For Christmas, I got an Omega Engineering talking multimeter... I have one, but it's in storage, possibly forever, and they're damn near impossible to find at a reasonable price, if you find them at all.
Also got an Ebow for an electric guitar that I don't have, which is interesting, and an Orba2, which seems to be an odd little round thing that makes musical noises.
I had an Ebow, but lost it when I moved to New York.
It looks like, in order to get full functionality from this Artiphon Orba 2, I need to download an iOS app that is no longer in the app store, and the company is apparently in administration. Without the app, it can still do some interesting stuff, but not as much, I.E. you can't change keys or load new presets.
This is why having your product tied to an app creates so much ewaste.
There is a desktop app for both Mac and Windows, and an Android APK you can download from the website. Chaining this tiny little palm-sized thing to a desktop app for some basic functionality is silly, though.
www.virtualhere.com through www.tailscale.com and a wireless hotspot? Honestly, sounds a bit impractical, but it's better than carrying a desktop/laptop around. It would be really helpful, for this sort of thing as well as for a ton of other reasons, to have virtual machines running Windows on phones. The processors and RAM can probably support it.
Very cool! Would love to hear a demo of the multimeter. Ebow is a lot of fun for the first few hours! :) Unfortunately for my Ebow, I got a really cool Ebow library from SoniCouture! :)
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I'm never quite sure whether Advent should run 24 or 25 days, so if you're of the "24" persuasion, consider today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent a bonus 🙂
Today it's rss2email¹, which is I read my RSS feeds². I prefer to read my RSS via email for a number of reasons:
• I don't need to learn Yet Another Set of Keyboard Bindings because I already know my MUA's key-bindings
• I can use any standards-compliant MUA to read my RSS feeds, whether I have them delivered to my mbox file and read with mail(1), or delivered to my normal mail account and read them via mutt/neomutt/Claws/Thunderbird/whatever
• I have offline access via OfflineIMAP/mbsync and any changes (deleting entries, read-status, flagging, stars, tags, filing, etc) gets synced back up to my server, even across multiple machines
• I have all the filtering power of my MUA
• plenty of utilities also speak IMAP, so I can write scripts to (post-)process my RSS feed too
• sharing an interesting article with friends is as simple as forwarding an email
• my backup process for email also automatically backs up my RSS feeds too
• because it runs from cron(8) on a schedule I establish, I have more control of my distractions (I usually run it around 4am gathering feeds for me to read with breakfast). I found if it ran hourly or even multiple times per day, I'd get sucked into constantly checking to see if anything new/interesting had arrived
• control remains with me on my machine rather than handing my reading habits over to some 3rd party RSS reader-service
And I love RSS because it is a pull rather than a push. If I subscribe to your email newsletter, I have to trust that you'll respect my email address and not share it or lose control of it, and cutting off email subscriptions is sketchy. But with RSS? I just stop polling that feed if I'm done with it and it's gone.
I would like to read my RSS via e-mail as well, but I don't have a server. I know there is Blogtrottr.com, which delivers RSS to e-mail, but it doesn't allow me to customize the "from" header to fit the article's author.
If you have the ability to send mail from your machine (even if it's just configured to use your mail-provider as a smart-host), rss2email should still work.
Granted, if your email provider is MS/Outlook, they don't play well with third-party SMTP/IMAP clients, but that's on them and the folks who choose to use them 😆
Probably old news but my mind is always blown by all the stuff #curl can do. I had zero idea that curl has a —form argument that lets you simulate filling out a form, complete with a file upload. Let me automate a super annoying task for a friend with a dead simple bash script.
Great! NiceGram's text box no longer works either. There goes an alternative. If multiple developers would stop using the native Telegram interface (because yes, tons of these third-party clients do), we wouldn't have to deal with things like this. Bright Guide is outdated and hasn't been touched in ages either. If anyone has any Telegram client alternatives, I'm all ears.
According to footage circulated on social media, the attackers charged at the group while shouting, “These #Zionists should leave this country.” Police intervened and dispersed the demonstrators, who waved #Palestinian flags and attempted to approach the #Jewish group."
Pro-Palestinian protesters assaulted Jews on their way to a Hanukkah candle lighting near the Neve Shalom synagogue, shouting anti-Zionist slurs as police dispersed the crowd, some of whom waved Palestinian flags
Ich habe den Eindruck, dass Matrix weitaus problemloser läuft als XMPP.
