Wenn man in Thunderbird auf dem Desktop links unten bei Einstellungen auf "Auf Mobilgerät exportieren" klickt, dann zeigt es einen QR-Code an, den man mit der frisch installierten Thunderbird-App auf dem Smartphone scannen kann.
Und schon ist die App auf dem Smartphone eingerichtet. 😍
@AntennaPod Are you aware of the "free" money that's waiting for you over at Liberapay? It's not huge amounts, but clearly people wish to donate to you guys 😅
We are not looking for money at the moment. Our expenses are covered (for the next 50 years, actually, if it doesn't get more expensive) and everything else just sits on the bank account unused. We would much prefer you donating to your favorite podcast(er)s instead, so they stay away from closed platforms and continue to offer the podcasts in the open RSS format.
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Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.
The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
FIFA, the organization can’t die soon enough. “A spokesperson for the City of Toronto, said the municipality was still "working with FIFA to define" what enforcement efforts would look like within the brand-protection zone" around BMO Field - which for the tournament will be called Toronto Stadium.“ theglobeandmail.com/gift/55fbe…
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that makes the software.
Holy crap that Kingston 64-gig Ram Kit I purchased for my new mini-PC is now $600. Wow. On September 17, that same Ram stick was $219. That's right. We're not just talking of a simple doubling. Amazon page for those who are curious: amazon.com/dp/B0BRTJT5P2?th=1
I keep waiting for the day the bubble bursts. I'll get a bunch of RAM and a really nice video card once prices plummet. Of course, the more likely scenario is that video card prices will drop slightly, since the market will clearly handle them being so inflated, while RAM prices will drop to a bit above where they used to be so that companies can make more money.
@FreakyFwoof makes me wonder how much an underground used-RAM marked will develop. Of course biggest issue is you cannot trust reliability, but some sysinfo tools can tell you the manufacturing date of the stick and that way at least you have a gauge of how old it is. I think a huge market will flurrish over it, I've considered putting up my 4 16-gig desktop ram sticks but don't have their original packaging anymore, just in an anti-static bag to keep it safe. So I'm sure they'd work for someone, and maybe with this desperate market finding a seller for it won't be hard.
Anyone noticing that NVDA doesn't read terminal output automatically the first time a new window is opened? I almost always have to alt+tab away and back again. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times. Still trying and failing to reproduce a massive memory leak too. The process sometimes balloons to hundreds of MB and the entire interface lags. Actual reading of the output seems to be great once the window is properly focused, but the initial launch is very unnecessarily frustrating. I've also noticed that sometimes NVDA lands in the terminal window and allows me to review terminal output with the review cursor, but other times it does not. Even when focus seems to be in the right place, I still get no automatic output. I just switched NVDA to speak new events using UIA notifications instead of diffing, which seems to fix automatic reading, but introduces some strange choppy output. For instance, when I log into my homeserver, the first letter of the MOTD gets cut off, so I hear "inux" instead of "linux". NVDA is also randomly deciding not to read the content of text fields in Thunderbird and various Electron apps, and occasionally I lose the ability to get character feedback when arrowing left and right through *any* text field. So maybe I'm just very unlucky or there's some background process trolling me. Either way, I with Mac terminal support somehow *still* being terrible after all this time, I'm starting to feel like I need to run a Linux VM just to get a working terminal. (Yes, I know I could probably also run TDSR in WSL. That's also on my list.)
I love how steadily Linux ecosystem gets better and better over the years. I am at an event where I have some spare time in the back of our booth, so I'm slowly installing my new homelab minipc and I needed to provide connectivity to it. I have two network interfaces on my laptop, so I started remembering how to set up routing and dhcp server on the command line, then I remembered it's a workstation, so I need to take care of NetworkManager to not cause any issues, only to find out that there's actually an option called "Shared to other computers" on the interface in NetworkManager GUI, so I ticked it and ... it just works. It started dhcp server and started masquerading the subnet via default route.
