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It’s been a looong while.

Since my last post I have:

🐶 Switched jobs to another doggy daycare.

🐶 Gone from five days a week to four. This is to make time to…

🐶 Study the dog trainer course I have started with PACT. It’s been a slow start, but I’m being consistent.

🐶 Gained a best friend in an anxious cockapoo called Glenn. This is him below, chilling after shouting at a child.

Life’s pretty busy, my head’s all over the place, but I’m moving forward.

A cockapoo curled up on the floor next to an elephant toy and a tennis ball:

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Windows User: My computer froze again. I have to restart it for the third time today

Linux User: That’s rough. My system has been running for 3 years straight without a single crash

Windows User: Wow! What have you been doing with all that uptime?

Linux User: Trying to get my usb ink printer to work 😅

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If I wanted to be on a "better" Twitter after the Musk takeover, I would open a BlueSky account. It delivers the same centralised, algorithm driven experience that divides in overhyped influencers and mere click fodder users, just the way all centralised "social" networks are designed to be.

And that's why I am NOT on BlueSky but here on the Fediverse. The Fediverse isn't a better X, Facebook, Instagram. It's the Fediverse. People to people. Embrace the principle and you will be happy here!

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RE: mastodon.social/@dansup/115758…

The people who dislike The Algorithm™ are either consumers who basically just want an RSS feed reader (nothing wrong with that) or people who brought audiences over from other platforms.

If you’re trying to create something and find an audience for it on the #Fediverse, you need some sort of recommendation algorithm. Otherwise, you’re just posting into the void.

#ActivityPub #Mastodon

dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)

Friendly reminder, a reverse chronological feed like Mastodon and Pixelfed use are technically algorithms.
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#activitypub #fediverse #Mastodon
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kundu 🌱🔻🐧

in my opinion a chronological feed and impulses is a good method for the audience to find you and sort of recreates what happens in the real world, where you get to know people, organizations or businesses that people talk about, or that you find on the street.
An algorithm that goes beyond that is kind of cheating as far as I am concerned, and it is an open door for future bad practices.
I think the fedi is ok as it is right now. 🤷‍♂️

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I pass through the Solstice gate
And I am changed.
I squeeze and slip
Through the narrow place,
The thin place,
Where all our years are seen,
And worlds stack like sheets of glass.
I pass through the Solstice gate
And I am changed.
I leave behind what cannot fit,
Shedding self like snakeskin,
Discarded as old, ill-fitting clothes.
In the no-time, no-place, nothing,
I lose myself, to find it all.
I pass through the Solstice gate,
The threshold, one of three,
And I am changed.

#poetry #witchcraft #solstice #transformation

#poetry #solstice #transformation #witchcraft
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Peter Vágner

@André Polykanine @Jonathan I am wondering why you think #EAC is not suitable for audio books? #foobar2000 has secure ripping as well so if you like it it's a good tool. Also cdex has been open-sourced years ago and can still be used. github.com/elha/CDex
#Foobar2000 #EAC @André Polykanine @Jonathan

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If you've been having fun blasting aliens in the Audio Invaders game @ChanceyFleet and I created, I just made a new update. Max Energy is now 175 and updates properly when you get energy boosts, there are now hotkeys to hear your current score, energy, and round, and I made lots of internal optimizations. Chancey is also dominating the score board, so see if you can blast as many aliens as her! marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…

Audio Space Invaders

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TL:DR Mat is a corporate slave, is really tired, and is getting fucked over

Now I don't need to tell you all capitalism is shit but it's wearing me down right now. A whole year with no more than 6 days in a row off, I'm set for 2 full weeks holiday over Christmas, starting last Friday.

Yeah, so some fucker makes comments in a meeting with the fucking CEO of the company, trying to deflect from a shit job they did, risking tens of millions of dollars, and put it on me and my team because I wasn't there to defend us, despite us being the only group to actually do a good job and not fuck up.

So yeah, worked the first 3 days of my Christmas "holiday", including a conference call in the middle of a family celebration meal. Tomorrow I have to find a quiet place for a call with the CEO and all the global Executive leadership to defend my team, who have done an amazing job cleaning up other people's shit, during a day out with friends visiting an exhibition, having a meal and going to football match.

This was my reward for the year, some carefree time, and it's just been laced with anxiety and, frankly, unpaid labour.