Bei XMPP kann sich nicht jeder Client an jedem Server anmelden (ich habe diverse Clients und Server, nicht nur meinen eigenen mit ejabberd, getestet). Und auch die Kommunikation zwischen zwei Accounts funktioniert manchmal gar nicht, manchmal nur in eine Richtung und irgendwie nur selten problemlos. Auch da wieder stark abhängig vom Client.
Ein Problem mit meinem Server mag sein, dass er unter einer Subdomain (xmpp.example.com) läuft. Ich mutmaße, dass nicht jeder Server bzw. Client damit zurechtkommt. Zwischen meinem Server und dem von Mailbox.org klappt jedenfalls gar nichts. Aber ich habe noch nicht einmal eine Möglichkeit gefunden, für Mailbox.org einen andeten Client als deren Web-Client zu verwenden. Ich glaube fast, die sind nur zu sich selbst kompatibel.
Manche sagen freilich auch, dass ejabberd recht eigenwillig sei.
Mit Matrix hingegen hatte ich bisher keine Probleme (auch da habe ich einen eigenen Server am Start).
Unter der Voraussetzung, dass für den Server SRV records eingerichtet sind wären mir keine Fälle bekannt in denen eine subdomain Probleme machen sollte. Im Gegenteil ist hostname ungleich domain part (der Teil hinter dem @) eigentlich fast schon Standard.
Das sich Clients gar nicht verbinden können (korrekte Certificates und korrekte SRV records vorausgesetzt) wäre auch eher neu.
Sonst hört man manchmal das nicht alle Clients alle Features können. Das ist wahr.
Na sodwas. Wirklich erstaunlich diese Erfahrung. Ich habe noch nie von solchen Problemen gehört. Mein Server spricht mit allen, und alle Clients verbinden sich ganz normal: Einerseits mit meinem und ich habe auch Konten auf anderen Servern ohne Probleme, genutzt mit verschiedenen Clients.
J'ai été voir s'il y avait des commerces ouverts ce jour de Noël. Pour ce je je vois, même les boulangeries habituellement ouvertes le dimanche sont fermées. Les imprévoyants qui n'ont pas fait leurs courses risquent de devoir attendre samedi pour trouver quelque chose à manger. #Strasbourg
Many thanks to everyone who supported the #LibreOffice project this year – through their own contributions, spreading the word, or donating to support us: libreoffice.org/donate/ ❤️ #foss #openSource
I still miss UseNet. Trying to use this platform as well as I can. The assumption is that people who engage with what I post are also likely to post things I might find interesting.
This year will be my first time attending #39c3. If you have any recommendations, just want to say hi, or would like photographs taken of something, my DMs are open!
Christmas is a bit melancholy this year. I don't want to ruin anyone's mood, so I'm trying to keep it on the down low, but there are definitely some saddening differences between this year's Christmas and last year's.
Somehow it won't get into my head that another year is over. And this is not even trying to be that "time flies" type of post. I just, can't really grasp it. I read old messages from a year ago, and there's just nothing. I feel like I've been stuck with nothing new, or old, or left. Not sure how to describe it. Like things kinda fade away, but somehow don't, nothing is really, worth building on, or completely trustworthy. Idk it's all a mess. And 25 didn't make it better at all. From a technical perspective, I've learned more than a ton this year, and improved a huge lot. But the satisfaction only lasts a few moments till my perfectionism takes over again, what do I know really, it's still a long way. Yet I don't even feel the progress I've made this year, cuz there's no one really to share it with. Cuz ultimately nerdy is only cool as long as someone else understands what you're up to, and at this point I feel like I'm at a position where it's kinda impossible to. All right you may move on or something, guess these words wheren't really informative at all.
If you fancy an hour away from the mountain of turkey, or you need a nice accompaniment, check out our Christmas Eve show featuring the lovely Laura Kirker, who aside from reading all of our amazing listener emails, also found the time to participate in the creation of the new Harry Potter series on Audible. Hear the full story only on Double Tap, on podcast everywhere and on YouTube. youtu.be/AZZi-AXJP3g?si=ElYJZ7…
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It is not only me. It is the whole team behind all this. Without Olga Yakovleva as the core developer, it would not be possible to have for example Croatian language, and the whole language possibilities which we have now.
and also, I will do more in the future if needed. I am also all into NVDA, translation work, so if Luxembourgers even are going to plan such a thing, I am able to help. The symbols file for luxembourgish is already there.