Oh, and you can find the leases in "/var/lib/NetworkManager/dnsmasq-<interface name>.leases"
Oh hey it's December. Time to pull out this silly little Christmas MIDI again. I still know basically nothing about it. The earliest I can trace it back to is a file called RXMAS93.ZIP with a timestamp of November 15, 1993, which appeared on several 90s shareware CDs, though none of them seem to indicate the source. MIDI: drive.google.com/uc?id=1-8tW2P…. Thanks to @datajake1999 the album is also now on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=9RXWKpGZmC…
A collection of Christmas MIDI files sequenced for the Roland SC-55 has been floating around since at least 1993, and the author of these files is unknown. T...
Trans musicians of fedi, I come to you with a plea for help!
Do you have any footage of yourself playing gigs that you 1) have the rights to and 2) would permit the use of?
Can be as short as ten seconds. Big stage, small pub, camera phone or professional cam, doesn't matter, just as long as it it's from a gig and looks the part. Audio not required.
I'm working on a trans-themed music video for a cover song and I'd love to cut a little montage of performances in the last chorus.
If that call speaks to you, I'd be delighted if you replied or DM'd me!
Dnes přišel za kolegou šéf, jestli by se mě nezeptal, jestli bych mohl zítra udělat hnusnou 12 hodinovou směnu (mám od zítřka do pátku volno). Kolega se zeptat jestli to myslí vážně a začal se tak řehtat, že šéf nasraně odešel 😇
Ich wünsche mir, dass man sich in einer Apotheke immer zu 100 % sicher sein kann, dass das Arzneimittel, das einem empfohlen wird, auch tatsächlich eine Wirkung hat, die über den Placeboeffekt hinausgeht.
Alles andere sollte verbannt werden. Anderer Meinung? #DerApotheker 🥷
When was the last time you took a flight to anywhere for any reason? #poll #pleaseBoost (and don't get picky on the time descriptions because you know full well what I mean in the limited characters)
...Change in plans. Bob literally can't go five minutes without uncontrolable coughing. There will not be a Digital Domain this week. Please stay tuned to find out what @Derek is going to do as far as launch time for automation.
Seems like #GTK 4 really discourages using drag and drop as a method of sorting lists. My implementation is reaching 200+ lines. I get that it's not very accessible, and maybe impossible on devices without a mouse. But I'm struggling to think of an alternative for large lists of items such as music playlists. Using Up/Down buttons to move an item from position 1 to position 100 seems like a lot of presses... #gnome
it's not discouraged: it's just that nobody has willed a tutorial into existence. I'd recommend anybody who wrote drag and drop in a list to write down a tutorial and propose it for developer.gnome.org
#Vaguetooting: equating* objecting to systemd to MAGA is a level of bullshirt I've never seen before, nor thought possible.
*Disclaimer: This equating is an interpretation of a person's statement. That interpretation may be incorrect. Also, some people who object to systemd are indeed horrible people with horrible ideas/ideals/ideologies.
P.S. Using "don't divide us" as a dialectical hammer to quash debate is pretty forking awful. For the millionth time, what the fork is systemd, really?!? Because if you say "it's an init system," I'm going to put you in the same category as people who way "lol linux is just a kernel" and "I asked ChatGPT..."
you are right, but there is also an (odd?) overlap between conservative views on OSS software and generally politically conservative ones. Like, xlibre being started by an anti-vaxer. Just makes me wish someone would claim gtk4 gives your kids autism so my dear gtk3 gets continued maintenance.
But XLibre was started not because of developer's anti-vaxer views.
Why some forks and new programs created by left/right radicals — is another question. I think this "happens" because mass-media always ready to promote some hot content which will start flamewars and give a lot of views for these media. I suppose, in reality a lot of OpenSource projects still started by a usual people, who don't have radical views and just love to code. But these projects are not visible, because today looks like popular to "change the world", "make actions", "fight with something" or "for something" and other loud words instead of silent, small and consecutive actions.
What/whom (at least in the FOSS world) would you consider to be a Leftist radical, though?
