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I can't do it myself (Motorola windows software is completely screen reader and accessible) but I know several people who have used those for analog and digital UHF nodes. That goes for the 750, 1250 and 1550. A friend has a CDM-1550 putting out exciter power to get Allstarlink to his repeater, where there is no internet access. The radio is picked up by a dedicated receiver connected to the controller. Not the best way to do it, but it sounds pretty good.

Hilarious Indonesian song (in a bluesy genre) about corporate greed and corruption. Great animation too

youtu.be/mkkB1EdEjbA

#Music #Indonesia #TootSea

Lying here with a Godawful flu on new years eve, realizing this will be the first year in my adult life where I won't be staying up until midnight, and having that thing. You know, the grumpy #reader thing. Where you go "I want a good book to #read! Right now! That will make me happy and not sick!" But you're grumpy and sick and cranky, so every book on your TBR pile isn't good enough and you throw them out of the pram in a tantrum. Then you go through your Goodreads recommendations for a while, sniffling snot and muttering "Does nobody write any good books anymore? I just want a good book! I must have read all the good books already. All of these books are stupid. Why do they let stupid people write stupid books." So you look through your list of comfort books for a re-read, but it turns out all of those books are also either bad or boring and you hate them, and this must, somehow, be somebody else's fault. I guess I'll just put on some stupid YouTube videos if I can get the stupid app on my stupid phone to work and probably fall asleep between coughing and shivering with a fever. All because nobody writes any good books, anymore. I'd like you all to know that this is your fault. #bookstodon

Honestly, good riddance to 2025.
Bad year for my country for sure, but also not a particularly good year for me personally for various reasons.
Still, joy was had and gains were made. Got my first proper bank account, gained a bit more independence around the house, and best of all, I got all three of the Roland Sound Canvases I've been wanting for nearly three years.
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Дадада, значит совпадаем в ощущениях. Сколько раз слышал его, всё время такие ассоциации возникают. Вот и 20 минут назад перед футболом включили и вспомнил что хотел поставить такой опыт с кем-нибудь кто в теме.

As Bulgaria is joining the Eurozone tonight, the following changes have been applied in Liberapay.

- The Bulgarian lev (BGN) has disappeared from donation forms.
- All existing donations and scheduled payments in that currency have been converted to the Euro.
- All accounts which had the lev as their main currency have been switched to the Euro.

Congratulations to Bulgaria, and happy new year to everyone!

Aus meiner Sicht ist der #DIday von @marcuwekling eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, das #Fediverse für den Mainstream-Diskurs relevanter zu machen – und damit die Gesellschaft unabhängiger von X, Insta, TikTok etc.

Das ist aber kein Selbstläufer, sondern braucht Aktivismus. Ein sehr wichtiger Hebel sind naheliegenderweise Multiplikator:innen, z.B. Streamer oder Youtuber. Um diese fürs Fediverse zu gewinnen, könnte dedizierte Crowd-Lobby-Arbeit helfen, also z.B. Koordiniert Kommentare schreiben und hochvoten oder das Fediverse in den Commuity-Discord-Servern thematisieren.

Alleine macht das weder Sinn noch Spaß, darum habe ich mal eine Signal Gruppe gegründet. Wer mitmachen will ist herzlich willkommen.

signal.group/#CjQKIAbMYQ5sq9bz…

#39c3 #saveSocial #didit

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Ich glaube wir brauchen unsere eigenen (PeerTube) streamer und video creator. Die Leute gehen dahin wo der (exklusive) content ist.

Ohne recommdation algorithm ist es aber extrem schwer sich hier eine audience aufzubauen und der wird teilweise auch aktiv abgelehnt.

gultsch.social/@daniel/1157628…


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


I'd be interested to know how fellow blind (especially blind-from-birth) cane users manage with independent travel.
For my part, my spatial orientation/brain mapping abilities are shocking, and I can't walk in a straight line, so the immediate fear of my support network is I won't be safe. Does anyone else have this problem? If so how do you, or did you, get around it? Or is it something I'll just have to accept?

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@FreakyFwoof From what I’ve heard that is quite common, although my guess is you could work on improving it somehow, although I could not tell you how for sure. For me, I wasn’t blind at birth, but I did lose it very early on. However growing up in the north of Australia meant that we tended to be left to our own devices quite a lot, so exploring environments was quite common to me and those I grew up around even cited people. As a result, my spatial perception is very good. Mine is actually quite unusual even for people that didn’t lose their vision early on, probably due to my upbringing and the environment I lived in. It also helped that my parents weren’t helicopter parents, and pretty much allowed me to explore, and get injured, which very quickly trained me in understanding my surroundings. But I have heard research into people who are born blind, having issues with spatial perception, and from what I understand is to do with the neurological development stages early on in a child’s life, it doesn’t get that spatial training, and therefore it has no understanding of space around. My guess is to some degree everyone’s neurology is plastic, therefore some kind of training should be possible. But it would likely take a good bit of effort. I have other friends who were born blind and have similar issues. There are a couple however that have very good spatial perception, so it could be to do with a lot of things like environment and situations.
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