do the thing. it is okay, you are not too old. besiders, older queers like us deserve visibility too. but for that to be happen, we need to make ourselves visible.
one of the most interesting and fun genres of online posts i see is zoomers and young millennials getting really hype cuz they found a video of like a 55 year old woman who picked up fortnight, or a 65 year old grandfather in a rap battle. no one is gonna laugh at you because people just kinda instinctively realize doing cool stuff when you are old is cool. so do the thing.
write fan fiction. start a blog about cool rocks. paint edgy horror art, dj a set, become a pro gamer. open furry porn commissions. learn guitar. change your career. write a novel. write a comic. do not march into the last half of your life with shame and regret in your hearts. you are beautiful and your passion is as radiant as the sun.
Is this right? That *tomorrow* they're going to start denying, in some way or another, X gender markers at US borders / on US passports? gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigratio…
It's not quite clear what they're going to end up doing. Will they "infer" a binary gender, or will they deny the validity of the passport?
CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.
Yes, sadly. From tomorrow, US CBP is rejecting any passport containing [^MF] in the gender identifier field as incomplete. The airline will have to resubmit with an inferred value before the passenger can board.
The Canadian travel advisory for the USA says: "… You might face entry restrictions in countries that do not recognize the “X” gender identifier." — travel.gc.ca/destinations/unit…
Do you know that you can use Subtitle edit to transcribe audio? It has a relatively accessible guy so you can use Purfwiev's faster whisper xxl, cpp, cpp cublas, const-me. Longer post how to use it follows:
Installing Subtitle Edit
Download the program from the developer’s website. Navigate to the level 2 heading labeled “Files.” If you want to install Subtitle Edit normally, download the first file, labeled setup.zip. There is also a portable version available, labeled SE_version_number.zip.
If you decide to use the portable version, extract it and move on to the next section of this article. The installation itself is standard and straightforward.
A Note on Accessibility
NVDA cannot automatically obtain focus in lists. To find out which item in the list is currently selected, move down with the arrow key to change the item, then press NVDA+TAB to hear which one is focused.
Initial Setup
In the menu bar, go to Video and activate Audio to text (Whisper).
When using this feature for the first time, the program may ask whether you want to download FFMPEG. This library allows Subtitle Edit to open many audio and video files, so confirm the download by pressing Yes.
Subtitle Edit will confirm that FFMPEG has been downloaded and then ask whether you want to download Purfwiev’s Faster Whisper – XXL. This is the interface for the Whisper model that we’ll use for transcription, so again confirm by pressing Yes.
The download will take a little while.
Once it’s complete, you’ll see the settings window. Press Tab until you reach the Languages and models section. In the list, select the language of your recording.
Press Tab to move to the Select model option, and then again to an unlabeled button.
After activating it, choose which model you want to use. Several models are available:
Small models require less processing power but are less accurate.
Large models take longer to transcribe, need more performance and disk space, but are more accurate. I recommend choosing Large-V3 at this step.
Wait again for the model to finish downloading.
Transcribing Your First Recording
Navigate to the Add button and press Space to activate it.
A standard file selection dialog will open. Change the file type to Audio files, find your audio file on the disk, and confirm.
Activate the Generate button.
Now, simply wait. The Subtitle Edit window doesn’t provide much feedback, but you can tell it’s working by the slower performance of your computer—or, if you’re on a laptop, by the increased fan noise.
When the transcription is done, Subtitle Edit will display a new window with an OK button.
We Got Subtitles, So One More Step
In the folder containing your original file, you’ll now find a new file with the .srt extension. This is a subtitle file—it contains both the text and the timing information. Since we usually don’t need timestamps for transcription, we’ll remove them in Subtitle Edit as follows:
Press Ctrl+O (or go to File → Open) to bring up the standard open file dialog. Select the .srt file you just got.
In the menu bar, open File → Export → Plain text.
Choose Merge all lines, and leave Show line numbers and Show timecode unchecked.
Press Save as and save the file normally.
If you’re transcribing multiple recordings, it’s a good idea to close the current subtitle file by starting a new project using Ctrl+N or by choosing File → New.