The worst I've seen on the left is people with a surprising lack of perspective, and a scary capacity for self-delusion. The Right has that in spades, and much worse, in my experience.
@matt Bless your young heart, Matt! I grew up with that on the TV. Loved me some Schoolhouse Rock. That’s how I knew how a bill becomes a law and (kind of) how the US gained independence, and how verbs work, and what conjunctions are, and, and…
HISTORY @premodernist - Univ. lecturer on history, from ancient to modern @athenaproductions - Irreverent/sweary videos about bits of history, philosophy @historical - Assorted public domain films from history
LANGUAGES @moosesconlangs - Videos on constructed languages including Esperanto @robert_riley - Educational videos about basics of English language
And there we are. I have a Nextcloud again. If anyone has any accessibility tips, apps or other recommendations I should try out they're very welcome. #Accessibility #Nextcloud
"Cheap Dopamine" by Taylor Acorn from her album Poster Child - Available now at https://ffm.to/ta_posterchildFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://ffm.link/ta_spo...
Man begegnet in diesen digitalen Räumen Menschen, die reden, als wären sie ständig auf einer Bühne. Sie werfen mit Begriffen um sich wie Selbstbestimmung, Systemkritik, Dekonstruktion, Freiheit .. ein ganzes Arsenal an Haltungen. Alles klingt groß, reflektiert, fast so, als könnte man damit jedes Versäumnis übertünchen. Und hinter dieser Kulisse liegt etwas Seltsames: Eine Unfähigkeit, Nähe auszuhalten. Nicht aus Bosheit, sondern aus einer Mischung aus Unsicherheit, Eitelkeit und der Angst, dass echte Begegnung die eigene Rolle zerkratzt. Also wird jede Annäherung sofort in einen Diskurs verwandelt. Anstatt „Ja, lass uns mal treffen“, kommt ein Vortrag darüber, wie wichtig Freiheit ist, wie vorsichtig man mit sozialen Energien umgehen müsse, wie anspruchsvoll das eigene Innenleben sei. Alles klingt nach Tiefe, doch es dient nur dazu, nicht in Berührung zu kommen. Man selbst kommt schlicht herüber, nicht mit einem Manifest, sondern mit einem offenen Blick. Nicht weil man besonders tugendhaft wäre, sondern weil das der Normalzustand ist. Gerade, wenn man aus einer Gegend stammt, in der Nähe nicht als Bedrohung galt, sondern als Teil des Überlebens. Wo man sich nicht mit Fremdwörtern schützen musste, sondern einfach da war. Und dann prallt dieses einfache Dasein auf ein Milieu, das sich in Selbstinszenierung eingerichtet hat. In dem hat man sich angewöhnt, Verbindlichkeit als Risiko zu sehen und Distanz als Reife. Der Ton ist glatt, die Miene souverän, doch in Wahrheit ist da eine enorme Brüchigkeit. Völlig absurd wird es, wenn man diese Oberflächenkritik ausspricht und sofort Zuspruch bekommt, von denselben Menschen, die exakt so leben. Sie stimmen begeistert zu, als hätten sie nie im Leben die eigene Rolle im Spiegel betrachtet. Wie ein Chor, der seine eigene Partitur nicht kennt. Sie reden über Ausbeutung, über den Kapitalismus, über Sklaverei in der Arbeitswelt, als hätten sie das Monopol auf moralische Sensibilität. Doch wenn es darum geht, einem Menschen einfach respektvoll zu begegnen, ohne Maskottchen-Rolle, ohne taktische Distanz, ohne Selbstdarstellung, ist plötzlich nichts mehr da. Keine Verbindlichkeit, keine Wärme, keine Bereitschaft zur Realität. Nur Begriffe, die wie Schutzwälle stehen zwischen ihnen und jedem Moment, der nicht kontrollierbar ist. Und man bleibt zurück, nicht erschüttert, sondern irritiert darüber, wie sehr manche Freiheit predigen und doch vor jeder Form von Begegnung zurückschrecken. Wie sehr sie Weltanalysen liefern und gleichzeitig die einfachste Form menschlicher Nähe nicht ertragen. Es ist ein Muster, das überall auftauchen kann, Menschen, die sich selbst für kritisch halten, aber nie merken, dass sie kritische Distanz mit menschlicher Abwesenheit verwechseln.