Apologies, I'm ranting.

Please don't reply with "fuck them, don't do it" or, "get a different job man" or whatever. It's really not that simple. I've been in this game 25 years but the timing is particularly bad this time.

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dexternemrod

Session has no forward secrecy and several other flaws like @soatok showed in his blog.

soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-us…


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Last year, I outlined the specific requirements that an app needs to have in order for me to consider it a Signal competitor. Afterwards, I had several people ask me what I think of a Signal fork c…
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In der Vorweihnachtszeit haben sie es besonders eilig: die Paketboten. Sie klingeln, rufen Namen, balancieren Kartons und verschwinden so schnell wieder, wie sie gekommen sind. Vor allem in Stadtteilen wie dem Wedding, wo Häuser selten nur ein Vorderhaus haben, sondern auch Seitenflügel, Quergebäude und Hinterhöfe, ist ihre Arbeit eine kleine logistische Meisterleistung.

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Vom Paketboten, dem Hinterhof und der leisen Kunst des Wichtelns

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#Berlin #pakete #wedding #Bote #Geschenke #Nachbarn
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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 22. Dezember, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten auf der Vorderseite und zwei seitlich sichtbare Tasten auf der Oberseite. Das Gehäuse ist 3D-gedruckt, rot mit hellen Streifen und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte. Die Tastatur zeigt mit der Oberseite nach rechts unten und liegt auf einer Holzplatte.

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#blind #inklusion #make

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Need help asap.
So my NVDA doesn't wanna speak other than in login or user control dialogs. Reinstalls didn't help, and of course restarts arn't the magical quick fix. :p. At the same time, wifi doesn't appear to work. Sometimes it barely works, and I thought it was a tailscale issue, but that doesn't seem to be the case now. It only worked the first time when quitting processes. I should point out that it's a pc issue, not an internet itself issue as it works just as it should anywhere else, for example, this work laptop I'm posting on now.
What kinda messed up conbination is this?
The wifi thing started yesterday in the morning, by the way. Only today nvda thought it wanted to just quit working.
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Winter blue tardis

Oh, oops! Did you install all Windows updates? Did you try a hard reset, which is basically hold the power button until the laptop turns off? Also, apparently microsoft's vibe coding, broke the login screen, and not sure if they fixed that. Other than that, I am considering saying goodbye to Windows. And if you can't solve that, maybe it's time for new windows re-install, or something with the WI-FI card is wrong, but if not that, check for driver updates. What brand are you using?
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Peter Vágner

@Winter blue tardis @Marc Hoffmann My guess is that NVDA configuration is somewhat messed up. My recommendation would be:

  • using ctrl+windows+enter to enable narrator for performing this.
  • Once narrator is working press windows+r to bring up a run dialog.
  • Into that run dialog type in "%appdata%\nvda" without the quotes and press the enter key to activate.
  • NVDA folder should be opened in the windows explorer. Use arrow keys to navigate and find nvda.ini configuration file.
  • If you really wish to proceed hit F2 and rename this file for example to nvda-backup.ini and confirm the rename operation by pressing the enter key.
  • Finally restart NVDA either by pressing ctrl+alt+n on the keyboard or navigate to the desktop, find the NVDA icon and activate it with the enter key.
  • NVDA should start with default settings. if it's working it's likelly there are some conflicting settings or addons in your config. If it's not you can revert this process and try something else.
@Winter blue tardis @Marc Hoffmann

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Política: La izquireda no acierta

Sensitive content

#adrianpolitizado
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Política: La izquireda no acierta

Creo que lo que dices es preocupante, desde luego. Pero tampoco tengo muy claro que haya ninguna receta para revertir el tema. Los medios son agentes que siguen sus propios intereses; no creo que con un giro de discurso se corrija el problema.

Tampoco tengo muy claro lo de la falta del discurso de clase. Yolanda Díaz/sumar llevan un montón de tiempo insistiendo en eso: cuestiones de clase, problemas reales y concretos. SMI, registro horario, jornada laboral, permisos, falsos autónomos, mejora del sistema de inspección. Y creo que no tiene muchos efectos.