Conclusion
Downloaded models can, of course, be reused, so future transcriptions will go faster. In this example, I used Purfwiev’s Faster Whisper. If you want to use a different model, you can select it from the model list, and Subtitle Edit will automatically ask whether you’d like to download it.
If people of different political persuasions were given a piece of paper, a few concepts (fascism, socialism, liberalism, maybe others), and a few historical and contemporary leaders (Trump, Biden, Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, Pinochet, etc) and asked to stick the concepts and leaders on a map so that things that they saw as similar were close to each other, then I wonder what the results would be.
I'm thinking about an exchange that I had with one of my relatives on Facebook. I posted something that talked about fascism being defined by a strong leader who was not constrained by normal laws, a domestic enemy, and a promise to return the country to better days in an imagined past. This person responded with "like when liberals go around the world randomy killing people. I know who the fascist is--it's the entire Democratic party." I asked him how he would define fascism, and his response was "liberals."
In elementary school, one of my classmates was hit by a car on his bicycle. He must have been about 9. His head went through the windshield.
He was fine.
The windshield was not fine. His helmet was not fine. The teacher had him bring in his mangled helmet to show the whole class. Nobody had to tell us he’d be dead if it weren’t for the helmet. It was obvious.
Re this from @FeloniousPunk, also crucial to note that while cars are probably the greatest head injury while on a bicycle, they’re not the only danger. Wear a helmet on the trails too, kids.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I had a friend who once chastised me because he didn’t want to wear a helmet on a trail. A few minutes later I wiped out HARD and rung my bell while wearing a helmet.
You should not need a bicycle helmet for every day utility cycling any more than you should need a helmet for walking or running. The activity and the environment should be safe enough that hitting your head hard in just the right way should be vanishingly unlikely. This is the Dutch and N European way.
Racing, Peloton, Downhill, BMX, MTB, 30mph E-Bikes are another thing entirely.
Lidi jsou fakt svině. To jde člověk prostě bezelstně na pivko do hospody, lupne tam osm kousků, jde na záchod — a zatím mu na socky napíšou rasistický posty. No a při té smůle si toho všimne až za pět let. Prostě neštěstí, ti levičáci placení Sorosem. #Turek
Já to ani nestíhám číst, já zatím viděl přerod z "já tam nikdy nic špatného nepsal" na "kolegyně mi nedostatečně promazala socky, na kterých jsem ale nic špatného neměl, takže nebyl důvod je mazat".
Budeme tipovat kolik verzí ještě bude, než si začne sypat popel na hlavu? :D
@neskaut tak je otázka (vlastně není), jestli člověk, který si v hospodě nechá na stole nezamčený telefon, a pět let si ničeho nevšimne, vlastně může dělat ministra... Ne že by těch ostatních důvodů už nebylo dost 😉.
Listening to this song about a folk singer who has a new song about the economic opportunity program, and feeling like Kamala Harris could've used a song like that, although the fictitious folk singer in the song doesn't seem to have much luck getting people interested in his tunes. youtube.com/watch?v=MNoNNdQwrL…
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesGreenwich Village Folk Song Salesman · Nancy Sinatra · Lee Hazlewood · Tom T. HallNancy & Lee℗ 2022 Boots Enter...
Clever song, and I loved the horns. Based on the mentions I’d say it is vintage late 60s, probably 1968. There are people out here still writing what are called protest songs, but they don’t get much traction these days.
@Thumper1964 It's an old Nancy Sinatra / Lee Hazlewood song. And I've been thinking the same thing--I feel like we're lacking music somehow. Maybe people are writing songs that I don't know about. There's David Rovics, but I don't think that he is particularly well-known. He has a substack and wrote an essay a while ago where he lamented that there isn't more music at protest rallies. He argued that there are reasons that it is often not there, but none of them are good reasons.
Provided to YouTube by DistroKidYou’re Not Supposed to Laugh at the King · Louise & Thom Hartmann · unknownYou’re Not Supposed to Laugh at the King℗ Mythical...
"Bon, la grippe on va vous faire le vaccin mais le COVID non 🥰"
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-- Edit: C'est en Allemagne donc rappels 1x par an et selon des critères assez restreints (genre pas entre 18 et 59 ans). Donc vivre avec une personne qui est sous traitement contre le cancer, ou avoir de la famille proche de plus de 90 ans dont une qui vient de faire un infarctus c'est pas vraiment grave.