Well, it's December 01, which means it's time to drag Sammy out of his box again.
This silly little song, which was probably someone's throw-away recording for a morning show in the 70s, has a story behind it, at least for me.
On Christmas Eve 1992, Brad Krantz played a song on Asheboro, NorthCarolina's WKRR, called Sammy the Christmas Snake, on his morning talk show. It just so happened that my brother had a few boomboxes recording local radio stations to capture the essence of a Carolina Christmas that morning, when Sammy the Christmas snake played on Brad's show. As I was 8 years old at the time, and my brother and I liked this silly little song so much, we decided to make it tradition to play it every Christmas morning before going upstairs for the "good stuff". Unfortunately, however, in 1994, my brother went off to college, and the tape was lost somewhere. Naturally, it was the only copy we had.
A few years after that, Brad was fired from WKRR, and I lost track of him. I emailed one of the guys at the station around 2001 or so, to see if they knew where Sammy the Christmas Snake might be, or at least knew who recorded it. I was told that Brad took their only copy with him when he went to Charlotte, and they had no idea who actually wrote or recorded the song, only that Brad got it from someone in Boston.
In the summer of 2004, WZTK, a new FM talk station owned and operated by Curtis Media was launched. And, guess what? Brad Krantz is back with the Brad and Brit show.
I emailed him in August of 2004 just to politely ask if he still had Sammy the Christmas Snake, and asked if he would play it on his show over the holiday season. He said he would, that it was apparently widely requested, and said "thank you for remembering Sammy".
So, I started my audio recorder on December first to try and record Sammy the Christmas Snake for my own personal amusement, seeing as how I have been looking for it for 12 years on and off at this point. Apparently, Brad had expected this, and made sure to talk or play IDs at every possible opening in the song, which, as you can imagine, infuriated me. Yep, this was war!
I kept the recorder going every weekday morning through December 21, 2004, to see if he would slip and forget to play an ID in the same places.
Finally, on December 21, 2004, I had enough pieces to reconstruct it!
I ended up running seven different copies of the song as played on the Brad and Brit Show through my favorite audio editor, taking the best parts from each, to get the relatively unmutilated version of Sammy the Christmas Snake, albeit with a few compromises. The song came from a slightly scratchy record, dubbed to who knows what media, played over an FM radio station. After editing, there were differences in equalization in some parts of the song, most likely due to Brad playing the track back through a different player or channel on the station's console, but considering it was the only version of the song I could find anywhere, and, as of December 2025, I still have no idea who recorded it, my edit was good enough.
I wanted to share the song as widely as possible, thanks to my beef with Brad, and this was before the existence of Youtube, so I put it on a webpage with links to contact Brad and Brit, and thank them for allowing us to have access to such a wonderful song. This, of course, was in response to Brad's claim that he had exclusive rites to it, which I thought was completely unfair. There's no need to keep Sammy in a box like that!
Several years went by, and someone uploaded my edit of Sammy to Youtube. It has now been featured in several different videos, but it's obvious that it's my edit, and I've yet to find another version of it anywhere, online or offline.
There were some things that bugged me about my original 2004 edit, which I could now fix with tools and skills I didn't have at the time, so, on December 1, 2018, I fixed some small timing issues that existed between splices, reduced crackles, pops and rumble, made the equalization a little more consistent, got rid of some noise, and performed a few other touch-ups. This is the result. It's still not perfect, but it's better than it was, and certainly cleaner than any other version on Youtube as of December 1, 2018.
I'm still looking for a real copy of this song, or, at the very least, an idea of who recorded it. There is some speculation on the comments of this Youtube video.
