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Anyone using S3 (compatible) storage for incremental backups of Linux and/or MacOS machines at home? If yes, what backup software/tool? Open source preferred. My first unfocused research suggests to look at restic [1] and maybe just some scripting around rclone [2]. Any hints/links welcome! (Yes, this is part of my project to use local S3 compatible storage based on garage [3])

[1] restic.net
[2] rclone.org
[3] garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr

#SelfHost #SysAdminLife @homelab


The Garage team - An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Garage
#selfhost #sysadminlife @Run your own homelab
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There is a CLI tool that lets you do common video and audio operations without having to remember complex ffmpeg syntax. There is no AI and no API calls, just old school pattern matching. It’s fast, works offline, and feels like video editing in plain English right from your CLI. For example, you can simply type:
```
ff convert my-file.mp4 to gif
```
And it will generate the ffmege command for you:
```
ffmpeg -i my-file.mp4 -vf fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos -loop 0 -y video_output.gif
```

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Andre Louis

@Scott I made a bat file based on similar information a month or so ago that takes image as the first input, file as the second, and turns that video into <second file.mp4> as the output.
The contents of said batch file goes like this:

@ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i %1 -i %2 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -shortest "%~dpn2.mp4"

@Scott

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The #Trump administration has been accusing the #EU of #censorship via its #DigitalServicesAct, but is any of what they are saying true?

Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#EUpol #USpol

#Trump #EU #censorship #uspol #digitalservicesact #eupol
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Somewhere along the line developing Catima changed from "fun little hobby project where I can build an useful thing and have fun" to "oh God if I make a single mistake I risk 125 thousand people losing their data, I must not make any mistakes" and I do kinda miss the old vibe.

I mean it's amazing that my little hobby project got this many people to have just that tiny bit more privacy (yes, loyalty cards inherently are tracking but at least we reduce the trackers) but sheesh 😅

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OK, I am a lot more impressed with Supertonic than I thought. It has its own text processor that does some uncommon context text-based things like phone numbers, technical units, and financial stuff, that other commercial AI TTS engines like Eleven Labs, Gemini, Open AI, and Microsoft Azure don't do. And plus, unlike Sonata/Piper, it's not using eSpeak as a base.

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#LibreOffice Viewer is now available on Meta Quest virtual reality headsets: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Screenshot of LibreOffice Viewer

LibreOffice Viewer now available on Meta Quest VR headsets - TDF Community Blog

For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg) Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx) Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls an…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice

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Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.

flathub.org/en/year-in-review/…

#Linux #desktop #Flathub #ARM

A screenshot that shows Platform downloads: 98.7% (426.5 mil) for X86_64 and 1.3% (5.4 mil) for AArch64.

2025 Year in Review - Flathub

Celebrating a year of growth and innovation on Flathub
Flathub
#linux #arm #flathub #desktop
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Former Malaysian PM convicted for embezzlement

semafor.com/article/12/26/2025…

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted of embezzling $539 million in state funds.

Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly stole $4.5 billion from a state-owned development company and used the cash to, among other things, fund the Oscar-nominated movie The Wolf of Wall Street.

#Malaysia #press


Former Malaysian PM convicted for embezzlement

Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low.
Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
#press #malaysia
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I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…

The Computer Chronicles - Computers and the Disabled (1992)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
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Well and there you have it.
Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop:
I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is.
I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name.
But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.

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I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
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Alex Hall

It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
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Was könnte denn eine passende Fedi-Instanz für einen jungen Transmann sein, der sich u.a. für alles, was fliegt, interessiert, und auf den Hund gekommen ist? 😄

Würde ihm gern eine Community hier schmackhaft machen.

#Followerpower #trans #LGBTTPIQ* #SafeSpace #Community

#followerpower #trans #community #safespace #lgbttpiq
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Episode 03 von "Dada & Welf - Kommando Katze" ist soeben auf den gängigen Plattformen erschienen und ich spreche einen K.I. Schlitten 😁

Viel Spaß und Frohe Restweihnachten!

album.link/dadawelf3


Dada & Welf - Kommando Katze. Folge 03: Testfahrt by Dada & Welf & Ghostsitter

Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
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Marco Zehe

Den hast Du richtig gut getroffen! Diese überenthusiastische Art, wie die KI-Chatbots sprechen, die Illusionen, die auch bei Bildbeschreibungen gern mal, zuschlagen, und dieses erstmal nach dem Mund reden. So herrlich! Allerdings wirft die Folge auch Fragen auf, wer die stiftende Entität war z. B. Schätze das wird an anderer Stelle nochmal wichtig? Euch einen geruhsamen Jahreswechsel!

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Home Alone II is the last movie that will run and will be the shutdown of Christmas automation proper. Directly thereafter, HKC Radio's annual Christmas replays will begin running - replaying all the live Christmasy content we did as a station. This will end on January 1 at 7 PM when the Digital Domain does its New Year's Day show, which we can tell you will feature Christmas leftovers. Sonic Synergy will interrupt this on Sunday, however.

HKCRadio.com

The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

www.hkcradio.com

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Арестован музыкант известной белорусской группы “Стары Ольса”. Сильно на нас (курганских неоязычников) повлиявшей в своё время…

#хроники_дна #lang_ru


Арыштаваны гусляр «Старога Ольсы» Алесь Чумакоў

Яго абвясцілі членам «экстрэмісцкага фармавання» «Да Зораў». Па меркаванні КДБ, туды ўваходзяць ён, а таксама Сямён Малашэнкаў
Наша Ніва
#lang_ru #хроники_дна
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