Le chef de Projet Montréal, Luc Rabouin, a annoncé dimanche vouloir piétonniser plusieurs artères dans le Vieux-Montréal, poursuivant ainsi le projet de « royaume des piétons » initié par l’administration de Valérie Plante.
About half an hour... except we have a chirping smoke detector that's been going for over a month, and it's behind a locked door in the basement that none of us has access to.
Has anyone ever done a systematic study of what causes non-web applications, especially desktop apps, to start up slowly? I have my hunches, but they're just that, not anything scientific.
It continues to be a problem, even in these days of NVMe SSDs. It seems to especially be a problem with some products that have a long history and thus, probably, a lot of technical debt.
And the obvious follow-up question is: how does one design an application for fast startup and maintain that over the long term? If I remember correctly, this is an explicit goal of Chromium, or at least used to be.
certainly not a systemic study, but mostly the things you notice are just "doing expensive work at boot time". and then when it's really slow, it's quadratic work at boot time. it's usually CPU bound.
Probably off-topic, but, years ago, I remember contributing a patch to Firefox for something, maybe to test whether a11y should be enabled, and I think I was being lazy and made a synchronous DBus call, and I got feedback that they were trying to reduce their start-up time, and I needed to rework my call to be asynch.
With #Framework shouting from the rooftops that they prefer to have no values at all, maybe it's time to look into alternative computer vendors with values similar to those originally ascribed to Framework.
There's, of course, @mntmn (crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform…) based in Germany which is probably the only one that's in the same league (and probably well beyond) in terms of modularity and hackability. It's a bit of a hacker boutique, though: unusual hardware at rather steep prices - partially _because_ it's so unusual.
While they don't bring that "replace everything" ethos, they're small laptop vendors that ramped up from "resell China white label laptops" to doing more and more design and production on their own.
In terms of modularity, they pass the bar that the big vendors fail: they don't solder and glue everything into a single blob that becomes an all-or-nothing deal when components break. Instead, they even sell individual parts on their store.
They're not quite at the Framework-level of modularity, but I think they all deserve a shoutout for moving the needle in the right direction when it comes to sustainability.
(honorable mention for @system76, who at least mention keeping your device useful for longer at system76.com/laptops, encouraging battery replacements and other maintenance, even if they don't have a spare parts section in their shop)
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Last time I looked at system76 they wanted me to pay $150 at the time of purchase to have a warranty (because Canada). Otherwise I wouldn't be able to send the machine back for repairs in case I needed the standard warranty. Also no option without OS.
Of what use is #DigitalSovereignty when you need an Apple or Android device to install the App that implements your Digitally Sovereign solution? Always make sure there is a device-independent (or more flashy: technology-neutral :) way for citizens to use your solution without being forced to share data with Apple or Google.
@hub right? it seems like it would have to be the case. they came from ZRH last Monday and returned today
I just can't imagine what they'd be interested in. steel & forestry are the two biggest industries locally. there's also mining nearby (gold specifically), but there are closer airports than ours for that 🤔
White “progressives” and “liberals” exercising their First Amendment rights by protesting at Kamala Harris’s book tour events isn’t the flex you think it is or having the impact you claim to want.
What it actually demonstrates is that you’re still not ready to have the “revolution” you keep screaming for.
Because yelling at a Black woman who currently holds no executive power doesn’t make you radical…it makes you reckless.
@gajimdev.gajim.org is down, which in turn prevents from plugins being downloaded on initial run. So no encryption by default. Is there a plan to have some plugins bundled with the app, to prevent this in the future?
Do you stream a lot of content but don't want to deal with modern electron apps for everything? Yeah, me either. Meet flux, an accessible media center for both Windows and Mac, coming soon! ims-productions.com/flux
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@miki Hahaha I don't play muds so not sure how that would even work. The only drawback to this is you need to have the real spotify client running on your machine and all output actually happens from their, but that's a small price to pay. You open it once, and forget about it
It was essentially a CLI, except somebody wrote it in moo. I wanted to make myself a desktop reimplementation of that idea, but somehow never got around to it.