I was told that this song also featured on a morning show on WNAP in Indianapolis, Indiana, around 1978-1982.
A few years ago, my edit was played on WKRR again, where it all started for me. Go figure.
As of May 2025, Brad Krantz has passed away, so if he actually knew anything about the origins of this song, we can't ask him now.
Lyrics, sung by a guy with a New England accent sped up and singing with himself to the backing of a Fender Rhodes, some flutes, drums, bass and a glockenspiel are as follows:
There are such cute little Christmas galoots... Little angels, and reindeer, and snowflakes that fly. But from all those yule underdogs fondling my memory logs, one multiple vertebrae kind of a guy.
Sammy the Christmas Snake hid in the corner of Santa's workshop. Sammy the Christmas Snake bit all the elves and made all the work stop. Hid in the stockings, he hid up the flue, bit on Rudolph 'til his nose turned blue, ain't no tellin' what a Christmas snake'll do... *hiss, hiss, hiss* Merry Christmas
Sammy the Christmas Snake had peppermint stripes and pointy ol' fangs. Sammy the Christmas snake he hides in the holly where the mistletoe hangs. Hid in the stockings, he hid up the flue, he bit on old Santa and Misses Santa Too! OH! Sammy the Christmas Snake *hiss, hiss, hiss* Merry Christmas.
Come on kids, sing with me!
Now, Santa lived with Herb the Christmas Dwarf at Santa's house, and no one liked him much since he bit Sid, the Christmas Mouse. 'Til Rick the Christmas Mongoose went berserk and tried to wreck, the sleigh and Sammy saved the day when he broke Rick's Christmas neck. HEY!
Sammy the Christmas Snake Now there ain't a ban on anacondas in the arctic. Sammy that ol' Christmas Snake Now those elves don't chase him with that forked stick.
What a merry mood he has all the girls and boys in, givin' out the cheer and holdin' back the poison...
On Christmas Eve 1992, Brad Krantz played a song on Asheboro, NorthCarolina's WKRR called Sammy the Christmas Snake, on his morning talk show.It just so happ...
Awesome! Bookmarking this. If you are around, would you mind telling your story on my net tonight? I'm going to do the bloody Christmas music topic just to get it out of the way early. LOL
this is happily been a part of my holiday traditions since 2006. I didn't hear it until then, but when I did, I knew it would be a favourite. This does everything correctly. You know what I mean as well.
Is it me, or did Slack adjust some focus behaviors in the reactions dialog? Others on Slack: Please check for me. In the past, I could right arrow from the search field into "frequently used" and pick an emoji. Now, right arrowing just announces: "Search property page." No indication what I land on, nothing about an active emoji highlighted. This is making reacting to Slack messages nearly impossible for me.
When I came back to work today, I had 95 items in Slack, thankfully a lot from Jira activity, but still, reacting to messages is such a vital part of things to let folks know, hey, I've read what you told me but can't reply just yet, or a reply might not even be needed and a reaction is enough. Either way. Coming back on a Monday to random accessibility regressions is not fun and it's part of this "move fast and break things" mentality I despise so much. Absolutely zero regard to the productivity slide or adjustment familiarity ramp-up time required by some folks and groups, like myself.
Unfortunately I can't reproduce this one. Here's what I get with NVDA:
> Emoji picker dialog > Emoji name edit Search all emoji blank > right arrow > Search property page > Frequently used table > gratitude thank you emoji > right arrow > +1 emoji with light skin tone
ah interesting! I am running Windows Store 4.47.59 64-bit (ARM) of Slack. But it does smell like some sort of UIA mis-fire so will try rebooting the machine too, a Slack restart didn't change it. The store version is for sure more performant but can sometimes get odd focusing quirks too I've noticed in general. Really appreciate you checking this on your side.
Imagining if we set aside .1% of all the money being spent to make AIs that write bad software to compensate all the open-source developers who write good software
looks like popular to "change the world", "make actions", "fight with something" or "for something" and other loud words instead of silent, small and consecutive actions.
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