like Shopify Flow!), so it’s a good starting point for building things....
Josh Beckman
#curl

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#FAQ: “What do you do with #FreeBSD ?" "Operating in the financial markets" 😀 #ThePowerToInvest 😆

#Investing 📊 #Trading 📈 #Stocks 📉 #ETFs #Bonds #Commodities #Derivatives #Forex 💹 #Crypto 🪙 #NASDAQ #SP500 #DOWJONES #WallStreet 🗽 #Bull 🐂 #Bear 🐻 #TechFinance

#FreeBSD :freebsd: #Unix #OpenSource

Screenshot of a FreeBSD desktop running XFCE showing multiple open windows related to finance and trading. The terminal displays system info via Neofetch (FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on AMD Ryzen 5 3450U). Other windows include CoinMarketCap with cryptocurrency prices, a Hyperliquid trading chart for ETH/USDC, and a CNBC article about AMD and OpenAI’s new partnership with a stock surge.
#opensource #crypto #freebsd #unix #faq #stocks #trading #nasdaq #investing #bear #wallstreet #thepowertoinvest #etfs #bonds #commodities #derivatives #forex #sp500 #dowjones #bull #techfinance
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