I just checked Norad to see where Santa was and he was flying over Venezuela. He'd better be careful or he might not get out of there. Yup. I'm being snarky.
I picture Santa climbing down the chimney, dropping off a bunch of presents, and climbing up, all in a fraction of a second, somehow, since that would be all the time he has, in order to hit every house in the world in a 24-hour timespan.
Marry Christmas to all of my followers, I still can't thank @Tamasg enough for making the FlexVoice 3 NVDA addon! I know it will be somewhat difficult to make the one for version 2, but to give you (and others) an idea as to what FlexVoice 2 sounds like, I attached a sample on this post. Note: it says that it is version 3, but it's actually version 2.
haha. If you can somehow get me a full SDK with header files to the engine and such, wow that would be a ig help in making this real. I'm still struggling to even compile a wrapper DLL for V2 because some of the attributes were different back then. But it might happen if we're lucky.
On a parlé un peu de la politique du Québec hier soir et, bien sûr, mon père a dit: ben nous c'est pas compliqué, c'est sûr qu'on va y aller avec Duhaime.
.... Je le savais mais eurk lol
J'ai aussi eu droit au traditionnel chialage sur le tramway!! Woohoo haha
Leute, lasst es euch gesagt sein: Schräg auf eine Kante zwischen Bürgersteig und Kiesweg zu treten und dabei umzuknicken ist nicht zu empfehlen. Beim prompt folgenden Sturz hab' ich mir vorhin ganz schön das Knie und den Unterschenkel lädiert. Das Bild vom gepflasterten Knie und mit Kühlpack umwickelter Wade erspare ich euch. Und da sage noch einer, spazieren gehen sei gesund! Alles voll Fake News, ey! 😉
@SandiPavkovic Das hoffe ich auch! Aber noch zwickt das Knie ganz schön. Das wird wohl auch noch eine Weile so bleiben. Und ich habe wohl einige Muskeln falsch beansprucht, die fangen gerade an zu katern.
Spoke to my mom for Christmas, she's doing good, visiting Thailand. It's actualy turning out to be a cheerier one than I thought a few hours ago, really a bright Christmas for me. I wish the same to all of you.
Subscriptions that lock you into renewing because they have some sort of credit system like Audible or Splice, where when you cancel you lose the credits and basically wasted money, but also don't instantly find something to use up all the credits should be prohibited. You're literally taking away something I've paid for, just because I don't want even more of it. On that note, I finally need to get rid of my stupid Splice sub so if you know nice packs...
By the way: indoor positioning using our Android app is already working and we're working on making it better than ever before this year!
If you have a phone capable of Wifi RTT measuring (unfortunately that's mainly Google Pixel and Samsung), you even get more precise positioning :)
If you have an iPhone, there is no app. It wouldn't have any advantages to adding our site as an app through your browser, because iOS doesn't allow apps to scan for WiFi networks. #39c3
My analysis of Bitcoin from 2018 has proven correct in many ways, and it's identification of the value mechanism has been supported by many studies, however the prediction that that when the speculative bubble will burst and BTC will eventually become a toxic asset has not. 1/4
However, to the degree that BTC collateral debt is securitized may be something to watch, as a sharp fall in BTC may yet cause the kind of Minsky moment I describe sometime in the future. 3/4
Wow, Joe from Tactile Engineering already responded, they'll be sending out a new unit for me potentially Friday. Can't believe that. Truthfully it did fall off my bed onto the carpet later on, I pulled my blanket not realizing I had left it there. So it then broke further. Sad! But maybe not so now, knowing that they'll send me a brand new unit and were still understanding about the issue! I don't think every one of them will be this fragile, because the right-side one I have has done a lot better despite also having fallen onto carpet. So it's not like you drop one, and poof, it's gone fragile, broken. They really do try to make these displays solid, and one incident isn't going to mar my judgment on them. He said, "Don't worry, we signed up to provide the best working multiline display. The feedback is important as well!" So yes, Tactile Engineering does take this seriously.
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It looks like, in order to get full functionality from this Artiphon Orba 2, I need to download an iOS app that is no longer in the app store, and the company is apparently in administration.
Without the app, it can still do some interesting stuff, but not as much, I.E. you can't change keys or load new presets.
This is why having your product tied to an app creates so much ewaste.
There is a desktop app for both Mac and Windows, and an Android APK you can download from the website. Chaining this tiny little palm-sized thing to a desktop app for some basic functionality is silly, though.
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