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Nice list, but which of these devices would I really want? Mostlikely none. :)
CES is over for another year, and it was full of products for Apple users. Here are the best items for your iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that appeared at the show in 2026. https://appleinsider.AppleInsider (Mastodon)
ETI-Eloquence 3.3 speech synthesizer AI voice & song generator. Create ETI-Eloquence 3.3 speech synthesizer AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.Jammable AI
I have a serious question out there for those who like listening to music. How much do you think a musician/creator should get paid when you listen to their music?
I ask because the amount is pitifully small if you stream - for Soundcloud it would take around 400 streams for the musician to make 1 USD and that is one of the better streaming platforms. For Spotify, its thousands of streams - fine for Lady Gaga but not for small creators, often in niche markets.
On the other hand many musicians sell their music for a few dollars for a whole album or less than a dollar a track. Yet few seem to avail themselves of actually buying music.
Streaming is killing music and combined with the AI generated trash that is all over platforms like Spotify one has to wonder how much longer the market for music generated by real people will last.
So please, go seek out your favourite musician and BUY an album or track. Don't stream and certainly don't use Spotify.
Hugs, Sammi
@menelion I remember the early days of MP3 when there was a lot of record label hate.
Typical article: "When you buy a CD for $15, the artist gets $1. But he borrowed $200K from the label to make the album so he has to sell 200K records to get his next $1."
Was the record label system really that bad? And is streaming even worse than that?
Sinead O'Connor Live at AB - Ancienne Belgique 30/09/20140:39 Queen of The Denmark5:34 4th And Vine9:53 Take Me to Church13:36 8 Good Reasons17:05 The Wolf i...YouTube
I'm in the middle of recording this big-ass synth album, and all I want to do is play guitar.
Can anyone tell me WTF is wrong with me? 
There's an online version of that utility someone made for Mac OS. I don't unfortunately know of a good tool to use locally other than SoX, which is not quite the same as the Texas Instruments implementation.
There is a Python utility, but I've never managed to make it work.
For the last nearly two weeks, almost all of my computing tasks have been done with my iPhone using NVDA Remote RC connected to one of two laptops back home in New York 500 miles away.
It's just so cool to pull out a bluetooth keyboard and connect to a familiar environment from anywhere, but it's even cooler what you can still do without a keyboard if you don't have one, thanks to the custom gestures and presets for them.
If you use Voiceover Announcements instead of AVSPEECH, you can even use a braille display, though it is nowhere as extensive as using a display direct with NVDA. So, if you absolutely rely on using a braille display, this is not the best way to work, but you are not completely without the ability to get an idea of what's going on.
I just did another small editing job remotely using Reaper on my laptop at home, and TeamTalk on a server running on a Raspberry Pi at home connected to Tailscale to connect the audio. Yep, it's an old TeamTalk server. I don't think there are rPi builds of modern ones anymore.
Not the best way to do it, there is some lag, but considering I'm using Airpods Pro, which adds more lag, internet latency, etc. it worked pretty well, all things considered. Sonobus for iOS is, unfortunately, very jittery most of the time, probably because it hasn't been updated since 2023, and iOS has changed around it.
I have still not quite gotten fully comfortable with editing stuff on Reaper under Mac OS, at least with the same speed and efficiency, especially when it comes to envelope automation, and I have some plugins installed on the Windows laptop that I don't have on Mac OS that I need for this small weekly project, so it's nice to just be able to remote in and manipulate that existing environment. The fact that I can do that from my phone from anywhere, provided internet connectivity is good, and latency and jitter is reasonable, is just fantastic.
Right now, I have the second eSIM on my phone using AT&T, and amusingly enough, latency is almost the same to my stuff at home whether I'm using WiFi or AT&T.
Jitter is worse on the mobile connection, but it's still perfectly usable, even for audio editing. I forgot that I had WiFi turned off for three days, didn't really notice.
So, anyway, technology is still cool sometimes.
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Sneaker auf der Bühne, aber ein Weltbild aus den 50ern?
In meinem neuen Artikel analysiere ich den „Hochglanz-Fundamentalismus“ moderner Freikirchen. Ich zeige auf, warum deren dualistische Weltsicht („Licht vs. Finsternis“) strukturell der Neuen Rechten in die Karten spielt.
#ExEvangelikal #Freikirchen #Evangelikale #AfD #Rechtsruck #Fundamentalismus #Kirchenkritik #Dekonstruktion #Politik #Religion
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Von der Simulation der Moderne, dem Pakt mit dem Kulturkampf und dem Verrat an der Mündigkeit.Heiner (Heiner's Substack)
I have a first laptop with HiDPI screen and trying to set GUI scaling in #Gnome.
I enabled experimntal fractional scaling, and set 166% scaling factor in Gnome settings.
For GDK apps there is no problem.
But many other apps are not scaled, or are scaled partly - window header bar is small. Is there universal solution to this? Or how do you set scaling on all GUI toolkits like GTK2, Electron, QT, Java?
xwayland-native-scaling some xwayland apps are scaled without bluring but with unscaled window header (vlc on the image), and majority is not scaled at all (bitwarden and others).
A masterpiece of progressive rock music from the famous LP Konvergencie, released in 1971 in the former Czechoslovakia; Opus, BratislavaLine-up / Musicians- ...YouTube
UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children.
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Canada already ruled out a potential ban but Australia's prime minister was sterner in his rebuke of Grok, calling the AI-generated sexualised images "completely abhorrent"Claudie Moreau (Euractiv)
I put my mouse in the microwave !!
Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something.
So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet.
A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't start the nuker or magic smoke will come out 😆
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In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, account IDs, and in some cases, geolocation data.Have I Been Pwned
"…muss ich bekennen, dass wir alle […] nicht ein Hundertstel, nicht ein Tausendstel dessen für möglich gehalten haben, was dann immer wenige Wochen später hereinbrechen sollte."
- Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern
Ein autobiografisches Werk Stefan Zweigs.
Das Buch entstand kurz vor Zweigs Tod in den letzten Jahren (von 1939 bis 1941) seines Exils und erschien postum 1942 in Stockholm.
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German language. Stefan Zweig. DIE WELT VON GESTERN. THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The most famous book on the...Internet Archive
Diejenigen, die wollen, dass wir bis 70 arbeiten und diejenigen, die uns mit 50 nicht mehr einstellen, sind dieselben Leute.
Ein gehirnfressender Wurm würde in deren Kopf elendiglich verhungern.
hi i make goofy ahh tts vids for literally no reason lmfaoxd Soar with your visions!! (EST. 2013, Early 2022) Elecarlton is the home of unhinged, action-packed text-to-speech chaos and out-of-context madness, all starring the Epic Goddamn Microsoft …YouTube
If the maximum incoming payload size is unset, then a malicious frame could cause an overflow when calculating the needed amount of data, leading to an out-of-bounds read...GitLab
Mal by som otázku/prosbu na mieste osadenstvo. Vždy som chcel vedieť programovať, ale nikdy mi to veľmi nešlo. Naposledy som to skúšal pred 13 rokmi, kedy som sa skúšal naučiť PHP (konkrétne Laravel).
Chcel by som to znova vyskúšať, a tak otázka znie, či by mi niekto vedel poradiť, ako na to, resp. nejaké tipy na návody a pod. Potreboval by som to vysvetľovať asi čo najprimitívnejšie ako to len pôjde, a ideálne aby to bolo v slovenčine/češtine. Taktiež aby to bolo zadarmo, keďže nemám peniaze na nejaké platené kurzy. Mohla by mi v učení pomôcť aj AI? Aj keď viem, že tu nie sú jej priaznivci, no ja osobne nie som jej zarytý kritik.
A aby som nezabudol, prioritne by som sa chcel asi naučiť to PHP (aby som vedel naprogramovať webstránky, nejaké redakčné systémy a pod.), prípadne ešte C++ (keďže by som chcel vedieť programovať Arduino).
Vopred ďakujem za rady/pomoc.
Python je dobrá voľba z viacerých (netechnických) ohľadov, najmä dostupnosť učebného materiálu (dokumentácia, knihy, tutoriály, blogy) a veľkosť komunity (množstvo ľudí, ktorí vedia pomôcť).
Ako už bolo písané, je dobré mať nejaký cieľ (projekt), ktorý bude motiváciou učiť sa (áno, sú aj ľudia, ktorí sa učia teoretickú fyziku "len tak"...). Netreba sa báť skúšať, zlyhávať, pýtať sa a opravovať, dokým to nepôjde.
Ja "programujem" 2/3 svojho života a stále sa učím :)
Das letzte mal als ich versucht habe #NINA auf #GrapheneOS ohne Google Play Services zum Laufen zu bringen, habe ich es leider nicht hinbekommen (ist aber schon ein paar Jahre her). Wenn jemand passend zum #did #dut nach Alternativen sucht: #fosswarn
Mit FOSSwarn bekommt ihr offizielle Warnmeldungen für eure Orte direkt aufs Handy. Push-Benachrichtigungen funktionieren ebenfalls zuverlässig über UnifiedPush, ich nutze dazu die App #Sunup
How… why… argh… T_T
(if you don't see it: there's a tiiiiiiiiny difference… 60nm tiny to be exact… and these 2 interfaces are in a LAG and actually work, the other side is even more insidious since it just says 1310nm but the SFPs *are* different)
Dutch AON FttH specs are saying just TX 1310nm, RX 1490/1550 nm.
I bought a 1550nm one as they are much more common and got no link. So I bought a 1490nm one and the link came up immediately.
Then I bought fibre cleaning pens, got extra 10 dB by cleaning the connectors and now even the 1550nm one gets the link.
So probably if you have enough optical power, all SFPs are wideband 😁
we had a link at 39C3 that went <bidi SMF SFP> - 100m SMF - 100m *MMF* 😳 - <bidi SMF SFP>
It worked with 0 errors after we put 20km (I think) SFPs on it. Asymmetric loss of course. But enough power is enough power 😂
(-10/-3 were the RSSI numbers if I recall correctly)
We will be participating at #fosdem in Bruxelles (31.1. / 1.2.). 🚀 Well, at least kind of...
Our @bene64 will join the Free Android World stand together with @BlissLabs and @shiftphones as part of the @IzzyOnDroid team.
His focus there will be primarily the IoD project, but he will be happy to discuss #BrewMemo as well ;)
Please come by and drop a hello, when you're also visiting.
dělal na tom před pár lety kolega. Ve skutečnosti první najede obrazovka UEFI a pak se zobrazí bootovací obrazovka systému, díky kolegovi si to dokáže vzít to logo z UEFI a zdánlivě to vypadá, že to je ta samá obrazovka, jen tam přibude logo systému.
“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”
— @pluralistic, pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/100…
The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.
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Speaking of the fragility of enterprise software… Here's the robust architecture of an online banking system I used to lead. 3.5 million people trusted this with their life savings.*
That TUI app written in MUMPS(!) once powered the terminal a bank teller would use to process an in-person transaction. It embodies and unambiguously encodes every business rule for transactions that have been developed over decades.
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@katzenmann@c3d2.social That's exactly my point - the "whole Linux community doing Wayland" was never true to begin with. It was Red Hat pushing it like crazy and KDE unfortunately following suit.Fosstodon
Scripts and documentation about accessible version of Fedora - vojtapolasek/vojtuxGitHub
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