Hey man this is awesome, just had a look at the page. Really reminds me of using Speak On back in the day, great that this will be on Mac as well. Kudos to you bro.
Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for MS’s own purposes. MS tried to shift all responsibility to comply with privacy laws onto schools noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-…
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.
My day in brief: 9-12: Lead religious service, sermon, after-service chat 12-1: Car starts shaking violently around highway speed. Take it to one garage to find out my dealership rotated the tires, but didn’t rebalance them. 1-3: wait 3pm: they send me off with rebalanced fronts 3:05pm: you’ll never guess what the rears are doing 3:30pm: get to second garage 3:30-6: wait 6pm: continue original 2.5hr journey 6:05pm: goddammit 7pm: return home, slowly 8pm: order 4 new tires
As we speak, the EU is debating a law called "Chat Control". For now, the vote on Chat Control has been postponed, but should this law pass - what would it mean for your security and privacy?
At first glance, it's about combating child abuse on the …
The App Store Was Always Authoritarian infrequently.org/2025/10/the-a… - "Apple is loaning its monopoly on iOS software to yet another authoritarian regime without a fight, painting a stark contrast: when profits are on the line, Cupertino will gaslight democratic regulators and defy pro-user laws with all the $1600/hr lawyers Harvard can graduate" says Big Al, absolutely correctly and with fancier words and less swearing than I would use to make the same points.
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate.
"protože ona je všechen úsměv, všechno světlo, všechen život. prešný obrázek by ji omezil hranicemi. i kdyby ji už neměl nikdy spatřit, přece vědel, že je, a ona byla, byla hnízdem. přístavem v uragánu. majákem ve tmě. stella maris, amor." ach jo
Thanks to #NVDA #NVDASR ocr feature, I installed Spitfire audio and BBC symphony and I can somehow navigate through it inside reaper. KK will be more efficient but I currently don't have one.
I chat with Joshua Rogers about a blog post he wrote as well as some bugs he submitted to the curl project. Joshua explains how he went searching for some AI tools to help find security bugs, and found out they can work, if you’re a competent human.
I liked this contrarian view - ai is really useful for just getting feedback and some rough parameters, even limited help is major imo. ai does not get frustrated, it has a long attention span and you can cross ref the models and advice, it may not be total miracle but it is in the mix
Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. - Ronald Reagan, Jan 5, 1967.
With the EOSA Masterclasses, European Open Source Academy (EOSA) brings the open source know-how and skills right to you!
Last Friday, the first Masterclass was recorded with our Head of Business & Impact Section, @Amandine Amandine Le Pape.
With her work on @matrix and @element, Amandine brings decades of experience in developing and balancing the growth of open ecosystems and building sustainable open source companies.
Nobody likes fax machines, yet everyone still uses them – that's the reality in German hospitals. Since 2019, Famedly has been challenging this status quo.
National Geographic | Sci-fi koncept warp pohonu z Star Treku se díky fyzikům přibližuje realitě každým dnem nationalgeographic.cz/veda/war… prostřednictvím @wallabagapp
Před téměř 60 lety zažehl původní seriál Star Trek sen ve veřejné představivosti: že jednoho dne budou lidé cestovat galaxií v lodích poháněných nadsvětelnými „warp pohony".
I am thinking about having a play with Thunderbird using NVDA again. I plan to start with the Mozilla enhancements app. Are there any recommended accessibility improvement settings I should make in Thunderbird?
I recommend the TBKeys extension if you want to have e.g. commands to jump to the next folder containing unread messages, or a command to make first letter navigating easier.
We're at 809 received #curl issues from "team AI tooling", out of which about 15% has turned into commits/fixes.
The false positive/we don't care rate went up significantly when the scan included tests and examples. We should simply exclude those parts from normal scans as they live by different rules.
@nuintari possibly, but I'm also pretty sure that none of the commercial code analyzers we use have a better percentage so then I suppose we should say that about all code analyzer tools
(See how I cleverly did not mention AI in the title!) You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive a…
Okay, so not even done reading this, and I guess I'm a bit behind. ISTR reading you venting about the endless AI generated reports that went absolutely nowhere. I guess they finally started hitting paydirt.
I do _not_ pay good attention to my social media timeline. So, I am sure you posted this before and I totally did not see it.
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