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Eye Yay Public Domain Audio and Video Player | Internet Archive users, rejoyce! You can stream content from the Internet Archive. Description follows. | Enjoy slick audio and video playback for historical, open and public domain content. Eye Yay gives you a beautiful, distraction-free way to explore historic audio and video collections made available by open online archives. Enjoy classic recordings, documentaries, films, radio plays, and other cultural works that have entered the public domain or are freely shared by their creators. A polished playback experience Eye Yay is designed for smooth, reliable playback of both audio and video. • Clean, uncluttered interface that feels at home on every Apple device • Browse, search, and add items to your personal library • Smart resume — pick up exactly where you left off • Background and Picture-in-Picture playback • Automatic next-track advance for serials and playlists • Smart grouping keeps duplicate or alternative file versions out of the way, so books, albums, and playlists play in the right order without clutter. Explore a world of open culture Discover an extraordinary range of openly available media: • Classic radio dramas and narrated stories • Historic documentaries and educational films • Vintage public-domain movies and newsreels • Community music releases and field recordings • Podcasts, lectures, and spoken-word collections Add items that interest you, and Eye Yay keeps them in your library for quick access. Take it with you Media can be saved for offline playback, so you can keep listening or watching even without an internet connection. Offline saving continues in the background, and your progress is preserved automatically. Supporter Edition Unlock a set of power-user features with a one-time upgrade: • Sleep Timer — automatically stop playback after a set time • Create Personal Bookmarks — mark your own moments in any recording • Manage Offline Storage — see what’s using space and clear it easily • Blacklist Topics — hide subjects you’re not interested in to keep searches focused Thoughtfully designed for Apple platforms Eye Yay works seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, Mac and AppleTV. It’s optimised for the latest system features and keeps your media organised and ready to play. | apps.apple.com/us/app/eye-yay-…

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I wasn't aware of @Tutanota 's contact synch fonctionnality on Android. Since i had #tutanotamail on my old phone that I have lost, today I installed #tutamail on my current phone to find out that I had unexpectedly recovered all my old contacts that I thought was lost forever.
I'm happy about it. That unknown feature gave me a new life today.
I want you to know that. Thank you for the job!
#TutanotaMail #tutamail @Tuta

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Question for the Mastodon hive mind:
Primer:
I have a need to convert, resize, reorient, and transcode video for various stages of our video edit and distribution pipeline. I've been doing all of this in ffMpeg, via command line arguments and custom-coded scripts. However, the needs of this thing just simply don't scale that way. And no one but me gets access to the CLI on these systems. So that's just not feseable.
Now finally, to the question.
I am looking for an open-source web frontend to ffMpeg that is, if not fully accessible, as that is a very tall order, but at least usable by an experienced screen reader user with the typical tools and hacks learned over twenty years of experience. Just something that doesn't make accessibility a barrier and most importantly, a time waster.
Please boost far and wide for reach, with thanks.

Ready! Set! Fire!
#A11Y #Accessibility #ffmpeg #web #Interface #WebUI #UI #UX

#a11y #Accessibility #UX #web #ui #interface #ffmpeg #webui

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My apologies folks, there will be no archive on YouTube for this stream, as it was full of gremlins, and not the fun kinds. I didn't even know until I checked the video archive. Unfortunately there will be one in game day off screen, and I'm going to have to do some tinkering with OBS to figure out what it's major malfunction is this time. Thanks for your patience everyone, and I hope so much to be up and running again soon.

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RE: social.anoxinon.de/@codebergst…

Having received some of this spam it is interesting to see the type of language used:

"what's the point of using [...] if it can't be trusted"
"I expected better"
"This is very frustrating!"
"it's entirely unacceptable"
"Not addressing this is just pointless and leads to wasted time for users like me."

Makes you wonder: is abusive behaviour in project issues so common in LLM training data or did they explicitly ask to be so mean?

Food for thought, but no matter what this is quite sad stuff...

Codeberg Status (@codebergstatus@social.anoxinon.de)

We investigated performance issues on our systems. The cause was identified to be huge inrush in AI-generated nonsense spam creation that slows the notification system.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

"user activity"? The ones I've checked (I've reported a few of them) had their activity tab explicitly disabled (I guess to rob you of the possibility to check their other issues, and see they all follow the same 3-paragraph-pattern: wrong assumption by the repo name, constructed problem with some terms gathered from the content, blaming the dev to be totally incompetent). User created maybe 2 weeks ago. @odd
@Erwin
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